Current location: Saved in Dendemille Town having just cleared the Frost Cavern and opened up Route 17. The team is largely the same, except I've made the promised substitute for Nina:
Lloyd the Pawniard - L46 - Bashful, Defiant - Thief, Metal Claw, X-Scissor, Poison Jab
And a mild correction from the last update: There was one other thing I could have done to possibly get CC able to blitz Sylveon, and that's giving it Poison Jab in lieu of Strength. I'll definitely be able to try this when the Fighting run happens because I'll have a full team of Pokemon capable of using Strength, so that slot will be opened.
After leaving the Gym and acquiring a Murkrow from a friend in exchange for Rock run assistance, the Poke Ball Factory is down to about a ten minute run, and from there on to Route 15. Finding Pawniard was the top priority, and I would've obviously preferred something Attack boosting, but between Defiant proving free Swords Dance equivalents and the desire to have reasonable defenses, I ended up keeping one with good defenses and what may be the highest native HP possible.
We took down Route 15 pretty quickly, and then stopped in to pick up some moves from the Returner - nothing really major, but I did get Thunder Fang on Cecilia since literally nothing learns Thunderbolt, and more importantly... Rolo has Superpower now. This means, among other things, that he gets a free +1/+1 most battles because there's bound to be something Fighting weak. Also, I may actually use the set of Repels.
From there, I went down to Lost Hotel and Route 16, whereby I made my HM muling easier by grabbing the Super Rod and fishing up Crawdaunt and Sharpedo. Although they won't be used in Battle, at least one of them will get Waterfall so I can pick up those stray TMs after Wulfric (for one thing, Suzaku and Cecilia need Dark Pulse badly).
The run finished in Frost Cavern, where I took a great deal of pleasure in getting Rolo up to +5 Speed and Attack against that one Hiker with the Rock Tomb Relicanth.
Goal for tomorrow: At least get the TMs I need for the end. Yes, that means beating Wulfric.
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