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

[Iron]

Aieyayaya, now that you mention it, that is very likely to be the case! He sent out a Dry Skin Crogunk against Ventus when Ariel + Lucifer was fighting them, to prevent me from Bubble Spamming indescrimentaly!

Perish Song is rather nasty too, but didn't you specify that the battle was no fainting earlier? DB and moves that inflict OHKOs/Auto knock outs are effectively banned in that case, and if she breaks those rules, Nathan can just not give her the prize move and move on with his day. Simple, really.

Yes, that's why I'm not too worried about Perish Song in the end.

Another instance of this was the first battle Nathan had with Miller.  He sent out two pokemon that Porygon couldn't reasonably touch with its Download boosted Tackle.  Iron's style for making these types of encounters seems to be 'how can I keep the players from completely steamrolling their opponents with the same strategies?'

Sometimes I do that, and sometimes I have the opponent built ahead of time, as with Miller!
Usually I start with a personality for the NPC and build a team around that, picking movesets, species, and abilities appropriate to the challenge. 
At $400, Rivergrinder is supposed to be a pretty neutral challenge, with not a whole ton of type effectiveness either way.
She had one really really important lucky roll, though.

In that case, I'm somewhat looking forward to battle some foe that has Cloud Nine to nullify Shiva calling for sun. C:

He could just also bring a counter weather team that plays havoc with you, such as a Sandstorm/Hail, which nobody but Rock/Steel/Ground/Pokémon with certain Abilities and Ice types can really use to their advantage!

Ohhh, @Iron, I'd enjoy to have a battle against another weather team at some later point, additionally to that one Lapras under the rain. Fun, and it'd be quiet an experience~

Oo, but weather teams are hard to balance, as we know!