Pokémon battle! And we'll see who is the better trainer! And we'll see who has the bigger Pokéballs!

[mischiefbreeder]

Who: Gold (mischiefbreeder) and Silver (tsuntrader), plus any spectators!
What: Silver issued a battle challenge to Gold, who accepted.
When: Saturday afternoon
Where: The Battle Dome
Summary: Gold and Silver have been in Luceti together for a year and yet have never had a single Pokémon battle. Deciding it's time to rectify, they head off to the Battle Dome to throw down!
Rating: PG? I mean, it's Pokémon...
[Gold had been anxiously waiting for this day. Sure, the standard format for Pokémon battles involved just battling whenever your eyes meet, but if they did that, there'd be constant battles all day, every day. Therefore, these things had to be planned.

...Besides that, Silver was his rival. Always has been, always will be. That makes this battle special. A battle to settle old scores... No, a battle to determine who's the best trainer out of the two of them, and furthermore... To show everyone just how it's done.

It was time. Their battle lies ahead.]

Comments

[cooltrainer]

It's evolved. When a Pokémon gains strength and grows mature, it will transform into a bigger and stronger Pokémon. In Aitaro's case, he likely had to have some sort of special condition to evolve, since Aipom was not known to evolve.

By chance, Gold has stumbled on a new way to evolve a Pokémon we thought we were fairly familiar with.

[generalflirt]

I know what evolve is but... that's what it looks like. [...Oh wow. He looks at Linda, whose eyes are wide too. So that's what it looks like]

[cooltrainer]

That's right. As you get into Pokémon training, you will see a lot more of that.

...Unless you decide to prevent evolution. Yellow is particularly fond of that, but...

[s i g h]

[generalflirt]

A lot? Green-san, if you forgot, Linda here's my only pokemon. Probably my only one ever unless you want to breed me something.

[cooltrainer]

Linda will evolve twice, and you'll be training with other trainers. You'll be seeing a lot more of it.

[generalflirt]

Twice?

[he knows she must once, obviously, because of Pika and Chuchu, but he didn't know twice]

[cooltrainer]

The first time will come based on her trust in you. The second is from an item called a Thunder Stone, which evolves it into a Raichu.

[He'll withdraw his Pokédex and pull up Raichu's entry for Masaomi to look at.]

[generalflirt]

[GIMMI GIMMIE. He takes that to study the data on Raichu. He didnt even know this existed. Flipping through what he can of it...]

[cooltrainer]

[There's plenty of information. Green collected information early on from it, which was updated with the Pokédex. There are not many mysteries to it, and its most noteworthy attribute is that it has a significantly smaller movepool than its prior evolutions.]

It will be some time before you get to that point.

[generalflirt]

[...Hm. He taps his chin] Ah, that's odd... you'd think being stronger it would have more options on learning things.

[cooltrainer]

[Green will take back is Pokédex, putting it away.]

Its stat pool is significantly better, which means that it has a lot more strength to it, but it simply has a more limited range that it can learn. It's best to decide on what the final movepool is before evolving it.

[generalflirt]

Hoooh. That's interesting. I wonder if one hatched by Gold can ignore that though, given he's apparently magic.

[cooltrainer]

I wouldn't take the risk.

[Green snorts, grinning.]

[generalflirt]

A...hah. Then I'll have to know some more moves to know what's what before then.