#lisia x skyla

[flightlessribbons]

More alcohol marker drawings + some crackships I don't even know the shipping names for 🫡

[biblackeagle]

I have decided to make a list of all the Pokemon trainers that I ship together

These are sorted for each generation, favouring the generation that has less ships in it, if it is across two different generations.

Generation 1:

Red x Blue

Lt. Surge x Koga

Yellow x Green

Giovanni x Cyrus

Generation 2:

Silver x Gold

Lyra x Crystal

Will x Grimsley

Proton x Archer

Generation 3:

Brendan x Wally

Lisia x May

Steven x Wallace

Generation 4 (and legends Arceus):

Barry x Lucas

Volkner x Flint

Cynthia x (aged up) Dawn

Volo x Emmet

Adaman x Melli

Generation 5:

Hilda x Bianca

Hilbert x Cheren

Hilbert x N

Colress x Ghetsis

Rosa x Roxie

Nate x Hugh

Brycen x Burgh

Skyla x Elisa

Generation 6:

Serena x Shauna

Calem x Sun

Lysandre x Sycamore

Diantha x Malva

Diantha x Cynthia

Generation 7:

Llima x Kiawe

Guzma x Maxie (my comfort shipping)

Moon x Lillie

Looker x Nanu

Hau x Gladio

Wicke x Lusamine

Faba x Colress

Generation 8:

Victor x Hop

Sonia x Nessa

Victoria x Marnie

Leon x Raihan

Generation 9:

Penny x Nimona

Florian x Arven

Brassius x Hassel

Brassius x Larry

Larry x Saguaro

Turo x Clavell

Rika x Geeta

Giacomo x Atticus

[crystalelemental]

I didn't feel like doing off-type or F2P.  I just couldn't work up the desire.

I tried, though.  I tried to make Kris work against Flint, but unfortunately without the EX, she's just not taking care of the sides fast enough.  Which is a shame.  I feel like she could've done it with the EX.  But in absence of that, here's Princess Hilda to bring the smackdown.  Winona is here to change his weather on him.

Aaron was a bit rough, but only because sleep sucks.  In CS, they just pivot to X items, and wake up at irregular times, and then you die anyway.  It sucks.  But it does stall out enough that we get two syncs in, so Jasmine gets double buffs, then Serena blasts through Endure at 48k damage.

...yeah okay, listen.  This team is slow as dirt, I don't consider it all that great.  But.  Offensive Jasmine.  I had to.  And this was ultimately her win.  Sure, Marnie exploded one of the sides for 84k on sync, but Jasmine was dishing out 13k per Iron Tail, so like...I'm satisfied with that.

Lucian was weak to Ghost.  How unfortunate.

Then, Cynthia.  I had to bring Cyrus.  I had to do it.  But instead of bringing Dialga, which probably would've been smart, I brought Lisia.   Because apparently, Cynthia's stage has permanent Sandstorm.  And I forgot that Defog works against Terrain and Zone, but not weather.  So I went in super sure Lisia was an answer...and she wasn't.  So that's on me.  But!  While Cyrus dropped to Cynthia's sync, he did take out the sides.  And Lisia can buff her physical defense reliably, so she took the sync just fine.  And then her own sync, while weakened because of weather, got her to Dragon Pulse, which did great damage, and finished the job just fine.  So this is a Lisia win.  Good job, girl.

On the whole, not too bad?  At least, not this run.  But I did do an F2P run, and while it’s likely possible to win?  I’m not putting in that much time.  I am not doing that.  These F2P runs in Sinnoh take for goddamned ever, and I’m done.  But I will give impressions of each as we go.

Aaron went first.  I wanted to see how Silver would do.  And the answer was pretty okay.  I won’t say it was anything too nuts, but he did a reasonably good job, just took some adjustments to get it to work.  Pretty reasonable.  I’d try Blue and Arcanine, but no special attack and crit buffers so I’m really hesitant.

Flint wasn’t too hard to stall out, which is good because Grant 100% could not handle him on an F2P budget.  I tried with Acerola and Hop, but it turns out Hop is weak to Fire, and no one else could get Grant to max power because no Maylene grid.  So that’s just great.  Without sun, he doesn’t hit too hard, and the rampant debuffs from Venom Drench are nice.  Unfortunately, this means I used Janine, Skyla, and BP Erika, far too over-confident on what was to follow.

Lucian was actually really easy too, thanks to Giovanni.  I expected a bit more resistance, truth be told, but I think we got it like second attempt?  Maybe third.  The only surprise was Earthquake following sync, which, once revealed, meant Roxanne could block it with Wide Guard, and Giovanni could finish the job.

