Oddish

You are not sure which pokemon is the best choice to begin your fight with Blue. You know he has a bulbasaur and a hoothoot, but you don't know which pokemon is going to be his third choice. You can't risk losing squirtle or butterfree in the first round, meaning the only real choice you have is oddish. As you throw your ball calling your oddish to the arena, you hear Blue call out a geodude... Yes! Luck is on your side, you have a real chance. "Geodude, use sand attack to cover yourself," Blue orders as you prepare to counter his move: "Oddish, sweet scent! Make him come to you!"

The arena in front of you is covered in a cloud of sand, obstructing your vision. You can barely make out the form of oddish, but have no idea what geodude is up to. You need to keep him on his toes! Grass-type attacks might be super effective against geodude, but his many normal type power moves are still dangerous! You order oddish to perform a mega-drain, just as Blue yells: "Tackle these rampant weeds! Crush that oddish, geodude!" Geodude's tackle connects, throwing oddish out of the sand cloud! Luckily, your mega-drain also hit its mark, replenishing oddish's strenght and leaving geodude looking worse for wear. "You are such a loser, Blue. I'm going to make you eat your words. Stun spore, oddish!" In the heat of battle, you let your anger slip through. You just hope that Blue wont make you regret this.

Inside the makeshift arena, oddish has released a cloud of spores to engulf the battered geodude. Blue's face is starting to lose its composure aas he yells at his pokemon to throw rocks at your oddish, but nothing happens. Geodude appears to be paralyzed. "Finish him off with absorb, oddish!" You can fell the excitement of victory build up in your chest. Oddish's attack hits geodude without mercy, and geodude collapses. It cannot continue the fight. The crowd of lurking simps forming the arena looks on in silence. This is not what they came to see, you guess. You are still trying to suppress a smile, when Blue recalls his geodude to send out hoothoot. Now you have to be swift: "Good job, oddish. Squirtle, time to give this douchebag a rinse!" You don't know when you became so eloquent at insulting Blue, but it feels great to let him have it.

You have no time to lose, and you have Blue playing defence, so you decide to press the advantage: "Water gun, squirtle." Before Blue can react, you have hoothoot down on the ground, with its feathers soaked through. It tries to take flight again, but it doesn't seem to work. Blue is visibly panicking right now. You just love that he brought an audience to witness his loss. "Use... eh, hypnos..," Blue is scrambling for words, but you are prepared: "Bite that bird, don't let it recover, squirtle!" Squirtle slams into Blue's hoothoot with a well-executed tackle and bites down forcefully. The hoohhoot can't take any more ****, it is unable to fight. That was quick! Blue doesn't appear to have spent enough time training his team, before he got here. But the last fight will be tough.

Blue recalls hoothoot and sends ivysaur into battle. Shit! His starter pokemon has already evolved. This could be bad. You aren't smiling anymore and the moment of hesitation has cost you the initiative of this third battle, you forgot to withdraw squirtle! "Razor leaves, Ivysaur!" Blue's voice rings out with malice. You barely manage to order squirtle to protect itself with withdraw. Squirtle takes cover inside its shell, but it's not enough! It still takes some damage from the type advantage. This wont do! You need to find an opening to switch out squirtle for butterfree. You are still thinking of a plan, when squirtle barely manages to avoid a powerful vine whip. This is your chance: "Squirtle, well done! Butterfree finish the fight! Use gust!" The switch takes Blue by surprise and ivysaur takes the flying type attack head on. It's not enough! Ivysaur shakes off the pain, as butterfree soars up higher. Ivysaur tries to shoot down butterfree with leech seed, but butterfree swipes the attack away with another gust.

The fight drags on. Butterfree clearly has the type advantage, but ivysaur has more raw power. Both sides manage to land hits, none of them are decisive, though. Finally, you manage to confuse ivysaur with super sonic, which distracts the pokemon enough for butterfree to close in. "Bug bite! Finish it, butterfree," you command. Ivysaur screams out in pain, as its knees buckle with efford before it collapses. You have defeated Blue!