[Glass Workstation Gauntlet Help]

4 hours ago, Edo said:

Okay, so for the way the healing works, after the first battle your team is completely healed as you already noticed, but after the second fight only the pokemon alive get healed, those that are fainted won't be revived, so try to keep as many alive as possible in the second fight.

 

Then, if you don't mind doing this, it is possible to quick save inbetween battles, so you won't have to redo a fight after winning anymore.

 

As for the doubles, I usually go about it by paralyzing the weaker opponent and then don't attack them. I take care of the other trainer first, so that it ends up as a 2vs1 in my favor, making the rest much easier.

You could try using your Rotom to paralyze, then focus on the other mon. For the third battle, I would choose to paralyze the Clefable and then leave it alone since it's one of the weakest mons you will have to deal with during that fight. (On a side note, Frost Rotom doesn't have the best defensive typing, so if you want a more beneficial typing I'd go with Wash Rotom)

And since that Clefable likes to use Thunder Wave, having Rotom and so many Ground types will be useful actually. The thing is though that it knows Blizzard, so keep that in mind and hope it gets paralyzed and misses several times. But since it's not STAB it definitely won't hit as hard as the Ninetales.

 

If you still have trouble, it might be worth to level up your Larvesta. Heat Wave is a very helpful move for the Glass gauntlet, since half or more of the mons are weak to Fire. If you bring a sun setter like Ninetales on top of that it would help out a ton.

Okay the healing thing is pretty good to know, will try to keep as many as possible alive. I already switched rotom to fan form but I can try Wash. Paralyzing the opponents is interesting but my main strategy was to go discharge+EQ so I am not sure how much that will help. I think my rotom has a free slot one its move set tho, so I can try and add it. 

 

Lastly, I have actually decided to train up Volcorona since it seemed useful, am also training up a Tyranitar as my sandstorm setter instead of Hippowdon.

 

The real question is how to deafet the Weville in fight two. Whatever I lead with in fight one needs to be able to beat it, and if they send in Gothiette(?) next then it has to beat that also (shadow tag). I was thinking of trying Tyranitar first and giving it the super effective resist fighting berry and maybe defense EVs but I am unsure if that will allow it to live a brick break... I could try Volcorona first I suppose, but then of course the focus sash Weaville is gonna get me, unless I get a lucky burn, with heat wave or flame body.

 

Well, I got a lot of grinding to do before I can give it another shot. Thanks for the suggestions!

[Glass Workstation Gauntlet Help]

9 hours ago, Edo said:

since you already have Excadrill I would recommend using that. With a Sand streamer like Hippowdon you can easily let Excadrill sweep

and you could use that chance to bring in Flygon and set up Ddance while excadrill hits both opponents with Earthquake

but I would advise also getting Rock slide on Flygon and Excadrill, maybe even Swampert (primarily for Shelly, but also useful later)

Well I went ahead and tried that and got to the third fight... you get healed in between fights one and two but not fight three, and of course they presumably have 12 Pokemon. After many attempts I got to fight three but lost turn 1. Don't really understand how beating that is possible. Any tips on how to play the fight. rather then just what to use? I have tried to Ddance Flygon but tons of the opponents have fairy moves so it seems really hard to even get Flygon set up, additionally the double battle nature often sees Flygon get hit by both enemies and die. Excadrill is somewhat easy to set up but eventually goes down too. 

 

The first fight isn't too much trouble anymore, Rotom+Any Ground Type does a lot of work and I have four on my team for this fight (Maybe that is too many?). Fight two is tricky all the Pokemon do tons of damage and outspeed most of my team, if I lead with Excadrill it wont have sandstorm up, and if I lead with anything other than Excadrill getting it to swords dance and not just get imploded is difficult, especially considering the opponents know sucker punch, meaning that even if I live the first hit, I sure wont be getting a chance to attack. I haven't seen much of the thrid fight since I only had two Pokemon left and my Flygon immediately eat a blizzard.

 

So if you have any more tips it would be appreciated. 

