After training up Magmar to Lv. 40 and having a lot of close encounters of losing him along the way, I figure it’s time to train the team as a whole at the Fuego Ironworks.
After a bit of time, I defeat all the trainers you find here and pick up some nice items like TM35 Flamethrower and a Fire Stone. And speaking of Flamethrower, Magmar learned Flamethrower which will be very handy!
I make my way to Jubilife City again and head off to the watery Route 218 to the west. Next stop, Canalave City! Along the way, I run into a wild Tenacool and decide to catch it. I don’t know if I’ll use her but Tentacool is a valuable asset to have. I name her Azul (Spanish for Blue… not sure why but I liked it) and store her away in the Pokémon Storage box.
I finally enter the gate into Canalave City but before I can enter the city, I’m stopped by Lucas’ father who is also one of Professor Rowan’s assistants. He upgrades my Pokedex so I can record the physical differences of male and female Pokémon when I encounter them. I don’t really even notice half of the differences between features anyway so I won’t really be caring for this too much. He also states that Rowan is concerned about Team Galactic and asks me to keep an eye on their activities (something I’ve been doing from the beginning whether I wanted to or not…). He leaves and I finally get a chance to enter the city! Before I do, I want to point out the guard at the gate that states “I’m thirsty”. I thought that was a clever little shoutout to Kanto that I’m surprised I’ve never seen before. Anyway, to Cavalave we go!
I explore Canalave for a bit but I don’t find anything too interesting other than the TM for Skill Swap. I decide to cross the bridge to explore the other side of the city when… BAM! Here’s Barry…. crap… I forgot about this… Yes, Barry is back for another fight on the Canalave Bridge. Not the safest of spots to fight but I’m game.
He starts out with his now fully evolved; Lv. 36 Staraptor a Normal/Flying type and I start out with Magmar completely forgetting this fight. I switch into Porygon2, hoping it does not know Close Combat yet but all it does is Double Team to raise evasion. He goes for another Double Team and I got for a Discharge that actually hits and defeats it in one shot. Out comes his Lv. 37 Heracross, a Bug/Fightning type. I get Porygon2 out of there and switch to Magmar, the only one who wont die to this thing… I’m wrong… Magmar goes down to 2 Brick Breaks thanks to a critical hit… CRAP! Now who will I use for the upcoming gyms!? At this point I’m SO ticked off so I go into Empoleon for some payback. I make a bad move… he goes first and gets a super effective Brick Break off on me. Lucky for me it does about half of my HP and it is defeated. In comes his starter a Lv. 38 Torterra a Grass/Ground type. I this point, I’m panicking. There is a good chance I could lose this. His Pokémon are way stronger than I remember them being from previous save files and there are no Pokémon on my team that can take this thing out easily. I can’t leave Empoleon in there knowing it will Earthquake him and more than likely kill him so I go into Roselia for a Toxic. Oddly enough, he goes for Leech Seed which does not affect Roselia. Toxic time! This will slowly kill him off. He gets off a Bite attack and it does way more damage than I expected. I use Giga Drain to heal up and he goes for another Bite. Toxic is starting to take affect… another Giga Drain… he has low health… another Bit… CRITICAL HIT!? Roselia lives with 18 HP and Torterra goes down to Toxic damage. Now here comes his fully evolved Rapidash a Lv. 35 Fire type. Not taking any chances I sent in Empoleon to absorb some hits. 2 Take Downs do nothing to my Empoleon! Take a Surf attack Barry! Rapidash is down in a single hit. Now for his final Pokémon, his fully evolved; Lv. 35 Water type; Floatzel. I go into Porygon2 so I can get off a Discharge. He uses Aqua Jet but has no luck. Another Aqua Jet but it does him no good. Floatzel goes down in one shot to Porygon2’s Discharge. He is again shocked that he lost and I’m again ticked that he took another Pokémon from me… He runs off telling me to get stronger training at Iron Island and I know I do need the extra levels. After all, had Vesuvius the Magmar’s Lava Plume attack been just a bit stronger, I wouldn’t have lost him to that Heracross. I release him and have my eyes set to Iron Island.
In honor of Vesuvius the Magmar… you were a great Fire type and had I trained you just another level or two; you would have been even greater in the fights to come…
Only after this part do I finally remember that Magmar’s strongest move was Flamethrower. I had completely forgotten about it thinking he still had a Physical Move like Fire Punch. Had I used that, Magmar would have defeated that Heracross, no doubt…
Well fighting is also good against the next couple gyms if I remember my type match-ups correctly. So if you happen to come across anything like that keep a good hold on it. :)
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