Current location: Saved in Amistar City after Team Flare's madness. Team is L51 except for Corrosion, who has the unfair advantage of Sky Battles (I can't wait until Flying when I can have the whole team in on those) who's at L52. Movesets are the same except for Viscous upgrading (?) to Petal Blizzard over Grass Pledge, Neuro adding Flamethrower and Earth Power (over Shadow Claw/Bulldoze), Thallium losing Infestation for Hex, and D.D.T upgrading to Crunch.
In knocking off the Lost Hotel and Route 16, I realized that Trubbish's availability or lack thereof perfectly justifies me leaving Garbodor off the team, and that pulling out Froakie for random stuff needs to stop ASAP... but I can't do it without crippling someone with Cut. Joy.
Frost Cavern: Thanks to sheer repetition, I actually managed to not take two hours in here. I'll have this stuff memorized yet. Also picked up Frost Breath, which might actually be the go-to TM instead of Ice Beam next time (same PP, a CH Frost Breath is 120 pwr AND ignores SpDef buffs).
Route 17 was quick, rolled the Rival and then I think I spent more time in the Gym than I did in the Frost Cavern, which almost never happens. I knew I should've taken that left turn at Lavaridge. I stumble through after the trainer with the Medicham and finally clean out the last three trainers, then throw D.D.T at Sigilyph. Night Slash 2-shots it and stalls out a Reflect, then Slowking elects to Yawn instead of taking a shot with D.D.T at about 45 HP and it goes down. I wake up D.D.T as Meowstic's Shadow Ball... doesn't finish, and Night Slash does after a wasted Calm Mind.
In beating Team Flare, I discovered that a well-equipped Gyarados can cause the team fits - sure, Neuro can OHKO with Thunderbolt, but if it's out of commission there's going to be a problem. The Mega one Lysandre had wasted Thallium and managed to tank a Low Sweep (remember, Water/Dark) from Tree before Neuro came in to wrap up. I'm also a level or two higher than where I was at the end of the previous runs, so I hope this means less pre-E4 grinding.
Tomorrow, the plan is simple: Victory Road. Anything else is uncivilized.
No comments:
Post a Comment