3...2...1...MASSIVE UPDATE TIME!
Ultimate Solo Challenge Update #15 with Weedle
So after Christmas, I took a bit of a break from Pokemon in order to play the new games I got. Now I'm back, and ready to continue this challenge. The reason this update is so big is because this is multiple days worth of playing, I usually stop playing for the day late at night so I'm too tired to update then. When I last updated, I was stuck at the first gym in Sapphire, since it's the rock gym.
-I decided that Gen 3 would be hard enough that I needed to EV train Weedle. I didn't have any way of speeding it along such as vitamins, so that in itself took me multiple days.
-Afterwards I beat the first gym with little effort, I believe I was around level 25 at the time.
-Took the boat to Dewford, and beat the gym there. Fighting pokemon usually are very easy for Weedle to beat.
-Went through the cave, and caught a Sableye as an HM Slave.
-Talked to Steven and left.
-Took the boat to Slateport, beat the beach trainers, and talked to everyone in town.
-After the story events there finished, I went north, beating most of the trainers (all but one guy who had a steel pokemon. poison doesn't affect steel).
-Arrived at Mauville and got the Acro Bike.
-Went into the gym and beat some of the trainers. I got into a situation where I needed to leave and heal, but I had to go through a trainer that had a Magnemite first. Since I couldn't hurt him, I had to let him beat me and take my money.
-Went into a nearby field and wasted all the PP for both of Weedle's attacks so I could affect Wattson's steel guys with Struggle.
-Beat all the trainers I could east and west of Mauville, and continued on north.
-Beat most of the trainers there, except one guy with 4 Geodudes. I went back and beat him later on.
-Beat the trainers on the route with the falling ash, and got to Fallarbor town.
-Continued west, and beat trainers all the way down to Meteor Falls.
-Team Aqua took the meteor and left. I'm really glad I picked Sapphire over Ruby, fighting Aqua's Carvanhas is much easier than fighting Magma's Numels with a Weedle.
-Went to the volcano, and beat the Aqua guys there. Archie required the use of X Attack and X Defend to beat, that got me a little worried about the rest of the game.
-Went south to Lavaridge. I beat the gym trainers.
-When I got to Flannery, her first Slugma kept beating me on his own. Over the course of a day I beat her. I wasted my PP so I could two-shot the first Slugma while he set up Sunny Day. The second one messed up and used Light Screen insted of Flamethrower. One of my attacks did less damage than usual as well, but the end result was that I had almost no health and Sunny Day was over. Torkoal came out and I spammed Super Potions, got up some X Defends and X Attacks, and once he -6'd his own Special Attack with Overheat, we had a slapping fight with Body Slam vs. Struggle. I won.
-Went to Petalburg, and fought just enough of the rooms to get to Norman. Poisoned + Super Potion stall took care of his Slakings.
-Got Surf. I only just got Cut a bit before this, I had forgotten where to get it.
-Surfed east of Mauville, and went north on the route there.
-Beat every trainer on the route, except one dumb trainer with a Shroomish that I couldn't beat because of Leech Seed.
-Saved the Weather Institute. Not having played Gen 3 for a while before this run, I figured I could just run to Fortree before saving. But no, I had to fight May and I lost. I went and wasted all my PP so I could kill her Shroomish faster, only to see that her Shroomish decided not to use Leech Seed and let me win pretty much.
-Got to Fortree. After going and getting the Devon Scope from Steven, I ran from the Kecleon and entered the gym. As usual, all of the gym trainers that aren't the leader lost easily.
-Since the gym leader was fairly strong, I ignored her for now, and beat every trainer between there and Lilycove except for a double battle.
-Fought May in Lilycove after talking to almost everyone else. Since she sent Shroomish out last, she was fairly easy this time.
-Stocked up at the department store, and went back to Fortree.
-Since Winona has a Skarmory, I wasted all my PP. After 2 X Attacks and Defends, her team lost rather easily for a supereffective gym.
-Went to Mt. Pyre and beat almost all the trainers inside.
-Beat the Aqua guys on top, and went back to Lilycove.
-Flew to Slateport and talked to Captain Stern. I thought I had to do that to make the Wailmers move, and I thought they were blocking the Aqua base.
-Entered the Aqua base. I'm kinda surprised at how small it is compared to the various Rocket hideouts in Gens 1 and 2.
-Got the Master Ball, and beat the Admin (he was a joke).
-Surfed east to Mossdeep, and beat the trainers in the gym other than the leaders.
-Went and caught a level 5 Magikarp, flew back to Mossdeep, and put everyone in the PC except Magikarp and Weedle. Magikarp's purpose is to use Splash during the leader battle (since it's a double battle and I have to have 2 guys) so that Weedle is the only one contributing anything except that Magikarp takes one hit for Weedle.
-However, this is the gym where I have to fight two pokemon at once, and both are supereffective against me. I'm probably going to have to grind to beat this. Right now, Weedle is level 58.
I also have screenshots of each gym leader victory so far, and a few other important battles, but since I play on an actual GBA I had to take them with my 3DS and a DSi so I'll post them once I upload them off of there.