Leech Seed failed against Tentacruel?

I fought a Tentacruel online yesterday using my Ferrothorn.

I tried to use Leech Seed three times in a row and every time it said “It failed!”. I then gave up and used another move.I was wondering why Leech Seed failed..

I know that it cannot affect grass type Pokémons. Is Liquid Ooze possibly to blame?

Thanks!

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

Noit wasn’t Liquid Ooze. If it was Liquid Ooze then Tentacruel would of been hit by Leech Seed and still lost 1/8 of it’s HP per turn, although the user of Leech Seed (Ferrothorn) would also lose 1/8 of it’s HP per turn instead of gaining it back.

All that I can think of is that may be either:

Tentacruel was hit withForest’s Curse.If it was hit with Forest’s Curse it would become a Grass type and be immune to Leech Seed.

Tentacruel was behind aSubstitute.Leech Seed will not hit a target behind a Substitute.

Tentacruel usedReflect Typechanging it’s type to the same as Ferrothorn’s Grass/Steel. If Tentacruel used this move and changed to the same type as Ferrothorn it would be immune to Leech Seed.

Hope I helped :)

No. It was 1 of 2 things:

And maybe:

Okay, in gen 1 and 2, haze will mess up leech seed. Yes, liquid ooze results in the opponent losing life instead of gaining life from leech seed. They will remain seeded until they switch out or use something like rapid spin to remove it.Hope I helped!

I’m guessing you probably just got really unlucky and missed three times in a row. All liquid ooze would have done if you had gotten leech seed to work is make it so instead of you being healed every round by leech seed you would have been hurt by it.