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Format: 3 vs. 3 Singles Style: Set DQ time: Seven Days Damage Cap: 40% No-no Moves: OHKOes (including Perish Song), Attract. Chills limited to 3 per pokémon.
Asber's Cosmic Museum is well-known for its replica of the solar system. Hanging from the very, very high vault of the marble-floored main hall, scaled-down copies of our ten most loved cosmic objects. The thing is, Asbers have a mania of overdoing things, and this is exactly what the founders of the museum did.
The Sun is scaled down a bit compared to the other planets, but it is a massive sphere of actual boiling lava hanging directly in the middle of the room, serving not only as an object of curiosity but is also the main source of light and heat of the hall. How the lava remains suspended in the air is a secret well-kept, but what is not is that it is very hot to the touch, so pokémons beware! Touching it deals fire-type damage and may cause a burn.
The other planets, as well as the asteroid belt, are represent as bigger than their actual size when compared with the Sun, so pokémon can interact with them as they please. Note that only very small pokémon can hang on the smaller planets of the system. Remember, though, that the planet replicas retain their model's principal attributes. For exemple, Mars' rusty surface may not be to good for open wounds, and Jupiter's gaseous body might not offer much resistance. The exact effects are up to the referee's judgement.
Finally, the museum also affects moves and pokémon in mysterious ways...
Cleffa, Clefairy, Clefable, Solrock & Lunatone will be at peace in this environment, and at the end of each round, they will have a 50% chance of either recovering 5% health, 5% energy, or lower the severity of a status.
Cosmic Power, Gravity, Moonlight & Morning Sun use up 1% less energy.
Draco Meteor has 10 more base power and uses up 1% less energy.
Meteor Mash has 10 more base power, uses 1% less energy and has an additional 10% chance of raising attack.
At the end of each round there is a 5% chance that either:
Jirachi will appear and grant a wish for the battler with the lowest energy + health total. The blessed battler, for the next round, will be assisted by Jirachi, which means that any action can be replaced by an action from Jirachi. The limit of three conditionals per action still stands. Jirachi cannot shield the pokémon from attacks without wasting an action to do so.
Deoxys will appear and, wishing only death and destruction, will use and random damaging move on a each battler.
Chime the female Zorua <Illusion> @ Wise Glasses Hook the male Croagunk <Anticipation> @ Muscle Band Lupin the male Ralts <Trace> @ Lucky Egg Icarus the male Togepi <Serene Grace> @ Soothe Bell Waulter the male Gligar <Immunity> @ Razor Fang Autumn the female Snorunt <Ice Body> @ Dawn Stone Ruby the female Absol <Pressure> @ Magmarizer Ulbus Zoquerey the male Murkrow <Insomnia> @ Dusk Stone Rose the female Misdreavus <Levitate> @ Dusk Stone Keyrielle the female Klefki <Prankster> @ Sitrus Berry
The Omskivar's active squad
Frankie the male Nidoran♂ <Poison Point> Thebe the genderless Lunatone <Levitate> Bertha the female Tepig <Blaze> Sinestro the male Cacnea <Sand Veil> @ Chilan Berry Bronn the male Chespin <Bulletproof> @ Lucky Egg Drogon the male Tyrunt <Strong Jaw> Marilyn the male Gothita <Competitive> @ Lucky Egg Dandy the male Swirlix <Sweet Veil> @ Whipped Dream Grognak the male Cubone <Rock Head> Abigail & Amelia Gabble the female Binacle <Tough Claws> @ Lucky Egg
Alright, in that case, I'll go with Rose. She's pretty spooky and mischievious.
Okay, one of the first things we want done here is that pitiful excuse for a pokémon is to be so enraged by your authentic real pokémon style he won't be able to status you, so start by a vociferous Taunt. If you see him prepare a Magic Coat to throw it back at you, use Nasty Plot instead. Do the same if he Protects. Keep trying to taunt him until it works (using Nasty Plot on the aforementionned moves). Once he is taunted, throw some Shadow Balls at him.
Well if it's action they want, then it's action they'll get! We won't waste any time then; Play Rough for a while, then give 'em a Draining Kiss and another Play Rough.
