Last time, I defeated Volkner and got my fourth badge. We're at the halfway point, people! Awesome! I also arrived at Fairy City, a famous town because it's the home of many Gym leaders, as well as it has the Game Corner. I can imagine this town gets a ton of tourist money thanks to the Game Corner, despite Fairy City being more rainy than Seattle.
Speaking of the Game Corner, I decided to check it out. Naturally, they gave me a Coin Case. Gotta have something to carry any winnings I get here. Also, they have a kiosk where if your Pokémon's ID number matches a drawn number, you win a prize. I decided to give it a shot for a laugh. I never win these anyway. Well, now I did. The last digit of Thundra's ID matched the lucky draw number's, so I got the Fourth Place prize: An Ultra Ball. I shall use this wisely.
There's also a kiosk where one can buy cards for a Pokémon-themed Triple Triad minigame. Evidently, the makers of this game are Final Fantasy fans. Evidently, the more Pokémon you catch, the more cards are available. At this point, I have obtained over 110 Pokémon, so I have quite a lot of cards to choose from. Some are crazy expensive, but they're supposed to be rare cards so that makes sense. I also gave the coin game a shot.
I have to admit, as a kid, I hated this. I never got how to play it. Recently, I think I managed to figure it out...somewhat. Thank my love of Picross for it. It's a bit of a logic puzzle. You have to guess where all the Electrodes re hidden on the game board, using the numbers on the sides as hints.
After playing some games, I decided to do some exploring. One of the interesting things I found in this town was this tower.
It kind of looks like a lighthouse. Anyway, the door is locked, so I can't explore it. Maybe it will be later in the game. Anyway, I thought it would also be fun to explore the Gym Leaders' homes. After all, in Pokémon games, nobody locks their doors, right?
Huh. Evidently, the Gym Leaders in this game do know what locks are and how to use them. Well, I have to admit, that is a surprise. A neat surprise, but still a surprise. There's also a nice little open-air market in this town. It reminds me of the one in Anomi Town.
Speaking of Gym Leaders' homes, I'd better go to Mary's. Red is waiting for me, and I don't want to keep him waiting all day long.
Red introduces me to her, and I still am wondering how it was possible for a child to be a Gym Leader. Can someone please explain this to me? Since she wants me to face her, I'll hit the Fairy City Gym.
Considering the city's name, it's not a surprise that Mary is a specialist in Fairy-type Pokémon. I'll have to figure out how to counter those. The Gym employs some sort of teleporter puzzle. Reminds me of Sabrina's Gym from the original Red and Blue. Sheesh. I admit, I hated Sabrina in Red and Blue. You see, the original two games did have some balance issues regarding Pokémon, particularly with Psychic-Types. They were overpowered, for lack of a better term. There wasn't much that could counter them at the time. Yeah, Bug and Ghost-types could counter them, but there weren't many attacks of that type back in those early days. There was not much you could do against them. Future games would fix this by adding more attacks of those types, more Pokémon of those types, as well as the adding of the Dark type.
Anyway, I'm ranting. I did some looking on Bulbapedia, and I think Fairy is weak to Poison and Steel-type Pokémon. I love Bulbapedia, but its explanation of Pokémon elemental strengths and weaknesses is...not always helpful. Anyway, I have a bunch of Poison and Steel-type Pokémon, so I gotta put together a new team to face her. I sure could use my Alolan Grimer from Pokémon Sun right now. That Pokémon was a beast. As such, I went with this team.
Back to the grind game. Here we go again... Anyway, I put Grimer in because I enjoyed using Grimer in Sun and Moon....despite that Grimer being an Alolan variant. Seriously, Alolan Grimer is a freakin' beast. Magnemite and Klink are there because they are Steel-types, and they know Steel attacks. Butterfree is there because she is awesome. Ivysaur is on board because of his Poison Powder and Leech Seed. And as for Torracat...I like Torracat.
The grinding actually didn't turn out to be so bad here. Having an Exp. Share helped, but I do wish it was the Sun and Moon-styled one that gave experience points to the whole team. Would make grinding even less tedious. Surprisingly, grinding at the Windflow Bridge wasn't that bad.
And next time, I'm taking on Mary at the Fairy City Gym. Wish me luck!
Pokémon Obtained:
Windflow Bridge
- Spearow
- Fletchling
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