Current location: Saved literally just outside Courmarine City. Team is currently in the low 30s, and I need to pick up Shedinja again. I'm saving the team for the end, though.
The first one up was getting Aerial Ace and using Strength a bit, then some Battle Chateau grinding. We picked up on Route 10 and that let Yanma get his Uproar, making him 90% more usable. The Geosense double-Lucario ended up with Shedinja gleefully no-selling all of the Lucario's offense, in what would be a theme of the day.
Route 11 was quickly dispatched and the Reflection Cave was quiet for once, didn't even lose a Pokemon to Sawk-dude. We get out to Shalour City, and of course, the first stop is route 12 to pick up Heracross. The Bugs are "Very Rare" in the professional opinion of Bulbapedia, so I truck along for about ten minutes, when...
"A wild Pinsir appears!"
(cue headdesk)
It would seem that I misread the Route 12 chart of Pokemon as it turns out - Pinsir's in X, Hera's in Y. Now, I have a suitable Heracross rotting in Bank, but a) I can't nickname it since it was a trade request for the Battle Maison, and b) I'm not wasting a Rock Blast Heracross on an ingame run.
So now I have to readjust to Pinsir having slightly better Defense (only slightly since it ended up Mild), but actually being able to take a Flying hit. Pinsir ended up with L26 on the Rival, and L28 on the gym. As for the gym, well... install Shedinja, problem solved. Even Machoke got 2HKOed by Aerial Ace before it could Rock Tomb.
After unlocking an unusable feature for this run, it was time to get Masquerain... and the first one was a Modest one. AW YISS. It got ground up to L31 between the Swimmers on Route 8 and Azure Bay, Yanma evolved, and we're just about ready to lay waste to Ramos.
Current team:
Pinsir "Chihiro" L30 - Mild, Mold Breaker - X-Scissor, Dig, Brick Break, Rock Tomb
Masquerain "Ponyo" L31 - Modest - Struggle Bug, Gust, Quick Attack, Sweet Scent
Shedinja L33 - Dig, Shadow Claw, Aerial Ace, Cut
Sasuke L32 - X-Scissor, Poison Jab, Dig, Rollout
Dwebble "Kiki" L32 - X-Scissor, Rock Slide, Dig, Strength
Yanmega "Howl" L33 - Uproar, Ancient Power, Aerial Ace, Thief
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