06-20-2023, 22:48:20 PM
(06-20-2023, 10:40:33 AM)NebulaChimera2211 Wrote: Grrrr...
Ting-Lu's Challenge
1. You all find yourselves caught in the rain. And the clouds bring the lightning and thunder as bolts strike at everyone. The lightning creeps closer to you, aiming to hit you all. Evade the bolts and get to safety.
Being a Ground-type, it's not the lightning that bothers Ting-Lu, it's the rain.
It bolts into the nearby trees for cover (because that's how it works, right?), seeing as it can't fit into an RV and guesses the same will apply for nearby buildings. The trees are probably a lesser evil here.
2. The rainfall increases tenfold. Before you know it, you find the camp is flooding. Reach high ground or drown.
Ting-Lu retreats further into the trees towards a hilltop. If it gets bad, its significant height means it can raise its head above the water to an extent, but it'll probably sink if it gets so bad the hilltop is flooded. If it gets desperate, it can try using Rock Slide to create a platform or climbing a tree, but good luck with the latter.
(OOC: I don't know if it needs to breathe, but I don't think it matters here; being trapped in a flood is definitely not healthy for it anyway.)
3. Now the rainwater has turned to blood. The sharks from the river are swimming after you, looking for a nice meal. Fight them off otherwise you're dinner.
Assuming the rains and flood haven't weakened it too much, this is more up its street.
After uttering a bellow of challenge (if its head is above-blood), its plan of action depends on whether they all attack at once or one at a time/in waves.
If they don't all attack at once, it will use Spikes to set traps for when the next ones approach. They can lance up to damage the sharks and aren't single-use. (OOC: I presume this is the case because of the gameplay-story discrepancy in Pokemon. Things like Beedrill, Mega Alakazam, Shedinja, Sharpedo and Miraidon look like they're floating or flying, but are technically grounded and so are hurt by them. Things like Dodrio, Galarian Zapdos, Natu, Sky Forme Shaymin and pre-Sun/Moon Gengar look grounded, but technically aren't and so are immune.)
Regardless, its typing means it can handle most biting attacks, especially things like the most likely analogues Bite and Crunch. Unless they have something like Ice Fang or Fishious Rend, or it comes down to a war of attrition and it goes down in a thousand cuts. But given that it can dish out what it takes, the latter's not very likely.
It can use Earthquake to fend them off. The sharks aren't all that safe even if they're not on land. Failing that, the aforementioned Rock Slide should suffice. Both are solid crowd control attacks.
1. The rain does burn away at you for a bit. But it's not too much of a problem as you manage to find a huge tree that's actually big enough to shield you from any more drops. Convenient how that happens to be there, isn't it? Don't question it; just be grateful it's there.
Rolled 9 and 1- for water weakness for 8.
2. And again, the RNG loves you. You find a hill that happens to be high enough were you can overlook the water without even coming close to drowning it. You can admire the view of all the floating RVs (one of which is made into a pirate ship) and the wolf corpse boat without worry.
Rolled 9.
3. And this is where things get interesting. You bring out the spikes which manage to stop the sharks dead in their tracks. And while they're all stuck dealing with that, you unleash the Earthquake. But you don't realize how powerful your move really is. The forceful trembles is more than enough to kill the sharks. . But then it creates a massive tidalwave of blood water that splashes right into you and washes you off the hill into the bottom. You feel yourself getting weaker from the blood water until you drown.
The Ranger walks on the water and rises your body out of the flood onto dry land. With the snap of his/her fingers, you are back to life.
You are much too powerful for your own good, are you not?.
Rolled 10.
Ting-Lu has scored a total of 27 points.
I like bananas. They're yellow.

