=Flareth vs RespectTheBlade: Round Eight= [✔]
Flareth
Nigel ♂ <Flash Fire>
Health: 20% | Energy: 9%
Mood: "must... sleep..."
Condition: Spd+2, SpDef-1
Swagger ~ Chill/Shadow Ball ~ Chill/Flash
Nigel's substitute
Health: 10%
RespectTheBlade
Deneb ♀ <Refrigerate>
Health: 21% | Energy: 11%
Mood: all too keen to put Nigel to rest.
Condition: Def+2, SpAtk-2; badly poisoned (6% damage this round).
Earth Power/Hyper Voice/Chill ~ Earth Power/Hyper Voice/Chill ~ Earth Power/Hyper Voice/Chill
The two Pokémon stared each other down, if only for as long as their eyes could remain open at any one time. Their exhaustion was unbearable, and only through their mutual hatred could they rise above it and continue battling. Deneb was first to muster an attack, sluggishly raising her foot and plunging it back down with a pathetic
clump. The earth was still for a long, awkward moment, before eventually a crack reluctantly opened beneath her foot in response. It spread rapidly along the surface of the earth towards Nigel, suddenly cracking wide into a great wound. At the last second his substitute pushed him away, instantly incinerated to nothing by the lava bursting up where he just stood.
He landed from the shove with a hard thud and lay groaning on the floor, sorely tempted not to get back up again. Eventually he willed himself back to his feet, tottering towards Deneb in a slumberful daze. He tried his best to exaggerate his steps into a provocative, cocky strut, mumbling the most outrageous, infuriating boasts his worn-out brain could concoct, and Deneb was just barely able to summon the effort to be pissed off by it. She snarled and gnashed her teeth wearily, her eyes narrowing not from fatigue but from rage, determined to show that cocky little Litwick what for if it was the last thing she did.
Saying that, she felt it increasingly likely that it would be. The combination of her tiredness and her clumsy, enraged movements almost made her topple over as she lifted her foot for another stomp, but she just managed to steady herself and bring her foot down with all the fury she could muster. Again a great yawning chasm opened in the ground, the just-closed gash in the earth ripping itself open anew beneath Nigel's feet in the wake of a second burst of seething magma.
Nigel righted himself again, coughing up globs of molten rock, and weakly raised a hand, summoning a mysterious dark energy and forming it into a large sphere. Conjuring all the effort he could, he hurled it straight forward, and it careened through the air and straight into Deneb's chest, bursting with a flurry of dark mist and a considerable amount of force.
Deneb was furious. Dead on her feet, yes, but
furious. So angry, in fact, her weariness didn't even bother her; she instinctively overcame it in her determination to smash her stupid foe to smithereens. She gritted her teeth and jerked her foot into the air, but gravity tugged at her ill-balanced body a second time and she wasn't quite quick-witted enough to thwart it in time. With a yelp she toppled and crashed to the ground, her head crashing hard into the earth. Moaning weakly, she dug her heel into the ground and tried to ease herself up, but it was no use. She just couldn't go on any more. Solemnly RespectTheBlade called her back to her ball, and Nigel, who by all rights ought to have been thrilled, was himself too exhausted to even process what had just happened. His eyelids were leaden, his every muscle burned and ached with exertion, his mind was enveloped by a thick fog of fatigue. Clearly it was a matter of minutes before he succumbed to the same fate as his opponent.
Flareth
Nigel ♂ <Flash Fire>
Health: 10% | Energy: 2%
Mood: too tired to even appreciate the hilarity of what he just saw.
Condition: Spd+2, SpDef-1
Swagger ~ Shadow Ball
RespectTheBlade
Deneb ♀ <Refrigerate>
Health: 8% | Energy: 0%
Mood: knocked out!
Condition: Atk+2, Def+2, SpAtk-2; confused (severe); badly poisoned (6% damage this round).
Earth Power ~ Earth Power ~ confused
Referee's notes
~ in my scale at least, attacking oneself in confusion consumes a little energy, and Deneb collapsed from exhaustion while doing so. Yeah.
~ I also reduce damage if a Pokémon doesn't have enough energy to get off an attack, though, so at least her remaining health was relatively high!
Calculations
~ Earth Power: 10% damage, 5% energy
~ Swagger: 4% energy
~ Earth Power #2: 10% damage, 5% energy
~ Shadow Ball: 10% damage, 3% energy
~ confused: 3% damage (self), 2% energy
Next round
~ RespectTheBlade sends out
~ Flareth attacks
~ RespectTheBlade attacks