I've recently started playing pokemon reborn and I'm chuffed that pokemon reborn presents an actual challenge compared to the actual franchised games. I actually didn't sweep a gym with one pokemon for the first time.
Bug type gym leader - Shelly's a tough one tho, and I've devised a strategy, which was to get a fighting type to use fake out on the Illumise to stop rain dance and then use a fire type to start the area fire field effect. Another thread with a guide helped, suggesting growlithe to also have a telluric seed and using an espurr (in my case I have a Meowstic) to use fake out. And then after wiping out illumise with flame burst, I would go ahead and spam fire type moves right?
This is the tricky part. Shelly sends out araquanid, and that damned araquanid knows rain dance too. I can't do enough damage with my growlithe to araquanid or switch out meowstic with a flying type fast enough to one shot araquanid to stop the rain dance.
Anorith also has rock slide which is sent out after masquerain dies to my fire type, and I can't use my hariyama because the majority of bug types are also flying types.
Please help I require assistance in bug type gym shelly, lapis ward.
Items: Telluric seed 1x, elemental seed 1x, electric gem, grass gem, heart scale 2x, ill-fated doll, magical seed 1x, protective pads 1x, purple shard 1x, rose incense 1x, soothe bell 1x, soul candle 1x, steel gem 1x, tiny mushroom 1x, twisted spoon 1x, blue shard 1x, rock gem 1x, cotton candy 1x, common candy 12x, pokesnax 1x, zinc 1x, super potion 11x, protein 1x, paralyze heal 5x, fresh water 1x, chewing gum 1x, burn heal 4x, awakening 5x, antidote 9x, ability capsule 3x, X attack 1x, X speed 1x, Dire hit 1x,
TMs: Cut, Rock Smash, Charge beam, Quash, Nature power
Money: $9263 (I sacrificed like $10000 for leveling up my emolga, I can always grind more money)
Party:
Growlithe lvl 34, agility, flame burst, flamethrower, morning sun
Bibarel lvl 35, hyper fang, water gun, yawn, headbutt
Noibat lvl 35, air cutter, razor wind, bite, roost
Emolga lvl 33, shock wave, pursuit, electro ball, acrobatics
Hariyama lvl 35, force palm, smelling salts, knock off, belly drum
Meowstic lvl 26, Fake out, disarming voice, psyshock, confusion
PC:
Pachirisu, spinarak, kricketune, hoothoot, grimer, trubbish pineco, egg (idk what pokemon tho, top half is yellow bottom half brown), gothita, roselia(lvl 35), sewaddle, drifloon, Dustox (lvl 35), diglett, electrike, Mightyena (lvl 35), yungoos, prinplup (lvl 34)