viiru2alert | four (video) ♊ come and try to catch me

[Fortunately, Sollux's little run-in with the Yamasks had not been televised at any point. This is mostly because he was too busy hiding in corners and screaming about THE VOICESSSSSS. But before that had happened, he had also caught one of the little buggers, and it was now sitting in its Pokeball like a child in time-out because Sollux was angry at the Yamask that had made him flip his shit, and therefore the entire species had to suffer for it. He's really a very mature adult. Aren't journeys supposed to make people grow up?]

[But that is all in the past now, thank god, and as the feed begins, he's just sitting in the Pokemon Center's lobby petting his Absol. D'aww. How cute.]

...So.

[He glances over at a laptop sitting nearby. Of course this little nerd had bought himself a real live computer, even though he has a perfectly functional Gear right there.]

Sollux Captor reporting live from the shitty chunk of rock that is Cinnabar Island. According to everything I've seen and heard so far, there's supposed to be a Gym around here, but all I see is a Pokemon Center and a hell of a lot of Krabbies. What's the deal?

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Did they tell you where in the Seafoam Islands it is? There's a few other people who've been there at least.

Not where, no.

So can I expect a lot of Surfing to find the entrance in my immediate future?

Pretty sure. And bring something to deal with water-ice types.

Guess more training is in order. [Sigh.] My Electric-type is pretty weak in comparison.

[Perks up a little.] Yeah? What have you got?

Luxray. And then a Blastoise, Yanmega, Claydol and Yamask. ...And this Absol here. [The Absol in question makes a quiet noise.]

Luxray is the evolved form of luxio, right?

[Nods his head.] Nothing wrong with still getting stronger. Seems like a pretty diverse team at least.

Yeah, it is.

Gotta be prepared for anything, I guess. We're not exactly at the point where we're so strong that it doesn't even matter what our Types are, so if I don't have a balanced team I'm going to get trashed.

[Like a certain fishfaced douchenozzle ~~Eridan~~, who's probably running a Water monotype as they speak. Hurr hurr.]

Understood. So you're mostly using types to win?

[Smoker actually likes Eridan, but what does he know?]

Well, yeah. How else are you supposed to do it -- faith and trust and bullfaerie dust?

In this world, would that really surprise you?

There are other techniques than just type offsets, however.

...Point. [Bitterly. He hates that approach to... pretty much everything.]

Yeah, but you should only use those if the other guy has counters for your type. Which they usually don't if you play it well enough.

And what if you don't know what the other guy has?

Then you assume that they do, obviously.

So if they have the exact type of pokemon team to defeat yours?

If you make a good enough team, that won't happen. Or you can power through anyway.

Well, it seems like that strategy is working for you so far.

It's pretty much the only strategy you need unless you're in a tournament or something.

You're not interested in that I take it?

Not yet. I want to deal with these Gyms first.

Fair enough.

I don't think I can figure this world out.

Who fuckin' can.

[Well, him, but only because he's been playing Pokemon IN SPACE The Video Game since he was a little babby.]

Hell, if I know. They probably left already if they did.

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