Little tip: Catch the Level 85 Alpha Garchomp in the early morning when it falls asleep (it's catch rate is mega boosted), it's in the South Western part of the Alabaster Iceland's. Highly recommend adding that additional firepower to the team
@@drtraytdm5069 Okay yeah that's the one caveat. For me at least, I was at 6 star when I first got him, so it didn't take too much research task grinding to use him. And you have to be at least Rank 5 to enter the Iceland's so it wouldn't be impossible to get to Rank 7 by the Volo fight
Rushed through the post game and reached this fight 8-14 levels underleveled. I got mad good RNG and accidentally played super well too, and it might just have been the most intense battle I've ever played. I led with Wyrdeer, which I switched into Rapidash and took down Spiritomb. Garchomp then one shot Rapidash and I brought it down with Decidueye. Togekiss erased my birb and I beat it with Luxray, who got crushed by Lucario. Zoroark finished Lucario but then got destroyed by Arcanine, who I destroyed in turn with Golduck. I had him down to just Roserade, who diced Golduck, and then it was just me and Wyrdeer, who brought it home by the skin of his teeth. I popped off so hard And then immediately got clapped by Giratina.
That's what I thought as well. My Gyarados was lucky enoug to take down Arcanine, Roserade, and Lucario. Spiritomb came next and killed Gyarados, then I switched in Gliscor and killed it. But then Calm Mind Togekiss came along and one shotted my Gliscor and Staraptor. I tried to contend with Drifblim since it could tank the hits, but I was so unlucky to get a miss on Shadow Ball and it died to it as well. Then Beautifly came along to finish off Togekiss and lastly was Garchomp. Managed to land a Stun Spore and a last Air Slash before Beautifly was down, leaving me with only a lvl 58 Togetic... which killed the Garchomp with a Dazzling Gleam. Then came Giratina.
LITERALLY same. I had Garchomp and Staraptor left after the volo fight, and they just got annihilated by giratina. took me 4 tries to beat this guy being 5 levels underleveled. and I got lucky in that attempt too, with Garchomp’s Strong Style dragon claw critting.
This is basically exactly what happened with me, I was in the high 50s in levels, and ended up trading with Volo, as well as luckily getting him to use his full restore on his Spiritomb using my Crobat. Eventually it ended up being my Half health magnezone versus his Togekiss, and I ended up winning with Thunder wave parahax. And then obviously got absolutely clapped by giratina with my half health magnezone
During the story I was like “Volo is DEFINITELY a bad guy, gonna be one of the final battles in the game I bet”, but then the credits came during the mainline story and then I said “oh, I guess I judged him too much. he must be good then.” and then this happened.
Lol he seemed very sus from the beginning until the end and then there was a mini spoiler and I’m like oh it’s battle time and bam volo showed he was crazy and evil lol
One thing to remember is that even though you can't heal, the cutscene between his 6th team member and Giratina counts as in between battles, which means the game WILL switch whoever is out to the top of your party list. Bit of a troll move when Giratina attacks before you can do anything and the Lucario I intended be sacrificed was instead switched for the party member integral to my strategy.
The Origin Giratina got me with the pants down. At my second attempt, Basculegion with Ominous Wind and Ice Fang did the magic with the two giratinas It was a hell of a battle. I’d like to repeat it as much as I want
Volo makes me suffer from extreme emotional pain. I have been stuck fighting him for three days 😭😭. Imagine how I felt when I finally beat him and then he whipped out his giratina.
This fight would be hard in a normal game but I find that the arceus mechanics make this fight way harder because it pretty much forces 1 for 1 trades (due to after a pokemon faints the enemy can send in a pokemon that can immediately attack without the option of switching)
i had no idea this fight was going to be this hard. i had a team of Samurott, Alpha Zoroark, Alpha Gallade, Alpha Lucario, Cresselia, and Dialga. max revives we’re very helpful, and my Samurott took the hits when i needed to heal. it was such a tight fight, i was fighting for that win 🤣 i absolutely love Volo, he’s definitely my new favorite pokémon character!
I Didn’t really struggle much beating volo after my first try or second try because I had a pretty balanced team, BUT even after beating volo i only had 2 pokemon and they were both at low hp so giratina DESTROYED me and when i finally killed it It completely demolished me in its second phase.
