The Dumbest Characters In Gaming Ever

This series is all about video game characters who have left me in awe at their stupidity, whether it's a total lack of awareness of their surroundings, terrible pathfinding, the ability to harm themselves more than their enemies, etc.
The only characters that cannot be included are playable characters during gameplay, (Cutscenes are a different story) as their level of intelligence is dependant on the actions of the player.
We've all had our dumb gaming moments, (Just see Gargantuan Gaming Gaffes for mine) but as they say, a bad worksman blames his tools.

[@someguy764]

Also, in Smash 64 the AI has a lot of things you can use to to utterly destroy it. For instance, they never attempt to recover again if you edgeguard them, it sucks at using recoveries in general, as Link it blows himself up itself with its own bombs, any explosives or red shells will invariably kill them because of their ineptitude, they always run into the pokemon door in Saffron City, and perhaps most famously of all, the AI often overshoots their recovery and accidentally kill themselves

[@playboydojo]

The number of times I've seen CPU Pikachu quick attack past the platform he was trying to land on or Ness shoot his PK Thunder into the wall...

[@ericb3157]

i once saw a video where someone started a Smash Bros game, set it up with 3 cpu players, then did NOTHING and WON! an amusing takeoff of the "luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing" series. (the Mario Party games)

[@kino3276]

As someone who's been watching this channel for awhile I hate that youtube has been basically killing this channel. But its nice to see you still uploading and especially seeing the occasional puyo puyo content from you.

[@calvinskye]

I was all ready to jump in and defend poor Tails, but then I saw it was all about how they handle under CPU control, so fair game!

[@amethyphoenix]

He wouldn't have counted anyway for a small part, because in other Sonic games, he can be under Human control.

[@SallyCatTree]

Defend tails for what? I'm sorry to say this, but That dude is trash now,

[@TheKorenji]

Same, though.

[@unnamed7485]

At least he would qualify in Sonic Forces "Sonic, help me!"

[@aidensmith5113]

@@unnamed7485 And Sonic Heroes. “Look at all those Eggman’s robots!”

[@kirbboi]

I would do stupid crap too if I was an eldritch immortal that never stayed dead like Tails.

[@napoleoncomplex2712]

He has two tails. It's not natural I tell you.

[@TheLakabanzaichrg]

He's one of those japanese multi tailed demon foxes, no wonder he's immortal

[@pirupami9746]

Is Tails one of the most powerful characters ever?

[@seashellguy9416]

@@pirupami9746 wait until u see cream and emerl,but technically yes.

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

@@napoleoncomplex2712 He was bullied in his earlier youth for just that, you know.

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

Melee Ness. If you've seen Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing, you know what I mean.

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

Tails wins by doing absolutely nothing, too.

[@hhhh82user]

also melee luigi (in a cpu sense)

[@PegasusBrill]

I have a theory for the Shenmu one. What if it's the World of Mana set in the modern times. And the tradition of dancing around pointlessly when you're a merchant just never lost it's touch?

[@MrEvilbyte]

Totally explains that then xD

[@rcblazer]

A sequel should be easy. There are plenty of dumb characters to choose from in video games. Anyone who ever played Goldeneye on 00 Agent Mode will remember how frustrating it was to see "Natalya: I'm scared, I'm getting out of here."

[@PAINNN666]

@Sega Starbits 1. Not that dumb to be here. 2. He controlled only by player. In blitzball he is ok.

[@douglaslundin4506]

Git:**Casually disembowels Jennifer** Jennifer:**Readjusts herself** Me:Wut? XD

[@thatitalianlameguy2235]

Classic tails : is useless Adventure tails : is awesome Modern tails : is useless again

[@aronthegreat2935]

Git continues his decade long journey of dunking on Tails

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

No AI stupidity can compare to that of Extreme PaintBrawl. The NPCs have almost no AI at all. The enemies all cluster next to the objective and have perfect detection and shooting abilities. A Halo 2 sniper Jackal would be jealous. Meanwhile, your AI allies all get down on the ground and try to crawl through the nearest wall. Choosing that game might be cheating, though. The game itself is in the same category as Big Rigs and Hong Kong 97. It was packaged and shipped before it was even ready for alpha testing.

