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Platinum Bug Monotype – Part 2 – Badge 2/8
Platinum Bug Monotype – Part 3 – Badge 3/8
Spoiler:
Continuing on our journey, I took Bidoof out of the PC and taught it Rock Smash. None of the trainers up until Floaroma Town were particularly difficult, and once I fought the first few Galatic grunts, I had access to honey, so I slathered it on the two trees I currently have access to, and decided to leave the game on hold for 6 hours and play Black in the meantime.
6 hours later, my encounters were a female Burmy and a Heracross. I caught both but don't plan to use the latter long term, I just thought it was worth picking up in case I do change my mind. I decided to leave the game until tomorrow before playing again, slathering both trees with honey once more and boxing Heracross.
The next day, I checked my honey trees again and I found Combee in one, which I reset to get as a female. It took a few tries but didn't waste a huge amount of time. In the second was a male Burmy. This now meant I had my entire party except for my last two female Burmy, so I decided to continue on with my journey, after slathering the trees in honey again, that is.
I levelled up Combee using the Galactic Grunts, but I knew I wasn't a position to fight the admin, so I grinded for a bit. After that, I took her Zubat down using Gust on my Combee, and took her Purugly down using a mixture of all of my Pokemon. She was pretty tough honestly.
Now that Route 205 and Eterna Forest were available to me, I used the trainers on those routes to grind up my Pokemon. Once I entered Eterna City, I picked up the Exp. Share and equipped it to my male Burmy. I picked up some healing items and repels, then fought the trainers on route 211 (the Bird Keeper was very challenging) and fought the trainers in Gardenia's gym.
Gardenia herself was time consuming but pretty easy to deal with, considering I had Gust and Bug Bite on my Combee. I just didn't hit too hard unfortunately, leaving me needing to heal up every so often, not that Gardenia hit me back harder or anything. A wet noodle fight would be the best way to describe this gym battle.
TEAM SO FAR (yay, the first one where gender actually has significance!)
Territot (Kricketune) ♂ Lv 22
Nature: Careful
Ability: Swarm
Moves:
-Growl
-Bide
-Fury Cutter
-Leech Life
Beeyonce (Combee) ♀ Lv 20
Nature: Hardy
Ability: Honey Gather
Moves:
-Sweet Scent
-Gust
-Bug Bite
Wam (Burmy) ♀ Lv 19
Nature: Mild
Ability: Shed Skin
Moves:
-Protect
-Tackle
-Bug Bite
Hunee (Burmy) ♂ Lv 18
Nature: Sassy
Ability: Shed Skin
Moves:
-Protect
-Tackle
-Bug Bite
Bidoof (HM Slave) ♀ Lv 3
Nature: Mild
Ability: Simple
Moves:
-Tackle
-Rock Smash
6 hours later, my encounters were a female Burmy and a Heracross. I caught both but don't plan to use the latter long term, I just thought it was worth picking up in case I do change my mind. I decided to leave the game until tomorrow before playing again, slathering both trees with honey once more and boxing Heracross.
The next day, I checked my honey trees again and I found Combee in one, which I reset to get as a female. It took a few tries but didn't waste a huge amount of time. In the second was a male Burmy. This now meant I had my entire party except for my last two female Burmy, so I decided to continue on with my journey, after slathering the trees in honey again, that is.
I levelled up Combee using the Galactic Grunts, but I knew I wasn't a position to fight the admin, so I grinded for a bit. After that, I took her Zubat down using Gust on my Combee, and took her Purugly down using a mixture of all of my Pokemon. She was pretty tough honestly.
Now that Route 205 and Eterna Forest were available to me, I used the trainers on those routes to grind up my Pokemon. Once I entered Eterna City, I picked up the Exp. Share and equipped it to my male Burmy. I picked up some healing items and repels, then fought the trainers on route 211 (the Bird Keeper was very challenging) and fought the trainers in Gardenia's gym.
