Pokémon Umbral ~ Ruinous Origins Discussion 1
 

Just got back from my duty day. I imagine I'll catch up in just several hours.

As for me, I use Bulbapedia to see which moves, TMs, HMs, and abilities are available for which Pokémon, then I use this Pokémon Platinum strategy guide right next to me to check these moves and abilities to see just what the hell they do, their power, their accuracy, what the targets are...well, at least the ones I've never seen done in my playthroughs of the various Pokémon games I have. I also use it to check the various Pokémon's weaknesses and strengths against the various types.

But before I begin with all that reading and formulating a response post, let me put this part out: any trainer or snagger can use a Pokémon's move when immediately deployed.

As for upgrades that were mentioned in the previous thread, I'm definitely thinking the same way. After a few (or maybe just a couple) missions, all classes will be upgraded, and I almost have the ideas for those upgrades pegged down. So don't worry, Geminex. Thall shalt becometh more badass...-eth. Trainers and Snaggers will most likely be upgraded by having more Pokémon (and Snaggers will be able to hang onto their Snagged Pokémon longer). Slayers will be able to equip one more piece of armor and there will be weapons available that can deal multiple types of damage. Pokébrids will recieve another gene recombination and will be able to Pokéshift (different from a Paradigm Shift) between Pokébrid forms to give them versatility.

I like versatility. Not like I need more. I did some looking at my skills and discovered the only element that is always resistant to me is Steel. That makes me a happy panda.

^^ That sounds useful for sure. Although my "dream situation" would be if the trainer's pokemon were able to learn an extra move to their move-pool. Extra pokemon is awesome too, but a slightly larger moveset could help branch out a pokemon from pure support or pure beat-stick to something a bit more unique. Just my immediate day-dream. :3

But as Dante say, versatility is awesome. ^^

EDIT: Although now that I think of it, it might be a bad idea to do that since too many move slots and the pokemons would have enough attacks/solutions to be at least neutral if not super effective against anything they come across. (Unless perhaps the extra move is something that they learn permanently, like getting an extra move, but that one can't be changed between missions.)

^^; Versatility is great, but balance is crucial.

EDIT: ALSO

Slayers
Geminex (Ray Green:Impact)
Armored Bishoujo's NPC (Rayleen)

Trainers
Bard (Charlotte Beaufort: Madame Ursurang)
Menarker (Renny Tresserhorn)
Dracorion (Pierce Granger)

Pokebrids
Naqel (Rakald Essertle: Bone Knight)
DanteFalcon (Matthias Sona: Oberon)
Raptor200 (Isaac Lucius)
Armored Bishoujo's NPC (Rachel McConnelly:Princess)

Snaggers
Arcanum Darkfire (Mike Kenno)

By the way, AB, if you wanted to, I could help do the research. Like, analyze what the attacks do, maybe make suggestions on how to describe their impact, that sort of thing. You could still write it all up, but you'd have less of a workload. This, in turn, would result in a faster RP. Making me, also, a happy panda.

Hey AB nice update but I am not a Marowak Pokebird, I am a Rhyperior pokebird. So uh yeah, just saying. Reading the update was kind of funny.

Happy panda? You're not a Spinda Pokébrid and-oh my god, what the hell would a Spinda Pokébrid be like? Like maybe he'd hafta be some kind of drunken martial arts master or something.

Anyways, I'm not going to do HM moves from enemy Pokémon or Pokébrids anymore. I don't use those moves anyways.

EDIT: Aww, shit. Lemme correct that. Dauntasa was the Marowak. Fuckin' A, I'm retarded as all hell.

EDIT 2: Maybe you should've let me stay retarded and think you were the Marowak Pokébrid. Phyperior is twice as weak to grass as Marowak is. Now that SolarBeam's just gonna hurt worse.

EDIT 3: Just looked up your ability. Still, best to avoid that beam, y'know?

EDIT 4: A profile on Rayleen? Why not.

Name: Rayleen Crosswald
Alias: Demon
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Class: Slayer (Formally a Battle Mistress)
Appearance: Rayleen has long jet black hair, a silver left eye, a brown right eye, and most of her body is encapsulated in a large expensive black weather trenchcoat when she isn't donned in Slayer gear. A vertical scar runs down the right side of her face but the eye on that side wasn't damaged. Underneath all this black clothing is yet more black clothing in the form of a long-sleeved turtleneck and denim pants. She tops of the look with black military-style boots.
Backstory / Personality: Rayleen showed an amazing amount of potential from an early life. If the stories were to be true, she was a gifted leader, a superb pianist, an outstanding Pokémon trainer, and was set for a sweet life with marrying one of the handsomest and richest men she had ever met. It kinda sucks how the space of a single afternoon (and a single Pokémon) took it all away from her. It all went bad for her on a mission with her parents and her fiancé to secure some Pokémon-infested ruins for study by an archaeological team. It was all too easy to complete the mission, but tragedy struck when a Blastiodon tried to get at some berries on a tree near a cliff. The cliff broke apart under the Blastiodon's weight, it lost its footing, and fell down. In one earthshaking impact, Rayleen lost her father and fiancé and her mother is still in a coma. Rayleen received her facial scar from that same incident and was admitted to a psychiatrist for the resulting severe depression over losing so much. Rayleen forces herself to act the way she does, but in reality she's torn up inside. She stopped Pokémon training (Battle Mistresses are the female combination of a Slayer and a Trainer, so giving up on using Pokémon made her just a Slayer) and doesn't let her emotions show. It's a story only few within PATCA know, and Rayleen isn't eager to relive the day that everything went absolutely right in one instant, and horribly wrong in the next. The only fragment of her original life is her very girly room, filled with stuffed Pokémon dolls and plushies, but she hasn't been in that room in months.

Yeah I know, will do. Going to flatten that Ariados with a Stone Edge, and hopefully that will one hit KO it with a crit. Though the solar beam going off will be a problem, which has an equal chance happening or not depending on how you feel since Ariados' base speed stat is 40, which is the same as Rhyperior's base.

Naqel was Bone Knight actually

>_>
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Also. Dangit this is gonna hurt. I knew I should have taken the solarbeam and taken out the Abomasnow.

Not much important to say here, but I think its worth mention that I managed to ninja Geminex. Sort of. First time I ever managed to do that to someone. I assume he's honored.

And if Charlotte were to get another pokemon, I'm not sure if I could keep up with the dog theme. I would probably run out of interesting names from Call of the Wild also. Perhaps I could resort to other Jack London books to name it, but it wouldn't quite be the same.

Technically, Absol is kinda dogish, but you'd be having another dark pokemon...

EDIT: AB, should I assume that Swampert is still under the effects of Outrage for one more turn or is it finished? (Outrage lasts for 2-3 turns)