Here is part 2 of Zane's introductory battle at the PEL. This will be the meat of the battle and have a lot more action than the last two parts. Hope you enjoy.
March 7th Part 2 (Season 1 Episode 3)
My first match in the Pokemon Entertainment League is a 1 vs 1 match with 6 pokemon each and so far I'm down one pokemon, on my second. My opponent is the first person I've met here and he is down a pokemon, has used a pokemon, and now currently on his third. A Wigglytuff.
A sinister looking Wigglytuff.
Something about the way it just stares at my Totodile like it's just looking to attack it slightly scares me. Most Wigglytuffs are quite nice and can be cuddly. This one looks anything but. I wish I didn't just lose Bronsor this battle, having a steel type could have been helpful.
"I'll start off, Wigglytuff Double Edge." Roddy commands. Wigglytuff looks like it is glad to obey and starts charging towards Totodile. A powerful attack like that needs a powerful comeback.
"Totodile, Hydro Pump straight at Wigglytuff, keep it pushed back." Totodile nodded and fired off the powerful jet of water directly at Wigglytuff. But instead of dodging out of the way or even flinching, it charged directly into the jet of water. Once they connected instead of being pushed back it is able to charge though the water and keep moving forward. This Wigglytuff is amazing. Strong offense and doesn't seem to mind taking damage. Even quicker it was able to push though the water and give a decent charge into Totodile which got sent flying backwards.
"Totodile can you keep battling?" I ask Totodile. It quickly gets back to its feet but looks like it took a big hit. "Alright use Bite." Totodile starts running towards its opponent with its mouth open wide looking ready to take a bite out.
"Wiggly tuff, Defense Curl right now." Right when Totodle jumps in the air to situate itself above Wigglytuff for its attack, Wigglytuff curls up into a ball. When Totodile starts falling down towards Wigglytuff it opens its mouth but when it does bite into its enemy it is safe in its little ball. "Now Thunder Wave." Roddy commands. Wigglytuff starts sending sparks around its body then sent out a powerful blue wave of electricity from its body. This electricity blasts Totodile away from Wigglytuff and back to its side of the field. This time it's not so quick to get back to its feet and its body keeps sending out the same blue electricity indicating something not good.
Totodile is paralyzed.
It finally gets to its feet but not without a struggle. At this point I have to make a choice. Do I keep Totodile in just to get such damage done to Wigglytuff or do I return it and hope I have better luck on my next pokemon? No the choice has been made with the paralysis.
"Totodile Hydro Pump!" I shout with ferocity. Totodile struggles a bit with the paralysis but manages to use its attack, firing out a massive jet of water at Wigglytuff.
"Wigglytuff, Double Edge." Roddy says quite calmly. Actually it is surprising how calmly he says it. Almost like he knows exactly what he is doing. Like he knows the water is no threat at all. Wigglytuff starts running towards the jet of water, and like before, plows right through it, barely getting pushed back. Soon its strength comes out on top as it charges through the water and connects its attack with Totodile knocking it to the ground.
"Totodile!" I yell. I can hear some people in the stands cheering and others sound concern. "Can you keep going?" I notice Totodile struggling to get to its feet, the paralysis still making it even more difficult to stand up. While it is in no way shape or form in good condition it does mean it's not down for the count yet. I pull out Totodile's pokeball from my belt. "You did good work buddy, return." I bring it back to its pokeball. Now I need to make my next choice. Analysis time.
Ok so it looks like Wigglytuff might be the powerhouse of Roddy's team. Having a strong enough attack and strength to push through a Hydro Pump isn't a simple feat. It must use Defesne Curl to keep its health up since Double Edge also deals damage to it. But it's such a risky attack. Wait, that's why he has Thunder Wave. To keep his opponent from moving too much. Wigglytuff stops its opponent from moving and then uses powerful attacks to finish it off. So I had the exact pokemon that could counter his strategy.
"Trevenant, it's your time to shine." Out appears my Elder Tree Pokemon. It was large and ghostly. I could hear some people give cries of surprise or fright when it appeared on the battlefield.
"I see where you are going with this Zane and it won't work." Roddy smiles at me. He seems to understand I was uses Trevenant as a counter to his Wigglytuff and not just as my next pokemon.
"Well we might as well try this out. Will-O-Wisp Trevenant." I command. Trevenant conjures up a few blue fire balls and throws them at Wigglytuff with tremendous speed, so fast that Roddy can't command Wigglytuff to get out of the way. The fire balls hit Wigglytuff and effectively leave small burn marks all over its body. Wigglytuff winces a bit from the impact but doesn't seem to care about the attack.
"Wigglytuff, use Thunder Wave." Roddy commands his Wigglytuff. Wigglytuff's body starts getting enveloped in the blue electricity and suddenly shot it out from its body right at Trevenant.
