Elements of Change battle! Oslo vs. Chobi (ref: DL the Great)

[Oslo]

I'm thinking a 4 on 4 with Pain Split, Destiny Bond and non-damaging healing moves banned. The arena will be... Elements of Change! 'Cause the Arena Dex totally has not been receiving enough love as of late.

I'll release first: Grawrrr, my female Fraxure with Unnerve! You're up!

So yeah. Come at me!

(Ideally someone I haven't battled in the past six months, perhaps? Just throwing that out there.)

[Gigya]

I'll battle!
Oh wait.
I'll ref though, if you like.

[DarkestLight]

>.> *Ignores bait* <.< Spectator here...

[ChobiChibi]

Shotgun!

Now that's out the way... How about someone you've not battled ever?

I send Onion, my male Meditite with Pure Power.

Begin with Bulk Up, set up some clones with Double Team and finally use some type advantage whilst its available, Ice Punch.

[Oslo]

I'll battle!
Oh wait.
I'll ref though, if you like.

We will have our rematch in good time. I'm holding you to that. In the meantime, thanks for reffing! Your template is snazzy.

>.> *Ignores bait* <.< Spectator here...

Lol, you see right through me. But you will take on my Gym someday, yes? *Lillipup eyes*

Now that's out the way... How about someone you've not battled ever?

Whoo! I was hoping we'd have the chance to fight. Oslo approves.

Grawrrr, let's begin with Attract. Wait until after the Double Team and then Aerial Ace. Finish with Draco Meteor!

[Gigya]

I'll ref this later tonight/early tomorrow.

[Gigya]

Hey, look at this! It's still tonight!

Oslo v Chobi
Arena: Elements of Change

Banned
------------
Pain Split, Destiny Bond and non-damaging healing moves

-

OOOO - OOOO

Grawrrr♀ Onion♂
Unnerve --- Pure Power
No Status --- No Status
HP: 100 [██████████][██████████] 100 :HP
EP: 100 [██████████][██████████] 100 :EP
Attract --- Bulk Up
Aerial Ace --- Double Team
Draco Meteor --- Ice Beam

Here we go, folks! A nice battle to christen this arena! Both trainers are aching to enter battle, and they send out their starting pokemon!

Turn 1
Graw flashes her eyes dashingly at Onion. Onion finds her to cute to look away from - after all, who wouldn't could resist THIS? (it's an image, just big).
Onion thinks about flexing his muscles, but he's not too sure. She may just be too much for him. He gets nervous just thinking about it.

[-1 EP///Flinch!]

Turn 2
Onion decides that if he is to court this magnificent woman, he'll need some backup.
After thinking of a routine, he quickly creates his own, proper courtship team.
Voila!
4 other meditites just like him- but not as magnificent else she become attracted to one of the others!
Apparently she's not interested in the others, as she quickly strikes one down.

[-4 EP///-8 EP; 4 3 clones!]

Turn 3
Graw releases a rabid, yet beautiful cry to the heavens, and meteors rain from the the heavens!
It's astounding! Amazing just how much she wants to show Onion! Surely she is requiting love for him!
As a response, he attempts to make her an ice sculpture... But... Overdoes it a bit. Oops.
Well, he did make her an ice sculpture... Just a bit literally...

[ -15 HP; -11 EP; Frozen!; -2 SpA///-16 HP; -9 EP; Clones destroyed]

END OF ROUND
Numbers appear around each pokemon.
A 6 and a 15 appear before Grawrrr. She feels more in-tune with nature, but feels like something inside her died.
A 14 and a 10 appear before Onion. He feels closer to his love, but his mind remains the same.

Grawrrr♀ Onion♂
Unnerve --- Pure Power
Frozen, -2 SpA --- Attract
HP: 85 [████████▓▒][▒▓████████] 84 :HP
EP: 84 [████████▓▒][▒▓████████] 83 :EP

Grawrrr's type has changed to Grass/Ghost
Onion's type has changed to Dragon/Psychic

Frozen: Cannot act. Using a fire move will thaw out.

Oslo to act next.

