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

[Lord Windos]

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.

Well, now that you've mentioned it, I'm not sending Michael out agaist Nightshade or Plusle/Minun, if at all possible, and Ven will probably return Breloom to their Pokeball at poste haste to refresh its ability back to norm if it IS changed.

Problem with using Delphox is that Breloom will have Mind Reader Spores, Stun Spores, and Stone Edges/Facades to thoroughly disabuse them of the notion that the kick boxing shroom is an easy mark. Spore to Sleep them, Stun Spore to cripple them, and/or Stone Edges and Façade to burn their HP down into the ground, essentially. Leech Seed could also be used to further wear them down, but Michael would rather destroy a Fire type than try to stall it out.

Michael's ALWAYS Poisoned by his Toxic Orb, so Magic Room wouldn't work and undermine your own strategy, but Heal Block would be an effective means to stop his regenerating shenanigans, but she would still have to fear Façade giving her a concussion.

Overall, though, those are rather nice ways to prevent Michael from functioning like how he wants, but he would be FAR from defenseless or weak against them. That, and Pluse/Minus and your mice on the field would trigger it, giving him a monsterous + 2 STR, which is just ruinious if with Façade if you ask me!