Pokemon Umbral Discussion 29: I Dare Nintendo To Make This a Game

[Geminex]

Ok, here we go.

I'm not sure who we had out, when the battle began, and we got all oiled up. I'm thinking it was...

Harliette
Matt
Impact
Moon's Poliwrath
Moon's Crawdaunt
Renny's Mollesk
Pierce's Tyranitar
Charlotte's Hammond
Charlotte's Sol-leks

That seems about right. Does that work, though? Most of us spent time idle last round, and it doesn't say anywhere that we had to have pokemon out when they're not doing anything. It'd suck if we have to have two pokemon out at all times, the number of things on the list would really skyrocket. I'm assuming that said list is correct when I lay out the following...

Harliette: Aquashot, fuck yeah. STAB plus weather bonus. Nidoqueen to use focused earthquake, Illumise to use helping hand on its master
Charlotte: Pike to use Thunder, Hammond with Stone edge
Pierce: Aria using Thunder, Kingdra using water attack on Harliette
Rachel: Rage Rocket on Wilhelmina, Rage Rocket on self
Renny: Swampert use water move on Matt. Magnezone to copy move on Matt.
Moon: Deploy Fathom and Starmie, both using water moves on Impact
Wilhelmina: Maid to Mistress, two Dark Shots
Matthias: Pokeshift to Porygon Z, use Hyper Beam (they don't need to recharge, do they?)
Lexhur: Save up his rage.
Impact: HV rifle
Trainer attacks probably not happening.

And what the fuck?

Pokebrids can only attack for three turns before exhausting themselves.

When did this happen, how was it justified?

[Dracorion]

Remember when we had the biiiiig fight about Psych Up? The main problem was that most Pokebrids had access to Psych Up. And I think Baton Pass too.

Anyway, someone suggested that we implement a cooldown of sorts where Pokebrids can't use moves for a couple of turns after three turns. And AB decided to do that. So here we are.

I think it was Menarker who came up with it, by the way.

You know, I totally forgot about Harliette when I made my plan. Also, Charlotte can use her trainer attack, no problem. Shotgun that bitch and all that. And I suppose Pierce could throw a knife or something, but that probably wouldn't do anything.

[Menarker]

Renny's Umbreon was also oiled up.

Originally Posted by Geminex

That's the reason I made that offer. I'm willing for us to be less effective this battle, if, in return, we'll be more effective in coming battles (since you'll hopefully stop insisting on using Mollesk). That's the only good I see coming out of using Mollesk, hence the only condition under which I'd be willing to have him used.

The other main reason why I'm insistant on using Mollesk?

Magnezone: Weak against Fire
Shaymin: Weak against Fire. Best to save for summoning and using Testament Drive on the spot in a pinch.
Swampert: Already in action.
Umbreon: Even more specialized in (mook) support than Mollesk is, with lower attack. (I doubt Confuse Ray would work, it doesn't need healing yet, and its only attack at the moment is contact base and we still have that wall.) Doesn't help that it also was oiled up since it was on the field at the time.
Togekiss: Saving for mooks since it has the double hitting Heat Wave or for using Follow Me, or for later on if we want Renny to use the Protect ability again.

I would be more open to using others in the future, but as you can see, Mollesk just happens to be one of the better choices to use among everyone else in my team when fighting fire types.

[Dracorion]

Chances that Wildfire would target Magnezone specifically out of everyone else are, I think, rather slim.

[Menarker]

>_> That didn't save Mollesk from being targetted. And that's before considering that she would likely have 3 attacks every turn from now on due to her not focusing on oiling and making walls.
I'd imagine that since Magnezone is weak to flames, that would make her/it want to target it even more just because it's more likely to drop on the first hit.

[Dracorion]

Mollesk was targetted probably for AB to show off how tough Wildfire is. More importantly, Wildfire didn't have nearly as many targets to pick from.

Anyway. You're going to have to put Magnezone in eventually, because either Mollesk or Swampert is definitely going to go down. The difference being that if you do it now, it can take a shot at Wildfire before she retreats.

[Astral Harmony]

Aw, nerts. I had my post done last night, my ISP goes and craps itself, and then here I am in the morning and you guys have changed nearly everything.

Magnet Crush won't work very well Cerulean Wildfire, but it should do fine on tanks, helicopters, and similar units. And hey, some tanks will be coming your way.

Dante, do you want to make up a SyncTech for Porygon Z or have you already? I'm thinking of one where you transform yourself into digital information and hack into a mechanical unit to control it directly for a few turns.

[Bard The 5th LW]

... Are you saying we could control Cerulean Wildfire for a few turns?

DO IT DANTE!

[DanteFalcon]

I haven't decided on one yet and that is a different direction. I am tempted.

[Dracorion]

You no longer have a choice. You're doing that one and that's fucking final, motherfucker.