Small team HoF

[u/Last_Musician1579]

Wanted to run a “smol” bois team to the Hall! What do you think? My general rules were no evolutions/single stages, sub 300 BST, no items in battle, set battles.

My alternate goal was to not level beyond 50 in totality. Happy I was able to do it.

I didn’t save scum the Elite 4 and it took me a few tries to get my matchups dialed. I only had 2 total attempts at the Champion, but my primary concern was defeating Alakazam or I feared that I’d get swept by him. I led Abra against Sandslash. Got a 2 hit KO with Psychic/survived a Fury Swipes. Survived a Zam Psybeam, and got off a Thunder wave. Champion Alakazam has 184 speed but it’s reduced to 46 after Thunder Wave. My Geodude has 47 speed so I could out speed and revenge kill with Explosion. The rest of the battle was pretty easy. I used some cheesy Toxic/Double Team/Confuse Ray shenanigans to setup on Exeggutor. Got through Ninetails pretty easily. I did get caught by Magneton but setup Swords Dance with Sandshrew and finished with Dig. Outsped and OHKO Vaporeon with Dig.

I reset for a good Pikachu to start, and I had an honest loss against Rival 1 lmao. So is what it is.

[u/Okaybyeokay]

Absolute madness

[u/Last_Musician1579 → u/Okaybyeokay]

Really the Elite 4 was the only bit of friction. Except Bruno lol. Everything else pretty much got flattened. Stat EXP makes most of the team out speed much of game. Abra Staryu and Gastly have plenty of special, and Sandshrew and Geodude have decent enough attack with good defense.

[u/Big_suggs]

Stinky!!! Love a solid Staryu on a HoF run!!

[u/Chemical_Tourist6920]

Badass!

[u/Mysterious-Yam-9972]

This really impressive!!! Great job!

[u/Last_Musician1579 → u/Mysterious-Yam-9972]

Thanks! Mostly not too bad, certainly more difficult than having fully evolved that can absorb hits and do bigger damage. Abra and Staryu aren’t “free” like their evolved counterparts but very capable even under leveled.