Let's storm Rocket Hideout, they can't stop all of us! [Get-Together Challenge 2019]

[Janp]

Spoiler:

CUBISM PLAYS WITH THE STATUE!
Cubism is too curious about this statue and decides to examine it. He pull a lever on its back and the whole hideout turned upside down. NEW GLOBAL RULE HAS BEEN ACTIVATED FOR EVERYONE! IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTION ON WHAT TIME IS BANNED FOR YOU, PING ME ON THE DISCORD SERVER.

BURRITO TELEPORTED HIMSELF TOT HE PAST
Burrito steps on the teleport and is taken on the other side of the Hideout. It might also take him back in time. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.

JANNA GOES UNDERGROUND!
Janna founds a huge hole in the floor. She decides to check it out. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.

TY IS NOW FROM GEN V
Ty still hasn't figure out if his Duel Disk is a toy, but he's now Parasol Lady from Gen V. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.

SUPERJOLT JOINTS THE POLICE
Superjolt was never lawful good, but he decided it's time to change that. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.

 

[budube]

You're welcome

 

[Fleurdelis]

OH NO CUBISM WHY I JUST EVOLVED MY DARN BUDEW AND NOW THIS HAPPENS HIOUAFUBAHSNOIUFNIOAUSFHAIOSFHASOIUFHSAFOBUOASF

*unintelligible Dutch curses and rage*

EDIT: Hold on am I now screwed since Croagunk was my chosen pokemon to stay in the team for the entire game and neither Poison or Fighting is banned for me?

 

[Lycanthropy]

Pokémon SoulSilver - Fog Badge

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[h1][/h1]• Hamlet, Revenge! - You can no longer use Poison-type Pokémon or moves.
• LOCK DOWN: Ground Barrier (GLOBAL RULE) - You can no longer use Ground-type Pokémon or moves for the rest of the game.
• Gardener is the killer - Put a Grass/Poison-type or carnivorous-like Grass-type Pokémon on your team. It must stay there this whole segment and must take part in the battle with Gym Leader/Trial.
• The killing weapon - You can only use Physical attacking moves for this segment. (No Status or Special moves)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles - Put canine Pokémon on your team. It must stay here this whole segment and must take part in the battle with Gym Leader/Trial.

The new rule told me to catch a canine Pokémon and it so happens that the first route I gain access to after defeating Whitney houses Vulpix. Perfect! There's a bunch of things to do around Ecruteak. I went sightseeing in the Burned Tower, Cianwood's Lighthouse, the Lake of Rage and even met Raikou (it felt the pain from The Hound's Quick Attack!) before finally facing Leader Morty. This proved to be the perfect opportunity to raise The Hound to level 24. Being at a level where Ember had already been forgotten, she had to do with Quick Attack, Confuse Ray and Will-O-Wisp. It works, but freaking Flamethrower is so much more awesome!

With these levels, Morty wasn't too much of a challenge. The Hound's Flamethrower burned two ghosts to crisps. His ace, Gengar, was no match for Tails's Tickle plus Astonish. Should have gotten a move besides Sucker Punch that can hit Normal types, pal!

Now, onward to room 16!

The team

Nice team huh? Goodbye to all thanks to the new rule.​

Beetle (F), lv. 24
Guts
Strenght, Brick Break, Aerial Ace, Leer

Maw (M), lv. 24
Torrent
Strength, Surf, Bite, Ice Fang

Tails (F), lv. 23 @ Silk Scarf
Run Away
Strength, Tickle, Swift, Astonish

The Hound (F), lv. 24
Flash Fire
Flamethrower, Will-O-Wisp, Confuse Ray, Quick Attack

Lightning (M), lv. 21
Static
Thunder Shock, Strength, Growl, Thunder Wave

Spore (F), lv. 18 @ Quick Claw
Effect Spore
Cut, Leech Life, Spore, Stun Spore

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[Sorvete]

Well at least I can use an Excadrill again

 

[WizardOfOdd]

Lol, i'll just keep this short and sweet. I beat Valerie Yay! Lucky Fell Stinger and Poison Jabs, Also Hydro Pump from a Lombre to destroy that Mega Mawile yay! Now please excuse me while i'm cussing in my room about this new rule...

