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

[Lord Windos]

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?

Ventus has 2 STR, which is enough for his purposes to deal some damage. Between debuffs and move diversity, I haven't needed to much power up until this point (Sleep, Poison, Paralysis, Burn, and Freeze, plus Atk and Def debuffs make for lovely fun!).

If you send in Staryu and it wins, that would certainly do the trick in humiliating it and lowering its ego, but that'll have an unintended side effect- its going to piss him off something fierce. He's going to very furious, and its only going to get worse as he's beaten repeatedly into the ground. He'll learn discipline this way, but he'll end up developing a grudge against all of Nathan's Pokémon during the process, unless both Ventus and Nathan take care to prevent that. With his smarting pride, he's liable to lash out against his master, since he promised them that they would be able to surpass anything.

Still, he'll grow stronger from this experience. He'll just be extremely surly because of it, but he won't be egotistical, macho, nor a braggart anymore.