CANOPY SPAWN <FINN>

Having recently upgraded his Swimmer class to Tier Two, Finn's dying to see if it has any noticeable effect on the wild spawns. He'd missed the part about class upgrades mostly being useful in dungeons because while he can read perfectly well, he's a new gamer and there's a lot of stuff going on and honestly it's downright overwhelming, so 90% of the info goes unnoticed on account of that.

Regardless, Emperor the Piplup finds himself released beneath the Beta Canopy's enveloping shade for the first time.

He tries to admonish Finn for his life choices, but Finn's already turned Pokémon Speech back off. Poor Emperor. Did he think it was going to be that easy?

"You'll be fine," Finn insists, assuming Emperor is complaining. (He's right.) "Just punch 'em like you usually do."

Wow, Bubblebeam kind of sucks.

Then again, this probably had something to do with those 'type advantages' he'd been informed of by the NPCs. Grass was strong against Water, or something, which didn't make a whole lot of sense to Finn but it's a video game and those don't always have to make sense.

"OK. How about 'Peck'?"

He doesn't know how Grass-types feel about Flying-type moves.

Emperor tries to tell him that this is a good idea, but such rare praise from the Piplup falls on ears that have not reenabled the ability to understand Pokemon speech. The Piplup waddles unsteadily toward its Chespin foe and hammers his beak forward.

Huh. That was underwhelming.

Maybe there's a negative value applied when you use the same move twice in a row. It's not a correct hypothesis, but it's Finn's assumption nevertheless. He tilts his palm up to swipe through the UI and once again examine the moveset of his now-exasperated Piplup. Whatever praise Emperor had given is crudely taken back.

Shit, Water Sport would have been useful against that stupid Charmander.

"Uh. Try Charming it and then pecking its eyes out."

That sounded kinda fucked up when he said it aloud. Yikes.