Did all the starting crap, named myself Chez, got the mystery egg and lost to ??? cause I never trained. I named him Stoopid and hacked in a Ledyba as it's night time on the game and Ledyba's only appear in the morning. Named Ledyba Popper and started my journey to Violet City.
It wasn't long before I noticed Popper's ability to die very easily, so I started grinding him up a bit.
Soon Popper had reached lv 8 and learned Supersonic, so I thought it was time to head north towards the trainers on the route.
Even then, he fainted against Youngster Mikey once, but steamrolled him the second time. The bug Catcher was a breeze, but Popper was low on health. Wade was also very easy, but he poisoned Popper, so I went to Violet Pokemoncentre. I then headed over to sprout Tower.
Popper levelled up to lv10 in the first battle, and had improved greatly since I first obtained him.
Popper fainted against one of the Sage's Hoothoots because he ran out of PP, but it didn't take long to run back up there. Sage Li proved to be easy other than Hoothoot, which almost killed Popper, but Popper won in the end. Now I just have to worry about the gym.
After consecutive losses against the first trainer's spearow, I decided to train Popper a bit. Upon lv15, Popper learnt Comet Punch, so I decided to try again at the gym.
Popper defeated the two trainers easily with Comet Punch, so I healed and Challenged Falkner. I lost once, but on the second try, I defeated him with ease.
I headed south towards Union Cave, battling through all the trainers. None of the them stood a chance against Popper, and by the time they were all defeated, Popper was a lv18 Ledian.
In my first battle, I realised how tough Union Cave would be, as Popper almost fell to the hiker's Onix. The next hiker's Geodudes weren't half as strong as the Onix, and Popper defeated them with more than half of his health left.
I taught Popper Swift with the TM I found in the cave and continued towards the exit, smashing a Vulpix with Comet Punch, but then Popper fainted from a Rock Throw from a Geodude.
After arriving at Azalea, I went to see Kurt, defeated Team Rocket, and fought Stoopid, whose Gastly proved to be a problem as Popper's moved couldn't hit and had to defeat it with Supersonic.
I then went to challenge the gym, which was incredibly easy, even Bugsy, whose pokemon went down in a few swifts.
I entered Ilex forest and helped get the Farfetch'd back, obtained Cut and caught Slave I the Oddish, and taught it Cut and flash. I went and grabbed TM02 Headbutt from a guy and replaced Popper's tackle with it.
I got out of the forest, grabbed the TM for sweet scent and headed north towards Goldenrod. When Popper got to lv24, I decided not to have him learn Light Screen, Reflect and Safeguard and just continued.
I arrived at Goldenrod, and went to the underground to challenge the trainers down there, raising Popper to lv26. I healed up and went to find Whitney. The gym trainers were pathetic and Whitney wasn't much better going down with a few Supersonics and headbutts.
I headed north after getting my radio card and grabbed Kenya, the spearow. I proceded to battle the trainers in my path, training Popper even more. I got to the Sudowoodo, who took a bit of effort to beat, but was not too hard. So I healed up in Violet, grabbed Rock Smash and headed towards Ecruteak.
I then taught Popper Rollout and Dig for the next gym, but I stopped playing for the day.
