Damn, I wish I had grass moves and taught charizard a dragon move… I had no idea which types the E4 would have. Just played through with some of the Pokémon I thought were cool and had decent coverage. I know my movesets are suboptimal… I taught my team a lot of meh hms and utility moves so I didn’t have to swap my party throughout the main quest progression.

My first Pokémon was Diamond. Last time I played was Emerald and Y ten years ago. Just bought an LCD modded gba and have been playing Mother and Fire Red.


Battles—

Lorelei - Raichu carried, especially because she was the only female on my team to contend with Jynx. Jynx simped my boys out so hard the first few attempts. Tried to megahorn slowbro, but he surfed my Nido quickly. Gengar def got some play too.

Bruno - hard swept with Thick Club Marowak (took about 5 hours and 40ish encounters with cubone in Pokémon tower to finally thief one.)

Agatha - Raichu for golbat. Slept the gengars/haunter with Snorlax then swapped in my BlackGlasses Gengar to mutilate his brothers and sisters with shadow ball—learned nightmare mid battle lol. Marowak for Arbok. 

Lance - Ran out of TBolt unfortunately… Had to tank a few battles with Snorlax and some rests (also ran out of body slam). Threw charizard in for a few scraps—was pretty bummed that his utility was quite low throughout the E4, but I guess that’s my fault for his meh moveset with weak metal claw and no dragon move. 

Rival (named after my friend, Jake) - Kinda forgot about rival… Snorlax and Raichu were out of their best moves. Didn’t know who rival would lead with, but I lead with Marowak and got slept. Again, no tbolt, so I swapped to Charizard—KOed Pidgeot and Exeggutor. Surfed Rhydon and Arcanine with Nido. Gengar hypnosis dream ate that Alakazam right up (ran out of shadow ball). Blastoise was the only real challenge—I think Marowak and Nidoking went down before, then Gengar got knocked. Ultimately, I yawned blastoise and swapped in Charizard for the dub. 


Now to work on that PokeDex! 

First Time Beating E4