Heyllooo, well I would try hardcore, if I did a no challenge run, but even that could be annoying because you would need to train a new team for every gym leader, so no. I could try it for ep 16 though, as I have about 20 iv bred, ev trained Pokemon.
Well, that said, meet Seifer, my first Tm slave :
Just beated Florinia w/o much problems, the cradily was kinda hard but she had use her super-potions before and once burned it didn't hurt Carbuncle too much when he went for the kill.
I found my first ability capsule too, thought i would use magic bounce to reflect the spikes but it seems like it doesn't work :/. Now I still need an ability capsule for drought but Magic bounce not working on hazards might make some fights quite hard, I hope it still works on other abilities though.
Now a day later, Pulse Tangrowth(s) were a breeze, particularly in the double battle.
As for Corey I had to try a 2-3 times because of Rng/carelessness(?) but it was quite a funny battle, Espeon bounced the venom drench on skrelp making him a non-threat, thanks to that, I was able to boost him with 2 X spec and 1 X Speed, he then changed to croagunk, which allowed me to heal while he sucker punched, the rest of the team was a clean sweep.