>>56977202So Wake was rough. I knew it'd be a hard fight - it's where I wiped last time - but this was harsher than I thought.
His strat is fairly simple: he's got perma-rain in his gym which enables all his Swift Swimmers. The solution is a bit harder to deal with - we have to remove the rain and set up rocks to remove Sharpedo's Focus Sash. Wigglytuff was the choice for this, setting up Sunny Day, setting up Rocks, and for good measure Charming the Quag to be able to switch into P-Z and Plot up for the sweep. There was always a death risk, and after the 3rd Charm to get Quag to -6 (for good measure), Rubinia got crit. A shame, but I thought "Rather him than Porygon". P-Z was able to set up a Nasty Plot and swept through 4/6 of the mons with ease. Then came Floatzel. I thought I'd calced it right, but I didn't factor the sun ending. Aqua Tail ended up killing Porygon and it all fell apart from there. Roserade and Scizor also fell in the aftermath to Floatzel and Ludicolo respectively. Zaffai managed to win it out for us on 10HP. Very rough to lose some of our best Pokemon, straight off the heels of losing Gallade in the double battle on Route 212 and Gengar in the pre-gym Barry fight.
Surely it's all uphill from here. Right?
