If Negrek says it, then, that'll be it.
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 3
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.
Commands:
Signal Beam (Dexter) ~ Fire Punch (Frosty) ~ Encore (Frosty)
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.
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: 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.
Commands:
Torment ~ Torment/Payback (Pancake) ~ Torment/Payback (Pancake)
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.
Commands:
Shadow Ball (Pancake)/Swords Dance/Do nothing ~ Icy Wind/Swords Dance/Substitute (10%) ~ Ingrain/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. Visible to a select boring few, the boring spell bind remains on the arena.
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All in the arena still felt the annoying sensation brought by the hailstorm and the chilly gales that flew by them in the most boring way they could muster. The cold temperature was tough to just get used to, and only grew more hard to bear with time. Nonetheless, the trainers did what they could, still issuing commands while becoming amused at the fact their breath gained white hues due to the amount of water vapor that changed states because of the freezing winds.
Pancake had it worse -- after all, landing on the pond made her fur and bones all wet, which greatly increased the effect of the glacial feeling. Struggling to remain sane and focused on the fight, she made an angry rush for her dark-typed opponent, only to be interrupted halfway through by a lecture on how these wimpy little scratches would never lead her to victory. She tried arguing that there was a large gash across his chest, but he called it begginer's luck.
The verbal assault led to one singular point: Fury Cutter was a terrible move that the Skelitten had no business using constantly. At the verge of bursting into tears (which would be nigh impossible anyway due to an at least apparent lack of a water canal near her hollow eye sockets), she asked herself why her trainer, who she trusted so much, had her doing something that the experienced battlers could turn into ridicule so efforlessly.
Eledancia glared at the Cacturne, questioning how could he
dare to mistreat her partner like that; meanwhile, said partner needed something to vent her frustration immediately, and randomly decided to start slapping Frosty on the face, which made the green glow on her paws fade away. He, of course, reacted; first with a weak punch to open some distance, then with an ethereal ball of Ghost-type energy that sent the undead feline flying again, left to thank the random number gods for not landing into water again.
The Ralts could no longer just watch Pancake get tortured back and forth all fight long. She gathered all the Bug-type power she could to unleash it as two sinister beams of light; one red, one blue. The surprise strike let out its irritiating drone while knocking the unsuspecting target down to the ground.
Seeing Dexter take the fall made the Skelitten feel slightly better. She began moving towards him to perform a Fury Cutter, but was counterstruck quickly by a punch imbued in Dark-type energy. She flinched for a while, but landed the swipe anyway. It was guarded against succesfully; thus, more jeering and taunting ensued.
blazheirio889's Pokémon ran toward her teammate, intending to cheer her up... But, the Cacturne stepped aside as if expecting something. And something came. An icy blast much colder than the freezing winds that were already coursing around the unexciting battlefield. It struck both of the attacker's opponents succesfully, lowering the performance of their metabolisms and thus rendering them even more slow-moving.
Eledancia was starting to get angered by the Snover as well; it was his fault that those life-force leeching tendrils were rooted in her skin, after all. Letting her blood and whatever little heat the atmosphere may have had superheat her right fist, she whiplashed her foe's love toward cold temperatures with a blazing punch.
Just then, however, a blur passed inches away from the side of her head. It was her partner, now glowing with a red aura and barely able to stand up. The almost defeated Pokémon struggled to give Forsty even a light headbutt, but that was countered with yet another light punch.
The winter tree was more concerned about recovering from that stupidly hot attack earlier, though. He desperately spread his roots underground, hoping that it would heal the pain off. He seemed completely unaware of the mobility loss that would stem from this.
To further his blissful ignorance toward how well the move really went, he suddenly heard clapping and swooning from the humanshaped creature that earlier delivered the Fire Punch. She demanded, with tenacious insistance, that he do it again. Though his ally urged him not fall for such a paperthin trick, he was more than willing to do keep showing off and impressing the ladies.
Round 3 – End
Boring Team With Names That End With Different Sounds:
blazheirio889 (O)
Currently out: Eledancia
Female Ralts
Ability: Synchronize
Health: 77%
Energy: 51%
Status: Speed -2. Leech Seeded (Newborn).
Condition: Very angry with her opponents, and severly dissatisfied toward having to feign admiration toward one of them.
Fish and Ships (O)
Currently out: Pancake
Female Skelitten
Ability: Pressure
Health: 19%
Energy: 66%
Status: Speed -2. Leech Seeded (Newborn).
Condition: Still trying to stand up again.
Unexciting Team With Names That End With The Same Sound:
RandomTyphoon (O)
Currently out: Dexter
Male Cacturne
Ability: Sand Veil
Health: 44%
Energy: 76%
Status: Imprisoned (Taunt, Trick Room, Protect, Mimic, Dark Pulse; 4 actions left).
Condition: Disappointed in his partner.
Kam (O)
Currently out: Frosty
Male Snover
Ability: Snow Warning
Health: 85%
Energy: 65%
Status: Ingrain active. Imprisoned (Taunt, Trick Room, Protect, Mimic, Dark Pulse; 4 actions left). Under effects of Encore (Ingrain; 2 actions left).
Condition: Totally eager to keep Eledancia swooning.
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:
- Random.org said Pancake is Torment's unspecified target, and due to Torment, Fury Cutter was rendered unusable in actions one and three, forcing Pancake to Struggle instead. Of course, I've already said that, but...
- The RNG has as also chosen that Encore will force Frosty to repeat Ingrain two times.
- Pancake hit the damage cap at the third action. By the way, if it wasn't for the cap, the damage total would have been 56%, what with the grand total of eight different damage sources. One word:
ouch.
- Boring Team With Names That End With Different Sounds (i.e. blazheirio889 and OKUTANK) attacks first next round.
