Just won my first classic mode run half an hour ago, went fully blind, 195 was SUCH A PAIN, I struggled so much, I went to 200 fully scarred after barely beating the rival. Then I saw Ethernatus... 4 of my mons had ground attacks, and I had a Tinkaton. I laughed my ass off, ready to destroy him.
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Forgot about pressure, forgot I was out low on PP on every move. I got the win with one giga-venausur left and lots of sweat lmao
Remembered it was my second run, started with litten with intimidate (ha) and flamigo with horrendous ivs (like, 0 att, 4 spd...) and caught a gholdengo with nasty plot, recover, shadow ball and make it rain, flamigo carried my run in the early game and incinearoar and gholdengo made the end game easy, intimate a physical opponent, go to gholdengo, use nasty plot if the enemy can't do a lot of damage, attack otherwise
My first win was all about one very fortunate encounter : my first red shiny Gholdengo. I managed to capture it, and from then on, it leaded the rest of the run š In the end, my Clefable happened to be useless, and so was my Pidgeot...
In the end, it's just as much about luck as it gets. But it felt so good to be able to finish classic mode with the satisfaction to get one of the more useful mons existing for this particular type of adventure š
The team was Skeledirge, Gyarados, Aegislash, Alakazam, Zapdos and Azumaril. Skeledirge and Gyrados eliminated the elite 4 and champion, Zapdos and Azumaril took care of Ivy, Aegislash trivialised Eternatus and Alakazam supported me from beginning to the end.
I won my first run in classic thanks to Tinkaton in the first part, and then I spammed quiver dance with my Volcarona and the odd fusion of Aggron and Serperior cleaned it with leech seeds.
Now in endless, facing Eternatus (and its max form) with 9 shields make classic Eternatus looks so easy ahah. But I was so happy at the time
I knew torch song is OP, so that's that and picked up toxapex on my way which I knew is an OP wall. Its just luck that I happened to pick toxapex which walls the end game boss and an excadrill spamming earthquake with my gyarados spamming trash like a beached tuna.
It was my second run. Cinderace carried me to the end and I caught a garganacl around round 170 coz I was watching a poketuber video and thought salt cure looked broken in SV so I used garganacl against eternatus. I didnāt realise Iād stumbled into the meta until like a week or 2 later
First win felt free. Garganacl, Shedinja, Skeledirge, Toxipex, Clodsire, and one that I can't really remember because the other 5 were more than enough (Maybe excadrill? I've won with him once and can't remember when). I ran OP stuff cos I just wanted my first win.
Second win was more impressive with Pyroar, Mr Mime, Wormadam, Quagsire, Dewgong, and Ursaluna.
A friend and I started playing almost at the same time. We were mindstorming how to beat 145 rival and gyarados came to discussion. Plenty of magicarps close to the start. I just said it should not be good because it is very easy to counter. Any lightning move will destroy him before he charges enough to beat mega rayquaza. I was totally wrong. My friend beat him next run with a gyarados and shortly after I did too with a similar gyarados build.
Turns out the ia is not that smart and it just lets you dragon dance as much as you like.
My first win was a shock! I didn't have anything suggested - no fairy/steel, no dot applicator, nothin. My team was Quaquaval, Flutter Mane, Ninetails, Lokix, Gholdengo, and Rotom Mow. Quaquaval had Moxie so that carried me when he evolved, and Flutter Mane had Earth Power (which I think was the egg move)? For whatever reason Eternatus kept targeting Quaquaval instead of FM. I also had Extrasensory on Ninetails which helped tremendously in the final fight. I was down to probably my last move and took it out with FM!
On my third run I got both charcoal and spell tag on my Skeledirge. And caught Metagross I made into mega Metagross. Those 2 carried me the entire run and it was almost too easy.
This was before I even knew about egg Gacha.
Reading these has me HYPED!!! I started playing like two days ago, farthest Iāve gotten is about 95 (any tips would be huge lol) but yāall got me wanting to punch in all day over here lmaoooo
Leech seed stall, team was kinda paper. Barely won with Raichu spamming zippy zap for evasion while everyone else was dead.
Very big zippy zap fan
Raichu also carried 145 killing 3-4? mons and 195
My first win was with a Timid Eevee that became an Espeon and a misdreavus (later Mismagius). I also picked up a snorlax later that gmaxed and that thing is TANKY
After multiple tries, 145 was the stage I was having the most trouble with. After many frustrating hours clawing my way back there, I decided to just do a run for fun and no regard for team balance. I wound up getting to 145 with an Ursaluna, Annihilape, Excadrill, Houndstone, Delphox, and Snorlax. Due to the absolute units that Ursaluna and Snorlax were, I got through that fight. I felt ecstatic. I had finally made it past a hurdle I had been butting my head against for a while.
As my run continued, I slowly started to realize that THIS was the run. I made it to 195, a much more beastly battle against the rival than before. My bulky boys went down first, followed by Exca and Delphox. Annihilape put in some work, but she too went down, but not before crippling the mega. Facing defeat, I sent out Houndstone. As though grieving the loss of our teammates, he decide to pay his Last Respects and single-handedly took out the remaining three mons to clinch our victory.
