Up first against Pinsir is Loral, who's going to be boosting his Defense and Special Defense with a series of Stockpiles. Once he has 3 of those up, it's time to head into Sludge Bomb. Each use has a 30% chance of poisoning and this is going to be Loral's main offense here so eventually, unless the odds are super against Ivy, this should take. Sludge Bomb is a 90 base move with Loral's added STAB that ignores Pinsir's high defense due to it being a special attacking move. Even without the added chipping damage of being poisoned, this strategy should work as each whittle the other down. Of course, Pinsir does have a high attack which Loral's +3 Defense should help with but if it looks like Loral has taken too damage to see this through, Ivy will instruct a Swallow, losing all those defense boosts from Stockpile, but gaining back full health, which should be enough to give Loral time to at least end the match. Afterall, Poison is naturally resistant to Fighting and that's the majority type of Pinsir's attacking moves.
After that all Loral needs to do is get as many Take Down's on Heracross as he can until he's taken out. Heracross' main opponent will be Joan. It's time to be annoying, with lots of Smokescreen! Is it a cheap tactic? Oh yes. But it works. Koffing bank on their high Defense and Heracross on their high Attack. The stats are stacked in our favor, but let's make it better by having Heracross only land a hit every other move. Joan is going to be attacking with a STAB Sludge, doing decent damage but again has a 30% chance of poisoning. Ivy's cautious that Heracross may have Guts so there's two ways this can go.
1) Poison takes but it turns out Heracross has Swarm. Poison types are still resistant to Bug type moves so this won't effect Joan too much. She'll keep using Sludge and taking advantage of those accuracy drops until she wins.
After which, there's not much she can do against Scizor apart from use Assurance. Which she will until she's unable to battle and be replaced by Fireball.
2) If poison does take and Guts appears activated, Joan will use Self-Destruct, dealing massive damage to Heracross and hopefully resulting in a double knockout. If Heracross survives, Fireball will be sent out.
Fireball, regardless of when he needs to be brought out, will have the simple strategy of using Flamethrower on everything. He's more than high enough in level to be able to wipe out this team himself, but Ivy's trying to reserve him just for Scizor.
backdated to November 15th!
Badge/Gym Leader: Hive Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Loral the Trubbish. Joan the Koffing. Fireball the Salandit.
Battle Details: Ivy's going to be using this battle to test out the strength of her new pure Poison type Pokemon.
Up first against Pinsir is Loral, who's going to be boosting his Defense and Special Defense with a series of Stockpiles. Once he has 3 of those up, it's time to head into Sludge Bomb. Each use has a 30% chance of poisoning and this is going to be Loral's main offense here so eventually, unless the odds are super against Ivy, this should take. Sludge Bomb is a 90 base move with Loral's added STAB that ignores Pinsir's high defense due to it being a special attacking move. Even without the added chipping damage of being poisoned, this strategy should work as each whittle the other down. Of course, Pinsir does have a high attack which Loral's +3 Defense should help with but if it looks like Loral has taken too damage to see this through, Ivy will instruct a Swallow, losing all those defense boosts from Stockpile, but gaining back full health, which should be enough to give Loral time to at least end the match. Afterall, Poison is naturally resistant to Fighting and that's the majority type of Pinsir's attacking moves.
After that all Loral needs to do is get as many Take Down's on Heracross as he can until he's taken out. Heracross' main opponent will be Joan. It's time to be annoying, with lots of Smokescreen! Is it a cheap tactic? Oh yes. But it works. Koffing bank on their high Defense and Heracross on their high Attack. The stats are stacked in our favor, but let's make it better by having Heracross only land a hit every other move. Joan is going to be attacking with a STAB Sludge, doing decent damage but again has a 30% chance of poisoning. Ivy's cautious that Heracross may have Guts so there's two ways this can go.
1) Poison takes but it turns out Heracross has Swarm. Poison types are still resistant to Bug type moves so this won't effect Joan too much. She'll keep using Sludge and taking advantage of those accuracy drops until she wins.
After which, there's not much she can do against Scizor apart from use Assurance. Which she will until she's unable to battle and be replaced by Fireball.
2) If poison does take and Guts appears activated, Joan will use Self-Destruct, dealing massive damage to Heracross and hopefully resulting in a double knockout. If Heracross survives, Fireball will be sent out.
Fireball, regardless of when he needs to be brought out, will have the simple strategy of using Flamethrower on everything. He's more than high enough in level to be able to wipe out this team himself, but Ivy's trying to reserve him just for Scizor.