Pokemon Y: The Male Meowstic solo run (redux)

 

Well, look who got another serving of Gen VI! After polishing off a run with Female Meowstic, cruising — again — with Male Meowstic felt like the natural thing to do. A bit of breeding later, I was in possession of an Egg hosting a Male Meowstic with a Lonely Nature, which I deemed perfect for the deed. From what I remembered, Male Meowstic’s learnset was way shallower than his female counterpart’s; and thus I needed to make the most of every single move it could learn, including Physical moves. 

 

 

One trade later, I was blazing through Kalos with my Chat-nel — no need to change such an awesome name! As for the word ‘blazing’, I used it intentionally. My Chat-nel was already able to one-shoot the opposition by the time we reached Santalune City; this has become a delicious pattern in my X&Y runs, and it’s all thanks to what I dubbed the Boost XP Combo. See, I’ve refined my X&Y power routine to perfection by not only sending a Lucky Egg along the Egg du jour, but also by raising my newly hatched Mon’s affection in Pokemon Amie to two hearts before even setting foot in Viridian Forest. I can thus reap the maximum amount of sweet XP right from the start, which leads to stellar results — like, Grant is still the b*tch and first real roadblock he’s supposed to be, but he hurts way less than he should.

 

 

Talking about Grant, I fought him as a fully evolved Lv. 30-or-so Meowstic. I had learnt Light Screen earlier, planning to keep it precisely for Grant — or, to be painfully precise, for his Amaura’s deadly Aurora Beam. But when Psyshock rolled in, I questioned the logic of keeping a move slot occupied for a move that would literally be useful a single time — and maybe not even necessary to begin with, dang it! Being the hothead I am, I finally ditched Light Screen; and that’s how I ended up in front of Grant with Psybeam, Psyshock, Disarming Voice and Return. Not too shabby, methinks! Now, was this the right decision? You bet, b*tch! Amaura opened with Thunder Wave, Take Down and Rock Tomb, which left me ample room to use my two X Sp.Atk and heal from paralysis. I never got to know if Amaura would have used the dreaded Aurora Beam on the fourth turn, because I one-shot it with Psyshock. Poor Tyrunt didn’t get to use a single move, biting the dust after another deadly Psyshock. 

 

 

I gave male Chat-nel the same Pokemon Amie pampering as his female counterpart, going all the way to BFF forever. I also managed to go all the way in the mini-games rankings, scoring Five Stars in Head It’s Unlimited Mode for the first time ever; following that prowess, I was treated to some extra-fancy ‘Supreme’ Poké Puffs! I’ve been playing X&Y for nine years, and I still discover quirks and hidden features to this day, to my utter delight.

 

 

My mighty plan of making Chat-nel a mixed attacker didn’t come to fruition. Despite his Lonely Nature, his Attack was always substantially lower than his Sp. Attack; and as Male Meowstic can learn the exact same TMs as Female Meowstic, I decided to go full Special. Also, I thought for some reason that Male and Female Meowstic had different stat distribution, with the former leaning on the defensive side and the latter on the offensive side; however, they have the exact same stats. Turn out that the only real difference between them, apart from looks, is their levelling-up learnset; this makes the line far more malleable than you’d think — and that’s how I could end up facing the Elite Four with a Sp. Attack cracking the 200 ceiling.

 

 

As the Female Meowstic showdown was still fresh in my mind and in my gamers’ pride, I decided I had nothing left to prove and was going to take it easy this time around. ‘Easy’ meant using the Zap Plate and the Meadow Plate to face Malva and Siebold respectively, gobbling a couple of X Sp. Attacks against Drasna, Wikstrom and Diantha, and muching on Leftovers between each turn. This was a cakewalk, and I was crowned Champion after 11 hours of delightful Kalos-cruising. 

 

Although the summer is not completely over yet as I’m writing this (edit: in early september), I’m done with X&Y for the time being! Other games are tickling my fancy, and I must heed the call of the gaming instinct. Take care and see you next time, dear fellow gamers!