Thread: Individual RP - Pman

Ryna had to be careful now, he didn’t want to risk Killing the Magnezone, not if he actually wanted to capture it. Metagross are known for their rather strong physical attack, so, in an effort not to do too much damage, Ryan decided that a so called “special attack” was most likely the preferable option here.


He also had the choice of something that would do lots of damage, not desired, or something that would do a reasonable amount of damage whilst giving a chance of a secondary effect, depending on how skilled the Metagross was at using the move.

He chose to go for a move with a secondary effect, now the only choice was weather he want a same type attack bonus or not, he didn’t really care so he ordered Metagross to “Use your confusion attack, see if we can confuse this beast.”

Whilst beast wasn’t a very good description of the Magneton, it was a codeword telling the Metagross that the confusion chance was more important than the damage today.

There was a faint glow around the Metagross as it reached out with its mind to assault the mind of the Magneton.

BP

Ranger Chainy

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The blue waves rushed around my body, pulling at my long cloak as I spun through the strange dimension that Psychic Pokemon used to teleport. I could just barely make out the shape of my Gallade in front of me as he guided me along the myriad paths to our destination.

Finally, the blue overtones faded to whiteness, and I knew we were there. Dual and I emerged from the other dimension into reality, specifically the Abandoned Power Plant. It wasn't so abandoned right now, though - Ranger Makina was escorting some Trainer through the concrete wasteland, and I'd been sent to replace her. The Trainer in question was battling a Magneton with a Metagross, but I couldn't enjoy the battle until I spoke to Makina.

"There's some woman back at Headquarters, demanding to see you," I murmured to her. "She said something about a family get-together, and she looked right pissed off. Dual will take you back, Boss-sama's orders."

Makina nodded and turned to Dual, and there was a bright blue flash before both of them disappeared. I turned to see the Metagross glow bright blue, and the Magneton started to shake. It was definitely a form of Confusion. The attack must have made Magneton wary, because once the blue glow faded it backed up and created a pink square shield between the two Pokemon. I decided not to introduce myself until after the battle - the Trainer had enough on his case already.

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Current Battle Statistics:

Hardy Genderless Metagross: 89%, (used Confusion)

??? Genderless Magneton: 81%, PRZ, RF-0 (used Reflect)

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Trainer Stats:

Name: Ryan Hoare
Location: Power Plant
Area Effects: 10 Encounters Remaining, Poison Repellant
Pokemon Encountered: Ditto, Voltorb, Jolteon, Minun, Magneton
Pokemon Captured:
CC since last Encounter: 5,112/25,000

Pokemon Statistics:

Calm Male Alakazam 100% (Encore, Barrier, Light Screen, Grass Knot, Frustration, Return, Toxic, Fire Punch, Taunt, Protect, Shadow Ball, Focus Blast, Energy Ball, Rest, Sleep Talk, Substitute <Synchronize Ability>)

Careful Genderless Magnezone [Nicknamed Maggie] 100% (Thunder, Thunderbolt <Sturdy Ability>)

Calm Female Froslass [Nicknamed Frossy] 88% (TM Shadow Ball, TM Thunderbolt, TM Psychic, TM Water Pulse, BM Sucker Punch, TM Substitute, TM Snatch, TM Taunt, TM Thunder Wave, TM Hidden Power (Dark) <Oblivious Ability>)

Brave Male Machamp 100% (BM Encore, BM Bullet Punch, TM Sub, TM Protect, TM EQ, TM Fissure <No Guard Ability>)

Careful Male Forretress 100% (Pain Split, Sand Tomb, Substitute, Toxic, Attract <Sturdy Ability>)

Hardy Genderless Metagross [Nicknamed Metagame] ACTIVE (Substitute, Sleep Talk, Brick Break, Earthquake, Shadow Ball , Protect, Rest, Toxic, Explosion, Hone Claws, Psych Up, Light Screen, Reflect, Iron Head, Ice Punch, Thunderpunch <Clear Body>)

Items:

2X Superballs
5X Parkballs
5x Hyperballs
1X Full Restore
3X Max Potion
1X Poképlayer
3x Scyther disks
2X Ferroseed disks (2 uses left)
2X Durant disks
1X Camera
1X Aprijuice

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The confusion quite unfortunately hadn’t worked, and the Magnezone had managed to set up a reflect would further reduce the damage the Ryan’s Metagross could deal. This was entirely a bad thing though and Ryan had a slight smile on his face.

