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Fought all the way to Celestic Town, but next up I have a fight against Fantina, so I wanted to level up my team to match her a bit better. I also realized I still hadn't caught anything from Twinleaf, so I flew back and fished up a level 20 Magikarp (named Violeta), which I promptly evolved into Gyarados. Spent a while fighting the Ace Trainer duo on route 210, taking out Gyarados and Raichu over and over to powerlevel Violeta, and level some of the others.

Once I finished leveling everything I have that knows Thunderbolt, I headed down into the underground to take on some wild Pokemon that range from 32 to 37. No big deal. I popped a bunch of Grass statues into my hideout so my remaining Psychic and Flying-types could take out Roselias for a ton of Exp. And in the Forest Hideaways, if not Roselias, there are also Pinsirs, Absols, and Biberals to fight. However, I had Ivan on my team, and I faced a Bibarel. Ivan's a tough Fighting-type, but I'd been holding off on trading him to evolve into Machamp until I had Glameow, so the trade wouldn't be a one-off incident. The Bibarel was clearly faster than me, and it used Skull Bash. One turn to prepare and boost its defense, but that's no big deal; I'd already beaten a Bibarel doing the same thing, earlier. Except this time, Ivan's Low Sweep didn't OHKO, nor did it lower the Bibarel's speed enough for Ivan to go first on turn two. The Skull Bash scored a critical hit and OHKOed Ivan, marking the second Machop family member I've lost this Nuzlocke. Oh well, the journey continues on. RIP Ivan (Level 16 to 32).