[Game Thread] Lord Windos’ PokeRole Adventure 2: The Wild Lands

[Dragonstrike]

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You get a grin and thumbs up from the Quicksilva Speedster, and he nods along at your suggestions of possible acquisition targets for the hunt.

Until you brought up the idea of Soaking the GWH, which caused him to freeze and a thoughtful but conflicted expression to appear.

"Uh....huh, never thought about doing that to a Malefic. Usually go with a more, ah, how to say it....decisive approach to taking those mean Sucker Punchers down. The quicker, the better, 'fore they can wise up and start ramping up to the A Game, Nasty Plots and all. Nyan is specialized in that style of combat, but...well, you two saw how THAT turned out. Such Tricks are Effective, especially if so happens that the Mon you're Hunting is 'weak' to them. Not sure if you two know or not, but the more Strange, Special, and POWERFUL critters have additional vulnerabilities compared to the common 'Mon[/u]. Similar to how the Legends were before, all virtually invincible outside of specific Banes or circumstances, but... *Grimaces* ....yeah. *Sighs* Anyway, it's usually hard to suss out such things 'less you're the Alakazam sort, a real Sherlock, or just have plenty of experience, but if you can find and hit'em in those areas? *Pounds a fist into a open palm* Blam! Fighting those Toughies becomes a whole lot more manageable - not easier, Inferno no, but the Metronome is tilted more in your favor."

*Sighs, rubbing bridge of his nose*

"That being said .... exploiting such 'weaknesses' with Pseudo and beyond is a more Iron Barbed matter than you thick. Especially with the Malefic Monstrum. Suffice to say, fucking with them like so will not only be harder than not - more so than ever with the clever and old ones - but....they're going to take it personally. Real personally. The more devastating effect of what you end up cooking up for them, the more serious or vindictive they get. Or, Stars forbid, Interested. Trust me when I say you don't want to be on the receiving end of a Hunt by a Malefic - plenty of horror stories and ol' stories are born from a person catching that sort of attention from creatures like them...."

*Shakes head*

"Sorry, got a bit sidetracked there. Point I'm making is that Tricks like that? If you get them to work, you'll reap all kind of Fortune, and you won't know if it'll be for the better or worse until it's all said and done. Going for a more 'fair' and straightforward way of Fighting them might be Inferno-ish, but at least most of those baddies won't immediately go full aggro from my experience - though you never can be certain when dealing with them. *Frowns thoughtfully* Then again I don't think you two are quite on the level yet to pull stuff like that or plans similar to mine without a heavy Helping Hand, so....hmm. *Sighs* Anyhow, that Soak strat you suggested? Pretty sure it'd work real well on a Wander Hurricane, based on what gleaned from my tango with one yonks ago. As a Pseudo Spiritual Weather Entity I think that would mess with it something FIERCE; heck, I'd say screwing with the Type and Ability of most of them would hit Payday, one way or another. *Shakes head* It would also piss them off just as fierce too. And that's before they could possibly adapt to such a change. Malefics are resilient and clever buggers, and much much more, and that's not even getting into some of the Stranger Tauros shit they can do or just ARE. You go fundamentally Changing a Malefic like that and who knows what trouble bubble would come from it...."

*Shrugs*

"Still, don't let my ol' wisdom spook ya out of trying that idea of yours, or brainstorming anymore you'd thick would put a real stick in the caw of that dang living storm. Risks stretch alls the ways into the stratosphere, but the plays you make might earn you the bullseye you nee to succeed. You just got to be prepared if you're going down that route, s'all right mates?"

"*Nods* In anycase I plan on sharing...well, my general plan and strats I've been making and baking for dealing with GWH all these years with everyone joining me in Hunting it down. Once it's laid out hopefully everyone can chip in and help improve or add onto it, like that Soak Idea of yours. How's that grab you two?"

Seddi calmly nods as he listens to Dodger's musings on Soak and Pseudos.  "Oh, I'm well aware that stronger critters still have vulnerabilities.  I've even had some experience with those kinds of vulnerabilities being exploited already.  I'd normally go with a mostly straightforward approach myself, but that beastie's typing is going to be a thorn in my usual team's side.  Need to either get creative or come up with a different plan of attack."

The mention of sharing strategies and fine tuning them tomorrow night gets an approving nod from Seddi.  "Sounds good to me.  That's part of the point of that gathering, even.  Interested in hearin' what folks think about various plans and how we can make them happen."