Current Team:
WHY SHOULD I EVEN BOTHER ALL OF THEM HAD TO BE REPLACED ANYWAY :'((

I'm going to room 10, with or without elegance i shall conquer this freakin challenge

 

[Sheep]

no update yet but omg
I can use combusken and swalot again, but idk how I feel about having to train them up............

 

[Sorvete]

Get-Together Challenge 2019 - Pokémon White

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Male Servine (Attila) | Sassy nature | Overgrow Lv. 21 @ Chesto Berry -Vine Whip -Growth -Leaf Tornado -Leech Seed *Paired with Leo

Male Panpour (Leo) | Hasty nature | Gluttony Lv. 19 @ Mystic Water -Water Gun -Work Up -Bite -Fury Swipes *Paired with Attila

Female Venipede (Yana) | Docile nature | Swarm Lv. 21 @ Exp. Share -Poison Tail -Screech -Pursuit -Protect *Paired with Blaze

Male Darumaka (Blaze) | Hardy nature | Hustle Lv. 24 @ Eviolite -Fire Fang -Headbutt -Fire Punch -Facade *Paired with Yana

Badges: 3/8​

Part 3

In this segment, two new additions were made to the team: Venipede and Darumaka, named Yana and Blaze and paired together. Sadly they won't last long because of the new global rule. :( Darumaka served well against Burgh, though!

I trained Darumaka a little bit in Route 4 until it learned Fire Punch (It'd be nice to have a move with better accuracy than Fire Fang for Hustle), and went to the gym.

My main concern about Burgh was Dwebble. It turns out to have a greater base speed than Darumaka, so it could easily take it to the ground with Smack Down. Burgh led with Whirlipede (I actually forgot about that and was expecting a Swadloon lol), which was easily defeated with one Fire Punch... And by easily, I mean Hustle missing 2 times and him landing 2 Screeches on me. Next he sent out Dwebble, and there's no way I was gonna let Darumaka in the field with a -4 defense drop against a Rock-type, so I switched to Venipede. At this point, I'm improvising: I used my own Screech on Dwebble, so that it would lower down his defense and help Darumaka finish the work, and then I just sacrificed it. When I sent out Darumaka again, Dwebble did indeed outspeed me but surprisingly used Sand Attack instead (now that sure makes a great combination with Hustle, doesn't it?), and one Fire Punch was able to take it down. Leavanny almost Razor Leafed Darumaka away when it missed Fire Punch a thousand times, but one hit did suffice. Third badge acquired!

I'm going Room #15 next!

 

[Hyzenthlay]

Clover's Adventures in Johto

So my journey started off with my favourite of the three starters, Cyndaquil. I had such hopes for my Johto dream team, but Janp's global rule dashed them all! 😇 Oh well, I never realised how much fun these crazy challenges could be, and so I've taken the rule in my stride by growing a collection of poison-types!

In his last hurrah, Cyndaquil evolved right after taking down the first gym leader! So long, Quilava!

BONUS: I actually rejected Youngster Joey's phone number...

Spoiler:

I technically haven't entered 26, right? So ROOM 26!

Team

Noot Noot ♀ (lv. 6)
Vine Whip

Skulltula ♀ (lv. 9)
Poison Sting, String Shot, Scary Face, Constrict

Randall ♂ (lv. 6)
Hypnosis, Lick, Spite

 

[Janp]

Now, onward to room 16!

I'm going to room 10, with or without elegance i shall conquer this freakin challenge

I'm going Room #15 next!

I technically haven't entered 26, right? So ROOM 26!

Updated!

Clover, you're already in the Room 26, but I forgot to uncover it on the background. So next time you can move 2 rooms.

 

[the_fast_reader]

Alright, 4th gym beaten! This is easily the most forgettable of the gyms in Kalos for me. I literally had no memory of it and only realized it was my next challenge because I saw the little Gym statue thingies that signaled a Gym while randomly wandering Coumarine City. I remember that Kalos had A grass gym, that the Gym leader was an old gardener dude with a Gogoat, and literally nothing else.
The fact that in my first playthrough Braixen one shot it in three attacks was probably the reason....

