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finished up plot before gym, hoooooly fuck this is a great wake up call that you need to be absolutely prepared at all times. grinded mons i thought i'd use, then decided to get in some exp for some of my fliers since fliers can ignore the damage effect from the poison gym. problem is, once you fight melia, you're then locked out of your pc, and are stuck with a partner in melia who constantly heals you (love how she can heal YOU but not her own pokemon to help you fight the evil team).
that's a bit of a problem when the game tosses a gauntlet of shadow pokemon at you that can freely spam a super powerful super effective move against your team, while you're trying to catch them, and using dead mons as free switches feels SUPER scummy, so I had to play really riskily and safely somehow at the same time (also, funnily enough, trying to spam charm with pachirisu to make the shadow pokemon weaker makes the trainers swap out). failed to catch the alolan grimer i really wanted from the admin due to an unlucky confusion. also, holy fuck his type null nearly ended the run, scary ass pokemon.
most of the fights other than that thankfully weren't bad (crono ripped melia a new asshole), and crono actually managed to defeat the dimension rift gyarados after it wiped out the rest of my team by spamming smoke screen, but that win isn't required so i don't care.
some new captures and a lot more battles opened up, so i'll update again right before fighting the gym
