#i'll probably get through a decent chunk of the game tomorrow

[longroadstonowhere]

holy shit

so i’ve been chugging along in silver, i’ve got a team that i’m gonna stick with as much as possible for the foreseeable future - bayleef, flaaffy, sudowoodo, vulpix, staryu, and arbok (some members will have to swap out to allow for hm moves at various points - staryu’s got surf and will get waterfall, i’ve got a hoothoot in the computer for fly and a krabby for whirlpool when that becomes a thing, bayleef has cut, sudowoodo has strength, and i’ve got a jigglypuff on standby with flash but i might also teach that to flaaffy just for simplicity’s sake if necessary)

anyway

i’ve gotten to cianwood, and i’ve done a decent job of spreading levels out amongst the team, so after getting the secretpotion i figure no reason not to take the gym on

five members of my team immediately get wiped by hitmonlee, which is three to six levels higher than my pokemon, and my only saving grace is that fighting is bad against poison apparently

so shout out to arbok, who took down hitmonlee with eight hp remaining, and then immediately was dunked into battle with hitmonchan and won that fight too

#i'm real glad i picked up like half a dozen soda pops in goldenrod #that extra ten hp can make all the difference sometimes #so that's a good place to leave things for tonight #i'll probably get through a decent chunk of the game tomorrow #maybe hopefully finally heal that miltank fully since i can go back and get early berries easily with fly