- 10x Chesto Berry - 1x Full Restore - 1x Revival Herb
Is Riz bringing a Normal pokemon to a Ghost battle? He sure as heck is!
Now, rest assured, Riz is no dummy. He knows very well that Ghost pokemon are immune to normal attacks. However, what is also true is that Normal pokemon are immune to Ghost attacks. And while his Yungoos has many Normal-type attacks, Riz went ahead and used the money he got from catching that Hisuian Braviary to get a few new TMs for dear PI here, namely Thief and Payback. This gives PI four (4!) Dark-type moves to use, and guess what Ghost pokemon are weak to?
Oh, and also, PI just recently hit lvl 100, which should be a slight bonus too.
Haunter
His strategy for Haunter is to have his Yungoos first focus on using a few mudslaps to lower its accuracy. And, fun little extra, it's a move that Haunter is weak to too!. After a few of those, he'll switch to using Crunch -- not only is this a dark type move, that Haunter is weak too, but Yungoos' ability (Strongjaw) means that its power is doubled.
Unfortunately, Crunch has fairly limited spellslots PP, so Riz will only use this twice (2x) on Haunter, before switching to using Thief or Payback if Haunter has not yet gone down. Payback is a move that doubles in power if the pokemon using it goes last, and it just so happens that Yungoos' base speed is 45 VS Haunter's 95.
One concern is that Morty will have Haunter use a Hypnosis + Dreameater combo, as that is one of the few moves it has that can hit Yungoos. So, Riz will be ready with plenty of Chesto Berries on hand to give to Yungoos.
Misdreavus
If everything has gone well, Yungoos should still be reasonably fresh after taking on Haunter. After all, very few of its attacks should've been able to hit him. So, with this in mind, Riz is going to leave Yungoos out on the field, hoping to duplicate the strategy he used against Haunter on Misdreavus.
The only difference here is that Misdreavus has a few more moves that could potentially hit Yungoos, so he'll be on the lookout for that. Especially if it happens to use the move Perish Song. In that case, Riz will temporarily switch out Yungoos for one of his back-ups to clear the count, before bringing him back out. One further thing is that Misdreavus is not weak to ground moves, so Riz will leave those out, moving straight into the Dark-type attacks.
If Yungoos looks worse for wear at any point during this battle, Riz will fall back on ye olde Rest+Chesto combo to have him quickly restore his HP.
Gengar
Finally it is Gengar's turn. And... still Yungoos' turn too.
Now, there is a big chance that Yungoos is in serious need of some healing, so Riz has a Full Restore ready and waiting for when Yungoos' HP hits 25%. If/when it does, he'll spend his a turn healing Yungoos, and then he'll try and repeat the same strategy as before -- first a few mud-slaps to lower Gengar's accuracy (and target its weakness), move onto Crunch (except he won't have to hold anything back now) and finally use Payback and Thief to finish Gengar off.
Of course, expecting one pokemon, even if it is level 100 to take on three pokemon is fairly optimistic. So Riz has prepared a few plans in case it doesn't go off without a hitch. He has brought Tufsa the Ninjask and Nasha the Galvantula.
Both Riz's Ninjask and Galvantula will not be able to depend on their Bug-type moves, as these are resisted by Morty's ghosts, however, both Tufsa and Nasha have some other moves they can use. Tufsa had a few Ground-type attacks (which Haunter and Gengar will be weak to) and several powerful Flying-type moves. Nasha has several Electric-type attacks, as well as one Dark-type attack to depend on.
If/When PI goes down, he'll first bring out Tufsa and have her do her thing, before switching to Nasha. If it gets to this point, Riz will use a turn to full revive PI and bring him back on the field. However, if it looks like Tufsa has a handle on Morty's remaining pokemon, he'll save the revival herb. Listen, that was a good bit of money, and he'd like to save it if he can.
