Player: mondays suck
Type: Dragon
Badges: 8
Generation: III (Ruby)
Location: Ever Grande "City"
I decided to get a Salamence, so I first looked up where to get the Exp.Share and got it. Then went to Meteor Falls and caught Bagons. With the Master Ball and Ctrl+R. I wanted one with either +Atk (obvious) or +Sp.Def nature so it can survive Ice attacks, and - of course - I got a gentle one again.
Saved in front of Victory Road after beating some trainers (Bagon evolved) and having some moveset changes.
^I hate automatical spoiler splitting
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Player: mondays suck
Type: Dragon
Badges: 8
Generation: III (Ruby)
Location: Littleroot
As you can probably guess from above, I beat the Elite 4 now. After passing Victory Road, I first did some grinding, and when Shelgon was at level 45, I decided I was not in grinding mood anymore. So I saved, fed the 11 Rare Candies I had collected throughtout the game to it, and went into Sidney's room, just to see how far I can get. And I got far.
*bulbagarden.net image removed*Pretty easy. Because of Intimidate, I didn't Brick Break the Mightyena with Salamence, I used Dragon Claw instead. Then switched to Flygon which OHKOd the Cacturne and the Sharpedo. Salamence easily defeated the rest then, even though Shrifty could take a hit (but it used Double Team and I didn't miss the next turns (turns because of the Full Restore that was used the next turn))
*bulbagarden.net image removed*I always have problems against her, but this time it was different. Flygon OHKOd both Dusclops with Crunch, failed to OHKo the first Banette, but still beat it and somehow killed the Sableye because of its inferior stats. I let Salamence deal with the last Banette. It beat it, but got poisoned. So, after the battle, I used a Hyper Potion on Flygon and a Full Heal on Salamence.
*bulbagarden.net image removed*As expected, she caused problems. But not as much as expected. Salamence could barely not OHKO the Glalies and Sealeos. The first 2 of them wasted their time doing something else. The second Sealeo OHKOd Salamence with Ice Beam (stupid useless +Sp.D nature, I should have really went with +Atk instead...), but died to something from Flygon. The Glalie couldn't OHKO Altaria, so I revived Salamence, weakened it, and again KOd with Flygon. Walrein was harder, here I had to use some more revives. But since I had 2 Pokemon left when it came in, it wasn't that hard to beat. As soon as one of its Blizzards missed, Salamence reentered the battle in the next turn and did some serious damage to it. Luckily, it was out of Blizzard PP at that time and decided to use Body Slam (doesn't it have Ice Beam?), which did nothing due to Intimidate. Another Brick Break KOd. Revived whatever was still dead (I think it was Flygon) and healed my team after the battle.
*bulbagarden.net image removed*Salamence OHKOd the Shelgon with Dragon Claw, Altaria OHKOd anything else with Ice Beam. Easiest of the Elite 4.
*bulbagarden.net image removed*Flygon couldn't OHKO Skarmory, which set up some useless Spikes in its only turn in which it didn't get Full Restore'd. Next was Aggron, it got OHKOd. Next was Metagross, which did some really serious damage to Flygon with Meteor Mash (probably it was a crit, but I'm not sure) after surviving an Earthquake. The next turn, it died. Steven's next Pokemon, Claydol, was by far more annyoing. Because of the Light Screen it soon set up, Altaria could only maybe 4HKO with Ice Beam, and Claydol got a lot of Full Restores. Toxic helped to wear it down. Next was Cradily. Salamence got rid of the Screens and 2HKOd it at the cost of some minor damage by Ancient Power (thanks to Intimidate). His last Pokemon, Armaldo, was the hardest (of his team, not of the entire E4 (that would of course be Walrein) of course), even though it was by far not as annoying as Claydol. It took a lot less than Cradily from Brick Break (about 1/3, I forgot about its Bug typing) and because of its way higher attack compared to Cradily, it KOd Salamence with Ancient Power. But Flygon's Earthquake did surprisingly much and KOd.
I didn't even notice I forgot to deposit the slaves, but I didn't use them anyways. Otherwise I would have had a lot less problems against Walrein, but even if I would have done it, it would have been even less fair than my Revive-abusing already was. Oh well, she had an unfair advatage of all my Pokemon being 4x weak to hers as well :D
Team (funny how not just all of them are Dragons, in fact all of them are female Dragons with -Defense natures and a 4x Ice weak):
Tyltalis / Altaria f Lv.60 @ King's Rock
Gentle Nature / Natural Cure
- Ice Beam
- Dragonbreath
- Aerial Ace
- Toxic
I didn't use it very much in the Elite 4, except for the Drake battle where it reigned surpreme. While Altaria was offensively not as good as Flygon or later Salamence, its superior defenses made it equally useful to the others.
Omnom / Flygon f Lv.60 @ King's Rock
Lonely Nature / Levitate
- Crunch
- Giga Drain
- Flamethrower
- Earthquake
Probably my MVP, since I obtained Salamence way too late, in fact I never used it in a battle outside the Elite 4.
Salami / Salamence f Lv.57 @ /
Gentle Nature / Intimidate
- Dragon Claw
- Headbutt
- Brick Break
- Fly
Horrible moveset, but that did not really matter since Brick Break and Dragon Claw were already enough to take care of stuff. During the Elite 4 this was my best Pokemon, but due to the reasons mentioned in Flygon's comment, this is my LVP.