Glacia's first Glalie has Light Screen to decrease the power of Special Attacks for five turns.

Her team is even more boring than Phoebe's because she has three members of one evolutionary line, two of them being in the same stage of evolution, and two other members of the same species. Next up is Glacia, who uses Ice type Pokemon. She has Attract to infatuate male Pokemon, and will then use Shadow Ball, Faint Attack and Psychic. Being a Ghost and Dark type, she has no type weaknesses. Sableye has a unique typing, unless you include Spiritomb who was not introduced until a Generation later. The other Banette has Spite, which will lower your Pokemon's PP when it's used, Will-O-Wisp, which causes burning and Faint Attack which never misses. She also has Toxic, which will cause steadily increasing damage to any Pokemon that is not immune or is not protected by Safeguard, although Toxic sometimes misses. One of them has the unique Skill Swap, allowing her to swap her Insomnia ability, which prevents sleep, in exchange for your Pokemon's ability. The two Banette are at the same level so you won't know which one your facing until they use a move that is not Shadow Ball. Both Dusclops have Pressure forcing you to use up two PP instead of just one whenever you attack them. Her other moves are Shadow Ball, Ice Beam and Earthquake. Phoebe's second Dusclops, which is also her highest leveled Pokemon, is much more aggressive, although she does know Confuse Ray just like the first Dusclops. Future Sight doesn't work until two turns after it's used and Curse forces her to sacrifice half of her HP. Phoebe's first Dusclops is a stalling Pokemon who has Confuse Ray, Future Sight, Curse and Shadow Punch. Admittedly there aren't many Ghost types to choose from in Hoenn, but there is Shedinja so she could have used it. She has a rather boring team, since she has two members of two species, Banette and Dusclops. Therefore the only safe way of defeating Absol is to just pound him with powerful, and preferably super effective, attacks.Īfter Sidney comes Phoebe, a user of Ghost Pokémon. Absol also has a unique move called Snatch, which means he literally snatches your Pokemon's stat changes for example if he uses Snatch and you use a move like Double Team, Absol will Snatch the move and use it instead of your Pokemon. Slash is strong and has a good chance of causing a nasty critical hit. Despite not being a Flying type, this Absol also has Aerial Ace. Sydney's main Pokemon is Absol who is a powerful Physical Attacker and has Swords Dance to make him even more dangerous. Fortunately his Special Defence shouldn't be much better than his Physical Defence. However he has Rough Skin, so whenever you attack him physically, your Pokemon will take damage. Sharpedo has Surf, Crunch, Slash, and Swagger, but the Swagger is a massive risk on Sharpedo's part because his Defence is terrible. The really annoying thing about Shiftry is Double Team so you should defeat him quickly before he can use it to dodge your attacks.

You could also use a Dark type, which is immune to Extrasensory, meaning that Shiftry can only hurt you on the first turn with Fake Out, which causes flinching, or get you to hurt yourself with Swagger, which also increases your Pokemon's Attack by two levels. Shiftry has the same massive weakness to Bug types that Cacturne has. Bug types should wipe the floor with him. Another thing your should remember about Cacturne is that, despite not being a Rock, Ground or Steel type, he is immune to Sandstorm because of Sand Veil, which makes him harder to hit in a Sandstorm.

His final move is Faint Attack so don't bother raising your Pokemon's evasiveness or lowering Cacturne's accuracy. Cacturne's signature move is Needle Arm, which is quite strong and has a chance of causing flinching. Despite Intimidate, Bug and Fighting types should be able to deal with him without too much trouble.Ĭacturne has Cotton Spore to lower your Pokemon's Speed by two levels and Leech Seed to suck away some of your Pokemon's energy and restore his own on every turn. Mightyena also has Roar to scare your Pokemon away but very rarely uses it. Take Down causes recoil damage and might miss. Mighteyana has Sand Attack to lower accuracy, and uses Crunch and Take Down to attack. He starts the battle with Mightyena who will lower your Pokemon's Attack with Intimidate.

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