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That put me up against Cynthia. With Spiritomb, I could only really send out Pierre, since he was my only Pokemon left with Fairy-type attacks, and Dazzling Gleam, while able to score over half Spiritomb's HP, didn't OHKO. A Sitrus Berry brought the Spiritomb out of 2HKO territory as well. Meanwhile, Psychic devastated Pierre, so I tried using Giga Drain, hoping it would do enough damage, and heal me enough, for a 3HKO. Instead, it was just weak enough for Spiritomb to finish the job, ending Pierre. Chase's Flamethrower took out the Spiritomb at that point, but I was in a ROUGH spot. Gastrodon coming out didn't help matters, since I no longer had a Grass-type. Butch took over with No Guard Cross Chops, doing a decent amount of damage, while Gastrodon Rock Tombed me with speed decreases. He switched into his own Roserade, so I switched to Chase again, dodging the worst a Dazzling Gleam had to offer. Flamethrower finished the job, putting me only down 4-3. RIP Pierre (Level 29 to 67).

At that point, Butch was able to finish off the Gastrodon, but I still had the toughest trio ahead of me. Initially, I sent out Amelia to Toxic Milotic, negating her Flame Orb, but after a Full Restore, the orb took effect, and I was forced to send out Butch again, and he just tanked every ounce of offense Milotic had. Scald and Ice Beam never did enough to bring him into the danger zone, and I just kept Full Restoring after every attack. Eventually, Milotic was forced to start using Recover, and I used an Elixir to restore my PP, before eventually managing to stall out Cynthia's Full Restores, Recovers, and forced her to uselessly throw out Mirror Coats until finally getting the KO to finally put me up 3-2 for the first time all battle.

Lucario went down to a single Cross Chop, because for whatever reason, he chose Flash Cannon over Dragon Pulse or Aura Sphere (though none would've gotten the OHKO). That left just Lucario, and though I no longer had Violeta, I still had Amelia with Ice Beam. I tanked one Earthquake, and Ice Beam was ineffective due to the Yache Berry, but at least I burned that berry early. From there, it was just a matter of Hyper Potioning against repeated Earthquakes until I got lucky and Amelia friendship-dodged one, leaving her at full health and able to tank another attack. Ice Beam finished the job, and with that, I successfully defeated Cynthia! 3 deaths en route to victory, but in the end, I stood tall with Amelia (Level 18 to 68), Butch (Level 36 to 67), and Chase (Level 13 to 67). Amelia and Chase were two of my weakest, really only brought along to deal with bugs and Mr. Mime/Bronzong (Chase) and dodging electric attacks from Flint's squad (Amelia), but in the end, both came out clutch to crown me the champion of Pokemon Shining Pearl!