Thanks! Yeah, Barry was annoying for the first fight, but i'm sure i'll be able to get my team going better. I've already played a bit in advance, so I have more parts to write out and once i'm completely caught up i'll be able to go a bit slower. And I wanted Piplup, yes, since Empoleon does have that Steel-typing that provides it with some nice resistances. After five starters in a row of mine to live to the end, it'd be great for this one to, also.
Yes, I did watch Marriland's newest episode today, that was quite impressive how he pulled it off. I was hoping it wouldn't be the Emerald Nuzlocke fight against Wattson all over again, but no, it was much faster. Hopefully he'll continue to pick up the momentum like he did with the Black Wedlocke, that'd be great.
And on the musical front, Rihanna, McCartney and Kanye's new collab took a jump into the Top 10 (likely thanks to its Grammy performance), and so did Ellie Goulding's track for 50 Shades of Grey. And Blank Space got knocked down a spot by Maroon 5's Sugar, which, i'll be honest, I actually liked (even after I hated Animals), even if most of my reason for liking it was for its music video. Then there's Shake It Off, which is now at the very bottom of the Top 10, teetering right near a few other acts whose newest releases have been gaining steam like Pitbull and Usher (and Nick Jonas, who was knocked off there by Goulding).