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

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

This, mates, is why Michael is the most powerful Pokémon on Ven's team, if only because its EXTREMELY hard to properly fight him unless you have anti Sleep capabilities in place, and he can just regenerate most his HP in due time! Hmm.....perhaps I should get him Drain Punch (Egg Move!) and Giga Drain/Bulk Up when I get the chance and Poke/Items for it in the future, and just make him the ultimate HP Tank! Mwahahaha!

I thought Apsis and Raphael are on a similar level of power, actually...? Doesn't matter though, it's certainly cool to see how small Shroomish has grown and become such a beast.

However, thinking about it, Shiva's team has various possibilities and tricks to break the strategy Michael is exploiting, shall she ever face him or a Breloom following the same strategy in a battle (there's still an agreed friendly trial-battle between our two charas to hold soooometime, and we could always compose for not having Cottonee-Marill face Kingdra if there's time and fitting!~)

I have summarized it.

- Change Poison Heal of Breloom to either Insomnia via Nightshade's Worry Seed or Plus/Minus from Plusle/Minun, and watch how the Toxic Orb poisons him on the next opportunity.

- Alternatively, Delphox is ideal to either cross the strategy (1) or mischievously snatch it to enjoy the benefits on his own (2), before Mystical Fire will be the choice for SE-damage and automatical reduce of Special Strenght by 1 - but given that the fierly fox is resitant to every STAB-move Breloom learns...
(1) Switcheroo, handing the for it useless Charcoal (unless he'd learn Fire Punch though, maybe) in return for that Toxic Orb. Alternatively, a Chesto Berry to work against the Spores.
(2) Combining it with Role Play and temporaly obtaining Poison Heal Ability to trigger the combo on the own side. C:

- Lilith could also simply create a Magic Room or prevent the regaining of HP via Heal Block before pestering Breloom with SE-Psyshock - or Whimsicott jumps in here and casts a Hurricane.

Definitely needs some set-up and dice luck, but seeing what could be done amazes me.