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swansong March 22nd, 2010 3:54 PM

Extremely high defense, a progressively self-strengthening rollout, immunity to male gender attacks, and self-healing abilities all make the match difficult, and she is by far the only difficult gym leader of any early Pokemon game.

What worked for me was using status ailments. Burning and poisoning through stalling. Sleep and paralysis to stall and use items. Also, there is a lady who sells herbal medicine in the tunnel - pick up plenty of it.

Skystrike March 22nd, 2010 3:55 PM

Thunder Wave + mULIPLE PKMN + Repeated Embers + 1 lvl up.

Works every time. =D

Oh yeah -- female pokemon FTW.

Calvo819 March 22nd, 2010 4:11 PM

honestly i had no trouble what so ever from her miltanks RollOout and Stomp which killed almost all my other friends party in their games. the only thing i had trouble with where the miltanks Defenses. my moves barely scratched it ._.

Panfisha March 22nd, 2010 4:20 PM

Have a heracross at lvl 19, and a few x-attacks(I used 2) and use them on clefairy, as it can't do anything to you unless it gets a lucky metronome attack. Then when miltank comes out, you can 2 hit it.

.little monster March 22nd, 2010 4:23 PM

I *just* beat her, out of pure luck. XD

I beat her with just a Level 23 Bayleef, I killed her Clefairy easily. Her Miltank..I hit it twice. Once, then the second time I got a critical hit and it died.

X3;

§acred†Beo! March 22nd, 2010 4:57 PM

Clefairy was easy with my Mareep... Then Miltank took out two of my pokemon until Hearcross/Brick break= KO'd Cow haha..

Eggie Poo Poo March 22nd, 2010 5:06 PM

Why am I the only one who beat her in my first try in less than 5-10 minutes? Because I had a Gastly that knew Hypnosis and Curse that really owned Miltank, then I just mass Water Gun'd it with Croconaw.

I Tried Voodoo Once March 22nd, 2010 5:15 PM

Lol, i taught one of my pokemon taunt and embargo and she never got a chance to use milk drink or potions...
then killing her with growlithe was a breeze

Kokuo March 22nd, 2010 5:20 PM

I used a ton of X items and managed to paralyze it with stun spore, and it fell fairly quickly.

.Gamer March 22nd, 2010 6:21 PM

Aipom used Tickle! (x6)
(switch to Heracross)
Heracross used Brick Break!
Whitney's Miltank Fainted.

BassFace March 22nd, 2010 8:27 PM

Attract didn’t pose an issue for me, since I had my Level 24, female Quilava handle the entire battle. It was weak against Rollout, but it had also just learned Defense Curl.
While Clefairy (who I didn't consider a threat compared to Miltank) was out, I used Defense Curl over and over to build up an armor defense in preparation for Miltank and its super-effective Rollout. When Miltank came out, I fired one Smokescreen after another at it. Thanks to Defense Curl, Rollout and Stomp did barely anything, and thanks to Smokescreen, nearly all of Miltank’s attacks missed. I eventually started laying on the Flame Wheel, and ended up burning Miltank twice (the first time, its Lum Berry healed it).
I thought I had it in the bag there, but then came the Milk Drink. That just made the battle drag on and on, and I was afraid I’d have to wait until Miltank ran out of PP for that move. Luckily, though, I got a critical hit at just the right time, knocking Miltank out before it could heal itself again.

Overall, Whitney was annoying, but not too much of a problem. Morty, on the other hand…

SIN1488 March 22nd, 2010 8:32 PM

She seemed really easy to me? We are talking about the second or third gym leader, right?

If so, she was easy, I had a Teddiursa and it's level must have been about 20-22, I think it gained a level during that battle so that's why I'm not completely sure. I just kept using facade, and she went down fast. Maybe because my Teddiursa was traded from Platinum, and was EV trained, and had a good nature?

donavannj March 22nd, 2010 8:37 PM

Honestly, I just beat every trainer I had access to up to that point before facing her for the first and only time. I opened with Quilava, switching over to my female Geodude when I realized Miltank was just going to spam Stomp. It spammed Stomp with flinch hax about 6 times after I sent out Geodude before I got a chance to finish it off by spamming Magnitude.

ChrisTom March 22nd, 2010 9:21 PM

Ah yes, Whitney, the eternal conundrum. She's sometimes even worse than F.E.A.R.

