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Since we've both agreed this battle's going to be a trainwreck anyway, why not hold it on a train? There are no interesting gimmicks or effects in this battle, it's just a normal old battle. On a train. Only Pokémon who can comfortably fit in a subway carriage and moves that can physically be used in a subway carriage are allowed.
Sangfroidish's active squad
Kalameet the male Noibat <Telepathy> @ Yache Berry Oscar the male Riolu <Inner Focus> Zulf the male Ralts <Synchronize> @ Dawn Stone Hindenburg the male Drifblim <Unburden> Artorias the male Honedge <No Guard> @ Dusk Stone Queen Anne the female Krokorok <Intimidate> @ Lucky Egg Rucks the male Lillipup <Vital Spirit> @ Eviolite Kloe the female Fletchling <Big Pecks> Kitaniji the male Ekans <Shed Skin> @ Lucky Egg Zia the female Ralts <Trace>
Totodile's active squad
Sobek the male Totodile <Torrent> @ Lucky Egg Sekhmet the female Luxio <Intimidate> @ Lucky Egg Camazotz the female Zubat <Inner Focus> @ Black Sludge Anput the female Riolu <Inner Focus> @ Soothe Bell Baí Zé the male Absol <Super Luck> Hel the female Snorunt <Ice Body> @ Dawn Stone Korra the female Frogadier <Protean> @ Lucky Egg Perry the male Honedge <No Guard> @ Lucky Egg Poe the female Pancham <Iron Fist> @ Muscle Band Aeris the female Klefki <Prankster>
Sangfroidish sends out, then Totodile sends out and posts commands, then Sangfroidish posts commands.
Let's see. How about Anput and Korra? Now let's see how I can mess up strategy.
Anput, for the first action, use Bulk Up if Queen Anne Protects, but if she doesn't, use Foresight on Artorias. If he's protecting but she's not, hit her with Power-Up Punch. Second, use Foresight on Artorias if you haven't already, but if you have, use Power-Up Punch on him. Finally, use Power-Up Punch on Artorias, but if he's Protected or you haven't been able to use Foresight on him, use Force Palm on Queen Anne.
Korra, Taunt Queen Anne first, but if she Protects, make a large Substitute. Whatever you do, drop your Lucky Egg. On the second and third actions, hit Queen Anne with some Scalds, but if she Protects, aim at Artorias instead.
I'm just now realising the folly of sending out a Ground-type in an arena with no ground :v Not that it matters too much for the time being! (Also you totally could have sent out Sobek and Perry so we could have ourselves an awesome crocodile-sword duel! For shame.)
Anyway, Queenie, looks like we're stuck throwing out attacks for this round, so we may as well just wail on our friend Korra here. Let's start with a Knock Off for the damage boost and then Thunder Fang until further notice.
Artorias, it's clear Anput's determined to get that Attack of hers up and I want us supporting her every step of the way. Help her out with a Swagger. Then celebrate her newfound potency with a nice glittery Flash Cannon!
Of course, this is all just so we can build up her hopes only to dash them at the last minute, so go ahead and steal those Attack boosts with a Power Trick.
Swagger @Anput ~ Flash Cannon @Anput ~ Power Trick @Anput
(I'm guessing Power Trick works based on stat alterations in ASB, since barely anyone works with base stats. If not, I will cry. Do you want me to cry Eifie)
Sangfroidish (3/3 left) Queen Anne ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Intimidate Health: 100% Energy: 100% Status: GROWLING LIKE A SUPER-INTIMIDATING BEAST.
Artorias ♂ @ Dusk Stone Ability: No Guard Health: 100% Energy: 100% Status: LOOMING LIKE A SUPER-INTIMIDATING SWORD.
Totodile (3/3 left) Anput ♀ @ Soothe Bell Ability: Inner Focus Health: 100% Energy: 100% Status: Cowering in utmost terror.