[@qty1315]

"Well I'm here to tell you about the Build engine, that there game that Civvie likes so much, and this is the worst game on the system that wasn't no Extreme PaintBrawl or didn't have the mark of the beast on it."

[@emberthefox4951]

Tails being in the thumbnail made me think this new series was going to be about both dumb moments of smart characters and dumb characters being dumb.

[@ziharkvesperum4195]

With so many games with so many characters who are dumber than a brick, I already know that this series will be funny as heck :) Here are some other stupid IAs that games I recently played: - IA in Pokémon Gen I is well know for its incredible stupidity. Here exists a "good IA" that will make certain trainers act as "experts". These trainers WILL ALWAYS use Super Effective moves against you, even if the move deals no damage. Example: Lance's Dragonites spamming Agilty and Barrier (Psychic-types moves that raises their Speed and Defense, respectively) against Fighting and Poison-types. You can beat them even with a Lv.5 Bulbasaur as their will never attack you with other moves (also they don't run out of PP). Even to this day, Pokémon IA is still stupid, but in some unfair way: Opossing trainers posees a somewhat real challenge (use good moves, follow certain strategy, switch pokémons if they have a bad matchup, etc.), but ally IA (like Barry in BDSP) is just stupid. Spam "support" moves and refuse to attack or cooperate with you. Altought the solution is really simple: Just use Earthquake/Surf with a powerfull pokémon (like Garchomp or Empoleon) to kill the enemies and your stupid friend. - Green Units in Fire Emblem series. To being fair, they don't have enterely the fault. The real problem is that they are incredible weak compared to the enemies and your units (like, they have stats of a lv.5 unit, and you will face enemies with more than double that their pitiful stats). THEY ALWAYS CHARGE AGAINST THE ENEMIES, even if they will deal no damage or will die in the counterattack. They are very annoying because those chapters where they appear, generally give you a reward (Promotion objects, Stat boosters, etc.) if they survive. And with their innate suicide instinct... Yeah, they are more a chore than a helping hand. - Police IA from GTA San Andreas. THEY ARE SO F*CKING DUMB. No need to explain anything here, there's plenty of compilation videos showing their incompetence. - Etrian Mistery Dungeon (EMD) teammates IA: EMD is a rogelike spinoff frome Etrian Odyssey series. This game play similarly to Pokémon Mistery Dungeon (duh). Like in those game, you control a leader character and can have up to three allies following you. THEY ARE SO F*CKIN, F*CKING DUMB. Medic and Dancer (classes that focuses in support and healing) refuse to heal you, even if you are in real danger. Thay also don't heal you if you are paralized and there no enemies in the room, letting you paralized (and unable to do anything) for like 20 turns (and yes, is that the duration of paralisis in those games), Protectors spamming Cover and Provoke and no attacking whatsover, Sovereigns spamming anything but Elemental Arms skills, Gunners no attacking from distance (they will priorize reposionate themselves to gain distance with the enemy, and then attack. This is so stupid because they can simply shoot and kill THE ENEMY BEFORE IT CAN ATTACK). Some other stupid quirks, like Runemasters and Gunner no attacking from the hallways, Gunners spamming their skill attacks (that costs MP, stat that Gunners don't excel) even when they can kill the enemy with a regular attack, etc. The IA is so stupid that some guides recommend to play solo with the Protector/Wanderer class. And yes, is enterely possible to beat the game in that way (is EVEN EASIER). This game is pure garbage, and yet, I love it :)

[@RaceBandit]

I've heard horror stories of IAs misreading the board and killing the players' Mons, most frequently associated to Nuzlocke% runs. I actually got to experience this without my Mons dying; in a Multi where the opponent had Lapras and Blastoise, Lapras had used Perish Song and switched out on the final turn like the AI usually does. Blastoise _did not._ Instead, it used Aqua Tail to try to proc Water Absorb, only for a Taillow to die to Aqua Tail, and then the Blastoise to die to Perish Song. I was very confused by what had happened.