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Badge/Gym Leader: Ecruteak City / Morty / Fog Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: PI the Yungoos (lvl 100) holding a Chesto berry, Tufsa the Ninjask (lvl 74) holding a Scope Lens, Nasha the Galvantula (lvl 59),
Battle Details:
Riz has scraped together his money to bring
- 10x Chesto Berry
- 1x Full Restore
- 1x Revival Herb
Is Riz bringing a Normal pokemon to a Ghost battle? He sure as heck is!
Now, rest assured, Riz is no dummy. He knows very well that Ghost pokemon are immune to normal attacks. However, what is also true is that Normal pokemon are immune to Ghost attacks. And while his Yungoos has many Normal-type attacks, Riz went ahead and used the money he got from catching that Hisuian Braviary to get a few new TMs for dear PI here, namely Thief and Payback. This gives PI four (4!) Dark-type moves to use, and guess what Ghost pokemon are weak to?
Oh, and also, PI just recently hit lvl 100, which should be a slight bonus too.
Haunter
His strategy for Haunter is to have his Yungoos first focus on using a few mudslaps to lower its accuracy. And, fun little extra, it's a move that Haunter is weak to too!. After a few of those, he'll switch to using Crunch -- not only is this a dark type move, that Haunter is weak too, but Yungoos' ability (Strongjaw) means that its power is doubled.
Unfortunately, Crunch has fairly limited
spellslotsPP, so Riz will only use this twice (2x) on Haunter, before switching to using Thief or Payback if Haunter has not yet gone down. Payback is a move that doubles in power if the pokemon using it goes last, and it just so happens that Yungoos' base speed is 45 VS Haunter's 95.One concern is that Morty will have Haunter use a Hypnosis + Dreameater combo, as that is one of the few moves it has that can hit Yungoos. So, Riz will be ready with plenty of Chesto Berries on hand to give to Yungoos.
Misdreavus
If everything has gone well, Yungoos should still be reasonably fresh after taking on Haunter. After all, very few of its attacks should've been able to hit him. So, with this in mind, Riz is going to leave Yungoos out on the field, hoping to duplicate the strategy he used against Haunter on Misdreavus.
The only difference here is that Misdreavus has a few more moves that could potentially hit Yungoos, so he'll be on the lookout for that. Especially if it happens to use the move Perish Song. In that case, Riz will temporarily switch out Yungoos for one of his back-ups to clear the count, before bringing him back out. One further thing is that Misdreavus is not weak to ground moves, so Riz will leave those out, moving straight into the Dark-type attacks.
If Yungoos looks worse for wear at any point during this battle, Riz will fall back on ye olde Rest+Chesto combo to have him quickly restore his HP.
Gengar
Finally it is Gengar's turn. And... still Yungoos' turn too.
Now, there is a big chance that Yungoos is in serious need of some healing, so Riz has a Full Restore ready and waiting for when Yungoos' HP hits 25%. If/when it does, he'll spend his a turn healing Yungoos, and then he'll try and repeat the same strategy as before -- first a few mud-slaps to lower Gengar's accuracy (and target its weakness), move onto Crunch (except he won't have to hold anything back now) and finally use Payback and Thief to finish Gengar off.
Of course, expecting one pokemon, even if it is level 100 to take on three pokemon is fairly optimistic. So Riz has prepared a few plans in case it doesn't go off without a hitch. He has brought Tufsa the Ninjask and Nasha the Galvantula.
Both Riz's Ninjask and Galvantula will not be able to depend on their Bug-type moves, as these are resisted by Morty's ghosts, however, both Tufsa and Nasha have some other moves they can use. Tufsa had a few Ground-type attacks (which Haunter and Gengar will be weak to) and several powerful Flying-type moves. Nasha has several Electric-type attacks, as well as one Dark-type attack to depend on.
If/When PI goes down, he'll first bring out Tufsa and have her do her thing, before switching to Nasha. If it gets to this point, Riz will use a turn to full revive PI and bring him back on the field. However, if it looks like Tufsa has a handle on Morty's remaining pokemon, he'll save the revival herb. Listen, that was a good bit of money, and he'd like to save it if he can.