Totodile vs Noctowl

[Totodile]

Mmmmm we can only try to stay alive at this point.

Rest ~ Chill ~ Chill

 

[Meowth]

=Totodile vs Noctowl: Round Twelve= [✔]

Totodile

Wrath ♀ @Wide Lens
Health: 29% | Energy: 68%
Ability: Hustle
trying to dile with her pain.
Condition: Atk+1, SpAtk+1, Spd+2, Focus Energy'd
Rest ~ Chill ~ Chill

Noctowl

Robbie ♂
Health: 31% | Energy: 54%
Ability: Torrent
out of his element.
Condition: Atk+3, Def+1, Spd-1
Giga Drain/Synthesis ~ Giga Drain/Chill/Synthesis ~ Giga Drain/Chill/Synthesis​

The face-off between the two Pokémon had entered a critical stage. Both were nearing the dregs of their health, and this one round, properly played, could mean victory or defeat for either one of them. Judging herself to be on the shorter end of the vitality stick, Wrath took it upon herself to alter the state of affairs, sweeping away all the uncomfortable shards of rubble from under her with her tail and plopping her belly down on the ground for a little snooze. Her beady eyes slid closed, an aura of healing enveloping her in a cosy little bubble and starting to leach health back into her tired and sore body.

Robbie stomped his foot and snorted, appalled with her nerve. He worked his butt off to inflict all that damage, and she thought she'd just go and undo all his work just like that? Well, two could play at that game. He closed his eyes and concentrated on manipulating the vitality flowing through Wrath's veins, willing it out of her body and into his, and gradually beads of green life energy began to filter out of Wrath's cocoon of healing and flow through the air into Robbie. He absorbed them gratefully, numerous scratches and bruises over his body patching themselves in the process, while Wrath screwed her face up in discomfort and fidgeted in her sleep.

Being fast asleep, though, she wasn't in the best position to offer a rejoinder. Instead she simply lay comatose, recovering some of the energy spent to maintain her curative bubble while it steadily fed health back into her. This display of utter shiftlessness only served to infuriate Robbie further, prompting him to confiscate more of Wrath's ill-gotten health. In the midst of the shower of glittering green orbs floating through the air towards him, a glimmering reflection off a random rock caught his eye, and on further inspection he discovered a Leaf Stone half-hidden in a crack in the ground! After a few clumsy attempts to clasp it in his jaws and worry it loose, he finally pried it free and tossed it proudly to his trainer.

An obnoxious snore from across the room put a damper on the joy of his fantastic discovery. He turned back towards his slumbering nemesis and muttered to himself in annoyance, liberating another hunk of her jealously-hoarded health. Once Robbie had fully absorbed her stolen vitality, the sensation finally roused the slumbering reptile, and she yawned and stretched, feeling much more hale and hearty and much less fatigued into the bargain.

Just as her gaping jaws snapped shut, the dozenth random evolution of the match took place, the swirling vortex of metamorphosis this time bestowing the trainers with a starling and a weird, smelly, drooling flower.

Totodile

Wrath ♀ @Wide Lens
Health: 62% | Energy: 52%
Ability: Hustle
covering her nares with her wing.
Condition: Atk+1, SpAtk+1, Spd+2, Focus Energy'd
Rest ~ Chill ~ Chill

Noctowl

Robbie ♂
Health: 52% | Energy: 45%
Ability: Torrent
"...what's that smell? is... is it /me/?"
Condition: Atk+3, Def+1, Spd-1
Giga Drain ~ Giga Drain ~ Giga Drain​

Calculations
~ Rest: 24% health restored per action, 12% energy per action
~ Giga Drain #1: 13% damage, 3% energy, 7% health restored
~ Chill: 10% energy restored
~ Giga Drain #2: 13% damage, 3% energy, 7% health restored
~ Chill: 10% energy restored
~ Giga Drain #3: 13% damage, 3% energy, 7% health restored

Referee's notes
~ at the end of the round, Wrath evolved into Starly and Robbie evolved into Gloom.
~ Wrath outspeeds Robbie 60>25.
~ Robbie found a stone on the second action, bringing the bonus totals to $3 to Totodile and $3 to Noctowl.
~ Giga Drain's recovery brought Robbie back over the Torrent threshold.
~ turns out "beaky nose-holes" are called nares.

