Pokemon Umbral Theatre 17: Happy Year's End Gratitude!

[Geminex]

Finally finished last leg of trip. Feel like crap wrapped in bacon, deep-fried in olive oil and served with a nice sauce béarnaise and a side of Shut The Fuck Up.

So why don't you all have the the side and I'll enjoy spreading around the main course.

Okay, let's have Menarker be the main secretary bitch. That works. Though we'll need somebody to sexually harrass him through abuse of power. Charlotte?

I have no idea what Impact wore. How dare you expect me to keep track of my character's equipment.
I might find out.

And yeah, Gem, it's Shevetson, not Angelo. Jegus Christ, be less stupid will you?

Wait, wait, I've been waiting to use this one for ages... couldn't, cause China hates Youtube...
Wait...
There.

Cause the only time you can out-think me is when I'm sleep-deprived, jet-lagged, hungover and dehydrated. WELL DONE.

[Dracorion]

Phhbbttt.

It's always excuses from you. I bet what you do when you're not going through with your promises is making up excuses for being stupid and ugly and boring.

[Geminex]

Okay I'm going to go to sleep now and when I wake up you will regret existing.

[Dracorion]

I'll be over here completely unconcerned because yeah right like you're going to go through with it.

[Menarker]

Originally Posted by Geminex

I have no idea what Impact wore. How dare you expect me to keep track of my character's equipment.
I might find out.

Actually, I don't need to know what Impact was wearing during the last battle.

What I do need to know is what armor, weapons and accessories should I assume Impact will be ENTERING the next battle with, assuming that he might switch out his equipment with Daphne, if she went with our group (you being the group's only slayer).
Basically, if Impact decides that he should be switching weapons/armors/accessories on the basis of any assumptions for the next combat or for the sake of wanting to cover as many elemental considerations or contigency plans as possible, what will he be equipped with by the time he orders the group to continue to move out?
Although if you don't plan on switching anything out, then I'll still need to know what Impact will be equipped with.

Of course, I also need to know the carried items like rage rockets and potions that Impact is carrying.

EDIT:
Post made and I'm back again. ^^ Yay. ^^ Edited my bio to reflect the pokemon's moves and Renny's items.

New Codename: Slash

^^ That's right. Impact, Pierce, Slash. We now got all three melee attacking styles nicknames.


I need clarification on something though. How exactly do I arrange my stats? Do Pokebrids have stats equal to ["Pokebrid's base stats" + 600 (Slayer stats)] / 2? If so, how do I arrange the stats? Do I distribute the excess stats evenly? Or can I arrange them however I want? (Which I thought I could only do once I get a rank in slayer?)

Also, I'm trying to find the info regarding the weaknesses of human combatants. If I recall correctly, they included poison, fire, psychic and dragon. Just want to make sure I'm not forgetting anything and being able to confirm it or quote it.

[Dracorion]

Your stats are the base pokemon's stats + Slayer stats / 2.

What you do is take Gallade's stats, add 100 to each of them and then divide each by 2.

Yeah, if I remember correctly humans are weak to fire, psychic, poison and dragon.

[Astral Harmony]

Drac's got all the answers. And you people thought he was a shitty GM.

There's not much to Antonio Shevenston that needs any revealing. He's just a big ol' badass war veteran who stands as living proof that war can really wear a man down, particularly in the looks department. He looks ten years older than he really is, and his features are chisled and sunken deep, giving him a gruff and unfriendly appearance.

His first wife left him during the war because she couldn't stand that kind of relationship (where he was always risking his life in bloody combat). Shevenston won the two kids in the divorce settlement. And in less than a month after the war ended, Shevenston picks up a homeless whore and turns her into the kid's new mommy almost completely overnight, which actually works out amazingly well. The guy really knows how to pick 'em. You'll learn more about this after Pierce's sidequest when you meet Zis and Miracle, the aforementioned ho-turned-housewife and Shevenston's daughter, the other of the brother-sister duo. The boy, who shall remain nameless until such a day as I find him needed, is currently on a Pokemon journey.

...

Aw, shit, I just thought of a use for him. Oh well, no point in giving him a name yet. I'll just forget it later.

Cassus is just a rent-a-thug, more or less. I do believe I told Pierce to keep Cassus behind to sort of help relay messages while Charlotte's party took the elevator to go meet with someone who really should've died a long time ago.

Poor Cassus. With shit soon to get as crazy as it will be, only the truely strong stand to survive this trial.

[Dracorion]

By the way AB, are the Wretches and the HPG that Impact's team are fighting supposed to be attacking each other as well as the Watchmen?

[Menarker]

Originally Posted by Dracorion

Your stats are the base pokemon's stats + Slayer stats / 2.

What you do is take Gallade's stats, add 100 to each of them and then divide each by 2.

Can I just say I have a bit of a problem with this particular method?

This method of stat averaging somewhat reverses the stats of a pokebrid.

Let's take a Gallade's primary stat, attack. Normally it has an attack stat of 125. Adding 100 to this and dividing it by 2 REDUCES it to 112.5 This takes the best aspects of the pokemon and weakens it.
Then looking at the other ones like Special Attack which was not meant to be used at 65. Add 100 and then divide it makes the number go HIGHER which makes it 82.5 thus making that stats that does not represent Gallade better and making the stats that DO represent him weaker.


If you agree with me, I have two suggestions.

The simpler one, which was meant to be part of my upgrade later on is simply to set my stats to the customization I intend to have when I get the upgrade.

HP: 100
Attack: 125
Defense: 90
Special Attack: 29 (Would be great if it could go lower but highly doubt Gem would go for it)
Special Defense: 100
Speed: 115


The other alternative for now (since customization is one of my upgrades later) is to have 600 - *pokeform base stats* = leftover stats and distribute them evenly among the stat lower than 100.

Hence, 600 - 518 = 82
Then I'll divide 82 by 4 (the number of base stats lower than 100) and get 20.5. Knowing there is a remainer, I multiple 4 by 20 to get 80. Thus, I should add 20 to all stats lower than 100 and divide the remaining two points as I want. I'll put the 2 remainer points in Hitpoints to make it a even 90.
This method preserves his best stats, keeping them as is while still improving his lower stats.

Hitpoints: 90
Attack: 125
Defense: 85
Special Attack: 85
Special Defense: 115
Speed: 100



Your thoughts?

[Dracorion]

I do believe it was intended from the start to be like I told you.

Because they're, you know, humans. And humans have perfectly balanced stats. So it makes sense for Pokebrid stats to be balanced like that, if not entirely because of the pokemon part.

Or to put it another way: it's the best way because it doesn't involve min-maxing.

If you want to keep discussing this I'd propose taking it to PiratePad, since that's what you wanted it for right?

Plus, then if Gem wants to participate he has to get on PiratePad.