2vs2, double battle
DQ: 5 days
Damage Cap: 70%
Banned Moves: OHKOs, Earthquake, Direct recovery moves (ie Rest, Recover), Attract
Arena: Olympic swimming pool
There's no olympics this year, but that shouldn't stop us from trying, right! This match takes place in and around a large swimming pool, olympic-sized (that's 50 meters long, yes?) and 12 feet deep, with a shallow end on both sides that's 3 feet deep. The pool is divided into 6 lanes, separated by those floaty lane divider things. The water is a nice temperature, and doesn't have chlorine (for the Pokemon's safety).
All around the pool is a walkway for landlubbers, which is made of cement and about 3 meters wide, and then there are walls, a very high ceiling (10 meters) and windows. Don't go out of them. Weather effects such as Sunny Day will work, but to less of an effect than normal, and Hail and Rain Dance will have no effect whatsoever.
After a sizeable wait, Involuntary Twitch and L'il Dwagie's third referee arrives on the scene, slightly concerned that this battle could very well be cursed or something. Shrugging off his suspicions, he gets the fourth round off to a long-overdue start, slightly nervous about handling his first-ever double battle.
Round Four
Involuntary Twitch (ƟƟ)
Teropea (F) <Chlorophyll>
Health: 75%
Energy: 72%
Status: feeling queasy. -1 Speed, poisoned (3% damage per round)
Leaf Blade @ Aysu/Swords Dance ~ Leaf Blade @ Aysu/Swords Dance/Body Slam @ Twitch ~ Leaf Blade @ Aysu/Swords Dance/Body Slam @ Twitch
Waita (M) <Thick Fat>
Health: 92%
Energy: 65%
Status: excited.
Ice Beam @ Twitch/Swagger @ Aysu/Stockpile ~ Ice Beam @ Twitch/Swagger @ Aysu/Stockpile ~ Ice Beam @ Twitch/Swagger @ Aysu/Stockpile
L'il Dwagie (ƟƟ)
Aysu (F) <Volt Absorb>
Health: 65%
Energy: 74%
Status: Ooh- pretty colors! Confused (mild), +2 Attack, badly poisoned (5% this round, rising to 6% next round), +2 Sp. Atk, +2 Sp. Def
Ice Beam @ Teropea ~ Ice Beam @ Teropea ~ Ice Beam @ Teropea
Twitch (F) <Insomnia>
Health: 32%
Energy: 78%
Status: cold. Seeded (1% damage per action), -1 Speed
Hypnosis @ Teropea ~ Confuse Ray @ Waita / Hypnosis @ Teropea ~ Air Slash @ Teropea / Hypnosis @ Teropea
After a somewhat long, complex string of commands, the round's hostilities begin. First to move is Aysu the Chinchou, who touches her tentacles together and begins to charge an orb of pale blue energy between them. Teropea frowns, and peers down into the pool, squinting to see right to the bottom and find out what's going on. However at that moment Aysu flicks her tentacles toward the surface, letting off a burst of freezing cold energy that blasts through the water and hits Tropius square in the face. The plant-dinosaur thing recoils with a grunt of pain as the bitter cold stings her face, and shakes her head to get rid of the thin covering of frost left by the energy blast. When she looks back up she sees Twitch flapping in her face, her eyes glowing red and trying to lock onto the Tropius'; Teropea instantly yelps and recoils from the bat, averting her gaze. Twitch gives a defeated sigh and flits back across the pool, eyes no longer glowing. As she retreats a number of tiny green spheres of life energy ooze from her body and float into Teropea. Teropea stomps back to where she stood before, her wing's edge glowing with a bright green energy, and dives under the surface towards Aysu. The Chinchou lets out a squeak, muffled by the water, and attempts to flee, but gets hit by the sharp edge of Teropea's wing, leaving a long gash across her back as the Tropius resurfaces and shakes the water off her head. Watching all this from another part of the pool, Waita feels left out and rolls forward, charging a blue sphere like Aysu's in his mouth. He lets out a similar shaft of blue energy, albeit a brighter, stronger one, which shoots out of the surface and strikes the inattentive Twitch directly in the back. The Zubat shrieks and plops down onto one of the shards of ice that the beam formed as it broke the surface, groaning.
