JackPK vs Eta Carinae

[Eta Carinae]

Take that Power-Up Punch and U-Turn out of there. If it somehow fails, keep trying..? I'll send out Lamellibranchiata in Max's place (who can be referred to as Lamelli for ease of writing).

U-Turn x3

 

[Meowth]

=JackPK vs Eta Carinae: Round Six=

JackPK

Sheena ♀
Ability: Torrent
Health: 80% | Energy: 80%
Base stats: [+1|-1|+1|-1|71]
looking forward to putting this vandalising pigeon out of commission.
Status: none
Power-Up Punch/Ice Beam/Toxic Spikes ~ Power-Up Punch/Ice Beam/Toxic Spikes ~ Power-Up Punch/Ice Beam/Toxic Spikes


Sheena's substitute
Health: 2%

Eta Carinae

Miracle Max ♂ @Razor Claw
Ability: Super Luck
Health: 20% | Energy: 35%
Base stats: [+1|+1|-1|-1|43]
on his last legs.
Status: Acc-1, Air Cutter spited (+4% energy per use)
U-Turn ~ U-Turn ~ U-Turn​

Sheena grinned to herself cockily. This bird was as good as beaten! She just had to give him a few little whacks and that'd be that. Just to ensure she didn't underestimate how much damage she had to inflict, she thought she'd better give herself a little strength boost first, flinging herself at her opponent and thrusting a webbed fist into his beak as hard as she could. Max recoiled with a sharp screech, and Sheena bounded back with her fist toughened by the hard surface of Max's beak.

With the blinding light in his eyes finally beginning to fade, Max rocketed towards his foe in a wide upwards arc, pecking her substitute brutally on the head in retribution and reducing it back to a pile of sludge before swooping down to form a loop and hurtling back the way he came. As he soared across the floor of the platform, a red light enveloped his body, growing brighter and brighter until he was reduced into a crimson blur. He shot right past his starting point and dissolved into a ball of red energy, slamming into his Pokéball at Eta Carinae's waist with such force that the trainer was flung onto his back, almost tumbling off the edge. The force of his landing knocked a second Pokéball free from his belt, which burst open to release a rather confused Shellder. Sheena gazed at the bivalve quizzically, and she stared back with a look just as dumbfounded as her her opponent's.

JackPK

Sheena ♀
Ability: Torrent
Health: 80% | Energy: 77%
Base stats: [+1|-1|+1|-1|71]
Adjusted stats: [+2|-1|+1|-1|71]
"...who ordered the clams?"
Status: Atk+1
Power-Up Punch

Eta Carinae

Lamellibranchiata ♀ @Water Stone
Ability: Skill Link
Health: 100% | Energy: 100%
Base stats: [+1|+2|-1|-2|40]
"...w-wha? where am I? what's going on?
Status: none

In reserve

Miracle Max ♂ @Razor Claw
Ability: Super Luck
Health: 16% | Energy: 31%​

Calculations
Sheena's energy: 80% - 3% = 77%
Sheena's substitute: 2% - 9% = 0%
Miracle Max's health: 20% - 4% = 16%
Miracle Max's energy: 35% - 4% = 31%

Referee's notes

• the accuracy drop from Flash wore off at the end of the first action.
• Eta Carinae attacks first next round.

 

[Eta Carinae]

Alright Lamelli, don't fret! You were born for this!

Start with an Aqua Ring if that works in the arena. If not, Shell Smash. If you're taunted, Rock Blast (there should be a plethora of stones to use thanks to Reynolds). Then Shell Smash if you didn't last action, Rock Blast if you did or if you're taunted. End with Rock Blast as well.

Aqua Ring/Shell Smash/Rock Blast ~ Shell Smash/Rock Blast ~ Rock Blast

 

[JackPK]

OK, Sheena, hopefully this works right in our favor! With any luck, that Aqua Ring will try to use the oil below us and end up poisoning him instead of healing him, so we want to do our best to encourage him to do that!

So wait and let him do it. If he does it, compound his worries with Smokescreen and then laugh at him with your Echoed Voice! (Alternatively, if his Aqua Ring actually works to heal him, use Smokescreen to try to shake his confidence, and then cast your echoed voice around to make him not sure where to target you! I'm not confident that'll help us gain any more evasion, but it never hurts to try creative things.)

