>>44313962chapter 5 was not great, so i'll quickly sum it up.
>kingdrawas thankfully easy, kliffie just refused to die, and wore down its PP with cosmic power spam.
>mother crobatalso very easy, kliffie was MVP.
>nimbeginning of awful shit. thought i would have an easy time because freya can get up to +4 spa and spd instantly in a psychic terrain. turns out lunatone is really fucking bulky and it, too, loves to calm mind, and solrock is really annoying too. i had to roar out lunatone with garm, sacrificing it, and had to sack vaan too before getting a very shaky win with smokescreen spam + kliffie.
>madelisactually very easy, other than her cinccino, who did not have skill link, so though it's rock blasts were boosted cliffie facetanked them all and the rest of my team cleaned the rest of hers.
>nevedthis battle was fucking terrible. despite it being a 6v12 with aelita as a partner, her team is dogshit and every single one of neved's pokemon is 4-7 levels above mine, because that's fair. while kliffie managed to clutch out this win as well, it really came down to some very convenient hax (his tentacruel got full para'd by ryuki multiple turns, froslass missed blizzard a lot, barbaracle missed rock slide a lot) and i still lost several team members, most notably freya which REALLY sucks
>melia also very painful, i had to grind up tlachtga and angela and yet still her pokemon were on crack, her togekiss survived a 252 atk poison gem poison jab from tlachtga the seviper for instance, nearly all of her pokemon had set up moves so kliffie had to work overtime yet again, by the end i was completely out of healing items with 2 more dead mons
and now i have to face previously probably the most brutal gym leader in the game, so that's nice too.
i've lost enough of my team to where i need a lot of grinding to get a lot of viable replacements, and losing so many members at once has been genuinely very draining, so i'm probably going to take a break for a day or two
