Character: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd | nastyboy Badge/Gym Leader: Erika for the Rainbow Badge Elite/Regular: ELITE Team:Consisting of Dean the Emboar, Gremlin the Rattata, Ciannwn the Silvally, Windmill the Dragapult, Elshot the Pidgeot, and Fraldariend the Galarian Rapidash Battle Details: Dimitri has a couple of people he really wants to show off to for this battle - Eri because he wants to encourage her in her own gym endeavors, Byleth because Must Get Professor Praise, and finally Lorenz, who's new to all of this and thus doesn't know that Pokemon battling can be nice and not used to assault him with birds.
So Dimitri decides to start off strong - up against Erika's Shiftry, Dean the Emboar bursts into action.
Almost literally, too. He practically burns straight out of his Pokeball, going right into an immediate Flame Charge up against his opponent. As is often the case with Dean in these elite matches, it's all about the offense here. His strategy is all about not giving Shiftry any quarter, alternating between three moves: Flame Charge, Power Up Punch, and Rock Smash. The advantages given to Dean's speed and attack will hopefully work wonderfully with the last move lowering Shiftry's defenses... already at a disadvantage against fire and fighting.
The biggest concerns against Shiftry, of course, are that he knows a couple of Flying-type moves. That could be a problem against Dean's fighting sub-typing... but hopefully they're not used too offensively or repeatedly. While Shiftry could up his own speed with a Chlorophyll ability and use of Sunny Day, Dimitri is hoping that Erika will think twice about that. After all, Sunny Day would do better for fire types, and Dean isn't afraid to lean in hard with that by utilizing Flamethrower.
Should Erika and Shiftry try to take out Dean completely with an Explosion, there's no need to worry - Dimitri made sure to pick up a Protect TM in Goldenrod for exactly this kind of scenario, and he'll call out to Dean to use it immediately if he spots the tell-tale signs of Explosion.
Dimitri has the world's Pissiest bug in the form of a Forrettress. He can recognize those signs pretty well by now.
Hopefully that Shiftry really doesn't set off a Sunny Day... Dimitri is counting on it to not affect Erika's next pokemon, Jumpluff.
Against that one, he tries to keep Dean out for just a second longer with one last parting Flamethrower. With that done, however, he pulls his companion back immediately, and switches him out for Fraldariend the Galarian Rapidash.
Between a Jumpluff and a Galarian Rapidash, Dimitri knows that the real question is less a matter of doing more damage, but whoever can inflict a negative status onto their opponent first. That's why he has Fraldariend use Psybeam first, in hopes that they can make Jumpluff confused. He'll use that for however long he can, until he either gets the result he wants, or something happens to Fraldariend first.
If they can be so lucky as to confuse Jumpluff first, however... then Dimitri is going to do a bit of showing off, purely for the Lorenz in the audience. So more than a gym battle, he's trying to treat this more as a contest battle.
Or, well. What he's heard of as contest battles. Soy and Riegfried don't really do those, most of the time. Fortunately, it's not hard for Fraldariend to be beautiful with his shimmering mane and the lovely glow of his psychic powers. So while Fairy Wind may not be the strongest of Fraldariend's moves, it's what he uses as he flicks around Jumpluff effortlessly, and slashes his horns straight at his opponent in elegant Psycho Cuts and even a Megahorn or two. If it looks as though his opponnent is snapping out of it, or manages to land a hit on him, Fraldariend recuperates with a warm Heal Pulse the envelopes his body before going at Jumpluff again with a another Psybeam.
And at the rate he uses Dazzling Gleam? The entire gym might end up just absolutely covered in glitter.
Up against Erika's Victreebel, Fraldariend lets loose one last Megahorn before he switches out with Ciannwn the Silvally. As a fire-type based Silvally, she should hopefully do quite well against a Grass and Poison inclined opponent like Victreebel! That's the plan, anyway.