Korra ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Protean Health: 100% Energy: 100% Status: Cowering in utmost terror.
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A deafening snarl rips through the subway carriage. Korra and Anput both cringe back in terror of Sangfroidish's TERRIFYING ROARING DRAGON oh it's just a crocodile. Whew. That's not scary at all, then.
A thinly-veiled hint of deep, dark malice gleams within Queen Anne's deep, dark eyes of DEEP, DARK DESPAIR. Maybe she is kind of scary. Korra and Anput resume their fearful cowering. Queen Anne curls up for a short pre-battle nap, rumbling snores echoing through the arena.
But alas, Korra must overcome her fears to provoke THE BEAST WITHIN THE SUBWAY CARRIAGE. She leaves her precious Lucky Egg beneath a nearby seat, creeps up silently to the sleeping Krokorok and, holding her breath, pokes her in the snout.
Queen Anne doesn't respond.
Getting a bit braver, Korra peels back the beast's left eyelid...
QUEEN ANNE LEAPS TO HER FEET, SMOKE UNFURLING FROM HER NOSTRILS, ROARING FEROCIOUSLY AND BEATING HER CHEST WITH THE RAGING RAGE OF A HORRIFYING BEASTLY BEAST!!!
She reaches out an arm and pathetically swipes at the non-existent Lucky Egg no longer hanging above Korra's very existent chest. Her claws, wreathed in dark energy, lightly graze Korra's skin.
Then Queen Anne goes back to sleep. An angry, wrathful sleep. Korra lets out her breath, relieved to have made it through this torment alive.
Pleased to have been given the easier task, Anput blinks her eyes shut, and when she opens them again they have a reddish cast to them. Turning her gaze to Artorias, she narrows her eyes into slits which emit twin beams of bright red light that latch onto the Honedge and forcibly pull it from its ghostly home into the prison of the real world. Artorias, however, is unconcerned. He makes a grand gesture of unsheathing himself and... somehow propelling himself toward his foe, pummeling her with insults about how she's just too scared to approach the BEAST OF THE SUBWAY CARRIAGE and what kind of pathetic Riolu is afraid of a DRAGON— er, a crocodile, and he even pokes Queen Anne with his sheath to demonstrate his point (haha, get it?!), and man is Anput mad. So mad. She could punch that Queen Anne in the face if she wanted to! She could! She just doesn't want to!
Korra stares in horror at the ferocious sleeping beast as she heats up water from her internal reservoir, letting its energy fill her so that she and the water may BECOME ONE. Is she really going to do this...? The Frogadier is overwhelmed with second thoughts and nearly changes her mind, but there's nowhere for all this boiling water to go but out, so she spits it all at the snoring Queen Anne, coils of steam rising from the jet of water as it makes its way to its target. Queen Anne's eyes snap open at the very last moment, and as the scalding water scorches her skin, she turns a vengeful gaze on the one who sent it...
Consumed with anger at having her sleep disturbed (and at having a ton of scalding water dumped on her, probably), Queen Anne gets to her feet and snaps her jaws, sparks suddenly flying around her teeth as they glow the sickly yellow of bad fang hygiene. Oh, wait, that's electricity. Eep. Korra cringes back as the Krokorok advances on her and closes her jaws around her arms, unleashing a vicious pulse of electricity that courses through Korra's body with even more ferocity than she could have imagined from such a beastly beast of terror. Her limbs seize and twitch in agony, and she falls helplessly onto her back.
Meanwhile, Anput continues to grapple with the inner toil Artorias's words have sparked within her. It's true, she doesn't want to punch Queen Anne in the face! She doesn't even want to want to! But if she wanted to want to, which she doesn't want to, then... this is all just too confusing for her Riolu-sized brain! Well... her Riolu-brain-sized brain... argh! Anput bangs her head on one of the seats instead to quiet the voices in her head. Ah, blessed relief. Artorias takes advantage of her moment of calm to fire off a beam of dazzling silver Steel-type energy that hurts her eyes almost as much as it hurts her body when it makes contact, and she slumps down against a wall to recollect herself.
