Whew at my teams glo up. Black update:
Beat the Driftveil Gym yesterday and made it through Chargeston Cave. Also went to the Celestial Tower and did a bit of grinding afterwards to get my team to evolve before battling Skyla.
My team now:

Level: 36
Revenge, Scald, Razor Shell, X-Scissor

Level: 35
Work Up, Shadow Claw, Seed Bomb, Acrobatics

Level: 35
Fire Punch, Facade, Flare Blitz, Hammer Arm

Level: 39
Payback, Hi Jump Kick, Chip Away, Brick Break

Level: 37
Acrobatics, Ancient Power, Crunch, Dragon Breath
I was trying to wait until level 43 to get Crunch for Simisage, but the poor thing was getting his
salad ass tossed around by everybody as a Pansage so I had to evolve him

. Shadow Claw works just as well anyways. Will battle Skyla later.