Ground Day 1: Kicking Reason to the Curb

Current location: Saved outside of Glittering Cave. Current team:

L20 male Hippopotas "Simon" - Lonely, Atk/Speed, Tackle, Bite, Dig, Rock Smash
L21 male Sandile "Kamina" - Lonely, Atk/Speed, Moxie - Bulldoze, Thief, Sand Tomb, Assurance
L15 female Cubone "Nia" - Naughty, no ST yet, Lightningrod - Tail Whip, Bone Club, Headbutt, Leer

Grabbed Chespin to start (giving the rival Delphox) and went on the longest catch spree yet - it took about 20 Bunnelby before I found one I was happy with (Brave). Trained it up for reasons I can't figure out, and it proceeded to three-shot the entire Bug gym with Tackle at L12. Cool beans, except that's three per Pokemon. Not three total.

Nothing major happened until I decided to peel off after catching Snorlax, but before doing anything else on the route as quite frankly, I was getting bored to tears. We managed to avoid every trainer on routes 7 and 8 except for the mandatory double battle against Trevor/Tiermo to get down to Route 9, and the future Simon and Kamina were caught on about the third round and STed up.

Coming back, I decided to go to Route 6... and I really need to start bringing special moves for those darn Furfrou. They managed to two shot everyone at L15 to L17, so much so that I reset and put Simon through the Battle Chateau before attempting it again and getting the duke. No other incidents happened, but by the end of Route 6 the three of them were in the 20 range, I had Diggersby tho :/ and was already ready to dump it.

Upon returning to Route 9, we went all the way to Glittering Cave, and though I caught Rhyhorn and Onix (neither that useful), I also managed to get... a shiny Machop. (Experiment shiny #6, or roughly once every two runs or so.) But the big prize was grabbing a Thick Club off a stray Cubone, catching it and finding out it had Attack+ and was over 30 Atk at base. Time to train her up and get her on the rest of the team's level. All things considered, I'll probably drop Whiscash for it - a Thick Club-aided Aerial Ace should do more on average than a middling-Attack Zen Headbutt.

Tomorrow: Train Cubone, catch us a Gurren - er, Golett, and beat Grant.