[The shield firms a bit, the purple shimmer almost blocking out the view around them, as the hail begins to batter it.

Twilight smirks, and well she might as the thing doesn't even waver.

Then the blizzards come, one right after the other. Bats drop and flee by the dozens, and Twilight grits her teeth, horn pulsing with the need to renew the shield with every new strike...

But it works. The shield holds all the way through the last one, and Twilight dials it back a bit so they can see the results, scanning the sky.]

Okay, the hail's going to continue for a little bit, so it's going to be hard to be sure. But I can't imagine even the hardiest Crobat withstanding that, and I don't think any of those had gone beyond the Golbat stage.

[Which makes sense given how they evolve.]