It's really nice that you've walked us through your decision making process. Also, totally respect you sticking to the Pokémon that you like using and not going for meta picks. Might do that myself in the future too. Overall, great video!
I've always wanted to get into training competitive pokemon, but could never understand tutorials. Your videos have been great and now I'm excited to build my own team for the battle tower :)
That notebook is always awesome to see. As much as I find our modern digital convenient, there's nothing like physically writing notes down. Been doing that a lot recently myself for some of the games I'm playing, especially for achievement hunting in some of my favourite games. Always satisfying to actually tick something off a list rather than clicking a check box on my phone or PC, haha 👌
@@CarterTran-t2w there is a link in description to my amazon store with all the specific things i use. The book with the pokemon stuff is a moleskin dotted notebook. I also use a spiral notebook also for other things and prefer to write notes in that
Very nice video. I kinda skipped to the team strategy because Ive been following you for a while with this team. its really nice to see your thought process and gave me a lot of ideas for my team and what I want out of it.
First of all, I'd like to say I love your Pokemon Emerald videos. Your vibe matches with what the game means to me and that's awesome. I'm in the same journey that you are. Just finished med school and one of the first things I did was take mi GBA and play one hundred hours of Pkmn emerald. Just leveling up a team of Aipom and "Pick up" pokemon just to find 7 (yes, seven) Earthquake TMs!!! and over 100 rare candy hahah, all while I was thinking a strategy for the battle frontier. Soon I'll star breeding. This journey has taken almost 20 years and it will probably take 10 - 20 more. And that's just fine. It is my happy place. Greetings from Chile.
Hey! Considering you acknowledge the faults of the squad, I'd like to recommend you run bulky T Tar, drop Ice Beam and play Rest. This should allow you to set up much more consistently which is what you might as well go for since the entire team relies on T Tar to win anyway. Don't be afraid to mud slap spam and send out t tar whenever you can in order to rack up 6 DDs
This channel has become one of my favorites lately. Great content bro! About your main team: I don't remember you mentioning this, but wouldn't it be better to replace Tyranitar's Ice Beam with fire coverage? Flamethrower or Fire Blast could deal with Skarmory and Scizor without them being able to use Counter. Flying-type would still get super effective from Rock Slide, and Dragon-type could be a problem, but maybe Dusclops could handle it.
Thanks! And hmm yea that could be an option too! But then I will lose to things like flygon however Dusclops can more easily handle flygon than Scizor/Skarmory. That is a great idea idk why I didnt think of that yet! Guess I was too tunnel visioned.
Very thoughtful video, and interesting team iteration. I currently have all silver medals, but struggling to get my first gold. I'm surprised your team is working for you due to just the sheer frequency of water types in this game. My main team (and the team that got me my silver medals) is Latios, Milotic, and Miltank. The Miltank surprises people, but the setup of Body Slam+Curse+MilkDrink+HealBell on a fast, tanky mon continuously comes in clutch. I may try out some of the pointers you mentioned in this video because what I'm doing isn't working anymore for the gold runs - so great video + hope you get there yourself. : )
congrats on all the silvers! I have learned a lot about the BF up to this point so I have been managing against the water types cuz i had to haha. MILKTANK?? That is interesting!
You're making me want to try Steelix in some of my runs. I think it'd be interesting to see how it pairs with Gyarados, given that Steelix can learn torment and they have pretty perfect defensive synergy.
steelix is a BEAST. Also Gyarados pairs well with steelix since they both like snakes/serpents! On a more serious note, Steelix is immune to electric so that helps combat Gyarados weakness. Also Gyarados is tolerant to water and fire so that covers steelix. Honestly, I might want to try a Gyarados!