If he opts to do something else altogether from Aqua Ring on the first action, you'll be getting targeted with a lot more rocks than otherwise, so increase the odds he'll miss you with Double Team and then use all your clones' voices simultaneously to blast his ears off!

look encouraging, wait, and Smokescreen/Double Team ~ Echoed Voice x2

 

[Meowth]

=JackPK vs Eta Carinae: Round Seven=

JackPK

Sheena ♀
Ability: Torrent
Health: 80% | Energy: 77%
Base stats: [+1|-1|+1|-1|71]
Adjusted stats: [+2|-1|+1|-1|71]
"...who ordered the clams?"
Status: Atk+1
Smokescreen/Double Team ~ Echoed Voice ~ Echoed Voice

Eta Carinae

Lamellibranchiata ♀ @Water Stone
Ability: Skill Link
Health: 100% | Energy: 100%
Base stats: [+1|+2|-1|-2|40]
"...w-wha? where am I? what's going on?
Status: none
Aqua Ring/Shell Smash/Rock Blast ~ Shell Smash/Rock Blast ~ Rock Blast

In reserve

Miracle Max ♂ @Razor Claw
Ability: Super Luck
Health: 16% | Energy: 31%​

Still not entirely sure where she was or what was happening, Lamelli nonetheless heeded her commands and turned toward the platform's edge to get her first look at the ocean. What she saw turned her stomach; instead of fresh, pure, cleansing water, all she saw for miles around was disgusting, oily sludge! Did her trainer really want her to drench herself in that stuff?! Thanks, but no thanks, she thought. She had much more practical ideas in mind. For some reason her opponent seemed rather sluggish right now, but she looked pretty sprightly, definitely a lot more so than a beached bivalve. To even the odds, she clamped her shell tightly shut, vaulted into the air, and brought herself down onto the ground hard with a loud crack, layers of shell peeling away and leaving Lamelli much faster and more able to manoeuvre, if a little less shielded.

Sheena had been cautiously watching the entire spectacle, observing Lamelli's moves and planning her own accordingly. She reckoned with her shell thinned out, Lamelli would be able to strike much harder and faster, which was not something she was remotely interested in being on the recieving end of. Perhaps it would be best to confuse her and throw off her aim, she thought. She darted forward and began running in circles at blinding speed until she reduced to an unintelligible blur, suddenly halting with a troupe of doppelgängers in tow.

Lamelli's eyes widened, turning from one Sheena to the next. Was she seeing things, or was her opponent ganging up on her now? Granted she hadn't been given a chance to read up on the rules of this battle she'd been suddenly thrust into, but that couldn't possibly be allowed. No matter, she'd take out all five of them! Turning to a pile of rubble graciously bequeathed to her by her opponent's predecessor, she levitated five decently-sized hunks of rock and flung one at each of the assemblage of Froakies staring her down. In trying to quickly aim at so many targets, though, she overshot, and the rocks sailed above their targets and hurtled back into the ocean below. A chorus of laughter erupted from Sheena and her posse. Despite coming from only one source, she threw her voice to give the illusion of five, inundating Lamelli with a thunderous echo from all directions. The sound reverberated through her shell, causing her to squeal out in pain as her eardrums throbbed in protest.

Despite the racket, she tried to focus and rethink her strategy. Trying to hit too many targets at once made her aim far too clumsy. Clearly haste was not the way forward. A slower, more careful approach was needed, which meant taking her opponents out one by one. Seemed risky, but she could handle it! Another cluster of boulders rose into the air and rocketed at the rightmost Froakie, landing on it with deadly precision and such force it completely disintegrated. Any attempt to celebrate her marginal victory was quashed as the remaining Froakies redoubled their riotous laughter to compensate for their fallen comrade, sending an amplified pulse of agony through whatever weird molluscian hearing organs Lamelli might have possessed.

