Monochrome_Complex

>Hears Walk Like an Egyptian playing

> Jojo intensifies

Came back from seeing Captain Marvel. I really liked it, TBH I enjoyed it more than the last avengers movie and homecoming.

Beat adrienne, took 5 tries. Megawile kept ruining things as it would one-shot just about everything and sucker punch dhelmise for a OHKO which sucked. Plus I had nothing SE against it if it was on the fairy tale field. I had to get  adrienne's whimsicott to first set tailwind(sometimes it would just spam dazzling gleam), then have trevenant set a trick room so it could outspeed megawile when it showed up on the field. By using destiny bond trev was able to take out megawile which let silvally and dhelmise clean house with their field buffed  anchor shots and iron heads. The hard part was getting megawile KO'd, the rest of adrienne's team wasn't that bad in comparison.

You know wiseglasses for finding 10 people is a pretty lame prize. 

It took me like 5 tries to beat victoria at devon. One time I was just like one hit away but lucario just swept the remainder of the team.  Mienshao's knock off and incineroar kind of made using the trick room strat a tad tricky. Eventually i found a way to pull it off reliably. I beat arclight first try, he's much easier in comparison IMO.

Guys be careful of going on twitter right now, there's currently a mass shooting video flying around(possibly the worst in recent new zealand history) and it's freakin awful.  Screw these white supremacists terrorists and sites like 8chan that entertain and promote them.

Okay so I fought ciel. And...I won. like really easily. In fact it was probably the easiest  gym battle since flobot. 

I taught trevenant trick room, and grinded up an abamasnow I caught a while back, and WOW, abamasnow is a monster in trick room. 

For togekiss I had roserade use two venoshocks which KO'd it, as she was able to take one air slash, if barely.

Oricorio was next, and this next move was crucial. Trevenant barely survived an air slash to pull of trick room, and then sacrificed herself via destiny bond to take down ori. Hard part over with.

Abamasnow takes center stage now and steals the show. Mine had like 2 iVs in special attack and a -spd + special defense nature so I EV'd it to ensure blizzard actually kills. minior, gliscor, noivern all fall like dominoes and megataria barely survives, no doubt due to the poor IVs. The nature actually ends up being a good thing as abamasnow survives with 3 HP and finishes her with ice shard. 

You'd expect the flying leader to be the hardest of the circus trio, but she ironically was  the easiest. 

Sky drop STILL isn't fixed?

So like I was having a bit of a hard time with fern/blake, and after 3 attempts I went back and switched shiftry for leavanny, whom I lead with. It made a big difference as I was able to finally beat them, and funnily enough solaris/orderly took only one attempt and felt much easier. Julia put in a lot of work this time.

But alas....it's time for ciel. RIP.

Taka's chatot can go to hell. He solo'd nearly the entire team. I could deal with everyone else(even minior loses to meganium 1 on 1) but chatot is a nightmare. Took like 5 tries to beat taka. I did find a neat trick for his komala, which is to use trick or treat and then use shadow sneak. His only non-normal damaging move is sucker punch which loses due to priority. 

I've also gotten sivally(grass). Let me tell you, having flamethrower  alone helps immensely against steel types who have otherwise been troublesome entire game. 

Ugh screw this turtwig puzzle. I'll just try to make do without him.

Well terra gave more trouble than expected, Garchomp would basically solo the entire team. His flamethrower hit really hard, felt like I had to have rain up when he came out otherwise he'd 1-2 shot everything. I thought setting grass field would help with him(it did help with quagsire/palossand) but it had the opposite effect as it just buffed flamethrower.  I ended up teaching rain dance to roserade in place of venoshock for this fight which helped. I ended up taking garchomp down by having roserade use toxic and using protect/fake out/switching to ludicolo to stall the poison out.  The rest of her team was relatively easy, but garchomp was ridiculous. It took about 5 attempts total.

I guess I'll go chase down Terra now. Actually one of my favorite parts of the game, and since I got into reoborn on episode 14 it's kind of the first "final boss" of Reborn I've fought haha. I'm not expecting her to give me too hard a time.

Despite being an ice specialist, Blake was actually pretty easy. Beat him first try and by setting up sunny day and grassy terrain I was able to to rip him apart.

Charlotte down.  I initially tried fighting her with a lvl 62 ludicolo and that simply wasn't cutting it, so after 4 or 5 tries I had to do some grinding. I got ludicolo up to 70 and meganium to 67 which made the fight a LOT more manageable as ludicolo was able to finish off darminitan(who was hit with fake out previous turn) 2nd turn  whereas it couldn't before. Surf spam works better than I expected here, though you should be doing it in the rain. With rain and light screen charlotte's heat waves weren't that scary and i even gave gourgeist a weakness policy so it could deal some extra hurt on Ninetales. Ludicolo was an MVP this fight. 

I also got trevenant as destiny bond could come in handy later on. 

Charlotte was tough but mainly because my best mons against here weren't leveled enough. Once I grinded she wasn't too terrible.

Haha aster and eclipse were a piece of cake. Their team has a crippling weakness to grass save for like 3 pokemon(vileplume does have double resist though) and after a growth in sun set by cherrim, roserade was able to sweep them. Light screen didn't even help them lol.

I have a question, does fury badge raise the cap to 70 or 75?