So true... I played it four weeks ago and I was just in shock... And it didn't feel quite as bad at first, but as I said, it just felt worse and worse the more I thought about it. Again, Chuck, Clair, Cyrus, that stupid Ace Trainer (you know the one)... I just consider this ten times worse than all of those put together. It's sad, how easily I could have prevented all of this, had I just gone straight ahead and battled Hugh right away things surely would have gone different. And my being afraid to use Sludge Bomb because Overgrow made it hard for me to lean towards that.
And let's not forget, not helping at all was that Doctor. As if losing my own Clefable like that wasn't terrible enough, his spends over seven minutes torturing me with Minimize, Sing and Metronome. That felt like the biggest middle finger all game.
I will always like Hugh as a character, and I won't let this taint my thoughts on that at least, but battling him...yeah, no. That battle is one of the reasons why I think people should not underestimate this Victory Road. And Hugh telling poor Clark "hey, you gotta be prepared for the worst" probably does the viewers no favors.
But as I said in the thread, the only good thing is that the Pokémon that didn't die are the ones I was hoping to make it the most. And you did predict a few of the Pokémon I would consider but I won't say who they were. I'll say this right now - one of the other two Pokémon I used was one that most will think deserves more love...and the second was not. Also, you already know that I do win in the end (I did mention three weeks ago, on the 19th), but I won't say anything about the final fights yet.
In the meantime, I mentioned this in the Challenger's Clan, but I may just do something else to ease myself a little bit and just post about it there or tweet about it. I thought of doing a PersonaWedlocke on Alpha Sapphire or Heart Gold, since it looks like for Y (which I'll probably start playing before too long) people are leaning a little more towards the dice roll rules. I wouldn't make a thread for the former, but it would still be decent to do for a filler.