With Papyrus confirming that Bugsy uses bug pokemon (shocker!!), Armin is going to try and get through the gym by leaning heavily on Amadeus, hoping his flying type will give him the advantage. To begin off the battle, Amadeus will try one quick round of hypnosis for the chance of his opponent falling asleep (though he won't retry if it fails), before switching to using Air Slash for that nice STAB damage and the chance of flinching. Should the PP of that move run out, he'll switch to using Peck, again for that nice STAB damage.
Should Amadeus' HP get too low, Armin will order him to Roost (thanks Falkner!) so he can regain his HP.
Armin is hoping Amadeus with his STAB moves and HP regenerating will be enough to clear the house, but if not, he'll bring out Juniper. Against Bugsy's first two pokemon, she'll focus on inflicting the poisoned status and chipping away their HP with poison type moves. Against Bugsy's Scizor, knowing that poison is useless, he'll have her use her water type moves. She might not have an advantage with those, but he'll hoping she can just bull on through based on superior level. She'll also try and toss in plenty of smokescreens to lower their accuracy.
Should even Juniper go down, he'll switch to Bismarck. Especially against Scizor, Bismarck's steel and psychic attacks will be useless, so he'll try and get by with Take down and Pursuit.
Armin is really hoping not to need Holly or Annie seeing as they are just small babies. Egg, obviously, is a killer and cannot be unleashed for fear of the damage he will do.
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Elite/Regular: Regular team
Team: Amadeus the Noctowl (lvl 53); Juniper the Skrelp (lvl 46); Bismarck the Metang (lvl 38); Holly the Oddish (lvl 19); Annie the Rowlet (lvl 14); Egg.... the egg.
Battle Details:
With Papyrus confirming that Bugsy uses bug pokemon (shocker!!), Armin is going to try and get through the gym by leaning heavily on Amadeus, hoping his flying type will give him the advantage. To begin off the battle, Amadeus will try one quick round of hypnosis for the chance of his opponent falling asleep (though he won't retry if it fails), before switching to using Air Slash for that nice STAB damage and the chance of flinching. Should the PP of that move run out, he'll switch to using Peck, again for that nice STAB damage.
Should Amadeus' HP get too low, Armin will order him to Roost (thanks Falkner!) so he can regain his HP.
Armin is hoping Amadeus with his STAB moves and HP regenerating will be enough to clear the house, but if not, he'll bring out Juniper. Against Bugsy's first two pokemon, she'll focus on inflicting the poisoned status and chipping away their HP with poison type moves. Against Bugsy's Scizor, knowing that poison is useless, he'll have her use her water type moves. She might not have an advantage with those, but he'll hoping she can just bull on through based on superior level. She'll also try and toss in plenty of smokescreens to lower their accuracy.
Should even Juniper go down, he'll switch to Bismarck. Especially against Scizor, Bismarck's steel and psychic attacks will be useless, so he'll try and get by with Take down and Pursuit.
Armin is really hoping not to need Holly or Annie seeing as they are just small babies. Egg, obviously, is a killer and cannot be unleashed for fear of the damage he will do.