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Actually, I screwed up on the def drop thing. Kindle has -5 def to start the round, which decays at the end of A1. I doubt it changes your actions so I’m reffing anyways.
The little monkey starts off by abusing its speed advantage…its one point speed advantage. Remember folks, in battles like this, every little bit counts! As a result, it just manages to sneak underground as Lucy crashes into the ground with a reckless attack. With all of the stat drops, that’s gotta hurt! The two then exchange attacks, and Lucy, trying to hit Kindle while it’s still weak, goes in for a powerful, super effective Earthquake. Kindle still stands, and hits Lucy back for a truck ton of damage. Ladies and gentlemen, despite just switching in to a -5 defense Chimchar, this Riolu is left with 4 health! Endquote is absolutely steamrolling in this match! Will DFrog at least be able to take this crazy monkey down?
Kindle uses Dig -10 en
Lucy uses HJK – 7 en
(13+3+3*1.5+5*1.75)/2=14.6 self damage
Kindle uses Dig
To crit 79/100 no
8+1.5=9.5
Kindle uses Acrobatics -7 en
To crit 30/100 no
(11+1.5)*1.5=18.75
Lucy uses Force Palm -5 en
To crit 88/100 no
To paralyze 50/100 no
6+3+3*1.5+4*1.75=20.5
Lucy uses Earthquake -7 en
To crit 14/100 no
(10+3*1.5)*1.5+4*1.75=28.75
Kindle uses Counter -20 en
43.125 damage!
Finally…the monkey goes down. But Dfrog needs to use his eevee even more successfully than Endquote with his Chimchar…how will he fare? Will he even be able to take one more pokemon down with him?
Lucy uses Endure -15 en
Kindle uses Flamethrower -6 en
Hit endured
To burn 97/100 no
Kindle uses Flamethrower -10 en
Hit endured
Burn 52/100 no
Lucy uses Reversal -12 en
20+3+4.5=27.5
Kindle is KOd!
Kindle (M) @
HP: KOd | EN: KOd | Spe: 61
Ranks: 3/1/2/2
Size: 1| Weight: 1
Abilities: Blaze
Other: -3 Def (decays 1 stage every 2 actions)
Cody leans down and picks up a sole flower, brushing off it the odious ashes. A single tumbleweed blows past, sauntering across the sun-dried mud…
He stands, facing the darkness and the paradoxes of the universe. The reserves of hope have been used up, and he knows that there is only one outcome…but nonetheless, he must fight.
His fur coat glistens as they catch the rising rays of the sun. Glinting, his eyes narrow as he surveys his opponent. The memories of his past come rushing back to him, in trickles, in deluges...
Mother…
Nightfall uses Swagger -7 en
To hit 37/100 yes
Intensity 39/100 3 actions
To hit self 59/100 yes
Cody uses hit self -3 en
4+1.75*2=7.5
To hit self 38/100 no
Cody snapped out of confusion!
Cody uses detect -15 en
Nightfall uses Shadow Kick -11 en
(10+3)*1.5=19.5 blocked
Nightfall is cooling down
Cody uses return -6 en
To crit 73/100 no
8+3+2+1.75*2=16.5
Cody lies at home, enveloped in his mother’s caring fur. The soft glow of candlelight illuminates the dark corners, banishing them. The two are in bed, reading. And Cody was happy.
A knock came at the door. Cody’s father stepped outside to answer it, and a blur of darkness enters the room. His mother stands up, and her age, so carefully conceals, shows so very painfully. Weakly, she hugs Cody in her arms. I love you, she said. Cody didn’t know what was going on, even as he was set down carefully in the blankets and wrapped up and told not to move. He didn’t understand the cries that he heard, nor the snarls that spoke. He peeked his head up, and saw black wolves sauntering around his house. Then, he closed his eyes.
And then he opened them, looking at Nightfall in front of him.
Cody snarls.
