Totodile vs. Keldeo

[size=+2]Totodile vs Keldeo[/size]

Format: 3v3 singles
Style: Set
DQ: 1 week
Damage Cap: 40%
Banned/Restricted Moves: OHKOs, direct healers, Pain Split, Perish Song, Endeavor
Arena Description: A Mountainside

This is a simple fight near the base of a mountain. Trees grow in thick layers up its craggy side. There is a lake nearby, filled with chilly water fresh from the stream that flows from the mountain's ice cap. The view is very inspiring from here, and at the end of every round each Pokemon on the field has a 10% chance to be motivated to be more awesome, raising a random stat by 1.

Additional Rules: The trainers will PM their first Pokemon to the ref, who will post the selections in the thread.

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Totodile's active squad

Sobek the male Croconaw <Torrent> @ Lucky Egg
Sekhmet the female Luxio <Intimidate> @ Shuca Berry
Camazotz the female Zubat <Inner Focus> @ Black Sludge
Jaws the female Trapinch <Hyper Cutter> @ Lucky Egg
Wrath the female Zweilous <Hustle> @ Lucky Egg
Ceres the female Deerling (Autumn Form) <Chlorophyll> @ Eviolite
Poe the female Pancham <Iron Fist> @ Muscle Band
Applejack the female Eevee <Adaptability> @ Silk Scarf
Clarifying Fire Vanishment the male Chikorita <Leaf Guard> @ Lucky Egg
Azula the female Cyndaquil <Blaze> @ Absorb Bulb


Keldeo's active squad

Sonya the female Pikachu <Static> @ Thunder Stone
Viola, Disciple of Lirrin the female Happiny <Serene Grace> @ Oval Stone
>>(⌒ｏ⌒)<< the female Wooper <Water Absorb> @ Weakness Policy
M. H. Milky Way of Boo Foo Woo the male Castform <Forecast> @ Wise Glasses
Float the genderless Unown (!) <Levitate> @ Choice Specs
Taylor the female Absol <Pressure> @ Shell Bell
Super Smile Mommy the female Kangaskhan <Scrappy> @ Expert Belt
Lily the female Ekans <Shed Skin> @ Lucky Egg
Kaley the female Charmander <Solar Power> @ Lucky Egg
Dias, Disciple of Myrreth the male Ralts <Synchronize> @ Lucky Egg



I await your PMs, after which I'll determine the command order.

And now I shall reveal our intrepid hikers!


-Keldeo places the first hook thing that mountain climbers use.
-you know with the hole that you grab with the hand or the foot
-and then you climb
-Ahem.

-Totodile responds with the second hookshoefoot

-We attempt to scale mother nature's large, pointed palps.

Their Adaptability + Silk Scarf is pretty dangerous but I don't think we can do very much against it while commanding first, so just Dazzling Gleam for all three actions. Make sure to wait until she moves before you act, even if it means you both lose the whole action waiting. If she raises her stats (including Reflect and Focus Energy, but not including Double Team - use Dazzling Gleam in that case), lowers yours, inflicts a status on you (including Attract and Yawn), or makes a substitute, and you haven't already used Encore, Encore it. If they're Protecting, Detecting, otherwise unhittable, or Biding, or you can't hit with Dazzling Gleam for whatever reason, go for Magic Room, Calm Mind, Reflect.

Dazzling Gleam / Encore / Magic Room ~ Dazzling Gleam / Encore / Calm Mind ~ Dazzling Gleam / Encore / Reflect

It sure is nice of him to let us go first. Give him some Headbutts, and hope for hax.

Headbutt x3

Very few of Asber’s residents knew of the gratuitous mountains that fringed their borders. It is an increasingly alarming truth that one can tell if an Asberian has heard of a place by the local debris. Two trainers sat, dressed in mountain gear too large for them to wear, looking at each other’s poorly ordered tools. The mountain sat with a stony expression, its massive face elevated into the clouds far above. The whistle of a stream escaped its crying glacial peak, running down and through outcroppings of hardy trees. Keldeo sighed at the toughened vegetation, with roots so gnarled they looked like legs trapped in the crag. Totodile noted that it looked like someone had flipped over a migrating herd of treefolk. Keldeo did not laugh, because they were being outclimbed by trees.

