>>48840731You might laugh, but there were some surprising results. For example, I didn’t really use Manaphy in the gym challenges or routes, but Manaphy came in clutch for the Pokémon league with tail glow, surf, and brine used many times.
Lopunny was my lead for most or the game, but she had to take a back seat for Cynthia.
On a whim, I taught Jirachi thunderbolt before the league and that was critical to beating Milotic.
As stated before, I did boost once with X-items, but that round of boosting was worthless since Mew was quickly knocked due to a critical hit by Garchomp.
Since I had never played the originals, I went in blind. I had played Cynthia in BW, but this was a different level of challenge.
Currently doing an Eeveelution run on Shining Pearl starting with eggs after the first gym. I look forward to seeing how they do against Cynthia. So far, I haven’t relied on TMs or healing items. I’m deliberately playing all trainers on the routes. As of badge 4, my team is over leveled a bit. Based on this, I suspect the game is balanced so that you should only play one path of required trainers on each route to avoid over leveling.
