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Okay, so let's expand on our notes:
First, starting in Pallet Town; We picked Bulbasaur and traded for Box1-egg 3, which hatched into an Absol who we named Babble.
It felt like a Portent of some kind, though whether of doom or the ability to detect incoming danger was uncertain.
Route 1 catch; Rattata, traded for box 2-egg 8, Whismur (Rattle)
R22, caught mankey swap for box 3- egg 15, Diglett (Mandey)
R2; rattata > b4-22 Vulpix (Rappa)
Viridian Forest; caterpie > b5-29 Beldum (Catan)
VS Brock
(all lv15, lead: Mandey)
Mandey Magnitude x3 victory
Brock's team isn't very sturdy, hah, against a pokemon with magnetude
badges: 1
pokemon: 5
deaths: 0
We decided that given that we'd gotten a Beldum, who are perhaps notorious for only having Take Down, but also for being steel/psychic and eventually becoming Metagross, we'd make use of Viridian Forest.
Viridian forest, perfect place to grind a beldum- metapod and kakuna can't attack at all, and weedle can do literally nothing to a steel type, which rendered 3/5 of the pokemon in the forest easy grinding for a pokemon that injured itself with every attack.
Evolution: Catan; Beldum > Metang (lv20)
6 R3; spearow (lv7) > 6-6 Luvdisc (Spre) (ah. no. I know I beat emerald with one luvdisc once, but. nah)
7 R4; magikarp > 1-7 Shroomish (Magic) (WHY. Why no attacking moves? Sigh. I sadly boxed Magic upon that doscovery, for potential later grinding)
8 Mt. Moon; zubat (lv7) > 2-1 Drowzee (Zeez) (added to the team as our sixth party member)
Used the Tutor to teach Mega Punch to Rattle (over Swagger)
vs Cerulean Rival
(most lv18, Rattle lv19, Catan lv20, Lead: Rattle)
Rattle vs Pidgeotto
Mega Punch KO
Mandey vs rattata
magnitude KO
Babble vs charmander
ember burn on babble
faint attack KO
Rappa vs abra
faint attack KO
(expect the detail to go down as you progress, I started only tracking only the more notable instances)
Mandey vs TR recruiter
magnitude KO
ancientpower KO
R24; caterpie (lv7) > 3-3 Sentret (Catapple)
Evolution: Rattle; whismur > loudred
VS TR grunt
Zeez Confusion KO on machop
many confusion KO on drowzee
R5; caterpie (lv15) > 4-10 slakoth (Belley)
R25; weedle (lv8) > 5-14 bagon (Weeble)
R6; failed at catching a pidgey because we KO'd it
Vermillion City; magikarp > 6-3 Slugma (Maple)
R11; spearow (lv13) > 1-17 Sneasel (Spar)
Was fighting trainers on R11 and nearly lost Catan to a magnet pull sonicboom magnemite
SS Anne; magikarp > 2-3 Mawile (Marp) (I wonder how many people don't realise that they can catch a pokemon here)
vs SSAnne Rival
(lv22/23, Lead: Rappa)
4x KOs, very straight-forward fight
Taught Catapple the sentred Cut
VS Misty
(lv22-23, lead: Catan)
Catan vs staryu metal claw ko
Catan vs starmie
switch > Zeez
switch > Babble
faint attack ko
Misty was tougher than Brock, certainly- the starmie was consistently dealing JUST enough damage that leaving pokemon out against it became daunting.
badges: 2
pokemon: 14
deaths: 0
grinding a little after that fight.
Evolution: Mandey; diglett > dugtrio
Evolution: Zeez; drowzee > hypno
VS Surge
(lv25-26, lead: Mandey)
Mandey 3x magnitude ko
badges: 3
pokemon: 14
deaths: 0
R9; spearow (lv16) > 3-10 Elekid (Speeks)
R10; spearow (lv16) > 4-2 torkoal (Sparfeld)
Diglett's Cave; diglett (lv19) > 5-10 sandshrew (Diggie)
Rock Tunnel we failed at catching an Onix
Taught Speeks the elekid flash
R17; meowth (lv17) > 6-20 miltank (Mal)
Celadon City; eevee (lv25) > 1-1 koffing (Ergie)
Since we were at Celadon, we coughed up the money to get a firestone. Ground Rappa up the couple of levels to lv29 to get Flamethrower, then used it.