One other alarming truth is that Asberians often take any offense and turn it into a pretense for battling. This is also true of the offense is not even offensive in the slightest. Though that is subjective, and that’s what Totodile said in court for causing calamitous environmental damage, but that was after the battle. Right now, Totodile felt slighted by Keldeo brushing off her humorous comment. And Applejack the Eevee was soon staring down a white dress with green hair clipped into a dome by two red horns.


Applejack sighed and nodded at his compatriot, opponent and fellow mon. It was her trainer this time. Dias shrugged, and Applejack attempted to do the same but realized shoulders take practice and decided to nod again. She brought her head down, a sorrow-filled gaze affixed on Dias, and charged forward.

They both closed their eyes right before the impact, Applejack didn’t need to see where to go and Dias need to see what was coming. And so a stoppable force came into contact with a movable object, and the base of Applejack’s cranium thumped into Dias’ much softer head. His hair fanned out across her head and he wobbled back and forth before toppling over in a crumpled heap. Applejack flicked an ear down. Was it over?

Dias noted the lovely clear sky. Almost as vacant as his head now. He could see a lot better without all this hair in the way.

Keldeo’s jaw was almost grounded. She had forgotten to pray to Myrreth this morning. And the morning before that. And maybe…a few other times. Oh dear.




Notes:
-I am speechless.
-As per flinchax being crazy, by the third Headbutt Dias would have been battered enough that another full flinch would be hard pressed to occur. So as per Eifie's advice I've let her use Dazzling Gleam but lowered it's base power. Note the description has not been changed to reflect this, but it happened. Note that future headbutts will not be as effective.

-Totodile commands next…

wow

(also I think Dias is a guy?)

I know pushing our luck is a bad idea, AJ, but darn it if we won't do it anyway! Give him some more Headbutts, because it's fun. If he has a Reflect up, or if Headbutt is Disabled, use Hyper Voice instead - but if he has a Reflect and a Light Screen up, just go with Headbutt.

Headbutt/Hyper Voice x3

Alright, changes have been made regarding the triple super flinch of extreme death. They're in the ref notes but basically Flinches against Dias won't be as effective anymore, so Totodile you can recommand if you don't want to Headstrike all the way.

Hmm, okay. Let's switch it up with Secret Power instead, If he has a Reflect up, or if Secret Power is Disabled, use Hyper Voice instead - but if he has a Reflect and a Light Screen up, just go with Secret Power. If he tries to status you or use Trick, Protect against it.

Secret Power/Hyper Voice/Protect x3

Okay, let's just go for Hypnosis until it works. If you still have any actions left, Dream Eater for health while she's asleep and Psychic if/once she wakes up.

Hypnosis ~ Hypnosis / Dream Eater ~ Hypnosis / Dream Eater / Psychic

Given clarity by the twisted fortune of flinching, Dias stood up and observed his newfound environment. A cracked boulder, looking much rougher than the sand stuck across his hand, straddled the mountainside to his back, an Eevee, a bright lake of misty blue, an Eevee, the boul- an Eevee? What. Dias had always thought Applejack was a Ralts like he was. He even peeked into her wavelength once to match and found it way too close to be coincidental. The Eevee simply smiled. Dias thought this wouldn’t do, he’d felt a little bit more than betrayed. Because Dias’ head was a bit too clear, he felt fascinated. Intrigue urged him forward without abandon, stumbling and tripping all over the pebbles. He shambled forward and as soon as he entered Applejack’s territory she noticed the slavering expression across his face.

Applejack had never noticed Dias’ face before. She always thought there was an Eevee behind those luscious locks. Instead two eyes larger than her own sat beneath the green overgrowth, each large enough to ignore wayward strands that dared to obscure its target. Applejack gulped.

“can I see your brain” cooed Dias.

“No,” barked Applejack and stomped her front paws onto the ground, sending a protecting square up from the ground. The magical glass seemed to amplify her warning growls.

