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After healing up, and getting a small amount of training in, there’s only one trial left in Sprout Tower.

No one tell him I pretend my Pokemon are dead after they faint once.

I’d make a joke about his name, but that’s getting old.

He also had a Chingling that did 8 damage with a critical astonish. Nothing important has been missed.

Well, if I’m being honest Jolteon is one of my favorite Pokemon, but since the reward for defeating you is the corresponding evolution item, I’m going to pick the one that I feel would be the most useful.

Flash is a much less useful reward.

That’s right I chose to evolve Prism into an Espeon. Not only is beacon already an electric type, but Espeon will help against upcoming Poison types. Also, the name Prism just fits an Espeon better.

Based off of the Elder’s levels, I’m going to train just a little bit more before the Gym. Beacon lost about half his HP against the Hoothoot.

That’s looking a bit better. Rascal’s in the party because Reyn probably won’t be the most useful and I figured she could gain a level or two.

Sure you can buddy.

Are you threatening to murder a child? This is the first gym!

Right, time to battle Fal-

Well that was good timing. I also needed to pick up something from the mart, so this is a good segue as any.

Nice.

AND SO IT BEGINS

Sending out his strongest Pokemon already? That’s worrying.

Yeah, this Farfetch’d has Poison Jab. Was not expecting that, and it nearly did someone in. Nearly.

Murkrow also was ready to put up a fight.

I’ve heard a great deal about you two. Charge is my secret weapon.

Fantastic job Beacon! Not a single death!

I’ll show off the team at the beginning of chapter 2, but for now, I’ll show off Rascal’s progress.

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Entering Violet City’s Pokemon Center, we are greeted by a strange clown who wishes to ask us questions that require knowledge from outside the game to answer. Sounds fun!!

Receiving a Kanto starter afterward is cool too I guess.

The random number generator chose Squirtle! I gave her the only appropriate name and quickly threw her into the PC. What? She wasn’t going to be much help in Sprout Tower.

Between posts, I also trained up Pollen and Reyn to level 10. Meaning...

Yep! Pollen ended up being a Beautifly. Only STAB move is Bug Bite, but 4x resistance to grass on someone other than Kirby is nice. 

Really wish I talked to this guy before I did the training though.

Since Route 32 is open, I figured I’ll try one more time to find something that will help against Falkner before entering Sprout Tower.

And help he shall! Sorry, Kirby. Your resistance to grass in nice, but Beacon’s gonna need some XP before the gym.

With that out of the way, it’s time to climb the tower.

Well, it’s not a Bellsprout. To save everyone some time, I’ll pass on showing all the other grass types from the regular trainers in here.

After defeating that second trainer, a little someone wanted to interrupt the climb.

Not the nicest name, but it still fits.

Fun fact, this Natu had Air Cutter and scared the crap out of me for a second.

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Since this town wasn’t dangerous enough yet, I decided to climb down a pit into a well to fight a gang.

Saving the slowpoke is going to have to wait, I’m going ghost hunting!

Mirage just seemed like a good name for a Gastly.

Not terrible. But even if his nature was great, I wasn’t planning on adding him to the team right now.

Okay, now to actually fight Team Rocket!

Man, even your pokemon look pathetic.

I TAKE IT BACK! I TAKE IT BACK!

Yeah, that’s right I tried to switch train with only 6 hp even though that Rattata had Pursuit.

CRUNCH!? AT LEVEL 17!? I was expecting to take quite the hit from Bite, but with Crunch, I’m not even sure the crit mattered.

After the battle, I went to the Pokemon Center to lay down Drumstick. Poor guy didn’t even level up before leaving us. It wasn’t until I was on my back that I remembered I could have been using the Exp Share. 

Pollen has returned to the team. Drumstick had replaced Reyn, but since the gym will have a lot of bug types, I figured Pollen is going to be better in the short-term.

Not funny, game.

Another faceless grunt down.

Against my better judgment after looking at the last battle’s levels. I decided to take Proton on now.

Voltorb had Toxic. Zubat had Giga Drain. The gloves are off now.

And just like that, Proton was defeated.

Someone’s eager for the next Gym.

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These trainers don’t stop coming, and they don’t stop coming, and they...

Procrastination has its benefits pt. 2

No one expects the Earthquake Bayleef.

Going into Union Cave, I am expecting a geodude or another rock or ground type.

Probably should’ve been my first guess in hindsight.

I decided to name him Vanilla as a reference to Vanilla Ice from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. Honestly surprised it took this long to make a Jojo reference.

Good nature, already learned Wing Attack, and I just got a Soothe Bell right here at the end of route 32. Looks like Vanilla is going to be replacing Pollen, at least for the time being.

Oh this poor Geodude...

Giving Bill some actual Fire types instead of just Koffing is something I like. Giving Magby Smog halfway through a dungeon is something I don’t like.