Superstrength79 - Birthday Challenge (Updates #1 & #2)





My Pokemon:
Notes:
1) After going through the game intro and exiting Santalune Forest, I swapped two throw-away Pokemon for eggs that I bred a while back. Used my Froakie to get my Noibat and Lilipup to level 3 each before banking Froakie and training both Pokemon to level 7.
2) Defeated the trainers East of town to get Noibat to level 11 and beat the first gym.
3) Went, as fast as possible, through all of the story until I was at Route 7 with the Pokeflute.
4) First encounter on Route 7 was a Ducklett; which I caught. I wasn't terribly happy at first, but then I realized I need a Water-type (and she's too cute to stay mad at, amirite?), so Natalie was a God send.
5) Ran around in the grass between Route 7 and the second gym until I found a Croagunk. It had Dry Skin (which I was hoping for) and a +Atk nature.
6) Beat the second gym and proceeded North. Went through the Geosenge story and finally left town to the East.
7) Used some Honey until I was able to catch my Nidoran(F). Put her in front of the party for some "old school" switch training (since I'm not using EXP SHARE).
8) Made it through the Reflecting Cave (thank goodness this wasn't a Nuzlocke) and did the Mega Evolution Guru story.
9) Beat the third gym and saved at the Tower of Mastery (I'll keep playing, but that's enough update for one day).
-- Update #2 --
10) Got the Mega Stone/Bracelet and then proceeded to the Skiddo Ranch.
11) Fought all the trainers in Azure Bay and collected the mega stone for Ampharos.
12) Beat the 4th gym (really easy with all of my Flying-type and Poison-type attacks).
13) Saved the Kalos Power Plant. Croagunk is a terrible lead against Dugtrio w/ Arena Trap (just sayin').
14) Went to Lumiose City and went to the 5th gym; Realized I was terribly under-leveled.
15-A) Raised some levels back around the Power Plant, but decided to grind the trainers in the gym instead. Answered incorrectly on purpose to fight more of them. Ended up pulling Charmander out of my box (since I looked up Fire-type Pokemon and saw there weren't that many in the whole Pokemon Universe) and grinded him up a lot of levels in various locations.
15-B) Traded my Noibat between my X & Y cartridges, so I could teach him some special attacks... even that doesn't help my little friend. Game Freak nerfed Noibat's stat pool :(
16) Came back to the gym when Charmeleon was in the low 30s and fought a few more trainers. Had a bad time, so when I got to the gym leader I left to train him to be a Charizard. Came back and smoked the gym leader with Charizard. Was actually taken out by his Heliolisk, but managed to KO it with Drought damage :)
17) Now on Route 14 and have my full team of Birthday Challenge Pokemon.
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