The lumbering beast of the subway lumbers lumberingly up to Korra, and then towers toweringly over her... menacingly. Korra gives her another blast of steaming water to the face, and Queen Anne clamps her jaws down on Korra's other arm with electricity-charged teeth once again. The war against the beast continues.
Picking herself up from the floor with a sense of renewed purpose, Anput scampers across the room to throw her fist into Artorias's hilt. The rest of her arm stays attached to her fist, so a jolt of pain travels up it as her fist slams into the fortified steel. Calluses quickly form over her hand, reinforcing her skin so that later punches may hit harder. Reeling from the impact, Artorias turns both his mental and physical eye inward, examining his constitution for... he's not sure what, really. Yep, everything all good in here. Always nice to know.
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Sangfroidish (3/3 left) Queen Anne ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Intimidate Health: 70% Energy: 88% Status: LOOMING FEROCIOUSLY. Used: Knock Off @ Korra ~ Thunder Fang @ Korra ~ Thunder Fang @ Korra
Artorias ♂ @ Dusk Stone Ability: No Guard Health: 92% Energy: 92% Status: Examining the inner reaches of his blade forged of Valyrian steel... Foresighted (3 more actions). Used: Swagger @ Anput ~ Flash Cannon @ Anput ~ Power Trick
Totodile (3/3 left) Anput ♀ @ Soothe Bell Ability: Inner Focus Health: 85% Energy: 91% Status: Pondering the size of her brain. Moderately confused (30% failure chance). +2 Attack. Used: Foresight @ Artorias ~ [confused] ~ Power-Up Punch @ Artorias
Korra ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Protean Health: 74% Energy: 89% Status: Still cowering. Currently Water-type. -1 Attack. Used: Taunt @ Queen Anne ~ Scald @ Queen Anne ~ Scald @ Queen Anne
Arena Status
A Lucky Egg lies, forlorn and abandoned, beneath a seat.
Queen Anne's first Thunder Fang was a critical hit.
Anput hit herself in confusion on her second action.
Whether Power Trick swaps stat changes or does something to do with base stats, it wouldn't have had any effect anyway since Honedge's Attack and Defense stats are pretty close. pls don't cry Sangfroidish ;;
Also seriously she told Korra to drop the freaking egg? WHAT EVEN IS READING
Okay, I haven't fucked everything too badly. We got this. Lumbering Beast of the Subw- Queen Anne, you are the biggest meanest Anklegator Krokorok there is and we're not about to let these bastards forget it. Snarl repeatedly at Korra until she gets just how much business you mean. Unless she protects, in which case show Anput instead with a Power-up Punch, unless she protects too in which case Hone Claws. Also Hone Claws if you're too Tormented to do stuff.
Snarl @Korra/Power-up Punch @Anput/Hone Claws x3
Artorias, I kinda messed up that attempted attack boost, so let's take it out on Anput by making annoying sounds! Hit her with a Metal Sound and then keep the Flash Cannons coming! If she protects, shift your commands along and use Iron Defense instead.
Anput, I didn't want to put you through this, but it seems we have no choice. Be sexy and distract that sword guy and make him feel bad about his whatever. After that, make a doll for him to ogle. Finally, Punch him with all the Focus you can muster. If you're too confused to do something, move everything back an action.
Korra, keep using Scald until Queen Anne gets burned. Once that happens, Power-Up Punch away.
Sangfroidish (3/3 left) Queen Anne ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Intimidate Health: 70% Energy: 88% Status: LOOMING FEROCIOUSLY.
Artorias ♂ @ Dusk Stone Ability: No Guard Health: 92% Energy: 92% Status: Examining the inner reaches of his blade forged of Valyrian steel... Foresighted (3 more actions).
