1 vs 1 vs 1 vs 1 Tag Battle (four people, one Pokemon per person)
Style: Set (like we have a choice)
DQ time: Standard week
Damage Cap: 40%
Banned Moves: OHKOs, Destiny Bond.
Restricted Moves: chills limited to 5 per Pokemon, direct healing limited to 1 per Pokemon
Notes: The teams will be arranged as follows: me (blazheirio889) with Fish and Ships versus RandomTyphoon and Kammington. En garde!
Round 2
Boring Team With Names That End With Different Sounds:
blazheirio889 (O)
Currently out: Eledancia
Female Ralts
Ability: Synchronize
Health: 92%
Energy: 88%
Status: Speed -1.
Condition: Bearing a strong sentiment of partnership, noticing how her teammate and herself were supporting each other.
Commands:
Mimic (Dark Pulse)(Frosty) ~ Imprison ~ Trick Room
Fish and Ships (O)
Currently out: Pancake
Female Skelitten
Ability: Pressure
Health: 87%
Energy: 84%
Status: Speed -1. Fury Cutter streak: 2.
Condition: Daunted, wondering if every battle was going to feel like this.
Commands:
Fury Cutter (Dexter) ~ Fury Cutter (Dexter) ~ Fury Cutter (Dexter)
Unexciting Team With Names That End With The Same Sound:
RandomTyphoon (O)
Currently out: Dexter
Male Cacturne
Ability: Sand Veil
Health: 96%
Energy: 90%
Status: Stable
Condition: Giving Pancake a vengeful stare.
Commands:
Dark Pulse (Pancake) ~ Dark Pulse (Pancake) ~ Dark Pulse (Pancake)
Kam (O)
Currently out: Frosty
Male Snover
Ability: Snow Warning
Health: 100%
Energy: 84%
Status: Stable
Condition: Playfully flailing his arms around, enjoying the cold temperature.
Commands:
Leech Seed (Eledancia)/Leech Seed (Pancake)/Blizzard ~ Leech Seed (Eledancia)/Leech Seed (Pancake)/Blizzard ~ Leech Seed (Eledancia)/Leech Seed (Pancake)/Blizzard
Arena: Someplace Boring
Yes, it’s someplace boring. So boring, in fact, that whoever discovered it couldn’t be arsed to think of a name for it. So why are a whooping four trainers congregating here to have a battle? Because we can’t be zipping around with Adrenapacks or swiping Pokemon from another trainer’s party or getting drunk at bars in Manhattan every day. There’s only so much excitement and exhilaration a citizen of Asber can contain before they implode.
Anyway, moving on with the actual description. Someplace Boring is a large, grassy field dotted with trees and small lakes. The trees are generally rather large, with thick, spreading branches crowned with thickets of leaves. While sturdy, the trees obviously have a limit, and branches can be snapped off with powerful attacks or simply sheer weight. The lakes, though small, are large enough to accommodate the average water Pokemon, and can supply water for moves such as Surf.
The ground is easy on the feet: lush, soft, and springy. It’s easily torn, though, so Pokemon will have no trouble using Dig and the like. Additionally, there is enough sand and small debris to go around, enabling the use of Sand Attack, Sand Tomb, etc.
Arena status: A boring hailstorm is pouring down the boring battlefield. The flow of boring time is altered in a boring way (4 actions left).
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Commands were issued on each side. The bizarre shift in time itself seemed to take effect even on simple actions like this one -- Trick Room is certainly a powerful move.
Eledancia could effortlessly outrun every single enemy, but had orders to hold still for that time being. She watched as her partner and her largest, most threatening opponent prowled around each other, waiting for the best opportunity to land siege. Overlooking the lesser menace was not the smartest move, though. By the time she noticed its presence, the Leech Seed had already began to sprout and spread its painful tendrils through skin and into veins.
Tired of the waiting game, Pancake leapt to make the first move. The wild swing of her front paw was was blocked against, but nonetheless, it did its share of damage. Little by little, as the faint green aura on the bony limbs became stronger, so did the pain that Dexter felt... And, unfortunately for the target, conveyed into one powerful blast of negative thoughts and dark energy. The Skelitten was sent clean flying, left to land on one among the several ponds scattered throughout the uninteresting battlefield.
