-Went through Victory Road, defeated Rival
-Arrived at Pokemon League
-taught Pikachu thunder (needed raw power to defeat some of elite 4 members' pokemon)
-Elite 4 - The following are highlights from my battle against the Elite 4
Vs. Will - few problems here. thunderbolt was effective against most of his pokemon. Ocassionally needed thunder when thunderbolt was inadequate.
Vs. Koga - Urgh! Muk's minimize was super annoying. Thunder kept on missing, so relied on thunder bolt which also missed a few times. Forretress was taken care of hidden power...never used explosion. Got confused from Venemoth's supersonic in both of my battles with Koga but never fainted.
vs. Bruno - Everything was going reasonably well until Bruno's Machamp. A couple of Thunders took care of most of his pokemon...hidden power for onix. Machamp's cross chop would OHKO Pikachu. Had to use several revives until I eventually ran out X_X and had to restart. During my second attempt, Machamp's cross chop luckily missed, and I was able to finally defeat Bruno.
vs. Karen - 2nd hardest battle. Umbreon wasn't easy to beat even with Thunder. Gengar cursed Pikachu and then Vileplume's petal dance KOed it. Used revive and defeated it using headbutt a few times. Houndoom's flamethrower KOed Pikachu again. *sigh* After another revive was
wasted used, defeated Karen. Close call though.
Vs. Lance - This battle was the reason why I had been so reluctant in using my revives because I knew I was going to need as many as possible to defeat Lance. Gyarados, Aero, and Charizard were taken care of with thunderbolts. His Dragonite (3 of them!!!) were the main obstacles. Hyper beam KOed me. Using all of my revives were of no avail, so I had to restart (:disappoin). Second time around, I discovered that Pikachu could survive a hyper beam if he had full hp. After using several hyper potions and using thunder, I managed to defeat Lance! Ocassionally Thunder would miss, but Blizzard was weak against pikachu and outrage wasn't too bad.
That's all folks, and I'm sorry if this is too long and detailed for you.
-Off to Kanto in the SS Anne
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