When we last left Honey, she was wasting some sailor’s time by making him sail from Oceanview to Serenity Island and back again, multiple times.

Which did she finally decide on? Click to find out.

I know the answer should be obvious, given that Serenity was necessary to protest. But hey, clickbait is tried and true, right?

Sunnyshore has an… interesting road pattern. For some reason this makes me think of solar panels.

Her first stop was the Poke Mart.

“Already did.”



(This is true. We left the mart with exactly the same amount of Poke Balls as we had coming in.)

We then checkpointed at the nearest Pokemon Center, where we met a hopeful Luigi.



See this lighthouse? It’s going to be important one day, because this is where Honey is going to grind and hoard Eevees. Specifically, Def-Eevees, which are a subset of the Eevee family similar to Off-Eevees but evolve into different things than Off-Eevees evolve into, including evolving into Off-Eevees themselves. Which can also evolve into Def-Eevees.

Confused yet? Well, this is what happens because a Gen 3 ROM can only let a Pokemon evolve five different ways and a ROMhacker wants to game the system. If you’ll pardon the pun.

Eevees are awesome.

“Fusion Resort” is like “Rocket Game Corner” in terms of marketing. Why the heck the police hadn’t investigated either is beyond all reasonable understanding.



Turquoise Bay. Exactly what it says on the tin.

This is Tourist Chris, who is relevant because of his hair.

#TotallyLooksLike Bill. PogChamps and WutFaces abound in chat.

Chris’s Buizel takes down Snek, but Barbecue manages a String Shot to slow it down before Honey switches her with doge. BBC then constantly spams Sand-Attack to lower Buizel’s accuracy, even after it’s no longer effective:

Honey tries to take advantage of the disorientation and run, but of course there’s no running from a trainer battle.

BBC then starts tactically raising her attack. Or maybe it’s just greed. Whichever it is, it’s useless, because Honey immediately switches the dog for the frog.

(Disclaimer: Real-life hyenas are not actually dogs. They’re not cats either, they’re their own thing. But Poochyena is a Pokemon based off a hyena and a dog, so it gets a free pass. And yes, its original Japanese name, Pochiena, shows that this is thoroughly intentional.)

The Growl misses, thanks to BBC’s pocket sand. After Chris realizes that Buizel is completely blind and thoroughly incapable of touching Honey’s Pokemon, he switches it out.

He also switches because a Normal/Flying type is both SE on a Poison/Fighting type, but immune to the Astonish attack that Sheepfrog just used on Buizel.

Sheepfrog doesn’t realize this and keeps trying to Astonish the birb. She dies to Quick Attack in two hits.

Absorb is not particularly useful on Tailow, who just used Focus Energy. Oh dear, and with HA’s Poison Point (which of course is not Budew’s actual hidden ability), it could well triggers Guts.

Of course, we already know that Sap can win this anyway, bar Honey doing a series of incredibly stupid things. Which is possible, but it would take way too long for TPP chat to be that incompetent.

Yup. Predictable. Tailow then Pecks HA to metaphorical death.

The question is, can Tailow’s Guts Crit SE Peck take down a Grotle seven levels above it?

Actually, the real question is, “Why is Honey sending Caterpie off to get slaughtered like this?”

The answer: “Because someone wants a Barbecue.”

(I know, that was terrible.)

Predictable Peck.

BBC is sent out briefly, and also dies. So of course it goes down to Grotle, like it usually does.

As it turns out, even with Guts, Tailow’s Peck isn’t nearly strong enough. Grotle responds in kind with a Bite, taking Tailow down in one hit.

Buizel was smart enough to use Growl first turn to survive Bite, but stupidly used Water Sport the second turn before it died. Or maybe it just wet itself in fear.

Never mess with the Sapping Turtle.

Yeah… I suppose it’s a marvel we’ve managed to survive this long with it.

Oh, cry me a river.

By the way, I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing HA, Sheepfrog, Barbecue, and Snek in action in this series, because spoiler alert:

You’re not going to see them again.

To be continued…