Next round
~ Totodile attacks
~ Noctowl attacks

 

[Totodile]

Let's see. He has lots of gross status moves, so let's make a Substitute. Then do a couple Air Cutters. If he Protects, Work yourself Up.

Substitute (15%) ~ Air Cutter/Work Up x2

 

[Noctowl]

Double edge twice, and then stun spore.

Double edge~Double edge~Stun spore

 

[Meowth]

=Totodile vs Noctowl: Round Thirteen= [✔]

Totodile

Wrath ♀ @Wide Lens
Health: 62% | Energy: 52%
Ability: Hustle
covering her nares with her wing.
Condition: Atk+1, SpAtk+1, Spd+2, Focus Energy'd
Substitute (15%) ~ Air Cutter/Work Up ~ Air Cutter/Work Up

Noctowl

Robbie ♂
Health: 52% | Energy: 45%
Ability: Torrent
"...what's that smell? is... is it /me/?"
Condition: Atk+3, Def+1, Spd-1
Double Edge ~ Double Edge ~ Stun Spore​

Something about the arena seemed to be provoking a keen artistic bent in Totodile's squad. Whether the wealth of unique materials was providing an irresistible fountain of inspiration or they merely thought the old place was in need of some decoration, it was difficult to say, but either way Wrath began flitting between the piles of rubble, picking out pieces for her creation like a bird choosing choice twigs for its nest. When she finally had all the parts she needed, she arranged them on the ground and breathed life into them, whereupon they rose up as one ready to do her bidding.

However, much as Totodile's squad were continuing their legacy of budding architects, so were Noctowl's team living up to their reputation as sabotaging philistines. Before the construct was even mobile he was upon it, diving recklessly forth surrounded by a glowing white aura and thrashing at it with all his might. A few well-placed smacks brought it crumbling back into rubble, the remainder of his tantrum serving only to repeatedly smack his body painfully into the hard ground.

Outraged by this callous display of vandalism, Wrath took to the air and began beating her wings furiously, whipping up a furious air current that blew relentlessly over Robbie, tearing at him with blades of wind. Unperturbed, he was again wreathed with a furious white glow, springing at Wrath and tackling her roughly down to earth. She screeched furiously in protest, wrestling on the ground with her aggressor and finally forcing him off with a volley of pecks. As she hopped away, a blue light surrounded Robbie once more, his innate powers re-awakening in light of his newly rediscovered plight.

Wrath took to the air once again, swooping in a wide arc around Robbie and unleashing another blade of wind with a mighty flap of both wings. He let out an involuntary wail as it struck, leaving a vicious gash along his chest, and fell to his knees shuddering, the will to go on rapidly leaving him. All he could do in his wounded state was shake his head vigorously, dislodging a cloud of glittering golden pollen that wafted through the room. Without thinking, Wrath took a deep breath of it, spluttering as it filled her lungs and quickly entered her bloodstream. The neurotoxic effect of the spores quickly siezed up her muscles, the sudden numbness sending her flailing to the ground.

She held still as the light of evolution descended upon her again, transforming her avian body into that of a floaty venus fly trap monster. She turned to Robbie, disconcerted to find a pissed-off multi-legged meteor monster staring back. He looked moderately less threatening in his injured state, but nonetheless rather formidable.

Totodile

Wrath ♀ @Wide Lens
Health: 32% | Energy: 30%
Ability: Hustle
twitching uncomfortably.
Condition: Atk+1, SpAtk+1, Spd+2, Focus Energy'd, paralysed (severe)
Substitute (15%) ~ Air Cutter ~ Air Cutter

Noctowl

Robbie ♂
Health: 12% | Energy: 28%
Ability: Torrent
feeling nowhere near as fearsome as he looks.
Condition: Atk+3, Def+1, Spd-1, Torrent activated
Double Edge ~ Double Edge ~ Stun Spore​

Calculations
~ Substitute: 15% damage (self), 8% energy
~ Double Edge: 15% damage, 5% recoil, 7% energy
~ Air Cutter: 15% damage, 2% energy
~ Double Edge: 15% damage, 5% recoil, 7% energy
~ Air Cutter: 15% damage, 2% energy
~ Stun Spore: 3% energy

Referee's notes
~ at the end of the round, Wrath evolved into Carnivine and Robbie evolved into Metagross.
~ Robbie outspeeds Wrath 55>38.
~ evolution stone bonuses: Totodile $3, Noctowl $3
~ Torrent re-activated on the second action.