Back to the challenge. For this segment, I had to use only physical moves, which actually was not that limiting since my whole team had mostly physical hitters anyway.
Bachi actually got to shine a bit in this Gym by spamming the Rage + Pin Missile combo, and El Santos took care of Jumpluff and finished Gogoat by Flying repeatedly in their face.
I love how Hawlucha uses Fly btw. His planet needs him!

Next update I'll apply the global rule which means a whole lot of backtracking to catch me some Ground Types.
After talking with Janp I've decided to keep Beedrill and Hawlucha as the only exception because of the "yellow Pokemon" and "put fighting or ghost type on the team".

Room #23 next, please.

 

[saniachan]

However, just when Luna arrived at Cerulean City, the emulator in my phone decided to be wonky to the point of it not letting her beat either her rival (his name is Eto btw) or Misty. Why does it have to be now of all times tho? 😭

And now that I have to restart the whole thing due to the awkward emulator, how should I handle this?

Btw I haven't started a new game yet. Not until it's clear whether I should use my previous rules or have my rules re-rolled.

 

[tokyodrift]

Rule: Team must have at least 6 Pokemon all with different types.

• Made my way to Floroma Town.
• Took down Team Galactic in the Valley Windworks building. Had quite a bit of trouble with the fat cat, but eventually I got a crit.
• Headed towards Eterna Forest.
• Battled Cheryl and we decided to go through the forest together.
• Made it to Eterna City. The Gym Leader wasn't at the gym so I had to head to Route 116 to find her.
• Took on the Eterna City gym. Since I had to have 6 Pokemon with me, I caught a Swablu and a Gastly. They didn't do much but they at least bought some time.
• Acquired the Forest Badge.

Team:

Shelly ♀ Lvl. 24 @ Miracle Seed
Overgrow
- Bite
- Curse
- Bulldoze
- Razor Leaf

Zuko ♂ Lvl. 28 @ Charcoal
Iron Fist
- Mach Punch
- Fake Out
- Flamethrower
- Taunt

Kamex ♂ Lvl. 26 @ Mystic Water
Torrent
- Bite
- Protect
- Water Pulse
- Withdraw

Janice ♀ Lvl. 23
Cloud Nine
- Sing
- Disarming Voice
- Pluck
- Safeguard

Steve Lvl. 23
Iron Fist
- Pursit
- Zen Headbutt
- Iron Head
- Iron Defense

Nyx ♀ Lvl. 25 @ Exp. Share
Levitate
- Shadow Ball
- Smog
- Confuse Ray
- Ominous Wind

Room 21 please! If possible could my trainer be changed to Elite Four Aaron?

 

[budube]

PART 6
Well so... I fucked up lmao
After obtaining my fifth badge and exiting the sewers one of the Mightyena thugs gave me more information about the New Elders, saying they were headed to some ruins, before going after them I had to make some changes in my team, with the new global rule now I can use only Fire or Ground Type pokemon. First of all I unboxed the Charmeleon I obtained in Part 4. Since I needed yet another yellow pokemon I headed to one of Telmurk warehouses and caught a Sandshrew I called Moonstone, who after some leveling up evolved into Sandslash, I also caught a Wooper in Telmurk's Swamp and called it Happy. After Charmeleon evolved I flew back to Valoon Town were I trained the Whooper until it evolved and entered the bug catching contest with the sole purpose of catching Larvesta, I called her Lucca. After grinding a little more I headed to the ruins, were I faced the third Elder Knight, Ezekiel.
This battle was harder than Enoch and Eunice's ones, because of one pokemon alone: Cradily, it practically sweeped the entire team thrice... I later remembered the move tutor was on the upcoming town and was already accesible... and also remembered I had Charizardite Y, after that Ezekiel was sweeped by Charizard alone.
I was still unable to stop the New Elders, and now they have the three legendary titans, the only thing that remains is bane.
Whatever, I headed back to the island at north were the sixth gym is located.
The gym was... unsurprisingly easy. Nothing to say about it, just that Lucca went through it all alone; after two Quiver Dances she one shoted every pokemon of the leader's team.

