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| Pets for Charlotte |
We exit west out of Petalburg and enter route 104. Here we catch our first flying type, Jessica the Taillow.
The team trains a bit on the short section of route 104 before going north into Petalburg woods, where we get another team member, Daniel the Slakoth
Jessica is already an awesome fighter and levelling up easily. Petalburg woods is full of bug types and Jessica is our hero, eventually she's one-hit killing any foe.
Daniel though... Daniel has only one attack move; it's called snore and it only works if he's asleep. Perhaps you're wondering if Daniel also has a move that makes him go to sleep so that he can use snore?
HE DOES NOT.
There's a few trainers between the woods and Rustoboro city, they're about the same level as my team who are all healthy so I'm not worried.
I should have been worried.
I start the battle with Ralph the ralts but the enemy zigzagoon hits it too hard and I get nervous and switch in the unstoppable Jessica. She has no problem taking on the zigzagoon, with one gust attack she has the pokemon down to the red, while her health is still good and green.
I start the next round with a quick attack to be sure Jessica will finish it off before taking any more damage.
That's when the enemy trainer uses a full heal. When her quick attack damage just wasn't enough anymore. The enemy zigzagoon tackled. Hard. A critical hit. And my Jessica's died forever.
I'm devastated! My first loss and my good flying pokemon. I put her little corpse into the "graveyard" box I've set up in the PC. We return to Petalburg woods and train real hard, I aim to get everyone to a nice high level 12 before we move on.
I miss Jessica, Rupert the treecko is no use against all the bugs and everyone else is just about getting by.
Daniel is a problem. I fight other slakoths that know the move scratch, Daniel never learns scratch or anything useful. With blood, sweat, and tears we manage to get Daniel to the same level as the rest of the team. I'm certain that something this horrible to raise must be worth it later.
We risk the trainers again and successfully make past to Rustboro City without any more losses.
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