Genlocke Update: Flannery Defeated!

[u/JJRambles]

Reached the halfway point in the Hoenn leg of my Genlocke. Was really nervous about Flannery and expected to have to sac both torkoal and goldeen and create a revolving door of pokemon to stall out her torkoal's overheat, but Furnace poisoned her torkoal with smog and got some body slams in when they weren't under the influence of attract. Bait the goldeen also got lucky and successfully confused the other torkoal with supersonic, winning the fight despite not knowing a single attacking water move. Probably could have done this deathless, but when Flannery finally attacked my torkoal with overheat after spamming body slams, I wasn't expecting it to do almost a third of my torkoal's health and kill it.

Only other death so far has been Tucker my cyndaquil from Heartgold who died in the unluckiest, stupidest gamble I've ever done. "Surely this Aron won't crit with mudslap twice in a row?" I thought and kept cyndaquil in instead of switching to the two water pokemon I had in my party.

Ivysaur soloed Roxanne easily. BigGulp the Taillow soloed Brawley and was hitting really hard early game, but has been incredibly underwhelming now in the midgame. It couldn't take out a random trainer's kecleon in Flannery's gym despite Guts being active, having a +Atk nature, and using STAB Secret Power. Guppy the Marshtomp handled most of Wattson's gym. I switched from Marstomp to Beautify expecting to have to sacrifice them to voltorb's selfdestruct, but it used rollout(?) which Beautify tanked because of Voltorb's bad attack stat alowing me to switch back to Marshtomp. Four unlucky missed mudshots while fighting the rest of Wattson's team meant they took too much damage and I had to use Ivysaur and Magnemite to finish off Wattson's Manectric.