The rest of the plan? Going full throttle, of course. So Ciannwn bursts forward with those long legs of hers, digging her teeth straight into Victreebel with an Ice Fang. There's a chance she may just freeze her opponent, after all... In which case, there's no stopping the Multi-Attack that's going to Victreebel like a truck with its fire typing.
Or, you know. Like a troubled dog the size of a horse.
In the event that Victreebel doesn't fall from that combo, don't worry. Ciannwn is more than fine with making the most god-awful Metal Sound possible, followed up by a rather mean Air Slash. With all of this practically tailored to Victreebel's weaknesses, that ought to take care of them pretty quickly.
Ideally, it should be taken care of so quickly that Ciannwan can stay on the field when Bellossom is sent out. The tactics here are honestly the same as before. Bellossom, after all, has more than a few of those troublesome status moves like Stune Spore, and so someone perfectly made for this gym is best suited for just charging in to decimate the opponent immediately. Dimitri doesn't want it to drag on for long at all.
So second verse, same as the first: Ice Fang, Multi-Attack, and followed up by anything that will hopefully down Bellossom for good. Dimitri isn't afraid of tossing in a Tri-Attack with hopes that it will stun or freeze Bellossom some more.
After this, however, there's no doubt that Ciannwn will be in some rough shape. While her fire typing will make her somewhat resistant to Poison moves, the effects of Toxic can't be underestimated.
Thus, when Roserade is sent forward, Dimitri pulls Ciannwn back, and exchanges her for Windmill the shiny Dragapult.
A Dragapult doesn't naturally have any advantages over a Grass and Poison type like Roserade... But those same typings are at an offensive disadvantage the opposite direction.
This permits some set up, fortunately for Windmill and Dimitri, and that set up starts with an eerily beautiful Dragon Dance that takes him high up into the air. It's a fantastic vantage point for him to Lock On to his target, ensuring that the following Dragon Rush slams right into the delicate rose. This may very well poison Windmill if Erika's Roserade has a Poison Point ability, but, well... Windmill might get poisoned anyway by Poison Sting or Toxic, so you know! Whatever!
Of course, tempting fate is never the best of ideas... So Windmill will pull back after that initial hit and keep his distance as best as possible with Dragon Breath. Roserade has no small amount of healing moves, so the attacks won't cease. If Roserade tries to take a break to heal up with any of them, then Windmill will just take that moment to Lock On again for yet another Dragon Rush.
If that carries Windmill through, then Dimitri will hastily pull him back when Erika sends out her last pokemon - Vileplume. With a couple of fairy-type moves in that one's roster, after all, Windmill as a dragon type won't last. Instead, he sends out the lowest leveled of his team at level 83, Elshot the Pidgeot.
Not that either trainer or Pokemon plan to let a simple little level difference stop them from winning the battle. Quickly picking up a Tailwind from within the gym battlegrounds, Elshot immediately starts to kick up a Sand Attack, again and again. With enough sand in Vileplume's eyes, the level difference won't hit as bad... on account of Vileplum not being able to hit much at all. Even if he's taken a few hits, Elshot can take advantage of Vileplume's mildly blinded state to land and Roost for a hot second.
But there's no rest on the battlefield, not for long. Once he's caught his breath, Elshot is right back up in the air again, and spreading his wings wide... for an immense Hurricane or two.
Even with the level difference, Vileplum will be eating that one pretty badly.
Of course, if throughout the course of all these battles, something starts to go wrong... Dimitri has a back up on hand. It's a backup called Gremlin the Rattata, who is just... so full of TMs. This rat is just more TM than rat at this point.
So if the situation in any of the battles starts to look dire, Dimitri will immediately pull back the main battler of that particular round, and replace them with Gremlin. Gremlin's strategies are pretty simple: Thunderwave to stun his opponent, and then whatever other bastard moves that a rat can throw out. Super Fang for the ridiculous amount of damage a rat's teeth can do? Pluck for the type advantage? There are a lot of options, and Gremlin has just about all of them.