For grinding, theres also the option of an Alpha Blissey guarenteed in the Obsidian Fieldlands, which can drop Large or XL Candies along with the huge XP
Doesn't Alpha Blissey heal frequently though all while being super tanky? I remember fighting an alpha Chansey and it took me forever to actually catch it because it would just heal everytime I got its hp down just a little
My togakiss and cresselia were overleveled due to training a gabite from level 22 to somewhere in the 60’s so they were able to two shot both gartina forms with moonblast
Just wanna say there’s a slightly better grinding method, there’s an alpha blissey at the cliff of “Overburrow Tunnel” kill it over and over to gain a lot of EXP in a pretty short time
btw my method for beating him was a bit weird but basicall palkia hisuan tyhplosion garchomp that one level 70 gardevoir hisuan electrode and crobat with a level 70 palkia and a level 70 gardevior make sure the palkia doesnt die in the volo fight nor the electrode then switch to the electrode to max revive the garevior i reccomend having 6 max revives just in case which you should be able to get after doing most of the shop sidequests with this strategy you dont need legendaries and only typhlosion gardevior and palkia need to be above level 65
Another Pokémon that’s a very very good contender, and that I used, is the alpha blissey, but at level 70-80. It is a tank, it has a whole lot of defense and health, so it’s a good Pokémon to take hits while reviving the rest of your team.
I really like it how the 3 hardest battles in the franchise all are in the the 4 latest games (Ultra Necrozma in US/UM, Cynthia in BDSP and now Volo in Legends: Arceus). They're definitely moving in the right direction when it comes to difficulty
@@brokenflyingcat4213 nah, more difficulty is a good thing. that was the biggest problem with X/Y; it was practically impossible to loose any of the battles, especially against the elite 4 and the champion. the final bosses of a game should be somewhat difficult, like Cynthia, ultra necrozma, and of course, Volo
@@dumdum672 More difficulty is a good thing if it wasn’t literally unfair. In BDSP Cynthia’s team has perfect stats and IV’s plus all of them have held items. You can’t even see IV’s until after you beat the league, so matching Cynthia’s level isn’t gonna work. You are practically forced to over level your pokemon. AND VOLO IS EVEN WORSE! He literally breaks the 1 rule that has been in pokemon since the beginning: you can only have 6 pokemon on a team. Volo has 8. 2 of them being legendaries.
Personally, I was admittedly very much overleveled for this fight due to my tendency to sidetrack to extreme levels. I just had to fill up not just the pokedex but build up a livingdex before I proceeded. But one thing I noticed in my playthrough though that really helped with this fight is that if anything is truly OP in this game are high speed pokemons, doubly so with +action speed moves. I've been using my fav pokemon Weavile the entire playthrough as soon as I got him early on in a distortion and noticed many trainer battles couldn't even get a turn against my weavile spamming agile ice shard and finishing off target with stronger moves when their hp was brought low enough (also while throwing a few sword dances) even if they had 4 pokemons to throw at me. Didn't have to use legendaries in the story at all since my weavile could just sweep most opponents with raw speed. I've even replaced some pokemons from my team in favor of faster alternatives to much greater results. So Volo, while stronger than anything else, went down not because I tanked the hits, but because he didn't get to throw as many attacks as he could have, and his fastest pokemon, garchomp, happened to be weakest to my favorite. Giratina did more to my team by himself than all of Volo's team combined tbh if only because of constantly obscuring itself (which I would have put Zoroark at the front for had I known). For reference, my team was the following: Weavile (with +speed -sp atk nature), Luxray, Scizor, Garchomp (who replaced gastrodon), Zoroark and Decidueye (who didn't get used, he was mostly my false swiper throughout the game, I do love him but then Weavile happened).
