Seeing as my team is in it's 40's I need to do a bit of training, any recommendations?
Also what will I do about my Dragonair? It's level 40 and doesn't evolve until level 55 and I won't be able to reach that level before I face the Elite Four. Should I put it in storage? I could catch one of the legendary dogs and use as a replacement maybe? I will bring Dragonair back out and use it at Kanto.
I spent the better part of two days just grinding in Victory Road. Got Typhlosion, Starmie, and Nidoqueen up to level 50, and Dragonair up to level 45. I was going to keep on grinding in there to get Pinsir up to the 40s before hitting the elite four, but seeing as I've managed to beat them at last I have better options in Kanto. To be honest I didn't use Dragonair at all against any of the Four. It has a shameful movepool (Dragon Rush has 75% accuracy?
Really?) and poor defense.
Starmie basically won all of the battle with Lance. If not for its Blizzard knocking out all the Dragonites I would have lost for sure. Even took a Thunder from one of them and still survived. So far Starmie is the only Pokemon I've had that's really impressed me. Not as much as Torterra did in Plat, but enough to keep it for a long time.
Don't know what to do with Nidoqueen. After all of that grinding to get it up to level 50 too. Ground/Poison just has too many common weaknesses.