Decided it was finally time to carry on with the Ultra Beast post game story. Went to the motel on Route 2 to meet Looker’s boss, and after a conversation with her, Looker and Nanu, we established that an Ultra Beast or two had appeared in Melemele Meadow, and that as champion I should go battle it. Fair enough.
Added Type:Null to my party and headed over to Melemele Meadow, where I soon found and caught the first Buzzwole. Turned out to be a pretty epic battle. My team is all in the mid-70s, but trying to take down something with a Beast Boost Atk, boosted stats from the wormhole and Dynamic Punch was a decent challenge. After the battle Type:Null evolved into Slivally in an anime style moment.
Unfortunately I then had to suspend what was becoming quite a narrative, as I remembered I hadn’t put a Synchro Abra in my team. Flew back to the Pokemon centre, only to discover I didn’t have an Adamant one. I did though have one with Inner Focus, so flew to the ranch, gave it an Everstone, and bred a few until I had a Synchro Adamant Abra. Added her to my party and returned to Melemele Meadow.
Found the second Buzzwole and quickly captured it. Synchro failed though, so had to SR, but got it second time. Put the first Buzzwole up for trade on the GTS, and got a Celesteela in return.
After that I wanted to play some online matches in BS doubles. The Vikavolt I’d be training up was at lv48 in the Poke Pelago, so added her, along with a Clefa and Fletchling I needed to evolve, to my party and went to the restaurant in the city to level them all up. Once Vikavolt was lv50 and the others had finished evolving, I took Vikavolt to the move reminder and taught it Bug Buzz and String Shot.
The first match I played was a really good one against another Trick Room team. Very cat and mouse as we both tried to re-work our strategies on the fly. Quite different from my normal games, where I end up playing very aggressively to make the most of my 5 turns of Trick Room. Unfortunately, my internet cut out before the match could be conclude, which was a real shame.
The second game was a more straightforward affair against someone who looked like they were trying out a Weakness Cup team. Hardly a fair fight. Vikavolt was an absolute beast, coming in and ripping through their team with super-effective Bug Buzz and Thunderbolts. Interestingly they didn’t have any counters for Trick Room though, which is promising as I intended to build a Trick Room team for the Weakness Cup.
Speaking of which, both Exeggutor and Crabrawler finished their EV training, so are now levelling up in the Poke Pelago.