Pokemon

Starting Out

IN GENERAL. Pokemon may start with four moves. They may start with only one egg move. They cannot start with move tutor, TM, or HM moves.

NOBLES. Nobility start with two pokemon, both of which must be of their house's type or will eventually evolve into the house's type. One may be rare. Unless noted in their canon description, they begin with one Stage 1 pokemon and one Basic pokemon.

Note that nobles will never have the ability to train or tame pokemon outside of their house's type beyond Basic stage. Pokemon that do not evolve simply cannot be tamed by them.

TRAINERS. Trainers start with two pokemon of any type. Neither can be rare. Both pokemon may be Stage 1 pokemon. It is unusual for trainers to specialize in a type.

A trainer can acquire rare pokemon; they simply do not start with them except by event reward.

EVERYONE ELSE. Commoners begin with only one pokemon, which cannot be rare. If the pokemon has a baby form, it begins in the Baby stage. Otherwise, it is a Basic pokemon.

Commoners should not start with pokemon known to be very violent.

Battling

FOUR MOVES. A pokemon knows four moves. These may be any moves available to that pokemon by level-up. For pokemon that evolve by level-up, they can only know moves up to the point where they'd evolve.

Ex: a charmander cannot learn dragon rage until it evolves into a charmeleon.

ONE MOVE PER POST. As a rule of thumb, one move per turn is standard. A second utility move, such as agility or growth, is generally acceptable.

COMBO MOVES. One attack could technically be two, such as a thunder+iron tail combo. Combo attacks shouldn't be treated as two separate moves or a super move. They're a creative fusion. If you combo, it's best to only use the combo move, no other attacks.

SUSTENANCE. Battles should end; don't drag them out. Dodging ad nauseum and spamming moves like recover is frowned upon. It'd be polite to only dodge once in a battle, and limit usage of moves like wish.

STATUS AILMENTS. We have dice installed, if people wish to randomly decide if status effects fade. If not, they should last about three turns.

STAT BOOSTS. Stat boosting effects shouldn't be treated as a waste of a turn. Let it be understood that if jolteon uses agility, that jolteon is now really fast, capable of dodging more and hitting harder.

WINNING. The players involved in the battle decide who wins based on the course of the battle.