ultraviolet vs. Music Dragon

4vs4 single
Style: Switch
DQ: 14 days
Damage Cap: 50%
Banned Moves: OHKOs
Arena: Town Square

The Asber Town Square is a wide, flat expanse, paved with cobblestones and dotted with park benches and trees here and there. In the centre lies a large, round pool, with a small fountain adorned with a stone Lapras. The pool, lined with coins at the bottom, is deep enough to accommodate all but the largest water pokemon. A clear, cloudless day overlooks the scene, which has been cleared of pedestrians for the occasion. The area is serene, which means 'ready for destruction' to the residents of Asber.

The pavement can be ripped up or dug into and used for rock- or ground-based attacks, as well as the fountain for water-based attacks or pokemon. The battle is confined to the square as it is lined with spectators, some eager to see a returned ASB veteran smash a whippersnapper into the ground, others curious to see if an old dog can learn new tricks. Are you on team UV or MD? (note: the correct answer is UV)

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Veteran MUSIC DRAGON's active squad:


Pravus, Steelix M (Rock Head)


Doctor Proctor, Exeggcute M (Chlorophyll)


The Beast, Aerodactyl M (Pressure)
Body Modification: Poisonous Salivary Glands
Move Modification: Cursed Frenzy


Goach, Whiscash M (Oblivious)
Move Modification: Blinding Whiskers

Moderator ULTRAVIOLET


Deuce, Ponyta M (Flash Fire
Body Modification: Medium Wings


Theresa, Duskull F (Levitate)


Xiaoyu, Lanturn F (Volt Absorb)
Holding a Dragon Scale


Gwenfair, Nidoqueen F (Rivalry)
Holding a Reaper Cloth


Rosalie, Snorunt F (Ice Body)
Holding a Dawn Stone


Circe, Kecleon F (Color Change)
Holding a Prism Scale


Chiomara, Mienfoo F (Regenerator)
Holding an Eviolite


Mimbulus Mimbletonia, Maractus F (Water Absorb)


Warfare, Metang (Clear Body)
Holding a King's Rock

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Music Dragon sends out first.

Allow me to introduce you to Doctor Proctor, the only bunch of eggs in the world with a legitimate PhD!

... a PhD in what? terrible puns, apparently

Anyway, let's go, Theresa.

Turn invisible + Faint attack, then go with Will-o-wisp and Hex. If he has a substitute, switch to Ominous Wind. Calm Mind if he protects.

Faint Attack/Ominous Wind/Calm Mind ~ Will-o-Wisp/Ominous Wind/Calm Mind ~ Hex/Ominous Wind/Calm Mind

Hmm. Use Telekinesis! That should make it a tad harder for Theresa to move around. Wait for her to reveal herself if you have to. Next, use Sleep Powder until she falls asleep, then drain her health with Dream Eater.

Telekinesis ~ Sleep Powder ~ Sleep Powder/Dream Eater

In a time magically a week or so before the fateful Metronome Battle of legendary (see what I did there) proportions, Music Dragon and ultraviolet wait in the ASB town square, as The Omskivar hurries to his post, a little later and more exasperated than he had hoped. The formalities are taken care of and the selections are made; Music Dragon sends out his Exeggcute, Doctor Proctor, who straightens himself up as best he can and tried to look sophisticated. Ultraviolet calls upon her Duskull, Theresa, who sort of hovers there looking towards, but past the pink bunch of eggs in front of her. Commands are issued and the match is begun.


Doctor Proctor jumped into action, arranging his parts into a rune of sorts; closing his eyes and concentrating, he succeeded in raising Theresa into the air. Or rather, he succeeded in maintaining her position in the air, by manipulating the air around her to prevent her from exceeding the bounds of an invisible bubble. He grinned (five times at once), but froze subtly as Theresa seemed to grin back, melting into thin air. Unsure of whether or not she had cleared the Telekinesis barrier, the good Doctor spun his units to face outwards, scanning all angles.

Suddenly, in the middle of the cluster, Theresa rematerialized (though she did not make herself visible) and gave Proctor's lead unit a good thwack in the back. The Exeggcute's faces spun around and released a cloud of spores from all directions at the point from which the attack had come. The glittering seafoam-green powder settled into a vaguely Duskull-shaped form in the air as it in turn released chemicals that lulled Theresa into a trance-like sleep. Invisibility was forgotten as Theresa rolled onto her back, a slight whistle-like snore distorted by the teeth on her face. Doctor Proctor's eyes glowed pink as he absorbed the thoughts the Duskull was thinking, causing her to twitch in her sleep. The Omskivar waved his flag to signal the end of the round as the Doctor looked healthier than ever.


Calculations:
Telekinesis- 3% energy
Faint Attack- 7% damage, 3% energy
Sleep Powder- 3% energy
Dream Eater- 12% damage, 6% heal, 5% energy

Notes:
-It was a 50-50 chance whether or not Faint Attack was going to break Telekinesis; it did
-It then left Theresa wide open for a Sleep Powder, since even when invisible you can tell where an attacker is that just hit you and moves slower than you. Especially when you have five faces and a cracked head to your name.
-To be fair, the referee will move Theresa over a little bit so as not to affect accuracy at all as per the Sleep Powder.
-Music Dragon attacks next.

