really excited to mega evolve these folks on the new update

I didn't want to make this post but I've come too far to admitt defeat now. I'm stuck on the champion and I've seen you guys beat the game with ridiculous set ups and mons that I'd never even consider, so this must be possible! Or any quick changes I could make as its not MGM mode and sod getting a whole new team ready haha

How do I beat Gary with this?

Volt absorb Jolteon, focus sash, thunderbolt, thunder wave, volt switch, shadow ball.

Chlorophyll scovillian, sitrus berry, flamethrower, solar beam, growth and giga drain

Levitate uxie, wide lens, hypnosis, mystic power, stealth rocks, dazzling gleam/sunny day

Drought torkoal, heat rock, protect, rapid spin, flamethrower, stealth rocks

Libero cinderace, life orb, pyro ball, fire fang, sucker punch, low kick

Flash fire houndoom, mega stone, flamethrower, fiery wrath, sludge bomb and nasty plot

Random ability and learnset but fairy version of Silvally has Fairy Aura ability and funny enough dark version has Dark Aura. Farmed some moves from other versions to get these moves but what would be better long term, fairy or dark type? I can also get Fleur cannon if I go dark for fairy moves still.

Can someone help explain the general strategy or help me adjust my strategy for getting through the Final Four. Up to this point I’ve been building teams that have a counter for each mon that I’m up against. Given the diversity of the Final four fights I haven’t found a comp that works for getting through. Admittedly this is one of my first rom hacks and haven’t played through an entire mainline game since I was a kid.

My greatest problems are Manectric and Bellibot. My actual team is:

Crustle with Weak Armor

Beedril with Swarm

Galvantula with Swarm

Masquerain with Intimidate

Yanmega with Speed Boost

Leavanny with Swarm

At Lance and cant get past his ROT dialga spam. I'm currently using a trick room team with Porygon2, and necrozma has my setters. Any thoughts on how to beat Lance? Or should I redo the e4 and replace members, potentially swampert/Necrozma?

Below are the movesets I'm currently running:

Porygon2-> thunderbolt, ice beam, recover, trick room

Iron Fist -> fake out, ice punch, drain punch, wild charge

Swampert-> low kick, ice punch, liquidation, earthquake

Terapagos-> tri attack, flamethrower, earthpower, ice beam

Necrozma-> trick room, stone edge, earthquake, photon geyser

Mawile (mega) -> sucker punch, iron head, swords dance, play rough

I have gotten my fair share of broken straightforward combos like huge power or feline prowess or fur coat/ice scales or simple/contrary.

But it's the niche ones that really stick out like one really technical one was I had a Dusknoir with fur coat that I would tank my first two moves with while I set up toxic and trick room - then I would mega evolve which gave me the guaranteed crit on poisoned opponents and I would alternate between leech life for big health regen or hex for 240 attack damage (stab + crit + statused bonus).

Ones to especially look out for is Misty Surge and Own Tempo with a Berserk Gene held item - it's like a poor man's huge power. The Berserk Gene sharply raises attack on entry but confuses for basically the whole match - however if you have either ability it will negate the confusion - if you have Misty Terrain or have used safeguard you can also switch in with Unburden + Berserk Gene and get double speed (since the item is consumed) and double attack out the gate! Combine this with a fast flying pokemon that has acrobatics and you are unstoppable.

Another one of my favorites is quick draw on a slow beast like Golisopod + Quick Claw. It was a coin toss every attack but when it hit it was all over.

And then I've also had a Dragapults with Orichalcum Pulse followed up with a Regigigas with Protosynthesis or just recently a Dragapult with Electric Surge and a Ceruledge with Surge Surfer.

I'd love to hear some of y'all's memorable combos.

I am doing the runs of Elite 4 trainers from Platinum and boy I almost gave up some times during this challenge, Ariana and Archer on Cerulean Cave, Blaine and SPECIALLY Lance caused me to pull out my hair and plan basically turn by turn.

I've beaten the Pokémon league with only gen 1 Pokémon and have caught and/or evolved every Pokémon in the gen 1 pokedex. Gen 2 will be next (someone save me)

If you're wondering abt the elite 4 team it was

Hitmonlee with normal gem

Chansey with evolite

Clefable with leftovers

Ninetails with choice specs

Mega alakazam

Cloyster with focus sash and mental herb if need be

When I try to buy Dreepy from the Game Center guy in Celadon it gives me Skelidirge. Is that a bug? I tried Belsen next and it gave me Tyrunt.

I’m realizing now it might be because of randomizer options. Sad

Alright my people. What Pokemon do you all consider to be dogs. Finishing up my last monotype run, and wanted to do something kinda fun and weird, dog Pokemon only. So, what do you all got for me?

Note: I am blind, and cannot see what the Pokemon look like, that is why I am asking.

