Dexter in the Eiffel Tower

I returned to Lumiose City via the Power Plant backdoor and was immediately led to the gym, which happened to be in the Eiffel Tower.  I kind of saw this coming due to all of the irony surrounding the city of lights losing its power, but it turns out that the Gymleader Clemont is an Electric User.  You may already be familiar with him, though, since he also played the part of Melvin from Sailor Moon.

His gym was a trivia gym--where you answer questions and battle trainers on the way up.  The problem is that after you start to climb you don't really have the option to leave--and since I have been screwing around with my team and raising eggs as I explore Lumiose City's Northern end, I found myself challenging the gym with a bunch of nothing and a Hippopotas.

Gymkiller Squad # 5: What the Hell is This Nonsense?

 

It turns out that there was really nothing to worry about since Hippopotas took me all the way to the gymleader and defeated all three of his pokemon: Emolga, Magneton, and Heliolisk.  While the former two were pokemon I expected him to carry, the new pokemon Heliolisk was a fun pokemon to battle.  Still didn't match-up to Hippopotas though.

The Electric Type is a strong attacking type with only one weakness--but the problem is that this weakness (ground type) completely walls it out.  With other types of pokemon, this is not a major issue because they can still use other moves to hit it for damage.  My Frogadier can still fight grass pokemon with "Thief", "Lick", or "Smack Down" (Dark, Ghost, Rock type, respectively) and my Aerodactyl has "Bite", "Aerial Ace", and "Ancient Power".  Most Electric pokemon, on the other hand, have very limited move-pools and really only get access to attacks that are either Electric or Normal-typed.  The result is that they take-on opponents like Hippopotas in the same way that a cabbage takes-on a sledgehammer.

In my exploration of Lumiose City, I found an Orange Julius and a restaurant that served food and triple pokemon battles  against their waiters and chefs.  The final course was a cheese course, "...our washed-rind cheese made using a female Arbok's Toxic poison" and a battle against a Simisage, Simisear, and Simpour.  Incidentally, my starting combination of Aerodactyl, Frogadier, and Pikachu seemed to be accidentally perfect for the entire gauntlet.

Current Squad:

FROGADIER/Froakles/lvl.33
IVYSAUR/Ivy/lvl.31
FLAREON/Hotfoot/lvl.30
SKRELP/Toxie/lvl.31
SCRAGGY/Scrappy/lvl.31
AERODACTYL/Scarydactyl/lvl.33

On Rotation: Gardevoir, Pikachu, Hippopotas, Lucario