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

[Spiritmon]

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.

I can reroll on the Confuse Ray and see if it lands the second time, @Dragonstrike, as I rather not completely stonewall you unless the dice just have it out for Mega Arbok. I'd recommend using a Full Restore to prevent Burn from molesting the hydra, since Garvedour has literally become near bullet proof to all but SE attacks. As for Metagross being the most 'sane' one of them all, that is only because it was to not really being raised that well due to its immunity to 'thier' version of LOVE, so it defaulted to its core species' line of self preservational thinking: pure, cold computation, logical reasoning, and probability/algorhythmic analysis. Its absolutely loyal to the Family ONLY because they raised it to be that way AND because they never really taught it how to 'feel' / 'empahtize' / 'care' with other or itself. Its more akin to a machine with really advanced AI sentience than an actualy Pokémon, so its sanity is questionable at best too. Still, if you can get it away from its keepers, it should more or less follow your orders as well, due to being taught 'To be Loyal to Your Master' , NOT a specific person, but it won't have much of a personality unless you work hard at it.

@Spiritmon : Revivng Xenoqueen would be quite the Double Edge for everyone involved. On one hand, getting Fallout weather and taking out Mega Metagross essentially screws them over in the long AND short term of the battle, but Kyubi /the rest of Pokémon (Unless immediantly returned) would get lots and lots of rads , with Mega Arbok in particular receiving 4X!!! the Rads from Fallout alone (4X20 + 5X4 Per Round = 100 Rad Absorption by the 1st Round, and it only gets worse from their....). Reviving Baltazar will just put him in the spotlight for the Gang Bang Trio again, but he could score a decent hit against Gallade before they go down!

EDIT: 2nd Confuse Ray roll turned out really well for you @Dragonstrike , so consider Mega Arbok not KOed!

And what choice do we have? Xenoqueen for now its the only Pokemon with enough power to cause 4x Damage against Gardevoir and Gallade and cause a serious Damage against Metagross with Fire Blast. With Fallout we can cause serious damage each turn against them. We dont have much choice. Is that or use a gun who cannot do much.