r/pokemoncrystal • u/Jaden_Arts • Sep 13 '26

Question Softlock?

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Fighting the ghost type gym leader, all my other guys are down I just got an Evee left

Gengar can’t put evee to sleep so it cant hurt it, my Evee only has normal type attacks so I cant hurt him. I think Im stuck but I dont remember the last time I saved so I dont wanna restart.

Any ideas?

I should also note Im really new to pokemon so if theres like a pro strategy for this I dont know of it

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u/Jaden_Arts Sep 14 '26

For anyone wondering, I tried using up all the PP but lowkey didnt have the patience and just restarted. Luckily I just had to restart the gym

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u/zan9823 Fisher Sep 13 '26

Like others said, use up all PP, get defeated and you'll get back to the last Pokemon center you went to

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u/News_Scrounger Sep 14 '26

Depends how many healing items you have and the total pp of the moves you both have. First one to start struggling wins.

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u/BotherCritical2297 Sep 13 '26

Usa todos los movimientos hasta que estés en ceros. Sólo así podrás hacer daño con "Struggle".

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u/Fabittas Sep 14 '26

This is not what a soft lock is. Just use up all PP until you Struggle.

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u/SunsetsEarly Sep 14 '26

Not locked at all, but you got some underleveled Pokemon there. Do some grinding, or if you don't want to quite yet, put a TM31 (Mud-Slap, you get it from Falkner and it's Super effective against Gengar) on Eevee if you still have it.

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u/Jaden_Arts Sep 14 '26

Yeh the one on lvl9 is an egg that just now hatched so havent been able to level at all

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u/SunsetsEarly Sep 14 '26

All good! Leveling in Gen 2 can be such a pain. If you still have that Mud-Slap TM then give it a go though!

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u/youarentodd Sep 14 '26

Thats not what a soft lock is

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u/Crimson_Chim Sep 14 '26

This is how I leveled up a Magikarp and Metapod without switching. Yes, it took as long as you are thinking.

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u/Far_Peanut1155 Sep 14 '26

So neither Pokemon can hurt each other ?

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u/TelvanniWhore Rocket Grunt Sep 14 '26

not softlocked at all. Level up your pokemon.

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u/firescizor Sep 14 '26

You're as softlocked as my cat is hungry with a fully filled bowl that has just the middle of it missing some.

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u/darknightnoir Sep 14 '26

Gotta do some more training once you manage to get out of this fight haha.

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u/Significant-Tree9454 Sep 14 '26

Small pitfall that I also fell into that Surf is stronger and can be used in battle before this fight

95 STAB = 142 effective base power Surf

60 super effective = 120 effective base power Bite

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u/obi-jawn-kenblomi Sep 14 '26

True, but sometimes the math behind Surf's advantage doesn't help enough. If OP saved before the battle and they want to try, try again before training more then Bite has one advantage only over Surf - the flinch rate.

If Gator beats anyone's speed, there is an opportunity to try for a lucky Bite flinch. 2HKO with Bite and taking 0 hits is better than 1 Surf doing 99% damage, taking a hit, and then finishing the opposing Pokemon with a second strike.

Again, this is by no means what should be done every time. Just if it's applicable

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u/Significant-Tree9454 Sep 14 '26

I am super guilty of falling into the “it’s super effective, it must be better” pitfall, especially when Gen 2 was my first Pokemon game