The "Who needs good pokemon?" Run. Part 4

After beating the last Gym I take the Starraptor to get bac to Crater town, where I now can finally progress south. I smash the boulders and get going in the KBT. The motorbike and emulator speedup really speed up travel.

In epidimy town I get another show from Ivory. This time she's bullying Jax. I could probably try to interfere... but why would I? He seems to have the situation fully under con-... aaaannnd she threw him in the pond. Absolutely priceless. Well good luck next time. Criminals gotta stick together.

After fishing himself out of the Water, Jax asks me to help him with his task of getting a macguffin. I don't have much to do as the Gym is closed and I need its badge to progress anyway, so why not. He seems to not be able to do anything alone.

We find an underground entrance into the psychic barrier the shadows had raised around there area of operation, beating up several grunts in the process, just stopping once we have found the house where an old couple aparently live. They are supposed to look after the MacGuffin, but don't seem to be doing that great a job, as not only did the shadows find them, but they also don't seem to put up to much of a fight.

We fight Ivory in a Tagteam battle and wreck her, but she runs away with the macguffin. We can't chase her, as she turned the old couple into basicly mindless thralls, who we have beat up to save. Easy job for a gang boss.

As most things Jax ttouches this operation was a complete waste of time. Wekll at least I now can get the gym leader to get back to doing his fucking job and stop talking about his workout routine... Even tho I probably should take some notes.

I go back and walz through most of the gym until I have to fight Mel personally and... can't even beat Bewear. I gottat go back and strategize. Back then Avalugg would just wreck him ,but sadly I can't use that and bergmite doesn't have the moves at its disposal at this Level, so I need a different solution.

Well... does anbody remember the Ghastlys I cought back in the spooky woods? Now they finally will become usefull. I do some basic breeding with them to get one with a good Nature and acceptable IVs and start Leveling it up with some EV Training in the Trainer House. I evolve it into Haunter and retry the gym.

I still need a few tries, but that is mostly because of hypnosis missing. Once luck is on my side I finally smash through even Mels inverted battle gym. I am beginning to think that I maybe should have played on expert.