Well, I did all my studying, so I managed to write it a bit earlier
(NOTE: I made progress
before I got the nickname suggestions, so the Pokémon in the party will not have any nicknames. They'll get their nicknames once I have access to the Name Rater in Slateport City, if I get there).
I picked back up right where I left the game: plowed through the trainers in Route 102 and arrived at Petalburg City. As usually, I went to see Dad (aka Norman), and went through the catching Pokémon tutorial with Wally. There wasn't much else to do in the city so I just went straight to Route 104. This is a new area so you know what this means... Walking in the grass I got my first Pokémon and it was...
Marril! This guy only knew Tackle and Defense Curl, so he wasn't much of a threat. I caught him after lowing his health using Slushie. (Didn't nickname him back then but his nickname will be
Blue Jello). He has Huge Power for his ability, which is decent. Not as good as in future gens because all Water-type attacks are special, but he can get some boosted coverage moves. He'll have to stay alone for now.
There wasn't much left in the route, besides some berries, and a few trainers that went down easily thanks to the grinding from earlier. While doing that something special happened... Gummy reached Lv.10 and evolved again, into Dustox! Nice
Now it was time to head through Petalburg Woods... so I get to catch a new Pokémon! After several dupes and male Pokémon that I couldn't catch,the first female I found was...
Shroomish! (yay!). I actually really wanted Shroomish to pair up with Blue Jello, since they make a nice core and they'd do great together against Roxanne, both being able to hit her Pokémon for super effective damage. She was a bit tough to catch since she inflicted poison on Blackberry with Effect Spore and was able to restore HP using Absorb, so deciding to not risk losing Blackberry, I threw an Ultra Ball Carrot found earlier. She was caught on the first try (like Blue Jello, she isn't nicknamed for now, her nickname will be
Mushroom).
Before continuing on, I decided to grind up Blue Jello and Mushroom up to Lv.8 to allow them to catch up a bit to the res of the team, who were all Lv.9, except for Gummy who was Lv.10.
Back in Petalburg Woods, there was a guy looking for a Shroomish... I'm not giving him my Mushroom though! He was suddenly assaulted a by a Team Aqua Grunt, so I had to defend the poor guy. He had a pretty tough Lv.9 Poochyena, but Blackberry was able to get rid of it because she was the superior Pooch
With that out of the way, I finished going through the woods. Once on the other side of Route 104, I got the TM for Bullet Seed from a bystander. I taught it to Mushroom over Absorb. While she loses the ability to steal HP, Bullet Seed will be doing more damage most of the time, plus she'll learn Leech Seed and Mega Drain in the future, so I though the trade off was worth it. I also visited the Pretty Petal Flower Shop and got a free berry. There were some twins on the route who used a Seedot and Lotad, but since they don't know any Grass moves at the level they were at, I decided it was a good chance to try out Blue Jello and Mushroom
They went down easily, Astonish and Bide weren't exactly... threatening.
I arrived at Rustboro City shortly after. Healed and stocked up on medicine at the Mart. I went in the Gym and took care of the Gym Trainers for some easy Exp., but I wanted to grind everyone up to Lv.14 before attempting to challenge Roxanne. And boy it took a while. I didn't want to head towards Route 116 just yet, so I went back to train on Route 104. Something good about this though is that Carrot found
a ton of items, including 2 Ultra Balls, a few Great Balls, Potions, Super Potions, Repels and a Escape Rope. Very useful (and saved me some money!)
Everyone was ready now, so it was time....
I decided that the best pair to attempt this battle with was Blue Jello and Mushroom, for the double advantage. I also equipped both with Oran Berries, should the worst happen. I opened up with Blue Jello as Roxanne sent out her Geodude. It went down to a single Water Gun. Her second Pokémon was another Geodude, I switched to Mushroom when asked if I wanted to, and immediately went back to Blue Jello to spread the Exp. a bit. This second Geodude met the same fate as the first
Now it was time for the last Pokémon: Nosepass. I switched back to Mushroom and this time decided to stay in. I set up a Leech Seed and paralyzed Roxanne's Nosepass, and after that it came down to spamming Bullet Seed. Nosepass was very resilient (and Roxanne used a Potion), but eventually it went down. Leech Seed kept Mushroom healthy so the Oran Berry wasn't necessary in the end. With that, the first Gym Leader was done with and I received my Stone Badge!
That is about all I did. The next update will be up when/if I beat Brawly! Also, for nickname suggestions I will change things up. Since I have a full party now, all Pokémon I catch will go in reserve, so I'll just simply put any new Pokémon I've caught at the end of the updates
New Pokémon caught:
(Blue Jello)
(Mushroom)
Current Team:
Slushie
♂ Lv.14 & Blackberry
♀ Lv.14
Carrot
♀ Lv.14 & Gummy
♂ Lv.14
Blue Jello
♂ Lv.14 & Mushroom ♀ Lv.15
Level limit: 19