If you don't know what EV training is... don't bother with it, I believe it's too much work anyways. (Although admittedly I did EV train my Mismagius in Diamond for a while... in the Old Chateau.)
Anyways...
Diamond
-While checking my honey trees, I caught two female Aipom! One I'll keep for breeding, and one I'll probably trade on the GTS for Munchlax. I still can't find Munchlax! But I also caught a Heracross... Big deal, I already have one.
-My Raichu stole two Poison Barbs, two Oran Berries, three Honeys, and a Yache Berry from various wild Pokemon...
-I started leveling up my Snover in the Trophy Garden, which is proving to be a good place to train it. (Not to mention it's full of Special Attack and Speed EV's...) Oh wait, did I just say I didn't normally EV train?!?
Pearl
More interesting things happened in Pearl than in Diamond. We left off where I caught Palkia...
-I traveled to Sunnyshore City, and bought a bunch of Seals. Recently, I made Ball Capsules for my best Pokemon, and a seventh for my new Palkia. The Palkia one has lots of pink and blue bubbles, and the Roserade one has purple and yellow flower petals (although the "yellow" ones look more red than yellow). And the Mismagius one has black smoke and black hearts... and the Purugly one is full of stars. Well... they're hard to describe.
-Then I got my eighth badge! The battle wasn't extremely hard. My Purugly started out by KO'ing his Raichu with Dig--a very easy battle. The most interesting part was when my level 47 Luxray battled his level 49 Luxray--and won. I guess knowing Crunch, holding a Dread Plate, and having the Rivalry ability helped... (both Luxrays were male)
-After that, I trained my Pokemon in various places... My Empoleon, Vespiquen, and Mismagius proved to do well in Mt. Coronet. My Purugly and Roserade (as well as Palkia) did well in Rt. 223, and I just surfed on Route 223 to train my Luxray. (After all, all that's there are Tentacruel, Pelipper, and Mantyke)
Then I got through Victory Road, battled my rival, and faced the Elite Four...
1. Aaron, with the Bug-type Pokemon. My Empoleon managed to KO his Dustox with Drill Peck (the dumb moth used Light Screen beforehand), but then his Heracross KO'd him before he could use Drill Peck again. The battle was harder than expected (my Pokemon were level 54), but I managed to win by using Perish Song on his last Pokemon, Drapion. (I love Perish Song...)
2. Bertha, user of Ground-types, and the easiest of the four. My Roserade KO'd almost all of her Pokemon with a single Petal Dance (especially the first two, which were Quagsire and Whiscash), although it was my Empoleon who KO'd her Sudowoodo.
3. Flint, user of Fire-types, and the hardest of the four. Okay, his Rapidash was easy because my Empoleon just used Surf, but that stupid Infernape with his Flare Blitz... plus his Drifblim almost KO'd my Luxray. The only easy part was his Steelix, which my Empoleon easily beat with Surf.
4. (forgot name), user of Psychic-types, also pretty easy to beat. None of my Pokemon fainted, and three of my Pokemon knew attacks that were super-effective against Psychics. His stupid Mr. Mime used Light Screen before my Vespiquen KO'd him with Attack Order... (Mr. Mime's Defense is lower anyways), and his Alakazam barely got Vespiquen to half HP before suffering the same fate. And my Mismagius easily beat his Medicham with Shadow Ball. ...Although I ended up using Perish Song on Bronzong, his last Pokemon.
5. What, me and my level 55 team going up against Cynthia's level 65 team? I must be crazy... Anyways, it took a while for my Empoleon to KO her Spiritomb, and I had to use a few healing items. But at least all Spiritomb's attacks were not very effective... Then she used Gastrodon, which I easily beat with my Roserade's Petal Dance. Then she sent out Lucario... My Roserade barely had time to use Leech Seed before being KO'd. Then I sent out Vespiquen, and what resulted was a long battle with Lucario... My Vespiquen kept using Defend Order while Lucario attacked, and I used some healing items, and Leech Seed took effect every turn... plus Cynthia used a Hyper Potion in the middle of the battle. But by the time Lucario was KO'd, my Vespiquen had maxed-out Defense, so I didn't switch when she sent out Milotic. I had time to get a couple of Attack Orders in, but then Milotic KO'd my Vespiquen with a critical-hit Ice Beam... (Drat! All that work for nothing!) So I sent out Luxray. Luxray did fairly well with his Spark attacks (and even paralysed Milotic), but then Cynthia switched her with Garchomp, who KO'd my Luxray... So I sent out Mismagius. Luckily Mismagius was faster than Garchomp, so she confused the dragon. She ended up KO'ing Garchomp after using Pain Split a couple of times and landing a critical hit with Shadow Ball. Whew, that was lucky... ("Well, your Milotic destroyed my souped-up Vespiquen with a critical hit, so now it's my turn!") Then Cynthia sent out Roserade, upon which I switched to Purugly. Purugly almost KO'd Roserade with Dream Eater, but then Roserade woke up and KO'd Purugly. Fortunately, I ended up KO'ing her with my Mismagius... And Milotic was Cynthia's last Pokemon, so my Mismagius used Perish Song. Then I confused Milotic, switched to Empoleon... and Milotic fainted!!! Wow! It was a difficult battle, and my team had a serious level disadvantage, but still... I beat the Elite Four!!!
-After beating the Elite Four, there were only four empty slots in my Pokedex: Wormadam, Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf. Wormadam was easy to take care of--a trainer I missed in Route 214 had one. But then I tried to capture Uxie... and failed twice. I had gotten Uxie into the red HP zone, put it to sleep, and threw 15 Ultra Balls, 20 Great Balls, three Pokeballs, and three Nest Balls... all of which failed. ARRRGH! And on the second attempt, I must have thrown about fifty different balls before Uxie KO'd itself with Struggle... Maybe I'll catch a Sneasel, teach it False Swipe, buy fifteen more Ultra Balls, and try again...
(I can't believe this... I had a much easier time catching Kyogre in Sapphire... who knew UXIE would be so hard to catch??)