Team

Lucca/Volcarona [Female] lvl 46
Moves: Heat Wave, Quiver Dance, Bug Buzz, Take Down

Moonstone/Sandslash [Female] lvl 41
Moves: Magnitude, Fury Cutter, Rock Climb, Cut

Happy/Quagsire [Male] lvl 40
Moves: Surf, Earthquake, Ice Beam, Amnesia

Flare/Charizard [Female] lvl 43
Moves: Air Slash, Brick Break, Fly, Heat Wave

Gym Badge Count: 6

I don't know if I can move to room 34? If not I'll move to room 30

 

[Sorvete]

Ground Monotype Challenge - Pokémon White

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Male Drilbur (Watson) | Quirky nature | Sand Force Lv. 31 @ Eviolite -Dig -Metal Claw -Hone Claws -Rock Slide

Badges: 4/8​

Part 4

This segment was, um... Interesting.

Right of the bat, I had to box my entire team due to reasons, and the only type I can use from now on is Ground. There are, in total, five non-legendary Ground-type evolutionary families in Unova (an odd number isn't good for pairs), so not a lot to choose from.

My new rule is that I can only use one Pokémon for the whole segment, and the one I chose was Drilbur. It's a very powerful Ground-type for the beginning parts of the game, plus it can learn Rock Slide, a move that would prove really useful against Elesa's ground-proof Emolgas.

So I caught a level 12 Drilbur with Sand Force, and named him Watson. Had a pretty neat grind session in Pinwheel Forest, where some kind Audinos helped making my life a lot easier. It learned Metal Claw and Dig, and I was ready for the challenges I'd face in Route 4.

The first one was Bianca. She had a level 20 Dewott with Razor Shell that could easily OHKO Drilbur with much ease, and I was very scared about it. Turned out I had Drilbur slightly overlevelled, and two Hone Claws setups were enough to easily defeat her team. Cheren was a smaller treat, so I didn't worry too much about him.

By the time I reached Elesa's gym, Drilbur had already learned Rock Slide, and the battle didn't pose much of a problem. I had to play dice a little bit because her Emolgas would always land 3 Aerial Aces on me, which, despite the Eviolite, would hurt quite a bit. It took me two or three tries until I got lucky and reached Zebstrika with decent health to survive one Flame Charge. Another badge acquired!

You might've also noticed Drilbur got to level 31 but didn't evolve. That's just because I wanna wait until it learns Earthquake at level 33.

Room #16 is where I'll jump in next.

 

[Lycanthropy]

Pokémon SoulSilver - The real challenge starts now!

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[h1][/h1]• Hamlet, Revenge! - You can no longer use Poison-type Pokémon or moves. [REVERSED]
• LOCK DOWN: Ground Barrier (GLOBAL RULE) - You can no longer use Ground-type Pokémon or moves for the rest of the game. [REVERSED]
• Gardener is the killer - Put a Grass/Poison-type or carnivorous-like Grass-type Pokémon on your team. It must stay there this whole segment and must take part in the battle with Gym Leader/Trial.
• The killing weapon - You can only use Physical attacking moves for this segment. (No Status or Special moves)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles - Put canine Pokémon on your team. It must stay here this whole segment and must take part in the battle with Gym Leader/Trial.
• LOCK DOWN - Switcheroo (GLOBAL RULE) - You can now only use banned types and no other (dual types are the only exception). If no type is currently banned for you, you can only use Dark and Poison-types from now.
• Captured! - You have to box your whole team for this segment and can only use Pokémon caught after this rule was applied.

Two new rules that both tell me to get rid of my entire team and go catch some new friends. Well, I guess I'll have to do that then!

Xander backtracked through the Johto region for a number of Poison and Ground Pokémon to build his team from. His team took quite a heavy blow. From being overlevelled due to battling all trainers from Olivine through Mahogany to a team that's over 10 levels lower. And because he already beat all those trainers gaining levels will become... slightly more inconvenient.

Now, he's preparing to start the worst grinding session ever. And still without Exp. Share. Fun times.

