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UPD4T3 69 & 1/2: DAH QU33N O’ B00TY TEH EPIC SHOWDOWN IZ ON L1K3 D0NK3Y K0NG’S 3XP4ND3D D0NG. I L3D WIHT PUMK2N N’ EXPANDED MINE OWN D0NGS. BOTH OF THEM. THEN I RAWWWWWWRED HER NIDOPUSSY WITH PSYCH1C AND TH3N STR1D3R CAME AND THEN CAME ALL OVER EXCAKILL, HIPPOPATAMUS, SWAGSIRE, ADN CLAYBOYBUNNY. STR1D3R OP PLZ N3RF. ALL TH4T WAZ LEFT IS RAWRCHOMP, AND MY REFLECT JUST THEN LEFT ME LIKE ALL MY GIRLFR13NDS. I S3NT IN MLG AND US3D Misty Field, finally giving me a small respite from that madness. Wait, why is Dashie named MLG? Since when did that happen? Anyway, you might have noticed that Dashie’s- er, MLG’s Nuclear Trump Card actually worked on Mewtwo without the Misty Field. It seems that Pixilate still works in the Glitch Field, huh. Not sure if that’s a bug or not. Theoretically, that means Moonblast is stronger in the Glitch Field, since it becomes normal type and therefore gets the Pixilate boost. Still, it’s stronger in a Misty Field. Garchomp used Bulldoze, but obviously I could take it… no wait. That did too much damage. I needed to get my Reflect back up, but Pumpkin was down. Not wanting to risk losing MLG, I switched to Sassy and sacrificed her to use a Revive. I do believe this is the first time in this file I’ve ever used one of those. Sassy went down as expected, and Pumpkin came back out. Just then, the field went down LIKE YOUR MOM LAST NIGHT LOLOLOLOL ANYWAYS PUMPKIN US3D REFLECT AND MLG CAME BACK OUT TO USE MISTY… WA1T, N0! N0T TH4T M0V3! DON’T SEND ME BACK TH3R3 PLEA- and we’re back to Misty Field again. …Anyway, just as I was about to land the finishing blow, Garchomp got a lucky crit and I almost died. It was a dire situation, requiring the most emergencyish of emergency healing items: The Blue Moon Ice Cream. I later learned I had several Hyper Potions with me, and it healed the exact same amount, but you know what? MLG is my personal favorite Pokemon on the team, she deserves something special. I then was able to fire the Nuclear Trump Card. Rawrchomp didn’t stand a chance of surviving it. That’s weird, now that I’ve beat Terra I feel like a part of me died deep down. Eh, whatever. Ima go change MLG’s name back now. And maybe see if I can’t get another Blue Moon Ice Cream.

UPD4T3 69: W3LC0M3 T0 T3RR4L4ND There’s one more thing that the story choice from earlier affects, but this time it’s optional. After getting Waterfall from Aster, go back to that house in Calcenon with Eclipse’s father. If you’ve been there and talked to him before, he doesn’t believe your story of her being dead and tells you to get out. Now, Aster has shown up and brought Eclipse’s body, forcing the father to accept the truth. He apologizes to you and lets you go into Eclipse’s bedroom and see her body, and in that room you find the Shiny Charm. Again, this is all only available if you refuse to give Blake the ruby ring all 3 times the game asked you. After returning to the Circus and doing some much needed restocking of supplies, I’m ready to take on Terra’s mini gauntlet of madness. There wasn’t much to say about the battles, BECUZ IMA S00P3R L33T HAX0R WHO SW33PS ALL TEH NEWBS. ALTHOUGH I LOLD WH3N TH4T 1 GUY S41D T3RR4 WUZ INSURED FOR 10,000! LIKE B1TCH THAT’S POCKET CHANGE TO M3. BTW IN 2SP00PYTOWN YOU M4Y NOT H4V3 NOT1CED A GRAVE S4Y1NG “C4T3LyN ‘3CL1PS3’ F1SH3R” AND IN THE W4ST3LAND3 ONE 4 K1KI, & THAT WAS 4CTUALLY PR3TtY SP00KY. TH3R3 W4S ALSO GONNA BE ONE FOR UR MUM BUT SH3 WAZ T00 FAT TO FIT M3WT2 WUS A DIFFERENT STORY THO. HE OUTSP33DS EVERYONE BUT STR1D3R N 4POLL0, & 1 SHOTS LIT3RALLY 3V3RY1! WHAT I DID WAS G1VE PUMPKIN MLG ROOM AND WITH PR4NKST3R LIGHT SCREEEEEEEN HE STOL3 MEWTW2’S MLGNESS AND GAVE IT TO D4SH13. NOW THAT SHE H4D HIS MLGNESS DASHEE BENT HIM OV3R AND TOR3 H1M A N3W ONE WITH NEWCLEAR MLG CARD. SHE DIDTN 3V3N N33D MISTY F13LD, SHES SO MLG. HENCEFORTH HER NAME SH4LL B3 MLG AND NOT D4SHIE.