Totodile (3/3 left) Anput ♀ @ Soothe Bell Ability: Inner Focus Health: 85% Energy: 91% Status: Pondering the size of her brain. Moderately confused (30% failure chance). +2 Attack.
Korra ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Protean Health: 74% Energy: 89% Status: Still cowering. Currently Water-type. -1 Attack.
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In one corner of the subway carriage, the clash between Looming Beast and Intrepid Frog continues. Again and again, Intrepid Frog douses Looming Beast in torrents of water heated to scalding temperatures, and Looming Beast responds with vicious, hateful snarls that carry with them hints of a future, greater threat. Intrepid Frog grows more rattled with each roar, but presses on, albeit with progressively smaller amounts of water, and in the end when the two finally break apart, both noticeably worse for the wear, Looming Beast is covered in angry red welts that throb visibly, clearly upsetting Looming Beast as she snaps pointlessly at them with her jaws. A small victory for Intrepid Frog and all of Frogkind. And Anput, too, because she's feeling generous.
Meanwhile, Anput eyes the ongoing battle between Frog and Foe, and brushes back her head fur before turning to Artorias and attempting to charm him with honeyed words about how they could find love in a hopeless place, in the midst of this bloody battle. Her way with words and unique, totally original turn of phrase have their effect on Artorias, who softens a bit, hilt glowing bright pink... he rubs his sword and sheath together nervously, and a truly horrifying, cacophonous wail of metal on metal erupts. Anput winces to herself and covers her large, floppy ears with her hands, but it's just not enough to keep the high-pitched screeching out of her head and already-hurting brain.
Once the noise finally fades into blessed silence, Anput turns around and rips out the covering of one of the seat cushions, pulling out pile after pile of cotton to construct a sloppy replica of herself. One observing would notice that the arm muscles of the doll are noticeably larger, the legs stronger and sturdier... but to Anput it's just like looking in a mirror. A mirror that transforms your reflection into a pile of cotton. She gives her creation a satisfied pat on the head and it springs to life, flexing and admiring its muscles for a second before leaping valiantly into the path of another silver bolt of energy that Artorias has taken advantage of the moment to fire. The beam tears out a chunk of the Substitute's side, and cotton spills everywhere, but the doll doesn't seem to feel pain or look too much worse for the wear.
Narrowing her eyes at her opponent, Anput draws back her right fist and closes her eyes as she surrounds it with swirling orange Fighting energy, preparing it for the ULTIMATE FIGHTING-TYPE MOVE! Artorias recognizes what she's doing and unleashes another flash of dazzling Steel-type energy in a desperate attempt to stop her, but her cottony replica simply leaps in the way and takes the attack for itself, exploding into countless pieces of stuffing. Her Substitute's sacrifice buys Anput all the time she needs to charge up her fist for the attack, and she thrusts it forward to slam into Artorias's blade. The ring of Riolu upon metal echoes throughout the room as Artorias stumbles back, sword-like, and cries out in agony, sword-like, and loses his balance and falls over, sword-like. Too late, he regains his hold on the ghost world and lets his essence retreat back into it to prevent something like this from happening again.
Panting heavily, Korra and Anput both turn to look at the Looming Beast of the Subway, who's gnashing her teeth in pain from her many burns. She sure doesn't look so scary now! The pair eye each other with renewed cheer, ready to press on in their quest.
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Sangfroidish (3/3 left) Queen Anne ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Intimidate Health: 30% Energy: 79% Status: No longer looming ferociously. Burned (1% damage per action, 3% damage penalty on attacks requiring a lot of movement). Used: Snarl @ Korra ~ Snarl @ Korra ~ Snarl @ Korra
Artorias ♂ @ Dusk Stone Ability: No Guard Health: 62% Energy: 84% Status: Of course his blade isn't damaged. It's forged from Valyrian steel. -2 Special Attack. Used: Metal Sound @ Anput ~ Flash Cannon @ Anput ~ Flash Cannon @ Anput
Korra ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Protean Health: 53% Energy: 77% Status: Pleased with the results of her efforts. Currently Water-type. -3 Special Attack. Used: Scald @ Queen Anne ~ Scald @ Queen Anne ~ Scald @ Queen Anne
Arena Status
A Lucky Egg lies, forlorn and abandoned, beneath a seat.
