Karen With the whole team revived and healed up, it’s time to take on Karen’s team. Masquerain will kick things off by facing off with Weavile, using its intimidate ability to instantly cut Weavile’s Attack stat by one stage. Then Keith will immediately switch out into the godmoth Volcarona to sponge a weakened, ice attack. On the kick back, he’ll go for a Will-O-Wisp to burn Weavile and cut its attack down even more. With Weavile’s damage output now miserable, Keith will have Volcarona go for That Move (quiver dance) to start stat boosting. At any point should Volcarona’s HP get too low, Volc will use Rest and since it will be holding a nice Chesto Berry, good old resto-chesto will bring Volc right back up to full health. Once he’s gotten a solid 3 QD’s off, Volcarona will launch a Fiery Dance to OHKO the Weavile. Absol will come in afterwards, and will promptly go down to a +3 Bug Buzz, but not before throwing out a Sucker Punch that’ll do a decent chunk to Volc’s HP since QD doesn’t boost the defense stat. HM.
At this point because Volc is basically lightning incarnate with +3 Speed boost, Karen’s best strat will be to go for hail mary sucker punches in an attempt to whittle down godmoth’s HP. In comes Spiritomb, whose first attempt at a sucker punch will fail because Keith has also learned from this and will have Volc go for a Will-O-Wisp to weakne the Sucker Punch first. Then, in an attempt to get back some HP , Volc will use Giga Drain on Spiritomb. With a +3 boost to Special Attack, this should do about over 50% damage to Spiritomb. Volc will get a decent chonk of HP back, but again lose some to sucker punch though it will overall be a slight net gain due to the burn. He’ll finish off the Spiritomb with another +3 Giga Drain.
Next comes Houndoom whose fire typing means there won’t be any Will-O-Wisp shenanigans here. Volcarona will take once sucker punch and survive with about 20% HP due to Houndoom's Comparatively lower Attack Stat. Immediate retaliation comes in the form of a +3 neutral but STAB Bug Buzz which should be more than enough to OHKO Houndoom without problem.
The real problem that comes in is Honchcrow who should very easily be able to take out Volcarona with a Sucker Punch from this range. This is going to lead to an50/50 situation where Karen, because she’s further behind in pokemon count, is going to have to decide if Volcarona going to go for a Will-O-Wisps to dodge Sucker Punches or if she should hedge her bets and start going for swords dance. Please imagine intense staring across the battle field and beads of sweat from the intensity. In the end, knowing that Honchcrow’s got the flying type advantage over the moth team, she goes for the Swords Dance as Volcarona goes for …. +3 Flamethrower. See, Keith wanted Karen to think he’d go with Will-O-Wisp first and had conditioned her -- lmfao, what is this Death Note?
Anyway, Karen’s last pokemon is an Umbreon who despite being a defensive tank is not really an offensive threat. Keith will switch out to Dustox and immediately put Umbreon on a timer with toxic. Dustox will dodgetting poisoned by Umbreon’s synchronise ability thanks to its poison typing. From here, Keith will have Dustox use Venoshock which doubles in base power when the target is poisoned. Umbreon has a hefty amount of Special Defense and it’ll be slow going between that and Dustox using Moonlight to restore HP. Eventually though, the Umbreon will succumb to toxic poisoning and Keith will walk away with the victory.
And now ONTO THE CHAMPION!
Lance Volcarona comes in hot against Salamence and will go straight for a string shot to decrease the dragon’s speed by 2 stages. Mence goes for a Flamethrower to score some good neutral damage on Volcarona and then Keith switches out to Mothim. Unfortunately, Motim will faint on the switch in to another Flamethrower, but this will not have been in vain because Forsmoth will get a clean switch in. With Salamence’s speed reduced, Frosmoth will easily outspeed and OHKO Lance’s first dragon with a 4x supper effective Ice beam.
Next comes Gyarados who Keith will switch back into Volcarona to again use String Shot to cut its speed in half. Afterwards, Gyarados will knock out Volcarona with Waterfall. Frosmoth is promptly getting switched right back in and it is time for shenanigans now that it outspeeds. Frosmoth will immediately go for Attract so this is going to be one of Those Battles. Gyarados will be immobilized by love giving Frosmoth a free turn to hit it with a stun spore. Now dealing with a very annoying dual status of Para-Attract, Gyarados is immobilized for another turn. This of course, is now the perfect time to set up a Quiver Dance. If the Elite Four don’t end up with nightmares of dancing moths for a lil bit afterwards, nothing else will. Gyarados finally manages to go for a waterfall and deals about 70% damage. No matter, Frosmoth will go for a rest and wake up the same turn with the help of the Chesto Berry its holding. Gyarados gets paralyzed this time. Frosmoth will go for a second QD to see if lightning can strike twice with Gyarados getting immobilized, but Lance’s sea serpent is apparently one tsun mofo and keeps hurting the things it likes, rood. Keith has had enoug of this and will direct Frosmoth to go for a 4x effective+2 boosted Hidden Power Electric to clinch the OHKO.
