I have been preparing, making some adjustments to my team to take on Trung in his Gym. But first, my egg I got at the Pokémon Fan Club's...clubhouse, for lack of a better term, hatched!
It was a Togepi. Yeah, figures it would be something like that. Cute little guy, though. Maybe I can do something with it in the future. I am excited to take on the second Gym. This is the team I plan to bring in.
To battle a Water specialist, bring Grass and Electric Pokémon. Man, it's nice to have the Shinx line in a team again. Underrated Pokémon if you ask me. Since I got Rowlet as part of a Mystery Gift, I figured I could bring him along, too. As for Betty the Butterfree, well...Butterfree is a surprising powerhouse of a Pokémon. I wonder what it's going to take to get Sparky to evolve into a Pikachu.
According to the game, I have played ten hours so far. That is rather surprising. In ten hours, I caught a ton of Pokémon and beat a Gym. I'm not sure if that is slow or quick for me, I'm afraid.
I headed to the Koriyama City gym to fight Trung, as well as any other trainers there, but there was a bit of a problem. It's behind a big tree. One that I have to use Cut, a technique from a Hidden Machine, to go in there.
Okay, I have to go on a bit of a rant for a bit, so please bear with me. I hate Hidden Machines. I really hate Hidden Machines. You see, some of them are moves that are required to beat Pokémon games because they allow the player to move around on the map. Cut, Fly and Surf, for example. The problem with this is...these moves cannot be deleted. A Pokémon can only learn four moves at once, and these moves cannot be deleted by the normal method, mainly leveling up to a point a Pokémon can learn another move naturally. It forces you to permanently waste one of those precious move spots.
It annoys me because there is a better solution: Make special items instead. For example, instead of Cut, give a player a machete or axe. In the Pokémon universe, ten-year-olds are allowed to run around unsupervised and try to catch and train monsters that can do all sorts of crazy things, I think they can be trusted with axes. Instead of Rock Smash, a grappling hook and climbing rope. Dive, scuba gear. Flash, a flashlight. See what I mean? Man, am I glad that Sun and Moon ditched them. So anyway, I taught my new Treecko the move, and used Cut to get to the Gym.
I fought the two trainers inside. The one on the left had a Poliwag, and the one on the right had a Remoraid. Rowlet and Pichu easily dealt with them. I'm hoping this team I built can take on Trung. I stepped on the circle behind my player avatar in the picture, and I warped into another area.
I encountered another trainer, armed with a Shellder. Treebi the Grovyle took him down with one Absorb easily. It also quickly took down his Buizel. He did not take it very well, ha ha. Said he hoped I got kicked out of the Gym. Yeah yeah, whatever. Jerk. After going into another Warp Zone, I found myself in this room.
I have to admit, I like the design of this room. It feels like I'm standing next to a cruise ship. I expect that if I saw into those portholes, I'd see a big dining area with nice music playing. Hey, check out the Pokéball! There was a switch on it, so I figured I'd better press it. And I ended up in Trung's battlefield.
And now, for the man himself.
Look at him. Pretty good cosplay there. I think the image of him was a hand-drawn picture, then scanned and converted into an image file. He started out with Poliwag, I brought out Treebi. Absorb hit the tadpole hard, but Treebi got confused thanks to Poliwag's Water Pulse. Despite that, another Absorb took it down, and Treebi went up to level 17. Treebi had the opportunity to learn Pursuit, but I decided against it. Pursuit is not really a great move in my opinion because you have to predict when an opponent will switch out their battling Pokémon. A bit too unpredictable for me.
Trung then sent out a Totodile...which makes sense. He seems fond of that Pokémon line. I switched out to Biollantus the Ivysaur. Totodile was at level 17, so I decided to hit it with a combo of Leech Seed and Poison Powder. I nearly had it beat, but Trung used a Super Potion. However, it didn't cure the Poison Powder or Leech Seed. So, I was able to beat it and win the second badge: The Aqua Badge. It looks like a blue waterdrop.
This badge allows a Trainer to use Flash outside of battle. Also got TM96 (Water Pulse). It's a cool move. Hard-hitting water attack, with an additional benefit of possibly causing the opponent to suffer from confusion. Awesome. Wait...the Aqua Badge, it looks just like Cascade Badge from the original Pokémon games.
Yeah, look at that. And the previous Badge I got was called the Boulder Badge, but it looks just like Red and Blue's Marsh Badge. The first Badge one could win in the original Red and Blue was called the Boulder Badge, too. Yeah, I really think this fangame started out as a fan remake of Red and Blue. Makes a lot of sense, considering these two Badges I got.
Next time, I think we'll start exploring Route 6! Join me then!
Pokémon Obtained:
- Togepi (Hatched from egg)
- Ivysaur (evolved from Bulbasaur)
- Grovyle (evolved from Treecko)
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