02 ✦ Video

[mightdoriya]

[It's been an eventful past few days for Izuku. Not only has his group finally broken their way through the thick forest of Ilex, they're on their way to one of if not the largest city in the Johto region: Goldenrod. Boasting it's huge department store full of items likely far too expensive for him to be able to afford, but hey. He plans on at least getting a little something for each of his team members...and his travel partners too, even if he's broke afterwards. It's fine, so long as he pays Kirishima back he's okay with being broke for a while.

But traveling the last stretch of route has gotten interesting, to say the least. Namely the fact that Izuku's team has nearly totally filled out since he checked up on the network last. They have a bit of a ways to go on Route 34 before Goldenrod comes up, and while travel has been made much quicker in lieu of Pokemon to ride on, it also brings up the issue of the fact that all of his Pokemon enjoy getting some time out of their balls and, well...

Cue Izuku turning on the feed of his Gear to the tune of an Eevee, Buneary, and Rowlet all crowding in his lap at once. Thirteen the baby Duskull is latched onto his arm instead of his neck for once, visibly asleep with his face pressed into his elbow. The real camera hog though is the massive Pokemon hulking behind Izuku, basically glorming onto him from behind with copious amounts of vines just...draped all over him in the fascimile of a hug from behind. Hello, she's here too.

She being the shiny Tangrowth that scared several years off his life yesterday. Izuku looks...tired.]

I'm guessing it's something you get used to, but...taking care of Pokemon is a lot of work. I don't know how people can manage having so many...

[Famous last words, probably.]

Comments

[mightdoriya]

Skip? You can do that?

[schachmeister]

You can. You can even only fight certain gyms. Or beat a few gyms in Kanto and then fight some in Johto.

Obviously, you'll need all the badges if you want to challenge the E4, but they don't care about what order you get them in.

[mightdoriya]

I didn't know that! And here I thought I was in big trouble because I have mostly grass types up against a Flying type trainer like Falkner...

[schachmeister]

You definitely can, and no proper trainer will look down on you for it. Though if you have mainly grass pokemon, you'll probably have a lot of trouble with Bugsy as well. He uses bug type pokemon, and those resist grass just like flying type pokemon do.

[Poor Izuku. Two gyms in a row that were just Bad News for grass pokemon.]

[mightdoriya]

[OH....OH NO...]

I;ll need an electric type...and a fire type...

[And here he was making a post about how hard Pokemon were to care for sometimes, yeesh.]

[schachmeister]

It's too bad you didn't start collecting badges over in Kanto. The first gym over there is full of rock and ground pokemon. And the second one focuses on water pokemon. A grass-heavy team would really shine there.

[mightdoriya]

[....HMMM.]

Is that so...

[Hmmmm]

I'll definitely have to remember that for the future, at least...I might just be doing a lot of skipping around for a while.