In my opinion the RSE elite four was easily the best one among all Pokemon games (although it really should have emerald E4 levels+Steven instead of wallace). You could see they put some thought into the order and pokemon of the E4, unlike the bunch of useless shits we got in XY. Seriously, XY has the absolute worst E4 battle of any Pokemon game in my opinion.
Thus, I really hope they keep the rotation, since I believe it is part of what made the E4 challenging. Being able to select your E4 order is just....noob, imo. If they do the "XY thing" and allow you to pick, have 4 pokemon per E4 member, and make their levels piss easy to overcome I think I will never forgive gamefreak. I wonder if it's too much to ask for each E4 member to have his own MEvoed pokemon.....
In RSE, Sidney(sp?) was a relative pushover, but he did stuff like use spikes on cacturne and intimidate with mightyena. His absol can also deal quite a bit of damage.
My favourite part of this E4, however, is the ghost E4, Phoebe. Her 2 Dusclops had pressure as an ability, so you had to figure out the most efficient methods of defeating them, if not you have to spend your valuable and limited ethers/elixirs. This really weakens an unprepared team, as without PP your team will struggle greatly against the champion.
Glacia (sp?) used hail to continue dealing chip damage, and had that powerful Walrein at the end, with sheer cold. The walrein really gave a lot of trouble to those who are unprepared to deal with continuous hail, strong surfs and blizzards, as well as the risk of being OHKOed.
Drake was somewhat simple if you had an ice move, but in Emerald, Kingdra with his Dragon Dance and powerful moves can really destroy teams. It's more than likely that your team is very much softened up by Phoebe and Glacia's stall-ish tactics, and you will have trouble dealing with the one-two punch of Kingdra and Salamence.
The champion, Steven, is a great fight. He's not overwhelmingly difficult if you can survive Drake and Glacia after dealing with Phoebe, but the atmosphere, music and sheer coolness of his Pokemon (remember the first time you saw that metagross?) makes it awesome all the same.
My favourite part of this E4, however, is the ghost E4, Phoebe. Her 2 Dusclops had pressure as an ability, so you had to figure out the most efficient methods of defeating them, if not you have to spend your valuable and limited ethers/elixirs. This really weakens an unprepared team, as without PP your team will struggle greatly against the champion.
Glacia (sp?) used hail to continue dealing chip damage, and had that powerful Walrein at the end, with sheer cold. The walrein really gave a lot of trouble to those who are unprepared to deal with continuous hail, strong surfs and blizzards, as well as the risk of being OHKOed.
Drake was somewhat simple if you had an ice move, but in Emerald, Kingdra with his Dragon Dance and powerful moves can really destroy teams. It's more than likely that your team is very much softened up by Phoebe and Glacia's stall-ish tactics, and you will have trouble dealing with the one-two punch of Kingdra and Salamence.
The champion, Steven, is a great fight. He's not overwhelmingly difficult if you can survive Drake and Glacia after dealing with Phoebe, but the atmosphere, music and sheer coolness of his Pokemon (remember the first time you saw that metagross?) makes it awesome all the same.
Thus, I really hope they keep the rotation, since I believe it is part of what made the E4 challenging. Being able to select your E4 order is just....noob, imo. If they do the "XY thing" and allow you to pick, have 4 pokemon per E4 member, and make their levels piss easy to overcome I think I will never forgive gamefreak. I wonder if it's too much to ask for each E4 member to have his own MEvoed pokemon.....