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Badge/Gym Leader: Erika for the Rainbow Badge
Elite/Regular: ELITE
Team: Consisting of Dean the Emboar, Gremlin the Rattata, Ciannwn the Silvally, Windmill the Dragapult, Elshot the Pidgeot, and Fraldariend the Galarian Rapidash
Battle Details: Dimitri has a couple of people he really wants to show off to for this battle - Eri because he wants to encourage her in her own gym endeavors, Byleth because Must Get Professor Praise, and finally Lorenz, who's new to all of this and thus doesn't know that Pokemon battling can be nice and not used to assault him with birds.
So Dimitri decides to start off strong - up against Erika's Shiftry, Dean the Emboar bursts into action.
Almost literally, too. He practically burns straight out of his Pokeball, going right into an immediate Flame Charge up against his opponent. As is often the case with Dean in these elite matches, it's all about the offense here. His strategy is all about not giving Shiftry any quarter, alternating between three moves: Flame Charge, Power Up Punch, and Rock Smash. The advantages given to Dean's speed and attack will hopefully work wonderfully with the last move lowering Shiftry's defenses... already at a disadvantage against fire and fighting.
The biggest concerns against Shiftry, of course, are that he knows a couple of Flying-type moves. That could be a problem against Dean's fighting sub-typing... but hopefully they're not used too offensively or repeatedly. While Shiftry could up his own speed with a Chlorophyll ability and use of Sunny Day, Dimitri is hoping that Erika will think twice about that. After all, Sunny Day would do better for fire types, and Dean isn't afraid to lean in hard with that by utilizing Flamethrower.
Should Erika and Shiftry try to take out Dean completely with an Explosion, there's no need to worry - Dimitri made sure to pick up a Protect TM in Goldenrod for exactly this kind of scenario, and he'll call out to Dean to use it immediately if he spots the tell-tale signs of Explosion.
Dimitri has the world's Pissiest bug in the form of a Forrettress. He can recognize those signs pretty well by now.
Hopefully that Shiftry really doesn't set off a Sunny Day... Dimitri is counting on it to not affect Erika's next pokemon, Jumpluff.
Against that one, he tries to keep Dean out for just a second longer with one last parting Flamethrower. With that done, however, he pulls his companion back immediately, and switches him out for Fraldariend the Galarian Rapidash.
Between a Jumpluff and a Galarian Rapidash, Dimitri knows that the real question is less a matter of doing more damage, but whoever can inflict a negative status onto their opponent first. That's why he has Fraldariend use Psybeam first, in hopes that they can make Jumpluff confused. He'll use that for however long he can, until he either gets the result he wants, or something happens to Fraldariend first.
If they can be so lucky as to confuse Jumpluff first, however... then Dimitri is going to do a bit of showing off, purely for the Lorenz in the audience. So more than a gym battle, he's trying to treat this more as a contest battle.
Or, well. What he's heard of as contest battles. Soy and Riegfried don't really do those, most of the time. Fortunately, it's not hard for Fraldariend to be beautiful with his shimmering mane and the lovely glow of his psychic powers. So while Fairy Wind may not be the strongest of Fraldariend's moves, it's what he uses as he flicks around Jumpluff effortlessly, and slashes his horns straight at his opponent in elegant Psycho Cuts and even a Megahorn or two. If it looks as though his opponnent is snapping out of it, or manages to land a hit on him, Fraldariend recuperates with a warm Heal Pulse the envelopes his body before going at Jumpluff again with a another Psybeam.
And at the rate he uses Dazzling Gleam? The entire gym might end up just absolutely covered in glitter.
Up against Erika's Victreebel, Fraldariend lets loose one last Megahorn before he switches out with Ciannwn the Silvally. As a fire-type based Silvally, she should hopefully do quite well against a Grass and Poison inclined opponent like Victreebel! That's the plan, anyway.