Evolution: Rappa; vulpix > ninetales
R16; spearow (lv20) > 2-30 meowth (Sniper) (and THIS was a great moment, the ultimate prize: a pickup meowth. We will be making use of this later)
vs celadon giovanni
lv31-32 lead: mandey
mandey 2xko
Catan brick break ko
vs lavender tower rival
lv31-32 lead: Rattle
Nothing notable about the fight
Lavender Tower; gastly (lv16) > 3-8 caterpie (Terror)
VS Erika
(lv33-35, lead: Rappa)
flamethrower 3xKO
another easy one- she's not designed to deal with flamethrower
badges: 4
pokemon: 21
deaths: 0
R16; magikarp (lv5) > 4-14 snorunt (Kooru)
safari zone; exeggute (lv25) > 5-1 aipom (Cutle) (not a pickup aipom, sadly)
fuchsia city; seaking (lv24) > 6-30 horsea (King)
R15; bellsprout (lv24); 1-6 tropius (Sprout)
Evolution: Rattle; loudred > exploud
Found a shiny gastly while grinding in Lavender Tower!
Evolution: Catan; metang > metagross
vs silph rival
Our urge to fight starter vs starter with our rival is a really bad idea in this run, Babble is not designed to take on a charizard. His flamethrower did immense damage and burned Babble, so we made the choice to swap to Rappa to take it out
silph co; lapras (lv25); 2-24 relicanth (Lerriri)
vs silph giovanni
nothing notable
VS Koga
lv45-46, lead: Catan
clean sweep
badges: 5
pokemon: 26
deaths: 0
KO'd the krabby we found on R19
R18; fearow (27) > 3-15 onix (Feary)
R17; doduo (24) > 4-6 shellder (Dubble)
vs dojo
Zeez sweep
saffron city; hitmonlee (25) > 5-17 venonat (Leeble)
VS Sabrina
lv45-48, lead: Babble
dark type sweep
badges: 6
pokemon: 29
deaths: 0
r21; tangela (18) > 6-26 totodile (Tattle) (fun)
cinnabar island; omanyte (5) > 1-30 ledyba (Shello)
r20; tentacool (13) > 2-23 murkrow (Cooler)
r8; meowth (18) > 3-21 tauros (Meow)
With our team at a round team lv50, decided to use expshare King (who we'd taught surf to) up a little
Evolution: King; horsea > seadra
Also shelled out 80k to get the coins to buy Ice Beam and taught it to Rattle since he's our best special attacker and we needed more coverage.
power plant; voltorb (22) > 4-18 mareep (Voltie)
expshare Magic >lv23
expshare Voltie >lv51
Evolution: Voltie; mareep > flaaffy > ampharos
expshare: Weeble (raising to lv49 as a bagon to get dragon claw, since shelgon gets it at lv69 and salamence learns it at lv79 geez)
expshare: Belley (let's get that Covet)
Evolution: Belley; slakoth > vigoroth
(then we got a bunch of tinymushrooms in mt Moon before realising that in frlg geodude DON'T have everstones as a wild held item)
Evolution: Weeble; bagon > shelgon
Doing all this grinding with Sniper in the team, for a very good reason: using Pickup to get PP Ups. The berries are nice, the hidden power tms are okay, don't really need the rare candies or the nuggets. The PP Ups are invaluable, they are going to be so handy. I am SO glad I hatched this cat.
Also used the Rock Slide tutor for Catan
and that's the last point we're at so far:
badges: 6
pokemon: 34
deaths: 0
We'll be heading to Blaine soon to get our seventh badge
Main team:
Babble
Absol, lv52
M, Pressure, Blackglasses
Faint Attack, Secret Power, Baton Pass, Swords Dance
Rattle
Exploud, lv52
M, Soundproof, Leftovers
Extrasensory, Stomp, Ice Beam, Howl
Mandey
Dugtrio, lv52
F, Sand Veil, Leftovers
Faint Attack, Earthquake, Ancientpower, Dig
Rappa
Ninetales, lv51
F, Flash Fire, Amulet Coin
Flamethrower, Faint Attack, Confuse Ray, Will-o-wisp
Catan
Metagross, lv52
X, Clear Body, -
Psychic, Brick Break, Metal Claw, Rock Slide
Zeez
Hypno, lv51
M, Insomnia, Quick Claw
Psychic, Fire Punch, Role Play, Barrier
(every time I play frlg I am reminded once again of its held item deficit)
Other pokemon in training (as backup but also so my main team didn't end up ludicrously overlevelled while we were PP-Up grinding)
Magic, shroomish (lv23)- training paused for a bit
Belley, vigoroth (lv33)- as mentioned, for Covet
Leeble, venonat (lv30)- has Compoundeyes, so we were using in tandem with Belley
Sniper, meowth (lv20)- Pickup!
King, seadra (lv50)- Poison Point- Surf, Aurora beam, Octazooka, Smokescreen
Voltie, ampharos (lv51)- Static- Thunderpunch, Body Slam, Thundershock, Safeguard
Weeble, shelgon (lv49)- Rock Head- Dragonbreath, Dragon Claw, Crunch, Hydro pump
Special mention:
Spoiler:
First, starting in Pallet Town; We picked Bulbasaur and traded for Box1-egg 3, which hatched into an Absol who we named Babble.