The team 2.0

Dracula (F), lv. 13
Inner Focus
Bite, Leech Life, Supersonic, Astonish

Pebble (F), lv. 13
Rock Head
Rock Throw, Rock Polish, Defense Curl, Mud Sport

Muddy (F), lv. 6
Water Absorb
Water Gun, Tail Whip, Mud Sport

Fleur (F), lv. 5
Chlorophyll
Absorb, Sweet Scent

Snek (M), lv. 4
Intimidate
Poison Sting, Wrap, Leer

Shadow (M), lv. 4
Levitate
Hypnosis, Lick

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[bobandbill]

That was unusual. Now I had to basically start again teamwise - Geodude (ARMSTRONG) was only level 13, and Steelix (ROCKY) is banned by the 1.6m or less rule for the gym. :V

I decided to go with the global rule straightaway, so I backtracked to catch a Magmar (DISCO) from Burnt Tower. ARMSTRONG got some decent grinding on the Koffing in there so that helped. I then went back further to buy Thunderpunch TM for DISCO, and also Ice Punch. On the way I caught a Vulpix and Nidoran(male) (SINNER and DURANDORAN) and put them in the day care, in case I needed them down the track.

I then swung around to the Ruins of Alph and after some time caught a Quagsire (PEANUTS). It got Ice Punch and also Dig.

And thus I returned to Mahogany and continued onwards. I beat up the trainers there and got some new phone numbers, before taking on the Red Gyarados. I was able to catch it with not too much pain - a couple fainted but not too many balls used at all. Then it was time for some violence vioLance and beating up Team Rocket. ARMSTRONG evolved into a Graveler during that, and soon after became a Golem (thanks again for trading, Janna! :B). Mostly uneventful; I did some grinding on grunts.

Pryce was fine; Icy Wind did slow down my Thunderpunching DISCO, and so Dewgong was flinching me with Headbutt... but then I landed a crit before I was going to swap Pokemon, so that worked out. PEANUTS Surfed the Piloswine away.

Team doesn't include some boxed mons now...

DISCO

Lv. 28
Ember/Thunderpunch/Smog/Fire Punch

PEANUTS

Lv. 27
Water Gun/Ice Punch/Dig/Surf

ARMSTRONG

Lv. 27
Selfdestruct/Magnitude/Rock Throw/Dig

Banned

Lv. 17
Scratch/Cut/Rage/Surf

BREAKFAST

Lv. 5
Growl/Charm/Rock Smash

Room 17!

 

[Fleurdelis]

RIP Budew, gone but never forgotten

Alas time to go for what is imo the longest part between gyms (only to probably be beaten by the next step), changed my whole team apart from Croagunk because he's the chosen one/
So Ice types it is and now with Fire, Ground and Psychic on my side with only physical moves to choose from, this should be doable no?

Well it would seem it was since Gallade single-handedly erased the gym... what...

Bladedge (Gallade) lv 40
Swords Dance/Drain Punch/Leaf Blade/Psycho Cut

CyberDragn (Gabite) lv 36
Slash/Shadow Claw/Sandstorm/Dragon Claw

Bellboi (Bronzong) lv 36
Extrasensory/Imprison/Iron Defense/Confuse Ray

StingyBoi (Toxicroak) lv 37
Sucker Punch/Faint Attack/Revenge/Strength

RIP Budew (Rhyhorn) lv23
SteelSnek (Steelix) lv35
dunno movepool of them havent used them so far

NEXT UP, #22!

 

[Janp]

THE_FAST_READER LOSES A POKÉMON
The_fast_reader had all Pokémon few moments ago. Now she doesn't. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.

TOKYODRIFT ROCKS THE NEW UNIFORM!
Tokyodrift found brand new Rocket uniform. Why not try it on? New rule has been added, check your character on the map.

CUBISM THE AMATEUR
Cubism decided to take a path of amateur detective. Let's see how it will go. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.

SORVETEQUENTE SEE NO POINT IN LOOKING IN THE PAST
SorveteQuente is set on his target. There is no going back now. It's time to leave weak behind. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.

BOBANDBILL LOST THEIR BAGS
Bob stops when he realizes that he left his bag somewhere. Bill laughs, only to get his bag stolen by Golbat flying over him. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.

TY IS RUNNING OUT OF CARDS!
Ty used so many Pot of Greeds that his deck is slowly running out of cards. Some would say his deck is now pretty skinny. New rule has been added, check your character on the map.

