Current location: Saved in Anistar after Flying back post-Flare event. The current team:
Naga - Fly, Fire Fang, Crunch, Dragon Breath (L53)
Komodo - Sludge Bomb, Dragon Pulse, Surf, Thunderbolt (L56 - benching until Snowbelle or at least the triple-threat match)
Kaiser - Crunch, Dragon Claw, Earthquake, Rock Tomb (L52)
Seath - Thunderbolt, Power Gem, Signal Beam, Dragon Pulse (L52)
Alcar - Dragon Claw, Dig, Rock Tomb, Crunch (L52)
Hurtslime - Dragon Pulse, Hidden Power, Thunderbolt, Muddy Water (L52)
The trek began with a hard round in the Battle Chateau to get Hurtslime up in levels - to the point where I actually encountered a Gym Leader for the first time. Clemont's not as hard as his gym fight thought, as I was able to beat the leader from five levels down (45 thanks to a bad writ).
Route 14 was quickly dispatched and the team hit the Fairy gym... and it was surprisingly easy to deal with. A combo of two well-placed Digs and a couple of Mega-TBolts wiping out Sylveon to get the Fairy Badge. Sadly, nobody can get Dazzling Gleam on this team - why can't Seath, whose entire purpose is to shed light, use it? (Then again, he's needed Tail Glow since Gen 3 and hasn't gotten it... mrgrgr)
There wasn't much to pick up on the first run to the Move Returner, but it finally got Seath some usable Dragon power. The Frost Cavern was surprisingly easy for a bunch of Dragon types, but so much of the team being middle-evos (only had Kaiser and Seath in final form) started to be a drain on resources.
In Anistar, the Gym went down to Hurtslime as I quickly moved into "get evos by any means necessary" mode, so Thunderbolt and a few Crunches pelted the gym. The first part of Team Flare's area was the final straw, but Alcar evolved about halfway through... and we nearly got Naga to evolve by L50 by a couple hundred experience. Two Rare Candies - one on Naga and one on Hurtslime after the 2nd Fly landed me back in Laverre - solved the evo problem, and the 2nd Flare run was so much easier now that everything was going down in one hit.
Tomorrow: Maybe we can beat this? Who knows.
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