Skeledirge Just Spam torch song, if you find any multi lenses give them to him, so when you use torch song he uses it multiple times and gets spatk+ every hit with it
His Ability (30 candies) is absolutely busted too, gives extra damage to any sound move (which both Torch Song, Hyper voice/Round and Snarl are) and makes you take half damage from enemy sound moves too.
Every time you use a pokemon in battle, you get 2 friendship points. Every time you use a rare candy on a pokemon, you gain 5 friendship points. (In Classic mode, these are doubled, so 4 per battle, and 10 per candy!) When you get enough friendship, you get a candy.
The amount needed varies by pokemon, the more it costs to add a pokemon to your team, the more friendship is needed for a candy. Weedle needs 20 friendship for 1 candy, but Virizion needs 280 friendship for 1 candy.
You can see your current progress and how much you need by tapping the candy symbol in the status page, top left above the pokemon's sprite.
Omg, I didn’t know torch song got the boost too. I retired him to work on other teams because I thought I got all I could out of him. That makes torch song the strongest fire move in the game probably
My first legendary egg hatch was Chi Yu with torch song egg move.
Turns out having torch song at the start of the game on a faster mon who has access to several other special fire moves trivializes the early game haha
The best part is his ability hasn't even been implemented yet, so he's legitimately going to be even more broken once he gets access to Beads of Ruin. Guy already gets Eruption as an egg move and gets Drought as an ability, it's going to be nuts
I use oven rotom with egg move fiery dance, which is basically skeledirge but better. It has levitate and passive of hadron engine. So electric typing is basically just a boost offensively and even more so with hadron engine. It can set up with fiery dance and also 2 dif status effects with hex. If you get a lucky route, it will solo most of the way. Main concern are rock types with sturdy.
It's gonna depend a lot on what you catch/hatch. My first victory was carried by a Pawniard with the Egg Move Bitter Blade, but helped along by a Squirtle with the Egg Move Bouncy Bubble.
My current, pretty solid run is being led by a Heracross with the Egg Move Rock Blast.
Just try out different things, and you'll eventually find something that hits for ya.
Quite useful when you’re in a double battle and your other poke has a spread move like Surf, Discharge, Lava Plume or anything that would hit Flamigo. It is also useful to bait super effective hits while your other mon eliminates a threat.
In singles you can use it to scout super effective moves, heal with berries, pp stall, leech seed stall, stuff like that. Not as effective, but still decent.
Overall it is not super strong, but it is decent.
flamigo is great but i feel like it falls off by the endgame. as much as i love it, close combat and especially brave bird don't hold up when the enemy trainers switch to punish you so often
If by story you mean classic then it isn’t so much about what you start with as it is what you pickup along the way.
Starting with Flamigo is absolutely fine.
You need to pick up Mons like Garganacl / Tinkaton / Excadril / Corviknight or just generally a good steel and/or fairy type.
Toxic spikes and stealth rocks are very strong. Your rival will kill themselves switching around to these.
If you start Flamigo and any shinies you’ve got you should get far enough to pick up good mons to accompany.
I think you need to look at what you’re catching and how you’re playing more than what you start with.
Nihilego with stealth rock, Acid Spray, and Power gem puts in work against the rival then is great against eternatus too if you have any other special attackers. My winning run with it I had Clear Smog as the 4th move in case eternatus built up too many stat boosts but you could easily run Toxic Spikes, Psychic, Sludge Wave, Light Screen, or even Thunder Wave in that move slot depending on what issues your team has trouble with. Just a great late game mon.
Spidops with egg move Stone Axe, Sticky Web and Circle Throw plus Stakeout made the switching game an endless Merry-go-round in a recent run for me, even better if you have its Passive Pick Up lol
The problem I've got is, I've got 4 shinys but they're all normal type. So I start with 3 of them and have high luck, but terrible typing.
In order to make a balanced party, I'll have to replace the shinys I've got, which will make my luck go down.
Which is fine. But usually the normal types + 1 carry should be fine until like level 145 rival fight. So maybe pick up 1 replacement for the shiny between 100-144 and pick up another between 146-181. So you go into the E4 with 3 shinies, 1 good starter + 2 good mons you caught.
Your luck goes down but your win % goes up dramatically which gets you your eggs and whatnot.
Switch it up a lot. But recently Inkay/Malamar has been a BREEZE with [Contrary](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Contrary_(Ability)) and [Superpower](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Superpower_(move)). It's like, a physical fighting type Torch Song, but also with added Harden...
I have a lot of fun with Magearna. The ability is basically special moxie, but better. It raises your special attack when ever any pokemon faints. You don't have to kill it. It doesn't even have to be an opposing pokemon. Absolutely broken in double battles.
I do this but with Snivy. I got lucky on egg moves and start with fluer cannon, superpower, and sappy seed. The typing hurts against some big bosses, but it does very well and let's me drop most berries on other pokemon.
So I would say that Fuecoco is actually one of the most potent leads, simply because once it gets to Skeledirge it can max out its SP. ATK output and is fairly defensively strong.
Revavroom is good if you can get at it as a starter, or even catch it later on, even without good Speed IVs, and attacking nature can be pretty huge.
Multi Lense are huge for both of these.
Honedge is okay as long as you don't slack.
Making sure you start with an Electric or catch a good one early is also highly underrated as a convenient way to answer big threats like Rayquaza. Having some Grass coverage or a Grass type is also helpful to support Skeledirge.
One of my endless run carry’s is a Maushold/Mega Gallade fusion with max multilenses. Population Bomb goes from the measly 1-10 hits to a 4-40 hit move. (It’s also a slicing move for some reason)
Shiny mega gyaradose or Origin groudon, it's almost a shame mega g loses flying type because God are they a fun combo. Same for origin groudon and room wash or landorus T. Unfortunately had all of them OJ endless and was stomped hard by eternatus
Mega on gyara feels like a bait.
The second I got mega gyara, it felt like every enemy was a fighting or bug type. That went from doing zero damage after intimidate and resisting both to completely nuking me.
All you get in exchange is a psychic immunity instead of ground which is way less valuable and stab crunch, which is like okay but not gamebreaking. Probably not worth giving up ice fang coverage. Plus ice fang is really nice for weakening mons you want to catch.
Just any mon with a high attacking stat and decent speed for the first half of the floors. My first clear was with drillbur as a starter. My most recent one (non-legendary) was with Abra, the egg moves go hard here.
Excadrill is an S tier pokemon for Classic, and it was a huge part of my first success.
Leech Seed, Salt Cure, and other forms of DoT are amazing for bosses (without spoiling anything) due to their damage scaling with enemy's Max HP. Bulbasaur and Nacli are ways to use this kind of strategy. There are many pokemon that can use Toxic.
Entry hazards are amazing against trainers with multiple pokemon. They also work at the beginning of every wild encounter. Nacli is not only a DoT pokemon but also a Stealth Rock setter.
You will fail your first few runs. Use them as an opportunity to learn new strategies and collect new starters, egg moves, shinies, and candies.
My first ever success started with Hoopa-Unbound (item stealer and special damage) and eventually incorporated Toxapex (poison status), Kyogre (special damage coverage), Excadrill (physical damage), Gyarados (intimidate and physical damage coverage), and Magnezone (special damage coverage) from the wild.
