Cassandra admittedly doesn't have the best team for a fight against Steel types. But her pokemon have spent a few weeks concentrating on ways to get around this. Admittedly one of those ways is via being greatly overleveled, but Cassandra has also been paying attention to resistances and weaknesses.
Skarmory: Skarmory of course has two glaring weaknesses: Fire and Electricity. And Lily is here to subject it to copious amounts of the latter, thanks to Rising Voltage and Thunderbolt. Lily does lack Taunt, but she does have Thunder Wave to try to inflict paralysis, and she's also level 83 at this point. She can also use Nasty Plot to boost her special attack and Double Team to increase her evasion if need be, but mostly she's going to be hitting Skarmory with a lot of lightning.
Magneton: Unfortunately, Lily's electricity isn't as helpful here, given that Magneton is also a partial electric type. That's where Elizabeth comes in: Magneton is weak to Fighting, and Elizabeth just so happens to have Sacred Sword (and 21 levels on Magneton). She also has Automize and Swords Dance to buff her speed and attack, respectively, as well as King's Shield to protect herself from Magneton's attacks in a pinch. If she somehow manages to run out of uses of Sacred Sword before the battle ends, she can switch to Night Slash, but this will hopefully not be necessary.
Steelix: At first glance, Priscilla seems like an odd choice for this battle. She's a Dark/Dragon type, for one, and she's only (well, "only") level 69. But of the three pokemon who are taking part in this battle, she's the only one with Taunt - and more importantly, Cassandra has taught her Flamethrower. She's also learned Nasty Plot, the better to raise her special attack and do more damage with Flamethrower. She'll spend this battle switching between Taunt, Nasty Plot, and Flamethrower, hopefully wearing Steelix down and netting her team the win. But if she does start flagging, Lily is there to spell her - with Surf, ironically enough, which will hit another of Steelix's weaknesses.
Cassandra, for her part, will be passing out healing and curative items as needed.
Badge/Gym Leader: Hive/Bugsy Elite/Regular: Regular Team:Licht the Mimikyu, Rhiannon the Alolan Ninetales, Dart the Drakloak, Priscilla the Hydreigon (backup only) Battle Details: After everybody has had a chance to rest from the Jasmine rematch, Cassandra and company will be winging (literally) their way down to Azalea Town, because it's occurred to Cassandra that she should... probably do that at some point, and it's the one Johto warp she missed during 4th wall (she has multiple fliers, fortunately, so they'll be doing that in shifts). Once they're properly recuperated from the trip, it's time to take on Bugsy and company.
Pinsir: Licht is admittedly something of an unconventional choice for this battle; for one thing, they don't have a type advantage.. What Licht does have is: 1. Taunt, 2. Resistance or outright immunity to Pinsir's attacks, and 3. Burning Jealousy. Licht also has a variety of attacks of other elements (including Drain Punch and/or Draining Kiss to keep their health up), but mostly they're going to be setting Pinsir on fire and Taunting it.
Heracross: Heracross is weak to Fairy attacks. Rhiannon has Fairy attacks, in particular Dazzling Gleam and Draining Kiss (the latter of which will also keep her nice and healthy). She also has Nasty Plot to boost her special attack, Double Team to boost her evasion, Disable and Spite to affect the moves Heracross can use, and Confuse Ray to confuse it and hopefully get it to hit itself a few times. She will probably try to finish the fight with Triple Axel, mainly for style points.
Scizor: Scizor's only weakness being Fire makes this a bit tricky, since Cassandra is trying not to send out the usual suspects (sending out a level 93 pokemon against a level 40 one seems less than fair), and a few of her pokemon have some glaring weaknesses she'd rather not see exploited. The solution in this case turns out to be sending out Dart, who isn't too overleveled, and could probably use some gym battle experience. Dart doesn't have a type advantage, but does have a shiny new Flamethrower skill to deploy courtesy of the Goldenrod City Department Store. Dart also happens to be immune to Fighting and Normal attacks, and resistant to Bug, which helps. If Dart does start to struggle, then Cassandra will likely bring in either Licht (if they've got any more Burning Jealousy to use) or possibly Priscilla, but she's hoping neither of them will be necessary for this battle.
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Badge/Gym Leader: Mineral/Jasmine
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Lily the Pikachu, Elizabeth the Aegislash, Priscilla the Hydreigon
Battle Details: Time for a rematch.