[Glass Workstation Gauntlet Help]

This seems impossible I cant even get past the first double battle and according to the wiki there are multiple fights after. Looking for help on building a team to beat this. 

 

Note: No Items + Set Mode, so I cant just spam full restores. 

 

Pokemon

Rotom (ICE) 89 (Special+Speed) Discharge, Dark Pulse, Blizzard, Double Team

Flygon 87 (attack+speed) Dragon Claw, Earthquake, Fly, D Dance

Arcanine 86 (Attack+Speed) Flamethrower (RIP FLAME BLITZ), Close Combat, Xtreme Speed, Strength

Swamert 88 (Attack+HP) Waterfall, Earthquake, Superpower, Rocksmash

Metagross 86 (Attack+Speed) Meteor Mash, Zen Headbutt, Bullet Punch, Bulldoze

Slyveon 86 (Pixalate)(HP+Defense) Hyper Voice, Quick attack, Light screen, Work up

 

And in my box I have a lot of untrained stuff and a few trained mons

Blissey (HP Defense)

Excadrill (Attack Speed)

Hippowdon (HP Defense?)

 

Other useful mons includes; larvitar, larvesta, gastly, axew, gible. 

 

I probably want to remove Slyveon and Arcanine for this fight, since Slyveon will get annihilated by all the posion types and arcanine kinda sucks without blitz. Not sure what to add tho.

 

Anyway, If you have any suggestions on a team that I should build to beat this I would love to hear em, because I am not coming even remotely close to beating this... since I have rock climb I can pretty much go anywhere.

 

[Post Ciel team rework]

On 11/11/2020 at 12:54 PM, Taska said:

Before anything else I think you should change your current mon's EVs around. Swampert shouldn't have speed EVs because its base speed is too low. 252 in hp 252 Attack and 4 in special defense work much better. Sylveon as well could see a change in its EV spread. Instead of HP AND Defense maybe go 252 in special attack and then either pick HP or Defense, or split the rest of your EVs between the two. I would say HP is more valuable but it's up to you. 

 

Metagross can go with many different EV spreads, but for Reborn I would say either a sweeper with 252 in Attack and 252 in speed and 4 spD, or bulky with 252 attack 252 hp 4 spD.

 

If you're looking for a pokemon that can fly that would suit your team I think there are plenty of options. Crobat, Hawlucha, Honchkrow, and Archeops are some good options. You can definitely go with Flygon but you already have a ground type and without the mega stone altaria is pretty bad at this point in the game.

 

Since you're playing on Set it's pretty important that you have a pokemon you can always switch into that has massive bulk. Snorlax and Umbreon may fit in well.

 

You're also missing a fighting type. There's plenty to choose from. Mienshao, Lucario, Scrafty, Conkeldurr, Gallade, etc.

 

Looking at your team you have

Water/Ground

Fire

Fairy

Steel/Psychic

Electric/Ice

Flying/??

Normal (maybe)

Dark (Maybe)

Fighing (Maybe)

 

For your team of six I guess it's up to you to choose which mon you want to complete your team but if I were you I would train up at least 10 mons that I could use at any time and switch them in at will.

Alright I will probably try to switch around my EVs again on Swampert. I personally think the Slyveon ones are fine, Slyveon has like no defense so the EVs are kinda needed there or it just gets demolished by any physical attack. As for Metagross Attack/Speed is what I went with. 

 

I went with Flygon for the fly Pokemon (attack/speed). Might consider an actual flying type if Flygon starts sucking.  Would consider adding Garchomp now that it is available, but without earthquake I am unsure of how good it will be, also it cant fly so there is that too.

 

Since I am at Titania now, my Arcanine is basically useless in this fight (due to the field) and my Slyveon is also dead weight. So Looks like I am definitely going to need to train some new Mons up. Gonna stick my head in the door to see how stuff goes before doing so.

 

Thanks for the suggestions. 

