Recent Happenings in White
Now I'm in the long process of training my team for the Elite Four. Nowadays it's a tradition for me to EV train my team before the E4, so that's precisely what I did. With no Pokerus, though, this is taking a long time. But I'm almost done. It helps that my Pokemon have quite a few EV's on them already, especially my Samurott since he's been battling with me since the beginning.
Yesterday I decided to take a break from training to go legendary hunting. What reminded me of it was when I randomly went to Route 7 only to find a thunderstorm there. So I decided to catch Thundurus first, using a similar strategy to the one I used to catch Mesprit in Platinum. First I had my Lilligant put him to sleep. I was surprised when he fled in his sleep... Then I lowered its HP with an attack, then I had my Fraxure use False Swipe on it. Thundurus was both easier to find and easier to capture than Mesprit was. Instead of moving all around Unova, he switched between Routes 6, 7, and 8, so all I had to do was fly to Driftveil, Mistralton, or Icirrus and check the routes--this didn't take too long. My first Quick Ball caught him. I nicknamed him Genie, because he looks like one.
While I was at it, I decided I wanted to capture Terrakion and Virizion as well. The only question was, where were they? I guessed that Terrakion was in Victory Road, and I was right. It was in a chamber I had missed while exploring there. And it was so hard to catch! After I got it to low HP and sleeping (False Swipe was not very effective, so I decided not to use it), I threw all my balls except the Master Ball (which I'm saving for later) and resetting. On the second try I did the same thing. I threw six Ultra Balls and two Dusk Balls, and the third Dusk Ball caught it.
I once again guessed right about Virizion being in Pinwheel Forest, in a secret chamber past a bunch of grass. Except it was a bit easier to catch--my second Ultra Ball caught it on the first try. I decided to name the "musketeers" after three sacred swords, because their specialty attack is Sacred Sword. So Cobalion (which I had captured earlier) is Excalibur, Terrakion is Anduril, and Virizion is Galaxia.
Now back to training... My Mienfoo and Pawniard, which are both on my team, are almost ready to evolve.