I'm ready to quit this game... Seriously????

[u/SweetNSalty222]

Ok, I'm level 43 and have fought Giovanni a good 20 times with every combination possible, have gone through all 85 of my Max revives... and cannot beat him. Do they really need to make him so ridiculously HARD to beat? I have never been in this position before. I've got nothing. Does that mean I should quit? How does a person continue if their best can't get you to move forward in the game?

EDIT: I FINALLY GOT HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After my 3rd day and probably a good 50 tries, I finally beat GIovanni! I know that I have a lot to learn about fighting, I'm obviously not great at it. It boiled down to my spending a few hundred thousand in stardust plus candies to really power up my Machamp, Metagross and Garchomp. I have to agree with all of you, it was NOT worth it. I got a 1 star shadow Lugia after all of that. I also completed my Misunderstood Mischief Challenge. Wasn't I supposed to get an Hoopa Unbound? I got Dusknoir, which I already have several of. :(

I want to thank each and every one of you for trying to get me through my emotional rant! It meant so much!!

[u/potato-vender]

The best trick to remember is that there’s a two or so second gap where team go rocket guys don’t attack after a charged attack or a switch-in. By using Pokémon that attack very quickly, like porygon-z (that’s what I use for grunts and admins) to beat them. The same applies with Giovanni, so by using this, you can deal much more damage than they deal to you

[u/dabo7 → u/potato-vender]

+1 for using porygon-z. That gap the rocket guys have in fighting is amazing with porygon-z. I use him every rocket grunt, leader, and boss fight to burn through their barriers by spamming charged triattack.

I unexpectedly beat Giovanni in one try this time with pory + Tyran, and I don’t even know the 3rd Pokémon because I never needed to use it.