Funny Strategy Takedowns: Koga

Playing LeafGreen. I do have these for previous gym leaders too, but this one was absolutely hilarious. Actually, the whole gym was hilarious since I cleared most of the trainers with Poliwrath. Yes, even the ones with Drowzee and Hypno. Pidgeot handled the rest.

The man himself, though? Fell to a well-trained Butterfree. Butterfree sweep.

Yes, Butterfree.

Butterfree is actually an excellent Pokémon to take on Koga with, for a few factors:
1. Compoundeyes, its only ability, makes Sleep Powder almost never miss.
2. It's quite fast.
3. It learns Psychic moves.
4. Safeguard.

I have a +SpAtk Butterfree with a Twistedspoon, so that worked out pretty well for me.

Moveset: Sleep Powder, Psybeam/Psychic (I used Psybeam), Safeguard, any other thing.

Start off with Sleep Powder on his first Koffing, then set up a Safeguard. Continue your psychic attacks until the Safeguard falls--both Koffings should go down in one hit, or they did for me anyway--then put the next thing to sleep and repeat. Koga does have a Full Heal, but he used it on the second Koffing for me so it didn't matter. Even if he does get in hits on you, he can't poison you--which is the real threat anyway, since he likes to use Toxic.

It's pretty damn fun to do. It's really fun to turn his status-effecting tactics back on him while denying him the ability to use them. It's especially fun to sweep people with a Butterfree, especially gym leaders.

Team Flying Fist will, in the end, consist of Charizard, Pidgeot, Butterfree, Poliwrath, Magneton, Articuno. (Magneton counts enough as 'flying' because it hovers, and Poliwrath is of course the fist in the name.) Koga was the roadblock toward getting my last two party members and now he's no longer a problem.