Lance now (correctly) identifying Frosmoth as a giant threat to the rest of his dragons will send out Charizard. Unfortunately, thanks to the +2 speed boost from QD, Frosmoth does outspeed the fire lizard and will promptly shock it with a 2+ boosted, HP electric. Backed by a massive Special Attack stat of 125 boosted twice, Charizard is going to fall to the OHKO. Next comes Garchomp who can’t outspeed a 2+ speed Forsmoth and will also go down to a 4x 2+ boosted super effective Ice Beam.
Sadly, this sweep comes to an end when Lance sends in Dragonite who manages to survive the Ice Beam on just a sliver of HP thanks to its Multiscale Ability. Retaliation is immediate in the form of a popwerful outrage attack. Masquerain swoops in, cuts Dragonite’s Attack by 1 stage with its Intimidate Ability and then proceeds to take out the iconic dragon with a Quick Attack. This leaves Lance with Altaria.
Old faithful (Venomoth) swoops in against Altaria, and immediately puts that last dragon in a timer with Toxic. Altaria will do a good chonk of damage to Venomoth with Aerial Ace, but won’t be able to repeat that because Venomoth goes for a very annoying Disable attack. Hanging on with just a sliver of HP, Venomoth will go for a Tinted Lens boosted Bug Buzz to get in an extra 40% damage. Altaria will knock out Venomoth with Flamethrower.
Down to just TWO months. Masquerain will come in. Altaria outspeeds and hits the buggo with a Flamethrower doing about 40%. Masquerain goes for a nice Scary Face to lower the birb dragon’s speed 2 stages and hit it on the follow up with an Aerial Ace for some extra chip damage to help speed up that toxic timer for Dustox. Altaria will then score a knock out on Masquerain by going for a follow up Flamethrower. With Altaria having about 30% health, Keith sends in the final moth-- Dustox.
Keith, at this point, think it'd be funny to style and be annoying with Toxic stall and will IMMEDIATELY get punished for that when Lance has Altaria go for Roost. Good thing that doesn’t fix the toxic situation, huh? Instantly taking seriously again, Keith has Dustox go right for Venoshock which brings Altaria back down in range for residual toxic damage to KO it the following turn. Lance has Altaria go straight for a Flamethrower to do as much damage as possible, but with that -2 speed drop, Altaria isn’t able to outspeed Dustox on the following turn. Keith has Dustox use Venoshock to hopefully seal the deal!
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Karen
With the whole team revived and healed up, it’s time to take on Karen’s team. Masquerain will kick things off by facing off with Weavile, using its intimidate ability to instantly cut Weavile’s Attack stat by one stage. Then Keith will immediately switch out into the godmoth Volcarona to sponge a weakened, ice attack. On the kick back, he’ll go for a Will-O-Wisp to burn Weavile and cut its attack down even more. With Weavile’s damage output now miserable, Keith will have Volcarona go for That Move (quiver dance) to start stat boosting. At any point should Volcarona’s HP get too low, Volc will use Rest and since it will be holding a nice Chesto Berry, good old resto-chesto will bring Volc right back up to full health. Once he’s gotten a solid 3 QD’s off, Volcarona will launch a Fiery Dance to OHKO the Weavile. Absol will come in afterwards, and will promptly go down to a +3 Bug Buzz, but not before throwing out a Sucker Punch that’ll do a decent chunk to Volc’s HP since QD doesn’t boost the defense stat. HM.
At this point because Volc is basically lightning incarnate with +3 Speed boost, Karen’s best strat will be to go for hail mary sucker punches in an attempt to whittle down godmoth’s HP. In comes Spiritomb, whose first attempt at a sucker punch will fail because Keith has also learned from this and will have Volc go for a Will-O-Wisp to weakne the Sucker Punch first. Then, in an attempt to get back some HP , Volc will use Giga Drain on Spiritomb. With a +3 boost to Special Attack, this should do about over 50% damage to Spiritomb. Volc will get a decent chonk of HP back, but again lose some to sucker punch though it will overall be a slight net gain due to the burn. He’ll finish off the Spiritomb with another +3 Giga Drain.
Next comes Houndoom whose fire typing means there won’t be any Will-O-Wisp shenanigans here. Volcarona will take once sucker punch and survive with about 20% HP due to Houndoom's Comparatively lower Attack Stat. Immediate retaliation comes in the form of a +3 neutral but STAB Bug Buzz which should be more than enough to OHKO Houndoom without problem.
The real problem that comes in is Honchcrow who should very easily be able to take out Volcarona with a Sucker Punch from this range. This is going to lead to an50/50 situation where Karen, because she’s further behind in pokemon count, is going to have to decide if Volcarona going to go for a Will-O-Wisps to dodge Sucker Punches or if she should hedge her bets and start going for swords dance. Please imagine intense staring across the battle field and beads of sweat from the intensity. In the end, knowing that Honchcrow’s got the flying type advantage over the moth team, she goes for the Swords Dance as Volcarona goes for …. +3 Flamethrower. See, Keith wanted Karen to think he’d go with Will-O-Wisp first and had conditioned her -- lmfao, what is this Death Note?
