The big moment has arrived. Four battles in a row against the Elite Four, then a final duel against the League Champion, with no chance to return to the Pokémon Center. Prepare well: this is Hoenn’s ultimate test.
- Objective
- Defeat the Elite Four and the Champion
- Types
- Dark, Ghost, Ice, Dragon, then Steel (Ruby, Sapphire) or Water (Emerald)
- Recommended level
- 50 and above
- Reward
- your entry into the Hall of Fame
🌑Sidney, Master of Darkness
Sidney
📍 Ever Grande LeagueDark
- Roar
- Take Down
- Sand Attack
- Crunch
Ability: Intimidate
- Fake Out
- Double Team
- Extrasensory
- Swagger
Ability: Chlorophyll
- Leech Seed
- Feint Attack
- Needle Arm
- Cotton Spore
Ability: Sand Veil
- Crunch
- Surf
- Swagger
- Slash
Ability: Rough Skin
- Aerial Ace
- Swords Dance
- Snatch
- Slash
Ability: PressureItem: Sitrus Berry
- Roar
- Double-Edge
- Sand Attack
- Crunch
Ability: Intimidate
- Torment
- Double Team
- Extrasensory
- Swagger
Ability: Chlorophyll
- Leech Seed
- Feint Attack
- Needle Arm
- Cotton Spore
Ability: Sand Veil
- Swords Dance
- Surf
- Facade
- Strength
Ability: Hyper Cutter
- Aerial Ace
- Swords Dance
- Rock Slide
- Slash
Ability: PressureItem: Sitrus Berry
Dark Pokémon fear Fighting and Bug: Blaziken, Hariyama or Medicham work wonders. Absol, his ace, hits very hard after Swords Dance: don’t give it time to power up. Cacturne (Grass and Dark) takes four times the damage from Bug, and Shiftry does too.
👻Phoebe, the Ghost Trainer
Phoebe
📍 Ever Grande LeagueGhost
- Shadow Punch
- Confuse Ray
- Curse
- Future Sight
Ability: Pressure
- Shadow Ball
- Spite
- Will-O-Wisp
- Feint Attack
Ability: Insomnia
- Shadow Ball
- Attract
- Psychic
- Feint Attack
Ability: Keen Eye
- Shadow Ball
- Skill Swap
- Toxic
- Psychic
Ability: Insomnia
- Ice Beam
- Earthquake
- Confuse Ray
- Shadow Ball
Ability: PressureItem: Sitrus Berry
- Shadow Punch
- Confuse Ray
- Curse
- Protect
Ability: Pressure
- Shadow Ball
- Grudge
- Will-O-Wisp
- Feint Attack
Ability: Insomnia
- Shadow Ball
- Double Team
- Dark
- Feint Attack
Ability: Keen Eye
- Shadow Ball
- Facade
- Thunderbolt
- Psychic
Ability: Insomnia
- Ice Beam
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide
- Shadow Ball
Ability: PressureItem: Sitrus Berry
Ghost and Dark attacks are super effective (Crunch, Shadow Ball). Normal and Fighting attacks don’t affect them. Sableye (Dark and Ghost) has no weakness in Generation III: hit it with your most powerful attacks. Beware of Curse and Will-O-Wisp.
❄️Glacia, the Ice Queen
Glacia
📍 Ever Grande LeagueIce
- Light Screen
- Ice Beam
- Hail
- Crunch
Ability: Inner Focus
- Body Slam
- Surf
- Hail
- Ice Ball
Ability: Thick Fat
- Dive
- Attract
- Hail
- Blizzard
Ability: Thick Fat
- Ice Beam
- Crunch
- Hail
- Shadow Ball
Ability: Inner Focus
- Surf
- Body Slam
- Blizzard
- Sheer Cold
Ability: Thick FatItem: Sitrus Berry
- Body Slam
- Encore
- Hail
- Ice Ball
Ability: Thick Fat
- Icy Wind
- Ice Beam
- Light Screen
- Crunch
Ability: Inner Focus
- Double-Edge
- Attract
- Hail
- Blizzard
Ability: Thick Fat
- Ice Beam
- Explosion
- Hail
- Shadow Ball
Ability: Inner Focus
- Surf
- Body Slam
- Ice Beam
- Sheer Cold
Ability: Thick FatItem: Sitrus Berry
Her Sealeo and Walrein (Ice and Water) fear Electric, Grass, Fighting and Rock. Her Glalie fear Fire, Fighting, Rock and Steel. Walrein knows Sheer Cold, which KOs in one hit if it lands. Hail inflicts damage every turn on your non-Ice Pokémon.
