-Started off by heading back to the Space Centre to go after Team Magma. Again.
-Got to Maxie and decided to use Pelly, Infernus and Duncan to face off against Maxie and Tabitha, with my main plan just to use Surf to stop most of their Pokemon.
-As you can see from the image, things went very well and all I had to do was use a Hyper Potion around the middle of the battle because of Pelly getting confused and being on about 1/4 HP.
-I went and got Dive from Steven, but then realised I had made the same mistake I did in Crystal and nothing can learn it, just like Whirlpool and Waterfall in the previous game. As a result, I decided to grab Tentacool from the PC as Pelly's replacement until I had visited Sootopolis and gone to the Seafloor Cavern.
-Got to the room with Archie and finally got TM26 Earthquake, which was given to Infernus to replace Bulk Up, due to it being rarely used, and then headed over to finally crush the evil man in blue.
-Things went pretty bad to be honest, I had to use 3 Hyper Potions on Grumpig who couldn't seem to survive any more than 2 Wing Attacks, and then another on Hariyama when he got confused from Swagger.
-I was finally able to add Pelly back to my team due to no longer needing Dive, and with that, I headed to Sootopolis to see Wallace.
-I headed towards Pacifidlog to go to Sky Pillar, grabbing Cruel the Tentacool on the way and getting some training in. Once I arrived at the town, I healed up and then headed over to the Tower ready to visit Rayquaza.
-I entered the tower and nabbed Brenda the Golbat on the 3rd floor and just continued on towards the top. I woke Rayquaza before flying over to Sootopolis to see the battle go down.
-I sent Maxie and Archie packing before grabbing Waterfall and entering the gym. I knew I was in need of some training, so I intentionally fell through the ice in the 3rd section and took out all the trainers.
-I headed back to Juan after healing up and prepared myself to lead with Hariyama due to its advantage with Fake Out. It was all going well until I saw the name Kingdra come up. I began to worry, but realised my best chance was to go with Rusty and boost him up with Howl. Of course, it wouldn't be that simple with Rusty getting confused then Kingdra began with Double Team. Eventually, after 6 Howls and a lot of missing, I got the hit and knocked out Kingdra. I then sent out Infernus to finish off Juan by Double Kicking Crawdaunt.
-Flew over to Mossdeep and readied myself for Victory Road, while also thinking who should leave the team permanently because I need Waterfall not only for Victory Road, but also to get to Steven so I ought to train someone new to take up the job.
-Eventually I made the tough choice to remove Hariyama from my team due to having another fighting type in the form of Blaziken, who I believe is far superior as a team member. In his place came Taka the Tentacool, just due to Cruel having an Adamant nature, ruining water moves for him, as well as Taka having better stats despite being two levels lower.
-On the way to the waterfall to Victory Road, Tentacool levelled up, and then evolved into Tentacruel, adding to the power she possesses.
-I decided to do some grinding, but before that, I spent the rest of my cash on lots of EV-Boosting items, giving Tentacruel and Grumpig a massive boost in Sp.Atk, aswell as Blaziken in Atk.
-I headed a little further in, before being challenged by Wally, who fell like a sack of bricks.
-I continued on, battling my way through the trainers, pushing towards the exit. Finally, I saw the light and followed the brick path all the way up to the Pokemon League. Unfortunately, I still needed a bit of training before even considering the challenge.
-With the entire team at level 50, I decided there's no time like the present and stocked up on some more potions and headed through the doors.
Elite Four:
-I started out against Sidney with Pelipper to take out Mightyena with its Intimidate before switching to Blaziken and easily crushing all of his Pokemon.
-Phoebe wasn't much of a struggle easily due to Rusty having Shadow Ball to take out most of her Pokemon before getting slowed down by Grudge.
-Glacia was wrecked by Grumpig due to Walrein repeatedly try Sheer Cold and failing due to Double Team with Calm Mind then powering him up to take out the rest of her Pokemon.
-Drake was pretty easy with the exception of Kingdra, who once again required a Double Team and Calm Mind combination.
-After the way the last few matches went, I decided that the best strategy was to take advantage of Grumpig and took out Wallace so easily it wasn't even fun.
-I flew over to the Pokemon League to restock before heading over to Fallarbor to go to Meteor Falls ready to face Steven.
-I started the battle and by the time I had taken out Skarmory and Claydol, I had used about 20 Hyper Potions, and half my Pokemon were below half HP. In the battle with Armaldo, I realised that I had to sacrifice Exploud in order to let Tentacruel one hit Armaldo with Surf. After losing both Beautifly and Duncan, I finally got a break when Metagross missed with Meteor Mash allowing Blaziken to open up with a critical Flamethrower finishing my run.