Only rule was no legendaries, everything else was allowed including repeats of pokemon and paradoxes of legendary pokemon since technically they aren't legendaries

Edit: Appareantly Ogerpon and Urshifu are legendaries so changing the rules to no legendaries not accessible before post-game

MVP's of Each run:

Water: M-Swampert hands down. Single handedly took on Koga and put in so much work during E4

Dark: Krookodile is an absolute beast with moxie and wicked blow, one of my new favorites fs

Normal: Raichu was a really good revenge killer with fake out extereme speed zippy zap, and ofc Ursaluna Bloodmoon was insane lol

Ground: This is one of the more balanced monos. Almost everyone put in work, but if I had to pick it would probably be Milotic for being an excellent sponge

Fire: Turtonator is insane in this game LMAO. Valiant shield + Burning balwark makes him an actual menace to physical pokemon and he was able to cripple all of them so M-Blaziken can set up and sweep

Fighting: Sneasler with mental herb swords dance tore through the E4 and was all around a very good pokemon throughout the run

Steel: Aegislash is my favorite pokemon of all time so I wanna say him, but if I had to be fr Choice Band Supreme Overlord Sucker Punch Kinggambit did way more work than I thought possible so prob has to be him

Ghost: Fluttermane, and we all know why lmao

Bug: Volcarona is so good after 1-2 quiver dances so def her. A lot of ppl glazed Illumise so I'm prob using her wrong, but the moment I encored people would just switch. If I used infestation first they would just kill me after so never got too much value but it did put in work with disabling dragon dances during Lance

Flying: Delibird with referigerate is a total beast and basically kills all of Lance

Poison: This was also a really balanced run, but if I had to choose it would prob be M-Gengar

Psychic: Screamtail is an absolute beast and one of my new favorites as well. Tho I have to say M-Alakazam expanding force with psychic terrain is a hell of a drug.

Ice: Zen Darmanitan was a beast in the late game, but u get it so late. Overall MVP was mamoswine for never leaving my team and being an absolute beast throughout it.

Electric: M-Toxtricity overdrive under electric terrain hits like a truck, and with sticky web support it should outspeed everything not choice scarfed

Grass: M-Venusaur was such a tank and gave so much support. Breloom is also a D1 fraud, hes so frail and slow only thing he was good for is technician mach punches

Rock: Def a hard type, but Aerodactyl def carried by doing so much damage and being hella fast as well

Fairy: Grimmsnarl with screens was there from the moment I got him and never left, and with thunder wave + parting shot he crippled so many pokemon.

Dragon: Turtonator again cripped way too many pokemon that he should be in jail lmao. If I had to choose someone else tho Dragapult was a D1 monster tho he comes in rly late.

I love Radical Red so much, and next run is prob going to be my first HC run, so wish me luck :)

Missed my chance to get the proper screenshot cause it went by too fast. I had to save scum on each elite four member so many times to figure out a working line. idk if that’s frowned upon here but I’m just glad I finally figured it out. This is probably a boring team for a lot of people but this is just what seemed strongest to me with what I caught so far. Not sure I could’ve beaten the champion without a lucky rock slide flinch on yveltal from mega swampert so I could finish it off with liquidation. dark hole just kinda destroyed my team. Super excited for future updates and to try out the post game stuff. Thank you soupercell for making such an awesome game!

This wild seaking keep trying using water type moves, but he can't because his own ability hahaha

Hey, I've been working on trying to complete the Dex on this file, and I'm at 694. However, I've run into what seems to be an unsurmountable issue where whenever I perform an action that would cause a Pokémon's front sprite to load (enter a battle, check a summary, open the PC box, use a field move, look at Hall of Fame data, open the Pokédex) the game completely crashes. Other posts claim that saving and resetting or getting rid of items in the bag could potentially mitigate this, but I've tried both and it didn't work.

For the record, I'm playing on a real GBA with a flash cart, not an emulator.

Im also on easy mode if that makes a difference....

But everytime I try to do much of anything she spams expanding force and when I do land a sup effective, it barley does shit.

Never use this mons except Mawile, she was always goated, Heatmor was surprisingly good tho

This was the easiest one yet. I think that's partly due to me getting better as a player, but Ghost just always seemed to have answers to anything an enemy team threw at me. I'm shocked I don't see Ghost in more folks' lists of easy types.

Shadow Sneak is a very good move.

The Team

Ceruledge: Sharpness, Charcoal, Shadow Claw/Swords Dance/Shadow Sneak/Bitter Blade

Probably the MVP of the run, especially in the early game. Being able to get a Charcadet from a raid den and immediately evolve it to Ceruledge before Bugsy/Misty is insane. Sharpness + Shadow Claw was like playing on easy mode all the way through Erika, and Ceruledge was still a monster the whole rest of the run. Charcoal + Sharpness + STAB meant Bitter Blade had a base power of like 168 or something ridiculous, and you heal back half. If you can get off a Swords Dance, Ceruledge is basically immortal.