“pls your brain is speshul” a trembling hand reached towards the glass. It isn’t very well known that Psychic types are drawn to points of intense psychic energy, much like a ghost type would be drawn to a mon of soul. Psychic types usually never notice ones over the normal interference, or never have the gall to admit someone has a reservoir of energy so enormous it dwarfs their own several times. Dias was not one of these Psychic types, and Dias’ mind was clear. They were in the mountaintops, with only the now skittish buzzing of their trainers’ heads. Even that was numbed by the headsmacking. All he could hear now was Applejack’s mental wailing. Applejack’s cranial juices aching to be freed, to be safely removed from their annoying bony prison.

“No,” whimpered the Eevee, paws slamming down on the ground again. Her lip was trembling between barks. “Nooooo,” she said and slammed the ground again, but this time a shield did not come up.

Dias’ eyes lit up a pale pink. Applejack did him the service of looking into them. Dias’ grin grew wider as the Eevee wobbled on her hind legs and whomped to the ground. Asleep and ready for incision.




Notes:
-While I let it work here, in future I will not let Protect be used thrice (or more) in succession. It would just lead to a potential conditional to stall out the whole round so one can command second. It’ll work as it normally does, with a 50% success rate on the second consecutive use, but a complete failure on the third from now on.
-I'm going by the new(ish) Sleep rulings in the D&E guide. Applejack is guaranteed to be asleep on the first action of the next round.
-Dias' Accuracy boost will fade at the end of the next round.
-Dias’ head injury may have been a bit too much for the poor fellow. That or Applejack does actually have supreme psychic powers.


-Keldeo up to command.

Okay, still a pretty good outcome. Dream Eater for health for as long as she's asleep, and then keep it up with Hyper Voice once she wakes up - try to drown her out if she tries a sound move, and sweep it if there are clones. Calm Mind if she Protects, Detects, or is otherwise unhittable.

Dream Eater (health) / Hyper Voice / Calm Mind x3

Use Snore while you're asleep. When you wake up, use Yawn, and then try for a Secret Power.

Snore ~ Snore/Yawn ~ Snore/Yawn/Secret Power

Dias nuzzled the sleeping Eevee’s head with his horns. Each of the red spikes had an outline of faint purple, ones that grew and shrank with the Ralts’ hyperventilations. He pressed his foremost horn into the Eevee’s forehead, eliciting a half mumbled “just five more minutes, cattle prod.” The startling revelation into Applejack’s trained life did not deter the Ralts, as he bore the horn deeper into the fur, right until he touched skin. He had struck gold, and his whole body shivered in anticipation. Slowly, careful not to break what he had found, wary of those that would steal his prize, he pulled out the Eevee’s thoughts through his horn. He could barely contain his excitement, it showed on the ecstatic contortions his face was performing. His arms rocked forwards and backwards in the air, pulling imaginary pumps. His eyes may have been wide but they weren’t admiring the view, his dilated pupils were lost in the Eevee’s mind. Poring through thoughts and images, brief flashes of memory that surfaced for air in a sea of slumber.

He was treading through white noise, poking his conscious at lumps and folds in the otherwise placated mind. Some popped into thoughts, bubbles of static that bulged out of Applejack’s sedated stream and flickered into images of life. Dias jabbed at one, and it exploded in his face.

Was this a warzone? Did a Jolteon just shoot past, did a Jolteon just get shot? Is that an Espeon inside a tank? Why is there gunfire. Is that Applejack?

But before any of his questions could be answered he was jacked directly out of the Eevee’s head. His head shook, back in the real world, at the voluminous roar of the Eevee. It was as if her gut itself was committing death by honor, shoving noises of pure agony out in a lowest, most fiercesome growl possible. As the rest of Dias’ conscious returned to his form, he noticed that the sound was much more squeaky now, less internal, less gaping, much, much more present.

Applejack growled.