[@rockamuse617]

Skeleton T: Uh…how do you rotate Puyo again?

[@WhiteFangofWar]

Lots of candidates. Programming smart enemy AI is hard. 9:12 Reminds me of a dungeon in Wild Arms 3 where the two strongest enemy types are natural enemies and always prioritize killing each other over you. You can use this animosity to your advantage by attacking the stronger 'side'. Maybe Zolokalters just can't overcome those animal instincts? No, the only ones I consider truly stupid are beings who are supposed to have human intelligence. Like Gabby Jay in Super Punch-Out, an old man who continues to box decades after he should have retired and has no strategy except beg you to let him win out of pity!

[@ChrisWoollett]

Mareanie is the natural predator Corsola in the Alola games (They consider the branches of Corsola to be yummy) and the only to get a Mareanie without trading in the Alola games is by via Corsola SOS Battles. Annoying when you are trying catch Corsola and Corsola keeps calling for help.

[@RaceBandit]

@@ChrisWoollett | Another Poguminz example of wild Mons attacking _each other_ instead of the player would be Seviper vs. Zangoose, or Durant vs. Heatmor. Uhh... I don't remember if there were more than those three _(counting the one you already mentioned)_

[@umbra1246]

Player makes a noise , drops a explosive tank killing not only himself but everyone around him in the process , hands down , the biggest idiot enemy in video game , ever.

[@charleshaskell2056]

4:11 Oh shit, the Doomslayer found a magic trench coat!

[@SussusAmogus-r4o]

"dumbest characters" puts tails in the thumbnail *logik*

[@Quenlin]

He's literally as smart as Dr. Robotnik, both have 300IQ, and Dr. Robotnik is a fuckin' dumbass.

[@konoikurozora5851]

Can't help but think of the idiocy of enemies in Fire Emblem games who all crowd a single character (or a support duo) who's waaay too strong for them, and just get killed off one by one by attacking them, while you don't have to do anything but skip turns. That was my go-to fighting method in the Tellius games, as long as the map didn't have some special win conditions that wouldn't allow for it.

[@MrEvilbyte]

Probably my favorite (semi) "stupid" AI (besides Tails), are the bots from Unreal Tournament. While they can be exceedingly brutal to fight, they make mistakes like blowing themselves up, dodging off the side of a building, and ignoring Nuke blasts (including their own). Also not timing their runs past the mortars on AS-Overlord (gets them killed half the time). Things get more ridiculous when playing on 3rd party maps where the author doesn't know how to path for the bots. Expect things like bots making stupid jumps that always fail (or get them killed), bots getting stuck under lifts, pacing back and forth between 2 areas, getting stuck in water (and drowning), or flat out refusing to move from where they spawn. Not that I'm dunking on UT's AI, it was downright revolutionary for a 1999 game. And is still better then majority of the AI in other games. I just get a kick when they frick up. And they WILL kick your ass.

[@kingspilly4381]

How about the fact that in almost every game that has both melee and ranged combat, melee enemies will run right at you, allowing you to simply shoot at them while walking backwards?

[@ericb3157]

yeah, in the original Doom, most enemies were smart enough to zig-zag toward you. so why not ones in modern games? then again, enemies like Zombies are SUPPOSED to be stupid...

[@Burn_Angel]

Dunno, man. I haven't played many modern games, but for example, in Horizon, the enemies always zigzag you, and even at ranged combat, land-based enemies keep hopping left to right to dodge your attacks, and flying enemies try to get out of your reach with a short ranged weapon, and charge really fast at you when you use a long range weapon. Even if you do learn how their AIs work, you're still better off trying to kill them with stealth and sneak attacks anyways.

[@thejedisonic67]

Terraria moment. "just walk into the enemy, im sure the person with a chaingun will be too scared to shoot"

[@minimalbstolerance8113]

Hey, if you're so insane that you can be on fire and still run towards your enemy yelling about meat bicycles, why would you be worried about the guy you're charging having a gun?

[@glazeddoughnutgod4352]

It's a wonder the zombies didn't just go somewhere else, the survivors all have an eighth of a brain cell to share between them.

