>>44715225my starter wound up soloing the champ due to getting toke off Metronome like twice and cleaning house with Dark Pulse flinches, so he's a bit higher than everyone else.
Ban doesn't have a nickname because I legit didn't expect it to be so useful, and it may have made things easier if it was on my team from the moment I got the Triport egg. Intimidate is so useful it even made a mon worth using from Level 1, and I only used it for Stump and the Pokemon League. I used the Ogrelord in its place for the other parts of the game.
I'd also consider Tripsius potentially viable for this run as well with its good speed, but it was too low leveled at the time and I was worried it wouldn't catch up to my other fastbois and Spilefree was available immediately so it was just outclassed. Nomaestro and Dragun are too slow to be viable in a run where going first is everything (unless you have Intimidate).