Character: Riz Gukgak | nightyorb Badge/Gym Leader: Blaine / Volcano badge Elite/Regular: Regular Team:Niknik the Wishiwashi holding Clear Amulet (lvl 100), Puk the Kecleon holding a Sitrus Berry (lvl 97)
Battle Details:
Magcargo
Starting off against Magcargo, Riz will bring out Niknik his Wishiwashi. The reasoning is simple. She is a water type, which Magcargo has a x4 weakness to. Her type will also protect her from Margarco's fire attacks. Also, she is level 100.
Listen, if you wanted Riz to put more fancy effort into these strategies, you should let him take on elite teams already. It's not his fault he has to take on these gyms with completely over-levelled pokemon!
At the start of the battle, Niknik will go into her School form which boosts almost all her stats. From there, Riz will have her use Whirlpool to trap Magcargo on the field and deal some damage each round. Then he'll follow that up with Hydro Pump and Surf until Magcargo is down. Magcargo should be unlikely to inflict much damage to Wishiwashi due to the combination of her higher level and her typing, but should something powerful hit through anyway, Riz will have her use Aqua Ring to regain HP each turn.
Magmortar
For Magmortar, Riz will leave Wishiwashi on the field. Unlike Magcargo, Magmortar only has a 2x weakness to fire, but beyond that, not much changes. Wishiwashi still takes reduced fire from its fire attacks, and her level is still (unsurprisingly!) 100.
For this battle, Riz will simply repeat his early strategy of using Whirlpool, then Surf and Hydro Pump. Because Magmortar takes less damage from water attacks than Magcargo, he suspect he'll repeat this more often than in the first round. Once Magmortar's HP is getting low, he's switch to using Brine.
Again, if Wishiwashi's HP is getting low, he'll have her use Aqua Ring to regain HP on each turn.
Rapidash
Again, Riz is going to leave Wishiwashi out on the field. Depending on how she is looking, he might top up her HP with a potion at the start of the fight. But beyond that, it's again a fire type pokemon with a weakness to water against a level 100 water pokemon who resists fire attacks.
The strategy for this fight will be the same as the one in the last two.
One important thing to note is that if at any point Wishiwashi's HP gets lowered enough that she drops out of school form, Riz will have her use Flip Turn to inflict damage and switch out with Puk the Kecleon.
Puk the Kecleon has the ability Protean which changes his typing to the type of the attack he is using allowing him to always do STAB damage.
If brought in as a back-up to Niknik, Puk will use Aqua Tail and Ancient Power to target the weaknesses of Blaine's fire pokemon. Should he somehow run out of PP for these moves, he'll switch to using other normal, ghost or dark type moves in his arsenal (like Strength, Sucker Punch, and Shadow Ball), as these moves will make sure his type doesn't become one which is weak to fire type moves.
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Badge/Gym Leader: Blaine / Volcano badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Niknik the Wishiwashi holding Clear Amulet (lvl 100), Puk the Kecleon holding a Sitrus Berry (lvl 97)
Battle Details:
Magcargo
Starting off against Magcargo, Riz will bring out Niknik his Wishiwashi. The reasoning is simple. She is a water type, which Magcargo has a x4 weakness to. Her type will also protect her from Margarco's fire attacks. Also, she is level 100.
Listen, if you wanted Riz to put more fancy effort into these strategies, you should let him take on elite teams already. It's not his fault he has to take on these gyms with completely over-levelled pokemon!
At the start of the battle, Niknik will go into her School form which boosts almost all her stats. From there, Riz will have her use Whirlpool to trap Magcargo on the field and deal some damage each round. Then he'll follow that up with Hydro Pump and Surf until Magcargo is down. Magcargo should be unlikely to inflict much damage to Wishiwashi due to the combination of her higher level and her typing, but should something powerful hit through anyway, Riz will have her use Aqua Ring to regain HP each turn.
Magmortar
For Magmortar, Riz will leave Wishiwashi on the field. Unlike Magcargo, Magmortar only has a 2x weakness to fire, but beyond that, not much changes. Wishiwashi still takes reduced fire from its fire attacks, and her level is still (unsurprisingly!) 100.
For this battle, Riz will simply repeat his early strategy of using Whirlpool, then Surf and Hydro Pump. Because Magmortar takes less damage from water attacks than Magcargo, he suspect he'll repeat this more often than in the first round. Once Magmortar's HP is getting low, he's switch to using Brine.
Again, if Wishiwashi's HP is getting low, he'll have her use Aqua Ring to regain HP on each turn.
Rapidash
Again, Riz is going to leave Wishiwashi out on the field. Depending on how she is looking, he might top up her HP with a potion at the start of the fight. But beyond that, it's again a fire type pokemon with a weakness to water against a level 100 water pokemon who resists fire attacks.
The strategy for this fight will be the same as the one in the last two.
One important thing to note is that if at any point Wishiwashi's HP gets lowered enough that she drops out of school form, Riz will have her use Flip Turn to inflict damage and switch out with Puk the Kecleon.
Puk the Kecleon has the ability Protean which changes his typing to the type of the attack he is using allowing him to always do STAB damage.
If brought in as a back-up to Niknik, Puk will use Aqua Tail and Ancient Power to target the weaknesses of Blaine's fire pokemon. Should he somehow run out of PP for these moves, he'll switch to using other normal, ghost or dark type moves in his arsenal (like Strength, Sucker Punch, and Shadow Ball), as these moves will make sure his type doesn't become one which is weak to fire type moves.