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So, I took the advice and powered up a third Kyogre. Below is a marginal team that just manages an EQ Donphan in cloudy weather. 3 sec left. Used only the Kyogres and 2 or 3 Waterfalls from Gyra. Dodged 2 times to be able to squeeze out an extra HP before fainting. Kyogres level 30.5, Gyra level 36.

Asked by RickDeckard86 years 7 months ago
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by ghao89 6 years 7 months ago

Well done! I'm wondering if Gyarados would be preferred vs earthquake Donphan because of the resistance. Kyogre gets killed quicker and sometimes with remaining energy. Gyarados is more flexible and can absorb damage to gain energy. Based on my own experience without dodging Kyogre can only use HP twice but with Gyarados safely four times.

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Without having attempted a Donphan solo I'm guessing you'd need a mix of both. Victories posted here sound like they cut it pretty close with the clock, I'd wager at least one or two Kyogre is a mandatory minimum for their higher DPS. Higher TDO is great for finishing the fight but you need to make sure you've given yourself enough time to do so.

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Agree. One or two high level Kyogre definitely help beat the clock. It's pretty subtle.

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Gyarados is behind the clock if it’s below level 40, 15 attack. But it’s nice to finish off with something where EQ is hardly noticed in the health bar.

Repeated it with the same conditions later, 9 sec left (this time with the 180-sec start trick).

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Let me tell you how depressing it was to check this after I had *just* finished maxing a shiny lucky a/d/s 14/13/14 Gyarados. This is why I'm a sucker for perfect attack/middling other stat mons.

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Kyogre is a bit expensive investment for donphan though. Yesterday I soloed donphan with only Venusaur and had over 30 40 sec left on the clock. One was lv39, three weather boosted at 30-35.

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I thought so too, but people here convinced me that Kyogre is a generation-safe investment. I don’t regret having three. On top of that it doesn’t need any particular weather for this raid.

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This was my earthquake Donphan solo team from today. Weather was rainy. A couple of well timed dodges with Sceptiles and one with Kyogre. Victory at 5s.

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You must mean sunny weather, otherwise there’s no chance for that team to make it.

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Yep. That’s the team I used and it was rainy. Revived the two sceptiles and the gyarados and finished it with the Kyogre right where it sits. I can’t explain it but that’s what happened. Dodged well.

Failed first time through with a L30 HP vapor instead of one of the Sceptile.

As I said, I can’t explain it but it happened. I’ve soloed Machamp with some really weak seeming teams before, too. Gotta dodge well sometimes and get lucky with the boss charge moves being infrequent.

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FYI I beat a boosted play rough Donphan with this team. 11 seconds to spare.

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Good for you that the last Play Rough never landed. :)

Really want to find a Play Rough now.

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I make it at 9 s left! 2 kyogre 40 lvl (att 15) 38 lvl (att14)+ Gyarados 40 lvl 100iv and 2 other gyarados 36 37 lvl. Failed 4 times but the last one I make it when the 40lvl kyogre was last one.

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