Pokemon Crystal Random Water Team Challenge - Part 20: Red And Ending
6Time to head into Mt. Silver and face Red.
Larvitar is worth catching, when fully evolved Tyranitar is one of the strongest Pokemon in the game (and my favourite Pokemon too), definitely worth catching one if you haven't caught a Rhydon already.
Ursaring is also pretty powerful too. It has a great attack stat and moves to boot.
So what team do I recommend?
Any part ground type will do for Pikachu, that Rhydon would help.
Any dark type will do for Espeon, that Houndoom would help
Snorlax needs a strong physical hitter, preferably a fighting type like Hitmonlee or Machamp, although a Tyranitar would be able to resist the moves and hit back big time too with Rock Slide/Ancient Power/Earthquake.
Blastoise is quite bulky too, it has Blizzard so an Electric type would be better than a Grass type, maybe Lanturn because it's part water to resist all of his moves, whilst dealing a lot back (especially if you can sneak in Rain Dance + Thunder).
Charizard is pretty weak, if you have that Rhydon, it will do.
Venusaur is slow and likes to use Solarbeam a lot.
Exeggutor would be a nice counter, as it resists it's attacks whilst doing a nice amount back with a STAB Psychic.
Of course my team was all water types. And I didn't use any healing/buffing item in this fight.
Quagsire would have been a good lead for me, I could've Cursed a couple of times, Flashed to reduce accuracy, sleep off damage, then swap out once awake to Feraligatr.
As it was I just started with Feraligatr and Earthquaked.
Next up was Venusaur.
Ice Punch was pretty much the best move I could do, Vaporeon was slightly slower, so I wouldn't swap into Ice Beam.
I needed to sacrifice something for the first Solar Beam, so Feraligatr could finish the Venusaur before it launched the second.
Next up was Espeon. I knew if I started with Earthquake, that Espeon would most likely use Reflect, so I went for Screech to nullify it if it decided to use it. It didn't, and it knocks out Feraligatr before I can finish it off.
However, a Swagger (with boosted damage from both attack raise and defense drop) combined with Horn Attack finished it off.
Snorlax next.
The biggest threat to my team by far.
It has a lot of bulk, and it won't take much damage from the special side, especially after an Amnesia.
I played it risky with Swagger, which doubled his already high Attack, but confused him long enough for me to poison and get the job done with Vaporeon.
Next up Blastoise.
I needed to Poison that, and annoyingly it took 3 turns to inflict it, lucky Tentacruel had the special defense. I get Whirlpool on him, but he doesn't get affected by it after knocking out Tentacruel.
Vaporeon finishes off Blastoise with a couple of Surfs and residual poison damage.
Finally there's Charizard.
Would've been nice to have an Acid Armour up, but two Surfs finishes Charizard and the fight!
The credits go by again.
Real end of the game.
Rules of this 'challenge'
Team was randomly selected, under the conditions that it contained no pokemon requiring trades, and must contain Feraligatr. Vaporeon meaning that it could not gain XP as an Eevee.
The team selected was Feraligatr, Poliwrath, Seaking, Quagsire, Vaporeon, Tentacruel.
Battle mode is set.
Any Pokemon that exceed the current Gym Leader/Elite Four member/Champion/Red's highest leveled Pokemon level must be PC'd until trainer in question is beaten.
No non held items to be used in these battles.
Although not a rule as such, each Pokemon will eventually have ENTIRELY different movesets, it's tempting to give a few of them Surf for a solid move, but variety makes it fun, and more challenging.
Current level boundary - 81
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