JackPK

Sheena ♀
Ability: Torrent
Health: 80% | Energy: 67%
Base stats: [+1|-1|+1|-1|71]
Adjusted stats: [+2|-1|+1|-1|71]
"kek"
Status: Atk+1. Has three clones.
Smokescreen ~ Echoed Voice ~ Echoed Voice

Eta Carinae

Lamellibranchiata ♀ @Water Stone
Ability: Skill Link
Health: 80% | Energy: 78%
Base stats: [+1|+2|-1|-2|40]
Altered stats: [+3|+1|+1|-3|60]
wishing she had ears she could cover up.
Status: Atk+2, Def-1, SpAtk+2, SpDef-1, Spd+2
Shell Smash ~ Rock Blast ~ Rock Blast

In reserve

Miracle Max ♂ @Razor Claw
Ability: Super Luck
Health: 16% | Energy: 31%​

Calculations
Sheena's energy: 77% - 4% (Double Team) - 2% (Echoed Voice) - 4% (Echoed Voice) = 67%
Lamellibranchiata's health: 100% - 8% (Echoed Voice) - 12% (Echoed Voice) = 80%
Lamellibranchiata's energy: 100% - 6% (Shell Smash) - 8% (Rock Blast) - 8% (Rock Blast) = 78%

Referee's notes

• technically Aqua Ring works, but I gave Lamelli the benefit of the doubt and assumed he'd realise performing it with poisonous sludge would be a bad idea.
• the first Rock Blast missed, and the second hit a clone. (The description of the first one being spread out was just flavour.)
• JackPK attacks first next round.

 

[JackPK]

Keep up Echoed Voice! But if you get flinched or otherwise unable to use Echoed Voice, switch over to Hidden Power for the rest of the round. If you use Hidden Power and it turns out to be Fire-, Water-, Ice- or Steel-type, go with Round thereafter instead.

Echoed Voice/Hidden Power/Round x3

 

[Eta Carinae]

Hmm, those clones are a real issue, so Swift to get rid of them. Then, fire off a Rock Blast. Finally, you should have hit the damage cap by now, so march (?) over there and Clamp down on his mouth to make sure he won't be vocalizing very well anytime soon.

Swift ~ Rock Blast ~ Clamp

 

[Meowth]

=JackPK vs Eta Carinae: Round Eight=

JackPK

Sheena ♀
Ability: Torrent
Health: 80% | Energy: 67%
Base stats: [+1|-1|+1|-1|71]
Adjusted stats: [+2|-1|+1|-1|71]
"kek"
Status: Atk+1. Has three clones.
Echoed Voice/Hidden Power/Round ~ Echoed Voice/Hidden Power/Round ~ Echoed Voice/Hidden Power/Round

Eta Carinae

Lamellibranchiata ♀ @Water Stone
Ability: Skill Link
Health: 80% | Energy: 78%
Base stats: [+1|+2|-1|-2|40]
Altered stats: [+3|+1|+1|-3|70]
wishing she had ears she could cover up.
Status: Atk+2, Def-1, SpAtk+2, SpDef-1, Spd+2
Swift ~ Rock Blast ~ Clamp

In reserve

Miracle Max ♂ @Razor Claw
Ability: Super Luck
Health: 16% | Energy: 31%​

The cacophony still emitting from Sheena and her entourage was beginning to severely grate on Lamelli. Hell, she probably didn't even have ears and it was still making her probable non-ears hurt. If she could shut up her back-up singers, she reasoned, that should make the terrible noise settle down; if not, at least hitting the orchestrator with something really painful would be a lot easier. She opened her shell wide and produced a shower of star-shaped projectiles, reminiscent of the shuriken Sheena would find herself using in a couple of evolutions' time, and launched them at the squawking amphibian in a wide burst. One pierced right through each of three Sheenas, which immediately burst into ether while the stars curved around and stuck themselves in Sheena's back.

Sadly for Lamelli, this didn't provide quite as much respite as she'd hoped, causing only a momentary lapse in Sheena's outcry as she gurgled with pain before starting up again even louder, now shaking the entire platform and adding a horrible metallic grinding to the already unbearable riot. The bivalve's fury grew greater than ever, and she felt greater retribution was in order. Another volley of leftover Rock Slide rubble rose into the air, and one by one she flung the rocks at Sheena, shattering them against her tender skin with brutal force.

And still the noise continued. Lamelli was beside herself. What part of shut the freaking hell up or I will hurt you was this goddamn frog not getting?! Well, she'd physically hold her mouth shut if she had to, that noise had to stop. She hurled herself into the air and opened her shell wide, landing face-down on Sheena's face and clamping shut tight, her top shell pressing on the Froakie's scalp and her bottom one pushing up her chin, forcing her jaw shut. Sheena tried to mumble in protest, but found herself unable to do even that, merely struggling futilely while Lamelli sighed in relief at the blissful silence.

