What are some strategies to beat Siebold in X/Y?

My strongest Pokemon (Charizard) is weak against Water. everyting is fine until he brings out gyrados and sweeps my entire team with waterfall flinches and crit waterfalls and than it has a attack and speed boostong move so it nearly always outspeeds me and waterfall crits do even more. I also always keep a electric type on my team just for this battle but all my electric types are either level 3 or 40 something (incase you didn’t know that is way to under leveled for elite 4 at least in this game) my electric type is always amphoros (still don’t know how to write that name) and pikachu (i have like 10 pikachus but only one is near close to elite 4 level) and I also keep a xenaras on my team for dis because it has mega drain wich is grass type and every other member of my team are made for the other elite 4 members.

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I have three strategies you could do:1. You may want to simply go out of the E4, accept defeat once, and train(I got all my guys to 60 before the E4, and had a Gogoat, which made Siepold a breeze, except for the Gyarados, because grass isn’t super effective to him, I had rock type moves though, so it was still easy.)DO NOT COUNT ON XERNEAS’S MEGA DRAIN, IT IS NOT SUPER EFFECTIVE TO GYARADOS!2. Train your Ampharos as much as possible on the other 3 Elite 4 members if you don’t want to quit the Elite 4 and have to pay, as well as equipping it with Ampharosite, for the Seibold Battle, to get it to high enough so it’ll survive a hit and do a lot. If you don’t have the ampharosite, it’s on a small island given to you by a man on the water route on the way to Sea Spirit’s Den.3. Another option is to search through your TMs to teach one of your ‘mons a strong Rock or Electric Type Move(super effective)This is what I did and I ended up twoKOing the Gyarados.)Source: Expierience and knowledge

Hope I helped!

My number 1 pick is Rotom-Wash. It has levitate, which means it isn’t effected by earthquake. It has a great typing in electric-water which allows it to tank Gyarados’s moves, and retaliate with 4x effective electric moves. It also deals with the other Pokemon pretty well with its STAB Thunderbolt(or other STAB). The other Rotom’s aren’t as good in this fight because Rotom-Fan, Heat, Mow, Regular, and Frost have weaknesses to his Water attacks, Ice attacks, Dark attacks, and Fighting attacks respectively. Rotom-Wash is the only one to only take neutral or not very effective from all his attacks. Here is a moveset for Rotom-Wash.Rotom-Wash @ AnyThunderboltHydro PumpDark PulseVolt Switch / Thunder Wave / Shadow Ball / FillerEven though Rotom-Wash is rare, it should be used because in my opinion, it has the best matchup against him. I hope I’ve helped!