Steel Day 7: Down The Stretch They Come

I'm going to save the team update for the end, because I managed to go from Route 16 to saved outside of Victory Road again in the time since the last post, watch a bunch of anime AND work on a podcast edit. I call that a win.

So yeah, went to Route 16, cleared it out to get the new team together and work out the kinks, ran through Frost Cavern again, hit the wall of Fighting types (I am so glad I only have to worry about that two more times), and beat down Anistar Gym this morning. The key was to get Lianne the Pawniard up to L52 so it would activate beastmode as a Bisharp - though it did get Sigilyph AND Meowstic pretty well thanks to learning Night Slash early enough.

I left the Exp Share on for all of the Team Flare complex, and finished with a L52 Bisharp right at the end of the first Lysandre fight in Geosenge. Didn't bother checking the Xerneas, but MegaLilly took about 95% off MegaGyarados... unfortunately, Gyarados did 100% with Earthquake coming back.

Ripped though Route 19 to Snowbelle and promptly engaged in a righteous beatdown of the Ice gym, complete with everything going down with one hit except for Mamoswine. I knew I had a MVP on that run, and I think that was it.

From there, it was off to Victory Road, in which I had to leave Meg the Magnezone behind... a move I regretted immensely when I got beat down by the Veteran with the Talonflame. Thankfully, that mistake will not be made twice. At the end, I went through the Honey for Floatzel procedure again... AND FOUND A SHINY FLOATZEL. By this point I had already sold my Poke Balls, except for the Master they won't buy, so I snagged it. Haven't looked at its stats either.

Anywhere, here's the team at L64:

Lilly - Aura Sphere, Metal Claw, Psychic, Earthquake
Trina - Iron Head, Shadow Claw, Sacred Sword, Rock Slide
Celeste - Power Whip, Iron Head, Poison Jab, Shadow Claw
Laurie the Bisharp - Naive, Defiant (+2 stages of Atk when hit with a stat debuff) - Iron Head, Night Slash, Poison Jab, Brick Break
Lucky the Klefki - Timid, Prankster - Dazzling Gleam, Flash Cannon, Hidden Power (Poison), Psychic
Meg the Magnezone - Mild, Sturdy - Thunderbolt, Flash Cannon, Tri Attack, Hidden Power (Ghost)

And the next run is due for a previous Special type, and I had a choice to make - either wreak vengeance on the Fighting type, or get the last of the special weaknesses over with. We're keeping it high up in the type chart, and I'll still get to use Malamar... because we're going Dark.