Floragato

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1 last meal for the road. It's fast approaching the mid game and my og members will be fast become obsolete.

Wait...Millie's in her PokeBall...no way...

What was the name of the dragon special Olympics mascots again?

Ah, got it.

Anywho there's a bunch of mirror matches to be found outside levincia, mostly Amik defeating other oinkolognes. (After a lot of hesitation, I release Amik to hang out with them, as I'm not sure what else I can use him for going for).

Now I have a secret weapon against mela later...but iono first!

Great, now that everyone's evolved once, maybe we can beat iono now.

Also copper joins in Amiks place,as does Lele in place of Millie.

Oh wait, I forgot about nemona battle 3!

Lele is my lead going into this.

2 rock smashes with that defense drop easily defeats rockruff.

I didn't need to do this, but I really felt I had to. Of course Miga takes out her former self.

Who let pawmot learn wild charge as soon as it evolves again?

I quickly swap my team around so there'd be a challenge (becuz I grinded a bit too much for Giacomo)

How did she edit this so fast?

How did she fail to do research?

(I'm not gonna find a 3rd fault)

Anywho as for the 1st pokemaniac Lele is affected by intimidate, but I sausage fingered into huanhuan the Charcadet. I then swap into copper the nymble, assuming that their similar levels of 22 could allow a fair fight...but my grasshopper gets decimated by 1 charge boosted spark. Lele then tanks an unboosted one as 2 rock tombs beat luxio.

As for pokemaniac number 2...

Evidently tynamo is stronger than I think, a metal claw doesn't one shot. It needed another rock tomb assist. (Rock tomb then ends the next flaaffy in 2 turns).

Wait what?

That the same speed as ursaluna...is she thinking of trick room?!

Anywho now for the gym battle itself.

This would have been even funnier if I swapped in the wattrel I caught of Camera (who I named Nini, after another of the 2008 Beijing Olympics mascots, though that one's green). Anywho enough tangent. Let's get down to business.

Rock tomb ohkos wattrel, then I had Miga deal with bellibolt.

..that explains why Miga needed 2 digs to beat it.

I use Sukki the Flittle to eat luxios intimidate,then attempted to try and use Migas volt absorb to troll it but that failed. (1 dig finished it off). Now for the most important battle: mismagius.

I keep Miga in because I was hoping his volt absorb ability can wall a potential charge beam. He manages to smack mismagius to yellow with arm thrust before getting confused.

That has to be one of the worst ways to go out. Getting beaten by an arm thrust.

Speaking of fighting moves, I attempt to get the body press TM from orthworms area, but apparently it's locked to climbing. Why I was seeking it was because of dachsbuns high defense. Maybe I don't need it?

Anywho Miga manages to subdue phase 1.

Phase 2 I decided to try and have huanhuan have a go at taking it down.

Unfortunately when I saw that level gap I settled for will o wisp. And the only Mon on my team who could hit it and be immune to sandstorm just os happened to be Lele, who got anger shell activated by an iron tail. Lele is defeated by it but got a rock smash in.

(Insert the star wars sand joke here). Miga had to put down orthworm again...but when will I get something better than arm thrust? (Answer: CC at level 44! Miga has proven to be one of my strongest team members for now so I guess he'll eventually get there?)

I wish you were bigger....so much.

As for what I named orthworm...hmm...he's made of metal...pure steel type...

Finally got something outside of meltan to use their names on. (I picked the name of the guy on the right)

Uh...why did I make that poll about dark types again? I already have this an a future meowscarada,do I need more?

Ok now let's beat Mela. Waldi is added back to the team because I'm hoping to use well baked body to its fullest here.

This allowed the grunts houndour to roar out Waldi and force Magique in. Magique then u turns into Lele who easily handles the dog.

This time on star barrage duty are Waldi, Miga and Lele. They do the job well...but can we handle melas wrath? (Becuz let's face it, the rest of my team of floragato, under leveled charcadet and lokix will be melted to bits by her, so it's up to the 3 of them).

Yeah...clear smog caused a lot of problem for Waldi here, but t fangs and play roughs got through.

Lele gets burnt upon entry, so I'm forced to desperation tera here. Rock tomb doesn't take it out so I attempt to bait well baked body...and it succeeded. Waldi lowers the cars attack by 4 stages with baby doll eyes.

Miga has to save the day again with 3 digs and tanking 2 overheats.

Neat.

'Giving them to your dachsbun.'

Wait...

Anywho, that's all I'm gonna do today.

Next time I think I'm taking down Kofu...with someone that's not Magique (Floragato) or Miga (Pawmot).

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I think I've reconciled that I can't use every single gen 9 Mon, so I decided to clear my deck slightly and released mungcho and Mukmuk (nacli and paldean wooper), since I don't know what I can do with them and they deserve some freedom over me having to fulfill a checklist of stuff to use.

Schuss and phryge stay because I do want to use both... gargancl and clodsire were on my initial team and I realized this playthroughs sub goal is trying to use mons I've never used before.

Finally managed to get Millie to evolve. How did Miga fully evolve before her? She's the early route bug for crying out loud! Anywho I think she's the only optionKan, I have that can hit brassius for super effective damage at the moment.

What? Play rough so early? I thought that's usually an endgame move.

Welp, sorry Millie, I think I found a replacement for you. (And an even cooler bug to boot!)

Oh nvm. Millie's got more exp so I think she'd better stay for now.

As for the nickname I picked copper. Coppers supposed to be "higher" of the Olympic motto, and grasshoppers can jump real high.

Anywho while training for brassius I start to see why spidops is considered bad, but I still have faith that Millie has what it takes to do her best here. At least she managed to subdue the wild sunflora that was running around the town square.

