4th Gen I heard Red was tough?

[Corrupted Yummer]

He wasnt too tough once you lost to him a few times and assemble a strategy based on your poke's lvls.

My team was
Typhlosion 66
Staraptor 57
Weavile 53
Ampharos 61
Suicune 47
graveler 44 (picked up on the way for pikachu) always did this in gold/silver.

since his team was boosted about 10lvls each poke i had to use the new weather effected battle "hail" to my advantage.
i eliminated all of his team pretty fast with only 3-5 revives/potions till i hit snorlax. managed to get him to swap it out then after a bit on lapras(only one not affected by the hail) i found the toughest, snorlax was back. couldnt do much since all his moves 1 or 2 hit my team. so i'd either revive and let hail work him over or sneak a flamethrower with typhlosion and repeat. since that kid had 3 full restores it took about 20 minutes. but it was quiet the epic battle. levels dont matter to much. come prepared.

 

[Yoak]

I'm toast... I'm struggling as it is.

Typhlosion Lvl 51
Poliwrath lvl 47
Togetic Lvl 46
Jumpluff lvl 47
Pupitar lvl 47
Jirachi lvl 49

How am I going to defeat blue

 

[Bolanboy]

I actually thought he was pretty easy, but all my Pokemon were 70-75.

Typhlosion
Crobat
Ampharos
Mismagius
Slowking
Kingler (HM slave)

Only little trouble I had was with his darn Snorlax. :<

 

[NDS525]

I'm guessing that Red is stronger in the remakes because of the stronger AI...

Be prepared and grind!
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[Kirbychu]

I beat him with Pokemon in the mid 50s; first try. It took tons of revives, and my trusty exploding Muk.

 

[Left4Dead]

I fought him with my team all around 58 (I have 5 Pokemon) & I got crushed, I tried a few more times but with no luck. So I did some training and I had:
Gliscor
Feraligatr
Flareon
Ampharos &
Togekiss
All at level 67

Sent out Gliscor 1st, Pikachu's Iron tail missed, boom, 1 earthquake and Pikachu is out.
He sent out Lapras and I sent out Ampharos, He used Blizzard & I used thunderbolt which paralyzed him then I used another, boom, Lapras is out.
Then out came Blastoise (WHY?? FAIL!) and the same thing happened with him.
Out comes Charizard, I healed up Ampharos but got killed by Flare blitz, he was paralyzed by Static and took a fair bit of damage off himself, I sent out my level 17 Nidoqueen and used a Max Revive on Ampharos. He kills Nidoqueen and Ampharos thunderbolts him.
Next up is Snorlax, Managed to Paralyze him with thunderwave but he kills me, Togekiss then comes out and I Aura Sphere him to death lol
Then out comes Venusaur and I switch to Gligar, Aerial Ace him a bit but he keeps healing and knocks me out with Giga Drain. I sent Togekiss back out and destroyed him with Air Slash. Boom, Red defeated. :D

 

[Xine]

i dunno why everyone's here seems have trouble with that pikachu o.0
i pwn Red with four lvl. 55 and two lvl 70 pokes, lol

my team that time was :
Tyranitar (lvl. 55)
Ho-oh (lvl. 70)
Mewtwo (lvl. 70)
Ampharos (lvl. 55)
Gyarados (lvl. 55)
Lugia (lvl. 55)

Tyranitar can pretty much OHKO Red's charizard and pikachu :)

(yes, this team suck. its because i want to beat the game really quick in my first runthrough in the japanese version)

 

[Katie_Q]

Reads all above posts. Sheesh I'm going to need to grind. Hard. *Starts having nightmares of Reds blastoise taking out her fire type team*

 

[Glow Worm's Not Glowing]

I just beat Red now. My team was underleveled, but I finally did it.

Tyranitar - lvl 62
Typhlosion - lvl 62
Ampharos - lvl 61
Breloom - lvl 54
Staraptor - lvl 38
Steelix - lvl 27

Staraptor and Steelix were mainly for insurance purposes so I didn't lose, but it was a tough fight. Pikachu kept pwning my Tyranitar until I finally went in there and he started missing, so I earthquaked him once and kaput. The rest of the battle was smooth sailing.

 

[PokemonLeagueChamp]

I had plenty of Full Restores, 5 regular Pokes, and my TRU Arceus. OHKO on EVERY SINGLE ONE of my first 5. Arceus utterly annihilated Red, barely taking damage.

 

[Chrono]

^ You should try beating him without any legends.

 

[TheClickKid]

Red stomped me. I got to his took down his pikachu and was murked by his Blastiose

 

[ILoveDragonite]

I just beat Red now. My team was underleveled, but I finally did it.

Tyranitar - lvl 62
Typhlosion - lvl 62
Ampharos - lvl 61
Breloom - lvl 54
Staraptor - lvl 38
Steelix - lvl 27

Staraptor and Steelix were mainly for insurance purposes so I didn't lose, but it was a tough fight. Pikachu kept pwning my Tyranitar until I finally went in there and he started missing, so I earthquaked him once and kaput. The rest of the battle was smooth sailing.

O_O ....... You beat him with that? God he must be over rated brb killing red.

 

[Gulpin]

He's actually fairly easy if you know what is super effective against his Pokemon. After Blue, my team was level 61, and after spending about 8 hours leveling my whole team to 75 through gym leader rematches I climbed Mr. Silver just to see if I would ever stand a chance. And I swept his team with no sweat. I think he only fainted like 2 of my team O.o

 

[-Jake]

On my second try I beat him with Pokemon in their early 70's. He actually isn't that difficult, it's just the first time I wasn't really thinking.

 

[インフェルノの津波]

I think he's only tough if you go in without a strategy or you don't know his team. If you do, it's a piece of cake.

 

[humanguy2000]

I've seen a video of battling red on youtube. His pokemon are from levels 80-90 I think.

 

[seal]

If you bring plenty of Full Restores, use Hail to your advantage and bring along LV70 Ho-oh and Mewtwo he isn't that hard.

 

[Famastar]

He was surprisingly easy for me, I just beat him with a team of 1 level 67 and the rest all around level 70. O.o

 

[TheGearofWar]

I used Gloom, Sneasel, Togetic, Teddiursa, and Chinchou. Most of his Pokemon were 2HKO's, so... Lol

He was pretty easy.