[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Zamboni vs Nathan Round 4

Zamboni just laughs. "I know you can handle it, young trainer. Win or lose, I see potential in you. I pick my team based on what I see in a challenger's eyes. There's something about that gaze. Ralts feels it. Don't you?"

Indeed, Ralts has taken the field with a look of grim determination, his immediate loss of 1 hp notwithstanding. He is learning to thrive on competition. Many Pokemon have little choice, but Ralts wants to learn to grow stronger.

(Also remember that an evolved Pokemon's advantages are mostly in HP, and sometimes in new moves they gain access to. Their BST doesn't go up - but in character, people do respect evolutions a lot more. The real threat is Canalize!)

Growl
(5)(6)(3) Success.
Sealeo's attacks deal 1 less dice
Ralts also Traces Thick Fat, proving once again that switching Ponyta was a good choice.

"Good choice. Status moves in the first turn are much smarter than status moves in the second turn against Sealeo! Let's have a Water Gun, Sea."

Water Gun
Acc: 8 dice
(1)(4)(1)(2)(2)(1)(6)(6) I was worried for a second there, but it's a hit!
Dmg: 3 Str + 2 power + 1 stab -2 vit - 1 Growl = 3 dice
(1)(1)(6) Ralts takes no damage.

Confusion 2
(5)(5) Hit
(4)(4) Sealeo takes 2 damage for pain -1.
Conf: (5)


Zamboni vs Nathan Round 5

Confusion
(3)(6)(1) hit
(4)(5) Sealeo takes another 2 damage. He only has 3hp left. That's -2.
Conf: (6) Ralts is nailing it out there! Sealeo is confused, but unlikely to fail at his water guns.

"Sealeo, I see no reason to give Ralts an encore for that performance, though he does deserve a round of applause!" Sealeo doesn't understand this "joke" and Zamboni is forced to say, "Just use Water Gun, friend." *chuckle*
Zamboni isn't as clever as he thinks he is.

Water Gun
Acc: (5)(2)(5)(5)(5)(5) Look at those 5's! That's a critical hit. Ralts takes the blast right in the head.
Dmg: (3)(3)(2)(1)(6) Good lord, I needed the crit to do anything. Ralts takes 1 damage. He has a -1 pain penalization.

Confusion 2
(4) Even when down to one dice, Ralts is making things happen.
(4)(5) Sealeo is out of the fight after just 2 rounds.

Zamboni vs Nathan Round 6

"Enough playing around. We need to show this new trainer that, as his first Gym Leader, we are not pushovers!"

Zamboni tosses a Pokeball into the rink. As it flies by, the rents Swiftfire made in the icy layer are repaired to sparkling new. Out bursts a squat steel shape, crackling with electricity and frost. It's an...ice machine?

The doors of the machine burst open, revealing a mischievous ghostly face. Ethereal electric arms stab out from the squat refrigerator and steady it. Zamboni is proud as all hell of what he has unleashed.