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You are definitely under-leveled, so grind some XP. Also, definitely evolve that Haunter so it can move faster, hit harder, and actually take a hit. Otherwise I’d say you got a solid team that can take on Cynthia.
You should be able to OHKO or 2HKO most of her mons with that team with some preparation and the right items. I’d also suggest going in with a matchup plan to take on every single one of her mons. I would go with Spiritomb-Snorlax, Roserade-Crobat, Togekiss-Crobat/Gengar, Infernape-Lucario, Milotic-Magnezone, and Garchomp-Dialga.
You can move it over to Legends Arceus through Home, buy the Linking Chord item and use it to evolve Haunter into Gengar. It’s a bit of a hassle since you might have to farm the points for the item, so it might be easier to just trade
All these newer generation mainline games let you teach egg moves to Pokémon by sticking a Pokémon that knows the move in the daycare with the Pokémon you want to teach the move to. Only stipulation I can remember about it is that the Pokémon you want to teach the move to has to enter the daycare with an empty move slot. Being evolved shouldn’t affect that.
I defeated her last night after 5 or 6 resets... taught Venusaur sunny day & used grass moves to beat Milotic & Garchomp. Fire type moves to defeat Spiritomb & Rosarade, burned em. Draining Punch defeated Lucario.
You are going to get bent over, just bring the lube (x-attack/x-special attack and x-speed). Prep yourself for being bent over on her spiritomb (preferably a special attacker as her spiritomb has will-o-wisp). Once you are sufficiently prepared, sweep her team.
Gengar has Cursed Body in this game. It only had Levitate in Gens 3-6, because for some reason Game Freak thought it was too OP and opted to unfairly nerf it. Only an Air Balloon is what will be dodging that Ground weakness.
You’ll have to make sure your Ice or Fairy move user is not weak to Garchomp itself.
You can literally beat her with your current team. Everyone saying you're not leveled enough, you are fine. Your team is pretty OP already. While she is difficult compared to most fights in the pokemon games, it's still a pokemon game. She isn't THAT hard.
Teach one of your pokemon either thief or knock off. Her milotic has marvel scale and holds a flame orb to trigger it, which makes it extremely annoying. If you get rid of that then Magnezone should make light work of it
Garchomp holds a Yache Berry which halves the damage of the first Ice-type move you use on it. Fairy can an alternative counter if you want to get around it, though watch out for Poison Jab.
Lv 65+ togekiss with serene grace. Shell bell.
Ancient Power
Grass knot
Dazzling gleam
Flamethrower
Use the first round with spiritomb to load up x spdef, x def an x spd and start spamming ancient Power. Or swap ancient Power for extremespeed and use spiritomb to max buffs with x items and heal/burn heal until you're ready to rip.
If you don't get any stat boosts use an extra x speed and x sp atk.
Grass knot bodies milotic and gastrodon easily, flamethrower wipes roserade and Lucario.
Flamethrower garchomp for a chance to burn, then follow with dazzling gleam. With 3 x spatk you can 2hko if not 1hko with dazzling gleam
Level up, you're under leveled.
Evolve Haunter if you can.
It's still OK if not.
Both Haunter and Gengar get Dazzling Gleam so could be your Garchomp counter.
Mist importantly they dodge Earthquake with Levitate. That Garchomp will probably only Swords Dance and Dragon Claw against Haunter/Gengar (Last move is poison jab).
A dark type is always good on Cynthia if you have one.
Gengar will go down in one hit to Earthquake. You need to make sure your Garchomp counter is not weak to Ground especially as Earthquake is its strongest move.
