>>54585945With Brycen defeated, it's now a slow roll until Iris. This stretch of the game has the most killer level caps, and it made it extremely difficult to use so much of my team, but I pulled through and have been rewarded with a bulky physical Emboar, an absolute tank of a Scald-spamming Seismitoad, a Moxie powered Krookodile, and a bulky Calm Mind Musharna.
The Clay fight was unfortunately a disaster. I brought Dennis the Liepard in to drop some quick Fake Outs and act as a noble sacrifice to the Excadrill if I needed a safe switch. After some pivoting with Escent the Emolga I was able to keep it from being able to drop a Bulldoze, but Rock Slide's flinching ended up taking out both Liepard and Roxy the Gigalith. He got three flinches and a crit on the last one that took Roxy out like she was made of paper, but that's what happens when your opponent can get some easy Hone Claws setups.
I also got a cool Klink but it didn't even survive to the end of the cave, it got crit killed by N's Klink after a +1 Charge Beam.
The team now is pretty good overall though. I'm a bit worried about Iris since I missed out on both Vanillite, Cubchoo and Cryogonal. Any of them would've gotten me access to Hail+Blizzard for a clean setup since the Fraxure Iris sends out likes to Dragon Dance, but it wasn't meant to be. Hopefully neutral damage from some Emboar Brick Breaks can get the job done.