[Oslo]

Good work, but just wanted to point out that Aerial Ace always hits its target, so it should have hit Onion despite the clones. Also, if Onion is Attracted, the template should probs mention that. Finally, Grawrrr should have -2 SpA. [/nitpick]

Grawrrr, Incinerate until free. Then use two Dragon Claws!

[Gigya]

Good work, but just wanted to point out that Aerial Ace always hits its target, so it should have hit Onion despite the clones. Also, if Onion is Attracted, the template should probs mention that. Finally, Grawrrr should have -2 SpA. [/nitpick]

I was aware about Aerial Ace, but that only really comes into play when Evasion or Accuracy is brought up. Since double team doesn't change evasion, Aerial Ace in this case just becomes a normal Flying move. Grawrrr still hit her target as far as she was concerned, and didn't understand otherwise until after the clone went "poof".

As far as the other things, I did forget to include those (and forgot Draco Meteor lowered SpA), and will be updating that now.

[ChobiChibi]

Onion, Sunny Day! Followed by a double dose of Fire Punch!

[Greyfox]

I was aware about Aerial Ace, but that only really comes into play when Evasion or Accuracy is brought up. Since double team doesn't change evasion, Aerial Ace in this case just becomes a normal Flying move. Grawrrr still hit her target as far as she was concerned, and didn't understand otherwise until after the clone went "poof".

Actually, clones are considered a mark of evasion, so Aerial Ace would've just gone through all of them.

In this case, consider Aerial Ace similar to Shock Wave or Swift -- a widespread blast of energy that hits everything in a 360 degree arc. The damage would be less severe from the hit, but all the clones would be destroyed and the user damaged.

[Gigya]

I suppose that works better. I'll keep that in mind for future double-teams.

Oslo v Chobi
Arena: Elements of Change

Banned
------------
Pain Split, Destiny Bond and non-damaging healing moves

Round 2

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OOOO - OOOO

Grawrrr♀ Onion♂
Unnerve --- Pure Power
Frozen, -2 SpA --- Attract
HP: 85 [████████▓▒][▒▓████████] 84 :HP
EP: 84 [████████▓▒][▒▓████████] 83 :EP
Incinerate --- Sunny Day
Dragon Claw --- Fire Punch
Dragon Claw --- Fire Punch

It seems the numbers have made some change in the battle! How will this determine the outcome?

Turn 1

The block of ice starts heating up around Grawrrr.
It begins to reach boiling point - and shatters at the arrival of the sun!
Sun? Oh. It seems Onion must've done that. He's over their waving. How nice.

[-2 EP; Defrosted///-7 EP]

Turn 2
Graw rushes forward and gives Onion a painful looking slap! With claws! Yipe.
Onion believes this to be a failed patty-cake, and attempts to play along!
However, he may have over done it with the fire. Showing off doesn't always work.
Especially when you light up your lover.

[-14 HP; -7 EP///-12 HP; -6 EP]

Turn 3
Graw slashes again, leaving a large mark on Onion!
However, Onion simply cannot bring himself to try patty-cake again!
Graw got hurt the first time, and he would never want to hurt her again!

[ -6 EP///-12 HP]

END OF ROUND
Numbers appear around each pokemon.
A 5 and a 1 appear before Grawrrr. She feels ready to fly away like a bird pokemon~
A 15 and a 14 appear before Onion. He feels like a part of him has died. And yet, he remains in touch with his love.

"Urguu~"Grawrrr♀ Onion♂*blush*
Unnerve --- Pure Power
-2 SpA --- Attract
HP: 71 [███████▒▒▒][▒▒▒▒██████] 60 :HP
EP: 69 [███████▒▒▒][▒▒▒███████] 70 :EP

Grawrrr's type has changed to Flying/Normal
Onion's type has changed to Ghost/Dragon

Sunny Day: Fire moves damage increased. Solar beam requires no charge. Defrost immediately. 6 turns remaining.
Attract: In love. Will not deliberately harm the opponent.

Chobi to act next.

[ChobiChibi]

How long's attract lasting, bro? Beck needs a ballpark >_>

Onion, show her how sexy you are! Use Swagger! Then go for a double Thunder Punch, since I was gonna go for a thunder/ice punch, but meh, Sunny Day...

