The Monotype Challenge

Infernape
Lv. 40
Ability: Blaze
Nature: Calm
HP: 115
Attack: 92
Defense: 73
Sp. Attack: 101
Sp. Defense: 73
Speed: 106
Moves: Mach Punch/Leer/Flame Wheel/Close Combat


Rapidash
Lv. 40
Ability: Run Away
Nature: Gentle
HP: 119
Attack: 97
Defense: 67
Sp. Attack: 76
Sp. Defense: 82
Speed: 110
Moves: Agility/Stomp/Flame Wheel/Fire Blast


Flareon
Lv. 40
Ability: Flash Fire
Nature: Bashful
HP: 106
Attack: 113
Defense: 58
Sp. Attack: 88
Sp. Defense: 98
Speed: 66
Moves: Quick Attack/Fire Spin/Sand-Attack/Bite


Houndoom
Lv. 40
Ability: Flash Fire
Nature: Mild
HP: 116
Attack: 82
Defense: 47
Sp. Attack: 112
Sp. Defense: 77
Speed: 95
Moves: Smog/Fire Fang/Bite/Odor Sleuth

Braixen
Lv. 24
Ability: Blaze
Nature: Quiet
HP: 68
Attack: 39
Defense: 39
Sp. Attack: 59
Sp. Defense: 43
Speed: 40
Moves: Scratch/Psybeam/Ember/Howl


Litleo
Lv. 24
Ability: Unnerve
Nature: Relaxed
HP: 66
Attack: 36
Defense: 41
Sp. Attack: 42
Sp. Defense: 38
Speed: 41
Moves: Headbutt/Noble Roar/Ember/Work Up


Charmeleon
Lv. 24
Ability: Blaze
Nature: Timid
HP: 65
Attack: 38
Defense: 37
Sp. Attack: 50
Sp. Defense: 39
Speed: 53
Moves: Shadow Claw/Dragon Rage/Ember/Smokescreen

Beat Team Flare HQ
VS Xerneas
Hurricane took about a third then got confusehax he missed megahorn
psybeam took another chunk on a crit as he used gravity
he hit himself an psybeam took him down to red
threw a repeat ball for the hell of it, caught first try first ball.

VS Lysandre
Meinshao was hard but scolipede was tanking it well with iron defense, till a crit killed me. so i took a +2 hi jump kick with crustle thanks to sturdy and hit hard with strength then revived scolipede who outsped and poison tailed.
pyroar was next and i dodged a fire blast and revived crustle, that allowed me to heal crustle and then die, he avoided a rock slide so i had to use hyper potions to tank his last 2 fire blast then because he could only use hyper voice i decided to set up a shell smash and finish with rock slide
honchkrow got outsped after shell smash and OHKOd with rock slide
finally gyarados, i knew it was mega so i went straight for X-scissor, he mega evolved, i outsped, Critical Hit!, gg lysandre

Went on to route 18
Caught IronMichelle the Durant (FINALLY team completed)
beat all 3 rivals
VS Shauna
Durant got some EXP smashing face here, hone claws gives it an ATK boost and an accuracy boost meaning hustle is much better now so iron heads all round

VS Tierno
Talonflame killed durant, crustle took care of it then butterfree took down crawdaunt and cleaned up his last pokemon

VS Trevor
Once again a field day for durant hone claws and sweeping aplenty

went to snowbelle, got TM energy ball and found wulfric
Gym was easy durant was a one woman wrecking crew with hone claws + hustle + Iron head
VS Wulfric
do i even need to say what happened? Hone claws, took an ice beam, hone claws, took an ice beam, healed up, iron head, bye abomasnow
even the mighty avalugg and its *Great physical defence* was OHKOd by the mighty Durant
and Cryogonal met the same fate.

Dikcpinch (Pinsir) LV50 Bug
X Scissor
Swords Dance
Return
Superpower

Fluttershy (Butterfree) LV 50 Bug/Flying
Quiver Dance
Sleep Powder
Bug Buzz
Energy Ball

Photon (Vivillon) LV 51 Bug/Flying
Bug Buzz
Quiver Dance
Energy Ball
Hurricane

Rocky (Crustle)LV 52 Bug/Rock
Shell Smash
X Scissor
Rock Slide
Strength

Paulie(Scolipede) LV 50 Bug/Poison
Screech
Iron Defense
Poison Tail
Megahorn

IronMichelle (Durant) LV 56 Bug/Steel
Hone Claws
X Scissor
Iron Head
Crunch

Now, you'd think that in a Rock vs Bug match-up, Rock would easily win, right? Yeah, that wasn't really the case here. Aaron wasn't hard, but he put up more of a fight than was expected, particularly because of his Heracross and Scizor. But I was able to power through him; there's only so much he could do when I had the type advantage. Onix, who had been having trouble in battles lately, destroyed his Vespiquen, so yay Onix!


Bertha initially had me worried because she had the type advantage and uses several bulky Pokemon. Fortunately, I had a plan to beat her. After taking down Whiscash with Rampardos, I sent in Rhyperior and fed it an X Attack and an X Defend. That, coupled with its high Defense, HP, and Attack, Solid Rock, as well as Ice Punch (thank you Platinum move tutors!) and some healing items, allowed it to beat down the rest of her team. Even had a little Rhyperior vs Rhyperior showdown.


Golem Rock Polish sweep.


I must've lost to this guy like 6 times before beating him. The low Sp.Defense of Rock types doesn't help you against Psychic types, who often have high Sp.Attack. Not to mention his Gallade has Leaf Blade and his Alakazam had Energy Ball. Those 2 were what gave me the most trouble. But after losing all those times, I figured out a way to beat him. The Mr. Mime he leads with likes to set up dual screens first, so that gave me an opprotunity to use 2 X Speeds and 1 X Attack on Rampardos. Even with Reflect up, Head Smash OHKOs Mr. Mime. Then he sends out his Bronzong, thinking he can wall me with Levitate and its resistance to Rock. Didn't pan out for him. I waited until Reflect wore off (more healing items), then KO'd the floating bell with an Earthquake; Mold Breaker is so nice. I then swept the rest of his team with Rampardos. Those 2 X Speeds allowed it to outspeed all his Pokemon, and none of them could handle the glorious power of Rampardos.


