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Of course I'm not forcing you to do anything if you don't want to, but seriously, what have you got to lose? Five seconds of your life?
Start with a Shadow Sneak + Facade combo: sneak up on her with the speed and priority of Shadow Sneak and then let loose with the force of a Facade. That should deal enough damage in conjunction with Future Sight to KO her, so both of you will get the extra experience point from this round. However, if that wouldn't work for whatever reason, go with Shadow Sneak + Double-Edge instead, with the same general idea, and if that wouldn't work, idk just Shadow Sneak + Headbutt.
If you're still conscious on the second action, I guess you can go for a Draining Kiss.
Shadow Sneak + (Facade/Double-Edge/Headbutt) ~ Draining Kiss
Totodile
Ooo
Applejack
Eevee (F) [Adaptability] @ Silk Scarf
Health: 27% | Energy: 55%
Condition: +3 Attack, +3 Special Attack, Toxipoisoned (2% damage over this round, 3% next round), Future Sight will hit in 1 action. “hoo-ra…h” Facade x3
Keldeo
Ooo
Dias, Disciple of Myrreth
Ralts (M) [Synchronize] @ Lucky Egg
Health: 19% | Energy: 63%
Condition: Toxipoisoned (2% damage over this round, 3% next round) “ooooooow i liked the bad dreams better” Shadow Sneak + (Facade/Double-Edge/Headbutt) ~ Draining Kiss
Nastiness swarmed in Dias' head, plucking his thoughts out of their cradles and tossing them about. His innards reeked of death, boiling and splitting and crusting over. He could feel his body turn to mush. Nostrils flaring, then closing as slowly as possible, the Ralts' own vain attempt at delaying his fate. It gave him some superficial solace, but that was it. Death waited at everyone's door, rapping its bony knuckles. Dias felt the three knocks in his chest, and gulped.
Maybe death needed to take deliveries. Dias screamed in pain as the poison shook his body, and leapt upwards, splaying himself against the blue sky. Applejack's ears perked up, and soon she did too. The Eevee kicked up dust with her hind legs and forced herself forward. She wore the face of the ever-fighting soldier, placated and normal and hiding a world of pain.
Dias shot into the ground, sinking into his own shadow. The thin black strands that made up his feeble shadow were pulled outwards and wobbled into a vague circular shape. Dias hid inside the darkest dimension, not daring to open his eyes. He heard the noises of the abyss around him, forming and consuming itself, exhaling madness into the cold wind. A thousand whirling voices, death's previous customers, howled by, leaving their bitter reviews.
Dias' eyes snapped open, and he saw the end of everything. Any other mon would have seen blackness, with bulbs of white light poking out of the infinite sea. But Ralts were psychic types, and psychic types could hear every scream. Around every far away bulb of light circled little fireflies of life. It would have been unbearable for anyone to hear the absolute silence of unlife, as each flame was blotted out one by one. Dias heard them all die at once.
Applejack arced through the air, ready to pounce on the shadow where Dias had disappeared. The Ralts burst from the prison of night, eyes wide open and shrieking obscenities in the tongues of far off races yet unborn, a thousand at a time. He fell upon the Eevee and they tumbled across the clearing locked in combat. His arms flew at Applejack with a force all their own, and she parried every blow. The frail white of his palms bruised darker and darker shades of purple every time he struck, and even Applejack's own bones were rattling at the relentless assault. She roared into his face, but he could not hear her over the sound of nothing filling his mind.
