HeartGold Scramble Part 4: Ghostbusters
With my half a team about 6 or 7 levels above what they should have been, I actually beat Whitney (who normally creams everyone with that asshole Miltank) incredibly easily. The whole battle basically consisted of Random killing her Clefairy with two Headbutts (the first one flinched it), and then who I think was Brick finishing Miltank off quickly. No wonder she cried after...
After getting my ass handed to me at the Pokeathlon, I headed down to Ecruteak, picking up Quote (my Machop) around that time. I have to admit, it was not the first Machop I caught, but the first one had a Bold nature and a Machop with a -Attack nature is a sad, sad Machop. Since I had two of the required gym badges, I replaced two of his moves, (Focus Energy and something I forgot) with Seismic Toss and Revenge respectively. After training it a bit, I took him to Goldenrod Tunnel, where he soloed a few trainers I "forgot" to fight earlier. Ehehehe... Thus, I earned him the right to evolve.
After defeating Rival Rival at the Burned Tower (Each of my Pokemon took down one of his) and released the three dogs, I went over to fight Morty.
I officially hate the Ecruteak Gym.
You see, my team so far is not very Ghost friendly (three of my four pokes had types whose STABS did nothing, and the fourth's STAB was resisted). Each and every single time I defeated a trainer, I had to go back to the Pokemon Center and heal up, then head back again. There are, like, 5 trainers there! All of the Gastly and Haunter just loved confusing me, Cursing me and Mean Looking me so that my Pokemon just sat there dying. That's annoying. I went into Morty's fight expecting more of the same.
It was an epic troll-fest.
His first Pokemon was Haunter while mine was Random. Expecting a non-attacking move (being Normal-type and all), I used Encore. His Haunter used Curse, and I laughed while I switched out Quote and his Haunter was forced to kill himself. He must have gotten mad, because he sent out that asshole Gengar of his. I sent out Random again and Encored Mean Look. Mean Look proceeded to run out of PP while I slowly whittled his health down with Magical Leaf over Magical Leaf (He healed it later, of course). Then, I Encored Sucker Punch. Then, I realized that all he had left was Shadow Ball (which does nothing to Random) and Hypnosis (which is useless if you can't do anything to Random).
About a half hour later, Gengar Struggled himself to death. I lol'd. He sent out his second Gengar, while I think I sent out Quote. If I did, I used Foresight so that I could spam Seismic Toss (which would do about 25 damage at that point). In any case, when his second Haunter was at half health I think that Morty just got sick of the whole sad thing and had his Haunter Curse itself to death. I won probably the most troll-tastic Gym Battle I've ever had.
I proceeded to go on to Olivine and Cianwood, where I spent about half an hour trying to catch a Chinchou that a) had Volt Absorb and b) didn't have a -SpA nature. I finally caught one after about 5 or 6 tries, and little Fury (with a Timid nature lol) became the fifth member of my elite squad. I then spent about half an hour trying to catch a female Shuckle to breed with the Cianwood Shuckle (which is male, dammit). Luckily, the first one I found was female. I proceeded to breed away, taking the first Shuckle egg I got. PVTShuckle is only level one, but I believe that one day he shall grow up to become a fine tank.
I'm getting ready to fight the Cianwood Gym, whose leader Brick (now a Meganium) must solo. How will I pull this one off? Tune in next episode and find out! (or not)
Also, the legendary dog music is freaking awesome.
CURRENT TEAM:
Meganium (Brick) Lv.32 @Miracle Seed
Relaxed/Overgrow
-Headbutt
-Synthesis
-Petal Dance
-Reflect
Clefairy (Random) Lv.29
Docile/Cute Charm
-Headbutt
-Cosmic Power
-Encore
-Magical Leaf
Aipom (Fingers) Lv.28 @Shell Bell
Jolly/Run Away
-Swift
-Tickle
-Fury Swipes
-Astonish
Machoke (Quote) Lv.28 @Quick Claw
Relaxed/No Guard
-Seismic Toss
-Revenge
-Foresight
-Karate Chop
Chinchou (Fury) Lv.20
Timid/Volt Absorb
-Surf
-Water Gun
-Spark
-Flail
Shuckle (PVTShuckle) Lv.1
Jolly/Gluttony
-Bide
-Encore
-Safeguard
-Wrap