Now now, you couldn't possibly have beaten the Elite Four, even upon using my advice. What?! You did?! Hm, I must be better than I thought I was. Well, you couldn't possibly have beaten all of the 8 Kanto Gym Leaders.. Oh, you have? Well, then I guess I better sit you down and tell you how you're going to defeat the Elite Four now that they've traded in their roster for these super cool, brand new Pokémon that we're meant to believe are levelled up Pokémon from before.

Pre-Battling Advice

Now, I don't think that I'm going to have to talk to you about what to expect because you've been here before, haven't you? Indeed. The only thing I will say now is that you will be facing Pokémon from Level 58 up to the mighty Level of 75 (Lance's Dragonite can now be assumed to be legit), so you should be prepared to face those kind of levels. You'll now be facing Pokémon from every single Region and because of a far greater choice of Pokémon, the Elite Four now all have six Pokémon each, with the majority of them themed to the Elite Four member.

Like before, there are a few types that you will definitely need on your team, whether in the form of both the Pokémon type and the move or just the move on it's own, in order to stand a real chance of defeating the Elite Four. However, because you have Kanto opened up to you, you should have no problem in obtaining and gaining those types in order to defeat the Elite Four. They are, namely, Dark, Psychic, Fighting and Ice types.

The Elite Four

Elite Four Battle #1 - Will

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Bronzong, Level 58

Grumpig, Level 59

Jynx, Level 60

Slowbro, Level 60

Exeggutor, Level 61

Xatu, Level 62

Types Weak To: / / /
Star Pokémon for this battle: Houndoom, Honchkrow, Scizor, Ampharos
Type Analysis: Will has kept the nucleus of his team together with Jynx, Slowbro and Xatu, whilst adding the frustrating Bronzong, along with Grumpig and Gardevoir, which means that he still has that claringly obvious Bug and Dark weakness. By now, you should have access to at least one powerful Dark Pokémon, which I would heavily recommend you bringing as the ever present Psychic attack will have no affect against your Dark Pokémon. If you don't have one, then for the Pokémon of Wills that have a dual type then you should attack that, knowing that both Grumpig and Gardevoir are physically fragile. Bronzong has the Heatproof Ability, so Ground moves are your friend here, Jynx still has a Fire weakness, whilst both Slowbro and Xatu are fried by Electricity.
Strategy: Will looks to blend a mixture of Stat boosters, positive and negative, with some very heavy hitting moves, in attempt to make life difficult for you. As a result, it's probably best to just look to hit him using your most powerful Super-Effective attacks, hopefully KOing his Pokémon before they get the chance to mess with your Stats and Health too much.

Elite Four Battle #2 - Koga

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Skuntank, Level 61

Toxicroak, Level 60

Swalot, Level 62

Muk, Level 62

Venomoth, Level 63

Crobat, Level 64

Types Weak To: / /
Star Pokémon for this battle: Alakazam, Espeon, Steelix, Typhlosion
Type Analysis: Koga still loves his horrible Poison type Pokémon, replacing some weaker members of his side with some stronger Pokémon. Skuntank is part Dark, which means that your trusty Psychic moves won't hit it, unfortunately. However, you can still hurt it with your powerful Ground moves. The rest of his Pokémon are crippled by Psychic moves, so once you've got Skuntank out of the way you should be fine to unleash your fastest, strongest Psychic Pokémon. It's worth noting that Ground moves will hit all of Koga's Pokémon, bar Crobat, for at least x2 Super Effect damage.
Strategy: Koga still likes to mess with your status than Footballers like to test their relationships by introducing very loose women. As a result, Taunt can be your friend here to remove that element of his strategy, ruining Muk especially who has no Attacking moves, and leave him with nothing to do but use Attacks from Pokémon who aren't all that powerful. Failing that, the same strategy for Will is useful here, just hitting your heaviest Super Effective moves, which should bring him to his knees easily enough.

