Current location: Saved in Cyllage City having just gotten the 2nd badge. Current team:
Yanma (unnamed) - Lax, Speed Boost - Tackle, Quick Attack, Sonic Boom, Thief - L24
Vivillion - Draining Kiss, Struggle Bug, Stun Spore, Psybeam - L26
Beedrill - Twinneedle, Poison Sting, Thief, Cut - L26
Shedinja - Shadow Claw, Thief, Leech Life, Return - L25
Sasuke - Bug Bite, Rock Smash, Poison Tail, Rollout - L26
Dwebble (unnamed) - Impish, Sturdy - Bug Bite, Bulldoze, Rock Tomb, Strength - L26
The first objective was to get past Snorlax, which meant Parfum Palace and Route 6. Through sheer repetition I was almost able to get that done during my commute... until I ran into Tourist Takemi and the Volbeat From Hell: Tackle, Double Team, Confuse Ray and Moonlight. By the time I was able to get something in, it had 6 DTs under its belt - and of course, no Aerial Ace yet. They don't give enough experience for that thing.
Snorlax was caught in a Quick Ball, and Route 7/Battle Chateau were dispatched to get Nincada to split off. After Ninjask was boxed for good, I discovered that having two Pokemon ready for Sky Battles is a cheap way to get experience.
As soon as we hit Ambrette Town, Rock Smash was obtained and we immediately marched down to get Dwebble. And I got a lot of good draws on the natures - Adamant, Jolly, Lonely among them - but they all had Shell Armor. It took about 10 resets before I hit one with Sturdy, and I wasn't going to keep going to see if the RNG would agree with me.
A quick run through Route 9 and it was trainer-dodging time as we moved to Route 10 and went Yanma hunting. Thankfully, Dwebble had one move that could OHKO Yanma, and I wasn't laying the Smack Down until I knew which ones had Speed Boost. A few battles later - after turning down among other things, Adamant and Impish again - I got an acceptable nature and learned the hard way that one should not take the task of raising Yanma lightly ingame, since its movepool is basically nothing but Sonic Boom until LEVEL 27 (Uproar, 90 power Normal) and it can't even learn Struggle Bug. WTF GameFreak.
We returned to Cyllage and began the long trek up through the Gym. Dwebble managed to hang on against Relicanth long enough to let Sonic Boom finish it, and I took great joy in wiping out the Solrock/Lunatone guy with Shedinja. The Grant fight went largely as expected - two Rock Smashes from Sasuke for Amaura, and two Bulldozes helped Yanma finish off Tyrunt.
Tomorrow: Get nicknamed, get Heracross, get Masquerain, box Vivillon and Beedrill as the final team begins to take shape.
No comments:
Post a Comment