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"Well, I think I'll stock up on some battle items." You say after a moment's thought.

"I'll get medicine." Holly offers.

"Then I guess I'll spring for food and whatnot and Gareth can get poke balls for anyone who needs them." Martha finishes, earning herself a thumbs up and a nod from Gareth at this notion.

"Right, let's go to the shops then." You say, clapping your hands together now that that's been settled.

Battle Items tend to be more of a pharmacy thing, in your experience.

They're not legal in the League Circuit, having been barred some years ago on the grounds of the side-effects that excessive use can have.

Simultaneously, the League hasn't completely outlawed their use, acknowledging that there are circumstances that warrant their use.

Mostly, emergencies where a trainer winds up fighting a pokemon much more powerful than they bargained for, or in the face of challengers more intent on mugging their opponent or doing them an injury than anything.

Their sale is still strictly controlled of course, but from what you've heard and read it's a common enough practice to keep at least a few different items on hand just in case.

You leave Holly and Gareth to head for the pokemon center while you head to the shops with Martha, leaving her to go to the general store while you head for the pharmacy and start filling a basket: X Defends, X Attacks, X Specials, X Speeds, X Accuracies, Dire Hits and Guard Specs - overall, it's quite a costly haul, but the chemist does offer you a bulk discount and while you're looking around, you spot some absolute bargains:

The first thing to catch your eye is a Leftover Pot.

A small storage unit meant for a pokemon to be able to snack during training and to keep food at a given temperature without stopping for camp.

After Daz's trick at Silveridge, you did a bit of reading and discovered they also have a more combat-oriented use, acting as a budget potion in the middle of battle, usually by means of an Oran or Sitrus Berry-based soup, meant to provide a pokemon with a Leftover Pot with just that little bit more endurance.

It's a clever idea and one that the League has apparently ruled as 'a perfectly acceptable piece of trainer ingenuity that we feel would be remiss of us to censure.'

Some, you've heard, are rather against this noting it goes against the spirit of the disallowance of trainer items in battle, but that opinion is little more than a loud minority from what you've gathered and one that largely goes ignored.

(Part 1)