Reborn Battle Strategy Guide

[Magus]

Let me explain what the purpose of this thread will hopefully be. I want to make a guide using various in game strats that people come up with. I've notice that a lot people get discouraged from many things like getting stuck on leaders and tough trainers and people walk away from the game. So I want to create a battle guide using a large pool of battle strategies with various pokemon to be absolutely flexible to any new players play style. However I only know so little, so if you have any ideas that should be mention feel free to post it. I'll start off this with all of my favorite strategies, along with some ways to get past Florina, because she is the leader everyone gets stuck on.

1) Suicide:This is only if you want to level up and don't care for money

-spend all your poke dollars on stuff until you are low and can't buy anything.

- Battle a strong trainer, I.E a gym leader

- Lose on purpose

- repeat until you are at a decent level

2) This is the method I used to beat Florina and is useful if you don't have a fighting type

- Get the King of Carp Magicarp (I recommend saving and restarting until you get a good nature)

-Level him to 23

- Obtain Dragon Rage AND UNLEASH YOUR POWER

- Get a pachiritsu

- get charm

-Break cradiliy's attack

- 3 HKO on Cradiliy

-umm......Profit

And on this final note, I hope this grows as more people add there input, I think this will work.

[Mokoz]

well some strategies I use it to set up toxic spike

sometimes you might need to use one of your pokemon as death fodder to get ahead

-to grind go in the underground caves where you saved Victoria from team meteor and bash unown, they give a lot of exp this place is good for pokemon lvls 20-40.

-status infliction paralysis, sleep, toxic, and burn are really helpful.

thats all for now i will come back when I have more.

[LeoG]

Looking back, I don't even know how I beat Florina...she's super cheap especially with leftovers so early...

I do remember my Monferno being the heavy hitter and Pachirisu worked well as a staller with charm and sweet kiss then use potions to heal up pokemon on the bench. After that, swap in your heavy hitter to spam down the foe with your strongest attack. It only works on the pokemon with strong physical moves so take note which pokemon use mainly physical moves, send in Pachirisu and get to stalling. When available, train and learn to use a staller like Pachirisu or Togepi or whoever you us.

My personal advice is take advantage of battle items

For pokemon that can't learn Calm Mind that need to survive strikers, there's X-Special or if you see a chance to sweep but don't have Bulk Up or Sharpen Claws, etc, there's X-Attack.

[LGND Red]

Status problems can usually win you any battle. Something else that can give you an edge are gimmick moves like super fang or moves that do a bit of damage and lower the enemies stats at the same time.

-I'll make this look more official and add some stuff later.

Edited September 2, 2013 by LGND Red

[JayDo]

Hmmmm, it has been a while since I beat Flobot, but lets see....I recall using poison powder with bellsprout on cradily. After that point, I wailed on it with Makuhita while it built up curse boosts, and then just before it got in super potion/recover range, I used whirlwind so it would lose all it the boosts. Getting her to waste the potions early helps.

Other troublesome battles: My first play-through was blind, so I went in guns blazing every battle and brute forced it. I never had to train up a specific pokemon for any one battle... Playing like that was fun, but honestly some wins were luck based...second play through is my attempt at the "good" ending, so I have not lost once this time around so here are my strats:

Shade: focus of this is for the Chandelure: Gyrados is definitely the MVP of this battle, with the super effective bite, and neutral hit from energy ball (which is slade's water check) I brute forced the other pokemon with bulk up speed boost blaziken (actually come to think of it, that is most major battles) I would also suggest finding Zorua, if you are really having trouble. Although I still can't find the thing.

Kiki: aCROBATics...seriously, with an adamant crobat, she is sort of a push over. Be warned, most of her pokemon have either ice punch or stone edge, for that very purpose, so my Gardevoir picked up the slack there. As for the lucario, burn it to a crisp. Actually, if you have a will o wisping coffergre...the mummy thing, use that on the medicham. Her Gallade does have shadow sneak, so try a burn and switch tactic.