Gardenia herself was time consuming but pretty easy to deal with, considering I had Gust and Bug Bite on my Combee. I just didn't hit too hard unfortunately, leaving me needing to heal up every so often, not that Gardenia hit me back harder or anything. A wet noodle fight would be the best way to describe this gym battle.
TEAM SO FAR (yay, the first one where gender actually has significance!)
Territot (Kricketune) ♂ Lv 22
Nature: Careful
Ability: Swarm
Moves:
-Growl
-Bide
-Fury Cutter
-Leech Life
Beeyonce (Combee) ♀ Lv 20
Nature: Hardy
Ability: Honey Gather
Moves:
-Sweet Scent
-Gust
-Bug Bite
Wam (Burmy) ♀ Lv 19
Nature: Mild
Ability: Shed Skin
Moves:
-Protect
-Tackle
-Bug Bite
Hunee (Burmy) ♂ Lv 18
Nature: Sassy
Ability: Shed Skin
Moves:
-Protect
-Tackle
-Bug Bite
Bidoof (HM Slave) ♀ Lv 3
Nature: Mild
Ability: Simple
Moves:
-Tackle
-Rock Smash
Platinum Bug Monotype – Part 3 – Badge 3/8
Spoiler:
First of all, I may have overestimated how long this monotype playthrough would take, as I was completely unaware that as of just after the second gym, you have access to 5 honey trees. I, of course, slathered them all with honey, but only need two more Burmy. Still worth it in case I get bad RNG.
I did the Eterna Galactic Hideout, and all 3 of my unevolved Pokemon evolved in here. Male Burmy into Mothim, Female Burmy into Wormadam Trash Cloak (who from here on out we'll be calling Wormadam-T) and Combee into Vespiquen.
The Admin, again, whose name escapes me, was decently challenging. Her Zubat was fairly easy as my Vespiquen gained Power Gem upon evolving, but her Skunktank was a little tricky to deal with. I slowly whittled it down with all of my Pokemon though, and the fight was done.
I received an egg from Cynthia which we won't be using, and fought some trainers on the cycling path, after picking up the bicycle and explorer kit. I found out that Wormadam-T's Hidden Power is either Ground or Ghost (which I later confirmed to be ground at Fantina's gym) and Mothim's is either Bug, Fire or Grass. I obviously don't know the power of them, though.
After that, I headed back for the honey trees and saved, intending to come back later and hopefully pick up my final two Burmy. Luckily, I wouldn't be waiting around as long this time, since I'd already wasted a surprisingly large amount of time playing the game. It would only be a 3 hour wait, as opposed to the regular 6.
After those 3 hours, I checked my first tree and got… Burmy! A female one too, on my first try. Second tree also had Burmy, but took a couple of resets to find a female one. Now that all time based events are complete for this playthrough, I'll be concentrating primarily on Black. Once Black is done, I'll be playing this through until completion.
-A couple of days later-
Now that Black is done, I'm continuing on my Platinum journey. I decided to raise one Burmy up at a time, making their evolutions easier to control. I fought all the trainers up to Hearthome City and used the V.S. Seeker I received from Lucas to refight trainers on the mountainous area to get Sand Cloak Wormadam, who from now on we'll be referring to as Wormadam-S.
Fantina was difficult. It took a few attempts. In the end, I used Power Gem on Vespiquen to take down her first two Pokemon, then stalled her Mismagius with Wormadam-T.
I also want to point out that all 3 of my Wormadam (or to be Wormadam to be) bizarrely have Mild nature, and that it genuinely isn't a copy-paste error on my part.
TEAM SO FAR
Territot (Kricketune) ♂ Lv 23
Nature: Careful
Ability: Swarm
Moves:
-Growl
-Bide
-Fury Cutter
-Leech Life
Beeyonce (Vespiquen) ♀ Lv 26
Nature: Hardy
Ability: Pressure
Moves:
-Heal Order
-Gust
-Bug Bite
-Power Gem
Wam (Wormadam-T) ♀ Lv 22
Nature: Mild
Ability: Anticipation
Moves:
-Protect
-Tackle
-Bug Bite
-Hidden Power (Ground)
Hunee (Mothim) ♂ Lv 20
Nature: Sassy
Ability: Swarm
Moves:
-Protect
-Tackle
-Bug Bite
-Hidden Power (Bug/Fire/Grass?)
