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If you start off with Misdreavus you can't get past the first trainer's Poochyena unless you either catch a Zigzagoon or Patrat (No. Just no) or are willing to go through all your PP and kill it with Struggle. Also, changing Misdreavus' only damaging move to something else might be an idea...