Pokemon Umbral Discussion 14: Discussion Thread Player Character Conspiracy #1

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Menarker

Aww, come on. I was serious. It's a good idea to make it easier as a GM and faster for us to get the answers to all the questions we ask AB but end up get overlooked because he is tired or overlook it.

I'll try, but I make no promises.

Originally Posted by Menarker

And somehow, I don't know whether you were sincere whether you backed up my point regarding Haze and other counter-measures or if you were being sarcastic. I assumed you were sincere since previously you were making the point that Psych Up was being used in their more unused but legit ways.

That one in particular was more sarcasm than sincerity, but there were both in there.

I should point out, AB mentioned that the enemy Pokebrids couldn't take part in the battle. Though that just may be because they have two pokemon out each. I dunno if the Arbok Pokebrid would or could recall one pokemon and then use Haze.

Originally Posted by Menarker

Also, while the tactic in the "RP world" makes perfect sense to implement, that doesn't mean it makes sense to use without preperations. If I tried to just use it without defence or without Battle Tide or such...
Let's say that Renny's team was the antagonist and it's the turn after Togekiss was knocked out and I was the Arbok pokebrid leader. Suddenly you see that two pokemons have buffed up to huge proportions. In a roleplaying sense, unless there was some other unlying factor, he would order his minions to attack Snorlax and Dormond directly and harshly. Similarly if we as a group ever came across a ruin pokemon. If it ever used an equivulent of Belly Drum, I'm pretty damn certain the group would suggest gang-beating it to a bloody pulp. Buff moves tend to paint a big bullseyes on the ones using it, and given the size of the army we're facing down... yeah.

Maybe for this battle, sure. But Geminex already said that if you set your allies up right you can buff your team to hell while making it impossible or incredibly hard for the enemies to kill you (either by killing them, incapacitating them, or making your pokemon immune to damage, whichever). I haven't come up with how, but I've no doubt it's entirely possible.

Unless the enemies too are set up to counter your strategy.

Say, I wonder what would happen if two Pokemon used Follow Me on each other.

By the way, seriously, you can't put poor, slow, retarded little Mollesk to compete with Enmakki. "Slaughter" doesn't even begin to cover it. The only way Mollesk might survive is that Enmakki might get bored waiting for it to react.