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Finally continuing this.

On Route 10 I caught a Duraludon and name her Amanda. Then I managed to level all of my team up to 65. Going in with:

Trix (Level 65 Cinderace)
Marina (Level 65 Grapploct)
Cake (Level 65 Alcremie)
Cherry (Level 65 Tsareena)
Amanda (Level 65 Duraludon)
Emma Frost (Level 65 Froslass)

I'm ready to give Leon the most difficult battle of his life. At least I hope...

He starts with Aegislash, who immediately goes down to Pyro Ball. I switch to Cake, who takes a hit coming in -- but dodges the next attack from Haxorus and wipes it out with a single Dazzling Gleam. Leon sent out his third pokemon next, Dragapult. Which survives a dazzling gleam, and does some damage with Shadow Ball. But it's not very much. Cake uses Dazzling Gleam, followed by Draining Kiss. Next up: Mr. Rime. I bring in Trix, who takes a bit of damage from Psychic, but finishes it off with a Pyro Ball. Inteleon follows, but I swap to Cherry who takes a small hit from mud slap, then finishes it off with Trop Kick. That leaves his last pokemon: Charizard. His ace, and the one he will Gigantamax. I know I'm in trouble and know this will take some sacrifice. I have to choose.. so I choose Amanda. She's been with me the least. She goes down to a single hit from Gigantamax Charizard. I'm not surprised. Undeterred, I send out Emma Frost next. I set up Protect... which keeps Emma alive for a turn. Then I use my next turn to use my one healing item on Cake. Emma Frost goes down... I'm so sorry Emma! You did your job well. Charizard shrinks back down to size, and I send out Cake. Cake manages to dodge a couple of fire blast's, and whittles Charizards HP down. There's a couple of close calls, but Solar Beam doesn't do much, and Cake finishes it off with one last Dazzling Gleam. And with that... I'm the champion! Without ever having used Dynamax. Piers would be proud.

That was way more difficult than it looks on paper. Fire Blast was hitting pretty hard when it hit.. and if it missed one more time, I'm not sure Cake makes it through. Trix was in trouble, Cherry was weak to it, it'd have to be up to Marina, who might could have finished the job. But I'm glad it didn't come down to it. I will say that Alcremie has become one of my favorite pokemon after this run.

Final Team:
Trix (Cinderace, Level 66)
Marina (Grapploct, Level 65)
Cake (Alcremie, Level 66)
Cherry (Tsareena, Level 65)

In the box:
Cammy (Pancham, Level 17)
Dolly (Wooloo, Level 16)
Fleur (Gossifleur, Level 16)
Newton (Applin, Level 18)
Galaxy (Ponyta, Level 38)
Sizzle (Sizzlipede, Level 25)
Helmut (Shelmet, Level 28)
Eternatus (Level 60) (It didn't let me rename it yet)
Carmen (Runerigus, Level 51)

Deceased:
Alejandro (Lombre, Level 22)
Bright (Chinchou, Level 23)
Palina (Duskull, Level 28)
Cole (Coalossal, Level 41)
Tank (Drednaw, Level 49)
Jekyl (Morepeko, Level 52)
Elly (Cooperajah, Level 55)
Inkling (Inkay, Level 49)
Aragog (Araquanid, Level 51)
Nagini (Sandaconda, Level 51)
Queen (Pawniard, Level 51)
Emma Frost (Froslass, Level 65)
Amanda (Duraludon, Level 65)