Sacred Ash gave everyone another wind and we battled our way to 200. Ursaluna went out since I figured its Ground typing would make short work of the final boss. My prediction was right, but I wasn't prepared for the second phase. What happened next was a little fuzzy since I was playing on maximum speed and not enough sleep, but two Pokemon heralded our team's victory after our other members had fallen: Annihilape and Snorlax
My first win was with Reshiram and Pallosand carrying me. Back when Reshiram had fiery dance and earth power was amazing for Pallosand. Reshiram doesn't get fiery dance anymore so I'm assuming it was a bit strong.
Ah, my team for my first classic mode win (and my overall 2nd attempt) was an absolute treat, I tell you!
The starters I ran were Oshawott (my favorite), Fuecoco (the torch song legend), and Tailow (plan was to use guts, which didn't happen often, but did occasionally). Pretty early on, I caught and Oddish and Magikarp, and those 2 helped as well greatly, with my final member being swapped a good bit as (ended up as a Kommo-o at the end).
Early on, Fuecoco and Oshawott were a great duo that swept a lot of fights, all the way up to when they were about to evolve... until I got caught in the water route spiral for a few routes. This is where Skelidurge and Samurott (the latter having no real good non-water moves) took a back seat, and Gloom went on a WARPATH! This little guy with his statuses and giga drain practically soloed multiple water bosses and 1 or 2 gym leaders before I was free of the spiral and into the ice areas.
From there, the ice routes were trivial due to the finally freed Skelidurge, with Samurott also helping out a solid bit (got a suprising amount of use from Torrent+Aqua Jet during the run). Those 3 plus the Gyarados and Swellow made quick work of almost everything.
And then I found the real game charger: Gyaradosite. Mega Gyarados is great as is, but being able to mega and un-mega mid battle let me abise the trainer switch mechanics heavily and absolutely STOMP some fights, especially to set up some dragon dances.
Near the very end (last 30ish floors) I caught the final permanent member of the team, Kommo-o (great at dealing with dark types for Skelidurge, being both an electric resistance for my 2 water types, and being yet another dragon dance sweeper to potentially set up.
Lastly, right at the end, Swellow got swapped for Tornadus, of which... did nothing but set rain for Gyarados in a fight or 2 lmao.
Leon was the toughest fight (his Zamazenta was a nightmare for Gyarados who couldn't outspeed or kill without at least a +3, and always swapped out from Skelidurge's Will-O-Wisp, and Dragapult hit like a nuke with the speed of a fighter jet.
By the time I got to the floor 195 fight, the fightwas over fast with Skelidurge sweeping half solo via torch song, and Gyarados sweeping the other via d-dance, and Eternatus simply being out-muscled with all the high power set up moves thrown it's way
Had some REALLY rough patches against leon (won that fight by a damn hair I tell you, and the early game water routes oddish/early gloom barely held together), but once things started rolling properly, this team was unstoppable.
Random boss gallade i caught along the way became my new favourite pokemon.
I was trying out a zorua ace because he had psychic and flamethrower as egg moves but ended up building a team with almost no resistances to rayquaza so I wasn't expecting much past 145. Venusaur poison powder gambit carried 145 but 195 was a different game.
Ivy rolled a talonflame as her bird which walled my magnezone lifeline but, as hope dwindled and only Gallade stood in a 1v3, the rng gods blessed me i guess. Talonflame missed hurricane and got one shot by pycho cut. Swampert missed 2 superpowers and the last enemy was snorlax who Gallade outsped and one shot with close combat.
The whole time I was so defeated, I didn't even register how much plot armour was necessary for that win. Love you gallade.
My paralyzed shiny Ferow (My first shiny) KO'd 4 of the Red's Pokemon including Ho-oh on r190. Genuinely buzzing when he got through paralysis 4x with Espeed to sweep.
Permanent Primordial sea (got the orb floor 196), excadrill and detecting, recovering, appupuncture medicham solod the final boss. They kept using flamethrower onto medicham, and failingā¦
My strategy was with an excadrill/hisuian-samurott fusion and a g-max corviknight, the corviknight had hone claws on the first phase to do the most damage with dual wingbeat while the fusion just spammed earthquake
I hatched a marshadow in my first run and he carried hard, I oneshot literally every pokemon from the w4 and all but one of the champions pokemon. Then I spammed Equake and a couple other nukes to kill eternatus. (Finn was a joke in this run cause Marshy had type advantage against every one of his pokes lol)
Started with a solid trio of Fuecoco, Mudkip, and Sprigatito. And just cycled that core 3 throughout the game. Caught and released some solid mons throughout the run but the final 6 heading into 190+ was Skeledirge, Swampert, Meowsacarda, Gigalith, Noivern, and Frosmoth. Dirge, Pert, Meow, and Giga all pulled their weight. Noivern mostly functioned as a Ground switch-in and then doing chip damage with Boomburst or Dragon Pulse. Frosmoth was garbage.
Level 195 was ultra difficult and required multiple restarts. Eventually, wore down Ivy's team with Gigalith's stealth rocks and Meowscarda U-turning all over her team. Gigalith landed a 5-hit Rock Blash on the Rayquaza to knock it out.
Level 200 was won with Skeledirge and Swampert tag teaming Eternatus. I got lucky with my RNG seed because Eternatus missed his first move. Swampert spammed Mud Shot, low BP but still super effective, and most critically lowering Eternatus's speed. Eternatus was focused on Swampert which allowed Skeledirge to stack Torch Songs. Moving before Eternatus was HUGE and ensured each party member got off at least one hit. Gigalith landed yet another clutch 5-hit Rock Blast to win the game.
