- Start as female player (Leaf), and name rival as Green (just as usual)
- Choose starter: Sprigatito
The main reason for choosing Sprigatito as starter was it was cute.
Well, the main reason is probably Meowscarada got the highest speed among all 9 grass starters. And grass/dark seems to be important to my team. Most grass/dark pokemon are either legendaries, or look to be a little weak. It should be fine for not using Protean in mono-grass, I hope so.
- Catch some grass pokemon and battle Green (twice) and Brendan
Up to now I got total 6 pokemon as follows:
Sprigatito (Starter), Smoliv (Route 1), Oddish (Route 22), Budew (Route 22), Morelull (Route 22), Toedscool (Virdian Forest)
By far these battles are good especially battle to Brendan. Honestly he was too weak compared with Green at Route 22. Brendan's pokemon were even at lower level than Green's.
- Battle to the first mini-boss: Lass Anne
I must say she was the first difficult battle I faced and I lost first time. She used Stufful lv12, Audino lv12 and Clefairy lv10 (even at higher level than Brendan). Audino actually got no attack with only wish, swagger and yawn, but she was a very bulky stalker to me. The main problem was Stufful with aerial ace and all my pokemon cannot withstand flying attack. After the first lose, I levelled up all the pokemon to level cap (lv15) for the battles.
- Catch some more Grass pokemon
What I'm doing was catching all grass pokemon as far as I can. They may not be useful now but maybe good later. I also run back to Pallet Town Route 21 for catching some. These pokemon includes:
Seedot (Route 1), Deerling(Viridian City), Applin(Route 22), Capsakid(Route 21), Lotad (Route 21), Shroomish(Viridian Forest), Sewaddle(Viridian Forest), Pumpkakoo(Viridian Forest), Bramblin(Viridian Forest), Phantump(Viridian Forest), Skiddo(Pewter City), Exeggcute(Pewter City), Hoppip(Pewter City), Poltchageist(Pewter City)
In most cases I will find all dual type pokemon, except some I don't like it. One exception was Snover at Viridian City. I liked Snover but grass/ice dual type seems not to be useful for mono-grass run. And the counter rate was too low. Well, if I found I needed an grass/ice pokemon, I will catch it later.
- Battle Falkner at Pewter Museum
Well, I got some mistakes here. I thought he got Emolga as my past experience, but I don't know he changed his team upon updates. His team was Rufflet lv12, Flittle lv14 and Wattrel lv14. I knew it should be hard against a flying team but his first pokemon rufflet already made me in a hard time. Well, I lost anyway.
I levelled up all pokemon again anyway and the main focus of the battle was:
- Lombre with Aurora Beam: I need to ensure her speed passing all Falkner's pokemon. It's fine for Lombre to withstand a few flying attacks.
- Nuzleaf with fake out: Fake out is always good. Its defense and sp defense are both fine to withstand flying attack too.
- Bramblin with shadow sneak: priority +1 attack was always good, and it damages flittle effectively no matter how she got speed boost and calm mind. It also got rollout if I really need it to counter the birds.
Well, after the harsh battle time, I won against Falkner.
- Go back to Pewter Town home to change my customization
That's the most silly thing I've did. I haven't checked the updates documents until Falkner changing his pokemon. And now I knew they update with clothes changing at my home. Well……
I started walking from Pewter Town Museum back to home, and I changed myself from Leaf to Marnie. Yeah, the game got Marnie customization. I can continue my journey later as being Marnie.