Applejack dared to look into his eyes, and there she saw more than just the starstruck expression of a soldier in his first battle, more than just the reflection of her own tattered face, she saw the end of everything looking back at her. Her growl curdled, growing guttural. The sound erupted from her stomach, and she slashed and pulled at the Ralt's skin. Teeth sunk deep into flesh, pulling it apart. Dias did not regard being reduced to a skeleton as alarming, nothing mattered. He grabbed the Eevee's ears and tugged them sharply, drawing blood at the base, he thrust his hands into her soft torso and pulled out clumps of fur and skin. He spat in her eyes, but she held them open, glistening with gruel. He bit her limbs as they came in to claw off his own. He had to keep going, to find an answer buried in all of the nothing. It wasn't an answer he was looking for in Applejack's freshly opened wounds, but one he had to force her into pulling out of him. There was a reason psychics were not meant to speak to ghosts. But Dias had spoken to them all. In what little time he spent inside the void, he had spent an eternity in lifetimes, feeling every living thing in existence face death in unison in a blink. The answer he wanted was silence.
Applejack knew she had won, and she slapped the last bit of breath from Dias. It came as suddenly as it went. One moment the fight was raging, and another moment a claw shut Dias' eyes. Applejack blinked. Far off in the distance a force beyond compare rippled the air. It coursed through the solid rock of the mountain and ripped through the idea of it, leaving the physicality intact. The last bullet of Dias' sane mind held inside it peaceful release. Torment clouded Applejack's eyes, and she ran towards the speeding disturbance. It looked as if the world was just an image on the surface of a lake, and something was dripping onto it, spreading across just this one place suspended in the air.
Applejack bit the bullet, letting it shatter her mind.
Notes:
-Shadow Sneak entails enshrouding oneself in darkness and attacking, unearthing oneself from that darkness comes in line with removing the façade that entails using Façade. Execution-wise, shrouding oneself in darkness and then jumping out to reveal themselves works just fine, and Façade doesn’t require particular mental effort, in fact it would involve releasing oneself from one’s thoughts.
-Future Sight, being an end of action effect, smashed into Applejack, predicting her misfortune.
-I believe that Keldeo would send out her mon, Totodile would then sendout and command, and Keldeo would command sounds about right. Though if you’re both up for it you can PM me your sendouts again?
Your votes are in, here are this year's potential winners and/or losers!
Jaws the female Trapinch <Hyper Cutter> @ Lucky Egg
Viola, Disciple of Lirrin the female Happiny <Serene Grace> @ Oval Stone
-Apologies on mixing up the command order in the last ref, it's actually Keldeo up to bat first. -If I didn't fully fuck up it doesn't count, right?
-woo
You're slow but she's slower, so let's just go all-out this first round. Spam one-action Solar Beams, but if it's sandstorming or she has a substitute or double team clones up, if Trapinch is even fast enough to make clones, switch to Hyper Voice. If she's unhittable or Biding, go with Light Screen on the first action, Double Team for as many clones as you can on the second, and Reflect on the third, and if you hit her twice with Solar Beam by the last action put up a Reflect rather than attack again, no matter what other circumstances there are.
Solar Beam (one action) / Hyper Voice / Light Screen ~ Solar Beam (one action) / Hyper Voice / Double Team (max clones) ~ Solar Beam (one action) / Hyper Voice / Reflect
Keldeo lets a yawn escape presses a Pokeball to the ground. Opting not to throw the device into the bloody modern artpiece of Dias' and Applejack's aftermath, instead letting the ground sink the button into the ball. The halves pop open and Viola stumbles out. She hops about on her feet before her sense of balance sets in, and waves thankfully to Keldeo. She nods in return, then brings her gaze to her opponent far across the battlefield. The empty Pokeball by Totodile's side implies something, surely. But her battler is nowhere to be seen. Nonetheless Totodile stands firm, arms crossed and smirk at the ready.
Round Seven
Totodile
XOo
Jawss
Trapinch (F) [Hyper Cutter] @ Lucky Egg
Health: 100% | Energy: 100%
Condition: “da na…DA NA…DAAA NAAAAA DA NA DA NA DA NA-” Bulldoze ~ Bulldoze ~ Earth Power
Keldeo
XOo
Viola, Disciple of Lirrin
Happiny (F) [Serene Grace] @ Oval Stone
Health: 100% | Energy: 100%
Condition: “where’d my egg go” Solar Beam ~ Solar Beam ~ Reflect
Viola's hands clasp her very stoney, very oval egg, shifting her weight from one foot to another. Quiet hums escape her frozen face. Across the ground the wind gathers strands of brown fur and green hair sprinkling the fresh bits of skin. Everywhere the wind goes a bulge follows beneath, a small circular dome chasing whatever noise it can find in its prison. Viola begins to rock her head forwards and backwards. The dome flattens into the ground, the earth it was made of settling like water that was until recently, being disturbed. The wind died.
