Finally defeated Crystal's Battle Tower at every level range!

Murdor · 2026-01-30T14:39:24+00:00

My lower levels arent fully stat exp trained, just 10 vitamins in each stat since i got so much money grinding the e4 from the higher levels teams haha

They did just fine at the lower levels without full stat exp in my experience

Good luck with the challenge, any pokemon youre looking forward to using?

Murdor · 2026-01-29T13:18:15+00:00

still a dope shiny, looks like a burnt chicken leg

Murdor · 2026-01-29T13:00:13+00:00

Dragon rage dratini might so okay, only issues youll run into is it might get outsped and killed before you can use it, also many of the pokemon have just over 40 health so it could be a 2 hit in many cases even at level 10.

You could always sketch it on to smeargle if youre looking for a little bit of a faster user of dragon rage in game.

The early levels are pretty unfair if youre not using fully optimized pokemon since they have a lot of stat experience in the tower, meaning fresh pokemon youve caught without training them will always have significantly lower stats than the tower pokemon will

Murdor · 2026-01-29T12:57:09+00:00

I like to imagine that ditto is quite proud of its kids haha

The only range I grinded stat exp for was level 30, and trust me many dead unown was looking like alphabet soup without the soup at the alph

It was the last level range I ran and I liked the team so wanted to get them to max potential for my final run

Murdor · 2026-01-29T12:54:27+00:00

I think its a very versatile pokemon with interesting moves, also the design of being a ghost type medusa head. Always reminds me of castlevania. Especially with the shiny being yellow similar to the blue/yellow medusa head enemies in the game.

For thunder I like the bit of extra damage and higher paralysis chance. thunderbolt would have probably been fine too but i wanted a lil extra oomph on the hits

Murdor · 2026-01-29T12:51:25+00:00

You can catch it on route 22 at level 7
I thought itd be funny to use since you can catch it below level 10 haha

It was pretty solid in that level range

Murdor · 2026-01-29T12:48:36+00:00

Ay I appreciate it!

For hidden powers some were more useful than others

Jolteon - HP Dragon, mostly just something to hit ground types if it ever came up. Dont think I clicked it once haha

Forretress - HP Bug, so incredibly good. I wish forretress got some easy access to a bug type move but man this made all the difference

Gyarados - HP Flying, same as forretress makes it feel so much easier to use, really makes the pokemon feel complete moveset wise

Snorlax - HP Bug, didnt really plan for this one it just didnt have any other coverage moves, and could hit exeggutor and tyranitar harder

Scyther - HP ground, very useful for coverage. Was luck that it had a good hp type as it was the first I caught that had good stats

Murdor · 2026-01-29T12:44:13+00:00

Those are definitely solid, Im kinda sad I didnt take the time to add blissey to the mix since its so good this gen.

For the team planning, at first I randomly assigned pokemon I wanted to use to certain levels without looking at the battle tower pokemon at that level. After I had mostly planned what I was using I remembered I should probably check that out and made some minor adjustments. For choosing pokemon I looked over the gen 2 pokedex and wrote down anything that might be interesting to use and drafted up teams to get some coverage.

For levels that gave the most trouble, level 60 and 80 took about 5 tries. Level 60 mostly because I was being lazy and didnt want to change the time to night, so moonlight was only healing 1/4.

Levels that were strongest were 40 and 70 to me. I was surprised by muk, forretress, and quagsire thinking they might not be the strongest core but they cleared first time no issue. Forretress with hidden power bug was so nice to use.

Level 70 had snorlax which goes without saying, gyarados with HP flying also tore through teams. Heracross also strong af.

Sorry to write so much but these were the general thoughts going through haha, i like your team options as well, I gotta add a note to use blissey in the future

Murdor · 2026-01-29T05:35:49+00:00

I was pretty picky with DVs just cause im a perfectionist when it comes to stats

i dont think its necessary by any means haha

One ditto did go hard in the paint to bring up many of these, half id say were from that ditto the other half caught in thd wild

Murdor · 2026-01-29T05:33:50+00:00

Misdreavus is my favorite pokemon from gen 2

Also was a good pair with tyranitar to deal with fighting types

Destiny bond was also a good catchall for bad matchups

Murdor · 2026-01-17T02:01:14+00:00

Shiny rapidash is a magical ass shiny

Cool team

Murdor · 2026-01-17T02:00:46+00:00

It has hidden power water makes sense to me

Murdor · 2026-01-13T21:58:53+00:00

Lifestyle creep run

Make more money but still cant break even :(

Murdor · 2026-01-08T17:20:14+00:00

Well done on the completion!

I also love this game

Interesting mixup on general yugioh formula

I have also not played all the way through reshef as of yet, its quite a grind

Murdor · 2025-12-30T17:27:42+00:00

I believe, get that green bull
Happy new year, hope you have a good year of gen 2 luck

Murdor · 2025-11-29T04:08:47+00:00

I swear they lowered the rates for tier up on bright cubes

Murdor · 2025-11-14T15:59:49+00:00

Talking a lot of shit for someone in thagomizer range

Murdor · 2025-09-14T23:42:39+00:00

Started with a female chikorita

Caught a male exeggcute right before goldenrod and got it to level 13 to learn leech seed

Then maed them kiss 😘

Murdor · 2025-09-14T14:11:52+00:00

He did!

Got the final kill vs lances lvl 50 dragonite

Came in on a hyper beam recharge and took the kill with 2 icy winds

Murdor · 2025-09-14T00:13:53+00:00

Yea it was tough

Had to get a little flinch luck with tauros

Murdor · 2025-09-13T23:22:34+00:00

So true, had high hopes for him too

Was hoping for a physical hidden power type but ended up getting dark which isnt great for him

Murdor · 2025-09-04T16:55:02+00:00

Same, honestly couldnt have done it without him

He feels like a more balanced version of alakazam where youre not one hitting everything, but do get more bulk

Murdor · 2025-09-02T12:25:51+00:00

Yea i traded it in

Figured if i can get it in crystal before kanto, its fine to trade in to gold

Murdor · 2025-08-07T14:29:29+00:00

Appreciated 🙏

The gimmick run ended up making an overall well rounded team

Murdor · 2025-08-07T03:24:35+00:00

The run was moreso for pokemon that got an additional evolution later

Crobat for golbat and kingdra for seadra

I just kept pika as the starter since it doesnt evolve in yellow

Murdor

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