Pokémon X and Y Playthrough Discussion

...huh?

I fish up a wild Poliwrath. It takes my Pikachu down to red with a single Circle Throw.

"Pikachu is in a pinch. It seems like it's about to cry..."

Pikachu immediately flees the fight all on its own by jumping diagonally backward off its "platform". What the hell?


EDIT: Hmm...maybe I grinded too much (my pokemon are all 4~5 levels below the Elite Four's though).

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Malva went down pretty quickly against my Azumarill (it was holding Leftovers, in case anyone's wondering). I only switched it out for Krookodile against Chandelure because Earthquake.

Raichu soloed Siebold with a Magnet-boosted Thunderbolt (and Grass Knot against Barbaracle).

As for Wikstrom, it was pretty evenly split between Delphox and Krookodile; the former took out Klefki and Scizor, while the latter crushed Probopass and Aegislash with STAB Soft Sand-boosted Earthquake.

Drasna was the only who put up a fight...is what I'd like to say, but she's probably like the weakest Dragon-user ever. Gardevoir soloed her; a Psychic from Gardevoir placed Dragalge in the red, which gave me a turn to buff up with Calm Mind. After that all it took was a second Psychic on Dragalge, and one Moonblast per dragon.

And so I was all, oh, Diantha shouldn't have a Fighting-type because it doesn't really fit her image. So I placed Krookodile in the lead. LUCHADORE HAWK. Welp, not much choice there; Raichu's too frail to switch in on that masked bird, so I let it take my Krookodile down so I wouldn't let her get a free hit in on Raichu. Not too much trouble overall; Scolipede wasn't powerful enough to take Mega Gardevoir down in a single hit, so I had to get Delphox in on the action to buy some time to get Scolipede patched up.

The AZ fight...was very much easier than the previous five (lol like that's even possible). But stupid enemy avoid hax made me waste potions again because Aqua Tail missed twice in a row on Golurk and pineapple Phantom Force for dealing massive neutral damage like every pineappleing attack enemies use.

In any case, after over 80 hours of gameplay (mostly spent on Super Training and Pokemon Amie), I am finally Champion of Kalos.

Hurrah.