The rest of the plan? Going full throttle, of course. So Ciannwn bursts forward with those long legs of hers, digging her teeth straight into Victreebel with an Ice Fang. There's a chance she may just freeze her opponent, after all... In which case, there's no stopping the Multi-Attack that's going to Victreebel like a truck with its fire typing.
Or, you know. Like a troubled dog the size of a horse.
In the event that Victreebel doesn't fall from that combo, don't worry. Ciannwn is more than fine with making the most god-awful Metal Sound possible, followed up by a rather mean Air Slash. With all of this practically tailored to Victreebel's weaknesses, that ought to take care of them pretty quickly.
Ideally, it should be taken care of so quickly that Ciannwan can stay on the field when Bellossom is sent out. The tactics here are honestly the same as before. Bellossom, after all, has more than a few of those troublesome status moves like Stune Spore, and so someone perfectly made for this gym is best suited for just charging in to decimate the opponent immediately. Dimitri doesn't want it to drag on for long at all.
So second verse, same as the first: Ice Fang, Multi-Attack, and followed up by anything that will hopefully down Bellossom for good. Dimitri isn't afraid of tossing in a Tri-Attack with hopes that it will stun or freeze Bellossom some more.
After this, however, there's no doubt that Ciannwn will be in some rough shape. While her fire typing will make her somewhat resistant to Poison moves, the effects of Toxic can't be underestimated.
Thus, when Roserade is sent forward, Dimitri pulls Ciannwn back, and exchanges her for Windmill the shiny Dragapult.
A Dragapult doesn't naturally have any advantages over a Grass and Poison type like Roserade... But those same typings are at an offensive disadvantage the opposite direction.
This permits some set up, fortunately for Windmill and Dimitri, and that set up starts with an eerily beautiful Dragon Dance that takes him high up into the air. It's a fantastic vantage point for him to Lock On to his target, ensuring that the following Dragon Rush slams right into the delicate rose. This may very well poison Windmill if Erika's Roserade has a Poison Point ability, but, well... Windmill might get poisoned anyway by Poison Sting or Toxic, so you know! Whatever!
Of course, tempting fate is never the best of ideas... So Windmill will pull back after that initial hit and keep his distance as best as possible with Dragon Breath. Roserade has no small amount of healing moves, so the attacks won't cease. If Roserade tries to take a break to heal up with any of them, then Windmill will just take that moment to Lock On again for yet another Dragon Rush.
If that carries Windmill through, then Dimitri will hastily pull him back when Erika sends out her last pokemon - Vileplume. With a couple of fairy-type moves in that one's roster, after all, Windmill as a dragon type won't last. Instead, he sends out the lowest leveled of his team at level 83, Elshot the Pidgeot.
Not that either trainer or Pokemon plan to let a simple little level difference stop them from winning the battle. Quickly picking up a Tailwind from within the gym battlegrounds, Elshot immediately starts to kick up a Sand Attack, again and again. With enough sand in Vileplume's eyes, the level difference won't hit as bad... on account of Vileplum not being able to hit much at all. Even if he's taken a few hits, Elshot can take advantage of Vileplume's mildly blinded state to land and Roost for a hot second.
But there's no rest on the battlefield, not for long. Once he's caught his breath, Elshot is right back up in the air again, and spreading his wings wide... for an immense Hurricane or two.
Even with the level difference, Vileplum will be eating that one pretty badly.
Of course, if throughout the course of all these battles, something starts to go wrong... Dimitri has a back up on hand. It's a backup called Gremlin the Rattata, who is just... so full of TMs. This rat is just more TM than rat at this point.
So if the situation in any of the battles starts to look dire, Dimitri will immediately pull back the main battler of that particular round, and replace them with Gremlin. Gremlin's strategies are pretty simple: Thunderwave to stun his opponent, and then whatever other bastard moves that a rat can throw out. Super Fang for the ridiculous amount of damage a rat's teeth can do? Pluck for the type advantage? There are a lot of options, and Gremlin has just about all of them.