I knew Cynthia would be tough, since she's the only Champion who's ever consistently given me a hard time in all my years as a Pokemon Trainer. At first, things seemed to be going pretty well, with Rampardos taking out half her team thanks to another X Speed. It was the other half that was the problem. Garchomp, Roserade, and Togekiss gave me such a hard time. So after about 4 or 5 losses, I was finally able to defeat Cynthia. What happened was this. Started with Rampardos and an X Speed again, Head Smashing Spiritomb and Milotic aside, while dropping Lucario with Earthquake. Unforutnately, the (recoil) damage was too much for Rampardos, and it fainted. To deal with Garchomp, I sent out Rhyperior. But even with its great physical bulk and Solid Rock, Garchomp's Earthquake was a 2HKO, and Ice Punch failed to OHKO. So I had to sacrifice Onix to use a Max Revive on Ryhperior, bring it back out, and finish off her Garchomp. Then she sent in Roserade, who can single handedly destroy my team because 4 of the 5 are Rock/Ground. So what did I do? Pump Probopass full of X Sp.Defends. With +4 Sp.Defense, Probes could tank all of Roserade's attacks (with healing items), giving me time to revive and heal the whole team. Then had Probes KO Roserade. It even turned out that Probopass had enough Sp.Defense to not be OHKO'd by Aura Sphere, which let me Toxic-stall Togekiss to death. Though both Probopass and Togekiss fainted at the end there.

-Rampardos (M), level 57
Nature: Adamant
Ability: Mold Breaker
Item: Shell Bell
Moves: Head Smash, Earthquake, Zen Headbutt, Pursuit

I love Rampardos. It was so helpful along the way because of its devastating Attack and not completely sucky Speed.


-Rhyperior (F), level 55
Nature: Naive
Ability: Solid Rock
Item: Nevermelt Ice
Moves: Stone Edge, Shadow Claw, Hammer Arm, Ice Punch

Rhyperior was such a pain in the ass to use back when I first caught it as a Rhyhorn, but when it finally evolved and started to get some good moves, it became one of the best Pokemon on the team.


-Onix (F), level 51
Nature: Quirky
Ability: Rock Head
Item: none
Moves: Rock Tomb, Double-Edge, Sandstorm, Iron Tail

Even though Onix wasn't all that useful late in the game, I still have to give it thanks because without it, I wouldn't have made it this far.


-Probopass (F), level 53
Nature: Sassy
Ability: Sturdy
Item: Hard stone
Moves: Rock Slide, Shock Wave, Toxic, Rest

Probopass is easily the MVP of the whole journey. It's high Sp.Defense and only being 2x weak to Water and neutral to Grass allowed it to handle what the rest of the team couldn't. Without Probes, I never could've beaten Gardenia or Wake, and you know what happened with Cynthia.


-Golem (M), level 55
Nature: Rash
Ability: Sturdy
Item: Quick Claw
Moves: Stone Edge, Earthquake, Rock Polish, Explosion

Last on the list, but was the first one I caught. Golem was a good member of the team.

And the 6th slot was usually occupied by an HM slave.

got psychic TM for butterfree
got earthquake TM for scolipede and pinsir
struggled through victory road eventually
did some serious grinding at the end of victory road (oddishlave got hordes for scolipede pinsir and crustle to wreck while the other 3 had to settle for the slower grinding off graveler and druddigon)
got to elite 4

VS Malva
this one was fairly easy ish kinda not really.
Crustle Shell Smashed on noble roar and then smashed again to get to a decent level of ATK and take a hit with sturdy then OHKO with rock slide
Torkoal met a rock slide to the face OHKO
Talonflame STILL outsped me and killed me with brave bird
foddered butterfree and vivillion reviving and healing crustle, it dodged a rock slide but i kept healing up and eventually recoil + rocky helmet was taking it down to red, she healed up giving me the chance to Rock Slide and OHKO
finally came chandelure which killed me with flamethrower, foddered pinsir reviving crustle, and then confusehax stopped me hitting rock slide then misshax stopped me hitting it again, i did hit it on a third try but it still didnt kill it and it killed me. down to scolipede and durant there was no way durant was doing it so scolipede came in, outsped, and finished with Earthquake

VS Drasna
Durant really proved to be pretty mediocre here against dragalgae even a +1 hustle Iron Head didnt ohko it and it finished me with thunderbolt and surf. leave it to pinsir to swords dance as she healed and OHKO with earthquake
next came her noivern! which proceeded to take a big chunk off the incoming crustle, i lived a hit and rock slided for decent damage then she healed and i missed rock slide, i foddered butterfree and sent pinsir in to fodder it while i healed crustle, crustle took a hit and rock slided then hit another one as she healed again then finally died. scolipede took a super fang (she has air slash and never used it once) and finished with megahorn.
vivillion set up quiver dances on altaria which couldnt do much after +3 SpA SpDef and Speed it took a hurricane quite well but a following bug buzz finished it off. druddigon was last and it somehow lived a +3 Hurricane and dragon tailed me out to scolipede which megahorned for the win.

VS Wikstrom
Pinsir got up Swords Dance on the klefki using spikes and proceeded to sweep. no really thats it. Klefki died in one hit. scizor got critted and died in one hit, probopass died in one hit, aeigslash used kings shield to annoy me but a +2 EQ later silenced it for good too.

