Nails

i'd evolve penguin and then common candy it back to 35, the extra resist will be invaluable. you look like you have ~nothing for yanmega, since your onix gets giga drained. i agree with the above poster, you need a klink to deal with it. onix should be good for most of the team (scyther especially). good luck vs cal and charlotte. i recommend fighting cal in the rain.

darn i thought this would be for episode 14. i am sad now. time to play solo queue i guess. also the cool kids leveled up crafting before everyone else on 07scape and profited off of it.

I assume he only swapped the backsprites. But maybe not.

never overestimate the warmth of ame's heart. it is always colder.

Blaziken destroys charlotte, just like everything else in the game. I bulk upped twice and one shot everything with flare blitz and used the other slot to feed him hyper potions (or ultra potions now). He probably doesn't even need a second bulk up because he gets a 1.5x boost from both the field and sun. I was shocked that the pokemon had competitive EVs and IVs though. Ame really raised the bar.

That lee build is legendary.

Imo taka seems like he's just going along with everything, I doubt he'll defect though. Idk, he seems like a pretty minor character to me. Like, he doesn't care enough to bother defecting from his dad, unless something major happens.

stealth rock damage is doubled? rocks ohko hype

Water Sport will have a use now, nice!

Put frustration into the game but not return. It's extremely difficult to use repeatedly because it gets weaker the more you train the pokemon, and lowering friendship to a point where it's strong enough to be worth using is pretty difficult/expensive as well. Troll tms are great.

The -atk/-spa/-spe move corey uses (idr the name) also works on clear body pokemon. Actually I remember it hitting my Klink despite poison not working vs steel types. So there's a couple issues there.

i thought charmeleon was the most op pokemon early because dragon rage before the first gym

shinx and/or growlithe with intimidate are a pretty reliable way to handle it. i'd recommend not trying to heal through its damage, you'll bankrupt yourself on berry ice creams.

Chomper was pretty easy once I knew he was coming. Intimidate spam makes that battle way easier than it should be. I got destroyed my first playthrough but after preparing for it it was disappointingly easy (it was obviously difficult the first time when I didn't know it was coming :\) Haven't tried Arceus a 2nd time though, that one is probably gonna be tougher. I think I'll have to blow a max revive or two on geodudes to get enough sturdy bulldozes off, but after that it should just be a matter of paralyzing and then pressing flash and leech seed. As far as making the game harder, forcing "set" to be on during gym battles is probably a good start. Giving players a free switch every kill is soooooooo strong. Or allow the leaders to switch every time they get a KO. It's a massive advantage that the player has over the AI.

Toxic Spikes. Catch a trubbish and set up 2 layers vs maractus, and everything becomes far easier. You still need to take care of ferroseed, but everything else gets badly poisoned.

My game file is at 38h 59m with probably 5 hours of doing random stuff (ev training while bored mostly) after fiinishing, and I reset a pretty good amount so I'd estimate 35h total. edit: game completed btw, and i feel like i explored a lot and did every side quest i could find.