Ryan mentally noted something going on behind him but didn’t pay much attention to it, if it was dangerous, Makina would either alert him or deal with it.

He now had to make a decision based on the amount of damage that reflect would prevent. He was figuring that special attacks were now much more useful than physical ones. Maybe just attempting to confuse the Magnezone was the best bet.

As such, Ryan called out to his Metagross to “Use another Confusion attack, let’s keep that thing from harming us.”

Metagross, knowing his job, used his gigantic brain to batter the Magnezones mental defences.


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Thanks @ChainReaction01;

BP

Ranger Chainy

OOC: @Pman; Here's a hint, you'll get better results by describing and explaining your attacks more thoroughly. Also, try not to use the same move repeatedly.

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The Trainer seemed to recognise the Reflect shield for what it was, as he ordered his Metagross to stick to special-based attacks.

“Use another Confusion attack, let’s keep that thing from harming us,” he said. It was a good plan, except Confusion was a low-level attack, and while chipping health off slowly was usually a good plan it could sometimes go very awry. I wouldn't be surprised if this was one of those times.

Metagross started to glow blue once more, and the Magneton started being shaken around like a rag doll. I wouldn't be surprised if the Trainer's intent was to confuse the Magneton, but he'd have to do much better than that to confuse the Electric-type.

As the Wild Pokemon shook, small electric sparks began to gather around its body. The second that the Metagross' Confusion stopped, the sparks expanded to cover the Magneton completely, and then they blasted towards Metagross in the shape of a spear. The Thundershock knocked the psychic crab backwards a little bit, but didn't seem to do much damage - most of the sparks crawled helplessly over Metagross' metal skin. I knew that the Magneton wouldn't be content to stick with swapping low-level attacks for long, so the Trainer would need to up the ante before the Wild Pokemon did.

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Current Battle Statistics:

Hardy Genderless Metagross: 81%, (used Confusion)

??? Genderless Magneton: 74%, PRZ, RF-1 (used Thundershock)

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Trainer Stats:

Name: Ryan Hoare
Location: Power Plant
Area Effects: 10 Encounters Remaining, Poison Repellant
Pokemon Encountered: Ditto, Voltorb, Jolteon, Minun, Magneton
Pokemon Captured:
CC since last Encounter: 5,958/25,000

Pokemon Statistics:

Calm Male Alakazam 100% (Encore, Barrier, Light Screen, Grass Knot, Frustration, Return, Toxic, Fire Punch, Taunt, Protect, Shadow Ball, Focus Blast, Energy Ball, Rest, Sleep Talk, Substitute <Synchronize Ability>)

Careful Genderless Magnezone [Nicknamed Maggie] 100% (Thunder, Thunderbolt <Sturdy Ability>)

Calm Female Froslass [Nicknamed Frossy] 88% (TM Shadow Ball, TM Thunderbolt, TM Psychic, TM Water Pulse, BM Sucker Punch, TM Substitute, TM Snatch, TM Taunt, TM Thunder Wave, TM Hidden Power (Dark) <Oblivious Ability>)

Brave Male Machamp 100% (BM Encore, BM Bullet Punch, TM Sub, TM Protect, TM EQ, TM Fissure <No Guard Ability>)

Careful Male Forretress 100% (Pain Split, Sand Tomb, Substitute, Toxic, Attract <Sturdy Ability>)

Hardy Genderless Metagross [Nicknamed Metagame] ACTIVE (Substitute, Sleep Talk, Brick Break, Earthquake, Shadow Ball , Protect, Rest, Toxic, Explosion, Hone Claws, Psych Up, Light Screen, Reflect, Iron Head, Ice Punch, Thunderpunch <Clear Body>)

Item Statistics:

2X Superballs
5X Parkballs
5x Hyperballs
1X Full Restore
3X Max Potion
1X Poképlayer
3x Scyther disks
2X Ferroseed disks (2 uses left)
2X Durant disks
1X Camera
1X Aprijuice

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Ryan watched on in dismay as Metagame once again failed to confuse the Magneton. He had been hoping that this move would confuse the Magneton before it started to hit back big, but no such luck. Now he was sure Metagame was going to be hit with something reasonably powerful.

To his surprise, the sparks forming on the skin of the Magneton didn’t continue to pick up after Metagame’s attack concluded. Instead, a spear shaped bolt of lightning came shooting towards his beloved Metagross, taking the jagged path of least resistance until it ploughed into its left flank.

