Ciel, the Flying Type Gym Leader
Right now I’m stuck on the flying type gym. I’m kicking myself for overwriting Heavy Slam on my Bronzong, because he’s shit now and I don’t have another heart scale.
It’s been a long while since I’ve played, but I remember the Togekiss being real annoying because it tries to flinch you as much as possible in battle.
Okay, you know what we’re doing? I have an Ambipom with double hit/skill link, I’m just missing the kings rock. So we’re gonna go find a king's rock today. I’m also grabbing my squad of Linoones in hopes I pick up a heart scale.
Alright, morning, Hawlucha, route 2. Holds a king's rock. Switch my time zone to Beijing and lets go!
Here’s our lord and savior. Did not take long at all, but he did almost kill himself by missing a hi jump kick.
Time for Ciel again:
Well that went shit. Double hit only hits twice. Who could’ve guessed?
… I was thinking to teach him double slap. I should’ve taught him double slap because skill link works with moves that hit 2-5 times in a row, not just 2.
Okay now we really need heart scales, so I guess I’m going back to that.
After about thirty minutes to an hour of grinding, I picked up 6 heart scales in the span of 5 minutes. Isn’t that something.
I retaught heavy slam on Bronzong and fury swipes on Ambipom.
Yes, so, I see my strat for this gym was to use stealth rock then roar everyone. But the togekiss is really annoying. If I can kill it I think I’d have time to set up.
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Well. It’s been a long while. Still stuck at Ciel, but I can reliably wipe out the first two pokemon. It seems that we’re going to be trick-rooming this. I’m just having a difficult time figuring out the other pokemon, and Stealth Rock has been a disappointing strat.
I’m using Bronzong to set up trick room and kick the shit out of Togekiss. There’s usually enough turns of trick room left to switch in Lycanroc and use her to take out Oricorio. After that, I don’t know. Still figuring it out.
Had this idea to use Configurious against her Gilscor, because Will-o-Wisp halves attack damage and he also loses the poison heal ability. I forgot that Configurious has Mummy so the ability would’ve been gone anyways, lol.
Brought back an old friend for the last half of the fight. Used the Bronzong+Lycanroc combo for her Noivern, and then I was stuck on her Mega Altaria for a while. I spent some time swapping around pokemon until I remembered my beloved trash bag. He made quick work of Altaria, and as for the Minior I spammed random moves at it until it died.
Yep. Only took me 5 hours. Turns out all the effort to get Ambipom that king’s rock was completely pointless, lol.
Choice Specs Kingdra
I failed to get any screenshots of this Kingdra, so I hope some Kingdra art suffices. But I died multiple times to this choice-spec’d Kingdra trainer battle in Azurene Lake. The combination of the environment strengthening their attacks, as well as the choice specs, made them able to OHKO most of my mons with surf. Even my Blissey was having a hard time tanking.
I did eventually get the idea to pull out Blissey and put it to sleep with rest. I also took my Walrein out of the box and used Blizzard to finally take it down. 2 turns! If only I had the idea sooner.
I learned that blizzard will freeze over the water environment, so since I’m spending a lot of time in Azurene Lake I’m taking Walrein in my party.
Walrein has a place in my heart anyways. They were on the team I had in 3rd grade when I started getting into pokemon. I was playing Pokemon Ruby, and my team was Blaziken, Camerupt, Walrein, Pelppier, Breloom, and Sableye.
ZEL Devon Corp? battle
Alright, it’s been a bit. After talking to all the npcs I went back through Neo-Reborn and caught any new pokemon that appeared, which has been made a lot easier with the magnetic lure. I’m currently in Devon Corp? stuck at ZEL. The fights with Victoria and Arc weren’t that bad. Victoria was pretty easy. I think all I did was pick up some better type match ups and I beat her on the 2nd try. Arc was harder. I’m sure there was a better strategy than this, but ever since I got a lot of pokemon with roar I’ve been itching to use entry hazards as a technique. I got my Roserade out and laid down toxic spikes the first turn, and swapped out with Hippowdon for roar. Took a few tries but it worked.
So, it’s time for ZEL, and backtracking through puzzle rooms. Yay!
Pangoro is good for Aurorus so I won’t change that. Bronzong is good for the Espeon. I’m pretty sure Vikavolt can delete the Alakazam. The hardest part right now is the Umbreon. Sucks that all my walls are ghost or psychic type.
Blastoise with aura sphere for no reason? Maybe a solution for Umbreon. And I’m swapping out Kingdra with Mienshao for the Magnezone… and hoping for the best.
… That didn’t work on Umbreon at all. So I’m trying Hippowdon.
... Which kinda worked, they die to each other. I guess that’s about as good as we’ll get. Lol.
... Mienshao isn’t working on Magnezone, so I will use Typhlosion. I think we’ll be solid after this. I just need to keep using Blissey for Glaceon, even though that's a pain in the ass because I'm just putting Glaceon to sleep over and over until it dies. But I have to save Typhlosion until the end and have it eat the synthetic seed, even though it can delete Glaceon in a single hit.
Done. Things worked out as planned except eating the synthetic seed raised Typhlosion’s Sp Defense instead of Sp Attack like I wanted. I don’t know. Fucking new game mechanics.
Sorry the pictures are kinda crappy, I was too focused on the battle and I forgot to take pictures of the Umbreon and Magnezone. :p
Adrienn, the Fairy Type Gym Leader
Yep, I'm stuck here. I was selecting pokemon for this battle and I've accumulated a box and a half of potential pokemon to use. And I'm not sure who to use at all. The only thing I can think of is to set up the poison environment, because there's a lot of surprise tankiness on this team (wtf with the assault vest) and I need something that can whittle away health. But there's the Whimsicott with tailwind that can negate the environment, which I think is exactly why it's in this team. But if I can outspeed it and obliterate it, it won't pose a problem.
That's all I care to think of right now, anyways. This looks like a fucking nightmare.