It's unlikely they would do this, but... They didn't dumb down the difficulty for us Americans, did they? If they did I'm not buying, that's a buisness practice I refuse to support.

Wait, if you stop getting new Pokemon in the end game, then that kinda ruins the point of Bessie collecting badges, doesn't it? The series might get stale as a result of it, too. I suggest you come up with some rule or something to keep changing your team otherwise you'll end up never recruiting Pokemon of later types like fire or ground. Or of course, water.

Unless you've already planned what your bonus Water type 'mon will be, here's a suggestion for when you eventually name a character after me. It's a long way off though.

Update 72: The Ametrine Gauntlet, Finale The final battle is a double battle against Blake himself at the top of the mountain. No Shelly or Cal, just you and him. I led with Pumpkin and Strider to do the usual screens and weather change. This time, I switched Pumpkin for Apollo when done. Remember so long ago when I mentioned his Dry Skin ability makes for a convenient pairing with Strider’s Surf? Well, this is the first time I’ve really been able to take advantage of that. By the way, while I was doing all that screens stuff with Pumpkin, Strider took out Jynx with Dark Pulse. Once Apollo was out, it was pretty smooth sailing. Both my guys were faster than Blake’s entire team, and any damage Apollo took was healed by Surf. Any damage Strider took, I used Apollo’s turn to heal. Before long, all that was left of Blake was Walrien, who I used Grass Knot for instead of Surf. Well, since that battle was a bit short and anticlimactic, let’s do some other stuff before calling it a day. First of all, I think it’s high time I got around to doing that sticker quest. You know, the one where you go all Megaman.exe on a bunch of missingnos on a glitch field? It makes for good practice, too, since the next area will also entirely take place on a glitch field. A lot of my team members are rendered pretty much helpless on this field. Fangorn’s grass moves become useless, but at least he still keeps Phantom Force and Will-O-Wisp. Strawberry is completely useless, as his attacks become normal type. Dashie would also be rendered useless, but she can actually reverse the effects of the field temporarily with Misty Terrain. The only ones who aren’t affected at all by the field is DiggersbyTho and Apollo. Strider, Sassy, and Pumpkin, though, are actually buffed due to having their Special Defense become as high as their Special Attack. Not to mention the whole thing about Psychic moves being boosted. Only problem is that Sassy now can’t use Signal Beam anymore, and Strider can’t use Dark Pulse. Not too awful a loss. Anyway, as for the three battles themselves. They were all Strider Fodder, but he went overlevel at the end of the second battle. I switched to Dashie and tested the Misty Field thing. It seems that I’ll only get 4 turns after using the move before the field goes back to normal, so I’m not sure if trying to use Echoed voice is worth it, or if I should just go with Moonblast. Echoed voice was enough to wrap up that third battle, at least. Finally, I did the Riolu quest. Obviously I can’t actually pick up the Riolu, but I wasn’t going to pass up a boss fight against a level 85 Lucario. Now, the problem with this fight is that I only have two Pokemon who can hit that thing super effectively: One of them is weakened by the field, and one of them will probably be outsped and destroyed by Close Combat or something. Dashie could probably one-shot it with the Nuclear Trump Card, but I think I’ve used her enough for a while. Instead, I’m giving Fangorn a chance. Well that was a bad idea, as it turns out Lucario has Crunch and brought him down to exactly 1 HP. He managed to get it burned with Will-O-Wisp, but then the hail killed him. I sent in Apollo, and tried to see if Thunderbolt could take it down. It did. It’s a shame that I have to leave the egg sitting there in the cold for the rest of eternity, but hey, it’s just a video game.

