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Let's explore the deepest section of Deepwood.



Great balls? Seems like a good excuse to get our area encounters.





Some good encounters here! Male Kirlia means we can get ourself a Gallade and use that mega stone we got. I completely forgot Skiddo existed as a pokemon despite playing X and Y. We have a Sun Stone to evolve Cottonee into Whimsicott. Monferno is yet another starter, so you know they're good. Pineco evolves into Forretress, which we've seen is really good. We could buy a Shiny Stone to evolve Togetic into Togekiss. Lastly, that Butterfree is a guaranteed level 24 capture and comes with a decent movepool.



Another Ashen Shard! We have enough to get another reward now!



Still getting flooded with Ethers.



Fuck it, lets do a battle puzzle.






This one's a really easy one. Shoutouts to the devs btw; they ended up finding this LP and have been enjoying it, and one of them was able to hook me up with the info for all the puzzle battles. (That Kadabra doesn't have a set ability, so I assume it's random).

It being easy didn't stop me from screwing it up and dying on the last turn my first time though; I'm not very bright.



So this puzzle hinges on turning Slaking into a sweeper; Slaking has amazing power but is held back by its ability, Truant. Starmie has Skill Swap, which lets it swap abilities with a Target. Slaking also has Facade and we have a Rapidash who can use Will-O-Wisp to burn stuff. The opponent's Raticate has Guts, which we could steal with Skill Swap and then further swap to Slaking to power up Facade even more; but Starmie already has Analytic (powers up moves if you're the last one to attack) and Slaking is the slowest mon in this fight. There's options here; I opt to Reflect on this first turn to give our team some bulk and protect Starmie from Slaking's earthquake (although it doesn't need it and Starmie serves it's purpose pretty quickly).



Next turn, Starmie goes first, so it can intercept Slaking's Truant. Kadabra is the main threat alive and it goes down to a second Earthquake.



Blastoise comes out, and Starmie ditches Truant onto it. This completely cripples Blastoise, as we'll see in a moment.



Slaking can Slack Off without any threat to itself because Raticate only knows Sucker Punch.



Meanwhile, Blastoise only knows dive, and because Truant disables every second turn of the users, Blastoise can't ever get an attack off because Dive is a two-turn move.



Raticate goes down and out comes Carvanha, who takes out Starmie.



This gives us an opportunity to Will-O-Wisp Slaking and give Facade a power boost.



Carvanha isn't a match for Facade Slaking, and Blastoise can't attack at all, so we won!



Another revive in our pocket.



Heracross lets us get this TM a bit earlier. Earth Power is a special attacking ground move; good if you need coverage or if your ground type is a special attacker.



: It told me about the place between the walls. And it asks me to do things in return. Harmless things. Like flicking the light switch.



Either someone's losing their grip, or we have demons at play.



The waters here are not holy, good sir! There are otherwordly forces afoot! Like me, a child who has wandered out of the ocean!



Anyways Rillaboom: a primer. This is one Razor Leaf.



And that's a second. End Rillaboom: a primer.



2 hyper potions and money? Hell yeah.



Uh, I don't think I'm dealing with that. That said, we did get something this update that might let us be able to take this on. We just got Monferno, didn't a statue want Monferno?



On my way to the statue I decide to turn in my Ashen Shards.

: Now I can upgrade your Pokeball-enhancing device! Pokemon will be easier to catch now.



Oh yeah. Now our Pokeballs are as good as Ultra Balls, our Great Balls as good as 5-turn (or 15 pre Gen 5) Timer Balls, and our Ultra Balls as good as Dusk Balls post Gen 7 or Net Balls pre Gen 7. Apparently they swapped the catch rates of Net Balls and Dusk Balls from Sun and Moon onwards. Weird choice!



It's time to sacrifice! Mwahahahahahaha



Say hello to Toasty the Entei.



Fire Fang isn't great, but we can replace it with Fire Punch, which is probably better.



Alright, let's go.



I'll be honest, I was sweating bullets because I was afraid of losing Entei right after obtaining it and looking like a fool.



Yeesh, that's not great.



You know, I keep forgetting Steelix is part Ground type. The main threat's gone at least!