VS Siebold
decided to give butterfree a chance here, set up some dances on clawitzer then smacked with energy ball while confused (stupid water pulse) to OHKO. hit myself on barbaracle then dodged a stone edge, hit self again this time didnt dodge and died to stone edge, vivillion hit energy ball down to the red and doged a stone edge, hit another as he healed, and a third, i knew he only had 2 full restores so i finished with bug buzz. gyarados and crustle set up dragon dance and shell smash but he sadly outsped and got a flinch with waterfall even though i lived with sturdy then killed me thankfully rocky helmet took a chunk off him. pinsir took a hit and critted with return to take a big chunk out before scolipede finished with megahorn. one final megahorn finished starmie.

VS Diantha
Not too tough tbh
Crustle took a flying press and got shell smash up, her hawlucha swords danced but a +2 Rock Slide OHKOd it, next was tyrantrum which dodged a rock slide and OHKOd back with head smash thankfully she took a fair bit of damage too from rocky helmet and recoil. Durant OHKOd with iron head then switched for Pinsir on her Goodra
got swords dance up and took fire blast well then X scissor OHKOd
from here it was all durant getting a hone claws on aurorus as she reflected i got another one up and took a thunder, healed up and doged a thunder then got another hone claws up as she light screened, got another one up and dodged thunder before reflect wore off and iron head OHKOd, X scissor OHKOd gourgeist and gardevoir mega evolved right into a +4 Hustle Boosted STAB Super Effective Iron Head to the face.

VS AZ
Crustle set up shell smash on torkoal and OHKOd with rock slide then hit rock slide on golurk before healing to take a phantom force rocky helmet did some damage to him allowing rock slide to finish it off, finally rock slide OHKOd siglyph


MVP: Crustle, narrowly beats pinsir but unlike last game where crustle kept dieing and never did anything productive, THIS time it tanked hits like no tomorrow and handled my fire and flying weaknesses very well plus it was a decent sweeper late game too.
LVP: Butterfree, i was going to say Durant or Vivillon but durant proved herself against Wulfric and Diantha even if she didnt do much else and Vivillion overall had better stats, learned good moves like bug buzz much earlier and learned better offensive moves like hurricane to complement quiver dance. butterfree was just too fragile and when it did get a few boosts up sometimes it didnt even OHKO and i was like "WHAT!?".

Dikcpinch (Pinsir) LV63 Bug w/Soft Sand
X Scissor
Swords Dance
Return
Earthquake

Fluttershy (Butterfree) LV 60 Bug/Flying w/Miracle Seed
Quiver Dance
Psychic
Bug Buzz
Energy Ball

Photon (Vivillon) LV 61 Bug/Flying w/Wide Lens
Bug Buzz
Quiver Dance
Energy Ball
Hurricane

Rocky (Crustle)LV 61 Bug/Rock w/Rocky Helmet
Shell Smash
X Scissor
Rock Slide
Strength

Paulie(Scolipede) LV 62 Bug/Poison w/Black Sludge
Screech
Iron Defense
Earthquake
Megahorn

IronMichelle (Durant) LV 62 Bug/Steel w/Lucky Egg
Hone Claws
X Scissor
Iron Head
Crunch

- started game, named character Sylvie and rival Grey
- picked charmander as starter,named him Fenris, beat up rival
- gave oak a parcel, recieved pokedex and balls
- beat Grey on route 22
- easily made it through viridian forest
- took on pewter gym, abused metal claw
- struggled with onix, whited out..twice
- earnt boulderbadge
- Fenris evolved into charmeleon
- received running shoes
- Trained Fenris to lvl 20 before entering mt.moon
- fought through team rocket and a nerd to grab a random fossil
- conquered rival Grey and nugget bridge, had a chat with bill
- Challenged Misty
- Won the cascade badge
- Caught Meowth to be a Flash and Cut Slave
- Went onto the SS.Anne, battled passengers
- Beat Grey and got cut
- Took on Lt.Surge, won the Thunderbadge
- Fenris evolved into Charizard
- caught a few random pokemon for data so aide will give me flash
- recieved flash, taught it to slave and released random caught pokemon
- avoided as many trainer battles as possible: Fenris is growing too strong, want to save the xp for next fire type
- ran right ahead to route 8, caught a Vulpix, named her Riana

Fenris the Calm lvl 39
wing attack - smokescreen - flamethrower - metal claw
Riana the Timid lvl 19
tail whip - dig - quick attack - will o' wisp

#212 Scizor ♂
Level 34 - Nature: Rash - Ability: Technician
IVs: 31/16/31/22/12/13
-U-turn
-Wing Attack
-Pursuit
-Rock Smash


#205 Forretress ♂
Level 34 - Nature: Modest - Ability: Sturdy
IVs: 1/20/10/18/5/22
-Bug Bite
-Take Down
-Payback
-Spikes


#168 Ariados ♀
Level 35 - Nature: Serious - Ability: Insomnia
IVs: 16/19/0/23/6/11
-Night Shade
-Shadow Sneak
-Sucker Punch
-Thief


#469 Yanmega ♀
Level 34 - Nature: Relaxed - Ability: Speed Boost
IVs: 3/31/23/28/18/13
-SonicBoom
-Shadow Ball
-Quick Attack
-AncientPower


#166 Ledian ♀
Level 34 - Nature: Mild - Ability: Swarm
IVs: 17/20/4/16/24/4
-Mach Punch
-Silver Wind
-Reflect
-Light Screen


#214 Heracross ♂
Level 34 - Nature: Adamant - Ability: Guts
IVs: 22/28/31/24/29/27
-Brick Break
-Aerial Ace
-Night Slash
-Shadow Claw

