>>45845934Team Yell weak to fighting or fairy type moves usually. Macro Cosmos and Rose usually weak to fire and fighting type moves. Oleana is Fire moves for first two, then use water, then electric, then finish off her ace with ground.
With fighting and rock moves you should do decently against Hop. Bede early on is weak to dark type moves, so Crunch is a great move to have. Marnie is about like Gym 7 and Team Yell's weaknesses.
For the champion start with Arcanine's fire. His next 4 Pokemon if your starter was Sobble are weak to Ice. Inteleon has Ice Beam and both Gyarados and Drednaw can learn Ice Fang via buying the TM for it from the PokeMart in Hammerlocke. Charizard has about perfect coverage and will G-Max. Unless you can outspeed him with a Rock move, which you might if you did the side quest to get Choice Scarf in Ballonlea, then your best bet is to wait out his GMax, Max Revive if needed and then exploit his weaknesses.
So your team is Sobble, Rookidee, Chewtle, Magikarp, Yamper, and Growlithe early on. This makes this geared a bit more toward Sword unless you can trade for one or import one via Pokemon Home.
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