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Like I mentioned last time, I had a gauntlet of major battles to fight through in this play session. The Team Skull grunts didnt give me any trouble, so first up is Guzma. I had Cutiefly lead off, set up Reflect, and do some chip damage to his lead Golisopod with Bug Buzz before it went down. After that, I sent out Magnemite, holding the Eviolite for more bulk, and KOd Golisopod with a critical hit super-effective Discharge. I dont know if the crit mattered or not, but we take those. He sent out Pinsir next, I switched to Crabrawler. I haven't used any Z-moves in this playthrough, so I decided to teach Crabrawler Rock Slide, gave it the Rockium Z, and had it use the Z-move Continental Crush on Pinsir aaaaaaand it only did half. Well, that was disappointing. Crabrawler was able to survive a second hit (thanks to Cutieflys Reflect) and land a second Rock Slide, taking Pinsir down to low health before being KOd. I sent out Gastly to clean up the Pinsir that was left on very low health, then switched back to Magnemite to take down his Masquerain and get the victory. I was a lot more prepared for this fight than the first time around.

After that, I flew back to the Aether Paradise to continue the story and fight the next major battle of this gauntlet, Gladion. I led with Magnemite to zap his Golbat out of the air with two Discharges, then switched to Crabrawler, who was holding the Eviolite for this battle. It took out Gladions Zoroark with 2 uses of Power-Up Punch, then a +2 Brick Break OHKO'd his Type:Null to give me an easy win with no Pokemon fainted. After this was the grand trial battle against Nanu, and Im not going to give the full breakdown of the Nanu battle because it fucking sucked. I won on the first try, but I played extremely poorly and ended the battle with 4 of my Pokemon fainted. If I had made better decisions (move choices, switch timings, keeping the Eviolite on Crabrawler instead of trying to get cute and giving it to Cutiefly) then I could have won this battle much easier with far fewer Pokemon fainted, but oh well, a win is a win.

Next up is more story bullshit at the Aether Paradise.