Gen 2 Climb to the Top: Share your Elite Four Stories

Yo, Goozma! Interesting idea!

Heh, my first foray into this Elite Four was an absolute disaster. I didn't have a strategy guide, and the Internet had only just begun to expand to the wretched hive of scum and villainy massive information depot that it is today, so I did what I do best: study and plan. I worked through each and every boss, figuring out their teams and moves and planning my team around them. I can't remember the team I ended up using, but I remember it being one of the most difficult things I'd had to do in a game up to that time (aside from some of the missions in TIE Fighter...).

 

Nuzlocke. Nearly all my team died except for my Ampharos. Don't wanna talk about it.

 

It was the final battle with the champion. After at least 20 tries, I finally made it all the way to that Dragonite. It was down to that beast and my Meganium. Potions and full restores weren't doing much for me, so I put my faith in one last Razor Leaf, even knowing that would not be enough to take it down. Then, a miracle of all miracles, it dealt a critical hit and I finally beat Lance.

 

Ohhhhhhhhh, I remember this happening to me when challenging the E4 in Crystal... I can't remember exactly who was the last person you battle before the champion, but WOW I got pushed over so many times. I had three known water types on my team (Feraligatr, Suicune and the Red Gyarados), which makes me believe that it was the Grass E4 lady. I eventually defeated them, but... the thought haunts me a little more as I am thinking about getting Silver XD

 

Not counting my Emerald run, I didn't beat an E4 fairly until XY. Though in the remakes, the only real amount of cheating I remember is just increasing EXP gain. I didn't get the Gen 2 games until long after Emerald, and I got my butt kicked a lot. That's basically how it has ever gone. Don't remember how far I got, just that it was before I kept my Pokémon all around the same level instead of overleveling one just to one/two shot everything.