It was the same at my playthrough: I did also a living pokedex, and also bring all of my pokemon in the pokedex on research level 10, so that I only need to bring the research up for those legendaries I haven't catch. Well through this I was around 10 levels overleveled for this fight xD. My team was Samurott, Arcanine, Lucario, Gardevoir, Zoroark and Mamoswine And omg Zoroark was definitely the MVP in this fight xD
I didn't do a living dex, but I did get sidetracked by every side quest before this fight, I also regularly caught Alphas and boosted their stats with grit items, so I had no trouble with Volo
Same for me guys I was sidetracked by the actual point of the game lol i didn't want to catch/use legendary pokemon till after I fought arceus , anyway I managed to beat him with my team at the mid 70s.
To be honest I went with my own strategy and it still worked without wasting any revives but this one is actually pretty good now I know that training in the village is a thing lol
In the alabaser icelands around the bottom left corner of the map, there’s an alpha garchomp that’s level 85 I was able to 2 shot origin form giritina because of it
Tbh, the thing i like about volo's fight is that while you get basically every legendary before it, you actually have to think and can't just normally brute force. tips for those going to try it? don't try to get hit with volo using a triple turn
Another quick heads up for those who don't know. If you release a bunch of Pokemon at once from the pastures, they'll leave grit items behind. I'm not sure of the pattern/algorithm for it but, I find if you release a bunch at once you can get A LOT of grit dust, pebbles, rocks, etc.
dude thank you so much i finally beat volo I've been trying for 5 days and you really helped me a lot, finally I succeeded, now the last mission is the road to arceus
Some really good Pokemon you can find for this fight are : 1) Alpha empoleon (lvl65, needs some levelling, spawn on the coastlands) 2) Alpha goodra (Lvl 70, coronet highlands) 3) Alpha Lucario (Lvl 70, alabaster icelands) Steel types are amazing in this game, goodra and empoleon are tanks and also hit pretty hard, empoleon has access to roost as well. Lucario hits so damn hard, mine took out almost 4 of volos Pokemon before he went down. Good luck!
@@georgedooley8247 I caught it using stealth using the potion that masks your presence and using smoke bombs to hide into. Then finally distracted him with a berry for the giga ball throw on its back. Took me about 5 tries to get him but it's worth it. Having a jolly alpha Garchomp sure is amazing.
With how easy the previous trainer battles were and how casual the game felt, Volo definitely caught me off guard with his difficulty spike. Being blindsided by the additional Giratina battles didn't help the situation either. He actually forced my hand and made me start playing seriously. My lvl 90 Typhlosion and lvl 90 alpha Rhyperior helped tip the scales in my favor.
I genuinely only struggled with the second form of Giratina and beat this guy first try. My team was Steelix, Alpha (shiny!!) Luxray, Togekiss, Typhlosion, Alpha Floatzel, and Alpha Zoroark. I always emphasize diversity with my teams but I NEEDED zoroark on my team bc hes my fav pokemon. Also I was crushing on Volo most of the game so I never saw this villain arc coming 😂😂
The best strategy honestly is to have at least 1 tank in your team, which u can take out and use revives on the others. Unlike the normal pokemon games where speed is the meta, in this game u want a tanky team because of how the battles work.
The switching in the game is tough too, you can’t just switch out Pokémon in preparation for his next one. He’ll be able to get in a hit or two before you can switch out and it can really mess you up
i don't think switching in preparation is the issue i usually played on set mode so you will always get hit with something usually if you don't outspeed or something him switching a pokemon in and attacking the same turn was more the problem
3:48 Mine was the following: -Palkia -Decidueye -Ninetails -Dialga -Golem (Shiny) -Gyarados They ranged in levels from low 60s to low 70s and yes, I still needed to revive spam even after a lot of grinding!
I had: Decidyueye (63) Umbreon (63) Gengar (59) Arcanine (58) Gardevior (59) Luxray (63) I managed to beat it first try by absuing the fact that my umbreon is a WALL to rez my entire party after phase 1
@@raiyano7436 I should consider my alpha umbreon for a team. It’s in the high 50s but still. Hell I thought about darkai but not sure. I need to train one of my eevee into a sylveon for sure, and get my Kirlia into a high level gardevior. Heck may even though snorlax and blissey into the fray as my walls with high attack power.
@@notimeleft1 I definitely recommend umbreon, mine is at level 64 now and it has 317 Sp. Def and 297 Def with 342 HP and can use calm mind and power swap. Umbra is an absolute beast.
