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Format: 1 vs 1, single Style: Set DQ: 10 days Damage Cap: 45% Banned/Restricted Moves: OHKOs, weather moves, direct recovery moves (both health and energy)
Arena Description: ＴＨＥ ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ
WELCOME TO THE ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ. IMAGINE A HOLLOW CUBE OF LIVING BEES ABOUT THE SIZE OF HOWEVER BIG LUMIOSE CITY IS. THE ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ IS LINED ENTIRELY WITH SOUNDPROOF GLASS SO THAT NOBODY GETS STUNG. WE AE FIGHTING INSIDE THE GLASS CUBE, WHICH IS THE ONLY SAFE PLACE. THE ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ HAS A LIGHT SOURCE SOMEWHERE, BUT IT CANNOT BE SEEN. THIS MAKES THE ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ VERY WELL LIT INSIDE.
IF YOU NEED WATER, IT WILL APPEAR. SAME GOES FOR ANY MOVES THAT REQUIRE OUTSIDE SOURCES. IF IT IS NOT ALREADY IN THE ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ, IT WILL APPEAR. WHEN ANYTHING THAT HAS APPEARED IS NO LONGER NEEDED, IT DISAPPEARS.
THE GLASS INSIDE THE ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ CANNOT BE BROKEN. THE BEES DO NOT CARE IF YOU ATTACK THE GLASS. THEY ARE FURIOUS ANYWAY. THERE IS NO WEATHER INSIDE THE ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ. THERE IS NO EXIT TO THE ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ. HOW DID YOU EVEN GET INSIDE THE ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ? WHY ARE YOU INSIDE THE ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ?
Additional Rules: no bee pokemon (combee, vespiquen, beedrill)
Format:1 vs 1, single Style: Set DQ: 10 days Damage Cap: 45% Banned/Restricted Moves: OHKOs, weather moves, direct recovery moves (both health and energy)
Arena Description: THE BEE CUBE
WELCOME TO THE BEE CUBE. IMAGINE A HOLLOW CUBE OF LIVING BEES ABOUT THE SIZE OF HOWEVER BIG LUMIOSE CITY IS. THE BEE CUBE IS LINED ENTIRELY WITH SOUNDPROOF GLASS SO THAT NOBODY GETS STUNG. WE ARE FIGHTING INSIDE THE GLASS CUBE, WHICH IS THE ONLY SAFE PLACE. THE BEE CUBE HAS A LIGHT SOURCE SOMEWHERE, BUT IT CANNOT BE SEEN. THIS MAKES THE BEE CUBE VERY WELL LIT INSIDE.
IF YOU NEED WATER, IT WILL APPEAR. SAME GOES FOR ANY MOVES THAT REQUIRE OUTSIDE SOURCES. IF IT IS NOT ALREADY IN THE BEE CUBE, IT WILL APPEAR. WHEN ANYTHING THAT HAS APPEARED IS NO LONGER NEEDED, IT DISAPPEARS.
THE GLASS INSIDE THE BEE CUBE CANNOT BE BROKEN. THE BEES DO NOT CARE IF YOU ATTACK THE GLASS. THEY ARE FURIOUS ANYWAY. THERE IS NO WEATHER INSIDE THE BEE CUBE. THERE IS NO EXIT TO THE BEE CUBE. HOW DID YOU EVEN GET INSIDE THE BEE CUBE? WHY ARE YOU INSIDE THE BEE CUBE?
Additional Rules: no bee pokemon (combee, vespiquen, beedrill)
Ahikiko the male Riolu <Inner Focus> Envy the female Misdreavus <Levitate> @ Dusk Stone Marie the female Dewott <Torrent> Snapple the male Trapinch <Arena Trap> @ Leftovers Elizabeth the female Snorunt <Inner Focus> @ Dawn Stone Theo the male Mawile <Hyper Cutter> Margaret the female Espurr <Infiltrator>
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Violent Mustelid the male Mienfoo <Regenerator> Finbarr Galedeep the male Buizel <Swift Swim> @ Water Stone Master Belch the male Goomy <Gooey> @ Lucky Egg Darude the male Trapinch <Hyper Cutter> @ Eviolite Li Feng the female Seviper <Shed Skin> @ Black Sludge Ophelia the female Snivy <Overgrow> Vile Myriapoda the female Venipede <Swarm> Libertad the female Hawlucha <Unburden>
Mawile sends out, then VM sends out and commands, then Mawile commands, and finally I ref.
