Although I've figured out a lot of them from the internet, I haven't played HG/SS before. I also never played G/S/C, or any game other than Black for that matter. It's kind of fun, filling in the pieces of the games I've been hearing about.
I named my trainer Isaac, although I'm a girl and I don't even know any Isaacs.
Team:
*Helix the Quilava (18)
*Lisa the Butterfree (18) (I picked her up just for kicks, and then went OMG SLEEP POWDER BEFORE THE SECOND GYM THIS IS FREAKING AMAZING.)
*Lein the Flaafy (18)
*Jared the Sandshrew (18)
*Morgana the Abra (11) (I'll train her later)
*Ritonis the Togepi (7) (Also too lazy to train right now)
This is right before Whitney. I hear she's difficult, so I'm probably vastly underleveled, but eh. If I lose, Isaac still gets character development, so it won't be too bad.
Edit: There goes Whitney!
I went into the battle planning on abusing Sleep Powder against the Miltank before it could do anything, since I knew it had Rollout and knew basically what it did (though not that it was Rock, asdfg). So I sent out Lisa against the Clefairy, put it to sleep, hit it a few times. Then it woke up, used Metronome, and immediately used...Explosion. Yeah, Lisa was gone for the battle.
And then it turned out the Miltank had a Lum Berry anyway. I can never keep my berries straight, but I'm pretty sure those are the ones that heal any status. Oooops. But I still managed to get it paralyzed eventually, and then spent about 15 minutes attacking furiously while it kept spamming heals. And THEN it started using Rollout. My starter is female, which is nice, but Rollout is apparently rock, which is not so nice. Luckily, paralyze hax managed to buy me some turns. It took all of my fresh water/super potions, but I finally managed to beat it. :D
...That's a large amount of text for a battle description. ._.