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An Electric Tail (Pikachu Quest)

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aye, not sure how canon Ash's Pikachu would be but I suspect 'Mom' was that Tank build we considered before settling on Trixie.
 
[X] Enhance
- [X] Nasty Plot
You can now reliably employ other living creatures in your schemes, with successful use of tools and environmental advantages potentially letting you bypass type resistances to your moves - though not total immunity.
 
Zaealix said:
aye, not sure how canon Ash's Pikachu would be but I suspect 'Mom' was that Tank build we considered before settling on Trixie.
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My impression is probably a lot of power and strong lightning perks? Maybe a (questionably chosen) brawler perk building off Tackle or something as well? Like one thing I'd wonder there is if there also aren't alternate perk lines than what we were offered. E.g. a Thundershock perk focusing on hitting hard instead of high accuracy.

Dunno I'm not a pokemon anime expert.
 
Erebeal said:
Dunno I'm not a pokemon anime expert.
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The Pokémon Anime does fairly alright with depicting Pokémon battles, like the trainers and Pokémon in the anime don't even have to stick to moves if they don't want to (I've seen fanfiction where they only use moves and it just feels awful). They can like order their Pokémon to destroy a sprinkler (how Ash beats his first rock type gym ever I think?), or like just tell their Pokémon to do certain things without just shouting the name of a move.

IDK if this is the best example, but here's a clip of a Pokémon battle in the anime I randomly found on YouTube. It's not the best and the person who uploaded it put an obnoxious thing around the clip but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4b-PMw0dAs
 
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[X] Enhance
- [x] Nuzzle

Feels like the leaning into learning how human stuff works choice, which is one of our things. Goodness is double team and quick attack ninja madness fun and tempting sounding though...
 
[X] Enhance
- [X] Nasty Plot

We need to be smart kinda the point of the journey by the end we will be so smart and strong that we will be able to beat any trainer easily! Even the trainer who beat us before will be no match! And we will see how they react to a Pokémon that makes a city for Pokémon!
 
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Aleph said:
you can enhance one Move you already know or learn one new move for a slot theme you already have.
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I think some people are missing the 'or' in this sentence. But tbh the vote format seems a little weird if you're only supposed to choose one option between the two sets.

-Morgan.
 
Aleph said:
- [ ] Nasty Plot
You can now reliably employ other living creatures in your schemes, with successful use of tools and environmental advantages potentially letting you bypass type resistances to your moves - though not total immunity.
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Aleph said:
SV Questers have a pronounced tendency, when voting, to bandwagon for whatever they think is the "be clever" or "be smart" or "brainpower" options, without paying any attention to what those options actually do. So let me clear up what Nasty Plot is and is not good for here. Mechanically, it raises your Special Attack by two stages, which at a narrative level means that you can use your Electric-type attacks to much greater effect, doing more damage and being more successful. The limitation is that your version of Nasty Plot involves doing this through schemes - things like "baiting Rojo into wading into a pond and then electrocuting it", or "splattering someone with conductive gunk before Shocking them". If your Rube Goldberg trap doesn't work, you don't get the bonus.
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Aleph said:
But, you know... you do have Quick Attack. Which is a Normal-type Physical Attack that Grass and Electric are not resistant to. So you could just use that if you're only going to fight the occasional Pokemon who's resistant to your lightning in 1v1 duels. And in order to get Nasty Plot, you're giving up things like "I can electrocute a metal railing and have the Shock conduct down it and arc out to hit you from behind", and "NINJA WATER RUNNING, BITCH" and "I can paralyse everything within a whole chunk of the battlefield in an Ao£ electromagnetic pulse-wave".

So take that into account before you just bandwagon behind the "THIS OPTION IS THE ONE THAT MAKES US SMART" vote.
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jjjwn said:
We need to be smart kinda the point of the journey by the end we will be so smart and strong that we will be able to beat any trainer easily! Even the trainer who beat us before will be no match! And we will see how they react to a Pokémon that makes a city for Pokémon
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Sorry for the Quote barrage, but Nasty Plot isn't the only option that makes us smart here, in fact it seems like almost all of the options presented do lean into the whole super-smart Pikachu that we want Trixie to become. They all have some use like Aleph said, Quick attack lets us do ninja shit, and there are other options that I'm kinda interpreting as letting us pull a Joseph Jostar with lightning instead of hamon.

Like regardless of option chosen we kinda already established that Trixie is smart in general, and wants to learn about human things, I don't think character traits that we choose in the last few votes are going to change just because we chose a slightly incompatible move.
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Wait, wait. Learn 1 or enhance 1? Despite the fact that it seemed presented as an and?

Formatting and its effects on reading comprehension, ever my foe, appears to have struck again. Also wow that's chintzy, but okay. I've still got another six days to figure out which one thing we're improving.

Oh wait no I don't.

[X] Enhance
-[X] Quick Attack
 
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