Solaris: I won using FEAR and leech seed, same strat I have seen floating around. As soon as the Daycare mission was complete, I plopped my Ratatta in there just for this purpose.

Aya: I don't really have a strategy here... because by this point in my second play-through I had an earth power Flygon and a psychic using Gardevoir. Later switched her out for Alakazam.

Sarah: Get rid of the damn hail. Only time I used my Vulpix, not that I don't like the Fire Fox, just already have an uber level fire team member. Also, don't be afraid to switch out when your speed gets lowered too many times by icy wind.

Noel?...I guess don't let the Clefable set up? I know this battle gives some people trouble, but I never thought he was tough, but soft boiled is very tedious after taking out his other 5 team members.

[Ackalacka]

along with some ways to get past Florina, because she is the leader everyone gets stuck on.

I seriously don't get this, I remember sweeping her with a Porygon that knew Psybeam, Agility, Recover, and Charge Beam... Hell, you even get the Porygon IN THE TRAINER'S SCHOOl! It's almost as if victory is handed to you on the way to her, really... xD

Anyway, time to actually lend some advice. ;3

Just use Agility twice, spam Psybeam on her strong Pokemon to take them out quickly and Charge Beam on her Pokemon that can't do anything to Porygon to boost your Special Attack, then Recover off any damage when needed. Simple.

Also, if you've over leveled him, and gotten to level 29 (If not, do so, because you might as well if he's not going to listen to you anyway), he'll learn Signal Beam which 1-2HKO's ALL of her Pokemon pretty much, especially after a Special Attack boost from Charge Beam.

Hope this helps anyone who gets stuck on her.

[Khayoz]

One that works for me every time:

Timid Jumpluff with Sleep Powder + Leech Seed

[Soysauce]

My general strategy :

As soon as I'm against a Pokemon easy to deal with (depending on my own team) I paralyze/confuse it, then switch in a sweeper or an all out threat. If it's taken out by a counter, i repeat the process with another set up => sweeper.

For the 1st, 2nd and 3rd leaders i used my Pachirisu to Charm/Paralyze/Confuse the biggest threats. He single-handely defeated Crobat while being 4 levels behind.

[Magus]

Lets see, anybody got any Aya srats?

[LGND Red]

Lets see, anybody got any Aya srats?

Don't even get me started, it came down to both of our last Pokémon running out of pp and using struggle. I had to spam oran berries to stop myself from taking recoil damage. I've heard people say they used their own poison types to block the poison or Magnezone.

[LeoG]

Interesting. When I fought Aya, poison was the last thing I ever worried about (none of my pokemon got poisoned) compared to Corey where I just had to give up trying to keep my pokemon healthy.

[ShatteredSkys]

Lets see, anybody got any Aya srats?

I gues most people find gardevoir, magnezone, and gallade really helpfu in this gym. Try to put a status like paralyze or lower the stats of one pokemon and let it stay there so you only have to deal with one major threat at a time. I paralyzed her tentacruel and left it there for the rest of the match since my meganium's light screen really weakened it's attacks, this let my spiritomb set up and focus down one threat at a time more easily.

[Noir]

If you're patient enough, breed Hone Claws on a Stunky, evolve and train it, set up to +6 and destroy everything with Night Slash. That's what I did.

[LGND Red]

Interesting. When I fought Aya, poison was the last thing I ever worried about (none of my pokemon got poisoned) compared to Corey where I just had to give up trying to keep my pokemon healthy.

I should have been more clear, I meant the poison type moves. If its not very effective then its hard for her to finish you off. I also heard somebody caught 2 Muks in order to do this. I just used my regular team, that's probably why it was so close.

Edited September 4, 2013 by LGND Red

[Chrattac]

For all enemies with high attacks (especially physical ones) will-o, power split cofagrigus, give it a try. I solely beat Solaris' Garchomp with those moves helping a lot.