Character: Jarlaxle Baenre | nevercaught Badge/Gym Leader: Azalea Elite/Regular: regular! Team:Euol (Sableye 60) and Mrim'ol (Klefki 58), with Dalhar (Zoroark 50) as back-up Battle Details: Like with his challenge in Violet, Jarlaxle's spiders will be remaining on the bench for this fight. (He also leaves his main flyer on the bench, as Honglath is not quite high level enough for the gym.)
For the match with Pinsir, Jarlaxle sends out Euol to use his Power Gem to take advantage of Pinsir's Rock weakness--though he starts the match with Flash first, to reduce Pinsir's accuracy. Euol is willing to use up all his Power Gem attacks on Pinsir to accomplish this, since he won't be needing them for the other two opponents.
While Euol insists he could solo the whole gym, Jarlaxle switches him out for Mrim'ol for the battle with Heracross, given that the little Klefki can easily hit Heracross in their Fairy weakness. Metal Sound decreases special defense and then Mrim'ol alternates between Dazzling Gleam and Draining Kiss to hurt Heracross hard.
Euol comes right back out for Scizor, so that the little imp can use the move that Jarlaxle had been lucky enough to find a move tutor to teach him: Fire Punch. Unfortunately, due to advantageous typing, Scizor is only vulnerable to Fire attacks--but it's very vulnerable to them, at least. Again, he starts out the match by using Flash to reduce accuracy.
As with Violet, Dalhar is here mostly to be a heal-stall, should Euol or Mrim'ol go down, giving time for Jarlaxle to administer them potions while Dalhar attempts to tank a hit or two. (It helps that Dalhar is resistant to Bug.)
Jarlaxle and his pokemon work out their match strategy in advance, so that he might not call out his moves in the field and potentially catch his opponents off-guard with them. If he does need to give instruction in the field, he uses the Drow Sign Language he's been teaching his pokemon.
As with last time, Jarlaxle exhibits a great deal of drama in his entrances and exits. Both Euol and Dalhar will be wearing pokemon-sized capes, which were personally tailored by Jarlaxle. Euol's is rainbow, like his trainer's, while Dalhar's is blue.
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Badge/Gym Leader: Azalea
Elite/Regular: regular!
Team: Euol (Sableye 60) and Mrim'ol (Klefki 58), with Dalhar (Zoroark 50) as back-up
Battle Details: Like with his challenge in Violet, Jarlaxle's spiders will be remaining on the bench for this fight. (He also leaves his main flyer on the bench, as Honglath is not quite high level enough for the gym.)
For the match with Pinsir, Jarlaxle sends out Euol to use his Power Gem to take advantage of Pinsir's Rock weakness--though he starts the match with Flash first, to reduce Pinsir's accuracy. Euol is willing to use up all his Power Gem attacks on Pinsir to accomplish this, since he won't be needing them for the other two opponents.
While Euol insists he could solo the whole gym, Jarlaxle switches him out for Mrim'ol for the battle with Heracross, given that the little Klefki can easily hit Heracross in their Fairy weakness. Metal Sound decreases special defense and then Mrim'ol alternates between Dazzling Gleam and Draining Kiss to hurt Heracross hard.
Euol comes right back out for Scizor, so that the little imp can use the move that Jarlaxle had been lucky enough to find a move tutor to teach him: Fire Punch. Unfortunately, due to advantageous typing, Scizor is only vulnerable to Fire attacks--but it's very vulnerable to them, at least. Again, he starts out the match by using Flash to reduce accuracy.
As with Violet, Dalhar is here mostly to be a heal-stall, should Euol or Mrim'ol go down, giving time for Jarlaxle to administer them potions while Dalhar attempts to tank a hit or two. (It helps that Dalhar is resistant to Bug.)
Jarlaxle and his pokemon work out their match strategy in advance, so that he might not call out his moves in the field and potentially catch his opponents off-guard with them. If he does need to give instruction in the field, he uses the Drow Sign Language he's been teaching his pokemon.
As with last time, Jarlaxle exhibits a great deal of drama in his entrances and exits. Both Euol and Dalhar will be wearing pokemon-sized capes, which were personally tailored by Jarlaxle. Euol's is rainbow, like his trainer's, while Dalhar's is blue.