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  1. I played them both on my last play-through. Goddess help me the head smash misses and PP are Also Garchomp is probably the best currently-released user of Reborn's dragonium-Z?
  2. You caught me! Whoopsie! It'd just been long enough since I played the early part of the game that I mixed up which TM Aya gave out. Sorry
  3. 4 big points stand out to me: You're MUCH too far away from having a z or mega ring to be planning for such things with your current team. When you are close enough to acquiring one that it's worth training something up that's compatible with them, your option set will be vastly expanded and you should draw from that pool of candidates. In Reborn it is much more useful to focus on what is available to you in the here and now, and preferably as low-hanging fruit given the likelihood of any given team element becoming obsolete later. Your Golem's EVs are allocated terribly. You can do the math with Pokemon's damage formula and your own IV allotment to figure out optimal bulk allocations with the remaining EVs, and you missed the mark by a ton (in fact, yours is strictly dominated). The obvious 252 hp / 4 defense grants 0.1% increased physical bulk with the "convenient" side effect of a 22.4% special bulk increase. If your chopping of all EVs into defense is intended to signify that you don't care about special bulk whatsoever and seek only to optimize for the physical, then the correct answer is 136 hp / 120 defense, which will grant you +1.1% physical bulk and +11.8% special bulk. If that was the case, notice the ludicrously steep diminishing returns at which you trade the 2 off (about 10x in percentage change) and reconsider about sole-physical optimization. I'm not a fan of your Roserade set at all. The redundancy of having both toxic and t-spikes is obvious, and venoshock is way too much setup for the amount of payoff it yields. Venoshock is also a "win more" in that it only gets the good payoff against things which your Roserade is already strong against, making it utterly useless against the things it wasn't (namely poison and steel types). Sludge bomb -> sludge bomb is also even more damage than toxic -> venoshock! So this doesn't hold up on a lot of levels. My suggestion is to run technician on it instead, then change the moveset to t-spikes / hidden power (ice) / giga drain / sludge bomb. It's a trivial change to make (requires only 2 TMs that you guaranteed possess given that they come from gym leaders), it gives you a much wider array of coverage, better damage per turn, the ability to get in there from turn 1 without setup, and retains t-spikes for the match-ups where those just win the game by themselves. You still even do alright at poisoning your (immediate) targets with sludge bomb's 30% chance. The fact that by pure luck your HP type is such a good one is not to be overlooked! Also obviously when you have a chance, friendship berries will let you retrain all those attack EVs into a more useful stat (honestly both hp and speed are useful). Care to show Togekiss specs? They kind of do matter. Your team is very high in physical bulk, but Togekiss is the lynch pin of any special bulk given its natural stat spread. Not that you can't work without a special tank, but it would be convenient if it wasn't optimized purely for speed/power, and I definitely wouldn't give any consideration to physical bulk on it (judging by your nature choice, it seems you have?). I wouldn't worry about picking up types just to have them. That's kind of silly if you think about it. You already have a more-or-less complete coverage set with what you've got (better with HP ice Roserade) and a useful array of resistance combinations. Also I second that you're are playing the right 6 and should leave Greninja on the bench. It's scant in utility until you can TM it to know icy wind and grass knot. Its low on both bulk and power and only really an effective Pokemon based on broad protean coverage. When the dumb bots you're playing against can't figure out when to switch anyway, that mitigates its advantage and leaves its downsides untouched.
  4. Do you know what effective minds DON'T do? They don't write out long, thoughtfully-considered posts analyzing their own doings and updating their beliefs on the basis therein. They don't stop to consider own effectiveness. They don't display excellent decision-making power and value judgment ability. And you're doing all these things! You're calling your mind "as messed up as it gets," but please... don't be so hasty to short-sell yourself. When I struggled through depression in college, one of the problems I faced was learning what sadnesses were actually coming from it (and which were just legitimate sad things). Some sadnesses happen because our minds break down and create illusory horrors, apathy, antimotivation, and despondency. But most of our sadness comes from real problems and stresses outside of us! Clearly you are sad. I can feel the hope slowly slipping away in the post you wrote... :'( But all the signs are there and you're fighting back! Don't doubt your own mind. Don't doubt your own power! I won't pretend that I can solve all this. It's a hard position to work yourself from. It must be, because if it wasn't I know you'd already have everything solved! Have faith in yourself, and always remember that just because everything around you feels terrible does not mean that you are.