-Named Self Avie
-Chose Torchic, nicknamed it Chickflick
-Beat May!
-Recieved Pokedex
-Realized I accidently named my Torchic Ghickflick, not Chickflick Orz
-Arrived in Petalburg City (Ghickflick = Lvl 10)
-Watched Wally Catch a Ralts
-Arrived in Rustboro City (GF = LVL 13)
-Challenged Rustboro Gym
-Ghickflick Evolved to Combusken
-Beat Roxanne! (⅛) (GF = LVL 17)
-Obtained PokeNav
-Beat Rival
-Arrived in Dewford Town,
-Encountered Steven
-Arrived in Slateport City (GF = 20)
-Renamed GhickFlick to ChickFlick.
_Delivered the Devon Goods, and bea up some aquas
-Defeated Rival
-Arrived in Mauville City
-Challenged Mauville City Gym
-Defeated Wattson (2/8) (Chickflick = 33)
-Beat the Winstrates
-Caight Zigzagoon and named it Slammy (Hm slave)
-Caught Slugma
-Caught Torkoal
-Caught Numel and named it Nummies
-Chickflick evolved to Blaziken
-Arrived in Fallarbor Town
(Chickflick = LVL 36
Nummies = LVL 15
Slugma = LVL 16
Torkoal = LVL 14)

-Named Self Avie
-Nicknamed self Bee's Knees
-Chose Fennekin
-Named him Fennel Cake
-Beat Shauna
-Caught Fletchling!
-Nicknamed her Air-row (It can fly, and is a pun on Arrow, since fletching is the feathers on an arrow. Fletching, Fletchling, get it? I'll shut up now)
-Caught Pansear
-Named him Axel (KH anyone? no? okay… Orz)
-Arrived in Santalune City
Fennel Cake, Fennekin, Level 10
Axel, Pansear, Level 8
Air-row, Fletchling, Level 8
-Challenged Santalune City Gym
-Defeated Viola!
-Received the Bug Badge (⅛)
-Arrived in Lumiose City
Fennel Cake, Fennekin, Level 13.
Axel, Pansear, Level 9
Air-row, Fletchling, Level 11
-Defeated Professor Sycamore
-Received Charmander
-Named him Posiepants
-Defeated Tierno
-Arrived in Camphrier Town
Fennel Cake, Fennekin, Level 14
Air-row, Fletchling, Level 14
Axel, Pansear, Level 13
Posiepants, Charmander, Level 12
-Found Furfrou
-Had a romantic moment with Shauna (?)
-Received the Pokeflute
-Posiepants evolved to a Charmeleon
-Fennel Cake evolved to a Braixen
-Defeated Wild Snorlax
-Air-row evolved to a Fletchinder
-Arrived in Ambrette Town
Fennel Cake, Breixen, Level 17
Air-Row, Fletchling, Level 17
Axel, Pansear, Level 17
Posiepants Level 17
-Traveled to the Glittering cave and encountered Team Flare, and won.
-Chose the Jaw fossil

Delphox
Lv. 38
Ability: Blaze
Nature: Quiet
HP: 115
Attack: 69
Defense: 71
Sp. Attack: 112
Sp. Defense: 90
Speed: 84
Moves: Grass Knot/Psyshock/Mystical Fire/Light Screen


Pyroar
Lv. 39
Ability: Unnerve
Nature: Relaxed
HP: 121
Attack: 72
Defense: 78
Sp. Attack: 95
Sp. Defense: 69
Speed: 90
Moves: Echoed Voice/Noble Roar/Flamethrower/Work Up


Charizard
Lv. 39
Ability: Blaze
Nature: Timid
HP: 117
Attack: 77
Defense: 74
Sp. Attack: 102
Sp. Defense: 77
Speed: 103
Moves: Shadow Claw/Wing Attack/Flame Burst/Smokescreen


Flareon
Lv. 38
Ability: Flash Fire
Nature: Docile
HP: 104
Attack: 107
Defense: 51
Sp. Attack: 83
Sp. Defense: 91
Speed: 64
Moves: Baby-Doll Eyes/Fire Fang/Quick Attack/Bite


Houndoom
Lv. 39
Ability: Flash Fire
Nature: Lonely
HP: 112
Attack: 89
Defense: 45
Sp. Attack: 97
Sp. Defense: 76
Speed: 87
Moves: Howl/Fire Fang/Return/Feint Attack

- taught Fenris rockslide and brick break
- entered pokemon tower, beat Grey, left tower to fetch silph scope
- stocked up on supplies before heading out towards celadon training Riana
- bought 2 firestones at celedon department store
- Riana hit lvl 29 and finally learnt flamethrower
- found HM fly, taught Fly to Fenris
- returned to cerulean and picked up bike
- returned to celadon, received and Eevee, named it Levi
- Evolved Levi into Flareon
- taught Levi Dig, trained around vermillion with Vs.Seeker
- breezed through Gym and received rainbow badge
- entered game corner: bought 3100/4000 coins needed for flamethrower
- attacked rocket grunt, found hideout, infiltrated
- beat up team rocket and Giovanni, though Riana did fall to kangaskhan, Fenris saved the day as usual
- 3617/4000 coins bought
- gave tea to a gate guard,
- returned to pokemon tower in lavender with silph scope
- climbed tower put marowak to rest, saved mr.fuji
- received pokeflute > traveled to celadon removed snorlax
- bought flamethrower TM from game corner > taught it to Levi
- removed second snorlax and traveled to fuschia city
- Riana reached lvl 41, evolved her into a Ninetails
- challenged fushia gym, beat koga and got Soul badge
- Flew to saffron and took on the fighting dojo > picked prize pokemon at random and boxed it
- stormed the Silph co. building
- for some reason Grey is chilling out in the building ignoring team rocket. kicked his ass
- received free lapras. named it Boat,
- beat Giovanni again
- healed up before taking on sabrina at the gym
- earnt my 6th badge
- returned to fushia to get required items from safari
- received Surf and returned teeth to warden > received strength
- taught both to Boat

Fenris the Calm lvl 50
Fly - Flamethrower - Rock Throw - Brick Break
Riana the Timid lvl 50
Flamethrower - Dig - Quick attack - Confuse Ray
Levi the Docile lvl 50
Dig - Flamethrower - Bite - Quick attack

