My team is finally at or above level 50! I keep training them, in hopes of uncovering new moves that I favor, but the team is otherwise battle-ready.
...Or so I told myself. Crobat seemed to fall short in several test battles I had, so I began searching for an alternate Poison-type. Seviper and Arbok came to mind, and something about Intimidate Arbok just appealed to me. I began searching Route 19 for one, unsure of whether to look in the grass or the marshland below.
Even now, I still haven't found one, but I think I've found something far, far more worthwhile.
I encountered a Gligar horde battle, and this gave me a wicked idea. I wiped out the first horde of Gligar (didn't want to keep playing a 'guessing game'), and began searching for a second (Honey helped with that). I taught Gardevoir Toxic beforehand, so I could find the one Gligar who had Immunity.
With a little breeding and a test of my current team's prowess in the Battle Maison (bashed my way through the Rotation Battle with Eva, Blaziken and Kingdra, using my old Lucario as my fourth, just in case), I now have a level 28 Gliscor, Jolly Nature and with Poison Heal (and a Toxic Orb to accompany). I intend to use Crobat until Gliscor is caught up, but once he is, I'll feel far more confident in my sixth Pokemon.
My trip through the Battle Maison was not simple - not the first time I challenged the Single Battle chain again. A Sharpedo with Speed Boost apparently had all the tools necessary to exterminate my entire team of Mega Lucario, Aerodactyl and Aegislash. Once again, a Water-type proves detrimental to the team of old... a part of me worries I may still have that problem with my new team, as I have no Grass/Electric-types to deal with Water-types. Time will tell, I suppose. When I challenged the Battle Maison's Rotation Battle with Eva, Blaziken and Kingdra, however, they fared far better than I'd initial expected - though I did find it more than a bit peculiar that a +2 Speed Mega Blaziken was still slower than a few 'neutral'-Speed Pokemon (that is, they didn't do a thing to increase their Speed, nor did they use priority moves). It proved a headache more than anything, though.
I've begun giving thought to a second team, and it stems entirely from the level 20 Adamant Gyarados with Moxie in my Box. I'm considering a mono-team of Water-types, something I quite enjoy doing and have done in the past. Nonetheless, I'm still not sure if it's something I want to do.
For some odd reason, I've also begun raising a Swirlix I've nicknamed Adoraderp, and plan to evolve into Slurpuff, and (this is the odd part) plan to use in wireless battles at some point or another. I'm not even a big fan of Slurpuff, nor do I think, at first glance, that it has much use beyond being (simply being) a Fairy-type, so this one's just kind of making me look at myself with pure, abject confusion.
On the topic of nicknames, I've given them to the rest of my new primary team (excluding Blaziken, whom I forgot is from XY and thus cannot be nicknamed, and I don't really feel like raising a second Torchic to the level 59 my current Blaziken now is).
