Gaming Help calculating the odds

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Lali ho!

Replaying the PSP version of the original Final Fantasy on my Vita and I achieved something pretty rare. I'd like to know precisely HOW rare though. And no matter what I type into google all I get on this subject is links to gambling websites because it seems all human society has collapsed. So here's the skinny;

- Got the rare 'super boss' War Mech to spawn. I'm told the odds are 3/64 but it still took me over an hour.
- Got a pre-emptive strike on him. Apparently the odds of that are 25% but I'm not convinced that's accurate.
- He dropped the rare Genji Armour on the first attempt. Reportedly a 2% drop rate.

I don't know how to maths, so what are the odds of all that happening together, in layman's terms?
 

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If it is what it says there then you just multiply across, though that would depend upon how you looked in the first part (if it is 3 over 64 for any one battle then spending 1 hour to get say 50 battles first attempted/fled from it changes things).

In reality though stats in such things are a game by game basis and few people properly look into it all at code level, and internal percentage chances are a work of fiction most of the time too.
 

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