>>51846056After a trip to Iron Island for the Shiny Stone and Wayward Cave for Earthquake, I was barely able to make my way to Candyass in Finland, Japan without being overleveled.
Iron Island had a scare with the double Ace Trainers, as they immediately deleted Riley's only Pokemon, leaving me in a 1v2 against 5 Pokemon with the B team. Cereal just tanked it all.
I then fucked up and looked at Candice's Platinum team and thought I had a solid plan. I did not.
Firedash one-shots Snover, obviously, but I was expecting to be switching out after so I went for Flamethrower instead of Flame Charge. Might've allowed me to outspeed Sneasel.
I had to then outmaneuver very fast Digs, eventually settling for the legend himself, Cereal to just take the hits.
Pure Power Medicham is scary. Cereal took a hit while I was aiming for Body Slam Para. From there I predicted another Brick Break, switched to Plague and Plucked Medicham out of the fight.
Finally Abomasnow. Zero chance it'll use EQ vs. a Flying-type, so I switch back to Firedash and wow, is that another slow 4x weak to Fire Pokemon I see?
Next up, the long trek of villain nonsense.