[Oslo]

Preempt the Swagger with a Taunt. Follow with two more Dragon Claws.

[Gigya]

Oslo v Chobi
Arena: Elements of Change

Banned
------------
Pain Split, Destiny Bond and non-damaging healing moves

Round 3

It's really sunny!

-

OOOO - OOOO

Grawrrr♀ Onion♂
Unnerve --- Pure Power
-2 SpA --- Attract
HP: 71 [███████▒▒▒][▒▒▒▒██████] 60 :HP
EP: 69 [███████▒▒▒][▒▒▒███████] 70 :EP
Taunt --- Swagger
Dragon Claw --- Thunder Punch
Dragon Claw --- Thunder Punch

Both trainers are being wise about their move choices - but their current deterrents may cause problems!
What will happen next?

Turn 1
Onion starts flexing out and showing his swagger!
Yeah. That's right Graw. You like what you see?
Actually, she doesn't. She's completely disgusted and hates Onion.
Aww. Onion's sad now. He can't even finish flexing.


[-5 EP///-6 EP, Taunted]

Turn 2
Graw flies over (somehow), and shows Onion a draconic what-for!
Onion reaches for self defense, but simply cannot!

[ -8 EP///-12 HP]

Turn 3
Graw is unrelenting, comboing up with a swift draconic uppercut!
Onion seems startled.

You know, Graw. We were once something. But something changed. Maybe it's because I became a dragon ghost thing, and you became a bird, but it's more than that. Something deep down.
I thought our love would last forever, but it isn't. We're different people now. You're barely even a person.
I've got to move on. I've got to meet other people who are also dragon things.
But let's not end things like this. Not heartbroken and confused.
Let's end things like this instead:

Wow! Onion releases a large fist of electricity right into Grawrrr's gut!
He doesn't seem to be holding back anymore!

[ -14 HP; -6 EP///-13 HP; -8 EP; Out of love!]

END OF ROUND
Numbers appear around each pokemon.
A 13 and a 7 appear before Grawrrr. She feels like a creepy crawlin' spider.
A 9 and a 15 appear before Onion. His mind returns, but his heart is still dead, and RNG is begin unoriginal.

"Uru?"Grawrrr♀ Onion♂"Huwaah!"
Unnerve --- Pure Power
-2 SpA --- Taunted (2 more actions)
HP: 57 [██████▒▒▒▒][▒▒▒▒▒▒▓███] 35 :HP
EP: 50 [█████▒▒▒▒▒][▒▒▒▒██████] 56 :EP

Grawrrr's type has changed to Bug/Poison
Onion's type has changed to Ghost/Psychic

Sunny Day: Fire moves damage increased. Solar beam requires no charge. Defrost immediately. 3 turns remaining.

Oslo to act next.

[Oslo]

How long will Taunt last?

Good work, Grawrrr. Begin with Swords Dance and then Night Slash followed by Shadow Claw.

[Gigya]

How long will Taunt last?

Fixed.

[Gigya]

Chobi, Oslo just posted in the Absence Tower stating his leave until August.
He stated that he is okay with current battlers calling DQ.

If you want to DQ or wait until he gets back, either is okay with me.

[ChobiChibi]

I think I'd rather wait, this battle is interesting and it's my turn anyway ^^; August isn't that far away! If I'm really desperate for a battle slot, I might DQ, but as I like to take things slow anyway, this shouldn't be a problem.

Work hard, Oslo! And for Gigya, I give you moves, since there's no reason not to ref this next round...

Fake Out ~ Fire Punch ~ Drain Punch

[Oslo]

Thanks for waiting for me, Chobi. :3 This match can continue.

[ChobiChibi]

Yay Oslo! X3 I am determined to turn this match around >_>

[Gigya]

Oh, hey Oslo.
I missed you.

Well, still going to be OOC for a bit. I'd love to ref this, but I'm just too busy at the moment (I think I'm slipping up with personal battles as well...), and probably will be for another week or so.
In the meantime, feel free to grab a sub ref.

