oh god ondorus loves status moves so muc

buffs, debuffs, status conditions, weird effects

he's been coaching olivia on refining teleport so that she can do things besides FLY HOME

like magic

trying to figure out the effect of different debuff moves on different targets

he annoys his own pokemon sometimes because they don't often get to land a direct attack

but yeah he's techmage-ing it up with his own pokemon team

olivia only has like three actual direct attacking moves the rest of what she does is spamming bullshit that locks down the battle

as far as giving commands go he doesn't do much commanding in battle itself

he'd hate fighting a metagross XD

most of that happens in training, things like "now if you're against an enemy like this then you want to try this"

since clear body prevents debuffs

he has a few designated actions that he has visual and verbal commands for

but statuses and weird effects are fun

for each pokemon

weird things that don't fit into normal strategies

like gunther's thunder, powerful long-range inaccurate attack that they both hate relying on

make it rain, bro

he thought about teaching gunther rain dance?

ALSO HIS ENTIRE TEAM KNOWS PROTECT

he has never been in a RULES battle before so all of his strategies arae for practical combat

so he has a few ~teamwork~ plans

...one of which is this horrifically aggravating staggered protect things

where the whole team clumps together and use protect one after the other to make a chain of invulnerability

during which they can heal or buff or regroup or whatever

he might start looking into enacting some of the combos he's heard about, like weather bonuses

but he hasn't used any TMs besides protect so far

also what is gunther

once he discovers the magical world of combos he will never come back

gunther is the luxray

ooooooh

should do things with the shinx

he and olivia are the most powerful members of ondorus' team because they were the only motivated ones for ages

arielle the houndoom has now joined the ranks of the Serious Fighters but most of ondorus' team is casual as all hell

and lagging in levels

haha is raven's shinx a male....

yes.

teach him to be a real man