The hall, , a towering cylindrical structure of chiselled stone, was as silent and still as the depths of space it mocked. Pillars were cemented into the walls at regular intervals, rising to the heavens. Though, in complete contrariness to the setup, the solar system was actually pretty far down. The architects had found that it was both time-consuming and unnecessarily dangerous to put lights up on the roof. They thought of this after Harold had fallen down while painting the mosaic, and it was only when he was on the floor that he noticed no one could see the intricate vinework he had spent seven weeks on. Instead of continuing with the work up above, they set to making everything right near the customers, the paying customers. And so they chose to hang a much more localized, much more controlled and certainly much more safe light fixture: The sun. Around this ball of molten lava swirled several spherical structures, made from the finest materials they could find down the street. A Swirlix eyed the calamity waiting to happen in wonder, his eyes shining in the bright of the flaming globe. A Misdreavus faded in from the thick darkness surrounding the orbiting apparatus, eying her opponent, her prey, intently. She chuckled.
The ghost type’s chuckling was cut short when she noticed her foe was still staring at the globe of seething magma. Oh come on! What’s the point if the stupid puff isn’t even looking? She huffed and shook her head, smoothing out her composure along with her billowing form. Her head reared back and flung forward like an elastic band, throwing out a noise, gibberish meant to sound like an insult. Dandy swirled around, quite literally, since he was creamy enough to be dubbed a swirl. The Swirlix’s tongue hung loose, his face indifferent. Following a scowl from Rose, a barrage insults began to missile through the air at Dandy. What's this? I came here for a battle and I get some pastry chef’s leftovers? You’re not fit to fight anywhere, I’m honestly surprised you haven’t melted already! At least you’re good at something.
Dandy pouted, his mouth puffing outwards before he realized that probably made him look more like a- a…cream puff. He gasped, he could not let this insult stand! He would wipe that stupid grin off of that stupid incorporeal face. With unexpected force, Dandy leaped at Rose, spinning wildly in the air. The Misdreavus, busy humming happily to herself, was caught unawares when Dandy collided with her. For a moment she thought there was another planet in the system, and she just got in the way of its fluffy orbit. They did battle in a cloud of descending dust and fluff, ballooning and bouncing around the battlefield until Dandy was satisfied with how deftly he pummelled his opponent; which actually took enough time that the fake earth completed a choreographed spin away from an asteroid. Dandy flopped out of the cloud and onto his behind, bearing the silliest, dumbest grin on his face.
Rose, however, was ejected out of the mess, spinning around like a blanket on a string. Her cartwheeling finally slowed as she neared the belt of artificial rocks on the rim of rusty Mars. A few of them were actual rocks dipped in brown paint, even she could smell it when she got close, but the others were paper maché made on a suspiciously timed bring-your-kid-to-work day. Rose opened her mouth while still in the momentum of the fling, and screamed out a sphere of bulging darkness. The ball shuddered through the planetary menagerie, weaving and threading through their orbiting paths with devastating speed, phasing through the smaller bits of cosmic refuse. Having completed its cosmic journey, it drove straight into Dandy, the supposed target, and just kept going, right on into him. The Swirlix instinctively took a look behind him, and noticed that the ball hadn’t faded on out of him yet. When he turned back to look quizzically at the Misdreavus he shrieked instead. Rose cackled as the shadowy sphere popped inside her foe.
The Swirlix pouted again, this time continuing to bulge his mouth outwards until it had more or less extended into a mechanism for smoochery. Lost for a response, Rose’s eyes widened. Dandy crouched on his hind legs and began to spin his tongue about like a propeller. Rose’s eyes remained widened, because they were at the straining point already and any more would pop them out of her head. Dandy kicked off the ground and barrelled into Rose at ramming speed, his mouth thundering into her forehead. His lolling tongue whirled across it, almost polishing it with its vigorous spins. Dandy's smooch and spin had enough force behind it that some of her incorporeality sinewed and tendrilled away from her, being vacuumed into him. When the Swirlix had finished his sloppy greeting, he pushed himself off the Misdreavus and waddled his way back to his original position. He moved slowly, mainly because his belly was now somewhat full and he didn't want to upset his stomach. Primarily because his stomach was almost his whole body, and he really didn't want an ache.
