Pokemon Umbral Discussion 28: A Wild Cerulean Wildfire Appears!

[Dracorion]

... We get sundaes?

You think it might be necessary? I think FUCKIN YAH DO IT. For one, Wildfire's going to hurt a hell of a lot even if we have Rainy Day out.

I fucking hate it when bosses cheat don't you hate it when bosses cheat? Anyway, right around now's when we want to put the hurt on Wildfire. Signature Techs if we have any. And Tyranitar is pretty much useless now. Guess I should deploy Kingdra?

Yeah, I'd join another Umbral RP.

[Geminex]

Well, we sadly don't have many single-target, special-type signature techniques, do we?

And ok, go with Nagrai.

All allright. I'd join one as well. How am I going to keep up with the rest of you if I only have one character. But it'd have to be slow-paced. And more story than combat-based.

[Menarker]

Seriously? Great Damage to Mollesk from one attack after a four stage buff to defense and special defense, which maxed out at 999 DEF and 1498 Special defense? When everyone else has practically no more but 150 at most (Impact at that level).

I call Cheat! Well, either that or that attack is a critical hit (since crit ignore buff based defense) and almost all future damage should be a lot lower.

Well! I should probably call Swampert to use Surf and have Swampert's water type backlash hit Mollesk to try to wash that stuff off Mollesk. Mollesk IS weak to water, but with 999 special defense (I assume Tyranitar is being switched out for Aria?) and Swampert not being a special attack specialist? It'll easily live.

A side-RP would be neat, although I'm trying to think of what sort of character could I possibly make.

The only thing that makes me happy about Mollesk being set on fire? It's one of the fuggin slowest pokemons in existance, mainly owing it in existance being mostly in a mindless stupor and being a lunk of rock. I doubt anyone will be caught on fire from it unless they ran into him intentionally...

"Look out, he's coming this way! Walk briskly!"

AB: Doesn't Renny get a bit of rage from that? It was his pokemon that was attacked.

[Geminex]

Seriously? Great Damage to Mollesk from one attack after a four stage buff to defense and special defense, which maxed out at 999 DEF and 1498 Special defense? When everyone else has practically no more but 150 at most (Impact at that level).

Well, while I do think that mollesk took a bit too much damage
a) we don't know exactly what great damage is. I'm guessing Mollesk lost about 40% of its HP. Maybe Sunny Day boosted Wildfire...
b) Excuse me? 150 at most? Your estimate is off. Way off. I won't argue for the other pokemon on-field, but Impact has a 4-stage boost, tripling his base 100 to 300. I'm guessing that pokemon are at about level 80, or 85 at the moment. That would again give him another 60%, at least, for a minimum of 480. Let's call it 500. That's more than triple your estimate. And the same applies to the other mons as well. The offensive ones might have just 150, or even less, but we have a few high-defense pokemon as well, and I think that they'd have at least 200. Mollesk is strong defensively, but it doesn't outdistance the rest of the pack by that much.

Edit:
And if we do a side-rp, everyone has to play the exact opposite of what they're playing in this RP. Meaning Menarker plays a Charlotte, Bard plays a Renny, I play Fighter, Drac plays an incredibly intelligent super-badass, and Dante plays an exuberant, hyper-active kid.

[Dracorion]

I'M AFRAID NOT BECAUSE AS IT TURNS OUT CERULEAN OIL NEGATES BUFFS AND LOWERS SPECIAL DEFENSE.

Originally Posted by Geminex

Y'know, I've been thinking. We're already instating character sidequests. Couldn't we make it so that, during these sidequests, AB doesn't have to GM? Maybe not during descriptive scenes, or when controlling the Kimonos, but during combat? The sidequest-owner does the battle evaluation, writes everything up, AB approves it, it gets posted.
I'm no sure how well it would work, but it'd take some of the load off our GM's back. It's supposed to be fun for all of us, no?

I dunno how that well that would work for my sidequest.

I mean, I'll be controlling Pierce's half entirely. I mean, I could take charge of battles in your half too, I guess, but I don't really know a lot about the enemies you'll be facing. If AB sends me his info on those enemies then yeah, I could do it. Same goes for the big battle and then the very last battle.

There is another problem, though. My schedule doesn't really line up with AB's. I mean, I see him like maybe a couple of times during the day for a little while, but the time of the day he's mostly on is when I'm asleep. So if I PM him my battle evaluation and wants me to change something it's going to take longer to fix.

By the way, we should be able to douse Wildfire's fire wall with any water attack, right?

I dunno what kinda character I'd make for the side-RP. Push comes to shove, I guess I could introduce Sam then. Buuuutt I'd rather not do that. I think I might make a Slayer-going-Battle Master.

