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

[Spiritmon]

If Heart someway show a Nidoking to Shiva, I fear what might happen...she can even faint if something like that happen!

[Dragonstrike]

If Heart someway show a Nidoking to Shiva, I fear what might happen...she can even faint if something like that happen!

Mate, the Poison Point Nidorino already has a high chance of doing that as it is.  Hopefully Shiva will be even just slightly more comfortable by the time Caesar evolves...

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

If Heart someway show a Nidoking to Shiva, I fear what might happen...she can even faint if something like that happen!

Shouldn't prevent you from being after a Moon Stone though, really.

[Spiritmon]

Well, for now I will wait to get the moon stone. Still need to get some neat moves in prior evolution.

[Lord Windos]

Well , since everyone's done with thier battles and Nathan got himsel another walking techbane to handle , is it time for the Ponyta and getting out of Stair ?

[Dragonstrike]

Well , since everyone's done with thier battles and Nathan got himsel another walking techbane to handle , is it time for the Ponyta and getting out of Stair ?

Almost.  Gotta have that quick talk with Kirlia first.  Shouldn't take long since Nathan's doing most of the talking.

And oh yes, I am QUITE aware that Rotom is going to be the bane of electronics everywhere, particularly with Porygon-Z around.  And THAT is exactly why I decided to pick him up~

[Spiritmon]

And that Pokémon battle show something: Iron Head is a little OP move in the Pokerole.

[Dragonstrike]

And that Pokémon battle show something: Iron Head is a little OP move in the Pokerole.

(Note: the following assumes all the dice used are fair, balanced dice that are not biased in any way)

Try Serene Grace boosted dedicated Flinching moves.  That's a barrel of fun.  3 dice is normally about a 42% chance of the effect procing.  5 dice give about a 60% chance: the same odds of getting a Serene Grace boosted Flinch in the main series games.

Or if you want some REAL fun, let's do Serene Grace Tri-Attack (which both the Togepi and Chansey lines can do because of XD and Gen 1 respectively).  Serene Grace adds +2 dice to the chance dice pools of all effects, not just doubles the overall odds of the effect procing.  Which means your 2 dice for each of the 3 statuses goes up to 4 dice per status.  Let's look at the odds of that.

With 2 dice, the odds of an effect procing is about 30%.
With 4, the odds become about 51%.
So each individual status has a fairly good chance of procing separate from each other.  But together...

So, with 6 chance dice, the odds of at least 1 of the 3 statuses procing is 67%
And with 12 total, that shoots up to about 89%.  Per use of the move. 

Of course, the odds of specific combinations of the statuses procing in a single use are lower. Still pretty crazy though.

But yeah.  Serene Grace boosted Tri Attack is busted.

This is also why Aspis holding the Necklace of Serenity is so scary, because the Elemental Fangs follow a similar pattern.  The odds of procing any effect with each of the fangs is:
-51% without Serene Grace (4 dice)
-77% with Serene Grace (8 dice)

And that's particularly fun with Ice Fang because that means it has a 77% chance to make your target lose their next action (though one of the causes makes them lose their whole turn...and the next few as well if they aren't thawed quickly), which is ridiculous.  That's worse than Serene Grace boosted Air Slash/Headbutt/Iron Head.

Oh, and then there's Smog/Poison Fang/Crush Claw/Fiery Dance/Rock Smash/Octazooka/Razor Shell (its chance of lowering defense got gimped HARD in base pokerole, though. Only 1 die for its defense lowering when it has a 50% chance to proc the effect in the games? Really?) /Leaf Tornado/Charge Beam (I find it interesting that they didn't give it more than 5 chance dice, tbh, since it's the only move with a 70% chance of its effect triggering in the games)/Night Daze/ Seed Flare/Sacred Fire/Luster Purge/Mist Ball/Diamond Storm (the last two aren't listed in the book since they're Plot Device moves, but I imagine they would also have 4-5 chance dice for their effects since 40-50% chance effects are rather significant.)

With 7 dice in the pool, that's a...72% chance of the move's effect procing.
Oh, and 1 chance die is about a 17% chance of the effect procing, just so you know.

Fun Fact: I spotted a typo on Bulbapedia as well that said Powder Snow has a 50% chance of freezing the target(s) while staring at the Serene Grace wiki page.  Someone oughta fix that...

[Dragonstrike]

Yeesh...that 'short talk' took me 5 hours to type up because I couldn't figure out how to phrase it at first...ai yai yai...

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Blasted 5 hours? Whoahw... Kudos on that!~ *hands well-earned soda* Good that we're playing by-post on a virtual game table, because I feel that on a real one this wouldn't be possible. (Or it would, if the group's playing a whole campaign over several sessions and the game's paused at a cliffhanger until the next meeting and not 'just' one self-contained scene every session?)
The words usually come to me more or less naturally when I have the spark of an idea/a sufficient picture of the scene. *shrugs*

And oh yes, I am QUITE aware that Rotom is going to be the bane of electronics everywhere, particularly with Porygon-Z around.  And THAT is exactly why I decided to pick him up~

That's also the reason why I'd please not have it near any devices Shiva owns if it can be avoided; namely her Almanac, cell and PC. I feel like her Electric rodents might enjoy this prankster though.