Water Day 2: Seven Seas of Rye

Current location: Santalune City with a new friend to train

Current team:
Vyse L32 - Surf, Round, Quick Attack, Lick
Hook L31 - Water Pulse, Bite, Tackle, Bubble
Vaan L32 - Surf, Air Slash, Water Pulse, Roost
freshly caught Marill "Picard" L25 - Lonely, Huge Power, Atk/Speed - Aqua Tail, Double-Edge, Bubblebeam, Helping Hand

Picking up in Camphier, the first trick was to catch Vaan up. Route 6 took care of that quite handily, as I actually managed to do the route without a map for once and still get everything on it. Water Pulses for all was the order of the double Furfrou fight. Route 7 went quickly, though I have bypassed the Chateau so far so the financials would look a little weird down the road.

On 8, I was distressed to discover that although Swanna can enter Sky Battles, Vaan as he is constructed cannot due to a lack of height. We pressed on, managing to get rid of the Axew, and rolling through Glittering Cave due to the Electrike's unwillingness to use actual Electrical attacks.

As we entered Cyllage, I elected to forego the usual session on Route 10 in favour of just storming the gym - and it worked well, we finished at the usual L25 and Vyse Water Pulsed us to the badge. I haven't really used any of the traditional TMs thus far - Rock Tomb, Bulldoze, et al - but that was due to lack of competent physical attackers which Picard will remedy tomorrow.

There were no trouble spots on Route 10, though the AP boosted-Dunsparce did scare me slightly, and Vaan proved more useful than his namesake by actually *gasp* sweeping the Lucario fight. The two Metal Sound misses helped immensely here, as did a confusion effect on one Lucario who hit itself with a +3 stage Attack.

The Reflection Cave had the traditional trouble spots, but we were able to slow down Hawlucha and Sawk long enough for them to be Air Slashed away. Moving into Shalour, the three on three match with the Rival saw Bite actually be useful against Meowstic, and another round of aerial slashery brought us the 3rd badge, got us the Mega, and... Surf. Booya.

That led us all the way back to Route 3, where a Lonely (should work fine, it's not staying in against Steel anyway) Marill was snagged as the day ended.

Tomorrow: After Picard gets his groove back.. tomorrow is about STing, as we're adding two OTHER members to the team and hopefully having enough time to level them past Ramos.