I've beat him like 4 times but each time was only the first time you meet him. I can't get through the next load of trainers to meet him for the second time.
The thing that horribly annoys me is how their attacks DO NOT MISS where as any move of mine that can miss WILL MISS!!!!!!!!!!
That Milotic of his always goes first and always uses Hypnosis which NEVER FAILS!!!!!
Oh the horror!!!!!, my pokemon sleep to death!!!!!
The latest highly unfair thing that I've worked out is that their pokemon don't just have chance enhancments but power enhancements aswell.
Let me explain,
My Milotic has a nature that boosts special attack (obviouasly as its a Milotic) also I have maxed EV trained its special attack furthur. However, a single ice beam from my Milotic CANNOT kill Palmer's Dragonite outright with a single hit, its always left in red HP.
Now then, my Dragonite has a gentle nature which boosts his special defense, I have also EV trained his special defense (but not fully - but still very high) I have however fully EV'ed his HP.
Now every pokemon that uses Ice beam against my Dragonite will always KO it - and nearly all of them (if not all) have a much lower max special attack then a Milotic.
Basically my Milotic has maxed out special attack but cannot kill Palmer's Drgonite with 1 shot from her Ice beam but yet my very tough speical defended Dragonite always dies to any ice beam attack even from those much weaker then my own Milotic.
My team are as follows:
Metagross with Naughty nature (I bred 15 Beldums but I still didn't get my Adamant nature so I just stuck with this)
Item: Wide lense (So meteor mash and hammer arm have 95% accuacey instead of 90%)
Moves:
Hammer arm,
Meteor mash,
Zen Headbut,
Bullet punch.
EV:
Attack = full,
Special defense = some,
HP = some,
Speed = some.
Description: He does wounders, he really, really does - he could probably do even better with an adamant nature.
This pokemon will never be removed from my battle tower line up or my lineup in general - he's just so great.
Milotic with something nature (I haven't checked it but I think it lowers her defense)
Item: Leftovers (Gets even better when combined with aqura ring)
Moves:
Surf, (was hydro pump but discarded it as, well IT WILL JUST ABOUT ALWAYS MISS WHEN USED INT HE BATTLE TOWER - no really it does - I once counted out of 15 used Hydro pumps, over 2 hit, now to me that's terrible and a good enough reason to scrap it)
Ice beam,
Dragon pulse,
Aqura ring (great used with leftovers)
EV:
Special attack = full
HP = high
speed = low
Description: Shes good and does occasinally get me out of jams. I haven't experimented with her alot yet since I swaped Hydro pump with Surf which I did today but I'm sure she is good enough for me to not take her out of the line up. As for beating Palmer, although his Milotic is better then mine in all aspects - mine yet has always won when its down to his vs my Milotic. I have came down to this twise now and won both times (just a pitty that stupid Dragonite of his survived my Ice beam, if it didn't then I would have beat him)
Dragonite with gentle nature (I was looking for a pokemon I had in my boxes that could use a varioty of moves and have little weaknesses and found him - I started training him up without once checking on his nature)
Item: Still working this out but I'm now trying a ...um....Lum berry? The one that recovers your pokemon from ANY status problem (This is my way to counter that evil Millotic's hypnosis as relying on it missing has real no hope)
Moves:
Aqura tail,
Thunder bolt,
Flame thrower,
Ice beam,
EV:
Special defense = average to high,
Special attack = max,
HP = average to low.
Description: I probably should have bred it to get something that boost his special attack. He's new so I can't really say anything. In the battle tower I only used him on Palmer's Milotic..........sadly he slept to death the very moment he appeared on the pitch - curse of the Milotic I say, that hypnosis is really unfair. Hopefully the new Lum berry I have given my Dragonite will ensure that I get the last laughs.