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

[Iron]

(Out of curiosity how much honey is considered a "unit"?)

The book says 1 Honey is equivalent to a small barrel worth of the stuff.  As far as for how Nathan carries around the stuff...well, let's just say he has an unspecified number of large jars he carries his Honey around in.

Pokeballs are amazing things for inventory management.

[Dragonstrike]

(Out of curiosity how much honey is considered a "unit"?)

The book says 1 Honey is equivalent to a small barrel worth of the stuff.  As far as for how Nathan carries around the stuff...well, let's just say he has an unspecified number of large jars he carries his Honey around in.

Pokeballs are amazing things for inventory management.

That too

Provided you have a bunch of spare pokeballs on hand, that is.

[Dragonstrike]

Random Fun Fact about Unova's Elemental Monkeys: starting in Gen 7, they can be tutored the 3 Pledge moves.

[Spiritmon]

Random Fun Fact about Unova's Elemental Monkeys: starting in Gen 7, they can be tutored the 3 Pledge moves.

Interesting. I always look the three monkeys in important as Started pokemon (in my opinion at least). Perhaps a little better than the actual starter in Unova.

Now, I not actually hate the design of the starters. Serperior is cool, Emboar is a bit...okay I guess? It's kinda heavy in the balance in two previous generations already was Fire/Fighting. And Sumoroot...I like very much the design of a Water Samurai. But he could have at least a better ability than Damp (and a more large movepool).

[Dragonstrike]

Random Fun Fact about Unova's Elemental Monkeys: starting in Gen 7, they can be tutored the 3 Pledge moves.

Interesting. I always look the three monkeys in important as Started pokemon (in my opinion at least). Perhaps a little better than the actual starter in Unova.

Now, I not actually hate the design of the starters. Serperior is cool, Emboar is a bit...okay I guess? It's kinda heavy in the balance in two previous generations already was Fire/Fighting. And Sumoroot...I like very much the design of a Water Samurai. But he could have at least a better ability than Damp (and a more large movepool).

The Elemental Monkeys also get Overgrow, Torrent, and Blaze as their HAs! However, access to the Elemental Hyper Beams is still exclusive to the actual starter pokemon (and Sketch users).



???

Do you mean Shell Armor?  Because that's what Samurott's HA is, not Damp.  Swampert is the one with Damp as its HA (and given how meta Explosion used to be, it's an Ability it would have loved to have had back in gens 3 and 4)

Samurott has a decent enough movepool to make ends meet, thankfully.  Megahorn is an amazing move for it to have.  And Oshawott does also get access to Sacred Sword via breeding starting in USUM (thanks to Smeargle's Sketch shenanigans).  And believe it or not, Night Slash and Air Slash are also egg moves for the samurai otter.  Serperior has more movepool problems than Samurott does (but has an incredible HA to more than make up for that)

[Spiritmon]

I must have confused about ability, sorry. Even so, perhaps a add types for Serperior and Samurott would be very cool. A Alola variant or at least a Mega Evo to add types to these two. But Mega Evo it's dead it seems so I am not very much confidence.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

I'm having a small question, @Iron: Is it alright if I'd be to take the Lucky Egg Primal Glaceon held before he's been sent over to Bill and carefully hand it to Pancham before entering the cave in return for the CottoneeFluff and EggShards he usually holds? I hope it is, and Shiva even stated an interest in giving the panda some action so helping on that via entrusting him with such a precious Item feels fitting. I hope the smol panda enjoys holding an Egg filled with so much happiness! ^^

I'll reply in GameThread in a bit, not much time to do that now.

[Dragonstrike]

I'm having a small question, Iron: Is it alright if I'd be to take the Lucky Egg Primal Glaceon held before he's been sent over to Bill and carefully hand it to Pancham before entering the cave in return for the CottoneeFluff and EggShards he usually holds? I hope it is, and Shiva even stated an interest in giving the panda some action so helping on that via entrusting him with such a precious Item feels fitting. I hope the smol panda enjoys holding an Egg filled with so much happiness! ^^

Windos did the same thing earlier with the Victreebell. Since he knew the battle was coming and would have had time to prepare, Iron allowed swapping items just before it.

This situation should be the same.

[Iron]

I'm having a small question, @Iron: Is it alright if I'd be to take the Lucky Egg Primal Glaceon held before he's been sent over to Bill and carefully hand it to Pancham before entering the cave in return for the CottoneeFluff and EggShards he usually holds? I hope it is, and Shiva even stated an interest in giving the panda some action so helping on that via entrusting him with such a precious Item feels fitting. I hope the smol panda enjoys holding an Egg filled with so much happiness! ^^

I'll reply in GameThread in a bit, not much time to do that now.

This situation is not quite the same as the other, because it was only recently revealed that your foes would be Seviper and Buizel. Try to do such things before the GM has a chance to reveal any surprises. 

That said, I don't mind in this instance. Pancham goes ahead and holds the Lucky Egg, and becomes happy Shiva is giving him attention and items again. It reminds him of his old chunk of Eggshell he used to carry with him.

[Dragonstrike]

@PhantomUnderYourDesk, we need to strategize a little.  We only get one pokemon apiece in the actual battle if we can't get out of the corridor (which we can't atm because Floatzel and Seviper are taking up all the available space currently)

I'm looking at either access to spread moves (mainly Rock Slide) and debuffs versus raw power.  Gallade might be better suited for both opponents type advantage wise, but I'd honestly prefer to use Flygon Ditto if we can comfortably handle that Floatzel (because potential Ice Fang/Punch)

That smog making everything slightly less accurate and potentially poisoning everything not immune to the status is a rather big nuisance as well. Not a big deal for Nathan for the most part, tbh, but in Shiva's case...however, the smog isn't as bad outside of the corridor, so if you can get out there, you probably don't have to worry about that as much.

The egg is also seemingly protected by some kind of strange force, so it's probably not going to be easy to walk up to if that force doesn't let us...

If you want to get a preemptive attack of some kind off, you'll probably have to pass a Stealth check of your own, based on what Iron's said previously concerning preemptive attacks.

And on top of all of that, there's potentially a Dark type Mega Pokemon of some variety nearby. Which is kinda why I want to keep Gallade in reserve if possible, tbh...(well, I also have Jungore and Calam, but the more anti-dark types I have in reserve, the better off I think we might be)