We done did it!
Sidney was a team effort. Gran soloed Phoebe. Onor and Bert took down Glacia with Bert clutching the fight against walrein by getting a stat boost from ancientpower.
Against drake Orlio got off a +6 defense barrier against sheldon at the cost of -1 speed from a rock tomb which allowed her to sweep the entire team with little fear.
Lead with Orlio against Steven as well and managed to get a lucky freeze against the skarmory which allowed her to setup more barrier stacks. After skarmory went down i was expecting steven to bring out the metagross and try and take Orlio down with psychic but instead he went full dumbo and brought out claydol that immediately died to surf, then aggron that died the same way.
After this the Metagross finally came out and almost oneshot Orlio with psychic despite her high special defense stat. Surf took Metagross down to about 60% so i swapped Gran into a second psychic and tickled metagross a bit with a fake out and a faint attack before almost getting flattened by a meteor mash. Fandre swapped in tanking the second meteor mash and finally stopped the metallic menace with an overheat. I didn't want to risk losing any more mons at this stage so i swapped in Onor and healed Orlio back up before swapping her in again. Cradily and Armaldo had little chance against her and eventually fell to surfs and ice beams. The ending was amuzing when Cradily tried to giga drain Orlio and succumbed to the liquid ooze ending the match. Orlio probably did more work in league but overall Bert was the real MVP of this playthrough.
Was thinking about doing Emerald next but changed my mind after the shitshow that Victory Road was. Going to relax a bit and do Leaf Green next instead.
>>466827941 catch attempt for the entire safari zone. Though i've considered upping it to 2 or 3 attempts if i don't manage to catch anything by the time i'm done with 3rd gen games.
