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guardians_song) wrote2013-10-15 11:30 pm
guardians_song) wrote2013-10-15 11:30 pm
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Here's the idea:
Yulong the L55 Gyarados will Thunderbolt the heck out of Lorelei's Pokemon (save Jynx, which may either get Hyper Beams or Reservoir with Dig), Lance's Gyarados, and my rival's Gyarados. Other uses to be determined on a case-by-case basis.
Reservoir the L55 Blastoise will handle Bruno's Onixes, possibly Agatha's Poison-types, and Lance's Pokemon.
Ambassador will probably handle Agatha's Poison-types, save Golbat, which will either be handed off to Reservoir or Yulong. It depends on how Agatha goes and whether she uses any moves actually worth being afraid of.
LEERSPEAR will likely handle Bruno's Fighters.
Monarch shares this duty with him.
Wormtail is present to provide any fast damage if something goes horribly wrong.
I have 30 Full Restores and 16 Max Potions.
Lorelei cleared. Surprisingly several survived one Thunderbolt, but I used Dragon Rage to finish them off to conserve PP. Jynx fell to two Digs from Reservoir.
She really uses SUPER POTIONS in Gen 1? Amazing.
Bruno fell to oneshot hits from Reservoir on his Onixes (no surprise) and LEERSPEAR on his Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee. (I've never studied their defensive statistics, so that was a surprise.) The Machamp survived one blow, but Bruno used X Defend (!) rather than actually attacking, so LEERSPEAR got through unscathed.
It turned out that Arbok (the only Pokemon I worried about on Agatha) is not bulky enough to survive a single Dig, and all of her Pokemon were successfully outsped. Ambassador did his work with grace and finesse... and overwhelming speed.
I am now almost completely unscathed, save for a Thrash hit on Reservoir versus the Jynx.
Now, here we hit the serious part of the challenge. Namely, Lance.
Yulong, let's hope you get through this all right. Go in front to take on that Gyarados...
Gyarados outsped! Onto the Dragonair-line Pokemon!
After-battle summary:
Dragonairs did NOT fall in one hit to Ice Beam. However, it turns out that, strangely enough, Hyper Beam is not very powerful from the Dragonairs. At least, not compared to a ~L56 Blastoise. Strength (to save PP) finished them off.
Aerodactyl was also not one-hit KOed by Ice Beam, but it was (after Lance healed with a Hyper Potion) with Surf.
Dragonite fell in one hit to Ice Beam.
Now, for Shaoron!
Pidgeot fell to Ice Beam + Dragon Rage.
Alakazam, for all I feared it - had an AI glitch where it tried to use Recover at full health. Admittedly, that was AFTER the critical Psychic (and corresponding miss from Yulong) that set my heart pounding, but that let me go into the third turn at full HP, during which it used Psybeam (non-critical) and Yulong greeted it with a Hyper Beam. In case you don't know what happens when a physical attacker greets something with minimal Defense with a Hyper Beam before the Physical/Special split - OHKO, in fine style.
Rhydon was a joke. Surf, win.
Shaoron's Gyarados was also a OHKO, thanks to Thunderbolt - thank you, Yulong.
Arcanine fell to Surf + Strength. Not a OHKO, surprisingly enough, but I suppose it's reasonably bulky.
Venusaur was finished off by two Drill Pecks, as per every time LEERSPEAR has faced it - just with the moves changed. It only managed to get off one Mega Drain before it fell.
And that was all!
...Now, as for Mewtwo.
That's... going to be more of a possibly-AU epilogue than anything else. For one, I failed the Nuzlocke conditions when I ran into Pokemon above L60 on the way there, though I didn't document it in screenshots. I'd forgotten that Unknown Dungeon had those levels of Pokemon present - so much for my Max Repels. So it's invalid on that ground alone.
I also botched my intended strategy when I got there and turned out to have left the Master Ball in the PC.
...
...*facepalm*
Ice Beam failed to freeze, so I switched to Yulong in hopes of paralyzing with Thunderbolt - and got OHKOed by a critical Psychic.
That's the OTHER big reason I want it to be an AU epilogue. I have an out for having Yulong not be DEAD, story-wise, when he gets wiped out - but he'd still have to leave Syaoran, even if in-game he'd only get permaboxed. And I don't like that, so... I'll write it into the epilogue, but it won't quite be canon for the run.
In an instance of damnable irony, it only used Barrier when Monarch came out, so I successfully put it to sleep and caught it with a Great Ball.
Yeah, not exactly the dramatic sealing I was going for. I can weasel into it, provided that Syaoran narrates that he's going to stuff it into the Master Ball as soon as he emerges from his emergency expedition, but that was really a botched epilogue-run all around.
Call it an omake or whatever. As far as I'm concerned, though? No one died (or permanently left Syaoran) on this run. I didn't save after the failure, so the official end of the run is with the credits rolling.
And I'm happy with that.
The actual "what happened to them afterwards" record will be based upon the Pokemon as of the automatic-post-Elite-Four save, so it's all internally consistent.
I'm just... I'm really sorry for that goof-up, Yulong...
...At least it was one cursed screw-up, and I have a way for you to not be actually dead. ...Will that... That's okay, right? I know it really isn't, but...
