User blog:Cfp3157/Pokémon Tournament: Lloyd Hemlock vs. Lysander Summers



Lloyd Hemlock, the Pokemon professor of various and controversial research subjects.

or....

Lysander Summers, the vigilante-esque trainer who handles hauntings through Kanto.

Lloyd Hemlock
Lloyd Hemlock is a well-known Pokémon professor, obtaining his degree soon after getting the required eight gym badges to compete in the Leagues. Unlike most other professors, he does not have a specific area of study - he researches everything he can find. Lloyd has distanced himself from most of the rest of the scientific community due to his research methods, which were generally considered unethical. He has a strong friendship with fellow Pokémon trainer and Pokémon chef {Pach's Trainer}, and frequents his restaurant. Lloyd has a liking for most kinds of wine. He drinks red for work and white to relax, but makes a glass last hours. Where alcohol is inappropriate, he tends to drink white tea, with a single teaspoon of honey per cup.

He keeps his team of 6 Pokémon out of Pokéballs, due to the respect he has for them and the bonds they share. His team of 6, however, are the only Pokémon he has that he considers, and treats like, his family. The rest of his Pokémon are kept in Pokéballs, and are little more than experimental specimens. Lloyd's current pet project is researching the adaptability and recombinant properties of the Eevee evolutionary tree and of Ditto. Barkspawn was Lloyd's second Pokémon, found in the tall grass near his home as a Houndoor. Lloyd raised Barkspawn into a slightly pyromaniac Houndoom which reflected both her trainer's sense of loyalty to friends and complete disregard for those who aren't. As Lloyd's second Pokémon, she was exposed to his lab's chemicals while he was starting out and couldn't afford safety equipment. While Mariner was unaffected due to his protective shell, Barkspawn underwent a physical mutation to resemble her Mega Form without actually being in it. In the lab, Barkspawn performs experiments needing fire or some other source of heat.
 * -|Barkspawn=

Basic Information: Moves: Surgeon was revived during one of Lloyd's school projects. They bonded almost instantly, due to their shared love of cutting things. Lloyd channeled this to make her into an excellent surgeon. Highly energetic and with a kind disposition, she is one of the friendlier Pokémon on his team with those outside it. This does not, however, inhibit her fascination with cutting things open and performing experiments. Her lab coat's sleeves contain sheathes for her claws; Lloyd added these after he needed medical treatment when she had given him a hug. In the lab, she performs surgical operations, autopsies, and dissections.
 * Name: Barkspawm
 * Species: Houndoom
 * Type: Dark/Fire
 * Ability: Early Bird
 * The Pokémon awakens quickly from sleep.
 * Personal Info: Flaming Vodka is her favorite drink.
 * Item: Heat Rock
 * It extends the duration of the move Sunny Day when used by the holder.
 * Fire Blast: Barkspawn charges an orb of fire between the horns on her head and then launches it at the opponent. Once it connects, it explodes. Has a chance to apply Burn to the target.
 * Flamethrower: Barkspawn unleashes a torrent of fire, streaming from the horns on her head. Has a chance to apply Burn to the target.
 * Beat Up: Barkspawn howls, and the rest of the team jumps down from the viewing stand. They all converge on the opponent, attacking physically. After some time, the other members of the team return to the stand.
 * Fire Spin: Blasts of fire come out of the two horns on her chest as she circles the opponent rapidly, trapping her foe in a spinning column of fire, trapping them. At the end of the duration, she sits and howls, causing the column to collapse onto the trapped foe.
 * Sunny Day: Barkspawn glows white, sits, and howls, shooting a white beam from her horns at the sky. All clouds scatter, and intense sunlight bathes the battlefield.
 * Solar Beam: A ball of light appears between the horns on Barkspawn's head, and two more on the tips of the horns on her chest. They then fire in a massive, collected beam at the opponent.
 * -|Surgeon=