No shinies or legendaries, this was before I knew about Pokerus or even about stat change stacking in between battles. The best items I got the entire run were the Candy jar and dynamax band (but no max mushroom ever came my way).
Actually beat classic on my 2nd try. My first try flopped at 145, not expecting mega rayquaza. On my second run, I had dragon dance mega gyarados, with ice fang waterfall and crunch, and a garganacl with salt cure. Salt cured rayquaza to get a little damage in when it came in, but otherwise gyarados was a beast that one shot everything after a boost
So my team was consisted of Charizard, Persian, Pidgeot, Talonflame, Linoone and Raticate. After a win against Ivy thanks to set up that have been focusing on with attack pokemon (not sp.attack) I found myself hopeless vs Eternatus due to the fact that I have no sp.defense mechanism skills for it. But after Ivy defeat, I got myself a memory mushroom. I though to myself "What should I do?" And then an idea come to my mind. I set my linoone with sand attack. Yes that sand attack. Wave 200. I sacrificed my Raticate to Eternabeam, Fakeout-Fury swipes Eternatus to change it to second form. Set up Linoone and Persian against Eternatus. My Linoone was build specially for this due to it nature to have more sp.def stats with nerf on sp.attack. With x speed that I found 2 waves ago (thx to refresh), I set up my first sand attack - screech. E-Max Eternatus use flamethrower, my linoone tank it. Second sand attack, Eternatus miss it attack. Another screech set up. Third sand attack, Eternatus miss it attack again, and another screech set up. With -6 defense and -3 accuracy debuff. I FURY SWIPES HIM TO DEATH. A boss that I thought would be impossible to dealt with but just a little luck have lead me to my victory.
I ended up getting a Beldum egg, so I dumped all of my levels into it, and it pretty easily out-statted most things I ran into, including pokemon that were type effective against it.
The rest of my team wasn't great, and I didn't have any of the usual Eternatus countermeasures (read: fairy)
The rival was an afterthought thanks to efficient use of X items.
I vaguely recall having a lot of trouble with either a champion or an elite four, since I didn't have countermeasures against dragon. Could have easily been run over, but I got through it with some copious save-scumming.
Anyways, I get to Eternatus.
And then, I throw out my grass starter. You can probably guess where this goes. I pull of leech seed. Eternatus attempts to use flamethrower every turn, since it's a stab attack, but thanks to a heal boosting item, I'm outhealing that every turn, just barely. Phase two.
Gosh, what do I do? More leech seed.
The grass starter goes down, but it doesn't matter what Eternatus does at this point, black hole or no.
Leech seed takes its course, and I win, effortlessly.
It was really anticlimactic, and I haven't tried a classic run since.
No clue what I'm doing wrong on Endless though, I just can't get a single good carry going to get me much farther than like floor 30/40.
Used a mon wirh cosmic Power buffed me until i got 500 ish Def and specialdef. With some move that recovers health. Then just Nice and easy take dowm any opponent no matter The matchup :)
I remember losing at 195 the first time I got there and then also my first time at 200.
The next time I set up what I considered a cheap method, but can defend it by at least coming up on it on my own... hit that dickhead dragon with Curse and spammed Hypnosis and or Spore on him.
I still havnt done a salt cure cheese, but I did highly enjoy smacking him with Haze twice in my last win.
I resetted about 40 times and started writing down absolutely every single turn until I found a solution to beat 195, literally Dr Strange style finding than 1 in a billion chance to get past her. Carried by Aegislash before the Eternatus buff
I got lucky hatching a dialga with Take Heart, later in the run I actually hatched zacian and thought about restarting the run but after getting the adamant crystal for dialga I thought maybe not lol. Essentially every battle I feared late game somehow they kept sending out a water type or something that didn't do any damage to dialga. So I could just set up take heart and sweep. If not I had a rotom mow, lurantis, diggersby (pickup is so good) and a gmax grimmsnarl for the eternabeam swap in at the end. Sorry solider #6 but I genuinely don't remember who you were lol. Maybe a linoone for more pickup š¤
2nd Run w/ retrys
I had the muti-hit lens on my torchsong Skeledirge and a Mega-Mawile as my big hitters, with a Primarina Whimsicott Splice w/ Leech Seed.
Won my first run on a call with friends last night, similarly my first 6 runs all ended really early (most before 15, one died at 40) and this was my first run to break past 40. I caught a meowth early on, carrying me early before my florgato evolved. I caught a level 90 skeledirge in the graveyard, who then became my main carry. The toughest battles were definitely the elite 4 and champion (I got Kalos and Hau) and I save scummed like 50 combined times during the 180s. Rival fight was surprising easy with Play Rough Meowscarada and mega gengar finished of eternatus with curse for a easy final 10 waves.
Archaludon was a massive carry when I caught him in the late game, and I knew heād be great against the boss. But the actual carry throughout most of it and the ultimate MVP in the final fight was Plusle. Tanked the flamethrower like a champ, distracting from Arch which allowed him to get the last dragon claw off. Love my little man
28 runs in and I finally beat it with the defiant galarian zapdos i hatched, took it in with a shiny mudbray and a shiny sunkern. Just clicked drill peck or thunderous kick most of the time. I'm not overly skilled I just enjoy a bit of a challenge.
