[Karl Christopher]

Karl was sitting in the Battle Tactics Classroom. He had heard recently that the other Battle Tactics teacher had left for an unknown reason and now it was Karl responsibility to teach students battle tactics. Karl was more then willing to teach but he had his own style and ways of doing things and the last time he had a class it was small but at least one of the students Lithra was very happy to get information. However his time for teaching had been shortened considerably. So he decided to break his classes down into small pieces this time he was going to focus on identification by the abilities of the pokemon then he was going to challenge the class to build him a perfect pokemon.

One of his recent catches from the island Nimbus the Castform was floating around in his normal form.

Seer his Alakazam was posted by the door. "It is nearly time for class to begin." She stated to Karl in a psychic transmission.

Karl hummed "alright, let's deal out the notes from the first session and let's begin Part 2 of Identification."

Seer hummed

The bag unzipped and three sets of sheets came out, the first sheet was the previous lesson sheets with a few modifications

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Session 1 + 2: Identify

Lesson Plan

Introductions, Rules of the Class and Reward System.
(See Sheet 2)

Lecture on Identification Topics

• Pokemon by Elemental Types (See Sheet 3)
• Weakness? Resistance? Immunity? (See Sheet 3)
• Abilities and Moves

In class activities

In the Cards: Building Pokemon
In the Cards: Building the 'Perfect' Pokemon

Extra Credit Homework: What can your pokemon do? (Modified)

Write me a paper about what your pokemon are capable of doing, every 150 words written earns a Card Point upon turn in. (recommend at least 450 words)

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The second page was a summary of Karl's rules

Rules
No Sleeping in my class (beware of pranks)
No Excessive Talking during lecture
Smart Phone/PDA use is limited to in class work or research
No Phone Calls during the lecture

Attendance: Rare Candy Per Session
Perfect Attendance: (No Absences/No Tardies) A Card from the Bonus Deck (Each card has a high Amount of Card Points)

What are Card Points: My Personal Reward System for good students. Card Points can be redeemed for special items at the end of each class session or stored for redemption in later sessions but be warned cards points can be voided if I detect students copying from each other on Homework Assignments or tests

No makeup for missed assignments or quizzes

Current available rewards

Extra Rare Candy: 2 points
Ability Capsule: 2 points
Held Items on list: 3 points
Old Amber Fossil: 3 points (can be turned into an Aerodactyl)
Other Fossils: 5 points
Other Held Items minus Megastones: 5 points
Megastones: 10 points

(Currently available held items)
Miracle Seed, Charcoal, Leftovers, Magnet, Expert Belt, Life Orb, Black Sludge, Wise Glasses, Muscle Band,

Notes: I currently only have 6 dig points to redeem for other items and one of those is from the Old Amber I list so if you want something other then what I have please let me know.

~~~


The third and final paper was the paper that Karl handed out the previous session about identification in general.

There are 720 known species of pokemon,

All Pokémon have one or two types from 18 different types

The 18 types are the following: Normal, Fighting, Flying, Poison, Ground, Rock, Bug, Ghost, Steel, Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, Psychic, Ice, Dragon, Dark, and Fairy.

Those that have two are known as dual types combining two types together sometimes this typing works to their advantage other times it just makes things harder for them.

Each of these types have various weaknesses, resistances and/or immunes and some dual types even have double weakness and/or double resistance.

Every attack of a pokemon has a type to it and depending on what the target pokemon is the amount of damage dealt to that pokemon from that attack changes depending on that type weakness or resistance.

The chart below identifies all pure typing, what they are weak to, resist against, immune to and if the damage dealt by an attack type changes depending on the type of the target



Tips for identifying pokemon without using a pokedex

Appearance: If it looks like a bird or has wings, it’s most likely has flying typing, if it looks like it has metal on it or made of metal, it’s most likely a Steel type, if it looks like a rock or made of rocks, then it’s most likely a rock type. If it looks like a bug then it most likely has bug typing. If it looks like it’s got plants on it, it has Grass Typing, If it has fire on it somewhere, it’s a fire type

Color of Skin or Fur: A strong give away of pokemon is their skin/fur color, many pokemon have colors that go with a certain typing. For example, a green pokemon is most likely a Grass Type, A red pokemon, most likely a fire type, a blue pokemon, most likely a water type. Other notable colors are Brown for Ground types, Black for Dark Types, Yellow for

Electric Types, Purple for Poison, Gray for Rock, Sky Blue or White for Ice.

Their Habitant: Pokemon live in areas they can survive in. Fire, Rock and Ground Types are never seen in the ocean, (Water is strong against those types) and Grass, Bug Ice and Steel Types are never seen in hot places (Fire is strong against those types.) Electric types tend to gather in urban areas where is electricity to feed on while Grass Types go where there is a lot of sun or a fertile forest area. (Grass is a type of Plant) Poison Types love swamp areas and Rock, Ground, and Steel type pokemon loves caves and mountains

Their natural abilities: Pokemon tend to have moves and abilities that match their typing. If they are able to generate and shoot dark energy or create a dark weapon from their hands, they are most likely a Dark Type, If they can punch through walls with a single punch or lift heavy objects then they are a fighting type, if they control things with Psycho Kinetic Powers then they are most likely a Psychic Type, If it can go through walls or vanish from sight, boo it’s a ghost type.

Big Note: First Appearances can be deceiving do not always assume what you first see with a pokemon is the absolute truth.

