Character: Steven Durante | fingersandteeth Badge/Gym Leader: let's screw up Blue Elite/Regular: ELITE!?!?! Team:William-the-Bloody (Swoobat 100), Fangorn (Phantump 100), Fail Whale (Wailord 100), El Diablo Verde (Hawlucha 100), Piltdown (Dracozolt 100), and Iron Giant (Golurk 100) Battle Details: This is Steven's first ever elite match, mostly because he's a practical man who really doesn't care if he's conspicuously overleveled for a gym, as long as he gets the badge he wants. However, if he wants to get those vacation tickets, he needs to play with the big boys, so here he is. It'll be good practice for the Elite Four anyway.
Steven did his research for this gym ahead of time, which is why he's matched up each of Blue's pokemon with one from his team to be its primary opponent. Assume that if they switch out, Steven does a switch as well to the designated opponent. We'll go with the order listed on the badge profile.
SO. Venusaur's opponent is William-the-Bloody, Steven's Swoobat and one of his starters! Yes, his Swoobat, rather than one of his Fire-types. RIP to Blue, but he's different. Besides, Venusaur is weak to both William's typings (Flying and Psychic) and none of its attacks are things William is vulnerable to. Anyway, William's had one main strategy since his first battle and that's to Fly, Fly, Fly and avoid being hit, so that's still what he's doing, but now that he's got Taunt, he'll be using that at the start of the battle and whenever it wears off to prevent status moves. Maybe he'll throw some Psychics in for variety.
Blastoise's opponent is Fangorn, Steven's Phantump. Fangorn is an old hand at Water enemies and his Grass/Ghost typing means that Blastoise's Normal attacks can't hit it and his Water attacks only do half-damage. Sure, the Steel ones do normal damage and Fangorn really needs to look out for that Bite, but otherwise he's doing pretty good. Anyway, he'll start with Ingrain both to control the field of battle and to make sure he's got a steady supply of low-level HP Drain, then alternating Wood Hammer and Horn Leech depending on how much HP Fangorn himself has. (When he's high he'll Hammer, when he's low he'll Leech.) If it looks like Blastoise is going to finish him off, he'll throw up a quick Destiny Bond to take him down with him.
Charizard's opponent is Fail Whale, Steven's lovable asshole of a Wailord, and he's going to start things off by hitting it with his Water Spout and trapping it in a Whirlpool at which point he'll... start throwing rocks at Charizard? No seriously, he's got Rock Tomb for a TM and Charizard really hates rocks, being double vulnerable to them. It'll reduce his speed too, which is always nice. Fail Whale will probably do a bit of Surfing, which is also nice.
Tyranitar's opponent is El Diablo Verde, Steven's Hawlucha, who's wearing a pair of Go-Goggles to protect his eyes (and HP) from Tyranitar's auto Sandstorm. Do these work on Pokemon? Unknown, but they were on the item page and it said they protect against Sandstorms, so we're going with this. Anyway, El Diablo burst onto the scene with a Flying Press, then does a frantic Sword Dance while Tyranitar is picking itself up from the ground. He'll Roost if it looks like he's going low on hitpoints and otherwise just fucking goes at Tyranitar with Rock Smashing punches and Low Sweeps to reduce its defense while simultaneously fucking him up.
Pidgeot's opponent is Piltdown, Steven's terrible chimera of a Dracozolt. Honestly, he'd rather use Charlotte for this, but she's half bug, which is not good when facing birds. Anyway, Thunder Shock to start everything off, then alternating Charge and Discharge to fry Pidgeot in due time.
Finally, Jolteon's opponent is Iron Giant, Steven's Golurk, who he notably used against Lt Surge back in December. Anyway, Iron Giant Mud Slaps to fuck up Jolteon's accuracy, then uses Dig to burrow underground to avoid being hit (because while Jolteon only has two attacks he's not immune to, one of them is super effective) and pop back up to smack it in the face. There may be some Earthquakes happening too! Possibly he'll fling himself around with High Horsepower and throw a Stomping Tantrum if he misses.
Fangorn, El Diablo, Piltdown and Iron Giant all have opponents with one or two attacks that are super effective against them, so there's a chance they might go down in the process of all this without taking their opponent with them. If that happens, one of the others will spell them out long enough to revive and heal up so they can go back in again. Steven's got a good stock of Revives and Hyper Potions on hand.
Fangorn's substitute is Piltdown, whose Electric attacks are strong against water. El Diablo could either have Fangorn or Fail Whale playing substitute, depending on who's got the most remaining hitpoints. Piltdown's substute, meanwhile, is Fail Whale, whose has those Rock and Ice TM attacks that will come in handy against Pidgeot. And Iron Giant's substitute is also Piltdown, whose Volt Absorb means Jolteon's Electric attacks will just heal him if they land.
Hopefully this should be enough to beat Blue and get Steven his boat tickets because hoo boy does he want the option of going on that cruise someday. And also, you know, he def wants to be let into Victory Road in time.
