[She can't help snorting, which might not be the most attractive noise to make here but Veronica can't help her own surprise! He seems way too excited to hear about her beating his dad!]
Well, it was incredibly difficult. I mean, I guess it's true that a lot of the other Gym Leaders farther down the line were harder in the technical sense - better moves, more refined Pokémon - but he was difficult because nothing that I really threw his way stuck as much as I thought it would. I mean, I took Skarmory, Sandslash, Cubone, Nidoqueen, and Wooper, I expected it to be difficult but I think it lasted for nearly two hours.
[In other words, she'd maybe planned a bit heavily on the fact that Masaomi was an electric Gym Leader, which was smart but also maybe a reach around mistake.]
I was actually doing really well until the very end. I had three left and he had one, that Flareon, and I'm not sure I've ever seen a Pokémon so excited to battle. It decimated Skarmory so badly that I almost forfeited to take her to Nurse Joy, Nidoqueen went down in less than thirty seconds, and then it was just Cubone and I.
[... Even remembering the ferocity of those two could feel overwhelming.] Now that I think about it though, I don't think he necessarily sacrificed the other ones - they loved him too much for that - but it's almost like the first three were for the sake of getting a feel on me, the next two were for testing, and the Flareon was sort of the end-all, be-all. The 'you're worthy' kind of fight. Didn't help that the guy stopped joking and talking as we got farther along.
[It was by no small means a very interesting and weirdly emotional battle.]
literally wings all of this omfg
Well, it was incredibly difficult. I mean, I guess it's true that a lot of the other Gym Leaders farther down the line were harder in the technical sense - better moves, more refined Pokémon - but he was difficult because nothing that I really threw his way stuck as much as I thought it would. I mean, I took Skarmory, Sandslash, Cubone, Nidoqueen, and Wooper, I expected it to be difficult but I think it lasted for nearly two hours.
[In other words, she'd maybe planned a bit heavily on the fact that Masaomi was an electric Gym Leader, which was smart but also maybe a reach around mistake.]
I was actually doing really well until the very end. I had three left and he had one, that Flareon, and I'm not sure I've ever seen a Pokémon so excited to battle. It decimated Skarmory so badly that I almost forfeited to take her to Nurse Joy, Nidoqueen went down in less than thirty seconds, and then it was just Cubone and I.
[... Even remembering the ferocity of those two could feel overwhelming.] Now that I think about it though, I don't think he necessarily sacrificed the other ones - they loved him too much for that - but it's almost like the first three were for the sake of getting a feel on me, the next two were for testing, and the Flareon was sort of the end-all, be-all. The 'you're worthy' kind of fight. Didn't help that the guy stopped joking and talking as we got farther along.
[It was by no small means a very interesting and weirdly emotional battle.]