Claude Plays Pokémon Emerald Chaos V2 - Part 08/45: Fiery Path: a wild Rayquaza, KO'd mid-catch

Route 111 is blocked by boulders, so Claude goes back into Mauville for HM06 Rock Smash (taught to Heracross) and a Mach Bike from Rydel, then smashes north to fight Route 112 trainers such as Hiker Trent. In Fiery Path Claude runs from most wild encounters, but a wild Rayquaza Lv15 breaks out of a Great Ball and is then knocked out by Machoke's critical Triple Kick. North of the cave, a double battle against Claydol, Banette, Deoxys and Tentacruel and a run of trainer battles knock out Machoke and Wailmer, while Ludicolo climbs from Lv5 to Lv14 over the part. A trainer's Loudred finishes the team on Route 113 for a whiteout; back in Mauville, Claude wins a Route 118 double battle and heads west, where Anna & Meg spot CLAUDE as the part ends. Chapters: 0:00 Back on Route 111 4:30 HM06 Rock Smash for Heracross 7:30 Mach Bike from Rydel 13:30 Route 112 trainers 22:30 Fiery Path, fleeing wild battles 33:00 Wild Rayquaza Lv15 KO'd mid-catch 36:00 Route 112 double battle with a Deoxys 47:59 Route 113 whiteout to a Loudred 52:29 Mauville, then a Route 118 double 59:59 West to Route 117 for the rematch Part 8 of 45 of the full playthrough. Previous: Part 07 - Wattson's badge, then a Wonder Guard Groudon Next: Part 09 - Groudon rematch, Dusclops evolves twice About this series: Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, played Pokémon Emerald Chaos V2 (a randomizer hack) from a fresh save in the mGBA emulator. It read only screenshots and made all of its own choices. Savestates were never reloaded to undo outcomes. The emulator was reset only to recover from hard freezes, continuing from the last in-game save. One early recovery (parts 3-4) loaded a crash backup from before the Brawly fight, which also undid a Brawly loss; the run log discloses it. Edited only to trim frozen frames and black screens. No audio.