Yeah, maybe "broken" wasn't the right word. Sorry about that.

Update 71: The Ametrine Gauntlet, Part 4 The 5th battle is the last of the double battles, but not quite the end of the Gauntlet as a whole. It’s also Dashie’s first battle with her new move. You’re again paired up with Shelly, and it’s also the first battle where Yanmega doesn’t get completely destroyed the first turn. After doing the usual routine of screens and rain, I switched to Dashie to set up Mist and wasted no more time in trying out the new move. The first hit was used on a Druddingon who was at only 5% hp left, so obviously it went down. Second hit was on a Chesnaught, and it one shot it from full health. Unfortunatley, Shelly’s Vivillon then used Hurricane, taking away my Misty Field. Oh well, I’m still at 3 uses now, which still makes me a walking nuke shooter. Hit 3 took out a Steelix, but then Dashie got Poisoned, so her days are numbered. I can’t stop to heal, because that would end the streak. Hit 4 took out a Scolipede from full health, but unfortunately we never got to see hit 5. She had been hit with a Cross Poison that reduced her to a sliver of health, and the poison finished her off. Still, she reduced the enemy team to nothing but an Aggron and a Slurpuff in just 4 turns, so I’d say her new move was a huge success. Sassy one shot both those Pokemon after a Charge Beam boost. Now, if you chose the same story path as I did back with Blake and the ring, there’s actually a secret 6th battle, but it’s a single battle. Aster shows up and shows you that he has the HM for Waterfall, and says you need to fight him and take it from him. He leads with Solrock, and instead of Pumpkin I led with Dashie and went straight to Echoed Voice spam. Well, actually I set up Misty Field first. Solrock got off a LightScreen, which allowed it to survive the first two hits, but that only played into my favor as it got no damage off on me while I set up Echoed Voice. Aster used two Hyper Potions trying to keep it alive, and as a result by the time it went down Dashie was already at her 5 hit maximum. She one-shot everything, despite the Light Screen, up until Milotic. At that point she was overlevel, then ended her streak by refusing to follow orders, and then was KOed by a combination of Scald and burn damage. No matter, I had Apollo come in and clean up the mess. After beating him, he gives you Waterfall as promised, and talks a bit about how he’s gonna change his life or something like that, and how it’s up to me to change the world. Anyway, I’ll give Waterfall to Surfboard later. For now, I have one more battle left on the Ametrine Gauntlet.

Well, you being French explains the somewhat broken english. I just thought it was to reflect the fact that it was being written by a cow. 'Cuz you see, here in America, there's this (really good) fast food chain whose advertizing campaign is run by cows, and everything they write has hilariously bad spelling and grammar.

Update 70: The Ametrine Gauntlet, Part 3 Battle 4 is again with Shelly, and again my screens couldn’t save Yanmega from going down the first turn. I didn’t want to use Rain Dance just yet, because there was a Jellicent on the field who was spamming Water Spout. I took a turn to hit it with Psychic, but then the thing decided to use Ominus Wind instead for once and Pumpkin went down. Now, I was stuck with Hail for the rest of the battle. Not wanting both hail AND that field to deal with, I went to Dashie and did the whole Misty Terrain/Swift Spam thing again. I took down four opponents with that, and then I found another bug. When I used Swift and the first of the two opponents went down, Dashie went overlevel. The move should have landed on the second opponent anyway, since she had already used the move, but no, she was loafing around and it never hit. It would have OHKOed it too, because it was a Mightyena. How disappointing. Throwing caution to the wind, I tried to use Swift again despite Dashie not listening, because I knew I could OHKO that thing, but then it got switched out to a Barbaracle. Amazingly enough, she still successfully used the move and OHKOed it anyway. At that moment, my screens went down and the field went away. But Mightyena was back out, so I still wanted to keep trying. Dashie “ignored orders” but used the move anyway, and Mightyena wend down while Beartic was left with only 1 or 2 HP left. In place of Mightyena came another Dark type, Liepard, so I decided to see how long I could go with this overlevel Pokemon before its unruliness caught up to me. By the time she went down, the opponent only had one ‘mon left: A Venomoth. Apollo one-shot it. And now that the 4th battle’s over, I finally can reach the item I mentioned earlier: The TM for Echoed Voice. You see, with Pixilate, Echoed Voice starts at base 78 Power. That’s okay, but weaker than Swift. The next time you use it, though, it becomes base 156, stronger than Moonblast. A third use makes it 234 power, four uses equal 312 power, and the fith use onward makes it as strong as the Nuclear Trump card at 390 power! And this is all without considering the fact that Dashie’s always carrying the Pixie Plate, which means the numbers are actually 93.6, 187.2, 280.8, 374.4, and 468! And under the effects of the Misty Field, those numbers jump up to 108, 216, 324, 432, and 540! Now the question is, which move should Echoed Voice replace? Moonblast is a good, powerful move to fall back on if I don’t have time to get the ball rolling with Echoed Voice. Nuclear Trump card is in a similar position, it’s a max power Echoed Voice without the four turns of buildup. Misty Terrain is a must have, so that leaves Swift. But look at the past couple double battles, and how useful Swift was in them. Do I really want to give that up? Well, considering its usefulness is highly situational, I guess I can Heart Scale it back if I ever really need it, and then easily put Echoed Voice back since I have the TM for it now. There’s one more double battle where I can test out the new move, and I’ll get to that next time.