Anput, fix Artorias with another Foresight. Then use Drain Punch on him a couple times. If he Protects, use Power-Up Punch on Queen Anne. If you're confused on the first action, or if he used Protect on the first action, use Foresight on him on the second action.
Korra, use Power-Up Punch on Queen Anne a bunch. If she Protects, use Dark Pulse on Artorias. If they both Protect, just Chill.
Anput: Foresight @Artorias/Power-Up Punch @Queen Anne ~ Drain Punch @Artorias/Foresight @Artorias/Power-Up Punch @Queen Anne x2
Sangfroidish (3/3 left) Queen Anne ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Intimidate Health: 30% Energy: 79% Status: No longer looming ferociously. Burned (1% damage per action, 3% damage penalty on attacks requiring a lot of movement).
Artorias ♂ @ Dusk Stone Ability: No Guard Health: 62% Energy: 84% Status: Of course his blade isn't damaged. It's forged from Valyrian steel. -2 Special Attack.
Totodile (3/3 left) Anput ♀ @ Soothe Bell Ability: Inner Focus Health: 65% Energy: 71% Status: Feeling much more cheerful. Moderately confused (15% failure chance). +3 Attack, -2 Special Defense.
Korra ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Protean Health: 53% Energy: 77% Status: Pleased with the results of her efforts. Currently Water-type. -3 Special Attack.
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Single-mindedly intent on her objective, Korra starts off the round with a move borrowed from her partner: charging up her fist with deep orange Fighting-type energy that expands into an aura that envelops her entire body, she PUNCHES THE LUMBERING BEAST RIGHT IN THE FACE. Her fist bounces right off, instantly callusing over from the impact, and Queen Anne recoils as well, roaring as much in pain as in frustration. Turning her sights toward Anput, Queen Anne takes a leaf out of her partner's book as well, regaling the Riolu with a stream of taunts laced with a vaguely sinister undertone of dark energy, about how her partner's brave enough to punch a dragon in the face but Anput's too scared, and—
Overcome with righteous fury, Anput completely forgets the rest of her commands and PUNCHES THE LUMBERING BEAST RIGHT IN THE FACE. That sure shuts her up. Anput's fist continues to toughen up, as well.
Meanwhile, Artorias completely ignores all the action to summon up a shimmering veil of bright golden energy that settles around him and Queen Anne to help shield them from further blows. Queen Anne, quickly weakening from the constant battery to her poor face, heaves a small sigh of relief. Then Korra punches her in the face again. This time, however, her fist slows as it pierces the veil, only lightly jabbing Queen Anne's snout instead of breaking all of her teeth. That's a relief. In fact, really, it's kind of pathetic. Can't Korra and her teammate do any better than that? Queen Anne really rips into the poor frog, unfortunately only figuratively for now, about how everyone's totally getting tired of the same old move and Korra's really going to have to try harder if she wants to make a dent in this lovely, flawless face...
Too caught up in her anger to lend Korra any support, Anput draws back her own fist and surrounds it in swirling green energy this time, shovering her arm forward with all the force she can muster and eagerly awaiting the harsh clang of her fist on Artorias's cheap iron sword body and... her arm passes right through him. What?! It worked before! Anput hops up and down on the spot indignantly as Artorias grins internally and shoots off a stream of glittering Steel-type energy for the dozenth time or so. The force throws Anput back into the seat cushion that she tore up to make her Substitute, and itchy cotton sticks to her arms and legs as she lies there blinking memories of the blinding light from her eyes, temporarily dazzled.
