Base
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When becoming a 'traitor' and returning back to base, you get a game-over debriefing, common to all missions ("you are hereby stripped of your wings and... blah blah.")
Source: Friendly Fireproof - In the first generation of games, this kind of build was quite common because base crit rates were propotional to that species of Pokemon's base speed stat, and thus could be pretty damn high (Electrode's was the highest, with a little over 25%).
Source: Critical Hit Class - More common are radicals, fractions proper and improper, constants (such as pi or the natural base), and scientific notationnote Though technically, using the wrong exponent here is equivalent to misplacing the decimal point, sometimes over many orders of magnitude.
Source: Misplaced a Decimal Point
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