Leon

Episode 5:

https://pokemon.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000003886937

Pokemon sword but ppl choose my mons episode 5: Beginning the Gym Challenge endgame | FandomEpisode…pokemon.fandom.com

I confess, 5 is the lowest amount of mons I've used to get to an endgame...I'm not sure if I can get enough exp from beating rose and eternatus to beat Leon in a reduced state...

Wait...

Never mind, not like anyone at this point would even know their categories.

The music here's different...how did I not notice before?

Anywho, now for the rose fight. I ha e a fire type unlike the last time I got here, let's see if that makes a difference.

Escavalier? Melted by fire lash.

Klingklang? Faced a similar fate but got a wild charge off beforehand.

Perserker? Also defeated by fire lash.

Ferrothorn? Somehow also defeated in one shot by fire lash.

I forgot to top up centibites PP on fire lash after he used it a bunch while I was trying to leave slumbering weald, so I use dynamax bloxy to fight gmax copperajah. Bloxy trades a max geyser with coperrajahs max quake, but another max geyser was enough to end the giant mental elephant thwomp wannabe.

Eternatus is able to outrun AmphaRime and land a cross poison on the first turn, but bright powder saves her from a dragon pulse ko and 2 psychics force eternatus to transform into eternamax form.

(Also interestingly enough during the pre Zacian and zamazenta summoning, sucker punchs priority wasn't ignored when AmphaRime used it)

Unfortunately for Zacian, AmphaRime is a special attacker so howl wasn't useful. However, a light screen from zamazenta stops her from getting wrecked by max flare, and she lands 2 psychics before the hero duo weaken it enough for me to seal it in a premier ball. (Also no, eternatus isn't joining my party).

Now for the final showdown with Leon.

Bloxy is tasked with taking out Aegislash, but the shield forms defense allow him to tank a scald and blade form nearly defeats him with shadow ball, though he did prevail. AmphaRime later also barely tanks a shadow ball from dragapult and a crit freeze dry removed arguably the fastest Mon in this match from my worries.

I dynamax Bloxy to get around rhyperiors solid rock but lose him soon after rillaboom tanks a max flutterby from u turn. MegaAmph is healed up after a switch but knockoff removes her bright powder and high horsepower completely overpowers her. Rillaboom is then quick to endeavor MegaAmph when he came in, which proved problematic when he had to deal with haxorus after Vermilla was defeated by an iron tail, barely managing to pull it off.

I sack of centibite to bring bloxy back, and MegaAmph is also felled while I try to disrespect drill peck...and bloxy is defeated by max overgrowth anyway.

Time for round 2.

This time I had bloxy use tearful look when Aegislash went into shield form, and he tanked a shadow ball this time. Aegislash actually got 2 kings shields off and bloxy is defeated by shadow ball anyway.

Leon breaks out a full restore on Aegislash as centibite switches in to will o wisp it, then o have him coil to read kings shield which backfired as he tanks 2 shadow balls. Instead of stalling further I just have the boosted centibite fire lash away Aegislash and somehow it went down just like that.

I then send AmphaRime out against rhyperior and she gets defeated by stone miss somehow after using fake tears to weakn , and Vermilla manages to stall 1 turn for bloxy to finish it off, but eq really hurt him bad.

A weakened Vermilla gets destroyed by dragapults shadow ball, and so did MegaAmph as I tried to bring both Vermilla and AmphaRime back, the former later defeating dragapult barely via big root draining kiss.

I attempted to use AmphaRime to defeat haxorus but she only got 1 freeze dry off before going down. Vermilla took it down though. Centibite then manages to barely take out rillaboom.

Vermilla then tanked that, before I dynamaxed hee to max guard block a max rockfall/g max Wildfire (blocked max airstream, which was still good anyway).

I attempted a double max guard and it failed, and g max Wildfire went up.

I used centibite and max potions to stall out the g max Wildfire, giving bloxy a chance to come in as soon as centibite fell to take out Charizard with scald.

And that ends the run. This was tough for me but the fact that I managed to beat a game with less than 6 mons was pretty cool and amazing! It also gave them all time to shine in a way my usual rotation approach couldn't. Shout-out to each and every one of them for putting in effort somewhere, be it a gym, dealing with team yell, or even eternatus.

My Scarlet but I can't evolve playthrough will start next week, so stay tuned.

