Uploaded January 2014 | Updated September 2026, 44 minutes ago
This fight is old news but some guy I know was insisting Magnemite doesn't smash her on challenge mode, and that you need to grind something to stand a chance. He wouldn't believe me when I told him it's easy without grinding or having a sole exp dumped overleveled Oshawott/Pignite/Herdier.
The argument is that since she gets a Grimer with Mudslap (which Magnemite is 4x weak to) that you dont have a foolproof poke to beat her, since Koffing hits like wet paper even if you level it up. However it's pretty easy to play around, just spam smokescreen until going down (or be ballsy and take the switch after 3 smokes), then try to hit it as hard as possible before letting Magnemite KO via smart switching (Magnemite is immune to Venoshock, the AI is predictable). Whirlipede is still simple since all he does is spam unstabbed rolloute and only needs to miss/get confused/paralyzed once to be able to die without risk.
Marill has Huge Power, is Adamant and has close to a full powered Return with the Silk Scarf. You can just use something else if you're not biased like me and just love the Marill line though.
This fight is old news but some guy I know was insisting Magnemite doesn't smash her on challenge mode, and that you need to grind something to stand a chance. He wouldn't believe me when I told him it's easy without grinding or having a sole exp dumped overleveled Oshawott/Pignite/Herdier.
The argument is that since she gets a Grimer with Mudslap (which Magnemite is 4x weak to) that you dont have a foolproof poke to beat her, since Koffing hits like wet paper even if you level it up. However it's pretty easy to play around, just spam smokescreen until going down (or be ballsy and take the switch after 3 smokes), then try to hit it as hard as possible before letting Magnemite KO via smart switching (Magnemite is immune to Venoshock, the AI is predictable). Whirlipede is still simple since all he does is spam unstabbed rolloute and only needs to miss/get confused/paralyzed once to be able to die without risk.
Marill has Huge Power, is Adamant and has close to a full powered Return with the Silk Scarf. You can just use something else if you're not biased like me and just love the Marill line though.
