Battle Royale Trainer

[Tina Larzelere]

TrainingCamp is a mode where the player battles an AI-controlled trainer for practice. When a player starts playing the game, Training Camp functions as the game's tutorial, introducing the player to all of the game's mechanics. After the tutorial, the Training Camp mode can be played for practice in games where no Trophies are won or lost, no Chests can be obtained and Masteries' objectives cannot be completed. This is accessed by pressing the button with an archery target on it in the menu button. The trainer present in the Training Camp changes once you pass certain trophy thresholds. Each trainer has a specific deck.

But the nature of battle royale means that you can spend a lot of time playing without much chance to hone your skills. You might spend 30 minutes looting only to get gunned down without a chance to return fire. A new Steam game aims to let you hone your skills without the threat of other players or the time investment of a full match.

Dio: Of the three starters, Rowlet is objectively the cutest. This smol potato owl starts out as a puny Grass/Flying type, but when leveled up to Level 34, it transforms into the 5'03" ghastly archer of the night known as Decidueye.

Lion: Decidueye is a Ghost/Grass type, and it specializes in ranged combat. It uses its incredible vision to hit targets with pinpoint accuracy from up to a half-mile away. It can move fast enough to shoot an arrow in one tenth of a second. It can even be such a ninja that it completely masks its presence!

Gog: Decidueye uses these abilities to abolish its victims using its wide variety of attacks. With Spirit Shackle, a ghost-type move, it can pin a target's sound in place, making it impossible to flee from battle or switch out. With Leafage and Razor Leaf, it fires razor-sharp leaves at its enemies. Using peck and pluck, Decidueye can attack using its beak.

Dio: But those attacks are just the tip of the iceberg. Using Brave Bird, Decidueye flies at incredible speed into whatever is unfortunate enough to be in its way. This does incredible damage, but at the cost of damage to itself.

Dio: Moving on, Brave Bird isn't Decidueye's only extremely powerful attack. With leaf blade, Decidueye slashes its victims to pieces using a sword made of plant material. If things get bad for Decidueye, however, it can always use Synthesis to heal up in no time.

Gog: It also has plenty of Status-based attacks for when it isn't directly in combat. With Growl, it lowers its enemy's attack stat, and it can raise its own with Feather Dance. Using Nasty Plot, it can raise its own special attack.

Lion: However, Decidueye's best move comes in the form of a Z-Move. See, when a trainer has a Z-Ring and a Pokmon holds a specific stone, it can perform an outlandishly powerful attack. Decidueyes exclusive Z-Move is Sinister Arrow Raid. This ghost-type Z-Move summons twenty arrows that Decidueye commands. As it flies up, it sends the arrows flying into the opponents in a move reminiscent of a dropship.

Dio: However, Decidueye still has plenty of weaknesses. For example, any flying, ghost, fire, ice, or dark-type move will be super effective. Also, its signature ghost-type moves are completely ineffective against normal-types. This includes Sinister Arrow Raid.

Gog: But being a Grass/Ghost-type, Decidueye is still strong against ground, water, grass, and electric types. Not to mention, normal and fighting-type attacks are completely innefective to it.

Lion: Overall, Decidueye is a super powerful ghost owl that has the ability to completely cloak itself, fire arrows at incredible speed, and hit any target it wants. It has plenty of powerful attacks that can damage greatly and affect the stats of its enemies. Using its Z-Move, it can demolish anything in its path, as long as it isn't a normal-type.

Lion: Litten, the emo Fire kitty was the second most popular choice when the starters of Alola were first revealed, and briefly took over the top spot as Torracat, but didn't reach the number one stage until Level 34, as Incineroar.

Dio: Incineroar is a Fire/Dark type Pokmon, and stands at 5'11 while weighing in at 183 lbs. His theme is that of a ring wrestler that wants as much popularity as possible, thus his posture during a fight is usually demeaning towards his opponents, although he doesn't appear to care much.

Gog: Incineroar is best known for being slow, bulky, and all the same unbelievable strong in physical stats. His move Bulk Up, for instance, lets him power up his muscles and boost both attack and defense. Add in Leer, a glare that lowers the defense of his opponents and you've got a powerful heavy-attacker.