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Badge/Gym Leader: let's screw up Blue
Elite/Regular: ELITE!?!?!
Team: William-the-Bloody (Swoobat 100), Fangorn (Phantump 100), Fail Whale (Wailord 100), El Diablo Verde (Hawlucha 100), Piltdown (Dracozolt 100), and Iron Giant (Golurk 100)
Battle Details: This is Steven's first ever elite match, mostly because he's a practical man who really doesn't care if he's conspicuously overleveled for a gym, as long as he gets the badge he wants. However, if he wants to get those vacation tickets, he needs to play with the big boys, so here he is. It'll be good practice for the Elite Four anyway.
Steven did his research for this gym ahead of time, which is why he's matched up each of Blue's pokemon with one from his team to be its primary opponent. Assume that if they switch out, Steven does a switch as well to the designated opponent. We'll go with the order listed on the badge profile.
SO. Venusaur's opponent is William-the-Bloody, Steven's Swoobat and one of his starters! Yes, his Swoobat, rather than one of his Fire-types. RIP to Blue, but he's different. Besides, Venusaur is weak to both William's typings (Flying and Psychic) and none of its attacks are things William is vulnerable to. Anyway, William's had one main strategy since his first battle and that's to Fly, Fly, Fly and avoid being hit, so that's still what he's doing, but now that he's got Taunt, he'll be using that at the start of the battle and whenever it wears off to prevent status moves. Maybe he'll throw some Psychics in for variety.
Blastoise's opponent is Fangorn, Steven's Phantump. Fangorn is an old hand at Water enemies and his Grass/Ghost typing means that Blastoise's Normal attacks can't hit it and his Water attacks only do half-damage. Sure, the Steel ones do normal damage and Fangorn really needs to look out for that Bite, but otherwise he's doing pretty good. Anyway, he'll start with Ingrain both to control the field of battle and to make sure he's got a steady supply of low-level HP Drain, then alternating Wood Hammer and Horn Leech depending on how much HP Fangorn himself has. (When he's high he'll Hammer, when he's low he'll Leech.) If it looks like Blastoise is going to finish him off, he'll throw up a quick Destiny Bond to take him down with him.
Charizard's opponent is Fail Whale, Steven's lovable asshole of a Wailord, and he's going to start things off by hitting it with his Water Spout and trapping it in a Whirlpool at which point he'll... start throwing rocks at Charizard? No seriously, he's got Rock Tomb for a TM and Charizard really hates rocks, being double vulnerable to them. It'll reduce his speed too, which is always nice. Fail Whale will probably do a bit of Surfing, which is also nice.
Tyranitar's opponent is El Diablo Verde, Steven's Hawlucha, who's wearing a pair of Go-Goggles to protect his eyes (and HP) from Tyranitar's auto Sandstorm. Do these work on Pokemon? Unknown, but they were on the item page and it said they protect against Sandstorms, so we're going with this. Anyway, El Diablo burst onto the scene with a Flying Press, then does a frantic Sword Dance while Tyranitar is picking itself up from the ground. He'll Roost if it looks like he's going low on hitpoints and otherwise just fucking goes at Tyranitar with Rock Smashing punches and Low Sweeps to reduce its defense while simultaneously fucking him up.
Pidgeot's opponent is Piltdown, Steven's terrible chimera of a Dracozolt.
Honestly, he'd rather use Charlotte for this, but she's half bug, which is not good when facing birds.Anyway, Thunder Shock to start everything off, then alternating Charge and Discharge to fry Pidgeot in due time.Finally, Jolteon's opponent is Iron Giant, Steven's Golurk, who he notably used against Lt Surge back in December. Anyway, Iron Giant Mud Slaps to fuck up Jolteon's accuracy, then uses Dig to burrow underground to avoid being hit (because while Jolteon only has two attacks he's not immune to, one of them is super effective) and pop back up to smack it in the face. There may be some Earthquakes happening too! Possibly he'll fling himself around with High Horsepower and throw a Stomping Tantrum if he misses.
Fangorn, El Diablo, Piltdown and Iron Giant all have opponents with one or two attacks that are super effective against them, so there's a chance they might go down in the process of all this without taking their opponent with them. If that happens, one of the others will spell them out long enough to revive and heal up so they can go back in again. Steven's got a good stock of Revives and Hyper Potions on hand.
Fangorn's substitute is Piltdown, whose Electric attacks are strong against water. El Diablo could either have Fangorn or Fail Whale playing substitute, depending on who's got the most remaining hitpoints. Piltdown's substute, meanwhile, is Fail Whale, whose has those Rock and Ice TM attacks that will come in handy against Pidgeot. And Iron Giant's substitute is also Piltdown, whose Volt Absorb means Jolteon's Electric attacks will just heal him if they land.
Hopefully this should be enough to beat Blue and get Steven his boat tickets because hoo boy does he want the option of going on that cruise someday. And also, you know, he def wants to be let into Victory Road in time.