Let me start by saying the totally original Elite 4 in this game is awesome. Completely diverse teams, nice leveling, and so forth.
That being said! I lost three times to them (I generally follow a three try rule before attempting a new strategy) mostly because they outleveled me easily. So i went to nugget bridge and spam trained against the bridge trainers because they let you rechallenge them. I got all 6 of my team to level 60, and went back in for the final showdown!
The first E4 member,Robert, required me to use most of my team.
Doom, the second member was mostly easy.
And Fibbef, the third E4 member, was basically soloed by Zilla.
That just left the fourth member, Honeybun. He wasn't too hard, just made one too many mistakes.
Then I took on the champion.
Shockslayer himself. He was pretty tough..... if it weren't for how EPICALLY unbeatable a Scizor with good stats, sword dance, and steel wing is! It's been over 20 years since I first played a Gen 2 game, and I forgot how absolutely crushing the steel type used to be before the game evolved so much. Scizor one hit ko'd three pokemon in a row and even manhandled Shockslayers own Scizor. None of those pokemon were weak to steel, in fact, it was a water type, a sandslash, and a snorlax! Are you kidding me??? It was GRAND. I will forever use Scizor on any gen 2 run I do in the future!
My champions:
This is a
10/10 highly reccommend hack to try!!! I had a BLAST!
Its called Pokemon Crystal Clear, its made by ShockSlayer. It has its own site and discord, check it out!