Today, I started by going out to Route 5. On the part of the Route I could explore during this point in the game, I defeated several trainers, found some items and caught a Metapod. Also met Hau again, as well as Gladion, who I hadn't met before. He challenged me to a battle and I won. I find it interesting that he was using Type: Null in battle. He left together with some other members of Team Skull who appeared, though it seems like Gladion doesn't stand very high in the ranks of Team Skull which I found surprising.
I continued to the Brooklet Hill. There, I met one of the Trial Captains. Not Mallow, but another girl named Lana. Blue hair? That's awesome. She asked me to help her with something. I followed her and we arrived at a small lake, she asked me to go out and see what was causing the big splash out there. She gave me the ability to ride on Lapras to travel over water, which is really cool.
Explored the rest of the Hill, battled some trainers, picked up items as well as caught Surskit, Poliwag, Psyduck, Morelull and Wishiwashi. The Wishiwashi were the one trying to cause some kind of trouble, it seemed. At the end of the Hill, I met Lana again and got to enter a portal. Turns out we were at another Trial Site. Time for a new Trial.
The concept was simple, I had to surf out and defeat the Pokemon causing trouble in the water. But doing it was harder. The Pokemon turned out to be the stronger form of Wishiwashi, it was hard to defeat, the battle took a while. The fact that it got help from the Alomomola it summoned made it even harder. It managed to defeat both Mudbray and Trumbeak, but Brionne managed to beat it in the end. For beating it, I got the Waterium Z and a Fishing Rod from Lana. Decided to give the Waterium to Brionne, I think all of my team members are going to have a Z-Crystal of the same type as one of their types once I have found all of the Z-Crystals. Tried the Water-type Z-Move and it is really cool, plus pretty strong since Brionne knows Water Pledge. I found the TM for Scald here and I have considered teaching it to Brionne but I'm not sure, keeping Water Pledge for now.
Before leaving the Hill, I tried a little bit of fishing. It has changed since Gen 6, but is it for better or worse? Time will tell... Managed to find and catch Magikarp, Goldeen and Alomomola. Then I was about to leave, but before leaving, the egg I had received hatched... into an Eevee! Not bad. Though I won't use it for anything. Left afterwards, and now, I could go down to Route 6. The Sudowoodo blocking the way didn't want to get in the way of my new Powers. On Route 6, I battled all trainers, picked up items and caught an Oricorio. While I already had one, I wanted to catch one in this form too. I think I'll catch one on each new Island. I also ran into Team Skull here again, they had tried to steal a Drifloon from someone (a kid, as I later found out). I beat them together with some purple-headed girl whose name I can't remember. She had a Mudsdale, anyway.
Could continue either south or east from here, decided to wait with going south so I headed east for now. Arrived at the Royal Avenue. Explored it, took part in the Battle Royal Dome with Hau, Gladion and a Masked man. I thought about trying a real Battle Royal as well, but decided not to since it seemed to be a Battle Facility kind of thing, and I'm not ready for that quite yet. Tomorrow, I'll continue by going north to Route 7. Feels like I didn't get much further in the game today, even if I did get a few things done. I had hoped to get another team member today, but no. Hopefully tomorrow.
Team:
- level 23
- level 23
- level 24