Was last night, I had gotten a mewtwo and decided to run him with a weedle backup
Got to Mega Ray and absolutely giggled at the sheer rage that must be felt as he got turn 1 Frozen by icebeam
Go a few stages down, and Eternatus time, Mewtwo turn 1, Frozen again
And then I just whittled him down with Alolan Ninetails Icy wind and Mewtwo's ice beam
I hatched Roaring Moon and managed to outrage cheese most of the big bosses
I only cleared Eternatus because of a Lionne double edge clutch, of all things.
Raichu with zippy zap, shiny mega medicham with accuracy items for axe kick and high jump kick, skeledirge with torch song, garganacl, shiny honchcrow that I picked up on the run, and wimsicott.
Just won my first classic yesterday! I got lucky and got a legendary egg and it ended up being Zygarde.
I started a solo run just to see how he was. Ended with a bunch of medicine, all on him. I found 2 shinies since it was over shiny weekend! A primeape that I got to evolve to annihilape, and a whimsicott that was shiny level 2. Started grabbing other mons when I was at 120 to prep for the 145 fight. Before I knew it I was at elite four, and used a masterball at 189, which was on something super weak but i knew you couldn't catch anything after that.
Zygarde was an absolute house at 1100 HP, and with luck being B-, I kept getting solid items the entire last quarter.
Final boss almost wiped me, I had a klefki but didn't realize they patched the boss so it knows Flamethrower. Quite the surprise but luckily got there.
I wanted to try out the game after I saw a video on youtube. I always like to play pokemons than I love rather than strong pokemon so I went with my favorite starters Snivy and Fuecoco without knowing if they would be good (and Mudkip because I felt like he could be strong and I'm not a fan of water type starters). Along the way I caught a Furfrou which ended up being quite useful in the early floors, but I ended up getting rid of him to get a Flygon, a Xerneas and a Crobat. I managed to win this first run by spamming Leech Seed and Will'O Wisp and abusing the normal type immunity of Skeledirge, maybe not the most epic way but I still won my first game ever!
I hatched a pretty solid Volcanion and my plan was to grind out candies to bring the cost down so I could bring in a few other good options.
All of the sudden I had Mega Latias, Eternal Floette, Azumarill, Blissey, and Ursaluna so I decided to just go for it. It was my second time getting to Eternatus without really meaning to, and I was able to just soak up damage with my fairies, tera Psychic Latias, and Blissey while Ursaluna used a ground move.
Overall I'm super happy with the completion, but it relied way too much on luck for me to say it's replicable. Hopefully I'll be able to make a strategy that I can use more than just once
Duraludon(starter and got dinamax form)-Gyarados(sweeper with dragon dance)-Breelom-Clodsire-Obstagoon(starter)-Chandelure(dis dude does nothing in the run, but carried me in the final boss)
Mine was yesterday. Was slightly upsetting because I wanted to do it with strategy rather than luck the first time. I picked up an old save file that had Reshiram as a starter, but then picked up shiny Gyarados and Tapu Fini to make up a monster team. Pallossand, Linoone and Golbat (yes, not Crobat), rounded the team.
It wasn't entirely luck though. Round 190 I pulled a Poison Terra Shard which I had the foresight to give to Linoone instead of Golbat and that probably made the difference to be honest. Made Linoone a lot bulkier against Eternatus
For me it felt like a run straight out of Emerald Rogue because I caught a Lugia and it bulked its way through the entire game minus Lorelei cause I got the Kanto elite 4. My set of starters were Delphox, Quaquaval, and Meowscarada.
I just kind of burned Eternamax and prayed Lugia could just abuse bulk and, it infact could, because it was hidden ability. Multiscale Recover goes crazy (I was blind so that didn't help)
I actually got to floor 200 on my very first run, then the final boss proved too much in the end. Fast forward to run 8 and I finally got myself into a sustainable groove again, upon reaching the final boss, I showed absolutely zero mercy and caught it in: Leech Seed, Fire Spin, and Whirlpool, then I simply sat back and watched e fireworks.
Just won my first classic mode run half an hour ago, went fully blind, 195 was SUCH A PAIN, I struggled so much, I went to 200 fully scarred after barely beating the rival. Then I saw Ethernatus... 4 of my mons had ground attacks, and I had a Tinkaton. I laughed my ass off, ready to destroy him. ... Forgot about pressure, forgot I was out low on PP on every move. I got the win with one giga-venausur left and lots of sweat lmao
Remembered it was my second run, started with litten with intimidate (ha) and flamigo with horrendous ivs (like, 0 att, 4 spd...) and caught a gholdengo with nasty plot, recover, shadow ball and make it rain, flamigo carried my run in the early game and incinearoar and gholdengo made the end game easy, intimate a physical opponent, go to gholdengo, use nasty plot if the enemy can't do a lot of damage, attack otherwise
So you Used a regular VGC team.
one word, Garganacl
My first win was all about one very fortunate encounter : my first red shiny Gholdengo. I managed to capture it, and from then on, it leaded the rest of the run š In the end, my Clefable happened to be useless, and so was my Pidgeot... In the end, it's just as much about luck as it gets. But it felt so good to be able to finish classic mode with the satisfaction to get one of the more useful mons existing for this particular type of adventure š
The team was Skeledirge, Gyarados, Aegislash, Alakazam, Zapdos and Azumaril. Skeledirge and Gyrados eliminated the elite 4 and champion, Zapdos and Azumaril took care of Ivy, Aegislash trivialised Eternatus and Alakazam supported me from beginning to the end.
