My Team Keeps Getting OHKO'd

So I am trying to fight the Vipik City Gym, but I am having a ton of trouble with his lvl 35 Mega Beedrill. It is OHKOing all my pokemon and I can’t figure out why I am not killing it even though I am hitting it with Super Effective attacks.

D. Charmeleon lvl 36
D. Quagsire lvl 38
D. Grimer lvl 33
D. Scyther lvl 37
Electabuzz lvl 35
Clauncher lvl 35

So I start out with D. Quagsire, I use Trick or Treat to turn it Ghost-Type and it OHKOs me with Ariel Ace. I switch in Electabuzz and try to hit it with Thunderwave or with his Static ability, doesn’t work ever and i get OHKO’d by Drill Run. I switch in D. Charmeleon and use Shadow Sneak, which never kills it, and it OHKO’s with X-Scissor. It then proceeds to wipe the rest of my team with either Ariel Ace or X-Scissor.

So what should I do? I kind of spent the last hour grinding up to level 35 from 26, so I am really not wanting to grind any more… I have had to grind all game because there isn’t enough XP to keep up with the level gaps between places.

EDIT: NVM NVM I figured out what the issue was, freakin Shuckle putting down Sticky Web… Once I figured that out, I beat the gym easily.

My suggestion is to use a level trainer in your secret base. They can get you a lot of exp and money quick

Oh where do I find my Secret Base?

Also I figured out why I was struggling so bad, Shuckle kept using Sticky Web which allowed the Beedrill to go first. Once i figured that out I was able to pretty much stomp his team by striking hard and fast.

the biggest problem is the shuckle. you need to try to take the shuckle out on the first or second hit

Why not evolve charmeleon?

Yeah, that shuckle made things rough. The secret base guy is back in metchi city (far right of town) It costs 5000 to acquire and you’ll need some money to hire the level trainer too, but once you’ve got that set up you’ll be able to level up your pokemon and make a lot of money quickly. Plus, the more badges you acquire the higher level pokemon the trainer will have. Once you’ve acquired your base, you’ll be able to access it from any town using the secret entrance in the bottom floor of every pokecenter. Hope that helps!

Thank you! Had no idea that existed, now that I found that the grinding will be soooo much better. Wild Pokemon give super bad exp for their levels.

evolving charmeleon and leveling everyone else up to about 38 would be the easiest way to beat him or if you want you could just evolve charmeleon and turn the mode to easy and steamroll his whole team :smiley:

Don’t necro posts 5 months old, the person probably solved the problem a long time ago