route 13 candy (Spring 2025)

All numbers are rough estimates
skip protein on ground -4s
valerie -8s
skip dire hit -5s
frost cavern manectric -0.5s
anistar rival -8s
exeggutor -2s
- extra menu for candy, + candy menu via restore in pokemon -2s
scrafty -0.48s
skip lysandre 1 mega -8s
swalot -0.8s
toxicroaks -2.5s (88% 2HKOs without Metronome)
druddigon -4s
skip xerosic mega & speedtie -8.8s
geosenge grunt (mega skip, 14/16 manectric, sd on golbat) -1.21s
aura sphere honchkrow -0.4s
grunt double 2 -3.12s
skip train station candy -8.22s
venusaur -4.75s
total -71.78s

korrina 1 +0.7s
single candy encounter chance +5.25s
single candy heracross +2.75s
single candy meowstic +1.38s
metronome obtain time +5s
equip metronome +2.91s
route 13 candy +34.35s
	6.17 / 9.75 / 23.37 (nothing, item, encounter), 3.4 for candy pickup, 4.75 for movement
	0 Encounters/0 Items (1/9): 20.49
	0 Encounters/1 Items (2/9): 24.07
	0 Encounters/2 Items (1/9): 27.65
	1 Encounter/0 Items (2/9): 37.69
	1 Encounter/1 Item (2/9): 41.27
	2 Encounters/0 Items (1/9): 54.89
swap metronome over black belt pre route 14 rival +1.9s
swap black belt over metronome pre route 15 +1.9s
swap metronome over black belt pre anistar rival +0.0s (already accounted for in route)
extra rock tomb lysandre 1 +2.5s
swap lucarionite over metronome post xerosic +2s
total +60.64s

net: -11.14s

pros/cons of 4 prot/2 calcium over 6 proteins:
frost cavern manectric -2.29s
scrafty -2s
geosenge grunt manectric -1.29s
grunt double manectric -0.53s
malva -0.7s
total: -6.81s

buying calciums +2.95s
using calciums +0.0s (no difference from using 2 instances of proteins)
venusaur +0.8s
leafeon +1.05s
gigalith +3.2s
aegislash +2.5s
total: +10.5s
calciums NOT worth it

Strat:
Skip Protein on the ground (or don't and skip the extra Protein shopping)

Do not move Lucarionite onto Lucario before Lysandre 1 split

Rare Candy x3 Lucario to L50 in fly menu after Olympia, use rest of Proteins

Scrafty: AS (x2), 5/16

Lysandre 1: AS x2, switch + die, RT x2, AS

Swalot 100%

Toxicroaks 93% w/o Metronome

Xerosic: SD x2, SC, SC

Move Lucarionite over Metronome in fly menu to Geosenge

Geosenge Grunt: AS (14/16), AS, SD + RT OR Mega + AS, AS, RT (16/16)

Aura Sphere Honchkrow on Lysandre 2
Learn CC after Lysandre 2

Grunt Double 2: Lead AS on Manectric (11/16 without help, 100% with help)

Grunt Double 3: AS Scrafty first with full HP (8/16 to live Flamethrower from full HP)

Swalot 98.4%, 93.8% with 6 Proteins

Skip Train Station candy

Venusaur 100%

Leafeon 10/16 -> 9/16