One last update before beddy-bye. While exploring the Surf content, two of our buddies perished: Ulysses and Kaepora both met their end in the basement of Union Cave. Losing Ulysses sucked given that he was a long-time party member, but his time was growing short on our team due to the power creep. Kaepora especially sucked though because I really like Noctowl and wanted to take him to the end. We recruited Somnia to replace one, but she didn't last particularly long either. So now we've added Marisa the Mankey (now Primeape) and Bambi, the latter of whom will be a pinch hitter who won't stay long-term.
Anyways, grinding for Chuck was particularly painful, but the man himself was really easy. Marisa had a duel with his own Primeape (Marisa low-diffed), and Kamen came in to tank the Poliwrath's Focus Punch and quickly finished it off. A short grind for Jasmine from here, and it'll be smooth sailing.
>>55177329>>55176450First off, congrats on the win! You had a somewhat jank team with unfortunate movesets due to losing TMs, so pulling off the win is admirable. And yeah, later-gen games do just throw the encounters at you.
>>55177092RIP to Nook the homie. He died too young.
>>55176632Oof, that's tough. Yeah, since the Bellsprout line doesn't learn a special-grass move unless you teach them it via TM, Growth is definitely a bait. Should've warned you. Sleep can usually get you through Miltank, but I prefer Paralysis so you have the chance to interrupt her Rollout spam (plus you can now outspeed her). It's definitely more risky though.