It felt like a Portent of some kind, though whether of doom or the ability to detect incoming danger was uncertain.
Route 1 catch; Rattata, traded for box 2-egg 8, Whismur (Rattle)
R22, caught mankey swap for box 3- egg 15, Diglett (Mandey)
R2; rattata > b4-22 Vulpix (Rappa)
Viridian Forest; caterpie > b5-29 Beldum (Catan)
VS Brock
(all lv15, lead: Mandey)
Mandey Magnitude x3 victory
Brock's team isn't very sturdy, hah, against a pokemon with magnetude
badges: 1
pokemon: 5
deaths: 0
We decided that given that we'd gotten a Beldum, who are perhaps notorious for only having Take Down, but also for being steel/psychic and eventually becoming Metagross, we'd make use of Viridian Forest.
Viridian forest, perfect place to grind a beldum- metapod and kakuna can't attack at all, and weedle can do literally nothing to a steel type, which rendered 3/5 of the pokemon in the forest easy grinding for a pokemon that injured itself with every attack.
Evolution: Catan; Beldum > Metang (lv20)
6 R3; spearow (lv7) > 6-6 Luvdisc (Spre) (ah. no. I know I beat emerald with one luvdisc once, but. nah)
7 R4; magikarp > 1-7 Shroomish (Magic) (WHY. Why no attacking moves? Sigh. I sadly boxed Magic upon that doscovery, for potential later grinding)
8 Mt. Moon; zubat (lv7) > 2-1 Drowzee (Zeez) (added to the team as our sixth party member)
Used the Tutor to teach Mega Punch to Rattle (over Swagger)
vs Cerulean Rival
(most lv18, Rattle lv19, Catan lv20, Lead: Rattle)
Rattle vs Pidgeotto
Mega Punch KO
Mandey vs rattata
magnitude KO
Babble vs charmander
ember burn on babble
faint attack KO
Rappa vs abra
faint attack KO
(expect the detail to go down as you progress, I started only tracking only the more notable instances)
Mandey vs TR recruiter
magnitude KO
ancientpower KO
R24; caterpie (lv7) > 3-3 Sentret (Catapple)
Evolution: Rattle; whismur > loudred
VS TR grunt
Zeez Confusion KO on machop
many confusion KO on drowzee
R5; caterpie (lv15) > 4-10 slakoth (Belley)
R25; weedle (lv8) > 5-14 bagon (Weeble)
R6; failed at catching a pidgey because we KO'd it
Vermillion City; magikarp > 6-3 Slugma (Maple)
R11; spearow (lv13) > 1-17 Sneasel (Spar)
Was fighting trainers on R11 and nearly lost Catan to a magnet pull sonicboom magnemite
SS Anne; magikarp > 2-3 Mawile (Marp) (I wonder how many people don't realise that they can catch a pokemon here)
vs SSAnne Rival
(lv22/23, Lead: Rappa)
4x KOs, very straight-forward fight
Taught Catapple the sentred Cut
VS Misty
(lv22-23, lead: Catan)
Catan vs staryu metal claw ko
Catan vs starmie
switch > Zeez
switch > Babble
faint attack ko
Misty was tougher than Brock, certainly- the starmie was consistently dealing JUST enough damage that leaving pokemon out against it became daunting.
badges: 2
pokemon: 14
deaths: 0
grinding a little after that fight.
Evolution: Mandey; diglett > dugtrio
Evolution: Zeez; drowzee > hypno
VS Surge
(lv25-26, lead: Mandey)
Mandey 3x magnitude ko
badges: 3
pokemon: 14
deaths: 0
R9; spearow (lv16) > 3-10 Elekid (Speeks)
R10; spearow (lv16) > 4-2 torkoal (Sparfeld)
Diglett's Cave; diglett (lv19) > 5-10 sandshrew (Diggie)
Rock Tunnel we failed at catching an Onix
Taught Speeks the elekid flash
R17; meowth (lv17) > 6-20 miltank (Mal)
Celadon City; eevee (lv25) > 1-1 koffing (Ergie)
Since we were at Celadon, we coughed up the money to get a firestone. Ground Rappa up the couple of levels to lv29 to get Flamethrower, then used it.
