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[@PlatinumSkink]

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Items: 6x Potion, 4 pokeballs, 3 antidotes, 3 paralyze heals, mandolin, sketch pad and graphite pencils, Pokemon Egg, Umbrella, Red Scarf, Blue Scarf, Fighting Gem, Rock Incense, TM57 Charge Beam, Black Belt, sketch of mirror (probably useless), Abundance Berry (An orange, pear-shaped berry from Landorus)

Pokédollars: 10288
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[hider=Cecil]
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Pokémon Name: Cecil
Species: Darumaka
Gender: ♀
Type: Fire
Personality:A jolly, over confident creature that will sass the hell out of people and demands cuddles.
Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other: It tries to mimic Basil drawing, but all that it makes are just scribbles and blobs. Also likes marmalade sandwiches. Her goal is absolute domination on the battlefield and help Basil out of his shell.
Level: 10
Moves: Rollout, Tackle, Incinerate, Rage
Ability: Hustle
Held Item: None
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[hider=Lupin]
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Pokémon Name: Lupin
Species: Sneasel
Gender: ♂
Type: Ice/Dark
Personality: An intelligent, sneaky, trouble making Pokemon that has way too much trouble keeping its mitts of other people's belongings. It is also a little cocky and likes to pick fights. 
Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other: Likes listening to rock music. Wants to be a world class thief. Ironically, Lupin's favorite foods are spicy.
Level: 9
Moves: Scratch, Leer, Taunt, Quick Attack
Ability: Pickpocket 
Held Item: None
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[hider=Crocus]
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Pokémon Name: Crocus
Species: Bulbasaur
Gender: ♂  
Type: Grass/Poison
Personality: Crocus is a curious, friendly creature. A bit too friendly and trusting for its own good. 
Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other: His goal is to be an adventurer and go where no Bulbasaur has gone before! Smells like freshly cut grass.
Level: 12
Moves: Tackle, Growl, Leech Seed, Vine Whip
Ability: Overgrow. Boosts power of Grass-type moves when heavily damaged.
Held Item: None
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[hider=Aria]
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[b]Gender[/b]: ♀
[b]Type[/b]: Normal/Fairy
[b]Personality[/b]: (Up to player.)
[b]Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other[/b]: (Up to player.)
[b]Level[/b]: 14
[b]Moves[/b]: Sing, Defense Curl, Pound, Play Nice, Disarming Voice
[b]Ability[/b]: Friend Guard. Reduces damage done to nearby allies.
[b]Held Item[/b]: None
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[hider=Glory]
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[b]Gender[/b]: ♂
[b]Type[/b]: Fighting/Flying
[b]Personality[/b]: (Up to player.)
[b]Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other[/b]: (Up to player.)
[b]Level[/b]: 14
[b]Moves[/b]: Detect, Tackle, Hone Claws, Karate Chop, Wing Attack, Roost
[b]Ability[/b]: Limber. Cannot be paralyzed.
[b]Held Item[/b]: None.
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[hider=Roxanne]
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[b]Gender[/b]: ♀
[b]Type[/b]: Rock
[b]Personality[/b]: (Up to player.)
[b]Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other[/b]: (Up to player.)
[b]Level[/b]: 11
[b]Moves[/b]: Tackle, Harden, Block, Rock Throw
[b]Ability[/b]: Magnet Pull. Traps steel-type Pokémon.
[b]Held Item[/b]: None.
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[hider=Lancer]
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Pokémon Name: Lancer
Species: Karablast
Gender: ♂  
Type: Bug
Personality: The most arrogant bug Pokemon you will ever meet. Lancer hates to lose and thinks of itself as a knight. Does not ever back down from a duel.
Level: 12
Moves: Peck, Leer, Endure
Ability: Swarm
Held Item: None
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Well, it worked just not in the way that Basil had expected it to.

Crocus ate the attack like a champ and still did not let go of his opponent being the ever tenacious bud of a grass-type. As it stood it looked like it was going to be a battle to see who would give out first. Basil bit his cheeks in stress as he weighed the risks. His Bulbasaur was proving to be essential with its Leech Seed, but that's all that it really could do in a battle where its type match up was less than ideal so Crocus' viability for the rest of the challenge was questionable. No, the only other on his team that could eat more hits was Roxanne, but she was poisoned so he needed to save her when she really needed her and of course Glory would take it out, but he wanted to a clean switch just in case there was another chance of being poisoned by Twin Needle. 

There was only one thing to do at this point. [color=8882be]"Don't let it go and use Growl!"[/color] Despite the difference between Crocus' and the Beedrill's stats, if they could lower the bug's attack stat low enough it was likely that they would win this battle of attrition via Leech Seed and recoil damage though the recoil would probably decrease from the lowered attack stat, but it was better than eating those hits as they were.