Retrograde in Platinum
Part 2 - Final
Picking up this run from where I last saved, I leave Snowpoint to go meet Barry at the Lake Acuity. I have a brief encounter with Jupiter up there and soon it's time to storm into Team Galactic's HQ back in Veilstone. But first, I wanted to go grab a new friend.
I looked at my trainer ID and consulted a website to figure out where two of my save's Munchlax trees were. I discovered that two of them were in Floaroma Meadow and Valley Windworks, which are pretty close to each other, so I decided to go back and forth between them to search for the little bear. This took several hours and I even decided to settle on one of the trees. After many attempts, I was finally able to find a Munchlax, and successfully caught it.
Grinded him to be on pair with my team and also decided to replace Houndoom with a Swablu I was using for flying for convenience. Acquired both Snorlax and Altaria and proceeded with the story.
Cleared the Galactic warehouse and battled Cyrus at the HQ. Was a simple fight, and so was Saturn soon after. I freed the Lake Guardians and taught the necessary HMs to my mons for the Mt. Coronet climb. I had the path memorized so it took me no time to get up there. The Multi Battle against Jupiter and Mars was a simple one, with Barry being more helpful than anticipated, and so I hopped into the Distortion World to find Cyrus.
We battled there, after a series of puzzles, which I was pretty underleveled for. I led with Snorlax to tank special hits from the Houndoom and took it out with two Body Slams. Gyarados was next and I let Snorlax faint to bring Jolteon out safely and fire off a Thunderbolt. Weavile came out after and KOed the Jolteon, but not before he was able to weaken it with a Double Kick. Scizor finished the Weavile off with Bullet Punch. He was also able to weaken the Honchkrow a little with Bullet Punch before a Heat Wave easily OHKOed it. Gyarados came out and beat both the Honchkrow and Crobat with Ice Fang.
After the battle, I went ahead and faced Giratina, which I had to KO.
Once back in the normal world, I backtracked to Mt. Coronet for two things. One was the TM for Dragon Claw which I planned on teaching Altaria and two, was Feebas.
I searched around the lake for a while until I finally found one Feebas tile in the fourth row. This one didn't take as long as Munchlax. Evolving it was also a bit annoying since I had to spend 50k on Poffins
because honestly I couldn't be arsed to bake them myself, but not nearly as annoying as finding one. After that I just had to level it up once, which was pretty easy once I taught it Surf.
Replaced Gyarados with the Milotic and proceeded to grind for the electric gym, since I was a bit underleveled and had no Ground-types on my team. I also taught Altaria Earthquake for a super effective answer.
The battle went fine. I led with Altaria expecting a Dragon Dance sweep but the Jolteon had Thunder Wave, forcing me to KO it as soon as possible and then switch out. I brought Snorlax out on the Luxray, but it froze me with an Ice Fang, making Snorlax almost useless in this battle. Milotic was able to take it out with Surf later though, and the same with the Raichu. Electivire was a physical mon though, meaning Milotic stood no chance against it. Altaria outsped it and finished the battle with Earthquake.
With eight badges acquired, the path to the League was unlocked. Victory Road was a breeze and I had a quick battle against Barry next to the entrance. After that, I stocked up with healing items and challenged the e4.
Aaron was a quick sweep with Jolteon, except for the Heracross, which I used Alakazam for. Bertha went down with a few Surfs from Milotic. I decided to mix it up with Flint and use more of my members, and it was a pretty close battle at the end. Lucian was just swept by Swords Dance Scizor.
Against Cynthia, I led with Scizor again to set up on the Spiritomb. It took it out with an Iron Head but she sent out Garchomp next, which had Flamethrower. I sacced off Scizor firing off a last Bullet Punch and brought out Milotic to finish it with an Ice Beam. She brought in Roserade and I switched to Altaria, set up a Dragon Dance, and took it out with Fly. Lucario was next, and an Earthquake barely didn't KO, making Altaria faint with a Stone Edge. She healed as I brought Alakazam to take it out with two Psychics. Milotic was next, and Alakazam did about half with Grass Knot, enough to make a Mirror Coat one-shot it. Brought in Snorlax to take it out with a few Body Slams while tanking her Surfs, and it was almost able to finish off Togekiss as well, but she barely could take Snorlax out with Aura Sphere. After that, I brought Jolteon in though, and finished the battle with a Thunderbolt.
Team
Alakazam (Oz) | Quiet nature | Synchronize
Moves: Psychic, Shadow Ball, Focus Blast, Grass Knot
Lv. 57 @ Twisted Spoon
Jolteon (Spike) | Naughty nature | Volt Absorb
Moves: Thunderbolt, Quick Attack, Hyper Beam, Thunder Wave
Lv. 58 @ Magnet
Scizor (Wayfarer) | Gentle nature | Technician
Moves: Bullet Punch, X-Scissor, Iron Head, Swords Dance
Lv. 58 @ Iron Plate
Altaria (Cirrus) | Adamant nature | Natural Cure
Moves: Fly, Dragon Claw, Earthquake, Dragon Dance
Lv. 58 @ Dragon Fang
Snorlax (Cosmo) | Hardy nature | Thick Fat
Moves: Body Slam, Crunch, Brick Break, Rest
Lv. 57 @ Leftovers
Milotic (Arianne) | Naive nature | Marvel Scale
Moves: Surf, Ice Beam, Recover, Toxic
Lv. 59 @ Splash Plate
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