Pokemon Umbral Discussion 23: My Favorite Number!

[Dracorion]

So Chizuru, Kirie and Mika aren't available for this mission?

[Menarker]

I'd guess not.

Anyhow, guess we gotta choose the specialists we'll be using and the enforcers we each want. *Thinking*

[Dracorion]

"You're taken your first step into a larger world." Good for Impact! I mean, it's pretty obvious that his reaction was controlled, but good for Impact anyway!

So what, he's going to dual-class to Battle Master later?

[Menarker]

Finally the forum is back up again. Was annoyed by the downtime

Anyhow, guess we gotta choose the specialists we'll be using and the enforcers we each want.
(I'm taking Cecilia as my Enforcer btw.)

Proposed:

Shock Trooper: Rayleen (Fighting Faynoc who is known to have employed Ruin pokemons, so dragons is damn good choice. Geminex has a Gal-Tech with her.)
Other choices: Harriette (Mixed type pokemon, double rage gain)
Bretton (Several fire pokemon with immunity against fire. Potentially a good choice for fighting against whatever is creating the blue flames, plus his slayer power is the highest during Sunny Day.)

Medic: Rachel (Magnet Crush to deal with soliders. Multiple Steel types to help with Ruin types. Electric type effective on Lugia's Flying type.)
Other Options: Lola (Renny has a Gal-Tech with her. New Dragon form. Her ability makes healing items practically last two turns.)
Angelo (Multiple pokemons, Psychic useful against Ruin types)

Sniper: Whitney (Can identify Muon. Multiple pokemons. Combine her Mismagius ability with her sniping to prevent her from getting hurt to practically multiple her sniping power by 2.5 for 3 turns.)
Other options: Evangaleen (Multiple pokemons, Electric types useful against Lugia's flying type. )
Wilhelmina (POWERFUL signature Tech, multiple weapon types effective against Ruin)

Engineer: Moon (Likely to be damn useful against the blue flame thing due to multiple water types. Several pokemons. Has a Gal-Tech. Ice Evolith useful against Lugia-flying type.)
Other options: Mirror (Evolith boosts attack stat, Punishment deals with foes that overbuff, combo well with Bretton AND Wilhelmina.)

Enforcers:

Shannon (Combos with Sunny Day and thus with Bretton. Useful Gal-Tech with Moon that is cheaper if she is on the field at the same time too.)

Hector (Multiple Pokemon. Dark types useful against ruin types. Co-Op Tech causes enemy attacks to miss a good deal of the time)

Cecilia (Invincibility for 3 turns when using her Signature Technique.)

Kurika (Immunity to 3 types and some status effects. CHEAP 100% OHKO attack. Best taken by someone who can build up rage very fast. Has a attack type useful against Ruin type)

Milsha (Cheap Signature Technique that only somewhat weaker than Kurika against normal foes, but MUCH more useful against bosses that can be hit by status affliction. Has an attack type useful against Ruin types.)

[Dracorion]

Small nitpick, I doubt we'll be fighting Ruin pokemon this mission, and even if we do they'll probably be in small numbers, so I think we can replace Rayleen for someone else. Otherwise, we'd have to bring her on every single fucking mission, and we're only allowed one Shock Trooper.

Also, we can probably spare Rachel too. Her Magnet Crush would be useful, but not strictly necessary.

And Whitney can just provide a description of Muon.

We don't necessarily know the blue flame means a fire-type. Also, you probably shouldn't factor in Faynoc when you come up with a team, since I doubt we'll be fighting him, and even if we do, it won't last for very long.

Dibs on Milsha as my Enforcer. Sucks to be Impact, who's only left with Pokebrids and trainers. And Kurika, but no one wants that.

[Menarker]

Hence why I mentioned other characters that would be a good choice and why. But if we were to use out of character information, Ruin pokemons are potentially likely due to Faynoc knowing that Jeanette is the gene commander and that by genetics her daughter probably is one too..
But yes, I would prefer using Bretton for this mission (for the sake of variety). He combos well with Shannon due to grass type using Sunny Day a lot and increased power will help crush single foes faster. *Shrug*

Rachel would be useful to shut down offences by those guys, and thus reduce the number of items used up by the time we get to the main bad guys. Unlikely we'll get missions with as many metal using foes as this, I think she's our best choices. (Otherwise, I would pretty much end up always using Lola, since Renny got a Gal-Tech with her and all that.)

As for Whitney, she has a good deal of pokemons, which sets her apart from the other two listed snipers and the chance to nearly triple her attack power for 3 turns. In addition to the plot point of finding Muon (and using her help to convince Muon to stand-down since she doesn't know who the PATCA members are and thus she might try to defend herself by attacking)


EDIT: Figured out the second custom item I was trying to think of...

Custom Item 2: Staunch Supporter's Bandanna
Effect: Gain equal rage whenever an ally would gain rage from getting damaged or from Vengeful Rage.

AB, is this ok?