Dias stumbled backwards, falling onto some form of rear hidden underneath his dress. Applejack yipped reproachfully, what kind of battler delves into the past of their opponent? It took her years to bury the memories of being…Cider. And now they were all back. It was no more mister nice Eevee. But before she could unleash her fury, she unleashed a yawn. Her growl mellowed and her mouth became an oval. A cloud painted a lazy yellow chugged out of her mouth and arced its way up and down the length of the battlefield. Dias screeched in reply, trying to formulate his own battle roar. The Eevee’s mind had influenced him much, and as much as his blood was boiling he was debating curling into the most fetal of positions and bawling afterwards. Those images could never be unseen. The thrill of battle coursed through him, but the tolls of it still haunted his jumbled mind. He had gone into the warzone in Applejack’s head, and he didn’t come back the same. Dias’ screeching fell into silence as the cloud fell upon Dias, melting past him and sinking into the ground. As loud as he had cried, he could not stifle a yawn. Everything he saw seemed just that bit more muddy, maybe because when he looked down he still saw tracks of feet trailing blood so thick it lathered the ground.





Notes:
-I treated Hyper Voice being used to negate sound moves similar to how Soundproof works. You’re essentially stopping all sound from entering your ears. And even though Yawn was written as a cloudy particle, just seeing someone Yawn is well enough to causing one. Sound isn’t a necessity.
-And so Dias will fall asleep at the end of next round’s first action.
-Cider has some war scars.

-Totodile up to command.

Use Secret Power first. Then, use Work Up for as long as he's asleep. If you're Taunted, or if he wakes up, just go with Secret Power, or Body Slam if you can't use Secret Power for some reason.

Secret Power ~ Work Up/Secret Power/Body Slam x2

Start with Future Sight, then Snore while you're asleep and Draining Kiss if you wake up.

Future Sight ~ Snore ~ Snore / Draining Kiss

Dias tried to get the terrifying images of war out of his head any way he could. He rolled about on the ground muttering incantations, spun his legs about attempting to project psychic energy through his feet and even tried strangling himself with his dress when it got too bad. Applejack noted what the creep was doing, and per context she decided that he needed the most was a good smack on the head. Applejack, formerly Sergeant Cider, thrust her head forward and fired a brilliant beam of onyx at Dias. The beam seemed to harden as it traveled, growing facets like scales and turning shades of bright grey in the sheer sunlight. It smashed into Dias and shattered, the beam feeling much more like a train than it should be. Applejack smirked and puffed up his chest.

But it was the sudden shock that gave Dias the outlet he needed. He doesn’t want it now, so he’ll send it into the future! That way his future self would have to deal with it, and then he can send it into the future! That way he’ll never resolve his issues! He framed his hands around his face and thrust them outwards in the shape of a square. The tip of his frontal horn glew a pale purple and a spark shot out and into the makeshift square. The jolt seemed to pour into the area bordered by Dias’ hands, disappearing instead of coming out the other side. Dias’ forehead creased and his eyes squeezed shut, he was putting in all the effort he could. So much, that he wobbled near the end, and the stream died out. The momentary lapse in concentration allowed the great emptiness now filling his head to be noticed, and the heaviness of loss it brought lulled him to sleep.

Applejack immediately kicked into fitness training, her legs flying this way and that and her hands in the opposite direction. Her muscles stretched and pulled and worked to their limits, limbering her up. She landed on the ground with a plop, brimming with energy. A soothing wind flew through her fur, letting her mane flow with pride.

The minute vibrations sent through the earth rumbled under Dias, somehow causing the petite creature to unleash thunderous roars of his own. Each bellow made the mountain shudder, the climbing trees creaked, trying to hold on for dear life, the lakewater bounced in unsettling waves.

Dias remained asleep, but Applejack’s brow furrowed and his ears twitched, their furred edges curling in somewhat. She let out a mewling howl, long and unwelcoming. Somewhere in his mind, Dias’ thoughts were returning, pouring through the memory of the square he made.




Notes:
-Action Two was a guaranteed round of sleep for Dias.
-I just noticed I messed up the necessary roll needed for escaping sleep last round, there should’ve been a 5% decrease per action as well (resulting in an overall 10% decrease.) Fortunately, Applejack rolled a 94 anyway, guaranteeing that she would’ve woken up.

-Keldeo to command.

Okay, I guess we're just going to keep Snoring while you're asleep. Wait until her move's fully over before starting to act, if you can tell, just in case they try something and you wake up. Once you wake up, spam Protect so we can survive next round, but if you wake up right after her action, send up another Future Sight.

