


First trainer's mons, not bad. Though the 2nd one was a rattata to defeat due to Sand attack. Now...

The non-English speaking leader! Anyways, let's battle.

He starts of with this fossilised bird thing which...should be easy.


Lolno, he healed and did tons of damage with Wing attack.

Also, why did I send in my Medicham against this thing? He was my main counter for the ace, bah. This is gonna get particularly bad. Pun intended.

Nonono. It's fine. Everything's fine. Oven killed this beast. Now onto that Rampardos...

...Who killed my starter. I....have no words for that.


But then Rampardos missed a bunch of attacks and fell. Good.

Rock tomb. There was one particular mon on the team who could benefit greatly with this move, even though it has its old power, and he's dead. Guess who that was, hint, it was before the word before 'mon'.


I mean yeah, I saw Particular's death coming, but UKE NOOOO WHYYYYY I was just growing on him and he was my starter. Of COURSE he died. Well at least the battle was a good challenge. So were the 2 deaths worth it?


Yes, because RUNNING SHOES FINALLY. Now we can go on and....
Oh no...
It.......

...Was nothing. Poor guy didn't even use Metal claw.

Oh yeah, since Uke is dead, we have a glaring weakness to Grass. Welp, bye Orange. You were a nice Seel. I think I'm gonna dislike Leafeon once this battle is over...wait no I've always disliked Leafeon. Yeah I really do.

...Come on now. We were 5 levels ahead of it.

Encounter time!

This is...good? Cyndaquil is great but I would have preferred something stronger, though it does cover our Grass weakness and hit them super-effectively....wait that's a good thing. Changed my mind, I want this!

And I also caught it in ball 1! Well, I thought it would be a hard one to catch because starters have high catch rates but I got him immediately!

And also a usable nature too. Okay, he's coming with us.

Headed straight to Mt. Moon for my encounter and got this. Okay, this should be good-

If it was. No attacking moves. LITERALLY none. I can't even tell what it has. I mean, the nature might be subpar but it doesn't look like it changes its stats much but NO attacking moves.

Maybe the other things here are also ba- what the psyduck.

Oh and his guy has Drain punch. I wish I was exaggerating. So yes, at least 1 encounter better than what I got.
Anyways, let's get outside to train.

Lemme also say PSYDUCK multi hit moves as well.

But thankfully this happened before we finished all the trainers. Good.

Nice, Ice shard and.....that description.

HAHAHAHAHA WHAT THE PSYDUCK

Level 20 AND has Ice punch. Anybody who didn't have a good team at that point or few Ice counters then good luck.

Pre Mt. Moon team.

God, something Interface can hit super-effectively.
Also, I never took a screenshot or anything, but in Mt. Moon, there are wild Mega Gengars. They don't have annoying moves or anything, but they have Shadow tag so you can't run away, and of course they give 1 exp. And I can't buy Repels. Honestly, that and pretty much everything else about Mt. Moon in this game is just simply the worst thing in this playthrough so here are screenshots for the whole thing.








That Serperior at the end nearly made me lose it because nearly all of Interface's Fire PP was drained by those Mega Gengars. Okay, yes, Mega Gengars are the worst. But thankfully, we learnt Faint attack so good! They might not be so bad anymore.

"Joshua! Here's where I give you advice you didn't ask for! Did you know the Mega Gengars here are psyducking assdicks who should go die in a fire for being in this place?"

FINALLY WE ARE OUTTA HERE. I don't care about missing Thief, we probably don't need it anyway and I just don't want to deal with those Mega Gengars or random Serperiors again. By the way, in case you were blind, the Hikers here are female. But everything about their male counterparts were kept. Yeah.

And we learnt Mega punch! The other option was Slam which is meh so this is a good change!

New catch time! And it better have attacking moves!

This is...not bad. It could've been worse. I'm one of those rare people who feel that type redundancy doesn't change a team in any way or form so I'll take this in with open arms.
I've decided to end this update basically once I get a full team so yeah. See you guys next time, where we challenge the rival and whatnot.