Rose shuddered. What kind of…creature likes the taste of, uh, ghost so much? She threw out her own tongue in disgust, trying to spit the thought out of her mind. She felt somewhat drained, her forehead light. What the hell goes on inside that puffball? She turned her gaze to the Fairy type, who belched in reply. She blinked, almost missing a few ghostly wisps steaming out of Dandy’s mouth. Fine then, you like it so much? Eat it. She chimed up another ball of gaseous purple and sent it flying through the cosmos once more. Dandy contemplated opening his mouth and having another bite, but he realised a bit too late that his jaw was probably not big enough to swallow that. As a result, the ball found free entry at the museum, just into a cavity. It exploded within him, the shrieking shadows poured out of his open mouth and seeped into his fluffy covering. The streaks of purple tightened slightly, like a claw digging into his body. Dandy winced and tried to shake them off, but to no avail. The tendrils, sufficiently implanted, popped again, leaving scathing marks all across Dandy; spotted purple prints where the fluff now sunk slightly.
Lord of the Fireflies
Ooo
Rose
Misdreavus (F) [Levitate] @ Dusk Stone
Health: 72% | Energy: 88%
Condition: ”It eats. All it does is eats D:” Taunt ~ Shadow Ball ~ Shadow Ball
The Omskivar
Ooo
Dandy
Swirlix (M) [Sweet Veil, Gooey] @ Whipped Dream
Health: 84% | Energy: 90%
Condition: Special Defense -1 ”I ain’t afraid of no ghosts!” Play Rough ~ Draining Kiss ~ Play Rough
A1:
Play Rough: Effect Chance(67/100, NO EFFECT)
A2:
Shadow Ball: Effect Chance(100/100, NO EFFECT)
A3:
Shadow Ball: Effect Chance(4/100, SPECIAL DEFENSE DROP)
Play Rough: Effect Chance(99/100, NO EFFECT)
Arena: (74/100, NO EFFECT) (1-5 is the Jirachi summon, 6-10 is the DEVASTATION OF DEOXYS)
Notes:
-I won’t be posting crit rolls unless a crit actually happens.
-Shadow Ball rammed a Sp. Def drop in on the last action.
-Taunt wore off on the last action, feeling it had done its job admirably.
-If Deoxys appears, does it use one random damaging move on both battlers or two different moves, one for each battler?
-Comments on prose are greatly appreciated!
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-*fzzsh*Calling The Omskivar to the command tower. I repeat, Omskivar to the command tower. *fzzsh*
Excellent! Let's keep up the good work Dandy, I want a Fake Tears, then two more Draining Kisses, with a Dazzling Gleam on the last action if you're Tormented. If you're Taunted, somehow, use Play Rough on the first action instead; do this also if there's a Substitute. If Protect is up, use Calm Mind.
Fake Tears/Play Rough/Calm Mind~Draining Kiss/Calm Mind~Draining Kiss/Dazzling Gleam/Calm Mind
Begin with a Magic Coat to reflect those Fake Tears. Then, Thunder Wave to limit his movements, while floating away to try and avoid those Drain Kisses, though getting him paralyzed is the priority. Finish with a powered-up Hex!
Magic Coat ~ Thunder Wave ~ Hex
EDIT: Btw TruetoCheese, very nice and quick reffing! Thanks a bunch!
Rose
Misdreavus (F) [Levitate] @ Dusk Stone
Health: 72% | Energy: 88%
Condition: ”It eats. All it does is eats D:” Magic Coat ~ Thunder Wave ~ Hex
The Omskivar
Ooo
Dandy
Swirlix (M) [Sweet Veil, Gooey] @ Whipped Dream
Health: 84% | Energy: 90%
Condition: Special Defense -1 ”I ain’t afraid of no ghosts!” Fake Tears/Play Rough/Calm Mind~Draining Kiss/Calm Mind~Draining Kiss/Dazzling Gleam/Calm Mind
Rose, expecting something horrifying to emerge from her opponent- because if that furball of death eats ghosts, there are monstrous things coming- closes her eyes and whispers to herself. Dandy cocks his head, which composes his whole body, to the side and sucks in his tongue tentatively. The Misdreavus’ red jeweled beads glow in pulses of pale white, resonating with her voice. Dandy shivers with apprehension as the noise washes over him, something is wrong here. He turns to look at his trainer, who shrugs in reply, and the Swirlix is unsure if he doesn’t know or if there’s nothing he can do now. With a shrug, which is, again, a full-body maneuver, Dandy begins to whimper and sob. He shoots out his tongue and sets to work rolling it about his eyes. Rose does a double-take when she sees Dandy drool all across his face, but her flinch is somewhat unwarranted, as her whole body shimmers with a white glow. As if there was fine powdering be stuck to her surface and it was trying to fall off her form, but it just kept being poured on. Dandy looked up from his salivatory tactics, tears brimming in his eyes. The light flashed when their line of sights met, and Dandy began to blink furiously. What was this? Why was he tearing up? What just happened, why is he- sob- suddenly so…so sad?
