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Congratulations! Well deserved

I really liked @Maelstrom post on social icebreakers and I have bookmarked it. It is helpful in initiating a conversation.

This lore play by acegamestv covers story line till E15.

Regarding the gym battle in zekrom route, I chose doubles. I led with Roserade and Meowth. I used fake out with Meowth on Vaporeon so that it does not KO Roserade with Ice Beam, Seismitoad used Surf which knocks out Meowth and does little damage to Roserade. Roserade sets up Grassy Terrain. I send out Leavanny; both Roserade and Leavanny outspeed most of Amaria's team and with Giga Drain by Roserade and Leaf Blade by Leavanny I KO all her remaining mons before the terrain ended.

I started of with Leavanny holding a seed, which protects it in the first turn against sandslash, I set up sunny day to end the hail and I outspeed it; now I set a sticky web before going down to iron head. Then Mamoswine with earthquake takes out sandslash, empoleon, kelfki before going down to excadrill. I send out Gallade which KOs excadrill with close combat. Arcanine with two flamethrowers knocks out Scizor. I send out Gallade to stall so that Aegislash uses up its magical seed. Then Absol KOs Aegislash with a sucker punch.

Go to fiore mansion to progress in the storyline

IIRC ,I think in Jasper ward, the chief gives it to you

Get geodude with sturdy to set up stealth rock, half job is done.

The video you have shown is pre episode 16. In episode 16, Yureyu key event is available only after badge 13. Using this key, you can enter a room in Shade's gym and evolve magneton.

Happy Birthday :-)

Set up stealth rocks against Ciel, it helps immensely in the battle. A geodude/crustle with sturdy should do the job. Also if you have a zubat, level it up to around L70, crobat with acrobatics will sweep Ciel.

I'm not necessarily going to ask you what I should take up; instead, I'd like to ask, how did you come into terms with choosing your major in university or your career if you're already a professional now? Was the decision hard or was it relatively easy? During high school, I was good at science and mathematics which led me to choosing engineering as a career and I ended up taking mechanical engineering. My decisions were made based on my strengths and my interest. However, I would like to point out that any field on a broad surface level looks nice, pleasant and interesting; but when you actually go into the details, that's when you see the true picture. If you like these details, you do well; otherwise, you will always look to switch. During my undergraduate, I explored all the options in my field and ended up making a list of topics I don't like rather than the topics I like. This approach was rather in a sense thorough as I had explored quite a bit. Currently I am doing my masters and I am really enjoying the research work as it aligns with my interests and I would pursue PhD in future. To sum up, go through your options, look into the details; even if you don't find what your interested in / good at ; you'll definitely find out things which you would not like to take up which in turn narrows your options and helps you make a decision. All the best.

I enjoyed watching your battles, the movepools of your mons were kind of unconventional but really effective. I have never seen someone spam acid spray as much as you have done. They were really effective in double battles. Arbok with Glare and coil helped in many set ups against boss battles. Your Nido royals as you call them almost OHKO anything with their STAB moves, it made some hard battles look really easy :-)

Happy Birthday :-)

Oh, I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for the info, I am not a regular competitive battler. Bulbapedia tells the following - If the user is holding a Flying Gem, the item is consumed before this move checks whether the Pokémon has an item or not; therefore, the power is still doubled. Basically the same thing which you told.

Crobat is a beast with acrobatics. Flying gem is useless because, acrobatics does 110 damage when the user does not hold any item. In your battle it got consumed after turn 1. Even though Crobat was 5-7 levels lower, it OHKO almost entire Samson party.

That happens in Shade's gym after you get Yureyu key, and it's available after defeating Ciel in E16.