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Cynthia time. My plan for Spiritomb was to whittle it down with Diva's Swagger, but it kept snapping out of confusion after one turn. Diva ultimately perished, and Elena finished the job. However, Elena dies to a fucking crit from Roserade's Sludge Bomb. fml.gif. Tarrasque finishes it off, and in comes her own Garchomp. ohboy.mp4. I switch to Mailman to bait the EQ, which works. He Ice Beams, which does much less than I had hoped, so I switch to Steelix to get my one allotted heal for the fight. Goliath chips off as much as he can, but he can't finish the job before falling. Mailman comes back in and cleans up the Garchomp. Unfortunately, he dies to Stone Edge from the Gastrodon. All that's left is Tarrasque. Tarrasque easily kills the Gastrodon and Lucario, before Milotic comes in. I'm pretty sure the run is over here, because Earthquake or Dragon Claw can't OHKO the Milotic. I EQ, hoping that Ice Beam will leave Tarrasque with a sliver of health, before Milotic hits it with... Surf? Why the fuck would you use Surf?! My bafflement aside, Tarrasque shrugs it off and finishes the Milotic off with another Earthquake. It's done, we're champions yet again.
Some incredibly bad Elite Four luck got balanced out by the AI being a complete troglodyte at the very end. Tarrasque will be our sole entry into the Hall of Fame, and Garchomp our sole recipient of the banhammer for future runs. Honestly, kind of a good outcome here because the Sinnoh Dex was getting stretched real thin. However, we're expanding that quite a bit, because Platinum's up next!
Or maybe HG/SS next, just for a change of scenery, I'm not sure yet.