Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver (May contain spoilers)

[Epischlol]

I beat her with an Ampharos. I just used Discharge the entire time and beat her in about a minute.

[Rainbow Dash]

recently got HeartGold; and I can't beat stupid Clair. >:(
Does anyone have any tips on how to beat her?

Prepare for tl;dr! I like writing a lot about strategy.

Clair is tough. If you don't have anything that can take them on with type advantage (Ice and Dragon) then target their weakest defense stat. Your only options for Dragon/Ice moves up to this point are a Water type with Blizzard (Purchasable at Goldenrod)/Ice Beam (found in the Seafoam Islands or the Lame Game Corner in Goldenrod), anything you picked up at the Ice Path, and Dratini you get off the Pokewalker at Blue Lake or Lame Corner at Goldenrod (I refuse to call it the Game Corner in this game.)

Twister is a Dragon type move and you have access to it. Pidgeotto/Pidgeot can learn Twister but their Special Attack is too bad to make anything good of a 40 power attack. Dratini can also learn Dragon Rush and level 35 if you're willing to stop it from evolving into Dragonair for five levels. It's a 100 power move, which is bueno. The no bueno part is it's only 75% accuracy.

Dragonair's weakest defense is its normal defense. Send out something that can take a lot of blows and deal a lot of blows. Rock/Ground types are a horrible idea since all her 'mon know Surf. Ampharos can take a few hits, Thunderpunch is a physical attack, and it gets STAB (Same Type Attack Bonus, which multiplies damage by 50%), so it'll be great here. Feraligatr is also a good choice with a high attack score and the fact it learns Ice Fang as Croconaw.

Clair's nightmare is Vaporeon. Vaporeon is a tank that can take a savage beating without going down for several turns, resistant to Surf, and can learn Ice moves even without TMs (Aurora Beam at level 36.) Aurora Beam has a chance of lowering Attack too, which is a stat Dragon types rely on heavily, particularly Dragonair.

Kingdra is a beast in this battle. Take it out hard and fast. All its base defense stats are equal, so high-powered STAB attacks that deals normal damage to Dragons (Discharge with Ampharos like Zapi said is a great idea) Avoid Ice, Water, and Fire moves with Kingdra, it'll laugh at your feeble attempts to deal damage. Status effects like Ampharos's Thunder Wave will slow it down enough for you to take it out.

I used Ampharos (Discharge, Thunderpunch, Thunderwave, something I forgot), Vaporeon (Surf, Bite, Ice Beam, Quick Attack), and a traded Kingdra (Surf, Ice Beam, Dragon Pulse, Waterfall) for this fight.

[! october]

Lame Corner X3 (I have to agree with you; it's pathetic.)

That helped me a ton. I'm going to trade over my Level 52 Vaporeon from my Diamond game. I might have a Seadra on there that I can evolve...

Thank you very much for all of that information. ^^

[Epischlol]

o.o Wow, compared to your explanatioin, mine sucks.
I don't ever have trouble with most of those things so I can't exactly do good explanations. I barely even know the meaning of the word "strategy". I just make sure my Pokemon's at a high level and has powerful moves that should hurt my opponent.

lol I love the Idea of the Lame Corner. I can't believe whoever made that game was so lazy that they just let you play one game against one dude. It's LAME!

[Skyfoxx]

Lame Corner X3 (I have to agree with you; it's pathetic.)

That helped me a ton. I'm going to trade over my Level 52 Vaporeon from my Diamond game. I might have a Seadra on there that I can evolve...

Thank you very much for all of that information. ^^

I agree with both of you, I really hate that game corner, and I miss the old one...

[Rainbow Dash]

I'm writing up more Gym strategies right now. xD Toldja I like to blabber! I'm a competitive battler at heart, fairly hardcore online stuff is my game even though most of the people in the battling circuit I want to lovingly beat in their skull with a DS because they're so stuck-up and rude.

I was happy to see the Game Corner in the Japanese version of HGSS. I have no idea why in the English one there's only a bastardized version of Minesweeper and the inability to buy coins.

If you are a competitive battler and like online play and metagame, go here!

[Epischlol]

Hmm... We need something to talk about don't we? We've almost run out of things.

[Aggron]

Does anyone know a super quick way to train pokemon? And how do you catch Dialga and Palkia and Giratina in this game. I read something on an acreus event, but i missed it and I just have an acreus my friend gave me. And I think that was the only way to get them.
P.S. I beat every gym leader and pkmn leage! Need help on gym leaders anyone?

[! october]

Does anyone know a super quick way to train pokemon? And how do you catch Dialga and Palkia and Giratina in this game. I read something on an acreus event, but i missed it and I just have an acreus my friend gave me. And I think that was the only way to get them.
P.S. I beat every gym leader and pkmn leage! Need help on gym leaders anyone?

You can't get Dialga, Palkia, or Giratina in HeartGold or SoulSilver. ^^

[Aggron]

What! Ok thanks Warriorcat33! Ill send them over from diamond. That sucks. Oh and I recently found out pokemon you send over from hgss to your sinnoh game say the pokemon are from a faraway place! LOL But If the pokemon from DP are in johto, they say the real location. Haha!