Korra hangs her head in shame. Her quest, her ultimate journey to tame the Lumbering Looming Beast of the Lumbering Looming Subway Carriage, is doomed. Her punches aren't enough, and what else does she even know how to do? Nothing, that's what. Nothing at all. She should just return home to her froggy swamplands and tell them to find another intrepid explorer, because she's clearly not up for the job. Queen Anne chooses that moment to add injury to insult, by flexing the muscles in her tail as it suddenly becomes MADE OF METAL. She swings her tail around to hit Korra in the chest, tearing open a huge gash in her skin and throwing her halfway across the subway car. Korra simply lies on the ground, too discouraged to get back up.
Anput tries to punch Artorias again, and her fist goes right through him again, which is pretty embarrassing. And Artorias throws out yet another bolt of dazzling silver energy to slam the already dazed Anput against a wall. Nothing new here. Same old, same old, muses Korra...
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Sangfroidish (3/3 left) Queen Anne ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Intimidate Health: 6% Energy: 66% Status: Barely able to stand. Burned (1% damage per action, 3% damage penalty on attacks requiring a lot of movement). Used: Taunt @ Anput ~ Torment @ Korra ~ Iron Tail @ Korra
Artorias ♂ @ Dusk Stone Ability: No Guard Health: 62% Energy: 75% Status: Smug. His sword of Valyrian steel is impenetrable! -2 Special Attack. Used: Reflect ~ Flash Cannon @ Anput ~ Flash Cannon @ Anput
Totodile (3/3 left) Anput ♀ @ Soothe Bell Ability: Inner Focus Health: 44% Energy: 61% Status: Rapidly trying to blink the reflections of silver light out of her eyes. +4 Attack, -3 Special Defense. Used: Power-Up Punch @ Queen Anne ~ Drain Punch @ Artorias ~ Drain Punch @ Artorias
Korra ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Protean Health: 46% Energy: 73% Status: Reluctant to get back up. Tormented (3 more actions). Currently Fighting-type. +2 Attack, -1 Defense, -3 Special Attack. Used: Power-Up Punch @ Queen Anne ~ Power-Up Punch @ Queen Anne ~ existential crisis
Arena Status
A Lucky Egg lies, forlorn and abandoned, beneath a seat.
Bits of stuffing lie all over the floor. They're itchy.
A Reflect covers Sangfroidish's team (3 more actions).
Sorry, Lumbering Beast, you're kinda completely screwed beyond redemption. Just Protect to make the frog waste an action and if you somehow survive long enough to do anything else, Rest and Sleep Talk.
Protect ~ Rest ~ Sleep Talk
Artorias, just... blargh, keep Flash Cannoning the Riolu. If she protects or detects, go at Korra with Shadow Claw. If you can't hit anyone, Iron Defense.
Let's put a whole lotta NOPE all over that idea. Anput, Feint her. That will probably end the round, but if not, Drain Punch her. Korra ... I don't know. Use your water.
Anput: Feint @Queen Anne ~ Drain Punch @Queen Anne ~ Drain Punch @Queen Anne
Sangfroidish (3/3 left) Queen Anne ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Intimidate Health: 6% Energy: 66% Status: Barely able to stand. Burned (1% damage per action, 3% damage penalty on attacks requiring a lot of movement).
Artorias ♂ @ Dusk Stone Ability: No Guard Health: 62% Energy: 75% Status: Smug. His sword of Valyrian steel is impenetrable! -2 Special Attack.
Totodile (3/3 left) Anput ♀ @ Soothe Bell Ability: Inner Focus Health: 44% Energy: 61% Status: Rapidly trying to blink the reflections of silver light out of her eyes. +4 Attack, -3 Special Defense.
Korra ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Protean Health: 46% Energy: 73% Status: Reluctant to get back up. Tormented (3 more actions). Currently Fighting-type. +2 Attack, -1 Defense, -3 Special Attack.
