So I cleared the Weather Institute. No
problems, not even with the Admin. The only story even worth telling
was I gave Sheocka a prism berry because I couldn't remember if she
had a Zubat/Golbat or not. On her last Pokemon I decided to let
Sheocka stay in to Thunder Wave it, just to be on the safe side and
her Pokemon Swagger me. Giving me a free attack boost due to the
prism berry. So Sheocka swept the admin all by herself, 'cause who
am I to turn down a gift horse. What is more worth mentioning though
is now I get my own Castform! This thing is easily one of my
favorite 3rd gen. Pokemon right with Aron. Not sure if I
want to use it on my pretty established and train team or not though.
Up ahead, I find May around the place
and we fight. It wasn't really much trouble at all. For each of her
Pokemon I had a Pokemon that countered it pretty well. Beating her
earned me the HM for fly. Fly is decent but its not as good as I
remember it being. It's only slightly stronger than Wing Attack and
takes two turns, granted with a few exceptions I'm invulnerable to
attacks so in those cases it's like a 1 turn move that takes more of
my time. I'll hold off until after I get the badge that lets me use
it outside of battle because if it wasn't for it's convince in
traveling, I wouldn't be teaching it to Hurrcane ever to be honest.
Wing Attack is already pretty good in comparison.
With that I make it to Fortree City and
begin exploring. I can't get into the gym quite yet, so I just
explored around town and got the Hidden Power TM. Want to teach it
to someone but don't know who has what type of Hidden Power so maybe
I'll play around with that later. So onwards to route 120. A new
route with new Pokemon and new possibilities to widen the variety on
my team... and it's a Linone... well, technically since Mr. Pickup
isn't evolved that's a new Pokemon so I I caught it. I'm calling it
Lucy because it's a girl and there was something lucky about it...
probably that it should be lucky I actually bother to catch it.
Probably should of just waited and caught that Kelcon in that
scripted fight, but no, I had to knock it out.
Well at least I can go to the gym now,
but 2 of my party members are weak to flying types so they'll need to
sit this gym out... and I have a lot of Pokemon that are weak to
flying sitting in PC... best two I have are my new Castform and Lady
Tenti so I gotta train them up to be close to the rest of my team in
case I need them. That could take awhile. Also the reason I haven't
gave Castform a nickname yet is because it joined me without giving
me the option to give it a nickname. So I got to backtrack all the
way to the name rater to take care of that as well. So after making
it back to the name rater I name my Castform Nimbus, after the type
of cloud because that's the only cloud name I can come close to
spelling on my own.
Since I was all the way at Slateport
with plenty of money to spare, I decided to buy 2 Irons and 2 HP Ups
for Nimbus to help make him into something useable without dieing in
battles. What disappoints me most about Castform is that it's one of
those Pokemon who really need an evolution. It's got a cool concept
but it just doesn't seem to have the stats to back it up. Since this
is the main game maybe it'll be able to hold it's own though? I
hope. I also withdrew all my Rare Candies so I can use some of them
to speed up the level-up process but not until I battle with them a
bit first so the level ups are more worthwhile. So a little training
later, Nimbus learned Weather Ball and Lady Tenti evolved into a
Tentatcruel. I used a few of my PP ups ...well up to increase the PP
of Weather Ball since it's pretty low for a move only slightly more
powerful than Powder Snow. Actually, just looked it up on Bulbapedia
and it increases to a base power of 100 in the weather, I just had a
feeling it changed base power somewhere. For some reason I thought
it was more powerful in the sun.
So I decide to finally head to the gym.
Getting through the gym trainers and puzzles wasn't much of a
problem. Even Nimbus and Lady Tenti were able to handle them, no
problem. So I got to the gym leader... and then decided to train
some more to round up Nimbus and Lady Tenti's levels from the
experience they earned from the trainers. So then came the moment
I've been waiting to get over with, the gym leader fight.
Sheocka was able to take care of most
of the Pokemon on her own. The only Pokemon really even worth noting
was that cursed Alteria. It was the second Pokemon she sent out. I
decided since it was a dragon/flying type to give Nimbus a chance. I
could of set up the hail for the stab weather ball. However, I
thought since it was 4X weak to ice that Powder Snow would do plenty.
However, it barely even did a quarter of the Pokemon's health. I
would of set up the hail then, but that Alteria started Dragon
Dancing which got me in panic mode. I was begging the game for the
freeze, but I didn't get it. After two Dragon Dances it went for the
Earthquake... earthquake. I forgot this Alteria had that, despite it
being the major issue with this gym when I was playing through this
game with a Pikachu family line only run.
I watch Nimbus's health crawled down...
and it only went down to around half. I had a huge sigh of relief
because I was worried Nimbus was a goner. But I wasn't sure what to
do next. I considered to switch to Lady Tenti to take the hit. But
I decided to stay in and beg for the freeze... thankfully I got
better, I got the critical hit, finishing the Pokemon off. It was
incredible, I'm real glad I didn't switch to Lady Tenti. In my
panic, I forgot Lady Tenti was weak to Earthquake, there would have
been no chance of its survival if I made that stupid play. Also
Nimbus basically saved Sheocka's life, since I completely forgot
about Earthquake on that Alteria. If I kept Sheocka in, that cursed
Alteria would of Earthquaked Sheocka to its death. Instead, Nimbus
was able to gain the glory of the gym and Sheocka was able to sweep
the rest of the gym.
So with a new badge obtained, I can
move on with my adventure. I really want to use Nimbus on my team,
but with how well rounded my team currently is, I'm not sure where I
would put him. It will be great to hold on to it though, since Ice
types are rare to get in Hoenn so Nimbus will be able to act as my
ice type when I need it. Plus it is a Nuzlocke, so I can't forget
that I could loose a friend any time in this adventure. I'm
especially worried about Zip'd just because it is an early stage bug
type and those Pokemon tend not to be too strong late in the game,
it's pretty amazing how far he's gotten as is. However, with its
current move set, I don't plan on losing him any time soon. Well in
the meantime, I did a little bit of training to get Nimbus up to the
rest of the team in case I find a place for him on it and might as
well train Zip'd while I'm at it since he's starting to fall a little
behind with the levels. Afterwords, I suppose I can go on with my
adventure... but is Hurracane really the only Pokemon on my team that
can learn fly? ...yeah he really is the only Pokemon out of all the
ones I own that can learn fly...
New Deaths: 0
Total Deaths: 1
New Party members:
Nimbus the Castform
Lucy the Linone
Team:
Sheocka the Manectric Lv. 36
Lady Tenti the Tentacruel Lv. 33
Hurracane the Pelipper Lv. 36
Nimbus the Castform Lv. 35
Dubstep the Loudred Lv. 36
Code Red the Camerupt Lv. 36
