Steel Day 4: In The Interest of My Sanity

Somehow, work was quiet enough today that I made it to Laverre City. Here's what we have now at L39 with one exception:

Lilly - Return, Shadow Claw, Dig, Low Sweep
Trina (now an Aegislash) - Cut, Aerial Ace, Shadow Sneak, Night Slash
Thumper -  Dig, Rock Slide, Crunch, Iron Tail
Weevill - Fairy Wind, Crunch, Rock Smash, Strength
L40 Celeste (now a Ferrothorn) - Power Whip, Metal Claw, Rollout, Poison Jab
Parker (now a Probopass, THANK GOD) - Thunderbolt, Power Gem, Bulldoze, Rock Smash

Cleared out Shalour quite quickly to start, a combo of Lilly and Trina having quite a fair bit of fun with the rival. From there, it was over to the Gym for another round of Trina trolling. Machoke got the one hit in, but it was fun watching Hawlucha futilely Hone its Claws while I pecked away at it with Aerial Ace.

I thought the 4th gym would be an excuse to catch Thumper up, but I didn't get as much experience out of the Route 12->Azure Bay complex as I thought. Probably due to a lack of Sky Battles. The gym was wrecked quite hard - throwing Thumper at Acrobatics Jumpluff was all well and good until it nearly got 2-shot by Grass Knot.

Route 13 is normally the bane of my existence, but HALLELUJAH PARKER EVOLVED. (It took a Rare Candy, but still.) Finally, a usable 6th who just happened to start learning special moves around the same time. The Power Plant had this annoying habit of knocking out Trina who was still a Honedge... but the healing post-Scientist let me get into Lumiose, where a few rounds of Secret Super Training got me a Dusk Stone, where Lumiose Gym finished the job and got one more evo out of the way.

The gym itself pretty much went as anticipated - Led with Parker against Emolga, Bulldozed the Volt Switch-switch into Magneton for a 2HKO, but Thumper had some Grass Knot issues after Celeste had some Thunderbolt issues (2HKO under Electric Terrain). After getting rid of Heliolisk, Emolga fell to the power of Power Gem (aww yiss).

After clearing out Route 14, we're saved in Laverre. Tomorrow's goal: Beat the Fairy gym, raid Route 15 and the Lost Hotel for potential replacements (Klefki, Pawniard, Magneton) and hopefully get far enough to maybe get to Anistar.