Finally back home again and able to update, we managed to get through all of Kanto and even got Red down, which marks the end of our Gold run! Spammed a fuckton of X items against Red, but to be fair the fucker has high lvl 70 mons when the last important trainer had low 50s, that shit's harsh.
Unfortunately we lost ScubaFrend along the way, right before the last fight too, which smarts something terrible, but that's how it be sometimes, overall I had fewer deaths than I usually do, but the deaths I did have were pretty monumental
>>39325762Losing Kingler was a huge blow, really wanted to take her all the way
Lanturn wasn't really a replacement since they both did seperate things on the team (Kingler was pretty much a Water-typed Normal attacker with Whirpool for navigation), but Lanturn was a really handy team-member (despite not being able to learn Ice moves for some weird, Gen 2 reason)
Wish you the best of luck on your Kanto escapades, may they go better than mine!