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i am curious.
for the tournament next month, how are you picking your team?
not asking what you picked specifically, just the thought process behind it.
is it better to go with your strongest or your favorites?
or do you have a different game plan entirely?
it's a lot harder narrowing it down to just three than i thought it would be.
i know there's still plenty of time and i don't have to decide TODAY but the sooner the better, right?

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I asked my Pokemon to see which were interested, and when there were more than three, I picked between the group based on their types. I wouldn't be successful if I used all of one type, after all. They cover each others weaknesses.

...
how did i not think of that?
i have a hard time seeing any of my highest leveled ones saying no, but still...i should have thought to do that before anything else.
going to have to fix that.
using one type works for gym leaders though.
part of me is tempted to try it but at the same time, getting matched up against someone with their weakness would kind of screw me.

Being interested means they will be more motivated to winning than something that is only going with it because you want them to.

There aren't any types that don't have any sort of weakness, so you probably will want to see about their moves too.

ah, ah! not so fast! there may not be any ONE type, but there is at least one type COMBINATION that has no weaknesses.
and i happen to have one such pokemon.
but yeah, i am planning on hitting up the department store for some more tms at some point.
some of my pokemon could use some more variance in their moveset anyway.

[Well that shot his eyebrows up with curiosity.] What type combination is that? [Thinking about it himself now.]

ghost/dark.
since ghost types are only weak to dark and other ghosts and dark types are strong against/resistant to both of those but weak to bug and psychic (which ghost types have a resistance against), the two cancel each other out.
well, ok some of their moves still won't work on normal types but that's basically a non issue since they can learn more than just ghost type moves.
there might be more combinations would work like that though, i haven't tried to chart it all out or anything though.

... I see, makes sense. [Scratching his chin in thought, he's trying to think what that would lok like.] Is it tough enough to take a hit from the moves that do normal amounts of damage though? Or does it have something that can prevent critical hits?

there are two different species. neither of them have any sort of critical guard, though for the one i have, their bas defense stats are their highest.
i don't have the other one myself, but my fiancee does. it has much lower base stats all across the board, save for speed.

You probably still will have to keep an eye on them being overwhelmed by pure power. [And there's that word again; oh right, this was Rose's fiance, the... guy who gave him "the talk". ~~When it was actually Rose being a troll.~~]

well yes, of course.
you always have to be careful of that.
but not having to worry about extra damage from weaknesses is a plus.

[Damn Rose and her trolling ways.]

I guess. [Shrugs, but now that he's gone and realized that, he's starting to look a little awkward.]

[He notices....and has no clue why the other boy suddenly looks slightly...uncomfortable? Embarrassed? John's not exactly sure what that look is but it doesn't fit the conversation quite right. Especially since this is the first time they've spoken.]

[Kid, you're kind of a weirdo.]

something wrong?

[Not his fault your lady took advantage of anonymous.]

No. Just remembered something. Uh, thanks for then, now that the gears are working. [The most awkward yup.]

uhh...what do you mean "for then"?
i'm not following what you are thanking me for here.
or how you could even be thanking me for anything other than this conversation because this is the first time we've ever spoken.
to my knowledge, anyway.

[Increasingly awkward.]

We spoke a little while back, though your typing was different. I assumed you were typing differently because the gears were acting strange and erasing trainer IDs. [Though now he's kind of suspicious..]

uhhh...we did?
are you sure it was me? because i always type like this.
well...okay, i pretended to be rose on the april fool's day before last but that was just to mess with some friends.
and that was longer ago than "a little while back," so i get the feeling that isn't what you are talking about.

[There's some tapping on the gear as he's digging out that conversation, though he's somewhat hesitating because the topic is REALLY AWKWARD.] I thought it was Rose but the person said they were her fiance.

[After a moment, the feed goes private before he's linking this.]

Are you sure this isn't you?

dude no!!!!!!!!
just no!!
that is not me.
who the hell even uses "manhood" to describe a dick!?
or "garden" for that matter?!
i saw the initial question but i swear to you on my nanna's ashes that i never responded to it.
i am pretty much positive that was actually rose you spoke to.

[God he wishes he was not using video now because his face is all sorts of a hilarious shade of red, his other hand half hiding his eyes.]

They seemed like easy to understand terms? [YEAH IT WAS PROBABLY ROSE. Damnit all.] At least my initial guess was spot on.

they're ridiculous!
yeah, it's rose. definitely.
aside from the fact that she's the only other one who even knows how i proposed to her, there is just nobody else who would use such purple prose-y terms for private parts.
looks like she got us both pretty good.

Yeah. [Even his ears are red.] I guess "it's nice to meet you" instead, now.

[John's glad he stuck to text. Because while this isn't as awkward for him as it is for Vanitas, it's still pretty awkward.]

yeah. likewise.
though i still don't actually know your name yet. unless you're vani?
because if i am reading the later comments right, you must be karkat's boyfriend.
amd now that i think about it, i did hear your voice in the background of one of his recordings once.
and karkat said he was traveling with sollux and vani.

Vanitas. Yeah, I am. [Snorting, at least the topic is shifting.] That must have been on the train, he wouldn't stop complaining. There wasn't anything else to do other than argue with Sollux though, it was boring as hell.

I don't really have that many options for my roster since I'm still a bit new, but it seems like there's a correlation between my favorites and my strongest. I also took movepools into consideration so I could be prepared to go against as many types as possible.

I'm slightly nervous, since I haven't challenged any gyms yet but I threw myself into this... (´･_･`)

i used to be able to say that. long ago when i didn't have as many pokemon.
some of my newer favorites aren't as strong as the ones i have had since the beginning, which is to be expected but still...
and i am also coming to realize that i have kind of a bad typing skew with my level 100s. i never really noticed it until just now because i have never had to prepare for a fight where i could potentially be going against a wide type variety.
not a serious one, anyway, i mean my friends and i battle each other for experience a lot but that's just for shit and giggle's sake.

don't be nervous though, this is good practice!
if you can hold your own in something like this, then the gyms will be a breeze. :D

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