UPDATE 32.5
THE LAST TEAM UPDATE
If you’d like, open up the other team updates (see here, here) just to see how far we’ve come on this journey. Arguably, I’ve overleveled for the Elite 4, but in my defense there’s a wide gulf in their levels and no joke I do remember getting stuck on them way back in the day.
WILHELMINA:
178 Special Attack! If she can’t Thunder Break something out of the picture, she’s got Signal Beam and Power Gem for coverage. Return doesn’t use her best stat, but it’s another move and more importantly gave her better options while grinding.
REINA:
I don’t go for ideal natures or EVs, so Reina has a high Attack stat and no moves to use it with, but she’s definitely no slouch on the Special attacks either. There’s definitely an argument for taking her to the move tutor to give her Draco Meteor. Sure, it lowers her Special Attack by two stages, but it’s also a 210-power (with STAB but 90% accuracy womp womp) nuclear option in any battle. Plus I could just switch her out.
SID:
Remember with Sid had to carry this team through every major battle? Well, the rest of the team can stand on their own now, but Sid didn’t start slouching in the meantime. His defenses can be an issue but not if he take out his opposition first.
ANOMALO:
Speaking of attacking! When Anomalo hits you you stay hit. The STAB on X-Scissor and Rock Slide, plus the utility of Brick Break, and if I remember there’s an opening he can just double his Attack and go to town twice as fast.
CASTELLIA:
Castellia still gets to rock her defensive loadout. Given the right matchup she can wait for Toxic to do its work. There’s really few good options for Steel-type moves though. She learns Flash Cannon but her only Physical Steel-type attack is Gyro Ball, which is unreliable and only has 5 PP anyway.
DOGU:
A war machine from the ancient world ressurrected into modern times, Dogu can fire eyebeams in a 360 degree raidus. All attacks are dissipated by its aether barrier before the counterattack is launched. With such power in the end it was nature that did their empire in, with massive earthquakes subsuming the capital into the earth and allowing their enemies to overcome the remnants. Dogu now doesn’t have to worry about any of that though.