Pokemon Umbral Theatre 11: Things That Make You Go Wuh?

[Menarker]

Gem, just out of curiousity, what sort of weapons and armor is Impact packing? I don't recall if Debuffs work against mechanical foes. Although I would say your flying type weapon would come in handy because of increased crit chance. Unless you think you can drain health out of them using the Grass type weapon. Otherwise, I guess stick with water cannon for dealing with mechanical foes.

Either way, I would suggest this plan:

Mirror: Build +2 defense machine to reduce the damage of all those attacks to the party. I mean seriously, that's a shit load of attacks!
Lola: Buffing Impact and herself with X Defense.
Whitney: Attack a Killdoll with Ninjask with Aerial Ace, for unmissable STAB damage. Ninjask has crazy speed and should have a significant crit chance and it has a pretty fairly good attack too. Volbeat should use Helping Hand on Impact.
Impact: Attack Fire Evolith with enhanced power. Try to knock it out before it does super effective heavy damage to Whitney's bug types, at least knowing that Evoliths don't have increased evasion.


I didn't suggest Ledian attacking with Aerial Ace, because both its attack stats are CRAP.




AB, can the pokemons of NPCs use HM moves? Like if we wanted to use Defog to lower the foe's evasion?

Oh, and can you repost the list of items that are available for medics after the nerf? I looked and I can't seem to find it. It doesn't help it's late for me and I'm feeling groggy.



EDIT: And I just realized that the plan I proposed to Gem is flawed in the fact that Almighty Type would ignore the defense boost of X Defense and Mirror's Defense enhancement machine.

AB: Do Signature Techniques typically have 100% accuracy or do they have a chance of missing if they try to target a foe with increased evasion?

[Dracorion]

Suddenly Tsujimi doesn't seem all that powerful.

[Astral Harmony]

AB, can the pokemons of NPCs use HM moves? Like if we wanted to use Defog to lower the foe's evasion?

Oh, and can you repost the list of items that are available for medics after the nerf? I looked and I can't seem to find it. It doesn't help it's late for me and I'm feeling groggy.

AB: Do Signature Techniques typically have 100% accuracy or do they have a chance of missing if they try to target a foe with increased evasion?

No.

Just Restores, Revives, single status cures and X buff items.

They should work almost all the time.

[Dracorion]

Unless Gardenoir is being a tele-whoring bitch or enemies decide NOT to get taunted by Chizuru.

[Geminex]

Okay. That plan doesn't look bad, but I'll have to check what else we could do, first. Nice idea with the defog. Pity it won't work...

Also, Drac, glad you took care of that. I hate when you leave the whole 'propose that Impact dies' thing until the end of the thread, I always feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Good of you to take care of it early.

Ruin pokemon look nice. Not gonna bother going over the pokebrid moves now.

Dante... upgrades so far are cool, I guess.

Bard... yeah. The version of Kick the Dog that Menarker proposed is god, with buffs for attack, special attack and speed, in return for reductions in def and special defense. I don't really like Menarker's version of Caught on Tape that much, though it's up to you, as I think it'd be more or less balanced. I gave you my two cents on lighting absorb... that's it, no? I hope so.

Oh, and Menarker, just tell us what your pokeshift is already.

And those convos are gonna get finished tomorrow. Just too late for now.

[Dracorion]

Yeah, well, see, some of us get actually get our trivial RP-related stuff done on time.

[Menarker]

Well, Gem, while I was working, I realized something that would be potentially better.

The move Swift is not only unmissable, but it also hits 2 targets. (3 if you're using Black and White rules).

So what could be done is Lola can use X Attack on Mirror and X Special Attack on Whitney. Whitney uses Swift with her extremely High Special Attack stat which will be boosted by X special. Ninjask uses Aerial Ace which has STAB and won't miss as well as high power and great crit chance. Mirror attacks with her cheap special technique Centrifugal Cannon which supposably won't miss and will be boosted by X attack and will hit two targets, one of them random. Impact... I don't know what he should do... Actually, he should switch with Kurika. If Lola gets knocked out, he can switch back to the front, while still having full health and revive Lola with a revive, and get switched back to the back next turn.

So hopefully that will be...

*NEW IDEA* DING! GRAVITY!

Lola, when she is in Chimecho form, can activate the pokebrid move Gravity which reduces the evasion of all combatants on the field by 2 stages . It's a weather type effect of sort even though weather like Sunny Day won't remove it, so it'll effect all the kill dolls, bringing their evasion back down to normal levels. As a bonus, it'll also weaken the power of Punishment from the Dark type Evolith since that move gets weaker against a target with more debuffs than buffs.

Thus we can focus on using attacks that have high power instead of accuracy. The kill dolls have low hitpoints, so we should probably spread the attacks out and try to kill as many as we can in one hit.

Revised plan:

Lola: Chimecho form. Use Gravity. X attack on Kurika? (X defense items would be useless against Almighty Type attacks)
Whitney: Shedninja and Armaldo both use X-Scissor on Kill dolls A and B for STAB damage, while keeping herself out of combat for the time being.
Kurika: Nerve Strike (Electric type despite kill dolls not having any nerves) for super effective damage on Kill Doll C.
Mirror: Build Fire Evolith.
Fire Evolith: Casts Heat Wave, hitting kill dolls D and E with slayer-ish power.

I don't suppose Kurika can use Sweep? That would be the best thing for her to do with her current rage if she could and thus attack twice. If she can, best she attack kill doll B and C and Armaldo attacks Kill Doll F.

[Dracorion]

Oh.

Oh! Is that what you meant with your Tailwind bullshit before? That it should affect three targets because of Black and White rules?

No, fuck that shit. Let's leave those for the sequel.

[Menarker]

I wasn't talking about Black and White rules when I was referring to Tailwind. I was just referencing Swift as an offensive move that would hit all foes, similar to how Explosion would hit all foes or how Surf would do the same. In the older games, Swift hits 2 foes. With Black and White, it's three. ^^: Don't ask me why I decided to mention that. I just looked it up, saw that it could hit 3 foes, and I thought "oh, cool".

Tailwind is specifically a move that targets the entire party in the game generation we're using, just like Safeguard, Light Screen and Reflect does. And in this RP, AB said that those moves would effect 3 alligned targets. Hence why I said that Tailwind should operate the same way. Otherwise, we're doing a double standard.

[Dracorion]

... Huh.

He must've said that forever ago. I guess Tailwind is fine.

Though, I still say we should leave Black and White rules for the sequel.