Excellent! Keep using Dream Eater, but start draining her energy instead. If she wakes up, switch to Leaf Storm; if you can't hit her for whatever reason, use Sunny Day instead.

Dream Eater/Leaf Storm/Sunny Day x 3

oh what that's so crap...! MD you're such a butt

okay so if you're asleep, use Snore and hope for a flinch. Otherwise, let's go with Imprison, then Shadow Ball if you got Imprison to wok.

Snore/Imprison/Shadow Ball x3

edit: oh and sorry for late reply, I've been really seriously ill the last few days.

The Omskivar used his fantastic ref powers to step in and push Theresa over a few feet. Doctor Proctor (all six of him) swivelled around to face his target, and began to invade her dreams again. There was a particularly scrumptious tangent about beating the mess out of dinosaurs--apparently Duskull always had hands in their dreams--and while Theresa twitched and shuddered in her sleep, the good Doctor leeched the dream's pure adrenaline and felt the potential energy building in his yolks. Theresa wobbled a bit in her sleep, then let out a rattling snore from between her mask's teeth. Doctor Proctor winced a little, but fought on, gobbling up a dream about an attractive male Dusclops in a punk band with a sensitive side that worked at a rescue shelter; the energy from the primal instincts in the raw thoughts of dreams restored the Doctor to tip-top shape.

Theresa moaned, then spun around and half again to end up right-side up, her red eye rolling in her cloak as she snapped awake. Angry at the loss of her happiest dreams, she started a low, haunting chant, waving her cloak-ends towards Proctor. He studied himself as he felt a warm something wash over him, but found nothing to be out of the order. He did the Exeggcute equivalent of a shrug, then turned to face his opponent.

Doctor Proctor started to spin his six faces in a circle, gaining speed as he hoisted himself in the air telekinetically. Soon he was just a blur, spinning faster than the eye could follow; from the center of his revolution burst a forceful torrent of leaves with a flash of light. The blast slammed wave after wave of leaves at Theresa, who shielded herself as best she could with her wispy cloak, but could not avoid being thrown back by the attack. The light died down, and Doctor Proctor fell to the ground, which had cracked under the sheer force of the attack above it. As Doctor Proctor shook and panted with tire, Theresa whirled around and produced a shadowy black blob from inside her skull-helmet, which she hurled at Doctor Proctor. It struck the faceless egg, cracking it further and causing all of the faces to cry out in pain from their empathic links with each other. The Omskivar waved his flag.


Calculations:
Dream Eater- 12% damage, 6% heal (energy)
Snore- 3% damage, 2% energy
Dream Eater- 12% damage, 6% heal (energy)
Imprison- 4% energy
Leaf Storm- 15% damage, 6% energy
Shadow Ball- 13% damage, 3% energy

Notes:
-No crits.
-Leaf Storm almost missed.
-Shadow Ball lowered Special Defense.
-Snore did not flinch.
-The Dream Eaters were powerful enough to take an action off of the sleep counter, making the first action and a half effectively three actions.
-Faint Attack and Snore are Imprisoned for eight actions.
-ultraviolet attacks next.

Open with Taunt (try to include some choice insults such as you can't even have a PhD in existentialism), then go for Swagger and end with Shadow Ball. If he tries to hypnotise you on the first action, protect; if he sets up a substitute/safeguard on the first action, Snatch it. If Taunt doesn't work, try it next action and Swagger the following one. Go for Facade on the second and third if you get status.

Taunt/Protect/Snatch ~ Swagger/Facade ~ Shadow Ball/Swagger/Facade

Hrrm... Yes... Let's prescribe a pill. A huge pill! Create a large Substitute (20% health) on the first action, so she'll snatch it and pay the health cost, plus a hefty bill once she gets home. Next, try to pull off a Power Swap before you get Taunted; once you've successfully Power Swapped her, or if you get Taunted, switch to Seed Bomb.

Substitute (large) ~ Power Swap/Seed Bomb ~ Power Swap/Seed Bomb

Deep in the back of his throats, five small seeds detached and slipped into Doctor Proctor's mouths. In the faceless egg, an idential sixth seed began to float around, unable to find a mouth. The Doctor chewed on the seeds, then spat them onto the ground, where they grew into a Substitute that mimicked the expressions and movements of Proctor. While it admittedly had only five heads, Doctor Proctor was sure it could do its job just as well as any other, and was about to attack Theresa when his intern began to roll towards her and reshape themselves into tiny Duskulls, which hovered in a circle around their new master. The seeds replaced themselves in Proctor's uvulae, but he was left with an impenetrable wall of his own doing. Reassessing the situation, he closed his ten eyes and formed a mental link with the undread foe, psychically rearranging some things between the two and--presto! Now the Doctor was back in business.