The best thing to do is simply be smart with your moveset and team early on in the game. When I did it in HeartGold I had a Totodile, Mareep, and a miscelany of lower level Pokemon. It turned out better than I thought though. It seems in Gen IV that Whitney goes moreso for Stomp than Rollout. Just be smart and simplistic with your move choices. When all else fails trade that one kid for a Machop.

rocky505 March 22nd, 2010 9:21 PM

She was easy for me. I just let my Quilava weaken it down (Shockingly it didn't ever use Milk Drink) Quilava fainted I switched in my Shiny Pichu and finished it off with a volt tackle.

Niprop March 22nd, 2010 9:29 PM

My trusty Porygon zapped that Miltank with Thunder, once for the paralyzing effect, and again for the bang!


Sammi March 22nd, 2010 9:31 PM

I went into the gym with what I thought would be a winning strategy:
1) Beat Clefairy.
2) Send out Geodude.
3) Have it beat the crap out of Miltank eventually.

What ended up happening was this:
1) Eventually sent out my Slowpoke against Clefairy
2) Used a few Curses
3) KO'd Clefairy (after it used Transform, that was kind of trippy)
4) Decided 'hey why not have Slowpoke stay until it faints?'
5) Miltank only used Stomp, and Slowpoke is still buffed up, has good attack, and Headbutt.
6) Slowpoke wins on the first try! 8D

I really had expected Whitney to give me tons of issues, but it was Morty that did, because none of my Pokemon could take a hit from Shadow Ball... that battle took real strategy to win. And by strategy I mean luck. :(

Barker March 22nd, 2010 10:16 PM

I sacrificed my Gastly to curse it. Then pretty much just toyed with it till it died.

R3D March 22nd, 2010 10:35 PM

Ah yes, Whitney...I was busy checking if the gym still looked like a clefairy lol.Umm, she beat me once.
I used the same strat as patch, used my team to kill her clefairy and once she killed most of my pokes,
I used my female flaffy and thunderwaved and thundershocked tha cow.
I was actually pretty disappointed considering how hard she was in the gold and silver version.

loliwin March 22nd, 2010 10:57 PM

I had a Graveler from a friend that held the Earthquake TM. It was Level 28 (It will obey you if you beat Bugsy). It evolved into a Golem! This is gonna wipe out lots of Pokemon, thats for sure. It was Male. :)

And so this is my battle against her...

I send out Golem....
She sends out Miltank....
She uses Stomp...
Golem took some damage!
:O:O:O:O:O:O

It didnt flinch. Too lucky.

Then my Golem used Earthquake.

Miltank just died.

I did defeat her other Pokemon, but they werent as hard as her Miltank. :)

Impo March 22nd, 2010 11:00 PM

i bet her with my hitmontop :P from pearl. was lvl 23 or something.
it was way harder in the old games :P

Brendonwii March 23rd, 2010 12:19 AM

Hmmm i beat her in december (when i got the game)
Well it was a fluke...

Opposite Day March 23rd, 2010 12:19 AM

Simply put, I used something that should never ever be used by anyone no matter how desperate they are - Disable Slowpoke XD That, combined with 5 or 6 Yawns, allowed me to prevent it from Stompflinching me, though Slowpoke didn't do too much damage - Whitney used both of her super potions on it, making the battle very VERY tedious and long. (Did I mention that my slowpoke has Oblivious? ;D )

Yusshin March 23rd, 2010 12:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eggie Poo Poo (Post 5645055)
Why am I the only one who beat her in my first try in less than 5-10 minutes? Because I had a Gastly that knew Hypnosis and Curse that really owned Miltank, then I just mass Water Gun'd it with Croconaw.

I killed here in less than 3min with two Magical Leafs lol so you're not the only one; she was a wimp in comparison to my Chikorita Level 25.

shanecdavis March 23rd, 2010 2:35 AM

Okay, here is how it went down with my Lv17 Lonely Machop (Female):

Vs Clefairy
Turn 1: Machop uses Focus Energy, Clefairy uses Double Slap and hits FIVE TIMES!!!
Turn 2: Machop uses Karate Chop, Clefairy uses Grudge
Turn 3: Knowing I will lose all my PP with my next attack, Machop uses Low Kick to KO Clefairy

Vs Miltank
Turn 1: Miltank uses Stomp, Machop uses Karate Chop, Machop eats Sitrus Berry (thank you Pokewalker!)
Turn 2: Whitney uses Super Potion on Miltank, Machop uses Karate Chop
Turn 3: Whitney uses Stomp, Machop uses Karate Chop (CritHit) to KO Miltank

Machop gains 2 levels, Whitney cries, Shane shakes head expecting at least some kind of challenge and will have to use a lower level Machop or different Pokemon next time to try make it at least challenging. On to the next boring mono-type gym leader.


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