Format: 4v4 single
Style: Set
DQ: one Week
Damage Cap: 40%
Banned/Restricted Moves: OHKOs, Direct Healing, Pain Split, chills restricted to 3 per Pokemon
Arena Description: A local municipal Pokemon field. A small clearing outside a public park with the Pokemon logo emblazoned. No special conditions, it is open and outdoors, and not paved at all. All grass and dirt.
Additional Rules: no additional rules needed.
Round 2
Bobino OOOO
Health:
68%
Energy:
91%
(Plucky) Psyduck [M] <UnburdenED>
Commands: Protect ~ Ice Beam ~ Mimic
Status: Thinking nautical thoughts. Paralyzed (severe)
FOXTROT OSCAR X-RAY OOOO
Health:
90%
Energy:
84%
(Jupiter) Drifloon [M] <UnburdenED> @
Lucky Egg
Commands: Thunderbolt/Magic Coat/Substitute ~ Acrobatics/Magic Coat/Substitute ~ Hex/Magic Coat/Substitute
Status: Trying to remember what the incantation is for cursing pond critters as one
The various spa attendants seemed to have access to an infinite stash of food. TruetoCheese could have any delicacy brought with a mere snap of his fingers. Holed up inside the Ribbon Syndicate of Sinnoh’s Resort Area, the trainer was at peace. Peace. Piece. TruetoCheese rung a dinner bell and requested a slice of Angel Food Cake.
Bundled up in at least seventeen blankets, Cheese had to burrow deep to find his cell phone as it began to ring incessantly. Recognizing the number, he groaned. Serially wracked by guilt, he had to pick up. From out of the earpiece came a barrage of verbal abuse from his neurotic Zoroark, who had stepped in on short notice to cover him in a battle halfway across the world. FOXTROT OSCAR X-RAY had gone above and beyond, having navigated a covered wagon all the way through Asber and contracted a disease all for the sake of legitimacy. TruetoCheese listened as he slipped into a food coma. He signalled for an attendant to bring him a London Fog before telling FOXTROT OSCAR X-RAY to “appreciate the ultimate honor of acting as a Pokemon trainer”. Hanging up, he took his tea and prepared for a pedicure.
FOXTROT OSCAR X-RAY, fighting nausea, put her head in her hands. Mumbling through paw, she relayed her next set of complex orders to Jupiter. The Drifloon, none the wiser, began to rub his cloud ornament into his cranium, generating a static charge. As he did this, Bobino, who looked like he had lived through three days of back-breaking labour in the past minute, gave barebones orders to Plucky. Simplicity was always best when dealing with the Psyduck, who had been put in a trance by a hovering butterfly. Done scratching his head, Jupiter was a jitterbug. Unable to keep the electricity in check, Jupiter extended his arms and released the charge. A jagged bolt of electricity cut across the field, singing the tips of the manicured grass. The thunder screamed forwards with the fury of Olympus… and crashed into a cryptocrystalline blue shield. The electricity struck and dispersed in all directions, leaving Plucky squeaky clean. The Psyduck looked as shocked as Jupiter by the appearance of the barrier, captured by its smooth surface enough to plant his bill against it. Bobino prayed that Plucky’s paralysis wouldn’t keep him there.
The wall disappeared, leaving the absentminded Plucky still as if turned to stone, his last action that of sniffing the ripe, spring air. Jupiter, seeing Plucky as a duck in the headlights, reached beneath his head and widened his gas intake hole. At once, he began to whiz around the battlefield, looking like a possessed torpedo. Jupiter, however, was very much in control. He angled himself at Plucky and let himself plunge towards the unfocused avian. He collided with Plucky and brought the duck out of his curious slumber. To Plucky, this was havoc, and he brought his hands back up to his head, pulling at imaginary locks of hair. Jupiter was far from done, his rubbery casing continuing to batter and bruise Plucky. At one point the Psyduck came close to grasping Jupiter, but the Drifloon, starting to run low on air, managed to juke out of the way.
