Pokemon Umbral Discussion 37: You Don't Want To Enter This Thread

[Dracorion]

Two things:

First of all, Trainer Attacks do generate Rage. So C and 3 are out.

About 3... AB already said Battle Masters (and Legion Mages and Battle Rogues and whatever) wouldn't get Trainer Attacks. So even if Trainer Attacks didn't generate Rage and we made them so, Battle Masters still couldn't use them.

Anyway, here's the new and, well... not so improved Sophia (yeah, I'm still butthurt), finalized barring AB having some objections. And he might about her Shock Trooper skill.



Sophia!Name: Sophia Vernier
Alias: Prodigy
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Class: Battle Master (Slayer level 3, Trainer level 3; yes, I realize that we're only up to level 4 right now, but by the time she joins up, which is the beach mission, we'll be level 6)
Specialty: Shock Trooper
Weapon: A pair of high-tech kodachi.
Armor: Vernier armor ~ Sophia's invention. It can resist three types at the same time, and it can change one type with some delay. Basically, a suit that accomplishes the same purpose as Daphne (and functions just like her) for Sophia. It's a Daphne Suit!
Slayer Attacks: Wyrm Strike (Dragon) / Incendiary Bomb (Fire) / Lightning Slash (Electric) / Spinal Tap (Fighting) / Neuron Disruptor (Psychic) / Tainted Blade (Poison)
Slayer Defenses: Three defences. Varies.
Pokémon Registry:

Almighty Tsujimi (Genderless)
Ability: Indifference
Demon Rampage / Feral Beast
Lucifer Rising / Mist Ball
Crush Claw / Draco Meteor

Psychic/Flying Lugia (Genderless)
Ability: Pressure
Psychic / Aeroblast
Roost / Earthquake
Dragon Rush / Blizzard

Bug/Fighting Heracross (Male)
Ability: Guts
Megahorn / Close Combat
Brick Break / Bulk Up

Ghost Mismagius (Female)
Ability: Levitate
Psywave / Curse
Shadow Ball / Destiny Bond

Dark/Ice Weavile (Female)
Ability: Pressure
Night Slash / Poison Jab
Thief / Ice Punch

Appearance Sophie is a small purple-haired girl. She wears a cute pair of glasses over her blue eyes. She wears an unflattering combination of a yellow turtleneck that's a size too big and long brown skirt. Underneath, she hides a rockin' body complete with supple breasts. Under her clothes, she wears the Vernier Armor, a full body armored suit which adjusts perfectly to her curves and, on her left arm, the Governor, a brace with a screen interface with which she controls the Armor.

Backstory: Sophia is your regular genius Pokemon Researcher. Not particularly impressive, they're a dime a dozen in the Pokemon world, right? Regardless, Sophie was good enough to land herself a job in Ricewood Masterworks, and soon enough was leading her own projects. Among which were the Vernier Armor, a handy item that combines every piece of Slayer armor in one place, and the Governor, the wrist interface that controls both pieces of equipment. She also works closely with Jeanette Ricewood herself on several projects.

Her current assigment is research into the capabilities of a previously undiscovered pokemon. As it has no mouth and has shown no other ways of communication, no one is quite sure what it's name is. In lab testing, this pokemon proved not to be weak to any of the known elemental types, even after using Gravity to rule out a Ghost/Dark type. In fact, it doesn't seem to have any specific type. Currently, Sophie is testing it out in the field in real missions. When Rayleen split up from PATCA and formed the Crosswald Crusaders to investigate Burkmont, Jeanette volunteered Sophia to assist them.

Personality: Sophie is your classic high school geek, except she's smokin' hot (to be fair, point me at an ungly anime person and I'll show you hateful lies). As a result of a rather sheltered upbringing, Sophie suffers from crippling social awkwardness. She gets extremely nervous talking to people in any situation outside the lab. In fact, that's the only time she seems confident. In spite of this, she has a brilliant analytical mind and an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Whenever she comes across something new, a fire lights up in her eyes and she launches into a rant on figuring out the how and why.

She is an avid fan of anime, manga and hentai, and owns a rather large collection of all three.

Shock Trooper Skill: Pacifier ~ The amount of Rage generated by Sophia's attacks (and her pokemon's) is deducted from the target's Rage.

Signature Technique: Test Amoeba ~ 70/100 RP, Sophie throws a test tube on the ground around four enemies. The amoeba occupies the space of four spots in the enemy formation. Enemies in those positions are Bound and take Badly Poisoned damage and cannot be switched out until the amoeba is destroyed. Enemies that switch into those spots will become trapped. The amoeba can only be destroyed by two Fire-type attacks.

Right, so. I gave her static offenses like NPC Slayers while keeping the ability to switch her defences. I hope that's okay.

Also, I'm really really not sure about her Shock Trooper Skill. And I just know Geminex is going to want to nerf it. But enemies don't really seem to rely on Rage as much as we do. Hell, we don't even get to see their Rage, so how am I supposed to know? Anyway, I'm perfectly fine with making it so only half the Rage she generates is deducted from the enemies, if you don't like it as it is now.

Or Geminex puts up a good argument.