Next round
~ Noctowl attacks
~ Totodile attacks

 

[Noctowl]

Ice punch twice, then explosion. If carnivine protects, or is somehow unhittable, defence curl or something. Apparently you can learn that.

Ice punch/Defence curl~Ice punch/Defence curl~Explosion/Defence curl

 

[Totodile]

Don't parafail, please, Wrath. I believe in you.

Payback ~ Payback ~ Endure

 

[Meowth]

=Totodile vs Noctowl: Round Fourteen= [✔]

Totodile

Wrath ♀ @Wide Lens
Health: 32% | Energy: 30%
Ability: Hustle
twitching uncomfortably.
Condition: Atk+1, SpAtk+1, Spd+2, Focus Energy'd, paralysed (severe)
Payback ~ Payback ~ Endure

Noctowl

Robbie ♂
Health: 12% | Energy: 28%
Ability: Torrent
feeling nowhere near as fearsome as he looks.
Condition: Atk+3, Def+1, Spd-1, Torrent activated
Ice Punch/Defense Curl ~ Ice Punch/Defense Curl ~ Explosion/Defense Curl​

Robbie groaned. Despite his new tough metallic body, he still felt tender and ragged, filled with a deadening, pain-fuelled numbness. He grimaced and fought back the urge to submit to it and collapse, instead channelling it into his metallic fist to fuel one final parting shot. His fist became wreathed in an aura of cold, rapidly solidifying into a glove of ice, before he hurled himself into the air with a thunderous groan of exertion and hurtled at Wrath, his fist connecting with the Carnivine's jaw in a tremendous crackle of shattering ice.

Wrath hissed, holding her leafy arm over the bruise left by the punch, its soreness not dulled nearly enough by the freezing ice particles rapidly melting on her cheek. She glowered with fury, an aura of vengeance welling up around her body and feeding off of her anger. She swung forward and slapped Robbie viciously on the head in retribution, the dark veil around her swarming into him and turning the annoyed slap into an agony greater than Robbie could bear. His legs gave way beneath him, his body slamming into the ground and laying still until it flashed white and returned to the limp, unconscious shape of an Oshawott. Wrath, meanwhile, was enjoying a rather more novel form, a fire-breathing anteater now standing in her place celebrating her knockout.

Totodile

Wrath ♀ @Wide Lens
Health: 19% | Energy: 23%
Ability: Hustle
fired up.
Condition: Atk+1, SpAtk+1, Spd+2, Focus Energy'd, paralysed (severe)
Payback

Noctowl

Robbie ♂
Health: 0% | Energy: 24%
Ability: Torrent
knocked out!
Condition: Atk+3, Def+1, Spd-1, Torrent activated
Ice Punch​

Calculations
~ Ice Punch: 13% damage, 4% energy
~ Payback: 18% damage, 7% energy

Referee's notes
~ at the end of the round, Wrath evolved into Heatmor.
~ evolution stone bonuses: Totodile $3, Noctowl $3

Next round
~ Noctowl sends out
~ Totodile attacks
~ Noctowl attacks

 

[Noctowl]

Achilles, you are up!

 

[Totodile]

Okay, let's have our last stand. Will-O-Wisp until it hits, then Giga Drain. However, if there's a Sub up, use Giga Drain until it's gone.

Will-O-Wisp/Giga Drain x3

 

[Noctowl]

Earth power three times.

Earth power~Earth power~Earth power

 

[Meowth]

=Totodile vs Noctowl: Round Fifteen=

Totodile

Wrath ♀ @Wide Lens
Health: 19% | Energy: 23%
Ability: Hustle
gonna go down fighting.
Condition: Atk+1, SpAtk+1, Spd+2, Focus Energy'd, paralysed (severe)
Will-O-Wisp/Giga Drain ~ Will-O-Wisp/Giga Drain ~ Will-O-Wisp/Giga Drain

Noctowl

Achilles ♂
Health: 100% | Energy: 100%
Ability: Rock Head
looking forward to an easy kill.
Condition: none
Earth Power ~ Earth Power ~ Earth Power​

With Robbie withdrawn from battle, Noctowl unleashed her final Pokémon into the arena, Achilles the Cubone springing forth in a burst of red light. He considered his foe carefully; she looked pretty weird and scary, but it was obvious she was on her last legs, numerous wounds criss-crossing her bruised and battered body as she limped and gasped in agony with every lumbering movement. Despite her condition, Wrath was determined to fight until the end, and gave the best snarl she could muster in the Cubone's direction.

