[Action] I feel like this title needs a balls joke

[tsuntrader]

[What's a productive use of time? Time exploring the woods and training.

Today involves the latter. ...No, really. There's perfectly valid "training" logic behind Silver running around the entire village with Sneasel and an oversized ball gun, a birthday present from some stupid flirt that needs some shounen spirit.

And the entire village is no exaggeration. He'll be zipping through lawns, tree jumping, sliding across any remaining snow and ice as if he was raised with it, pulling off ridiculous ninja bullshit stunts, the works. He'll even head into the woods at some point.

And, of course, there are those balls that keep coming out of it. Of course... They're not just balls. They're Pokéballs, which might clue people in on why Silver's doing the equivalent of playing with a new toy. They're empty Pokéballs for a good portion of the day... And they're liable to hit anyone and anything. You know, if Silver hasn't already quickly turned a corner and collided with you or narrowly avoided a collision due to good reflexes.

Of course, later on, it will also have a bird in it, so if your life long dream is to have a two foot tall bird come out of a ball and accidentally collide with you or tackle you over, now's your chance.

This is totally valid and legitimate training, guys. Really.]

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[tsuntrader]

[TACKLING GOLD INTO THE SNOW]

[tsuntrader]

It shrinks as it goes in? [It's Pokémon, the answer to just about everything is "shit's just magic" or "bullshit science and technology".]

[mischiefbreeder]

[ALRIGHT FIGHTING IN THE SNOW THIS IS THE STUFF DREAMS ARE MADE OF]

[tsuntrader]

[HELL FREAKING YES FIGHTING IN THE SNOW WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG]

[antlioncyclone]

[He tries again - the attack is smaller now and more controllable, but still too blunt, crushing the target rather than slicing.

It's still a variation on Psywave, and not its own attack.]

[mischiefbreeder]

[ABSOLUTELY NOTHING COULD GO WRONG AT ALL WHATSOEVER]

[hasnobeats]

[That... makes even less sense.] Isn't it uncomfortable?

[tsuntrader]

I don't think so. [They've never seemed uncomfortable in them, so...]

[tsuntrader]

[NOPE. NOT A CHANCE. THERE'S NO WAY THAT THIS COULD HAVE ANY NEGATIVE REPERCUSSIONS IN THE FUTURE OR ANYTHING.]

[tsuntrader]

You can put balls in here. [Demonstrating with his single spare Pokéball before firing. The ball doesn't go that far, however; it's pretty clear that Silver could easily toss it a lot farther than the toy gun could.]

In order to get them to open, you'd have to be really careful about the angle that you put them in, though. [So overall, it's more trouble than it's worth.]

[tsuntrader]

It's too harsh, like slamming the blunt end of a knife into someone instead of cutting with it. [Not smooth and silent, which is the intention.]

[mischiefbreeder]

[TOTALLY NOT.]

[tsuntrader]

[NOPE. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.

...SHOVING SNOW IN GOLD'S FACE IS A VALUABLE TACTIC IN THIS FIGHT.]

[mischiefbreeder]

[YOU KNOW WHAT'S A BETTER TACTIC? SHOVING SILVER'S FACE INTO THE SNOW.]

[tsuntrader]

[YOU KNOW WHAT'S THE BEST TACTIC? BOTH.]

[mischiefbreeder]

[YOU KNOW WHAT'S A BETTER TACTIC THAN ALL THAT? DOING IT BETTER THAN SILVER!]

[tsuntrader]

[NOT IF HE DOES IT BETTER THAN GOLD FIRST!]

[antlioncyclone]

[Right.

Fast-forward a good few attempts, some shifts in strategy, some breaks to think about the execution of such a move.

On this last try, Mewtwo changes tack - rather than trying to sharpen the blow itself, he moves back with the bulk of the psychic energy, letting the leftover wave of motion off the generated force do the attacking for him.

And this time, it works - it slashes through a pipe along the side of a building with a sharp ting!, and steam hisses out.]

[mischiefbreeder]

[GOLD WILL DO IT THE BEST!]

[tsuntrader]

[LIKE HELL HE WILL!]

[mischiefbreeder]

[IT'S TRUE!]

[hasnobeats]

Really? That's so weird.. [..Huh. He looks over at Murkrow and (wow is he really trying to talk to a bird here) asks.] So... Do you think it's uncomfortable?

[moehealer]

[Watching as he demonstrates..!] Ohh... I see! That's really cool. It sounds a little hard though, to get them in the right angle. Have you been practicing with it?

[tsuntrader]

[Nod.] It's not really worth using in the long run, but it's [not fun not fun not fun] interesting to [mess around with it] see how it works anyway.

[tsuntrader]

[...Yeah, that's pretty much perfect. Silver stares at the sliced pipe for a bit, trying to get a good view of the cut, but the steam is serving to make that difficult.]