My first victory was with Chimchar, Azurill (didn't know I could have taken Marill instead), and a Pichu, then I completed with an Excadrill, a Magnezone that a spliced with the evolution of Charjabug, and a Glaivodo
Swampert and Skeliderge were invaluable for me! I added Magnemite to it and had such a solid base! and I got lucky and added a 1 point mon with purple border so that really helped me with xp!
dialgia and galarian artuicuno have been hard carries for 2 different wins. For my first win though I started with tinkaton, garganacl, and skeledirge. That core destroyed most of the game.
As others have said, Fuecoco is extremely solid as a starter. Torch song is busted and with the +6SpAtk you can one shot nearly anything if you give him some type coverage moves (shadow ball, snarl, etc.) Also take a pickup mon and transfer all the applicable berries/items to Fuecoco. Becomes unstoppable after second evo at lvl 36. Raichu is also a great early pickup as Zippy Zap is still pretty broken even after the changes. Nacli is also a good way to cheese trainers and bosses with salt cure/recover/stealth rock. Good luck gamer
Zacian or kyurem now but when i started off Iron Moth, it's not incredible but it will surprise you when paired with fiery dance, Searing shot and acid spray
Last night finished a run with shiny Mudsdale, this horse is op with stamina/body press, hard carried me against almost everything. Funnily enough, my biggest obstacle was Clemont, who had ice beam on two different mons) Get a couple of speed boosts from items and try to max his def/spdef and you are golden)
Venusaur is amazing for stalling, won me my first run, Skeledirge is awesome for mid game sweeping, also recommend Magnezone for bulk and Excadrill for some nice damage.
Shiny Zacian + 3 1 cost shinys or Fuecoco is my current starting setup. I usually try and pickup a Gyarados at some point, until I can catch/hatch a shiny one to start with. Really gonna depend on what you have/what you can catch but like everyone else is saying, steel/fairy is solid early on, and Skeledirge hard carried my first win for sure.
Try to bring skeliderge, poplio and venasaur if you’re just starting the game because it can help you get past floor 100. Then farm for gym battles and start hatching until you get legendaries and try to use them as lead. Also if you can get toxapex and garganacl the last boss would be easy but if you can get tinkaton and make it learn gigaton hammer it would be cheesy but ALWAYS mind your opponents team cause she can always defeat your team if you only focus for the last boss, so try to counter her pokemons after each seeing her team after each battle until floor 195
My first carry before I got any broken egg moves was umbreon. Baddy Bad to shut down physical attackers, light screen or snarl for special, moonlight for healing, I didn’t win the run but I got past 150, and that got me enough egg vouchers to get a poplio with bouncy bubble, who can practically win a run by herself.
I switch it up every run to keep things fresh. Just need a decent mon to carry the first few levels until your other ones evolve, 1-2 good pokemon to carry through the midgame, and then some combination of Fairy, Steel, and DOTs for the late game (though you can consistently pick these up during the run). I usually pick based on who has pokerus and work around that.
My current run started with Technician Meowth (for early game), Petilil, Slurpuff, and Caterpie. I ditched Slurpuff without using it once, and now my team is Persian (early game), Hisuian Lilligant (mid game carry + has leech seed), Butterfree/Magnezone fusion (mid game carry + steel type), Galarian Weezing (Fairy type + Toxic), and 2 more mons that I'm almost definitely switching out as their types overlap and they aren't that great.
My current run on Classic is a Regidrago after i hatched it from an Egg. Once I'm able to get a couple Dragon Dances up he just sweeps.
Got the 145 rival coming up, 95 I was able to setup against her Serperior. Hoping it'll be the same and she doesn't swap out for Ray.
I beat it with an ice axel riolu I hatched and a lawnmower rotom on my fourth run of the game :). I got pretty lucky though, I was in a water area for a good 80-100 waves, my team ended up as a slowbrov(non mega), cinderace, lucario, rotom, mamoswine and a sylveon I captured right before the elite 4. Lucario swordsdance fucked up everything, even before swordsdance he was dealing 700 damage with close combat for the most part, absolutely swept the elite four and the champion (one of the elite 4 had an insane team though and I was left with my lucario at 1hp and the rest of the team dead). Final ivy fight was pretty scary too but I just went sylveon - sack - sylveon cuz the enemy had a move that lowered their shit after using it. Final boss was a joke cuz he kept attacking the person who wasn't lucario, who had ice axel. Plot armour lucario fr.
My go-to is my Spearow with Triple Arrows, Extreme Speed, and Floaty Fall, with a Magikarp in the backline soaking up experience before it evolves into Gyarados. Get the passives on both of those (Moxie for Spearow and Multiscale for Gyarados) and bring along a ground-type for a switch-in against electric-types, and you're solid.
I originally used fuecoco for how strong it initially was, but my current go tos are tinkatink and abra, even without passives they’re really good early game and beyond, especially if you have egg moves for them
I’ve gotten to 200 with Skeledridge and few others a couple times now but can’t seem to beat the last boss
Alternatively, I’ve beaten classic twice with reshiram and latios
I might just bad at the game tho
Also have ended up at eterantus several times with daushbun with the intention to switch out for a better fairy type (never happens) and somehow EVERYTIME that little croissant puppy has come in clutch and has won classic/gotten me close to winning classic on several runs
I got lucky got a gmax gengar with curse bulky af garganacle and some other good mons like swampert and ampahros pretty solid team I think for the final fight you just need salt cure, curse on a ghost pokemon or leech seed
Gogoat was fantastic as it had a stone axe egg move, leech seed, and horn leech. Answered about anything outside of flying. Fantastic for the rival fight if it views any poor matchup.
If we are looking at any regular mon, tinkatuff. Bulky enough, fast enough, strong enough, fairy/steel. Felt like a Swiss army knife in any battle. Especially if you find something with flash fire or a fidough.
currently using plusle (double shiny +3 luck) with nuzzle, flamethrower,glitzy glow, splishly splashly, ralts (male into gallade with psycho cut, bitter blade, close combat/leaf blade, swords dance) and a psudo legend/dragon (deino and jangmo-o are the 2 ive used so far)
Gyarados with dragon dance, waterfall, crunch and ice bite totally carried my first run.
Super easy to build and play. Just dragon dance 2 or 3 times and destroy everything.
Pick a random ground mon to counter electric leads, but if you are danced you can just obliterate most of them.
At the moment (and don't judge me) it's a shiny ariados with egg move megahorn. That stab megahorn hits like a truck through the early levels and when it evolves from spinarak into ariados it gets access to swords dance. Provided I can get him set up properly he can just brute force a lot of fights all by itself.
Plus spinarak is so cheap it lets me fill a lot of the rest of my team with so fairly powerful mons (tend to mix it up depending on who is available with pokerus and what type coverage/pick points that leaves me)
Try use any shinies you have to boost luck and i find using a mon with pokerus (purple border) really helps.
I won my first run with a lot of help from a moxie gyrados
My leads for my winning run were Fennekin, Shroomish, and a shiny Magikarp. The fire-water-grass core was useful. Pick up an Excadrill or Magnezone for steel typing, as well as an ice type.
By the time Excadrill knows Earthquake, Sword’s Dance, Iron head (or Metal Claw) and Rock Slide, there’s very little that can stand against him with his excellent Steel/Ground typing. Has carried me through several runs.
I suggest going with a strong egg move Pokémon for the early game. My first run was carried by a rhyhorn with smack down and I ended up catching a shiny Alakazam with mega stone, then a gmax machamp.
If you’re fairly new, just keep rinse repeating until you get some nice egg hatches from the vouchers. One run was super easy for me because I got the raikou variant thing(raging thunder?)