Hey! Have you considered substitute on your DD tyranitar? I think if you PP stall their first Pokémon with your two walls, then switch in TTar and set up dances and a sub, you should be able to sweep! Love the content ❤
I do find it cool that the way toxic stacks over turns it adds up to 15/16ths by the 5th turn, with a switch turn of sandstorm into toxic still adding to 15/16 on the 5th. Unless you also add 1 turn of protect before the toxic (or like a missed toxic turn). In this way I think a second attacking move on dusclops is too much, there are a lot of defensive options. Also sand technically makes wil-o-wisp a 6 turn kill too, meanwhile dropping the attack with burn. And like you could a different pokemon use toxic while dusclops has w-o-w but that is harder to pull off. I would say in a vacuum, toxic is better to shut down a set-up pokemon as it can end sooner on its own and combine with chip damage. I do think there is a really strong dusclops team that easily gets past gold that has never been built yet, the ability to pp stall cross chops is so good. But like that team probably has some conventional pokemon on it. Most teams use a fast attacker with earthquake and aerial ace to cover mixed attackers, but a specially defensive dusclops could concievably stall the ones where fighting type is their only physical move (then you just need something for the earthquakes) to get to the heart of your inevitable problems, you do need a water resist regardless of which two you keep as the first two are weak to water and any team with dusclops is going to be slow enough it can't just blast through every water. The good news is that there are so many bulky water types that you have a choice of a ton that never get used (if you even want to go with a water type and not something else that resists). Like there are actually 20 but only Suicune, Milotic and Swampert ever get used. Honestly I kind of envy the idea of picking, I have a shortlist in mind of which ones super never get used but also have really decent stats, but I assume you would want to look yourself. There are types of pokemon you could just hope to avoid or get lucky against, but water types are omni present. Then the next hint is the move substitute. I'm trying to think of if there is a way to open your mind to all the situations a substitute can be handy on both stallers or sweepers without just listing them. Finding a way to make space within 12 moves for subsitute is difficult much less finding a strategy that successfully takes advantage of it. Substitute is a really fun move to think about, I think if you just start playing with it you will think of new ways to use it. I have developed a technique for restarting emerald to get to the substitute tutor where I pick mudkip and trade it to another game, teach the mudkip surf/strength/ and waterfall for the extra pp, give it a lucky egg and trade in a pokemon that knows dig and teleport to save time walking back. I find the higher power hm moves and lucky egg are enough to power through the early game without stopping.
I said it in the last video, I'll say it again. If you're gonna keep Steelix you should give it Explosion. The Special Defense boost through Sandstorm would be nice, but if you're leading with Steelix then that's moot, unless you're going to raw tag Steelix out to pull Tyranitar in but then that puts your win condition in danger for no reason. The fact that Steelix's "weaknesses" list is so broad and vague should set off a lot of alarms - "anything with fire or water coverage is problematic" is a crazy hill to stand your ground on considering they are some of the most common types you'll face no matter what facility you're in. Also somewhat related, It feels like you have PTSD from that Whiscash that hit you with so many Fissures a few weeks ago, but if you zoom out and look at it, nearly every Pokemon in the frontier with a 1-hit-KO move also has the coverage to deal with Steelix outright. Whiscash = Fissure OR Surf, Walrein = Sheer Cold OR Surf, Lapras = Horn Drill OR Surf, Nidoking = Horn Drill OR Fire Blast/Flamethrower/Ice Beam etc etc. Maybe not enough firepower to 1-shot, but still coverage nonetheless.
From what I read, the sandstorm buff was introduced in Gen 4. Does it work in Gen 3? I do have another steelix with physical attacking moves and explosion. Or are you recommending having explosion on this specific steelix? I disliked explosion since there were so many pokes with protect, however it can be played around.
