Current location: Saved in Camphier Town, just finished Route 6 and about to take a run at Snorlax.
It took about 15 soft resets before I got a stat spread and nature I could live with on Fennekin, but I got a good Bold one so it might survive with an extra few HP on a stray Rock move or something. A round of ST later, it was time to blaze Santalune Forest. No Light Balls, but we got a fresh Panpour for HM muling purposes (I'll be damned if I'm giving anyone Cut without access to TMs and the Move Deleter).
I had a L14 Fennekin going into the fight with Viola, and as expected, we had trouble getting rid of Surskit (three Embers after a Water Sport). Thankfully, Vivillon went down in three as well as the Water Sport wore off after the second one. "Nothing... nothing... ah, there we go."
From there, it was out to Route 4 and a lesson I should've tried to learn from Twitch Plays Pokemon: Be prepared if your best-laid "lore" plans go awry, because they probably would. In my case, the second Ralts I caught had good stats for an L8, Trace and a Modest nature which is perfect for a Gardevoir... and is also, in the words of noted mad scientist Okabe Rintaro, "a dude". So much for the Curie reference. However, that doesn't mean we can't still use it. Especially when a second male Ralts on the route was Jolly (read: perfect for turning into a Gallade), so we'll just roll with it.
Going up through Route 5 - come to think, I didn't even stop to grab Abra, though nothing of value is lost there since I'm not using it - I quickly slapped Return on the Ralts so one of them could do damage (the one STed for Attack, future Gallade) and went up to Route 6 for a temporary cat addition... AND GOT A SHINY VENIPEDE. Are you kidding me? This is the fifth shiny of the experiement! (Bunnelby, Floatzel, Gulpin, Basculin and now Venipede) Next, I'll get one when it's actually relevant for the type.
Anyway, we picked up Espurr (F) on Route 6, took care of Parfum Palace, and ended up sweeping past that ****ing Volbeat quickly before the night ended. My sole complaint: English XY did not have an option for nicknaming with umlauts. Yes, this is relevant.
Current team, all L18:
Halley (Male Fennekin, Bold nature, SA/Speed Super Training, Ember/Psybeam/Scratch/Thief)
Turing (Male Ralts, Modest, Trace, SA/Speed, Confusion/Thief/Teleport/Double Team)
Oppenheimer (Male Ralts, Jolly, Synchronize, Atk/Speed, Thief/Return/Confusion/Teleport)
Schrodinger (Female Espurr, Hasty, Infiltrator, SA/Speed, Psybeam/Confusion/Covet/Light Screen)
Tomorrow's goal: Beat Grant, and ideally have Inkay, Gallade, Sigilyph and Meowstic.
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