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The Lumbering Beast of the Subway Carriage is on the defensive! Roaring in agony, her world crashing all around her, she desperately whips up a swirling orb of glittering, nearly transparent energy, in a frantic bid to buy herself just a little more time against the wrath of Intrepid Frog! This is the moment! Korra is totally ready, and her entire body glows blue with elemental energy...
Anput steps in front of her and fakes a jab at Queen Anne with her left fist. The Lumbering Beast flinches and strengthens her shield against the blow, then lets it falter for a short moment to catch her breath. Ha! A truly observant opponent would know that Anput is right-fisted, and she quickly drives said fist up into Queen Anne's chin before jumping away again. The Krokorok wavers, and then wobbles on the spot, and then topples right over, bonking her snout on the ground as she lands on her stomach.
What?! Korra looks from the Lumbering Beast to her partner and back, indignantly. It was her job to finish this off! No fair! Cheeks already bulging with water rapidly approaching its boiling point, she turns and unleashes fire (or water, as it were) on the first thing she sees: Artorias's blade. The Honedge recoils from the blast and then retaliates at her partner, calling forth vengeful spirits from the Underworld to assault Anput with an arcane ritual passed down in his family for six generations in a completely new, startling move. Just kidding! It's only another Flash Cannon.
Artorias ♂ @ Dusk Stone Ability: No Guard Health: 55% Energy: 71% Status: Doesn't even notice that his partner's been knocked out. With a diverse movepool like this, who needs partners? -2 Special Attack. Used: Flash Cannon @ Anput
Totodile (3/3 left) Anput ♀ @ Soothe Bell Ability: Inner Focus Health: 33% Energy: 58% Status: Triumphant. +4 Attack, -3 Special Defense. Used: Feint @ Queen Anne
Korra ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Protean Health: 46% Energy: 69% Status: Utterly disappointed. Tormented (2 more actions). Currently Water-type. +2 Attack, -1 Defense, -3 Special Attack. Used: Scald @ Artorias
Arena Status
A Lucky Egg lies, forlorn and abandoned, beneath a seat.
Bits of stuffing lie all over the floor. They're itchy.
A Reflect covers Sangfroidish's team (2 more actions).
Okay, Anput, let's claw Artorias in the face. If he tries to seduce you in some way, Attract him right back. If he Protects, just Chill.
Korra, be cool and punch the Noibat in the face. As with Anput, if he's being sexy, respond in kind. If he Protects, or if you hit the damage cap, just Chill.
Okay, time to end that dog. Kalameet, hit her with Air Slashes. She should be outta here before the third action rolls in. Hold off on munching your berry when the first Ice Punch hits, since Reflect's already halving it and thanks to Torment there won't be a second :J
Air Slash @Anput ~ Air Slash @Anput ~ Air Slash @Anput
Meanwhile, Artorias, hit the ice frog with an Iron Head, then Protect for some damage control; chilling's not going to help Anput now, anyway. If the third action ever comes for some reason, Flash Cannon to annoy the ref.
Sangfroidish (2/3 left) Kalameet ♂ @ Yache Berry Ability: Telepathy Health: 100% Energy: 100% Status: SNARLING LIKE A SUPER INTIMIDATING BEAST.
Artorias ♂ @ Dusk Stone Ability: No Guard Health: 55% Energy: 71% Status: Doesn't even notice that his partner's been knocked out. With a diverse movepool like this, who needs partners? -2 Special Attack.
Korra ♀ @ Lucky Egg Ability: Protean Health: 46% Energy: 69% Status: Utterly disappointed. Tormented (2 more actions). Currently Water-type. +2 Attack, -1 Defense, -3 Special Attack.
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A menacing hiss rips through the subway carriage. Korra and Anput both cringe back in terror of Sangfroidish's TERRIFYING SNARLING CROCODILE oh it's just a dragon. Wait...