Sandstorm buff is gen 4 onwards, as well as only applying to rock types. Protect is absolutely a deal breaker for explosion most of the time, but it can come in handy if you know what set you're going up against. I'd say base your set off of your own experience
@@nostalgicnighthawk I jumped the gun with the Sandstorm comment, I'll take that L. Got my gens mixed up, but also forgot Steelix is Steel/Ground and not Steel/Rock, just because I've never really used one. But I'm recommending Explosion over Mud Slap. I did a huge breakdown of holes in your strategy on your "Omnipotent Whiscash" video and about how you would have won with Explosion instead of Mud Slap on the same Steelix you've showcased here, by running damage calculations for a myriad of situations. Or swap it out for the other Steelix, whichever pulls more weight immediately, but I do genuinely think you're playing with an arm behind your back by not taking Explosion especially if you already have a Steelix in reserve that already knows it. At the very least, try it out. In both showcase videos you've showed the Mud Slap Steelix but I think Explosion will pull a lot more weight by virtue of being a strong centerpiece rather than something that is only occasionally useful. The accuracy in the Battle Frontier basically doesn't matter, moves will hit you if the game wants it to. Being slow and weak to common types, you're better off blowing up than trying to chip away with Mud Slap's abysmal base power.
I really like your style of videos, they are really well made and relaxing to watch. But as someone who played Gen 3 competitively at some point and got all the Gold symbols in Emeralds Battle Frontier, I have to be honest with you and tell you, that your team won't make the Gold symbol in the Battle Tower. Tyranitar is the only really good Mon on your team, Steelix only works on certain teams that cover all of it's weaknesses and Dusclops is just not good. If you check Smogons Battle Frontier thread, there is a reason why Dusclops is not found on a single team and Steelix only just on a few selected ones that cancel out its weaknesses and even Tyranitar is not as good in the Battle Tower as it is in the regular ADV meta, but with the right team composition it is still really good. If you are unable to set up at least 1-2 DDs, you will even struggle in rounds 42-56 whenever you face a bulky water type like Swampert or Milotic. And in the later rounds, where your opponents use a lot of legendaries and pseudo-legendaries you won't really stand a chance. Your team has no solid answer to for example a Metagross 4, 5 and 7, almost all the Suicune or Regice sets. Even Mons like Snorlax 5, 6 or 7 might give your team a hard time. And I am not even starting talking about hax moves combined with Quick Claw. As you have no flying types, you are hit by every single one of those attacks. Your entire team basically relies on TTar setting up 1-2 DDs which is really risky. Especially on Smogon, there are plenty of guides regarding the Battle Frontier/Battle Tower. I recommend checking those out as you find a lot of useful information there. Edit: Just to clarify, I don't want to sound too negative here and I like that you want to use your favorite Mons in the BF. I also used a lot of different Mons and teams in the Battle Frontier with none of them being the most standard ones. But you have to be real that your team will start to struggle even in earlier rounds. I just watched your Whiscash video and you said it yourself, you sometimes struggled in rounds 25-35 which is really early and a bad sign. The teams that you lost to weren't even that great, they just showed how fragile Mons like Steelix and Dusclops are and how bad their synergy is (also with Tyranitar).
I know you mentioned wanting to use your favorites, but have you ever considered replacing Dusclops with a stall/sweep Suicune? Rest, Sleep Talk, Calm Mind, Surf? That carried me through the gen 4 tower. EVs in defenses, calm minding enough to sweep anything even the strongest water types. Only thing you need to worry about is water absorb
I got a gold medal in doubles with straight randos and an improperly ev trained Shedinja. Knew baton pass, double team, protect, and fury cutter I think, had max speed IVs and Almost max evs, And a decently high hp. Would max out its stats and then swap to an untouchable poke and wipe. Also had a Ludicolo with rain dish, leftovers, leech seed, Giga drain, rain dance and surf. Would get my rain dance and seed off then hit a Giga drain and be almost back to full health then surf while getting back health from the leftovers and rain dish only using Giga if necessary. Worked pretty much till the game practically cheats and makes you miss every attack or gives the opponent 110% acc.
