Pokemon tournament 8-A edition; Round 7: Milcery vs. Porygon

[Arceus0x]

Both are 8-A, obviously
No items
No prep time
Just pure... Milk? Data? Figure out what will be the synonym for blood in this sentence in this battle!
speed equalized
Milkcery:
Porygon: 7

Will Milcery get turned into Milkpowdery or will Porygon be Porygone? Your votes decide this!

 

[Imaginym]

Milcery's behaviour is simple, yet puzzling to analyze. Mostly because we don't have any information on it. Quoting Bulbapedia:

In the anime​

Main series​

Major appearances​

Milcery debuted in JN082, where one was caught by Goh. She evolved into an Alcremie almost immediately afterwards when he placed a Strawberry Sweet on her and spun her around.

Minor appearances​

Pokémon: Twilight Wings​

A Milcery appeared in Early-Evening Waves, under the ownership of a Café Master. It and an Alcremie assisted him in the Battle Café.


AFAIK, we never saw any Milcery battle, nor use any move.
There's the TCG, where its shown with Aromatherapy & Tackle or.... Sweet Scent & Tackle?
I guess given its Pokedex entries:

Sword	This Pokémon was born from sweet-smelling particles in the air. Its body is made of cream.
Shield	They say that any patisserie visited by Milcery is guaranteed success and good fortune.

Seems Fragrance Manipulation is its in-character move, since it's literally made of sweet-smelling stuff?
Using Tackle seems odd, but if that's the case, I won't disagree, due to the lack of information.

It also has only 2 other attacks: Draining Kiss (Which, like Tackle, requires contact; Problematic against Porygon.) & Dazzling Gleam. 3 if you count the Last Resort Egg Move.
Nonetheless, I question Milcery's ability to have any offensive presence necessary to win, & with its only ranged offense being Dazzling Gleam, I'm not sure how readily it can realize it needs to use that to hit the likely-levitating Porygon.

 

[Peppersalt43]

Bumping for interest, I'm surprised there weren't many Pokemon supporters here this time

 

[Arceus0x]

Yeah and I'm busy so i keep forgetting this

 

[XXKINGXX69]

Porygon via paralysis, electricity, lock on (homing), recover and signal or psybeam. Signal beam is also light speed

Milcery has recovery draining kiss, but its without stab, and porygon has healing via recovery to counter healing. Sweet Kiss is gonna be a problem

Porygon has better hax and more powerful abilities so I vote for it

 

[Imaginym]

Porygon via paralysis, electricity, lock on (homing), recover and signal or psybeam. Signal beam is also light speed

I had forgotten that Speed is unequalized.

Milcery has recovery draining kiss, but its without stab,

No, Milcery is Fairy type. IDK if we account for STAB here, though.

and porygon has healing via recovery to counter healing. Sweet Kiss is gonna be a problem

Porygon has better hax and more powerful abilities so I vote for it

I think Porygon has this, but for different reasons: As I brought up above, I don't really know Milcery's characterization; What little I've seen of it seems like it'd lead with Fragrance Manipulation, meaning it'd probably squander its time with stuff like Sweet Scent & Aromatherapy, at least, initially, probably.

Milcery also has the problem that its only ranged attack, IIRC, is Dazzling Gleam. A great option, for sure, but this means it's very inflexible at range against Porygon, who has a better variety of ranged options.

Porygon also, to my suprise, gets Conversion 2 by Level Up, which changes the user's type to a type that resists the foe's last used move; Milcery has Tackle & Fairy type attacks, meaning there's a very good chance this will be Steel.
So long as Porygon doesn't Conversion or Conversion 2 to change its type again, it'll resist all of Milcery's offenses.

If it realizes to reflect Status Moves (Like Sweet Kiss, Sweet Scent, Entrainment.), all the better.

Acid Armor is a waste, because Porygon has few physical attacks other than Tackle, & Misty Terrain is counter-productive, because it prevents Confusion for those affected; Meaning it nullifies Milcery's own Sweet Kiss. Attract likewise, is also pointless, since Porygon is genderless.
& neither Sweet Veil, nor Aroma Veil do anything for either Pokemon, so Entrainment is also not worthwhile. I guess it'd prevent Porygon getting an Analytic boost?


But yeah. It seems like, both by what limited info I know of its behaviour, & by looking at its movepool, Milcery has too great a chance of picking a bad move for the situation, & Porygon is better at range than it. Conversion 2 has a good chance of making Porygon a Resistant Type to Milcery's attacks, & for Milcery to use Sweet Kiss or Draining Kiss on Porygon, it has to get in close. Easier said than done.

A custom program easily defeats an RPG slime. What a surprise, lol.
Voting Porygon.

 

[StekFence]

Porygon fra

 

[Arceus0x]

counted, i did equalize speed

 

[Imaginym]

counted, i did equalize speed

Ah, my mistake. Doesn't really change much, though, I guess; Both have at least 1 Light Speed attacks, & even with Speed unequal Porygon still probably has the advantages.

 

[Imaginym]

Just pure... Milk? Data? Figure out what will be the synonym for blood jn this sentence in this battle!

Sorry, but.... "blood jn this sentence"

 

[GlaceonGamez471]

Porygon FRA

 

[Kflare63]

Porygon fra

 

[XXKINGXX69]

Porygon 5, Milcery 0

 

[Mariogoods]

I vote to Porygon FRA.

 

[XXKINGXX69]

Porygon has 6 votes then

 

[Peppersalt43]

Welp then to end this

Porygon FRA

 

[XXKINGXX69]

21 hours till we can add this

 

[Arceus0x]

While you wait for that, feel free to join in on this finale of the first round!

https://vsbattles.com/threads/pokemon-8-a-tournament-round-8-pikachu-vs-murkrow.130554/#post-4450680