after another eternity of searching for drifloon (apparently, it's a 2% encounter at night, and i'm playing on an unreal clock that's entirely too fast), i decide to move on with plot. trainers are starting to get really hard now, to the point where i'm expecting to lose mons to randos, and basically have set a reminder to constantly stock on moomoo milk/ice cream.
aelita wasn't difficult. broque the mr. mime utterly ripped her apart with psybeam/icy wind, the only damage i took was mienfoo's fake out. from what i remember on past playthroughs, tho, her hawlucha has flying gem + acrobatics, which easily could have 6-0'd my entire team had i not one shotted it.
crawli (who is a woman now?) was easy, if a surprise. thankfully i had freya out front who killed the araquanid, nanashi burned golisopod so seviche could take it out, and kumatora walled galvantula.
dimensional rift gyarados, on the other hand, i had to prepare for. i trained a mightyena i got in the deep sewers to be max defense/max hp evs, then spammed sand attack/healed/switched around to intimidate spam to where vaan the ambipom could come in, tickle it down to -6 atk and def, and then go for the kill.
still can't beat the other big optional boss, kingdra, for now, but i'll probably try and attempt it after i beat narcissa. next up though is giratinafag who gave me a lot of trouble when i played this game a while ago, so we'll see how that goes.
>>44291739it happens. i'd recommend playing something other than pokemon for a while instead of monotyping/gaia
>>44299563usually i'd just say that the location listed on the pokemon info sheet must be unique (not doing that for this game though lol). but it's entirely up to you. just feels kinda cheaty in easier games
>>44300956you're likely better off getting lapras ice shard and making it decently physical and bulky, those dragonites hit really damn hard. might overlap with dakota though
>>44301417RIP for your bud
