Character: Claude von Riegan | vrdantwind Badge/Gym Leader: Falkner, for the Zephyr Badge! Elite/Regular: Regular Team:https://vrdantwind.dreamwidth.org/840.html Battle Details: First of all, Claude has done some strategizing in how to employ Sicily the Sawsbuck (his strongest pokémon, by this point rather overleveled for Falkner's team) for this battle! And he's realized that Sicily knows Camouflage, which - when used indoors, as I imagine Falkner's gym is - will change Sicily to normal type, removing its grass typing and its weakness to flying in the process. It'll also turn Headbutt (a move Deerling/Sawsbuck can learn through breeding, which I have explained as Sicily having been the product of mixed parentage in the wild like Claude himself; it was actually just a joke based on RP interaction that turned into "hey, it can legit have this move to back up the joke", hopefully that isn't somehow against the rules) into a potentially-flinch-causing STAB move!
(Sicily will also use Horn Leech and Leech Seed a lot to keep its HP up.)
And, of course, Claude also has Sturm the Toxtricity, who will likely be who he leads with. On top of Discharge, a nice strong electric move that's likely to wreck shop on Falkner at Sturm's level, Claude also has guaranteed access to debilitating status effects like Nuzzle's 100% paralysis infliction and Toxic's potent poison! With the big type advantage for Sturm, and his higher level, Claude may not ever even need to use Sicily...although he's likely to switch him in at some point just to give him a chance.
Should his two mainstays somehow fall, though, Claude's got a few other level 30+ pokémon waiting in the wings to clean up anything that remains. I'm fairly confident he can crash through on the power of Sturm and Sicily alone, though.
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Badge/Gym Leader: Falkner, for the Zephyr Badge!
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: https://vrdantwind.dreamwidth.org/840.html
Battle Details: First of all, Claude has done some strategizing in how to employ Sicily the Sawsbuck (his strongest pokémon, by this point rather overleveled for Falkner's team) for this battle! And he's realized that Sicily knows Camouflage, which - when used indoors, as I imagine Falkner's gym is - will change Sicily to normal type, removing its grass typing and its weakness to flying in the process. It'll also turn Headbutt (a move Deerling/Sawsbuck can learn through breeding, which I have explained as Sicily having been the product of mixed parentage in the wild
like Claude himself; it was actually just a joke based on RP interaction that turned into "hey, it can legit have this move to back up the joke", hopefully that isn't somehow against the rules) into a potentially-flinch-causing STAB move!(Sicily will also use Horn Leech and Leech Seed a lot to keep its HP up.)
And, of course, Claude also has Sturm the Toxtricity, who will likely be who he leads with. On top of Discharge, a nice strong electric move that's likely to wreck shop on Falkner at Sturm's level, Claude also has guaranteed access to debilitating status effects like Nuzzle's 100% paralysis infliction and Toxic's potent poison! With the big type advantage for Sturm, and his higher level, Claude may not ever even need to use Sicily...although he's likely to switch him in at some point just to give him a chance.
Should his two mainstays somehow fall, though, Claude's got a few other level 30+ pokémon waiting in the wings to clean up anything that remains. I'm fairly confident he can crash through on the power of Sturm and Sicily alone, though.