-- I Beat Ciel, Thanks for the Help! --
Hello, this is my first playthrough of reborn, and I have been doing fine until Ciel. I think my team should be able to beat her, but Talonflame has been one-shotting the remainder of my team by the time I get to it, and I am running on exactly 1 hp with Magnezone's sturdy when she pulls out mega Altaria.
My general strategy, in order:
Scrafty one shots togekiss with head smash, scraggy faints from recoil
Magnezone one shots archeops with discharge, switches out
Swampert takes down Gliscor with a bunch of surfs, Ciel uses all of her potions here. Noivern revenge kills Swampert.
Gardevior takes out Noivern, gets revemge killed by talonflame
Typically, it all works up till this point.
The F*king talonflame out speeds the remainder of my team. If it sets up swords dance, it one shots arcanine and noivern with acrobatics, and then pops my air balloon and leaves magnezone at 1 hp for altaria with flare blitz.
Otherwise, it's a battle of attrition between arcanine and talonflame, and talonflame comes out on top after a couple of acrobatics. It usually sets up swords dance in this process too. Noivern gets one shot, and I'm stuck in the same place as above with magnezone.
Suggestions would be appreciated, Thanks!
My team:
Swampert | 73 EV: 252 DEF, 118HP, 40 ATK, 40 SPATK, 51 Speed - I know these are all over the place, but as my starter there isn't much I can do now
Splash Plate
Ability: Torrent
Nature: Calm
Hammer Arm
Rock Slide
Surf
Earthquake
Scrafty | 74 EV: 252 ATK, 252 SPD
Hard Stone (So I can one-shot togekiss with head smash), usually she has the wide lens
Ability: Intimidate
Nature: Naughty
High Jump Kick
Head Smash
Drain Punch
Crunch
Magnezone | 74 EV: 252 SPATK, 252 SPD
Air Balloon
Ability: Sturdy
Nature: Naughty
Discharge
Flash Cannon
Magnet Rise
Thunder Wave
Noivern | 74 EV: 165 SPATK, 165 SPATK, 174 SPD - Initially wanted a mixed sweeper, regretting not doing max speed and special attack now
Draco Plate
Ability: Infiltrator
Nature: Brave
Dragon Pulse
Hurricane
Roost
Boomburst
Gardevior | 74 EV: 152 SPATK, 128 SPDEF, 230 SPD - Wanted a bulkier special attacker, probably should have done HP rather than SPDEF
Mind Plate
Ability: Syncronize
Nature: Adamant
Psychic
Calm Mind
Moonblast
Draining Kiss
Arcanine | 72 EV: 25HP, 30ATK, 47 DEF, 143 SPATK, 13 SPDEF, 252 SPD - I'm awful with EV's... didn't get flare blitz since I evolved too early
Black Belt (no fire boosting items)
Ability: Intimidate
Nature: Brave
Flamethrower
Rock Smash
Close Combat
Crunch
Backups in PC:
Leavanny | 71
Miracle Seed
Ability: Chlorophyll
Nature: Rash
X-Scissor
Leaf Storm
String Shot
Swords Dance
I've got a number of other misc mon's but I don't want to level them up if I don't have to - all the remainder have always sat in my pc
I've got plenty of money, but I only have one hyper potion, one max potion, and 5 max revives. My problem is, the only place a revive would be useful is on magnezone, but by then the balloon has popped and it's easy prey for altaria.