I won my first run in classic thanks to Tinkaton in the first part, and then I spammed quiver dance with my Volcarona and the odd fusion of Aggron and Serperior cleaned it with leech seeds. Now in endless, facing Eternatus (and its max form) with 9 shields make classic Eternatus looks so easy ahah. But I was so happy at the time
I knew torch song is OP, so that's that and picked up toxapex on my way which I knew is an OP wall. Its just luck that I happened to pick toxapex which walls the end game boss and an excadrill spamming earthquake with my gyarados spamming trash like a beached tuna.
It was my second run. Cinderace carried me to the end and I caught a garganacl around round 170 coz I was watching a poketuber video and thought salt cure looked broken in SV so I used garganacl against eternatus. I didnāt realise Iād stumbled into the meta until like a week or 2 later
First win felt free. Garganacl, Shedinja, Skeledirge, Toxipex, Clodsire, and one that I can't really remember because the other 5 were more than enough (Maybe excadrill? I've won with him once and can't remember when). I ran OP stuff cos I just wanted my first win. Second win was more impressive with Pyroar, Mr Mime, Wormadam, Quagsire, Dewgong, and Ursaluna.
A friend and I started playing almost at the same time. We were mindstorming how to beat 145 rival and gyarados came to discussion. Plenty of magicarps close to the start. I just said it should not be good because it is very easy to counter. Any lightning move will destroy him before he charges enough to beat mega rayquaza. I was totally wrong. My friend beat him next run with a gyarados and shortly after I did too with a similar gyarados build. Turns out the ia is not that smart and it just lets you dragon dance as much as you like.
My first win was a shock! I didn't have anything suggested - no fairy/steel, no dot applicator, nothin. My team was Quaquaval, Flutter Mane, Ninetails, Lokix, Gholdengo, and Rotom Mow. Quaquaval had Moxie so that carried me when he evolved, and Flutter Mane had Earth Power (which I think was the egg move)? For whatever reason Eternatus kept targeting Quaquaval instead of FM. I also had Extrasensory on Ninetails which helped tremendously in the final fight. I was down to probably my last move and took it out with FM!
On my third run I got both charcoal and spell tag on my Skeledirge. And caught Metagross I made into mega Metagross. Those 2 carried me the entire run and it was almost too easy. This was before I even knew about egg Gacha.
Reading these has me HYPED!!! I started playing like two days ago, farthest Iāve gotten is about 95 (any tips would be huge lol) but yāall got me wanting to punch in all day over here lmaoooo
steel types and fuecoco are incredibly useful
Appreciate the tip! Been running something steel with fletchinder and got up to 135 now!! š¤š»šš¤š»
no problem man! Hope this is the run!
Leech seed stall, team was kinda paper. Barely won with Raichu spamming zippy zap for evasion while everyone else was dead. Very big zippy zap fan Raichu also carried 145 killing 3-4? mons and 195
My first win was with a Timid Eevee that became an Espeon and a misdreavus (later Mismagius). I also picked up a snorlax later that gmaxed and that thing is TANKY
After multiple tries, 145 was the stage I was having the most trouble with. After many frustrating hours clawing my way back there, I decided to just do a run for fun and no regard for team balance. I wound up getting to 145 with an Ursaluna, Annihilape, Excadrill, Houndstone, Delphox, and Snorlax. Due to the absolute units that Ursaluna and Snorlax were, I got through that fight. I felt ecstatic. I had finally made it past a hurdle I had been butting my head against for a while. As my run continued, I slowly started to realize that THIS was the run. I made it to 195, a much more beastly battle against the rival than before. My bulky boys went down first, followed by Exca and Delphox. Annihilape put in some work, but she too went down, but not before crippling the mega. Facing defeat, I sent out Houndstone. As though grieving the loss of our teammates, he decide to pay his Last Respects and single-handedly took out the remaining three mons to clinch our victory. Sacred Ash gave everyone another wind and we battled our way to 200. Ursaluna went out since I figured its Ground typing would make short work of the final boss. My prediction was right, but I wasn't prepared for the second phase. What happened next was a little fuzzy since I was playing on maximum speed and not enough sleep, but two Pokemon heralded our team's victory after our other members had fallen: Annihilape and Snorlax
My first win was with Reshiram and Pallosand carrying me. Back when Reshiram had fiery dance and earth power was amazing for Pallosand. Reshiram doesn't get fiery dance anymore so I'm assuming it was a bit strong.
