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

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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!

I can't KO Solosis with Calam and use an optimal setup of pokemon at the same time.   If it gets KOed and isn't picked up soon after, EQ is likely to kill it (which I don't want to happen).  Capturing a Reuni isn't a convenient option because we can't capture other trainers' pokemon with pokeballs and those blobs with hands are actually threatening, unlike Solosis.  We can only trivialize watching Solosis because it can't do anything to us without getting mulched immediately since it only has 2 Vit.

That plan does sound best for trying to burn through them as quickly as possible, imo.  I'm just worried EQ might destroy us before it destroys them (5 + 4 + STAB = 10 D6 base.  A max damage roll would instantly KO a Grass type with only 3 Defense and 6 HP)

If I'm going to be attempting to help Valder burn through the lot of 'em ASAP with Razor Leaf/Giga Drain, I'll probably level Str (which I've been wanting to do anyways).  4 + 2/3 + STAB = 7/8 base, and Razor Leaf is high crit.

I've been considering smashing pillars one at a time to get to each Reuni one at a time.

I was also considering attempting to 'weaken the chain', so to speak.  KO the ones in the middle first or attempt to strike their arms/hands to separate them so they don't have nearly as much of a power boost.  Don't know if Hypnosis could do that instantaneously, though.