Delphox
Lv. 52
Ability: Blaze
Nature: Quiet
HP: 156
Attack: 98
Defense: 96
Sp. Attack: 154
Sp. Defense: 123
Speed: 115
Moves: Will-O-Wisp/Psychic/Mystical Fire/Calm Mind


Pyroar
Lv. 52
Ability: Unnerve
Nature: Relaxed
HP: 160
Attack: 99
Defense: 104
Sp. Attack: 126
Sp. Defense: 92
Speed: 121
Moves: Hyper Voice/Noble Roar/Flamethrower/Hidden Power(Rock)


Charizard
Lv. 52
Ability: Blaze
Nature: Timid
HP: 153
Attack: 105
Defense: 99
Sp. Attack: 138
Sp. Defense: 102
Speed: 138
Moves: Hidden Power(Electric)/Wing Attack/Flamethrower/Smokescreen


Flareon
Lv. 52
Ability: Flash Fire
Nature: Docile
HP: 141
Attack: 147
Defense: 71
Sp. Attack: 113
Sp. Defense: 124
Speed: 88
Moves: Baby-Doll Eyes/Flare Blitz/Quick Attack/Bite


Houndoom
Lv. 53
Ability: Flash Fire
Nature: Lonely
HP: 152
Attack: 124
Defense: 63
Sp. Attack: 132
Sp. Defense: 103
Speed: 122
Moves: Howl/Flamethrower/Return/Hidden Power(Dark)


Chandelure
Lv. 52
Ability: Flash Fire
Nature: Modest
HP: 127
Attack: 59
Defense: 106
Sp. Attack: 183
Sp. Defense: 102
Speed: 98
Moves: Hidden Power(Dragon)/Hex/Calm Mind/Flamethrower

Recieved Surf after saving a Kimono Girl
Arrived in Olivine, climbed the lighthouse, met Jasmine
Surfed off to Cianwood
Challenged Cianwood Gym. Friggin Hypnosis kept hitting every time, but we still won. Obtained the Storm Badge.

Challenged Jasmine. Much easier than Chuck; Brian (Quagsire) just Mud Bombed everything. Obtained Mineral Badge.

Obtained Shellder (New Bark Town), named Mary.
Arrived in Mahogany Town.
Went to the Lake of Rage, caught the Red Gyarados (named it Jack)
Took a visit to the totally not suspicious souvenir shop and beat up some Rocket people with the help of Lance
Challenged Mahogany Gym, took on Pryce. Easy enough, especially with Metal Claw on Dave (Kingler).
Dashed off to the Whirl Islands and caught myself a Horsea, named Samantha

Finally obtained Waterfall at long last
Challenged Victory Road; it took a long time and we had many KOs but eventually made it through; team was around L.52 by the end.
Battled Rival one last time. I do like his battle music.
Level-grinded a bit in Victory Road until everybody hit L60

My Team:
Bering (Empoleon)- Surf, Flash Cannon, Ice Beam, Stealth Rock
Frank (Bibarel)- Return, Waterfall, Grass Knot, Superpower
Misty (Golduck)- Waterfall, Psychic, Shadow Claw, Aerial Ace
Jessica (Floatzel)- Waterfall, Crunch, Ice Punch, Brick Break
Maury (Gastrodon)- Surf, Earthquake, Sludge Bomb, Recover
Megumi (Octillery)- Surf, Flamethrower, Ice Beam, Signal Beam

ELITE FOUR

Aaron: Bering sets up Stealth Rocks on Yanmega, then Ice Beams. Heracross goes down to a few Psychics, Ice Punch KOs Vespiquen, Earthquake KOs Drapion, and Scizor falls to Flamethrower.

Bertha: Frank leads with Grass Knot on Whiscash, then we suuuuuuuuurf

Flint: Bering Stealth Rocks on Houndoom, Houndoom uses Sunny Day. Flamethrower nearly KOs Bering but Houndoom falls to Surf. Infernape begins Flare Blitzing Maury but even with the sun barely even takes half his health. Maury recovers until the sun goes away, surfs, and recovers some more until recoil KOs Infernape. For the rest, suuuuuuuuurf

Lucian: Mr. Mime gets up Reflect before Maury can KO it. Not ideal. Next out is Alakazam. Jessica Brick breaks to get rid of Reflect, Energy Ball puts Jessica into red health, Crunch finishes Alakazam off. Next is Gallade. Shadow Claw 2HKOs it, but Misty takes a lot of damage from Leaf Blade. Flamethrower 2HKOs Bronzong. I risk sending Misty against Espeon. Shadow claw is not enough to KO, so I send in Jessica and Crunch while it heals. All in all, not a fun fight.

VS Cynthia
I lead with Bering and Stealth Rock on Spiritomb. Its dark pulse does next to nothing, and Surf 2HKOes it. I send in Jessica next. Garchomp is 1HKOed by Ice Punch, so is Roserade. Ice punch gets Togekiss down into the red and scores a lucky Freeze. Cynthia heals next turn; after that Ice Punch 2HKOes it. Lucario falls to a lucky critical Brick Break, Milotic is 2HKOed by Crunch, and with that we have swept Cynthia's team!