Violent Mustelid, bee prepared for an exciting battle, honey!
Let's start with a triple Force Palm! If she's not attacking you, use Focus Punch. However, if she tries to use Attract, Swagger, Double Team, or Disable, Taunt her so she can't!
Force Palm / Focus Punch / Taunt ~ Force Palm / Focus Punch / Taunt ~ Force Palm / Focus Punch / Taunt
Let's use Avalanche three times since we would much rather prefer Force Palm to Focus Punch. Also because that double base damage is looking pretty great right now.
The air in ＴＨＥ ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ is hot and close, the drone of countless wings setting up a constant low drone even through the cube's thick glass. The trainers here are perhaps a little more tense than normal, having already seen one referee get devoured by the angry swarm, but the replacement appears blissfully unaware of the danger and ready to get things rolling.
Elizabeth stands by her trainer's side, shivering away despite the temperature. Then again, she's always shivering--or maybe she's just unnerved by the dark, shifting mass of insects pressed up against the glass, scratching legs and glittering wings weaving in and out of the swarm in an endless hypnotic dance.
On the other hand, Violent Mustelid doesn't look the faintest bit unnerved. The fighting-type hops back and forth from foot to foot, ignoring his surroundings completely as he keeps his eyes fixed on Elizabeth. The only time his gaze wavers is when it flicks to the referee as, at last, she clears her throat and raises her flags. It's time to beegin!
Round One
Vipera Magnifica (O)
Violent Mustelid (M) <Regenerator>
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
Commands: Force Palm / Focus Punch / Taunt x3
- Super pumped to just completely tear something apart.
Mawile (O)
Elizabeth (F) <Inner Focus> @ Dawn Stone
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
Commands: Avalanche x3
- A little nervous.
Elizabeth starts to concentrate, the dawn stone clutched in her hands glowing as she draws on the power of her element. She only manages for a second before Violent Mustelid lets out a primal scream, hurling himself across the arena with one paw outstretched. The force palm connects with a vicious crack and a burst of blue light, and Elizabeth is hurled clear into the wall of the bee cube uncomfortably close to her trainer's head. The snorunt falls to the floor, completely stunned while the drone of the bees behind her rises to an angry fever pitch. Her icy aura dies, and she can't even manage to scramble back upright before Vehement Mustelid's upon her again, smashing home another force palm with as much enthusiasm as before.
The snorunt grits her teeth, eyes flashing blue as she shoves aside the pain and focuses on getting back at her overly-enthusiastic opponent. Violent Mustelid's already winding up for another attack, but then a cascade of ice and sublimating gas blocks him from view. In a matter of seconds the little fighting-type's completely buried under an avalanche of ice and snow, and Elizabeth lets out a faint breath of relief and slowly, painfully rights herself.
Her relief is short-lived, though, replaced by a tremor of horror as she gets a good look at a chunk of ice that landed nearby. Entombed within is a single unmoving bee--in fact, they're all bees, hundreds of them, frozen into the ice chunks that made up her attack. Perhaps fortunately, the snorunt doesn't get much time to contemplate this development as the snowpile shifts and shivers, a few dislodged ice chunks skidding down its flanks. Then Violent Mustelid's head pops up, followed shortly by the rest of him. He lets out another shrieking warcry when he lays eyes on Elizabeth, rushing down the side of the mound with another force palm at the ready.
Does he really have to do that every time? Elizabeth wonders as she's again sent flying, smacking painfully against ＴＨＥ ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ's glass for the second time this match. The snorunt retains the presence of mind to summon another avalanche, but even as Violent Mustelid collapses under the weight of another payload of ice, she knows he'll be back on his feet before long.
Vipera Magnifica (O)
Violent Mustelid (M) <Regenerator>
Health: 66%
Energy: 88%
Used: Force Palm x3
- Half-buried in frozen bees.
Mawile (O)
Elizabeth (F) <Inner Focus> @ Dawn Stone
Health: 58%
Energy: 89%
Used: Paralyzed ~ Avalanche x2
- More than a little disturbed. Paralyzed (severe).
Terrain Notes
A large pile of snow and frozen bees dominates Elizabeth's side of the arena.
Final Notes
- Been a while since I did this, and I don't know what all's changed recently. Let me know if I missed something.
- Unfortunately I'm not really in on the bee meme, so I'm afraid I can't do the arena justice. Apolobees.
