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

[Mikaruge108]

You sure you want to bring 3 Disobedient pokemon to a situation where even one botched situation could lead to a massive amount of trouble, @Mika?  I'm particularly worried about that Scyther, tbh...

Disobedience is kinda the whole reason I'm not bringing Nathan's Rotom along (at least, not directly.  Ditto could always Transform into Rotom if necessary)

Not too worried about the loyalty/disobedience ratio of the Trapinch and Yanma (1 difference in favor of disobedience for both), but I think I'll take the advice of not using Scyther, though not sure what I should use in its place

potential candidates

D-Lotad:
Pros:
-Iron Barbs ability is useful
-Shouldn't have any problems with it disobeying Spira (2 Loyalty/1 Disobedience)
-Varied moveset and defensive type combination
Cons:
-only has access to 3 potential STAB moves ATM, all of which are Steel-type

Nubi (Misdreavus)
Pros:
-Levitate
-can easily pull off a Confused/Hex combo (Through Confuse Ray and Psybeam

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-Has access to a flinching move (Astonish)
Cons
-Only has four moves ATM

Azazsga (Pumpkaboo)
Pros:
-Trick (10D6 Allure roll, not counting penalties)
-Flinch (Astonish)
-Confuse Ray
Cons
-3 Moves ATM
-7HP


Undersized Azurill
Pros:
-Charm/Tail Whip/Helping Hand
-Sing
-Water Sport
-Thick Fat
- +1DEX as part of its surprise
Cons:
-Splash -.-
- -1HP  giving it 7HP

Hida (Magcargo)
Pros:

-Flame Body
-Able to inflict two different status ailments (Poison/Sleep)
-Recover
- +1HP Surprise
-Can Boost own stats thru Ancient Power
Cons
-Don't think he'd be suited for a stealthy mission
-4x Water weakness


Beedrill
Pros:
-Swarm
-Entry Hazard (Toxic Spikes)
-Rage/Fell Stinger for Strength Boosting
-Multi-Hitting move (Fury Attack)
-Able to increase crits (Focus Energy)
Cons
-1 Loyalty vs 2 Disobedience
-Not able to fully exploit Swarm ATM

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Hey people, could I ask you something strange? Could you guys send me a description of the appearance of your characters in Skull Ruins? I have buy XCOM Enemy Unknown and I was thinking in make a squad based of our characters.

This is pretty close to how Spira dresses:

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Hair: Black
Eyes: Midnight Blue
height (if it matters): 5'4" [approx 162.6 cm]

[Dragonstrike]

Not too worried about the loyalty/disobedience ratio of the Trapinch and Yanma (1 difference in favor of disobedience for both), but I think I'll take the advice of not using Scyther, though not sure what I should use in its place

potential candidates

D-Lotad:
Pros:
-Iron Barbs ability is useful
-Shouldn't have any problems with it disobeying Spira (2 Loyalty/1 Disobedience)
-Varied moveset and defensive type combination
Cons:
-only has access to 3 potential STAB moves ATM, all of which are Steel-type

Nubi (Misdreavus)
Pros:
-Levitate
-can easily pull off a Confused/Hex combo (Through Confuse Ray and Psywave)
-Has access to a flinching move (Astonish)
Cons
-Only has four moves ATM

Azazsga (Pumpkaboo)
Pros:
-Trick (10D6 Allure roll, not counting penalties)
-Flinch (Astonish)
-Confuse Ray
Cons
-3 Moves ATM
-7HP


Undersized Azurill
Pros:
-Charm/Tail Whip/Helping Hand
-Sing
-Water Sport
-Thick Fat
- +1DEX as part of its surprise
Cons:
-Splash -.-
- -1HP  giving it 7HP

Hida (Magcargo)
Pros:

-Flame Body
-Able to inflict two different status ailments (Poison/Sleep)
-Recover
- +1HP Surprise
-Can Boost own stats thru Ancient Power
Cons
-Don't think he'd be suited for a stealthy mission
-4x Water weakness


Beedrill
Pros:
-Swarm
-Entry Hazard (Toxic Spikes)
-Rage/Fell Stinger for Strength Boosting
-Multi-Hitting move (Fury Attack)
-Able to increase crits (Focus Energy)
Cons
-1 Loyalty vs 2 Disobedience
-Not able to fully exploit Swarm ATM

D-Lotad:
Might not have any major advantages here if it doesn't know Bubble Beam, as the only tool it has for Steel types atm would be Astonish.  If you can't reliably damage your opponent, there's not much reason to stay in the battle.

Beedrill:
Seems you forgot to account for Beedrill gaining 1 Loyalty to Spira (so long as you don't have him face any more Rock types any time soon).  That solves the Disobedience issue.  But just like with D-Lotad, he may struggle to damage Scimitars if the majority of them are Steel types since all he'd have to get unresisted damage off are Pursuit and Assurance.  Might not be suitable for this mission

Hida:
Easily one of Spira's strongest pokemon, just like Toya.  The Fire typing and access to Earth Power should both be very useful.  Having pokemon more geared towards fighting well isn't necessarily a bad thing in a Stealth mission.  If we get spotted, we might need to defend ourselves.

Nubi:
Psywave doesn't Confuse.  That's Psybeam you're thinking of.  Psywave is the fixed damage move, and it's very good.  The Confuse Ray + Hex combo can be useful, and Psywave can be used to deal damage that ignores Types (except Dark) and Defense.  With 4 Gym Badges, Psywave does a flat 4 D6 of unresisted damage.  Plus, if you don't use Nubi, he won't have any opportunity to learn other moves.

Pumpkaboo and Azurill:
Given that they're small and young, I'd avoid using those two for this mission.




In summary: I'd probably bring Hida if I were picking since he's the strongest of them and brings a little more type variety. Nubi might not be a bad pick either. Bringing your best and most reliable stuff is probably what's going to work the best here, though.

[Dragonstrike]

Hey people, could I ask you something strange? Could you guys send me a description of the appearance of your characters in Skull Ruins? I have buy XCOM Enemy Unknown and I was thinking in make a squad based of our characters.

Basic Description of Nathan (for the record, Nathan's jacket is black and the fedora is grey)

Basic Description of Terra

First Picture of Shiva that Phantom Drew

Basic Description of Ventus

A few details about Spira

More details about Spira

There ya go!

[Dragonstrike]

Alright, I think we're good to go and get this infiltration started, @Iron.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Oh dear, if I look at how I draw Shiva now and compare it with the first finalized drawing of hers as shown in that linked pic, her design got honed indeed, she looks polished. I enjoy refining made-up charas of mine as they go. ^^

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

If Spira can find some dust to raise into a Sandstorm, that will work to mask your escape fairly well. Works even better if there's a Pokemon with Sand Veil.

Would it work if combined with my Mightyena's Sand Attack?

[Iron]

If Spira can find some dust to raise into a Sandstorm, that will work to mask your escape fairly well. Works even better if there's a Pokemon with Sand Veil.

Would it work if combined with my Mightyena's Sand Attack?

That'd be a good synergy. Sand Attack doesn't produce a very large quantity of sand, though. Maybe multiple actions?

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Sand Attack uses Channel Speciality, so I can easily pull off three or four actions of that. ^_^

[Dragonstrike]

Sand Attack uses Channel Speciality, so I can easily pull off three or four actions of that. ^_^

Ditto can also use Sand Attack while it's a Flygon.  Could also use Sand Tomb.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Whoahw, things got serious super-fast, I'll be off to bed then however as tiredness is starting to get the better of me. Please don't expect input from my side for a while.