[Game Thread] Pokerole: Mount Coronet Mystery

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

(Pressure's text also specifically says to round down.  Also, given how the original rules allow for you to issue conditional orders for Detect and Protect and the like the same way you can do so for Evasion, I'll allow that in this game!  And yes, I'll rule that Strike and Knockdown count as unique moves in League battles.)

Interesting strategy, letting Weavile go first.

Randolph vs Candice Round 6

Weavile's a little overconfident at first, having planned her strategy out already.  She charges immediately to hit that frail rival Dark type where it hurts!  She's going to make mince meat of...

...then Diam becomes enveloped in a sphere of rainbow colored light right before the attack connects!

Detect 1
5* + 2 + 2 - 2 = 7 D6
(4)(4)(5)(5)(5)(2)(1)

Ice Punch 1
12 - 2 = 10
(5)(5)(5)(2)(4)(2)(3)(5)(2)(4) Good thing Diam used Detect.  Critical hit!
4 + 3 + STAB - 5 + 2 Crit - 3 Detect = 2 D6
(5)(2) Diam takes 1 damage 7/8 HP
(2) Nope

As Weavile's fist mostly bounces off of that sphere of rainbow colored light, the transformation completes!  Diam is now fully Mega Evolved, her full glory revealed!  She makes a face at Weavile, taunting the kitty with the reflection in the gigantic gem.

This just makes Weavile more determined to show this gemlin who's the boss here!

Night Slash 2
12 - 4 = 8 D6
(3)(4)(3)(1)(3)(1)(5)(4)
(6)(3)(1) Diam takes 1 damage 6/8 HP -1 Pain

Diam wags a finger at Weavile.  Nu-uh.  You're not getting away with that so easily!

Then her gem starts glowing...

Metal Burst 2
2 + 3 + 2 - 4 - 1 = 2 D6
(4)(1) ...and explodes with light!
(6)(5)(3)(4)(1) Weavile takes 3 damage! 5/8 HP -1 Pain

Weavile recoils in surprise after taking such a staggeringly powerful blow from a wall of all things.  What the...?

Bah, no matter!  This Sableye isn't getting the better of her today!  She'll show 'em what a real counterattack looks like!

Weavile's waiting...

...and Diam's all too eager to hit back!

She focuses even more light in her gem...

Flash Cannon 3
4* + 3 + 2 - 6 - 1 = 2 D6
(5)(4) ...and fires it out of it in an explosive shot of even more pure light energy!
2 + 3 - 4 Sp Def + SE = 1 D6 + 1 damage (maybe a little underwhelming right now, but this is her first time using the move, so cut her some slack!)
(5) Weavile takes 2 damage! 3/8 HP -2 Pain
(1)

Weavile fires back with an...

Avalanche!! 3
12 - 6 - 2 = 4 D6
(6)(4)(3)(4)
(4)(2)(5)(1) Diam takes 2 damage. 4/8 HP -2 Pain

That's all Weavile can do this Round, though, since her opponent is immune to Brick Break.  She's huffing and puffing, trying to figure out how in the heck she got damaged so badly this Round by a wall of all things, and how she can get some payback in the next one...

"Hey Randolph, by the way, how'd you teach your Sableye how to use Flash Cannon?  I'm not an expert on the Steel type for obvious reasons, but I'm pretty certain I haven't ever seen or heard about a Sableye using that move before."

The Tailwind peters out.

(Yeap, and it works, since it forces Weavile to be proactive with Attacks instead of reactive with Evasion. Time to move on to the next part of my plan.)

The gem goblin, once she digs herself out of the wake of the avalanche (Easily done, given she's clawed her way through much tougher stuff), throws her head back and crackles at Weavile from behind her enormous garnet, as if their attempts to bury her were an utter joke to them! Darling darling, if that's the best you got, then I feel for you very very sorry. Unless you're playing for fun, in which case well done! We he he he!

Contrarily, though, her often erstwhile partner was taking the frigid feline free and lightly as an obese Aggron. That is to say, not one iota of a percent. If that cool kitty cat was capable of clawing its way thorough Diam's near impenetrable Mega Defenses like it did, then he couldn't afford to take any risk against it.

With that in mind, the midget miner recalled Diam to her Pokeball, saying right before he did so: "Diam, you did good, but its time for ya to duck out for a bit."

He then sends out Puck in their place, who initially breathed a *Sigh* of relief when he saw that the Xerneas awful Hail had finally abated.....until he caught a glimpse of the Pokemon he was fighting now. Then he was all smiles as he eyed Weavile with a faint sense of bemused superiority casually readied themselves. Oh my, this is not going to end well for you, my friendly friend.

Regarding Candice's inquiry to his wicked fiend's unique grasp over Flash Cannon, Ran paused mid-planning to mull over exactly how to answer her, and settled with a carefully worded response.

"Bryon helped me teach her it, after I asked him if it was possible. She already knew Metal Burst, so I figured there were good odds she could pick it up a Move so similar to it. Wouldn't be the hardest or nastiest trick she's mastered, as ya can tell by now."

He then smoothly transition to relying his commands to his metallic pixie without missing a beat.

"Puck, hunker down, then duck out. I want to make this Weavile's life hard as possible, and you're just the man to do it."

Order: Puck will use Iron Defense, and then a Conditional Will Point Boosted Baton Pass to Diam, in order to give her + 2 MORE Defense and make her virtually unbreakable. If he's Frozen, then switch out BP with Power-Up Punch. Like I said, I'm stamping down hard on what it can do, and this maneuver will certainly help that.