how to beat arceus?

[MightyMax]

hey, ive been trying to beat that ditto arceus of el for the past 5 hours. i got me a destiny bond cofagrigus but it 1 hit kos me...i tried swagger with my toxicroak but i still get 1 hit koed...so any ideas?

[AuthorReborn]

Quick Claw+Destiny Bond+lots of soft resets (F12). Quick Claw Perish Song also works.

[N@G@TO]

Give focus sash to cofagrigus and use destiny bond or quick claw and then destiny bond.

[enu]

Arceus isn't that strong. It can't OHKO most defensive mons and has speed-hindering nature so fast mons can land a hit at well. El does not have any potions either, only Arceus can use Recover sometimes. Well I always just somehow overpower him without strategy. With Strategy my Sylveon alone was enough to defeat him - without cheap things like Destiny Bond.

[Anstane]

Sash Destiny Bond and Sash Mirror Coat are the simplest ways of dealing with Dittoceus, although beating it via simple brute force is not impossible, just hard. Burn through El's Full Heals and then status it, should give you the edge.

[Bewilderer]

I defeated him by using a focus sash + toxic combo and simply spamming it until El ran out of full heals and then just switched to bulky 'mons and spammed healing items.

[Avatar of Grima]

Sturdy mons help out, or having a very fast pokemon that can paralyze it until El runs out of full heals

[Shinoda Yagami]

get murkrow from lapis ward, soft reset till it comes with perish song, beat arceus with prankster perish song

[Regretful Kishin]

If you can get any sturdy or defensive pokemon with earthquake, 3 hits with that will collapse the ceiling and take down that ditto. using any accuracy lowering moves with a couple speedy pokemon would help too

[WanderingCorvus]

Oof, that was a tough fight. I had a team set up to put status effects on Arceus, but El just uses full heals. Then I went with a team that led with a fighting type (I think I had Pangoro), and just wailed on him with whatever I could. I used all my Pokemon, chipping down its health until I had my Noivern take the final blow. It was able to outspeed the Arceus, so investing in fragile pokemon that are also very quick to give you the initiative might help as well.

Edited October 21, 2016 by WanderingCorvus

[Zzylard]

There were two mons I used for my Arceus battle.

1: Impostor ditto (get from ditto sidequest in the second peridot factory

2: Metal Burst Sturdy Bastiodon

both of these got the trick done for me. but I had to train the Ditto to a respectable level to make sure it could to decent damage back to the Arceus, and I needed to EV train the Bastiodon in HP as well.

[nsbwinner2]

hey, ive been trying to beat that ditto arceus of el for the past 5 hours. i got me a destiny bond cofagrigus but it 1 hit kos me...i tried swagger with my toxicroak but i still get 1 hit koed...so any ideas?

Put a sash on it and destiny bond. that simple

[thedeath245]

I didnt use any of those perish song / destiny bond.
Sword Dance + close combat Gallade 1hko arceus.

[Meio]

Well I won after more or less 20 times, I know it isn't not much but after 2 hours with Steelix the same day it was nervecracking.

I beat Arceus with pure luck, he missed a focus blast so my Pachirisu used super fang and then my Blaziken with black belt just had to use sky uppercut.

If you don't want to change your team or grind for hours (which with level caps isn't an option) try to be creative, with pacience works

[Alistair]

A good habit to have in Reborn is asking yourself: for a given problem, can Magneton/zone solve it? If yes, use the Holy Magnet. If not, use the Holy Magnet anyway, but make sure to have some Perish Song backup.

[Jmanultrax1]

perish song as its the last/only pokemon your fighting. You just need to out speed (very difficult) or slow it down (little difficult).

I recommend something holding a surviving item like focus band or focus sash, then t-wave it/perish song it. Then just survive until then.

I would suggest the t-wave first as you can spam protect to waste the turns needed for perish song to activate.

[Ironbound]

All you need is a bunch of low-level Magnemites with Sturdy, Berry Juice and Recycle.

PP stall that goat. Let it suffer.

[Jmanultrax1]

wait you actually did that? and it worked? I want to see that .

[CURIE]

All these people talking about cheesing it with Focus Sashes and Quick Claws and such, but no. The answer is Sylveon. My Sylveon is so badass she straight up outpowered the god of the Pokemon world.

DOES THIS LOOK LIKE THE FACE OF MERCY?

[Zane0144]

Muk with memento to make it harmless. Then beat it normally

[Hymdall]

In my first playthrough, it took me a good 30 attempts at least, and this was back in Episode 14, so the Field Effect(I forget which one it is at this point, been a while)was not in play. My overall strategy was to praise the True Lord and Savior, Garbodor. Stockpile and Toxic make for a very very grindy but doable way to beat Dittoceus into the dirt. Otherwise, as mentioned before, there's a Focus Sash to find and a plethora of Destiny Bond/Mirror Coat mons to work with. Simple and effective.

[esu]

Since i run with mono psychic type, I used Lvl 56 Prankster Meowstic-M holding Light Clay (Misty terrain + Light Screen) + Lvl 52 Filter Mr. Mime holding Sticky Barb (Trick) + Lvl 59 Contrary Malamar holding Black Belt (Superpower).

I used Meowstic to set up Light Screen + Misty terrain that will weaken dark and ghost moves. After meowstic fainted, i sent Mr. Mime and he "trick"-ed Sticky Barb (my mr mime got leftover yeah!!). Then i spam Icy Wind (on misty terrain, icy wind power is incerased by x1.5 !!) and use a hyper potion. Mr Mime fainted when archeus HP was 50%. I sent Malamar, Superpower!!, damn so close, the god still had about 1% HP left. Superpower again, and i defeated the god.

Edited November 17, 2016 by esu

[laggless01]

Prankster Perish Song Murkrow, the Rejuvenation Method (lvl 1 Sturdy Endeavour/Ice Shard Donphan, can take out two mons with Berry Juice), manipulating fields (creating Corrosive mist, then igniting the hell out of it)...Plenty of options

[Skeelie]

Beat him with a spam of Flash so it couldn't hit anymore after a few retries (a pokemon with Sturdy will stop decrease resets neccesary). After that it's only a question of time before Arceus struggle himself to death

[danthafatman]

I think i threw screens up with prankster (light clay) Meowstic and used a another poke to screech once or twice to whittle defenses to hit Dittoceus.

Edited November 24, 2016 by danboy