[@mistashadow]

Ah yes. Good old Stress Relief difficulty. The AI will almost never attack you unless you do specific things.

[@yoshimanrpg]

I'm just gonna say 2 single words that perfectly explain who I'd choose for a "Dumbest Characters" List. LEON! HEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!

[@Awoken_YKW_Fan9001]

This series will be very long if you included 1:ANY escort mission character 2:An RPG with AI controlled teammates and a crappy auto battle, like Persona 3 *(Marin Karin intensifies)*

[@MissJackietheLakester]

“Sonic, help me!” That’s where I thought this was going…

[@pinksywedarnoc8017]

I thought this was all about tails being so goddamn useless to sonic and only talking to him. This fox can make so many good machines and planes but NEVER even fights for himself! And we have to see just sonic fighting everything alone (No I am not counting Sonic boom Tails just tails in any other game he's not playable in)

[@dog8668]

I thought this was gonna be about the fake emerald scene in sa2

[@peacekeeper3363]

I’ve always found the Koma Pigs from Tombi to be pretty stupid, especially in the first area. As far as video game minions go, these guys more incompetent than Goombas. One pig is sitting behind the tower of rocks and if you stand next to it, he’ll run straight into it and knock himself out. Then he gets back up and does this over and over! XD

[@napoleoncomplex2712]

Some categories off the top of my head. -Story-based screw ups. (There's always one member of a party that gives the big bad the Doom Rock instead of the decoy or prematurely flips the self-destruct button on the heroes' hideout.) -Utterly incompetent adversaries in-game. (Several of those in this very video!) -Utterly incompetent adversaries in-game who suddenly become killing machines in cutscenes. -Hapless allies and followers (suicidal, resource hogs, stress-tolerance of a chihuahua on Red Bull, or all three). -Sharpe villain-level AI commanders who get their soldiers killed. -Crazy/lazy soldier behaviour on your side which gets their commander killed. -

[@GoldDragon20]

I saw the thumbnail. Forces Tails. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh That’s what came to mind

[@RaceBandit]

Skeleton T is a very AI-exclusive example... in ~n (N64, PS2, Dreamcast), Skeleton-T's attacks get stronger the longer it goes without rotating its pieces. This caps out at quad damage, so a player who knows how to play with that handicap can blast the opponent's ass.

[@doozy5184]

The power core guard is the reason why workplace safety exists

[@someguy764]

There is a little game named Spy vs Spy released on PS2 and Xbox. The AI there is hilariously bad, even on hard mode, they often run into their own traps, don't know how to deactivate any traps you place, often buy useless things they never use, can at times ignore you completely even if you are in front of them, in the more hazardous levels, they get killed often by obstacles around the level, can't recognize bottomless pits and in one particular level they can get stuck in a certain place until you kill them and they somehow manage to go out of bounds sometimes just to activate a trap and immediately get killed by the trap they just activated

[@jackscott8259]

Spy vs Spy? as in, MAD magazine Spy vs Spy?

[@someguy764]

@@jackscott8259 yep

[@kaiba226]

Just wanna say your production quality has been great as of recently, been subscribed for idk how many years now and your content always keeps me coming back to this channel, thanks 👍🏿

[@MarioDS01]

Have a feeling you will find plenty of material for this series. There is no shortage of dumb characters out there. One game I can think of is the infamous Alien game where the character A.I. were dumb because some idiot wrote the code wrong.

[@mr.rad-guy3767]

In Smash Ultimate the Roy CPU even on level 9 very rarely grabs the ledge when recovering so it's very easy to K.O. him with most attacks

[@DoctorNovakaine]

Okay, a difficulty called "stress relief" is something I find exceedingly amusing, and really it ought to be piss-easy if that's what you're calling it. There are tons of escort quest NPCs that could be done under this series. I'm sure you'll have plenty to choose from there. And I'm sure we aren't done with dunderheaded enemies either - I have to think that some stealth games especially have at least some enemies with terrible AIs.

[@TeamBlueToad]

Yeah boy! A new series! And starting with a character that always used to piss me off during my time playing Sonic games.

