What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

[Squeely]

Holy crap this Fire trial is insane! Torracat didn't have anything good to hit em with, Pikachu got off paralysis and that was about it. Rockruff is my only other team member. He held out the longest, but was weak from all the previous battles. I might have scraped a win had I been able to heal in between, but I wasn't, so...

Gonna have a look at my TMs to see if there's anything Torracat gets that'll help. Rockruff is only a couple levels away from evolution, and I might just have to get him there.

[KopsTheTerminator]

Man IRL I'm atheist and a bleeding heart, but playing this turns me into a fundamentalist Muslim-hating holy crusader, ruthless genocidal colonialist and repressive dictator. Video games do things to me smh.

[Marizzle]

Nearly reaching the "evolution levels"! The hype is real!

[Carl]

Holy crap this Fire trial is insane! Torracat didn't have anything good to hit em with, Pikachu got off paralysis and that was about it. Rockruff is my only other team member. He held out the longest, but was weak from all the previous battles. I might have scraped a win had I been able to heal in between, but I wasn't, so...

Gonna have a look at my TMs to see if there's anything Torracat gets that'll help. Rockruff is only a couple levels away from evolution, and I might just have to get him there.

Wait, you only had three Pokémon at the fire trial, and Rockruff isn't evolved? The only trial I've had any trouble with yet was the water trial. Lycanroc took care of the fire trial easily, but I don't have any answer for water types on my team.

[KopsTheTerminator]

A fire cat Pokemon huh, I wonder what the final evolution is-

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WHAT THE

[The Spirit of Life]

Time to study!

[Carl]

A fire cat Pokemon huh, I wonder what the final evolution is-

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WHAT THE

That's why my starter is no longer on my team lol.

[KopsTheTerminator]

^ From the typing I expected some really cool looking gato, not Kung-Fu Catzilla.

o_o

Aaaand Pokemon's weird gender ratios gonna be weird again.

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[Carl]

I expected something cool when they were first announced, but then when the evolutions got leaked, I was pretty... er... surprised. I actually almost chose Popplio instead because of it.

I think Primarina's gender ratio is magnificent.

[Squeely]

Wait, you only had three Pokémon at the fire trial, and Rockruff isn't evolved? The only trial I've had any trouble with yet was the water trial. Lycanroc took care of the fire trial easily, but I don't have any answer for water types on my team.

Yeah. I dunno if I missed some huge amount of battles somewhere, but my team is levels 21-23 right now. I've only turned Exp Share on a couple short times, so maybe I should have kept it on. I'm wondering if the game is structured the way it is due to so many people complaining about Exp Share being "broken" last gen. Every trial has made me feel like I should be higher leveled than I have been. Was trying to maintain difficulty by keeping the Exp Share off and not grinding up too much, but I'm starting to feel like I should keep Exp Share on.

Edit: Aaaand I just came upon a bunch of trainers I missed on Route 6. Probably took on the Fire trial before I was supposed to, lol.