@@raiyano7436 I know I’m gonna add my newly acquired lvl 85 garchomp to the Frey. I’ll definitely do umbreon and I’m working on gardevoir leveling her up
Excellent analysis and strategy! I ended up scraping by with my original team - Typhlosion, Gardevoir, Snorlax, Goodra, Gastrodon and Lilligant (and I don't think I ended up using Lilligant at all, actually). Goodra's shelter move especially came in clutch.
I had a team of my samurott, goodra, dusknoir, ursaluna, braviary, and infernape. However they were all alpha and around five levels higher than giratina. For the Volo fight ursaluna took out 5 of them on its own, cause it’s a great mon, and goodra just let me stall until I beat giratina
I had a fairly similar team. Typhlosion, Goodra, Lilligant, Frosslass, Walrein, and Umbreon. Did a little switching but most were part of my primary team
I mostly used a Alpha Blissey there a n absolute tank against special attacks and have alot of health bit can be one shotted by Lucarios Close combat if he buffed
I was really underleveled for this, but beat him on my 3rd try with the same team, I think I just got lucky with how much my team countered his, and admittedly I did use palkia but that was only used to finish off origin form guratina. I didn’t realise others struggled with this fight
Me too. I beat him first time, but my team was almost Level 100 (I was completing Pokédex entries and farming money from the Miss Fortune sisters before the fight so I got lots of xp).
@@gandalfdiggory same my Pokémon were around level 80 cause all the stuff I did for the Pokédex and I just ran through him lol. My shiny gyrados destroyed half his team, shaymin was the only Pokémon I had that fainted.
i once watched a animation of "volos betrayal" when i was in earlier game of PLA. so i searched more and i fiund out there was an impossible finally boss, which was volo.. so then i watched a whole buncha video on how to beat him.. and sure enough i got it first try. Thank you very much. :)
when i tell you i was not prepared for this fight! i went out and caught 4 alpha pokémon just for this fight! I ended up using Dialga, Cresselia, Alpha Mamoswine, Alpha Yanmega, Alpha Electivire and Alpha Gliscor! i tried my best to keep dialga unused ready for giratina and when i finally beat him i screamed
I did this battle with my Hisuian Decidueye, Ursaluna, Luxray, Arcanine, and Origin Palkia/Dialga. The whole battle was essentially decided if Dialga missed Roar of Time on Origin Giratina (it happened a LOT).
Everyone’s saying they suspected volo, but honestly not me. He switched up on me and my jaw dropped. And immediately being thrown into the hardest battle in the game, the only battle I failed first try in my whole playthrough. It was a crazy plot twist for me- and was definitely an awesome moment.
He's one of the hardest bosses, but by no means an incredibly difficult frustrating boss unless you aren't very skilled. Even then, you can use items, over level your Pokemon, or use blatantly powerful Pokemon, such as legendaries. Many beat him after the second or third attempt, when they learn his lesser known strategies. Thing is, you can't easily cheese him with stats outside overleveling your Pokemon. You can't cheese him with type advantage alone. His Pokemon have major BEEF, absorbing supereffective moves like a sponge, and major offensive coverage, so most of your team will die very quickly if you aren't careful to switch in a Pokemon that can resist a revenge switch-in. Battle with trainers in Jubilife to practice for this. The issue with this boss is, he's easy to underestimate. He's about as difficult as any champion battle, maybe comparable to Red. Few are prepared for this by the end of the game, where you fight mostly fair battles. These Pokemon have maxed out effort levels, easily. They may seem like level 70 Pokemon, but they most definitely feel like level 80, 85 Pokemon in terms of strength. A legendary Pokemon alone without training will not cut it, which is awesome. You get to actually enjoy legendary Pokemon in this game. My advice? The most broken moves cause status effects Paralysis and Sleep. Paralysis slows your opponent down, while Drowsy skips turns the most frequently. Remember moves like Mystical Fire and Snarl which lower attack. This gives you more chances to switch Pokemon, buff with calm mind, and damage your opponent while preventing stat buffs. Moves like Mud Slap and Struggle Bug are great for spamming agile style without wasting too much PP. Moves that increase evasion are about as amazing as moves that inflict status conditions. Bulldoze is one to consider to gain multiple turns. Moves that heal, like Drain Punch, Draining Kiss, Recover, Rest, and Roost, are amazing on tanky Pokemon that take multiple hits, and draining moves are great on Bruisers than can deal supereffective damage to restore health. For Volo, I recommend having Cresselia, Zoroark, Samuwott, or Umbreon. Pretty much any Pokemon on Volo's team such as Garchomp or Goodra will guarantee success as well. I'm personally running a team of non-Hisuian Weavile, Rotom [Fan], Liligant, Driftblim, Ponyta, and Whiscash, all around level 70 and 10 ELs. Almost at my Volo run on my second playthrough. Should be fun!