#586 Mollie (Sawsbuck) ♀
Level 38 - Nature: Bashful - Ability: Chlorophyll
IVs: 14/29/15/2/13/0
-Jump Kick
-Horn Leech
-Faint Attack
-Take Down


#508 Fluffy (Stoutland) ♀
Level 38 - Nature: Careful - Ability: Intimidate
IVs: 19/4/30/29/7/23
-Take Down
-Crunch
-Work Up
-Bite


#573 Chu-Chu (Cinccino) ♀
Level 38 - Nature: Rash - Ability: Technician
IVs: 22/9/12/10/22/5
-Tail Slap
-Encore
-Swift
-Wake-Up Slap


#505 Skippy (Watchog) ♂
Level 38 - Nature: Lax - Ability: Illuminate
IVs: 18/12/27/13/13/24
-Hyper Fang
-Super Fang
-Crunch
-Confuse Ray


#521 Arnold (Unfezant) ♂
Level 39 - Nature: Naive - Ability: Big Pecks
IVs: 25/30/22/21/13/14
-Fly
-Air Slash
-Roost
-Quick Attack

Went through Victory Road
Pawniard evolved into Bisharp
Entered the Pokemon League

First Battle
Vs. Caitlin

Vullaby vs Reuniclus
Vullaby used faint attack
Reuniclus used Thunder, Vullaby fainted

Bisharp vs. Reuniclus
Bisharp used night slash, Reuniclus fainted

Bisharp vs. Gothitelle
Bisharp used night slash
Gothitelle used calm mind
Caitlin used a full restore
Bisharp used night slash
Caitlin used a full restore
Bisharp used night slash
Bisharp used night slash, Gothitelle fainted

Bisharp vs. Musharna
Bisharp used Night Slash
Musharna used Charge Beam, Musharna missed
Bisharp used Night Slash, Musharna fainted

Bisharp vs. Sigilyph
Sigilyph used air slash and missed
Bisharp used Night Slash, Sigilyph fainted

Turns out 3 of her 4 pokemon had an electric type attack and the fourth had an ice type attack so Vullaby never had a chance in hell of sweeping her, after Vullaby fainted Bisharp went on a roaring rampage of revenge and swept all her pokemon without taking any damage at all.

Second Battle
Vs. Shauntal

Vullaby vs. Cofagrigus
Vullaby used faint attack
Cofagrigus used Shadow ball
Vullaby used faint attack
Cofagrigus used Shadow ball
Shauntal used a full restore
Vullaby used faint attack
Cofagrigus used will o wisp and missed
Vullaby used faint attack
Cofagrigus used shadow ball, vullaby survived with 10 hp
Vullaby used faint attack, Cofagrigus fainted

Krookodile vs. Chandelure
Krookodile used crunch
Chandelure used fire blast, Krookodile was burned
Krookodile used crunch, Chandelure fainted

Liepard vs. Jellicent
Liepard used Night Slash
Jellicent used Surf, it was a critical hit, Liepard fainted

Vullaby vs. Jellicent
Vullaby used faint attack, Jellicent fainted
Vullaby's faint attack was disabled by cursed body

Vullaby vs. Golurk
Used a hyper potion
Golurk used brick break
Vullaby used Fly
Golurk used Curse, it missed then used it again after fly hit.
Vullaby's faint attack was no longer disabled
Vullaby used faint attack, Golurk fainted

Third Battle
Vs. Grimsley

Vullaby vs. Scrafty
Vullaby used fly
Scrafty used sand attack, missed then used it again after fly hit next turn
Vullaby used fly, Scrafty fainted

Krookodile Vs. Krookodile
Just for laughs I sent in my krookodile against grimsley's krookodile
My Krookodile used bulldoze
His used earthquake.
My Krookodile used bulldoze
His used earthquake.
My Krookodile used bulldoze
His used earthquake.
My Krookodile used bulldoze, it was a critical hit, Grimsley's Krookodile fainted

Scrafty vs. Bisharp
Bisharp used Aerial Ace
Scrafty used Brick Break, Bisharp fainted

Vullaby vs. Liepard
Liepard used fake out
Vullaby flinched
Liepard used Aerial Ace
Vullaby used Fly
Liepard used Aerial Ace
Vullaby used Fly, Liepard fainted
Vullaby evolved into Mandibuzz

Fourth Battle
Vs. Marshal

Mandibuzz vs. Throh
Mandibuzz used Fly
Throh used stone edge, missed because of fly, then missed again after fly hit
Mandibuzz used Fly, Throh fainted

Mandibuzz vs. Sawk
Sawk used Stone edge
Mandibuzz used fly
Sawk used stone edge after fly hit
Marshal used a full restore
Mandibuzz used faint attack to get past Sawk's ability sturdy
Sawk used brick break
Mandibuzz used fly, Sawk fainted

Scrafty vs. Conkeldurr
Sent scrafty in hoping it might survive conkeldurr's first attack and do some damage after healing Mandibuzz with a hyper potion, no such luck
Used a hyper potion to heal mandibuzz
Conkeldurr used hammer arm, critical hit, Scrafty fainted

Mandibuzz vs. Conkeldurr
Mandibuzz used fly
Conkeldurr used stone edge, after fly hit
Mandibuzz eventually ko conkeldurr with fly

Mandibuzz vs. Mienshao
Mienshao used rock slide, it missed
Mandibuzz used fly, missed as well
Mienshao used rock slide
Mandibuzz used fly, Mienshao fainted

Seriously all 4 of his pokemon had a rock type attack, good thing mandibuzz has such good defense or this match might have been a nightmare.