Bam (Wormadam-S) ♀ Lv 20
Nature: Mild
Ability: Anticipation
Moves:
-Protect
-Tackle
-Bug Bite
-Hidden Power (?)
Slam (Burmy) ♀ Lv 18
Nature: Mild
Ability: Shed Skin
Moves:
-Protect
-Tackle
-Bug Bite
I did the Eterna Galactic Hideout, and all 3 of my unevolved Pokemon evolved in here. Male Burmy into Mothim, Female Burmy into Wormadam Trash Cloak (who from here on out we'll be calling Wormadam-T) and Combee into Vespiquen.
The Admin, again, whose name escapes me, was decently challenging. Her Zubat was fairly easy as my Vespiquen gained Power Gem upon evolving, but her Skunktank was a little tricky to deal with. I slowly whittled it down with all of my Pokemon though, and the fight was done.
I received an egg from Cynthia which we won't be using, and fought some trainers on the cycling path, after picking up the bicycle and explorer kit. I found out that Wormadam-T's Hidden Power is either Ground or Ghost (which I later confirmed to be ground at Fantina's gym) and Mothim's is either Bug, Fire or Grass. I obviously don't know the power of them, though.
After that, I headed back for the honey trees and saved, intending to come back later and hopefully pick up my final two Burmy. Luckily, I wouldn't be waiting around as long this time, since I'd already wasted a surprisingly large amount of time playing the game. It would only be a 3 hour wait, as opposed to the regular 6.
After those 3 hours, I checked my first tree and got… Burmy! A female one too, on my first try. Second tree also had Burmy, but took a couple of resets to find a female one. Now that all time based events are complete for this playthrough, I'll be concentrating primarily on Black. Once Black is done, I'll be playing this through until completion.
-A couple of days later-
Now that Black is done, I'm continuing on my Platinum journey. I decided to raise one Burmy up at a time, making their evolutions easier to control. I fought all the trainers up to Hearthome City and used the V.S. Seeker I received from Lucas to refight trainers on the mountainous area to get Sand Cloak Wormadam, who from now on we'll be referring to as Wormadam-S.
Fantina was difficult. It took a few attempts. In the end, I used Power Gem on Vespiquen to take down her first two Pokemon, then stalled her Mismagius with Wormadam-T.
I also want to point out that all 3 of my Wormadam (or to be Wormadam to be) bizarrely have Mild nature, and that it genuinely isn't a copy-paste error on my part.
TEAM SO FAR
Territot (Kricketune) ♂ Lv 23
Nature: Careful
Ability: Swarm
Moves:
-Growl
-Bide
-Fury Cutter
-Leech Life
Beeyonce (Vespiquen) ♀ Lv 26
Nature: Hardy
Ability: Pressure
Moves:
-Heal Order
-Gust
-Bug Bite
-Power Gem
Wam (Wormadam-T) ♀ Lv 22
Nature: Mild
Ability: Anticipation
Moves:
-Protect
-Tackle
-Bug Bite
-Hidden Power (Ground)
Hunee (Mothim) ♂ Lv 20
Nature: Sassy
Ability: Swarm
Moves:
-Protect
-Tackle
-Bug Bite
-Hidden Power (Bug/Fire/Grass?)
Bam (Wormadam-S) ♀ Lv 20
Nature: Mild
Ability: Anticipation
Moves:
-Protect
-Tackle
-Bug Bite
-Hidden Power (?)
Slam (Burmy) ♀ Lv 18
Nature: Mild
Ability: Shed Skin
Moves:
-Protect
-Tackle
-Bug Bite
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