[Gigya]

You guys ready?

Oslo v Chobi
Arena: Elements of Change

Banned
------------
Pain Split, Destiny Bond and non-damaging healing moves

Round 4

It's really sunny!

-

OOOO - OOOO

Grawrrr♀ Onion♂
Unnerve --- Pure Power
-2 SpA --- Taunted (2 more actions)
HP: 57 [██████▒▒▒▒][▒▒▒▒▒▒▓███] 35 :HP
EP: 50 [█████▒▒▒▒▒][▒▒▒▒██████] 56 :EP
Swords Dance --- Fake out
Night Slash --- Fire Punch
Shadow Claw --- Drain Punch

Both trainers are being wise about their move choices - but their current deterrents may cause problems!
What will happen next?

Turn 1
Graw starts to dance - but is immediately stopped by a startling slap from Onion!
How rude!

[-2 HP; Flinch!///-1 EP]

Turn 2
Graw quickly launches forwards and -
Oh my! She unleashes a devastating attack to a Critical location!
Onion slumps over, unable to go on! What an attack!

[ -8 EP///-40 HP (DC reached)
]



END OF ROUND
Numbers appear around Grawrrr.
A 16 and a 17 appear before Grawrrr. She feels like a shadowy suit of armor.

The sky clouds up again.

"Hmmph"Grawrrr♀ Onion♂"Gya..."
Unnerve --- Pure Power
-2 SpA --- Fainted
HP: 55 [█████▓▒▒▒▒][▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒] 00 :HP
EP: 42 [████▓▒▒▒▒▒][▒▒▒▒▓█████] 55 :EP

Grawrrr's type has changed to Steel/Dark

4x super effective crit. Didn't expect that! Sorry, Chobi.


Chobi to release and act next.[/QUOTE]

[Oslo]

Woah, that's a lot of damage. Even with the crit and the weakness, there might be a way to fine-tune your damage calcs so that it's not quite so much? Idk, just a thought.

[ChobiChibi]

Alright, I've done a bit of digging and such, cos the numbers behind ASB is something I've never really gone into, having never reffed, so this is also something I am learning from... Bare with me.

So assuming Critical hits are double damage like they are in the games (I looked all around ASB for confirmation of this but didn't find it, hello Bulbapedia) and taking into consideration the Good/Excellent rating on the move list, and the x4 super effective, the minimum damage I received was 40 [(5x4)x2], and the most I received was 96 [(12x4)x2]?! Out of curiosity, what value did you use for Night Slash? I'm amused XD

Then there's the critical hit ratio itself. Lets not go into that XD

Anyway, this sorta (very vaguely) works in my favour, because of who I had chosen to send out next before I even saw Grawrr's new typing XD GO PANTSU, Male Scraggy @Moxie.

Go for Brick Break ~ Brick Break ~ Drain Punch. If he attempts anything physical, Counter.

[Oslo]

Screw it, I'mma just go for it... Counter! And then Endure + Counter! ;D

[ChobiChibi]

... Scraggy's dual typing lets me down again. FUCK YOU COUNTER XD

(P.S. I love aggressive battles like this. Who needs strategy when you can beat each other up? XDDD)

[Gigya]

So assuming Critical hits are double damage like they are in the games (I looked all around ASB for confirmation of this but didn't find it, hello Bulbapedia) and taking into consideration the Good/Excellent rating on the move list, and the x4 super effective, the minimum damage I received was 40 [(5x4)x2], and the most I received was 96 [(12x4)x2]?! Out of curiosity, what value did you use for Night Slash? I'm amused XD

I'm pretty sure a "crit" simply raises the damage into the next damage category (like how nightslash has both good and excellent). I use the crit ratio of Night Slash, which is about 16%, and it happened to land in that range. That made me increase the damage category one step. I originally used 12 damage, since that's much more of a "crit" than, say, 9, but that went well over the damage cap.
Gonna ref this in a bit.