me on the floor of my treehouse in June 2005 with 5 of my neighbours thinking we're theorycrafting the best teams ever created with our strategy guides only to get completely bodied Dying until we google then go with the standard Swampert, Salamence, Metagross, and Latios(latias?) Battle factory was really fun though, wish we had end game/post game endless content in every game besides shiny hunting now
@ If you try it, hopefully it helps! Sorry for giving a suggestion when it wasn’t asked for, but I love your videos and I’m going through the same journey (1 gold symbol so far) so I wanted to offer a little advice
@@theosoryu nothing to be sorry for lol. I appreciate all advice from people! I am thinking of training a lapras or gyrados. Love these pokes too. Would be a good addition to the team to account for some of its weaknesses. Hope you get more gold medals soon! Congrats on getting a gold
@ lapras has been on my mind too, great beautiful pokemon plus they always break my streaks. perish song could be fun to play with if you have a good defensive pokemon in the back to switch to (like your steelix)
i have a really big question. how can i get more tms on a save file without cheating? when i say more tms i mean the same tm multiple time cause maybe i want to tech the same tm to more pokemon
Ima bout to dust off my 3ds and hop back into pokemon. I’ve never beat hg or ss so that’s a start. I’ve beaten the original gold and silver and even crystal. I just never got around to beating hg ss.
@@nostalgicnighthawkhgss probably a 3ds game too. My ds lite has an issue with the hinge where the smallest movement of the hinge the screen blacks out. I gotta use my new 3ds xl or my 2ds.
Steelix and tyranitar share almost the same weakness like water or ground are really commons moves try balanced your teams like they cover each others check my as example metagross / zapdos / starmie they all have differentes weakness and keep care of each other good luck man the silver symbole are lil hard but on the gold symbole your team won't go further im in 3/7 gold symboles good luck.
You make great videos, but that team wont make it past round 70. a Regice is going to destroy you, being almost unkillable by your team before you can kill it, There being 6 regice sets your team is in trouble forsure, Not to mention your entire team gets hit by earthquake with 2 of the mons being super weak to it. The MOST optimal team for the battle frontier has already been found, reaching round 3010 in the battle tower, completing every gold symbol in 19 hours. Even with the best team you need to have the smogon lists of all possible sets in every tower to truly avoid being "hax'd"
Dude literally said he chose Pokemon he wanted to use because they're special to him, not ones that are statistically proven to be the best. Luck could always fall in your favor anyway lol
@@TheRealDerpSquadron there is no luck in the battle frontier. There is actually specifically anti luck that is out to get you at every turn. Im not saying this because i dont know what hes doing. Im saying this because its the hard truth. Ive tried with my favorites, fortunately my 2 favorite pokemon are swampert and latios. and its still nearly impossible. The frontier is not forgiving. It does not care what your favorites are. YOU WILL encounter 6 different regice sets that WILL wall your team. its just the truth..
@@theseriousaccount if im seeing old school gba pokemon content then i wanna see a gba. he already has the strategy guide so might as well fully commit
Your videos are like Pokemon asmr.. I love coming here and hearing about your teams and shiny hunts
Crazy how much love we really have for pokemon. Something so special about it that we've been inspired by since childhood.
its it, like how much its impacted our lives where we feel compelled to keep playing
It's really nice that you've walked us through your decision making process. Also, totally respect you sticking to the Pokémon that you like using and not going for meta picks. Might do that myself in the future too. Overall, great video!
Perfect way to start the day, I enjoying seeing your thought process!
I've always wanted to get into training competitive pokemon, but could never understand tutorials. Your videos have been great and now I'm excited to build my own team for the battle tower :)
hope it helps! Its not perfect but its all I know as of now
The Maxpedition pocket organizer is the key to it all.
Does fit pens nicely!
That notebook is always awesome to see. As much as I find our modern digital convenient, there's nothing like physically writing notes down. Been doing that a lot recently myself for some of the games I'm playing, especially for achievement hunting in some of my favourite games. Always satisfying to actually tick something off a list rather than clicking a check box on my phone or PC, haha 👌
100% agree. Its so much more intimate ya know!
@@nostalgicnighthawk what note book do you use?
