Raising Gyarados

Selecting a Pokemon

My search for the right Pokemon with the goal to raise a Pokemon to beat Champion Cynthia's Garchomp.

I needed an Ice move and Flying would be great to avoid the earthquake, also it needed to be a water Pokemon.

Gyarados fit those requirements and I had one in my party, however I didn't train his Ice move and his attack was very low.

It was time to raise a new one.

Breeding

I started looking into what kind of moves I wanted, as was thinking Flamethrower and Ice Beam would be awesome.

• Step 1, Breed a lv 42 M Charazard with Flamethrower to a F Gyarados.
• Step 2, Breed M baby of step 1 to F Remoraid, Passing the Flamethrower
• Step 3, Breed M baby at lv 40 Remoraid to a F Gyarados. Passing Ice Beam, Flamethrower & Water Pulse

The down side is Gyarados have low Special Attack and Ice Beam and Flamethrower are Special Attack moves, so I scrapped it for a wild one.

Catching Magikarp in the wild

Loading up Pokemon Diamond, I went to the Resort area with my Super Rod to try to catch a lv 99 Magikarp, after a few tries switched to the old rod and then started fishing for a low level Magikarp with Adamant nature it took 12 tries but got one with a net ball.

I named him Apalala after a Buddhist myth of a water dragon.

EV Training Part 1

There are limits to how many EV points you can get, and this is why people EV train. The most you should have in one stat at 252, because for each point in the stat you need 4 EV's, so 252 / 4 = 64.

My plan is to raise Attack 252, Speed 252 and HP for 6 for the total 510 EV's.

For the first 100 EV in each stat I gave the Magikarp 10 Protein, and 10 Carbos. I don't recommend doing this as they were very expensive

My Magikarp only had splash as an attack so I gave it an XP Share, this lets it get half the xp & half the EV of a defeated Pokemon.

I headed to Route 212 with my Scizor in the lead and proceeded to beat 60, yes 60 Kricketune & Bibarel, they are worth 2 EV towards Attack and with the XP share my Magikarp was getting 1 each. After beating the 60 Pokemon my Magikarp evolved to a Gyarados.

Now I could use my Gyarados to defeat the Kricketune & Bibarel, but after 10 or so wins at 2 EV each I was thinking this would take forever.

Battle Tower

I picked my 3 favorite Pokemon that survived the Great Pokemon Cataclysm and headed to the Battle Tower. I needed to buy the Bracer and Anklet for a total of 32 BP's

For each group of 7 trainers I would get 3 BP's, and on the 21st consecutive if you win you get 20BP's. I only got to the 21st guy once and lost. I could pass the first 2 rounds of 7 pretty easy but the third round was always very hard. So it took me 11+ battle rounds to get all the BP's I needed.

EV Training Part 2

With the new bracer I headed back to Route 213 and now the Kricketune & Bibarel for attack, they were worth 6 EV's each, I think I needed 6 or 7 to finish. It was very fast. 152 + the 100 Protein got me the 252

Then I headed to Route 201 to hunt Starly with the Anklet for Speed, 20 of them with the Anklet @ 5 ea and 2 without the anklet for a total of 152 + the 100 Carbos got me 252

The last 6 was for HP and hunted 6 Bidoof the same time as the Starly's

Leveling and Final move Set

Trading Apalala back to Pokemon Diamond to finish leveling and the final move set will be per Jimmer'srecommendation

• Ice Fang,
• Dragon Dance
• Bite
• Waterfall