Pokemon Omega Ruby - 0 Exp Part 15: Elite Four (Sidney, Phoebe, Glacia, Drake)
42All four Hoenn E4 members in one single video.
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I enter the Elite Four, aiming to win with a party of Gyarados, Mawile, Medicham, Starmie, Electrode and Hariyama. The former three are all able to mega-evolve in this run; however, only one can do so during the same battle ('tis a pity). The last two mons weren't there when I tackled the E4 the first time; Steven thrashed me utterly. Originally, these two spots belonged to Corsola and Golem. Corsola was with me for being the highest-levelled mon, at lv. 50 (traded for a Bellossom), while Golem was something like lv. 34 and there to put up Stealth Rock, otherwise fairly useless. The new line-up was supposed to fill in the previous team's weak areas.
00:00 Sidney
The dark-type specialist utilises a team of Pokemon using nothing but physical moves. My initial strat involved leading with Light Clay Starmie who set up Reflect for pretty much (or exactly, I forget) the entire battle, after which I attacked Sidney's mons with fighting-type attacks and Mawile. Revising the battle, I found much of that was unnecessary.
Sidney's team isn't too fast and my Adamant Medicham can outspeed most of them after mega-evolving - Protect should be used to outspeed Mightyena on the second turn. Absol is faster than Mega Medicham, threatening with Aerial Ace, so Mawile helps out here. Though deprived of its mega form, it can OHKO with Play Rough thanks to Life Orb's damage boost (I can't believe they made it so easily available - I equip three of these in like every major battle in the second half of the game), surviving even crits without much trouble because steel/fairy is such a good typing. Sharpedo is also faster, obviously, but Electrode exploits its frailty with a pre-emptive Tbolt OHKO.
03:21 Phoebe
The infamous master of annoyance. Ghost is a more difficult weakness to exploit, with no good ghost-types and dark-type move users being limited in one way or another. Gyarados can use STAB Bite (lol) as a mega, but doesn't want to. Mawile has Crunch and Sucker Punch on the other hand. Hariyama has Knock Off. There's only so much you need to take down Dusclops family, Banette and Sableye thankfully.
The lead Dusclops was featured in a vid a couple days ago, but this time I learnt my lesson, Taunting it with Gyarados before starting the attacking. No Confuse Ray hax is possible now, while Aqua Tail ALWAYS 2HKOs. Who's a tank now?
Thunderpunch Dusknoir will be baited in, and this is where dualscreen Starmie with Light Clay comes in, setting up Reflect and Light Screen for most of the remaining turns. Mega Mawile enters and KOs with a combination of Iron Head + Sucker Punch (Dusknoir has 4 offensive moves so SP always works).
MMawile can't sweep however; Banette has Will-O-Wisp for us and Sucker Punch won't OHKO. Guts Hariyama don't care about none of that, so this is my answer. He kills the other Banette too. Sableye is the last one; it now has a weakness in fairy, so Play Rough from Mawile sends it to its grave.
08:14 Glacia
Glacia has two Froslasses now, so she's harder to deal with for many teams. No problem when we've got Starmie though! I set up a Light Screen, which helps with reliably surviving most incoming attacks in the future, then use Trick Room to make my slower Pokemon go first, then switch out to Mawile.
Trick Room may run for 5 turns, but setting it and switching robs us of 2 of them. Still, the next three turns is when we dispose of most of Glacia's team. First Glalie goes down to MMawile Iron Head. Walrein will enter the field, normally outspeeding Medicham and OHKOing it with Blizzard. Now Medicham outspeeds it, High Jump Kick's high base power sending it back to the PokeBall it'd just come out of.
Both Froslasses have Snow Cloak and could dodge MMawile's attacks when Hail is up. This is where Light Screen in case of danger, as Mawile isn't immediately endangered without any hax going on. This time, it's Glalie's Freeze-Dry freezing Mawile that's the source of hax, causing me to finish the fight with an emergency switch to Hariyama.
13:21 Drake
Wielder of the mythical type. Luckily for us, 80% of his team is 4x weak to ice. Kingdra is different, but ultimately it's Salamence that we have trouble with the most.
Previously providing team support, Starmie is now the avantgarde of our offence in this battle. Hail + NeverMeltIce + Blizzard gives me offence that OHKOs major threats here, sometimes not quite making it to OHKO the specially defensive Altaria but two turns of Hail damage always does the job for me.
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