So I started up the game, and played as the boy and named him Scott, which is my real name. I do like that female character though, i'll most likely play as her when I go through Y (particularly if I do a Nuzlocke).
After waking up and getting undressed, I was met with Shauna and Serena, who told me to head over to Aquacorde Town. I did just that, where I met Trevor and Tierno. Trevor's smart, Tierno's pretty fat-er, I mean big-boned. Anyway, Serena presented the three Pokémon to me, and ultimately, I decided on Chespin, which I nicknamed Chipper. Hardy nature, so that's fine with me. I then settled on S-Meister as my nickname and beat Shauna's Froakie in two hits of Vine Whip.
I'll just skip to when Serena shows me how to catch a Pokémon and gives me Poké Balls. Aw, does she like me or something? xP (I found it a bit funny that Mom thought the Prof's Letter was a love letter at first.) Anyway, I caught some Pokémon, including a Fletchling, Scatterbug, Bunnelby and Zigzagoon. I only really trained up Zigzagoon and Fletchling for now, because the other two I couldn't be bothered to do so.
After healing up, I went through Santalune Forest and found Shauna, which allowed for a good training opportunity since she heals me whenever I want it. I caught a Caterpie, a Panpour and Pikachu, while beating the trainers there.
So we made it out of there, where Serena, Trevor and Tierno were waiting, and got to Route 3. No new Pokémon caught here, so I went on to Santalune City. I did some stuff there, not too much, but traded Bunnelby for Farfetch'd, and put Pikachu and Panpour in my party. Then I went over to Route 22 and beat some trainers there.
Now to check out the Gym! I had Fletchling, so all the trainers were pretty easy. The first one had a Ledyba that missed with Supersonic. xP After getting through them, I decided what have I got to lose? Let's take on the first Gym Leader, Viola! "Come at me!" Sure, give me your shoot.
Santalune Gym overview:
Team entering the fight: Flutterfire (Fletchling F) LV12 - Tackle, Peck, Quick Attack, Growl
Chipper (Chespin M) LV13 - Tackle, Rollout, Bite, Vine Whip
Quacklin' (Farfetch'd M) LV10 - Aerial Ace, Leer, Fury Attack, Fury Cutter
Fries Jr. (Zigzagoon M) LV9 - Tackle, Tail Whip, Headbutt, Growl
Phil (Panpour M) LV4 - Scratch, Play Nice, Leer
Chulo (Pikachu F) LV3 - Tail Whip, Thunder Shock
She starts off with Surskit while I open with Flutterfire. She uses Quick Attack, but it hardly does anything, while Peck does more than half. Her: 40% or so HP, Me: 29/33 HP. She uses Water Sport, which is useless since I use Peck and kill her. Flutterfire grows to Level 13 after that, and learns Agility, which I drop Growl for since I never use that.
Afterward is Vivilion. I go for Agility just to be safe, but first she uses Infestation and i'm hurt by it. Me: 24/35 HP and +2 Speed. I use Peck, but it does less than half and she uses Infestation again. Her: 62% or so HP, Me: 16/35 HP and +2 Speed. I use Tackle as to avoid getting her to the range where she'll heal, but I get a critical hit and she uses Infestation again. Her: 18% or so HP, Me: 8/35 HP. She uses her Potion, while I use Peck and survive another turn of Infestation. I then do enough to kill her with another hit of Peck, ending the battle. Flutterfire grows to Level 14 after that.
Not much to report here. I had two Flying-types and a Pokémon with a Rock-type move (albeit a Grass-type), so I didn't think was going to be hard. Nothing too significant.
So she said some stuff about depth of field and my Fletchling, then I got the Bug Badge and TM83 for Infestation. Cool, cool. I left the Gym and that's where I parked it for now, after healing of course.
Current thoughts: So far i'm liking this, although i'm feeling that you gain EXP a bit slowly. Although it is the beginning of the game, so I won't judge that yet.
