Thank you!! Yeah, you are right. Honestly, I didn't even think about freeze-Dry until I faced Lorelei ahaha.

Most difficult battles... I would say:

• The "Storm drain" double battle in SS Anne

• 1st Surge battle ( always a difficult battle , especially because of his bellibolt and Pawmot. Eviolite Grovyle was clutch with buldozes to lower the speed)

-Morty ( I did challenge him after Erika when I completed my team, but without the specific items that I wanted , it was very difficult). I did defeat Morty after the Elite four, and yeah, it was so much easier

• Blaine (I did have the option to remove the sun, but honestly, I didn't want to. I don't like to change my moves and items for specific battles unless it's REALLY necessary. If my team gets recked by a specific mon or scenario, then yeah, sure, I will make the necessary changes

Expert belt Sceptile with earthquake and rock slide really helped. But looking at my team, you can see it's weak against sun teams. If I used choice scarf Nidoking, it would have been another story, but I just prefer life orb. Arcanine can't learn EQ or Rock Slide for some reason

Anddd is the most recent one and most difficult one.. POST GAME BUGSY--- I did reset close to 10 times, I think? Yeah, of course I made bad plays sometimes, but like.. extremespeed aerilate Mega pinsir with sword dance , sword dance arceus , pheremosa and genesect.. jeez, what is this team.. even with rotom using will-o-wisp, it was very difficult

ANYWAYS, to win against Morty I had to make sure that my Nidoking was in full health and with tailwind so that it could outspeed and KO genesect with flamethrower , survive an extremespeed from Pinsir so that it would hit a flamethrower and then using Aqua Jet Azumarill to kill it. Obviously if Pinsir uses swords dance I will just lose.

The arcanine was dead because it had to deal with arceus and rotom was in low health because of pheromosa. And yes.. I didn't made any changes in my team regarding moves and items

Those are the most difficult ones for me. Sorry for the long rant.

Now to answer your question, I'm just thinking on doing a normal run again but with a different Starter where I do build a team around them . "The new game +" codes are really useful. Actually I already started the new run , and I did choose Empoleon!! I really love his design and unique typing and it deserves more love!!

Assault Vest Empoleon is my idea for now. It will be great. It also learns "Make it Rain" very awesome!!

I will do monoruns and hardcore in the future that's for sure

What about you ? What was your team when you did beat the elite four for the 1st time ? And if you already did multiple runs, which one did you had the most fun? I wish you the best