An Indepth Look Into A Geek's Soul

Oh yeah, another Pokemon blog, and in the same week.  Crazy stuff here guys.  I am going to blame it on having lots of time on the school's computers.  They have nicer keyboards.  It makes me want to buy my own desktop and use that more or less for all my comptuer needs.  Well, not all, but for most of my typing needs.  And I would probably play lots of games on it too.  Yeah, lots of money I don't have to spend at the moment though.  Moving on to the meat of this posting though.

After defeating the first Pokemon gym, the next natural thing to do is tackle the second gym leader.  This chick had a paltry two Pokemon, both of which were Normal typed.  This lead me to be worried.  Normal types are probably some of the hardest ones to defeat when it comes to gym leaders.  I remember hating them back in Pokemon Gold and Silver, and again, this leader gave me some troubles.  Lost on my first match against her (just like in the first gym, damn it all) but won (barely) in the rematch.  I basically won by sacrificing my entire team to her guy while switching in Timburr for some Fighting typed match ups.  I won it though, and get myself the.... Basic Badge?  I think that was it.  Something along those lines at least.

The match did teach me one thing though.  I love the ability Sturdy.  In all the other generations, it only prevented being killed by those moves that kill you in one hit or don't do any damage.  Now though, it saves your Pokemon from death any time that any move might take you out from max health.  It is pretty sweet.  It makes Roggenrola pretty awesome at being a tank.  I get the enemy all built up, thinking they are going to get some awesome super effective move on my guy, then switch in Roggenrolla to soak up that damage, switch back to the previous guy, and win the match.  Good stuff there.

The game is still going strong.  Right now I'm attempting to get through Pinwheel Forest to get this Pokemon's skull (which looks like a lot like a certain first generation dragon I rather like) back from the nefariously righteous Team Plasma.  It is slow going, mostly because of high leveled wild Pokemon (comparitively) and the fact that the most common Pokemon in the forest is this Bug/Grass dude that happens to be strong against three quarters of my team.  Crazy stuff happening there.  I dont' like it one bit.

For the moment though, the team consists of Venipede, Servine, Timburr, Roggenrola, Panpour, and Munna.  Venipede is my favorite new addition.  He looks cool, has an interesting move pool that doesn't seem to make sense but works, and can defeat those damn Bug/Grass guys.  Plus, he gets some cool evolutions.  I shall keep you guys up to date though.  Promise.

Peace out.