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: "We can worry about the whys later! Right now we gotta get preacher!"

Right here, ready to go.

Uh.

Haspen, you forgot to move Grifen. If there was an error with her move, you never said anything about it. What the hell?

This is going well so far!

The man had a point. Jasmine knew a lot about the weak points in armor, and trained herself to fire precision firebolts at those spots. A mage's robes provided no obvious weaknesses, and according to her research her particular brand of magic was less than useful against the dark arts. Still, that wasn't an issue right now.

: "Sure, if. Right now it isn't anything to worry about. And don't worry about the rambling thing, I totally get it." If she had a gold coin for every time folks gave her strange glances, she would at least be able to afford a new tome.

The magesmith shrugged.

: "I don't have that problem. Still, good point. Good to know you're not all muscle."

Not got time to watch it myself, but you know the animated short, The Reward? It has a 22-minute long prequel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUlg8Y_mLfA

I've seen it. It's good, but I'm not entirely happy about the move from "Average Joes become awesome through a quest for glory" to "God-like super warriors quest for more glory than they already have". Great ending though.

Leveling up Roggenrola sounds like a good idea. The first gym trainer badly wounded three of my team with those damn Emolga, despite all of my mons having the same level as the flying pikachus. I did some training on my Blitzle and gave the Yamask a try, and everyone except Roggenrola are at least level 24 now.

Yamask actually isn't bad. Using Will-o-wisp to burn enemies is a nice tactic, not only lowering enemy Attack but dealing damage every turn and even opening them up to extra damage from Hex. She's also pretty solid defense-wise, having high Def and SpDef. Maybe not the best choice for fighting Elesa but I doubt she'll get permanently boxed.

ETA: HAH! Oh man, that worked out well. I got Roggenrola to level 25, at which point she evolved. I decided to challenge Elesa immediately afterwards.
Round 1: Boldore vs Emolga. Emolga used Volt Switch, dealing probably 75% damage to Boldore and switching to Elesa's other Emolga. Smack Down dropped it to a sliver of health. I took a gamble that Elesa would use the turn to heal, and I used Smack Down again. Elesa spent a Hyper Potion, but Emolga died anyway. One all.
Round 2: Blitzle vs Emolga. The AI must have known that Blitzle had Lightningrod, since all it did was Quick Attack. Two Shock Waves (the second powered up by Charge and then crit) took Emolga down. 2 all.
Round 3: Herdier vs Zebstrika. Nothing elegant here, just Herdier digging for her life while Zebstrika pummeled her with Volt Switch. Two Digs did the job, though Herdier was down to less than 10 HP when it was finished. 3 all, match goes to me