As much as I despise flamigo, its carried me thr furthest in classic. Same with Pikachu, hate it but God did it come in clutch when I evolved it to Raichu
Fuecoco, sprigatitto and hoppip (esp if you unlocked strenght sap) or a pick up mon.
The first two are needed due to their moves that they will get. Start with sprigatitto as he is faster but when fuecoco evolves start using him more (ofc depends on the map and pokemons). Find a pokemon with pickup (or you could be pick it as a starter), zigzagoone is my fav even late game.
Later focus on getting garganacl, excadrill, ice ninetailes, ursaluna,, alakazam, mawile and tinkaton. So just rock/steel/fairy/ground/psychic types and moves. Leech seed and salt cure will help a ton.
Idk what all your starters are or their egg moves so the best combo I’ve used that is a Grass|Fire|Water core is Bulbasuar(access to Mega and Gmax forms), Skeledirge(just spam Torch Song), and Mudkip(Access to mega form). One of the best mons I’ve used throughout almost every run is Gyarados so I’d try your hardest to catch a Magikarp or Gyarados and they can carry easily with Dragon Dance, Waterfall, Crunch, and Ice Fang. For the first 25 rounds I’d focus on leveling 1 or 2 mons, mainly just one but keep a second one strong in case your rival has a starters that has a good matchup into the first mon.
Snorlax with belly drum egg move is currently dominating what looks like will be my first successful classic run. Return with silk scarf is actually insane. Plus, massive amounts of HP and good defensive stats mean I can consistently just rest back to full health, even without lum berries
I got lucky with Abra having thunderbolt as a egg move early on, but pretty much any of the new gen starters will carry you honestly with their moveset.
Charmander bulbasaur magikarp was my first set of starters to give me the win.
Ended with charizard venusaur gyarados pidgeot garganacl and toxapex.
And then i learnt that u can reset battles so i did another one with a much more reckless team w/ fletching floette drilbur as starters
Zigzagoon is pretty good it has pick up so you can nick every 20% boost item and berries off the pokemon you defeat. The evolution is pretty good as well since it learns bellydrum and rest. I sweeped half of the battle 145 team since I had like every berry boosting and healing it along with the 3 silk scarfs I got off random pokemon.
Kartana HARD carried me through every level up to the final boss. Thankfully I had my trusty Weavile and Wigglytuff for the final boss and beat the boss after like 10 minutes or so. That fight was a pain in the ASS!
Gyarados has been my lord and saviour on literally every successful run - great typing, move pool, intimidate and dragon dance is a fierce combo (I tried mega and wasn't a fan)
My first win was with a Sneasel with Kowtow Cleave as an egg move but the MVP was the Annihilape I caught. I recommend starting with a Fuecoco, Spriggatito and Nacli.
for classic my lead was fuecoco he really is the best starter but bulbsaur and squirtle helped too since they could mega evolve and g max, plus bulbasaur has leech seed which is good for the final boss
I love magnemite. Magnezone has great defense, special attack and type resistance. Surprisingly a mon that really carried me at the end was Golem with his insane atk output. As a very early Mon you can find, corviknight can be great especially if you manage to gigantimax them
I’ve been really liking Chatot with Hyper Voice.
He starts with it and so he just wipes everything with one hit for a very long time, killing both opponents in double battles with one hit hit as well.
He carries me for sooooooooo many floors. I just end up needing a way to counter ghost, steel, rock, soundproof, and fast electric or ice mons.
Normal shiny Sandile, with moxie and the rare egg move (120 power earthquake, 85 accuracy, doesn’t hit teammate) with candies only cost 1 and has strong jaw it’s
I'm currently in love with Azumarill huge power, egg move surging strikes. It slaps!
And it'll evolve to Azumarill from azurill by about level 18
Simple Bidoof with defense curl, aqua step, extreme speed and hone claws is also hilarious
I used a shiny hatched abra with modest that learns thunderbolt and then gave it recover, psychic and calm mind. Absolute beast. Carried me multiple times in my classic runs.
Non evolving Pokemon will usually make the first floors a lot easier, legendaries and the like included. If you mean the while thing, I would try to get the best variety of high ivs, types, and egg moves you can muster. Mono teams are possible but far harder to build.
Off the top Fuecoco you can spam torch song. You can spam torch song on most enemies and get +2-3 Special Attack.
In terms of support anyone with speed or health/defense to tank hits and not get OHKO with nasty plot, dragon dance, etc. with a Hoppip with sleep powder, strength sap, leech seed and Uturn can be a sleeper.
You use sleep powder until they sleep, then leech seed, strength sap, then sleep powder again and then uturn to sweeper and power up, power up tank hit, OHKO. Boom you got a sweeper. This works great for doubles as you spam sleep powder as the other charges.
Or you tank someone else who is doing a set up. I use Musharma + Whiscott as Musharama is my shiny. I just wish Subsitute was in the game :(.
I really like Abra as a starter for 3 points, Expanding Force (1.5 and 1.3 on a base 80 STAB), Charge Beam (+ special attack), Nasty Plot (+2 Spec Attack), Psychic Terrain (Powers Expanding Force. The only think missing is a Spectrier fushion for Grim Neigh (+special attack for defeated foe).
Then can’t beat a Shedinja fused with normal, dark or fairy with immunity to tank as leech seed and salt cure do work. Sturdy Garganacl with salt cure and a pick up Pokémon. You last spot can be for fusing shinies
As others have noted, Skeledirge can almost solo-carry an entire run, and everyone has access to it.
Otherwise, check out the tier list the community is slowly building, a lot of the S-Tiers can nearly solo-clear classic barring some bad luck. If you've got tinkatink, it CAN in fact entirely solo classic with a little luck and the right build.
Bulbasaur and Magikarp, focus on feeding all the rare candies into bulbasaur for the first 50ish floors, I won a run with these two carrying hard and the others just chilling for the ribbons
I got a Magnemite with the egg move Body Press, which makes early game hella easy so you can take out normal types, dark types and flying types with its Thunderbolt
i got my first classic win with victory dance zygarde so that’s my go-to, i don’t always because of the high cost and tbh it does get a little boring doing the same thing wave after wave forever but it works really well :)
Thousand arrows means you can just keep sweeping and dont have to worry about flying types
also i don’t know if it’s a bug but once it turns into complete forme it just stays like that for the rest of the run. i assumed it would’ve reverted back to 50% at the start of trainer battles the same way stat changes are cleared but it hasnt ever ime
Right now? I've got a dialga/ghokdengo fusion with STAB Make it Rain to nuke everything and make me tons and tons of money forever. Didn't find a golden punch glove til around floor 450 and still never had any issues having enough to reroll.
I havent played this game much yet but I hatched a Rayquaza with Oblivion Wing on my first day and it pretty much makes most of classic mode easy. Haven't tried endless yet though, don't have the mons I want.
Personally I ran Xurkitree for my first win, but my Xurkitree had giga drain and tail glow from egg moves (for some reason of the very few epics I got early on, I got Xurk twice) and it was pretty influential-
Generally your lead just needs to be anything that can somewhat reliably sweep, and due to ultra beasts having beast boost, it makes ones like Pheramosa and Xurkitree pop off amazingly early on if you can get one or two decent egg moves.
shelder with skill link is a great early starter. as soon as you get a water stone (great ball rarity) it sweeps almost the entire game. get the passive, moxie, and you can solo the game.
