When a pokemon is confused, whats the chance of them damaging themselves?

Question

My pokemon always seem to hurt themselves when confused :S

Answer 1

The confused condition causes a Pokémon to hurt itself in its confusion 50% of the time. The damage is done as if the Pokémon attacked itself with a 40-power typeless physical attack.
Confusion wears off after 1-4 attacking turns.

Straight from bulbapedia.And with Prankster its priority :)

Answer 2

Since Gen 7, Confusion now has a 1/3 chance of activating.

Since the previous answer was posted in 2011, they didn't get it wrong, Gamefreak just changed it since then.

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