Hey people. I've reached Hardy's gym in my normal monotype run. Generally I haven't had many problems in this run except Kiki and Amaria. My team isn't really optimized in terms of IVs and stuff like that because I find breeding and IV training tedious, but the natures are generally useful. Another problem is that I didn't fund all of the restoration projects so I think that means I am not able to get Lopunite, which is a bummer since I imagine mega-Lopunny would be useful. My team's the following.
Slaking --------- naive nature ---- Fist Plate
-Hammer Arm
-Strength
-Ice Punch
-Punishment
Porygon Z ------- Hasty nature ---- Wise Glasses ---- Adaptability
Trick Room/Thunder Wave/Psychic
Hyper Beam
Zap Cannon
Signal Beam
Diggersby ----- Gentle Nature ---- Iron Plate --- Huge Power
-Earthquake
-Strength
-Hammer Arm
-Iron Tail
Snorlax ----- Hardy Nature ---- Metal Coat --- Thick Fat
-Belly Drum
-Body Slam
-Amnesia
-Heavy Slam
Pyroar ----- Naive Nature --- Charcoal ---- Moxie
-Will-O-Wisp
-Overheat
-Headbut
-Crunch
Ditto ---- Quick Powder ---- Imposter
-Transform
Pidgeot ---- Naive Nature --- Pidgeotite
-Fly
-Hurricane
-Tailwind
-Mirror Move
Those are the Pokemon that are currently around lvl. 88-90.
My problem is pretty much that I have a hard time dealing with his opening of Aerodactyl and Gigalith. I'm not really able to do much against them since they destroy any opening I make unless I KO one of them. So far my best attempts have involved starting with paralyzing Aerodactyl and hitting Gigalith with Slakings Hammer Arm, which puts it to about 1/3rd hit points. Then I sent out Ditto to copy mega-Aerodactyl, hit Gigalith and send out Snorlax to hit Aerodactyl with Heavy Slam, which puts it in the red, but Aerodactyl KO's Ditto. I sent out Diggersby, he sends out Archeops. Snorlax OH's Archeops after it hurts Diggersby and Snorlax pretty bad and Diggersby wipes out Aerodactyl, but then Lycanroc pretty much destroys me. I don't really know what to do ... Anybody got any ideas for better mons or maybe a strategy I haven't seen. Anyone else done a Normal Mono-run?