@@joshua7015 Interesting approach, I used Cresslia because her Lunar Blessing made her obscure too, so it almost cancelled out Girantinas. Still game down to RNG so I suppose I got lucky
I used gyarados, weavile, gengar, typholsion, empoleon and sylveon to beat him. Got into the first giratina fight with 4 Pokémon 100% up. Don’t forget that this game gives you free switches.
If anyone is struggling to beat Volvo i came up with an incredible strategy. First you want to beat the first battle normally until the last Pokémon he sends out for me this was spiritomb as he switched him out originally. While this last Pokémon is out send in a Pokémon that completely resists it’s attacks for me this was dialga. After that you want to completely heal up your team so when you fight the giratina’s you have a full team of 6. Also highly recommend using a normal type Pokémon as it won’t use shadow force and can’t become obscured.
I used uxie, Cres and Probopass, the strat was uxie puts them to sleep and uses it’s bulk, then you swap to probo and use power shift (now it’s easy) you use probo to sweep the entire team until it dies, then go to Cres and revive them repeat
Transferring Pokémon gets you grit items. So I worked on Pokédex a bit first. Max grit or close to it goes a long way. Also farming blissey is a good way to get exp fast too.
I used my main play through team, i only needed to use 2 max revives, a lot of my pokemon are really tanky(goodra and ursaluna) and a lot are offensive(liligant and typhlosian) and i had good all rounders(empoleon and zoroark), and they were about level 70 so you just need a team with good moves
I've been really surprised that so many people struggled with defeating Volo. I had NO problem taking him down. It was a fight that took a few max revives, but for the most part this was really not that hard. The Giratina fights were really fun. It only took me 3 of my 6 pokemon.
I dont get why people depend on Cresselia so much for this battle I didn't even use her. The team I was using was an alolan ninetails an alpha zorroark, blissey sylveon, Garchomp And crobat
I defeated him with just a Lopunny and Goodra, then beat both Giratina phases with Staraptor. Mind you, though, I was a bit overleveled (pokemon in late 70s due to me often going after Alpha Pokemon for capturing purposes). Half of both Volo and Cynthia's team are weak to ice (Roserade, Garchomp, Togekiss). My Lopunny knew ice punch and my Goodra knew ice beam. My Lopunny took out half of Volo's Pokemon. Play rough on Spiritomb, Drain punch on Lucario (after barely living a close combat due to my Lopunny being very bulky), ice punch on Roserade, then went down to Arcanine. Goodra took out Arcanine with a water pulse, Garchomp went down to ice beam, then Togekiss went down to 3 iron heads. Somewhere in the fight with Volo, I had max revived my Lopunny, which got one play rough off on Giratina before going down (only did a fifth of it's health I think?) Brought out Staraptor so Giratina couldn't use shadow force and I proceeded to alternate between using ominous wind and roost (thing to note: stat boosts carry over from the first phase of Giratina to the second, so I had an ominous wind boost in the second phase.) Did the exact same thing with the second phase and won.
I managed to get through with cresselia, togekiss, and dialga left because cresselia kept avoiding the shadow force attacks which was absurd to me. I also forgot that since togekiss is part flying, she tanks dark moves. Also rest is a possible option but draining kiss is an alternative option which is what i used.
I predicted Volo's Fight was gonna be a Ridiculous battle, and I frickin knew it was gonna happen! Thanks for the tips, can't wait to knock him out soon! ( plus.... Giratina.... 😓 )
During this fight the pokemon I least expected to carry on the battle against giratina was a leafleon I had with mimic and calm mind, my team was on early 70's tho.