Basic Information: Moves: Lloyd's first Pokémon was a Squirtle, who he raised into a Balstoise. Given to him by his father as a toddler, the two share a very strong bond of friendship and trust, acting almost like brothers. Mariner tends to act as a limiting agent to Barkspawn's pyromania, often putting out fires she starts. The two have a playful rivalry, but are quick to drown and/or burn anyone who tries to harm the other. In the lab, Mariner acts as Lloyd's main assistant, showing surprising dexterity using small tools.
 * Name: Surgeon
 * Species: Kabutops
 * Type: Rock/Water
 * Ability: Battle Armor
 * Protects the Pokémon from critical hits.
 * Personal Info: Blood is her favorite drink.
 * Item: Big Root
 * It boosts the power of HP-stealing moves so the holder recovers more HP.
 * Cut: Surgeon charges in and uses one of her two claws to slice the opponent.
 * Aqua Jet: An orb of water collects on the tip of one of Surgeon's claws. A thin, high-pressure jet of water shoots out and slices into the opponent. Always strikes first.
 * Night Slash: One of Surgeon's claws glows with a dark purple, almost black, aura. He then strikes at his foe with lightning speed.
 * Stone Edge: A white ring forms around Surgeon's claws, which then solidify into scalpel-like obisidan chunks. These then fly at the opponent at high speed.
 * Mega Drain: Surgeon's claws glow green, and she makes a cutting gesture. Two green beams of light, with pointed, scythe-like ends, stab into the opponent. They drain some of the opponent's life energy, healing Surgeon.
 * Stealth Rock: Surgeon slams the ground with her claws. Whenever an opponent switches a Pokemon in, the ground on their side will erupt into several stones that then crush the opponent's Pokemon.
 * -|Mariner=

Basic Information: Moves: Using a spirit drawn out by a Shedininja and special scientific equipment, Lloyd bound the spirit to a sword and created a Honedge. He raised her to an Aegislash and a loyal friend. She is very protective of Lloyd and the other five Pokémon on their team, and greatly enjoys slicing anyone or anything that would harm them to ribbons. Osha and Surgeon are frequently found discussing the finer points of cutting things. In the lab, she ensures all the safety equipment works properly and acts as Surgeon's assistant when needed.
 * Name: Mariner
 * Species: Blastoise
 * Type: Water
 * Ability: Torrent
 * When weak on health, Blastoise's attacking ability increases.
 * Personal Info: Water is his favorite drink.
 * Item: Blastoisinite
 * Allows Blastoise to Mega Evolve into Mega Blastoise
 * Blizzard: Mariner braces himself, pointing the cannons on his back at his opponent. They shoot torrents of ice crystals at the opponent.
 * Hydro Pump: Mariner braces himself, pointing the cannons on his back at his opponent. The cannons shoot converging spouts of high-pressure water at the opponent.
 * Scald: Mariner braces himself, pointing the cannon(s) on his back at his opponent. The cannons shoot a blast of scalding-hot water, surrounded by steam.
 * Hail: Mariner braces himself, pointing his cannons at the sky. The cannons shoot forth a blend of ice, water, and water vapor. These all condense high in the atmosphere and create a hailstorm.
 * Skull Bash: Mariner braces himself, lowering his head slightly as it becomes cloaked in a grey aura. Mariner then charges forward with surprising speed and headbutts his opponent, surrounded now by a dark blue-black aura.
 * Smack Down: Mariner braces himself, pointing the cannons on his back at his opponent. The cannons shoot high pressure water laced with pebbles.
 * -|Osha=

