Flying Day 4: The Opposite of Shiny Odds

Current location: Anistar City with a trip to Team Flare in sight.

Current team:
Concorde L47 - Fly, Flamethrower, Thief, Return
Spitfire L47 -  Aqua Tail, Ice Fang, Strength, Surf
Zeppelin L47 - Shadow Ball, Gust, Thunderbolt, Cut
Kinner L47 @ Aerodactylite - Rock Tomb, Bulldoze, Thunder Fang, Iron Head
Arrow L47 - High Jump Kick, Fly, X-Scissor, Poison Jab
Enola L47 - Fly, Return, Thief, Close Combat

The day began with a quick sweep of Lumiose before flying to Route 3 and picking up Masquerain for an extra item slot before heading off to Rival fight #3. It ended like the first two: Bite, Low Sweep, Fly.

At Laverre Gym, after a Bulldoze/Aqua Tail combo got rid of Mawile, Zeppelin 2-shot Mr Mime but let it get Reflect up, which necessitated some special stalling of Sylveon before it got pasted by Kinner's Rock Tomb. Post Poke Ball Factory it was off to Route 15... where one of the trainers got on my **** list by somehow having an Aromatisse dodge three consecutive Fly attacks from Concorde and Enola. That's 8000:1 against, or roughly the odds of finding a shiny without outside help.

Mrgrgr.

ANYWAY, we stopped into Dendemille for a supply run before dealing with the two optional areas, then loading up on new moves. The returner wasn't that useful... unless you're Kinner, who picked up Iron Head (which thanks to Tough Claws is basically psuedo-STAB) and Thunder Fang. Frost Cavern was pretty simple, with the only casualty coming from Relicanth - sadly, there's no real way to get a Grass move on this team.

Anistar Gym fell before the might of a Spitfire Ice Fang CHing Sigilyph (might've been redundant, don't know and don't care), and a couple of fat Shadow Balls from Zeppelin.

Tomorrow: Endgame, methinks.