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DavidZ2844 posted...

Wait whats this about a mandatory double battle? What happens if you show up with only DELELELELELELELE WOOOOP in your party?

The first battle at the top of Spear Pillar is a mandatory double battle with you against two Galactic Grunts, and as far as I can tell, you can't talk to them separately to face them one at a time like you can in other situations where you'd face two trainers in a double battle. You absolutely must face them in a double battle, you absolutely must have a second non-fainted, non-egg Pokemon in your party to initiate this battle and progress the game, and you absolutely must send that second Pokemon out in that battle. So essentially, a true "solo" run where you only use one single Pokemon for the entire game is completely impossible in BD/SP because of this specific battle.

When Alpharad ran into the same problem during his Piplup solo run (hilarious video btw, Alpharad is awesome) he decided to trade for a second Piplup to keep it a "Piplup only" run. That's why I mentioned catching a second Kricketune earlier, which I already went and did to prepare to that.