Metagame didn’t show a sign of discomfort as the sparks rolled over his skin, this was a Pokémon with vast experience in top flight competition, Metagame had over 30 gym battles under its belt to go along with three wins in free-for-alls. You don’t go through all that without developing the ability to hide your emotions.

Ryan really had no idea how he was going to respond to this rather surprising attack. He knew this chipping away and feeling each other out couldn’t last forever and that a fast, aggressive battle was sure to follow. He still had the problem of wanting to draw the battle out to more effectively tire the Magneton.

Ryan knew that the key to slowing the battle down was reducing the damage dealt to his Pokémon, yet allowing himself to injure the Magneton at will. The solution to his problem was therefore to set up screens, and based on the moves Magneton had been using, he decided to slip forward and whisper Metagame’s ear, “Wait until it starts charging an attack, then throw up a Light Screen.”

A slight pink glow appeared behind Metagame, where the Magneton wouldn’t be able to see it. Metagame was ready to push the glow underneath itself so it could explode into a wall of transparent pink light about 15 metres long which would reduce any damage done by special attacks.
@ChainReaction01;

BP

Ranger Chainy

@Pman;

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Ryan took a moment to think, but it wasn't a long one. This Trainer gave off professional-level battling vibes, and in a tournament arena you didn't have very long to command your attacks. He darted forwards and quickly whispered something to his Pokemon. Generally getting this close to a battle was frowned upon, even here at the Park, but Trainers weren't usually children - if they got hurt it was their own damn fault. In fact, as a Park Elite, I had heard of a few cases where a Trainer had to end their run early and get choppered off the island due to injuries. Of course, a Ranger would never willingly allow this to happen, but accidents did happen, and sometimes stupidity played a large factor.

I expected something to happen after Ryan backed away from his Metagross, but nothing did. I looked over at the Magneton and its eyes were narrowed, as if it expected a trick. Metagame didn't move, though. The Magneton appeared surprised, but it wasn't stupid. A bright white light started emitting from the centre of the Pokemon, and it grew in intensity until the shine could only be described as "blinding". I couldn't look straight at it, and so the only clue I had that the attack was beginning was the thunderous detonation. My neck swung my head towards Ryan's Metagross, and just before the painful brightness worked its way into my line of sight I saw Metagame raise a purple shield from underneath itself. I closed my eyes and heard a sizzling crackle that was no doubt caused by the attack making contact with the shield. When I felt it safe to do so, I opened my eyes and was impressed by what I saw.

A black line of dust or ash drew a straight line from the Magneton to the Metagross. However, the line spread out in twin parabolas away from Metagame right before making contact, right where a soft purple haze was hovering in the air now. Metagame didn't look too worse for wear either, although I saw a couple of dents that weren't there previously. I looked over at the Magneton, and while it looked okay physically, I noticed that it was hovering much lower, and its eyelids were lowered, as if tired.

"That must have been a Hyper Beam," I called out. "Now is the perfect time to counter and start the ball rolling in your favour!"

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Current Battle Statistics:

Hardy Genderless Metagross: 71%, LS-1 (used Light Screen)

??? Genderless Magneton: 74%, PRZ, RF-2 (used Hyper Beam)

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Trainer Stats:

Name: Ryan Hoare
Location: Power Plant
Area Effects: 10 Encounters Remaining, Poison Repellant
Pokemon Encountered: Ditto, Voltorb, Jolteon, Minun, Magneton
Pokemon Captured: N/A
CC since last Encounter: 7,837/25,000

Pokemon Statistics:

Calm Male Alakazam 100% (Encore, Barrier, Light Screen, Grass Knot, Frustration, Return, Toxic, Fire Punch, Taunt, Protect, Shadow Ball, Focus Blast, Energy Ball, Rest, Sleep Talk, Substitute <Synchronize Ability>)

Careful Genderless Magnezone [Nicknamed Maggie] 100% (Thunder, Thunderbolt <Sturdy Ability>)

Calm Female Froslass [Nicknamed Frossy] 88% (TM Shadow Ball, TM Thunderbolt, TM Psychic, TM Water Pulse, BM Sucker Punch, TM Substitute, TM Snatch, TM Taunt, TM Thunder Wave, TM Hidden Power (Dark) <Oblivious Ability>)

Brave Male Machamp 100% (BM Encore, BM Bullet Punch, TM Sub, TM Protect, TM EQ, TM Fissure <No Guard Ability>)

