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Norman's gym back at Petalburg is not too bad. Spinda isn't the best Pokémon and his Slakings though powerful can only hit every other turn. If you have a Pokemon with protect his Slaking really can't even touch you, but otherwise you're best off using a fighting type like Combusken or Hariyama. Beware of Slaking's Yawn however, although it does not have Focus Punch in its arsenal in Emerald version, opting for Counter instead. After winning you can grab the HM for Surf from Wally's folks. There's a lot we can do with this right now, but I'll cover that in the next post, so check that out before heading off to our next destination Route 118.
Hoenn's Route 118 is a quick excursion leading up to what I consider to be the most memorable route in Pokemon, Route 119. Before that you can fish up a Carvanha, but being a physical attacker all the way through its evolution into Sharpedo at level 30, it really gets gimped by the lack of physical/special split moves in this generation. It is fast though.