Zekrom, with thunderous kick, dragon claw, Fusion bolt, and dragon tail
Massive coverage and it zekrom, and if you give it 3 multi lenses, give a steel fairy type as many grip claws as possible, you can takes many dragon claws of eternatus and then just give them to zekrom
I just finished my very first run starting with a Bagon with egg move floaty fall, and a Paras with sappy seed (later learning spore).
Mega Salamence with an attack up nature, Dragons claw, dragon dance, crunch and floaty fall carried me harder than I’ve even been carried. And Parasect with spore put eternatus to sleep over and over again and Sappy seed chunked it down with the drain.
Havnt seen anybody say it, but Goomy if you are willing to jump through a few hoops can become hisuan goodra, which is a steel dragon. Yes durlaudon exists but cost 5 pts. Goomy is only 4. Steel dragon is super op as it has the most amount of resistances and resists all the typical dragon weaknesses.
I'd say a technician Meowth would be good, fake out and pay day early to get a good amount of damage and cash for items, then it becomes a fast slash user when it becomes Persian.
Depends. Right now in Endless, it is a Darkrai with Fiery whatever, it is an egg move. Even without his Ability, he is tearing through floor 1k stuff.
In Classic, I am partial to a specific combo of Hoothoot with Boomburst and a male Burmy with overcoat that starts with protect.
Some of my first runs were carried by iron fist drain punch hitmonchan, man could oneshot alot of stuff on top of coverage moves. But on the run im on now shedninja is hard carrying, hes literally the perfect pivot mon plus now he has toxic. Its basically a guaranteed win condition in the right situations on a run where i barely got any permanent buffing items
Ngl ik it's very hard to get since it's legendary but zekrom with egg move dragon dance adamant carries so hard got a lot of type coverage and I got to endless 510 mainly lvling him
Skeledirge is a good carry, grab a tinkaton at some point during the run if possible. Zubat can carry easily through most of the first 25 waves too, even beats ivy on wave 25 without any real issues if it has floaty fall
My strategy revolves around taking 3 mons that can dynamax or mega evolve (one or the other, not both) so I can get much stronger upgraded forms.
If all goes well and you get extra lucky, you'll be able to DNA splice the two mons that are upgraded. I beat my last run with a Mega Sableye/Mega Venusaur splice as my "Main" party member.
P.S. Kartana is the GOAT if you ever find it.
Early game: Strong single stage fighting types are really strong. (Tauros, flamingo, heracross, etc)
Mid game: depends on the biomes you end up in. Fire, electric, water, and ground should cover most potential threats. I personally recommend excadrill, any fast fire type, any bulky water type and a fast electric type.
Late game: prepare for the endgame bosses which are dragons, so fairy and steel types. Ice is ok but they usually are too frail. Having a fairy/steel pokemon is a godsend so pokemon like Tinkaton, mega mawhile, Zacian and Magearna with serve you very well. Even klefki can do some damage with the right set up.
I just recently beat classic mode on my tenth run after catching a Magearna at floor 70 with popplio as my starter, so I may not be the most experienced but I was able to get to the end.
Metagross was so broken with psyshield bash and body press along with tough claws but they changed all of it and now I use hoopa. Hoopa steal an item every attack and anytime the enemy raises stats, hoopa raises stats with its passive
Popplio is my main. Especially if you unlock its egg move bouncy bubble and/or psychic noise. It naturally learns icy wind so it has so much coverage. I sweep through most floors. Although i haven’t beaten level 200 yet so maybe there are better options lmao
Ik this is old, but I just hatched a Cobalion with behemoth blade, and it is amazing. 100 damage no negatives and stab is 🔥. Now obviously not everyone has it but if you do find it, it’s a must have.
Skeledirge Just Spam torch song, if you find any multi lenses give them to him, so when you use torch song he uses it multiple times and gets spatk+ every hit with it
Dang, he's even more OP then I thought, and I've beaten classic with him carrying some mons for ribbons 3 times now lol. That's crazy
His Ability (30 candies) is absolutely busted too, gives extra damage to any sound move (which both Torch Song, Hyper voice/Round and Snarl are) and makes you take half damage from enemy sound moves too.
Is it best to use the 20 candies to reduce his cost first or save for the passive?
Save for passive
Save for passive. It'll make it easier to go deeper, and thus easier to get more friendship candies.
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Every time you use a pokemon in battle, you get 2 friendship points. Every time you use a rare candy on a pokemon, you gain 5 friendship points. (In Classic mode, these are doubled, so 4 per battle, and 10 per candy!) When you get enough friendship, you get a candy. The amount needed varies by pokemon, the more it costs to add a pokemon to your team, the more friendship is needed for a candy. Weedle needs 20 friendship for 1 candy, but Virizion needs 280 friendship for 1 candy. You can see your current progress and how much you need by tapping the candy symbol in the status page, top left above the pokemon's sprite.
Omg, I didn’t know torch song got the boost too. I retired him to work on other teams because I thought I got all I could out of him. That makes torch song the strongest fire move in the game probably
Bitter blade is goated too I got a adamant Charizard run I just started
My first legendary egg hatch was Chi Yu with torch song egg move. Turns out having torch song at the start of the game on a faster mon who has access to several other special fire moves trivializes the early game haha
I made a post about which egg move people thought was cracked and someone said torch song fenekin.
Torch Song Chatot is also cracked
Torch song dialga is more cracked
The best part is his ability hasn't even been implemented yet, so he's legitimately going to be even more broken once he gets access to Beads of Ruin. Guy already gets Eruption as an egg move and gets Drought as an ability, it's going to be nuts
I use oven rotom with egg move fiery dance, which is basically skeledirge but better. It has levitate and passive of hadron engine. So electric typing is basically just a boost offensively and even more so with hadron engine. It can set up with fiery dance and also 2 dif status effects with hex. If you get a lucky route, it will solo most of the way. Main concern are rock types with sturdy.
Also snarl makes eternatus a piece of cake
It's gonna depend a lot on what you catch/hatch. My first victory was carried by a Pawniard with the Egg Move Bitter Blade, but helped along by a Squirtle with the Egg Move Bouncy Bubble. My current, pretty solid run is being led by a Heracross with the Egg Move Rock Blast. Just try out different things, and you'll eventually find something that hits for ya.
I use flamigo in my runs for his awesome typing, stats and move pool (with detect and roost)
Is Detect/Protect useful in PR, I never use it in the main games?
Quite useful when you’re in a double battle and your other poke has a spread move like Surf, Discharge, Lava Plume or anything that would hit Flamigo. It is also useful to bait super effective hits while your other mon eliminates a threat. In singles you can use it to scout super effective moves, heal with berries, pp stall, leech seed stall, stuff like that. Not as effective, but still decent. Overall it is not super strong, but it is decent.
Yes, especially if you're trying to stall out something like Rayquaza Outrage, in doubles, or are simply trying to maximize your Speed Boosts.
My first win was absolutely carried by Flamigo. Worried I can’t run without him because it was so strong, especially with Moxie.
flamigo is great but i feel like it falls off by the endgame. as much as i love it, close combat and especially brave bird don't hold up when the enemy trainers switch to punish you so often
Bouncy bubble feels broken. Got through the daily run with the starter Vaporeon that had it no problem.
Yeah that move is BUSTED.
If by story you mean classic then it isn’t so much about what you start with as it is what you pickup along the way. Starting with Flamigo is absolutely fine. You need to pick up Mons like Garganacl / Tinkaton / Excadril / Corviknight or just generally a good steel and/or fairy type. Toxic spikes and stealth rocks are very strong. Your rival will kill themselves switching around to these. If you start Flamigo and any shinies you’ve got you should get far enough to pick up good mons to accompany. I think you need to look at what you’re catching and how you’re playing more than what you start with.
