UPDATE 05: OFF TO A ROCKY START.
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD BATTLE.
THIS DOESN’T GO WELL.
Welcome back! There’s no escaping Oreburgh city to the north. Our destiny lies to the gym. But first, we train!
Also do you have to pronounce the h in Oreburgh? Just stick a real phlegmy CHHH onto the end of the name?
STAB moves start rolling in for our team, and- Wait, Psybeam?
Thundershock and Water Gun both have 40 power. Psybeam has 65. Dogu don’t just jump up the tech tree like that.
Howdy, Requisite Gym Advice NPC!
Well I can hit… one of those weaknesses.
I, Future SpammyV, writing this update, know that it won’t be easy.
Honestly though even if you took Chimchar, there are enough Pokemon to hit Roark’s weaknesses you can catch before this. Machops, Budews, the like. I won’t way it’ll all be easy but it’s doable.
I notice all these things Gamefreak does to make the Gyms surmountable when I can’t use them.
How many first Gyms let you just bypass all the Trainers? I mean, you won’t, because you want experience, but they let you. Is it all of them?
And Roark awaits us on the highest pedestal in the Gym.
He says that like there’s a bunch of First Gyms that are Rock-type.
As they both reached for their first Pokeballs, Spamigo paused. He broke the tension with the question first and foremost on his mind: “Does… Does anyone call you Roark the Rock?”
Roark froze, stalling for time by brushing an invisble fleck of dust off of the Pokeball. “Well it’s on my business cards.”
Starting with Dogu here figuring that none of his stuff will have good Special Defense because Rock-Types never do.
This Geodude didn’t… but it got the Stealth Rock off.
At least before Generation VIII, Cranidos still had the highest base Attack of unevolved Pokemon. It evolves into the thing with the highest base Attack you can get without transforming or being a Legendary.
Dogu is basically a pot that sat around in some ancient ruins until it could levitate things with its mind.
We… we can patch you up, buddy.
Stealth Rock doesn’t do too much to Reina, because its damage is based on the type chart, but you see the trap by now.
If you don’t resist Rock, Stealth Rock just might deal enough that the Cranidos one-shots whoever you sent out.
Also it’s highly probably Roark uses a Potion here but I don’t have a lot of good options left… and Reina could crit.
…She didn’t.
But if I have ONE Pokemon on my team at all who can take a Physical hit, it’s going to be Castellia!
Also note how much more Stealth Rock took out of her.
I still don’t know where her biting mouthparts are but they did enough.
Well that’s not as ludicrous as Selfdestruct. But anyway, Cranidos was a nightmare but now that we’ve beaten Roark-
OH HELL HE HAS AN ONIX TOO!?
Stop panicking. STOP PANICKING! Let’s just think. Mina… could only use Tackle here. Anomalo… only has Scratch.
Sid…
SID FINALLY LEARNED A GOOD MOVE WHILE WE WERE GRINDING BEFORE! WE HAVE A CHANCE!
YES!
TAKE YOUR STAT MONSTER BACK TO THE CRETACEOUS!
You may be many adjectives but I would not use weak among them.
Incidentally I think I picked up all the flakes from Castellia’s pinecone, you didn’t see any others go flying off did you?
Now that we have the Coal Badge we can use Rock Smash.
How fitting.
I’m never going to use this.
Oh… Joy.
NEXT TIME: ROWAN GETS VICIOUS AND DAWN GETS DISAPPOINTED!