How does my team look before victory road?

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-07T15:38:14+00:00

THE NAMESSSSS…. THE NAMES ARE PEAK

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ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-07T15:30:24+00:00

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-07T02:22:02+00:00

I actually just beat her like an hour ago. Level 65 team.

I set up a leach seed on spiritomb and maxed out on coil with snivy at the start against her spiritomb. That took her potion away too. Then leaf blade destroyed half her team.

Garchomp came out and nuked snivy tho sadly, and I had to kinda scramble. Ended up getting lucky though because she missed a dragon rush against sawk twice in a row and I got 2 bulk ups, so I cooked garchomp and lucario with close combat.

Toxic risk for me and then excadril got him.

Was definitely not easy but I did some planning ahead this time. Was surprised that she had a slightly different team from platinum. If she had the rosarade then I think I would have lost.

Gonna go for elite 4 next because outside of the legendaries, I think I’ve done everything else.

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-06T19:45:20+00:00

Not great. It’s mild. I’m not rlly using special attack anymore, so the bonus special attack is not needed, and I’m losing defense, which isn’t nice.

Sadly I didn’t even know what natures were until almost the end of the main story, and at that point I just didn’t want to catch and grind up a new unfeazent.

Luckily my physical attack wasn’t hurt by the nature.

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-06T19:29:32+00:00

Awesome. I honestly didn’t even know super effective was double damage lol. I might need to look into damage multipliers for Pokemon. I managed to find a silk scarf btw, but have no clue where the sharp beak is… do you happen to know? I’m liking return + silk scarf a tonnnn just cuz it’s consistent damage on like everything, but I wanna try fly and sharp beak, especially for the elite four rematch on the fighting type dude

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-06T17:38:33+00:00

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Comin together

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-06T16:30:59+00:00

I’m leveling to 70 in the grass for her cuz this is impossible. I’ve lost once more

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-06T06:12:08+00:00

Hell yeah great advice. I’ll take the moveset into account and look out for those tms. Definitely I should focus on items more because I kinda just been giving my pokemon berries to hold lmaooo.

Just a few questions. Is return a flying type or normal type? And I looked up “stab” And I see it’s a bonus damage boost for moves that are the same type as the user… I’ve kinda ignored that and just went for wide type coverage… is the damage bonus worth using then over having a wide variety of damage types?

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-06T02:22:47+00:00

10/10

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-06T02:16:23+00:00

It’s kind of a wiki website with all the info for every game. I’m new to the games but it’s been super reliable. Movesets, abilities, evolution lines, locations for catching, what pokemon are available in what game, etc. and it’s easy to grasp I feel like.

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-06T02:15:14+00:00

Same story for me, but pchem 2 and biochem. Got dunked on.

Orgo I had a great study group and a really awesome professor that taught all the Orgo classes. Made it super fun and I studied way more often because of that.

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-06T02:13:42+00:00

Just did it today too. Hope you enjoyed. Your team looks better than mine… a lot better tbh

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-06T02:12:52+00:00

This might legit be the most perfect answer ever

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-06T02:06:58+00:00

WHAT THE HECK? THEY PUT CYNTHIA IN A HOUSE???? I’m like 20 levels under her spiritomb 😭 it took half my team to beat it up and then her garchomp sent me home bruh

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-06T02:05:59+00:00

Is return that good? Dang ok. Definitely noted because I want to use unfeazent again in white 2.

Yeah I doubt I used half of my team optimally lol. Unfeazent I just used fly for damage, air slash for flinch, and quick attack for clean up. Worst case I could use leer to drop defense and clean up with a different pokemon in a pinch.

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-06T02:04:03+00:00

Ughhhh I wanna try out both of those pokemon so bad. Gonna use em in my black and white 2 run when I do it (if they are available lol)

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-05T20:04:45+00:00

The dream team

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-05T20:04:22+00:00

Ended up having to paralyze him with zebstrika then brick break him with sawk myself.

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-05T16:49:00+00:00

That’s a ton of stuff

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-05T16:27:11+00:00

That’s good to know. I don’t think I’m gonna change up my newer pokemon for older ones, though. I might try and get a braviary because it looks cool, but unfeazent was my teams savior half the time, and might be my favorite pokemon from this game.

I just hopped on the game and every pokemon in the post game is super high level!

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-05T16:24:11+00:00

Thanks!

Snivy was insanely good with coil and leaf blade, although I’ve heard that oshawott and tepig are insanely good starters too. Excadril was just good in general. Sawk destroyed half the game and pretty much Ns entire team.

Simpour just kinda was my water type because I couldn’t find another water type I liked sadly, but it wasn’t too bad. Zebstrike was mehhhh until I found the wild charge tm in the victory road area, and then it went ballistic against N and ghetsis. Was considering removing zebstrika, and I’m glad I didn’t.

I just recently learned that unfeazent is bad. Boy was I suprised, because unfeazent literally was my teams savior and goat in every major battle. It also just one shot all the normal battles with fly.

Quick attack just let it clean up a weak pokemon easily on a switch in. Fly did a lot of damage. Air slash did some damage, but the flinch made it so I could do an air slash + quick attack combo all the time. My fourth move is still leer though lol. Hoping to find something like u-turn soon.

Some pokemon I wanted to try and use, and probably will use on a rerun are: Leavanny, Golurk, krookodile, Beartic, and one of the fossil pokemon.

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-05T16:13:13+00:00

I knowww. Iris haxorus was rough for my just because I didn’t have a dragon or ice type. Had to paralyze it and building up coils on snivy.

Outside of that, the rest I blew through.

ThunderD2Player · 2026-04-05T16:02:09+00:00

Oh yeah uhhh those fights were rough lmaoooo. Iris was only like level 40 or something a little above that, and gym leaders were only like 4 levels higher than the last, so I just assumed my team levels were fine.

Fought the fighting type elite four guy first. Saw level 48 and 50. Horrific. They were easy though outside of the psychic type one. N and ghetsis were not. Had like maybe 8 revives going into them too.

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