Rose smirked, the white glow on her necklace fading back into red, only to be replaced by blinking yellow lights. The smallest gems by the back of her neck began the sequence, and as it travelled to her central jewel the flashes grew in intensity and pace. She swam around the planets, a little closer to the Swirlix, who was now trying to clean the mess of damp fluff filling the top of his head. The Swirlix turned up, and in the dark of Mars saw a fleet of bright yellow spaceships humming closer. The armada stilled, but the orbiting red planet did not. As the shadow lifted, the light of the molten sun fell on the collection of lights, revealing a Misdreavus with a mischievous grin. Having satisfied her need to toy with her opponent, she threw the charged bolts at her foe. The light crackled out of the large jewel at the base of her neck, trailing through the sky and pouring into Dandy.
The Swirlix shrieked the electric pulse ran across his fur, tickling his insides wherever they trailed. This whole ordeal was exhausting, first he found he was crying at himself, and now his muscles weren’t reacting to his movements. He struggled, twirling his tongue about like a propeller once more, it was tough, but he did it in the end. This time he didn’t have to crouch low, as the repeated emotional toil had brought him down physically too. He jumped upwards, straight into Rose, and began to spiral the energy out of her again. Rose opened her mouth to shriek, but shut it immediately when the sloppy Swirlix smooched her forehead. She was taken aback; surely the paralysis would’ve kicked in? How did that puff at such unnatural speeds? My god, it really is a monster.
Rose didn’t like monsters. She thought monsters should be removed, clearly she never understood the longer version of the word Pokemon, but she didn’t have to. Her eyes faded into solid purple, undulating long, wispy tendrils that curled upwards into the nothingness above them. Dandy was still spinning his tongue about happily when he found the tendrils seeping into him. They pierced through his surface fluff, bulging and pluming like a fire that had suddenly found desire. Rose’s head bobbed for a bit, when her intruding tendrils divined that her opponent is not, in fact, completely made of fluff. Now unheeded, the tendrils bore deeper and deeper into Dandy, seeming to pour eternally from Rose’s eyes. The stunned Swirlix had nothing to do but gaze into the ghost type’s eyeless stare, his muscles had seized up, and his mind was seizing too. His insides become covered in what he felt were icy cold vines that left abrasions inside his body, marks that seemed to flare with heat. They were coiled tightly, and growing tighter still. Dandy hesitated to gulp, in case the movement made something bad happen. The Misdreavus cackled once more, and the tendrils began to shoot back out of the Fairy type, they ripped and burst from his skin, looking like he was releasing torrents of purple blood from under his fluff. Dandy screamed, the jagged vines were pulling and ripping at his innards, his muscles, as they released, only increasing the pain that the locked limbs had.
Lord of the Fireflies
Ooo
Rose
Misdreavus (F) [Levitate] @ Dusk Stone
Health: 66% | Energy: 74%
Condition: ”FEED. HAVE ALL THE DARKNESS YOU WANT, CHILD” Magic Coat ~ Thunder Wave ~ Hex
The Omskivar
Ooo
Dandy
Swirlix (M) [Sweet Veil, Gooey] @ Whipped Dream
Health: 69% | Energy: 82%
Condition: Special Defense -3, Paralysed (Severe) ”I is afraid of some ghosts :c” Fake Tears ~ Draining Kiss ~ (Paralysed)
nothin’ much to see here, gennlemen *sweeps museum floor*
Notes:
-Interestingly enough, Hex’s energy cost is doubled when the target is statused, but Venoshock’s isn’t. Who knew?
-Dandy got paralysed on the last action.
-I’m a bit tired, so I didn't do my usual read through of what I wrote. Bear with the prose. Comments and whatnot are appreciated, as always. and thanks for the comments before :D
- A Hex on -3 Special Defense hurts.
Once again, awesome and quick reffing! It's very appreciated :D
Awesome, Rose, things are looking up!
Hex away, my dear, and throw an Inferno in there for some fun! If he tries to use a status move on you, throw a medium Substitute (15%) if you don't already have one, and if he tries to put up a Light Screen, or heal with Aromatherapy or Heal Bell, Snatch it!