That was just the opportunity her tag had been waiting for, though. The Ralts had noticed the Cacturne's bitter expression upon releasing the attack. Though it was far from perfect, she did what she could to feign the same suffering, launching it in the form of her own purple blast, forming up a proper counterstrike for the sneaky fellow that dared plant that damn
annoying thing into her while she wasn't watching.
The small humanshaped Pokémon began moving again immediately. Both of her seemingly fingerless gained a bright glow. A loud thud echoed through the boring air, and chains rose from the ground. Orbs of light floated away from her opponents -- seven from each one of them -- to form a red lock at the spot where the chains met.
Frosty knew better than to try to understand what he didn't understand. He chose to stick to the commands. He fired the next round of evil dodders, nearly missing the target but hitting it well on the skeletal head. The branches began to sprout and suck whatever leftover life force the undead kitten may have had, much like they were already draining from her ally.
Pancake was deeply annoyed. She was soaked, and now, painful tendrils made their way toward her empty eye sockets, and could eventually start hindering her vision. She just felt like moving up a full-fledged rampage over that jerk that keeps hitting her with absurdly strong attacks. With a blind rush, she unleashed a wild cut against Dexter. Though he had his guard up as usual, he still took a good deal of damage.
The Cacturne tried to mount up a counterstrike... But it just wouldn't go. He let the vicious thoughts run free in his mind, but something stopped him from unleashing them as a wave of darkness.
Eledancia seemed to be turning a blind eye to the rest of the fighters. She was just standing around in her own corner, quietly hacking into the flow of time to undo the changes previously done. That would have happened naturally within an action, so, the Ralts has a hard time trying to figure why her trainer wanted to waste valuable minutes doing that... But she had faith in the commands she was dealt, even if they yielded no visible results.
With everything back to normal, Dexter was moving swiftly again... But, nonetheless, he remained stuck in his attempts to convey the ever-worsening thoughts into a proper onslaught. In his constantly failing attemtps, he couldn't even guard himself against the incoming, furious slash unleashed by the one who was slowly becoming his personal rival for the match, Pancake. RandomTyphoon's Pokémon was left to apply pressure upon the ample gash across his torso as a red aura glew around him -- the damage cap, as it was commonly called.
Frosty quietly watched the boring scene unfold, and let the seeds he sowed do the reaping for him. Mneawhile, the flurry of icy stones from the sky was relentless. The cold winds weighed on the battlers' chests, and all but Kam wondered what kind of freak the Snover was, to enjoy this sort of climate.
Round 2 – End
Boring Team With Names That End With Different Sounds:
blazheirio889 (O)
Currently out: Eledancia
Female Ralts
Ability: Synchronize
Health: 87%
Energy: 69%
Status: Speed -1. Leech Seeded (Newborn).
Condition: Leery about having to undo the Trick Room.
Fish and Ships (O)
Currently out: Pancake
Female Skelitten
Ability: Pressure
Health: 61%
Energy: 72%
Status: Speed -1. Leech Seeded (Newborn). Fury Cutter streak: 5.
Condition: Vengeful and extremely annoyed by the Leech Seed.
Unexciting Team With Names That End With The Same Sound:
RandomTyphoon (O)
Currently out: Dexter
Male Cacturne
Ability: Sand Veil
Health: 56%
Energy: 86%
Status: Imprisoned (Taunt, Trick Room, Protect, Mimic, Dark Pulse; 7 actions left).
Condition: Frustrated and fille with pain. Still trying to get that Dark Pulse through.
Kam (O)
Currently out: Frosty
Male Snover
Ability: Snow Warning
Health: 99%
Energy: 78%
Status: Imprisoned (Taunt, Trick Room, Protect, Mimic, Dark Pulse; 7 actions left).
Condition: Enjoying the cold breeze and letting the world be.
Arena status: A boring hailstorm is pouring down the boring battlefield. Visible to a select boring few, the boring spell bind remains on the arena.
Additional notes:
- As a reminder, Imprison affects all enemies, not a single target.
- First to point out the AA reference doesn't get a cookie.
- Dexter hit the damage cap on the final action.
- Unexciting Team With Names That End With The Same Sound (i.e. RandomTyphoon and Kam) attacks first next round.