Viola gulps down the remnants of the gale, remembering that breathing is something one should do in order to survive. Yes, that's good. Breathing is quite helpful, she's feeling better already. Why, she can even see the lake's far bank. A wiggle of her legs betrays her cheer at a sudden growth spurt.
Jaws bursts out of the ground, the dome beneath Viola splitting open and revealing another dome of similar size. The dome opens along the middle, displaying not many rows of sharp teeth, only one row, actually. Viola tumbles backwards, her tiny palms slapping the wet earth. Sat in front of an enormous orange with teeth, her mouth opens in time with her eyes closing. Gaping in the shape of a D dropped on its back, the Happiny screeches out a beam of heat. Gushing out as much as her little heart can, as fast as it can. She can feel it beating against the hard stone on her chest, smacking into it every time another ounce of energy is thrusted out. Her whole mouth lays host to the blast, as if the sunlight was going through a very fearful mold. The receiving end is quite fearful as well, as Jaws, having her titular feature open for maximum scare factor, is now forced backwards by the blast. Shooting through the air at a low enough angle that's high enough to elevate her, all while gargling sunlight.
The beams relent, and Jaws' head slams into the ground. Her body follows after, smacking once into the dirt and then rising slowly like a returning lever due to the massivity of her head pulling it back up. This unfortunate position leaves Jaws with little else to do other than shake and jiggle about. She rolls onto the side of her face, winking her third eyelid over before her delicate irises are scarred by the ground. Her legs now facing the side, she hefts them forward, squeezing her muscles until the curve of her legs are now straight lines, trying to pull free of her body. The tipping is just enough, and she smacks into the ground with foursome force, sending out ripples across the earth. Her legs trot one by one until she's taken a u-turn and come face to face with the Happiny. Just as the waves reach her feet and quickly compact and expand the ground beneath. Viola's bottom sinks lower into the cracking earth, before the dirt packs around them, the force disregarding the medium it is pushing through and attempting to expand her leg muscles. A sharp pain runs up both her legs, and spreads outwards in veins, as if her two squishy feet are trying to split into four.
Jaws isn't done, however, and a stomp of her forelegs, followed by a stomp of her hindlegs causes the dirt clumped across Viola's bottom to explode. The violent tension erupting outwards and showering the Happiny in stones. Grains of the underground slather themselves across Viola's back, leaving powdery brown trails up to her bundle of hair. She flings her hands up, attempting to shield herself from the projectile rocks now bonking her on the head, attempting to call powers within and form a blazing blue shield to convert itself into a verb and protect her. Assured that her protection is total, she turns her head up, and a stone pokes her in the eye.
Totodile
XOo
Jawss
Trapinch (F) [Hyper Cutter] @ Lucky Egg
Health: 64% | Energy: 90%
Condition: “Trapinch always stone the village idiot” Bulldoze ~ Bulldoze ~ Earth Power
Keldeo
XOo
Viola, Disciple of Lirrin
Happiny (F) [Serene Grace] @ Oval Stone
Health: 75% | Energy: 80%
Condition: -2 Speed “I’m not an idiot (;O;)” Solar Beam ~ Solar Beam ~ wat ow rocks
A3:
Earth Power: Effect Chance (33/100, NO EFFECT)
Notes:
-Viola (15) outspeeds Jaws (10).
-Happiny doesn’t learn Reflect for some odd reason, even though it gets the twin in Light Screen.