Elite Four Battle #3 - Bruno

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Hitmontop, Level 62

Hitmonlee, Level 61

Hitmonchan, Level 61

Hariyama, Level 62

Machamp, Level 64

Lucario, Level 64

Types Weak To: / /
Star Pokémon for this battle: Alakazam, Espeon, Typhlosion, Noctowl
Type Analysis: Having ditched the Onix, Bruno has now introduced Lucario and Hariyama into the fold, both bringing Psychic weaknesses along which makes things easier. As a result, the same philosophy you adopted for the first battle against him I'd recommend using against him this time. Hariyama can be a bit of a bastard if you don't have many hard-hitting Special Attacks, especially if he starts Bulking Up; he has Payback and Bullet Punch to compliment that move. Lucario is approachable with any Fighting/Steel resist (Ghosts can be your friends here), same goes for the others who remain mainly unchanged to be fair.
Strategy: Bruno, as in the Round before, is completely the opposite to his predecessor's in that he prefers to hit as hard and as fast as he can. For this, it's not advised to try and dwell with Status moves and inflictors as all his Pokémon are very offensively strong. As a result, as the majority of his Pokémon have a frail defence stat (some Physical, some Special), you're better off targeting that - Hitmontop, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Machamp having Defence being their weaker stat, Lucario and Hariyama being both the same.

Elite Four Battle #4 - Karen

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Weavile, Level 62

Absol, Level 62

Spiritomb, Level 62

Houndoom, Level 63

Honchkrow, Level 64

Umbreon, Level 64

Types Weak To: / / /
Star Pokémon for this battle: Machamp, Heracross, Scizor
Type Analysis: Losing Gengar and Vileplume does make this battle a bit easier to approach with her now having one type fluent to all her Pokémon; namely the Dark type. What this means is that your Bug, although avoid Honchkrow and Houndoom, and your Fighting, avoid Spiritomb, Pokémon will have a field day against her now with their powerful attacks. Spiritomb is an awkward bugger, having no weaknesses, and with Pain Split it becomes even more annoying, but with patience and a bit of luck, you can kill it off before it wastes your PP and HP aways. Houndoom is still deadly, but fragile, so any Super Effective hit should One or Two Hit KO it. Honchkrow, Absol and Weavile are all the same, as long as you pack a Super Effective hit you should have no problem knocking them out, it's just the pesky Umbreon and Spiritomb who you may struggle with due to their defenses, but hacking away at their health using your best Attacks is the way to go.
Strategy: Karen blends style with strength, having a blend of Pokémon who are purely offensive and others who love to mess you up slowly. Weavile and Houndoom are both out-and-out offensive Pokémon, so it's best to use your fastest, strongest Pokémon - as they are both fragile - to eliminate these two as quickly as possible before they leave holes in your underpants. Spiritomb and Umbreon both utilise their status moves to make life difficult for you, as a result it's best to get the Pokémon out who can just fire off Super-Effective hits here to eliminate them. Absol and Honchkrow are a blend of the two classes above, but like Weavile and Houndoom, are both fragile and so just having your heaviest hitters face them should result in a victory for you.

Elite Four Battle #5 - Champion Lance

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Salamence, Level 72

Gyarados, Level 68

Garchomp, Level 72

Altaria, Level 73

Charizard, Level 68

Dragonite, Level 75

Types Weak To: / / /
Star Pokémon for this battle: Ampharos, Articuno, Lapras, Dragonite
Type Analysis: Lance may carry many powerful Dragons now in the form of Garchomp, Dragonite and Salamence - enough to make any competitive battler cry a lot - but they still carry one huge weakness; Ice. This is why I couldn't stress enough the importance of having a solid Ice move or even an Ice Pokémon. Altaria shares this weakness too, so that's four of his Pokémon easily taken down just by having a strong Pokémon who can fire off Ice Beams or Ice Punches. Gyarados can be easily taken down by strong Electric moves, and as you already know from the last battle, Charizard can be taken down using Rock, Electric or Water moves. Knowing all of this, you can turn the battle from being very stressful and horrible into a battle that you can sweep through with the right moves and the right Pokémon.
Strategy: Ice moves. Ice moves, and lots of them. Blizzard? Sure. Ice Punch? Certainly. Ice Beam? Fantastic! If you do have access to Ice Beam or Ice Punch, expect to see Salamence, Garchomp, Altaria and Dragonite bow down before your knees, whilst Charizard and Gyarados both follow from a swift Electric attack. That's pretty much all I can say, other than being faster than him makes this battle so much easier than if you're slower.

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