How did YOU beat Solaris on Mt. Pyrous?

[KingRyan 9]

I found this method somewhere else on the sight, i forgot who posted it, but whoever had the idea, the credit totally goes to them. I used this method to beat the Ditto-Arceus as well, so it's a surefire tactic for fights such as these.

get a pokemon with 20 or less hp, and sturdy. Then, get like....a bajillion potions, and then just stall with sturdy until all it's pp is gone. Free win.

TBH i think this tactic may be a little costly based on the reward. In the scenario of facing the Garchomp, i would find out the dialogue and story stuff, but then just reset and get dead to conserve resources & money, but hell, this was about the story, not the aftermath.

[Ghost 0]

beat him? gurl my team be dead the moment I arrived at that battle I knew I knew I was dead.

[rolace 0]

Blaziken Blaze Kick Burn ---> stall until Garchomp gets 5/8 HP ---> Azumarill Play Rough

Probably the least exciting way ever

Edit: Said 3/8HP instead of 5/8

[Cyclonegale 0]

I swapped between my Flygon and Luxray with intimidate. Fully lowered it's attack power, I then threw out my (F) Meowstic and it begins to tank about all 40 of it's remaining PP until it starts struggling. After it starts struggling, switch in my Flygon and start mashing Dragon Claw.

*I didn't even prepare for the fight by buying a bunch of items, I just spent all my money on ice cream when I saw it thinking it would come in handy at some point.*

It did

[Sir Issac 0]

It's been a while, but I just put a quick claw on my cofagrigus and then I just reset until it went first and cursed. Then stall for the win! Bit of a pain, but it worked well enough. Did the same thing with another painful boss later on.

[Zethe 0]

Had Macgargo and Rapidash, Venusaur, Gourgeist, Confragigous,and Dusclops in the team.

Was hoping for a flame body burn, but instead Rapidash managed an Inferno hit and burned it after dragon rush missed.

Sent out Gourgeist after Rapidash fainted, to use leech seed (survived fire fang with 1 hp!)

Sent out Dusclops and used embargo, then proceeded to use 6 x Def on Dusclops, fed it a couple chocolate icecreams.

spammed hex, pain split (bred from Gourgeist), and willowisp after the 2 full restores were used up.

[HakuTaku 7]

Swrillix

That pink repulsive fairy pokemon

[chvtky 1]

Simple approach: Destiny Bond, Focus Band/Sash and potentially plenty of restarts if it's the band you're using.

[Tomy 0]

What else?

[Palteau 0]

I've beaten him 3 times on 3 different playthroughs.

1) Survived a hit with Tangrowth and used Stun Spore. After Tangrowth fainted, I kept switching between Gyarados and someting as fodder until I had only Gyarados left (Intimidating it in the process). Then I got a few Dragon Dances and killed it with a couple of Ice Fangs. Gyara was still available early on back then...

2) Used Cofagrigus to Curse and Burn him, switched around with Scrafty to Intimidate it and then stalled out with Swampert.

3) Had 2 Ekanses and one Shinx prepared for Intimidate and did this: Shinx (-1) - Ekans1 (-2) - Dead - Shinx (-3) - Ekans2 (-4) - Dead - Shinx (-5) - Babydoll Eyes (-6) - Dead. From there, I used Chesnaught with Leech Seed and Bulk Up to beat the crap out of it.

Generally, Intimidate really helps. You can also find a Focus Sash somewhere below the Grand Strairway hidden in a rock or something and try doing some Endeavor stuff.

As for Arceus:

1) Switched between Spiritomb and Scrafty until it ran out of Judgements/Focus Blasts and then spammed HJK.

2) Managed to hit 3-4 Hypnosis in a row with Gengar (since Destiny Bond wasn't working at that version) , Leech Seeded it with Chesnaught while it was asleep and then hanged on somehow unil it fainted. It didn't use Recover for some reason (and only took me 2 tries lol)

[BreezyPonie 2]

I didn't, haha XD I was mostly in shock that I was expected to beat a Lv. 75 Garchomp (I didn't know that I didn't have to, and I certainly wasn't gonna go back and make myself, haha ;P)

[TheBackwardsLegsMan 0]

I loaded my team with Intimidate pokemon until his attack was lowered as much as possible. Then I had Torterra/Grottle (I don't remember what the level cap is when you fight him, I might have gotten a Torterra and common candy'd it back into range) use curse 6 times and killing it that way. Second time through, I just kept retrying until he missed with dragon tail enough for my Gyrados and Blaziken to kill it (which took like 3 hours of resetting).