Plucky, feeling
very attacked right now, opened up his bill and sneezed out a chilly blast of ice and self-doubt. Jupiter had just stopped to re-inflate and receive more orders from the God-King Zoroark, sitting on her Chaurs steed, hating everything, when the white beam cut into Jupiter’s plastic skin. The Drifloon expelled another puff of oxygen in his shock, the ice certainly not welcome in his air space. He whipped around to see Plucky trying to unstick his frigid tongue from the roof of his mouth.
In truth, as Plucky fought with his bill, he was actually focusing hard (for him) on Jupiter’s previous moves. PI Plucky was deep in thought, trying to reimagine the exact arm swirl utilized by Jupiter when he had given him this serious case of cramps. This mental enterprise, as well as the physical struggle, was keeping him more occupied than he had any right to be. Jupiter, meanwhile, had given up on the spell that encompassed all pond creatures. Instead, he settled on all Pokemon that could be turned into poultry. Eta Carinae, still on hold with the Pokemon Centre (listening to the
fifth goddam rendition of the PokeRap), heard a muted scream from the Pokeball that housed his Tranquill. Assuming Max was merely practicing his Hyper Voice technique, the referee tuned back into “Eelctrode, Diglett, Nidoran…”
Plucky’s scream was a fair bit more audible. The Psyduck was tired of having every nightmare he’d ever dreamt return as a catalogue of horror. Such an experience aligned perfectly with FOXTROT OSCAR X-RAY’s current state of mind: one of many angers and distresses.
TruetoCheese stared out over the villa below. He could handle this life.
Round 2
Bobino OOOO
Health:
39%
Energy:
79%
(Plucky) Psyduck [M] <UnburdenED>
Status: Disliking Harry Potter more and more. Paralyzed (moderate), knows Thunder Wave
FOXTROT OSCAR X-RAY OOOO
Health:
77%
Energy:
68%
(Jupiter) Drifloon [M] <UnburdenED> @
Lucky Egg
Status: Wondering if his trainer always looked that… furry
Arena Notes:
-The Lonely Egg is trying to make friends with the soil
Ref Notes:
-Send me a postcard, Cheese!
-The Hexes last round should have cost an extra energy point each, so Jupiter’s total was adjusted a slight bit at the start of the round
-Plucky’s paralysis dropped down to moderate after the first action. No parafails for the entire round, huzzah!
-Mimic doesn’t use the move it copies right away. The action of its use just implants the move into the user’s memory for a later date
-Also for future reference, Bobino, though I doubt you’ll make the same mistake again, Whirplool does mention needing the target to be “on or near water”
-My roommate was blasting music the entire time while I was working on this, so I apologize for the brevity in my sentences. Complicated sentences weren’t happening. Still aren’t
-Up next: Bobino counters FOXTROT OSCAR X-RAY with a thrilling onslaught. How does he do it? Tune in next week!
-((Don’t worry about being busy, you were well within the DQ period))
Majin the female Gastly <Levitate>
UnPwn the genderless Unown (P) <Levitate> @ Metronome
Psytallica the genderless Bronzor <Heatproof>
Plucky the male Psyduck <Cloud Nine>
Rathian the female Noibat <Infiltrator> @ Lucky Egg
Faraday the genderless Magnemite <Magnet Pull> @ Lucky Egg
Jupiter the male Drifloon <Unburden> @ Lucky Egg
Frog the male Croagunk <Anticipation> @ Eviolite
Cutman the male Pawniard <Defiant>
majestic banana mushroom drago the female Chikorita <Overgrow> @ Lucky Egg
Leaf on the Wind the female Cottonee <Prankster> @ Sun Stone
Grandpappy the male Solosis <Magic Guard> @ Life Orb
Cheep the male Torchic <Speed Boost> @ Sachet
Pluto the male Sneasel <Inner Focus> @ Razor Claw