~~~

With these three sheets Karl was ready to begin his second session

The door opened via psychic and Seer stated "Class is now open."

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OOC:

Okay Starting Battle Tactics Session 2. Attendance Check is in 72 hours on Thursday. I may post again depending if my teacher gets talked to or something so the round system isn't on just yet.

[Samuel Brookes]

Samuel had missed the first session of Tactics 101 simply because he hadn't been at the academy at that time, and had considered skipping the second session too. He very much preferred to learn by doing, rather than by sitting around in a classroom listening. But he had decided to come, if only to learn some new things in preparation for his next battle. He would hate to make a stupid mistake and lose because of it.

So, with his Houndour, Hunter, in tow- the dog-like Pokémon seemed to hate being in his ball, and in truth Samuel preferred having a Pokémon by his side- he hurried to the classroom and took his seat. Hunter laid down quietly next to him obediently. If Samuel was told to call him back into his ball, maybe he would, but for now the boy saw no harm in letting his Pokémon doze. After all, it didn't seem to be in the rules anywhere.

[Charles Xaqairy]

Charles was wandering through the campus, trying to figure out where everything was. Like the Exploration class, he kinda found the Battle Tactics by accident. Another student had just walked in with a black, dog-like Pokémon. Curiosity got the best of him. He peered inside and noticed that the class was just beginning. "Neat. Why not?"

Noting that the other guy had his Pokémon out, Charles called out Nibble. She would probably enjoy being out for awhile. He points at her and tells her to behave before chuckling and taking a seat. Nibble looked at Charles with a shocked look that seemed to say "Me? When am I anything but behaving?" Despite her stare, she meanders around the classroom looking for things to get into.

[Shane Norwood]

He had missed the first battle tactics class session, namely because he had not yet enrolled in the academy at that time. One thing was for certain though, and it was that he would make it his business to attend every session from here on. He mentally vowed not to miss a second of them, and he would ensure himself that he would make it to every class on time. Sure he had to find his way over here being that it would be his first time visiting this specific class.

If he had to guess, this class in particular was probably one of those where pokemon in the room would prove to be more of a distraction than anything else. And so, he left his little pokefriends behind under the watchful eye of his 'biggest' pokefriend Kami.

For once, he was not the first to arrive to a class. Quite frankly though, he was kind of glad he wasn't. Being this would indeed be his first session in this subject, he wasn't sure how to handle himself here, though he did take note of two other who had their pokemon out with them. Normally, he would have brought Mickey or Falco along, but again, he needed to focus.

Acknowledging the presence of the students, Shane offered a quick greeting to them and to the apparent instructor before taking a seat close to the front, near a window (if there are any windows.) "Morning."

