Modern Emerald Elite Four and Champion: Teams, Levels and Counters

The League runs the vanilla order: Sidney, Phoebe, Glacia, Drake, then Wallace as Champion. Levels are close to the originals — Sidney starts in the mid-40s and Wallace's Milotic sits at 58 — but the teams and movesets have been rebuilt.

The lineup

Sidney

Pokémon	Level	Moves
Mightyena	46	Roar, Doubleedge, Sandattack, Crunch
Shiftry	48	Torment, Doubleteam, Swagger, Extrasensory
Cacturne	46	Leechseed, Faintattack, Needlearm, Cottonspore
Crawdaunt	48	Surf, Swordsdance, Strength, Facade
Absol	49	Aerialace, Rockslide, Swordsdance, Slash

Phoebe

Pokémon	Level	Moves
Dusclops	48	Shadowpunch, Confuseray, Curse, Protect
Banette	49	Shadowball, Grudge, Willowisp, Faintattack
Sableye	50	Shadowball, Doubleteam, Nightshade, Faintattack
Banette	49	Shadowball, Psychic, Thunderbolt, Facade
Dusknoir	51	Shadowball, Icebeam, Rockslide, Earthquake

Glacia

Pokémon	Level	Moves
Sealeo	50	Encore, Bodyslam, Hail, Iceball
Froslass	50	Lightscreen, Crunch, Shadowball, Icebeam
Sealeo	52	Attract, Doubleedge, Hail, Blizzard
Glalie	52	Shadowball, Explosion, Hail, Icebeam
Walrein	53	Surf, Bodyslam, Icebeam, Sheercold

Drake

Pokémon	Level	Moves
Shelgon	52	Rocktomb, Dragonclaw, Protect, Doubleedge
Altaria	54	Doubleedge, Dragonbreath, Dragondance, Aerialace
Kingdra	53	Smokescreen, Dragondance, Surf, Bodyslam
Flygon	53	Flamethrower, Crunch, Dragonbreath, Earthquake
Salamence	55	Flamethrower, Dragonclaw, Rockslide, Crunch

Wallace

Pokémon	Level	Moves
Wailord	57	Raindance, Waterspout, Doubleedge, Blizzard
Tentacruel	55	Toxic, Hydropump, Sludgebomb, Icebeam
Ludicolo	56	Gigadrain, Surf, Leechseed, Doubleteam
Gyarados	56	Dragondance, Earthquake, Hyperbeam, Surf
Whiscash	56	Earthquake, Surf, Amnesia, Hyperbeam
Milotic	58	Recover, Surf, Icebeam, Toxic

Counters that work

Sidney (Dark) — Fighting and Bug. His Shiftry and Cacturne are Grass/Dark, so Fire and Bug both land.
Phoebe (Ghost) — Dark and Ghost. Watch for her Ghost types carrying coverage for Dark answers.
Glacia (Ice) — Fighting, Fire, Rock, Steel. Her two Glalie and the Walrein are the walls.
Drake (Dragon) — Ice Beam solves him, and so does a fast Dragon of your own. His Salamence and Flygon are the threats.
Wallace (Water) — Electric and Grass, and remember rain is up (his Kingdra has Drizzle), so Water moves hit harder and Fire moves are halved.

The rematch

The Elite Four can be rematched after battling Steven, and you choose single or double battles. Clearing the Elite Four rematch then opens a rematch with Steven himself, whose team runs at level 85–88 with Metagross at 88 — this is the hardest fight in the game and it comes with a unique prize.

Teams read from the extracted game data (gym-leaders.json), which covers the Elite Four and both champions. Rematch structure from the official Modern Emerald documentation.