Awesome guide, I've returned to the game after 3 years and it's good to know that bosses are a little harder and hold items now. I'll definitely have to change my team again.

So just to clarify- the budget teams only work for Kanto and Johto bosses but the expensive one works for all the bosses except for the ones with roar and whirlwind?

On 6/16/2024 at 10:18 PM, Darksun20 said:

Awesome guide, I've returned to the game after 3 years and it's good to know that bosses are a little harder and hold items now. I'll definitely have to change my team again.

So just to clarify- the budget teams only work for Kanto and Johto bosses but the expensive one works for all the bosses except for the ones with roar and whirlwind?

Very late and not op, but maybee someone else also has the same question.

 

No, budget team can do all bosses. The Kanto/Johto thing are the Requisites asumed to build the team. For exaple, you can't get a good Whimsicott or Pangoro in Kanto/Johto with reasonable investment (later a Kanto-boss gives you Pancham as a reward, so  you can easy upgrade from the cheap team.)

Also you need to defeat a boss to unlock egg moves, so for budget team you can't use them, because you have to build the team to defeat that boss.

 

The diference between the teams is, that the budget version is weaker and will strugle on hard difficulty. Also it is less reliant on the bosses Atacking stat beinig debuffed, so if the boss has a setup move, this team can still do it. You can still win with the budget team, but with the expensive team you can do bosses more reliable.

 

Also for  bosses with roar and whirlwind you can try to use to use whirlwind(skarmory) or roar (Persian) yourself. The only problem is, that the new Pokemon is random and some bosses (Looking at Ash Westbrook) have other problematic Pokemon in their lineup. This option also costs you the pokemon using the attack, so you'll have to defeat the new pokemon with one Pokemon less. 

An alternatve would be a Pokemon with Mirror Coat or Counter (Golem or Magnezone are options, both also have sturdy, later there's Wobuffet) can also be used to defeat the first Pokemon. That one has the advantage, that the boss will choose his second Pokemon, so you can more reliable predict, what you'll be up against next. The downside is, if the second pokemon is just as bad, a random choise could be better. Also, you've got one Pokemon  less in your boss team again.

Fully updated guide. Got tired of seeing 37 different boss guides that suggest having 12 different pokemon with really badly planned strategies, half baked and barely functioning with like 3 baton pass pokemon per team,, so I decided to reupdate it with multiple teams that have been tested among years. You only need 6, choose whichever team, but if you're going to ask me what you should choose, save up and skip the cheap and medium budget versions, and choose ANY of the Expensive ones.

Edited January 26Jan 26 by Bhimoso