Talk:Tentacruel/@comment-97.79.36.79-20120726235434

I think I've found a good strategy:

You need to primarily use the level's Geodudes against it. After trying my strongest Pokemon for a while and getting nowhere, I noticed Geodude's Magnitude attack was really wiping their Geodudes out.

So my eventual method was to have 4 Geodudes all using Magnitude, plus my 2 strongest Pokemon taught Giga Impact (TM\HM it). I was able to fairly easily beat the first 29 levels, then, after a bit of levelings into Gravelers (all the Pokemon in the level are pretty vulnerable to ground).

The Tentracruel were more difficult. But eventually I realized that I could run a mean trick. On level 29, I moved all defenses on the right over to the left. Until it took the candy and had rounded the corner to leave. Then move your defenses back so it loses its candy there.

Then you are basically free until level 40. Move your defenses to the bottom half, 3 on each side, and hopefully you'll even keep some extra candy around.

On level 40, use the same trick of removing defenses temporarily to get the Tentacruel to move the candy back towards the middle. Then focus defenses near whatever candy is left for the last little wave of regular guys. Jackpot. My Gravelers were 27, 30, 30 and 33, and Ratacate and Beedrill were 37 and 31 using Giga Impact.

Don't know if there are better ways, but pretty content with how that one worked.