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

[Lord Windos]

And now you see why...

a) Attributes cannot be reduced to 0 or less in the base rules
b) Team Rocket stole the Creshire League's Strength HM shortly before disbanding



Ah, look at you, throwing science and statistics at us like it's nothing. Definitely looking forward to seeing what you came up with for Dex.



I would like to point out one potential error in the reasoning, however.  Double Lifting Capacity/Movement speed isn't necessarily equivalent to having Double the Strength/Dex.  For example, 1 Strength is 18 kg, while 2 is 45 kg.  If we want to show off a more extreme case, 5 Strength is 650 kg, while 10 is 1500 kg.

While I don't speak often of it, I AM studying to get my double major in biology and chemistry. Learning Physic and Stastics is all a part of the process, really!

Yeap, that was a problem too, but I thought I alluded to it obviously enough, so whoops on that assumption!

Lightspeed, Captain!

DEX calc process are pretty much the same as STR, only you are working with a small range due to the numbers being smaller, and the Percent Error is twice as high as it was with the STR vs Lift Curve. Its also more simple too, since their is no ability in Pokerole that doubles Land Speed, but their ARE two Moves that do: Quick Attack and Extreme Speed, which double and triple Land Speed respectively. 


The Extreme Scenario for THAT would be a Steadfast Lucario that knows Extreme Speed, Agility, is Flitched (For the + 1 Speed Boost that stacks with Agility), and is used by a character with 6 DEX due to Badges. Without boosts, a Lucario is already moving at a Land Speed of 18 DEX, or ~267 kmph (166 mph), which is already pretty bracing. Factoring in ALL the DEX boost, though, and you get a max Land Speed of 27 DEX, or 413 kmph (256 mph). 


That means that while the jackle is using the move, he's moving at speeds that EXCEED the max speed of the average race car ( ~190-200 mph), which for normal squishies without the proper protections would generate G-Forces that would either cripple or kill them outright. Since Pokémon are made of sterner stuff AND they are a tough Fighting/Steel type to boot, though, its highly probably they can handle such speeds for short bursts just fine! The only other possible regular Pokemon that could outspeed it could be Inflagetah IF Acceleration had the cool gimmick of doubling Land Speed instead or/on top of giving extra damage to priority moves, which would be.....ludicrous speeds at that point. Talk about real speed demons, eh!