JackPK

Sheena ♀
Ability: Torrent
Health: 48% | Energy: 33%
Base stats: [+1|-1|+1|-1|71]
Adjusted stats: [+2|-1|+1|-1|71]
"mr mrf frn rf mrm!"
Status: Atk+1. Clamped in the face by Lamelli (4 more actions).
Echoed Voice ~ Echoed Voice ~ Echoed Voice

Eta Carinae

Lamellibranchiata ♀ @Water Stone
Ability: Skill Link
Health: 40% | Energy: 66%
Base stats: [+1|+2|-1|-2|40]
Altered stats: [+3|+1|+1|-3|60]
enjoying peace and quiet at last.
Status: Atk+2, Def-1, SpAtk+2, SpDef-1, Spd+2
Swift ~ Rock Blast ~ Clamp

In reserve

Miracle Max ♂ @Razor Claw
Ability: Super Luck
Health: 16% | Energy: 31%​

Calculations
Sheena's health: 80% - 8% (Swift) - 17% (Rock Blast) - 6% (Clamp) - 1% (trapping damage) = 48%
Sheena's energy: 67% - 10% (Echoed Voice) - 12% (Echoed Voice) - 12% (Echoed Voice) = 33%
Lamellibranchiata's health: 80% - 20% (Echoed Voice) - 24% (Echoed Voice) - 24% (Echoed Voice) = 40% (capped)
Lamellibranchiata's energy: 78% - 3% (Swift) - 8% (Rock Blast) - 1% (Clamp) = 66%

Referee's notes

• Sheena is unable to take any action involving opening her mouth until she breaks free of Clamp.
• Eta Carinae attacks first next round.

 

[Eta Carinae]

Hmm. Mud Shot as long as you're clamped in, unless you need the resources for it, in which case use Hydro Pump (I can't see it it missing from that range). If Sheena breaks free, Rock Blast.

Mud Shot/Hydro Pump/Rock Blast x3

Also, shouldn't Sheena have taken some trapping-move damage at the end of the round?

 

[JackPK]

Okay, there's not really anything in your moveset that could end Clamp early in the strictest adherence to the games' mechanics, so let's get creative instead!

Start with Rock Smash. Try to find the best way to make a nice solid hit that isn't hampered by you punching in an awkward direction. For example, look around and see if there's any vertical pillars/columns on a nearby part of the oil platform; if there are, position your face so Lamelli's flat against the column, giving you a sturdy target that won't move out of the way.

After you try that, if it didn't get him off you, let's use Hidden Power and hope that just getting in some decent damage will be enough to knock him loose. If Hidden Power didn't look like it did much damage (i.e. was not very effective), switch back to Rock Smash on the last action.

Once you're free of him, use Acrobatics.

Rock Smash ~ Hidden Power/Acrobatics ~ Hidden Power/Rock Smash/Acrobatics

 

[Meowth]

=JackPK vs Eta Carinae: Round Nine=

JackPK

Sheena ♀
Ability: Torrent
Health: 48% | Energy: 33%
Base stats: [+1|-1|+1|-1|71]
Adjusted stats: [+2|-1|+1|-1|71]
"mr mrf frn rf mrm!"
Status: Atk+1. Clamped in the face by Lamelli (4 more actions).
Rock Smash ~ Hidden Power/Acrobatics ~ Hidden Power/Rock Smash/Acrobatics

Eta Carinae

Lamellibranchiata ♀ @Water Stone
Ability: Skill Link
Health: 40% | Energy: 66%
Base stats: [+1|+2|-1|-2|40]
Altered stats: [+3|+1|+1|-3|60]
enjoying peace and quiet at last.
Status: Atk+2, Def-1, SpAtk+2, SpDef-1, Spd+2
Mud Shot/Hydro Pump/Rock Blast ~ Mud Shot/Hydro Pump/Rock Blast ~ Mud Shot/Hydro Pump/Rock Blast

