Elite Four (Hoenn)

Hoenn Elite Four

Location Pokémon League Hoenn Champion Steven

Members Sidney Phoebe Glacia Drake

The Hoenn Elite Four is a quartet of prodigious trainers challengers must defeat before battling Steven, the champion. They are challengeable at the Pokémon League Hoenn upon acquiring all of Hoenn's badges.

Hoenn Elite Four

The player must fight five difficult trainers, and it is suggested to use Pokémons from previous regions, as the leveling areas of Hoenn are not as good as those available in Kanto and Johto. Each trainer will fight with a full team of 6 Pokémons, and each will have one Mega evolved Pokémon.

The player will have to fight the five following trainers:

• Sidney, a Dark type master.
• Phoebe, a Ghost type master.
• Glacia, an Ice type master.
• Drake, a Dragon type master.
• Steven, the Champion who uses Steel types.

Sidney

Sidney will be the first member of the Elite Four waiting for the player. Using a full Psychic monotype team, he will be particularly vulnerable to Fighting, Bug and Fairy types. Fighting Pokémons only have to watch out for Shiftry's Hurricane and Bug Pokémons only have Zoroark's Flamethrower to watch out for, but Fairy Pokémons are left completely unchecked. With the right Pokémons, he will not pose any challenge.

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Mightyena

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Shiftry

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Cacturne

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Sharpedo

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Absol

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Zoroark

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Phoebe

Phoebe is the Ghost type trainer, and only has two Pokémons with secondary typing. Dark and Ghost moves will be very efficient against her. However, with over half of her Pokémons knowing Will-O-Wisp, getting in physically could prove to be hard. Defensively, Dark and Normal type Pokémons will have an easy time, blocking all the Ghost moves, especially since the only super effective move she has is Brick Break from Sableye, which is a bit lacking in power.

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Dusclops

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Banette

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Sableye

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Chandelure

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Dusknoir

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Mismagius

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Glacia

If the Hoenn Elite Four is challenged with a Hoenn team, her Ice team may prove to be the hardest to face. With almost her entire team knowing Sheer Cold, being lower level than her Pokémons can mean instant death at any time. Ice being a very offensive type while having a very varied moveset amongst her Pokémons, playing defensively is going to be difficult, and as such it is recommended to go offensively with super effective moves. Fire and Rock Pokémons may however not be the most ideal types, due to the very large amount of super effective move she has against those types. It is to note that her Vanilluxe knows no directly offensive move. If there is a Pokémon that can set-up, this is the easiest place to do it.

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Glalie

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Froslass

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Beartic

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Vanilluxe

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Walrein

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Abomasnow

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Drake

Just like his name implies, Drake is the Dragon type trainer, and unlike Lance, every of his Pokémon has the type. Fairy Pokémons will thus have a significant advantage, at least until his last Pokémon, Dragalge. However, with three double weaknesses to Ice, any Pokémon that knows an Ice move will also prove to be very useful in the battle, especially if they can outspeed his Pokémons. Without any direct counter Pokémon, the best option would instead be to set-up against his Altaria, who will usually be attacking with the two-turn Sky Attack, before tackling his very offensive team.

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Altaria

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Flygon

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Kingdra

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Haxorus

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Salamence

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Dragalge

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Steven

Steven may be a Steel type specialist, but three of his Pokémons are lacking the type, instead being of the two other Sandstorm-resistant types Ground and Rock. That said, his team is very defensive, while mostly lacking in speed and offense, at least until his signature Pokémon Mega Metagross. That said, all of his Pokémon can increase their own stats, and can become very powerful if unlucky, particularly with Ancient Power. Ironically, Steel type Pokémons resist the entirity of Steven's Pokémons with no normal effective without a secondary typing, and will make the battle very easy, especially if they can heal themselves and either set-up or remove stat changes with a move like Whirlwind.

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Skarmory

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Claydol

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Aggron

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Cradily

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Armaldo

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Metagross

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