>>54778489I forgot you actually go directly to the Grand Trial and don't pass through another town, it's not that long after all.
On the way there, a wild Raticate I was trying to (And managed to) catch Pursuit-trapped Bomull, leading to my first Wild encounter death in ages.
A Blackbelt and his Crabrawler almost caused issues as I tried to play around Confusion from 4 consecutive Dizzy Punches.
Plumeria and her Golbat wrecked my entire team as I was trying to play around Confusion and Crits, until Kokka just stood there and took the beating waiting for an opportunity.
The new addition, Urheilu then easily handled Salandit.
>vs. Kahuna Olivia>AnorithLeading with Neidr as usual, switching to Dornenkronen. She ends up taking big damage before Z-Water Pulsing Anorith, because I realized, nobody else on the team has a worthwhile Z-Crystal for this, because I'm a dumbass.
>LileepGoing to Nyomozo, I quickly realize he doesn't really have any good way to deal with the thing, leading to a switch to Kokka, who surely can stall the thing.
Ancient Power increases all the stats of Lileep immediately.
Spamming Roost to keep the Rock weakness away allows Kokka to tank the hits until it's out of rocks to throw, allowing us to cheekily go for Ominous Wind boosts instead, which we get on the 5th one, and then slowly taking Lileep apart.
>LycanrocUnfortunately I'm still not confident in our ability to take a Z-Move or outspeeding to Roost through it, so we switch to Neidr instead for the Intimidate. Lycanroc didn't even go for it, opting for Bite instead.
From here, a quick switch to Urheilu who beats both of Lycanroc's moves, all two of them. Never goes for Z-Move as it's quickly buried under a mountain of sports.
That should be everything important on Akala cleared, just some irrelevant plot stuff.
