Despite being grossly over levelled, that Avalugg gave my Steelix some serious problems. He got very fucking lucky with me being confused from the previous mon and hitting myself twice, and then Iron Tail missing twice... but it meant he has Cursed non-stop and was able to get maxed out attack and defense. I was dead in the water if I kept hitting him with, now, weak Iron Tails and doubling the power of Avalanche. In the end I used 3 X-Attacks and 3 X-Defends (all I had) and then an X Accuracy, and then twatted the cunt.

Team after 8 Gyms:
Steelix- 74
Tentacruel- 65
Amoonguss- 60
Tyranitar- 58 (With Tyranitarite)
Avalugg- 58

And currently my fodder mon is Ditto 49.

Steelix is very much the king of this game. We owe everything to him if we get to the end.