[@demomanchaos]

Civilians in Payday 2 deserve a mention. "Oh hey, a masked maniac with a machine gun is dumping rounds right above me. I should stand up right now." Anything made by Bugthesda also deserves a mention.

[@RainingMetal]

Back in the day I would go out of my way to start the Nightclub mission and slaughter every civilian there. Using the perk that reduces the money penalty, of course.

[@Lightpaladin720]

18:36 I hate that survivor he later does a mutiny where he threatens to take survivors and you give him one piece of food and he acts like this never happened

[@nixbg1417]

"Has the whole world gone mad?" *Yes. Yes, it has......*

[@pirupami9746]

Look up James Scotmore

[@GyroMan5136]

and it will only get madder

[@GyroMan5136]

The guard carrying the whale oil tank is fuckin hilarious, can't believe I never saw it when I played through dunwall tower

[@evanarmont]

Natalya from Goldeneye comes to mind, though she's really only bad in bunker 2, as that seems to be the only level people refer to when talking about her A.I.

[@MasterKnightDH]

Natalya can be left in her cell until the stage is cleaned up. The timer won't trigger simply by being in the control room, which especially helps in getting rid of a security camera for an objective that is ultimately inane in the midst of the place being blasted to bits by the Goldeneye satellite anyway.

[@evanarmont]

@@MasterKnightDH yes, that's true. I used that to beat the mission on 00agent, and I had to karate chop all the guards to beat it

[@spaceace9103]

10:08 This guy looks like he'd be a big propane supporter

[@choconyansmugen179]

Good ol tails abuse.

[@ModernAegis]

Not gonna lie, when I saw Tails in the thumbnail, I was expecting this to be about Forces.

[@geekytronicxz7777]

next series idea the mozt smart characters in gameing

[@yosute__]

Top 1: you!

[@SuperFitzieZX]

Tails made the list! Haha

[@superplayerex2431]

Ah, Streets of Rage: Remake. Really great fan-game. The stupid AI partner option is one way to play the game when you've already seen it all. Also, is it the last version of the game you're playing or it's an older one? Or you're simply playing in 4:3? I find it hard to come back to playing the game in 4:3 after playing it so much in 16:9 thanks to the 5.3 update the game received.

[@NightCheetahh]

2007: debug mode in sonic 2 2021: Tails In The Thumbnail

[@KnakuanaRka]

You just HAVE to mention the braindead allies in Daikatana; they will constantly get themselves stuck, lost and killed, shoot through your character, get hung up on random geometry, etc. Trying to get these guys to the end of each level alive will suck up a LOT of your time with the escort mission from hell *every single level.*

[@SenatorArmstrong2018]

Everywhere I go…I see that fox’s face…

[@rosheafan]

Where were the green units, Whois? You can't escape Fire Emblem, Whois.

[@potatoheadpokemario1931]

actually PC can be dumb independent of the player, such as when you have to pick an obviously dumb dialog choice, or cutscenes where you can't control the character, or when stupidity is the only way forwards

[@Superluigi881]

Dr Eggman to Sonic in Sonic Unleashed: "How did you get here so quickly?" 300 IQ huh? Sure.

[@ericb3157]

i just remembered one, but i can't remember the name... it's a two-player co-op game with guns and monsters, where you can have a female AI-controlled partner...and she's really stupid. she's a lousy shot, keeps charging into danger, AND has a habit of using health items, which are SHARED, EVERY time she takes ANY damage, so you will almost certainly have NONE when you really need them! oh, i tried to look it up, and found two more: Makiko and Superfly from Daikatana. the whole game is terrible, but they are so stupid they make it MUCH more frustrating!

[@dicksonmattxenoblade6491]

Okay, this is going off of VERY limited knowledge of the game in question, but my first thought upon reading this was Resident Evil 5.

[@ericb3157]

@@dicksonmattxenoblade6491 yes, that's the one.

