>>44042560I was on the verge of quitting because I had to train my team to level 48 using level 30-35 wild pokémon.
I finally powered through and faced the E4, final team was Jawhar, Poe, Sloppy, Charlemagn, Frostine and Obelix.
Poe and Obelix made a quick job of Will and Koga respectively.
Bruno was tougher, since I brought Sloppy to deal with him, but she's slow and Hitmonchan has Thunder Punch. I had to switch her out and finish his other pokémon while being careful, but we all survived.
Karen's Umbreon was a problem. It has Double Team, and being such a defensive pokémon, I couldn't take it out soon enough, so I sent Obelix to set up with curse, hoping RNG wouldn't be too bad for me. Eventually I managed to land a hit and Umbreon went down, after that I could counter her team easily with my own.
The fight against Lance didn't go as well as I hoped, but it's not something I wasn't expecting.
I had trained Frostine just to deal with his (ilegal) Dragonites, and she was able to take out one, but she wasn't able to finish the stronger one and died to Outrage.
I brought two Steel types to be able to deal with Dragon spam if this happened.
At the end, there were some close calls, but no one else fell in battle.
RIP Frostine.
With this I considered my run finished.
I'm not doing the extra Kanto part and finishing against Red because there's a huge level gap, more than 20 levels, between the strongest gym leader and Red, and I can't stomach grinding that much.
I'm not sure which one I'll play next, it's either ORAS or Platinum, but I'll be taking a break first.