Cassandra admittedly doesn't have the best team for a fight against Steel types. But her pokemon have spent a few weeks concentrating on ways to get around this. Admittedly one of those ways is via being greatly overleveled, but Cassandra has also been paying attention to resistances and weaknesses.
Skarmory: Skarmory of course has two glaring weaknesses: Fire and Electricity. And Lily is here to subject it to copious amounts of the latter, thanks to Rising Voltage and Thunderbolt. Lily does lack Taunt, but she does have Thunder Wave to try to inflict paralysis, and she's also level 83 at this point. She can also use Nasty Plot to boost her special attack and Double Team to increase her evasion if need be, but mostly she's going to be hitting Skarmory with a lot of lightning.
Magneton: Unfortunately, Lily's electricity isn't as helpful here, given that Magneton is also a partial electric type. That's where Elizabeth comes in: Magneton is weak to Fighting, and Elizabeth just so happens to have Sacred Sword (and 21 levels on Magneton). She also has Automize and Swords Dance to buff her speed and attack, respectively, as well as King's Shield to protect herself from Magneton's attacks in a pinch. If she somehow manages to run out of uses of Sacred Sword before the battle ends, she can switch to Night Slash, but this will hopefully not be necessary.
Steelix: At first glance, Priscilla seems like an odd choice for this battle. She's a Dark/Dragon type, for one, and she's only (well, "only") level 69. But of the three pokemon who are taking part in this battle, she's the only one with Taunt - and more importantly, Cassandra has taught her Flamethrower. She's also learned Nasty Plot, the better to raise her special attack and do more damage with Flamethrower. She'll spend this battle switching between Taunt, Nasty Plot, and Flamethrower, hopefully wearing Steelix down and netting her team the win. But if she does start flagging, Lily is there to spell her - with Surf, ironically enough, which will hit another of Steelix's weaknesses.
Cassandra, for her part, will be passing out healing and curative items as needed.
Badge/Gym Leader: Hive/Bugsy
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Licht the Mimikyu, Rhiannon the Alolan Ninetales, Dart the Drakloak, Priscilla the Hydreigon (backup only)
Battle Details: After everybody has had a chance to rest from the Jasmine rematch, Cassandra and company will be winging (literally) their way down to Azalea Town, because it's occurred to Cassandra that she should... probably do that at some point, and it's the one Johto warp she missed during 4th wall (she has multiple fliers, fortunately, so they'll be doing that in shifts). Once they're properly recuperated from the trip, it's time to take on Bugsy and company.
Pinsir: Licht is admittedly something of an unconventional choice for this battle; for one thing, they don't have a type advantage.. What Licht does have is: 1. Taunt, 2. Resistance or outright immunity to Pinsir's attacks, and 3. Burning Jealousy. Licht also has a variety of attacks of other elements (including Drain Punch and/or Draining Kiss to keep their health up), but mostly they're going to be setting Pinsir on fire and Taunting it.
Heracross: Heracross is weak to Fairy attacks. Rhiannon has Fairy attacks, in particular Dazzling Gleam and Draining Kiss (the latter of which will also keep her nice and healthy). She also has Nasty Plot to boost her special attack, Double Team to boost her evasion, Disable and Spite to affect the moves Heracross can use, and Confuse Ray to confuse it and hopefully get it to hit itself a few times. She will probably try to finish the fight with Triple Axel, mainly for style points.
Scizor: Scizor's only weakness being Fire makes this a bit tricky, since Cassandra is trying not to send out the usual suspects (sending out a level 93 pokemon against a level 40 one seems less than fair), and a few of her pokemon have some glaring weaknesses she'd rather not see exploited. The solution in this case turns out to be sending out Dart, who isn't too overleveled, and could probably use some gym battle experience. Dart doesn't have a type advantage, but does have a shiny new Flamethrower skill to deploy courtesy of the Goldenrod City Department Store. Dart also happens to be immune to Fighting and Normal attacks, and resistant to Bug, which helps. If Dart does start to struggle, then Cassandra will likely bring in either Licht (if they've got any more Burning Jealousy to use) or possibly Priscilla, but she's hoping neither of them will be necessary for this battle.
As ever, Cassandra's on Item Caddy duty.