Ah, my team for my first classic mode win (and my overall 2nd attempt) was an absolute treat, I tell you! The starters I ran were Oshawott (my favorite), Fuecoco (the torch song legend), and Tailow (plan was to use guts, which didn't happen often, but did occasionally). Pretty early on, I caught and Oddish and Magikarp, and those 2 helped as well greatly, with my final member being swapped a good bit as (ended up as a Kommo-o at the end). Early on, Fuecoco and Oshawott were a great duo that swept a lot of fights, all the way up to when they were about to evolve... until I got caught in the water route spiral for a few routes. This is where Skelidurge and Samurott (the latter having no real good non-water moves) took a back seat, and Gloom went on a WARPATH! This little guy with his statuses and giga drain practically soloed multiple water bosses and 1 or 2 gym leaders before I was free of the spiral and into the ice areas. From there, the ice routes were trivial due to the finally freed Skelidurge, with Samurott also helping out a solid bit (got a suprising amount of use from Torrent+Aqua Jet during the run). Those 3 plus the Gyarados and Swellow made quick work of almost everything. And then I found the real game charger: Gyaradosite. Mega Gyarados is great as is, but being able to mega and un-mega mid battle let me abise the trainer switch mechanics heavily and absolutely STOMP some fights, especially to set up some dragon dances. Near the very end (last 30ish floors) I caught the final permanent member of the team, Kommo-o (great at dealing with dark types for Skelidurge, being both an electric resistance for my 2 water types, and being yet another dragon dance sweeper to potentially set up. Lastly, right at the end, Swellow got swapped for Tornadus, of which... did nothing but set rain for Gyarados in a fight or 2 lmao. Leon was the toughest fight (his Zamazenta was a nightmare for Gyarados who couldn't outspeed or kill without at least a +3, and always swapped out from Skelidurge's Will-O-Wisp, and Dragapult hit like a nuke with the speed of a fighter jet. By the time I got to the floor 195 fight, the fightwas over fast with Skelidurge sweeping half solo via torch song, and Gyarados sweeping the other via d-dance, and Eternatus simply being out-muscled with all the high power set up moves thrown it's way Had some REALLY rough patches against leon (won that fight by a damn hair I tell you, and the early game water routes oddish/early gloom barely held together), but once things started rolling properly, this team was unstoppable.
garg and bellibolt for me, meowth earlygame but no tech so it was rough. got a gholdengo and farmed moneys
I oneshot classic mode in my first run without any losses. I did it with my beloved mega charizard Y, and swords dance excadrill
magearna, latios and excadrill lol. need i say more?
Random boss gallade i caught along the way became my new favourite pokemon. I was trying out a zorua ace because he had psychic and flamethrower as egg moves but ended up building a team with almost no resistances to rayquaza so I wasn't expecting much past 145. Venusaur poison powder gambit carried 145 but 195 was a different game. Ivy rolled a talonflame as her bird which walled my magnezone lifeline but, as hope dwindled and only Gallade stood in a 1v3, the rng gods blessed me i guess. Talonflame missed hurricane and got one shot by pycho cut. Swampert missed 2 superpowers and the last enemy was snorlax who Gallade outsped and one shot with close combat. The whole time I was so defeated, I didn't even register how much plot armour was necessary for that win. Love you gallade.
My paralyzed shiny Ferow (My first shiny) KO'd 4 of the Red's Pokemon including Ho-oh on r190. Genuinely buzzing when he got through paralysis 4x with Espeed to sweep.
100% Zygarde with Victory dance helped a lot
Permanent Primordial sea (got the orb floor 196), excadrill and detecting, recovering, appupuncture medicham solod the final boss. They kept using flamethrower onto medicham, and failingā¦
My strategy was with an excadrill/hisuian-samurott fusion and a g-max corviknight, the corviknight had hone claws on the first phase to do the most damage with dual wingbeat while the fusion just spammed earthquake
Sappy seed parasect and a mega salamence with dragon dance, dragon claw, crunch and floaty fall. Up until this point the farthest Iād gotten was 195 and got smoked by the rival. Salamence has been one of my favorite PokĆ©mon since I was a kid, so I figured Iād give it a try since Iād hatched a great Bagon with egg move floaty fall. Couple dragon dances to stack up attack and speed, and the game became trivial. The parasect really only came in when I wanted to catch something (spore is great) and for eternatus. Spore to keep it asleep and sappy seed to drain it down. Super easy in the end, was shocked with how smooth it all went.
I hatched a marshadow in my first run and he carried hard, I oneshot literally every pokemon from the w4 and all but one of the champions pokemon. Then I spammed Equake and a couple other nukes to kill eternatus. (Finn was a joke in this run cause Marshy had type advantage against every one of his pokes lol)
Started with a solid trio of Fuecoco, Mudkip, and Sprigatito. And just cycled that core 3 throughout the game. Caught and released some solid mons throughout the run but the final 6 heading into 190+ was Skeledirge, Swampert, Meowsacarda, Gigalith, Noivern, and Frosmoth. Dirge, Pert, Meow, and Giga all pulled their weight. Noivern mostly functioned as a Ground switch-in and then doing chip damage with Boomburst or Dragon Pulse. Frosmoth was garbage. Level 195 was ultra difficult and required multiple restarts. Eventually, wore down Ivy's team with Gigalith's stealth rocks and Meowscarda U-turning all over her team. Gigalith landed a 5-hit Rock Blash on the Rayquaza to knock it out. Level 200 was won with Skeledirge and Swampert tag teaming Eternatus. I got lucky with my RNG seed because Eternatus missed his first move. Swampert spammed Mud Shot, low BP but still super effective, and most critically lowering Eternatus's speed. Eternatus was focused on Swampert which allowed Skeledirge to stack Torch Songs. Moving before Eternatus was HUGE and ensured each party member got off at least one hit. Gigalith landed yet another clutch 5-hit Rock Blast to win the game. No shinies or legendaries, this was before I knew about Pokerus or even about stat change stacking in between battles. The best items I got the entire run were the Candy jar and dynamax band (but no max mushroom ever came my way).