- Mawile's up next.
Vipera Magnifica's pokémon: Violent Mustelid the male Mienfoo <Regenerator>
Base speed: 65
Randomizer roll: 8
Recalculated speed: 105
Stats: +2 attack, +1 defense, -1 special attack and special defense
EXP: 0
Mawile's pokémon: Elizabeth the female Snorunt <Inner Focus> @ Dawn Stone
Base speed: 50
Randomizer roll: 7
Recalculated speed: 85
Stats: +0 all
EXP: 0
Violent Mustelid is faster!
-- Begin Round One --
Violent Mustelid's command: force palm
Energy:
Pow 60 -> base 3% + 1% effect = 4% energy
Acc: 100%
Damage:
Pow 60 -> base 6% + 1.5% STAB + 2% stat x 1.5 = 14% damage
Crit roll: 5
no crit
!extra effect: prz (30%)
Effect roll: 20
!prz
Looking at your calculations, I think you may have made a slight math error. Violent Mustelid should have 64% health, not 66%. (I could have not said anything, but I'm just trying to be fair).
I'm also not sure how the randomizer roll works. Could you please explain?
EDIT: By randomizer roll, I mean the recalculated speed and initial stat boosts.
Looking at your calculations, I think you may have made a slight math error. Violent Mustelid should have 64% health, not 66%. (I could have not said anything, but I'm just trying to be fair).
Nope, the final damage in that line is actually wrong. 12 + 3 + 1 != 18 Violent Mustelid's final health is fine.
Rather than using the species base speeds for any individual pokémon, I apply a random modifier when they're first sent onto the battlefield: I roll a d10 and add five points of speeds times the result. The boosted speed is the value I actually use for determining which pokémon moves first (electro ball etc. are still based on the species value).
(this is written perfectly and you definitely did this arena justice. also why does snorunt have such a small movepool)
You know what's fun, Elizabeth? Avalanches are fun. especially when they're made of nothing but bees. Just keep using Avalanche on him for all three turns. If you can't attack him for whatever reason, though, use Double Team.
Mawile (O)
Elizabeth (F) <Inner Focus> @ Dawn Stone
Health: 58%
Energy: 89%
Commands: Avalanche/Double Team x3
- More than a little disturbed. Paralyzed (severe).
Violent Mustelid digs himself free of the bee pile, taking a moment to smack the side of his head until a bee-cube that got wedged in his ear is dislodged. Then he's up in Elizabeth's face again, bouncing back and forth in front of the snorunt and screeching a challenge, just to see what she'll do. Much to the fighting-type's disappointment, that turns out to be nothing. The snover's just standing stock-still--well, shivering, of course, but she's always shivering--with her eyes glowing blue and a thin, icy mist rising around her. It's probably one of the most boring things Violent Mustelid's ever had to watch, and worse, having to wait for Elizabeth to do whatever she's doing is getting in the way of him punching things.
The mienfoo waits a whole five seconds more before shooting a glance back over his shoulder to make sure his trainer isn't watching (he's obscured by the piles of frozen bees, thankfully), then gives Elizabeth a quick jab with a drain punch. The snorunt makes a noise like a pair of icebergs grinding together, and a second later Violent Mustelid's on his back, crushed under another payload of bees. He should probably feel bad about disobeying his trainer, but the truth? Totally worth it.
Digging out from under Elizabeth's avalanches does get a bit old, of course, but honestly Violent Mustelid could punch things all day and never get bored. He cheerfully slams home another drain punch, enjoying the zip and tingle of energy returning to his body, and ducks his head in ancitipation of another avalanche. When none comes, he gives Elizabeth a suspicious look and another light punch. And oh, there it is; he's showered in another avalanche of frozen insects. For a second there, he was thinking he'd won already. No matter. He's more than ready to go another round.
Vipera Magnifica (O)
Violent Mustelid (M) <Regenerator>
Health: 72%
Energy: 76%
Used: Drain Punch x3
- Almost there! Buried under an avalanche.
Mawile (O)
Elizabeth (F) <Inner Focus> @ Dawn Stone
Health: 13% (capped)
Energy: 78%
Used: Avalanche ~ Paralyzed ~ Avalanche
- Really getting tired of this. Paralyzed (severe).
Terrain Notes
The bee pile's grown larger. It fills about a third of the arena, stretching almost as high as ＴＨＥ ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ's glass ceiling.
