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When deciding weird cases for a run with special rules, do you usually opt to have things harder or do you stick to rules even if they make things easier?
With my Mono-Ice run of Shield, I got most of my team ready before the second gym. I'm wondering how I should handle Shellder/Cloyster though. With Eevee I evolved it ASAP since Glaceon learns level up moves pretty regularly and using Eevee for a long time wouldn't feel right to the mono-ice setup.
But with Shellder, if I don't evolve him, he's not ice type and will make stuff like Kabu way easier. But if I do evolve him all of Cloyster's moves are available immediately due to how move relearning is this gen. I already got the Water Stone, so I can evolve him whenever at this point.
Not sure what path to take with the shell boy, but I really wanna use him since I've never really tried out Skill Link.
