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The mandatory double battle against the two grunts was easy. I had my second Kricketune sit there using nothing but Focus Energy, so my main Kricketune did all of the attacking. The next two battles were really annoying though, the most difficult and frustrating part of the run so far.

Because the tag battle with my rival against against Mars and Jupiter and the battle against Cyrus happen back-to-back without being able to save in the middle, if I lose to Cyrus, I have to fight Mars/Jupiter again too. To win the Mars/Jupiter battle, I needed some good luck with some of their attacks targeting my rival's Munchlax and good timing so that the Reflect that one of the Bronzors set up wore off right before Skuntank came out. Then with Cyrus, I had to Swords Dance once against his lead Honchkrow, survive a super effective Air Cutter (with a 100% chance to critical hit thanks to Super Luck and a Scope Lens) with barely any health and KO it back, heal up, Swords Dance again when Gyarados came out to counteract Intimidate, and then KO his other Pokemon. And I had to do this without Kricketune getting double-targeted in the tag battle, one of the Bronzors confusing Kricketune, Skuntank getting off a Flamethrower, one of the Golbats Hazing away my Swords Dance boosts, getting outsped and KO'd from low health by Crobat and Weavile, Gyarados getting a Waterfall flinch because it outsped Kricketune thanks to Crobat's Tailwind...

There were so many points of failure and so many ways for things to go wrong that it took me 47 total attempts to finally beat Mars/Jupiter and then Cyrus in a row. And after all of that, I took out my frustrations on Palkia and just knocked it the fuck out. Whatever. Sunyshore Gym is next, maybe tomorrow, maybe Monday. We'll see.