[Meta thread] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure : Celadon City Vandels

[Dragonstrike]

I would say that they would gang up on Mega Metalynx first, since BIG SCARY STEEL TYPE WITH REGEN MOVES terrifies Garvedour and Gallade to an extent, so you would have awhile before they gang up on Kyubi. I'm even willing to start her out with + 2 Strength from a secret Nasty Plot prior to your orders last round, so that she can immediantly either get started with Heat Wave spamming or just Incinerate it to death, taking you down to only two threats to face for the remainder of the battle.

Grudge is also completely viable way to shut at least one of them from fighting you outright (Though Kyubi is sacked until further notice), and Mamudo Eclispe can be used on Pokémon just as easily as human for the one Trainer action you get with it, and since that it fires Dark type energy and you have a bunch of Psychic targets....In fact, I kinda WANT you to use it at least once this campaign, so I'm willing to let the first Reaper's Touch Attack with it be....potent and consequence free on one of the Pokémon targets. Their is a reason they are call the CURSED Arms of Creation...


Alcohol also can be handy, as it increase STR and Defense that doesn't need set up at min. costs, and Turbo has no downsides if we both agree to halve the time it will take the police to get here. And there is still the Stat Block I can give you for the encounter. Also, if you knock out/kill Garv. , all abilities will revert back to normal, so...

I'm very willing to go out on a limb here to help you out, since I did NOT expect this battle to turn out so....poorly. The Mushroom Dude I expected to be annoyingly difficult to some degree, but not this one!

Awhile won't be very long if Metalynx only has 3-5 defense and all 3 pokemon attacking it have extremely powerful Fighting moves backed up by +1-3 Strength, unfortunately :/  The Nasty Plot makes sense, since Kyubi could have easily done that in the background on her own.

I kinda want to use Mamudo Eclipse too since Reiner got it for a reason.  The trick is figuring out when to use it...I was hoping Arbok wouldn't go down so that Reiner would have STAB on its attack, too (and he wouldn't have if that Confuse Ray had landed since Metagross would have had an accuracy pool of 0 and taken 1 damage instead of landing Hammer Arm...), but the other thing to consider is that Gardevoir and Gallade aren't weak to Dark, unlike Metagross :/  And ANY of them going down, human or pokemon, to such a brutal attack is likely to tick the family off something fierce and escalate things since Metagross is the only 'sane' one...though if things go really badly, Reiner might just have to use it out of necessity, which might be a decent explanation for the freebie...

Abilities reverting to normal doesn't mean a whole lot when all the affected pokemon are KOed and Gardevoir has no reason to use Skill Swap again...the alcohol might be a good idea here, since it would effectively be a free Calm Mind as long as sense can be thrown out the window...Turbo might not be too bad an idea either...half the time for the police to show up also sounds fairly reasonable, as ideally, this battle should be wrapped up by then if things were to go a bit better than they have been in the first two rounds...

Grudge is a last resort currently.