[Meta thread] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure : Celadon City Vandels

[Lord Windos]

There's 3 'buts', actually.

1. If Rhyxemplar doesn't down every last Nuclear doggie, they're going to focus on him, and even he can only take so much punishment.  Getting swarmed by this many pokemon isn't fun, particularly when they can hit all of your pokemon for SE damage.  Hence why I said 'Lightspeed EQs' instead of just EQs.  Would have rather saved the item for later, but this encounter is getting silly.

2. Not really a factor in not doing it, but could the Dragonair potentially use E-Speed to get both themselves and the trainers in the air instead of attacking since Dragonair can fly?

3. If we stick with basing Rhyxemplar's level up moves on the book/Rhyperior's XY learnset instead of the updated ORAS/Gen 7+ one, I need to use the Rare Candy to teach him EQ since he's 6 XP short :/

I am not finding this encounter very fun, tbh.  And if the whole NRF is like this and the massive Rattata swarm, I'm really not looking forward to trying to deal with it...

1. That's you decision to make, ultimately.

2. Yes, they can! It take a Trainer Action for them hop onto the Dragonair, but it could be done!

3. I'm willing to allow Rhyxemplar to learn Earthquake for the Gen 7 Price, since I like using those Learnsets since they are more diverse/cheaper.

The Courtyard has large swarms/groups of Pokémon since their is plenty of wide open space/prey to support it, but they become far less common in the NRF. That, and their are other....convenenances in the place to make it more tolerable/less stressful.