How do I beat Candice in Pokémon Platinum?

Question

My team:

Staraptor Lv 39
Roserade Lv. 37
Gabite Lv. 37
Empoleon Lv. 38
Luxray Lv. 37
Kadabra Lv. 37

Froslass swept my team.

Comments

I think Empoleon is your best bet.

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do u have any fire types u can level up? Also, level up some and use steel type moves.

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I beat Cynthia with a Lvl 47 team and it wasn't even hard. I would recommend a rock type

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Getting new team members will slow you down by a lot. I think the easiest thing to do is make sure Empoleon knows flash cannon and Staraptor knows close combat, and those 2 moves (and maybe 1 or 2 more levels) should be enough, especially when Empoleon resists all of Froslass's moves.

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Froslass is immune to close combat :p

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The idea was to have Staraptor one-shot Sneasel and Piloswine...

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Yeah that makes sense

Answer 1

First - level up your team a bit.

Get them to about Lvl. 42 - Lvl. 45

Sneasel vs. Empoleon

Take it down with any Steel STAB

Piloswine vs. Roserade

Roserade's high SpA stat and Spe against Plioswine's meh SpDef and poor Spe could work. Use a move like Energy Ball.

Abomasnow vs. Staraptor

Knock it out using Aerial Ace / Wing Attack / Fly, whichever Flying STAB you have.

Empoleon vs. Froslass

Any Steel STAB you have would work

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Or you could just use Empoleon against everything, just watch out for Piloswine. Using Roserade and Staraptor may be a bit risky, but their good Spe and high SpA / Atk could OHKO / 2HKO them.

Hope I helped!

Comments

I'm pretty sure that leveling up the team now is a waste of time, especially when Empoleon already resists all of Froslass's moves and can 2HKO it.
Lvl 38 84 SpA Empoleon Flash Cannon vs. Lvl 44 0 HP / 0 SpD Froslass: 92-110 (71.3 - 85.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Also flash cannon is significantly better than all of Empoleon's other steel moves, and close combat and crunch on Staraptor and Luxray, respectively, can also be very helpful.