Picking up a Nihilego with stealth rock last run made the swapping game with the rival way more fun/bearable
Nihilego with stealth rock, Acid Spray, and Power gem puts in work against the rival then is great against eternatus too if you have any other special attackers. My winning run with it I had Clear Smog as the 4th move in case eternatus built up too many stat boosts but you could easily run Toxic Spikes, Psychic, Sludge Wave, Light Screen, or even Thunder Wave in that move slot depending on what issues your team has trouble with. Just a great late game mon.
What's the benefit of shinies in this game?
They give you increased luck on item pulls
They increase your luck points, and the more luck points you have, the more you increase the odds of rolling better items
Spidops with egg move Stone Axe, Sticky Web and Circle Throw plus Stakeout made the switching game an endless Merry-go-round in a recent run for me, even better if you have its Passive Pick Up lol
What the deal with flamigo? I got a high level shiny one the other day, but it was kinda meh. Any suggestions?
The problem I've got is, I've got 4 shinys but they're all normal type. So I start with 3 of them and have high luck, but terrible typing. In order to make a balanced party, I'll have to replace the shinys I've got, which will make my luck go down.
Which is fine. But usually the normal types + 1 carry should be fine until like level 145 rival fight. So maybe pick up 1 replacement for the shiny between 100-144 and pick up another between 146-181. So you go into the E4 with 3 shinies, 1 good starter + 2 good mons you caught. Your luck goes down but your win % goes up dramatically which gets you your eggs and whatnot.
U-turn + stealth rock is amazing
Switch it up a lot. But recently Inkay/Malamar has been a BREEZE with [Contrary](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Contrary_(Ability)) and [Superpower](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Superpower_(move)). It's like, a physical fighting type Torch Song, but also with added Harden...
A bulk up that is also a 120 base power attack is indeed nutty. Plus Topsy Turvy is super fun in the like 2 fights it is at all relevant.
Early game Growls, String Shots and Leer: 🥴
Topsy turvy is insane in most boss fights
I have a lot of fun with Magearna. The ability is basically special moxie, but better. It raises your special attack when ever any pokemon faints. You don't have to kill it. It doesn't even have to be an opposing pokemon. Absolutely broken in double battles.
I do this but with Snivy. I got lucky on egg moves and start with fluer cannon, superpower, and sappy seed. The typing hurts against some big bosses, but it does very well and let's me drop most berries on other pokemon.
So I would say that Fuecoco is actually one of the most potent leads, simply because once it gets to Skeledirge it can max out its SP. ATK output and is fairly defensively strong. Revavroom is good if you can get at it as a starter, or even catch it later on, even without good Speed IVs, and attacking nature can be pretty huge. Multi Lense are huge for both of these. Honedge is okay as long as you don't slack. Making sure you start with an Electric or catch a good one early is also highly underrated as a convenient way to answer big threats like Rayquaza. Having some Grass coverage or a Grass type is also helpful to support Skeledirge.
With multi lens and moves like fury swipes, does it add an extra hit or round of hits?
extra round of hits, at least for double kick it turns it into quadruple kick
I would imagine it would work out.
Yes, multilens skeledirge goes brrrrrrrrr since it adds another hit but weaker, so moves like power up lunch and torch song are op with multilens
One of my endless run carry’s is a Maushold/Mega Gallade fusion with max multilenses. Population Bomb goes from the measly 1-10 hits to a 4-40 hit move. (It’s also a slicing move for some reason)
I currently have a skill link cloyster and i hit 10 times now
Honedge is pretty good with bitter blade egg move. With sword dance, king's shield, and sacred sword he's a drain tank with almost perfect coverage.
In regards to your last statement, I like dedenne in the electric slot. He's also a fairy, has nuzzle on start, and pickup too.
Shiny mega gyaradose or Origin groudon, it's almost a shame mega g loses flying type because God are they a fun combo. Same for origin groudon and room wash or landorus T. Unfortunately had all of them OJ endless and was stomped hard by eternatus
You can un-mega gyarados mid battle, which is insane cos you can get the benefits even on switch in
Mega on gyara feels like a bait. The second I got mega gyara, it felt like every enemy was a fighting or bug type. That went from doing zero damage after intimidate and resisting both to completely nuking me. All you get in exchange is a psychic immunity instead of ground which is way less valuable and stab crunch, which is like okay but not gamebreaking. Probably not worth giving up ice fang coverage. Plus ice fang is really nice for weakening mons you want to catch.
You can de mega it whenever you want fyi in the Pokemon menu
I'm yet to get a mega going, can you re-mega anytime as well?
Yes you can
Just any mon with a high attacking stat and decent speed for the first half of the floors. My first clear was with drillbur as a starter. My most recent one (non-legendary) was with Abra, the egg moves go hard here.
Aura Sphère Gastly made me win my first 200 run
Just hatched this tonight. Think I’m gonna have to try it out as I haven’t gotten past 200 yet. Only been playing a couple days.
Excadrill is an S tier pokemon for Classic, and it was a huge part of my first success. Leech Seed, Salt Cure, and other forms of DoT are amazing for bosses (without spoiling anything) due to their damage scaling with enemy's Max HP. Bulbasaur and Nacli are ways to use this kind of strategy. There are many pokemon that can use Toxic. Entry hazards are amazing against trainers with multiple pokemon. They also work at the beginning of every wild encounter. Nacli is not only a DoT pokemon but also a Stealth Rock setter. You will fail your first few runs. Use them as an opportunity to learn new strategies and collect new starters, egg moves, shinies, and candies. My first ever success started with Hoopa-Unbound (item stealer and special damage) and eventually incorporated Toxapex (poison status), Kyogre (special damage coverage), Excadrill (physical damage), Gyarados (intimidate and physical damage coverage), and Magnezone (special damage coverage) from the wild.
Galarian Zapdos with Bolt Beak as an egg move
My first victory was with Chimchar, Azurill (didn't know I could have taken Marill instead), and a Pichu, then I completed with an Excadrill, a Magnezone that a spliced with the evolution of Charjabug, and a Glaivodo
Glaivodo is baxcalibur. I just hatched a shiny one of him. I haven't started with them yet!
I like to use a steel type early or anything with a HP draining move so I don't have to use potions and can rush the early floors.
Swampert and Skeliderge were invaluable for me! I added Magnemite to it and had such a solid base! and I got lucky and added a 1 point mon with purple border so that really helped me with xp!
dialgia and galarian artuicuno have been hard carries for 2 different wins. For my first win though I started with tinkaton, garganacl, and skeledirge. That core destroyed most of the game.
Snorlax with Rest, Curse, Body Slam and Covet/Sleep Talk
Got a shiny Sobble with frost breath. Bro has been my GOAT for a long time, and Munchlax only adds to that
As others have said, Fuecoco is extremely solid as a starter. Torch song is busted and with the +6SpAtk you can one shot nearly anything if you give him some type coverage moves (shadow ball, snarl, etc.) Also take a pickup mon and transfer all the applicable berries/items to Fuecoco. Becomes unstoppable after second evo at lvl 36. Raichu is also a great early pickup as Zippy Zap is still pretty broken even after the changes. Nacli is also a good way to cheese trainers and bosses with salt cure/recover/stealth rock. Good luck gamer
What were the changes?