[@wilfridekoue1405]

15:53 got to give them the rise like a dragon treatment

[@hoodedman6579]

I vote for the Persona 3 FES AI, who can be annoying to get to do what you want even with every tactic available, but are absolutely braindead if you just leave them on "Act Freely". They always conserve the last 20% of their SP or so outside of boss fights no matter how close to a warp you are, they always heal people with status effects to full health instead of curing a status (I once saw a poisoned ally heal himself to full health, take poison damage, and then the next person healed him again and then the third person cured the status), they'll always try to heal you if you get to low health (which mostly makes sense, except this includes the characters without healing skills, who will instead use 50 or 100 HP items on you even when the boss just hit you for 300 and got you almost dead, so that 50 HP item is basically just skipping their turn), and most infamously of all, don't know which skills are garbage and never worth using. Mitsuru is particularly bad for this; on Act Freely, she has a weird love of Marin Karin, a single target status skill that inflicts the charm ailment seemingly 10% of the time, and does nothing most of the time. She also has Spirit Drain, which steals 20 SP from an enemy; this is essentially as the same as doing nothing, and her Ice Break (which nullifies enemy immunities to her ice spells) and Mind Charge (which causes her next spell to deal 2.5x damage) means that she should always have something to do. Ironically, Mitsuru is canonically one of the smartest members in the group. Meanwhile, Junpei is one of the dumbest but he does great due to having a moveset that isn't full of garbage, though he doesn't have a heal so he can do that shit with throwing weak healing items at you, but it's trivial to prevent that as he has all of one skill that he won't use on either "Knockdown" or "Full Assault", while Mitsuru would lose access to either her healing skills and maybe even Ice Break on those; there's a boss later on in the game that absorbs almost everything and some common tactic she will chose to use Spirit Drain on him over and over instead of just using Ice Break and hiting him with Ice Spells.

[@lunatic0verlord10]

One way you could include player character on here would be if you find one who simply can't accomplish a simple action, or one who COULD perform a simple action except for when it matters.

[@jvts8916]

Langrisser Mobile. The Fire Emblem series may have a reputation when it comes to green units, but at least escort missions are rare (at least counting the games individually). This game doesn't just have ally units with even worse AI, they're frequent! Oh, and they gave a singular pattern to ALL allied units, no matter how unfitting and unhelpful it is. It causes any NPC to attack nearby opposing units while disregarding triangle and stat disadvantages, always use their attack skills as soon as they're available and won't use healing magic unless they have a unit with 50% or less HP remaining despite the basic healing spell's infinite uses. Even NPCs that you are commanded to keep safe have this terrible AI. It got to the point that I ragequitted the game and started playng Fire Emblem Heroes instead.

[@curlybrace4984]

God, feh is so fun.

[@Superluigi881]

Feh ai's is both really smart and really dumb. They'll blindly attack your unit even if it kills them but they also have stupidly convoluted 300 IQ plays with dancers and extra movement skills to send one character all the way across the map to wreck you in a turn or two.

[@forcrit2562]

I don't think this has been said here yet... Green units in Fire Emblem, they are too suicidal for their own good and the players

[@platy4700]

Suprised you didn’t go over GREEN UNITS

[@custom-r]

Almost expecting to see Slippy and Krystal on this series

[@_Tzer]

believe it or not tails was dumber in the beta. Not as a char just his ai..

[@ricoandreim.gaduena8492]

7:20 LEROOOOY JENKIIIINS

[@atomicninjaduck9200]

In Shenmue II, the shopowners inside buildings are really just exercise nuts, and that's the only exercise they know.

[@Superluigi881]

Most of Fire Emblem's green units have either a death wish or melted ice cream for brains. There's a reason it's a meme. Making no attempt to save themselves or actively rushing into danger.

[@noticeme6412]

Mitsuru in persona 3 fes just casts marin karin or mind charge intobufula on a dying enemy,, which is a waste of spirit points

[@noticeme6412]

And they could have used that turn to heal me goddammit

[@misterenigma7541]

I thought you would mention Advance Wars AI.The only reason why some of the missions are possible to complete is because of how stupid it can be.Maybe next time.

