UPDATE 24: The cold never bothered me anyway.
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Because Ice has some critical weaknesses.
What are you doing? It’s cold out there. Come on in and start reading.
Spent most of my grinding time right outside of Snowpoint. Elected not to have Sid learn Haze since that’s kind of counter-intuitive to our plans.
Sure, the Hail is kind of an issue. But most of the wild Pokemon being 8-9 levels below my team turned into a blessing. If my team wasn’t one-shotting them they were doing huge chunks of damage, so passing the Shell Bell around allowed me to keep everyone topped off and mostly negate the effects of Hail.
It’s not only an ice tile maze, you also have to slide down the ramps to bust through the snowballs and clear the path to Candice. This is the first Gym I would actually say has a “puzzle” and isn’t just solved by walking forward.
We… didn’t bring any Fire attacks. Fire types are mildly a trap here. You know what’s not a trap here?
Anomalo. He’s neutral against most everything Candice’s Pokemon have, and his attacks actually line up quite well against what she has. I may never remember that Steel isn’t weak against Electric, but I will always remember that Rock beats Ice. What doesn’t want to eat a Rock Slide is vulnerable to X-Scissor, too.
And just think: His moveset would be so much worse if I hadn’t broken out the TMs.
You think multiple TMs get served with the same dipping sauce or multiple ones? I mean maybe you want the ranch for a Fire TM but do you think you’d want the cream gravy for a Normal TM?
While you ponder that, here’s Candice.
What will Anomalo do?
Knock this Sneasel out since it made the mistake of being 4x weak to Fighting.
This Piloswine takes two hits. It’s speed doesn’t actually matter here, Avalanche is a lower priority move.
Big ol’ coniferous tree monster. But is being Grass-type a good thing around Anomalo?
Oof, looks like it felt that one!
And they’re both in the red! But we just saw Anomalo has the speed edge, so just need to-
…I don’t like you any more.
You probably don’t want that Grass type around Sid either!
The Quick Claw I have on Sid kicks in and guarantees him the damage to take the Abomasnow out.
Frosslass is a cool (heh) Ghost type that I’ve always wanted to use but never got around to. Up there with Mismagius.
I thought I’d get lucky and this would be one of the times that Double Team does nothing but waste a turn. It was not.
But the Quick Claw kicks in again and Sid doesn’t even miss! But it wasn’t enough. It was a lot, but a lot isn’t enough.
You did good regardless, Sid.
I’m annoyed at this Froslass, but we can have some fun putting the screws to it. Stick it with Toxic to have be constantly ticking down.
Set up Light Screen to make it deal almost no damage.
Unless you have more Full Restores in the tank, I don’t think so.
This battle goes how Castellia wants every battle to go, with the enemy rebuffed by her fortified walls which were said by contemporary chroniclers to be so wide at the top that two chariots could pass by each other and neither was in danger of collision or falling off.
Until they are so weakened by the siege that a simple sally forth battle takes them out. It works in Total War too!
Focus, will, unusual Pokemon selections, and hunkering down behind an invincible bagworm.
Right! Helping our best friend fight Team Galactic. Boy I hope we’re not too late.
60 power, 100% accuracy, lower priority, doubles damage if the user is hit. Nobody on this team can learn it! Which is especially surprising since the list of Pokemon that can learn Avalanche includes Aggron and Rhydon. You’re telling me you can’t picture Anomalo on a snowboard racing down a mountain slope just in front of an avalanche?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmnah.
Well you know what I’m worried about Barry, so let’s keep this update going a little longer.
Jammerjab skills up with Rock Climb. I probably could’ve given Scarfy Rock Climb to save Waterfall for Jammerjab but I don’t think a trip to the move deleter will break the schedule.
So do you think he digs his teeth into the rock face, or…?
Oh good the climactic battle hasn’t started yet maybe we can have a partner bat-
…oh. Maybe. Maybe we shouldn’t have ground those last few levels.
Are… we not battling?
So to be clear: At every lake we were too late and Team Galactic Pokemonapped the lake Pokemon (that doesn’t exist).
We could be a better hero.
“I… thought I was going to the the best trainer. I won the first time and got through all the Gyms… I thought I was going to save Uxie. It was hurting so I ran in to fight Galactic, but… I wasn’t strong enough.” Barry let out his words with a sigh, and Spamigo didn’t try to cut him off, just placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. It was rare that Barry didn’t rush through his sentences.
“I need to try harder. But not just try harder. I’m going to do it right. For my team too. I’m gonna beat Team Galactic and win against you again, Spamigo!,” Barry picked himself up and finally pulled his gaze away from his shoes, rushing off at the pace of a normal person, which would otherwise be glacially slow for him.
So…
Daring Rescue, Part 2?
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Sing because you want to, Idol Grace. Sing so at the end of the day you’re proud of what you sang.