Bloxy (Sobble->Drizzile->Inteleon, male)

MegaAmph (Rookidee->Corvisquire->Corviknight, male)

Vermilla (Milcery->Alcremie, female)

Centibite (Sizzlipede->Centiskorch, male)

AmphaRime (G. Mr. Mime->Mr. Rime, female)

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Episode 8:

https://pokemon.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000003868201

Poliwag plays through Sword again Episode 8 | FandomEpisode…pokemon.fandom.com

Can we reach eternatus today? Let's find out!

Going in I wanted to bring boltund back, but fearing a level spike I didn't opt to switch her in. Rather, I swapped pelliper for grimmsnarl and Perserker for Glalie. I'm assuming nessas Mt first opponent (if not bedes interruption), hence my setup.

Oh nvm. (Bedes dialog did make me feel sorry for him)

Unfortunately for me becuz I was expecting nessa first I led with Glalie. All it did was tank an intimidate and let me swap runerigus in...who intimidated mawile via wandering spirit nonsense.

Quag comes in in case wandering spirit backfires and weakens the physical runerigus (who's running all contact movesl), and defeats it with surf.

Next is Gardevoir, so I swap in rillaboom to fight her

Gardevoir is no match for wood hammer. Rillaboom then shrugs off rapidashs dazzling gleam before hammering it as well.

Unfortunately those hammers have left rillaboom at low HP so I swap to Glalie. I dynamax Glalie to use max hailstorm on hatterene (I was deliberating bite powered max darkness as well my 3 max hailstorm options but chose the ice fang powered one because my Glalie is physical).

It had max flare?! Yikes. Glalie barely live by the power of dmax. We trade hailstorm and flare but Glalie is defeated by the flames.

Seriously? Sucker punch fails to defeat hatterene and grimmsnarl gets smited. I send in quagsire...and bede full restores...

Somehow it took 3 eqs to fell this witch. I only got 3 off becuz quag had power of friendship. Yikes.

Ok, now for Nessa fight.

Golisopod was saved from a instant freeze dry ko by its ability, and the seaking that popped out later got shredded by freeze dry crit. That said Glalie did take a lot of damage taking both out.

Rillaboom tackled Barraskewda for Glalie (somehow dodging an ice fang before using wood hammer to smash the fish), and glalies freeze dry decimated pelipper. Glalie then hands the stage back to Rillaboom to fight drednaw...and max overgrowth easily destroys the poor turtle.

Now as for Bea I had no idea who to lead with, but settled on weezing.

I tried to delete Hawlucha with an early max oozes but it use bounce so it dodged.

(It then did that again and stalled out my dmax...come on!)

I ended up full restoring weezing...only for her to get para haxed again...and bounce cheesed...

What is this? A pimpnite video? Why is the RNG so bad today?

(Though at long last Hawlucha swaps to high jump kick and allowed weezing to defeat him with strange steam)

As soon as grapploct appeared I full restore...and get octolocked. Weezing tanks a mega punch before defeating grapploct with strange steam.

Sir Fletch's eventually went down after a few sludge bombs....and that full restore use. Falinks is defeated by a sludge bomb induced poison, leaving Machamp left.

Unfortunately according to pimpnites video it apparently has guts. I need to cripple it so I swap to runerigus with the intent that gmax Machamp punches her, and wandering spirit deletes guts.

That didn't work, so runerigus had to inflict a curse and get a clean swap into Pelipper to get some chip. Pelipper unfortunately missed air slash the first time but a second hit and runerigus: curse defeats machamp. Phew!

I then add memento to weezings move pool over toxic (since burn is a better status).

I swap runerigus for perseker for raihan. Pelliper is just there to fight torkoal. Torkoal yawns weezing, prompting pelipper to come in...and deleting the sun.... nerfing eruption in the process.

No more torkoal, no more sun!

Grimmsnarl defeats Goodra with fake out and spirit break. It's no incineroar but it worked. I then send quag in on turtonator.

Oops...but pelipper can't dent this turtle anyway...now does eq trigger shell trap? (Nope!)

Sand?! That being said flygon is not ttar. 2 strange steam defeats it.

Remember I said I had memento? I had weezing use it against Raihans duraludon....but she was defeated by max steelspike in the process so that failed. I'm not using memento ever again.

I dynamax Quagsire and exchange duraludons max knuckles with max quakes...and managed to barely get past him after the gmax ran out. I think this is eternatus time now right?

I've decided inteleons gonna be on my next playthrough team. But the question is who will it be working with? I'll check the poll later.

Runerigus rejoins the party for our final showdown with Leon...