 

[Lycanthropy]

Pokémon SoulSilver - Storm Badge

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[h1][/h1]• Hamlet, Revenge! - You can no longer use Poison-type Pokémon or moves. [REVERSED]
• LOCK DOWN: Ground Barrier (GLOBAL RULE) - You can no longer use Ground-type Pokémon or moves for the rest of the game. [REVERSED]
• Gardener is the killer - Put a Grass/Poison-type or carnivorous-like Grass-type Pokémon on your team. It must stay there this whole segment and must take part in the battle with Gym Leader/Trial.
• The killing weapon - You can only use Physical attacking moves for this segment. (No Status or Special moves)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles - Put canine Pokémon on your team. It must stay here this whole segment and must take part in the battle with Gym Leader/Trial.
• LOCK DOWN - Switcheroo (GLOBAL RULE) - You can now only use banned types and no other (dual types are the only exception). If no type is currently banned for you, you can only use Dark and Poison-types from now.
• Captured! - You have to box your whole team for this segment and can only use Pokémon caught after this rule was applied.

New friends, but oh so weak. Getting all of them to level 10 was doable. After that... oooof. With my team around level 12-14, it appeared to be quite troublesome to beat even wild Pokémon of the same level, even the ones that gave a crappy amount of experience (who'd have thought that Hoothoot could be this annoying?). After a while I decided to push on instead. Wild Tentacool, albeit level 10-24 (mostly lv. ~18) were the perfect target for grinding. Little Defense, no good attacks - Constrict? Pff yeah. Poison Sting or Acid? Only Poison and Ground here. Toxic Spikes? Hahaha. - and worth quite a decent amount of experience points, providing your Pokémon are say 6 levels lower, which they were.

Staying safely near the coast, as Xander still required a visit to the Pokémon Center every 2-4 Tentacool, his Pokémon had been killing Tentacool for some time until suddenly the boss appeared: a lv. 20 Tentacruel. His entire team together was only able to chip the monstrosity's health to about half. Hoping for a lucky throw, Xander lobbed his sole Ultra Ball at the wild jellyfish Pokémon, but it broke free. A Great Ball then? Wobble, wobble, wobble... click! Gotcha, Jelly was caught!

Now, Xander dared to Surf further into the sea. Fleur appeared to be quite capable of defeating all the swimmer's Pokémon and quickly evolved into Gloom. Jelly's huge special bulk provided a backup in case things went awry.

Still underlevelled as heck, I only blacked out twice against unsuspectingly strong trainers when back on land at the other side of the ocean. Ah well, the wild Gloom, Tauros and Girafarig near the Safari Zone would be the next victim of my grinding session.

Much later, Xander's team's levels were about the same as the old team, still much lower than the Gym Leader's. No matter. Chuck's Pokémon have fallen victim to the worst passive aggressive strategy ever. Primeape could spam Double Team all he wanted, but that didn't change the fact that he was slowly perishing from Shadow's Curse. Meanwhile, instead of actually trying to attack him, Jelly spend this time to lay out two layers of Toxic Spikes. Poliwrath's doom had already been laid out.
You know what's the fun thing about Curse? You can use it twice, equal to the number of Chuck's Pokémon. With Curse and Toxic Poison, his fate was sealed. Sure, two Hyper Potion extended his life a bit, but me swapping Pokémon between Muddy, absorbing Surf entirely, and Snek for some extra Intimidate spam meant his damage output wasn't too spectacular.

Storm Badge get! Who says you need levels or even damaging moves, right?

Now, onward to room 17!

The team 2.0

Jelly (M), lv. 25 @ Shell Bell
Clear Body
Surf, Toxic Spikes, Acid, Wrap

Snek (M), lv. 23 @ Silk Scarf
Intimidate
Strength, Crunch, Glare, Screech

Shadow (M), lv. 25
Levitate
Hypnosis, Night Shade, Curse, Confuse Ray

Dracula (M), lv. 24
Inner Focus
Wing Attack, Fly, Bite, Confuse Ray

Fleur (F), lv. 24 @ Miracle Seed
Chlorophyll
Mega Drain, Sleep Powder, Acid, Sweet Scent

Muddy (F), lv. 15
Water Absorb
Surf, Mud Shot, Tail Whip, Slam

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