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So after getting the first badge, I went through Route 5 with no difficulties until Hop. His Corvisquire and Thwackey gave me a bit of trouble, but thankfully no deaths. The real trouble came about when I fought Nessa. The Goldeen and Arrokuda took off a lot more of my Snover's HP than I anticipated. When she brought out the Drednaw, I DMaxed hoping that it might save Snover, but the extra HP was not enough to save it and it died to Max Strike. I sent out Duskull next thinking I was going to Confuse Ray it, completely forgetting that Drednaw had Max Darkness, so Duskull immediately bit the dust. Then came the savior to the run: Barboach. Barboach not only survived a DMax attack from Drednaw, but it managed to get 4 accuracy downs with Mud-Slap. Sadly it eventually died as well, but the accuracy downs probably saved the rest of my team from meeting their doom as well. Butterfree came in with Poison Powder and Electroweb to finish it off (thankfully only getting hit once by Razor Shell thanks to Barboach). That Drednaw really messed me up, but I've gotten three new replacement members to get myself back on my feet: Shiftry, who, although is underleveled, has a busted moveset thanks to the move relearner, Arrokuda, and Binacle. Both the Arrokuda and Binacle have pretty solid natures as well, so hopefully we can beat the next gym without any more deaths.