Final Notes
- I don't generally let pokémon out-wait negative-priority attacks.
- Thanks for the kind words about the reffing. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
- Vipera Magnifica commands next.
Violent Mustelid's command: drain punch
Energy:
Pow 75 -> base 4% - 1% STAB + 1% effect = 4% energy
Acc: 100%
Damage:
Pow 75 -> base 7% + 1.75% STAB + 2% stat x 1.5 = 16% damage, 8% restored
Crit roll: 2
no crit
Elizabeth's command: avalanche
!paralysis: 23%
Roll: 61
Energy:
Pow 120 -> base 6% - 1% STAB = 5% energy
Acc: 100%
Damage:
Pow 120 -> base 12% + 3% STAB + 1% stat = 16% damage
Crit roll: 17
no crit
Round One Results
Violent Mustelid
58
84
Elizabeth
42
84
-- Begin Action Two --
Violent Mustelid's command: drain punch
Energy:
Pow 75 -> base 4% - 1% STAB + 1% effect = 4% energy
Acc: 100%
Damage:
Pow 75 -> base 7% + 1.75% STAB + 2% stat x 1.5 = 16% damage, 8% restored
Crit roll: 5
no crit
I must say that this was a fun match while it lasted, even though Elizabeth was horribly outmatched by VM and his love of punching. We should have a rematch in a couple months or something, if you want.
So, Elizabeth, let's just give you a break here. Just sit down, take a couple breaths of air and just relax. I would tell you to chill, but I banned every direct recovery move.
Oh my god, I am so sorry. This whole time I thought this was a 2 vs 2 match. Now I really feel like an ass for picking a Pokémon with super-effective STAB.
Vipera Magnifica (O)
Violent Mustelid (M) <Regenerator>
Health: 72%
Energy: 76%
Commands: Drain Punch x3
- Almost there! Buried under an avalanche.
Mawile (O)
Elizabeth (F) <Inner Focus> @ Dawn Stone
Health: 13% (capped)
Energy: 78%
Commands: Relax ~ Nothing x2
- Really getting tired of this. Paralyzed (severe).
Violent Mustelid's ready for anything: a quick protect, a last-ditch endure, even an icicle to the face. What he wasn't expecting as he threw another drain punch was for Elizabeth to just sit where she was, not even blinking as the attack drove home. Once again the power of the attack slams the snorunt into ＴＨＥ ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ's glass, setting up another wave of angry droning. But this time when Elizabeth topples to the ground, there's no answering avalanche. The ice-type doesn't even move to stand up. After a few seconds, it's clear Violent Mustelid is the victor in this match.
Mawile (X)
Elizabeth (F) <Inner Focus> @ Dawn Stone
Health: 0%
Energy: 78%
Used: Nothing
- Knocked out!
It turns out Vipera Magnifica and Mawile's time in ＴＨＥ ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ was rather short--not that they're going to complain about that. As Vipera Magnifica recalls his violently screeching mienfoo, he picks his way around the half-melted beecubes in order to exchange a handshake and a few words with Mawile. Perhaps they can try for a rematch someday, preferably somewhere where the walls aren't literally covered in bees.
The trainers may leave, but ＴＨＥ ＢＥＥ ＣＵＢＥ remains, and knowing Asber's trainers, it's surely only a matter of time before someone else decides there'd be nothing better than a battle in the midst of a furious hive...
Vipera Magnifica gets $8, Mawile gets $4, and I get $5. Violent Mustelid gets two EXP, and Elizabeth earns one. Good match, and best of luck in your future battles!
Ahikiko the male Riolu <Inner Focus>
Envy the female Misdreavus <Levitate> @ Dusk Stone
Marie the female Dewott <Torrent>
Snapple the male Trapinch <Arena Trap> @ Leftovers
Elizabeth the female Snorunt <Inner Focus> @ Dawn Stone
Theo the male Mawile <Hyper Cutter>
Margaret the female Espurr <Infiltrator>
Violent Mustelid the male Mienfoo <Regenerator>
Finbarr Galedeep the male Buizel <Swift Swim> @ Water Stone
Master Belch the male Goomy <Gooey> @ Lucky Egg
Li Feng the female Seviper <Shed Skin> @ Black Sludge
Ophelia the female Snivy <Overgrow>
Vile Myriapoda the female Venipede <Swarm>
Libertad the female Hawlucha <Unburden>
