[Meta Thread] Dragonstrike's Pokerole Test Game: Mount Coronet Mystery

[Lord Windos]

Dear, maybe you're thinking too mechanically or competitively in that case. Because clashing is more than a pure mechanical way to avoid being hit by a foe's move like evading is (at least, in my view and if I think about it now), there's room for creative shenanigans and such - that's probably what I like about it! A Pokemon on your side trying to defend itself from a Fire Blast by using Water Gun looks like someone trying to extinguish a forestfire with a watering can if I imagine it - or Hurricane vs. Tackle, someone running full-blast into the wind to avoid being blown away.

Of course, to each their own I guess? I'll prefer to clash than to evade.

To each their own, I agree. Logically, Tackling a Hurricane or putting out a Fire Blast with a Water Gun is absurb, but I'd say Pokemon is an inherently absurd, escapist fantasy to begin with, so why not let those things happen from a mechanical perspective? I play these roleplaying games to escape reality and do things in them I can't IRL, not be sudden hamstrung by it.

Right now, Evasion and straight slug fest seems to be the ore preferable choice to me, but I'm willing to try Clash out on my slower Pokemon.