[Meta Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[Lord Windos]

Keep in mind two of the roggenrola and boldore are moving first without priority shenanigans.

Lemme throw another suggestion at you guys that you haven't considered yet: clashing.  You want to body block a contact move?  You can absolutely try to do that with a Clash involving two physical moves (assuming the Clash succeeds).  That is what the mechanic is for.

Cover is primarily for blocking ranged attacks.  Clash is for reducing the power of dangerous attacks and just generally getting in the way of your opponent.

I think that's a more elegant solution to the dilemma Windos posed earlier than trying to homebrew rules for Covering against contact moves.

I've already have consider and disregarded that option, actually mate. Clashing still means you TAKE DAMAGE from a opponent's Move, while reducing your own Damage in the process of Clashing. If I tried to Clash with Boldore, I'd still have a more than good chance of getting KOed, while with Headbutt it can still end up Flinching her with it since Clashing does nothing about Chance Effects. Evasion, meanwhile, lets a Character outright avoid damage if successful, a more generous Cover system lets another Pokemon tank for one Pokemon at the cost of their own wellbeing , and then there's just tanking attacks/healing off Damage and hitting back hard if your character is built for that.

Dragonstrike, I know you want us to try the mechanics/revised mechanics that didn't get much use in either mine or Iron's campaign, but I'm not going out of my way to use what I consider the worst way of preventing/reducing Damage instead of proposing a suggestion for Cover to act more like it used to in previous campaigns. Clashing might be more elegant, per say, but its not what I call reliable or best option.

If anyone still wants to Clash, I'm not going to try and dissaude you from doing it mates, but I think everyone is better off trying to Evade Boldore and the Roggs A and have whomever didn't continue wailing on them (the Roggs A first, preferably, since they're on 1 HP and we need to know if they have Sturdy). As I said before, its a gamble, but its one in your favor at the very least.