After healing up, I head back into Mt. Coronet to head up to the northern routes to Lake Acuity and Snowpoint City. After getting out of the cave I make it to Route 216, the first of the snow covered routes of the north. The problems with these routes are that with the constant snow, all battles have Hail as a weather condition which means all Pokémon take a bit of damage each turn. Also, walking through the snow can take a really long time since it gets so high up. Now enough complaining, time to take on the challenge at hand. The first Pokemon I run into on Route 216 is a Sneasel. I decide to catch it since I may train it later. I catch him, name him Midnite and continue on my way. As I make my way on to Route 217, I run into Maylene who is heading to Snowpoint as well to see Candice, the gym leader. As she runs off the blizzard that was on the previous route gets much harder and the snow is much deeper.
After awhile of walking really slowly through the snow, I find a small cabin. Inside is a man who says he lost his special HM08 which is used to Climb Rocks. I go outside to find it and because I’m honest and give it back to him instead of stealing it, he gives it to me and I get HM08 Rock Climb and an Icicle Plate which I can use to raise Ice type moves.
Eventually, I run into a Swinub here on Route 217 and this is something that if it comes down to it, I would like to train up. I name him Manny from “Ice Age” and then move on further to Snowpoint.
At the Acuity Lakefront, I find Barry is on a high ledge that I can’t reach. He tells me that I need the next badge to use Rock Climb to get up to him so now I really need to get that next badge. Lucky me, I run into a Snowrunt here at Lake Acuity and a female one at that! This is something that I really should train up if I manage to catch it. I catch her and name her Jadis (after the White Witch from the Chronicles of Narnia). I finally make my way to Snowpoint City and begin the training for Jadis the Snowrunt (soon to be Froslass). Hooray for another Pokemon that has no weakness to Fighting types!
Unfortuately, getting to use a Froslass didn’t end well. She was defeated by a Graveler at Iron Island who Rock Blasted her to death. I am upset about this but knowing that Froslasses aren’t the most defensive, I had a feeling this would happen and planned ahead. I still have Manny the Swinub if needed but for now I’ll continue the game as normal.
Back at Snowpoint City I release Jadis and heal everyone up. At the counter of the Pokemon Center I run into Maylene who made it through the blizzard safely. She tells me that the key to victory against Candice is to use Fighting types or Fire types. Lucky for me, I have Lucario. With that in mind, I heal up and head into the gym.
Ok, to be honest midway through the gym I decided that it would be best to try and train up Swinub to replace Froslass even if it is temporary. However, it ends badly due to a Graveler using Selfdestruct. This also sucks because I used up my 2 heart scales on Manny to get him to evolve into Mamoswine and have a good physical ice move. However, he went down as a Piloswine so I have to say that it’s not a good day for Ice type Pokémon.
In honor of Jadis the Froslass, Manny the Piloswine, and of course Woobat the Crobat. You'll all be missed.
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