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

[Spiritmon]

Yes! Another strong pokemon in Heart party! Now my team is stronger than ever! Just need to heal him a bit.

[Dragonstrike]

(Also Iron, what the unity of honey do?)

As a Combee trainer, I'm qualified to answer this question

Honey is...well, honey.  It does exactly what you'd expect the sticky stuff to do.  It's sweet, it's gooey, it's sticky...anything you'd use honey for IRL is applicable in the pokemon world, too.

It also helps contribute a very small amount to increasing a pokemon's happiness when fed to them.  If you don't have a constant source of honey (usually a pokemon with Honey Gather as their Ability) or use it as a supplement to other items that help increase happiness (like Ranc berries), though, the effect is too negligible to be notable.

[Iron]

It's also worth, what'd I say, 50$ a unit?

[Dragonstrike]

It's also worth, what'd I say, 50$ a unit?

Yup.  It's even in the book underneath Honey Gather's description!

But again, that's kinda negligible if you don't have a constant source of it.

Honey can also be used to attract wild pokemon that have a particular liking for the sweet stuff (like Heracross and Pinsir, for example) according to the book's description of the item underneath Honey Gather.

[Dragonstrike]

Gotcha! Purrloin was caught!
2/2/2
Unburden
Pursuit, Fake Out, Slash, Night Slash, Pay Day*
Purrloin's Pay Day move is special. Instead of creating money, it creates berries! Once per battle, it will produce a randomly rolled berry. Every other time it is used, it produces an edible berry that you might use in cooking. For example, a Pirsif berry.
+1 XP for whoever thinks of the best name for this "new" move.


Side note, I think it's interesting how you players often gravitate automatically toward Pokemon that synthesize really well with your team. I mean there was nothing to say this Purrloin had anything to do with Shiva or berries, yet the trainer who captured her is the one who can best make use of her specialty.

Hmmm...how about we call this variation of Pay Day...Berry Harry?  (as in, the verb that means 'to annoy continuously')  Or maybe Berry Ferry?  (special delivery!)

Ooh, or how about the (obviously cheesy) Berry Merry?  (Payday is sometimes a day that everyone's happy about, so this name might help reflect that)

Think those are my top 3 ideas for names that involve 2 syllable words that rhyme with 'Berry' so as to stay in the spirit of the original move's name.



*shrug*  It is what it is, ya know?  Swablu happens to work out well for Nathan because Cotton Guard and feeling no pain happens to work really well for Nathan's build specifically.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

That's a lethal Purrloin, how neat. I'll stick with it being a female exemplar!

I'd name that move either Forage after a Berry-version of Pick Up as exclusive Ability in a FanGame, or Harvest Season because I just like the ring of that? These are the only ones that spring to my mind at the moment.

[Lord Windos]

What about Fruity Flay for the Delta version of Pay Day? Purlion is basically using Berries to give her opponent's a mean bruising and a delicous treat for herself! Another possible name is Fruition, since the Move is essential duplicating/fabricating food using Earthpower, which is in line with the word's definition(s). Those are me suggestions on the New Move's name, and I hope they are good ones too!

Honey's also useful in bribing/Diplomacying wild Pokemon to join you, or at the very least make it easier for you to talk to them. Its how Ven managed to get both his Lilith and Haneal the Durrant, you know!

[Dragonstrike]

Honey's also useful in bribing/Diplomacying wild Pokemon to join you, or at the very least make it easier for you to talk to them. Its how Ven managed to get both his Lilith and Haneal the Durrant, you know!

They either need to really like Honey or you need to use a LOT of it, though.  Sometimes both if the pokemon is really greedy/gluttonous, even.

[Dragonstrike]

I'm thinking you'd have to train a Purrloin if you wanted it to walk on two legs. Maybe it's a city thing.

An interesting thing to note is that Purrloin didn't actually walk on all fours in its original sprite from gen 5 (to be fair, though, it wasn't standing in any kind of way since it was just sitting on the ground).  It was only when they started 3D modeling Purrloin that they made it stand on its hind legs alone.

If it weren't for the fact that Team Rocket's Meowth has walked on his hind legs since the very beginning of the series, I'm not sure Purrloin would have had the innate capability to do so.  Mostly because Purrloin is basically Unova's counterpart to Meowth.

I do agree that Purrloin being able to walk on its hind legs is likely a direct influence from being around humans, though.  It has been shown in the anime that wild Meowth tend to walk on all fours more often than not, and that TR's Meowth only walks on his hind legs because he learned how to act more like a human.  Even more notably, when Meowth was cloned by Mewtwo in the first movie, his clone hadn't copied the more human-like abilities (probably because it's a skill that Meowth had to learn).  That, said, however, other Meowth have been shown to be able to stand on their hind legs on occassion in the anime, but never to the extent that TR's Meowth does.

Purrloin might have adapted in a similar fashion as a species.  And the same likely goes for other wild Meowth and Alolan Meowth.  While they can walk on their hind legs, they're just as likely to walk on all fours because they're still wild pokemon that might not have necessarily picked up the skill of walking on two feet.  TR's Meowth is never on all fours because he's a special case, though.



Oh, and of course, their evolutions have never been seen not walking on all fours.

And another interesting note that's only half related: all other feline-like pokemon evolution lines that walk on two feet instead of four tend to do so all the time, and the reverse is also true. Purrloin and Meowth really do seem to be special cases.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

If I'd knew before how odd the 3D-bipedal-sprite of Purrloin would look, I would keep my wild-caught shiny Purrloin in White2 instead of sending it to the Pokemon Bank :C Gen.5's animation is so adorable!

If I had to decide, I'd call that *Pay Day either Fruition or Harvest Season, the other suggestions remind me a tad bit too much on these weird names of the exclusive moves for the partner Pokemon in Let'sGo. In-chara, the request to use the move will probably be described without actually stating the move's name directly like Shiva does most of the times.

Harvesting the plants doesn't take an Encounter but it does take time. For example, it takes a couple hours to gather a specimen or viable seed from each of the mentioned plants, and in that time you each extract 1 unit of honey from the Honey Tree.

Oh, I don't mind spending hours to gather a bit of all the plants and 2 fruits of that Honey Tree for Natural Gift (instead of the original 3 then, to be fair), as that's what I went into the rainforest area in the first place!  Will add it to Inventory. Now that the Encounters have been resolved, I'm also fine with progress.

Am also having a question concerning the move Assist that my new cat can learn, please: According to the describtion in the corebook, I can choose the move that will be performed, it has to be one a current party member knows. That's actually pretty cool, but I'm seeing a potential to outright exploit that if one wants to, for example by always and only choosing the strongest attack or such. You maybe want to defuse or change that or is that not worth it?