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Seen January 19th, 2019
Posted November 18th, 2012
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11.8 Years
What is your policy on saving when you are challenging the Elite 4 + Champion? Do you save before starting the challege, and never again until you defeat all 5 Trainers? Do you save after each one?

Unless I don't think I can defeat the Elite 4 (if for whatever reason, I wanted to try anyway), in which case I will not save once I start the challenge, I will save after defeating each Trainer. This has always been my policy.

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Seen November 12th, 2011
Posted August 31st, 2011
86 posts
11.9 Years
I used to save after each one, but now I don't bother because if I lose once, I most likely will not win under the exact same circumstances. Unless I lost because of an unlucky crit.
I have stopped my challenges for now, as they've become boring.. I may or may not restart them.

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I usually save before entering the first elite four member's chamber, I usually beat the 1st and 2nd members without saving in between.
After that, I save before the 3rd and 4th elite four battles as well as the Champion.
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Seen December 7th, 2011
Posted September 30th, 2011
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11.8 Years
I always save before battling each and every member.

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I used to do that but i thought to myself 'What if the last guy kicks my ass? and i can't defeat him O.o'. I never save during the elite 4 just incase.

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Posted February 6th, 2020
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I save before, of course, and the only second time I save, is right before the champion, and only if I think I can take him on at that point. It's because, if you save after each member, and halfway you discover that you actually can't take the next one on, or that you should have used another strategy with the previous one that could have prevented e.g. a team member from fainting, you can't start over, and I don't want to put myself in the position where I know I'm not gonna make it, but I can't go back because I saved. It would be a waste of items and money.

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Posted June 3rd, 2012
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14.4 Years
Yeah, I save before I challenge each member. It just saves me the frustration of having to start the whole thing all over again if one member gets a lucky crit or I make some dumb mistake like clumsily selecting Earthquake on a Flying foe when I was aiming for Rock Slide. I usually win anyway, so it's just for insurance.
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Posted June 27th, 2013
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I usually save before and then never again unless I feel I'm in dire straits upon the next one like if I was running low on healing items or the next E4 had focused on a particular type I have trouble defeating.

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I save before facing each Elite Four member. That way if something stupid happens I don't have to battle the whole lot of them over again. I usually go in there with high enough levels and enough items to feel confident about winning but sometimes things happen...

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Posted August 8th, 2013
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12.6 Years
Wait is this for the first time through? If not I just run through it, absolutly no doubt in my mind ill make it through. The only reason I save in the e4 is if a got to go somewhere and i dont want to leave my game on.
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Posted December 10th, 2011
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11.9 Years
Firstly i save before entering the first E4 member's room, then after i beat him, i save and proceed to the next room, and so on..
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I want to save if I know I would actually have a chance on beating all of them.

If I barely defeated the first Elite Four member, there's no way I can beat the others, so I don't save and move on and most likely lose anyway.
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I usually save before and then never again unless I feel I'm in dire straits upon the next one like if I was running low on healing items or the next E4 had focused on a particular type I have trouble defeating.
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Seen July 26th, 2013
Posted August 23rd, 2012
29 posts
13.6 Years
Always saved in GBA versions, every Elite4 and just before the Champion but now I just save before Elite4 and just before Champion. I saved before and after each Elite4 in B/W because they each had different types of Pokemon than what the other E4 usually has. (In other words, I got scared)


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mikey

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I save before every E4 member, just in case.

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I used to, but now I don't. Now my Absol (Gilbert) and Eelektross (Ravis) are level 100, and can oneshot most of their pokemon, I just leave Gilbert or Ravis in the back of my party in case I do get into a mess.
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