Grass Day 3: Psycho Palm Tree Wrecks Roller Rink

Current location: Saved in Courmarine City having just unlocked Fly and given a nickname. The current team:

Cheech L34 - Needle Arm, Aerial Ace, Rock Tomb, Shadow Claw
Chong L34 (now a Venusaur) - Petal Dance, Venoshock, Rock Smash, Nature Power
Colorado L34 (now a Gogoat) - Seed Bomb, Strength, Dig, Rock Smash
Harrelson L35 - Metal Claw, Pin Missle, Poison Jab, Rollout @ Rocky Helmet
and newcomer Marley the male Exeggutor at L34 (Timid, Chlorophyll, SA/Speed trained) - Sleep Powder, Confusion, Grass Knot, Nature Power

Kicking this day off, we went for a round of beating Route 10 about the head and neck before making way to the Rock gym. That pretty much went as expected, though Amaura thinking Thunder Wave would slow Harrelson down - spoilers m'lady, it's already slower than a speeding Shuckle - was kind of amusing. One Metal Claw ended that little argument, then Colorado's Bulldoze and Rock Smash combo rid us of Tyrunt to pick up the badge.

From there, it was back to Route 10 and we managed to get past that one Flare guy with a Golbat - thanks, Rock Tomb - before moving forward with the Lucario beatdown thanks to some well placed Bulldozing. Reflection Cave only had one casualty, and it wasn't from Sawk-dude, but rather a bad luck on the guy with the Absol/Pinsir combo near the end.

Upon arriving in Shalour, it was time for a quick detour to Route 12 for Exeggcute. A suitable nature was obtained on about the fifth try, and then I realized that its two best moves - Uproar as a Exeggcute and Psychock as an Exeggutor - were both unattainable to this point. No problem, some well timed ST work and a couple of rounds against the Rival - the Braixen actually went to sleep and got Colorado on wakeup before Cheech and Chong tag-teamed finishing it - got it to the point of having Confusion... where I then pulled the trigger on evolution.

Walking around with a Sleep Powder-slinging, Confusion-firing palm tree / weapon of mass Fighting destruction was quite enjoyable, especially when it crit twice against Hawlucha and forced it into a Hyper Potion loop that it couldn't get out of for badge 3.

After the Mega tutorial, I went to Route 12 to get the necessary Exp to actually have my own - and Cheech evolved, bringing Colorado with it. Azure Bay was wiped out quite quickly, as Bullet Seed going to 25pwr from 10 made it so that a minimum-Attack Marley could still do some damage. After that, it was over to Courmarine, in which Chong managed to solo Braixen not with Thick Fat, but Nature Power-induced freezing. The gym was also quite easy, with a one-turn wipe of Jumpluff that only had about 70% or so direct damage: Jumpluff hit Harrelson with Acrobatics, triggering Iron Barbs (6%) and the Rocky Helmet (1/6), then Poison Jab poisoned and the poison damaged finished the strangest one-round KO ever..

Tomorrow: I start on the Route From Hell, and have no Flyers. If I can get to Valerie, I'll call it a win... but ideally, I get the rest of the full team.