Current Location: Shalour City, team is L31 except for the new guy:
Shedinja - Shadow Claw, Dig, Thief, Leech Life
Honedge - Return, Aerial Ace, Rock Smash, Shadow Sneak
Drifblim - Hex, Gust, Thief, Focus Energy
Golett - Magnitude, Strength, Rock Tomb, Shadow Punch
The newcomer courtesy of a LONG time in Reflection Cave:
Sableye - Hasty (+Speed, -Def) - Keen Eye
- Knock Off
- Shadow Claw
- Poison Jab
- Aerial Ace
It turns out that Sableye provides a very important function - taking more than two hits from the rival's Absol. Maybe I shouldn't be using -Def personalities, because I had to soft-reset that fight to get past the stupid thing.
This is quickly becoming a theme of the run, actually - the "Oh crap" moments when you realize that oh yeah, something in this fight has Bite and a huge attack rating. I can't throw Honedge out either to null the hit, because Steel doesn't resist Dark (or Ghost, thank god) anymore. Shedinja's used to going down quickly, but Honedge had his first death of the run against the rival.
As expected though, sticking him with Fennekin worked quite well. It went down to a single Golett Magnitude.
The actual Shalour Gym has exactly two Pokemon that could potentially hit a team member. They both got two-shot by Drifblim. lol indeed.
And the best part about this part of the game has to be finding out that the Lucario fight with Korrina doesn't actually give experience to the one she gives you, meaning I'm not violating the rules of the run by its existence. The question comes when I do the Fighting and Steel runs - should I take the one she gives me or stick with the one I'll inevitably be raising?
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