>>28648486Playing it for the first time and blind. My last pokemon game was Platinum.
I didn't know he was able to be captured in-game until I was heading back through all the areas to check all those places I couldn't get to without Cut and Surf. I hadn't encountered Bidoof at all up until that point.
Using him as a pseudo-HM slave, but not stacking his move set full of them since it doesn't seem like there's a lot of necessary uses of them in the game. Taught him Surf, though. Intended to only use him to weaken stronger mons or last a few hits to heal up my bigger hitters, but he's pretty strong all by himself.
My other pokemon were around level 35 when I first got him. I did some super training to give him bulk and then grinded on those Dugtrio and Trapinch in the desert up to a level in the upper twenties. The lucky egg I picked up somewhere really helped speed things along. He was five levels lower than the average of the Team Flare guys in the power plant if i'm remembering right. Held his own admirably.
