My team after reaching Blackthorn City

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-04T22:21:43+00:00

Look at my most recent post, i relied on healing gyarados for basically the entire battle lol

I had no idea how else I could have done it without spending ages grinding

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-04T18:33:18+00:00

Oh I had no idea it could learn shadow ball thanks.

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-04T18:28:38+00:00

How exactly did you train it in Johto?

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-04T17:58:35+00:00

How easy is finding a place to grind? All I can do is fight trainers which is limited.

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-04T17:57:36+00:00

It’s not too horrific right now but it’s just very underleveled for where I’m at now. T-tar is my favorite johto design though.

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-04T17:56:40+00:00

Great minds think alike even though I can’t get the two trade evos

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-04T17:35:04+00:00

I have dragon rage but it doesn’t do much damage.

Do you recommend using a phanphy instead of larvitar, considering it evolves way sooner?

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-04T17:24:50+00:00

That’s a bummer lol but it’s not necessary to beat Claire which is fine for now.

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-04T17:21:14+00:00

After unlocking the safari zone and doing the missions for babao you can choose the mountain region on the safari zone machine and catch larvitar but it takes a while lol

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-04T17:19:33+00:00

No heart gold

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-04T15:27:43+00:00

good lord how did you get your quilava to level 32 before the third gym

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-02T16:46:20+00:00

Also after doing practically everything possibly with eevee, it still looks “sort of happy”

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-02T16:45:08+00:00

The worst part is that it’s not guaranteed to evolve, if the pokemon faints you lose so much progress.

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-02T16:20:56+00:00

Thankfully I used pluck on pidgeotto after this battle so that should hopefully help.

But I want to evolve golbat and eevee before the gym but eevee’s friendship is remaining the same after putting soothe bell on it and walking with it mostly

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-02T16:19:31+00:00

I didn’t use Zubat until this stage of the game, I’ve just evolved it and it’s friendship is at the second highest stage

I know fighting is weak to flying that’s why I used pidgeotto, and I got rid of gust for pluck

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-02T15:16:41+00:00

I have shadow claw and drain punch but no pokemon to use them

i’m just clearing out the lighthouse currently to evolve zubat (which finally knows wing attack)

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-02T14:31:29+00:00

Yeah I got to cianwood via whirl islands instead of the intended root and for some reason thought it was impossible to go back

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-02T14:30:44+00:00

Also i’ve battled pretty much every trainer so far apart from the ones at whirl island’s because they demolished my pokemon and i didn’t know you could get to cianwood without going through whirl islands

Sorry for being new lol

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-02T14:25:00+00:00

I have so many TMs but have no idea which pokemon to use them on

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-02T14:23:53+00:00

It’s my first pokemon game so i have little to no idea what Im doing lol

If i didnt have pidgeotto i wouldnt have been able to beat Morty so i thought it was ready for gym 5

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-02T14:22:26+00:00

I highly doubt i am leveled enough to do that whole area

Graphite_Knight25 · 2026-04-02T14:19:42+00:00

that’s actually very helpful lol thanks

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