Snore / Protect / Future Sight x3

Don't worry, Applejack. I have an idea. Use Toxic first, so that both of you will be poisoned. Then use Facade twice. If Toxic misses, use Focus Energy and then Headbutt. If she's awake and successfully uses Protect, use Focus Energy or Work Up.

Toxic ~ Facade/Focus Energy ~ Facade/Headbutt/Work Up

Sergeant Cider von Applejack was dismayed. Here she was dueling her sparring partner in what she hoped would be a deathmatch, and they were already dead. Or asleep. One of those two, but the second one was more offensive. Back in the corps, she’d been taught a very effective way to check if someone was dead or asleep. Make them wish they were dead. She’d start poetically, of course, and hack up all of her discontent into malcontents. A heaving sniff later and sticking along the roof of her mouth, as well as most of the rest of her mouth, was a foul purple liquid. She raised her head, breathed in the mountain air, and coughed a trebuchet of foul nasal goo right at Dias. The artillery barrage landed right on target, with the slap of wet meat on concrete, and spread all over the Ralts’ well-kept head of hair. Veins of semisolid purple penetrated the thick emerald shield surrounding his head and seeped into the pores across his face. He cringed in his sleep, bellowing out a sound so terribly offensive he had to be awake.

Applejack stood smiling, then coughed up blood like she’d just been shot. Her smile still in place, she flicked her eyes down to notice a pool of red and dark purple mingling at her feet. She felt a lot fainter, with the toxins running through her own body. But she’d spent several years building up an immunity to a certain powder, and hoped that would somehow help her here. It did not. Her lips fell to a sigh, and she half-closed her eyes in preparation. Here goes nothing.

Her sigh broke into a frown, which opened into a snarl, which roared into a warcry. She charged forward, scarf barely keeping up with her flying feet. Head rammed into head, and Dias was sent flying. His ragdoll body was about to shoot through the air, but Applejack thrust out an arm before her and grabbed him by the neck before he could. The shock crashing through Dias’ spine jerked him awake. Applejack tightened her paws around the delinquent, and slammed him into the ground. Dias mewled for mercy, but the deed was done, Applejack had dropped all pretenses. With every claw, punch, kick and bite she drilled his failure into him. He was an embarrassment to the core- crunch. A reject among rejected breeds- smash. Not even quadrupedal in the slightest- SLAM.

Dias, having never experienced such physical abuse before- as well as never experienced much abuse because most people stayed well away from the area defined by their restraining orders on him- used the only outlet he could. Amidst the smashing and biting he managed to roll onto his side, squealing in pain as the onslaught migrated to his hitherto untouched back. Claw hit flesh, and he rocked on the spot, but he barely managed to throw up his arms in a vague square and flush the pain into the future. His operation executed, he quickly raised a leg and pushed off further, rolling away from the beast. Applejack’s world was too red to note anything but the fleeing of her prey, and vulpine instincts boiled in her blood. She did not notice that Dias’ form had been slightly elevated, now carried by a soft green bubble of light. Charging straight into the shield proved to be unsuccessful in capturing her prey, and as she sat dazed in front of the panting Ralts, the jumbled thoughts in her head smoothed over slightly. While before they were all raging, a throbbing and pulsing storm in her head painted in blood, now they had lulled and the rage had returned to the seabed. Her paw rubbed the back of her head, making sure they stayed there and making sure the thumping pain they racked against her head stopped. She looked almost apologetically at the Ralts as she did so. The Eeevee ran back to her original position, a sign of a truce, and began kicking and punching the air in preparation. She wore a smile on her face regardless, as if welcoming the challenge.




Notes:
-jesus fucking christ 25% damage
-Dias couldn’t tell if Applejack had begun to move, or finished, so when he woke up he Future Sighted. I’ve also mentioned when Future Sight will hit in Applejack’s status, and it will hit at the end of the action.
-This seems a prime time to inform you both that I will not let Telekinesis make all contact moves outright fail. Depending on the movements required to execute the move, I will increase the energy cost or deduct damage, but not a straight-up fail.
-I’m pretty sure Protect’s reduced success rate carries between rounds, but correct me if I’m wrong. It is not reset.

-Totodile to command.

We're getting there! Use Facade until he drops.

Facade x3