Tips to beat Classic Mode in PokeRogue

YO! Feel free to jump to anytime stamp, although I'd recommend watching the full video of course. If you have any tips you'd like to leave for newer players, I encourage it! Also, I wrote out a lot of these tips and they're available to read in the description also. Thanks for watching! Timestamps: Intro 0:00 Gamepad support 1:02 Which starter should you choose? 1:38 Settings 7:50 Focus on levelling 1-2 Pokemon 9:20 Grabbing Lures 10:16 Failing isn't bad 10:45 The Biggest Hurdles 11:03 Important Battles 11:46 Good moves to have 13:15 Important Battles 2 13:29 The Shop & Money 13:41 Boss Pokemon & Passive Abilities 14:36 Gym Leaders 15:08 Pickup 15:56 X Items 17:06 Meowth 18:44 Random Trainers 19:12 Generald Advice 20:11 Item Rarities 21:06 Items Stack 21:39 2nd Rival Battle 22:02 General Advice 23:10 Gym Battle 1 23:37 Eggs 24:35 General Advice 25:06 Mega Evolution & G-Max forms 27:30 General Advice 27:58 Vitamins 28:47 Pokemon Evolution 29:05 Healing Moves 29:10 Type Boosting Items 29:48 Exceeding the Level Cap 30:14 Setup Moves 30:48 Good Pokemon to Catch 31:17 Golden Pokeball 31:55 Lock Rarities 32:15 General Advice 32:36 Prepare for Important Battles 33:26 Biome Encounters 35:16 Stat Increases 35:55 Garganacl 36:17 Unnerve 36:34 General Advice 37:01 Terastalized Pokemon 38:39 General Advice 40:47 Shiny Pokemon 41:45 Read the descriptions 42:22 At the end of the day 42:37 REALLY Good Pokemon to use 42:57 Fairy/Steel types 43:18 Outro 44:16

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20:00 You can also use Soak (it's working now) to turn Eternatus into a Water Type, this will let you Toxic it, and will let Salt Cure do 1/4 Damage instead of 1/8.

Another tip for folks out there, every day 3 random pokémon get a purple box around them in the starter select screen, that's an indicator that they got pokérus which boosts the exp gain. This effect can be spread among the team trough battles easy so it's worth considering bringing one with you to help out in the early game

Flamigo TEARS through the early game. Carried me to my first wave 100.

Helpful tip that worked for me: Amoonguss or any spore pokemon can be a very good teammate during the second phase of eternatus because putting it to sleep gives tour other mon plenty of time to set up or deal damage.

I beat it. WHAT A FINAL FIGHT! It came down to a 50/50. It was down on its last health bar. Me with Ursaluna and a Tentacruel. Both ready to die in 1 hit. If he hits Ursaluna, I wipe. If he hits Tentacruel, I could win. He hits Tentacruel, I smash, I won. Loved it.

my tip: Fairy types are must have for rival battles(poplio is best water for it)

