But the species of each pokemon doesn't determine that potential. This isn't the game here each species has a set BST and only IVs and EVs can influence that.
We're not going to find every pokemon we catch having IVs. We won't hunt for them either because quite frankly, if you haven't read Lux's explanation, he is PRESETTING AND GUARANTEEING all of our pokemon encounters. The only thing Ultra balls vs Poke balls change is how easy the capture is.
Well shit if the Pokemon we're gonna find are preset then we're probably not gonna find more than 1 huge potential, so 5 Pokeballs should be good. Taking those out of my plan.
Alos, I'm just gonna steal some of the suggested camping equipment, because we'll probably need that.
Additionally, i'm not getting the heated egg carrier because we already have a basic one and $6,000 is a heck of a lot to drop on something we're probably gonna use once. Like, if Luxicato really DOES have all our encounters/captures planned out, I doubt we're gonna get more than one main team member as an egg.
[X]Plan Pallet v2
-[X]Potion x11
-{X]Super Potion x1
-[X]Antidote x5
-[x}Paralyze Heal x10
-[X]Burn Heal x5
-[X]Awakening x5
-[X] 1 Water Filter
-[X] 1 1-Person tent
-[X] 1 25 ft coil of rope
The total cost for this plan is... $11,700, I think? I'm pretty sure I tallied it correctly, but someone might want to double check. I know it's under $12,000 though!
Edit: Yep, it's $11,700. Just re ran the numbers and everything checks out.
This gets us literally everything we could need on our wilderness excursion, but it's pretty costly. I guess you could call it "Plan: Go for even closer to broke", haha.
Edit: I guess I should try to argue for my plan here, huh? Well my reasoning is this: The egg incubator is a massive waste of resources that I'm dubious to make under the circumstances. Because this is our first time actually *adventuring*, we have no idea what it's going to involve. What I've done in my plan is try to get enough potions/status healers that we can safely cross Route 222 and go up Route 214. While my plan might just be over preparing, I wanted to create as large a margin of error as possible, because this is our first time actually going out and traveling routes, both in and out of character. Neither us nor Haru know how many wild Pokemon will bog us down along the way, or how many times disaster rolls are made, so I tried to get enough healing items that we could keep Maelstrom fighting fit for the 4-5 days this will take. Because make no mistake, Maelstrom is our only line of defense against wild Pokemon (Besides Lily and Violet, but they'll probably have Maelstrom fight against the wild Pokemon anyway to train), and he's currently sitting at G+ rank. My plan is hopefully getting enough healing items that Maelstrom can fight against all the wild Pokemon that show up to gain experience and maybe go up a rank or two.
Also, great news, variety show guests! It's time for KidFromPallet's Pokemon rant corner! This post's topic will be... General Teambuilding!
Alright, so, I'm gonna list off team members that I'm kinda hoping for us to get (If they have Huge Potential, if not, forget about it), and how I see us using them.
- Maelstrom, our Gyarados. Lance has his Dragonite, Wallace has his Milotic, Cynthia has her Garchomp, we have Maelstrom. Our pride and joy, our starter, he shall be the last hurdle a challenger has to surpass in order to attain victory.
- Eggy the egg. Hasn't hatched, can't plan for it yet.
- Toxicroak. So I did a rant about how Toxicroak could be a good team member for us before, and I stand by that. Toxicroak can be a good all-rounder, possessing fairly high speed, sp.atk, and atk. stats. here this hypothetical Toxicroak would really shine, however, is in 1v1 duels/brawls. With the ability poison Point and Poison Jab to poison the opponent and a STAB Drain Punch to keep itself hale and hearty, this hypothetical Toxicroak is almost guaranteed to outlast any Pokemon not immune to its poison.
- Bronzong. So, I mentioned earlier about how the two abilities thing lets it have both heatproof and levitate, essentially leaving it with only a weakness to dark, and how the move pool increase from 4 to 8 lets this guy get up to absolutely insane defensive shenanigans. All in all, one of the best tanks that I can imagine finding in Sinnoh.
- Driftblim. Another tank, similar but different from Bronzong. I see us running Stockpile, Swallow, Ominous Wind, and Double Team. Given that Unburden is probably worthless in this setting, due to how items work, I'd go for Aftermath and Cursed Body as abilities, just to make it absoluitely futile to try and engage Driftblim in close range. the way I see us running this is Stockpiling first, then Double Teaming, then just spamming ominous Wind or other attacks. And, when it looks like the opponent is going to finally take Driftblim down... order a Swallow for a pretty much full recovery. We'd probably send Driftblim out against either a pokemon that's been worn down by Toxicroak or another Defensive Pokemon that requires set up turns, so that Driftblim can set up as much as possible.
- Weavile. So I was wracking my brain about what this Pokemon should be, before eventually settling on Weavile. I'm far less attached to it than the others, but it's still a pretty good Pokemon. it's fast, which we can further hone via Double Team and Agility to become the mother of all dodge tanks, is a fairly good mixed attacker, in that it comes with powerful moves that can hit close up and far away (Ice Punch, Night Slash, Ice Beam/Blizzard, and Dark Pulse), and it also gets Pressure as an ability, which should help in wearing down the opposing Pokemon.
And here's how I think we could encounter them:
- Already have
- Already have
- Pastoria City's Safari Zone while under Crasher Wake. The Safari Zone is pretty much Crasher Wake's pet project, what with him pumping it full of all of his wrestling winnings, so it wouldn't be out of the question to go. Additionally, I think the anime contained a Croagunk festival, so we could be sent out by Crasher Wake to capture one in the spirit of the festivities.
- We could find a Bronzor a couple of ways. First, we could find one out by Turnback Cave, which we will coincidentally be passing on the way to Veilstone City. Second, we could find one while ruin diving/exploring with Cynthia, as I think the flavor text for them talks about how they look like/are mirrors from an ancient civilization.
- A Drifloon can be found at Valley Windworks every Friday in the games, and I think tat the anime adapted that into an entire flock of Drifloon/Driftblim. Alternatively, although they aren't found there in the games, it would make sense for Drifloon/Driftblim to roost at that Spirit Tower thing near Solaceon, so that might be another avenue.
- Up by Snowpoint City while training under Candice. From what I remember, she trains by going up Mt. Coronet in just shorts and a t-shirt, so we could potentially find a Sneasel on one of those excursions, and then try and search for a Razor Claw to evolve it to Weavile.
