Went to the Malie Restaurant where I managed to obtain the TMs for Frustration and Return after talking to a monkey and a policeman. Really wanted the latter of these TMs, I taught it to Toucannon which means it now has a powerful Physical Normal-type move, which it hadn't had at all until now. Continued by going to Mount Lanakila, which I guess is the "Victory Road" in Alola. I decided to turn the Exp. Share on now since I'm feeling underleveled and I guess I will need to grind quite a bit in order to make it all the way through to the end. As I was about to start climbing the mountain, I met Gladion again. He challenged me to a battle, I won without problems. His team was at levels 52-53 which was a bit higher than my own. I also noticed that his Type: Null had evolved into Silvally which I believe was a Grass-type, I guess it is the type that your starter is weak against.
I started climbing the mountain, decided to try and train my team a little in the process. In the first area, I trained a little, also caught a Sneasel and 2 Snorunt. Then I noticed that the wild Pokemon there didn't give a lot of Exp, so I left and went back to Vast Poni Canyon. Continued the training there, also caught a Midnight Form of Lycanroc as I happened to meet one. Gladion's strongest Pokemon had been at level 53, and when my entire team was at that level, I left and headed back to Mount Lanakila. Went inside, caught a Drampa and found a few items. Most notably the Icium Z which is cool, even if I'm not planning to use it on my team. Now I was just missing the Flying-type Z-Crystal. I also found a TM containing Ice Beam, taught that to Primarina.
Then I quickly found myself outside again, near the next Pokemon Center. Was this the end already? I met Hau again and had a battle against him too, won with ease. His team was at level 53-54 which was the same as mine, so that's good. Continued further and met Professor Kukui for the first time in a while. He told me that where I was now was at the Alola Pokemon League. So I guess this is it. I'm not ready yet, need to train a bit more. I'm disappointed at the lack of trainer battles at this mountain, it would have helped a lot if there had been more than just the rivals.
Decided to leave for now and do some training... or at least try to. I have a feeling that I will need to grind quite a bit further. Went back to some earlier areas I hadn't explored in full yet to see what could be found there. Went to Melemele and explored new areas of Ten Carat Hill and Route 1. Found a few items, like the TM for Rock Slide, taught it to Mudsdale. Also found the Flyinium Z, the last of the 18 type-crystals I needed. Gave it to Toucannon since it feels more useful than the Normal-type Crystal. Tried a Flying-type Z-move, it was pretty cool. Left afterwards. Now I need to continue training my team more. But where, and how? We'll have to find out...
Team:
- level 54
- level 54
- level 54
- level 54
- level 54
- level 54