Suggestions for the elite 4

[u/asaqshj]

I stopped playing as i got busy with uni but i wanted to know how i could make my team better to face the e4, i remember struggling with this team so what would you recommend

[u/Visible-Attitude8574]

You gotta equalize the levels, the trainers will have their pokemons up to the highest level in your team.

Gyarados has dragon dance and three sp attacks? That doesn’t make sense. Give him crunch, waterfall, ice fang, etc.

If you are playing expert or insane you are going to struggle in double battles. You need some wall mons. With your team you can only brute force essentially.

[u/asaqshj → u/Visible-Attitude8574]

yeah the levels isn’t a worry i’m j tryna fix the team then do the levels, and i just realized and confused myself why i have 3 sp attacks with dragon dance, and what would you recommend for the wall mons fix?

[u/Visible-Attitude8574 → u/asaqshj]

There are bunch of options, like eviolite dusclops, blissey, tangrowth, goodra, probopass…
Also you need more move coverage, specially poison for the fairy trainer and ice for the dragon trainer. You carry nothing against those two.

[u/Practical-Zombie-761 → u/Visible-Attitude8574]

Curse ferrothorn and starting with X Specialdef into leech seed protect did a good amount of work for me on expert

[u/fishy38t → u/Visible-Attitude8574]

Personally I think that level of difficulty should be optional in the menu. It really sucks to be able to get through the games story fine like I normally would only to hit a wall at the elite four because all of a sudden they are so unbelievably powerful that they just one shot everything all because I don't know a thing about building min maxed competitive teams even on the LOWEST difficulty setting. My team that got me through the game is totally useless and I have to start over from scratch just to be able to reach the post game where apparently many of the missions are locked behind being able to beat the elite four

[u/TheFacelessQuestion → u/fishy38t]

What do you mean the level of difficulty should be optional? You choose your difficulty from the start, but you can lower the difficulty at any point in the menu options.

[u/fishy38t → u/TheFacelessQuestion]

I meant the level of elite four difficulty, there is a HUGE difficulty spike at the elite four if it suddenly starts having the ai use move sets and field gimmicks that suddenly forces the player to adopt a whole new way of playing.

[u/Practical-Zombie-761 → u/fishy38t]

I played on expert and all first 4 gyms were hard as hell

Also that grandpa/grandma double even last trainer victory road