Entered team plasma's castle
Took out the oshawott I had originally planned to use as an hm slave so reshiram wouldn't join my party after catching it
Battled N

Krookodile vs. Zekrom
Unbelievably krookodile made zekrom look horribly weak
Krookodile used dragon claw
Zekrom used giga impact and missed
Krookodile used dragon claw, critical hit, zekrom fainted

Scrafty vs. Vanilluxe
And the surprises keep on coming, Vanilluxe actually managed to put up a fight against Scrafty, though part of it was because N kept using full restore and it used hail in the beginning
Vanilluxe used hail
Scrafty used brick break, vanilluxe survived
Scrafty took damage from hail
N used full restore
Scrafty used brick break
N used full restore
Scrafty used Brick Break
Vanilluxe used Blizzard
Scrafty used Brick Break, Vanilluxe fainted
Scrafty had just under 50hp left

Scrafty Vs. Klingklang
Biggest surprise of all
Klingklang used focus blast, Scrafty fainted

Liepard vs. Klingklang
The ruse was finally up, it wasn't Klingklang at all
Liepard used fake out, zoroark's illusion was broken

Liepard vs. Zoroark
Zoroark used focus blast, Liepard fainted

Krookodile vs. Zoroark
Used a max revive on Scrafty
Zoroark used focus blast, Krookodile fainted

Scrafty vs. Zoroark
Zoroark used focus blast, it missed
Scrafty used brick break, Zoroark fainted

Scrafty vs. Klingklang
Scrafty used Brick Break, Klingklang fainted

Scrafty vs. Archeops
Archeops used Acrobatics, Scrafty fainted

Bisharp vs. Archeops
Archeops used acrobatics
Bisharp used night slash
Archeops used acrobatics
Bisharp used night slash, Archeops fainted

Bisharp vs. Carracosta
Bisharp eventually fainted after I forgot about priority aqua jet leaving Carracosta with about a quarter of its hp.

Mandibuzz vs. Carracosta
Mandibuzz used fly, critical hit, was still not enough to ko Carracosta
Carracosta used rock slide
Mandibuzz used faint attack, Carracosta fainted

Ghetsis came in after that and forced me into a battle

Krookodile vs. Cofagrigus
Krookodile used crunch
Cofagrigus used will o wisp
Krookodile used crunch
Cofagrigus used Shadow ball
Krookodile used crunch, Cofagrigus fainted

Scrafty vs. Hydreigon
It isn't even supposed to evolve until lv. 62, so how in hell does he have a hydreigon, if I didn't have a half a dozen max revives it would have swept my entire team

Hydreigon used focus blast, critical hit, Scrafty fainted

After that it was alot of the same, liepard and bisharp fell to focus blast, mandibuzz to dragon pulse, Krookodile to surf, eventually scrafty finished it with 12hp left after a focus blast

Scrafty vs. Bouffalant
Scrafty used hi jump kick, gg Bouffalant

Scrafty vs. Bisharp
Scrafty used brick break, Bisharp fainted

Scrafty vs. Eelektross
Scrafty used brick break
Eelektross used acrobatics, scrafty fainted

Krookodile vs. Eelektross
Krookodile eventually ko Eelektross with crunch

Mandibuzz vs. Seismitoad
Mandibuzz beat seismitoad after a couple of fly attacks.

After that ghetsis was arrested and the credits rolled.

Mandibuzz lv 55.
- Faint Attack
- Rock Smash
- Fly
- Tailwind

Couldn't catch her until late in the game, but her high defense and hp was invaluable in the end.

Bisharp lv. 54
- Metal Claw
- Shadow Claw
- Night Slash
- X-Scissor

Another late game pokemon, Strong but arrived too late to do much, partly because of his fighting weakness, but also because I used vullaby more in order to get her to evolve to mandibuzz before marshal.

Krookodile lv. 53
- Retaliate
- Bulldoze
- Dragon Claw
- Crunch

Powerful and useful but eclipsed by my next pokemon

Scrafty lv. 54
- Retaliate
- Crunch
- Hi Jump Kick
- Brick Break

Moxie turned her into a devastating sweeper, that often took out entire enemy teams.

Liepard lv. 51
- Fake Out
- Slash
- Night Slash
- Rock Smash

Most useless dark type in all of pokemon, the only reason he even remained on my team is because I had nothing better to replace him with, almost all my wipeouts were before I caught scraggy and sandile, when I only had liepard, even after that it rarely did much damage.

Oshawott lv.10
- Cut
- Surf
- Tackle
- Water gun

Planned hm slave never really needed him after cutting the tree in front of the dream yard and he spent the entire time after that in the pc until I took him out to serve as a place holder so reshiram wouldn't go into my party after catching it.

#586 Mollie (Sawsbuck) ♀
Level 40 - Nature: Bashful - Ability: Chlorophyll
IVs: 14/29/15/2/13/0
-Jump Kick
-Horn Leech
-Faint Attack
-Take Down


#508 Fluffy (Stoutland) ♀
Level 42 - Nature: Careful - Ability: Intimidate
IVs: 19/4/30/29/7/23
-Take Down
-Crunch
-Work Up
-Bite


#573 Chu-Chu (Cinccino) ♀
Level 40 - Nature: Rash - Ability: Technician
IVs: 22/9/12/10/22/5
-Tail Slap
-Encore
-Swift
-Wake-Up Slap


#505 Skippy (Watchog) ♂
Level 41 - Nature: Lax - Ability: Illuminate
IVs: 18/12/27/13/13/24
-Hyper Fang
-Super Fang
-Crunch
-Confuse Ray


#521 Arnold (Unfezant) ♂
Level 40 - Nature: Naive - Ability: Big Pecks
IVs: 25/30/22/21/13/14
-Fly
-Air Slash
-Roost
-Quick Attack

