I want to play through SwSh again on OLED too, after I finish LGPE. Also never played Arceus or BDSP on OLED although less inclined to replay BDSP lol never realised what a difference it would be going from Lite to Oled!
Right? I had an OG Switch (the one with the horrible battery life) and the OLED makes the game look so much better! Might be because the bigger screen means I can actually see what I'm doing, but it definitely looks good. I hope you do give SwSh another go on the OLED!
I've had another gaming binge today, with about a third of it just spent going around the Wild Area doing Raid Battles. I've been a bit more careful with my team levels as Hatterene and Dreepy are both traded Pokemon, so will disobey me if they go over the set level from each gym badge. Unfortunately this game for some reason does the increases in 5-level increments compared to the 10-levels you'd get in older games, so when I hit the Wild Area the second time to reach Hammerlocke I had to make sure I stayed at or below level 35 for Bea (which is a long time).
In order to do this I just did the Raid Battles and caught nothing else between beating Kabu and battling Bea. Luckily the Raids offered some cool Pokemon - Ferrothorn, Bronzong, Cufant, Crustle and Lampent were some of the highlights! These in turn nabbed me some cool TRs including High Horsepower, Darkest Lariat, Psychic, Leaf Blade, Iron Head, Heavy Slam, Flamethrower, Shadow Ball, X Scissor, Leech Life, Wild Charge and Brave Bird! Some of these were taught to various team members as you can see below. I've not used my Brave Bird TR yet as I don't know who to use it on - Sirfetch'd probably doesn't need it as it's moveset is very solid bar me wanting a better Fighting STAB and Swords Dance? Which now I've typed that out makes the choice easy, but I digress.
Bea was a reasonable challenge, as I actually ended up under-levelled (level 34) when it came to battling her! Dreepy managed to beat Hitmontop as it doesn't know a move to hit Ghost types, Sirfetch'd two-shot Pangoro with Rock Smash, Hattrem lost to Bea's own Sirfetch'd so mine came back out to 2HKO with critical-hit Leaf Blade attacks, and Corvisquire claimed another final boss win by Dynamaxing and Max Airstream-ing GMax Machamp for an easy two-shot. Was a bit disappointed Hattrem lost but I tried the fight another way and it didn't KO Sirfetch'd anyway, and got one-shot by Brutal Swing regardless.
Ballonlea is still my favourite city in all of Pokemon and I would absolutely live there if I could! Thwackey and Corvisquire evolved en-route so I had two fully evolved menaces for Opal, who was a joke. Weezing fell to Hattrem's Psychic, Rillaboom smacked Mawile with a couple of High Horsepower attacks, Toxtricity was outsped by Togekiss but still 2HKOed with Discharge and Corviknight went 3 in a row with beating the gym leader's ace - Max Steelspike took down GMax Alcremie with very little issue.
Beyond that, nothing major to report! Sirfetch'd has horrible luck with Confusion and got KOed by Hop's Trevenant, a Galvantula on Route 7 refused to go in an Ultra Ball which was infuriating and I'm surprised I haven't been super over-levelled so far. The team is really good - Dreepy finds solid use against a lot of the really scary Fighting types (Sawk mainly) as for some reason they don't have moves that can hit Ghost types, and there are a fair few battles like that in-game! Hatterene is really good now it's fully evolved, and Hattrem wasn't awful whilst I had it. Rillaboom is great and I've enjoyed actually being able to use my starter in battles without other teammates lagging behind. Toxtricity and Corviknight are probably my MVPs with how consistently good they've been, and Sirfetch'd would be up there with them if I wasn't still annoyed by how unlucky I was with the Confusion woes.
The Team:
Grohlrilla the Rillaboom, Level 44
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Drum Beating, High Horsepower, U-Turn, Darkest Lariat
Phantom the Dreepy, Level 44
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Bite, Infestation, Quick Attack, Baton Pass
Fey the Hatterene, Level 44
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Psychic, Draining Kiss, Magical Leaf, Dazzling Gleam
Huginn the Corviknight, Level 43
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Drill Peck, Revenge, U-Turn, Iron Head
Crackle the Toxtricity, Level 43
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Discharge, Nuzzle, Hex, Poison Jab
Avalon the Sirfetch'd, Level 44
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Throat Chop, Leaf Blade, Steel Wing, Brick Break