Careful Male Forretress 100% (Pain Split, Sand Tomb, Substitute, Toxic, Attract <Sturdy Ability>)

Hardy Genderless Metagross [Nicknamed Metagame] ACTIVE (Substitute, Sleep Talk, Brick Break, Earthquake, Shadow Ball , Protect, Rest, Toxic, Explosion, Hone Claws, Psych Up, Light Screen, Reflect, Iron Head, Ice Punch, Thunderpunch <Clear Body>)

Item Statistics:

2X Superballs
5X Parkballs
5x Hyperballs
1X Full Restore
3X Max Potion
1X Poképlayer
3x Scyther disks
2X Ferroseed disks (2 uses left)
2X Durant disks
1X Camera
1X Aprijuice

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Ryan was still running backwards, keeping his eye on Metagame, willing it not to move when he glanced up at the Magneton, noting a look of surprise in its eyes. Surely it could tell something was coming, maybe it wasn’t going to commit to an attack?

Ryan highly doubted he’d see a long standoff and he wasn’t sure he wanted to wait around all day either. That was when the bright light started to build, coming from somewhere inside the Magneton, yet shining through its’ metallic skin. As the intensity increases, Ryan was forced to start shielding his eyes, then he had to turn away, increasing his speed as he knew something big was coming.

As he was forced to dive for the ground, closing and shielding his eyes, before rolling into a tight ball to protect himself, Ryan heard an enormous crash that resounded through the surrounding area and felt a wave of heat was over his skin before a searing pain was felt in his right hand.

Ryan had known that getting close to a Pokémon battle was foolish in the extreme but had hoped to get out of there in time but sadly had failed. Concern for Metagame overcame concern for his own wellbeing and he looked up to quickly check that his beloved Pokémon was still standing before he looked down at his hand.

His right pinkie was completely missing. It was simply gone, he couldn’t see it anywhere, though thankfully, whatever that attack was had simply disintegrated his finger and cauterised the wound.

That was when Chainy called out, “That must have been a Hyper Beam, now is the perfect time to counter and start the ball rolling in your favour.”

Well, he was right, so Ryan gritted his teeth and stood up to properly survey what the hyper beam had done whilst calling out, “I’m glad I got out of there as quick as I did, I lost a finger in that attack and I wasn’t even that close.”

Ryan held up his hand for Chainy to see so he could make his own evaluation, especially given that there was very little blood but there was a very severe burn. Hopefully the ranger would have something to heal humans, as well as the stuff he carried to heal Pokémon.

Now Ryan carefully took in the scene in front of him, knowing that if he was quick, he might be able to get two attacks off after that Hyper Beam whilst the Magneton recovered from its exertion.

The ground in front of the Magneton was covered in ash and the little grass found inside the old building was gone. The line of ash was broad and straight until just in front of Metagame where it split into a parabolic shape, some of the blast being diverted away from the hulking mass of metal standing there, looking slightly worse for wear.

Ryan reacted quickly implementing the next part of his two part plan, “Metagame, get a reflect up quickly, that can buy us some time.”

Metagame quickly went to work, not bothering to hide what it was doing this time and launching a sphere of pale blue light from its left foreleg which moved towards the glowing pink wall, looking a bit like a will-o-wisp before expanding suddenly, forming up into a blue-green wall behind the Light Screen.

This new wall was going to reduce any damage by incoming physical attacks and thereby increase his chance of getting his Pokémon through this battle at decent health and not needing to use a potion on any of them.

Knowing that he was fast running out of time to get another attack in, as the Magneton was clearly starting to move again, getting ready for whatever it was going to try next, Ryan ordered Metagame to “Try a bullet punch, quick as you can.”

He could now only prey that his favourite Pokémon could land this fast and brutal attack before the Magneton could complete whatever it was trying to do.

As Metagame raced forwards, doors seemed to appear in the walls in front of it, with hinges on opposite sides allowing the blue door to open towards the Metagross whilst the pink door opened away from it.

