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everything went pretty well. first up was bugsy, who you don't use your real team for, and he's a pushover. even though it is a virtual team a la XD's virtual CDs, i do try to keep in the spirit of a nuzlocke by not having anyone die.
mt. carotos in its entirety was awful - the terrain hurts all non-fire grounded mons every turn, even once the battle is over, so i had to play everything uber safe to not end up with a mon too low at the end of a fight. on the upper floors, there's shit like electrode with explosion (which new member garm actually tanked) and raichu that gets constantly buffed by its partner magneton thanks to lightningrod. aelita was a pretty good partner on the lower floors, but keta is fucking stupid and beyond retarded - his hariyama would literally spam rock tomb against steel/normal types instead of using its actual fighting moves, and when he did use his fighting move, they would miss. nearly lost a couple mons due to him.
madelis was actually pretty easy, because she's also pretty dumb, and it's a 6v12 with keta as a partner. new member rocky the lycanroc ripped her team apart with rock tomb which i brought solely for her houndoom but ended up being good against basically her entire team. but then she pulls out shadow mewtwo. thought i was gonna lose a mon, but thankfully madelis just targetted keta's fighting pokemon the whole time, and rocky hit three thrashes for a surprisingly easy win. didn't need to even send out garm once, who i specifically brought for the mewtwo, lol.
dimensional rift volcanion (this game loves making you fight legendaries) was also thankfully a joke, because its only threatening move, steam eruption, is easily PP stalled, it doesn't hit hard, and crono has smoke screen. i scouted with hecate to make sure it had no other water moves, then cosmic powered up and spammed rock slide for another easy win.
however, next is revenant keta, who's likely going to fuck me up for reasons stated previously. we'll see though