Anyway, Karen’s last pokemon is an Umbreon who despite being a defensive tank is not really an offensive threat. Keith will switch out to Dustox and immediately put Umbreon on a timer with toxic. Dustox will dodgetting poisoned by Umbreon’s synchronise ability thanks to its poison typing. From here, Keith will have Dustox use Venoshock which doubles in base power when the target is poisoned. Umbreon has a hefty amount of Special Defense and it’ll be slow going between that and Dustox using Moonlight to restore HP. Eventually though, the Umbreon will succumb to toxic poisoning and Keith will walk away with the victory.
And now ONTO THE CHAMPION!
Lance
Volcarona comes in hot against Salamence and will go straight for a string shot to decrease the dragon’s speed by 2 stages. Mence goes for a Flamethrower to score some good neutral damage on Volcarona and then Keith switches out to Mothim. Unfortunately, Motim will faint on the switch in to another Flamethrower, but this will not have been in vain because Forsmoth will get a clean switch in. With Salamence’s speed reduced, Frosmoth will easily outspeed and OHKO Lance’s first dragon with a 4x supper effective Ice beam.
Next comes Gyarados who Keith will switch back into Volcarona to again use String Shot to cut its speed in half. Afterwards, Gyarados will knock out Volcarona with Waterfall. Frosmoth is promptly getting switched right back in and it is time for shenanigans now that it outspeeds. Frosmoth will immediately go for Attract so this is going to be one of Those Battles. Gyarados will be immobilized by love giving Frosmoth a free turn to hit it with a stun spore. Now dealing with a very annoying dual status of Para-Attract, Gyarados is immobilized for another turn. This of course, is now the perfect time to set up a Quiver Dance. If the Elite Four don’t end up with nightmares of dancing moths for a lil bit afterwards, nothing else will. Gyarados finally manages to go for a waterfall and deals about 70% damage. No matter, Frosmoth will go for a rest and wake up the same turn with the help of the Chesto Berry its holding. Gyarados gets paralyzed this time. Frosmoth will go for a second QD to see if lightning can strike twice with Gyarados getting immobilized, but Lance’s sea serpent is apparently one tsun mofo and keeps hurting the things it likes, rood. Keith has had enoug of this and will direct Frosmoth to go for a 4x effective+2 boosted Hidden Power Electric to clinch the OHKO.
Lance now (correctly) identifying Frosmoth as a giant threat to the rest of his dragons will send out Charizard. Unfortunately, thanks to the +2 speed boost from QD, Frosmoth does outspeed the fire lizard and will promptly shock it with a 2+ boosted, HP electric. Backed by a massive Special Attack stat of 125 boosted twice, Charizard is going to fall to the OHKO. Next comes Garchomp who can’t outspeed a 2+ speed Forsmoth and will also go down to a 4x 2+ boosted super effective Ice Beam.
Sadly, this sweep comes to an end when Lance sends in Dragonite who manages to survive the Ice Beam on just a sliver of HP thanks to its Multiscale Ability. Retaliation is immediate in the form of a popwerful outrage attack. Masquerain swoops in, cuts Dragonite’s Attack by 1 stage with its Intimidate Ability and then proceeds to take out the iconic dragon with a Quick Attack. This leaves Lance with Altaria.
Old faithful (Venomoth) swoops in against Altaria, and immediately puts that last dragon in a timer with Toxic. Altaria will do a good chonk of damage to Venomoth with Aerial Ace, but won’t be able to repeat that because Venomoth goes for a very annoying Disable attack. Hanging on with just a sliver of HP, Venomoth will go for a Tinted Lens boosted Bug Buzz to get in an extra 40% damage. Altaria will knock out Venomoth with Flamethrower.
Down to just TWO months. Masquerain will come in. Altaria outspeeds and hits the buggo with a Flamethrower doing about 40%. Masquerain goes for a nice Scary Face to lower the birb dragon’s speed 2 stages and hit it on the follow up with an Aerial Ace for some extra chip damage to help speed up that toxic timer for Dustox. Altaria will then score a knock out on Masquerain by going for a follow up Flamethrower. With Altaria having about 30% health, Keith sends in the final moth-- Dustox.
Keith, at this point, think it'd be funny to style and be annoying with Toxic stall and will IMMEDIATELY get punished for that when Lance has Altaria go for Roost. Good thing that doesn’t fix the toxic situation, huh? Instantly taking seriously again, Keith has Dustox go right for Venoshock which brings Altaria back down in range for residual toxic damage to KO it the following turn. Lance has Altaria go straight for a Flamethrower to do as much damage as possible, but with that -2 speed drop, Altaria isn’t able to outspeed Dustox on the following turn. Keith has Dustox use Venoshock to hopefully seal the deal!