She tried to draw first blood, but her paralysis made her move too slow, and Achilles had taken the lead before she could move a muscle. The Cubone held his bone high in the air and let out a bestial roar, bringing the bone down violently and beating it into the ground. From the point of impact, numerous cracks broke out through the already well-cracked floor, spreading towards Wrath as they split ever deeper. By the time they reached their target's feet they seemed to have sunk to the very bowels of the earth, steam bursting out like a geyser before jets of scalding magma burst forth in their wake. Wrath howled, trying in vain to shield herself from the boiling spray of molten rock that erupted in ever-increasing amounts; even the Heatmor's body was charred black by its intense heat. She attempted to endure the onslaught, but all at once the floor blew apart under her feet in a final boost of earthly power, flinging her away into a wall and instantly knocking her unconscious. A veil of evolution energy consumed her as she slid down, turning her back into an equally unconscious Deino by the time she hit the ground.

Moments later, a swirling shroud of energy wrapped itself around Achilles, and the little Cubone let out a bark of joy. Was this it? Had his knockout finally brought him to the point of evolution?! He braced himself in excitement as his body vaporised into a cloud of energy and began to expand. And expand... and expand... and expand... it was like some unbreakable balloon had been hooked up to an air hose and left to its own devices, and also fast-forwarded to super-high speeds. The trainers found themselves having to stand back quite a few yards as the mass ended up taking up an entire wing of the warehouse before finally its expansion ceased and it solidified into a titanic blue cetacean. Achilles looked down at the tiny specks that had once been giant humans and let out a wail of confusion; now he was certain no Marowak was anywhere near as big as this. Something was most definitely very wrong...

Totodile

Wrath ♀ @Wide Lens
Health: 0% | Energy: 23%
Ability: Hustle
knocked out!
Condition: Atk+1, SpAtk+1, Spd+2, Focus Energy'd, paralysed (moderate)

Noctowl

Achilles ♂
Health: 100% | Energy: 96%
Ability: Rock Head
incredibly claustrophobic.
Condition: beached (speed halved).
Earth Power​

Calculations
~ Earth Power: 24% damage, 4% energy

Referee's notes
~ at the end of the round, Achilles evolved into Wailord.
~ evolution stone bonuses: Totodile $3, Noctowl $3
~ Earth Power was a critical hit.

Next round
~ Totodile sends out
~ Noctowl attacks
~ Totodile attacks

 

[Totodile]

So, did Wrath use Will-o-Wisp or not? The actions string said she did, but the lack of calculations, percentage changes, and corresponding flavor text implies she didn't, so :?

 

[Meowth]

She didn't. She was going to for about two seconds before I remembered to adjust her speed and I guess I never fixed the command string.

 

[Totodile]

Okay. Wrath, you did good, even though the numbers were against you. Now go to sleep.

Ceres, you're up!

 

[Noctowl]

Since we are slow, we might as well take advantage of the extra damage avalanche will do. So we shall do that. Of course, if you cannot hit your opponent, get that aqua ring up yo and then get a sub or something to eat. Then go for the kill with splash because i am tired and it is 2 am and idk.

Avalanche/Aqua ring~Avalanche/subsititue (15%)~Avalanche/splash

 

[Totodile]

The nice thing about Avalanche is that it doesn't sting so much if you don't damage him directly. So let's first take advantage of our speed by slipping in a Thunder Wave, and follow that up with a Leech Seed. Finally, bait the Splash with a Substitute.

