first HGSS victory!

Playing by some weird rules so to explain - friends and I are doing a torture wheel challenge along w my roommate who's extremely new to pokemon. we're nuzlocking, she's playing normally, but every time one of her pokemon faints we have to spin a wheel full of punishments that range from harmless (like being forced to change a pokemons nickname to anything the group decides) all the way to straight up killing off party members at random. theres also a few very rare beneficial buffs thrown in but you can only roll them once and the theyre removed from the wheel.

so to explain my team: right before the e4 I rolled a punishment where my friends picked my team for me, but I also rolled a blessing that allowed me to go over the level cap by 1. So this is how I ended up with two grass types, ho-oh (friends attempt to balance out the sunflora lol), and why my teams sitting at 51/52 instead of Lances level cap at 50.

Lance still did a number on my team, but Im really happy my shiny Meganium made it to the end! He wasnt much help in the final battle but he did put in the work OHKO'ing Brunos entire team with a swords dance sweep. Pabst the Sunflora even had a moment to shine by leech seed stalling Karen's Gengar to avoid losing any teammates to destiny bond.

The biggest MVP was Chi-Chi the Lanturn though - he tragically fell to a crit rock slide from Lance's aerodactyl but not before using a choice scarf to outspeed and one shot all 3 of the Dragonites with Blizzard. 🐟💙

Really fun challenge and my friend groups super excited to move on to ORAS next!