Now I beat the second round of Elite 4... and MY GOODNESS THEY are TOUGH!!
Team After Beating the League:
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Feedlstick the Noctowl (F)
Hasty Nature <--- FAIL
Keen Eye <--- MORE FAIL
Level 57
Eterna Forest/Level 12
- Hypnosis
- Roost
- Extrasensory
- Air Slash
I gave this thing a chance... it is even more of a dead weight than it usually was. Unless you want to raise a special version of a crazy stalling Noctowl for link battles with Night Shade/Roost/Reflect/Psycho Shift (breed with Natu/Xatu for Night Shade) then this thing is utterly useless... in game. It is a cool Pokemon though and if it is your favorite or something... nothing is stopping you from using one right? Hey, I did it... so you could too! But the chances are it will end up more of a dead weight than anything else whereas Staraptor would be the bird of choice for in-game, kind of like Doduo from RBY only attainable much earlier and a lot better.
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spaling the Gallade (M) @ Mind Plate
Quirky Nature
Level 62
Route 212/Level 24
- Swords Dance
- Psycho Cut
- Night Slash
- Close Combat
Yeah, he is my loyal knight who fails at spelling by naming himself "spaling". He is pretty cool but he is kinda like Flareon, taking special hits, dealing physical hits, cannot take a physical blow, but unlike Flareon, he is faster and has STAB moves to abuse, not to mention TWO of them now. That's right, he FINALLY learns Close Combat! WHOO! He is good and all, but sometimes he goes down much faster than expected. Also, it seems his moves are mostly luck based, like Psycho Cut and Night Slash, which have high critical hit ratio. His Leaf Blade, which I replaced with Close Combat, also had that same effect. He is an interesting character indeed... and Swords Dance just makes his job much easier... although I rarely find the time to actually set it up. How about if I Choice Band him and put Leaf Blade in place of Swords Dance? That might work?
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Blackout the Flareon (F) @ Charcoal
Quirky Nature
Level 63
Hearthome City/Level 20
- Quick Attack
- Fire Fang
- Flamethrower
- Fire Blast
I love her. Really... Flareon is so cute 
Aside from that... if I had 8 Red shards I would have had enough for Superpower to replace Fire Fang with... but the game decided to be mean and I only found 7. GRRR. Yeah, she is the only one of the Eeveelutions who can learn Superpower... and that is something cool to abuse that base 130 Attack of hers. She is all right and does do her job as an amazing Fire Pokemon... even taking around 50% from Cynthia's Togekiss's Water Pulse (just imagine if she were the same level as Togekiss... she'd take even less!), this thing is also a special wall of some sort. Just lovely. Oh yeah, and the AI seems to be having fun with Flareon, when Marley's Arcanine Fire Fangs Flareon so that Flareon would be more powerful... yeah that made everything cool. And that Charcoal was from that route below Stark Mountain. It helps a lot. I would say Magmar is the better Fire Pokemon for in game purposes, but Flareon is actually not too bad at all, because unlike Magmar, she can actually take some special hits and dish out some crazy damage.
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W.Fox the Floatzel (M) @ Mystic Water
Brave Nature <--- WHAT THE HECK????
Level 63
Valley Windworks/Level 10
- Surf
- Waterfall
- Crunch
- Ice Punch
Failtzel returns with his awesome Brave Nature with 2 Attack IVs and 24 Speed IVs. I did not replace anything though... but if I wanted to make my life easier, I would have used Aqua Jet and Ice Beam instead for this league... because even right now he failed to OHKO Infernape not only with Waterfall but also with Surf! Now why? Does Flint have 31 IVs on his Pokemon too? Just wondering. Anyways Floatzel is an awesome Pokemon guys and girls, especially in game. Just make sure to check his nature... they should NOT reduce his speed nor his attack or anything... unless you plan on going all physical or all special. Something like Adamant/Mild/Rash/Naughty/Naive/Lonely/Modest/Timid/Jolly/Hasty are all right natures. Anything else like Brave or Quiet or something lousy like that should be avoided at all costs. I REALLY want to Pokesav this guy and fix him, but that is against my policies.
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Saimir the Scizor (M) @ Metal Coat
Sassy Nature <--- It's not as bad anymore
Level 64
Technician <--- ^^
Route 215/Level 20
- Swords Dance
- Bullet Punch
- X-Scissor
- Night Slash
Arguably the largest change from last time. What happened to Saimir? Why is he all red now? It is because I temporarily traded him to some other guy who would not take care of him properly and Saimir got really mad... he sacrificed all that speed he used to have for some defense and more attack power. And then he finally learned how to strike quickly with fists made out of metal... but lost the ability to Fly. Anyways, yeah, I evolved Scyther after beating the game the first time, and Heart Scaled Bullet Punch on him. And oh boy is he strong. Bullet Punch and a couple of Swords Dance is enough for him to sweep for the most part... and he can take physical hits. Is it any wonder why he is #1 in the OU metagame? He revenge kills as if it were nobody else's business. However, that dumb Day Care lady erased Wing Attack, which would have been more useful than Night Slash for in game purposes. Oh well... yes I was breeding Saimir with Ditto (O_O) and I bred Flareon with Smeargle for babies too. Their legacies? Well... look for Emilia the Scizor and Violet the Vaporeon in Box 7... they have some nice IVs and are EV trained properly 
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Mew2 the Torterra (M) @ Soft Sand
Sassy Nature
Level 63
Starter Pokemon
- Synthesis
- Crunch
- Wood Hammer
- Earthquake
I tried a different approach this time: Wood Hammer for more immediate damage and Synthesis to heal off the damage that it has been taking. Did it work? Somewhat, but sometimes Torterra is too slow to pull that off effectively. Nevertheless he is quite an awesome Pokemon and I would say he is very useful for a starter Pokemon. I think he is better than Infernape but that is just my opinion. But yeah, being slow never meant any good though, but he can take a Ice Fang from everything and still hit back hard (although me going last means I should switch) but he is quite nice to use. Sure Water, Fire and Ice (especially Ice) attacks seem to hurt it more than it looks like it should, and it gets OHKOd by stuff that I would not think it would, but Torterra has his uses. If you know who you are sending it against (just do not send it out against a Magmortar obviously) then he can prove to be quite useful.
