Current location: Geosenge Town, so much so that I started this post while the AZ flashback cutscene was playing.
Current team, L50 with one exception:
Prometheus: Flamethrower, Psychic, Shadow Ball, Grass Knot *L51*
Phoenix: Hidden Power (Fire), Fly, Thief, Quick Attack
Aslan: Flamethrower, Hyper Voice, Snarl, Hidden Power (Ice)
Salamando: Flare Blitz, Dragon Claw, Shadow Claw, Hidden Power (Electric)
Baskerville: Flamethrower, Snarl, Rock Smash, Thunder Fang
Apollyon the Chandelure (Quiet, Flame Body, SA/Speed): Flame Burst, Hex, Inferno, Will-O-Wisp
We picked back up with a quick whip around the map to finish the outfit, bar the last piece which awaited in Laverre City. Rival fight 3 was quite simple as I threw out Salamando, turned the water weak into a resistance, and plowed it to death with Wing Attack.
The Laverre Gym was quite simple even without Poison Jab - except for Azumarill, obviously. The Valerie fight was obvious Mawile OHKO from Sniper, who proceeded to run Valerie out of Hyper Potions on Mr Mime before Baskerville got a clutch Smog poison on Sylveon and Sniper swapped in to finish with Fire Fang.
The Poke Ball Factory was no great shakes, then it was candle-hunting time. A good Litwick was found on the sixth shot, and thanks to having to get its evo item Super Training took about ten minutes between vitamins and six Double Bags. We used Route 15 to level it up and once it became Chandelure... it had 140+ SA. At L41. I originally wanted to name it Apollo, but I modified it slightly to the bringer of doom once I saw that SA.
The collective team picked up some experience on Routes 16 and the rest of the hotel, then we trucked off to Frost Cavern. The fighting gauntlet almost ran us out of Revives, but Apollyon came through with clutch WoW burns and a Hex shot to wrap that up.
Anistar had a couple of interesting developments - aside from Baskerville basically Snarling the entire gym to death, we picked up Hidden Power... which hit three times. Since I didn't get Anistar until after the Flamethrower availability ended, I'm using HP Fire as Phoenix's primary STAB, Aslan picked up HP Ice so I won't have to use Solarbeam and have something to potentially deal with Drasna, and I'm going to try Salamando as the anti-Gyarados device for the 2nd Lysandre fight coming up. The first one though, ended on Chandelure WoWing it, Hexing it, and having Aqua Tail miss TWICE, so I beat a Gyarados with a Chandelure. Giggity.
As for the rest of Lysandre's lab, it was basically "Get Ember off Baskerville STAT", and that happened just as the last scientist was going to throw out Weavile. Perfect timing. Xerosic went down to a Psyshock, a Flamethrower from Baskerville and a Mega Dragon Claw.
Tomorrow: Shooting for the endgame.
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