Pokemon Umbral Theatre 14: Beloved Godlord Dracorion

[Menarker]

BTW, I'm totally calling that we're too late to prevent Sam from being Pokebrid-tampered, but she lives anyhow. I mean, Sam's bio shows her being a Deva as one of her upgrades!

[Dracorion]

Congratulations!

YOU HAVE CLIMBED HIGHER ON THE ECHELADDER.

YOU ARE OFFICIALLY SMARTER THAN A FIVE-YEAR-OLD.

[Menarker]

*Hopeful expression*

Does that mean I get more respect than I did before?

[Dracorion]

No.

You get SHINY BOONBUCK.

IT IS UTTERLY USELESS.

[Menarker]

You know what I just realized? Impact talks as if he and everyone is aware that the world that he and everyone else is in is a game and talks in game mechanics! How Meta!
I mean, look at the bolded stuff below!

"Y'know... This really pisses me off. All these annoying little robots, chipping away at our HP, almost bringing a few of us down. That makes me angry just watching. I can only imagine how incensed some of you must be. A lot of them are weakened. So use some of that rage of yours. Finish them off. We can weaken them enough to cripple their counter-attack. And when we're done here, we can find the engineer who made all of these. But first things first. Lola, heal up. Whitney, pokeshift. Froslass, go in with a blizzard. Have Ninjask take out a weakened one, maybe P. Mirror, centrifugal cannon, have the evolith keep blasting away at them. Kurika... get back. My turn."

Rage? (Also implies that he can see if a team-mate has enough strength to do a particular action)

Killbot P? (Unless their scanner actually lists them by letter)

Hit Points? Seriously?


I kinda laugh when I think of Impact recognizing he is a fictional character and probably having an existentialism crisis!

[Dracorion]

You mean, Geminex's subtle cheating?

Yeah, I noticed. We all noticed. No one really cares, though.

[Astral Harmony]

Looks like we can get some Internet out on the open seas, but I gotta make this quick since I don't know how long this will be true.

Charlotte's team will leave Cassus behind after the first battle to help bridge information from the surface, so he's out.

Violet is an Enforcer, so that helps Dracorion who didn't enter with one. Jeanette can also be an Enforcer as a Pokemon Breeder class, and will be forced to function as such after something happens to her Destroyer equipment...

Tonight, on a very intense Pokemon Umbral...When Destroyers Get Destroyed!

So, replace Whitney with Jeanette and set Whitney as the Sniper.

Your DSS will be Destroyer-less, since one won't exist. Jeanette will be unable to function in that role, and while there will be two others, they'll be a little preoccupied with each other, and I mean that in a Goku Vs Vegeta way instead of the yuri way in which I usually mean it.

So, your DSS is you five PCs, just enough Enforcers for all of you, Shock Trooper, Medic, Engineer, and Sniper.

[Dracorion]

Well, that settles that.

We might have to shaft Elizabeth, but that's okay.

[Menarker]

Ah, so basically what I said, except that Jeanette becomes Renny's enforcer as opposed to Cassus who leaves and we know for certain that Violet is available to be Pierce's enforcer.

Of course, the question of whether we use Lola or Melanie is still up in the air.



EDIT:
Like I said before, Lola's forms and ability and her defensive support skills are probably going to be more use as a medic. With a Chimecho form, she COULD attack Granx for super effective damage. With Lopunny form, she minimizes her weakness. With Altaria, she is good against Ruin types and has some resistance and huge special defense. Yes, it has a quad weakness to ice, but Melanie also has a quad weakness. (Water in her Marcargo form)

The main and only advantage I see with Melanie is her being a Slayer and having total immunity to poison. But her ability is random and her forms neutral in effectiveness (normally her Bellossom form would be a liability against Granx, but with poison immunity due to Slayer, that's not a problem). Her techniques are pretty much all offensive except for the Bellossom technique. Problem is, she is basically tugged into trying to be a support type and trying to be an attack type. That and her one support ability only works to its best potential if there are other healers around or if the characters are using heals of their own, like a pokemon trainer action that focuses on healing. Since she can't AOE heal and we have no other healers around, that ability is mostly null except for the morale boost... except increased rage generation might be better for us if we DO hit lower morale.

We need a good medic type, since we'll have plenty of good attackers by now. That said, Melanie is a good character, but from a purely medical perspective, her contributions fall short of Lola's ability since Lola's ability is 1.5x more effective than Melanie per item. 1.4x after Melanie uses Bellossom.

Hence, why I would advocate Lola. Of course, feel free to discuss. I might be biased in favor of Lola, but I feel I covered the reasons behind why I feel she's the better choice.

[Dracorion]

OR, OR.

SINCE WE HAVE OUR PICK FROM EVERY PRETTY MUCH EVER CHARACTER.

WE CAN PICK SOMEONE ELSE. EVEN A DIFFERENT ENGINEER AND SHOCK TROOPER IF WE WANT TO SPICE THINGS UP.

AB himself recommended Rachel, which should speak about her value while fighting Gransranx.