Update 69: The Ametrine Gauntlet, Part 2 Battle 2 of the Gauntlet also has you paired up with Cal. I probably should have started with killing the Ariados with Psychic, because while I was doing the usual routine of screens and weather it used Sticky Web, giving both me and Cal a speed disadvantage the entire battle. Speaking of Cal, his Magmortar got put to sleep, so I decided to just bring out Strider and use Surf to put it out of its misery, along with both opponents at the time. He sent Darmanitan out next, and I didn’t want to also kill it with Surf, so I instead went with Grass Knot since one of the opponents was a Golem. It survived with Sturdy and used Bulldoze, putting Strider at even more of a disadvantage than he already was. I would have switched, but then Darmanitan took out the other enemy and in its place came another Golem. I knew what was coming: Double Explosions. I could have switched to Fangorn and laughed at their failure, but then Cal would lose his Darmanitan. So instead I aimed another Grass Knot at one of the Golems, hoped it didn’t have Sturdy, and that Darmanitan would finish the other off. It did have Sturdy. What’s more, one of those Golems somehow outsped Darmanitan, although instead of Explosion it used Bulldoze, killing its partner and putting me at even MORE of a disadvantage. The rain had run out too, so I knew it was time to switch Strider out- wait is that a Toxicroak? Okay, I just had to stay in one more turn to use Extrasensorry on that Toxicroak. It was a bad idea. They both outsped me, and between both their attacks I was KOed. What’s worse, is that Cal’s Darmanitan went down, and his replacement Charizard got frozen the moment he came out. I sent out Pumpkin, since my screens were about to come down, and put them back up again before healing and OHKOing the frog. He had gotten poisoned while I was doing all that, so I switched to Dashie and put up a Misty Field (yeah, I dunno what I was thinking last time when I said I had nothing to change the field). With Dashie’s already insane power boosted by the field, I was able to wrap up the battle. Battle 3 has you switch Blake out for Shelly. Sucks that she leads with a Yanmega and that the opponents lead with a Lickilicky who has Rollout. Not even my Reflect could save her. Also sucks that the other Pokemon is a Vanilluxe with Frost Breath, which hits straight through Light Screen. Just when it looked like both opponents were about to die (Cain had been chipping away their health with Rock Slide) Lickilicky exploded and killed all of us except Cain. I went with Dashie again, and did the whole Misty Field thing. It seems I should have picked Fangorn, because both opponents ended up being x4 weak to grass. No matter, a field boosted Swift killed one of them and almost killed the other. I kept spamming the move, even when the opponents used Poison types, because I knew the field wouldn’t last long and I didn’t want to miss the opportunity. Eventually she went down via double Gunk Shot to the face. At the same time my screens went down, but I couldn’t bring in Pumpkin, because, well, he’s already dead. I went with Sassy and hoped for the best, and surprisingly I got it. She OHKOed Muk with Psychic, and Shelly made a smart move with Hurricane and took out the other guy. All that was left was a Dusclops after that, and it went down easily.