11-03-2016, 01:31 AM
(11-02-2016, 11:33 PM)Mark Wrote: SabrinaTrainer's Whip (Requires Physical Strength, Ranged and Debuff Proficiencies) (900)
(11-02-2016, 04:34 AM)Sabrina Wrote: Sabrina used a whip in her time as a Team Rocket admin, if her Pokemon needed a little disciplining. It also makes for a fairly good self-defense weapon though.
It's a whip, alright - a strong handle with leather wrappings to strengthen one's grip, a long (~6m) strip of leather and a small rounded cone of steel at the tip to add some weight.
It's more suited to flinch its victims and hurt than to damage them, but can leave some nasty bruises.
The Trainer's Whip has two primary uses: to attack and to bind. When used to attack, simply put Sabrina strikes her opponent with the tip. When used properly it produces a loud crack and the tip briefly moves extremely fast, causing superficial injuries and great pain if it hits exposed skin. Against tough or armored opponents it's not very effective, though. When used to attack, the whip is only really dangerous near the tip, as that's what moves fastest. The leather strip between the tip and Sabrina doesn't hurt.
The whip's other use is to wrap around an opponent's bodypart or weapon to temporarily hinder or prevent them from using it, possibly leading to a tug-of-war situation. Sabrina is sufficiently skilled to (usually) hit the spot she is aiming for, but because the whip requires some length to wrap around the target they must be within 5 meters of Sabrina at most. It carries the added risk of having the whip ripped out of her hands though, if her opponent is able to overpower her.
Unhooking it from her belt or summoning it from nowhere takes ~2 seconds or ~10 seconds if the whip was broken and must be re-summoned, during which Sabrina can only move at a walking pace and can't attack. It requires relatively little stamina to use even continuously, and has a reach of ~6 meters at maximum. Sabrina can also hold the whip somewhere along the leather strip to shorten the maximum range to as little as ~1 meter - this is useful if the opponent fights close up, so that she can still hit them with the tip.
Fluff: Sabrina can also use the whip to spur her Pokemon on. It usually enrages them, making them attack more aggressively.
I'm only seeing two uses here, why the 900 OM price tag?
300 for the basic whip, 300 for the debuffing part and 300 because Sabrina can shorten the whip's max range (last sentence before the fluff). I imagined that it would be variable enough to be priced extra for that?
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