"Dodge it!" I yelled. Trevenant suddenly jumps to the side and the electricity flow misses it completely. "Energy Ball." I command. Trevenant puts its hands together and forms an orb of green energy and throws it at Wigglytuff with a lot of speed. Roddy becomes surprised from the speed. "Defense Curl" He barely is able to call out the move and Wigglytuff forms in a ball that the attack connects with Wigglytuff, knocking it back a bit.
"You seriously don't expect me to not have a counter to your pokemon? Wigglytuff, Shadow Ball." I wasn't expecting that. Wigglytuff as well puts its hands together and forms a ball made of ghostly energy and throws it at Trevenant. It hit Trevenant directly knocking it down. That scares me. It would be a very effective attack. I wasn't expecting Roddy to have a backup plan for ghost types on Wigglytuff. Roddy is a very experienced pokemon trainer. He knows exactly what he's doing. But so do I.
"Trevenant, Horn Leech." Trevenant lowers its head and starts charging at Wigglytuff.
"Take the attack Wigglytuff." Roddy says in a calm manner. Rats, it has got to be a trap but it's the only way I can get effective damage at this point so I need to follow through. I don't say anything to Trevenant who keeps charging at Wigglytuff and connects its attack to it. Wigglytuff is able to hold it at bay while energy from Wigglytuff is absorbed into Trevenant. "Now Shadow Ball." Roddy says. Yup it was a trap.
Wigglytuff puts its hands together and forms the ghostly ball of energy and shoves it straight at Trevenant. The force from the attack blasts Trevenant back across the field. When the dust clears its obvious Trevenant is down for the count.
"Trevenant is unable to battle, Wgglytuff is the winner." The referee states.
"Trevenant good work." I say as I return Trevenant back to its pokeball. I quickly expand another pokeball and throw it. "Skuntank you're up." Out comes my skunk pokemon. It comes out smiling, a devious smile, but a smile no matter what. "Skuntank, Flamethrower." Quickly Skuntank releases a wave of flames towards Wigglytuff.
"Wigglytuff, Shadow Ball," Wigglytuff put its hands together, forming the ghostly orb and threw it at the flames, creating a large explosion, which stops both attacks. "Now Double Edge." Wigglytuff starts running quite quickly towards Skuntank and hit it directly knocking it back. But apparently I didn't realize how much damage Wigglytuff had taken since on returning to the halfway mark of the field it suddenly collapses.
"Wigglytuff is unable to battle Skuntank is the winner." The referee announces. I could hear some disappointing claps from the audience. Apparently people weren't happy that Wigglytuff went down in such an uneventful way. Roddy returns Wigglytuff back to its pokeball and enlarges another one. "Oricorio, keep it going." Out came the first pokemon I had seen in this battle. I was surprise that he would use a weakened pokemon against my nearly seen Skuntank. I even had a type advantage. I felt it was best to try something else.
"Skuntank return," I held out its pokeball and returned it, much to Skuntank's surprise and brought out a different pokeball. "Totodile let's do this." I threw my new pokeball and out came my trustworthy and energetic Totodile. But it wasn't moving much due to being tired and still paralyzed. I heard a lot of gasps from the audience and lots of questions. Mostly as to why we brought out two already used pokemon against each other.
"Oricorio, Revelation Dance." Oricorio starts dancing and moving its wings in a manner that looks like dancing. It soon gets to Totodile and starts striking it repeatedly. I was prepared for this and I believe that Roddy was as well.
"Totodile, Ice Punch." Totodile, using all of the energy it had left curls its hand into a fist and ice forms around it and swiftly punches Oricorio across the field. Then Totodile fell over. I had a feeling it only had one more attack left in it. What I didn't expect was that Oricorio was also down on the ground not getting up.
"Both Oricorio and Totodle are unable to battle. It's a double knockout." The referee yells. Then people were going wild. Apparently a double knockout is an exciting thing here. But I wasn't caring much about impressing the audience at this point. I had to figure out what to do next. We each were down to our last three pokemon. One of mine has already been on the battlefield and taken damage, not much but still damage. The last three of Roddy's hadn't been seen yet. So at this point I am losing. But not by much. I take out my next pokeball and Roddy does as well.
"Cradily, you're up next." I throw my pokeball and out comes my Barnacle pokemon. It moves around quite like it is dancing. It's always been a jolly sort of pokemon.
"Tyrunt, you can do this." Roddy threw out his pokeball as well and out pops a Tyrunt that surprisingly seems quite calm about everything. Looks around at the crowd but hardly react. It even barely reacts to my Cradily. Almost like it knew its job was to battle and that's what it wants to do.
I decide to take the first move. "Cradily, use Acid." Cradily readies its body and from its mouth or head area it spits out a purple blob which I assume is the poison attack.
"Tyrunt, dodge then stomp." Roddy commands, Tyrunt swiftly moves to one side and bounces away from my attack. Flying through the air it lands right on top of Cradily and starts stomp away at its head. It didn't look like it was doing much, just being an annoyance.