...I'm sorry...
...I'll make it up to you, all right? I'll... do something... I'll work very hard...
...I know it seems odd to apologize to a bunch of pixels and datablocks like this, but I just feel so guilty...
Reservoir the L55 Blastoise will handle Bruno's Onixes, possibly Agatha's Poison-types, and Lance's Pokemon.
Ambassador will probably handle Agatha's Poison-types, save Golbat, which will either be handed off to Reservoir or Yulong. It depends on how Agatha goes and whether she uses any moves actually worth being afraid of.
LEERSPEAR will likely handle Bruno's Fighters.
Monarch shares this duty with him.
Wormtail is present to provide any fast damage if something goes horribly wrong.
I have 30 Full Restores and 16 Max Potions.
Lorelei cleared. Surprisingly several survived one Thunderbolt, but I used Dragon Rage to finish them off to conserve PP. Jynx fell to two Digs from Reservoir.
She really uses SUPER POTIONS in Gen 1? Amazing.
Bruno fell to oneshot hits from Reservoir on his Onixes (no surprise) and LEERSPEAR on his Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee. (I've never studied their defensive statistics, so that was a surprise.) The Machamp survived one blow, but Bruno used X Defend (!) rather than actually attacking, so LEERSPEAR got through unscathed.
It turned out that Arbok (the only Pokemon I worried about on Agatha) is not bulky enough to survive a single Dig, and all of her Pokemon were successfully outsped. Ambassador did his work with grace and finesse... and overwhelming speed.
I am now almost completely unscathed, save for a Thrash hit on Reservoir versus the Jynx.
Now, here we hit the serious part of the challenge. Namely, Lance.
Yulong, let's hope you get through this all right. Go in front to take on that Gyarados...
Gyarados outsped! Onto the Dragonair-line Pokemon!
After-battle summary:
Dragonairs did NOT fall in one hit to Ice Beam. However, it turns out that, strangely enough, Hyper Beam is not very powerful from the Dragonairs. At least, not compared to a ~L56 Blastoise. Strength (to save PP) finished them off.
Aerodactyl was also not one-hit KOed by Ice Beam, but it was (after Lance healed with a Hyper Potion) with Surf.
Dragonite fell in one hit to Ice Beam.
Now, for Shaoron!
Pidgeot fell to Ice Beam + Dragon Rage.
Alakazam, for all I feared it - had an AI glitch where it tried to use Recover at full health. Admittedly, that was AFTER the critical Psychic (and corresponding miss from Yulong) that set my heart pounding, but that let me go into the third turn at full HP, during which it used Psybeam (non-critical) and Yulong greeted it with a Hyper Beam. In case you don't know what happens when a physical attacker greets something with minimal Defense with a Hyper Beam before the Physical/Special split - OHKO, in fine style.
Rhydon was a joke. Surf, win.
Shaoron's Gyarados was also a OHKO, thanks to Thunderbolt - thank you, Yulong.
Arcanine fell to Surf + Strength. Not a OHKO, surprisingly enough, but I suppose it's reasonably bulky.
Venusaur was finished off by two Drill Pecks, as per every time LEERSPEAR has faced it - just with the moves changed. It only managed to get off one Mega Drain before it fell.
And that was all!
...Now, as for Mewtwo.
That's... going to be more of a possibly-AU epilogue than anything else. For one, I failed the Nuzlocke conditions when I ran into Pokemon above L60 on the way there, though I didn't document it in screenshots. I'd forgotten that Unknown Dungeon had those levels of Pokemon present - so much for my Max Repels. So it's invalid on that ground alone.
I also botched my intended strategy when I got there and turned out to have left the Master Ball in the PC.
...
...*facepalm*
Ice Beam failed to freeze, so I switched to Yulong in hopes of paralyzing with Thunderbolt - and got OHKOed by a critical Psychic.
That's the OTHER big reason I want it to be an AU epilogue. I have an out for having Yulong not be DEAD, story-wise, when he gets wiped out - but he'd still have to leave Syaoran, even if in-game he'd only get permaboxed. And I don't like that, so... I'll write it into the epilogue, but it won't quite be canon for the run.
In an instance of damnable irony, it only used Barrier when Monarch came out, so I successfully put it to sleep and caught it with a Great Ball.
Yeah, not exactly the dramatic sealing I was going for. I can weasel into it, provided that Syaoran narrates that he's going to stuff it into the Master Ball as soon as he emerges from his emergency expedition, but that was really a botched epilogue-run all around.
Call it an omake or whatever. As far as I'm concerned, though? No one died (or permanently left Syaoran) on this run. I didn't save after the failure, so the official end of the run is with the credits rolling.
And I'm happy with that.
The actual "what happened to them afterwards" record will be based upon the Pokemon as of the automatic-post-Elite-Four save, so it's all internally consistent.
I'm just... I'm really sorry for that goof-up, Yulong...
...At least it was one cursed screw-up, and I have a way for you to not be actually dead. ...Will that... That's okay, right? I know it really isn't, but...
...I'm sorry...
...I'll make it up to you, all right? I'll... do something... I'll work very hard...
...I know it seems odd to apologize to a bunch of pixels and datablocks like this, but I just feel so guilty...