"I'm on the road to... Floccesy Town?"

A long road this game has been for me. Used Riolu's Counter to help me win the first gym, while defense, Psyduck's Confusion and using the Steel-Type Magnemite helped get me through the second.

I picked Tepig as my starter, turned out to be female. The last time that happened for me (to my recollection) was the female Bayleef that I snagged in Pokemon Colosseum. But the pick of Tepig was a good one, especially for the third gym. Also used other Fire, Flying, and Rock-Types for that Gym.

The way I went is that I trained a variety of different Pokemon for each Gym. For Elesa's Gym, I put the focus on Ground-based attacks, using the move Smackdown from Onix to ground her Emolga, leaving it vulnerable to getting hit with Dig. This was also around the time in which I would use a Drilbur in my party; it had evolved into Excadrill by the time I battled Clay.

Electric-and-Rock types were my focus in Skyla's gym, but I would also have Excadrill on hand for each gym battle going forward. Also used a Gigalith obtained in an In-Game Trade on Route 7. Fraxure and Excadrill came up huge in my battle against Drayden; in the last gym I switched my starter for a Pokemon that could better deal with Water-Types.

I would beat the Elite Four and Champion using the following team, ranging in levels from 55 to 60: Golduck, Magnezone, Emboar, Haxorus, Lucario and Excadrill. It's hard to deny how powerful Excadrill is, even if it doesn't use the Sand Veil Ability. And Hydreigon didn't cause any problems against Ghetsis: just used Magnezone's Thunder Wave then swept it with Flash Cannon (I still recall how much trouble that it caused me when I played through Pokemon Black).

Right now, I've just gone past the three battles against the Shadow Triad in Icirrus City. Mangezone stopped their Bisharp from using Guillotine as a result of its Sturdy Ability, which really helped me win all three battles straight. I need to do some more training because opponents are getting tougher.