[@RaceBandit]

Ephraim225 sniping Sock Island back when his Design Room message board was a thing came to mind. I think what happened there was Ephraim pressured the front line enough for the AI to forget about defending outposts and move units to the front. The result was qzecwx _("Sock Island" designer)_ facedesking.

[@alejandro_rodriguez_99]

Green suicidal units in FE are perfect for this, specially those that you need them to survive for one reward.

[@rosheafan]

*You got a Guiding Ring*

[@amandamakin1542]

I actually like the idea of the Streets of Rage remake with a Stupid AI partner. I still like watching whoisthisgit's Streets of Rage 2 Trick Room Max run.

[@Josh-rs9kg]

The mere concept of a "stupid game AI" series just screams for a video on green units in fire emblem

[@singlereedenjoyer]

YES! Plus Skrimir too.

[@the_aimless_most]

Oh cool new series

[@リンゴ酢-b8g]

diese Videos sind für mich unverzichtbar. Ich bedaure, dass ich nicht früher davon gewusst habe

[@The-Zer0th-Law]

Sims are dumb as hell too. A classic example is their inability to MOVE A CHAIR THAT IS BLOCKING THE DOOR TO THE BATHROOM, and then proceed to piss themselves.

[@redzgaming6880]

Left 4 Dead AI allies are a contender for this list.

[@jbecker8874]

7:25 I nominate the Tricker from Final Fantasy 4. First of all, it's floating; so when it scans itself to reveal that it is weak to the Quake spell, nobody is going to fall for it. If you just attack it won't do anything but cast scan on itself until it dies. This is an endgame enemy, BTW, that resides in areas where you're fighting outright swarms of dragons, & faces that cast the "Holy" spell on you (the White Magic counterpart to Nuke).

[@DoctorSpacebar]

Ah, dumb AI. Incredibly annoying on your side (No, Coyle, your 10 damage Magic Missile is *not helping* against the giant Iron Golem that is now about to cave in your skull) but potentially a lifesaver when the enemy has it. The Vek from Into the Breach are an example of AI stupidity that's there on purpose. Even on the hardest difficulty, the stupid bugs will blunder into mines, waste attacks on a Mech that can just move away (sometimes even setting you up to get them to hit each other), try to web the web-proof pilot Camila Vera, and stand on tiles that are very clearly about to get flooded by a tidal wave or sink into the ground. But if their AI *didn't* make any mistakes, the game would be impossible. Their AI flaws establish the Vek swarm's one weakness; while they're huge and have superior numbers, their intelligence and strategy is nothing compared to that of a skilled commander.

[@jumpupsupbarhorn]

We could add a lot of Super Smash Flash 2 CPUs onto this :p

[@okolo22000]

Aww… I was hoping for X-Men (NES) to make an appearance. The AI controlled ally you’re stuck with is the worst thing I’ve ever seen move.

[@mariomaster4568]

Sonic X…that’s literally the biggest thing that proves that tails isn’t exactly the brightest. What did he accomplish? Oh right, almost got sonic killed, was outsmarted by that fatass Eggman, and then in the ladder half of season 3, is head over heels in love with some plant? No wonder Forces Tails is cowering at chaos 0, he’s just waiting for the pain to end

[@bleakburd4965]

By Sonic X do you mean Sonic in the 2010's? If so, I agree

[@A_Different_Name]

In Meteos, the CPU Level 1 Gravitas is so dumb you could potentially win without ever touching the DS.

[@superkonijn988]

One recently i was fortunate to recall is Saizo from fire emblem fates in conquest chapter 17. You would want to keep him alive for the speedwing but this dude loves to charge ahead into hoards of enemies. While he has the stats to deal with them 1 on 1, he will quickly get overwhelmed and die the next turn. What makes it worse is that his personal skill will make him and the opponent take recoil damage once Saizo drops below 50% HP, which makes Saizo die even faster.

[@danarisato8250]

whenever someone is an NPC in any fe game they just become an absolute idiot that you need to babysit for the entire paralogue/chapter, personally the worst case of this for me was i think paralogue 3 from Fire emblem Awakening, as you had not just 1 but 3 npcs with archers on the map that the npcs will walk towards, making them easy targets, but also you have rivers sectioning them from you making sumia for example really bad to use due to the archers but one of the only classes who can reasonably reach them in time to ensure they dont get hit.

