Talk:Cinnabar Island/@comment-69.122.207.73-20120523075340

Beat the level, here's how I did it.

Pokemon Used: 46 Flareon, 67 Raichu, 65 Golem, 62 Charizard, 65 Gengar, 72 Venasaur

I put Golem and Gengar up top in the first two available tower positions. Golem used bulldoze to slow the pokemon passing through, and Gengar used Shadowball. Shadowball was used here because once it passes through the pokemon at the top, it can hit the pokemon on the bottom, thus adding extra support to your bottom pokemon. Flareon was only used for helping hand, so I stuffed her away anywhere. Charizard was placed at the top section near the end by the candies. If you have a better pokemon than my Charizard than use yours, my Charizard should have been a better pokemon for this battle.

Here's the tricky part. You faint as many pokemon on the bottom as possible. For this I used Venasaur - Solarbeam and Raichu - Thunderbolt. My Venasaur, stacked with Helping Hand, OBLITERATED the water pokemon on the bottom. Raichu was then used to take down the rock flying pokemon (forgot the name). The pokemon on the bottom half of the map do a lot of damage so you will need to heal your pokemon until you run out of the six candies (or whatever those things are). Once your out, put all your pokemon back up top. Put Gengar and Venasaur in the beginning to do as much damage as possible (remember, both of their moves - Shadowball and Solarbeam - will go down and hit the bottom pokemon as well). Then put Golem right after to ensure that no pokemon grab a candy. Raichu should be placed near Charizard.

Once all the pokemon faint on the top half of the map, you need to faint any remainding pokemon on the bottom in order to beat the level. For this I just withdrew all my pokemon into their pokeballs and then sent them back in the tower positions on the bottom half of the map. Then, I just hoped for the best. Not the most sound plan, but it worked :)

Now, I am not saying you have to use this approach. I wrote this because after a bit of frustration I thought it would be helpful for someone to start to get an idea on how this level should be handled.