🐉Drake, Master of Dragons
Drake
📍 Ever Grande LeagueDragon
- Dragon Claw
- Rock Tomb
- Protect
- Crunch
Ability: Rock Head
- Dragon Dance
- Take Down
- Dragon Breath
- Refresh
Ability: Natural Cure
- Flamethrower
- Sand Attack
- Dragon Breath
- Crunch
Ability: Levitate
- Sandstorm
- Fly
- Dragon Breath
- Dig
Ability: Levitate
- Dragon Claw
- Fly
- Flamethrower
- Crunch
Ability: IntimidateItem: Sitrus Berry
- Dragon Claw
- Rock Tomb
- Protect
- Double-Edge
Ability: Rock Head
- Dragon Dance
- Double-Edge
- Dragon Breath
- Aerial Ace
Ability: Natural Cure
- Dragon Dance
- Surf
- Body Slam
- Smokescreen
Ability: Swift Swim
- Flamethrower
- Earthquake
- Dragon Breath
- Crunch
Ability: Levitate
- Dragon Claw
- Rock Slide
- Flamethrower
- Crunch
Ability: IntimidateItem: Sitrus Berry
His Dragon Pokémon fear Ice and Dragon. Flygon, Altaria and Salamence, being half Flying or Ground, take four times the damage from Ice: Ice Beam and Blizzard are your best weapons (Kyogre, Swampert, Sealeo…). Salamence, his ace, is very powerful with Intimidate.
🏆The League Champion
Behind the last door awaits the Champion of the Hoenn League. An old acquaintance…
Steven Stone or Wallace
📍 Ever Grande League
- Toxic
- Steel Wing
- Aerial Ace
- Spikes
Ability: Keen Eye
- Confuse Ray
- Ancient Power
- Sludge Bomb
- Giga Drain
Ability: Suction Cups
- Earthquake
- Ancient Power
- Light Screen
- Reflect
Ability: Levitate
- Slash
- Ancient Power
- Aerial Ace
- Water Pulse
Ability: Battle Armor
- Earthquake
- Dragon Claw
- Thunder
- Solar Beam
Ability: Sturdy
- Earthquake
- Psychic
- Meteor Mash
- Hyper Beam
Ability: Clear BodyItem: Sitrus Berry
- Water Spout
- Blizzard
- Double-Edge
- Rain Dance
Ability: Water Veil
- Hydro Pump
- Toxic
- Sludge Bomb
- Ice Beam
Ability: Clear Body
- Surf
- Hyper Beam
- Earthquake
- Dragon Dance
Ability: Intimidate
- Surf
- Giga Drain
- Leech Seed
- Double Team
Ability: Swift Swim
- Surf
- Hyper Beam
- Earthquake
- Amnesia
Ability: Oblivious
- Surf
- Ice Beam
- Toxic
- Recover
Ability: Marvel ScaleItem: Sitrus Berry
Ruby and Sapphire: Steven Stone fields six Steel and Rock Pokémon. Metagross (Steel and Psychic) fears Fire, Ground, Ghost and Dark. Skarmory fears Fire and Electric. Aggron (Steel and Rock) takes four times the damage from Water and Ground, and Claydol fears Water too: Surf works wonders. Cradily takes four times the damage from Ice.
Emerald: Wallace, the Sootopolis City Gym Leader turned Champion, fields a Water team. A good Electric Pokémon and a Grass Pokémon are essential; watch out for Milotic and Whiscash (immune to Electric).
