I finally did it and got every trophy in the Battle Maison.
At first I wanted to stop after only the Multi Battle one was missing due to the lack of a useful partner for the next weeks. However, today I looked though the list of AI partners I got and gave three of them a try. While the partners are useless there most of the time (having wierd ideas about which Pokémon they will target, Earthquaking you without hesistation and being poor in general) one partner actually helped me to get to the last battle by using Gengar (like me during doubles; Shadow Ball, Energy Ball, Dazzling Gleam and Round) and Crobat (just used Brave Bird). Both of them worked very well with my Garchomp and it actually was enough to beat the last challenge during the first attempt.
If I look back I have to say that I didn't expected to come this far due to being lazy. The only Pokémon I breed on my own was Gengar, my all-time favourite for the Battle Tower since Gen 4. Thanks to a friend of mine I got a nice Gible, Marvelscale Dragonite (which was caught in my Friend Safari at least) and Scyther. Together with the event Torchic it was all I needed so I consider myself lucky. After I trained Gengar, Garchomp and Blaziken/Dragonite I tried the Super Singles. Later I tried Super Doubles and Triples for fun too and just realized that they are even better in Doubles and Triples which I beat on the first and second try respectively (Singles took me five tries).
Gengar @ Focus Sash
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Sp.Atk / 252 Spe
IVs: 30/x/31/31/30/31
Timid Nature
- Shadow Ball
- Thunderbolt
- Focus Blast
- Destiny Bond
Pretty basic, some people will actually know how useful Destiny Bond is while fighting in the Battle Tower. As I said, I use it since Diamond and fell in love with it.
Garchomp @ Choice Band/Choice Scarf (Doubles, Triples, Multi)/Life Orb (Rotation)
Trait: Sand Veil
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
IVs: 31/31/31/x/31/31 (I think)
Adamant Nature
- Outrage
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide
- Protect (useless without Life Orb)
Also nothing special. I always used a Jolly nature though and was kinda surprised I didn't miss it at all. Nothing outspeeded Garchomp with a Scarf anyway so it definitely worked out in Double and Triple battles. I run Protect because I thought it would be helpful in Rotation Battles but I realized that they actually try to play mindgames, switching out randomly even though they got an advantage already. They didn't even read my inputs first while doing this, which kinda surprised me. Thanks to this they did quite a few mistakes and switched into attacks they didn't survive so I mindlessly spammed attacks sometimes with success.
Dragonite @ Lum Berry
Trait: Marvelscale
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
IVs: 31/31/31/x/31/31
Adamant Nature
- Outrage
- Fire Punch
- Earthquake
- Dragon Dance
Another boring standard set which I used for the first time though. Dragonite loves sweeping and deserved a well earned spot in the team.
Blaziken @Blazikenite/Life Orb
Trait: Speed Boost
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
IVs: ? (reseted event Torchic, I never checked the stats later but they were pretty good for a Pokémon not breeded or synchronized)
Adamant Nature
- High Jump Kick
- Flare Blitz
- Brave Bird
- Protect
Nothing to mention here. Brave Bird was a filler move because I didn't dare to use boosting moves in the Battle Maison. HJK is risky but never let me down. Sky Uppercut though...
The last two filler Pokés are Scizor and the Blastoise I used during the story.
Singles:
Hands down, there are better teams for this so there's no need to copy it for that. Using a Mega Pokémon effectively or abusing Truant Durant just do the job fine. However, it didn't took much time to get the trophy with this team either here.
Doubles:
Starting with Gengar and a scarfed Garchomp. Garchomp used Earthquake 90% of the time while Gengar tries to clean the rest which worked surprisingly well. Dragonite can safely switch into Earthquakes too and if Gengar gets knocked out first I can also send in Blaziken to Protect. Most enemies aim for Blaziken instantly so Garchomp gets a free Earthquake of. Outraging also is a nice option even though you cannot aim for the enemy then. Still, if you know the other Pokémon gets knocked out first it does its job even better. Long story short, this team worked very well and even better than in Single battles which is kinda funny. Easily got the trophy on the first try but I believe everything besides Super Singles is easier anyway, maybe because the opponent uses Pokémon which only work decently as a team.
