Monochrome_Complex

6 HOURS

6 PAINFUL HOURS 

It took for me to beat the freakin glass gauntlet. UGH. 

Cain/Shelly seem to have been nerfed from ep18  as  "Anna" is no longer sash'd.  By far the easiest part of the gauntlet, I could handle them with just Excadrill/Noivern provided I didn't get unlucky and miss an air slash or get crit by mimikyu's play rough.

Luna used to be the easy part of the fight but she was the hardest IMO, or more accurately the most problematic due to how it impacts the next fight.   Shadow tag gothitelle is scummy when you're playing on set mode because it effectively guarantees a loss of pokemon if she sends it out against something that matches poorly and can't switch out. I had to remove Emboar from my team because of it. Then there's the ever annoying jubjub bird in his sucker punching glory, Umbreon turning your physical sweeper against itself with foul play and her super fast Mismagius whose seed gives her a guranteed crit. Oh and Megabsol I guess but tbh he's not THAT big a deal. Weavile's flinch hax off icicle crash happened more times than I would have liked. I kept losing nearly all my team in this fight which made the next one impossible. I figured the best way to minimize loss was to switch to A-muk on weavile, hopefully not flinch and land a memento, and have Cloyster set up shell smash. Weavile would always get switched out to Mismagius, which after a shell smash was easy pickings. When she brought weavile back out I'd try to get another shell smash(cloyster at -2 could survive a brick break, even moreso with a white herb) so I could get the KO on Umbreon. If I got eveything executed right,  I'd have 5 pokemon for the next fight.

Okay so like, Excadrill WRECKS. He OHKO's nearly everything in this fight, but the chip damage from hail + sucker punch and Glaceon  kept doing him in at the worst times. Leading with Noivern meant that it got maybe one turn before it gets iced. I actually taught Noivern sunny day specifically to get rid of the hail, and that actually WORKED. Ninetales' blizzard missed which let noivern set up a tailwind, providing a clean avenue for Excadrill to do its thing. Also this kind of screwed up the AI's usual pattern because once Noivern did get KO'd, I sent out a galvantula on a balloon to set up webs, which Bisharp targeted with sucker punch instead of the 300+ attack killer drill mole...lol. Eventually Galvantula got z-move'd by Frosslass but Excadrill pretty much cleaned house the rest of the fight. Best thing to do is to get rid of the hail ASAP because between the 100% blizzards, chip damage and worst of all aurora veil you can end up getting overwhelmed quickly. 

Hah haha on one hand I feel great beating it, on the other hand I was also getting mega salty  and frustrated.