Team Nova Discussion/Sign-ups: Third Year!

Joshua is dangerous because of Heart Swap, Illusions, Hypnosis, Ditto, and Rotom, but a combination of not fully realizing the power he has, always dealing with something able to resist one or more of the above, being only an above average trainer on a good day, and bad luck holds him back.

On the Stat Trainer front, Riley is an efficient martial artist that can view auras, but expending aura power weakens him, Marley is fast but needs to be in melee to do anything by herself and armor > knives, and Mira can crumple up bridges like paper and throw them, but gets KO'd within minutes simply from Cosmic Driving.

Hugh and Emma got supersuits that could in theory make them go toe-to-toe with some legendaries and upper-rank Nova soldiers, but as demonstrated with Duncan vs. Emma would very likely lose in a straight-up fight versus an admin; Duncan wasn't thinking straight, and yell he still almost killed Emma. Emma won against Jay because she ambushed him and sniped off a big potential threat at the start.

The rest are more or less average joes, with Rosa supposed to be a great trainer dealing with rust and mental trauma (Kyurem is independent from her). Cheryl is gym-leader or possibly Elite 4 tier. Yancy and Curtis are somewhere between average to mediocre, getting taught how to be better. Cobalion and Keldeo are B-tier legendaries.

I'm also open to, y'know, suggestions, guidance...

Mewtwo's the one everyone's in, Yveltal is management problems, and Xerneas... exists.

All of Xerneas is either dead, missing, scattered, or merged into Team Mewtwo.

We originally said that trainers should only use 2 pokemon max, since in order to have a chance at resisting StarBurst you need a very strong bond with the pokemon. There's a bit in Pokemon Special that says trainers are limited to 6 Pokemon because a trainer can't properly bond with more than that, so we adapted.

That said, lots of people now have tech that either protects them from StarBurst, or avoid that issue. Remember that StarBurst isn't just mind control;it breaks open pokeballs and functionally releases the pokemon. Blue carries a PC storage system on his back and never lets any any Pokemon out for more than a second to protect them. A bunch of people in Mewtwo now have things called "Cosmic Drives" that offer the user various super powers. Things like using their pokemon's moves as their own, enhancing their physical abilities, or just outright making them immune to StarBurst. Point being that the pokemon themselves are rarely in the line of fire. Note that Cosmic Drives have been very plot restricted so it's not like anybody can just ask for one. On the non-good guy side, Shadow pokemon are also immune to StarBurst.

Also, there's a thing involving legendary pokemon and Mirage Islands I've been wanting to do, so if you need a convenient place to wash up on shore I have one.

Makes sense. Would they have fought independently or aligned with Team Mewtwo at the start? Team Mewtwo is the "official" rebellion led by remnants of the pokemon league. "Lawful Neutral"

Team Xerneas was made of ex-Plasma members and people aligned with their ideologies, and were the "Lawful Good". They recently combined most of their members into Team Mewtwo.

Yveltal didn't have an organization until recently (Galactic, which is more of a "mutually beneficial backstabbing party" now), and was its MO was "point dangerous people at Nova and hope that lots of things die". "Chaotic Neutral"

Yes that's right.

If you wanted them to get wiped that fast, you could have them been present at the Pokemon World Tournament where Nova first revealed themselves. And first revealed StarBurst. And had many trainers murdered by their own pokemon...

Yeah this isn't a happy RP.

Note for newcomers: All Pokemon in Nova only know 4 moves. But the applications and form of those moves can be heavily embellished on. Tailwind can create wind tunnels underwater for stealth travel. Magnetic Flux can be used to read RFIDs and steal credit card information. Ion Deluge can be used to convert bullets into Electric-type attacks, which can then be sponged by something with Lightning Rod. The same goes for applications of your pokemon's abilities (Zoroark's Illusions), and innate powers the pokemon has (Rotom controlling electronics). Phantom Force (effectively Ghost-type Dig)is often used as a way to teleport and create portals, for instance. Jay took Vaporen's ability to melt into a puddle and extrapolated that to becoming water vapour, making it able to turn into a living mist.

We literally went out of our way to deus ex machina our timeline due to disagreements so that we wouldn't have to worry about it.