- reached seafoam islands, had fun defeating water type trainers
- got swarmed by slowpoke when trying to move boulders with boat's strength
- wished id stocked up on repels before i came here
- accidently found articuno when searching for the exit. left it alone
- finally made it out to route 20
- arrived ad cinnabar island and had a look inside the poke lab, was disappiointed to hear someone wanted to give
me a seel for a ponyta. Would have prefered it to be the other way around
- found the gym doors were locked, went to find the key in the mansion
- grabbed th key and a few TM's, healed up and challenged blaine
- twas an interesting battle, but we showed Blaine that our flames were superior and won the Volcano badge
- taught fenris fire Blast
- bumped into bill outside the gym and got dragge to ONE island. Wonder if i can get to Mt.Ember...
- Bill wanted me to run to TWO island for him. Surfed up kindle road first
- Found and caught a ponyta name her Lia
- started training Lia while hunting for Magmar
- taught Lia solarbeam
- took a dip in the hot springs, before recieving rock smash from an old man
- taught rock smash to boat
- on the way to mt. ember Lia evolved into Rapidash!
- found moltres before magmar, decided to try capturing it
- it took every single ball i owned (excluding masterball) but i finally caught moltres in my very last ultraball
- named it Phoenix
- headed to to the other islands to run the errand for bill, considering im lacking pokeballs to catch a magmar if i found one
- bought some great balls on Two island before exploring and running the errand
- let Fenris learn Blast burn
- entered game corner oly to be sent off to three island
- returned to mt ember to find magmar first
- caught a magmar, namd him Zev, returned to two island's pokemon centre, since cut and flash were no longer needed, swapped slave for Zev
- taught Zev Psychic before heading to sort out the trouble on thee island
- Zev rescued Lostelle from the big bad hypno and saved the day, we took the kid home
- flew to viridian, swapped out boat for Phoenix to help with Giovanni's ground type gym.
- taught Phoenix aerial ace and steel wing, and taught levi iron tail
- challenged Giovanni, was a tough battle, but Zev's sunny day helped Phoenix pull through for us,won the Earth badge
- healed up, switched phoenix for my boat and headed to victory road
- encountered Grey, used him as a punch bag for free xp
- entered victory road, taught Fenris Dragon Claw
- reached the indigo plateu, switched boat for phoenix
- taught phoenix overheat
- attempted pokemon league

> ice/water elite 4 :
>> fenris took down dewgong and cloyster before falling to lapras
>> Lia finished of flapras but fell to slowbro's surf when charging solarbeam
>> Riana wittled slowbros health down to half by keeping it confused, but lost to a lucky hit from surf
>> Levi finished the job with his bites, despite her using a full restore (why didnt i use him earlier?)
>> Levi severly weakened jynx before being put to sleep and 'attracted' to the opponant, switched out with zev
>> Zev finished with flamethrower

> fighting/rock Elite 4:
>> Phoenix took down Onix with overheat and steelwing taking only minor damage thanks to steelwings def increases
>> a well timed miss saved Phoenix from hitmonchan's 'counter' attack, leaving us able to knock it out with a few aerial aces
>> Phoenix got knocked down by a severly bulked up machamp's rock tomb, sent Fenris to finish the job...however his defence proved strong, fly only put hm to half and Fenris got rock tombed to death too
>> Levi's flamethrower took down machamp, and his iron tail took down the next onix, after surviving an earthquake
>> Hitmonlee's brick break finished Levi, Zev almost got revenge with psychic and flamethrower but fell to facade
>> By the time Riana joined the fray, bruno had used a full restore, but a combination of confuse ray, dig and some luck allowed riana to take down bruno's final pokemon

- starting to wonder if i bought enough supplies -

> ghost/poison elite 4:
>> Levi pushed through confusion and took down agatha's gengar without taking damage from it
>> golbat was a lot harder, had a mean air cutter, but got a lucky crit with flamethrower
>> annoyed arbok with dig before Levi got taken out with sludgebomb, Riana avenged him, but not without great damage to herself
>> switched to Fenris to challenge her strongest gengar, avoided a hypnoses and used dragon claw and blast burn to beat it
>> got put to sleep while recharging from blast burn, so switched to Zev before getting a mean look D:
>> hit hard with psychic..before being put to sleep, however, used a chesto berry and ruined haunters attempt at dream eater
>> finished with a final psychic

> dragon elite 4:
>> could not get his stupid gyarados to die, wittled it down, healed when he did, got ourselves injured more than we injured him this time round, switched phoenix into fenris's place as a sacrifice to hyper beam
>> levi got hit by a second hyper beam afteer very nearly killing the bastard
>> zev ended up taking the annoying thing down, but got murdered by aerodactyls ancient power before i could use sunny day for the next battler
>> got really lucky that it couldnt break riana's confuse ray and killed it with many flamethrowers
>> hit dragonite with a confuse ray managed to dodge a hyper beam, threw fenris back in to spam dragon claw and fly while praying to not be hit with more bloody hyper beams -- defeated it with 9 hp remaining
>> Fenris crit dragonair with dragon claw and got KO'd by outrage, riana finished up with quick attack
>> put faith in confuse ray yet again, managed to weaken it enough for lance to full restore, repeated tactics, but they got a lucky hit with outrage
>> down to final pokemon Lia, made use of stomp and its flinch side effect to take out the remaining hp.

- now we pray we're in a good enough condition and have enough heals left for the champion...was 1 revive short..sorry Zev-

> Champion Grey:
>> Fenris took down pidgeot with rock slide and dragon claw, switched out with riana for blastoise, confuse ray tactics - it was as annoying as gyarados
>> blasted thing got lucky, wasnt long before riana was a casualty, fenris returned to war, the enemy refused to stay confused
>> Hydro pump seemed to be its favourite bloody move, got a lucky miss after i landed from a fly, however it seemed that was finally its last pp for it, full charge ahead!
>> Grey's use of a full restore made me want to slap him.
>> Dragon clawed Blastoise to death. good riddance.
>> Fell to rhydons rock tomb after halfing its hp with blast burn, phoenix finished with overheat
>> almost 1 hit alakazam with an aerial ace crit, but grey healed :'(, continued to throw everything we had at it (which wasnt much we were pretty beaten up)
>> Phoenix fell to psychic after putting alakazam back down to half
>> Levi easily finished it with bite, 2 pokemon left on either side, next was exeggutor, lucky!
>> almost 1 hit with flame thrower before being hit by sleep powder, used a full heal,
>> knocked to 6 hp with egg bomb, about to finish it when he used a second full restore...flamethrowered it to death right after
>> final enemy is arcanine, used max potion, varied between dig bite and laughing because i had flash fire :D
>> was surprised when Grey didnt use any potion at all on arcanine, finally killed it and won :D