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Team GO Rocket Leader Guide: Defeating Cliff

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First Pokemon

Cubone: Mud Slap/Rock Smash + Bone Club/Bulldoze/Dig

Cubone is weak to Grass, Ice, and Water. In addition, Flying-types resist all of its moves, so any Flying/Grass or Flying/Waters are probably good choices!

Second Pokemon

Electivire: Thunder Shock/Low Kick + Thunder Punch/Wild Charge/Thunder/Ice Punch

Electivire, as a mono-Electric type, is only weak to Ground. Since most of its moves are Electric-type, that's a great choice! Keep in mind that it might hit you with Fighting-type damage, so any Steel- or Rock-types are risky!

Luxray: Spark/Snarl/Hidden Power + Hyper Beam/Wild Charge/Crunch

Luxray, like Electivire, is mono-Electric, and is thus only weak to Ground. Snarl and Hidden Power don't hit very hard, so just use Ground-types.

Omastar: Mud Shot/Water Gun + Ancient Power/Hydro Pump/Rock Blast

Omastar has a double weakness to Grass, as well as a single weakness to Electric, Fighting, and Ground. While Ground is an easy choice since it's also good against Cliff's other slot 2 Pokémon, it does risk taking SE from Water Gun. As always, stay flexible!

Third Pokémon

Tyranitar: Bite/Iron Tail + Fire Blast/Crunch/Stone Edge

Tyranitar is weak to Bug, Fairy, Grass, Ground, Steel, and Water, but you can mostly ignore those since Tyranitar is double weak to Fighting. Just bring out a Machamp, Lucario, Conkeldurr, Hariyama, Poliwrath, or even Obstagoon (Counter + Cross Chop) and you’ll do just fine! If those aren’t options, then you can start looking at other picks. Kyogre, Swampert, and Gyarados are probably the best Water-type choices. Excadrill (Mud Shot + Drill Run), Groudon (Mud Shot + Earthquake), and Metagross (Bullet Punch + Meteor Mash) can do really well too (though they struggle against Bite). But seriously: just punch it.

Charizard: Fire Spin/Air Slash + Dragon Claw/Overheat

Charizard's cripplingly weak to Rock. It's hard to justify doing anything but.

Swampert: Water Gun/Mud Shot + Surf/Earthquake/Sludge Wave/Muddy Water

Swampert is double weak to Grass, and that's its only weakness. Ergo...

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