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Cottonee Hatch Count: 1 of 5

[Deleted]

This was one of the classes she’d been looking forward to most, but it had been so long since class was held that she worried she’d never be able to attend. She hadn’t enrolled in time to catch the first session, and that would have been one of her greatest regrets…fortunately, she didn’t have to worry anymore.

Toni followed the other students in, cradling Fluorite in her arms. The Noibat hadn’t wanted her to leave the dorm room, so she’d taken her along, instead. It didn’t seem to be a problem – a couple other students also had their Pokemon out. She nodded a greeting to the teacher and everyone – human and Pokemon – that had come in before her, and then took an empty seat near the front of the class. She’d be more comfortable in the back, but this way she’d have a clear view of everything. She did want to be a trainer over the other options available to her, so she had to make sure she could understand everything.

[Karl Christopher]

Karl hummed as he looked at the four students in front of him. "Greetings Students welcome to Tactics 101 session 2. I am Karl Christopher and I'll be your teacher for this and all tactic 101 sessions. I see all new faces which I think is good for you all but I kinda wonder what happened to the students of my previous session..." He hummed "well no matter, I am here to teach anyone who wants to learn and it is my hope that you take away any information that I give you. If you would please take a look at the sheet that has information on identification. This paper is basically what was partly went over at Session 1. It is a sheet with tricks to be able to identify pokemon without a pokedex which is good for on your feet incidents. However we were interrupted when time ran out and I was only able to go really go over appearance and I plan to cover in detail how the various abilities of pokemon are identified and how they can be used to ID pokemon or warn you if any particularly powerful pokemon is in range. Now while we wait for any late arrivals, does anyone have any particular questions on identification of pokemon?

~~~

OOC: Rounds will start on Tuesday anyone else want to join in now is your chance.

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Once she was seated and settled, the teacher spoke, greeting them and bringing up the info sheets. She looked them over, doing her best to listen and read at the same time. It was tricky, but – fortunately – a lot of this was stuff she knew already and some of it was stuff she’d considered common sense. He ran over the happenings of the last session, but she hadn’t been able to attend so she phased out most of his words.

He asked if anyone had any questions, and she shook her head. There was nothing she could think of, at present. Meanwhile, she continued to study the sheets. Some of it may be old to her, but there were some new things too, and she needed to get those memorized as soon as possible.

[Charles Xaqairy]

Charles glanced at the sheets that had been passed out. Among them was one that he found very interesting. He knew all of the types already as far as the types themselves go. He never really understood why certain attacks worked better on certain Pokémon than they did on others. This sheet revealed why. Suddenly the few battles he'd been in made sense. The reason that Rox had not done very well against Sox was probably his Rock/Ground typing against an obvious Fighting-type. But Cole's Fire typing was neither weak nor effective against Sox.

When the professor asked about identification questions, Charles raised his hand. "This is probably a dumb question, but is there an easy way to identify dual typing? Nibble here is Dragon and Ground, and my Onix is Rock and Ground, but I don't see any obvious signs that point to Ground on Nibble or Rox." He looks around for Nibble, but she seemed to be gnawing on desks in the back. "Nibble!"

[Karl Christopher]

Karl hummed when Charles raised his hand and asked about dual typing and being able to easily identify it.

"That's actually not a dumb question Mr. Xaquiry." Karl stated "a lot of pokemon especially dual type pokemon don't follow the rules of appearance. That's where you have to take a moment to observe the pokemon and see what it can do or where it lives. Another way you can tell typing is by using a guess and check sort of method using different types of moves to be able to try and deal damage against it like for example a good test for ground typing is to see how a pokemon reacts to electricity moves like thunder shock. If it not even phased by the attack, it's basically immune to the type which is a trait only Ground Types have." He then noticed Nibble was chewing on some of the desks. "Seer see if we can have anything that our little hungry friend can chew on for the time being so that we don't lose any furniture."

Seer hummed as Karl's bag was rummaged through with a few shakes then a rawhide chewtoy came out of it via psychic energy. "Perhaps a rawhide chewtoy would be of use in this case."

Karl hummed "see if that keeps it busy otherwise if not. I will have to ask for it to be returned to it pokeball."

Seer hummed as she floated the chew toy over to the little Gible and gave it a light poke with the toy to see if it would take a bite on the toy.

[Shane Norwood]

Any questions? Shane didn't have any. Or at least...not right now. He diligently examined the sheets provided to him and the rest of class whom were all apparently new as well, which begs the question: where was everyone else? Surely the class couldn't possibly only consist of a small band of young aspiring trainers such as this. The Bolt student in particular would rather not dwell on that right now. He would rather focus on learning something useful out of this session - and every single session after this one.

