Episode 1:
https://pokemon.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000003864847
I had lots of time to "record" this one, so it's gonna be super sized and fast changing.
So I stopped before the wild area last time, and j think I'll probably have 1 encounter here per gym(I'll probably have way too many mons to try, but the more the merrier). Right now I'll just catch one Mon and do 1 raid, and I'll make it so that if I fail the encounter I pick/roll it's expended.
...and these stronger than what I have and don't let me catch them don't count as encounters...becuz I can't catch them. (Also Onix easily took out grookey with the hail support...ouch)
Y'know what, why not. On my old playthrough Vanilluxe only came on board in the late game, so it would be cool to see what it can do (also it has snow cloak...I don't remember what my Vanilluxe had as a vanillish but when it fully evolved it did Gai n snow warning, did it also have snow cloak?)
This can't be that bad. Also yay full team of 6... hopefully. (I've never failed a max raid before, but I think there's a chance it could happen)
Helping Hand powered Max Overgrowth! (It still survived...)
Interestingly one of my partners had a focus sash qwilfish, I've never seen that before.
Gotcha!
Wanted huge power, but you can't win em all. This will do.
...I wonder how many times I'll make curry... considering I have a tendency to...use all my ingredients
Could be worse
Yeah...I think I'll consider each area of the wild area 1 area to catch a Mon in. Also this Oddish really wanted in so I caught her. I've not used vileplume or bellossom before so this is intriguing. Still, I'm only do 1 max raid capture per visit of the wild area.
Anywho, onward to motostoke!
Well,I guess that makes sense, I think I'll use it on grookey while Oddish can be more for support...ish? (I'm not good with singles support beyond webs and hazards)
7->Rowlet Nat Dex number (722)
6->Poliwag Nat Dex number (060)
8->Clodsire Nat Dex number (980)
I was tempted to use 060 again, but I wanted to actually try this time.
....well that's easy. Is the first Marnie battle up next? (Nope)
I'm a YKW fan, so I read this as "Night of the Enma" becuz of the first character used. It's probably not intended though since this is the darkest day we're talking about.
"Research too much?" I'm not gonna tell him about Smogon and vgc and whatnot then.
He isn't even facing me. Yikes, they made team yell all the more rude as a result.
I intended to take out Zigzagoon here with razor leaf, but it missed and let it use Lick on grookey and get the para hax. Luckily all the consequences were just slow down and a razor leaf did take it out soon enough. The next grunts Nickit also fell to razor leaf (though it did get 1 quick attack in).
The Nickit in the double battle survived, but it was put in range of wooloos tackle to ko.
Next battle I'm using someone else though.
Also this part is surprisingly quicker than SVs intro segment for some reason, yeesh where did that go wrong?
NGL, I miss Galars spectacle regarding the gyms. I guess that's what it's going for with dynamax being so spectacle oriented admittedly.
I wonder what the lineups like after the main story. Maybe in a SWSH remake/sequel that only Miraidon and friends would know about?
Neat, though I think I'll hold back on flying to the slumbering weald since I'll go there again later, maybe I'll find someone cooler there.
Ok so my bunnelby doesn't have huge power, but my Oddish has chlorophyll. Interesting.
Anywho I'm here becuz I'm doing bop battle number 3, and swap into yamper to train.
Apparently yamper is slower than wooloo, so a nuzzle helps her take out the sheep with swift... eventually becuz hop uses a potion. If only I had nasty plot/j
Out comes sobble... I get a nuzzle off...
But it eats swift with ease so I swap into Oddish, and take it out with giga drain.
Yeah, when he sent in rookidee I swapped Oddish into vanillite and instantly froze the bird with a single icy wind. After it scored that crit. Now that's cold.
3 female grass types! 3! On 1 save file! Yikes. (Also it has regenerator....so if Oddish was similar to Venusaur, than gossifleur here is amoonguss...by a long stretch because I don't think it has spore, rage powder etc.) all because I walked into one by mistake. I could have gotten tyrouge (and by extension a Hitmon) instead.
(Except maybe budew here) I hope get some different mons as opposed to doing a mono grass run.
...yeah I need to really cut back starter usage, but at least I'm getting closer to rillaboom (sorta)
I wonder what's in there. It's probably filled with koffings.
Sadly, diggersby didn't learn anything cool upon level up. He did learn bulldoze shortly before evolving though.
An NPC had to help me with this. That's a new low...
In the mines, a timburr decided to join our merry band, and I decided to temporarily replace diggersby with her.
