Why do some pokemon moves fail?

I know why moves would miss or not affect another pokemon, but why do some moves just fail? I also understand that moves can fail if you use them over and over, but some of them just fail for seemingly no reason. why is that?

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  • depending on your relashonship with your pokemon, i remeber i had doexys in pokemon emerald and it wouldnt listen to me, so i gave it a soothe bell and it eventually started to listen to me, also some may not affect the pokemon like a ground move vs a fly pokemon wont hurt it since it can fly away.

  • What miguel said. In addition, it really depends on the battle. As we all know, a pokemon can only be under 1 status effect at a time(burn,paralyze, freeze,poison). If you try to use a status changing effect while the pokemon is already affected by another, it will fail. I'm sure similar situations apply to other moves

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