how is it not extremely difficult for you guys? maybe i just have bad pokemon (& fire starter..).
i beat the first and fourth totem without losing, but i lost against the other ones (2nd & 3rd). the 4th also was really really close and a super long battle (****ing annoying helper pokemon!!). i beat every existing trainer up until the points where i was (except for the cafe) but it was never enough. and now i just lost to the 2nd kahuna 3 times in a row before i beat her (used the freshly caught (untrained) nosepass from the grass to have a good defense mon with thunder wave and it even has rock slide).
my team is:
- torracat lv 28
- rockruff (event) lv 24 (substituted for kabuto lv 19 until the time is right for it to be able to evolve)
- paras lv 22
- noibat lv 25
- tentacool lv 25
- mankey lv 25 (was 23 or 24 before the kahuna)
all my mons except the starter are slower than her first even if i drop its speed with rock tomb, lol.
kabuto is ohko'd, tentacools bubblebeam doesn't even do half while it is put to red hp from one smack down.
mankey with z-cross chop is the only thing that really made it possible to beat her stuff. i also lost on the 2nd try bc of getting flinched.
it's fun that it's difficult, but it's a little annoying that almost no mons get trained up unless you put it at the front spot on your team (and the others get left behind). and switching often means getting 2hko'd, lol.
i dunno why all my mons in the mid 20s only have stats that are 1.5 of their level. :/ probably bc i don't fight wild pokemon for evs/exp.. they can't all have crap ivs.. i reset for some and only took ones with a decent nature (starter and rockruff are jolly).
for the 2nd trial i was pretty lost. no way to beat the totem mon with my team of torracat, rockruff and mankey. i trained up noibat from 10 to like 20 or something and caught a few other mons (tentacool and bagon, but i boxed bagon..) before going into the battle again. needless to say there were no trainers left to train with, so i trained in an sos battle against fomantis'. it took like an hour or more until it was lvl 20.
i also want to switch around some of my party members while playing through the game.. but when it takes hours to get like 3 levels for a single pokemon to level up and your only option is to grind on wild pokemon it's kinda annoying.
so like i said.. i definitely want it difficult, but it's kind of getting an annoying hassle without trainers to train up with if i'm losing against a strong opponent. or generally training up new members. i guess it'll get much better in a few levels when they slowly start evolving one after the other.
especially annoying is the fact that they just keep you in these restricted areas and everything is so made up for you that there is no exploring. all u do is follow their pre-determined path and there's no way to get to new trainers once you don't pass a trial/kahuna/whatever. -_-
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