- Went through the Nugget Bridge and helped Bill.
- Played hero and since the police decided to be useless, got Dig out of it which should be important to deal with Lt. Surge
- Cleaned up the S.S. Anne and defeated Blau once again
- Lt. Surge was a bit of a complicated fight, since Evasion hax was a thing and Raichu hit like a truck. But with a strategic sacrifice of Coca-Cola so I could heal Pepsi (who had Dig), we managed to get the win.
And that's with us in the 29-30 level range, about 6 levels higher than its ace. Yikes.
Badges: 3/8
- Got the bike
- Went down Rock Tunnel
- Got some Tea from a nice Old Lady
- Got Sprite the Eevee from the teacher in the Celadon Mansion, which immediately evolved.
Sprite the male Vaporeon
Nature: Gentle (+ SpDef, - Def)
Ability: Water Absorb
The nature isn't great, but since this gen all our weaknesses are special it's not the worst either.
Unfortunately, Vaporeon suffers from stone evolution syndrome - it has a terrible moveset. Thankfully, the Game Corner and the Department Store are here to help us deal with that.
- After that, Sprite just killed everything in the Game Corner and the Gym. Including Erika. Turns out she can't handle a Vaporeon with Ice Beam.
Badges: 4/8
- Started to climb the Lavender Tower and beat Blau. He even managed to make Pepsi evolve again, because he's just such a nice and supportive friend <3
- After that, I made a beeline for Silph Co., got lost there and beat Blau again. Then I got Dr. Pepper the Lapras
Dr. Pepper the female Lapras
Nature: Mild (+ Spa, - Def)
Ability: Shell Armor
Pretty ok, but like most things in Gen I, the only thing saving it is the Game Corner.
- After a lot of grinding, I decide to just get going and finish with Giovanni. I'll get Lapras up to par by paving the way to Fuchsia.
- And that I did. After hiking down the Safari Zone I got Surf (yay) and Strength (meh).
- Dr. Pepper just killed Koga with Psychic. lol.
Badges: 5/8
- After a quick trip back to Saffron, Gyarados just murderized Sabrina with Return. Venomoth actually took the hit too, so I am somewhat impressed.
Badges: 6/8
- Unsurprisingly, neither the Pokemon Mansion nor Blaine were complicated. All of Blaine's mon died to Surf.
Badges: 7/8
- One uneventful Sevii Islands sidequest later, we make our way back to Viridian and destroy Giovanni one and for all.
Badges: 8/8
- Since I have four Pokémon now, I'm more or less riding the level curve. (Which is rather novel, I usually use less Pokémon, so I have a tendency to be overleveled). While I'll probably need to grind a bit before the Elite Four, Blau was pretty easy to deal.
- Victory Road was done, the usual items were bought and while I was going to grind, I didn't really feel like putting in the time, so let's see if I can do it without the level advantage.
I'm entering with a team at level 53-54 which is par with Lorelei but about 10 levels under Blau's ace.
vs. Lolerei
- Dr. Pepper enters, I use two X Specials and an X Speed and let Tbolt sweep the way for me
vs. Bruno
- Pepsi enters and manages to deal with most of the opponents, waste Bruno's items but falls down to Machamp
- Coca-Cola tried to set-up but wasn't enough, Sprite came in and cleaned up
vs. Agatha
- Dr. Pepper enters, I use two X Specials and an X Speed and just swept. Psychic dealt with the ghosts and Arbok, while Ice Beam destroyed the Golbats.
vs. Lance
- Dr. Pepper enters and just exploits weaknesses to destroy most Pokemon. Gyarados went down to Tbolt, the Dragonairs to Ice Beam and Aerodactyl to Surf. Sadly, Aerodactly managed to weaken Lapras and let Dragonite kill Dr. Pepper before it could fire that delicious quad weak Ice Beam
- So Sprite did it for her. Lance kept dragging it out with his Full Restores but he kept getting at low health, in the end he sent a Hyper Beam to kill Sprite.
- Which left it wide open for Pepsi's Ice Beam. I love the Ice Beam TM, it's been one of the run's MVPs.
vs. Champion Blau
- Dr. Pepper kills Pidgeotto with an Ice Beam, and Blau switches Rhydon in
- I try to set up a lot with Coca-Cola and when I'm ready to start sweeping, Blau get's a crit :T
- Dr. Pepper comes back in, and kills it but Venusaur drops by and start being ... annoying. It keeps spamming Solarbeam, but thankfully it never used Sunny Day. It kills almost everybody, so I'm forced to use a Revive in-battle (I was trying to avoid that)
- At the end Dr. Pepper manages to kill it, and I just alternate between healing it and killing stuff. At the end of the day I managed to beat Blau, using 1 Revive in-battle and being about 8 levels under its ace. I'm fine with that. Not to mention that if it weren't for a stupid crit, I probably wouldn't have even needed that Revive.
Either way, Kanto is done.
Final Team Analysis:
Dr. Pepper the Lapras (MVP)
- It's a beast. With the deliciously OP moveset of Thunderbolt / Ice Beam / Psychic / Surf and its great defenses it was dealing massive chunks of damage to most Pokemon. It actively made me wish there was a fifth moveslot to put Calm Mind in there, but to be honest, I only really felt the need to get the boosts in the Elite Four battles.
I almost didn't use it, but I'm glad I did because it came in clutch when my strategy just kinda flunked.
Coca-Cola the Gyarados (Most Underwhelming)
- I know it's nowhere near its true potential in Gen III but ergggh, it started out great and just kinda leveled out in the end. It was still useful and more on less on par with the rest of the team but it really needed that level advantage to shine.
I tried using a fancy strategy with Dragon Dance but a lot of Scary Faces and a crit nipped that in the bud. Oh well.
Sprite the Vaporeon (Most Average)
- It was just ... average. It essentially wanted to be Dr. Pepper but couldn't quite match it. It wasn't bad it just ... kinda paled in comparison to Dr. Pepper I guess.
Pepsi the Blastoise (Most forgotten)
- By the end I kinda forgot it was there to be honest. It didn't have any interesting types to help, it had a pretty meh movepool, or even a good niche in general. The more Pokemon I got, the less useful it became, I guess.