I'm pretty upset with myself that I overlooked Magic Coat. Tell you what Dandy--according to his commands, Rose will have to wait for you to attack to see if it's anything worth Snatching; since there's no command to Snatch a Substitute, go ahead and make one for 20%. The second action should be set then, you should go ahead and use Thief and drop your Whipped Dream (according to the database's description of Thief that should be doable in one action) to take the Dusk Stone.
Then we're gonna fuck Rose's day. I want you to use Psychic--and throw her into the sun. Let's see what that does.
Substitute (20%)~Thief (drop Whipped Dream for Dusk Stone)~Psychic (hurl Rose into sun)
Rose
Misdreavus (F) [Levitate] @ Dusk Stone
Health: 66% | Energy: 74%
Condition: ”FEED. HAVE ALL THE DARKNESS YOU WANT, CHILD” Hex / Substitute (15%) / Snatch ~ Inferno / Substitute (15%) / Snatch ~ Hex / Substitute (15%) / Snatch
The Omskivar
Ooo
Dandy
Swirlix (M) [Sweet Veil, Gooey] @ Whipped Dream
Health: 69% | Energy: 82%
Condition: Special Defense -3, Paralysed (Severe) ”I is afraid of some ghosts :c” Substitute (20%)~Thief (drop Whipped Dream for Dusk Stone)~Psychic (hurl Rose into sun)
Rose had tasted sweet vengeance, having overcharged her foe with wave upon wave of cursed flames, blackened fires that were twisted into vengeful spears, and boy did it taste good. They were magnificent, she thought to herself, such devastating beauty. Why not do it again? Her eyes grew wide, her mouth somewhat open, if there had been a capacity for drool inside a Misdreavus, there would have been drool. The tearing flames shot into Dandy once again, impaling him and then ripping back out again.
The Swirlix did not cry out, his time in the battle was coming to a close, and he needed to take out his foe before it happened. There was no time to waste on pain. The spears of jinxed fire had torn off large balls of fluff, some of them were still intact, some of them were dyed in a thick purple residue. Dandy used the only appendage he knew how to use, and stuck out his tongue. Rose did not shriek this time, as she was busy attempting to deepen her occult powers, maybe something hellish? Something from the deep, cavernous halls of the underground, where flames were stoked with blood and bone. She puffed up her cheeks. Nope, not working.
Dandy’s tongue lashed through the piles of fluff, followed by the Pokemon himself. It was like a small puppy being led by a very flexible leash. Every time he found a serviceable piece he tossed it back into a larger collection of fluff, like he was hoarding treasure. Some of the pieces, being purplish, had tinged the rest of the mound and gave it a checkered appearance. Having dashed about the battlefield for enough resources, Dandy twirled and double-timed it back to his fluff store. Rose, accepting her defeat at the hands of the uber-occult, looked at him in interest. Much to her surprise, he didn’t stick the fluff back onto himself, instead opting to stick his tongue straight through the middle of the heap. With great effort, Dandy heaved the coagulated fluff up and waddled over to Rose. An offering, perhaps? Nope. He plopped it down defiantly and pulled his tongue back out. The procedure seemed to have injected some life into the fluff, or maybe just some saliva, and a pair of eyes and- oh god why- a tongue popped out.
Kill it! Kill it with fire! Rose thought. But no, she couldn’t, try as she might. She turned this way and that, looking for some form of enabler to flammability. Her eyes glazed over the molten sun, and she beamed for a moment, before the logistics of handling that took over. Dandy took this opportunity to climb on top of his pal, who helped him up with its own tongue. They both nodded at each other and the substitute tucked in its tongue, the only excess appendage it had, and rolled forward. Dandy kept his place on top by stepping backwards in time, and they both quietly moved into position underneath Rose. The Misdreavus was still staring at the beads of flame rippling and expanding across the glassy surface of the sun, and she didn’t notice it when a bit of her necklace succumbed to the force of gravity. Or salivity. Or both. Dandy’s tongue had shot out and pulled away the small, round black jewel that Rose had set into her neck, and he bounded away happily, tongue waving victory in the air.
Rose looked down, shocked, all that lay there was a singular pile of fluff dashed in purple blotches, its tongue still and it’s little button-like eyes unmoving. There was a dollop of cream on its head, whipped to perfection. A gift, Dandy had thought: take what you can, leave something behind and whatnot. Rose roared an eldritch jumble of horrific, unintelligible tongues. Several searing bolts of black and purple shot from her eyes once more. They stabbed through the substitute, ripping and tearing. And once they had finished curling back out, they were shot again. The flickering embers seemed reluctant to do so, but Rose’s wailing urged them on, and they tore through most of the substitute, leaving a half torn through pile of fluff. The tongue, however, was intact. Rose may have gone berserk, but she was sane.
