Good grief, the normal Trainers are SO much more threatening than the Gym trainers!
I really need to go find a good Electric-type so I can own all the annoying bird-users; Flying-types hit four different team members for super-effective damage (one of which is always an instant KO), and my remaining two counters are my HM slave and my Swellow, which I have solely for the purpose of getting it into the Pokedex (though it's handy to have around when a Fighting-type shows up; then again, Combusken has Peck for that.
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Also, I don't have access to Sentret, AFAIK, I'm on Emerald. I must say, I'm shocked at how many non-Water types get to use Surf; I remember it was a nightmare figuring out my HM Slaves in Platinum and FireRed.
