Grass monotype challenge update 2:
Key events:
1) Fought the first unavoidable Rival battle and shrugged him off. His Pidgeotto and Starter Charmander were the only problems, which the overleveled
Maplestreet was able to handle.
2) Cleared the Nugget Bridge and the trainers heading for Bill. All of them were useful sources of EXP for the rest of the team (
Yoonie, and the freshly caught Oddish -
Keefl and Bellsprout -
LittleJenny)
3) As expected, Misty was not a challenge against
Maplestreet. Her usually feared Starmie didn't even bother to use Water Pulse for that chance to confuse.
4) Traded a spearow that i caught for the Farfetch'd just for Pokedex purposes and of all the trades that would occur, it had to have the
ADAMANTnature :(
5) Cleared SS Anne. As expected, any of the Gentleman class trainers with their growlithes were problematic, especially for
Yoonie's unfortunate 4x weakness to Fire, and those growlithes are important sources of ATK EVs for Yoonie. As for the rest of the trainers, they were all great sources of EXP for the party with Yoonie and the oddish Keefl evolving throughout the run.
6) Rival Battle against Kirito on SS Anne was quite fun. I didn't switch out my ordering which ended with Yoonie facing off a 4x weakness at the start, but her being way levelved than Kirito's bird (25 vs 17) not even a 4x weakness was enough to stop her. Maplestreet vs Charmelion was pretty funny, since Char would have taken him down but Maplestreet is too stronk against a Fire weakness. Kadabra came next, Razor leaf and he was SPATK EVs for Maplestreet. Kirito's Raticate, of course we would not be seeing him now with Keefl internally injuring him.
7) Raised Yoonie to lvl27 by KOing some Digletts and a Dugtrio in their cave, which unlocks OP with the Spore skill. At 100% Accuracy, this is basically what will help her break every disadvantage against her with a Sleep that's guaranteed to hit, as opposed to Sleep Powder. Oh and watching Yoonie with her Bug/Grass typing tank magnitude 8s, 9s, and even 10s was pretty amusing. I hope this will help against the numerous Ground Types soon (and as a sweet sweet revenge against Giovanni and Rival's Rhydon)
On to tank beat my last monotype, Electric, in Vermillion City!
TEAM Update and my current thoughts for them:
Maplestreet, lvl30, Quiet Nature: Tackle, Poison Powder, Leech Seed, Razor Leaf
= Our team's all out attacker and natural leader. Our starter and our friend till the very end. I'm still making sure that I don't mess up his EVs way too much since he will still need to deal loads of damage with Razor Leaf. I need to make sure that I can increase his type coverage soon with some Poison moves to take advantage of his 2ndary Poison typing and his decent ATK rating as well.
Yoonie, lvl27, Relaxed Nature: Scratch, Spore, Poison Powder, Leech Life
= Our team's physical brawler. From the get go, I made sure that even with Yoonie's crappy Nature, I will still raise her to be the physical brawler that the team will rely on against Kanto's psychics. With the part bug typing, I'm pretty confident that I can make her stronger even further. Further raising will get her wimpy scratch attack be replaced with the much more powerful Slash and will make her a much stronger physical fighter soon.
Keekfl, lvl21, Docile Nature: Absorb, Poison powder, Sweet Scent, Sleep Powder
= Our team's secondary grass "mage" and support. Not much can I say for her now since all I'm doing with her is using sweet scent to efficiently farm areas (and EXP + EVs) for the team. But as a gloom, her stats greatly improved from being a squishy Oddish.
LittleJenny, Lvl16, Careful Nature: Vine Whip, Growth, Wrap, Sleep Powder
= Something screams that with at 32 base attack on her current level (which is higher than the rest of her stats), she wants to be a physical grass brawler along with Yoonie, however Gen III doesn't want her to be such yet. If I was doing this on Gen 4 and onwards games with the physical and special split, she'd be happier. For now, I need to think of what moves would go along with her typing and noticably high ATK Stat. It kinda screams that she wants some poison type moves for her base ATK.