In reserve

Miracle Max ♂ @Razor Claw
Ability: Super Luck
Health: 16% | Energy: 31%​

Sheena was livid. Okay, she didn’t expect Lamelli to enjoy her serenade, but to just physically push her mouth shut rather than civilly ask her to be quiet was simply unacceptably rude. She pulled and pulled at the shell pressed tight around her face, but no amount of tugging would shift it even an inch. It was evident that something more forceful was called for, and though the prospect of attacking with a freaking clam blocking her view was daunting, punching herself in the face still sounded easy enough. Lifting a forelimb, she flexed her fingers into an open fist and thrust it parallel to her face in a lightning-fast, brick-shattering motion. It collided with Lamelli’s already fractured shell with a mighty crack, shedding more of her armour and sending a shockwave of pain through her. Much to Sheena’s disappointment, she was nowhere near as effective as she’d have liked in knocking the clam clean off her face, though her grip did at least feel looser.

Lamelli growled clammishly and re-established her grip on the frog’s noggin, albeit rather less firmly owing to the increasing pain wracking her shell. Clamped right up against her target’s face, her retaliation options were limited, but there remained some tricks still up her sleeve. Nestled into the grooves of her shell's innards lay a rather plentiful supply of silt and sediment accumulated from laying on riverbeds and such, which once she mixed it with a little water thickened into impressively viscous mud. Another high-pressure jet of water sent the glob of mud hurtling forth at great speed, the force combined with the point-blank range resulting in it bursting violently against Sheena’s face and spreading wide all over her body. She gurgled in disgust and reached up fruitlessly to wipe it away, but already it was beginning to dry, setting hard around her limbs and making movement just a little harder.

Caked in gross mud and still unable to see, Sheena’s grasp on what the heck was happening only grew ever more tenuous. About all she could think to do in such bewildering circumstances was use her gut, and so she dug deep into her inner self and dug up the vestiges of a forgotten power buried within her. It was Lamelli’s turn to be bewildered as bright light suddenly illuminated the pitch-black interior of her closed shell, her eyes pressed up to Sheena’s ominously-grinning face as the curious luminescence cycled through a variety of colours, eventually settling on a light, earthy tan. Suddenly, the Froakie let out her best muffled attempt at a warlike ribbit before the light condensed into a sphere and slammed into Lamelli’s face, bursting with an immense flash and hurling the Shellder away, her captive whirling into the air after her before the two slammed back down to the surface of the platform. Slowly regaining her bearings, Lamelli let off another stream of mud in retaliation, coating the similarly dazed frogling in a second coat which again set rapidly around her extremities like a cast.

The presence of this irritating bivalve stuck to her face was starting to grate on Sheena. She grabbed hold of the shell and gave it a frustrated tug; she couldn’t quite budge it, but she felt a distinct looseness in the Shellder’s grasp. A good clout would have her free at last, she was sure of it. Again she raised a fist and swung it parallel to her own face, the reassuring sound of cracking shell resonating through Sheena’s skull on impact. Lamelli squealed with pain and alarm; she felt her grip beginning to weaken, perhaps only seconds remaining before she slid off completely. She capitalised on the last moments of her hold with a third blast of mud, the force of the stream propelling her off the frog’s face to the ground, where she sprayed her up and down and coated her from head to toe. Happy as she was to finally see again, the mud coating her entire body did not please Sheena in the slightest, and the clam was going to pay.

JackPK

Sheena ♀
Ability: Torrent
Health: 24% | Energy: 24%
Base stats: [+1|-1|+1|-1|71]
Adjusted stats: [+2|-1|+1|-1|41]
glad to be free.
Status: Atk+1, Spd-3. Has Ground-type Hidden Power.
Rock Smash ~ Hidden Power ~Rock Smash

Eta Carinae

Lamellibranchiata ♀ @Water Stone
Ability: Skill Link
Health: 21% | Energy: 54%
Base stats: [+1|+2|-1|-2|40]
Altered stats: [+3|-1|+1|-3|60]
starting to feel a little battered.
Status: Atk+2, Def-3, SpAtk+2, SpDef-1, Spd+2
Mud Shot ~ Mud Shot ~ Mud Shot

