Update
>>34957013Gurth has fallen. On the cusp of evolving, too. A cruel reminder not to screw around on the internet while not paying attention to what's actually going on in the game. One of my pokémon was low on health so I instinctively swapped it out without realizing why it was so low in the first place.
Got a few catches I'm happy with in the desert areas, There's a type overlap but I'm keeping Sandslash on until Krokorok gets a good Ground move. The two of them turned the Electric gym into a joke, so I don't mind the two of them hanging around.
My Liepard also died, but he was such a blight on my team that I don't even care. The game tried it's best to troll me by making my encounter for that route a near identical Liepard but I'm not wasting my time training it, I'd rather roll with 5 pokémon for now.