Dandy, meanwhile, had been staring at the stone all this time. It pulsated in his damp grip, a hard shell in stark contrast to the squishy whipped cream he had always kept with him. With every faint glow, the air seemed to rush inwards for a moment, or at least Dandy heard a rushing sound. It was like falling forward, into the stone, but then the pulse ended and he was back again, slightly dizzier. Slowly, he began to hear whispers from the stone, noises, breaths he knew where there. But he couldn’t tell what. He brought his eyes closer, lurching forward over the object as much as a Swirlix could, almost toppling himself onto it. But even as that thought crossed his mind, he dismissed it. He wouldn’t mind falling over the stone if it meant he could be closer to it. He gasped when his muscles seized and he did end up falling over, his legs unable to strain themselves any longer. The stone smacked into his forehead and his forehead met the ground. Rose shrieked, what was that fool doing with the stone?!
But it was too late; it was caught in the fluff on Dandy’s forehead, and was now comfortably embedded there. Dandy’s smile turned upwards, and upwards, and further upwards. It curved so very high that Rose felt a chill run through her form. Dandy spoke, in her mind, a deep, guttural whisper, but his mouth did not move.
Notes:
-Here comes the time/conditional trouble with ASB :/ An example using this round’s commands: Rose could very well wait for Dandy to use a status move, then make a substitute, but then Dandy’s move would have already been used. So Rose would sort of pre-empt the status and Sub up. Same with the Aromatherapy or Heal Bell, which would be pre-emptively Snatched (Snatch has just ridiculous priority that a mon would be hard pressed to delay it). It’s the same with the Protect issue and all that, so we’re just going to sweep this timey wimey ball under the rug and get on with our round. The Sub tanked a Hex regardless.
-Misdreavus doesn’t learn Inferno, no alternative commands were given, so she just sat there watching a true inferno.
-The Dusk Stone boost kicked in after the second action. Dandy no longer has Gooey in addition to Sweet Veil, but SHADOW POWA.
-Can I mention how fun it is to write about Swirlix? They’re so derpy.
-Dandy was paralysed on the last action. Damnit, I really wanted to ref someone being THROWN IN A SUN.
-The Omskivar, your shuttle is prepped for take-off.
This isn't mentioned anywhere, but the only moves a Pokemon can use in ASB are the ones in the database listing for them. So in Misdreavus' page here she doesn't have Inferno. I even checked on Bulbapedia/Serebii when I was reffing the round, and saw it there >.>
I'm having just as much fun reading about Swirlix, don't worry hahahaha
Well SHIT Dandy, this is not going very well at all. I really just...I just want to throw the ghost into the sun. I'm really sick of the ghost. So we're still going to do that; Psychic her into the sun and see if you can hold her in there all three actions. If you can't get her in there on the first action, keep on trying; if the reason for this is Protect, take the opportunity to make a Wish. If there's a Substitute up, use Psychic to try throwing IT into the sun, or at least to damage it. Whenever the Psychic stops working, use Wish anyway, unless Rose is trying to Snatch it (which is either going to be delayed because of your paralysis slowing you down or a priority move anyway so I don't think you'll have trouble figuring that out) in which case use Draining Kiss. If it's the third action and you haven't Wished yet, you should do that, unless Snatch shenanigans are going on in which case you should use Play Rough. Let's hope I didn't just screw everything up \o/
Okay, here's the plan: Psychic takes some focus to hold you continually, so use Hyper Voice and make him lose that focus. If you think he's giving up and trying a Wish, Taunt him.
The Omskivar
Ooo
Dandy
Swirlix (M) [Sweet Veil] @ Dusk Stone (Active)
Health: 30% | Energy: 69%
Condition: Special Defense -3, Paralysed (Severe), Has a Substitute(1%) ”COME FORTH AND BEHOLD TRUE DARKNESS” Psychic/Wish~Psychic/Wish/Draining Kiss~Psychic/Wish/Play Rough
Rose threw back her head and unhinged her non-existent jaw. Of course, none of these movements mattered, since she was for all intents and purposes a ghost. In fact, she shouldn’t have been able to scream at all, but there was a method to these things, and they somehow resulted in a larynxless shout. Dandy squished his eyes shut, not even his newfound dark power could contain the ringing in his ear-fluff.
