[X] Atticus
Trails of Tera Steel (Kiseki-inspired Pokemon Academy Quest)
- Thread starter ArvisPresley
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Red_Knight25
Unofficial Edgelord Advocate
[X] Jacinto: It seems you're not the only one that's gotten a confidence boost from winning their Gym Battle. While you do feel a little guilty not approaching him when he was struggling early on, Jacinto doesn't seem to have minded. Though eager to make it up to him, you did promise to answer some of his questions about Dragon Pokemon and oddly enough, about what happened at your group's end of the 1st Field Exercise.
TimEd
Meteor maker
[X] Atticus: It's clear from the moment the battle started that something was weighing on him. Atticus getting the worse result of the Round Robin prolly hasn't helped either. Maybe it's because you've been looking to be a more proactive Class President, or maybe it's because you're worried about your classmate, either way you're not gonna let the petty cruelty of children bring your classmate down.
Theaxofwar
Definitely not a Bunny Cat in disguise.
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[X] Atticus
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- She/Her
Will close vote in 2 Days
StattStatt
Supplier of suspenders for your disbelief
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- He/Him
[X] Manuel
lol Manuel is gonna keep being neglected for now, giving him a pity vote just for the heck of it tbh.
Also just remembered to mention this even though I noticed it during the first read.
I'm really interested in all the characters and their stories, but sacrifices must be made since Mary can't be in enough places.
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Welcome back Arvis! Congrats for the gender and everything else that can be congratulated for.
Erika's braincells connected her love for a girl, we're fucking backkkkkkkk !!!!
Anyway, Atticus seems to be the one that needs our help atm... And I also really like him, so-
[X] Atticus
Erika's braincells connected her love for a girl, we're fucking backkkkkkkk !!!!
Anyway, Atticus seems to be the one that needs our help atm... And I also really like him, so-
[X] Atticus
We'll get to bond 2 with all our classmates one of these days. The bonuses are always welcome after all.
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I won't say I'm gonna insist on Manuel and Jacinto for our week 2 and 3 non-cat Bond actions, but I'm certainly going to lobby for it.
SolarGemX
The Crystalized Sun
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- Somewhere in the Cosmos
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- He/Him
Yeah... Weve kinda left them on the waveside. Mind you Thats not exactly a uncommon thing in actual school settings, but it would probably be good to at least get them out of Bond 0. Plus we do have an item that could be use with one of them.
Toaster cult
I Am An Imaginary Living Body
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- Tokyo
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- She/Her
didt we pick thea for our other bonding moment this week? or did we get that already its been a while
SolarGemX
The Crystalized Sun
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- Somewhere in the Cosmos
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- He/Him
If I remember right i think we did. Still hasnt happened though.
StattStatt
Supplier of suspenders for your disbelief
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- On one of your shoulders
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Btw, we still haven't used the TM for Pounce, which both Roland and Ruby can learn. Is there any reason we shouldn't slap that on both of them (aside from sparing Arvis from having to keep track of even more data that is) right away?
SolarGemX
The Crystalized Sun
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- Somewhere in the Cosmos
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- He/Him
...I dont think we were given the option to use the TM yet actually... Probably on a later turn alongside the Protect TM.
Heck some of the data on the trainer card is slightly out of date, but its probably will be fixed eventually.
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KnownParadox
Not a sphere
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- Canada
I'm just glad we got the Protect TM, the downsides are so miniscule they may as well be nonexistent, and in return we get a get out of damage free card for a few uses per battle for every member of our team.
- Location
- India
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- He/His
Man, we still lost against Erika even though she was underestimating Roland's badge level. What exactly are we doing wrong in Roland's training?
Probably coz she was focused on winning this match and we were trying to conserve for Nemona's match
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Mechanically it was a below average SKLL roll, which leads me to conclude pretty much what Veekie said - the format of the tournament working against us, and Mary not being experienced enough to adjust to it yet. It's also notable that even with her blind spots and tendency to tunnel vision, Erika is a really good trainer who's worked with Cornelia her whole life, and while we're very clever with Roland, she's gonna squeeze every advantage she has out of a beneficial matchup like this one.
