We All Scream For Ice Cream - Part 17

Route 6 is the first area that I head into.

I run into the first patch of grass and it is a...

Foongus! I had two of these in my last Nuzlocke. They were named Namless and Nameless2. They didn't fare too well...

I hope this guy, named Cracker fares better.

Immediately after catching this little guy I head to another area to catch a new teammate. 

The next area is the Cold Storage area, which I find a few okay items. Rocky Helmet and PP Up.

I see some grass alongside the Cold Storage area and head directly towards it, the first thing I run into is...

Um. I throw a Pokéball at it and catch the ice cream cone...

I find out that it is actually called a Vanillite, which I name Dexxter.

I deposit Shorty to make room for Dexxter because he will help me in the next Gym, but not as much as Tumbles. I head back to the Desert Resort to train the little duck. 

I train in the desert and into the Relic Castle, where I captured Odessa, and I fight some trainers that I left inside. I even score a Fossil. I had to roll for which Fossil I would receive. Either the Cover or Plume Fossil. 

I roll the Cover Fossil.

If I live long enough through this challenge I will score a pretty solid Water/Rock-type, Tirtouga.

I cannot get it yet, but when I do it will account for the city that creates it, since it isn't a Pokémon yet. But it's something to look forward towards.

After training up Tumbles, Xanadu and Cracker a bit I head over to Route 6, where the levels of the wild Pokémon are a little higher. 

There's lots of Grass-type here, which is great for Dexxter and Tumbles. 

Or... it would have been great to train Tumbles here, but he gets hit with a massive critcal hit Take Down from a Deerling and is taken out in a single hit. 

Tumbles takes his final soar through the air and floats gently into an open grave...

Well, since Tumbles is gone, I at least have a back-up this time. I send out Dexxter to start getting trained. During training and exploring Route 6 I find a Shiny Stone (which now allows Shorty to evolve at anytime) and the entrance to Chargestone Cave, but it is blocked by a yellow web.

After training for a while, I head back to Cold Storage and run into Cheren. 

I know that Team Plasma is hiding inside that building, but I realize something... I can train in the grass here, because the Pokémon in this area give a decent amount of experience so I go off to train.

I train so hard that Xanadu evolves!

With him evolved his Attack and Speed go through the roof. This is a Pokémon that may keep me in this challenge. And be careful when googling this Pokémon because it is a couple letters off from the dangerous drug krokodil and the pictures of those are gruesome...

I head into Cold Storage to look for Team Plasma.

Inside there are tons of items, trainers and lots of ice to slide around on. Eventually Cheren and I explored and searched the whole storage unit except for one last container.

Cheren and I head inside and find a sage surrounded by Plasma grunts trying to keep warm. As soon as they see us we become surrounded.

I beat four of the eight grunts and Clay appears with some of his own grunts and arrest the rest of them. He tells us before he leaves with his prisoners that we can now challenge him. 

I go off to train Dexxter a little more now so he can take on Clay. 

I go back off to Route 6 to train him against Grass-types and he is attacked by a Deerling. I use Icy Wind and Deerling uses Jump Kick, it takes Dexxter down to 1/3 HP and I know it will go down with another Icy Wind, so I use it...

It misses. 

I get hit by a Faint Attack, which brings Dexxter down to 2 HP. 

I'm not risking this battle anymore so I run. 

I can't...

Dexxter gets hit by Faint Attack again and...

Everything in my party is weak or partly weak against Ground. This is going to be a hard Gym fight, but which one hasn't...

At least I have Xanadu.

My Team:

Xanadu (Sandile) level 40 - Desert Resort

Catapult (Trubbish) level 22 - Route 5

Shorty (Minccino) level 20 - Route 16

Odessa (Yamask) level 23 - Relic Castle

Cracker (Foongus) 25 - Route 6

The Fallen:

Dexxter (Vanillite) level 30 - Cold Storage

Tumbles (Ducklett) level 29 - Driftveil Bridge

Conch (Liepard) level 34 - Route 2

Zkippy (Lillipup) level 15 - Route 1

Upstairs (Oshawott) level 12 - Nuvema Town

Butterball (Pansear) level 18 - Dreamyard

Yuko (Blitzle) level 15 - Route 3

Amasya (Roggenrola) level 18 - Wellspring Cave

Flathead (Timburr) level 17 - Pinwheel Forest

Woodrow (Scraggy) level 30 - Route 4

Cannot Catch At These Areas

Lostlorn Forest