Thunder Wave ~ Leech Seed ~ Substitute (15%)

 

[Meowth]

=Totodile vs Noctowl: Round Sixteen=

Totodile

Ceres ♀ @Lucky Egg
Health: 100% | Energy: 100%
Ability: Chlorophyll
unimpressed by the drab surroundings.
Condition: none
Thunder Wave ~ Leech Seed ~ Substitute (15%)

Noctowl

Achilles ♂
Health: 100% | Energy: 96%
Ability: Rock Head
"oh deer"
Condition: beached (speed halved).
Avalanche/Aqua Ring ~ Avalanche/Subsititute (15%) ~ Avalanche/Splash​

Withdrawing her fainted dragon, Totodile was at a loss. What could possibly bring down such a behemoth? Clearly, her only hope was a tiny little deer. She hurtled her final Pokéball into the center of the room and released Ceres, the little fawn glancing around the squalid arena before clapping eyes on her opponent. Her eyes widened; how was she supposed to bring down a beast like that?! He was taking up half the room, wall to wall and floor to ceiling! The enormous beast shifted awkwardly in his concrete prison, trying to face his opponent menacingly. At the very least, Ceres reassured herself, his lack of mobility made him no real threat. Just to be safe, she shot a spark of static electricity at him to lower it even further, the jolt rapidly spreading through his huge body and locking up muscles as it went.

Letting off a thunderous groan of discomfort, Achilles angled himself towards Ceres as best he could and threw up several globs of water from his throat, flash-freezing them in the air into great boulders of ice. With great difficulty he shifted forward enough to nudge them, sending them hurtling in an arc towards Ceres and slamming down onto her one by one. The deer let out a wail of pain and composed herself, focusing her energy into producing a tiny, glowing seed and tossing it at Achilles. It landed squarely on the whale's belly and instantly planted itself into his skin, roots burrowing through his thick flesh and snaking into his bloodstream. The bizarre and agonising sensation made him flinch, the spasm twisting his paralysed muscles into a cripplingly painful position, leaving him rendered immobile and roaring in pain. Ceres, meanwhile, was left feeling much less sore as the sprout planted on her foe offered up a stream of orbs of his vitality, which she gratefully absorbed.

Now, she felt, it was time to follow in the illustrious footsteps of her artistic forebears. All around her she saw the strewn remains of shattered sculptures, and she knew she'd never live it down among her colleagues if she didn't throw something together herself. She piled up a few of the destroyed clumps of substitute and carefully arranged them into the closest approximation of her likeness she could, and once satisfied she injected a shining orb of her own life energy into the mass which slowly rose up and came to life. Achilles was similarly determined to live up to his designation as Senseless Destroyer of Art, but his efforts were tarnished by the fact he was still too sore to even wiggle his fins.

The surge of mysterious stone radiation flared up again like clockwork, Ceres letting out a shocked wail as her body began to warp and contort like glimmering, non-tangible putty before congealing back into a physical form, notably unlike her own. For a start, she appeared to only have two legs. Clearly she had become quite horribly disfigured in some way. Achilles, meanwhile, was simply happy to be a sensible size again, balloon-like as he still was.

Totodile

Ceres ♀ @Lucky Egg
Health: 79% | Energy: 83%
Ability: Chlorophyll
"why am i bipedal what the"
Condition: none
Thunder Wave ~ Leech Seed ~ Substitute (15%)


Ceres' substitute
Health: 15%

Noctowl

Achilles ♂
Health: 97% | Energy: 93%
Ability: Rock Head
"so much room~"
Condition: paralysed (mild), leech seeded (-1% health and +1% health to opponent per action).
Avalanche ~ paralysed ~ paralysed​

Calculations
~ Thunder Wave: 4% energy
~ Avalanche: 9% damage, 3% energy
~ Leech Seed: 5% energy
~ Substitute: 15% damage (self), 8% energy

Referee's notes
~ at the end of the round, Ceres evolved into Hitmonlee and Achilles evolved into Wigglytuff.
~ Ceres outspeeds Achilles 87>35.
~ evolution stone bonuses: Totodile $3, Noctowl $3
~ for the record, having a substitute typically doesn't count as being unable to be hit.

Next round
~ Totodile attacks
~ Noctowl attacks

 

[Totodile]

I was so happy about this match-up until I remembered Wigglytuff is part fairy-type ._. come on

Go for Poison Jab, you manly blob girl deer monster. If he can't be hit for any reason besides Substitute (I want to be sure shhh), go for Work Up. If you're asleep for some reason, Snore.

Poison Jab/Work Up/Snore x3

 

[Noctowl]

Heal bell~Counter~Counter