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Yea
Erika was prepared to fight you, could telepathically communicate with her sister and Cornelia hadn't fought at all that day
Ruby who would've been the better match against Cornelia got too weak after fighting Astrid's Snivy
With no Terastalization, your typical hard counter to Cornelia of a Tera Steel was unavailable
Despite all that, the best Erika could get was essentially a mutual K.O.
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- Australia
Powerscaling is bad for a few reasons, and this is one of them.
If a character explicitly plans and prepares against you, it's pretty likely that they're going to win against you, even if they've underestimated exactly how strong your Pokémon are.
In order to overcome someone who's explicitly prepared a strategy against someone who knows you pretty well and has outright done their research trying to figure out what your capabilities are, there has to be a very significant gap in skill, experience and power. You have to be good enough to come up with entirely new strategies on the fly that work against strategies explicitly designed to counter you, and your Pokémon have to be skilled enough and understand you enough to execute strategies you haven't practiced before on the fly.
In this very battle, you can see that Erika designed her strategies around Roland's previously displayed strengths and weaknesses. They covered the field with light in every direction to hamper his mobility, they leveraged two types of attacks to force him on the run and keep up the pressure on him to prevent him having time to build up his attacks against his opponent, and they prepared a close-range counter to him to prevent him from landing a close-range hit to finish the fight as he had before. They also took advantage of his Fairy-type weakness we saw displayed in his fight against Katie.
The fact that Mary nearly pulled off a win despite her opponent doing everything she could to counter Roland's entire fighting style should, in a diegetic sense, tell people that she is doing absolutely nothing wrong in her training of her Pokémon. She displayed a significant amount of skill on the battlefield, and Roland nearly single-handedly won a matchup against probably the single worst opponent he could have faced in terms of overall strategy and available counterplay.
You don't need to win every battle in order to demonstrate how good a trainer you are. Sometimes even a loss can still display your level of skill.
Frankly, I think people should probably be glad Erika won that battle. If she hadn't, Mary would have gone on to lose to Nemona again. Instead of another crushing defeat that sent her spiralling even further, she instead got handed a very close fight that had her actually excited about her own skills and connected her even closer with a girl she likes. This is probably the ideal outcome for Mary herself, as a person.
If a character explicitly plans and prepares against you, it's pretty likely that they're going to win against you, even if they've underestimated exactly how strong your Pokémon are.
In order to overcome someone who's explicitly prepared a strategy against someone who knows you pretty well and has outright done their research trying to figure out what your capabilities are, there has to be a very significant gap in skill, experience and power. You have to be good enough to come up with entirely new strategies on the fly that work against strategies explicitly designed to counter you, and your Pokémon have to be skilled enough and understand you enough to execute strategies you haven't practiced before on the fly.
In this very battle, you can see that Erika designed her strategies around Roland's previously displayed strengths and weaknesses. They covered the field with light in every direction to hamper his mobility, they leveraged two types of attacks to force him on the run and keep up the pressure on him to prevent him having time to build up his attacks against his opponent, and they prepared a close-range counter to him to prevent him from landing a close-range hit to finish the fight as he had before. They also took advantage of his Fairy-type weakness we saw displayed in his fight against Katie.
The fact that Mary nearly pulled off a win despite her opponent doing everything she could to counter Roland's entire fighting style should, in a diegetic sense, tell people that she is doing absolutely nothing wrong in her training of her Pokémon. She displayed a significant amount of skill on the battlefield, and Roland nearly single-handedly won a matchup against probably the single worst opponent he could have faced in terms of overall strategy and available counterplay.
You don't need to win every battle in order to demonstrate how good a trainer you are. Sometimes even a loss can still display your level of skill.
Frankly, I think people should probably be glad Erika won that battle. If she hadn't, Mary would have gone on to lose to Nemona again. Instead of another crushing defeat that sent her spiralling even further, she instead got handed a very close fight that had her actually excited about her own skills and connected her even closer with a girl she likes. This is probably the ideal outcome for Mary herself, as a person.
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I'll try to have the update out by the end of the coming week