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Given my love for Ampharos, I have to admit that a little part of me died inside when he suggested using Mareep for fodder. But hey, on the positive side, at least he doesn't have to worry about Pulse Camerupt killing him next episode!

While there are still a few obstacles to be dealt with between now and then (Aster/Eclipse and Taka, which can be on the challenging side if unprepared), I'm looking forward to that Garchomp battle as well - it's one of my favorite things to see people react to when they're playing the game blind. But, while I still hold some hope that maybe nobody has spoiled it for him yet, the people in the comments section really seem to love to blab about it. If he got spoiled on the Victoria fight this time, it seems almost impossible that he didn't see comments talking about the Solaris fight. Which

And so endeth the Kiki thunderdome - the Kikiest Kiki has been Kikied. But no seriously I thought a potionless Victoria fight would have done a lot more damage than it actually did. Huh. Hooray for AI mishaps I guess?

For once, I genuinely have no idea whether he's talking about the gym leader or the Mightyena. Both seem equally likely at this point.

I was about to say... unless he restocked lemonades off camera while he was training his Smoochum (which I kind of doubt). Heck, ignoring Kiki, he's locked into the Victoria fight now. If he didn't restock beforehand, he's not going to get another chance to until he beats Victoria right?

I do think that it's a balancing thing and aiming for some sort of difficulty curve to try to make earlier game bosses a bit more manageable, yeah. As for the fight, I'd posted earlier that I thought that he would get through Shade and Kiki, so he's gotten halfway there so far. However, I'd also hoped that he would take more care, read the field effect readouts, and use an electric type, which definitely did not happen. But he seemed to manage with his lemonade hoard so . At any rate, I still think he's got a shot at Kiki, but her team is very hard hitting and I d

Kinda hoping he blacks out soon too and just continues with it as a normal playthrough. Reading comprehension slips aside, dude seems like he'd just have a more enjoyable time that way. I was also not expecting the Beartic fight so soon. Thankfully nothing a Swalot with stockpile (and, well, a fridge full of lemonades) couldn't deal with. Man though, there were a lot of cases in all of these fights where a stray critical hit would have pretty much spelled game over. His glossing over Mareep once again hurt just a little bit inside. I did also find it pretty adorable

If he plays his cards right, I feel like he has it in him to make it to the Garchomp encounter at least. I feel like Shade and Kiki aren't too menacing compared to Shelly (though the fact that he is now Blaziken-less will up the difficulty significantly). He really does need to pay attention to those field notes in the future though. Had he looked at those and listened to Ame's advice, he might have realized that fire would not be a good strategy. He made the same mistake earlier with Corey, where he could have used a Gust to take out the field. Apart from that, I think Mareep