Does she have guts? Yes apparently. Short of a flame orb I kept the poison status Oddish inflicted to use it, considering according to a recent papasea vid kabu likes will o wisp I have a counter to that.
That said, between catching her and getting to bede, my potion supply went dry, luckily a random PokeBall had super potions to alleviate this, so I can take him on at relatively full power now.
Solosis nearly defeated thwackey with endeavor after she missed double hit the first time, but luckily she managed to land the second time and take it out with a razor leaf soon after solosis confusion didn't take her out.
On gothita I swapped to vanillite and used icy wind, but that trigger competitive...and avalanche fails due to gothitas Psy beam melting him. I send yamper in next but bite doesn't do anything, so she nuzzles gothita before getting 2 shot by psybeam. Rookidee finishes gothita off
I'm done fooling around, so I had rookidee exchange plucks with confusions from hattena, and rookidee barely makes it out. Yikes.
That's a well deserved evolution, Corvisquire. I should have maybe had you or thwackey handle all 3 but I want the others to try and shine too.
Outside tuffield I catch an electrike,another Mon I've never used before. I could maybe use it for Nessa later.
Have we cracked the code after 5 years? I don't think so, but maybe it's already cracked and I simply didn't know.
Anywho, after sending my other boxed in mons on a poke job to help them train and not get cramped (I set a whole day...maybe not the best idea but alright), I take on turfield. I have a flying and an ice type, but since Ice is very weak I'm gonna try to beat Milos gym with only vanillite.
Uh I didn't bring potions. Let see if max hailstorm can allow me to sweep. Vanillite has snow cloak so that's also something else that can hopefully help.
My giant ice cream manages to 1 shot gossifleur (wow ice is really a good offensive type), it's probably the fastest I got to the galar gym leader dynamax mode.
Eldegoss outspeeds me... And lives max hailstorm. Challenge failed becuz 2 Max strikes takes out my ice cream. I decide to use yamper to para hax...
Eldegoss gets fully paralyzed and eats a swift, so I throw another one at it and it crits me. A leafage nearly takes yamper out (yikes), so I swap to Oddish anticipating one....and eldegoss gets para haxed.
Finally! (Oddish also upgraded from mega to giga drain too)
I went to use my max raid attempt, and saw this wandering quag. Could I catch her? Yes. So I did. I also caught a pancham while searching for a raid... becuz the nearest one was a wooper.
Since there's no rowlet, this will have to be a substitute owl. (Who knows, maybe it can do stuff diggersby and Corvisquire can't separately).
On route 5 I catch a swirlix as yamper learns a decent electric moves (spark). Since the run is about using different mons, I swap out Corvisquire for swirlix.
When I ran into the team yell grunts, timburr took out the 1st ones Zigzagoon and 2 hit a thievul with low kick (when does she evolve into gurdurr?)
I forgot I had swirlix here to take this down, oops. Thwackey still handled it with ease.
Vanillite is so small he could legitimately be a baby pokemon.
Now for hop battle ...4?
Avalanche after 2 double kicks easily kos wooloo. Against Corvisquire though, I swap to yamper as vanillite has been doing a lot of fighting to this point and isn't in a good spot rn, and she takes out the crow in 2 sparks. Drizzile then tries to bind yamper, but gets paralyzed by spark....but survives getting hit by 2. Maybe inteleon isn't that frail if it's pre evos aren't frail.
Unfortunately a super potion thwarts an attempt for nuzzle disrespect ko, and bind+water pulse defeats Yamper, thwackey finishes drizzile off.
Well, and that finally puts the "Bead" vs 'Bee-day' debate to rest.
As for the gym, swirlix took out all the gym trainers, but I decided to have yamper take out nessas mons, because she's kind of been...there. Thwackey will take out drednaw via 4x weakness.
(I also KOed arrokuda with nuzzle...and thwackeys dynamax cry is so creepy...)
... retaliate in Chinese is so hardcore, yikes.
I got this scraggy in galar mine 2. He has both shed skin and a shed shell, interesting. Now timburr has competition...not. I'll maybe use scraggy at some point down the line....
I should have used him against bede...yikes swirlix to the rescue...?
It lives on 1hp...nvm thwackey knock off sweep it is....nope it got stopped by hatenna psybeam. Quagsire did help beat it.
Vanillites Avalanche failed to defeat galarian Ponyta, and he got defeated by it luckily yamper managed to hang on and survive, evolving into boltund after that at long last.
And I think that's where we're gonna wrap up. It's gone long enough, feel free to comment suggestions on what to do next and I'll see if I can do them.
