So I beat some random trainers and then my Roggenrola evolved into Boldore yay! And my eevee was trying to evolve into umbreon but I wasn't having any of it cause he was born to be a jolteon! and I found a thunder stone too but just gotta wait till little eevee is ready :')
Took the grass trial and it was a pain the ass, thought it would be easy with both Growlithe and Magby but the boss kept healing itself turn after turn which dragged the battle on for 30 mins or so.
And now I gotta go fight the grand master of the island and then onto the 3rd woo! Still currently rotating my team between the 7 pokemon but will most likely bench Raticate soon and then prob Growlithe if I can find someone worth getting. I noticed the water pokemon in this game are awful, I prob should have gone with Gayrados but oh well.
Yeah, you SHOULD have gone with Gyarados. That Pokemon was the reason I made it past one of the trials to begin with when 4 of my 6 Pokemon were already taken out. You may also want to go back, catch a Mudbray, and train that up. Trust me, you're not going to regret doing that.