Oh shit I'm dead



On one hand, we lose EVE. On the other... How are you still alive Toasty





My dude why do you have an Ultra Beast.



That hyper potion we just picked up is coming in clutch.



Steelix goes down, leaving only Celesteela.



Celesteela's throwing.



That went better than expected; losing EVE isn't great though.



Behind the trainer is this statue. Unfortunately, we haven't seen either of these mons; they're both located on Skyspear Climb, which is right past the Coal Baron who blocked us on the other route. We might be strong enough to take them if we wanted.



Ashen card, blank shard.



A ghillie suit is apparently a type of camouflage clothing. Dang, almost thought we had a real name here.



For getting my hopes up, Perish.



Rock Blast is another one of those multi-hit moves. It has the usual bad rock accuracy (90% accuracy in this case) and a varying power level. No Rock-Type pokemon get Skill Link, and that accuracy is just a further nail in the coffin. It's probably realy satisfying when it gets all 5 hits in, so if you're a gambler you might enjoy it. Personally, I'll be sticking with Beat Up for my good-feeling multihit.



There's this glade area, but we can't access it without Cut.



Full Restore and Scope Lens! The former is a complete full heal for one mon provided they aren't fainted, and the latter boosts the crit chance for whoever holds it. Give this to a Focus Energy user, and they will be having a good time.



More Heracross sequence breaking.



Good lord, what is happening in here?



: Hey! Can't you see I'm doing important things?! Take this! Make the most of every hour!!



Uh, thanks.



Level 20 shred, very nice...



...Hey old man, I saw that :v



Another fake wall. A Facade, if you will!

Anyways Facade doubles in power if you're paralyzed, burned, or poisoned. It also isn't affected by burn's half damage modifier for physical attacks. Stick this on a Guts user, they get increased attack when status'd!



Poooootion. That's like 2400 poke you're saved (or 800 if you unlocked the berry juice shop).



Lady, your flowers stink!



Solar beam! A surprising amount of fire types learn this despite it being a grass move. It's 120 power move with a chargeup turn, but it loses the chargeup turn in sunny weather. Good coverage on a fire type, if you have a drought mon who can learn it and has good special attack it's a great move to teach them!



Yo?



Yo! Rock Smash item, hell yeah! Now we don't need to bring Heracross to smash rocks. It wasn't that much of a sequence break, all things considered.



While depositing Heracross, I opt to experiment a bit with Kingdra. With Scope Lens and Focus Energy, every attack is a guaranteed crit, which means every attack gets boosted from Sniper.



It's time to fight the trainer I lost my first day to.



At first glance, they don't seem too bad.



But then out comes level 33 Darmanitan. I did not have Entei on my first playthrough here.



I really should have switched out Ohio Rizz here for Mimikyu; I was not playing smart.



Entei chews through Darmanitan pretty easily, thankfully.



Oh come on.



So I try to experiment with Kingdra's crit gimmick...



But Entei had enough of being frozen and ends the battle.



Level 25? That's really good. I know who to use it on.



: The path is simultaneously 14 and 8 stones across. The reports of a 'fold' in space were more... Literal than anticipated.. Advise additional caution when attempting lunar experiments.

Minor typo here maybe with ".." after anticipated? Anyways, very ominous.



We're out of the deepwood! We won't be exploring this area this update though, maybe next time.



Let's revive EVE with that shred of hope we just got...



We also didn't check out that fishing pond near the metagross guy; it only has chinchou, relicanth, and magikarp. The latter 2 are of note, as we don't have relicanth, and the Magikarp here can be level 20 which is enough for them to evolve into Gyarados.



In fact, catching Magikarp gives us a prompt to evolve it immediately! With that, we have 98 caught pokemon; can we get 2 more pokemon really quickly to get us to the 100 reward?



Well, we can evolve Cottonee into Whimsicott to get one.



And buying a dawn stone lets us evolve Kirlia into Gallade! That's 100!



Apparently Life Dew is a move that exists? I'm so out of touch. Anyways, Gallade might not be super useful; we are lacking a physical psychic move and fighting move to teach it, so currently all it has is Night Slash and Fury Cutter, neither of which have same type bonus. Sad.



Our 100 reward is 2 Seamother Tears (evolves any pokemon regardless of evolve condition). Not bad!

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