Basic Information: Moves: Lloyd created Splicer, his Spiritomb, in the lab. Using captive Yamask and spirits drawn out by several Chandelure and Shedinja, Lloyd recreated the effects of an ancient ritual with modern science to bind all 108 spirits to create the body of a Spiritomb. Another ritual bound that to a Keystone, anchoring it. The Spiritomb's inquisitiveness and slightly malicious curiosity was the basis of a lasting friendship between the two. Due to his nature as a composite creature, Splicer enjoys experimenting with gene splicing between different Pokémon.
 * Name: Osha
 * Species: Shiny Aegislash
 * Type: Steel/Ghost
 * Ability: Stance Change
 * The Pokémon changes form depending on how it battles.
 * Personal Info: Green tea is her favorite drink.
 * Item: Focus Band
 * An item to be held by a Pokémon. The holder may endure a potential KO attack, leaving it with just barely any health.
 * 'King's Shield: Osha switches to Defense Form and glows with a dark red-black aura. Osha guards against all non-status effect moves, and drops the attack of foes that make physical contact.
 * Rock Slide: Osha charges a white orb in the center of the shield and then slams her shield into the ground. The white orb shatters into many others, and rises up over the opponent. The orbs turn into boulders and slam down on the opponent.
 * Brick Break: Osha brings her shield smashing down onto her opponent, ignoring any psychic barrier or defenses set up by the enemy.
 * Iron Head: Osha assumes Shield Form, and charges straight at the foe, point-first. She does back to Sword Form afterwards.
 * Shadow Ball: Osha charges a black sphere in the center of her shield. She aims it at the opponent, and the sphere shoots out to strike.
 * Hyper Beam: Osha charges a red sphere in the center of her shield. She aims it at the opponent, and the sphere turns into a beam. Move requires a recharge turn afterwards.
 * -|Splicer=

Basic Info: Moves: While experimenting, Lloyd built a Golurk. After activating, the Golurk showed an affinity for punching things, which it did with great force. It has a particular dislike for bird Pokémon, and the Pidgey line in particular. In the lab, Shale prefers to take on any heavy lifting when he's not experimenting with ways to punch things more effectively.
 * Name: Splicer
 * Species: Spiritomb
 * Type: Ghost/Dark
 * Ability: Pressure
 * The Pokémon raises opposing Pokémon's PP usage.
 * Personal Info: Hot Chocolate is his favorite drink.
 * Item: Spell Tag
 * A sinister, eerie tag that boosts the power of Ghost-type moves.
 * Icy Wind: Splicer exhales, blowing icy particles towards the opponent at high speed.
 * Shadow Sneak:Splicer melts into the ground, becoming a small, hard to notice shadow. He moves towards his target for a sneak attack.
 * Ominous Wind: Spiritomb's projected body increases in size and exhales, infusing his breath with the malice contained within the souls that make up his body to damage his foe.
 * Dark Pulse: Splicer's keystone turns black, and two orbs made out of rotating black circles obscure its eyes. These get fired at the opponent as a beam.
 * Foul Play: Splicer's projected body pulses, and his foe leaps in for an attack. The swipe passes through his body, which shifts space to have the target strike itself.
 * Uproar Splicer's body pulses, and emits unearthly shrieks and banshee wails that assault the opponent with sound for a few turns.
 * -|Shale=

Basic Info: Moves:
 * Name: Shale
 * Species: Shiny Golurk
 * Type: Ground/Ghost
 * Ability: Iron Fist
 * Boosts the power of punching moves
 * Personal Info: Motor Oil is his favorite drink.
 * Item: Muscle Band
 * It is a headband that slightly boosts the power of physical moves.
 * Shadow Punch Shale's fist glows dark purple and becomes intangible. He punches his foe, and his fist turns sold just as it hits.
 * Thunder Punch: Shale's fist glows yellow & black and is surrounded by lightning. He punches the foe, who receives an electric jolt.
 * Drain Punch: Shale's fist glows black, and the aura grows several spikes on his knuckles. He then punches his foe, and drains some of their life force to heal himself.
 * Fly: Golurk's feet retract into legs and hands retract into arms, creating four sets of thrusters which activate and propel Shale skyward. Next turn, he swoops down and body slams the opponent.
 * Ice Punch: Shale's fist is surrounded in a pale, bluish-white mist. He then punches the foe.
 * Fire Punch Shale's fist is surrounded with a red and orange aura, which turns into fire. He then punches the opponent.

Lysander Summers
Raised in Lavender Town, Lysander lived under the constant, looming shadow of the Pokemon Tower, or as he and his friends called it, "The Mausoleum". It wasn't until his teens did he finally get a motivation in life.

