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orcus_snake posted...

It does not lie, a low percentage chance is still a chance and 15 are odds that you would love to have in a casino.

I have played enough HS games where chances of X happening and winning someone the game are front and center and I get as pissed as anybody else when the enemy makes me discard my 1/5 card that would have won the game during the next turn but that is what percentage chance means, it is never guranted until you get a 100% anything short of that just play to your odds and hope it works out.

This is coming from someone who beat Lucina's game on lunatic diofficulty so I was VERY aware that enemies can and will crit you on 1 or 2 percent and you will have to start over the entire chapter over.

The game actually does lie to the player but in the player's favor as enemies are more likely to have lower percentages and players are more likely to have higher percentages. A 5% crit/1RN happens 1 every 20 hits which with the amount of hits that goes on in every battle isn't a lot of hits at all. However, in True Hit/2RN a 5% chance is actually 0.55% chance which goes from 1 out of 20 to 1 out 180 so you can see how big a difference that makes.
Besides FE1-5, in Fates, Echoes, and Engage all numbers below 50% are 1RN/doesn't lie to you so lower percentage hits are much more likely to hit.