For grinding exp quickly I go to the top of hills in the obsidian field lands(specifically the ones on the right before you cross that first bridge) and once the Pokémon up there stop giving enough I farm the alpha snorlax
This games twist was pretty crazy. Volo using Giratina to bring out Arceus, which obviously caught his attention so Arceus brought you from your world and brought you to Hisui to stop him and Giratina. Also it felt so right for me to fight Giratina with Palkia.
Up until that point, I hadn't used any of the exp treats I had been given during the entire game. By the post game, I just didn't care anymore and filled up
I tried using this exact team. The only ones I really "needed" were Cresselia and Heatran. I led with Cresselia and swapped in Heatran who took out both Arcanine and Lucario and I only revived Cresselia once. She basically soloed Giratina since she self-healed. Yes, I am aware you made mistakes, but it did not have to be this convoluted. Just those two worked fine.
Had a level 70ish Lucario, Arcanine, Dialga and Palkia, level 80 Samurott and a level 90 Alpha Garchomp, went in not knowing the team composition outside of giratina cause I was spoiled. Garchomp managed to deal with the togekiss with an agile stone edge followed immediately by a strong iron head, at that point garchomp does what garchomp do and ended up sweeping everything as it was uncontested. I was kinda hoping volo's team would've been at least 10 levels higher. Oh well.
Took me 3 tries but I got him. Surprisingly, my alpha Honchcrow played a huge part (boxing his Giratina into just using Dragon Claw). Alpha Roserade with Shadow Ball finished him off. Took 2 max revives.
I used to have the LA card set before getting into the new games an i constantly wondered why volo wasnt wearing his card outfit the whole game, then it made sense once i got to the temple. It took me 5 attempts to learn his team and account for the surprise Giratina fight and figure out when to use items or what move to use to force a poke swap then work my way there. Fun battle I also got Darkrai before this fight which helped
Luxray was my best friend pokemon this whole game and absolutely destroyed volo and tanked trough so many super effective hits. Defenetly the best way to go in this battle
My vaporeon with baby doll eyes, calm mind, and ice beam carried me through both Giratina forms (Took 2 tries since I didn't have ice beam for the first attempt)
I used an overleveled team (mid to high 70s, all gritted) to beat volo. Palkia, goodra, garchomp, snorlax, emopleon, typhlosion. All had super effective moves against giratina. Beat volo on my first try.
I was surprised to discover Volo is so hard to beat. I beat him fairly easily, including Giratina, with only Origin Dialga as legendary in the team (and no, that's no vain bragging) . But maybe that's because I was completing Pokédex entries and farming the Miss Fortune Sisters before and my team was almost level 100 at that point... I did use some revives sometimes, but all of my team was alive when I beat Giratina.
I love how for previous pokemon games, people suggest avoiding using legendaries and/or overleveling and/or using items in battle, because it's a "cop-out". But for Legends Arceus, they're all highly recommended.
So I’m probably late to the comment section on this video but last night without any previous knowledge of what was fixing to happen, I faced this ally turned absolute menace named Volo. It took me 9 tries, a level 89 alpha garchomp that I caught randomly earlier in the game that wanted to pretend not to notice, was wanting to LOAF AROUND as my fingers were crossed and booty hole was clinched, but him alone took out both Giritina phases, and I had just average Pokémon with type advantages over the others on his team. But I will agree to this, hardest trainer in the mainstream game. Hope you guys enjoyed this game as much as I did in the current state of the video game world.
Grit can also be received when you release pokémon, and since you get in game currency when you show the professor how many you caught. So craft mass of basic pokéballs and go nuts, collect the pokédollors then go release the chaff you just caught. You can even trade in the grit for better grit, at the move trainer npc, of cource if you can get up to ninth star with the survey corps you can level up you pokémon to Lv100 with effort Lv10 and all alpha in your team. This works too buuuuuuut, it take a lot of grinding and time which not every one wants to do, heh!
Forgot to add, buy recipes and build its cheaper long run especially with max elixir, max revives, and either max potions or full restores. You can use max eithers and revives or just berries but that's entirely up to you.
