Updatez!?
So, I beat all the trainers I could and did all that stuff with team magma before making it to Lavaridge. Once I got to Flannery, I prepared myself for one tough fight. My original plan was to teach dig to ninjask (which is possible, strangely enough), but I decided to have a go without doing that just to see if I needed to train more. Dustox was able to crush numbel and slugma with the help of light screen and took their overheats like a man. Torkoal, on the other hand, had me in a long stall war. I was constantly setting up light screen and healing with moonlight until it finally fell to ninjask (dustox was hit with an attract so I had to switch out). I knew ninjask wouldn't be able to do much against camerupt, so I let it take the overheat and faint to let dustox be less threatened because of the special attack drop. With some help from light screen and a few psybeams, the fight was finished.
Being able to go to the desert now, I got the last member of my team, anorith. When I went to the gym of Petalburg it was still to weak to fight, so I slapped on an exp share and led with my ninjask. The first match up was my ninjask vs. Norman's spinda. With relative ease, I maxed out my evasion, speed, and attack. Now time for ninjask sweep LOLOLOL! Slash and spinda was gone. Slash and vigoroth was gone. Slash and linoone was gone. Slash and slaking... wasn't gone!? My heart raced as the words "Slaking used Counter!" appeared on the screen. "Slaking's attack missed!". I was saved by double team. With a final slash, slaking was gone and the balance badge was mine.
After a lot of training, my team now had dustox, ninjask, and armaldo, my teams newest powerhouse. It ripped through all that opposed it with ease. In no time at all my team was way over leveled and face to face with Winnona's team. I lead with ninjask once again, attempting to do the same thing as I did to Norman. I didn't quite get enough boosts for ninjask to sweep, however. Now if only there was a way to pass ninjask's boosts to another member of my team... Wait, there is! I quickly selected baton pass and prepared to have some fun with my new team member. A few ancient powers later I had the fortree city badge in my possession and taught aerial ace to armaldo, he deserved it.
A lot of battles, leveling up, and boring surf routes had passed, but I was now ready to demolish Tate and Liz of Mossdeep. Xatu and claydol against dustox and ninjask. Xatu used calm mind while ninjask used swords dance. Dustox tried to do some damage against claydol with silver wind, but the floating top of doom brushed the attack of easily. Ninjask took quite a hurting from ancient power, whereas xatu keeps doing his thing. I baton pass out of there and set up light screen with dustox. Xatu powers up even more, and dustox gets to near KO range from another ancient power. Armaldo beats up xatu with an ancient power and lunatone is sent out. Claydol goes into KO range and lunatone takes LOL damage from silver wind. Dustox is now really scared and has to moonlight while armaldo finishes of Claydol. It's now my injured dustox and relatively fresh boosted armaldo against lunatone and solrock. Both of them deliver a psychic to dustox, who just barely hangs on just as light screen fades. I know dustox won't live for long, so instead of healing I take my time to get light screen up again. Armaldo, on the other hand, destroys lunatone with a super effective metal claw. Solrock uses flame thrower on dustox and I prepare to say good bye to my fluttery buddy. Fortunately, it somehow survives from a combination of light screen and good special defense. A final metal claw from armaldo finishes off solrock and the battle.
After doing some stuff with the 'storyline', I am now ready to face the final gym leader.
The team:
Dustox Lv.57
Ninjask Lv.58
Armaldo Lv.59
Treecko~Cut~Flash~Rock Smash~Strength
Marill~Surf~Dive
Wingull~Fly
