RAWR

The title of this post is RAWR because that was the noise I made when I got completely and utterly HOSED last night by none other than Cynthia, the Sinnoh region champion. (Sidenote: I'm playing through Diamond version which is WONDERFUL.) Now, for starters, I can't complain too much about my defeat because of the following reasons:
Cynthia is the Champion. She's suppossed to be really tough. I am only using a team of 5 Pokemon (plus Dialga who doesn't really count because I don't use it unless I need to use Revives or something... :D ) that are woefully underleveled for the Elite Four because I got impatient with training.

My team consists of the following: Luxray, Staraptor, Empoleon, Lucario and Garchomp. Pretty much fantastic, right? HOWEVER, one of many reasons as to why I lost is because my highest leveled Pokemon at the time was only 54. Cynthia's Garchomp is level 66. The WEAKEST Pokemon in the entire Elite Four is Aaron's Dustox which I think is level 53... 52? 54? WHATEVER. Still as strong as my strongest. Regardless, type advantages and an unfair amount of items will do the trick!

WELL, both the Ground trainer lady (whose name is Bertha I believe??? BERTHA? Who names their child Bertha? Furthermore, I swear she looks like a clone of Agatha from Generation 1. Look it up. FACT.) and the Psychic dude (whose name is Lucian I believe?) are particularly tough to beat with my assembled team of assemblage... Yes. However, I won regardless. On to the pressing matter of me yelling RAWR after my tussle with Cynthia. (Sidenote: I'm all for female Champions. Cynthia is the first. She looks and acts like a boss. Her team is amazing and I respect her estrogen. Spelling??? WHATEVER. You get the point. Hoo ra women's rights! And Pokemon! Yay Pokemon!)

First, I defeated Cynthia's pesky Spiritomb no problem with Dialga (I swear this is the only time I actually use it to fight things whatsoever. Spiritomb is stupid and annoying and has no weaknesses and yeah). Next she used Garchomp which I found rather interesting that she would use her strongest Pokemon second... Whatever. I threw out Staraptor to activate Intimidate to make it not bend me over completely. Weakened it a bit with Brave Bird until Staraptor died/fainted/whatever. Then threw out my Garchomp to finish the job no problemo. Then came Lucario which I killed very easily with a Dig by Garchomp (after using Potions and the like). Sounds good thus far, right? Half done, only one Pokemon dead, havn't been bent over yet. All is right with the Pokemon universe. Then came Milotic. Although gloriously pretty, VERY difficult to murder. HERE COMES THE START OF MY UTTER FRUSTRATION. I choose to engage in battle with Empoleon as Milotic's moveset is Surf, Ice Beam, Aqua Ring, and Mirror Coat. Smart enough not to use Surf, I used Drill Peck repeatedly (after using X Attack which I NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER use ever. Seriously. I think battle items are a wild waste of money and time and I never use them ever. Except for right now. Quite possibly the only time I've ever used a battle item like that.) Anyways, I'm doin fine until Milotic decides to hit me with Surf for a critical hit. Sigh. OK, Empoleon can take another hit without dying, no problem. UNLESS IT'S ANOTHER CRITICAL. LIKE THAT. OK. CRAP. EMPOLEON DIED. No matter! I'll use a Thunder Fang from Luxray! He can take a hit no problem! UNLESS IT'S A THIRD CRITICAL HIT IN A ROW. WHAT THE HECK!?!?!?!? THREE!?!?!?!? IN A ROW!?!?!?!?!?? (This is not where the RAWR comes in. That comes later). SO, I'm down to three Pokemon very quickly. My Lucario does a bit of damage to Milotic but can't get the job done. Down to two left. Shoot! Out goes Dialga to use Revives and such. Back comes Staraptor with half of it's health in tact. Brave Bird........ and Milotic dies a glorious death :D YAY! 2 on 2 now. This is exciting. Out comes Gastrodon. Hmm... I'll weaken it with a few more Brave Birds. Then Staraptor dies but Gastrodon is nearly dead. Go Garchomp! I take a few Muddy Waters to the face... AND BOTH ARE CRITICAL HITS SO I'M AT 12 HEALTH. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. (still no RAWR yet!). I use revive, back comes Staraptor with half of it's health, Garchomp dies. (Sidenote: at this point, I still have no idea what Cynthia's last Pokemon is. I didn't cheat to look it up. I promise. Seriously. Had no idea). Brave Bird, Gastrodon dies a glorious death (Sidenote: in this battle, Cynthia is out of Full Restores. I couldn't remember when she used them but she used them all up! WOOT). Staraptor has maybe a quarter of it's health left... Out comes Cynthia's last Pokemon... and it's... ROSERADE! HA! WIN! IT'S A GRASS TYPE! I'LL WIN FOR SURE!!! BUT, just to be safe, I'll use a Hyper Potion so I'll have enough health to take a hit, use Brave Bird, not die and be entered into the Hall of Fame... Hyper Potion GO! SHOOOOOOOP! (That's the health bar getting refilled, no need to worry). Full health now! Roserade uses Sludge Bomb. Whatever. I can take a hit! ....................................................................... NOPE. Staraptor dies. One hit. I lose. WHAT THE HECK!?!?!?!?!? RAWR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWR!!!!! WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY?!??!?!?!?!??!? I HAD THE TYPE ADVANTAGE! NO NEED TO USE REVIVES ON OTHER POKEMON WHEN I SHOULD WIN WITH RELATIVE EASE!

I look up why I lose after the battle in my heated frustration. Staraptor's Special Defense is ATROCIOUSLY low. Like in the 60s. Yikes. Roserade's Special Attack is off the charts, and it gets a STAB bonus for the attack. Fair enough. I should have used Aerial Ace when I had the chance. I lose. I cry.

I go back to train more. I shall battle again later. Today. Once my Pokemon are off the charts strong... And/or in the mid 50s so I'm not as woefully underleveled. I'm alright though. My team is good enough to win. AND I still havn't taught Luxray Disharge, Empoleon Hydro Pump, Garchomp Earthquake OR Dragon Rush, or Lucario Extremespeed. And I guess I could replace Staraptor's Aerial Ace with Fly if I wanted to... nah. I'll stick to a move that can't ever miss. SO yeah. Pretty good excuse to yell RAWR at 1 in the morning. Good day my fellow Pokemon is my Pot followers! I hope you never have to yell RAWR unless needed. If you do happen to yell such blasphemous things, post why in a comment below. Tally ho! (Sidenote: Tally ho? REALLY? Whatever)