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I'm sort of at a loss about how to beat Saphira. It feels in part that the way I've built my team just won't be able to reliably get through this fight and I might just have to move on and start a new save. I figured I should ask if there's something I can do to beat her before I go through with that though. My team line up for the fight is always Mismagius, Gardevoir, Gallade, Roserade, Empoleon, and Dragon Silvally and I don't really have any subs for this fight. For the most part, there's two ways the fight plays out. The first way - Noivern will always outspeed Mismagius and Mismagius will generally die to the boosted flamethrower. If I activate quick claw on Mismagius I can get a Mystical Fire in before it gets two shotted and try to set up Mega Gardevoir. I can stall through the Noivern to set up Calm Mind's on Mega G., but its inconsistent. Sometimes I can get to +6, sometimes she switches to Haxorus and can just outspeed and OHKO with Poison Jab. Even If I can get +4 with a Reflect up, the Focus Sashes on her Salamance and Haxorus eat up all the turns on it in between needing to Full Restore. If I can somehow get through the Haxorus and Salamance on runs like this, eventually the Mega Charizard just sweeps everything besides sometimes Silvally who can sometimes deal with it. If Silvally did deal with it, it's generally because Gallade got a Life Orb Shadow Sneak off. After that, even if I sacrifice something to heal Silvally to deal with Garchomp, it's not guaranteed that Silvally can one shot Garchomp and I mostly just lose if I've gotten that far. The second way - I can lead Empoleon and sometimes he lives the Noivern's Flamethrower. When he does, I can get the Z water move off and change the field from Dragon's Den to Cave. Even then, Silvally just gets OHKO'd by the +1 Dragon Pulse. I have to fish for a Quick Claw activation for the Mystical Fire from Mismagius again, and then I sacrifice Roserade to revive Empoleon. Sometimes I can set up Empoleon with Sword Dance here and he can Rock Slide the Noivern, but he's too slow to outspeed anything else and dies to Garchomp usually. Silvally can sometimes deal with the Garchomp but it's mostly a trade. He gets too low from the Dragon Claw most of the time, and just dies to whatever comes in next. I've tried subbing him out after that to heal him but then whatever came in after the Garchomp usually Dragon Dance's the turn I Full Restore and just sweeps everything I have left. Again, I don't like the idea of just starting a new save but if there's really nothing I can do here to beat her with my current team then I don't really have a choice. Part of getting stuck here feels like a speed issue, since my Ivs and Evs are all over the place (Silvally is my fastest mon with 262 speed), and the other part feels like a typing issue since when I've had coverage problems in the past I can just change Silvally's type.

Alright then, I'll see how this works out thanks

Would you happen to know where I can find Ducklett?

Ah ok. If that's the case I'll just find the coverage later on then. Thanks

At the moment I've spent a few days in the Vejyr entrance hunting for a Thick Club for my Cubone so I could grind him on the way through the area. I was just curious if its easier to find Cubone anywhere else in the game. I think I've probably seen more shinys in the area than Cubone at this point. I'm just not sure if its worth any more time trying to get a Thick Club. I'm just thinking of getting Ghost and Fire coverage later on if I can since this doesn't seem to be working out to well.