Pokémon Crystal Version

Game Boy Color

Typh 6 Nov 2024 18:16

Got with a:
Lv 40: Piloswine | Lv 41: Mantine, Ursaring and Sudowoodo | Lv 42: Azumarill | Lv 43: Typhlosion

Houndoom was the only trouble for me, but at the end I got really unlucky, and missed three Powder snow on the last of Lance's Dragonites.

But my Typhlosion with Sand-attack came in clutch and gave my Sudowoodo the W, bc the accuracy lowering causes him to misses the last attack that he needed to finish my last Pokémon.

GuiRodrigues11 19 Dec 2024 17:56

Not sure why this didn't pop up when I used espeon, feraligatr, dunsparce, suicune, crobat and lanturn and had no level 45 by the end of it. Did it in one session so yeah guess I'll have to get another pokemon to 40ish since my espeon is lvl 44 now.

GuiRodrigues11 19 Dec 2024 21:58

Yeah, pizza boy isnt suppported, too bad since I had no issues prior to this.

dude1286 26 Dec 2024 01:55

Ended up doing it first try with: Typhlosion, Espeon, Umbreon, Piloswine, Miltank and Quagsire.

GuiRodrigues11 26 Dec 2024 04:17

After playing it all over on retroarch probably my mistake was going to google to look at weaknesses, doing that probably acts as not one session so yeah, avoid any other apps while doing this, oh and I did this with Feraligatr Ursaring(both with ice punch for Lance) Espeon Lanturn Crobat and Dunsparce.

BareBear 10 Jan 2025 15:50

I noticed that it would deactivate if anyone reached 45 at any point, even during the champion battle.
Had to hatch some new replacement party members when I realized that. It's probably better to save this one until you have all 16 badges and have the full selection of mons available, but apparently I like to punish myself.

Ice moves are essential for the dragonites at the end. Piloswine with the Icy Wind TM was my MVP on the champion fight.

vulkansnake 14 Jan 2025 23:34

Eevee evolutions not allowed? Does not make sense

Ryansusername00 16 Jan 2025 20:17

The achievement did not pop for me the first run through the league, highest level was 40. Thanks to 'GuiRodrigues11' comment, I realized that I minimized the game one time during my first attempt while playing on Pizzaboy emulator.

Fortunately I had backed up my save before the league, so I reloaded it and ran through it again. (I probably could have just run through the league a second time but I wanted to confirm the app context switch theory).

SaltCommittee 7 Feb 2025 02:45

Potential bugs or strange triggers aside;

This is a genuinely challenging achievement to get. Requires some interesting team compositions and movesets. The joy about it is that it can be done in post game after very strong TMs are purchasable (Psychic in Celadon City, for example), and still requires certain teams to get through things.

Couldn't do it on my first run through, but a second run might be easier..and kind of necessary, since my current team is too high level now.

Lockerdown3 8 Feb 2025 09:16

Brought the three dogs, Feraligatr, Sudowoodo, and Noctowl.

SaltCommittee 11 Feb 2025 06:17

Just popped for me. Took 8 attempts thanks to Lance being the cheater that he always is, but we got it done.

Final team for cheevo: L41 Lanturn, L43 Quagsire, L42 Xatu, L43 Sudowoodo, L42 Houndoom, L43 Sneasel.

Items in between battles are allowed. Hold items are allowed. Remember to have Set battle style on. Do it all in one run without breaking focus and you'll get it. Deceptively challenging. L44 is a very tight window.

DankSteel 12 Feb 2025 19:49

Got mine on my first E4 run with a Suicune, Raikou, Typhlosion, Xatu, Ursaring, and Umbreon. Honestly pretty easy :) If you decide to use Suicune and Raikou, they both learn really good moves at level 41 (Aurora Beam and Spark). For Lance it was 2 Aurora beams per Dragonite, minus the lvl 50 one, which I used Icy wind to cut speed and finished with Aurora beams.

bungus 18 Feb 2025 07:13

Although you can't get them without trading with another game, pokemon like Steelix and Scizor should count towards this achievement, since they are still Johto pokemon, the same way that Crobat is a Johto pokemon and counts for the other achievements but Zubat and Golbat don't.

lorderbs 18 Feb 2025 10:43

a lot easier than i expected from the comments tbh
feraligator, suicune, piloswine, azumarill, dunsparce and sudowoodoo all starting at lvl 40/41 when going in
prolly better to swap one of the water types for something else, candied some before lance, lvl 43 suicune took care of the dragonites easily

Plusle 19 Feb 2025 01:26

I won with:

L35 Dunsparce @Pink Bow
L35->36 Quagsire @Mystic Water
L35->37 Quilava->Typhlosion @Charcoal
L35->37 Sudowoodo @Quick Claw
L35->37 Noctowl @Sharp Beak
L41->43 Suicune @Nevermeltice

I'm not recommending this team at all, I trained them without planning for composition throughout the story, there's no Water-type coverage, it took multiple attempts (second try that made it past Will won, bunch of resets for Will), and I used copious Revives and Hyper Potions between each fight along with one Full Heal and a few Elixers.

Rather, this team had all HMs + Rock Smash, and I'm commenting to show you can beat this with a main story team without reaching, let alone breaking, Janine's L39 cap that's still waiting for me later in Kanto. Suicune starts one level above 39 anyway so there's no harm giving it an extra level in advance of the E4 to learn Aurora Beam.

Hunterzero 20 Feb 2025 08:59

L40 Typhlosion+Charcoal
L40 Furret+Pink Bow
L41 Suicune+nevermeltice
L39 Jumpluff no held items
L36 Piloswine soft sand
L41 Mantine bitter berry

Will was the worst due to confuse ray otherwise straight forward until reaching Lance.

Jumpluff with leech seed+sleep against Gyarados.

Sanjour 4 Mar 2025 22:43

Damn this is hard. I spent a LOT of time grinding, trying and experimenting to find my best bet of a party. Finally got it with a lvl43 Typhlosion with Thunder Punch, a lvl43 Suicune with Aurora Beam and NeverMeltIce, a lvl 42 Piloswine with Blizzard and EXP Share to divide EXP, a lvl 43 Skarmory with Fly, a lvl 43 Espeon with Psybeam and a lvl 43 Ursaring with Slash, Thunder Punch and Ice Punch.

kezcade 14 Mar 2025 17:34

Man, I had to work for this one. My main Johto pokemon were outleveled by the time I came back around for this and I had to rethink a new team multiple times before something finally worked out.

Ended up getting it with:
L41 Lanturn (w/ Surf/Thunderbolt)
L40 Skarmory (w/ Fly/Toxic)
L41 Sneasel (w/ Ice Beam)
L41 Umbreon
L42 Houndoom
L42 Ursaring (w/ Strength/Ice Punch)

Sneasel with Ice Beam ended up being the MVP for Lance.
Weakest pokemon was Ursaring who was basically useless against Lance and if I had to change a pokemon I'd probably just swap back in the Sudowoodo I removed a few attempts prior to handle a couple other pokemon better.