[Beating Serra]

On 9/29/2020 at 9:13 PM, Gastronely said:

You can't get Magneton until later, though. After beating Luna, I believe

That's Magnezone, not Magneton.

[Major/Fatal Bugs V11]

You're able to straight up steal all of Ren's Pokemon by catching Ribombees or whatever you can find and adding them directly to your party. I'm on my phone right now, so I can't get an image, but I was playing v11.3.

[How Did You Deal with E18's Gauntlet Battles?]

Team: Talonflame, Primarina, Krookodile, Magnezone, Rotom-Wash, really under-levelled Garchomp maybe?

My initial strat was to focus Shelly's Sticky Web Ribombee with my Talonflame's Gale Wings Acrobatics and my Primarina's Aqua Jet to get rid of that sash, but Marowak killing my Talon meant putting me on the defensive, so that strat was worthless. Instead, I went with Rotom killing Marowak and focused Shelly's team, mostly. It's a bit of a blur, but I'm pretty sure I just ended up spamming acrobatics on Shelly and revived Telon whenever it went down. Also abused Air Balloon Discharge and Krook's EQ. Ground Gem Krook was a godsend late in the battle. [Speaking of gems, isn't it funny how nobody cared about them, and then Z-Moves, which are mostly the same but with x2 instead of x1.5, were introduced? Kinda feels like they just directly ret-conned gems into Z-Crystals. Either way.]

 

Luna was easy. Moonblast Primarina and Sturdy Magnezone melted her. I actually thought I was supposed to lose this battle so my mind wouldn't be controlled, so I had to do Cain and Shelly another like, three times.

 

I used Primarina's Sing to put Radomus' Clefable to sleep, Magnezone wiped Serra, then I 2v1'd Radomus' mostly fairy team. Didn't even need to heal any of my other members, all of which were down. I was actually kinda sad, but not nearly as sad as I was after I realized E18 was mostly story. Still, a solid update, loved the battles and the Eeveelutions puzzle.