- Made it through easily enough, and at the end was a kid named Wally.
Not much to say here, his team isn't that great, even Magneton didn't put up much of a fight.
- After I grinded my team to L52-54, I got some of the items around Sinnoh, like the Silk Scarf and NeverMeltIce.
- I also bought a Flamethrower TM from the Game Corner and maxed out the EVs of my team.
- Prior to the Elite Four, Lazy and Barb were at L52, Zagger was at L53, and Saul was at L54 and knocking on L55.
- So, first up was Sidney. :
Well, he was underleveled, so it didn't take much. Switched Lazy out and in a couple times due to his ability, and I didn't even heal after this fight. Barb and Lazy did most of the work.
- Phoebe with her Ghosts was next. I debated teaching someone Shadow Ball, and it would've helped due to it's physical typing, but I didn't do it:
Pheobe is a real pain with her Dusclops, who are hard to kill and have that annoying Pressure ability. I eventually made it through with Saul coming on at the end to take down her final Dusclops.
- Before this one, I taught Zagger Return (for Crush Claw) and also taught Barb Strength to replace the less powerful Secret Power. Glacia and her Ice Pokemon are a pain because of Hail and Sheer Cold:
Lost once due to Lazy being my last Pokemon, which gave Walrein 3 opportunities to fire Sheer Cold since Thunderbolt didn't 2HKO him, and at last it hit. The second time around, I was able to get Zagger a Swords Dance, and he finished off the second Saleo, then OHKOed Glalie and Walrein with Return.
- Drake's Dragons are up next:
Lazy led and took out Shelgon and Altaria, then fell to Flygon. Barb came on with three Ice Beams left, and OHKOed both Flygons with 2 of em. He then fell to Salamance without being able to fire off the last one. Zagger came out and was only able to hurt Salamence, and was 2HKOed by Dragon Claw. Saul was able to get a few Facades in, then after he was hit by Dragon Claw, Salamence started using Fly. Well, Saul is faster, so he just used Fly along with him, and eventually took Salamence down.
- Prior to fighting Steven, I taught Flamethrower to Barb (replaced Shock Wave) and Focus Punch to Lazy (replaced Thunderbolt). I also used Rare Candies to get everyone level with Saul's L55. Now I was ready for a fierce fight.
I did lose once here because even a triple Swords Danced Zagger using Dig couldn't OHKO Cradily (left him with like 15 HP). So here's the winning ticket:
Barb led, and 2HKOed Skarmory with Flamethrower. Armaldo came out, so I switched to Lazy and used Yawn. After a couple AncientPowers, Armaldo fell asleep, and Lazy used Focus Punch. Steven used a Full Restore, so I Yawned again, and this time 2HKOed him with Earthquake, only having 10 HP left. Claydol came out and took down Lazy while he was loafing around. I sent out Zagger, and he used 3 Swords Dances while Claydol used 2 Earthquakes and Reflect. Return then OHKOed Claydol. Aggron was up next, and Zagger used Dig for the OHKO while he used Thunder. Cradily came out, and instead of using Dig this time, I was able to OHKO with Return! 153/2 = 76.5 > 66 (Dig with Soft Sand)! Zagger also grew to L56 from a flat L55, lol. Anyway, Metagross was Steven's final Pokemon, and I accidentally had Zagger use Return instead of Dig, and Metagross didn't die and killed Zagger with Psychic. Saul came out and couldn't do anything and went down meekly. He was OHKOed with Hyper Beam. Now Barb was my last hope, and she was poisoned by Skarmory's Toxic earlier, but Flamethrower was enough to finish off Metagross!