In reserve

Miracle Max ♂ @Razor Claw
Ability: Super Luck
Health: 16% | Energy: 31%​

Calculations
Sheena’s health: 48% - 8% (Mud Shot) - 8% (Mud Shot) - 8% (Mud Shot) -3% (trapping damage) = 21%
Sheena’s energy: 33% - 3% (Rock Smash) - 3% (Hidden Power) - 3% (Rock Smash) = 24%
Lamellibranchiata’s health: 40% - 4% (Rock Smash) - 10% (Hidden Power) - 5% (Rock Smash) = 21%
Lamellibranchiata’s energy: 66% - 4% (Mud Shot) - 4% (Mud Shot) - 4% (Mud Shot) = 54%

Referee's notes

• sorry for the delay, i am the laziest ever
• Lamelli is not in fact a dude, I guess I just never changed the gender symbol from Max's stats summary :v
• trapping damage should have been taken last round on the final action, too. This has been corrected.
• I had each Rock Smash reduce the duration of Sheena’s trapping by 1 action.
• Sheena’s Hidden Power was Ground-type.
• Sheena broke free of Clamp at the end of the third action.
• JackPK attacks first next round.

 

[JackPK]

Good work, Sheena!

You've got her on the ropes, and it's anyone's battle now. Her Sp. Defense is down to horrible levels, and while she's faster than you, most of her movepool is either not very effective against us or has recoil, so our best strategy will be to keep the heat on her so she has little leeway for error.

With that in mind, Round ties Hidden Power for your most powerful non-NVE attack, and Round has the perk that if Lamelli tries to use it too, it'll be twice as painful for her. So start off by combining Round and Swagger (sing a song about how great you are and how much trouble she's in), then finish the round (tee hee) with a standard Round. If you can't combo Round + Swagger, just spend the round singing three standard Rounds instead.

If she's going to use Self-Destruct or Explosion, abandon the plan and Protect.

Round + Swagger / Round / Protect ~ Round / Protect ~ nothing / Round / Protect

 

[Eta Carinae]

I think you missed the trapping damage for this round as well, Sang.

Protect against whatever comes your way on the first action, combo or otherwise (I would try to be creative and ask you to Withdraw, but I have no idea how much sound bivalves can hear from within their shells). Then give me a Rock Blast. Finally, if Rock Blast missed, try again. If Rock Blast hit, use Confide.

Protect ~ Rock Blast ~ Rock Blast/Confide

 

[Meowth]

=JackPK vs Eta Carinae: Round Ten=

JackPK

Sheena ♀
Ability: Torrent
Health: 24% | Energy: 24%
Base stats: [+1|-1|+1|-1|71]
Adjusted stats: [+2|-1|+1|-1|41]
glad to be free.
Status: Atk+1, Spd-3. Has Ground-type Hidden Power.
Round + Swagger/Round/Protect ~ Round/Protect ~ nothing/Round/Protect

Eta Carinae

Lamellibranchiata ♀ @Water Stone
Ability: Skill Link
Health: 21% | Energy: 54%
Base stats: [+1|+2|-1|-2|40]
Altered stats: [+3|-1|+1|-3|60]
starting to feel a little battered.
Status: Atk+2, Def-3, SpAtk+2, SpDef-1, Spd+2
Protect ~ Rock Blast ~ Rock Blast/Confide

In reserve

Miracle Max ♂ @Razor Claw
Ability: Super Luck
Health: 16% | Energy: 31%

So cocky was Sheena about her daring escape that she almost immediately began to gloat, belting out an arrogant refrain while strutting around provocatively to get her opponent riled up. Lamelli, however, was in no mood for such tomfoolery. She clamped her shell shut tight to block out her opponent's display, a soundproof barrier springing up around her to shield her from the gloating as well, until Sheena got fed up and packed it in.

Cautiously Lamelli opened her shell just by a crack to be sure her opponent was finished making a spectacle of herself; confirming that she had, she reopened fully and levitated another clump of boulders into the air around her. This should teach her, she chuckled as she began hurling them one by one at her target, who was knocked off her feet by the first chunk of rock before she even knew what was happening. The remaining few merrily piled themselves on top of her prone body, and she lay beneath them for a concerningly long time before weakly wriggling her way free, bruised, battered and unable to keep going much longer.

She wasn't about to let her critical condition stop her finally getting to gloat at her opponent, however. Clearing her throat to lend her frail voice a less pitiful tone, she started up her song again, and this time Lamelli wasn't quick enough to shut it out. So arrogant and self-indulging was her refrain that it hurt to listen to, but fortunately Lamelli had the perfect idea for making her clam up. Awkwardly rolling her way across the platform, she drew up beside the frog and muttered something in her ear. Whatever it was, it must have been scandalous given how quickly it shut Sheena up; she stopped singing almost immediately, a grin spreading across her face as her opponent resisted the urge to finish her off then and there and awkwardly wobbled back to her spot.

