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

[Lord Windos]

I've been half waiting to see if @Nylon was going to respond (he hasn't yet, obviously), and half thinking about how to go about this.

I can use Ditto, but that takes a short amount of setup and you have to use whatever it is it's Transforming into.  Any other pokemon Nathan uses are going to be destroyed by EQ if they aren't immune to Ground (side note: Telekinesis makes the target immune to Ground at the expense of all moves used against them gaining a never-miss trait).  This goes double for Mr. Finder.

I could have Ditto Transform into Tropius and command Cottonee if you think that's worth the risk.  I don't plan to level Vit to 4 right now, but I am seriously considering leveling Str to 4.

I could also level Fight and try to have Kirlia get some Hypnosis attacks off if they're vulnerable to it.

There's also the matter of Solosis that we have to consider...

Mind sharing what plans you've pondered, mate? Usually when you do that much brainstorming you come up with several good ones, so lay them on us!

Tropius has Razor Lead to my knowledge, so you still have access to a Spread Move with Ditto that can HOPEFULLY deal chip damage to those cover + shielded fiends, and with Cottonee having Mega Drain couple with High DEX means she can keep herself healthy AND pierce those blasted shields. If you do use Ditto for that purpose, Lucifer will be using Tailwind on them (Both Cottone and Ditto Tropius too so that they can hopefully get of the Transform off before Mamo shakes things up), at the cost of Gustav and Lucifer themselves not getting. Lucifer's probably going to stick with casting Tailwinds/Screeches for everyone this battle, but Nathan's Pokémon will get the first volley along side Malphena and Viktor!

I honestly DO think the risk is worth the reward of dealing with those Reunicli pronto, as Psychic attacks and WORSE could reasonably used through cover to whittle us down more quickly than we could do to them. Plus, they also have access to Recover potentially, which would make the fight a total slog of attrition against us, so high damage is needed to deal with them imo.

I'll leave the choice of which stat to level up to your discresion, mate, as you know what's best for your character better than I.

Just KO the bugger, or let it flee and THEN capture one of the Reunicli instead to put under guard instead. Simple!