[Gigya]

Oslo v Chobi
Arena: Elements of Change

Banned
------------
Pain Split, Destiny Bond and non-damaging healing moves

Round 5

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OOOO - OOOo

Grawrrr♀ Pantsu♂
Unnerve --- Moxie
-2 SpA --- No Status
HP: 55 [█████▓▒▒▒▒][██████████] 100 :HP
EP: 42 [████▓▒▒▒▒▒][██████████] 100 :EP
--- Brick Break
Endure+Counter --- Brick Break
- - - --- Drain Punch

Chobi releases the next pokemon - A little guy with fancy pants!
Will he be able to take down this behemoth?

Turn 1
The scraggy swipes down upon Grawrrr with a perfect hit!
However, using this to her advantage, Graw is able to quickly grab Pantu's arm
and twist it into a tackle!
It seems to be an eye for an eye!

[-24 HP; -7 EP ///-24 HP; -5 EP]

Turn 2
Not impressed, the Scraggy delivers another perfect attack!
Graw staggers backwards, almost falling off of her platform, but she's not out yet!
What willpower!
She uses this staggering to reverse the damage!

[ -12 HP; -7 EP///-12 HP; -6 EP
]

Turn 3
Willpower or not, Pantsu is unrelenting!
Another fist enters, and Pantsu feels a bit better, it seems!

[ -4 HP (DC Reached)///+2 HP;-6 EP
]


END OF ROUND
Numbers appear around the Pokemon.
A 4 and a 5 appear before Grawrrr. She feels like a fish with wings.
Which is ludicrous, and she dies immediately due to suffocation.
A 9 and 14 appear before Pantsu. He feels like a dusty dragon.

Grawrrr♀ Pantsu♂
Unnerve --- Moxie
-2 SpA --- No Status
HP: 15 [█▓▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒][▒▒▒███████] 66 :HP
EP: 28 [███▒▒▒▒▒▒▒][▒▓████████] 83 :EP

Grawrrr's type has changed to Flying/Water
Pantu's type has changed to Ground/Dragon

Oslo to act next.

[Oslo]

My second command was Endure + Counter, which denotes a combo.

Outrage until you fall!

[Gigya]

Fixed. Counter lowers incoming damage, so, as a result, 3rd turn was changed a bit.

[Oslo]

Reminder for Chobi.

[ChobiChibi]

Sorry Oslo. Back. Thunder punch til she falls!

[Oslo]

Do you think we should we ask for a subref? Or just call this one quits? I'm peachy either way.

[ChobiChibi]

I was just looking for this to ask you the same thing >> I'd quite like to keep going, just to prove that I can finish a battle. I won't let you down, Oslokins.

[Oslo]

Sounds good to me!

[DarkestLight]

Picking this up because I can.


===Stipulations===

Arena: Elements of Change
Banned: Pain Split, Destiny Bond and non-damaging healing moves
4 vs 4

===Battlers===


===Round 6===

As one ref vanishes, another comes to fill the empty void and once again resuscitate battles that have once been started but now have stalled. One such case is this battle, to which I've already received nude Oslokins photos a a prepayment :/ And I was promised Choboobies at the end of said battle.

SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, Pantsu claps his hands together and eagerly charges up a heck of a Punch, Grawrr roars and stamps his way over, disregarding any sort of form or finesse. Its all dragon rage now. There goes a collision of tails and fists and claws and souls and swords, but Grawrr falls over.

Gr: -6E/-15H ~~ Pa: -6E/-9H

That was an easy pickup. Let's keep it moving, shall we?

The Elemental forces strike Pantsu with a strange aura, and now he undergoes a whirlwind of a transformation. When all is said and done, he smells to high heavens, and the wind really seem to like him.

Pantsu: [Fly/Psn]

===End Stats===


Oslo releases, Chobi attax

[Perfect Chaos]

Wish Chobi showed that kinda dedication to me >_>. You owe me Chobster

[Oslo]

Thanks, DL!

My next Poke will be Roundup, my female Gloom with Chlorophyll.

[ChobiChibi]

Oh DL... Moxie for Pantsie plz, also need to know what Pantsu's changed to XD

I'm assuming Gloom sticks with its normal typings for its first round?

Assuming this... Work up - Fire Punch - Ice Punch.

Boobs if I win... I guess? XD