Wondering if it should be a guy or a girl. I've got this concept for a girl I've been thinking about, but there are far too many chicks in this RP already.

[Menarker]

Yeah, I forgot about Impact's buff and thus his real defense (Should be around 450 at the time of the attack). Sorry. It's 5AM and I can't stay asleep. Still groggy though.

@Drac: AB made no mention about buffs in her list of what the plasma negates. Moves like Protect, yes (Renny's Protect move being nigh useless). Abilities like Magma armor, yes, even though I don't think any one of us has an ability that would have helped. And lastly, typing. Mollesk is already neutral to fire though.

Gem, what did you mean by Wildfire being able to set 3 of us on fire per turn? We only saw her/it do it to Mollesk this turn. Unless you're assuming the AOE oil and the wall of fire being her other actions?

I wonder if there is a way to splash Wildfire with some of that oil of hers. If she could be set on fire with her own attacks, that would be neat, since her own plasma can't be resisted by types (like rock), moves (like Protect), or abilities (like Flash Fire).

EDIT: It just occurred to me that she has to respray the field with oil to douse new pokemons that arrive on the scene, so by constantly switching pokemons, we might be able to force her to use up an action specifically for oil spraying. Those who can't be switched out are pretty out of luck.

[Dracorion]

We'd have to change up enough pokemon at a time that she'd bother to douse oil on them. And at that pace we'd run out of non-oiled pokemon pretty fast.

[Geminex]

I dunno what kinda character I'd make for the side-RP. Push comes to shove, I guess I could introduce Sam then. Buuuutt I'd rather not do that. I think I might make a Slayer-going-Battle Master.

Wondering if it should be a guy or a girl. I've got this concept for a girl I've been thinking about, but there are far too many chicks in this RP already.

See my edit. You have to make an uber-intelligent, unstoppable super-badass. Because it's the exact opposite of your current character. Get it? Get it?

Anyway, I don't think we can extinguish the Firewall. The Sentinels would surely eliminate us before we do, and then they'd go after our backups cause we're obviously a threat to transhumanity and WHOOPS WRONG RP.
Sorry. Anyway, I think the wall of fire stays. Let's make do with special attacks.

I'M AFRAID NOT BECAUSE AS IT TURNS OUT CERULEAN OIL NEGATES BUFFS AND LOWERS SPECIAL DEFENSE.

What. Wherethefuckdoesitsaythat.

Gem, what did you mean by Wildfire being able to set 3 of us on fire per turn? We only saw her/it do it to Mollesk this turn. Unless you're assuming the AOE oil and the wall of fire being her other actions?

Yeah. 3 actions=3 attacks. 3 attacks=3 pokemon on fire.

I wonder if there is a way to splash Wildfire with some of that oil of hers. If she could be set on fire with her own attacks, that would be neat, since her own plasma can't be resisted by types (like rock), moves (like Protect), or abilities (like Flash Fire).

I really don't think so. That might work in the anime, not, I think, in Umbral.

EDIT: It just occurred to me that she has to respray the field with oil to douse new pokemons that arrive on the scene, so by constantly switching pokemons, we might be able to force her to use up an action specifically for oil spraying. Those who can't be switched out are pretty out of luck.

Well, that was sort-of my plan. Switch pokemon often, switch with enforcers. My plan was more to negate wildfire's burns and fire, but you're right. It's gonna have to respray as well. And Drac, wildfire can't survive for too long, I hope.

[Dracorion]

Um.

Remember how AB said that Wildfire would get some footsoldier reinforcements and then she'd step out of formation and just act as a Destroyer?

Yeah, doesn't seem like killing her's going to be easy to me.

And why shouldn't we be able to douse the wall? It's the same kind of fire Mollesk is on! And if we can extinguish that, we should be able to put out the wall.

And Gem, you poor poor fool. Impact is neither uber-intelligent nor unstoppable nor super-badass.

Also, about the oil I was bullshitting. Glad to see both of you shitting in your pants, though.

[Menarker]

Drac, Gem said the opposite about your character. He said his character's mentality is the opposite of Fighter. What he was comparing in your case was capability while he compared mentality with his characters.

I was clarifying about the oil btw. Although mind you, if Mollesk really got it as badly as he did in one hit, you guys (aside from Impact) are likely going to be one-hit KOed by it.

Should we even be concerned with the wall of fire now? Impact got the Hydro Cannon, Pierce got Aria, Matt is in Porygon Z form I presume which specialize in special attack... We probably don't have to waste an action or two on it. Although I could have Swampert target the oil on the ground with Surf, since that would be better than it trying to attack Wildfire with its merely average special attack. Could probably wash off the oil off of Mollesk in the process due to the backlash effect similar to Earthquake.