-Jaws’ name may be rad now, but what will you do when she evolves :C
-Totodile is actually the one controlling the shark, and why a shark wants revenge!
Round Eight Totodile
XOo
Jawss
Trapinch (F) [Hyper Cutter] @ Lucky Egg
Health: 64% | Energy: 90%
Condition: “Trapinch always stone the village idiot” Bulldoze ~ Bulldoze ~ Earth Power
Keldeo
XOo
Viola, Disciple of Lirrin
Happiny (F) [Serene Grace] @ Oval Stone
Health: 75% | Energy: 80%
Condition: -2 Speed “I’m not an idiot (;O;)” Solar Beam ~ Solar Beam ~ wat ow rocks
Jaws, now completely upright, at least physically- her mind still wanders about and uses punctuation to draw out sente: OH A BUTTERFLY. Her foreleg dashes out, wiggling with urgency in an attempt to grab the nearby butterfly. Unfortunately for her, the rest of her legs can’t keep up with the added weight. Compounded by the instability added by her flicking her leg to and fro like a maddened Cheeto, she has nothing to do but slam her head down into the ground.
Viola, expecting this to occur because her trainer was ordering second, had already made a vaguely Happiny shaped chair out of nearby bits of pink. She didn’t know what this pink stuff was, but sometimes it squished and sloshed and red liquid came out. The affair was mortared together with some leftover howling sand, and thus the queen sat upon her throne. The vibrations rode underneath, not as so much crumbling the entire bottom half into a heap of sand, but activating the sand trapped between the flesh. The rumblings of mother earth called to the displaced, woeful particles, causing them to break free and try to chase her down, leading to an almost total collapse of function.
Thumps begin to echo across the ground, like ripples on a brown sea. It’s only the indication of movement, as the earth stays defiantly still through all of the vibrating commotion. Little pockets of earth here jumping for joy, other grains of sand and grit hopping like jumping beans. The ripples strike the face of the mountain, causing it to shake and ring like a gong, before the waves bounce back for some odd reason. Jaws’ legs, dug into the ground, struggling to turn around, give Viola some hints towards the cause. The waves coalesce back towards the Happiny, meeting another coming front just below her chair. The waves crash into each other, splitting the earth open beneath her and gobbling up chair like a pair of jaws. The Trapinch opens her mouth wide in a smile.
It is then duly filled with sunlight, Viola noting that the mouth is dark and darkness is bad so here, sun. Jaws doesn’t quite like photosynthesizing, nor does she know what that is, and her jaws agree in turn, so her endeavors to capture the sun are cut short with the snapping shut of her maw. The sunbeams still spit onto the front of her head, but they do little but blind her now. Her forelegs hammer against the ground, unearthing the slumbering ripples. This time they make no fuss of it and open and close right underneath the Happiny’s happiny hiney, grabbing her like a claw then spitting her out in a shower of rock.
Viola, pelted by pebbles, was waiting for this opportunity to come. Even though the reddish, pants-like growth around her legs is now scarred with more reddish, not pants-like skid marks, they kick into action. The Happiny shoots her leg up as far as it can go, which is not very far and looks like half of a step. But the effect is immediate, she steps into the air like a kung fu master. Her other foot follows, and then another step is taken, and so on. In her mind she is not simply kick-climbing through the air, but pushing the air away from her so that the solidness of her mind can fill it up, allowing her to climb even the most inexistent of mountains. Her foot doesn’t even feel Jaws’ jaws beneath it, long having arrived at her position and now half-stepping her foe up into the air. Because routine demands it, she calls out the loudest HIYAH a Happiny could muster, and smacks her foot down on the Trapinch’s head. Jaws freezes at the blow, a simple moment in time to collect her thoughts and wonder what the actual fuck just happened and why is this even working. Then she shoots down like a meteor, ripping past all the air that Viola shoved aside, hearing it all funnel back into place. The world comes up behind her and slams into her back, sending ripples firing across her shell like water would engulf a victim. The waves circle her body, filling all the way to the top and meet at her underbelly. She feels the force of the earth choke out from that single point, trying to rip her in half. Her name-brand chips shaped legs flail, the only way she can express her pain. Fearfully keeping her mouth shut in case the ripples shoot out or something and tear her open. Just like the quakes she caused before, the shaking inside her stops, and the force that tried to rip a new mouth across her stomach now tries to sew it back together, ignorant of the lack of an actual opening. Jaws’ relieved sigh welcomes the effort, though.