[@Aego384]

@@danarisato8250 I hated those idiots

[@VonFirflirch]

FE6 (Blazing Sword, Roy's game) had some pretty depressing Pegasus Knights at some point. The five of them start off as enemies but as soon as you recruit their leader (using an Archer unit that might kill one on Enemy Phase, due to number 5 most likely attacking from range if the other 4 surround him), get ready to weigh down your beefier guys, for these NPCs will then toss themselves at anything that will kindly ORKO them because of the old "I have a ranged Spear but no Constitution stat"! The map has tons of walls for you (but not them!) to get slowed down by, -ambush- reinforcements (including two recruitables) pop up from all corners by the time you reach the middle of the map... I honestly considered giving up on the rewards x)

[@jurayzscout9432]

How about army from metal slug? They slow, they weak, and most of all, their weapon are always so slow even you feel like Neo from Matrix

[@conlia]

11:40 i legit laughed when i saw that

[@j.x.wheeler5940]

Want a dumb CPU? Look no further than that girl in the James Bond game for the N64.

[@Borti_Ovi]

15:18 Why are you interrupting their polyamorous make out session? That’s not cool, ya know?

[@jgn]

armored core 2, I've seen people beat arena matches by just doing nothing and waiting for the enemy to ring themselves out

[@rachadlendar4918]

Surprised you didn't include papyrus

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

6:04 I am not sure what you are complaining about here. He put brain everywhere!

[@crow1160]

Let me guess, usually npc green units in FE?

[@markurbanowicz6619]

Is that superfrog soundtrack I heard from the start of the video?

[@KSKY2012]

tails himself is smart as hell but his CPU is the dumbest thing to exist.

[@SamsarasArt]

That's really weird. I've been playing ff7 since it came out and I've never seen those zolokalter enemies behave like that at all.

[@demontorch]

18:51 must've been diet soda....that shit is so not healthy

[@laughingalex7563]

Cpu setting stupid in streets of rage, best joke ever.

[@the_aimless_most]

The commander that give you tips in tds modes

[@OleAlexanderBrunaes]

Dumber than Dopefish?

[@cactifreezus2173]

If you ever do a video analyzing the Smartest Characters in Gaming, I have two recommendations: 1. Sans Even though he only has one Hp, he can do what alot of other Rpg characters can’t, dodge the attacks, and he does that nearly all the time, and his special attack is basically nothing, because he knows that you can’t attack if he doesn’t attack. 2. Dartling Gunner (BTD5) This guy is basically a cooler ninja monkey, due to him having the ability to see camo without any upgrades, unlike his BTD6 counterpart. And his 0/2 let’s him pop any type of Bloon, even Lead! I don’t know if that makes him smart, but it does to me.

[@cactifreezus2173]

I just realized that you have something Called “The Most Powerful Characters in gaming ever, so I guess BTD5 Dartling Gunner can fit more in that series.

[@shirenthewanderer4770]

RPG characters can dodge attacks. Its called evasion. Undertale is known for using meta-logic in its humor. Most of the time in SMT and Persona games Evasion is better than Defense (because A mobs hit hard and B you lose turns when you miss). Any RPG that has an evasion stat and has evasion buff/debuffs and things like Blind the characters can dodge attacks. In fact. in Ye Olde Dungeons and Dragons defense (i.e. Armor Class) allowed you to Evade damage instead of reduce it. Everything in D&D either did it's full damage or didn't (or half). Dragon Warrior doesn't use Magic Defense in it's series, each spell family even the damage types, will either hit for its full effect of it won't. RPG characters taking more than 2 direct hits is a modern concept.

[@1rn1u2]

I dunno why but CPU-controled character remind me Mitsuru from Persona 3 (She's use mostly charm spell, even during boss and some ennemies who's have charm resistance) ^^; but i still love her

[@thejedisonic67]

I wonder what the opposite would be called? "The most ruthless characters in gaming"? TM Black opponent AI would certainly like to give a word in on that