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Can [insert pokemon here] beat USM w/o affliction? (grass starter edition part 1)

 Phantump: starting moveset: Confuse Ray, Tackle -> Facade -> Return, Astonish -> Shadow Claw, Growth Against Gauntlet Fire Dude held item must be a HP-berry. Ghost Room: Shadow Claw Bird Room: Return Olivia: Seed Bomb Molayne: Shadow Claw, and the held item must be a HP-berry Hau: Return, hold HP-berry, Crabominable miss, Harvest must kick in at Noivern (however many time it needs, if the range allows the bat to not get into a healing-loop), and if ALL THAT happens, you will win.   Whimpod: starting moveset: Struggle Bug, Sand Attack With just 2 levelup-moves let's pick up Confide from the Cemetary to have 3 moves. Although we might decide to not apply it in case we want to rely on Struggle. I mean the Move Deleter is right on this first island if my memory stirrs. On the other hand picking up and learning Round might be beneficial, move-effectiveness and all that. The only move-tutor move we can have is Snore, I'd still pick it up instead of eg. Confide, but it's...

Can [insert pokemon here] beat USM w/o affliction? (water starter edition part 5)

Larvitar: starting moveset: Bite -> Crunch, Leer -> Brick Break, Sandstorm -> Rock Slide / Return, Screech -> Bulldoze -> Earthquake Dragons' Den: Earthquake  Olivia: Brick Break Ghost Room:  Return Molayne: knock off Klefki with Brick Break, then Earthquake Hau: as Leafeon itself can onshot us, time to evolve. Then you can just Return.   Sandygast: starting moveset: Harden -> Round, Absorb -> Giga Drain / Energy Ball, Astonish -> Psychic, Sand Attack -> Shadow Ball Glacion 3: if you don't have it, go and get the quick-claw, because the Zoroak can easily finish you. Or you might try to hope G3 will go for the 1% to change in the Zoroark, and you off it right there. I've not tried Rock Polish though. Ghost Room: Shadow Ball. The biggest threat here is the confuse-state from the Froslass. Bird Room: Giga Drain works, but you have to add eg. Psyhic to use when you run out of PP of it, or Max PP on it. Or try Energy Ball? The type-immunities and pot...