>>21091444Okay I was dead wrong about that I went to Vermillion and trainers went up to Lv. 115 before getting to Surge.
Now, as to Surge himself, he seems really hyper offense for the most part. I think I'll do these play-by-plays for all the Gym Leaders since they tell more than pictures could do.
Lv. 120 Raichu, Seismic Tossed Hitmonchan to death oddly given its high Sp. Attack, finished it off quickly with an Extremespeed.
Lv. 120 Slowbro (weird), took out Electabuzz before it died, then Suicune flinched it with Bite four times in a row, weird.
Lv. 120 (see a pattern) Electabuzz, took out Dragonite, Entei, and Venemoth (who I mainly used to revive other teammates; Venemoth is pretty weak offensively, but it balked a Fire Punch from something 20 levels higher than it so it's my go-to for reviving and statusing) before Hitmonchan finished it off with another Mach Punch.
Then he sends out a fucking Zapdos. Revive Electabuzz quick, it Drill Pecks Hitmonchan, Elect balks a Hidden Power and Ice Punches it and freezes it. It stays frozen until I kill it.
It sends out Porygon2, I switched to Suicune, revived Hitmonchan and others since it took a few turns to kill, and HJK'd it to oblivion (I actually added Hitmonchan to my party specifically because I was being walled by Jasmine's Porygon2).
Final Pokémon was a sweeper Jolteon (all Pokémon were Lv. 120 by the way). It seemed like it could one-shot everything on my team, so I built my strategy around reviving Entei, getting an Extremespeed off, sacking another 'mon to revive Entei, and so on. We won with Entei being the only survivor on both teams.
I'm going to get to bed just because I can tell Kanto's going to be a long challenge and I have work in the morning; I'll continue tomorrow if the thread is still around.
