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pyreshade

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I need help defeating steven in ruby its my first time though the elite four using my anime based team. I can get past his skarmory fairly easily but metagross and crawdilly give me alot of trouble. any suggestions? I'll post my Team too, Im in drakes room right after i beat him i really dont feel light fighting them all over again.

Pikachu - 45 - hardy - focus band
Thunderbolt
Iron tail
Quick attack
Dig

Grovyle - 42 - hardy - amulet coin
Leafblade
Rocktomb
Slam
Quick attack

Swellow 42 - impish
Fly
Aerial ace
Steel wing
Facade

Corphish 42 -sassy - everstone
Strength
Surf
Brickbreak
Sludge bomb

Torkoal 44 -quirky - kings rock
Flamethrower
Rocksmash
Body slam
Overheat

Glalie 45 -bold - machobrace
Crunch
Ice beam
headbutt / Water pulce ( i can give him the tm before i fight steven )
Earthquake
 
Why don't you evolve Pikachu/Grovyle/Corphish
 
What happened to Crawdaunt, Sceptile, and Raichu??
Cradily is weak to Ice attacks, and a Flamethrower should take care of Metagross.

You need some work on your movesets, they aren't effective enough.
 
I'm trying to go with the anime which kinda makes my guys weak crawdilly takes out 3/4ths of glalies health with one attack and im lucky to get 1/4th of with flame thrower on metagross

torkoals the only one with any real defence the others i basicly use for reviving him glalie and pikachu before they die

an icebeam with glalie takes down 1/4 health off crawdilly

Whats more effective agaist a bug/rock type earthquake or icebeam
 
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ice beam, I believe.

just raise up your Pokèmon higher.

BTW, Rock Smash is an Abomination!
 
I battled Steven in my Emerald earlier today, and I thought it was going to be a breeze. In Emerald, his Pokes are about 20 levels higher, and all of my Pokes are level 86. Surprisingly enough, Cradily gave me the most trouble - Giga Drain and Ingrain was amazingly effective; moreso than I predicted. Many consider Ingrain a waste of space because it doesn't let you switch out, but that was the problem for ME. He kept using boosting moves and Ancient Power (raises ALL stats), and my Skarmory's Whirlwind was ineffective. I actually thought he was gonna tank me! But I came out victorious when Cradily was dominated by Metagross.

As for facing Steven in general, he's one of the hardest AI trainers in any Pokemon game, so good luck. His Steel types are beasts, and have few weaknesses. For Cradily, I'd suggest Toxic (one of my favourite moves). If you can Toxic him, and keep healing, eventually he'll be taken down. As for Metagross... I'd suggest Paralyzing him, and then going in for the kill. Paralysis can give you an occasional free move, but is also cuts Speed in half, ensuring you will usually ALWAYS go first.
 
Just train in victory road for a while. At least get your pkmn to Lv 50-55 or you will go down quick no matter what strategy you use. And evolve Grovyle if you are going for the anime because Ash evolved his Grovyle if you havent heard.
 
Maybe all he wants to do is beat the hoeon league e4 with the team that ash had at that time. Remember Grovyle didn't evolve until the middle of the battle frionter.

Just raise your pokemon to higher levels. Your team looks like you skiped alto of trainers on your way up to the elite four...
 
just raise your pokemons level. and evolve, mind you.
 
i plan on evolvng grovyle after i beat the elite four and probobly getting a donphan and a filler ( i have no way to get an aipom ) and thanks graceofbaal
i dont think i have toxic though or thunder wave anymore it was on pikachu but illc try and find something similar
 
i would train but i dont wanna go though the e4 again usd a bunch of potions and revives and my team is kind of weak its just a hassle i anna beat this so i can go at it with a new team
 
You wanna be a lot higher than that for Steven. His guys are level 70+.

Look for a Pikachu with a Light Ball .. that thing doubles his SATK.

Please evolve your Grovyle. Once you actually beat up the Elite 4, he can learn Thunderpunch in the Frontier via one of the move tutors. Oh, and he can learn Focus Punch and Detect/Protect if you'd like a little utility thrown in.

Glalie doesn't really need Water Pulse for Steven .. he's got his Earthquake already. Which, BTW, is super effective vs. that Metagross. Just make sure you're faster than him, becuse his Meteor Mash will destroy you.

And for Torkoal, try:

Flamethrower
Yawn
Toxic
Protect

Lots of fun.
 
dre im not sure if u notised but i said it was after the elite 4 im trying to fight champion steven his highest is 58 metagross
 
Dude, you need much stronger pokemon.... the real pokemon boss is super powerful... and its name is....

[spoil]Caterpie![/spoil]

Ok, now seriously. You need to train your pokemon more. They should be on level 50/52. Evolve your pokemon because evolutions are way better than first forms. Dre is right, you should use his moveset. Actually your movesets suck a little, that why you should ask for advices in RMT section.
 
i got all my guys to 47 and pikachu to 50 and tried again the elite 4 was much easyier and i got to stevens last pokemon im going to try again
 
I beat steven finally it was pretty easy when my pokemon were level 50 exept pikachu who was 52 thanks everyone. now im gonna work on the frontier set too
evolving my grovyle training my phanfy and catching something in the place of aipon because i cant get one
 
I would advise your raise the level of your pokemon and evolve them or steven will destroy you sadly. Sorry to put it so harsh but thats what is going to happen if you dont train your pokemon any higher.
 
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