JackPK

Sheena ♀
Ability: Torrent
Health: 7% | Energy: 14%
Base stats: [+1|-1|+1|-1|71]
Adjusted stats: [+2|-1|0|-1|41]
can’t hold on much longer.
Status: Atk+1, SpAtk-1, Spd-3. Has Ground-type Hidden Power.
Round + Swagger ~ Round ~ nothing

Eta Carinae

Lamellibranchiata ♀ @Water Stone
Ability: Skill Link
Health: 10% | Energy: 54%
Base stats: [+1|+2|-1|-2|40]
Altered stats: [+3|-1|+1|-3|60]
almost succumbing to her injuries.
Status: Atk+2, Def-3, SpAtk+2, SpDef-1, Spd+2
Protect ~ Rock Blast ~Confide

In reserve

Miracle Max ♂ @Razor Claw
Ability: Super Luck
Health: 16% | Energy: 31%

Calculations
Sheena's health: 24% - 17% (Rock Blast) = 7%
Sheena's energy: 24% - 7% (Swagger + Round) - 3% (Round) = 14%
Lamellibranchiata's health: 21% - 11% (Round) = 10%
Lamellibranchiata's energy: 54% - 2% (Protect) - 8% (Rock Blast) - 1% (Confide) = 43%

Referee's notes
​

• Jack's commands were contradictory between the post (which said to use Round at the end of the round) and command string (which listed "nothing" on the third action) as to when Round was to be used, but it made no real odds so I just went with the second action for narrative reasons.
• Eta Carinae attacks first next round.
  

 

[Eta Carinae]

Rage against the dying of the light. You'll make a fantastic Cloyster, Lamelli.

Toxic x3

 

[JackPK]

We're gonna have to take that Toxic, Sheena, but you'll win this round and there's an ever-so-tiny chance you can defeat Miracle Max, too.

A Round would have been barely more than enough before Confide. If it's not quite enough any more, follow it up with a Bubble since that's your least energy-intensive attack. If that's still not enough, another Bubble.

Round ~ Bubble x2

 

[Meowth]

=JackPK vs Eta Carinae: Round Eleven=

JackPK

Sheena ♀
Ability: Torrent
Health: 7% | Energy: 14%
Base stats: [+1|-1|+1|-1|71]
Adjusted stats: [+2|-1|0|-1|41]
can’t hold on much longer.
Status: Atk+1, SpAtk-1, Spd-3. Has Ground-type Hidden Power.
Round ~ Bubble ~ Bubble

Eta Carinae

Lamellibranchiata ♀ @Water Stone
Ability: Skill Link
Health: 10% | Energy: 54%
Base stats: [+1|+2|-1|-2|40]
Altered stats: [+3|-1|+1|-3|60]
almost succumbing to her injuries.
Status: Atk+2, Def-3, SpAtk+2, SpDef-1, Spd+2
Toxic ~ Toxic ~Toxic

In reserve

Miracle Max ♂ @Razor Claw
Ability: Super Luck
Health: 16% | Energy: 31%

Both Pokémon were almost too worn out and numbed by their injuries to move, but eventually the less wounded of them stirred herself into action. Gingerly opening her shell wide, Lamelli spat out a blob of noxious gunk in Sheena's direction, and before the ailing frog could avoid it she was drenched in the disgusting purplish substance. She croaked weakly in pain as the caustic toxic mess seeped under her skin, letting out a pitiful series of croaks that the similarly ailing clam found just threatening enough to make her slam shut in fear and painfully catch her own tongue.

Too wracked with agony to even be embarrassed by her own foolishness, she instead channelled what remained of her energy into one last attack before fainting. Another glob of poisonous putrescence oozed forth from her mouth and hurled itself at Sheena, but her blood was already full of its vile filth, such that an extra dose made no odds. She let out a ragged cough in response, coughing up a blob of froth that smacked against Lamelli's shell as if in retribution. Even this pathetic impact was enough to finally relieve Lamelli of her consciousness, her shell closing tight for good before Eta Carinae recalled her and returned a slightly bewildered Miracle Max to the field.

