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I'm watching this. After 6 hours it managed to solve the rock boulder puzzle and now it's trying to break the Elite Four wall with its face. I'm no pokemon expert, but I'd say that no way in hell it beats them with this team composition. It has to take a step back, re-compose or at least re-train for overall higher levels. Will see if it manages to do it, my expectations are low.

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It got to Lance. It's Charizard is pretty strong. If it would just HEAL between fights I think it could do it.

I predict it will keep trying and failing without changing strategy until the team is so overleveled that brute force works.

yea, I saw it.

Unfortunately, the only usable move is flamethrower with 15 PPs that will be exhausted.

Remember, if it starts using items, it can run out of money. And what then?

But yes, brute force might prevail in the end. Let's say it started elite four at 13k jev calls or 1.3 USD. I'd call it a "loss" if it crosses the 2 USD threshold. It's still quite cheap though.

That's probably correct. Blue is going to be another wall as well, especially the blastoise since the team leans so heavily on charizard and graveler

Poor Graveler died to Dewgong in the first fight (nearly every time). Don't forget about Gyarados though, that one is still undefeated.

The next version I make should take advice like this from the chat

I saw the commit log, refining the harness as it went. I don't have Jev access, but I'd like to see it try again with this new setup. Seems it could be much faster, as plenty of commits addressed some blind spots where it fell in a loop.

It has the option to go back and level up its pokemons + switch it up. Hopefully it gets the same idea as you soon!

It's quite a long term plan it has to make:

- establish a composition

- train the selected composition to an appropriate level

- ration PPs through 5 fights

- ration items through 5 fights + globally (you can run out of money)

- maybe even switch the order of pokemon on the list? Poor Graveler

I'm not sure it can follow-through on this. Would be funny if it had to re-do the rock boulder puzzle. Guess I'll keep watching!

It has continued to surprise me throughout all of this so hopefully it will again

it's a fantastic demo and promo for the product though. Great idea, well executed, I'm genuinely curious on how this will go.

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