Log
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1/29/17: This game is pretty hard so far... I have to do a lot of grinding to keep up, because of the low level of wild/trainer Pokémon and the high level of gym Pokémon. My first blackout was while fighting Brock. After losing, I leveled up Elvis (Nidoran ♂) up one more level and of course then it learned a move supereffective against Rock-type. I defeated Brock's Geodude pretty quickly and was close to defeating Onix when suddenly Onix used Bide and OHKO'd Elvis. I had two other Pokémon: a Pikachu whose only attacking moves did no damage against Onix, and a Lv.4 Nidoran ♀, Mercury. I sent out Mercury and slowly got rid of the little HP Onix had left. It instantly shot up 4 levels.
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2/3/17: Lt. Surge was ridiculous... ridiculously easy. I expected that I needed to grind a ton to defeat him, as most of my Pokémon were around level 21 and his Raichu was 28, but I decided to feel things out to see what level I'd need to be. I got through the puzzle and challenged Surge with my level 22 Nidoqueen, and his strategy was awful: keep spamming Growl, every so often using Thunderbolt, Mega Kick, or an X Speed. The Mega Kick was the one thing I needed to worry about, but I had 10 Super Potions and he only used it once. Slowly I whittled down Raichu's HP and got the Thunder Badge. Shortly after, I got a bike and went to Diglett Cave to get Flash, and ran into a level 29 Dugtrio! I tried to catch it, but I ended up running out of Pokéballs and it knocked out almost my whole team.
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2/4/17: I tried again for a Dugtrio... and caught it first ball. It's seven levels higher than my second highest-leveled Pokémon...
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2/17/17: I'm at the point where playing this game is a chore. It isn't fun at all. Really at this point there are only two reasons I keep playing: to say I completed every Pokémon game, and to move on to Crystal.
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2/19/17: Four gym badges - that (hopefully) means I'm halfway! Hopefully the game either will start getting more enjoyable here, or will start speeding up.
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2/20/17: Today was really productive! I fully evolved Elvis and Chungy, made it through the Rocket Hideout, defeated Giovanni, and got the Silph Scope. I'm starting to feel good about this game. Hopefully I should finish it within the next two weeks.
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2/21/17: I beat the Ghost at Pokemon Tower! I one-shotted it with a super-effective critical-hit Bubblebeam. I have no plans to go back to Lavender Town. After that, I caught Snorlax! I made it to Fuchsia City, but since Koga's highest Pokemon is Lv.50 and my highest is 36, I decided to go and get an ExpAll. But I need 50 Pokemon in the Pokedex for that and I only have 22! So I went to the Safari Zone.
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