While out in the woods, they found themselves stalked by a Honedge. By morning's light, Lysander was the last one alive as he stumbled out of the woods to tell the tail.

Eventually, he decided that the ghost had too much 'fun' tormenting the humans, so adopting some of the pokemon of his deceased friends, he left Lavender Town to travel across the land to capture rouge Ghost, Dark, and Psychic Types and reform them.

His travels has lead him from Kanto across the different regions, eventually landing in the Kalos region where he runs his trade out of the back room of a bar. Owned prior to the forest incident, Gabriel was the only one who made Lysander feel at ease, and was the first one he took with him when he decided to go off to capture and reform the rouge Ghost-types.
 * -|Gabriel=

Basic Information Moves: Owned by his girlfriend, Willow, before her untimely death, Lysander began projecting her onto the Gardevoir, treating her as if she was his girlfriend. When Lysander went off to wrangle rouge Ghost Pokemon, Willow was one of the Pokemon who willingly came with him.
 * Name: Gabriel
 * Species: Liepard
 * Type: Dark
 * Ability: Limber
 * Protects the Pokémon from paralysis.
 * Favorite TV show: Mythbusters
 * Item: Expert Belt
 * It's a well-worn belt that slightly boosts the power of super-effective moves.
 * Night Slash: Gabriel leaps at the opponent as her paw begins to glow violet. At her first chance she slashes at them.
 * Pursuit: Gabriel chasing after the foe, she pounces onto them, digging her claws in deep.
 * Payback: Gabriel lands on her feet after receiving a blow, Gabriel quickly pounces back at the enemy aiming at their face.
 * Snarl: Gabriel gives a slow, deep, and threatening growl as she circles around her foe.
 * Fury Swipes: Gabriel extends her claws out fully and begins to leap back and forth at the foe, raking her claws across their skin.
 * Play Rough: Gabriel goes all out as she leaps at the enemy. As she makes contact with the foe, a dust cloud kicks up as she scratches and claws her enemy.
 * -|Willow=

Basic Information: Moves: Owned by his best friend, Brahms, the Mienshao began spending more and more time with Lysander after the death of his owner, but his owner's family had a hard time to let go of the Mienshao, as it was the last reminder of their son. Eventually, they were able to let go of the Pokemon and Brahms joined Lysander. Basic Information: Moves: While traversing an abandoned psyche ward that several people had vanished in over several weeks, Lysander became the object of fascination of a friendly Chandelure who lead him to the captives and helped him stave off the Sableyes that had kidnapped them. Seeing that not all Ghost type were evil, Lysander took him in.
 * Name: Willow
 * Species: Gardevoir
 * Type: Fairy/Psychic
 * Ability: Synchonize
 * Whenever afflicted with a status condition, the opponent gains the condition as well.
 * Favorite TV show: Twin Peaks
 * Item: Life Orb
 * It boosts the power of moves, but at the cost of some HP on each hit.
 * Future Sight: Willow's eyes sparkle in an aquamarine light, after a bit, a bolt of powder blue lightning comes down and hits her enemy.
 * Hypnosis: Willow bows her head as if she's about to pray, but launches a series of rings from her head at her foe.
 * Torment: Willow spins around and appears to give a rude gesture to the opponent, making it incapable of using the same move twice in a row.
 * Psyshock: Willow generates a sphere of psychic energy that she then hurls at her foe.
 * Moonblast: Borrowing the power of the moon, Willow attacks the target with a glowing white sphere.
 * Magical Leaf: Willow twirls, kicking up the leaves which then launch at her foe that hit her foe no matter what.
 * -|Brahm=
 * Name: Brahm
 * Species: Mienshao
 * Type: Fighting
 * Ability: Inner Focus
 * Protects the Pokémon from flinching.
 * Favorite film: Ninja (2009)
 * Item: White Herb
 * It will restore any lowered stat in battle once.
 * Focus Blast: Brahm pulls back into a hadouken pose as he charges up a sapphire color sphere that he then launches at the enemy
 * Acrobatics: Using handsprings and flips, Brahm hits his foe several times from various angles.
 * Low Sweep: As a melee attack comes at him, Brahm drops to the ground and proceeds to trip up his enemy, causing them to hit the ground.
 * Double Team: Performing a short Tai Chi move, several copies of him also doing the move appear around the enemy.
 * Reversal: Small white orbs float around Brahm as he charges at his foe and preforms a one-inch punch.
 * Drain Punch: Brahm winds up as his fist gets covered in a green aura. He then lets loose either a left or right hook at his foe. As he connects, small white beads go from the enemy to Brahm, healing him.
 * -|Angelus=