REMOVE IT.
Dandy blinked. What? REMOVE IT. Huh? IT. Wha? UGH, HER, REMOVE HER. Oh. Yeah okay, but how? THINK. Uhh...She was looking at the sun for a while last round, maybe she wants a tan? SURE FINE WHATEVER. The stone was so helpful sometimes.
The Swirlix’s eyes widened and faint sinews began to tug at the edges, swallowing his cream coloured pupils in tightened cracks of purple. Rose felt a tugging of her own, except it wasn’t actually from her; it sure felt that way though. Her billowing skirt pulled to the left, she pulled back. It pulled to the left once more, she pulled back. It thrust to the left, and drove her into the searing lava held at the center of the room. She screamed and tried to tear herself from the burning. Her wailing grew in intensity, her previous ghostly method of shouting without a voice kicking in out of sheer panic. The wails sounded even more discordant than usual; maybe because Dandy was psychically manipulating his foe’s movements, he felt the heated air around her vibrate at the noise. He gave her one final shove into the sun then blew back. His concentration flickered out of existence, his pupils returned to normal. His tongue stuck back out.
Rose grimaced and unlatched herself from the tugging magma. Some of the psychic residue had stuck onto it and made it tug along with her. She pulled away with one final tug, but a chunk of molten rock followed and smacked her in the face. It flopped onto the ground, having done its deed, how dare she leave his grasp. She blinked several times, staring at the cooling blob of orange goo on the floor. And then the heat hit her, a jagged line of pain running up the back of her skirt and onto her head. She shook, trying to get the burning off, thinking it was still the magma. It wasn’t. Her sojourn in the sun had left her with a tear across her back, and the frayed edges glew with warmth. The Misdreavus pouted inwardly, that was well played, fluffball, but this isn’t the end. Oh no. She launched a barrage of insults at her foe. That was her favourite ghost-dress, how dare he ruin it! What kind of gentlemen even treats a lady like that, even one he’s battling! No wonder he has to make his own friends. To finish her tirade, she spat a puff of air in the direction of the substitute, which is more or less a bit of fluff on the floor now. One of its eyes blinked. Dandy winced, that’s unfair! She shouldn’t be talking like that when they’re battling, it’s mean! It’s unfair! A battle is a gentlemen’s game, with gentlemen’s moves and gentlemen’s demeanour. Dandy was surprised he knew that last word, but it might have been the stone. The stone was helping him quite a bit, maybe he should be a gentlemen and give it a rest for now. Yeah, that’s right. She wanted him to be a gentleman, well then he’ll show her!
The Omskivar
Ooo
Dandy
Swirlix (M) [Sweet Veil] @ Dusk Stone (Active)
Health: 6% | Energy: 60%
Condition: Special Defense -3, Paralysed (Severe), Has a Substitute(1%), Taunted (1 more actions) ”I WILL BE GENTLEMEN” Psychic ~ Psychic ~ nothing
A1:
Paralysis: (54/100, NO PARALYSIS)
Sun-Throw: (19/100, needed 50 or lower to burn, BURN)
A2:
Paralysis: (39/100, NO PARALYSIS)
A3:
Paralysis: (36/100, needed 20 or below to Paralyse, NO PARALYSIS)
Notes:
-Alright, on the second action I made Dandy’s damage from the Psychic Sun-Throw(tm) resolve first, since it was a continuous holding move and Rose was still in the same place. Though, since Rose did Hyper Voice almost immediately, so Dandy’s grip was interrupted and only did half the damage.
-The first Hyper Voice would have interrupted a Psychic, if Rose hadn’t moved first. The damage resolved on Dandy, as it is a sound move and would hit Dandy even if the sub takes his place temporarily.
-I’m of the opinion that using the arena to do damage in some way shouldn’t do more damage than an actual move that the Pokemon could use, instead it should have some secondary effect that the Pokemon could exploit. In this case the sun had a 50% burn chance per action of contact, but it got it on the first one. Now, about the damage, normally it would be lower, but the Dusk Stone did provide a 2% flat boost to each attack.
-Dandy's Paralysis chance went down to 20% at the end of the second action, though it's not quite moderate yet.
-Fireflies to the bridge, the commander wishes to speak with you.
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