Lion: But those aren't Incineroar's only moves. He has the ability to pelvic thrust fire through his weird fire belt thing. O-Kay...? Either way, my pelvic region is purely Water type or maybe Fire, you don't know what I am. With this, he has the ability to launch Ember, Flamethrower and even fucking coat his teeth in fire to unleash Fire Fang, or straight-up surround himself in fire to form a Flare Blitz, which is so strong that the fucking attack also hurts him. Keep in mind all said attacks are Fire type and can BURN his opponents!

Dio: The burn status condition cuts the afflicted Pokmon's Attack in two while eating away at their HP. Not only is this incredibly agonizing to suffer through, it's also made worse if Fire Fang is gonna flinch you, and prevent you from attacking that turn.

Gog: If you think that's the worst of it, you're wrong. Incineroar is known for his brutal Attack stat, and thus has some very powerful attacks, which include Lick, that Paralyzes his opponent sometimes. The Paralysis status condition cuts the afflicted Pokmon's Speed in half and sometimes even prevents them moving that turn, which gets even worse when he decides to use a boosted up onslaught of Scratches and Fury Swipes on you, because those claws are big.

Lion: That isn't all this giant tiger has in his box of equipment. Because there's also Cross Chop, which is an attack of his fists that often lands a critical hit on its victims. Said Critical Hits are basically boosted in strength with about 50%, which is kind of a drag considering Incineroar's Attack.

Dio: Even with Cross Chop, if you annoy Incineroar, he's likely to throw a tantrum and use Thrash or Outrage, powerful moves that last for turns on end until they stop, which confuses Incineroar. While being confused, which causes the afflicted Pokmon to sometimes attack the self, sounds like a drawback, it really isn't. Because Confusion wears off very fast, and sometimes doesn't even work.

Gog: Incineroar is known for his demeaning nature, and will therefore often use moves which involve lowering his opponent's stats, for instance, Growl or Scary Face, which lower Attack by 1 stage and Speed by 2 stages respectively. If you want a more odd way of him showing his, well, Swagger, just look at the move Swagger! It boosts his opponent's Attack 2 stages, and also confuses them! If said opponent hits itself, said boosted Attack leads to them hurting the self even more!

Lion: But Incineroar's attacks are best shown when he uses the move Bite to flinch his opponents, or Throat Chop, which prevents the opponent from using their voice for two turns. But his best strength, is the Darkest Lariat. This move sends him spinning towards his opponent with fire on either hand and deliver a devastating attack, which is even more powered up by his Z-Move, which is called Malicious Moonsault. This wrestling technique is like something straight out of anime, it looks kinda like a Naruto Jutsu, just forming a ring around his opponent, followed by crushing them into dust. Like sweet Jesus ouch.

Dio: Undoubtedly a very good starter, but Incineroar has many downsides. Outrage, as well as most Dark-Type moves won't do much to Fairy Types. Thrash won't do much to Rock and Steel, he needs Cross Chop and Fire for that. Fire isn't gonna get through the barricade of a tough Water Type, and most Fighting, Water, Ground and Rock moves do some good damage to Incineroar.

Gog: Additionally, it appears Incineroar's single motivation to fight is for popularity and to show off, so if his opponent isn't drawing much attention or pissing him off, he's very likely to ignore them.

Gog: Getting it at level 5, of the three starters, Popplio is the one that everyone hated for having the oddest and most hilarious design. But when it turns level 34 it turns into the fair maiden of the seas, Primarina.

Dio: Standing at 5'11 and weighing in at 97 lbs it loves to sing, it makes water bubbles with its song and its throat must be checked 24/7 in order for it to sing beautifully and if it does not its throat may go bad.

Lion: Being a dual Water/Fairy type, it loves to fight fire, dark, rock, ground, dragon, and can resist attacks from dark, fighting, cannot even be hurt by the dragon type, but poison and electric will have a field day against her.

Gog: Based on her stats she is physically unimpressive low attack, defense, hp, and abysmal speed, she will not be winning any races. But she easily makes up for it in amazing special stats, having her best star being an amazing special attack.

Dio: To help her in battle she can use moves like growl or captivate to make up for her low defenses and sing to put her opponents to sleep. Or even use Baby-Doll Eyes to lower her opponents attack. She can use Encore so her opponents have to keep using the same move over and over.

Lion: Being a fairy type she has use to many fairy type moves like Disarming Voice, which is an AOE attack is weak but good for clearing out a lot of opponents. The best fairy move, Moonblast, is an extremely powerful blast where she gets power from the moon and uses it to fight her opponents, hell it even has a chance to lower her opponent's special attack giving her a big advantage.

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