Fighting Day 3: You're Fired

After an extremely negative experience with a certain game that has me wanting to do this to the city of Edmonton...

...I got a lot further in this than I anticipated.

Current location: Central Lumoise Pokemon Center, just beat Clemont.
Current team at L38:
Rude (now a Chesnaught): Rock Smash, Seed Bomb, Bulldoze, Aerial Ace
Anderson (now @ Lucarionite): Force Palm, Bone Rush, Shadow Claw, Rock Tomb
Zbyszko: High Jump Kick, Crunch (finally he becomes the Cruncher), Rock Tomb, Poison Jab
Hayes (now a Toxicroak): Low Sweep, Poison Jab, Dig, Rock Tomb
Austin (now a Medicham): High Jump Kick, Poison Jab, Return, Rock Tomb
Eaton: Low Sweep, Fly, X-Scissor, Strength

It began on Route 8, as I went back to the Sky Battle forgetting that Eaton doesn't qualify (speciesists). The water trainers down below were quickly mowed down, allowing us to enter the gym at L24... and we pretty much rolled it. Amaura was down in one, and Tyrunt went down to a Bulldoze/Force Palm combo from Anderson before the entire team got Rock Tomb to provide Flying checks.

Nothing much of note happened on Route 10, and the Geosenge fight ended up being a mirror match that Anderson busted spines all over. Reflection Cave saw Sawk overwhelm Zbyszko before Eaton made a key save, and we managed to emerge with no casualties otherwise.

In Shalour, the first Rival round was tricky because of the opening Psychic type, but we got around it with Anderson laughing at Fake Out and Shadow Clawing it into next week. In the Gym, I threw Eaton out against the Hawlucha and elected to super-effect with Aerial Ace rather than get into a Press match, which won us the badge.

Going into Route 12, I elected to temporarily box Hayes and grab Madusa, faint it, then crank the Exp Share against the Breeder pair and bug boy - between them and Azure Bay, the group was L33 going into Courmarine. Hayes came out and promptly rolled over the Grass gym with Poison Jab, leading to an easy 4th badge.

The Route That Shall Not Be Named had its wind going full blast, but we did eventually clear it - and Rude reached the final stage on the second trainer of the Power Plant. Once that was done, it was onto the Electric gym, where Hayes AND Austin evolved before we took out Emolga with a crit Poison Jab, a Bone Rush and a HELLOJUMPKICK.

Tomorrow: Paul E finally hops in.