@@CarterTran-t2w there is a link in description to my amazon store with all the specific things i use. The book with the pokemon stuff is a moleskin dotted notebook. I also use a spiral notebook also for other things and prefer to write notes in that
Very nice video. I kinda skipped to the team strategy because Ive been following you for a while with this team. its really nice to see your thought process and gave me a lot of ideas for my team and what I want out of it.
First of all, I'd like to say I love your Pokemon Emerald videos. Your vibe matches with what the game means to me and that's awesome.
I'm in the same journey that you are. Just finished med school and one of the first things I did was take mi GBA and play one hundred hours of Pkmn emerald. Just leveling up a team of Aipom and "Pick up" pokemon just to find 7 (yes, seven) Earthquake TMs!!! and over 100 rare candy hahah, all while I was thinking a strategy for the battle frontier. Soon I'll star breeding.
This journey has taken almost 20 years and it will probably take 10 - 20 more. And that's just fine. It is my happy place.
Greetings from Chile.
Hey! Considering you acknowledge the faults of the squad, I'd like to recommend you run bulky T Tar, drop Ice Beam and play Rest. This should allow you to set up much more consistently which is what you might as well go for since the entire team relies on T Tar to win anyway. Don't be afraid to mud slap spam and send out t tar whenever you can in order to rack up 6 DDs
Never missed a video 🫡
This channel has become one of my favorites lately. Great content bro!
About your main team: I don't remember you mentioning this, but wouldn't it be better to replace Tyranitar's Ice Beam with fire coverage? Flamethrower or Fire Blast could deal with Skarmory and Scizor without them being able to use Counter. Flying-type would still get super effective from Rock Slide, and Dragon-type could be a problem, but maybe Dusclops could handle it.
Thanks! And hmm yea that could be an option too! But then I will lose to things like flygon however Dusclops can more easily handle flygon than Scizor/Skarmory. That is a great idea idk why I didnt think of that yet! Guess I was too tunnel visioned.
Very thoughtful video, and interesting team iteration. I currently have all silver medals, but struggling to get my first gold. I'm surprised your team is working for you due to just the sheer frequency of water types in this game.
My main team (and the team that got me my silver medals) is Latios, Milotic, and Miltank. The Miltank surprises people, but the setup of Body Slam+Curse+MilkDrink+HealBell on a fast, tanky mon continuously comes in clutch. I may try out some of the pointers you mentioned in this video because what I'm doing isn't working anymore for the gold runs - so great video + hope you get there yourself. : )
congrats on all the silvers! I have learned a lot about the BF up to this point so I have been managing against the water types cuz i had to haha. MILKTANK?? That is interesting!
You're making me want to try Steelix in some of my runs. I think it'd be interesting to see how it pairs with Gyarados, given that Steelix can learn torment and they have pretty perfect defensive synergy.
steelix is a BEAST. Also Gyarados pairs well with steelix since they both like snakes/serpents! On a more serious note, Steelix is immune to electric so that helps combat Gyarados weakness. Also Gyarados is tolerant to water and fire so that covers steelix. Honestly, I might want to try a Gyarados!
Hey! Have you considered substitute on your DD tyranitar? I think if you PP stall their first Pokémon with your two walls, then switch in TTar and set up dances and a sub, you should be able to sweep! Love the content ❤
Substitute could be a gameclincher! but I bet IceBeam gets it's money's worth too 😭😂
I thought about it too, i had to pick my poison! Ice beam does come in clutch but sub might be a good option to try
Right on! Good luck with the rest of the BF my man 💪🏼
Nice that were all older now we can start playing Pokémon seriously
So many more things you become aware of
I do find it cool that the way toxic stacks over turns it adds up to 15/16ths by the 5th turn, with a switch turn of sandstorm into toxic still adding to 15/16 on the 5th. Unless you also add 1 turn of protect before the toxic (or like a missed toxic turn). In this way I think a second attacking move on dusclops is too much, there are a lot of defensive options. Also sand technically makes wil-o-wisp a 6 turn kill too, meanwhile dropping the attack with burn. And like you could a different pokemon use toxic while dusclops has w-o-w but that is harder to pull off. I would say in a vacuum, toxic is better to shut down a set-up pokemon as it can end sooner on its own and combine with chip damage.
