wip Advanced Leveling Tips

[Karcaroth]

Advanced Leveling Tips

 

I'm sure most people are familiar with the false swipe method for raising new pokemon, but there are several tricks that I thought I'd might be useful to share.

 

Basic False Swipe Method

1. Go to high level training spot
   
2. Place your false swiper in first party slot, use false swipe until swiper dies
   
3. Send out pokemon you are training to deal final blow for tons of EXP
   

 

Good Leveling Spots

• Kanto — Cerulean Cave (unlock guide)
  
  • I avoid fighting Primeape as it can become confused and hurt itself if using Outrage
    
  • Graveler — uses double edge against Garchomp
    

  [*]Johto — Dragon's Den (unlock guide)

  [*]Sinnoh — Fight Area (accessible after completing Sinnoh)

  • Rattata/Raticate in Route 225 use Endeavor

   

 

Last Hitting

Landing the final blow is commonly accomplished with a priority move or a focus sash, but there are other ways to do this, as I will discuss below.

• Move first
  
  • Priority moves
    
    • E.g. Quick Attack, Aqua Jet, Vacuum Wave, Sucker Punch, Fake Out, Bullet Punch, Mach Punch, Extreme Speed
      
    • Bide (TM34 - Pewter Gym) is currently incorrectly coded and can be used to deal 1 hp of priority damage. Does not work on high defense pokes like Graveler.
      

    [*]Support — speed-lowering moves, paralysis, weather support

    • Speed reduction — String Shot (-1), Scary Face (-2)
      
    • Paralysis — Stun Spore, Thunder Wave (halves enemy speed)
      
    • Weather support (for Chlorophyll/Slush Rush/Swift Swim/Sand Rush users) — send out weather setter to set weather and faint

    [*]Quick Claw — gives equipped pokemon 20% chance to go first

   

  [*]Don't die

  • Sturdy — allows you to survive one hit and KO back. Avoid flinch users e.g. Golbat
    
  • Focus Sash — grants equipped pokemon sturdy. Avoid flinch users e.g. Golbat (obtainable from Bug Catching Contest, Excavations, boss rewards, PVP coins)
    
  • Rocky Helmet + Endure — use against physical attackers. Does not work on high defense pokes like Graveler.
    
  • Support — accuracy-lowering moves, sleep
    

 

False Swipers

 

• Efficient false swiping
  
  • Suicide — your swiper should die quickly for efficient training, so avoid excessive bulk
    
    • Equip Toxic Orb/Black Sludge
      
    • Enemies with Endeavor (e.g. Rattata/Raticate in Fight Area)
      

    [*]Resistant enemies — reduce enemies to 1 hp as quickly as possible.

    • For Graveler, I use a STAB move instead of false swipe to reduce them to 1hp with sturdy, as false swipe takes several hits

  [*]Supporting last hits

  • Speed lowering — reducing enemy speed can allow you to land a last hit without wasting a focus sash. This is especially effective on slow enemies like Graveler.
    
    • String shot — Leavanny
      
    • Scary face — Haxorus, Garchomp
      
    • Paralysis — Thunder Wave, Stun Spore
      

    [*]Accuracy lowering/sleep — less reliable than speed reduction, but can be useful, especially against low accuracy moves like Graveler's stone edge.

    • Flash — Leavanny
      
    • Spore — Breloom

 

 

Edited June 21, 2018 by karcaroth

[Hellobyexd]

This is a really nice guide so far! I'd like to add that leech seed is a great supporting last move. If I leech seed an opposing pokemon when it has 1 hp left and my pokemon faints at the same turn, the next pokemon I send out will receive all the exp due to the opposing pokemon fainting to the leech seed. This completely removes the need to get in the last hit for the pokemon you want to level since the false swiper does all the work! Breloom is perfect for this trick because it learns leech seed as shroomish via level up while parasect gets leech seed as an egg move.