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1x1 with Joe
Forum-Index → Roleplay → Private RP → 1x1 with Joe"Go, Piplup!!" Ferris said, hoping to train his new Pokémon.
"Yes," Ferris confirmed. "However, I only just started. I have two Pokémon. Would you be willing to battle me so I can train to face the Oreburgh Gym?"
In-game, you are not SUPPOSED to know what your Rival is doing.
In RPs, you HAVE to know what the other characters are doing, because THEY HAVE TO POST IT. RP stands for role-play. You are playing the role of a character. You have to say ALL of their actions, not just mention a few of them and act like they're some NPC. It's even worse when said character is one of only two main characters.
How in the WORLD did you WALK to Oreburgh City AND do a TON of stuff in the time it took me to FLY there, which should logically have taken almost no time AT ALL in comparison? That's not logic; it's insanity.
Furthermore, you controlled MY Skarmory. That's not how RPs work; my Pokémon is my character and mine to control.
Does this make more sense?)

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"Piplup, what moves do you know?" Ferris wondered aloud. He checked his Pokédex to find that Piplup knew Growl, Pound, Scald, and Signal Beam. "This could work!! Piplup, try Scald!"
Piplup nodded, and the lighter blue marks on his body shone brightly. Red flurries of light rose around him, and collected in the form of a ball in front of him, from which a large amount of water shot when Piplup opened his mouth. The doubly super-effective move hit its mark with an explosion of steam and several scalding-hot drops of water.
(I think a few years later works. ^^ We can find Dialga and Palkia in the same way as in Platinum, and Giratina and Heatran in the same way as in Diamond and Pearl, so that there's no confusion as to why we'd be meeting Team Galactic. Azelf, Uxie, and Mesprit could probably just wait until after beating the Pokémon League instead of after beating Team Galactic.)
The Pokédex beeped. Piplup is at critically low health. Another beep. Piplup's Special Ability, Torrent, has activated. While at low health, Piplup's Water-type attacks will increase dramatically in power.
"Awesome, Piplup!!" Ferris said excitedly. "Please use Scald again!"