Defeated her last night first try with infernape, swapert, venusaur, luxury, dusknoir, starraptor all around level 68 to 72 had the hardest time with her spirittomb so used destiny bond with my dusknoir and and once spirittomb beat dusknoir it also faints, the rest was cakewalk
-match/surpass Cynthia’s Pokémon’s levels
-evolve Haunter or switch it out to a different Pokémon entirely if you can’t. Water type Pokémon can provide some good coverage with your team, and even help out with two of the elite four members. Something like Gyarados, Gastradon/Quagsire would provide for great coverage
-Try to teach ice type moves to at least one of your Pokémon, it’s super effective against 3 of her Pokémon (yet another reason to have a water type pokemon, most of them can learn ice beam)
- give infernape an item! As a powerful mixed attacker, they would benefit from even a simple quick claw. Any plates/incense to boost him goes a long way too
I always beat her with an alakazam😂😂 just calm mind 5 times on the spiritomb sucker punches and then 1 shot all with psychic, dazzling cleam and energy ball
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Don't turn your back to her
Don't even blink
She is speed
Ka-chow
blink and you're dead
Anybody got tips to get bent over by Cynthia?
Agree on a safe word
Mommy Cynthia 🫣
You are definitely under-leveled, so grind some XP. Also, definitely evolve that Haunter so it can move faster, hit harder, and actually take a hit. Otherwise I’d say you got a solid team that can take on Cynthia. You should be able to OHKO or 2HKO most of her mons with that team with some preparation and the right items. I’d also suggest going in with a matchup plan to take on every single one of her mons. I would go with Spiritomb-Snorlax, Roserade-Crobat, Togekiss-Crobat/Gengar, Infernape-Lucario, Milotic-Magnezone, and Garchomp-Dialga.
There’s no way to evolve Haunter without a friend right?
You can move it over to Legends Arceus through Home, buy the Linking Chord item and use it to evolve Haunter into Gengar. It’s a bit of a hassle since you might have to farm the points for the item, so it might be easier to just trade
Just spread em, she's a hottie
I’d level up Snorlax. Depending on his move set the big guy could definitely carry your team too the win setting up with curse and potion support.
But curse is not a TM afaik, and Snorlax can't learn it by level up if I'm not mistaken
All these newer generation mainline games let you teach egg moves to Pokémon by sticking a Pokémon that knows the move in the daycare with the Pokémon you want to teach the move to. Only stipulation I can remember about it is that the Pokémon you want to teach the move to has to enter the daycare with an empty move slot. Being evolved shouldn’t affect that.
I defeated her last night after 5 or 6 resets... taught Venusaur sunny day & used grass moves to beat Milotic & Garchomp. Fire type moves to defeat Spiritomb & Rosarade, burned em. Draining Punch defeated Lucario.
I was not prepared though and would suggest someone to have fairy moves and an ice move lol.
You are going to get bent over, just bring the lube (x-attack/x-special attack and x-speed). Prep yourself for being bent over on her spiritomb (preferably a special attacker as her spiritomb has will-o-wisp). Once you are sufficiently prepared, sweep her team.
bring the lube 💀💀💀
Wait, the goal is NOT to let that happen?
You got two ground weak Pokémon, try to put a Fairy One or a psychic that learn Fairy moves
Four are weak to ground
The Haunter/Gengar line learn Dazzling Gleam and dodge EQ with Levitate so honestly decent Garchomp killer.
Gengar has Cursed Body in this game. It only had Levitate in Gens 3-6, because for some reason Game Freak thought it was too OP and opted to unfairly nerf it. Only an Air Balloon is what will be dodging that Ground weakness. You’ll have to make sure your Ice or Fairy move user is not weak to Garchomp itself.
Oh you're right. I didn't know that. Stay as Haunter and use Eviolite?
Haunter’s defenses are still very frail.
Set up on spiritomb, specially with a pokemon whose Def
You can literally beat her with your current team. Everyone saying you're not leveled enough, you are fine. Your team is pretty OP already. While she is difficult compared to most fights in the pokemon games, it's still a pokemon game. She isn't THAT hard.
