Trainer Tower Guide

[Theonlymomo]

A short Info, there is a trainer tower in every Region. They are located in:

• Route 14 in Kanto
• Route 40 in Johto
• Route 111 in Hoehn
• Route218 in Sinnoh

Afaik there is no difference how they work, but if you need to trade with an region locked character or you want to save cash by not changing Regions it may help you.

[Momot]

Hey,

 

Since some time has passed, I want to revive this guide to give my opinion on different things that poped up during using Trainer Tower and to encourage you to give your opinion on it, too.

 

I use 2 non ideal Moxie-Gyaradoses (one LV 69 with adamant but >10 IV in Attack and one LV 39 with no good uiaetrdnuiae) with Gyaradossite.

Recently I trained an prety ideal offensive Intimidate-Gyarados.

If my pokemon is > LV 20 I give it the Exp.Share and defeat a trainer to get it to LV 20-30.

Most times I train 5 Poke at once,

Here are the topics I want to share my experience:

 

First of, regarding all my points: Sice you can acces Flors, for which your offencive Pokemon is overleveled, I am in the privileged position, to not care about most of them. So I just fight from on side to the other.
When my Pokemon are on the same Level as the Trainers, they become relevant, but often times small mistakes don't have big consequences (often they jus result in using a healing berry more).
Finaly, when your Pokemon is definitly weaker than the Enemy Pokemon, acting optimised becomes a nessesaty.

 

Order of Fighting:
Since you level with each fight (duh), your pokemon are higher level and thus stronger for the later fights (again, duh.
Therfor, for small optimisation, I avoid Dragon/Electric and Fighting at First. 
If I need otimced fights I start with Fire --> Ghost/Psychic/Ice -->Rock/Ground/Ice/Fairy --> Normal/Water/Dark/Poison/Bug --> Dragon/Fighting/Electric/Grass.
If you usce Ice Fang instead of Iron Head swap Dragon with Fairy.

 

Movepool of Gyarados: 
Ice Fang vs. Iron Head: I use Iron Head on my main Pokemon, and when I'm unlucky I'm cursing myself for not having Ice Fang. I'll probably have to experiment here. Something I learned it that Iron Head can cause Flinches which has helped me save heals a few times.
My Intimidate-Gyarados used Ice Fang. I can't put my finger on numbers, especially since the loss of Moxie greatly reduces the Sweeper-potential. But for me, even thought it has only 95% Acc, so it sometimes missed, Ice Fang felt smoother in the Tower.  
So here's the first call for others: Share your experience with me and the others, which move you use and how it felt (or even back it up with date, I'd love that one.

Best time to Megaevolve (if Moxie-Gyarados): 
The more Pokemon you defeat before Mega-evolving, the higher your Atk-boost will get(duh), but you will lose the advantage of better Stats on the Mega.
On an Intimidate Gyarados you want to Megaevolve directly exept if a factor says to better never megaevolve in that fight. 
There are also additional Factors to this:

Sice of the enemy team:
Lover Flors (3 enemy Pokemon), you normaly wait one or two Pokemon
Middle Flors (4 enemy Pokemon),  you normaly wait two Pokemon
Higher Flors (6 enemy Pokemon), you normaly wait three to four Pokemon
In the tower the Level of the Pokemon is not dependent on it's position in the enemy team, so don't expect to have the weaker enemys at the start to savely get your Moxie-bossts.  

 

Enemy Type
Against Figting/Graß you normay never Mega Evolve (unless you need speed Bost or want to ensure kill)
Against Psychic/Ghost you sometimes want to Megaevolve earlier to ensure a oneshot with stab crunch 
Agains Water/Dragon you also sometimes want to ensure Oneshot by geting STAB on Crunch.
Against Electric Trainer you want to megaevolve if you can't assure a oneshot since without Flying Type you can tank a hit better.
Beware of types with Problematic Pokemon

 

Problem Pokemon:
Quacksire (Ground and Water Trainer): It is Tanky an at higher Lv it often uses Toxic, whitch puts you on a timer. If heath allows it, use a berry or try to megaevolve and kill the enemy before your Pokemon dies. In some cases switch out your Pokemon to another, that can tank 2/3 attacks and heal your Gyarados/offensive Pokemon.
A variation are Pokemon that give status when hit (e.g.Paras and Litwick). If posible use Earthquake, or pray to the rng-goods.
Sturdy-Pokemon: If they come in early, I usualy let my Pokemon tank a hit. In the later parts, I usually Megaevolve for Mold Breaker, especially if I expect an super efective counter attack.
Murkrow(Dark and Flying trainer): Uses Sucker Punch. Tank if possible. If in the middle of the team, consider Mega Evolving Gyarados to get resistance
Fast Pokemon (Crobat, Jumpluf, Whimsicott Togetic, etc): Often you'll have to take a punch. If the pokemon can flinch you (Crobat and Togetic )  it can cause problem. Consider Mega-Evolving (thought if you are underleveled it can still be faster and agains Gras/Fighing you lose Resistance) or take the hit.
OHKO: Some Pokemon use these Moves. You can (and will) get unlucky and have your offesive Pokemon fainted. Ice and Fighting are the trainers to look out for. (Vanilin-Line, Gilgar are the Pokemon to look out for. 

 

Notable Pokemon(Not Problematic sometimes they can even be benefitial)
Avalug: Most of the times it uses Skull Bash (Takes a turn to charge but Raises Deff). You'll do less damage the second turn, so be carefull if you yust reduced it's health by around 50%.
A variation are other tanky Pokemon (eg. Snorlax). Here you will also often have to take the hit and heal after the fight. But in these cases you have the advantag of dealing the same amount of dammage the second turn.
Dragalge (Dragon or Poison): Normaly a free kill with earthquake, prolong Mega Evolution for the next Pokemon.
Hitmontomp: Often uses Endevour. If you don't oneshot it can troll your health.
Giga Impact/Hyper Beam(eg. Fraxure): The second turn the Pokemon needs to recharge. Consider switching to a less efektive move to preserve PP 

 

 

So far my adition, feel free to add your own infos/opinions and @Bhimoso: Feel fre to add any useful information from my post to the og guide.