Totodile
XOo
Jawss
Trapinch (F) [Hyper Cutter] @ Lucky Egg
Health: 24% (Capped) | Energy: 77%
Condition: “I was one with the erth, now I am one with the hert” Bulldoze ~ Earthquake ~ Earthquake
Keldeo
XOo
Viola, Disciple of Lirrin
Happiny (F) [Serene Grace] @ Oval Stone
Health: 53% | Energy: 53%
Condition: -2 Speed “I may be stupid, but you’ll always be dead!” Substitute (10%) ~ Solar Beam ~ Counter
Nothing! Though the last Earthquake was nearly a crit, wouldn’t that have been something…
Notes:
-Sorry for the delay, busy with moving.
-This reffing was brought to you by me sitting in a chair.
-Saber teeth? Not, say, shark teeth? Blasphemy!
-Keldeo goes and finds her Happiny a suitable baby chair. Sacrilege!
(the cap is 40% so Jaws should be at 24% health, I think? and Viola shouldn't have lost Speed from the Bulldoze since her Substitute took the hit)
I'm not really sure what to do, so let's keep going with one-action Solar Beam until she's down. If she isn't hittable, Work Up, and switch to Hyper Voice if she has a substitute or clones, if it's sandstorming, or if she's digging, or if you hit the real her with Solar Beam once already. If you've already started to charge Solar Beam and she makes one of those, though, don't try to switch moves.
Solar Beam (one action) / Work Up / Hyper Voice x3
Totodile
XOo
Jawss
Trapinch (F) [Hyper Cutter] @ Lucky Egg
Health: 24% (Capped) | Energy: 77%
Condition: “I was one with the erth, now I am one with the hert” Bulldoze ~ Earthquake ~ Earthquake
Keldeo
XOo
Viola, Disciple of Lirrin
Happiny (F) [Serene Grace] @ Oval Stone
Health: 53% | Energy: 53%
Condition: -2 Speed “I may be stupid, but you’ll always be dead!” Substitute (10%) ~ Solar Beam ~ Counter
It was an old town, filled with more memories than streets. But each memory still wore more dust than anyone would mind finding. It was a town of ghosts. But like any town, it still ran. There was always the old grey faced bastard. Son of some oil tycoon and a driller’s wife. A life like that would turn anyone to stone. But he was a gentle giant, always treating the locals right. The locals were what he called tourists, no one else would dare step foot in this town, barring the sheriff and his deputy. The offroad journeyman, the tourists, they always came in spades. They always stayed at the stony man’s inn, and they always payed him late. Nothing to the towering figure, he didn’t let it get to him. He watched as they played life by, sitting by his goldfish in a bowl.
Sometimes the sheriff walked in. Pale orange fella from off east somewhere, and south some more. The town wouldn’t accept a lady sheriff, but when she came in all those years ago they couldn’t tell her teeth from woman or man. She stayed, because they couldn’t tell it to her teeth. All her rounds brought her back here, all her deputy’s rounds brought her nowhere. Sheriff “Jaws” ran a tight ship, almost as tight as her deputy’s pants, some said. No one said that, since the town was deserted, but Jaws thought they would’ve. Sheriff Jaws ran a tight ship for everyone but herself.
