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

[Dragonstrike]

-Ven will unilaterally refuse any and all battles with you from now until after the campaign, as both does not have an inclination to battle against him for fun/training AND he refuses to go into a fight he believes will be a struggle for him and his Pokémon. Even if things warm up between them, he's still not going fight you . Neither I or Ven feels its a condusive use of our time, is all.

I do think it'd be more balanced than you might think, but eh.  I don't have plans to raise Nathan's Vit to 4 any time soon, so he's starting to definitely become a glass cannon in that regard, and you won't have to match his speed to take him down.

Conversely, Nathan has his own concerns about how difficult the battle would be for him.  He'd have to bring his A game (ie his most pwerful attackers possible) to overcome that 5 Vitality of Ventus's in a reasonable amount of time, and Michael and Aspis are the two pokemon he'd be the most worried about facing.  I think that says a lot about how the battle could go, no?

Though as far as Heart goes, his stat spread is...similar to Nathan's iirc.  The only main difference is his pokemon aren't as well honed due to not being evolved/as experienced.

Anyways...only really mentioning this because it'd probably be a super high level battle, and I think it'd be interesting to see later on.  Not now.  Goodness, no.  I just think being so adverse to the idea for the entire remainder of the campaign is a bit unhealthy, particularly since we're still a looooonnnng ways from the end.

That's my 2 cents on the matter, you've made your points many, many times already, let's leave it at that.