To coincide with by Lysandre run, and in honor of Legends Z-A, I decided to start a Violet playthrough based on Kalos’ resident professor. While working on it, I figured I would go over some tips for your own Sycamore playthrough, what games are the best for it, and to approach a team for a character who doesn’t really have one traditionally.

Lysandre was the second character run I did in Scarlet. I wanted to try something new and I had recently gotten into the character through Masters EX and my eventual first playthrough of X. Since I planned on restarting my Scarlet run to coincide with my Sycamore run in Violet and as a lead up to Legends Z-A, I thought I’d go over some of my tips for your own Lysandre run. This includes the best games to do them in, what games offer which Pokémon, and additions and alterations when needed.