When you enter the Masters part of the Battle Tower, you’ll have to face a leader every seventh battle. There are a variety of trainers you can face, with most of them being Gym Leaders. Here are their possible teams.

Tower Tycoon Palmer¶

You’ll be familiar with Palmer, as you’ll already have faced him in your 21st and 49th battle. Now, he has a combination of his possible teams.

They do, however, have different attacks and items to take note of. These Pokémon may come out in any order.

Roark¶

Roark is one of the possible gym leaders you’ll face. He uses a wide combination of Pokémon, but veers towards Rock/Ground-types — just as you might expect.

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Gardenia¶

Gardenia is another potential battle. She favors Grass-types, of course, but does have a couple of Water and Fire-type based curveballs.

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Maylene¶

Your next potential is Maylene, who tends towards the Fighting-type.

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Fantina¶

Fantina favors the Ghost-type Pokémon, which her teams very much reflect.

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Byron¶

Next comes Byron! He loves Steel-type Pokémon and yet, the legendary he has on his team isn’t even Steel-type.

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Candice¶

The second last possible gym leader you can face as Candice. She, of course, loves her Ice-types!

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Volkner¶

The final gym leader you could possibly come up against is Volkner. He’ll put mostly Electric-type Pokémon up against you.

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Cynthia¶

The last leader you might face is the champion that gave you so much trouble before the postgame — Cynthia.

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How to Win¶

The Battle Tower is specifically designed so that no one team you could put together will be over-powered against the rest of the Tower. One team could work great for one leader, and be useless against the next.

However, there are some Pokémon that are highly recommended for use.

Gyarados has high defense stats and the Intimidate ability, and sending him out early will really help you. Tyranitar and Scizor are another couple of great Pokémon to put in a team, because Tyranitar has extremely high defense and Scizor has many different moves it can learn that can counter the other Pokémon.

Garchomp is another Pokémon often recommended for Battle Towers, but with the addition of Fairy-types, he can prove problematic.

The most important thing is to use Pokémon with a high defense stat and a wide range of moves. That way, you should be able to find counters for the other Pokémon and survive the moves that land on yours.