Character: Emporio Alniño | seacub Badge/Gym Leader: Mineral Badge Elite/Regular: REGULAR TEAM Team:HERE - China the Polteageist, Wes the Gengar (slide 4), Salem the Absol (slide 8), and Oxy the Haunter (slide 2) for Backup Battle Details: Emporio is once again back at it, and apparently with some renewed vigor! Just in time to soon after get slammed in the face by Actual Ghosts, but eh whatever
While Jasmine may have heard down the grapevine ages ago that there was a trainer using Jolyne's unconventional and...honestly kind of terrifying methods of battle, along with a few slightly less stale rumors of someone going out of their WAY to make a fight difficult, it's only now that she gets to see it for real!
Emporio's taken a good while to sort out his team for her, and ultimately...not to mention ironically, it's all Ghosts! They're the one type that doesn't have a defensive advantage against Steel, and lacks a straight advantage or disadvantage on the offensive end. Granted, most steel types also have the sp. defense levels of a sheet of paper but...hey.
The hope is that China can handle most of the fighting, as everyone else in the team is roughly ten levels higher than Jasmine's Steelix...and Emporio's not here to Power Level! Primarily, China is focusing on a stat-lock; with the simple order to 'Take care of themselves', accompanied by the command to think Carefully, China is going to kick off by raising special attack with Nasty Plot, while also lowering opponent attack levels- not to mention healing- by way of Strength Sap. While China can also protect using...well, Protect, the dancing tea pot (which is, being real, just being an absolute teasing menace while scooting around the arena here) gets their shots in by way of Sucker Punch and Shadow Ball- throwing a good ol' 'Astonish' with a splash of cold tea for good measure.
Notably Emporio has no given orders for these moves; China is simply meant to determine which works best for the situation, and really...all three are roughly as effective as the other.
This is ultimately a strategy that gets used on all three pokemon where China can; skittering around Skarmory's feet, hiding beneath Magneton to avoid sight, and finally, if the little thing has made it to Steelix, getting the gal to even scurry up and around the steel snake's coils until it's sitting just out of reach. Mean!
Of course, if it's looking grim, China has one last option; if China is about to get taken out, they're using 'Memento' before passing the baton on to Salem.
Salem, of course, is Dark Type- and another one likely to abuse statlocking. Salem makes use of his Super Luck to his advantage, raising his attack using Sword Dance and his Evasiveness with Double Team; he ultimately leans mostly on Me First however, just to add to the risk; though of course, rather than any actual orders, Emporio keeps it as vague as usual- encouraging Salem to 'have his dance', and from there merely instructing him to 'beat [the opponent] at their own game'.
Which is a pretty good way to describe 'Me First'.
At the end of it all, Wes and Oxy are here as backups; if Wes has to come out, Emporio tells him to take the 'easy route', which will result, ultimately, in Wes simply putting the enemy pokemon to sleep before hammering down with Shadow Ball. Likewise, if it comes to be Oxy's turn (though hopefully not), she is made to do the same thing- though this time eating away at the health with the less effective 'Dream Eater' after putting the pokemon to sleep.
But hey, while the Steel mons might have been embarrassed a bit by the dancing tea pot, at least the arena isn't a mess?
I was supposed to hand this in two weeks ago and instead it sat in notepad oh no
Badge/Gym Leader: Mineral Badge
Elite/Regular: REGULAR TEAM
Team: HERE - China the Polteageist, Wes the Gengar (slide 4), Salem the Absol (slide 8), and Oxy the Haunter (slide 2) for Backup
Battle Details: Emporio is once again back at it, and apparently with some renewed vigor!
Just in time to soon after get slammed in the face by Actual Ghosts, but eh whateverWhile Jasmine may have heard down the grapevine ages ago that there was a trainer using Jolyne's unconventional and...honestly kind of terrifying methods of battle, along with a few slightly less stale rumors of someone going out of their WAY to make a fight difficult, it's only now that she gets to see it for real!
Emporio's taken a good while to sort out his team for her, and ultimately...not to mention ironically, it's all Ghosts! They're the one type that doesn't have a defensive advantage against Steel, and lacks a straight advantage or disadvantage on the offensive end. Granted, most steel types also have the sp. defense levels of a sheet of paper but...hey.
The hope is that China can handle most of the fighting, as everyone else in the team is roughly ten levels higher than Jasmine's Steelix...and Emporio's not here to Power Level! Primarily, China is focusing on a stat-lock; with the simple order to 'Take care of themselves', accompanied by the command to think Carefully, China is going to kick off by raising special attack with Nasty Plot, while also lowering opponent attack levels- not to mention healing- by way of Strength Sap. While China can also protect using...well, Protect, the dancing tea pot (which is, being real, just being an absolute teasing menace while scooting around the arena here) gets their shots in by way of Sucker Punch and Shadow Ball- throwing a good ol' 'Astonish' with a splash of cold tea for good measure.
Notably Emporio has no given orders for these moves; China is simply meant to determine which works best for the situation, and really...all three are roughly as effective as the other.
This is ultimately a strategy that gets used on all three pokemon where China can; skittering around Skarmory's feet, hiding beneath Magneton to avoid sight, and finally, if the little thing has made it to Steelix, getting the gal to even scurry up and around the steel snake's coils until it's sitting just out of reach. Mean!
Of course, if it's looking grim, China has one last option; if China is about to get taken out, they're using 'Memento' before passing the baton on to Salem.
Salem, of course, is Dark Type- and another one likely to abuse statlocking. Salem makes use of his Super Luck to his advantage, raising his attack using Sword Dance and his Evasiveness with Double Team; he ultimately leans mostly on Me First however, just to add to the risk; though of course, rather than any actual orders, Emporio keeps it as vague as usual- encouraging Salem to 'have his dance', and from there merely instructing him to 'beat [the opponent] at their own game'.
Which is a pretty good way to describe 'Me First'.
At the end of it all, Wes and Oxy are here as backups; if Wes has to come out, Emporio tells him to take the 'easy route', which will result, ultimately, in Wes simply putting the enemy pokemon to sleep before hammering down with Shadow Ball. Likewise, if it comes to be Oxy's turn (though hopefully not), she is made to do the same thing- though this time eating away at the health with the less effective 'Dream Eater' after putting the pokemon to sleep.
But hey, while the Steel mons might have been embarrassed a bit by the dancing tea pot, at least the arena isn't a mess?