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Gentlemen, I ask you to pour one out for a truly noble soul, Durendal the Virizion.
After making our way through Team Plasma's ship and having some very near-misses against Colress, I'd been thinking I would pull a fast one on Ghestis and Masterball his precious dragon god... only for him to use his magic sword to disable captures. Not exactly a plot twist I expected.
As I looked up White Kyurem, I realized I had no good way to beating him. My Samurott had jack shit in the way of special defense and White Kyurem gets a huge boost to Special Attack, so going for a powered-up Revenge would almost certainly result in suicide, and the dragon/ice typing screwed any hopes of a 2HKO from Ice Beam, Surf or Aqua Tail. Liepard, Galvantula and Zoroark, despite their massive attacking power, had no Super Effective moves in their arsenal for an Ice Dragon, which meant there was no hope for a 1HKO, and they'd never survive a hit from Fusion Flare if he went for that instead of Ice Burn. Garbodor was underleveled and I couldn't depend on him being able to survive long enough to build up Stockpiles and wall for 8-10 turns while Toxic did it's job when he was taking on a level 55.
But Durendal had a chance. It was a small chance. But without STAB to support it she might being able to tank Fusion Flare despite it's super effective status with her incredible Special Defense. This meant she was guaranteed two attacks, either by surviving Fusion Flare or because of Ice Burn's charge turn. The only question was if Sacred Sword could do the job.
She was tired of everyone not shutting up about Reshiram and Zekrom being the only things that could possibly stop Kyurem. She tied on her Expert Belt and vowed to prove to them all what a "lesser legendary," can do.
She was so close... just one little sliver of HP... if only it had been Black Kyurem, her special bulk could have surely weathered Freeze Shock...
Liepard finished the job with Fake Out, but it was a hell of a bitter victory
