[Meta Thread] Dragonstrike's Pokerole Test Game: Mount Coronet Mystery

[Spiritmon]

Dear oh dear. Time to put all efforts into action. I a bit scared but also excited to begin this final battle.

Alright, my first idea is try to put to sleep Primal Dialga using the Mega Evolution. Nightmare might do something unless any of you guys have other Sleep induce moves to help trigger Nami ability. After putting our enemy to sleep. And then after that, prepare any defenses necessary for this great battle.

[Dragonstrike]

Dear oh dear. Time to put all efforts into action. I a bit scared but also excited to begin this final battle.

Alright, my first idea is try to put to sleep Primal Dialga using the Mega Evolution. Nightmare might do something unless any of you guys have other Sleep induce moves to help trigger Nami ability. After putting our enemy to sleep. And then after that, prepare any defenses necessary for this great battle.

Did you mean Nami instead of Hime?  Because you wrote Hime for your first pokemon choice, which I found a little odd.

[Lord Windos]

With our luck, it's probably a Shadow Pokemon too, to boot.

Yup, Dialga's a Shadow Pokemon as well!  Just edited in Rui noticing since I forgot to initially.

Hope you're ready for a fully Plot Deviced battle, because I'm certainly ready to put some (hopefully) fun ideas to the test!

Me: I hate it when you're right.
Myself: *Sadly Nods* Feel the same way, Me....

Jokes aside, double shitbiscuits. Shadow Primal Dialga, a Legend who's Plot Device involved Time itself. If nothing else, I expect shenanigans when it comes when stuff happens, as well as shuffling of Initiatives if (when) SPD starts really loses it. 

Whether or not we are, we're in for it now and Time itself is against us, so we better make do regardless!

First off, for Insights about Dialga for us Players: Expect Roar of Time to come up relatively soon, if not within the first few Actions of the first Round, and for it do some seriously screwy stuff to anyone wammied by it. Given the way it worked in PMD:EoD/T/S , it's probably either Spread or AoE, and will hurt like a sonnofbitch, but if we survive it they'll be defenseless for at least an Action. If it isn't sufficiently PDed, then Paula Immune to it , so at the very least she'll be spared the Damage. 

If it doesn't go with RoT, expect a unique Shadow Move that will serious wreck us, or it's Plot Device to make its moves remarkably fast coming and therefore hard to miss/more impactful. Hopefully Giratina can use its own PDs to help mitigate the Time Lord's PD for us, if it can be bothered too...

Second Insight: READ ITS LEARNPOOL EVERYONE. It most likely knows all its Level Up Moves and at least has 2 Shadow Moves, and it'll likely go full on aggression and Damage options right off the bat like most Shadow Pokemon do, so be prepared to make some Condtional Orders to Dodge/Evade certain Moves that you are particularly worried about (Hard as that is to do, what with any Move being deadly in the hands of a Legend).

Thirdly, pay attention to the battlegrounds itself. You never know how it might end up help or harming you, especially when things start getting dicey when the Legends really get at each other with their mass devestation attacks.

Case in point, Dragonstrike, are their any Pillars near were SPD and our charas/their Pokemon are  standing, and do they look particularly fragile/suspectible to Damage? Ran's a Geologist, so he should at least get a roll to determine the likelihood of them coming crashing down in the carnage that's about to ensue.

[Lord Windos]

Dear oh dear. Time to put all efforts into action. I a bit scared but also excited to begin this final battle.

Alright, my first idea is try to put to sleep Primal Dialga using the Mega Evolution. Nightmare might do something unless any of you guys have other Sleep induce moves to help trigger Nami ability. After putting our enemy to sleep. And then after that, prepare any defenses necessary for this great battle.

 
Sounds excellent, but you better have an alternative plan ready if putting it to Sleep doesn't work, or if the Sleep Move works but differently than usual. Like, plan out the Action Line up that Involves Sleeping it, then come up with a back-up plan if that goes screwy. Also, might want to invest 1 or 2 Willpoints into Hypnosis to make it more effective, as there is a strong chance that even with Bad Dreams using the Move alone may not be enough to seriously affect it.

That, and there is also the possibility that even if Nami can put Dialga to Sleep, no other Pokemon can because they don't have Bad Dreams and Mega Power helping them out. Or that Dialga won't end up waking up instantly by the end of the Round and being Immune to Sleep after that point because of Shadow/Time Lord PDs (Like what happened with Ran's Fight against Shadow Gyarados) . Finally, Nami is likely to get seriously aggroed on for putting it to Sleep if that does work (or not, if the attempt itself pisses it off) , so be prepared for them to get focused down in any event.

[Dragonstrike]

Case in point, Dragonstrike, are their any Pillars near were SPD and our charas/their Pokemon are  standing, and do they look particularly fragile/suspectible to Damage? Ran's a Geologist, so he should at least get a roll to determine the likelihood of them coming crashing down in the carnage that's about to ensue.

