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Switch back to Sableye!
"Sableye! End this! Fake Out!" Sableye re-emerges, dashes towards Spinda and slaps it with a glowing hand. Spinda collapses.
"Sable-eyeye!" says Sableye triumphantly, getting into a victory pose. But it glows purple for a second and sinks to its knees again. While Spinda might be down, the poison is still working its way through Sableye. It stands up shakily as Norman releases his second Pokemon, Vigoroth.
_____________ Lv30 Vigoroth
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Facade
Protect
Counter
Fury Swipes
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You take a look at Norman's new Pokemon.
"Ha! That thing can't hurt Sableye! Fury Swipes!"
"Protect." A glowing barrier appears around Vigoroth, repelling the attack.
"Protect will fail if used over and over. Fury Swipes!" Sableye charges again, but is repelled once more.
"But that's it now! Fury Swipes!" Vigoroth takes the attack on the chest, sustaining some damage from it, but not too much. You frown. If this keeps up, the poison will finish Sableye before it can do any serious damage to Vigoroth. What will you do?
Your Options
-Use a Soda Pop then continue
-Use a Full Restore then continue
-Switch to back to Swellow
-Switch to Marshtomp
-Switch to Tentacool
-Switch to Ralts
-Keep Fury Swiping!
I say keep on using Fury Swipes. We might need the Full Restore for something more serious, like and Aqua/Magma battle. If Sableye's gonna go down, he might as well go down fighting!
Full Restore, then continue!
You decide that Sableye is too important to your strategy to faint, so you give him your Full Restore, and keep hammering away with Fury Swipes, while Vigoroth can do do nothing but Protect. It is a long, and largly uneventful battle, that eventually culminates in Sableye running out of PP for Fury Swipes. Nonetheless, it continues to lunge using Struggle attack, eventually finishing both Pokemon off.
Norman grimaces as he returns Vigoroth.
"Hm, a cheap, but fairly effective strategy. Unfortunately for you, I am far from beaten! Slaking! Let's turn this around!"
_______________ Lv36 Slaking
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Return
Brick Break
Yawn
Rock Slide
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You scowl. While it may appear you have the edge over Norman, this Slaking is at a higher level than any of your team. And you know, from your fight against Team Aqua, that Slaking is perfectly capable of sweeping through your two remaining Pokemon if you're not careful enough. And you've lost Sableye, leaving you with Swellow and you so far unchosen third Pokemon. What will you do?
Your Options
-Switch to Swellow
-Switch to Marshtomp
-Switch to Tentacool
-Switch to Ralts
Back to Swellow!
"Thanks Sableye. Swellow, let's end this!" You release the bird Pokemon, now free from the confusion and it spreads its wings.
"Sweeell!"
"Easily taken care of. Rock Slide!" Slaking roars and punches the ground. All of a sudden, groups of rocks from the side and roof of the battlefield come tumbling down upon Swellow. Swellow does its best to dodge and swerve around them all, but one hits it, doing some serious damage. Swellow charges in with a Wing Attack, Slaking takes a step back and stalls. Norman frowns.
"Slaking's Truant abillity requires it to take a break after every strike..." You look at Slaking, and it's your turn to frown. The Wing Attack seemed to have done little damage to the large Pokemon - it would still take several more Wing Attacks to do any damage to it. Another Rock Slide would take out Swellow if it can't successfully dodge it. Then again, Swellow could dodge it this time, or you could switch to a different Pokemon...
Your Options
-Risk it. Wing Attack!
-Switch to Marshtomp
-Switch to Ralts
-Switch to Tentacool
-Use a Soda Pop!