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JackPK

Sheena ♀
Ability: Torrent
Health: 5% | Energy: 10%
Base stats: [+1|-1|+1|-1|71]
Adjusted stats: [+2|-1|0|-1|41]
barely even conscious of her success.
Status: Atk+1, SpAtk-1, Spd-3. Severely poisoned (2% damage this round). Has Ground-type Hidden Power. Torrent activated.
Round ~ Bubble

Eta Carinae

Miracle Max ♂
Ability: Super Luck
Health: 16% | Energy: 31%
Base stats: [+1|+1|-1|-1|43]
"...w-wuh? where was I?"
Status: none

Calculations
Sheena's health: 7% - 2% (poisoning) = 5%
Sheena's energy: 14% - 3% (Round) - 1% (Bubble) = 10%
Lamellibranchiata's health: 10% - 8% (Round) - 4% (Bubble) = 0%
Lamellibranchiata's energy: 54% - 4% (Toxic) - 4% (Toxic) = 46%

Referee's notes

• I just realised I forgot to activate Sheena's Torrent. Needless to say had I had to calculate any water attacks I'd have picked up on it, as I did here for Bubble.
• Eta doesn't need to send out, so JackPK commands first.

 

[JackPK]

That went as well as it could, but still, frick. Not much we can do to avoid being KO'ed before you get a chance to attack, so just Blizzard as much as you can if you manage to survive long enough to do so.

Blizzard x3

 

[Eta Carinae]

Somehow I'll mess this up, I just know it.

Quick Attack x3

 

[Meowth]

=JackPK vs Eta Carinae: Round Twelve=

JackPK

Sheena ♀
Ability: Torrent
Health: 5% | Energy: 10%
Base stats: [+1|-1|+1|-1|71]
Adjusted stats: [+2|-1|0|-1|41]
barely even conscious of her success.
Status: Atk+1, SpAtk-1, Spd-3. Severely poisoned (2% damage this round). Has Ground-type Hidden Power. Torrent activated.
Blizzard ~ Blizzard ~ Blizzard

Eta Carinae

Miracle Max ♂
Ability: Super Luck
Health: 16% | Energy: 31%
Base stats: [+1|+1|-1|-1|43]
"...w-wuh? where was I?"
Status: none
Quick Attack ~ Quick Attack ~
Quick Attack

Recognising the gravity of the situation, Sheene ignored her crippling agony and forced herself to focus.; she was on the cusp of defeat, but victory was still in sight! Shakily she stood, raising her arms to unleash a furious storm of ice that would put this bird out of commission and win her the match, but before she could summon even a light breeze her target streaked across the arena and put a rock-hard beak into her chest. With a final croak of pain, Sheena slumped backwards and collapsed unconscious, her trainer recalling her while her opponents' stepped forward to congratulate his intrepid bird.

JackPK

Sheena ♀
Ability: Torrent
Health: 0% | Energy: 10%
Base stats: [+1|-1|+1|-1|71]
Adjusted stats: [+2|-1|0|-1|41]
knocked out!
Status: Atk+1, SpAtk-1, Spd-3. Severely poisoned (2% damage this round). Has Ground-type Hidden Power. Torrent activated.
Blizzard ~ Blizzard ~ Blizzard

Eta Carinae

Miracle Max ♂
Ability: Super Luck
Health: 16% | Energy: 29%
Base stats: [+1|+1|-1|-1|43]
"I still don't know what's happening but whoo!"
Status: none
Quick Attack ~ Quick Attack ~
Quick Attack

Calculations
Sheena's health: 5% - 5% (Quick Attack) = 0%
Miracle Max's energy: 31% - 2% = 29%

Referee's notes

• sorry to break my proper reffing order, everyone else whose battles I'm handling, but it seemed silly to make these guys wait when I can just type up a three-sentence reffing now and be done with it!

Prizes
Eta Carinae gets $16, I get $10, JackPK gets $8. Miracle Max receives 3XP and 3 happiness, Sheena receives 2XP and 2 happiness, and Reynolds and Lamellibranchiata receive 1XP and 1 happiness each. Having completed a battle holding a Water Stone, Lamelli is also eligible to evolve. Great match, both of you!

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