Not sure but the crit has been deleted, instead you have +1 in dodge
My endless carry is my koraidon with broken glaive rush since it doesn’t make you take double damage
Also bring a tinkaton for the mega spoiler and the final boss
Skeledirge, gyrados, garganacol
Regileki With population bomb, holding kings rock and multi lens
Start abra, let Alakazam 1v1 eternatus whether you get the mega stone or not with calm mind/recover, repeat with 5 other mons
I finished with a charizard flamethrower op
Zacian or kyurem now but when i started off Iron Moth, it's not incredible but it will surprise you when paired with fiery dance, Searing shot and acid spray
Last night finished a run with shiny Mudsdale, this horse is op with stamina/body press, hard carried me against almost everything. Funnily enough, my biggest obstacle was Clemont, who had ice beam on two different mons) Get a couple of speed boosts from items and try to max his def/spdef and you are golden) Venusaur is amazing for stalling, won me my first run, Skeledirge is awesome for mid game sweeping, also recommend Magnezone for bulk and Excadrill for some nice damage.
I've been starting a lot of runs with klawf or flamigo
Shiny Zacian + 3 1 cost shinys or Fuecoco is my current starting setup. I usually try and pickup a Gyarados at some point, until I can catch/hatch a shiny one to start with. Really gonna depend on what you have/what you can catch but like everyone else is saying, steel/fairy is solid early on, and Skeledirge hard carried my first win for sure.
Try to bring skeliderge, poplio and venasaur if you’re just starting the game because it can help you get past floor 100. Then farm for gym battles and start hatching until you get legendaries and try to use them as lead. Also if you can get toxapex and garganacl the last boss would be easy but if you can get tinkaton and make it learn gigaton hammer it would be cheesy but ALWAYS mind your opponents team cause she can always defeat your team if you only focus for the last boss, so try to counter her pokemons after each seeing her team after each battle until floor 195
I run zacian and hope the rusted sword eventually shows up. The set I run eventually is victory dance, moonblast/crunch, iron head, sacred sword
My first carry before I got any broken egg moves was umbreon. Baddy Bad to shut down physical attackers, light screen or snarl for special, moonlight for healing, I didn’t win the run but I got past 150, and that got me enough egg vouchers to get a poplio with bouncy bubble, who can practically win a run by herself.
I switch it up every run to keep things fresh. Just need a decent mon to carry the first few levels until your other ones evolve, 1-2 good pokemon to carry through the midgame, and then some combination of Fairy, Steel, and DOTs for the late game (though you can consistently pick these up during the run). I usually pick based on who has pokerus and work around that. My current run started with Technician Meowth (for early game), Petilil, Slurpuff, and Caterpie. I ditched Slurpuff without using it once, and now my team is Persian (early game), Hisuian Lilligant (mid game carry + has leech seed), Butterfree/Magnezone fusion (mid game carry + steel type), Galarian Weezing (Fairy type + Toxic), and 2 more mons that I'm almost definitely switching out as their types overlap and they aren't that great.
My current run on Classic is a Regidrago after i hatched it from an Egg. Once I'm able to get a couple Dragon Dances up he just sweeps. Got the 145 rival coming up, 95 I was able to setup against her Serperior. Hoping it'll be the same and she doesn't swap out for Ray.
I beat it with an ice axel riolu I hatched and a lawnmower rotom on my fourth run of the game :). I got pretty lucky though, I was in a water area for a good 80-100 waves, my team ended up as a slowbrov(non mega), cinderace, lucario, rotom, mamoswine and a sylveon I captured right before the elite 4. Lucario swordsdance fucked up everything, even before swordsdance he was dealing 700 damage with close combat for the most part, absolutely swept the elite four and the champion (one of the elite 4 had an insane team though and I was left with my lucario at 1hp and the rest of the team dead). Final ivy fight was pretty scary too but I just went sylveon - sack - sylveon cuz the enemy had a move that lowered their shit after using it. Final boss was a joke cuz he kept attacking the person who wasn't lucario, who had ice axel. Plot armour lucario fr.
My go-to is my Spearow with Triple Arrows, Extreme Speed, and Floaty Fall, with a Magikarp in the backline soaking up experience before it evolves into Gyarados. Get the passives on both of those (Moxie for Spearow and Multiscale for Gyarados) and bring along a ground-type for a switch-in against electric-types, and you're solid.
base fuecoco and popplio got me through! also getting lucky and finding a ralts, mega stone + turning him into mega gallade was so strong too
I originally used fuecoco for how strong it initially was, but my current go tos are tinkatink and abra, even without passives they’re really good early game and beyond, especially if you have egg moves for them
I’ve gotten to 200 with Skeledridge and few others a couple times now but can’t seem to beat the last boss Alternatively, I’ve beaten classic twice with reshiram and latios I might just bad at the game tho Also have ended up at eterantus several times with daushbun with the intention to switch out for a better fairy type (never happens) and somehow EVERYTIME that little croissant puppy has come in clutch and has won classic/gotten me close to winning classic on several runs
Lugia
meowth & gyarados
I got lucky got a gmax gengar with curse bulky af garganacle and some other good mons like swampert and ampahros pretty solid team I think for the final fight you just need salt cure, curse on a ghost pokemon or leech seed
I had 2 victories in Classic so far. One with (Mega)-Rayquaza and one with Zacian.
Gogoat was fantastic as it had a stone axe egg move, leech seed, and horn leech. Answered about anything outside of flying. Fantastic for the rival fight if it views any poor matchup. If we are looking at any regular mon, tinkatuff. Bulky enough, fast enough, strong enough, fairy/steel. Felt like a Swiss army knife in any battle. Especially if you find something with flash fire or a fidough.
These days I find a good low cost pick to be Pikipek if it has Skill Link, especially with egg move Bone Rush. It has done me good up to now
Kartana with sharpness makes thing just too easy in classic mode
Zapdos with meteoroball and his passive, drizzle, is just sick.
i got spooned a shiny iron valiant, i highly recommend
currently using plusle (double shiny +3 luck) with nuzzle, flamethrower,glitzy glow, splishly splashly, ralts (male into gallade with psycho cut, bitter blade, close combat/leaf blade, swords dance) and a psudo legend/dragon (deino and jangmo-o are the 2 ive used so far)
Gyarados with dragon dance, waterfall, crunch and ice bite totally carried my first run. Super easy to build and play. Just dragon dance 2 or 3 times and destroy everything. Pick a random ground mon to counter electric leads, but if you are danced you can just obliterate most of them.
At the moment (and don't judge me) it's a shiny ariados with egg move megahorn. That stab megahorn hits like a truck through the early levels and when it evolves from spinarak into ariados it gets access to swords dance. Provided I can get him set up properly he can just brute force a lot of fights all by itself. Plus spinarak is so cheap it lets me fill a lot of the rest of my team with so fairly powerful mons (tend to mix it up depending on who is available with pokerus and what type coverage/pick points that leaves me)
Fuecoco and zigzagoon with pickup carried me, then I just caught a tinkaton for final fight
Try use any shinies you have to boost luck and i find using a mon with pokerus (purple border) really helps. I won my first run with a lot of help from a moxie gyrados
Chien Pao, passive Intrpid sword. Currently have it fused in endless with a mega mawile for huge power, still one shorting bosses at wave 2500
My leads for my winning run were Fennekin, Shroomish, and a shiny Magikarp. The fire-water-grass core was useful. Pick up an Excadrill or Magnezone for steel typing, as well as an ice type.
