Pokémon White 2 as Ruin Maniac
There's absolutely no way I can finish this game in 1 hour, including the entire Plasma final showdown and the league, so I'm calling it quits and sacrificing as many Pokémon as I can for points. No rules to be removed, just +1 for Guerreros ♥
So, what happened here? Skyla was a joke (for once). I came in with a team of rock-types, as well as a Swanna counter: Gran Sassothe Zebstrika, who defeated Swanna, Matterhorn the Boldore that we know and love and who destroyed Swoobat, but also the new catches Terevaka the Probopass for Sigilyph and Denali the Lairon for Skarmory. Except it didn't go that way! I used Stromboli to weaken Skarmory for Denali but he scored a crit and defeated the Steel-Flying Pokémon himself, so... you know what? I'm sacking him too.
4 sacrifices, 4 points: Matterhorn the Boldore, Terevaka the Probopass, Gran Sasso the Zebstrika, and yes, my starter, Stromboli the Emboar.
Time to reach Undella, trying to skip as many trainers as possible as I ran through Reversal Mountain, and then from there, Opelucid. Nothing to say here, other than I got myself Peralba the Floatzel and used a Heart Scale on it to get Ice Fang. I also gave some spotlight to K2 the Claydol which I caught way earlier in Relic Castle, and somehow crawled through the seventh gym. For Drayden, I got a new teammate, Logan the Skarmory, to wall literally anything (I was a bit scummy with potions) and managed to get 3 more worthy Pokémon: Skarmory himself, who dealt with Druddigon, Peralba the Floatzel for Altaria, and K2 the Claydol, who exploded on a weakened Flygon for the third KO. With Haxorus dangerously setting up, well... I was very glad that Denali was spared from a sacrifice. She dealt with the menace very easily (considering all the Dragon Dances) as an Aggron and, knowing how important she was becoming... I didn't sack her.
Drayden nets Guerreros 3 points: Peralba the Floatzel, K2 the Claydol, Logan the Skarmory.
Denali was not sacked also because of the Ice-type onslaught that I was going to face pretty soon. Zinzolin was singlehandedly dealt with by her, and that was only a taste of the final Plasma thing... too bad I'm not going to get there because time is short and I'd better stick to deadlines I have set myself. That's a pretty steep points loss for my team but... yeah.
Marlon was defeated with mostly one Pokémon: Brocken the Virizion, my Master Ball capture for this run. I was just desperate at that point and nothing else seemed to be even slightly able to keep up with the levels of Challenge Mode, so I had to let her do everything. Everything but one Pokémon, Jellicent, who was actually handled by a very old catch that I'd brought with me for a very long while without ever giving any spotlight: Fumaiolo the Simipour, who nailed Jellicent with a final Bite after a certain other Pokémon weakened it.
Knowing I won't continue on, have 2 more points: Brocken the Virizion, and Fumaiolo the Simipour.
That Pokémon was N's Zoroark, who... has no name because he's not mine. He was a very useful Pokémon and my trump card for the League Challenge I never got to... but he sure deserves some time in the spotlight. Had I continued like this, he and Denali the Aggron were the only strong team members I had left. I had plans to get a Mamoswine, Clefable, Gliscor... you know, some other stuff from the late-late-game areas, but that would take too much time for any of this. Even with Brocken in the team.
I'm ending this post here with a huge thanks to all my team members who had to bear with me when I wasn't available but still helped me as best as they could and did some amazing challenge runs in their own right. Thank you all Guerreros ♥ and for everything else, just wait 40 minutes ;)