ALSO, do Enforcers have their own rage meter or do they share the rage of the person they are partnering with?



EDIT: Also, now that I think about it, you're likely right about the blue fire thing not being fire type itself.

Anyhow, I was just putting suggestions and some alternatives. Put your own proposal of what you think would be good.

[Dracorion]

You would end up using Lola? Fuck you man, I got a Sig-Seq with Chizuru. And it's a doozy.

Also, the fact that Jeanette and Myrie are genetic commanders is exactly why Faynoc wouldn't want to bring Ruin pokemon anywhere near them.

There will be plenty of further skirmishes with the Prideguard along the line, so I'm sure we'll have a lot of chances to use Rachel's Magnet Crush. The thing is, we've also got Pokebrids to deal with.

I'm if Muon doesn't recognize PATCA, all it'd take to get her to stand down is to say "HEY, LISTEN BITCH, WE'RE PATCA".

As for your custom item: no, absolutely not. Overpowered.

[Menarker]

Originally Posted by Dracorion

You would end up using Lola? Fuck you man, I got a Sig-Seq with Chizuru. And it's a doozy.

Also, the fact that Jeanette and Myrie are genetic commanders is exactly why Faynoc wouldn't want to bring Ruin pokemon anywhere near them.

There will be plenty of further skirmishes with the Prideguard along the line, so I'm sure we'll have a lot of chances to use Rachel's Magnet Crush. The thing is, we've also got Pokebrids to deal with.

I'm if Muon doesn't recognize PATCA, all it'd take to get her to stand down is to say "HEY, LISTEN BITCH, WE'RE PATCA".

As for your custom item: no, absolutely not. Overpowered.

Good point on the gene commander thing. Aside from the fact that neither of them knows this unless he or someone else in their organization has been blabbing about it. But yeah, you're likely right about there being little to no ruin types...

Rachel would be useful for dealing with the pokebrids because she has a full team of pokemon as opposed to Lola. (Angelo has a full team too, but doesn't has Rachel's bonus)

Well, you certainly can't use Chizuru this round.
Lola's Gal-Tech is amazing btw (More so than yours in a boss battle). Combined with her innate ability, she and Renny can heal the entire party (if they can afford the rage between the two) and give them a half heal the next turn all for one item. Yours is still damn useful, but when it comes to Support, Lola and Renny takes the cake. Yours is more of a balance of preventive support and offence.

Anyhow, since you seem so adamant that Whitney isn't needed for Muon, do you think someone else would be better? Mind you, Whitney is powerful on her own with a full team of pokemon and nearly triple power sniping when she is using her Mismagius shift-tech, plot bonus not withstanding.

Also for my item, what if I removed the Vengeful Rage part of it, so it only triggers when an ally gets hurt? (Getting hurt grants 5 rage.)

AB: If someone uses a Gal-Tech, do the actions of both partners involved get used up or only the one who initiates it? I'm assuming the latter since Moon and Shannon are both listed as being able to use the same tech and the tech is usable even if their partner is not on the field.

[Dracorion]

So? Faynoc still wouldn't bring Ruin pokemon, simply as a precaution. It's criminally irresponsible bordering on too-stupid-to-live to bring unstoppable superweapons that an enemy could easily command for themselves.

Well, Rachel's Medic skill isn't that good, but whatever. Let's bring her along.

About Pierce's Sig-Seq, I think you underestimate the value of making enemies waste an attack. Also, affording to heal all targets with your Sig-Seq is a biiiig if. We have thirteen active combatants, fifteen if you count Evoliths. Even if Renny and Lola split the cost, that's 65 RP each of you have to spend.

I'm adamant about not having Whitney because we should give another Sniper a shot. I'm sure eventually we'll decide that with her Mismagius ability Whitney is just fuckin' aces and we'll be bringing her along for every single mission.

As for your custom item: still hell no. There's a lot of allies and a lot of enemies, and even at 5 RP that's a lot of rage you'd be getting every turn.

[Menarker]

Oh, your technique is powerful, I make no mistake on that. But most combatants can survive 2 and maybe 3 attacks. With a spread of Full Restore, that's like a few turns recovered while yours prevents a single round. I said your technique had "preventative" support, which is still damn good, and can be useful to stop foes from using support stuff like Sunny Day, Curse, buff moves and help prevent against foes ganging up on a single target. Both have varying level of utility.
Put it this way. If there wasn't a limitation on only having 1 medic on the team, we'd probably always have Lola and Chizuru and we'd never lose. :3

I figured that Whitney would be awesome in this case because she could help with Muon and maybe some insight on Faynoc. Otherwise, when it comes to Sniping, Wilhelmina is potentially much better because she gets +5 stage boosts to all stats including attack, and 2 attacks per turn for 3 turns, which effectively becomes double of what Whitney can do. No pokemon for support, but when she will likely OHKO 2 foes per turn, that's not neccessarily a huge drawback.

Trying to think of some other way to make an item to help gain rage since both of Renny's techniques are quite on the costly side...