Took a while and 3 losses until I've figured the perfect order and mons.
The attackers list in this order:
2667 Exeggutor E/SoB (weather bonus)
2626 Machamp C/DP
2449 Typhlosion E/OH (weather bonus)
2473 Jolteon VS/D
2177 Alakazam C/FB
3004 Rhydon RS/EQ (weather bonus)
The RS finished Cloyster off after one last EQ, the Rhydon was almost dead. Too bad it turned out to be weaker than my team's Cloyster.
Nice work. Cloyster is fun to battle, and I would do it more often if it weren't for the fact that, as a T2, it gives lesser rewards than T3's.
Any reason why you are keeping ES on the Exeggutor? It seems like for most of the situations where you'd want to use it, BS would be better.
You have several very strong mons there. I'd be curious what else you have, because I can't help thinking the Alakazam and Rhydon could be improved upon.
But, good job crossing Cloyster off your list.
I want my coconut tree to be mainly a generalist. He's a 100%, and I use him vs plenty of raids and as a generalist should I end up out of potions or face a gym full of grass/psychic weak mons, but that rarely happens.
The other Rhydon isn't really worth spending a FTM on, I want to replace her with a male one of same IVs or 100% that should have full ground moveset too, but if not at least there's Rhypherior for the future. (my goal is to have pairs of dymorphic mons + shinies, not duplicates)
The Alakazam I'm hesitant to change its FB to FS and level him because his only best attribute is attack and he's 82% only. So I'm waiting on a plentiful Abra nest.
Other than them, there's my Kingler, my Kabutops, my Cloyster that's got max atk and def, a weak Tyranitar that's lvl 20, a pair of Gyarados, a pair of Houndoom, a Blissey, a Gengar, a Banette, a pair of 100% Xatus... and most of the G1 and G2 dexes, a few from G3, working on making my Kirlia a Gardevoir.
Thanks.
Nice job! Now that I've found a Groudon with IVs worth investing in, I think I'll try out a Cloyster raid myself tomorrow and see how I do. I heard Cloyster was pretty hard to solo for a T2 raid, so should be fun! I think a perfect Cloyster from raid is 1414 CP, so I'll try my luck! :)
Pretty interesting you used Typhlosion for this raid. Any reason for that choice, other than weather boost?
If he has solar beam, he'll probably nuke 1/4th of Cloyster's HP pretty quickly.
Yeah hardest T2 ever, not even Weezing solo was this tough as a T2, and I've beaten Porygon with a less than ideal team (though the Machamp and the Alakazam were part of it).
Good luck with the Cloyster challenge!
Well, the auto kept selecting him and he was dealing quite a huge damage so eventually I said "Hey, why not, Typhlo and rock smashing Rhydon, in you go." And it worked, I couldn't believe it, with just 2 seconds left.
