Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Gym Leader Whitney

Pokémon:

Clefairy (Normal) Lv. 17
Miltank (Normal) Lv. 17
Money Earned: $1,800

Both of these Pokémon have the same weaknesses and immunities. They both take double damage from Fighting-type moves, while they are immune to Ghost-type moves.

With Clefairy, your problem is the randomness of its moves. It can use Mimic to hit you with your move, Metronome to randomly use any move, Doubleslap to hit you multiple times, and Encore to make you continually use the last move used for 2 ~ 5 turns unless you switch out. It also has the Cute Charm ability, which can infatuate your Pokémon; it'll be best to use a female Pokémon for this.

Miltank has incredible base stats for this point in the game, making it tougher than you think to beat. Its main move to use is Stomp, a Normal-type move. It can also use Attract to infatuate male Pokémon, Rollout (a Ground move that might OHKO a Fire-type), and Milk Drink to restore about 50% of its HP.

In general, though, most Pokémon will work. Just beware of using Ghost Pokémon against Miltank; its Scrappy ability lets it ignore that immunity.

After the battle, you'll make the Gym Leader cry. As you leave, a trainer will stop you, telling you to try to speak with Whitney again. Do so to receive the Plain Badge, which will let you use the HM Strength outside of battles. You'll also obtain TM45 (Attract), which can infatuate a Pokémon of the opposite gender. Infatuation means that half of the time, the infatuated one cannot do a move. However, it is useless to put it on or use against genderless Pokémon (i.e. legendary Pokémon).