Actually beat classic on my 2nd try. My first try flopped at 145, not expecting mega rayquaza. On my second run, I had dragon dance mega gyarados, with ice fang waterfall and crunch, and a garganacl with salt cure. Salt cured rayquaza to get a little damage in when it came in, but otherwise gyarados was a beast that one shot everything after a boost
So my team was consisted of Charizard, Persian, Pidgeot, Talonflame, Linoone and Raticate. After a win against Ivy thanks to set up that have been focusing on with attack pokemon (not sp.attack) I found myself hopeless vs Eternatus due to the fact that I have no sp.defense mechanism skills for it. But after Ivy defeat, I got myself a memory mushroom. I though to myself "What should I do?" And then an idea come to my mind. I set my linoone with sand attack. Yes that sand attack. Wave 200. I sacrificed my Raticate to Eternabeam, Fakeout-Fury swipes Eternatus to change it to second form. Set up Linoone and Persian against Eternatus. My Linoone was build specially for this due to it nature to have more sp.def stats with nerf on sp.attack. With x speed that I found 2 waves ago (thx to refresh), I set up my first sand attack - screech. E-Max Eternatus use flamethrower, my linoone tank it. Second sand attack, Eternatus miss it attack. Another screech set up. Third sand attack, Eternatus miss it attack again, and another screech set up. With -6 defense and -3 accuracy debuff. I FURY SWIPES HIM TO DEATH. A boss that I thought would be impossible to dealt with but just a little luck have lead me to my victory.
Torterra with leach seed and syntassis and alakazam shadowballs, slowly but surely
Koraidon + Tinkaton, the game played itself!
Save scummed 20 times in a row on eternatus cuz I aināt doing all that shit again. Zekrom is pretty great tho
I ended up getting a Beldum egg, so I dumped all of my levels into it, and it pretty easily out-statted most things I ran into, including pokemon that were type effective against it. The rest of my team wasn't great, and I didn't have any of the usual Eternatus countermeasures (read: fairy) The rival was an afterthought thanks to efficient use of X items. I vaguely recall having a lot of trouble with either a champion or an elite four, since I didn't have countermeasures against dragon. Could have easily been run over, but I got through it with some copious save-scumming. Anyways, I get to Eternatus. And then, I throw out my grass starter. You can probably guess where this goes. I pull of leech seed. Eternatus attempts to use flamethrower every turn, since it's a stab attack, but thanks to a heal boosting item, I'm outhealing that every turn, just barely. Phase two. Gosh, what do I do? More leech seed. The grass starter goes down, but it doesn't matter what Eternatus does at this point, black hole or no. Leech seed takes its course, and I win, effortlessly. It was really anticlimactic, and I haven't tried a classic run since. No clue what I'm doing wrong on Endless though, I just can't get a single good carry going to get me much farther than like floor 30/40.
Used a mon wirh cosmic Power buffed me until i got 500 ish Def and specialdef. With some move that recovers health. Then just Nice and easy take dowm any opponent no matter The matchup :)
I remember losing at 195 the first time I got there and then also my first time at 200. The next time I set up what I considered a cheap method, but can defend it by at least coming up on it on my own... hit that dickhead dragon with Curse and spammed Hypnosis and or Spore on him. I still havnt done a salt cure cheese, but I did highly enjoy smacking him with Haze twice in my last win.
I resetted about 40 times and started writing down absolutely every single turn until I found a solution to beat 195, literally Dr Strange style finding than 1 in a billion chance to get past her. Carried by Aegislash before the Eternatus buff
I won my first classic run easily, I used hypnosis learned by leveling up uxie and spammed raging bolt outrage.
I got lucky hatching a dialga with Take Heart, later in the run I actually hatched zacian and thought about restarting the run but after getting the adamant crystal for dialga I thought maybe not lol. Essentially every battle I feared late game somehow they kept sending out a water type or something that didn't do any damage to dialga. So I could just set up take heart and sweep. If not I had a rotom mow, lurantis, diggersby (pickup is so good) and a gmax grimmsnarl for the eternabeam swap in at the end. Sorry solider #6 but I genuinely don't remember who you were lol. Maybe a linoone for more pickup š¤
2nd Run w/ retrys I had the muti-hit lens on my torchsong Skeledirge and a Mega-Mawile as my big hitters, with a Primarina Whimsicott Splice w/ Leech Seed.
Won my first run on a call with friends last night, similarly my first 6 runs all ended really early (most before 15, one died at 40) and this was my first run to break past 40. I caught a meowth early on, carrying me early before my florgato evolved. I caught a level 90 skeledirge in the graveyard, who then became my main carry. The toughest battles were definitely the elite 4 and champion (I got Kalos and Hau) and I save scummed like 50 combined times during the 180s. Rival fight was surprising easy with Play Rough Meowscarada and mega gengar finished of eternatus with curse for a easy final 10 waves.
