The Vault Hunter's Challenge

● information
OT: Moxxi ID: 24009
Badges: 5

● journal entry
I was playing Borderlands okay ooh la la Back to my journey.

I forgot to mention that before I reached Azalea Town, I caught an HM slave Wooper. I named him Scooter and boxed him because I didn't have Surf yet.

Today, I went to the Kimono Girls's house. Huh, back in GSC days, I battled the eeveelutions. Why was that Team Rocket buffoon dancing on stage? My Pokemon were some 10+ levels above the grunt's Koffing. A spectator gave me Surf for my bravery, so that's that.

Back to Olivine City. Earlier this month, I cleared the route and the Lighthouse. I taught Wooper Surf and made my way across the sea.

Once I reached Cianwood, I walked straight to the gym. I know I would not easily earn this badge. Swablu wasn't exactly buff enough to solo anything, while Absol and Metang dread Fighting. I battled the first karate dude in the gym and...! Combusken died after Hitmonlee's Meditate and Jump Kick. I used Absol for Bite/Flinch hax to take out the enemy Hitmonlee. I needed to train.

After healing up, I wandered around the shore and planned to Surf- hey, I ran into Suicune. And Eusine. Absol pretty much executed him. I leveled up Swablu a bit against wild Tentacool.

Okay, back to the gym. Swablu was finally tough enough to solo one Mankey, but then he died. Rushed to heal... So, I kicked off my gym match with Metang. I spammed Confusion. Confusion missed, so Primeape unleashed Focus Punch. I kept throwing down Confusion and it missed again because Primeape had used Double Team. Bye bye Metang again. I finished off Primeape with Absol's Quick Attack. Poliwrath owned Absol with a Focus Punch because I used Swords Dance. Surf 2OHKO'd Combusken. Swablu did what he does best, die. I lost against Chuck. -_-

Joey called to tell me about his top percentage Rattata. ):<

Grinding... more! I trained Metang loads since only she really has a chance of defeating Chuck with Confusion. Try 2: I easily overcame Primeape, but after exhausting every Potion and Revive, I lost again to Poliwrath, lol.

What to do... I grinded Metang until she learned Psychic. Psychic OHKO'd Primeape and chewed through Poliwrath. How about that! Easiest match ever once I bumped Metang up like 7 levels...

● party
Lilith the Combusken - Level 27
Gaige the Metang - Level 37
Zero the Absol - Level 33
Salvador the Swablu - Level 20
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● information
OT: Moxxi ID: 24009
Badges: 6

● journal entry
I taught Swablu Fly, and then he improved a LOT in battle. It was a nice change from using Peck and Fury Attack. Those were extremely hopeless attacks. I grinded Swablu a bit since he was the weakest link. However, I actually aimed to use Combusken for the next gym battle. I pretty much whipped Jasmine's team... but when I'm bad, I'm better.

I slowly made my way to Lake of Rage. I wanted to train Swablu more, but wild Flaaffy meddled with that plan. I wandered around the entire lake before surfing to the Red Gyarados. I KO'd it. Yep. Nice and simple. I have no use for it. I remember that in GSC days, I caught about 10+ of the Red Gyarados because I restarted my files that many times. I'm not sure why I collected them all since the Gyarados is a guaranteed shiny, haha.

I used Swablu to fight the majority of Team Rocket grunts in the hideout. Combusken evolved after she defeated the first Electrode. Yayyyy I have my firehawk fully evolved now! I fainted the other Electrode and so, I saved the day, for now.

● party
Lilith the Blaziken - Level 36
Gaige the Metang - Level 37
Zero the Absol - Level 34
Salvador the Swablu - Level 30
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● information
OT: Moxxi ID: 24009
Badges: 8

● journal entry
Ahhh let's see. Pryce fell to his knees fairly easily. I was extra cautious when facing Claire. After every other battle, I returned to the Pokemon Center and healed.

Kimono girls were MEGA annoying. I whited out several times. The Vaporeon and Jolteon were unbearable to face. I had to evolve Metang into Metagross to win the upper hand, finally.

Fortunately for me, Johto's Victory Road was very short to go through. I'm not particularly fond of caves. I didn't waste a minute as I made my way to the Elite 4. For Will, my Altaria did his thing and Dragon Pulse fainted Xatu in two hits. I moved in Absol for the rest of the match. I relied on Bite's flinch hax, though Will managed to set up a Reflect barrier. Although this slightly hindered Absol's capabilities, I didn't break a sweat during this match.

My team was surprisingly well prepared to face Koga. I owned Koga by using Metagross's Psychic and Altaria's Fly. Also, Blaziken's Flamethrower helped incinerate some unworthy bugs.

Deep breath, deep breath, sugar. Bruno. My team struggled a lot with rock, ground, and fighting types. Bruno could easily overwhelm me if I underestimated him. Risky as ever, I started with my Altaria. I didn't expect Bruno's Hitmontop to be that bulky, but after defeating that, I relied on Metagross to finish the remainder of Bruno's Pokemon. Metagross is a lot like Gaige; she eases the gameplay difficulty once she enters the fray. Awesome, I defeated Bruno! I didn't expect facing any more problems from then on out.

For Karen, I again started with Altaria and ordered a Dragon Pulse. Karen immediately used Double Team. NO. CRAP. NO. I WILL NOT LET THIS HAPPEN EVER AGAIN TO ME. I switched in Blaziken. Karen ordered Double Team again. NOOOO. I used Double Kick, which luckily hit Umbreon. With the cheap evasive gimmick removed, I found the rest of the battle to be rather lackluster.

Gah, Lance was PAINFUL. Fire Blast devastated my Metagross, my star player. Aerial Ace, or rather just the Aerodactyl in general, was a terror to overcome. Since I agreed to use the New-U clause, I could not revive any of my team members in battle. I remember trying all sorts of strategies to barely overcome Lance. Here was the victory strategy:

I led with Metagross and used Psychic to take out Gyarados. I used Absol against Charizard, as Air Slash could only 3OHKO Absol. So, I set up Swords Dance twice, healed Absol, and unleashed Sucker Punch. I wasn't sure which one of his Dragonite carried Thunder Wave or Safeguard, so I started using Night Slash instead of Sucker Punch. Absol had just learned Night Slash, lucky me, again...

AND HOLY
MOTHER OF MIDGETS,
DRAGONITE OUTSPED ME AND USED DRAGON RUSH......!
and it missed.

omg. no more playing around

I defeated Lance using +4 Sucker Punches. x_x

And... that there ended the first half of my challenge. I also RNG abused Roland the NidoranM. :) Too bad I cannot switch my party out; I am kind of tired of these four. Here are their Hall of Fame levels, too.

● party
Lilith the Blaziken - Level 53
Gaige the Metagross - Level 51
Zero the Absol - Level 54
Salvador the Altaria - Level 49
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