Epic Wins:
- Noctowl did have a use: she defeat Yanmega luckily with 2 Air Slashes although the initial one misses (Double Team screwed me up for a bit)
- Scizor sets up on Vespiquen and takes her down
- Scizor defeats his rival Scizor one on one
- Floatzel sweeps 3 out of 5 members of Bertha's team (Torterra takes care of Whiscash and Hippowdon)
- Floatzel sweeps 3 out of 5 members of Flint's team... survives Infernape's Thunderpunch.
- Scizor sweeps Lucian's ENTIRE team
- Noctowl lands a Hypnosis on Spiritomb on the second try, allowing Scizor to set up on it and KO it
- Milotic is weakened by Floatzel and finished off by Gallade's Close Combat
- Scizor finishes off Togekiss on his second try
- Torterra survives Lucario's Aura Sphere and OHKOs back with Earthquake
- Garchomp misses on Torterra... TWICE with Dragon Rush
- Floatzel survives an Earthquake from Garchomp and CRITICAL HITS with Ice Punch, scoring an OHKO
- Flareon soundly finishes off Roserade with Fire Fang and gains a level
Blunders:
- Noctowl misses twice on Yanmega and Air Slash from Yanmega took a CHUNK out of Noctowl. For a special wall that's quite lame, so I promptly restarted.
- Drapion Ice Fangs Torterra... Torterra survives, and Earthquake... fails to OHKO back, leaving with a sliver of an HP. Its Sitrus Berry activates... and Drapion retreats! What a chicken!
- Heracross finishes off my Scizor with a Close Combat >.<
- Floatzel failing to OHKO Gliscor with Ice Punch
- Floatzel failing to outspeed Infernape and failing to OHKO with Waterfall AND Surf. This was bad so I had to switch to Flareon to finish it off with Quick Attack after one Full Restore was used.
- Floatzel's Waterfall failed to OHKO Magmortar >.<
- Floatzel failed to outpace Rapidash this time >.<
- After three Swords Dances on Scizor against Spiritomb I would think I'd outpace Milotic and OHKO with X-Scissor, right? Noooo... Milotic proceeds to go first and attack with Surf. What a cheater... having 31 IVs in every stat. Surf OHKOs my Sassy Scizor as well. Lame.
- Milotic messed me up so badly... taking little to no damage from Floatzel's Crunch while dealing over 40% damage to Floatzel with Surf. Continuous healing was tedious and Aqua Ring was healing it every time. Yeah... tough creature that I eventually switched in Gallade to take a Surf which did the same % of damage on it as it did on Floatzel (so much for resist >.>) but finished it off with Close Combat since it was weakened by Floatzel's mass Crunches.
- Togekiss was even worse... surviving two Ice Punches from Floatzel, dealing 97% with Air Slash on Floatzel... ouch.
- Tried revenge killing with my Max Revive'd Scizor... whose Bullet Punch left it with 1% HP (familiar anyone?) and Air Slash taking a HUGE chunk off Scizor (roughly 80%). Then Full Restore... GAH!!
- Flareon revenge killing for Scizor... Fire Fang hits for tons of damage... Quick Attack FAILS to finish it off (this again???) and I had to go through the necessary steps to revive Scizor with a plain Revive and Bullet Punch Togekiss for a KO. Togekiss and Milotic... the two annoying ones on Cynthia's team...
- I came in underleveled... all around level 56-63ish... and came out just the same. Against level 65-78 that is automatically a death sentence to me.
Every Pokemon caught AFTER the previous SAV file uploaded in the original post except for Uxie and Azelf (MewtwoEX named them) are NOT nicknamed. I even put some event Pokemon in and caught stuff like the Regis and the five rogue Pokemon. Box 7 is filled with Pokemon I got from breeding and some of them are EV trained with optimal settings. I am also working on a Pidgeot (it is a Pidgeotto right now level 48 with Fly/Defog/Mirror Move/Roost) which I caught as a level 47 Pidgey, but it had a nice nature and nice IVs, so I EV trained it with 252 Atk/252 Speed. Aside from that, that is about all, but most of the legendary Pokemon I have caught do not even have nice IVs and natures sadly (you will LOVE my Adamant Heatran, but then again as a non-believer of standard sets, a surprise physical Heatran with Stone Edge/Earthquake/Explosion/Iron Head could work?) X_X
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