Angered at the wound on her back, now stinging in the water, Aysu touches her tentacles together once more, charging another ice cold beam. Pointing it at Teropea, she fires it off again, striking Teropea in the side. The Tropius cries out as the force of the blast almost knocks her over, and she shrieks as she finds a shard of ice now concealing her wing where the beam hit. Flapping it frantically, she manages to break the ice free, letting it sink into the water. Again, Twitch decides to try to force Teropea to observe the importance of the doctrine of naptime, flapping up with her eyes aglow. Teropea flinches again and tries to look away, but this time her eyes catch the tempting, alluring luminescence of Twitch's, and she stares back, blinking more and more rapidly as the Zubat employs psychic suggestion convincing her she's very,
very tired... Teropea tries to resist- this is a battle, she has important stuff to do, there's no time for sleep- she looks away, and sees the pool now full of custard, with dolphins in clown wigs jumping up out of it. Oh,
dammit. Twitch turns away with a snicker as Teropea's head slams to the side of the pool and she begins to snore thunderously.
Nighty night!, she mutters deviously. Still furious at being ignored, Waita charges another Ice Beam, the fourth this round. Firing the ice-cold beam, he strikes Twitch again, who lets out a terrible shriek as the freezing beam wracks her entire body with pain, before the shriek cuts out, giving way to a long whimper of exhaustion. She flutters haphazardly around the arena, swooping and darting every which way, desperately trying to remain airborne. Alas, her efforts are for naught; with a sigh her wings stop flapping and she begins to dive head first toward the drink, barely conscious. L'il Dwagie lets out a fretful gasp and quickly plucks out Twitch's Pokéball, recalling the unconscious bat just before she hits the surface. The seeds on her hide drop harmlessly off into the water to die of overwatering, unnoticed and unloved.
Only the two water-dwellers remain in action, now, with Twitch out of the battle and Teropea snoozing on the poolside. Aysu, quite bored of all these Ice Beams, charges up another ball of ice energy, shooting it towards the Tropius' chest. The beam cuts through the water, freezing it in places and floating chunks of ice towards the surface. The icy beam blasts into Teropea's chest and the sleeping Tropius grunts in her sleep, but remains entirely comatose. Now quite indignant at being so firmly disregarded, Waita rolls across the bed of the pool right over to Aysu where he prods her crossly with a fin. Aysu turns to him with a look of surprise, and he begins to taunt her-
hey, I just took down your little bat-friend, you strange tentacled blob-freak. Good luck winning this when Teropea wakes up. I mean really, what's with those tentacles? You look bizarre. Aysu growls furiously. How DARE he! Say what you want about Twitch, but NOBODY,
but NOBODY mocks the tentacles. Suddenly her poisoning flares up, and the sickening pain infuriates her further. Growling in fury, she resolves to utterly destroy this stupid ball-seal.
Involuntary Twitch (ƟƟ)
Teropea (F) <Chlorophyll>
Health: 20%
Energy: 64%
Status: "zzz... snk... no... no, not the pastry... NOT WITH THE PASTRY!". -1 Speed, poisoned (3% damage per round), asleep (severe)
Leaf Blade @ Aysu ~ asleep ~ asleep
Waita (M) <Thick Fat>
Health: 92%
Energy: 49%
Status: indignant and lonely.
Ice Beam @ Twitch ~ Ice Beam @ Twitch ~ Swagger @ Aysu
L'il Dwagie (
ƟƟ)
Aysu (F) <Volt Absorb>
Health: 43%
Energy: 55%
Status: "YOU WILL PAY, TENTACLE HATER." +4 Attack, badly poisoned (6% this round, rising to 7% next round), +2 Sp. Atk, +2 Sp. Def, confused (severe)
Ice Beam @ Teropea ~ Ice Beam @ Teropea ~ Ice Beam @ Teropea
Twitch (F) <Insomnia>
Health: 0%
Energy: 69%
Status: knocked out!
Hypnosis @ Teropea ~ Hypnosis @ Teropea
Terrain Notes
There are now several large chunks of ice floating on the surface of the pool. There is poison in the deep end behind Aysu that is gradually weakening; by Round 7 it will be gone. Until then it will deal 4% damage in round 5 and 2% in round 6.
Final Notes
- Hypnosis missed on the first action.
- Teropea was unable to attack on the second and third actions due to sleep.
- I rolled an 11 for freezing with Aysu's second Ice Beam, which was just too high to freeze Teropea.
- nooo poor Aysu's all alone
- let me know if I made any mistakes, this is my first double-battle reffing and I find KQ's reffing style a tad hard to read, so maybe I missed stuff.
- L'il Dwagie attacks first next round.