>>56847719After taking out Mars, I fish for a Shellder on route 205. After defeating Cheryl and taking her through the Forest, I failed to nab that "really important Pokemon" in the Old Chateau, the guaranteed Gengar encounter used Curse, killing itself. So I had to settle for Rotom, the other guaranteed encounter in the Old Chateau. I decided not to grab the Eterna Forest and Route 211 encounters yet, but I got the guaranteed Feebas from Mt. Coronet. On the way to get Gardenia from Route 216 so I could battle her, the first casualty of this run occured, I lost Sirens, the Magnemite to Ace Trainer Laura's Reversal Swellow, which completely caught me off guard. That death was unfortunate, but on the way back, I picked up a Snover on the same route.
After getting Gardenia to return to her gym, it was time to battle her. Kricketune set the tone by taking out her lead Bellossom, I switch to Ivysaur to take the incoming Tangela's stun spore, and kill it Sludge. Out came Gardenia's ace, her Roserade. I swap to Umbreon to take the Extrasensory, and quickly pivot into Gyrados to kill it with Bounce. Breloom was next up, and I swap to Marshstomp on the incoming Thunderpunch, and I pivot to Staravia for the Intimidate, Jackie takes a full 5-hit bullet seed, so I go back into Kricketune to take the Mach Punch, and kill with Aerial Ace. Cherrim came in to set up Sunny Day, and I didn't have much that could handle both Fire-Type weather ball and grass knot, but Umbreon is tanky enough to win the war of attrition, and Kricketune 1v1's her final Pokemon, Grotle, and that's the second gym badge. I take back what I said about getting Kricketot from one of the opening routes, I'm not sure if I beat Gardenia without it