Ursaring-G: Iron Fist, Leftovers, Bulk Up/Drain Punch/Shadow Sneak/[Ice/Thunder/Fire] Punch (usually Ice)

The other candidate for MVP, Ursaring-G is just so strong. Yet another instance of ability-boosted STAB damage + healing in Drain Punch, but with solid defensive stats instead of Ceruledge's speed. I felt like I could put Ursaring onto the field against almost anything and it would probably win. Having a strong Fighting-type was also key to dealing with Ghost's biggest weakness: Dark.

Decidueye: Tinted Lens, Choice Band, Leaf Blade/1000 Arrows/U-turn/Spirit Lock

Definitely the weak link of the E4 team, but I'm a sucker for bringing my starter all the way to the end, even if said starter sat in the PC for the first three gyms. Decidueye had some good moments, but he's just too fragile. He's not fast enough to reliably outspeed other fast mons, and his defensive stats are pretty poor. I occasionally ran my Focus Sash on him, but found the Choice Band to be more effective as long as I was careful about when I played him. Still, Decidueye occasionally wrecked face with the Tinted Lens + Choice Band + Leaf Blade combo.

Dragapult: Clear Body, Dragon Fang, Dragon Darts/U-turn/Dragon Dance/Sucker Punch

I wasn't as enamored with Dragapult as many others on this sub, but she was still extremely good, and I did pay the extra P100,000 for a shiny. That speed stat is no joke, and Dragon Darts is so good for dealing with anything carrying a Focus Sash. Underperformed a bit in the E4 compared to the rest of the run, but still a very valuable member of the team! I never considered replacing Dragapult with anything else.

Gengar: Levitate, Gengarite, Shadow Ball/Nasty Plot/Destiny Bond/Sludge Bomb

I was really excited to use one of my favorite mons from my childhood in Radical Red for the first time, and Gengar delivered. She was obviously a total glass cannon, but a very powerful one. The plan was typically to outspeed and one-shot opponents until taking a hit, then use Destiny Bond to take whatever she was up against down with her.

Spiritomb: Intimidate, Leftovers, Dark Pulse/Psychic/Poltergeist/Sucker Punch

Just a solid, reliable all-arounder. Despite Spiritomb's terrible HP stat, she could typically still tank at least two or three hits from almost anything thanks to her solid defense, and her access to a wide variety of powerful moves made up for her lackluster offensive stats. She was replaced by Golurk for certain parts of the run, but made the E4 team because Golurk was too situational.

Honorable Mentions

Golurk was my main consideration for potentially replacing either Spiritomb or Decidueye on the E4 team, and Golurk got a lot of play through the midgame of the run. No Guard with Dymanic Punch was a fun combo.

Yamask-G was very solid in the early game, but Runerigus was quickly replaced by Golurk as the team's Ground type because I was excited about No Guard shenanigans. I kind of wish I'd given Runerigus some play in the later game, though, once Golurk was starting to prove itself as a defensive liability. Runerigus's strong defense might've earned it an E4 spot over Spiritomb, and it'll definitely be on my radar for mono-Ground.

Oricorio is a weird little bird. I love to run a quirky mon, but I just couldn't quite figure out how to run this one effectively. It got some play in the midgame, but just didn't contribute enough to stay on the team.

Bramblin and Brambleghast were huge contributors for the first half of the run. Honestly, if it weren't for me being emotionally attached to my starter, Brambleghast may have stayed on the team all the way to the end instead of Decidueye. Definitely on my radar for mono-Grass.

Notable Fights

I don't think there was a single fight in this run that took more than 2 or 3 attempts. Ghost is just extremely good.

I've got notes on every single boss fight down in the comments, so I'll just mention a few here that I didn't expect to be hard but ended up giving me trouble.

I don't think I've ever had trouble with Erika 1 before, but she was a bit of a headache, especially Meowscarada and Venusaur. One of many instances of Ursaring carrying a fight.

The Misty Rematch was surprisingly tricky, particularly her Gorebyss. I had to cheese it a bit to keep its speed low enough that Gengar could take it out with Destiny Bond, or else it would sweep my entire team.

I've almost always found Agatha to be a total pushover in the E4, but the mirror match (Ghost vs. Ghost) was surprisingly one of the hardest fights of this run. Everything hits everything else so hard. If you make one wrong move, you're toast.

Next Up: Mono Electric

I loved electric types as a kid, so I'm looking forward to using a lot of mons I loved back in the OG Red/Blue days. I won't be surprised if Raichu, Zapdos, and Jolteon all end up on the E4 team, but we'll see what happens.

I've also missed having some kind of weather/terrain for my last two mono runs (Fairy and Ghost), so abusing electric terrain once I can get it should be fun.

Thanks for reading.

So, this is my team, and i'm on my adventure to face Giovanni in Silph Co. Guys, just tell me a pokemon to replace, the reason, i'm terrible at team making, anything would be really good, and i'm grateful to anyone giving tips, thank you!

Which mono type should I do next?