He couldn't help but feel for one boy in particular attempting to reprimand his own pokemon. Perhaps Shane's decision not to bring any of his own pokefriends to this class was a wise decision after all. He especially felt that way since the instructor would likely enforce a 'no more pokemon in class' statement. For now, he would continue to examine the material given to him.

[Samuel Brookes]

Samuel hated reading, but he supposed it was a necessity for the class. So it was with some reluctance that he read the sheets before him. He had no questions, so instead he continued to focus on the information, trying to make it sink in. It certainly would help for in the future, he decided. So far he had either had lucky guesses at the types of the Pokémon he had fought or already known from past experience. He had only bothered to actually research the types twice.

Movement out the corner of his eye caught his attention, and he glanced down to see Hunter stood up and taking a keen interest in the antics of the Pokémon the Lava Dorm student had brought in. Quickly Samuel placed a gentle hand on the Houndour's head, shaking his head at him in warning. Hunter gave a sound almost like a grunt, but laid back down obediently, listening to his trainer- for now, anyway.


(Absol Egg Count- 1/5)

[Finley Morrow]

It was his own fault, not checking the alarm clock last night. His pokedex had adjusted to the time change between regions automatically; his alarm clock, lacking that feature, had remained an hour behind. He’d had several days to move it forward, but each time he’d thought about it, he’d brushed it aside for what he deemed more pressing issues.

His lack of sleep the night prior had put all authority on the time to wake up on the alarm clock. That being an hour late, he was left with fifteen minutes to slap on a uniform pants and shirt combo, eat a toaster pastry, hope he’d packed his backpack well enough last night, and make a run for class (only to realize he’d left his pokeballs in the dorm, so he made a quick and reluctant duck back to retrieve them). He wasn’t late to his destination - in fact, due to a misreading of the starting time, he was two hours early. Time was not on his side today.

Utterly defeated, Finley wandered in search of something to do. The search ended at the door of what was a tactics 101 class, which seemed like a great idea to him, even though it seemed to have already begun. He hoped they wouldn’t mind one extra late arrival. Trying to be as unobtrusive as possible, Finley slipped into the nearest open seat and tried to catch up with the conversation.

[Lilith Sinclaire]

Lilith bit down on her bottom lip as she stood in front of the door leading into the Battle Tactics Classroom. It was bad enough that the female Mana student was currently running a little behind schedule and to make things even more worst right now, she was starting to have second thoughts about attending the class. She had managed to miss the first class session due to not registering for it. At first, she only wanted to enroll in classes that would benefit her in regard to becoming a talented breeder. However, after thinking about the importance of training her own Pokemon and teaching them new moves she later discovered that Battle Tactics would prove to be a helpful class to take after all. Besides, she had already meet the teacher and promised him that she could attend his next class session.

She exhaled a deep breath before finally pushing the door open. Her deep blue eyes scanning over the classroom. She first noticed Mr Christopher, his Pokemon and a few familiar faces from some of her other classes. She greeted everyone with bright smile and friendly wave before carefully making her way towards an empty desk. Once she took her seat she pulled out her book, a note book and a good writing pen and placed it on top of her desk. Now, she would just wait for the class to start up.

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+1 to hatch count on Zorua and Aerodactyl egg!

[Deleted]

One of the students asked about identifying dual typing. She turned to the teacher. That…was a really good one, actually, and she wanted to know, too. Fortunately, the teacher was quick to answer, saying that a lot of dual types didn’t follow the rules of appearance, but that they could get a clue about types from what the Pokemon did or where it lived. He also mentioned trial and error with Pokemon moves, but that didn’t seem very practical to her. She’d prefer to know typings before engaging a Pokemon in combat.

As the teacher turned his attention to the Gible, she looked around. One of her fellow students seemed busy reading over the class materials. Another seemed to be calming his Houndour. There were also a couple new arrivals. The first was a boy she didn’t think she’d met before, but the second was a girl she knew better than she knew anyone else on the island. She gave her roommate a small smile and a brief wave, not wanting to disrupt the class too much. Her attention returned to the teacher as Lilith prepared for class. What was to come next?

Meanwhile, Toni’s wave had caught Fluorite’s attention, and the Noibat squeaked with delight upon seeing the other Mana student in the room. She flew over to Lilith and attempted to perch on her desk. Toni winced and gave her an apologetic look. Fluorite was usually so shy, but she’d been around Lilith enough to lose her fear of her.

[Karl Christopher]

Karl hummed "well while my pokemon are dealing with that Gible, I welcome those who have just come in. Please take seats, read over the sheets which contain what I went over last session and be prepared to listen as I am going to present a few more things about identifying pokemon before we move on to the big activity I have planned for this session.

