Eleanor's eleventh Counter Death
Save played: Shahar - Pokémon Heart Gold
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Quick update for a long and crazy segment! After training up Pokémon, changing plans tons of times and finding out that so many items were not available as easily as I thought, I... decided to make do until the league, getting a random team of basically Lanturn and a few other things and dealing with the Kimono Girls, Ho-oh and all that. Then, I went ahead and got myself to the league... quickly, trying to do my best to avoid Graveler exploding on me like in the platinum egglocke. You'll be happy to hear, that never happened once in this run! Yay!
I did lose a Gloom to I don't even know what, though. And so I trained another one. From level 22. In Heart Gold. Let's just say, it was kinda difficult... and Lanturn, the only Pokémon I was 1000000% sure could kill Victory Road's Graveler in one hit, got a lot of experience from it. I then farmed at the PokéAthlon for a Leaf Stone (Lilith the Crobat is a beast in Speed competitions, and sort of made up for the wonky controls) and even got a ton of coins from Voltorb Flip just so I could get one TM13.
And so, with the glorious team of...
♥ Maynard the Lanturn, level 54 (!), with Surf, Discharge, Signal Beam and Ice Beam,
♥ Lilith the Crobat, level 42, with Fly, Wing Attack, Bite and Poison Fang,
♥ Crepe the Miltank, level 40, with Body Slam, Strength (oops), Milk Drink and Zen Headbutt,
♥ Que the Mamoswine (oh yeah I had to get a Heart Scale through Rock Smash for this thing), level 46, with Avalanche, Ice Shard, Earthquake and Ancient Power,
♥ Francis the Rapidash (aka discount RK9 because I was too tired to play more PokéAthlon), level 42, with Flame Wheel, Fire Blast, Stomp and Iron Tail,
♥ Maeve the Vileplume, level 47, with Sleep Powder, Giga Drain, Sludge Bomb and Moonlight...
I beat the league.
We had some terrible moments, such as one death due to Counter (lol as if I hadn't had enough, just see my Black segment) - Lilith the Crobat, from Bruno's Hitmontop... and of course, we also had the crazy Karen's Gengar situation, where I lost my counter to it (Crobat) and tried to just put it to sleep, then go into Miltank, avoid a Focus Blast and hit with Zen Headbutt (oof). But in the end, we had a
solo Lanturn sweep against Lance, because of course I was going to do that. In fact, I'm glad I got the TM for Ice Beam - I'm not sure if Mamoswine could've done the same, I'll admit.
So yeah that's another save to get to the Hall of Fame! And probs my last segment for this challenge, but we'll see <3