I wonder if these have a hard mode....

Now for a challenge: can I beat brassius with only Millie the spidops?

Petilil? Needed 2 pounces to pull off.

Smoliv? 2 low kicks and 1 pounce.

Trueleewoodo? Uhh...

Millie managed to weaken it enough to 1hp...if only she has the HP left to deal with it. Amik finishes sudowoodo off with a disrespect disarming voice though.

I headcanon Amik must have seen one of the oinkolognes out there while training and got inspired to evolve into one. Completely understand. That said I'm looking forward to the time where I need to use my whole team to take down someone. (Foreshadowing?)

Ok, now to take bombirdier down. It's causing trouble so let's just stop it on the way to stop Giacomo.

Actual foreshadowing what I must do.

After getting some new team members from both areas and training a bit, it's titan time.

(For those curious, the new members were HidyHowdy (Tandemaus, meant to be Hidy and Howdy after a pair of cowboy themed polar bears), Vinicius (Mankey, becuz both are monkey based hybrids), Sukki( Flittle, named after one of the Snowlets) and Huanhuan (Charcadet, for the fire based fuwa like with litwick in my last nuzlocke, except it makes more sense now))

Lele easily defeats her former friend from works first phase with rock tomb. Later she teams up with arvens nacli to unleash rocky karma on the bird, her ability activating in the process.... though she was in anger shell range and the boost easily beats the silly bird.

While deciding who to use for Giacomo, I decided that I think Millie can go into retirement after she helps beat giacomos gym, if we need bug coverage copper should have us covered.

I think I'm gonna want to use a Mabostiff so bad, where's maschiff at?

...not too bad honestly.

Oops, missed an I

Anywho back to training...and getting to Giacomo's front door.

The final team I take to the grunts is messy but it should work.

Phryge the shroodle is here as a cameo appearance for that one user who loves shroodle.

Miga and Millie will be doing most of the heavy lifting against the star barrage alongside Magique. I may use grafaiai later, but who knows.

Now as for dealing with Giacomo himself...

He leads pawniard, so I swap Magique into Miga. Likely because pawmot isn't designed to be use this early his arm thrusts steamroll pawniard...but then the car comes to be a mock incin an intimidates me.

That doesn't do much despite having the type of advantage.

I then swap Waldi in, and Waldi has picked up play rough.

3 play roughs destroy the car...and I noticed I overelevelled everyone but Millie. Oh well.

Next up we're going after iono. Millie didn't do anything in this battle, hopefully she and some of the other OGs can put in some work before difficulty spike catches up to them.

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I decided to add phryge to the team...becuz I feel Shuss' terrible HP may cost me. Grafaiai may be on the lower end of Paldean mons for me but I feel using it is better than wugtrio getting deleted in 1 hit.

(I undo this decision after deciding to take on klawf first)

Sure! (I'm looking forward to using a Mabostiff on his behalf admittedly)

I just realized great tusk is the only paradox I can use because of the titan and "my goal is to beat ai Sada"

I wonder if the titans are stronger than he average mon.

Dull surprise! (Uses chilly reception)

Anywho I think I wish SV had Skippable cutscenes, I'm sparing you guys by not screenshotting everything.

I just realized geetas appearance could foreshadow her using glimmora: her gloves is glimmora petals and her hair is the spikes.

Also from now on I'll probably try to be more selective with my captures since I already have 8 to rotate between (or more like 7 becuz sprigs a fixture), I don't think I need that many.

Thats a big Mon...

Maybe that should have been a red light about how she can send a contact remotely... without using a rotom phone...

Anywho, klawf? I think it could be easy? Shuss terrible stats shouldn't let me down against something with type disadvantage right? Right?

We'll be right back after this argument....

(That said I wish this argument kinda had substance since they allow me to do all 3...even saying I must do all 3)

I'm gonna give myself an extra challenge: no using koraidon to do stupid stunts like jump down from high places.

In the wilds I catch a Nacli...who has Sturdy instead of purifying salt.

I realized I brain farted here by choosing a living snowball from Korea as opposed to the special stone from china that is right there...oh well

Of course Magique evolved before everyone else...of course. And Titan klawf manages to put up a good fight against him in the first phase, Magique only barely triumphs without tera (I used on pawmi earlier to take out an annoying opponent) via leafage spam, and klawfs ability also activated.

On phase 2 I use Schuss instead, and recharged my tera orb beforehand. Unfortunately tera aqua jet fails to defeat klawf and a rock tomb flattens shuss, and Magique is forced to have rematch with klawf, and thanks to arvens shellders support, has a much better time taking on the giant crab.

(Game screenshots ceased here because my phone camera temporarily couldn't work, so take my word for everything that happened next).

Afterwards, kinda like an anipoke episode, klawf joins the team. I name her that Chinese stone mascot I didn't use on nacli earlier, replacing Shuss. On the way to cortondo, a quick raid with phryge gets enough rate candies to evolve Miga into pawmo,

Miga helps take down the gym trainers in the smoliv maze with his newfound strength (though Lele had to help him with...kricketune of all mons

Jeez). Soon after, thanks to me messing around with his 1000 steps mechanic as soon as he evolved, he evolves into pawmot after defeating an igglybuff, marking the fastest Mon to fully evolved on any playthrough session I've ever done.

Admittedly, I was shocked to learn he doesn't get double shock until level 60...yikes. That said he got wild charge. In the beginning of the game...I click tera and press A to win. Becuz of their low HP if the first 2 , he's able to do that.

That's all for today, I hope Giacomo is ready for me, because his base is gonna be next on my list...