[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Iron]

Shiva, are you intending to do a 2v2 match? If you want to do 4v4, you need to send out another Pokemon!

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

'Very very little magic' is equivalent to 'no magic' to her, which she'd take as a personal insult. The concept is worth nothing without believing in it.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Shiva, are you intending to do a 2v2 match? If you want to do 4v4, you need to send out another Pokemon!

Now already? Eh, sure... Will do so, give me a few minutes.

[Iron]

Shiva, are you intending to do a 2v2 match? If you want to do 4v4, you need to send out another Pokemon!

Now already? Eh, sure... Will do so, give me a few minutes.

Well, Plusle is basically considered fainted for battle purposes, so he needs to be replaced : )

A 2v1 is usually a pretty short fight.

[Dragonstrike]

Oh, I didn't comprehend it that way at all...

Also I know we're not doing the 1HP rules because Ventus already ordered Apsis not to hold back. Maybe we should make a habit of clarifying that right away from now on, although it's more for flavor than anything else. It's not League-standard, just a common agreement trainers make to keep their Pokemon healthy. Much like Nightshade's offer to Shiva, actually.

I think Gengar could almost certainly have timed his Destiny Bond to still go off at the victorious blow, though, so are you OK with leaving it as is?

I would have thought the 'remove from the fight' part of the order would have been enough, seeing as Porygon has only ever participated in battles with the 1 HP rule so far...the whole intent of the order was to try and avoid triggering Destiny Bond since it only works when the user faints.  If Nathan wants to faint the opponent, he'll likely state that in his orders if the situation doesn't immediately call for it (like what I just attempted to convey).

Seeing as Windos already dropped that card without me noticing though (during the very same round I stated the assumption that we were playing by that rule, no less), I guess I'll let it slide...Porygon2 is a rather logical creature, anyways, as well, so a logical misinterpretation is still technically following the orders, I guess...I've still got a plan, at least, so this is just a minor setback if we keep it...

However, a lot of the PMs I've been exchanging with Windos also assumed we were using the 1 HP rule, and he never corrected me on that either... :/

I'm kinda torn.  There's a logical side to it, but there's also a fairness side to it in that I feel I was lead on just a little because I missed three little words in the orders for Round 2 and nobody pointed it out...

[Iron]

I thought you had explicitly ordered Porygon to be willing to go down to Destiny Bond if it meant taking out Gengar.

Chuckles probably wouldn't have agreed to the 1HP rule anyway, since he had a Pokemon with Destiny Bond.

[Iron]

If there's a different order you could have given that would get around Destiny Bond and still get Gengar to 0HP, maybe we could work it out that way?

[Dragonstrike]

There's no way to get around Destiny Bond's effects once it's been used, except by not fainting the target. If I had thought to give a conditional order to not faint Gengar if it used Destiny Bond (which I should have accounted for, to be fair, since it's a 50 exp move for Gengar and Phantom Force is 64 exp for Banette...), then Porygon2 could have attacked Banette instead, or used Defense Curl or Sharpen. Basically any other order I had given if I had accounted for Destiny Bond...*sigh*...darn it...

Establishing the 1 HP rule beforehand in battles where it could be applied is definitely really important...

[Iron]

Sorry for misunderstanding your order, aye. Sounds like you agree your orders didn't account for DB though anyway, so we're gonna leave it the way it is.

With just a little more damage to Banette this battle becomes a 2v1, so I don't think you'll struggle too much, compared to the Zamboni battle!

[Dragonstrike]

Yeah, I still have a plan in mind even though I screwed up. Just gonna have to go with the flow for now.