I do think there is a really strong dusclops team that easily gets past gold that has never been built yet, the ability to pp stall cross chops is so good. But like that team probably has some conventional pokemon on it. Most teams use a fast attacker with earthquake and aerial ace to cover mixed attackers, but a specially defensive dusclops could concievably stall the ones where fighting type is their only physical move (then you just need something for the earthquakes)
to get to the heart of your inevitable problems, you do need a water resist regardless of which two you keep as the first two are weak to water and any team with dusclops is going to be slow enough it can't just blast through every water. The good news is that there are so many bulky water types that you have a choice of a ton that never get used (if you even want to go with a water type and not something else that resists). Like there are actually 20 but only Suicune, Milotic and Swampert ever get used. Honestly I kind of envy the idea of picking, I have a shortlist in mind of which ones super never get used but also have really decent stats, but I assume you would want to look yourself. There are types of pokemon you could just hope to avoid or get lucky against, but water types are omni present.
Then the next hint is the move substitute. I'm trying to think of if there is a way to open your mind to all the situations a substitute can be handy on both stallers or sweepers without just listing them. Finding a way to make space within 12 moves for subsitute is difficult much less finding a strategy that successfully takes advantage of it. Substitute is a really fun move to think about, I think if you just start playing with it you will think of new ways to use it. I have developed a technique for restarting emerald to get to the substitute tutor where I pick mudkip and trade it to another game, teach the mudkip surf/strength/ and waterfall for the extra pp, give it a lucky egg and trade in a pokemon that knows dig and teleport to save time walking back. I find the higher power hm moves and lucky egg are enough to power through the early game without stopping.
I said it in the last video, I'll say it again. If you're gonna keep Steelix you should give it Explosion. The Special Defense boost through Sandstorm would be nice, but if you're leading with Steelix then that's moot, unless you're going to raw tag Steelix out to pull Tyranitar in but then that puts your win condition in danger for no reason. The fact that Steelix's "weaknesses" list is so broad and vague should set off a lot of alarms - "anything with fire or water coverage is problematic" is a crazy hill to stand your ground on considering they are some of the most common types you'll face no matter what facility you're in.
Also somewhat related, It feels like you have PTSD from that Whiscash that hit you with so many Fissures a few weeks ago, but if you zoom out and look at it, nearly every Pokemon in the frontier with a 1-hit-KO move also has the coverage to deal with Steelix outright. Whiscash = Fissure OR Surf, Walrein = Sheer Cold OR Surf, Lapras = Horn Drill OR Surf, Nidoking = Horn Drill OR Fire Blast/Flamethrower/Ice Beam etc etc. Maybe not enough firepower to 1-shot, but still coverage nonetheless.
From what I read, the sandstorm buff was introduced in Gen 4. Does it work in Gen 3?
I do have another steelix with physical attacking moves and explosion. Or are you recommending having explosion on this specific steelix? I disliked explosion since there were so many pokes with protect, however it can be played around.
Sandstorm buff is gen 4 onwards, as well as only applying to rock types. Protect is absolutely a deal breaker for explosion most of the time, but it can come in handy if you know what set you're going up against. I'd say base your set off of your own experience
@@nostalgicnighthawk I jumped the gun with the Sandstorm comment, I'll take that L. Got my gens mixed up, but also forgot Steelix is Steel/Ground and not Steel/Rock, just because I've never really used one.
