Medic Plays A Real Pokemon Game for the First Time – Part 11
I think my initial instincts are correct. This game is easy. Almost too easy. Then again, I’ve been doing it to myself. Leveling up my Pokemon seems like the best strategy to win fights. Who cares if Galarian Weezing uses Sludge Bomb against a Rillaboom? Not when the Rillaboom is ten levels higher. The Rillaboom in fact took out the Galarian Weezing and was then swapped out, thus not dying.
My question is, is this the same with the rest of the game? I honestly don’t know, but I’m gonna try it anyway. I am going to keep on leveling my Pokemon.
The next gym is a good place to try this out. It’s an Ice gym, which means plenty of weaknesses to exploit. And, luckily, I have some Pokemon I can keep in my party. Charm the Salazzle, the hero of the Fairy Gym, gets to stick around because she’s part fire type, and my Machoke will probably do a lot of work. Unfortunately I can’t evolve the Machoke (maybe I haven’t found the right NPC yet) but I have some of that eviolite stuff that makes a non-final-evolution Pokemon do more damage. Or something like that. I’ll also be bringing a Dreadnaw because of its water/stone typing, and I am undecided whether I will bring my Rhyhorn or not. It does have some resistance thanks to being a rock type, but it’s also a ground type and that might cause problems.
As I start my new grind, I’m still considering where the best places are. I feel like I get more for battling random NPCs than from catching random Pokemon, but random NPCs you can fight are not renewable sources, unlike the wild Pokemon. Personally, I want to find a high leveled spawn area that my first Pokemon can one-hit-KO with relative ease. Something with as little button spamming as possible. And we’re starting off on a good foot because my Rhyhorn FINALLY evolves into Rhydon. He’s going to get an Eviolite or something to hold to make him stronger too. A Rolycoly I have in my party also evolves into a Carkol. Why it was in my party, I’m not sure, but it’s a good type against ice.
Suddenly though, I am distracted by something else. In Circhester, I find something too adorable to not have: a Snom. So I drop everything I’m supposed to be doing, and start running around the colder areas to find a Snom. Not knowing where they come from, I realize this side-quest may be hard.
I’m 100% wrong though. Literally the first patch of grass just outside of Circhester, I find a Snom. And I catch the Snom. I want to keep it in my party, but it has no use to me when it comes to leveling and the Ice gym, so it unfortunately must go into a box. It IS a level 40 Snom, but I can’t find a way to fit it in my team. Plus, ice resists ice, so there’s no real point of using it.
Anyway, next time, I will challenge the Ice Gym leader. I think. I gotta get back to leveling though. Got a lot of work to do…
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