Good advice all around!


The pillars are large enough to provide cover to medium sized pokemon and smaller, and they actually look fairly sturdy! They line the entire battlefield.

They do look a little warped due to the space-time distortions caused by the presence of two ultra powerful Legendaries distorting the fabric of reality, of course, but it doesn't greatly affect their ability to grant cover.

Due to Dialga's size, it will always be able to get some kind of angle on everyone, so the best cover the pillars will be able to grant is half cover.

[Lord Windos]

Case in point, Dragonstrike, are their any Pillars near were SPD and our charas/their Pokemon are  standing, and do they look particularly fragile/suspectible to Damage? Ran's a Geologist, so he should at least get a roll to determine the likelihood of them coming crashing down in the carnage that's about to ensue.

The pillars are large enough to provide cover to medium sized pokemon and smaller, and they actually look fairly sturdy! They line the entire battlefield.

They do look a little warped due to the space-time distortions caused by the presence of two ultra powerful Legendaries distorting the fabric of reality, of course, but it doesn't greatly affect their ability to grant cover.

Due to Dialga's size, it will always be able to get some kind of angle on everyone, so the best cover the pillars will be able to grant is half cover.

Sweet! Alright, second question: is the terrain itself stable and smooth enough, and has it been affected too by the space-time whammy powers of the two Legends? And what about the 'void' that was surrounding the ruins? Is it still there, or is it any different now that the Legends have come out to play?

Third question: The sky itself. Does it look like lightning is going to start raining down on everyone, or any other screwy stuff? Not going to discount some form of Weather or Territory Hazard appearing and making our charas lives difficult, no no no!

Also, any information that Ran could gleam with his Insight and Knowledge about playing the Azure Flute, and the immediate reactions of everything that happened afterwards? 'Cause from what I saw, it prompted something to happen before SPD interrupted things.

[Dragonstrike]

Sweet! Alright, second question: is the terrain itself stable and smooth enough, and has it been affected too by the space-time whammy powers of the two Legends? And what about the 'void' that was surrounding the ruins? Is it still there, or is it any different now that the Legends have come out to play?

Third question: The sky itself. Does it look like lightning is going to start raining down on everyone, or any other screwy stuff? Not going to discount some form of Weather or Territory Hazard appearing and making our charas lives difficult, no no no!

Also, any information that Ran could gleam with his Insight and Knowledge about playing the Azure Flute, and the immediate reactions of everything that happened afterwards? 'Cause from what I saw, it prompted something to happen before SPD interrupted things.

The terrain is perfectly smooth aside from the raised platform that everyone is currently gather around. Giratina's presence doesn't massively distort space, and Dialga doesn't distort it at all, so that's unchanged. The void is still present, however.  Also, as a warning, the pillars could also potentially be broken still if they're hit hard enough/too many times.

For the time being, it doesn't seem like the lightning coming from the red storm is going to affect the battlefield.  The portal that Giratina arrived through is still there, however.

Randolph has no idea what the heck was going on immediately after he played the Azure Flute.  He no longer has a subtle urge to play it, though, so whatever he needed to do with it is clearly done.

[Spiritmon]

Dear oh dear. Time to put all efforts into action. I a bit scared but also excited to begin this final battle.

Alright, my first idea is try to put to sleep Primal Dialga using the Mega Evolution. Nightmare might do something unless any of you guys have other Sleep induce moves to help trigger Nami ability. After putting our enemy to sleep. And then after that, prepare any defenses necessary for this great battle.

Did you mean Nami instead of Hime?  Because you wrote Hime for your first pokemon choice, which I found a little odd.

My mistake. I sometimes get confused of name. My choice is Nami indeed. Prepare to go Mega and set defenses. Hime is my last choice of fighting. No need to go Final Gambit right now.

[Lord Windos]

Alright, so we don't have to worry about the ground or storm tripping us up yet, but that portal may become a hazard in of itself if one of our characters or Pokemon get thrown/blown into it, so you might want to have something plan for that possibility just in case, everyone.

Well, that's all the questions I have for now and I'm tired, so I'll be making myself some dinner before getting some rest. Perhaps some more ideas may come to me tomorrow, perhaps not, but I want to be well rested for this Fight whenever we all get started on it! And just once more to stress it, share your own ideas , thoughts, and plans in the Meta Thread too , so that we may all come together and thoroughly proofread our collective knowledge before we start coming with actual Orders for the Fight! That means not making any posts in the Game Thread until we get everything hammered out, but I don't think that's too much of a concession to ask for, given that we're fighting against Shadow Primal Dialga with Giratina as help and possible friendly fire hazard and therefore need to be thoroughly prepared before we start things.

[Dragonstrike]

My mistake. I sometimes get confused of name. My choice is Nami indeed. Prepare to go Mega and set defenses. Hime is my last choice of fighting. No need to go Final Gambit right now.

Edited. Nami is now at the top of the initiative instead of Hime.