One of the local’s kids came running by, so gnarled in the roots of this town that they couldn’t help but be locals. Bein’ local meant speaking like one. He pointed down the alley, saying he’d heard a shot ring out. There were only two guns in this ghost town, one apiece for the sheriff and her handmaid deputy. Jaws shoved off the stool, pulled her arms down from the counter, and hobbled to the door. She nodded at the kid, and he ran out and pointed down the street like a good local boy. She patted him on the shoulder, because she couldn’t reach his head, and started walking her way down.
That’s when the shot rang out. Clear and crystal, like the only other gun Jaws had ever heard. Given to her by her daddy, the deputy had said. Hand crafted by the son of a gunman. Every bullet was solid gold, and she’d never fired anything worth less. Deputy Viola stepped out of the shadow of the alley with her golden gun. Smoke crawled out the barrel, almost like it was saluting her. Jaws sneered, her hat was too big for her, she said. Deputy Viola cocked her head to the side, like she could care. Jaws turned her head to the side, letting the wound open to the sunlight above. Her eyes scanned the empty street. Nothing but the sound of footprints. Damn locals.
Jaws grabbed the dirt and kicked it at Viola. The daddy’s girl blinked once, then thrice, and her hands flew to her face. Jaws soon followed. She jumped onto the deputy, wrapping her stubby legs around the Deputy’s tiny body, tightening until they fell over. All the while slamming her hands into the Deputy’s face. She screeched between the blows, asking why the Sheriff wouldn’t gun her down. Jaws almost stopped for a moment, wondering why she asked that, but the red took over. Someone who shoots from behind doesn’t deserve a bullet.
“How about the front?” were the last words Jaws ever heard. The last sound, of course, was the loud bang of the gun made by the son. Viola held the gold in her hands, shimmering like liquid in the day’s heat. The deed was done. She was the daughter of the son, maker of the gun, no better sharpshooter could compare.
Totodile
XXo
Jawss
Trapinch (F) [Hyper Cutter] @ Lucky Egg
Health: 0% | Energy: 70%
Condition: KOed! “There will be another, witch” Overpower ~ can’t do nothin’
Keldeo
XOo
Viola, Disciple of Lirrin
Happiny (F) [Serene Grace] @ Oval Stone
Health: 35% | Energy: 33%
Condition: -2 Speed, +1 Accuracy “pardner” Sunbeams of ~ Cold Gold
Viola’s Arena Boost: (1/100, SUCCESS), Stat (7/7, Accuracy)
Jaws’ Health:
24 – 18 (Shot to the back) – 11 (Shot to the front) = par for the course.
Jaws’ Energy:
77 – 7 (Superpower) = 70%
Viola’s Health:
53 – 18 (Superpower) = 35%
Viola’s Energy:
53 – 10 (Double) – 4 (Tap) = 39%
Notes:
-darn tootin’
-Totodile calls forth her final contender, gives them their first commands, Keldeo winds down Viola afterwards. Let’s get shootin’
(In case it affects sendouts, I think Viola should have used Hyper Voice on the second action because she'd already hit Jaws with one Solar Beam? It wouldn't impact anything but her energy, though, I think.)
(In case it affects sendouts, I think Viola should have used Hyper Voice on the second action because she'd already hit Jaws with one Solar Beam? It wouldn't impact anything but her energy, though, I think.)
Let's go, Poe! Start off with Power-Up Punch, and then use Drain Punch twice for health. If she is unhittable for any reason other than Substitute, go with Swords Dance instead and push your commands back an action.
Okay so apparently they have both Iron Fist and a Muscle Band, which completely screwed up my old plan. It turns out that one Power-Up Punch and one Drain Punch is enough to KO us, unless we go for two Drain Punches of our own to just barely take us over the cap, making sure we survive this round. End with a Last Resort so we get at least some damage in.
I closed the battle in the db. I gave Applejack and Dias both a KO which I'm 95% sure is the right thing to do there? (And Jaws and Viola got their exp too.)
Jaws the female Trapinch <Hyper Cutter> @ Lucky Egg
Viola, Disciple of Lirrin the female Happiny <Serene Grace> @ Oval Stone
