Long update on my psychic run (most of Johto).
Struggled at first with Smoochum, reminded me of my weak dratini
Beat Falkner and Sprout Tower using luck (confuse and hope they die)
As with Dratini, once it learned a move of its own type, became a lot easier
Beat Bugsy with powder snow
Decided to make it harder for myself, caught Unown
Caught Abra, trained to Kadabra
Beat 3rd gym, (got lucky when rollout missed, really beat my weak defence)
Got Eevee (for Espeon)
Smoochum evolved at lv.30 :D
Taught Kadabra Fire punch
Thrashed 4th gym, psychic vs. poison? No contest
Thrashed 5th gym - for obvious reasons
Struggled but won against Jasmine, (Fire Punch ftw)
Beat Team Rocket in Mahogany
Beat 7th gym with Unown's hidden power (Steel)
Beat team rocket in goldenrod (its great how 90% of their pokemon are part-poison)(it's less great that the rest are Dark, that Houndoom was a tough one, not looking forward to the one in the Elite Four)
Caught a slowpoke (didnt realise Super Rod was needed for Staryu, will probably swap Slowbro for Starmie once I get to Kanto)
Beat Claire with Jynx..easy.
Got through Victory road, making rival look easy.
Eevee STILL not evolved...not challenging E4 until it does (also waiting on Slowpoke to evolve).
(Kadabra wont be evolving to make it more challenging for me, cos Alakazam is pretty much unbeatable with the right moveset.