Basic Information: Moves: While traversing a haunted museum, Lysander came across a Gallade outnumbered by a gang of Dusclops. Joining in the fight, they were able to stave off the Ghost Pokemon and destroy the artifact that was summoning them to the one spot. In return for saving him, the Gallade joined him.
 * Name: Angelus
 * Species: Chandelure
 * Type: Ghost/Fire
 * Ability: Flame Body
 * Contact with the Pokémon may burn the attacker.
 * Favorite film: Haunted Mansion
 * Item: Focus Band
 * The holder may endure a potential KO attack, leaving it with just 1 HP.
 * Hex: Angelus's eyes burn bright as his flames increase in size, creating a large flaming eye above him that stares into the soul of his enemy.
 * Shadow Ball: Angelus creates a dark purple sphere forms from his flames that is then launched at foe.
 * Fire Blast: From the top flame, Angelus fires a stream of violet fire that forms the kanji for fire as it hits the target.
 * Will-O-Wisp: Angelus spins around, firing up to 5 blue-violet fireballs at the enemy.
 * Flame Burst: Fire sprays from each of Angelus's flames that then curve and dive straight at the foe.
 * Smog: The large flame on hi head turns into thick gray smoke as Angelus leans forward so the top of its head is facing the opponent and fires.
 * -|Salazar=

Basic Information: Moves: As Lysander traveled across Sinnoh, he found himself looking to the future...with the possibility of settling down and having a son. By now, he had severely pissed off several clans of Ghost-Pokemon, so his family would be in constant danger. Deciding to find a loyal companion that he could pass on to his son, he took in an Eevee and evolved it to an Umbreon. Soma seems to have a cozy relationship with Gabriel. Basic Information: Moves:
 * Name: Salazar
 * Species: Gallade
 * Type: Psychic/Fighting
 * Ability: Steadfast
 * Boosts the Speed stat each time the Pokémon flinches.
 * Favorite film: Kill Bill
 * Item: Life Orb
 * It boosts the power of moves, but at the cost of some HP on each hit.
 * Swords Dance: Salazar performs a frenetic dance to uplift the fighting spirit, increasing his attack.
 * Close Combat: Salazar fights the target up close without guarding itself.
 * Night Slash: Salazar slashes the target the instant an opportunity arises.
 * Zen Headbutt: Salazar focuses its willpower to its head and attacks the target.
 * Power-Up Punch: Salazar starts striking the opponent over and over again, making the user's fists stronger.
 * Facade: An attack move that doubles its power if Salazar is poisoned, burned, or has paralysis.
 * -|Soma=
 * Name: Soma
 * Species: Umbreon
 * Type: Dark
 * Ability: Synchronize
 * Whenever afflicted with a status condition, the opponent gains the condition as well.
 * Favorite TV show: X-Files
 * Item: Leftovers
 * Soma's HP is slowly but steadily restored throughout the battle.
 * Wish: One turn after this move is used, the target's HP is restored by half the Soma's max HP.
 * Protect: Soma creates a blue barrier that causes almost all attacks to be evaded.
 * Heal Bell: Soma makes a soothing bell chime to heal the status conditions of all the party Pokémon.
 * Iron Tail: Soma slams her tail into the target, which has now become hard as metal.
 * Shadow Ball: Soma hurls a shadowy blob at the target.