Backtract Cataract
High up among Asber's eastern mountains a glacier-fed waterfall plunges over a hundred feet down a sheer rock face, tracing rainbows in the air and setting up a din that echoes back a hundredfold from the surrounding peaks. It is considered one of the region's greatest natural treasures, and it no doubt would draw a considerable bounty of tourists if it weren't high up in the middle of pokémon-infested nowhere.
The area directly below the falls is quite pleasant, though. The river branches and breaks across the uneven ground, trickling down into a spreading network of streams and pools, all colonized by enterprising mountain fish and pokémon. It is a particularly fine one of these that the trainers have found, nestled in a gravelly dip overflowing with flowering bracken and stunted pines. The falls' roar still reverberates in the air, but the water, though cold, is calm and bitingly clear, forming a pool about two meters wide and a meter deep at its deepest point. Overall, it is the picture of tranquility at the heart of the wilderness--which, of course, makes it prime territory to utterly wreck with a pokémon battle.
The noise of the waterfall will overwhelm sound-based moves, so damaging sound-based moves have their base power reduced by 50, while non-damaging sound-based moves have their accuracy/success rate reduced by 30%.
Negrek (xO)
Phytophthora (m) <sticky hold>
Health: 100% (capped)
Energy: 100%
- "You look tasty."
moon-panther (xO)
Halan (m) <Steadfast>
Health: 38%
Energy: 59%
- "Guh..." Paralyzed (severe), confused (moderate) atk +6.
While the newly-released Phyto basked in the beauty of mud mud glorious mud, Halan closed his eyes and concentrated - or, more like, tried not to. The confusion had addled his brain enough, and the paralysis his muscles, so for now he just focused on calming down. It seemed to do the trick, because his muscles relaxed and more importantly, his mind did. He felt sharper and more ready for all mental attacks, both his and his opponents.
However, it was in vain. Phyto grinned and exhaled a thick, gassy smoke, which quickly spready throughout the already abused arena, covering Halan and the mud and even the waterfall. Halan blinked his eyes, relying on his aura-sensors to spot Phyto, and Phyto remembered where Halan had been - right in front of him - so he didn't worry for the next action in regards to finding his opponent. Most importantly though, Halan felt a lot weaker. All his bonuses were stripped away by the fog, as if they had never been.
Halan sighed and, using Phyto's aura, grabbed the grimer psychically, pinning down on whatever he had for a brain. Phyto winced and scrunched down into the mud; it felt like his pores were on fire, but even worse because he didn't worrry so much about fire, he worried about this. It didn't last too long though, and when it stopped, Phyto let out a burst of actual fire - right at where he knew Halan was. The lucario let out a bone-aching cry, letting Phyto know he'd hit his target, and Halan felt as if he was literally melting under the heat of the fire, despite the cool air of the haze. But like the psychic, it lasted only a few seconds, though Halan surely felt worse from the attack than Phyto did.
And the process repeated: Halan grabbed Phyto and pinned him down, making him feel sick (it's about time a grimer felt sick), nauseous, like the world was flipping over end over end. His sludgy body was aching so much already that he was regretting entering this battle, not that he had a vote. But he retaliated with glee, letting loose another torrent of flames, and again it hit its target and Halan screeched in agony; he actually fell down on the mud, scorch marks covering him entirely and the cool mud soothing them. He had little strength to get up, so he just curled into the fetal position until his trainer told him he had to get hoping; hopefully, that wouldn't happen. Because he really didn't want to.
Negrek (xO)
Phytophthora (m) <sticky hold>
Health: 76%
Energy: 86%
- "You're not tasty at all."
moon-panther (xO)
Halan (m) <Steadfast>
Health: 10%
Energy: 45%
- "Mommyyyyy..." Paralyzed (moderate), confused (slight).
Arena Notes:
There's a small tunnel going down and back up near Roy. Haze is covering the arena (3 more rounds).
Final Notes:
- Negrek next.