"Confuse Ray now," Now that got a reaction from Roddy as Cradily shot out a ray of purple energy that seem to do nothing to Tyrunt but on closer examination Tyrunt was indeed confuse since it stopped its attack and jumps off Cradily looking around almost in a panic. It didn't seem to understand it was in the middle of a battle. I notice that Roddy pulled out a pokeball and went to go return his pokemon.
"Return Tyrunt." The red beam shot out from the pokeball and hit Tyrunt but it didn't return back to its pokeball. He looks confused but then seems to understand and smirks. "Your Cradily had the ability Suction Cups doesn't it?"
"Yup, I decided to turn the battle on you instead." He nods while smiling, seemingly impressed with my ability as a trainer. "Cradily, use Constrict," Cradily shoots the tentacles around its head towards Tyrunt, who is too confused to even notice that an attack has been launched against it. The tentacles wrapped around the poor defenseless pokemon before it even notices.
"Tyrunt, Ancient Power," Tyrunt, still confused seems to hear the attack since it starts to charge a brown color ball in its mouth.
"Cradily use Energy Ball quickly." Cradily charged up a green orb of energy by its head and quickly threw it at Tyrunt. Good news for me is my attack was so quick that when it hit Tyrunt it also exploded its attack causes what seems like double the damage and dropping it from the Constrict attack. I hear a lot of gasps from the crowd as everyone is anticipating if Tyrunt could survive such an extreme blow.
"Tyrunt is unable to battle. Cradily is the winner." The referee states and suddenly there is a blast of cheering coming from all around me. Apparently people were enjoying this match. I had to admit that I was enjoying it just as much as they were.
"Return Tyrunt." Roddy returns Tyrunt and has a very determined face set. We are getting down to the conclusion of the battle. The action is just starting to heat up to full intensity. "Lilligant, you're time." I decide as well to try and take the lead.
"Cradily, return as well." I say returning Cradily back to its pokeball and bringing out another one. "Skuntank, you're up again." I announce as I release my skunk pokemon. It looks absolutely ready to battle after not having an impressive start out.
"Lilligant, use Leech Seed." Lilligant spit out a few green seeds from its mouth that lands in the land around Skuntank. I know what they did but I wasn't going to let Roddy get an advantage over me.
"Skuntank, Night Slash now." Skuntank starts running towards Lilligant and then jumps in the air. I can see its claws took on a darker tone and its claws are in a prime position as it starts falling towards its target.
"Lilligant, Protect." Darn. Lilligant suddenly surrounds itself with a green shield. Skuntank comes down and swipes at the shield then bounces back to its side of the field. As soon as it steps back the seeds sprout vines that wrap around Skuntank and start sapping the energy from it and goes back into the ground. Then those same vines come up on Lilligant's side of the field and wrap around it and seem to give back the energy it took. The vines then went right back into the ground. So Lilligant had a few tricks up its sleeve didn't it. Time for a new approach.
"Skuntank, start running while using Flamethrower," Skuntank starts running towards Lilligant and proceeds to release flames from its mouth.
"Lilligant, dodge then use Petal Blizzard." Roddy said to his pokemon.
"Skuntank, quickly use Acid Spray." I counter back. Lilligant dodges out of the way of the flames and quickly launches a ton of petals towards Skuntank. At the same point Skuntank changes its flames attack to a spraying of acid attack. Except the two attacks didn't connect with each other and instead bypass each other. Skuntank got directly hit by the large amount of petals and Lilligant became covered in the acid that was sprayed on it. Then just to add insult to injury the vines from before came up out of the ground and cover Skuntank and sap its energy, then went back to the other side of the field and gives the energy back to Lilligant. Great, I have an advantage in this match up and it's not going the way I need it to. I may now have the advantage in the whole match but I still didn't feel comfortable until I won.
"Skuntank, Double Team and then Flamethrower." Skuntank creates around ten clones of itself on my side of the battlefield and then each one releases the flame attack towards Lilligant. Due to the disarraying amount of clones and attacks Lilligant can't get out of the way in time or protect itself so the attack is a good one. "Keep up the momentum and use Night Slash." The clones start running towards Lilligant and jump in the air and start diving towards its opponent with its dark claws out ready to swipe at it.
"Leaf Storm, go!" Roddy shouts quickly. Lilligant sends out alot of leaves from its body. More than there were petals in the Petal Blizzard. So many in such a wide range that it eliminates the clones and hit Skuntank hard knocking it down. Then the vines came back. They wrap around Skuntank and proceed to drain its energy and give it right back to Lilligant. What I wasn't expecting was Skuntank to collapse right after that.
"Skuntank is unable to battle, Lilligant is the winner." There was some polite cheering but a lot of shocked murmurs throughout the crowd. A strategy they weren't expecting to work, worked.
Now was the true time to get serious. I was down to two pokemon and I still had my main pokemon to use. Time to see what Roddy still has for me.
Thanks for reading. Please review and tell me what you think of the battle so far.