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decided to swap my team a little bit because karrina needs my help before she gives me rock smash. i love how this game makes you fight gyms and get HMs when the world/melia is in danger instead of the people who want to help you just giving said things to you, that really makes a ton of sense.
good call, because first major fight of this split is dr. jekell, who's a double battle with a PULSE musharna and two munna. really annoying and dangerous battle despite only 3 pokemon, the musharna (who is psychic/fairy and presumably gets insanely high stats a la mega evolution) sets misty terrain to boost the power of its insanely strong mist ball and stop status, and the munna get fully healed when in misty terrain due to their seeds. thankfully i managed to lose no one by locking them into a loop where the musharna would use a not-very-effective mist ball on freya when i swapped to it from akihiko, all while spamming smokescreen with crono (again, protean is a lifesaver, as the 'base' terrain for this battle is a factory field that powers up the munna's shock waves - smoke screen allowed it to stay normal type and made them target freya/akihiko anyway). once the misty terrain faded, i paralyzed and confused the musharna then whittled it down safely.
next up is an optional boss in falkner, yes, falkner, thankfully you don't use your real team for it and he's easy. also begin to grab zygarde cells for the zygarde side quest, not sure how much is needed for the doggo/50% forme but i assume it's no time soon.
my team REALLY needs some bulkier/defensive mons, so i picked up spritzee on route 2, near full investment phys def with calm mind, and luxio in the chrisola hotel, spdef invested with intimidate/baby doll eyes. probably going to grind up the shiny trubbish, as well, but first i need to fight nim, yet another very wacky and very funny character who uses psychic pokemon. don't have any good mons for this so expecting a death.