But I'm recommending Explosion over Mud Slap. I did a huge breakdown of holes in your strategy on your "Omnipotent Whiscash" video and about how you would have won with Explosion instead of Mud Slap on the same Steelix you've showcased here, by running damage calculations for a myriad of situations. Or swap it out for the other Steelix, whichever pulls more weight immediately, but I do genuinely think you're playing with an arm behind your back by not taking Explosion especially if you already have a Steelix in reserve that already knows it. At the very least, try it out. In both showcase videos you've showed the Mud Slap Steelix but I think Explosion will pull a lot more weight by virtue of being a strong centerpiece rather than something that is only occasionally useful. The accuracy in the Battle Frontier basically doesn't matter, moves will hit you if the game wants it to. Being slow and weak to common types, you're better off blowing up than trying to chip away with Mud Slap's abysmal base power.
I really like your style of videos, they are really well made and relaxing to watch. But as someone who played Gen 3 competitively at some point and got all the Gold symbols in Emeralds Battle Frontier, I have to be honest with you and tell you, that your team won't make the Gold symbol in the Battle Tower. Tyranitar is the only really good Mon on your team, Steelix only works on certain teams that cover all of it's weaknesses and Dusclops is just not good. If you check Smogons Battle Frontier thread, there is a reason why Dusclops is not found on a single team and Steelix only just on a few selected ones that cancel out its weaknesses and even Tyranitar is not as good in the Battle Tower as it is in the regular ADV meta, but with the right team composition it is still really good.
If you are unable to set up at least 1-2 DDs, you will even struggle in rounds 42-56 whenever you face a bulky water type like Swampert or Milotic. And in the later rounds, where your opponents use a lot of legendaries and pseudo-legendaries you won't really stand a chance. Your team has no solid answer to for example a Metagross 4, 5 and 7, almost all the Suicune or Regice sets. Even Mons like Snorlax 5, 6 or 7 might give your team a hard time. And I am not even starting talking about hax moves combined with Quick Claw. As you have no flying types, you are hit by every single one of those attacks. Your entire team basically relies on TTar setting up 1-2 DDs which is really risky.
Especially on Smogon, there are plenty of guides regarding the Battle Frontier/Battle Tower. I recommend checking those out as you find a lot of useful information there.
Edit: Just to clarify, I don't want to sound too negative here and I like that you want to use your favorite Mons in the BF. I also used a lot of different Mons and teams in the Battle Frontier with none of them being the most standard ones. But you have to be real that your team will start to struggle even in earlier rounds. I just watched your Whiscash video and you said it yourself, you sometimes struggled in rounds 25-35 which is really early and a bad sign. The teams that you lost to weren't even that great, they just showed how fragile Mons like Steelix and Dusclops are and how bad their synergy is (also with Tyranitar).
I compeleted the battle frontier twice when i was younger.
I know you mentioned wanting to use your favorites, but have you ever considered replacing Dusclops with a stall/sweep Suicune? Rest, Sleep Talk, Calm Mind, Surf? That carried me through the gen 4 tower. EVs in defenses, calm minding enough to sweep anything even the strongest water types. Only thing you need to worry about is water absorb
I finally got shiny rayquaza! I just had to tell you I'm part of the club now! 😂🌟
Lets go join the CLUBB
I got a gold medal in doubles with straight randos and an improperly ev trained Shedinja. Knew baton pass, double team, protect, and fury cutter I think, had max speed IVs and Almost max evs, And a decently high hp. Would max out its stats and then swap to an untouchable poke and wipe. Also had a Ludicolo with rain dish, leftovers, leech seed, Giga drain, rain dance and surf. Would get my rain dance and seed off then hit a Giga drain and be almost back to full health then surf while getting back health from the leftovers and rain dish only using Giga if necessary. Worked pretty much till the game practically cheats and makes you miss every attack or gives the opponent 110% acc.
me on the floor of my treehouse in June 2005 with 5 of my neighbours thinking we're theorycrafting the best teams ever created with our strategy guides only to get completely bodied
Dying until we google then go with the standard Swampert, Salamence, Metagross, and Latios(latias?)
Battle factory was really fun though, wish we had end game/post game endless content in every game besides shiny hunting now
must be some great memories!