The Metagross built up more and more speed as it raced through the now open doors, right foreleg raises as it moved on a collision course with the slow moving Magneton, the walls of light moving forwards, right on its tail.
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BP

Ranger Chainy

OOC: @Pman;

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Ryan didn't respond instantly, but when he did Chainy was struck dumb; “I’m glad I got out of there as quick as I did, I lost a finger in that attack and I wasn’t even that close.” He held up his hand, and it was clearly missing a finger. A few lines of blood were trailing down to his wrist from the neatly cauterized stump. I wasn't quite sure how this had happened - my guess was the Light Screen must have deflected some of the Hyper Beam's energy and Ryan had been unlucky enough for some of it to spill over his finger. I wouldn't have expected this to happen, but the energies that Pokemon used to battle were often unpredictable, especially when used on humans. For example, sometimes fire attacks caused intense burning, other times they simply knocked people back.

I jerked out of my stunned silence and into action. A PokeBall appeared into my hand and I threw it towards Ryan. My Gallade appeared inside a blossom of glowing-white light. Usually Dual did not like being in his PokeBall, but he had been tired after a late-night training session and wanted to recuperate while being on-hand if I needed him. Well, I certainly needed him right now. If Boss found out that I'd let a Trainer get injured on my watch my arse would be handed to me, Elite Ranger or no.

"Dual, our friend here just lost a finger. See what you can do with Wish," I called out. Dual nodded and held his hands on opposite sides of Ryan's stub. White light flared and blocked vision of Ryan's hand. I had occasionally used Dual's Wish to heal minor wounds, things like scrapes incurred by climbing and shallow cuts. It had never been used to recreate a finger before, to my knowledge. Dual used his telepathic abilities to impress wordlessly upon Ryan the importance of staying still.

“Metagame, get a Reflect up quickly, that can buy us some time,” Ryan ordered. I couldn't detect any pain in Ryan's voice, so either he wasn't in any or - far more likely - he was apt at hiding pain.

The Metagross started spinning a faint blue light with its front claws. The sphere flattened out into a blue-green square that quickly faded into near-opacity, hiding behind the pinkish Light Screen.

When that was done, Ryan commanded a Bullet Punch. Metagame blurred forwards in a gray streak and slammed into the Magneton. The Electric-type clattered to the floor and made a whirring sound in protest. It slowly rose above the concrete floor, and when it did so yellow energy began to gather around the prongs on its magnets. They wound towards Metagame and around his hard body before latching onto the floor. It was pretty clear that the Metagross could still move, but it would be harder than normal, and those electrical anchors didn't look like they would detach any time soon.

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Current Battle Statistics:

Hardy Genderless Metagross: 62%, LS-2, RF-1, SPD-1 (used Reflect, Bullet Punch)

??? Genderless Magneton: 62%, PRZ, RF-3 (used Electroweb)

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Trainer Stats:

Name: Ryan Hoare
Location: Power Plant
Area Effects: 10 Encounters Remaining, Poison Repellant
Pokemon Encountered: Ditto, Voltorb, Jolteon, Minun, Magneton
Pokemon Captured: N/A
CC since last Encounter: 11,972/25,000

Pokemon Statistics:

Calm Male Alakazam 100% (Encore, Barrier, Light Screen, Grass Knot, Frustration, Return, Toxic, Fire Punch, Taunt, Protect, Shadow Ball, Focus Blast, Energy Ball, Rest, Sleep Talk, Substitute <Synchronize Ability>)

Careful Genderless Magnezone [Nicknamed Maggie] 100% (Thunder, Thunderbolt <Sturdy Ability>)

Calm Female Froslass [Nicknamed Frossy] 88% (TM Shadow Ball, TM Thunderbolt, TM Psychic, TM Water Pulse, BM Sucker Punch, TM Substitute, TM Snatch, TM Taunt, TM Thunder Wave, TM Hidden Power (Dark) <Oblivious Ability>)

Brave Male Machamp 100% (BM Encore, BM Bullet Punch, TM Sub, TM Protect, TM EQ, TM Fissure <No Guard Ability>)

Careful Male Forretress 100% (Pain Split, Sand Tomb, Substitute, Toxic, Attract <Sturdy Ability>)

Hardy Genderless Metagross [Nicknamed Metagame] ACTIVE (Substitute, Sleep Talk, Brick Break, Earthquake, Shadow Ball , Protect, Rest, Toxic, Explosion, Hone Claws, Psych Up, Light Screen, Reflect, Iron Head, Ice Punch, Thunderpunch <Clear Body>)

Item Statistics:

2X Superballs
5X Parkballs
5x Hyperballs
1X Full Restore
3X Max Potion
1X Poképlayer
3x Scyther disks
2X Ferroseed disks (2 uses left)
2X Durant disks
1X Camera
1X Aprijuice

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