I've always been reliant on evolving for most of playthroughs if I'm honest, so what if I couldn't do it? Theres only 1 rule to this: I'm not allowed to see the animation above: I must mash B to stop it. The only eligible mons are either basic stage (like my namesake) or no Evo mons (like Tauros, needed due to me lacking eviolite for a huge portion).
Most of my other rules I use like 1 raid per achievement and 1 Mon per area are probably not going into play this time due to...well, me being stuck with baby mons, I need all the help I can get in terms of exp and who I can use. The only exception being I should try to use everyone at least once.
This was a tougher decision than normal, but I ultimately went with Fuecoco. It has 3 weaknesses compared to sprigatitos 5, and while water is a good defensive typing, quaxly...well...
Yeah those defenses....
I'm using this nickname again because... 🐊.
As for knowing more about him...
...I dunno if +speed nature even matters since it's gonna be basically as slow as Amoonguss the further we go, but alright.
Forget late game, Krool can't outsped sprig! Hopefully his bulk allows him to handle this without unaware.
Yeah...
I wonder if Z-A will change anything about this...
This is a reference to pimpnites battle against a full team of shiny deoxys in bdsp, where he used a spoink named this he got from someone else.
Attack at the cost of special defense? Ok...
Huh, my first playthrough Hoppip (now Jumpluff) is female too, what are the odds.
I already used "whirl" last time, so I decided to try a different transformers helicopter name, and eventually settled on "Blades".
Since Hoppip is a Johto Mon, I'm not sure whether nature would help, and also apparently her ability is chlorophyll . (Krools is blaze and Ziggy piggys is aroma veil btw, I checked)
Finally, I caught a female Pawmi and named the rather generic not a reference to anything "Shockie".
She has a mild nature and her ability is static...and unfortunately she got burned by krools ember. And that's all the encounters I've caught here, so let's move on our first encounter with koraidon.
I know, you were banned from regulation H and feeling sad about it, but you'll be unbanned soon, I promise!
I attempted to feed it a Hoppip leaf but that didn't work. It has to be the sandwich. I was just messing around admittedly, but the fact that the menu teleported to select the sandwich when I talked to koraidon implies they probably anti funny businessed it.
In the cave I caught a Diglett and named her holeymoley(because...mole? Pimpnite used dugtrio with that name for some his setups I think). I tried to see if I can find out about her during the houndoom scripted battle but I could only pick fight and watch Krool retreat to his PokeBall in fear. (Outside the cave, she's revealed to have a Naive Nature, take plenty of siestas and her ability is sand veil instead of arena trap like I hoped. Oh well)
Yeah...of only that plot point wasn't locked until post game, but idk...
Yeah I'd rather not. (Why is miraidon only a thing on the Pokemon Violet timeline?)
Maybe the Paradox Duo should have gotten a slow start retool where they start as this and then transform into their battle forms after a while now...but slow start sucks so maybe that was for the better. (And arven reminds me it shouldn't be fighting in this state...right before Krool defeats his skwovet with ease)
My 6th member is going to be daisy the Psyduck. I was choosing between psyducks bulk or buizels firepower, I decided Psyduck was maybe better.
Also ofc I get a good nature on a Mon I don't think needs it.
After that I caught 2 more mons: Falco the Fletchling (Male, Calm Nature, Somewhat of a clown, ability is big pecks) and Baguette the Fidough (Female, Mild Nature, loves to run, Ability is Own Tempo). They'll join the team rotation for now, most likely replacing holeymoley and blades. (Though I need holeymoley to counter nemonas pawmi->pawmo->pawmot).
Speaking of holeymoley, I wanted to send her out against nemonas tera Pawmi, but accidentally sent out Ziggypiggy, who triggered static while tackling it. I do eventually manage to swap in moley anyway and somehow Pawmi had no answers to a ground type in this phase.
Also you have to fight the team star grunts. No way around it! Krool easily took care of both!
*insert obligatory Geeta is terrible joke pre dlc here* (also usually I go to arven first, this time I'm switching things up)
Why did arven have to be portrayed as a mean person when we first met? I wish I knew. (Anywho I'm sparing you guys the exposition, it's probably very familiar... though the length....sweet Arceus where's the skip cutscene button? I have to mash a like I'm stuck in some SSB characters grab)
Why is masbosstiff censored again? I know there's an in game reason for it, but...it admittedly feels weird when you think about it.
Bananas and smoliv oil really don't mix well... (First time I've failed a sandwich)
I guess that wraps up today's episode.
Also I'm gonna try something my previous playthrough didn't use: having comments choosing my team.
I have 9 mons right now (Zelda the hattena was from a raid) that are sure to increase, so I'll be asking about this at the end of each of these:
Who should I swap out for my next episode and why? (It would affect who I'll take on)
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