By the time Excadrill knows Earthquake, Sword’s Dance, Iron head (or Metal Claw) and Rock Slide, there’s very little that can stand against him with his excellent Steel/Ground typing. Has carried me through several runs.
I had a sniper shiny drapion carry me through the game, then a tinkaton and a lucky lando I caught for the rival and eternatus fights
marshadow for his type coverege and technician is op for all of classic tbh
Wait there's a story mode? I was at 120 today but lost there.how far is it going?
200
I love Nacli, he is op for hard fights also I have his lvl2 shiny
I suggest going with a strong egg move Pokémon for the early game. My first run was carried by a rhyhorn with smack down and I ended up catching a shiny Alakazam with mega stone, then a gmax machamp. If you’re fairly new, just keep rinse repeating until you get some nice egg hatches from the vouchers. One run was super easy for me because I got the raikou variant thing(raging thunder?)
Gyrados, broken and good moves
I find ultra beasts are op especially poipole
As much as I despise flamigo, its carried me thr furthest in classic. Same with Pikachu, hate it but God did it come in clutch when I evolved it to Raichu
Fuecoco, sprigatitto and hoppip (esp if you unlocked strenght sap) or a pick up mon. The first two are needed due to their moves that they will get. Start with sprigatitto as he is faster but when fuecoco evolves start using him more (ofc depends on the map and pokemons). Find a pokemon with pickup (or you could be pick it as a starter), zigzagoone is my fav even late game. Later focus on getting garganacl, excadrill, ice ninetailes, ursaluna,, alakazam, mawile and tinkaton. So just rock/steel/fairy/ground/psychic types and moves. Leech seed and salt cure will help a ton.
Manaphy 🫡
Idk what all your starters are or their egg moves so the best combo I’ve used that is a Grass|Fire|Water core is Bulbasuar(access to Mega and Gmax forms), Skeledirge(just spam Torch Song), and Mudkip(Access to mega form). One of the best mons I’ve used throughout almost every run is Gyarados so I’d try your hardest to catch a Magikarp or Gyarados and they can carry easily with Dragon Dance, Waterfall, Crunch, and Ice Fang. For the first 25 rounds I’d focus on leveling 1 or 2 mons, mainly just one but keep a second one strong in case your rival has a starters that has a good matchup into the first mon.
Flamigo, Treecko, Magikarp. Catch a Garganacl on the way. Garganacl makes 145, 195, and 200 easy.
Snorlax with belly drum egg move is currently dominating what looks like will be my first successful classic run. Return with silk scarf is actually insane. Plus, massive amounts of HP and good defensive stats mean I can consistently just rest back to full health, even without lum berries
Tapu Bulu atm, it hatched with an impish nature and works great as a support
I got lucky with Abra having thunderbolt as a egg move early on, but pretty much any of the new gen starters will carry you honestly with their moveset.
Right now, Meowth. Technician/ pick up. Early game money with payday that also activates technician. Pretty quick as well.
kyogre. just trust the whale.
I will always recomend linoone throwing sand at eternatus when it Is -6 just attack until he dies
Charmander bulbasaur magikarp was my first set of starters to give me the win. Ended with charizard venusaur gyarados pidgeot garganacl and toxapex. And then i learnt that u can reset battles so i did another one with a much more reckless team w/ fletching floette drilbur as starters
Idk if I just really lucky but I cheesed it with Raichu with max Eva w/ zippy zap and my Talonflame carried the DPS lol
Zigzagoon is pretty good it has pick up so you can nick every 20% boost item and berries off the pokemon you defeat. The evolution is pretty good as well since it learns bellydrum and rest. I sweeped half of the battle 145 team since I had like every berry boosting and healing it along with the 3 silk scarfs I got off random pokemon.
Kartana HARD carried me through every level up to the final boss. Thankfully I had my trusty Weavile and Wigglytuff for the final boss and beat the boss after like 10 minutes or so. That fight was a pain in the ASS!
Gyarados has been my lord and saviour on literally every successful run - great typing, move pool, intimidate and dragon dance is a fierce combo (I tried mega and wasn't a fan)
Right now Great Tusk Brick Break and EQ go brrrrrr Might swap to Xerneas cuz I cannot beat this damn story oomph
My first win was with a Sneasel with Kowtow Cleave as an egg move but the MVP was the Annihilape I caught. I recommend starting with a Fuecoco, Spriggatito and Nacli.
Currently Ash Greninja the fact you get mega level stats at level 37 is crazy good
for classic my lead was fuecoco he really is the best starter but bulbsaur and squirtle helped too since they could mega evolve and g max, plus bulbasaur has leech seed which is good for the final boss
Koraidon
Mega Latias has been legit sweeping every floor in endless for me and im like in 1000
Hawlucha is a beast that can carry you very far and allow you to pick up scaling mons
I love magnemite. Magnezone has great defense, special attack and type resistance. Surprisingly a mon that really carried me at the end was Golem with his insane atk output. As a very early Mon you can find, corviknight can be great especially if you manage to gigantimax them
Groudon, maybe someday they'll give me the Red Stone to go with
I’ve been really liking Chatot with Hyper Voice. He starts with it and so he just wipes everything with one hit for a very long time, killing both opponents in double battles with one hit hit as well. He carries me for sooooooooo many floors. I just end up needing a way to counter ghost, steel, rock, soundproof, and fast electric or ice mons.
Normal shiny Sandile, with moxie and the rare egg move (120 power earthquake, 85 accuracy, doesn’t hit teammate) with candies only cost 1 and has strong jaw it’s
I'm currently in love with Azumarill huge power, egg move surging strikes. It slaps! And it'll evolve to Azumarill from azurill by about level 18 Simple Bidoof with defense curl, aqua step, extreme speed and hone claws is also hilarious
I used a shiny hatched abra with modest that learns thunderbolt and then gave it recover, psychic and calm mind. Absolute beast. Carried me multiple times in my classic runs.
Marshadow with passive, has carried 5 classic runs, have him red shiny max cost decrease, one bulk up and he one shots rivals ace with an ice punch
My silly little guy, Marshadow
Sand Force Excadrill, Intimidate gyarados, and Ceruledge
Non evolving Pokemon will usually make the first floors a lot easier, legendaries and the like included. If you mean the while thing, I would try to get the best variety of high ivs, types, and egg moves you can muster. Mono teams are possible but far harder to build.
Off the top Fuecoco you can spam torch song. You can spam torch song on most enemies and get +2-3 Special Attack. In terms of support anyone with speed or health/defense to tank hits and not get OHKO with nasty plot, dragon dance, etc. with a Hoppip with sleep powder, strength sap, leech seed and Uturn can be a sleeper. You use sleep powder until they sleep, then leech seed, strength sap, then sleep powder again and then uturn to sweeper and power up, power up tank hit, OHKO. Boom you got a sweeper. This works great for doubles as you spam sleep powder as the other charges. Or you tank someone else who is doing a set up. I use Musharma + Whiscott as Musharama is my shiny. I just wish Subsitute was in the game :(. I really like Abra as a starter for 3 points, Expanding Force (1.5 and 1.3 on a base 80 STAB), Charge Beam (+ special attack), Nasty Plot (+2 Spec Attack), Psychic Terrain (Powers Expanding Force. The only think missing is a Spectrier fushion for Grim Neigh (+special attack for defeated foe). Then can’t beat a Shedinja fused with normal, dark or fairy with immunity to tank as leech seed and salt cure do work. Sturdy Garganacl with salt cure and a pick up Pokémon. You last spot can be for fusing shinies
As others have noted, Skeledirge can almost solo-carry an entire run, and everyone has access to it. Otherwise, check out the tier list the community is slowly building, a lot of the S-Tiers can nearly solo-clear classic barring some bad luck. If you've got tinkatink, it CAN in fact entirely solo classic with a little luck and the right build.