What are the natures of your Pokémon? Do you have an adament tyranitar? Also how did you breed for dragon dance?
I wish there was Pokemon school so we can get a degree in Pokemon.
have you thought about giving dusclops thunderbolt? it sounds like he’d make your life easier regarding waters that way
hmm... that is a great idea possibly!
@ If you try it, hopefully it helps! Sorry for giving a suggestion when it wasn’t asked for, but I love your videos and I’m going through the same journey (1 gold symbol so far) so I wanted to offer a little advice
@@theosoryu nothing to be sorry for lol. I appreciate all advice from people! I am thinking of training a lapras or gyrados. Love these pokes too. Would be a good addition to the team to account for some of its weaknesses.
Hope you get more gold medals soon! Congrats on getting a gold
@ lapras has been on my mind too, great beautiful pokemon plus they always break my streaks. perish song could be fun to play with if you have a good defensive pokemon in the back to switch to (like your steelix)
i have a really big question. how can i get more tms on a save file without cheating? when i say more tms i mean the same tm multiple time cause maybe i want to tech the same tm to more pokemon
i dont think Sandslash gets the ability where he gets speed in sand until PKMN Black and White
I just recently started to replay this gem. Do you guys also try to get 6 ivs? breeding is quite a pain for me so far
6 ivs is almost all luck. The probability is so low. I only focus on 2-3 and call it a day
Ima bout to dust off my 3ds and hop back into pokemon. I’ve never beat hg or ss so that’s a start. I’ve beaten the original gold and silver and even crystal. I just never got around to beating hg ss.
you planning onplaying thru HGSS or one of the 3DS games??
@@nostalgicnighthawkhgss probably a 3ds game too. My ds lite has an issue with the hinge where the smallest movement of the hinge the screen blacks out. I gotta use my new 3ds xl or my 2ds.
Steelix and tyranitar share almost the same weakness like water or ground are really commons moves try balanced your teams like they cover each others check my as example metagross / zapdos / starmie they all have differentes weakness and keep care of each other good luck man the silver symbole are lil hard but on the gold symbole your team won't go further im in 3/7 gold symboles good luck.
any new shinies?
I finally got my first gold medal
ey congrats! What place?
THERE HE IS. How you been? Happy to see you here
You make great videos, but that team wont make it past round 70. a Regice is going to destroy you, being almost unkillable by your team before you can kill it, There being 6 regice sets your team is in trouble forsure, Not to mention your entire team gets hit by earthquake with 2 of the mons being super weak to it. The MOST optimal team for the battle frontier has already been found, reaching round 3010 in the battle tower, completing every gold symbol in 19 hours. Even with the best team you need to have the smogon lists of all possible sets in every tower to truly avoid being "hax'd"
Dude literally said he chose Pokemon he wanted to use because they're special to him, not ones that are statistically proven to be the best. Luck could always fall in your favor anyway lol
@@TheRealDerpSquadron there is no luck in the battle frontier. There is actually specifically anti luck that is out to get you at every turn. Im not saying this because i dont know what hes doing. Im saying this because its the hard truth. Ive tried with my favorites, fortunately my 2 favorite pokemon are swampert and latios. and its still nearly impossible. The frontier is not forgiving. It does not care what your favorites are. YOU WILL encounter 6 different regice sets that WILL wall your team. its just the truth..
This is gay. Why? Just play
not a single analogue in sight, tears in my eyes 🎉
what you got against the POCKIE?? Its actually just out of the camera view, like inches away XD
@@nostalgicnighthawk make sure it stays that way, or else 💣
@@plutoniumfriedricewhy? It’s the GOAT.
@@theseriousaccount if im seeing old school gba pokemon content then i wanna see a gba. he already has the strategy guide so might as well fully commit
Exactly. @@plutoniumfriedriceI hate seeing games played on systems that they weren't made for. The analogue pocket is just a overpriced emulator.