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I made my way to Canalave City and did some more training on Iron Island, including getting the Riolu Egg from Riley, but I didn't fight the gym yet. As I fought my way through the cave, I realized more and more how Kricketune's low base stats are really starting to become a problem at this point in the game. Wild Gravelers are surviving super effective Brick Breaks with HP to spare unless I use Swords Dance beforehand, and I also had a trainer's Pelipper survive a neutral Night Slash even after a Swords Dance, and this is with Kricketune being 10+ levels higher than them. There's also the speed issue, as I already experienced with Fantina's Gengar and Mismagius outspeeding my Kricketune despite my 6-8 level advantage at the time. And unlike the power issue, which can be solved by Swords Dance, the low base speed isn't something that I can counteract.

TL;DR: Things are going to get tougher. Canalave Gym next time.

DavidZ2844 posted...

Also thanks for the Alpharad video recommendation, never heard of him before and I enjoyed that video a lot

No problem. I first got into watching Alpharad primarily for his Smash content (the highlights IMO are his Hard DK amiibo videos and his Stage Builder Was A Mistake series) but he's been doing great stuff for other games like Pokemon too. He also has longer and less edited (AKA more random bullshit) commentaries on his second Alpharad Deluxe channel, where he's been doing a separate "normal" run of Pokemon BDSP too.