Current location: Saved in Laverre City and about to raid the Poke Ball factory. I elected to go SA/Speed on Kyoko and it's L43, while Byakuya is L44. Current movesets: Surf/Ice Beam/Thunderbolt/Body Slam for Kyoko, Nature Power/Thunderbolt/Ancient Power/Aurora Beam for Byakuy.
When your second Pokemon comes in at L30, grinding is no issue at all. Especially with Surf wiping out even the hardest of Water types. By the time I cleared out Route 12 and Azure Bay, Kyoko was L34 and finally packing Ice Beam. The Grass gym was a predictable, Ice Beams for all finish, although Ramos's Gogoat did survive one and hit Grass Knot before a Body Slam/Ice Beam finish.
Route 13 - still annoying. Since I don't have the Soothe Bell, I had about a 70% "can't escape because of Arena Trap" rate until I moved Fletchinder into slot 1 until I got to the Grunt in front of the Power Plant. Kyoko actually caught up in the Power Plant to the point where I had the two of them at L40 going into Lumiose.
And the sheer power of the team let it wipe out the Electric gym pretty much in one go. Magneton wasn't even an issue - because of the training, I was able to catch it on the switch-in from Emolga's Volt Switch with Surf and KO it on the 2nd hit. Even Heliolisk's Grass Knot, which would normally be a devastating move (120 power, SE against both) was doing less than half damage to Kyoko while it wiped out Heliolisk with Ice Beam (immune to Surf because of Dry Skin).
The rival->Route 14 complex was easy, but I ran into a bit of trouble with the encounter rate - I can't afford Repels right now because I have to buy over a half million worth of stat drugs for the three members of the team that come in at Frost Cavern or risk losing my mind. Ergo, no Repels. The swamp is very time-consuming to go through when you're avoiding Stunfisk genocide.
Then came the Fairy gym - Surf OHKOed Mawile when I faced Valerie, couldn't beat Mr Mime in one but I was able to stall out the Hyper Potions and a Light Screen so that Sylveon got 3HKOed with Surf for the 6th badge. Sadly, nobody can learn Dazzling Gleam (you'd think Byakuya could just because, you know, its SPECIES NAME involves dazzling lights...)
Tomorrow: Beat the Poke Ball factory, grind the Battle Chateau for some more of dem dolla dolla billz y'all, and hopefully avoid every trainer possible on Route 15 and outside Frost Cavern so I can load up on new Ice types and actually have a challenge. Allegedly.
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