So I've been playing a Wonderlocke on Omega Ruby and had been doing quite well, getting all the way to Mossdeep City and losing only three pokemon total.
Then it happened, the day I will remember as;
The Bloody Sunday
So it starts when I wonder trade off the Tentacool that I catch at Mossdeep and gets a Deino called Blue how has Fire, Thunder and Ice Fang and Dark Pulse. Then I wonder trade a Golbat for a Japanese Gible with Iron Head and Outrage. Thinking that I'd get some levels on them so they'll be useful in the future, I drop Dustox and Tentacruel off in the PC and scoop up my new prizes. I switch train them with the trainers in the gym and they level up to their late teens. However I felt that my four main pokemon, Charizard, Mega Pidgeot, Electrode and Zangoose were too over levelled for the gym leaders and decided to give myself a challenge. I kept Electrode in the party "just in case" and switched the other three out for Persian and Forretress. To complete the party I scooped up a Chinchou who only needed about 330 exp to evolve into Lanturn. I figured it would be good to prepare it in case something ever happened to Tentacruel or Electrode.
The battle was a disaster. Persian and Forretress couldn't cut it and fell while I was forced to sacrifice Chinchou as Death Fodder in order to heal Electrode.
One gym battle and my death count had doubled!
After that I decided to boost my numbers by heading out to the as-yet unexplored Route 105, Route 108 and Sea Mauville, intending to catch three new pokemon to wonder trade off as well as do a bit of grinding with some of my reserves. A got all three pokemon, but the cost was high and by the time I had surfed from petalburg city to Slateport city, Blue the Deino, Azumarill, Combusken and Pikachu has all fallen as well.
To add insult to injury, one of my wonder trades resulted in a level 2 caterpie while another gave a level 7 Silcoon! Admittedly my main team does have a Dustox but he's there because he's been there since day one and has put in nothing but the finest of work. I'm sure that with a good amount of grinding Butterfree and Beautify would have their own uses as well, but they just don't compare to those who fell today!