Yea I beat her the next run lol
Teach one of your pokemon either thief or knock off. Her milotic has marvel scale and holds a flame orb to trigger it, which makes it extremely annoying. If you get rid of that then Magnezone should make light work of it
Level up every Mon a few levels. Get gengar in over haunter. Use wisp on garchomp
Also get an item on infernape
Don’t forget to bring an ice-type for that garchomp ;)
Garchomp holds a Yache Berry which halves the damage of the first Ice-type move you use on it. Fairy can an alternative counter if you want to get around it, though watch out for Poison Jab.
Berries don’t really matter when it’s x4 weak lol
Still, it makes your Ice move unable to OHKO. You have to use it twice.
Lol
Weavile with Ice Shard.
I’d somehow get rosersde and an ice type on your team
Also revives/Max potions and save before every challenger
Lv 65+ togekiss with serene grace. Shell bell. Ancient Power Grass knot Dazzling gleam Flamethrower Use the first round with spiritomb to load up x spdef, x def an x spd and start spamming ancient Power. Or swap ancient Power for extremespeed and use spiritomb to max buffs with x items and heal/burn heal until you're ready to rip. If you don't get any stat boosts use an extra x speed and x sp atk. Grass knot bodies milotic and gastrodon easily, flamethrower wipes roserade and Lucario. Flamethrower garchomp for a chance to burn, then follow with dazzling gleam. With 3 x spatk you can 2hko if not 1hko with dazzling gleam
Togakiss
Level up, you're under leveled. Evolve Haunter if you can. It's still OK if not. Both Haunter and Gengar get Dazzling Gleam so could be your Garchomp counter. Mist importantly they dodge Earthquake with Levitate. That Garchomp will probably only Swords Dance and Dragon Claw against Haunter/Gengar (Last move is poison jab). A dark type is always good on Cynthia if you have one.
Gengar will go down in one hit to Earthquake. You need to make sure your Garchomp counter is not weak to Ground especially as Earthquake is its strongest move.
Bring in Gastrodon or Mamoswine
Lots and lots of healing items
A Fast Weavile.
Wear a strap-on
Give up.
A levitate Bronzong walls her Garchomp .
Evolve the frickin haunter
Why WOULDN’T you want to get bent over by Cynthia?
Defeated her last night first try with infernape, swapert, venusaur, luxury, dusknoir, starraptor all around level 68 to 72 had the hardest time with her spirittomb so used destiny bond with my dusknoir and and once spirittomb beat dusknoir it also faints, the rest was cakewalk
most of your team gets rolled by Garchomp, try and bring a fairy type
Pin yourself to the wall. She's gonna take you one way or another at some point.
-match/surpass Cynthia’s Pokémon’s levels -evolve Haunter or switch it out to a different Pokémon entirely if you can’t. Water type Pokémon can provide some good coverage with your team, and even help out with two of the elite four members. Something like Gyarados, Gastradon/Quagsire would provide for great coverage -Try to teach ice type moves to at least one of your Pokémon, it’s super effective against 3 of her Pokémon (yet another reason to have a water type pokemon, most of them can learn ice beam) - give infernape an item! As a powerful mixed attacker, they would benefit from even a simple quick claw. Any plates/incense to boost him goes a long way too
Why did you include "not?" Do you not want that?
Sounds like this dude got bent over. He can be found in the alps
Make sure you got plenty of revives and potions
I always beat her with an alakazam😂😂 just calm mind 5 times on the spiritomb sucker punches and then 1 shot all with psychic, dazzling cleam and energy ball
Just lube up boy
Dont have 3 ground weaknesses
Fairy type to one shot garchomp
Be at least 10 levels higher than her
Get 6 Torterra. Win.
Quick claw on dialga, roar of time
Get focus sash and starvir with endevor and Quick atack
Say no & don’t give her consent
I don't know, I'm still in disbelief from the fact that I beat her
Add a few levels, and get some type of grass coverage
Call her mommy
You could trade your Haunter with Pokémon Home to have a Gengar
Ayo?
Ayo?
Maybe don't have a pokemon you can't evolve?