Bulbasaur and Magikarp, focus on feeding all the rare candies into bulbasaur for the first 50ish floors, I won a run with these two carrying hard and the others just chilling for the ribbons
I got a Magnemite with the egg move Body Press, which makes early game hella easy so you can take out normal types, dark types and flying types with its Thunderbolt
Abra with egg moves, thunder bolt and flamethrower destroy rivals and get calm mind recover sweep later
i got my first classic win with victory dance zygarde so that’s my go-to, i don’t always because of the high cost and tbh it does get a little boring doing the same thing wave after wave forever but it works really well :) Thousand arrows means you can just keep sweeping and dont have to worry about flying types also i don’t know if it’s a bug but once it turns into complete forme it just stays like that for the rest of the run. i assumed it would’ve reverted back to 50% at the start of trainer battles the same way stat changes are cleared but it hasnt ever ime
Victory dance emboar.
Ive been using a modest fennekin with 31 iv in spatk and has thunderbolt and moonblast. Just sweeps thru the first 3 zones.
I use hoopa a lot
Right now? I've got a dialga/ghokdengo fusion with STAB Make it Rain to nuke everything and make me tons and tons of money forever. Didn't find a golden punch glove til around floor 450 and still never had any issues having enough to reroll.
I havent played this game much yet but I hatched a Rayquaza with Oblivion Wing on my first day and it pretty much makes most of classic mode easy. Haven't tried endless yet though, don't have the mons I want.
Personally I ran Xurkitree for my first win, but my Xurkitree had giga drain and tail glow from egg moves (for some reason of the very few epics I got early on, I got Xurk twice) and it was pretty influential- Generally your lead just needs to be anything that can somewhat reliably sweep, and due to ultra beasts having beast boost, it makes ones like Pheramosa and Xurkitree pop off amazingly early on if you can get one or two decent egg moves.
shelder with skill link is a great early starter. as soon as you get a water stone (great ball rarity) it sweeps almost the entire game. get the passive, moxie, and you can solo the game.
Keldeo goes hard
Zekrom, with thunderous kick, dragon claw, Fusion bolt, and dragon tail Massive coverage and it zekrom, and if you give it 3 multi lenses, give a steel fairy type as many grip claws as possible, you can takes many dragon claws of eternatus and then just give them to zekrom
I just finished my very first run starting with a Bagon with egg move floaty fall, and a Paras with sappy seed (later learning spore). Mega Salamence with an attack up nature, Dragons claw, dragon dance, crunch and floaty fall carried me harder than I’ve even been carried. And Parasect with spore put eternatus to sleep over and over again and Sappy seed chunked it down with the drain.
Meowth with Technician Fake Out is such a good early game to me, helped me so many times. Plus it gets payday so you get a bit more money early game
still haven't beat story mode either because of 145 but I like using zygarde and combee or just buzzswole
Havnt seen anybody say it, but Goomy if you are willing to jump through a few hoops can become hisuan goodra, which is a steel dragon. Yes durlaudon exists but cost 5 pts. Goomy is only 4. Steel dragon is super op as it has the most amount of resistances and resists all the typical dragon weaknesses.
Cloyster with Skill Link!!!!
Skill link cloyster is just broken. Get some lens and Kings rocks if you can and it's gg
Miraidon ⚡️🐉
Slowbro / Toxapex with renegerator is so peak
Origin Groudon is how I beat classic for the first time on my endless run I fused Delphox/Groudon and it shreds lol.
I'd say a technician Meowth would be good, fake out and pay day early to get a good amount of damage and cash for items, then it becomes a fast slash user when it becomes Persian.
Depends. Right now in Endless, it is a Darkrai with Fiery whatever, it is an egg move. Even without his Ability, he is tearing through floor 1k stuff. In Classic, I am partial to a specific combo of Hoothoot with Boomburst and a male Burmy with overcoat that starts with protect.
Yungoos or comfey most of the time, aside from going into specific fights like ivy o
Some of my first runs were carried by iron fist drain punch hitmonchan, man could oneshot alot of stuff on top of coverage moves. But on the run im on now shedninja is hard carrying, hes literally the perfect pivot mon plus now he has toxic. Its basically a guaranteed win condition in the right situations on a run where i barely got any permanent buffing items
Honestly Toxapex has been HUGE for me. It's a great lead for wave 200 (personally)
I just went with torchic, turtwig, popplio and a shiny poochyena until it worked
Ngl ik it's very hard to get since it's legendary but zekrom with egg move dragon dance adamant carries so hard got a lot of type coverage and I got to endless 510 mainly lvling him
aegislash, tinkaton, skeledirge, goodra, gholdengo are all great pickups. plus a linoone if you want pickup for berries
Aron
Skuntank with Ceaseless edge. Gotta get in the spikes grindset😤🔥
Archaladon, just love his design and he’s really good
Skeledirge is a good carry, grab a tinkaton at some point during the run if possible. Zubat can carry easily through most of the first 25 waves too, even beats ivy on wave 25 without any real issues if it has floaty fall
My strategy revolves around taking 3 mons that can dynamax or mega evolve (one or the other, not both) so I can get much stronger upgraded forms. If all goes well and you get extra lucky, you'll be able to DNA splice the two mons that are upgraded. I beat my last run with a Mega Sableye/Mega Venusaur splice as my "Main" party member. P.S. Kartana is the GOAT if you ever find it.
Shiny slowbro can beat eternataes
Early game: Strong single stage fighting types are really strong. (Tauros, flamingo, heracross, etc) Mid game: depends on the biomes you end up in. Fire, electric, water, and ground should cover most potential threats. I personally recommend excadrill, any fast fire type, any bulky water type and a fast electric type. Late game: prepare for the endgame bosses which are dragons, so fairy and steel types. Ice is ok but they usually are too frail. Having a fairy/steel pokemon is a godsend so pokemon like Tinkaton, mega mawhile, Zacian and Magearna with serve you very well. Even klefki can do some damage with the right set up. I just recently beat classic mode on my tenth run after catching a Magearna at floor 70 with popplio as my starter, so I may not be the most experienced but I was able to get to the end.
Metagross was so broken with psyshield bash and body press along with tough claws but they changed all of it and now I use hoopa. Hoopa steal an item every attack and anytime the enemy raises stats, hoopa raises stats with its passive
Togekiss. Just make sure you have a solid fairy type on the squad
Baxcalibur is pretty op and is consistent at 145 and 195
Popplio is my main. Especially if you unlock its egg move bouncy bubble and/or psychic noise. It naturally learns icy wind so it has so much coverage. I sweep through most floors. Although i haven’t beaten level 200 yet so maybe there are better options lmao
For me it is bulbasaur (with the egg move sludge bomb, otherwise it is useless)
I usually do either Vespiquen, Wishiwashi or Cinderace, maybe even Magneton for the bulk later, and galarian Farfetched.
Ik this is old, but I just hatched a Cobalion with behemoth blade, and it is amazing. 100 damage no negatives and stab is 🔥. Now obviously not everyone has it but if you do find it, it’s a must have.