Evolution: Rappa; vulpix > ninetales
R16; spearow (lv20) > 2-30 meowth (Sniper) (and THIS was a great moment, the ultimate prize: a pickup meowth. We will be making use of this later)
vs celadon giovanni
lv31-32 lead: mandey
mandey 2xko
Catan brick break ko
vs lavender tower rival
lv31-32 lead: Rattle
Nothing notable about the fight
Lavender Tower; gastly (lv16) > 3-8 caterpie (Terror)
VS Erika
(lv33-35, lead: Rappa)
flamethrower 3xKO
another easy one- she's not designed to deal with flamethrower
badges: 4
pokemon: 21
deaths: 0
R16; magikarp (lv5) > 4-14 snorunt (Kooru)
safari zone; exeggute (lv25) > 5-1 aipom (Cutle) (not a pickup aipom, sadly)
fuchsia city; seaking (lv24) > 6-30 horsea (King)
R15; bellsprout (lv24); 1-6 tropius (Sprout)
Evolution: Rattle; loudred > exploud
Found a shiny gastly while grinding in Lavender Tower!
Evolution: Catan; metang > metagross
vs silph rival
Our urge to fight starter vs starter with our rival is a really bad idea in this run, Babble is not designed to take on a charizard. His flamethrower did immense damage and burned Babble, so we made the choice to swap to Rappa to take it out
silph co; lapras (lv25); 2-24 relicanth (Lerriri)
vs silph giovanni
nothing notable
VS Koga
lv45-46, lead: Catan
clean sweep
badges: 5
pokemon: 26
deaths: 0
KO'd the krabby we found on R19
R18; fearow (27) > 3-15 onix (Feary)
R17; doduo (24) > 4-6 shellder (Dubble)
vs dojo
Zeez sweep
saffron city; hitmonlee (25) > 5-17 venonat (Leeble)
VS Sabrina
lv45-48, lead: Babble
dark type sweep
badges: 6
pokemon: 29
deaths: 0
r21; tangela (18) > 6-26 totodile (Tattle) (fun)
cinnabar island; omanyte (5) > 1-30 ledyba (Shello)
r20; tentacool (13) > 2-23 murkrow (Cooler)
r8; meowth (18) > 3-21 tauros (Meow)
With our team at a round team lv50, decided to use expshare King (who we'd taught surf to) up a little
Evolution: King; horsea > seadra
Also shelled out 80k to get the coins to buy Ice Beam and taught it to Rattle since he's our best special attacker and we needed more coverage.
power plant; voltorb (22) > 4-18 mareep (Voltie)
expshare Magic >lv23
expshare Voltie >lv51
Evolution: Voltie; mareep > flaaffy > ampharos
expshare: Weeble (raising to lv49 as a bagon to get dragon claw, since shelgon gets it at lv69 and salamence learns it at lv79 geez)
expshare: Belley (let's get that Covet)
Evolution: Belley; slakoth > vigoroth
(then we got a bunch of tinymushrooms in mt Moon before realising that in frlg geodude DON'T have everstones as a wild held item)
Evolution: Weeble; bagon > shelgon
Doing all this grinding with Sniper in the team, for a very good reason: using Pickup to get PP Ups. The berries are nice, the hidden power tms are okay, don't really need the rare candies or the nuggets. The PP Ups are invaluable, they are going to be so handy. I am SO glad I hatched this cat.
Also used the Rock Slide tutor for Catan
and that's the last point we're at so far:
badges: 6
pokemon: 34
deaths: 0
We'll be heading to Blaine soon to get our seventh badge
Main team:
Spoiler:
Babble
Absol, lv52
M, Pressure, Blackglasses
Faint Attack, Secret Power, Baton Pass, Swords Dance
Rattle
Exploud, lv52
M, Soundproof, Leftovers
Extrasensory, Stomp, Ice Beam, Howl
Mandey
Dugtrio, lv52
F, Sand Veil, Leftovers
Faint Attack, Earthquake, Ancientpower, Dig
Rappa
Ninetales, lv51
F, Flash Fire, Amulet Coin
Flamethrower, Faint Attack, Confuse Ray, Will-o-wisp
Catan
Metagross, lv52
X, Clear Body, -
Psychic, Brick Break, Metal Claw, Rock Slide
Zeez
Hypno, lv51
M, Insomnia, Quick Claw
Psychic, Fire Punch, Role Play, Barrier
(every time I play frlg I am reminded once again of its held item deficit)
Other pokemon in training (as backup but also so my main team didn't end up ludicrously overlevelled while we were PP-Up grinding)
Spoiler:
Magic, shroomish (lv23)- training paused for a bit
Belley, vigoroth (lv33)- as mentioned, for Covet
Leeble, venonat (lv30)- has Compoundeyes, so we were using in tandem with Belley
Sniper, meowth (lv20)- Pickup!
King, seadra (lv50)- Poison Point- Surf, Aurora beam, Octazooka, Smokescreen
Voltie, ampharos (lv51)- Static- Thunderpunch, Body Slam, Thundershock, Safeguard
Weeble, shelgon (lv49)- Rock Head- Dragonbreath, Dragon Claw, Crunch, Hydro pump
Special mention:
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