Part 9:
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Ok, time for my poppy rematch.
Good news: Whizbang got 3 layers of spikes up. Bad news: I forgot to pack rapid spin on phanphan. That said rocks didn't seem to slow my roll, Phanphan does ko copperajah 1 hit witj eq (surprising considering...copperajah is pretty defensively sound), and amphy deletes corviknight once more.
Gojira decimates magnezone and bronzong (the former witj spikes support, confirming the latter has levitate) before tagging out for phanphan for tinkaton.
Phanphan tanks the giant hammer and finishes tinkaton off with eq. Even rocks couldn't help tinkaton crush her.
For Larry I decide to try something different...and very, very, "pimpnite would do this. "...and sausage finger spikes in front of a mono flying team on whizbang. Oops.
Power herb solar beam: denied! (Ice fang miss didn't hurt that bad anyway because of the sand).
Because I knew staraptor had intimidate I did this, and brave bird recoil helped hbox hyper Voice ko it. She also deleted the altaria that came next. I sack her off to get sand chip, then send in phanphan to set up d curl+rollout.
The sand runs out as oricorio is defeated by rollout attack 2, but phanphan is injured...and interestingly the oncoming flamigo goes for cc to take her down, before amphy electrocutes the flamingo witj tera discharge. And we're right back where we fell. Let's see if I can actually beat hassel this time.
Gojira deletes noivern after whizbang fails to get all minimizes up, and barely stands after taking on and defeating dragalge witj sand chip. Phanphan is only slightly better after defeating haxorus, and she's defeated by seed bomb from flapple, but Gyro kos it soon after.
I sack Gyro for some sand damage to take place on baxcalibur, and gojira also falls trying to get ice fangs up.
Hbox comes in clutch once again, as the damage dealt earlier was enough for d gleams to defeat bax. It was at least a well fought battle from both sides, if it were a complete sweep that wouldn't be as satisfying. And remember, I'm doing this because johto mons are infamously amd supposedly weaker than most gens. (If I can't beat geeta I'm gonna be so embarrassed).
It was at this moment, whizbang wished, he was hisuan. (He was defeated and gojira had to crunch ko, before falling to avalugg).
Phanphan was blessed with arceus luck, getting a burn and flinch on avalugg before koing it. Veluza proved hard, taking down Gyro witj ice fang before amphy defeated it.
Because none of hboxs moves could punch through this powered up King, I had to tera. It helped her eat an iron head but she got sliced in half by kowtwo cleave crit.
Phan managed to burn gogoat witj fire fang and this allowed her to eventually defeat the mount pokemon with 1 max potion.
Oh arceus, glimmers managed to defeat phanphan with earth power and tera blast rock, and ampjy barely tanked an earth powered to win. Maybe ai sada is gonna be more problematic than I think....let's see how well I fare against Nemona first.
(One chansey outbreak farm session later....)
Had gojira and whiz caught up to speed, now I'm ready to fight nemona at full power.
Whiz managed to get 3 layers of spikes negore fainting to drill run, and phanphan was able to defeat lycanroc soon after. Gojira handles Goodra barely and get freeze hax+sand ko, but is deleted by pawmot, who in turn was defeated by phanphan, who also barely defeats dudunsparce.
Hbox teras water and defeats orthworm in 2 hits. Should have set up throat spray with hyper Voice but whatever...though I did use it to defeat quaquaval soon after with d gleam.
Alright, let's do this.
The area zero trip had 4 legs, and as per usual I swap the lead mon for each.
The 1st leg (soon after descent up to glimmora, handled by Gyro though she couldn't defeat
glimmora, lycanroc had to help her do that), leg 2 (up to scream tail, handled by...admitedly poor choice of amphy, had to blast my tera and fry penny's umbreon via discharge because no tbolt, scream tail also oddly tried to psychic fangs umbreon),leg 3 (up to great tusk rematch. Handled by phanphan.)
Wow tusk is small, and at least this time mabosstiff didn't get koed. (Anywho, leg 4 was handled by phanphan as well as i forgot to switch, and the descebt to the zero lab was handled by whizbang, gojira and hbox (very briefly))
Me attempting to test penny's theory of comparing the glows of tera and the area zero crystals. (Also I have inf tera? I could tera for every battle here in the cave, and because no dlc I don't have terapagos blessing giving permanent inf tera either)
I unwisely take gojira against a tusk, but nemonas lycanroc had sand rush activated, and ice fang gets a freeze hax.
Brute bonnet...well it got defeated by sand, but it got a spore off because of its supposed amoonguss relations. Some things never change.
He tried to warn us...(anywho crunch+defense drop+rock slide after that-> gone) Now for the final battle.
Whizbang gets up all 3 layers of spikes. 2 layers of t spikes, and a liquidation. Ofc, he still gets koed, but his job is done, and Gyro demolishes slither wing with acrobatics.
Hbox duels her "ancestor", and via her throat spray proves she is superior. Sandy Shocks does delete her, but the coast is clear for gojira to enter, as the sand weakens a otherwise deadly earth power for an ice fang ko, and it also helps him defeat brute bonnet, who would otherwise easily delete him. Not even flutter manes t bolt could stop him.
Despite a max potion, gojira is defeated by roaring moon, and phanphan lands the finishing blow, ending the run.
Final thoughts:
Well, this was fun. I've never used some of these mons before, and after this, I'm happy to say I'm glad I gave them a shot. Donphan and Ampharos were some of my favs to use, and if I do get legends za I'm looking forward to using ampharos witj it's mega. That's all from me. I think I'll probably do something else, maybe in Galar or let's go perhaps, or go back to ssb for a bit maybe. See you guys around!
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