I´ve just finished the Elite Four.
It was a really fun one to play, it´s very challenging and hard but not impossible.
My final team was a Flygon, Cloyster, Wobbuffet, Gardevoir, Exeggutor and a Salamence.
I started with a Torchic but it revealed to be a bad choice, my Blaziken got quite useless as he would die 95% of the times with 1 super effective attack, I mainly played with him Exeggutor and Gardevoir until the 4th badge or something like that, then I got a Shellder and with the exp. share I made him a quite useful Cloyster. In Team Magma Hideout I got a Wobbufet that was quite hard to catch, but completely worth it and decided to give a chance to Castform also, but he was quite useless. In Victory Road I got a Gyarados to be my HM whore can carry Rock Smash, Surf, Strength and Waterfall.
The toughest parts in my opinion were the gyms, especially after the 3th badge (the hardest one for me was the 7th by far), some fights with Team Magma and Team Aqua, and Victory Road that was the most challenging part of the game I actually stopped playing the game so often because I thought I would never get through it but eventually made my way out. The Elite four is hard but I had more problems with some gyms than with that, the rare candies are a huge boost, maybe with double battles, it could be even more challenging.
Some tips for new players:
- Get a Ralts and an Exeggcute both can be caught early in the game. Wobbufet was also crucial to me, very important to beat legendary pokemon from gym trainers, I needed 2 of them to beat the 7th gym.
- Use Sweet Scent to catch Pokemons you want! This is mandatory if you don't want to lose your head trying to catch a specific pokemon with a 1% probability to appear.
- Natures can be crucial, but good pokemons have very small percentages of showing off and to catch a good pokemon with a good nature might take hours, even with the sweet scent, so manage it that the way you prefer
- Double battles are much harder than single ones, try to avoid them, most times it's possible to do that.
- It is not possible to buy Thunder that would be very useful against water and fly pokemon especially because lots of times it is raining.
- No Leech Seed, personally one of my favourite moves, but Giga Drain was updated to 80 of power instead of 60.
- No Swords Dance or Iron Defense.
- Use very carefully moves that put pkmns to sleep, poison, etc, because the opponents almost always have a Lum Berry, it is either that or leftovers.
- Choose very wisely the pokemon you put in a fight because if you make one bad choice you compromise your entire battle, this was literally the difference between winning or losing most of the battles
- Have fun