Triples (Gengar left, Garchomp in the middle, Dragonite right):
The amount of 6-0's and 5-0's on the road to Dana blew me away. Even though having a bad coverage with Garchomp
and Dragonite in the same team can be a problem they teared though about 100 battles like it was nothing. Considering the bad back up I had except Blaziken it was really nice to see. Scarfed Earthquakes really destroy most of the teams, sometimes Dragonite 'wastes' time boosting instead of attacking because the field is cleaned up already. I lost my first battle against Dana though because I didn't realize that I missed Rock Slide on Garchomp, which would have been, well, kinda helpful when she started with Articuno, Regice and Moltres. So it took me two attempts in the end.
Rotation:
I was scared of Rotation battles, expecting even more bad luck than ever. After three attempts it worked out for me though.
The most annoying thing about it was how clever the opponent was when creating a team. For example:
-Bastiodon and Aggron over there, easily getting knocked out by Earthquake... but his third Pokémon, Claydol, doesn't like me sweeping the team.
-Three fragile Pokémon, Dragonite just wants to Outrage and we're done... too bad though, he just switched into a fairy now.
-Two ghost types, Gengar likes to have a word with you... but please, get rid of Porygon-Z/Lickylicky first.
Of course my type coverate with Gengar, Garchomp, Dragonite and Blaziken wasn't very good. However, most enemies were prepared so that you cannot sweep them with one move alone and thanks to their randomness during rotations I mentioned earlier you sometimes have to play risky. Both Garchomp and Dragonite are bulky enough to take some risks so it was fine in the end I guess.
During my third attempt I started with Blaziken instead of Gengar because Gengar was way easier to switch in randomly. Blaziken always had to wait for someone to get knocked out to get in.
Multi:
Since I didn't expect much from my partner I brought Garchomp and Dragonite and not Gengar, expecting to get lucky with sweeping to get to the boss. Thankfully, my AI partner used Gengar right most of the time so I had no problems at all. I also had Salamence and Charizard as partners before and they did a horrible job and missed many of their attacks for some reason. Gengar and Crobat both laugh at Earthquakes so they were a great addition, for a AI partner at least. Both of them were completely useless in the last battle (see below) but I cannot complain honestly.
My double team would have won this easily but it is a shame you cannot use Wi-Fi partners for this.
I'm not actually posting this because I think I should recommend my team to everyone. It is pretty flawed to be honest and there are teams out there having an easier time in the Battle Maison. However, I didn't expect to get all the trophies with four or five Pokémon alone and I just felt like telling about it since you read
many stories about people getting haxed with promising teams to no end here and there. Keep it up everyone, especially outside of the super single battles you have a good chance to get close to the trophies soon. I just tried it and actually got them with it.
Getting a 200 battle streak will definitely need another team though. If you don't like to take any risks Truant Durant is the way to go. You also get a ingame traded adamant Magikarp ("Karpe Diem") with fixed IVs which really likes to sweep as a Mega Gyarados if you are too lazy to breed one. I agree that this breaks the Battle Maison and is boring to get high scores with but you should consider using it for the two berries at least before you lose all motivation for it otherwise.
In the end I just want to post some videos I saved. They are nothing special but feel free to take a look.
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The Super Multi Battle Bosses. It's funny that you get to fight Nita and Morgan here while you fight Evelyn and Dana before attempting the Super Multi. My partner was no help here so I mindlessly spammed Outrage because it actually works. Keep in mind though that you cannot choose which Pokémon you'll target when using it so I probably was kinda lucky here.
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Super Doubles, also some Evelyn for you in the end. I expected High Jump Kick to miss at the end to be honest, I think Flame Blitz would have knocked him out, too.
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One Triple Battle with Legendaries. Not the last battle but definitely more interesting. I forgot to save the battle with Dana anyway.
Good luck everyone!
If you want to take a look at the trophies I got a pic of them.
