Pike Queen Lucy

Silver (room 28): Seviper, Shuckle and Milotic. Gold (room 140): Seviper, Steelix and Gyarados. Lucy is the Battle Pike’s Frontier Brain and waits in the last room of your 2nd and 10th challenges in a row. You fight her with whatever HP and status your team has left from the rooms before.

When you face Lucy

• Silver Luck Symbol: room 28, the end of your 2nd challenge.
• Gold Luck Symbol: room 140, the end of your 10th challenge.
• After the gold she comes back every four challenges (the 14th, 18th, 22nd and so on).

Her challenges pay 10 BP extra: 11 BP for silver and 18 BP for gold.

The room before Lucy

When Lucy is next, all three paths show the same “dreadful presence” hint. One path heals two of your Pokémon, one heals one, and one heals none, and you can’t tell which is which. Since you can’t reorder your party in the Pike, the Pokémon in front is the one that faces her lead.

Silver team

Pokémon	Item	Ability	Nature	Moves
Seviper	Quick Claw	Shed Skin	Brave	Swagger, Crunch, Poison Fang, Giga Drain
Shuckle	Chesto Berry	Sturdy	Bold	Toxic, Sandstorm, Protect, Rest
Milotic	Leftovers	Marvel Scale	Modest	Ice Beam, Mirror Coat, Surf, Recover

Gold team

Pokémon	Item	Ability	Nature	Moves
Seviper	Focus Band	Shed Skin	Bold	Swagger, Crunch, Sludge Bomb, Giga Drain
Steelix	BrightPowder	Rock Head or Sturdy	Brave	Earthquake, Rock Slide, Explosion, Screech
Gyarados	Chesto Berry	Intimidate	Adamant	Dragon Dance, Return, Rest, Roar

How to beat the silver team

Seviper leads with Swagger, which confuses your Pokémon and sharply raises your Pokémon’s Attack, so any hit you land on yourself while confused hurts a lot. Shed Skin can cure its own status. It’s weak only to Ground and Psychic moves. Hit it hard with one of those and keep a Persim or Lum Berry in mind for the confusion.

Shuckle has some of the highest Defense and Special Defense in the game but very little HP. It stalls with Toxic, Sandstorm, Protect and Rest. Water, Rock and Steel moves are super effective. Don’t let the fight drag on: every turn of Toxic and Sandstorm is damage you can’t heal in the Pike. Note that Sturdy in Emerald only blocks one-hit KO moves; it doesn’t let Shuckle survive a big hit on 1 HP.

Milotic has Recover and Mirror Coat, which doubles back special damage. Its Marvel Scale raises its Defense when it has a status condition, so don’t burn or paralyse it if you plan to finish it with physical attacks. Electric and Grass moves are super effective; in Emerald both are special, so watch for Mirror Coat and aim to knock it out in one hit.

How to beat the gold team

Seviper keeps Swagger and Crunch, swaps Poison Fang for Sludge Bomb and holds a Focus Band, which sometimes lets it survive a knockout blow on 1 HP. Ground and Psychic moves are still the answer.

Steelix is huge defensively and hits hard with Earthquake and Rock Slide. Screech lowers your Defense, and Explosion can take out one of your Pokémon when it’s low. BrightPowder makes it harder to hit. Fire, Water, Ground and Fighting moves are super effective. Special Water or Fire attacks work best, since its Special Defense is far lower than its Defense.

Gyarados has Intimidate and wants to use Dragon Dance and then sweep with Return. Electric moves hit it four times as hard; Rock is also super effective. Knock it out before it boosts, or phaze it. Its Chesto Berry wakes it from the first Rest instantly.

Team tips for both battles

• A strong Electric attacker handles both Milotic and Gyarados.
• A Ground or Psychic move for Seviper, who is on both teams.
• Status protection matters twice over: once in the rooms before her, and again against Shuckle’s Toxic.
• Choose your lead before the challenge, since you can’t reorder it later.

The Battle Pike guide covers team building for 14-room challenges, and the Battle Pike rooms explainer shows how to read the hints on the way to her.