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

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Yeah, that sounds about right for the Yatagaryu's lines Base HP values! Thanks for doing the math for me, mate!

Volchick has 0 Disobedience, Voltasu has 2, and Yatagaryu has 3. The line, is however, prone to being impulsive and/or hyperactivity though, which leads to them causing trouble or doing all sorts of stuff regardless of their listed Disobedience. Males in particular are real trouble makers without a steady and firm hand on the reigns, while females tend to be more subdue but discrete with their energetic nature, which leads them into more interesting situations. Reiner knows all this, as Taylor gives him the complete run down 'off camera' some time after he receives his Egg.

Volt Absorb: Turns Electric Moves into HP Recovery Moves (Like Absorb, or Basic Heal for Non Damaging Moves) for them if they have 2 or less (Maybe 3 in some instances) or less Power, and adds Standard Dice to Deal Electric Type Damage upon being hit with any Attack Move having 3 or above power, with the number of CDs scaling up by 1 for each point above 2 (EX: Discharge grants 1D6 Damage chance, Thunder Deals 3D6). If an Electric Attack Move's Damage Dice exceed 6 against a target, however, then HP/Chance Dice that would be recovered/calculated is converted to Extra Damage, but deal 1/2 Damage as Recoil to User (Rounded Up, Min 2) - Damage is treated as Lethal for purposes of HP Recovery/Healing until either they Faint or they remain out of battle for 10 minutes . Outside of battle, this Pokemon can rapidly recover HP/Lethal Damage if they are supplied with a steady stream of Electricity, and can serve as a portable battery of sorts if you want to risk frying your electronics.

Stormbringer: Works like Sandstorm (Deals Damage every other Round), only it factors which types are weak to its Damage instead of a consistent amount. Deals 2 Damage by Default, up to 4 against dual weakness targets, 3 Damage to Steel types (Up to 4 Damage Max), and 0 Damage to Electric, Ground, and Ice types. Grants + 2 Damage Dice to Electric Type Moves, and all Electric type Moves have their drawbacks/reduced Accuracy eliminated. Weather remains until the user wants it gone, leaves the field, or Faints.

No prob!  Still doesn't solve the Coatlith issue in any of the existing campaigns, but eh.  (tbh, based on the scaling of the sprite for Cameron's Yata compared to Cameron himself and Yata's more serpentine appearance, it looks like Yata could potentially have more than 7 Base HP...but the pokedex data says 7 feet tall, so that's what the book's writer's would go with)

Hmmm...good to know.  Am I going to get to choose Volchik's gender when the egg hatches, or are you going to roll for it/is it predetermined?

So Volt Absorb basically makes all low power Electric moves HP draining/instant Recovery moves, getting hit by any 3+ power move makes your next high power Electric move gain a chance to do additional damage ala Aftermath (the higher power, the more effective), and naturally doing a ridiculous amount of damage to your target (is that 7+ requirement before or after the opponent's Defense is applied, and does it include any bonus damage dealt by Volt Absorb's effect?) just allows you to potentially overkill/overfaint them with guaranteed(?) damage (at the cost of reducing your own HP just as quickly guaranteed and making it hard to heal that off/recharge even though it's not actually Lethal, because electricity loves to conduct through the path of least resistance).  Sounds like a decent interpretation of recharging/discharging batteries.

Huh.  Clever, making Ice immune to Thunderstorm since Ice doesn't conduct electricity very well, and making Steel types take +1 from Thunderstorm because metal conducts electricity.  Interesting that Electric moves have 0 drawbacks when used by a Stormbringer...also interesting that it's a bit more like the book's interpretation of weather summoning abilities instead of the games'...but I guess making things potentially OP is what a Plot Deviced Ability is for, eh?  Just for clarity, though, that's just all the effects of the weather itself rather than effects of the Ability (minus the capability of summoning and dismissing it), yes?  (As in, the weather has to be active and it has to make sense for the weather to be active in order for any of those benefits to apply)