Wow, it's been a while!
Since my last post, I've defeated the Elite Four after some serious grinding and achieved the National Dex - now to fill it up!
I found that Lithium, my Lucario, was actually not helping my team very much, so I had a flick through the pokédex and did a few trades while I decided on a sixth team member, and Sodium the Salamence found her way onto my team. It took me a few hours to train her up so she was equal with the rest of my team, but it was worth it, and she's now my favourite pokémon to take chaining with her diverse moveset.
I also have EV trained 3 pokémon for the battle tower, and will finish that team when I find an attack-boosting power item. It consists of Bastiodon, Dunsparce and Kidoking, and made me very happy and accomplished when they were finished training, and they're being levelled up in my Diamond game now.
Now onto chaining. Well I decided I wanted my own shiny, and have chained Castform (a hell of a lot), Dunsparce, Spoink, Hondour, Doduo and Slakoth, and haven't got a single shiny to show for it. *sigh* Now I'm chaining Pinsir - I shan't hold my breath!
Team:-
Sodium, Salamence, Female, Rock Smash/Flamethrower/Zen Headbutt/Dragonbreath
Flameéd, Combusken, Female, Ember/Quick Attack/Peck/Focus Energy (@EXP Share for 'dex fills)
Propane, PorygonZ, Ice Beam/Psychic/Signal Beam/Thief
Carbon, Charizard, Male, Heat Wave/Fly/Defog/Cut
Lutetium, Leafeon, Male, Magical Leaf/Dig/Aerial Ace/Strength
Ethanol, Empoleon, Male, Surf/Waterfall/Rock Climb/Earthquake