Update #13: Victorious Victoria
How fitting that my thirteenth post should contain my first blackout. My battle against Victoria started off pretty well, with Zuzu the blue wrecking ball of death (or BWBD, for short) kicking the rump of her Scraggy. Her Kirlia was a little harder, due to me being a dingus and forgetting that you can't use dragon rage on a fairy type , but George managed to pull through and take her out using Fire Fang.
Then I got to Pignite.
Pignite proceeded to wreck my entire team, taking out Vinyl, Zuzu the BWBD, and George. Havok Buck managed to hold out a little longer and got Pignite to low health, but ultimately Pignite took him out. Bird Wodin managed to take out the weakened Pignite with a single gust, and I began to celebrate, thinking that I had won... then Victoria sent out Hariyama. I lasted all of four seconds against Hariyama.
After healing my team, I decided to take another go at taking her on. During round two, Zuzu the BWBD took out her Scraggy in one hit again. I sent out Icky the Shinx to deal with her Kirlia (I had swapped out Havok Buck for Icky), and he managed to knock off a good deal of his health before getting knocked out. Luckily, #Pumbud swooped in and, after a few stomps and uproars, took down Kirlia. Zuzu the BWBD managed to handle Pignite a lot better this time, as she managed to take out Pignite with three play roughs. Finally came Hariyama, whom I sent Vinyl out against. Her Hariyama made my job a little easier by using belly drum to cut its attack, and Vinyl managed to get a critical hit on her, but poor Vinyl wasn't bulky enough to take a hit from the beefed-up Hariyama. Luckily, Bird Wodin managed to take her out with a single gust, giving me the right to go on and earn my third badge for real this time! Here goes!
The team so far: