#There'll be like 5 sets of mons to draw eventually

[shinysamurott9]

Completed Black again to set up a main file to use with Black 2. Still a big fan of this game. And with it, another team gets added to my list list of mons. The amount of teams I've kept from Unova now is really funny.

From front to back we have Banshee (Chandelure), Jane (Sawsbuck), Ozzy (Samurott), Laurie (Gothitelle), Brawl (Stoutland) and Nuke (Victini).

That Chandelure was a random shiny btw. I wasn't even planning to use Litwick, I was gonna use Golurk this time around but I guess my shiny luck had other plans there. Beautiful shiny, though it does mean I've had to change plans for my Badge Quest in Black 2.

I gotta say, I never realised how much of a level spike BW's postgame has. I think it's interesting cause with the levels the new wild pokemon can be found at, I think they did that to incentivise you to use a lot of the old pokemon now available to you. I didn't do that myself but I think it's an interesting design decision.

I also gotta say, for as mad as it sounds for them to give you a mythical as early as the third gym, Victini was surprisingly underwhelming. Sure it has excellent stats for when you get it but it's sorely held back by it's learnset. It gets literally no good psychic moves til Level 49, which is literally the end of the main game. No TMs either, Psychic and Psyshock are both postgame. While it fares better with fire moves you'll pretty much only have Flame Charge til Gym 6 where you get Searing Shot by move reminder, which is a fantastic move but it doesn't have much else going for it. It's alright but in a gen with Darmanitan and Chandelure you probably have better options for fire types. And Psychic? Pretty much anything available is a better option there. Main game or otherwise.

Shoutout to the real goat of the team though, freaking Sawsbuck of all things. It's surprisingly fast, Horn Leech is a great physical alternative to Giga Drain exclusive to it in this game and it was a downright incredible sweeper at the end when it got access to Swords Dance. Seriously I swept most of Shauntal, and all of Grimsley and even Cynthia's teams. Sick pokemon.