Smirking, he picked up some rather uncalled for words from Theresa. I won't repeat them verbatim but as Theresa pointed an accusing cloak-end at the good Doctor she made a select few remarks about his mother's three heads and something about swallowing a Stick. Or something like that. Anyway, Doctor Proctor mentally straightened his imaginary tie and adjusted his invisible glasses, keeping a calm demeanor but scrambling himself mentally. He was going to passively-aggressively make an omelette out of this foulmouthed hellspawn.

He rolled backwards and moved his open-shelled head into the center. Scooting his faced parts in even further, he forced the central egg up higher, forming an organic turret, which he focused on his opponent. Using his five sets of eyes to aim his cannon, he launched a volley of seeds at Theresa, who laughed deeply as they glanced off of her minions. Three of them dissipated as the attack struck them, but the remaining two still patrolled the perimeter. Breathing Darth-Vader style with a bit of caution, Theresa followed up her previous comments with boasts of her own heritage and how much better she was as one egg, when he's six at once. And he's not even a real doctor! For shame. Proctor's centre-head cracked with anger, and he nearly killed her right then and there but was made to stop as the round drew to a close.


Substitute: 8% health

Calculations:
Substitute- 10% energy; 20% health from Theresa
Snatch- 4% energy
Power Swap- 3% energy
Taunt- 3% energy
Seed Bomb- 12% damage, 3% energy
Swagger- 4% energy

Notes:
-Yay, another reffing scale change! With the drop in Special Defense from before, Shadow Ball did 3% more damage by the new scale. Which by the way I dislike.
-No crits.
-Shadow Ball did not lower Special Defense.
-Faint Attack and Snore are Imprisoned for five more actions.
-Music Dragon attacks next, and will receive for Christmas a sprite of Doctor Proctor with glasses and a tie. Which she can redeem for an update upon his evolution.

Wasn't Theresa supposed to use Snatch if I used Substitute?

Well hey there something huge i missed. Rewriting, up in a few.

*should* be fixed now. Also edited in the confusion because i forgot that.

I believe Theresa should have 68 % health remaining, since she lost 20 % to create the Substitute.

Definitely thought I edited that in. Got it.

Well, you're taunted for two more actions, so we're outta luck there. Just keep using Seed Bomb and, well, try not to do anything stupid. If she phases, switch to Psychic instead; if you can't target her with that either, Chill as best you can.

Seed Bomb/Psychic/Chill x 3

Confuse Ray ~ Shadow Ball ~ Pain Split/Shadow Ball

you can do it! turn invisible after using Confuse Ray. If you think you're doing better than Doctor Proctor, switch Pain Split for Shadow Ball.

Finally, thought Doctor Proctor, all professional coolness absent from his fury and replaced with a raw persiflage, as he fired another rain of explosive seeds upon Theresa, who cowered behind her Substitutes. The two remaining Duskull took the volley to the knees faces, then dissipated as their limit was reached. Not showing any signs of grief or even disappointment, Theresa's eye-core pulsed brightly, emitting a bright red dot that flitted this way and that, zooming around Doctor Proctor's seed cannon form and drawing his attention. He tried to focus the cannon on it, but couldn't; as it spun faster and faster around him, all five of his segments swivelled and the cannon collapsed in on itself. Theresa chuckled as the good Doctor struggled to reassemble, but only managed to bruise his shells as he fell over himselves repeatedly. The Duskull whirled her cloak around herself and disappeared as he came into focus in time to see a black shadowy blob flying towards him; as he rolled across the floor, crying out in agony, he lost track of her completely.

Concentrating and trying to work around his dizziness, Doctor Proctor projected his consciousness around the arena and sought out his opponent. With fury, he focused the most pain-inducing force he could on the roughly Duskull-shaped cloud of malice that hung in the air like a stale fart. Theresa convulsed, flickering in and out of sight, but managed to remain invisible overall, drifting to another location unbeknownst to Doctor Proctor, who had regressed into his physical body once more. From somewhere behind him, a spiritual link tied him to his opponent, siphoning his vitality while transporting it to the invisible Theresa. The Omskivar waved his flags before Doctor Proctor hurt himself any further.




Calculations:
Seed Bomb- 12% damage, 3% energy
Confuse Ray- 3% energy
Confusefail- 4% damage
Turn invisible- 2% energy
Shadow Ball- 12% damage, 3% energy
Psychic- 11% damage, 4% energy
Pain Split- evened health, 7% energy

Staying invisible- 1% energy

Notes:
-Okay so turning invisible does NOT take an action. Changed accordingly.
-Confusefail on the second Seed Bomb.
-No Special Defense lowering anywhere.
-Psychic took a bit more energy because it needed to locate Theresa first.
-Confuse Ray shot the confusion back up to severe.
-Late reffing is late, and will likely continue to be so for a while.
-ultraviolet attacks first.

-Turning invisible takes an action.

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huh? no it doesn't, and Theresa should have only used 2% energy because she's only been invisible for two actions, not three (and invisibility is 1% energy/action).