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Cool guide! Super helpful! I agree with pretty much all of it but there are a few things I think could be mentioned/elaborated: 1. Starter Pokemon: I tend to find that I tend to favour bulkier mons compared to frailer ones. Grass: I find the best grass starters to be meow and bulb. Bulb is bulk and has access to early sleep and leech seed which are very good moves. It can also Growth boost as well. The only thing I find lets it down is its middling speed prevents it from sweep and its poor type coverage outside of TMs. Meow doesn't really start cooking until 36, but when it evolves, it can annihilate things with Flower Trick. Flower Trick is pretty much the reason why I think Meow is the best starter to choose for a vanilla run since it ignore stat changes (including intimidate) and can consistent do 140 BP of damage. If you get a Grass tera on this as well, it'll do even more damage. Also, U turn is nice way to do some chip damage before switch as well as damaging grass and dark types. Grookey is pretty decent since it's a bulky mon with high attack but for whatever reason, I don't find Chikorita a bad choice. Early access to poison, healing and reflect plus razor leaf at level 6 is surprisingly decent. Fire: It's just Fuecoco, it's not even close. Torch Song is ridiculous. Scorbunny and char have strong forms for sure, but they are a bit squishy. Litten isn't a bad alternative, tho, because it's bulk and typing. For whatever reason, I find Fennekin decent as well. Maybe it's bc it has special bulk, in addition to being fast and strong? Water: Squirt is pretty good choice, not only does it have its powerful forms, but it's pretty bulky too. Sobble has G-Max but it's a bit too squishy for me personally. Primarina is pretty bulky and has access to the coveted Fairy type. It also hits really hard! Too bad Sparkling Aria hits your teammate in doubles. Personally, I think Mudkip is the best overall. Not only is it bulky, but it has a myriad of resistances and one weakness starting at level 16. Water and Ground are also great offensively too and rain is not too uncommon to run into, so if it gains its Mega form, it can take advantage of swift swim. 2. Item priority: There are three resources that are vital to keep high in order to have a successful run. Your mons HP, Exp and money in that order. As such, your priority should reflect that. Keeping your team relatively healthy is obviously the most important since if you lose a battle, you lose the run. Of course there's a balancing act of keeping your team healed up and saving money. You need to be able to assess how much healing your team needs in order to survive the upcoming battle. If you spend too much money on healing, you may not have enough money to spend on healing items later against tougher opponents. Secondly, EXP. If you don't actively choose Exp. boosters when ever you have the chance, you'll very quickly fall behind the level curve and your team will struggle in every battle due to the level disparity. Whenever possible, favour things like exp charms, candy jars, lures and rare candies so your team can keep up in later floors. When it's clear that you've collect enough charms to comfortable cap the level cap on the floor, you can stop prioritizing these items and go for other useful items. Then, the next priority is money. Spending money is the most guaranteed way to heal up your team which is important if your team was battered by a tough battle (usually the rival) or you're heading to a tough/boss fight with a weakened team. Nuggets (which scale in value based on floor) and Amulet Charms are big gets to keep you comfortable moneywise. Other items can be prioritizes based on context. Like this vid said, X items are great for prepping upcoming tough battles. TMs can be great to depending on the move and can bolster a mons effectiveness or cover a weakness or provide valuable support moves. Berries are another good choice to stack buffs on mons. I tend to like Sitrus berry (for healing), Lum berry (which protects status which is debilitating in this game) and later on Leppa berries (for high power, low PP moves). Other good options are the pinch berries. Salac, Petaya and Liechi in particular works well with low HP type boost moves like Overgrow or Swarm. Of course, permanent upgrades like the Rarity lock, IV scanner and Map are great as well if your afraid of folding immediately if you forgo some of the high priority items. See more in reply...

Seriously just grab any decent early game carry and drillbur, a good excadrill can solo most of the game including the rival fight as long as you get it in on the right Mon. Even does dumb damage to the 200 boss. Also great in doubles with any flying or lev Mon.

My name is Magearna and I have never known defeat.

Double kick and a bulk up or two is more than enough to sweep through all of classic without ever having to worry about sturdy. The actual problem with torchickis that without speed boost its shares a speed tier with a sack of bricks

8:26 did you know theres a splash text that says something along the lines of "save scumming is allowed/encouraged" or something along those lines edit: any fusion, the mon that is used as a base (ex: garganacl as fusee 1, jumpluff as fusee 2) you keep garganacl and all its moves DURING fusion, so if i taught the fused gargaluff salt cure, recover, iron def, and leech seed, and unfuse it, my garganacl will keep all those moves.

Beaten classic 15/20 times already, best starters to run with no egg moves and IVs are easilly turtwig (grass ground), fuecocco (fire ghost) and popplio (water fairy). Popplio is invaluable in rounds 145 and 195, and can be very very useful for 200 aswell (especially if you can get bouncing bubble)

Biomes are not random though. On the Biomes page on the wiki, when you scroll down you have a full map available. With the in-game Map you can actually plan a path if you're looking for a specific Pokemon or type.

A good mon that can help with the final battle is slowbro, don't sleep on the bro.

I finally won my first classic run today with Hisuian Typhlosion, Meowscarada, Shiny Ursuluna, Primarina, Alakazam, (never found the mega stone) and Garganacl. Meowscarada and Hisuian Typhlosion were definitely the mvps of the run. Flower trick and eruption usually one shotted most wild pokemon. Also shout out to Garganacl. I would have never beat Rayquaza and Eternatus without his salt cure.

1 other tip for second phase eternatus, while it is a double battle, he doesnt have any spread moves, so you dont need to worry about having 2 pokemon weak to his moves at the same time since one of them can safely pull a move off.

13:30 Torterra leech stall carried me through eternatus