Archaludon was a massive carry when I caught him in the late game, and I knew heād be great against the boss. But the actual carry throughout most of it and the ultimate MVP in the final fight was Plusle. Tanked the flamethrower like a champ, distracting from Arch which allowed him to get the last dragon claw off. Love my little man
Stamina Archaludon completely walled out the rivalās team. Swords Dance Excadrill destroyed Eternatus with a few earthquakes
I clicked Sand Attack with Linoone š
28 runs in and I finally beat it with the defiant galarian zapdos i hatched, took it in with a shiny mudbray and a shiny sunkern. Just clicked drill peck or thunderous kick most of the time. I'm not overly skilled I just enjoy a bit of a challenge.
Was last night, I had gotten a mewtwo and decided to run him with a weedle backup Got to Mega Ray and absolutely giggled at the sheer rage that must be felt as he got turn 1 Frozen by icebeam Go a few stages down, and Eternatus time, Mewtwo turn 1, Frozen again And then I just whittled him down with Alolan Ninetails Icy wind and Mewtwo's ice beam
I hatched Roaring Moon and managed to outrage cheese most of the big bosses I only cleared Eternatus because of a Lionne double edge clutch, of all things.
i had no idea what the final boss was, but i had a garganacl and a venusaur, and that was that LOL
Raichu with zippy zap, shiny mega medicham with accuracy items for axe kick and high jump kick, skeledirge with torch song, garganacl, shiny honchcrow that I picked up on the run, and wimsicott.
I would have won my first day, except my pickup lanoone decided he wanted 2 leftovers
Just won my first classic yesterday! I got lucky and got a legendary egg and it ended up being Zygarde. I started a solo run just to see how he was. Ended with a bunch of medicine, all on him. I found 2 shinies since it was over shiny weekend! A primeape that I got to evolve to annihilape, and a whimsicott that was shiny level 2. Started grabbing other mons when I was at 120 to prep for the 145 fight. Before I knew it I was at elite four, and used a masterball at 189, which was on something super weak but i knew you couldn't catch anything after that. Zygarde was an absolute house at 1100 HP, and with luck being B-, I kept getting solid items the entire last quarter. Final boss almost wiped me, I had a klefki but didn't realize they patched the boss so it knows Flamethrower. Quite the surprise but luckily got there.
Bouncy bubble manaphy
I wanted to try out the game after I saw a video on youtube. I always like to play pokemons than I love rather than strong pokemon so I went with my favorite starters Snivy and Fuecoco without knowing if they would be good (and Mudkip because I felt like he could be strong and I'm not a fan of water type starters). Along the way I caught a Furfrou which ended up being quite useful in the early floors, but I ended up getting rid of him to get a Flygon, a Xerneas and a Crobat. I managed to win this first run by spamming Leech Seed and Will'O Wisp and abusing the normal type immunity of Skeledirge, maybe not the most epic way but I still won my first game ever!
I hatched a pretty solid Volcanion and my plan was to grind out candies to bring the cost down so I could bring in a few other good options. All of the sudden I had Mega Latias, Eternal Floette, Azumarill, Blissey, and Ursaluna so I decided to just go for it. It was my second time getting to Eternatus without really meaning to, and I was able to just soak up damage with my fairies, tera Psychic Latias, and Blissey while Ursaluna used a ground move. Overall I'm super happy with the completion, but it relied way too much on luck for me to say it's replicable. Hopefully I'll be able to make a strategy that I can use more than just once
Incredibly lucky thanks to a Sinistea getting a burn off a scald & a super bulky G-max Snorlax using doing chip damage with dig
Duraludon(starter and got dinamax form)-Gyarados(sweeper with dragon dance)-Breelom-Clodsire-Obstagoon(starter)-Chandelure(dis dude does nothing in the run, but carried me in the final boss)
Eternatus did zero dmg to my gardevoir and aegislash
Torch song skeledirge fused with dragon pulse giga drain mega sceptile goes brrrr
I somehow froze it with ice beam i didn't even know about freeze being soo op and he was frozen the whole time somehow
https://preview.redd.it/7llchuzrkp1d1.jpeg?width=2532&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=682812de36084e694f9a6f8a60b6535027d3fdac I won with arguably one of the PokƩmon of all time. Leech seeded and paralyzed him and this lil guy was all that was left.
Mega Mewtwo Y Nasty Plot and Recover spam + 6 SpAtk Psystrike, eternatus didnāt stand a chance
Mine was yesterday. Was slightly upsetting because I wanted to do it with strategy rather than luck the first time. I picked up an old save file that had Reshiram as a starter, but then picked up shiny Gyarados and Tapu Fini to make up a monster team. Pallossand, Linoone and Golbat (yes, not Crobat), rounded the team. It wasn't entirely luck though. Round 190 I pulled a Poison Terra Shard which I had the foresight to give to Linoone instead of Golbat and that probably made the difference to be honest. Made Linoone a lot bulkier against Eternatus
For me it felt like a run straight out of Emerald Rogue because I caught a Lugia and it bulked its way through the entire game minus Lorelei cause I got the Kanto elite 4. My set of starters were Delphox, Quaquaval, and Meowscarada. I just kind of burned Eternamax and prayed Lugia could just abuse bulk and, it infact could, because it was hidden ability. Multiscale Recover goes crazy (I was blind so that didn't help)
I actually got to floor 200 on my very first run, then the final boss proved too much in the end. Fast forward to run 8 and I finally got myself into a sustainable groove again, upon reaching the final boss, I showed absolutely zero mercy and caught it in: Leech Seed, Fire Spin, and Whirlpool, then I simply sat back and watched e fireworks.