In this session:
We enter the gate of the elite four. First up is SIdney, the dark type user. The fight goes mostly smoothly, with Turnitup Signal Beaming his way to victory, but a switch was forced against the Shiftry. Did not feel like getting greedy. Phish finishes the job with an Ice Fang. Phish stays in against Sharpedo but an Aqua Jet crit almost ends his career. Fortunately, the Focus Band saves him! He finishes Sharpedo with one last Earthquake. Close call.
Next up is Phoebe, the ghost type user. I'm unsure of whether Ghost should make an appearance. He's very tanky but I don't think it's a good idea to risk so Phish leads and mostly just Crunches his way to victory. Dusknoir gave us a little trouble, but not too much.
Third on this list is Glacia, the ice type user. Having lost Guns, we are a bit softer to ice offensively but we hope to make use of their secondary types to deal serious damage. Turnitup and Moon Unit do a great job clearing most of the team but then comes Glalie. I swap over to Phish who I thought should be able to Earthquake Glalie for super effective damage while getting hit neutral on everything it had. It turns out I am wrong on both counts. Glalie is just ice, not ice steel so earthquake doesn't KO. In addition to that, Glalie has FREEZE DRY. This rips through Phish who is then sent to the grave. You did well Phish. Sorry you had to pay for my mistakes. I look through my team and see that almost everyone is weak to Freeze Dry. I think Glalie is probably pretty slow so I send out Hard Rock to dish out a super effective hit. I miss Stone Edge. Glalie responds with a Freeze Dry crit and Hard Rock is down. Sad times. So far I had been resisting sending Ghost in due to me remembering that Glalie has Crunch. Ghost comes in anyway and finishes the job. We defeat Glacia, but having lost two friends. Thank you for your service, Phish and Hard Rock.
Drake is our next opponent. He's a tough dragon user. At this point, I'm really wishing that we had Phish with Ice Fang but alas, we have to make do. I mostly just use his Altaria as setup bait with Ghost and get to +4 Calm Mind after burning it. I do have to be cognizant that his Salamence has Crunch though so Ghost does take a big hit before he finishes off the Salamence in response. The rest of the team goes down easy.
Our Champion, Steven is up next. We bring out Turnitup who makes good work of the Skarmory although it does set up some Spikes. Turnitup and Moon Unit swap off doing damage to his water-weak team, neatly evading the combo of Armaldo and Cradily. Last but not least is the beast that is Metagross. He mega evolves. Gross. This thing is so fast and hits so hard, but also has insane defenses. I throw a supersonic at it with Moon Unit. I get an opportunistic switch to Ghost and the Metagross hits itself. Perfect. Ghost takes a hit but responds with a Will-O-Wisp. I heal Ghost up. Fortunately, Ghost cis able to OHKO it with Hex after tanking another (weakened) hit. With that, our Championship is confirmed! We enter the Hall of Fame. Three pokemon remaining in the team.
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