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

[Dragonstrike]

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.

So 2 strength on a 1 power move against 3 vitality...with Absorb, it'll have a damage pool of 1 (+1 damage against Staryu, -1 against everything else bar Kirlia), and with Strike, that's also a damage pool of 1.  Yeesh.

I think the only choice I really need to make is whether Staryu uses Tackle or Water Gun if it comes out.  And how many pokemon Nathan is going to use against Michael as well (which he'll likely discuss with Ventus before starting).

This is going to give Michael a real good whooping, that's for sure...