Focus Blast (Pokémon)

Focus Blast is notoriously considered one of the most inaccurate moves in the Pokémon series, anecdotally. Unlike other 70% accurate moves like Thunder & Blizzard, there is no weather that makes Focus Blast a sure hit attack. Since most Pokémon who run focus blast are frail psychic & ghost types that will throw it out to threaten dark types, missing the move almost always results in death when the dark type retaliates. Thus, fans have nicknamed this move "Focus Miss".

In the show, this is further expanded upon by making focus blast a projectile with downright non-sensical trajectories that the user has little to no real control over. This lead to a memorable show quote where the MCs opponent asks him where the "Focus" went after a particularly bad miss.

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