[Post Ciel team rework]

I recently beat Ciel and I can now go back to most of the region. During my time trapped in the carnival of hell, I realized that my team was kinda weak, like so weak that every boss encounter took like 30+ resets (to be fair I have banned items and am playing on set mode, but still...). SO I am looking for advice on reworking it. I have already picked out 5 pretty good to amazing Pokemon and would like suggestions on a 6th one, or if I should ditch any. The goal is to hopefully create a team that can beat the rest of them game, so I don't have to grind up/EV train more Pokemon.

 

The team is 

Swampert, Attack/speed EV

Arcanine, Attack/Speed EV

Slyveon, HP/Defense EV

 

and then I cut Cinncino (yes I really carried this through the entire game), Eelektross, and Mewostic (male) for the following

 

Beldum (Metagross) Havent decided on EVs yet. 

Rotom (Ice, could change to grass maybe depends on what I need) Havent decided on EVs yet.

 

I am looking for suggestions on the last Pokemon to add. I am think maybe Altaria or Flygon? I want something that can learn fly for convince at least. Would go with dragonite by I need rock climb for that... Any suggestions would be appreciated. 

 

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

[Official Gym Leader Help Thread]

EDIT; Beat Terra. Blissey was pretty sweet in the fight. Minimize+Psych up (copy +6 Special attack/defense) was pretty nice. Blissey managed to kill like 3 of her mons by herself. I got very lucky to win, Garchamp missed a stone edge which let my Cinninco finish it off, then I managed to crit surf the sandcastle mon, I did no damage to hit otherwise, but crits ignoring status changes made the kill possible. Well poor Blissey is gonna get boxed after the hard carry, sadly, it will do no damage to anything since I don't have toxic :(

 

Added Rules: Set Mode, no items in battle. This has made this very challenging and I am at a loss of how to beat Terra. Other bosses were a struggle for sure, but a bunch of extra attempts got me there. But terra seems impossible all her Pokémon tank so many of mines hits. I do basically no damage to Quagsire and the Sandcastle Pokémon, and Garchomp just tears me apart if I get there.

 

Certainly doesn't help that my EV's are good awful, but I cant do much about that know since I cant get to the daycare...

 

Team/Leader under hidden comment to save room.

 

Spoiler

 

Please ignore the random highlighting...

 

Terra (Yes I know how the glitch field works, don't need to tell me)

Team
Meowstic
Light Clay
Prankster
Timid
- Psychic 
- Reflect
- Light Screen
- Dark Pulse

Eelektross

Magnet

Levitate

Adamant

-Spark - Yes really... :/

-Crunch

-Flamethrower

-Brick Break

 

Swampert

Sea Incense

Torrent

Sassy

-Surf

-Earthquake

-Hammer Arm

-Icy Wind

 

Arcanine

Charcoal

Intimidate

Careful

-Flamethrower

-Close Combat

-Extreme Speed

-Rock Smash

 

Cinccino

Silk Scarf

Skill Link

Sassy

-Tail Slap

-Bullet Seed

-Rock Blast

-Hidden Power (ghost)

 

Last main team member is Slyveon who is basically useless, some much for them killing dragons lol

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--Other Pokemon you have in your PC--

Not mentioning lvs cause they are all kinda low

-Jinx
-Misdreavus

-Happiny (potential blissy tank?)

-Mareep

-Nidorina
-Gothia

-Talonflame

-Bronzor

-Vespiqueen

-Swalot

-Sandyghast

-Noibat

-Solrock

-Solosis

-Druddigon

-Electroade (lv 85) could be used for cheese I guess?

 

And those are the main useful ones

 

Anyway, I guessing that I am going to have to tear my team apart and then Ev train up some new Pokemon, lots of my team is kind of trash and things are pretty rough without items, have been for a while, but this is the first time were I feel that progression is impossible without major team reworks.

 

Any suggestions on what to add to the team would be great. And remember that I have a limited area I can actually go to, since I cant access most of the reason, cause story, I guess.

 

I have plenty of money and left the mining rocks in this area untouched, so If I need stuff from them I can get it, don't have any heart scales, but I can get those from the rocks. Circus gives unlimited shards/ability capsules so I am good on that too.

 

Anyway, thanks for any suggestions you can give. I don't want to spend ages grinding just to lose anyway.