Pokemon Black - 0 Exp Run Part 3: Unova League
26All members of Unova's Elite Four faced within the framework of the traditional 0 experience challenge run in one single video for your viewing pleasure.
Challenge playlist (it's going to be the shortest one of what I've done, I believe, considering how many recordings I combined into just one video):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbSv8zSDR9c1fix81qqBY__9VIC8E3njJ
I underwent some serious changes in the party since the last fight against Drayden. Obviously, the dragon and ice types that appeared in that gym battle are of little use in the Elite Four with the typing and levels they had. That Sawk I used also got a bit underlevelled, but, very appropriately, a higher-levelled one could be caught in the wild. His only weakness was the lack of Close Combat available, which severely reduced his damage potential. Frankly, Sawk hasn't really solo'd the game at any part of this challenge (not even the second gym), but I'd still rank him very highly because he's appeared several times at pretty up-to-date levels and usually offered some assistance with the recentest threats.
Choosing the other members of the line-up was a bit harder. Excadrill and Durant were rather hard to ignore with their awesome typing and offence, and I had quite a lot of freedom for the next three spots. Well, this video shows whom I picked. A very important thing to remember is that you can later change the party entirely, should you want to, to face the game's two final bosses later, after the Elite Four, which is a good thing considering not everybody on this team is of much help against N and Ghetsis.
Marshal
The E4 member whom I can't quite nail super-effectively for a substantial amount of damage; quite fun for that very reason. The lead Throh is an offensive juggernaut, Payback hitting any moderately speedy psychics and ghosts that you may opt to switch in against him really hard as you struggle to take him down in a single attack. I go for a defensive strat here, using Cofagrigus to first swap attack stats with Power Swap, then burn him with Will-O-Wisp (if Throh hadn't used a contact move until then, let's say by repeatedly using Stone Edge, the burn would've actually increased his attack due to Guts, so this is sorta risky, yet I never really failed this part of the battle on any of my attempts). At this point, Throh's damage output is reduces dramatically so Cofagrigus can afford going to Chesto-sleep and then inflicting Curse to finally finish the opponent off.
Marshal's own Sawk is a pushover - for some reason it's both outsped and 2HKO'd by my Durant using Iron Head. Though Durant does get a second STAB-like boost to the move, he suffers a 20% accuracy decrease at the same time, and, in this challenge's endgame, I often found myself cursing Durant for neither being fast enough, specially durable, nor powerful enough offensively to take some things down reliably (like Ghetsis's Hydreigon), but that's a story I'll tell a bit later. Durant does its job just fine here, however.
Conkeldurr is problematic. Luckily, the hit he should normally be OHKOing my Sawk with is a physical, so Sturdy!Sawk can actually finish this matchup in one single turn. How lovely.
Mienshao's high speed and attack may make him appear menacing, but Excadrill provokes him into using Jump Kick, and since Mienshao's HP is even, he will KO himself by whiffing with it twice. Considering we can teach and un-teach TM moves at will in Black and White, and there's a ghost in our party, this is achieved all too easily.
03:55 Grimsley
The dark-type specialist is the second Elite Four trainer specialising entirely in physical attacks. They're not particularly hard-hitting either; for example, Scrafty has Sand-Attack but not Hi Jump Kick (what were they thinking?). Krookofile might be his biggest threat now that I think about it, since my team generally doesn't take Earthquakes very well.
Scrafty is a really good matchup for Sawk who resists Crunch and threatens with SE STAB Brick Break. Scrafty is bulky enough to take some of these however, so some tweaking is necessary to take him down in a timely fashion.
Liepard will switch in next (because it has Aerial Ace) and it's actually not a complete pushover - its chances of beating our Sawk are high enough for me to resort to a much safer matchup with Durant - this also leaves Durant incapable of facing Krookodile one-on-one later on, but we do have a team of six offering different forms of support. Having Whimsicott land a Cotton Spore on him is a very reliable way of giving others a chance to go first, and that's important considering both Sawk and Durant have likely been weakened by now.
As for Bisharp, Grimsley's last Pokemon, Excadrill's typing grants him a very safe matchup here, though Earthquake is apparently still not enough for the OHKO.
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