#after got shafted by ingo in his banner

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Only three runs for today because I’m super tired from work. Here are the teams that I used. I might try racking up win streaks again tomorrow since it’s weekend. From left to right are my Moltres team, Latias team, and Uxie team respectively.

Moltres: I didn’t bother changing the team name because, that’s what happened. Ingo and Emmet finally reunited, and to celebrate, they went to kill a legendary fire bird. Or at least Emmet did, but Ingo is so resilient under Sandstorm. Ingo is also not fully gridded yet, but he just refused to die. Emmet just murdered the hell out of Moltres, even at 1/5 0/20. Felt so satisfying. I really like how strong Emmet is even with minimum investment, really shows how amazing he is. Now I just need Subway brothers’ theme to be available at jukebox and I can play their theme song as they kicked Moltres’ ass.

Latias: Since Latias is weak to debuffs, why not bring a team that excelled and abused the hell out of debuffs? Yeah, everything went pretty much as expected. Anni N nuked Latias’ entire health bar by himself, and all that good stuff. Piercing Gaze also let him bypassed Latias’ evasion boosts.

Uxie: Okay, I spent way too much time on this, and my energy was also spent on this way too much. So, my first team was actually not this, it was BP Morty/Allister/SS Renegade Cynthia. Back then, when Uxie’s Legendary Arena was still going, I had BP Morty freshly scouted at 3/5 4*, and Allister 2/5 with wrong build (Poison dps instead of Ghost type nuker), and SS Renegade Cynthia, and I reached around 40%-ish health of Uxie’s third bar. Now that Allister is 5/5 and BP Morty is 5* with variety of builds, I went in thinking I could defeat Uxie. 

I still couldn't. I was always very close. In every single of my attempts, Uxie only had around 10% health or less left and the team kept failing.

I kept resetting, thinking it was my wrong timing to apply status changes and status conditions. I even changed Morty's grids from Aggravation to Master Healer. 

Still couldn't. 

Until then I realized the major issue that held the team back: Gauges. I just realized that both BP Morty and Allister are...slow. Even though I gridded Allister with MGRs, that still didn’t help. This is kinda sad especially when Mismagius and Gengar are supposed to be fragile speedsters in the original game. SS Renegade Cynthia's speed is okay, but not great, so she didn't save the team from gauge issues.I tried to modify Morty's grid for MGRs, and even then it still didn't help much. 

So, my first Uxie team failed. I wasn't thinking straight and I already felt very tired from the countless resets, so I brought my Piercing Blows team earlier than it’s supposed to.  At first, I brought Sonia, before realizing midway she's still 1/5 thus no access to Critical Squad, so I changed her to Falkner, who was too squishy. Kiawe is also not fully gridded yet, so I went to Hop.

This team could clear it, of course, but for whatever reason N crit-ed on everything EXCEPT his sync nuke. Out of five sync nukes, he only crit-ed once. Even at +3 crit from Hop. N, I love you but, come on... you went to 5/5+1 from the charming Pokefair Banner even after I spent candies on you to 3/5 (one of which I should have saved for SS Serena had I know he would arrive that much) and you decided to miss your crits 90% of the time??

All in all, this was something else. I will try to rack up more streaks tomorrow, but I decide to take my time on this.