How do I beat Claire's kingdra in Soul Silver?

Question

I'm having horrible time beating Claire's kingdra. For whatever the blasted reason, my dewgong is having a 80% miss rate no matter what move I use. Her two dragonairs and gyardos are no problem.

Comments

How should I properly beat it since I finally got it down via struggle?  I had an amphors (sp?) ready to go but know that fight would been long as well.

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Well did the Kingdra use Smoke Screen?

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It's a Shame you don't have heart gold, because mantine is quite helpful when fighting kingdra

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Yeah, it was the last thing used and dewgong was still in there and its attack\sp attack couldn't be lowered anymore.  This is why kingdra ended up using struggle.

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Smokescreen doesn't lower your attack, it lowers your accuracy? If that's the move you're talking about.

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Yeah, sorry, got so upset of missing my attacks I forgot what it done.  I just wish I found an easier and "proper" way of taking it down.

Answer 1

You just need to level up more, since anything in game can be defeated with your Pokemon if you're at a high enough level; another method is to status Kingdra with Thunder Wave or Toxic & stall your way out.

Dewong also doesn't have very good defences, so try to find something that's got better defences & some useful resistances, maybe another bulky water type like Slowking/ Vaporeon or a steel type like Magnezone. All of Kingdra's moves are special, so Slowking will be better than Slowbro in this case.

Comments

I tried my own dragonair but it was one shot with dragon pulse.

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Never use a Dragon pokemon at a Dragon gym. It's weak to its own type, so there's no point in using one unless it's at a higher level than the gym leader's strongest Pokemon.

Also, Kingdra is a final evolution, Dragonair is a secondary evolution, meaning its stats are not as good as Kingdra's.