Uh...I just realized I don't have any fire types on standby for him....yikes. anywho time to find one of most broken legendary ever made.

The worst part about this brief mirror match was the opposing weezing had neutralizing gas. Not cool, considering how much my weezing fought to be where she is today, being a MVP member on the squad.

I'm sorry about the nerfs...you were just too unbearably strong for competitive players...

Zacians attack stats is sealed in here...

I didn't expect escape rope to work. Ok now to beat rose without fire types.

Huh, what was rose hiding from his secretary this whole time?

I went for curse here because runerigus was totally walled by it, and used eq to soften it up...fake out from grimmsnarl finishes the job...

For perseker I went with quagsire. Quagsire barely tanks 2 throat chops and muddy water x2 washes aways the dishonorable one.

After a few fails weezing manages to burn Ferro thorn, but sustained heavy damage. I use Perserker to chip away at Ferrothorn as I heal quagsire.

I desperation dynamax...and had quag wrecked by power whip. Ouch. Grimmsnarl also gets wrecked attempting to break Ferrothorn, as does Perserker. Weezing mementos to weaken it further...and rillaboom finally manages to break past Ferrothorn with knock off. She then grapples with klinklang long enough for me to revive quagsire and runerigus, who I believe are my only other options against copperajah. I wonder how many nuzlockes got ended by rose because no fire type at this point.

I use quag to yawn copperajah as it dmaxes and set up the rain for muddy water boost....but she gets wrecked by it. Runerigus then sets up a curse before copperajah reverts, before finishing it off with eq. That was harsh....

Wolfey wasn't kidding when he said steels the best defensive type in the game. I was completely walled by this mono steel team.

Somehow this thing has flamethrower and Perserker gets melted by it.

Also it's level 60...my mons are in the mid 50s...I turned on hard mode...on accident. Runerigus barely manages to thwart base eternatus...but I dunno how I can beat eternamax eternatus...I hope it rewards a butt ton of exp.

Perserker was walled so I send in quag...but it also got walled blocked. That said considering eternatus is poison type I'll swap back to perseker later. ((And eqs a tad bit too dangerous to use here...I could accidentally ko zacian and zamazenta by mistake)

That said a zamazentas light screen couldn't protect Perserker from another fire move (seriously?), so I swapped in runerigus next, who fares much better And eventually helps take eternatus down. I lock eternatus into a premier ball and that's the end of the darkest day.

Well, I guess this is the finale ep now (I'm not gonna do swordward and shieldbert).

Into Leon's Aegislash I lead weezing to burn with will o wisp. Leon's theme sounds very fitting for getting here with a team of ragtag mons. Aegislash obliterates weezing but quag defeats it with eq.

Also I'm severely under levelled so winning this would be more satisfying... anywho grimmsnarl vs haxorus. Grimmsnarl fake out crit, then only gets off 1 sucker punch before getting obliterated by iron tail. Perserker falls to eq. I sack rillaboom to bring weezing back up to combat this thing, which she does.

I then revive rillaboom to tackle seimsitoad, and I dynamax quag to take out cinderace with max geyser. Dragapult fells quag, and I sack runerigus off to being weezing to counter it. (Maybe I should have used runerigus against cinderace...) Confusion RNG was on my side as dragapult is defeated by weezing-Galar.

Now...to take out GFs

golden boy. I gave weezing toxic back, and unleash it on zard...but it melts me....and I get completely destroyed...so close yet so far. Maybe if I have max revives..

Let see if eternatus helps me out of this problem. It's a restricted so that should do something.

Flamethrower is nullified by a double kings shield...but eventually melts Aegislash. Haxorus is destroyed by 1 dmax cannon. Seimsitoad fells eternatus, but the dmax cannon chip damage helps rillaboom defeat seimsitoad.

Runerigus manages to fight cinderace to 1hp before fainting, allowing grimmsnarl to fake out KO. Grimmsnarl also destroys dragapult with 2 sucker punches despite tanking a tbolt and getting paralyzed.

Grimmsnarl gets 1 sucker punch off before getting destroyed by max rockfall.

Weezing tanks a max airstream to toxic damage zard before being defeated by sand.

I use rillaboom to tank g Max wildfire as I attempt to revive eternatus. That being said since gmax timed out I'm not longer threatened by whatever grass move zard has.

1 max geyser was all it took to beat zard. (All thanks to eternatus too!)

Well, that's the end of this series, tune in tomorrow for my nuzlocke challenge to begin.