Nightfall uses Dark Pulse -5 en
To crit 54/100 no
To flinch 91/100 no
8+3=11
Cody uses Return -10 en
To crit 10/100 no
8+3+2+1.75*1=14.75
Nightfall uses Faint Attack -3 en
To crit 49/100 no
6+3+3=12
Cody uses Dig -10 en
To crit 74/100 no
8+1.75=9.75
Nightfall uses Dark Pulse-5 en
To crit 33/100 no
To flinch 40/100 no
8+3=11
Cody uses Return -6 en
To crit 13/100 no
8+3+2+2=15
Yawn ~ Quick Attack ~ Detect
Obviously Cody's daddy is a flareon. How do you not get that you monster?! (I have no idea what the actual fuck is going on)
A gray haze envelops the clear sky, and the dry earth gratefully takes a drink of water. The rain is heavy, fat teary drops that falls, without hope or reason, downwards. Mingling with the sweat on Cody’s back, it gently caresses the soft, lustrous fur.
In the rain, nobody can see you cry.
Nightfall uses Dark Pulse-9 en
To crit 19/100 no
To flinch 31/100 no
8+3=11
Cody uses yawn -6 en
Cody uses Quick Attack -2en
To crit 25/100 no
(4+3+2)=9
Nightfall uses Faint Attack -3 en
To crit 20/100 no
6+3+3=12
Cody uses Detect -11 en
Nightfall uses Dark Pulse -5 en
As the Zorua makes a last ditch attempt to damage Cody, Cody’s salty tears stain his wounds. He remembers that he had written for his mother, that poem on a paper that he still kept tucked in his fur, a reminder of times when breeze was butterscotch sweet and family was a sanctuary and he was happy. But he couldn’t think about that now. Viciously, he attacks Nightfall as it is down, mercilessly. A Cody before this may have shown mercy, a Cody that had his mother to guide him, a Cody that had a mother…
Zorua attacks with a pulse of darkness, and Cody howls in outrage. The only blue sky to be found was in Cody’s eyes, deep-set and soulful. He had read that poem so many times that it came easily to his tongue. The paper was stained, ink ran where it bumped into the dried tears…
A single rose can be my garden,
Quiet blossom, silent dawn.
Let darkness be my only stage,
With you, my shadow, watching on.
An unseen star can be my twilight,
Lofty twinkling, dreamy stairs.
Come reddened tides or rain of stone,
I sleep—I know you’re there.
This note from you creates my ballad,
Melody and passion swirl.
A single rose, my garden forms,
A single friend, my world
Cody charged forward. Teeth bared, legs burning, relentlessly, only the dark-skinned animal in front of him could be seen. The ground beneath him passed away in a blur. It was some mysterious force of the body that propelled him forward, as if this attack may provide closure…
The Zorua before him was slammed away, skidding, tumbling, falling. At last, when it stood still, it lay one head pointed towards Cody, eyes open. The rain fell and washed away the mud in Nightfall’s coat. Cody stood still. The rain drowned out an injured whine as the Zorua shuddered on the ground. Cody stood still. The rain slammed down, one after the other, on Zorua’s eyelids as they closed for the last time. The rain fell, drip, drop, drip.
High above, thunderclouds passed by as Cody looked up at them. The clouds rolled over each other, intertwining, fighting, making love as they rained down on the Earth below.
Eeeevvee…
Cody uses Detect -15 en
Nightfall uses Faint Attack Combo -18 en
(13.5+3+3)=19.5 blocked
Nightfall sleep intensity 43/100 1a
Cody uses Quick Attack -2 en
To crit 5/100 yes
4+3+2+3=12
Nightfall uses Dark Pulse -5 en
To crit 77/100 no
To flinch 66/100 no
8+3=11
Cody uses Return -6 en
To crit 28/100 no
(10+3+2)=15
Nightfall is KO’d!
Nightfall (M)
HP: KOd | EN: KOd | Spe: 65
Ranks: 3/2/3/2
Size: 1 | Weight: 2
Abilities: Illusion
Other: