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

[Dragonstrike]

So that means he'll be facing:
A dancer with an injured (but healing) arm and a pearl that amplifies his psychic abilities to frightening levels
A fire horse
Two bees (only one might be necessary though)
An electric spider
and maybe a starfish (not so sure if this one will happen, but it might)

The duck is currently in the PC, unfortunately.

Well, this oughta be fun.  Kirlia and Staryu are the only ones on that list that don't resist Absorb, and Kirlia is, to put it bluntly, devastatingly powerful with the pearl and calm mind (gotta love having eight damage dice before the enemy defense and type advantages are factored in).  And he can heal up with Draining Kiss if things go awry somehow too, so even better.

How much HP does Michael have, again?

Michael has 5 HP, but if you factor in Absorb restoring at minimum 1 HP per usage, it can effectively double it HP, assuming no one blow knock him clean out. Given that Kirla has 8 fraggen damage dice per attack, though, and its unlikey that my mushroom will survive. At all, really. If he had both a Toxic orb and Leech Seed, it could maybe stand a chance, but again that attack power.... Even factoring in my Vit chopping off 2 damage from that assault, you Pokémon can still OHKO them, and if it doesn't then the follow up attack most likely will!

Shroomish is doomed against Swiftfire (unless the dice REALLY hate you for some reason), has a chance against Skippy (Stirke and Knockdown can help!), a better chance against Staryu, and less of a chance against Grid (Bug type plus Electric Web throws a wrench in Michael survivability, but it has Low HP). My mushroom is not going to get mulched-its goind to be puréed.

Here's the sad part about facing Staryu: it has 7 dice for the base damage on Water Gun.  Meaning he hits way harder with that against a grass type than with with Tackle (and Psywave is puny for the time being against most foes.  Just wait until Nathan has 8 gym badges though and it has a damage pool of 9 dice that can't be reduced via defense!  Nothing is safe from that, bar dark types.). Tackle could be more consistent if Staryu is unlucky, though...

Considering Nathan has 3 strength, all the moves I'll be using have 2 power (except Leech Life), STAB, and all of them have a type advantage or boosting item...yeah.

Staryu might be the only one Michael could potentially defeat, and even that is iffy because it'll have a damage pool of 5 -1 damage with Water Gun. Or a damage pool of 3 with Tackle.

Grid is pretty likely to beat Michael because of Leech Life being a SE HP absorbing move.  3 dice +1 is a pretty good overall damage pool and could still end the fight in 1 turn potentially.

Kirlia could just outright OHKO Michael even without Calm Mind and a type advantage.  7 dice base becomes 5 after defense.  Yikes.

Swiftfire and the combee all have a final damage pool of 4 dice +1...so they could all just outright dissolve Michael with any one hit as well.

Meanwhile, Michael is going to be using the 1 power Absorb against Nathan's 3 Vitality...(how much strength does Ventus have, again?)

His damage will be bad and he won't be able to consistently take hits.  He'll have to get pretty lucky with Nathan's pokemon missing and scoring low damage to even stand a chance against just one of them (including Staryu).  

No better way to teach humility than to be beaten by something you should have the advantage against, right?