James Plays Pokemon - Day 6(ish)

I'm actually more afraid of Lorelei than I am of Lance, which is why I'm grinding Vulpix.  After Starmie creamed Blaine's entire gym solo (leveling from 32 to 35 along the way... Lance's Arcanine was what, 47?!) I taught Vulpix Fire Blast. At this point I'm thinking of making Vulpix my dedicated scorcher (plus Confuse Ray) and making Charmeleon/izard more versatile. With stuff like Hyper Beam.

So final team will be Starmie (Bubblebeam, Surf, Psychic, Ice Beam), Nidoqueen (Toxic, Horn Drill, Thunderbolt, Blizzard), Victreebell (Solarbeam, Mega Drain, Wrap, ...Acid?), Sandslash (Swift, Dig, Cut, Strength), Charizard (Fly, Flamethrower, Hyper Beam,  Fissure), Vulpix (Fire Blast, Flamethrower, Confuse Ray, Mimic).

...hope I don't need Flash for anything.

Starmie all-killed the remaining fighters in the Dojo and I picked up Hitmonlee.

Went back to Sabrina's Gym and got hideously lost. For the benefit of future generations here is a partial map of Sabrina's teleporter system. You enter the gym in the bottom center and Sabrina herself is in the middle.

This was fairly ugly, but Starmie rocked through again.  Sabrina's Alakazam was a nightmare since it kept using Recover until I finally switched out Starmie for Sandslash.  Whereupon it only used Recover every other turn and I was finally able to kill it.