Then, the fail state.  Bertha is insanely bulky, spams Earthquake, Tyranitar has Crunch to just immediately devastate BP Morty on stall, and most devastating of all, has Head Start, by far the single nastiest thing I’ve seen a CS stage pull.  Most stages, in a pinch, are able to be worked around by taking out the left side with sync, flinching, or getting a lucky fast queue of your action after sync, to get two syncs before the foe’s first.  Bertha cannot be bamboozled in this way, and it poses a ton of problems.  That in tandem with her fantastic bulk, and really threatening offensive potential with Earthquake, makes her a nightmare that F2P couldn’t win.  If I had tried to stall her out with the Skyla team, we may have pulled it off.  I won’t say it’s impossible.  But then we’d need a solution to Flint, and we really did not have one.  It’s bad no matter which way you look at it.  Bertha was the end of this run, and so she receives the Big Dick Champion Award for the week, because hot damn is this some nonsense.

I did eventually just blast her with SS Giovanni.  Got to take him for a spin.  That was fun.  But then it’s on to Cynthia.

Who...man.  I was so hopeful.  So convinced.  That Clair would do it.  This was her moment.  But no.  Earthquake spam is real, and it will kill you.  All her moves seem to have AoE!  Sure, Rock Tomb is the exception, for all twice I ever saw her use that over Brutal Swing or Earthquake.  Even turning the weather on her didn’t have as much effect as I thought.  While I’m legitimately overjoyed that this is a direct fight where Cynthia’s strategy is devastating and not relying on evasion to cheat, the tradeoff is that this feels decisively impossible on F2P.  Stall gets really heavily worn down by permanent Sandstorm and all the buffs she receives, while offensively, the Earthquake spam wears down the sides far too quickly.  It’s actually really hard to manage this one.

So yeah, Sinnoh’s still ridiculous, and kind of a pain in my ass.  I’m giving up on the F2P clear.  We have Gauntlet tomorrow, and that takes priority.

[crystalelemental]

First, Regirock kicked my shit open.  I was too new to the game to stand much chance but still beat the second tier fight.  Then, Moltres showed up, and it took so much nonsense to get the weather changes just right to be able to clear it with my teams.  So it seems only fair that now Latios shows up and drops in like half an hour with almost no resistance.

I’m seriously this was super easy.  The first fight seemed really easy, because everyone only dealt like double-digit damage, but I figured that was because Dawn and Lyra were providing X Def All and Light Screen support to Zinnia, who just trucked the entire fight.  But then round 2 came up, and...it was still happening.  Third phase Latios would still deal like double digits, and that is...unusual, to say the least.  Zinnia also trucked that fight.  So I get to the last fight, expecting this to be when the match showed its teeth, if only because I now needed to clear some missions.  I need 3 Dragons, 3 Hoenn, and 3 Gym Leaders.  Knowing that its weaknesses went Dragon-Dragon-Ice, I opted for the following teams:

Team 1: Sabrina, Skyla, Lisia.  Lisia has good crowd control and we have healing, so this will clear out the allies on the side, who I am certain will be much harder now.  This gives us 2 Gym Leaders, 1 Hoenn, and 1 Dragon.

Team 2: Jasmine, Zinnia, and Lyra.  Clean-up crew.  Zinnia had proven herself tremendous, especially against a single foe, so I anticipated she’d clear not only the second life bar, but most of the next.  3 Gym Leaders, 2 Dragons, 2 Hoenn.

Team 3: Dawn, Summer Steven, Iris.  A bit risky, since we only have one supporter and Iris isn’t built well, but it’s her or Clair and Clair seemed like a mistake at the time.  This would give us 3 Gym Leaders, 3 Dragons, and 3 Hoenn.  A perfect spread, and Summer Steven is nothing if not a cheating bastard man with his flinch potential, so this seemed ideal.  I set the teams up, and got to work.

Lisia took out 2.5 life bars on her own.  I’m dead serious.  Turns out her Dragon Pulse is incredibly strong, and because she’s bulky, she’s a goddamn threat and a half when she decides to go offensive instead of playing Twister support.  I really like Lisia/Altaria now, this is a fun tech unit.  But, having throttled Latios so hard, it was time to re-assess the plan so I didn’t win too fast and miss the conditions for the quests.

I wound up swapping Lyra from the second team and putting in Iris, effectively throwing that match, and they still dealt like another 30% of the lifebar.  By the time Steven, Dawn, and Lyra came in, it was already over.  It just barely made it to the sync move.  This fight was an absolute curbstomp and I’m...kinda surprised by that fact.  I’m so used to Legendary fights being the most frustrating things imaginable, but we actually had about no trouble at all.  Not that I’m complaining.  All those extra gems will be very helpful when the Sygna Suit Kantonians show up.  I will have Leaf...