03 July 2005

The first REAL post... Pokemon Ruby progress

Hi, did you know I have Pokemon Ruby? Yes, it's true, and on it I have 8 badges but have not beaten the Elite 4. This entry is about my level 41 Sceptile named Frogger...

-In Ruby, Frogger did something miraculous. One day, I walked into the Pokemon Fan Club in Slateport City, and the president told me Frogger was growing very well and gave me a Red Scarf. I then decided to attach it to Frogger then test it out in a Contest. Now, Frogger has 6 ribbons already: Normal, Super, and Hyper ranks for both Coolness and Smartness. (He has an Adamant nature, so his Coolness is higher even though I fed him spicy and bitter Pokeblocks.) Anyways, this time I decided to try a Master rank Coolness Contest. This is when the true miracle happened...
-So the Contest began. The preliminary round didn't go that well, even with the Red Scarf--half the other Pokemon got three points, and Frogger and someone else got two. Frogger ended up being in last place for the first appeal in the second round...
-In the first turn, since Frogger went last, he used Cut. This worked fairly well, since the Kirlia that went first had made a good appeal with Shock Wave and thus lost 6 points. A Heracross (went 2nd) used Endure to avoid it, though... I hoped Loudred (went 3rd) would startle him, but he just used Howl...
-This is the miracle I'm talking about... In the second turn, Frogger was 2nd--right after Kirlia. This time I decided to try Leaf Blade, which depends on the appeal before. I don't remember exactly which move Kirlia did, but it wasn't a very good appeal. When Frogger used Leaf Blade, the text said that "It stood out much more than the Pokemon before", and Frogger got 6 points! What's more, he got the crowd going with his Coolness and ended up with about 12 points! Even though he later lost 3 points from Loudred's Hyper Voice, he still made the best appeal any of my Pokemon ever did. This bumped him way ahead of the other Pokemon.
-In the third turn, Frogger went first, and I didn't want anyone else to get the crowd going. So Frogger just stalled with Pursuit. The good thing was, he didn't get startled...
-In the fourth turn, since crowd excitement was low, I decided on another Leaf Blade, since it had the highest appeal points of any of Frogger's moves and he was going first. Even though some of the other Pokemon made 6-point appeals, nobody beat Frogger when the points were tallied. And also, in this turn, Loudred used Roar, which scrambled up next turn's appeal order...
-Because of Loudred's Roar, Frogger ended up going last. So why not another Cut in case other Pokemon make big-appeal finales? Well, it turned out that everyone else made exactly 3 points of appeal, and nobody avoided being startled. Even though another Pokemon attracted the crowd's attention, Frogger got 2 points and everyone else lost 2. So it turned out that Frogger ended up with the most appeal points!
-And the tallying up of points for the winner... It turns out that everyone got 4 stars in the first round (including Frogger), though Frogger's meter seemed to be the lowest for that... But in the second round, one Pokemon got 3 hearts, two others had 4, and Frogger had 5! The two 4's got a close-to-full meter, but Frogger ended up winning the contest! It was the most miraculous contest I was ever in...
-The only thing bad about it was that after the contest, I forgot to talk to the painter guy to make a picture of Frogger... But he still got the ribbon!
-Frogger now holds the record for being a multi-star Pokemon, because he has the most ribbons of any Pokemon I ever had (7 total), and he's also one of my best battling Pokemon. Oh Frogger...

^Sorry if that sounded mushy...