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

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Concerning Debuffs Cosh could pass along to DEOXYS PRIME, I could have Terra heal himself with a Max Potion and send out Dunny to transfer either a Curse and/or Disable on it. Not too sure if Curse would do a darn thing since it adds (1)(1)s to Rolls (Except jinx its Poison Roll), but Iron could make it more meaningful via letting it be PD via transfer, while Disable would take away at least one of its Moves and potentially give the group a brief breather. Could also have them transfer a Burn and see if that slows down the jello alien's healing any (hard to regen when your wounds are actively being agitated by FIRE!), but I'm iffy on that being helpful too, since Burn 1 is something it can probably shrug off or put out on its own.

He could also send out Mawile to try and transfer either a Taunt onto it, or see if Snatch can't 'steal' the regenerated HP and anything else from the Legend, but the former idea is liable to REALLY piss it off and start going hard ball on the group even HARDER, and it's a gamble if Snatch would even be able to do a thing to DEOXYS PRIME with or without Artifact support (Though it WOULD be epic if it did). That, and since it knows Fire Punch, Mawile's going to be OHKO if it decides to take care of her first.

If Shiva had Lilith with her, then Heal Block would actually be REALLY good to have right now, as between Shielding Vespiqueen and treating all other Pokemon as defensive fodder (And the fact most of the group has been Max Potioned already) the Anti-Healing Effect would do more harm to DEOXYS PRIME than to the group, assuming it works. One of the biggest reasons its as huge of a threat is that it just constantly heals between Rounds, so removing that would make it susceptible to being worn down like any other Pokemon (again, assuming it would work, and if Shiva even has Lilith with her in the first place).

What do you think, mates?

Transferring Curse, Burn, and Disable all sound like great ideas to me.  Curse definitely helps both Burn and Toxic, and removing a dangerous attack from play sounds like an excellent idea.  Bonus points if we have some way to inflict Burn 2 or 3 instead of 1 (those are typically tied to damaging moves, though, and the only reliable one is Inferno, which we don't have right now unless one of the Elite 4's Charizard happens to have it and helps out).

Taunt might not have much of a meaningful effect since Deoxys hasn't had much reason to use non-attacking moves so far, but if there's even a possibility that it could actively focus a bit more on healing with Recover or similar, then that could put an end to those shenanigans before they even begin.  I wouldn't say it's a high priority unless Deoxys starts using non-attacking techniques, though.

Not sure Snatch will do anything since it's geared towards stealing stat buffs exclusively in pokerole's base rules, and Deoxys has no need for such things.

Good thoughts on Heal Block.  However, Shiva doesn't have Gothitelle with her at the moment, so that idea's out the window unless we get some outside help from somewhere.

Another idea is Paralysis. While the Dex debuff isn't likely to do much, the status still reduces movement speed significantly, which could heavily nerf the Speed Forme's ability to dash around the battlefield.

Freeze and Flinch are also good ways to possibly delay Deoxys's actions, but we'd likely have to attack it directly with the Helm to apply those.