>>51660124Will was really easy, Koga was annoying but not difficult. Bruno wasn't too hard. I made sure to kill his Machamp with my Jumpluff to get revenge for it killing my Jumpluff in Silver. Karen wasn't too hard either.
Lance gave me some problems, and if I didn't get super lucky I likely would have had a handful of deaths. I didn't have any good answer to his Gyarados so I ended up using Feraligatr and crunching it. Thanks to two defense drops Feraligatr was able to beat it even after a full restore, but was too low on health to take out Charizard. When Charizard came in later I used Miltank. Her first body slam paralyzed and the second one crit. Later I had Mamoswine against his Aerodactyl and missed the kill but ice fang froze it. His level 50 Dragonite barely survived an ice fang, and it hit Mamoswine with a fire blast but Mamoswine survived with 6 hp.
>>51661363Definitely do Crystal instead of GS. Like the other anon said you need to grind a Dratini way earlier, but you also need to grind money by picking and selling a shitload of berries to get your mom to buy you a moon stone before Faulkner.
>>51662061Definitely Gyarados. Gastrodon is good but nowhere near as good as Gyarados is.