Format: 1v1 single
DQ: 2 weeks
Damage Cap: 35%
Banned moves: direct recovery, OHKO, Light Screen, Reflect, moves will not inflict confusion.
Arena: Laboratory Hallway
What better place to test a hypothesis than the hallways of a high-tech laboratory? The hall is about 2 meters wide with a ceiling 3 meters high, with sterile white tile floors and smooth metal walls. Large glass windows peer into dark rooms full of equipment for who knows what purpose, next to doors with the words "RESTRICTED ACCESS" printed in red next to keycard switches.
Other rules: Byrus will use his Vanillite, Billy Kincaid, and I will use my Seedot, Dietrich.
Round 3
Meursault O
Health:
45%
Energy:
80%
(Dietrich) Seedot [M] <Chlorophyll> @Leaf Stone
Commands: Grassy Terrain/Giga Drain/Bullet Seed x3
Status: Old is cold.
Byrus O
Health:
79%
Energy:
81%
(Billy Kincaid) Vanillite [M] <Ice Body> @Eviolite
Commands: Secret Power ~ Avalanche ~ Powder Snow
Status: So… how’s the flavour? Leech Seeded.
Byrus sighed, long and with longing. He had completed the last Sudoku in his “Grand Master” collection, filling in the final 9 with a combined sense of finality and dread. He had nothing else to do. His phone had run out of juice, all the scientists in the facility had left for their holiday break, and he couldn’t think of another sea shanty to pass the time. Perhaps he and his equally exhausted opponent would be waiting forever…
Suddenly, a deep rumbling began to hum into existence from behind the RESTRICTED ACCESS doorway, causing Byrus and Meursault to jerk their heads towards the noise. It gradually grew, the crescendo causing the hum to clarify, sounding to the waiting trainers like a motorcycle, and a grandiloquent one as well. What were they testing behind those doors? Finally, with an explosive crash that tore the metal doors from their reinforced hinges, Eta Carinae burst through the entranceway, riding no automobiles, yet still accompanied by the roaring sound. As he stood, labcoat rippling in a nonexistent wind, his timid Chimecho peeked from around his head, head bell vibrating like crazy to imitate the gas-guzzling muffler. Eta Carinae shushed Inharmonix, adjusted his safety goggles and Bill Nye bowtie, and then addressed the bewildered trainers.
“Did somebody say…
science?”
Invigorated by the sudden appearance of their saviour, the two battlers quickly got back to work, straining to remember the orders they had been given many fortnights prior. A light flicked on in Billy Kincaid’s head as he was able to hearken back to Byrus’s antiquated command chain. Getting his withering opponent in his sights, the Vanillite fired off a beam of brilliant white light, running perfectly parallel to the white tiled floor that, though recently mopped, looked grey in comparison to the cosmic luminosity of the beam above. Dietrich was struck square between the eyes, causing him to teeter on his knobby feet. He grimaced at the pain, taking some solace from the beam being white hot, as opposed to the frigid like the attacks prior.
Dietrich responded by making a telepathic plea to his seedling brethren that lurked beneath the facility, never to properly sprout. Imbuing in them some of his own energy, he substituted oxygen, water, and sunlight for pure, Seedot vitality. At first, the arena appeared unchanged, but with a symphony of shattering ceramics, small blades of grass began to force themselves through the tiled floor. Billy, already spooked from the hungry vines covering his body, levitated higher as a grassy mat began to appear below. Dietrich shut his eyes and lounged in the familiar flora. As the carpet was complete, a janitor just finishing his last shift before the holidays poked his head around the corner. He immediately backed away and headed for the doors, giving up in light of those “ridiculous botanists”.
Billy Kincaid continued to shrink away from the grasses, in no hurry to respond to the change in playing fields. Instead, the Vanillite began to form icy boulders that levitated near the hallway’s ceiling, appearing more as ornaments than offensive materials. Dietrich was more than happy to keep replenishing his own lifeforce while Billy pursued interior decorating. Tapping into Billy’s larger stores, Dietrich stole a chunk of his health away, manifested as a bundle of green orbs that hung just below the boulders for a second before whizzing towards Dietrich and being absorbed into the smug Seedot. This emotional state did not last long, as Billy promptly responded by hurling the rocks at Dietrich. The gelid feeling returned as the frost bitten stones collided with the tiny acorn. Dietrich was knocked off balance, his fall luckily cushioned by the grassy turf of his own design. He hopped back up, panting hard, as the boulders met the metallic walls.
Billy, appealing to the aesthetic requests of his trainer, finished the round by whipping up a pathetic snowstorm and letting it wash over Dietrich, who shivered and shook off each of the flakes that came his way. Dietrich was not so cocky as to resort to small-ball tactics. Again, like a leech, he absorbed Billy’s lifeforce and made it his own, giving him just the boost he needed to stay confident.
End of Round 3
Meursault O
Health:
26% [CAPPED]
Energy:
73%
(Dietrich) Seedot [M] <Chlorophyll> @Leaf Stone
Status: Far more confident on the lawn.
Byrus O
Health:
54%
Energy:
70%
(Billy Kincaid) Vanillite [M] <Ice Body> @Eviolite
Status: Feeling alr-ite. Leach Seeded.
Arena Notes:
-Grassy Terrain is in effect (4 more actions)
-A couple of boulder have crashed into the wall behind Dietrich
Ref Notes:
-Not only have I never e-reffed before, but I also haven’t written up a round in general for months, so I apologize for any mistakes. Feel free to let me know if anything looks out of place!
-I took “if he makes clones” to mean if Billy had used Double Team earlier, not to wait to see if he used it that action, so as to avoid a stall war on the second action
-I assumed that you wanted those Giga Drains to target health, Meursault
-Though it doesn’t look like it thanks to the health recovery, Dietrich hit the Damage Cap after being hit by Powder Snow
-Byrus commands next!
Myryam the female Ferroseed <Iron Barbs> @ Occa Berry
Rei the female Larvesta <Flame Body> @ Weakness Policy
Łebsko the female Slowpoke <Oblivious> @ Lum Berry
Setsuna the female Natu <Synchronize> @ Lucky Egg
Chibiusa the female Azurill <Huge Power> @ Soothe Bell
Dietrich the male Seedot <Chlorophyll> @ Leaf Stone
Gobbet the female Zigzagoon <Gluttony> @ Shell Bell
Kath the male Noibat <Infiltrator> @ Lucky Egg
Haruka the female Gible <Sand Veil> @ Lucky Egg
Blitz the male Stunky <Aftermath> @ Lucky Egg
Christy the female Houndoom <Flash Fire> @ Electirizer
Jonesy the male Skuntank <Stench> @ Black Sludge
Fiver the male Lopunny <Cute Charm> @ Jaboca Berry
Billy Kincaid the male Vanillite <Ice Body> @ Eviolite
Prospero the male Abra <Synchronize> @ Weakness Policy
Sluagh the male Gastly <Levitate> @ Colbur Berry
The Strand the male Eelektross <Levitate> @ Jaboca Berry
Kevin the male Dratini <Shed Skin> @ Lucky Egg
Valefar the male Eevee <Adaptability> @ Thunder Stone
Beelzebufo the male Croagunk <Anticipation> @ Poison Barb
