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

[Lord Windos]

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Yeah, Fury Cutter is a really friggin' scary move in the right hands, just like with any Successive Action attack (but particularly the non-normal ones).  Particularly if Grid backs it up with Screech and/or SE damage.  It'd be even scarier if it worked like Rollout since the move has a similar damage scaling mechanic in the games, but it doesn't in the base rules.  *shrug*

I stand by Joltik and Galvantula having some of the best synergy between their Ability and movepool in Pokerole.  Few pokemon even come close to benefiting that much from their move and ability combos.  Grid is one of Nathan's strongest pokemon, hands down.  If he's brought to the battle, something is big is gonna happen guaranteed, and he'll be ;leaving you guessing as to which strategy he's going to use.  Will he Fury Cutter?  Drop your Dex in one of a variety of ways?  Lay a Sticky Web?  Nuke you with Electro Ball?  Lower your defense with Screech?  Some combination of the above?  He's very versatile, and I love it.

With all that in mind, any battles against Nathan vs. Terra will also have the condition of Grid being disallowed as a pick, in exchange for Terra not fielding one of his own personal Pokemon. Gallade and Calam are one thing, since they're powerful but can be checked/countered and their set up/tricky Moves are manageable (somewhat), but Grid is just too unpredictable and versitle to reliably counter besides 'Send out a Bulky Pokemon that resists its Moves and/or can squish it ASAP' and Strong Priority/Revenge Killing, which while my chara. has in spades, its a big hurdle to deal with regardless. Use them against NPCs/Wild Pokemon to your heart's content, but I'm not putting myself in that thing's firing line anytime soon anymore. I am rather surprised it didn't sweep 2-3 of Terra's team with all the mass destruction/debilitation its capable, of in retrospect.....