Character: Princess Allura | heartofalioness Badge/Gym Leader: Falkner, Zephyr Badge Elite/Regular: Regular Team:Coressa the Alolan Vulpix, Chumirra the Marill, and Morling the FloatzelAyrol the Togepi Battle Details: Allura's prepared by sparring with and asking for advice from friends, watching the falconry demos per Romelle's suggestion, and waiting for a day when it promises to snow to increase the chance of hail.
First up will be Coressa, not only for her experience and type advantage, but because she has higher Special Defenses to resist Noctowl's Psychic attacks. However, she is a bit of a glass cannon, and Noctowl is immune to Ghost moves, so Allura will have the Vulpix focus on using her speed, Aurora Veil, and possible Snow Cloak to keep her distance from any physical attacks and counter with Ice attacks at long range, saving Disable for any really troublesome moves.
For Honchkrow, Allura will switch to Chumirra. Honchkrow is a much more physical attacker, but thanks to being part Fairy, her experience advantage, her more robust constitution and defense, and the ability Huge Power, Chumirra will be a hard hitter against Honchkrow, especially with Play Rough. And for extra assurance, Allura will have her set up Rain Dance on the first move and Aqua Ring at roughly 60% health so Chumirra can hit harder and last longer in battle.
And lastly for Pidgeot, Allura will attempt to send out Morling the Floatzel, matching hard-hitting striker with a hard-hitting striker who also happens to know Ice Fang, and piggy-backing off the Rain Dance for Swift Swim...
I say "attempt" because it's at this point that tiny, squishy little Togepi Ayrol says he wants to try since his besties have been fighting so hard! Seriously, the speech he makes in Poké-speak is probably toothache-inducing levels of Anime Protagonist Inspiring, even Morling is crying. So... yeah, have a fairy birb chick for an opponent, Pidgeot.
Obviously while Ayrol has a good enough level, good physical and special defenses, and no immediate weaknesses to Pidgeot's typing... baby has a teeny tiny health bar, an even lower Attack stat, and mostly status/multi-battle support moves. This is gonna be a rough match-up, especially against Falkner's ace, but it's not like Ayrol's totally helpless either. He has Sweet Kiss and Yawn at his disposal to set up confusion or sleep (hopefully Pidgeot has Keen Eye instead of Tangled Feet), Morning Sun and Life Dew to recover health so he can keep fighting. As for attacks, Allura picked up a Dazzling Gleam TM for him in Cherrygrove, and not only is Ancient Power a Rock-type move, it has a chance of boosting all five stats by one stage, 20% thanks to Serene Grace, which can turn spamming it before he runs out of juice really nasty really quickly. And while Allura would save Metronome and Double-Edge as absolute last resorts, there's a chance Metronome could pull something super-effective for Pidgeot out of its hat. And if this crazy strategy works, at the end of this Ayrol will evolve into a beautiful Togetic! (Don't worry, mods, not gonna pull an evolutio ex machina mid-battle.)
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Badge/Gym Leader: Falkner, Zephyr Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Coressa the Alolan Vulpix, Chumirra the Marill, and
Morling the FloatzelAyrol the TogepiBattle Details:
Allura's prepared by sparring with and asking for advice from friends, watching the falconry demos per Romelle's suggestion, and waiting for a day when it promises to snow to increase the chance of hail.
First up will be Coressa, not only for her experience and type advantage, but because she has higher Special Defenses to resist Noctowl's Psychic attacks. However, she is a bit of a glass cannon, and Noctowl is immune to Ghost moves, so Allura will have the Vulpix focus on using her speed, Aurora Veil, and possible Snow Cloak to keep her distance from any physical attacks and counter with Ice attacks at long range, saving Disable for any really troublesome moves.
For Honchkrow, Allura will switch to Chumirra. Honchkrow is a much more physical attacker, but thanks to being part Fairy, her experience advantage, her more robust constitution and defense, and the ability Huge Power, Chumirra will be a hard hitter against Honchkrow, especially with Play Rough. And for extra assurance, Allura will have her set up Rain Dance on the first move and Aqua Ring at roughly 60% health so Chumirra can hit harder and last longer in battle.
And lastly for Pidgeot, Allura will attempt to send out Morling the Floatzel, matching hard-hitting striker with a hard-hitting striker who also happens to know Ice Fang, and piggy-backing off the Rain Dance for Swift Swim...
I say "attempt" because it's at this point that tiny, squishy little Togepi Ayrol says he wants to try since his besties have been fighting so hard! Seriously, the speech he makes in Poké-speak is probably toothache-inducing levels of Anime Protagonist Inspiring, even Morling is crying. So... yeah, have a fairy birb chick for an opponent, Pidgeot.
Obviously while Ayrol has a good enough level, good physical and special defenses, and no immediate weaknesses to Pidgeot's typing... baby has a teeny tiny health bar, an even lower Attack stat, and mostly status/multi-battle support moves. This is gonna be a rough match-up, especially against Falkner's ace, but it's not like Ayrol's totally helpless either. He has Sweet Kiss and Yawn at his disposal to set up confusion or sleep (hopefully Pidgeot has Keen Eye instead of Tangled Feet), Morning Sun and Life Dew to recover health so he can keep fighting. As for attacks, Allura picked up a Dazzling Gleam TM for him in Cherrygrove, and not only is Ancient Power a Rock-type move, it has a chance of boosting all five stats by one stage, 20% thanks to Serene Grace, which can turn spamming it before he runs out of juice really nasty really quickly. And while Allura would save Metronome and Double-Edge as absolute last resorts, there's a chance Metronome could pull something super-effective for Pidgeot out of its hat. And if this crazy strategy works, at the end of this Ayrol will evolve into a beautiful Togetic! (Don't worry, mods, not gonna pull an evolutio ex machina mid-battle.)