Ok, Roxanne went great but the rest of my team beyond my now evolved marshtomp is weak. So I head to route 204 to train. This is great for Whismurs EVs which i want HP, Speed and Atk and pretty good for Tallow for attack and speed. I get them both to level 15 before moving but half way through training Whismur it finally happens!
A shiny Wingull! I swear every shiny I have ever found in pokemon games is either a shiny wingull or zubat! Now I am playing shiny clause meaning if I catch this I can use it and it not count towards the total! I was not intending on using wingull but its an opportnity I don't wanna pass up so on the team he goes. I catch him and name him Lime.
Up next I deal with rusturf tunnel to save Peeko and then head south to battle May! Not a tough battle, I use marshtomp to take on taillow with 2 tackles to defeat it then switch into taillow as treecko comes out to OHKO it with wing attack.
With that I sail to Dewford. Now normally I expected to go straight to granite cave but apparently I will need flash which means going to Brawly next. Now tbh I kinda get overconfident here and race in with a poisoned taillow. I dont bump inot any trainers before brawly annoyingly meaning my team is a little underlevelled for the fight.
Tallow goes in first for a wing attack against machop! Which just misses the KO! Brawly uses a super potion and gets a good chunk of my health down with karate chop meaning 2 rounds of poison. I am afraid tallow wont be able to manage this! So after Machop is removed and meditite comes out I switch to marshtomp... Mistake number 2 it knows focus punch and I didnt check! Marshtomp takes tonnes of damage! But just survives so I chip away at it! Again afraid that I cannot do too much to the makuhita that comes out I use a mudslap and avoid the KO switch into my level 9 wingull (should have levelled him) for a supersonic and then switch back to taillow to finish fortunately surviving despite the poison damage taking me to 3 health! I feel like a right idiot with this one I so nearly lost both Taillow and Marshtomp if I had just trained them to the level cap I would have been fine! But an early kick in the teeth is probably a good thing for me!
Next up is Wattson who also shouldnt be too tough but now I feel a little more wary.