>>54881862I decide to take a second run at cheren with a slightly different strat: lead with the fast kricketune so he can put damage on doduo after beating porygon, to avoid sacrificing sewaddle. If the damage rolls are just right kricketune gets healed enough with her oran berry to survive one aerial ace from doduo, causing doduo to have the chance to use work up instead of attacking which allows kricketune to beat doduo outright, though if doduo attacks he will win with quick attack. In four tries it has achieved the primary goal of keeping venonat alive, at the cost of the rest of the team being worse off than with my other strat. So far I am 8/8 vs Cheren, without overleveling but with very fortuntate captures, after figuring out I have a kricketune that outspeeds doduo and venonat has survived in 6 of those.
For roxie I am getting a surskit from fishing in aspertia, and four more captures (complex interior, complex exterior, kanto starter in virbank, and fishing encounter in virbank) which I am obligated to use on the double-grass on route 20 for caterpie, weedle, wurmple, and venipede. Another capture is available if I can beat brawly, but his monferno is very scary.
The good news I am guaranteed to have a full team for roxie, the bad news is the quality of that team is going to be rng dependent.
I decide to keep one of the attempts with venonat and one kricketune alive, as I think that is a very average outcome. Roxanne will remain unfought for obvious reasons.