~~~
(OOC: Since I've delayed things long enough, let's begin class)

~~~


When everyone was settled in, Karl started his lecture.

"when I first started on my journey with pokemon, mind you this was almost two decades ago, Pokemon were still very mysterious creatures that only a few had decided to really study. So they sent out young people eager for adventure to go out and train with a starter pokemon and explore their country with the main goal being collecting badges and catching pokemon for these professors to study however because pokemon were generally unknown there were a lot of dangers to be had that's why in some cases people weren't even allowed to walk out in tall grasses because pokemon could jump out and ambush them. This mindset made people aware of their surroundings as pokemon especially evolved pokemon had powers that were very dangerous to humans with fire able to melt boulders, storms to be able to flood coastlines, lightning attacks capable of dealing thousands of volts of electricity. Humans started naming these attacks of pokemon and started matching these attacks to various types and started to realize that certain pokemon could wield these powers while others couldn't. So they started using these attacks to help identify pokemon. If a pokemon could use fire attacks it was most likely a fire type, psychic moves, a psychic type, using electricity it was an electric type but then certain pokemon got a little crafty with the moves they could wield for example the thunderbolt pokemon Zebstrika can naturally learn the move Flame Charge now you would think a electric pokemon shouldn't be able to use fire type moves but the capabilities of pokemon go beyond just what type they are. In a good trainer hand a pokemon can unlock a variety of powers and moves that is often why you must train and practice against a variety of opponents and trainers to get knowledge on what the different attacks do. Now let's get some ideas generated on what different pokemon can do. It's time for today activity, building pokemon with cards. Casper bring out the cards and shuffle them."

~~~ In class challenge: Building Pokemon ~~~

Karl's Gengar came out from under the deck and unzipped the bag and reached his hand into it then lifted it up and like magic via psychic a deck of cards floated in a line into Casper's hand and he did various card shuffling tricks then sent them over to Karl in a line and Karl casually loaded them into his hand and then dealt a card to each student. Each student was given one card with a pokemon on it

To Samuel, he gave a Snorunt card
To Charles, he gave a Lotad card
To Shane, he gave a Nosepass card
To Toni, he gave a Machop card
To Finley he gave a Natu card
and To Lilith he gave a Elekid card

"I give you each one pokemon card to work with and in front of me I will deal out 12 cards with various pokemon moves on them. I want you all to be able to work together to link only two move to each pokemon only using each move once. If you all manage to complete this task before the timer I set runs out of time, I give you each a card point for this activity."

He dealt out 12 cards with moves in front of him which were the following

Water Pulse
Icy Wind
Thunder Punch
Thunderbolt
Giga Drain
Psyshock
Shadow Ball
Scald
Power Gem
Rock Smash
Discharge
Hammer Arm

"Now students build me some pokemon and don't hesitate to use your pokedex or ask me questions."

~~~

*hits timer*

Students you have until next Tuesday to solve this puzzle and earn a card point. Use as many posts as you want but when Tuesday rolls around. Buzzer will sound. Good Luck.