FUCKING DRAGONS, WILL THESE TERRORS NEVER END?! Intrepid Frog backs away one step, then another... can she really slay a dragon? As the chosen one of the water tribe of froggy swamplands, it's her duty to try. So, drawing upon a tried and true tactic, Korra breathes a mist of condensation over her fist and feels a rush of cool energy fill her body as the droplets harden to a slick of ice, and then PUNCHES THE FREAKING DRAGON IN THE FREAKING FACE. OH YEAH. That pesky bubble of golden energy absorbs some of the momentum, but Kalameet still backs right away, spitting and hissing and snarling in indignation.
Choosing to ignore this devastating draconic development for now, Anput focuses on her sword rival yet again. Swathes of eerie purple energy cloak her paws, tapering to a fine point at the end of each finger. Holding up her new claws as she ominously approaches her foe, Anput is a little ashamed to be sinking to the Ghost type's dishonourable level... but nevertheless she lashes both claws across Artorias's hilt, the ghostly energy scraping through the metal as her plain old punches never could. Now that's more like it. Unfortunately, as much as she wishes to forget her new dragon-shaped troubles, they don't wish to forget her: with a fearsome screech, Kalameet flaps her little wings once, then again, whipping up a disproportionately strong current of wind that slashes painfully right across Anput's face. Anput stumbles backward with a cry, all her previous wounds catching up with her in an instant...
And now for something completely different! Artorias slaps Korra over the head with the flat of his blade. Korra's new composition of icy energy wasn't made to resist this kind of assault, and she slumps sideways to the ground, head pounding furiously. She doesn't make any move to get up, choosing instead to ponder how she punched and punched all she could, and dragon after dragon stood up to resist her, and now look at the trouble she's got herself into, she's such a disappointment to her tribe...
Meanwhile, Artorias slashes his sword in a quick circle, a transparent veil of protective energy forming in its path to expand into a bubble around him to protect him from danger. Seeing this, Anput decides to just sit down and take a short rest... but Kalameet is having none of it. A fierce cry and a flap of little wings later, Anput is bowled over by another burst of cold wind, and this time she can't find it in herself to get up. The last thing she sees before her suddenly leaden eyelids shut is the golden veil parting and then vanishing altogether from around Sangfroidish's team.
Artorias ♂ @ Dusk Stone Ability: No Guard Health: 48% Energy: 63% Status: Kind of uncomfortable with venturing away from the land of the familiar Flash Cannon... Used: Iron Head @ Korra ~ Protect
I don't actually know anything about the actual Korra but I think she's from the water tribe? I'm actually watching AtLA for the first time right now haha.
Anput's Chill totally failed because, you know, she sat down to try to relax and then Kalameet knocked her out right away.
Sangfroidish's Reflect wore off after the second action. So did Korra's eternal torment. And so did Artorias's special attack drop, since the oh-so-captivating Anput has fainted.
Totodile sends out, then Sangfroidish posts commands first.
Kalameet the male Noibat <Telepathy> @ Yache Berry
Oscar the male Riolu <Inner Focus>
Zulf the male Ralts <Synchronize> @ Dawn Stone
Hindenburg the male Drifblim <Unburden>
Artorias the male Honedge <No Guard> @ Dusk Stone
Queen Anne the female Krokorok <Intimidate> @ Lucky Egg
Rucks the male Lillipup <Vital Spirit> @ Eviolite
Kloe the female Fletchling <Big Pecks>
Kitaniji the male Ekans <Shed Skin> @ Lucky Egg
Sobek the male Totodile <Torrent> @ Lucky Egg
Sekhmet the female Luxio <Intimidate> @ Lucky Egg
Camazotz the female Zubat <Inner Focus> @ Black Sludge
Baí Zé the male Absol <Super Luck>
Hel the female Snorunt <Ice Body> @ Dawn Stone
Korra the female Frogadier <Protean> @ Lucky Egg
Poe the female Pancham <Iron Fist> @ Muscle Band
Aeris the female Klefki <Prankster>
