I've done a bit more on my Fighting challenge, I've just beaten Norman. Wattson was pretty easy. Pogg (Makuhita) took out Magnemite with Fake Out and a few Arm Thrusts. Voltorb got burned both literally and metaphorically by Cranberry the Combusken. And the Magneton fell to the great Leech Seed and Mach Punch from Marley (Breloom). And then Pogg evolved right after the battle!
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ph8gJDdHpc&feature=channel
Flannery was much harder. Damn Torkoal and its insane defences. The two Slugma were easy, Pogg's Rock Tomb showed them the door. But that Torkoal... the video will show it in greater detail, but it involved a lot of switching and healing and getting annoyed with parattraction hax and Flannery's liberal use of Super Potions. It ended up with me just having Breloom left, I thought I was doomed but it had already used Overheat twice and so its special was to low for it to do too much damage. Leech Seed saved me again, coupled with some Headbutts.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4LNhqccM9k
I then went and beat the crap out of my abusive father or something. He had Normal types, I had Fighting types. It was kinda poetic. I let each of my guys take one of his each - Pogg beat the first Slaking, Cranberry beat the Vigoroth, and Breloom handled the second Slaking (Leech Seed is the shizz). I got Surf from Wally's dad afterwards, and went to teach it to my Zigzagoon slave and... huh? Hariyama can learn SURF?! That is truly awesome. I know Hariyama's Spcl Atk sucks, but so does Hitmonchan's and an almost all-special moveset worked for him in Crystal. So I taught him Surf, saved and wrote up this update.
Video: TBA
Team:
Cranberry (Combusken)
Lvl. 31
Blaze
- Peck
- Ember
- Double Kick
- Bulk Up
Starting to fall behind the others in terms of power. Double Kick is OK but Ember and Peck are too weak to do anything good unless they're super-effective.
Marley (Breloom)
Lvl. 31
Effect Spore
- Bullet Seed
- Headbutt
- Mach Punch
- Leech Seed
Probably MVP so far, Leech Seed is one of my favourite moves and continues to impress. I don't know what to replace Bullet Seed with, it can't stay forever but there aren't really any other options when it comes to Grass-type moves. Giga Drain only has 5PP and Solarbeam requires a charge-up turn. I may implement a Sunny Day combo that would benefit Cranberry as well, but I'm not sure.
Pogg (Hariyama)
Lvl. 30
Guts
- Arm Thrust
- Secret Power
- Rock Tomb
- Surf
A right powerhouse. Rock Tomb has (and I imagine Surf will) come in useful for coverage. Needs a better STAB move than Arm Thrust.