  5. Oh, wow. It's just kind of.... sitting right there. Yeah, that was definitely the issue. The TM is only there when mirage tower isn't, which by pure coincidence I had never checked while it was the case. Go figure; thanks all. Also such subtle signaling about what to do with that area. Well-played Ame
  6. That's the area I'd combed extra-thoroughly based on the original description, yes. But following your directions I keep coming back to Mirage Tower. Is the problem that I need to trip one of the light shards at the desert mirages in order to de-spawn the tower first? Because the only water I can find is bright blue.
  7. Would you mind elaborating on this? Or anybody else who knows where this particular TM can be found? I've given over a couple hours to searching meticulously and come up with nothing still :'(
  8. Thank you so much @keltena! You were so wonderfully helpful <3
  9. I know I'm late to this party, but if some kind soul wouldn't mind doing the same for my save where I beat Serra pre-17 and editing in the aurora veil TM I would be very thankful . The file is zipped to circumvent the forum's file size limitation for uploads. Game.rxdata.zip
  10. Today I was reading a psychology research journal and learned the greatest thing: In an effort to develop a greater understanding of how the human handles the evolutionary necessity of sexual attraction, scientists have now done studies that involve dressing lab rats up in lingerie and analyzing the fervency of the ensuing rat sex (Okay if you want to be super boring about it, they were examining whether lingerie attraction was Pavlovian or innate, how the lingerie concept generalizes to other animals, and whether its value in sexual appeal exists largely as a signaling method of sexual receptivity, all of which involved some nuanced experimental design complete with brain scans... but none-the-less also involve sexy lady rats in lingerie )
  11. I always loved the more technical fields. In high school I had less intense focus on any particular sub-discipline of these fields, but I knew I liked math (especially combinatorics), physics (especially quantum mechanics), and computer science (especially AI). When I attended Caltech after, their policy was that I had to declare a major at the end of my freshmen (freshwoman?) year. And I knew well going in that was never going to happen. I hit that deadline and silently let it pass. A week later I received a couple emails about it, which I promptly ignored. A couple more weeks after that and I was called into the dean's office, where I told them I was consciously refusing to name one, no amount of coercion would force me to. Apparently I was the first student they'd had who refused to just take a guess, play along, and transfer departments later if I felt it necessary. They sat around stewing trying to come up with rules for my situation, while I gleefully ignored their plight until they gave up trying to settle on a policy and just let me do my thing Am I recommending this approach? No, not really. But I'm not dis-recommending it either. The drawbacks are obvious, but I'd do it all again in a heartbeat. I just studied whatever I felt like. It was fantastic! To this day, I feel like my colleagues all had their love for learning beaten out of them forcibly with stupid schooling rules. But since I always made my own, I always had my heart in it every time I came to the classroom. I learned quickly that I didn't enjoy physics at any of its research frontiers; I was just really good at invoking the rules of classical mechanics, E&M, and quantum theory by wrote and seeing all their interplay. I didn't even really enjoy statistical mechanics that much. So after just a few courses in that field I dropped physics completely. In math I chugged on pretty far! I had a blast with number theory, have always been great at most forms of discrete math, loved abstract algebra... It was all great. And I had great love all the typical "engineer's math" (like all that calculus stuff up through differential equations). I didn't stop finding passion in it until analysis, so after that course I called it quits before topology. And computer science I never stopped loving! So long as I was learning real CS (IE the theoretical discipline, not just coding), I was happy. AI has still remained my #1 love, but I like decidability and tractability proofs, problem class reductions, information theory, problems of parallelizing computations, etc. On the side I took philosophy, gym credits that seemed appealing, a couple electrical engineering classes, and some economics and game theory (but only the really advanced econ classes that abstracted problems down to the level of proofs about convex set theory). Then I was done. I'd taken everything that could spark my passions and set my mind ablaze, and I wasn't going to jump through their stupid hoops just to play along. So that was the end; I left Caltech after 3 years without meeting any of my general distribution requirements or getting a degree. But I knew everything I wanted to. The curious interplay is what I did for work during all this (gotta pay for college somehow). I made tuition on playing games competitively (mostly bridge, some poker, a few other random more board-gamey things) and modeling. The former bears some relation to game theory and AI, though in practice not much past basic levels. The latter really bears no relation at all. Then after college I dropped the game stuff and began contracting for the US government. I did all sorts of work for intelligence agencies or DARPA on their military technology research programs. Then I had one of those Hollywood moments where the research scientist finds out what horrors the government types are taking and using her research for... 'twas not as described to me in project specs So then I quit immediately and tried to "repent" by doing good for the world as a teacher. Which is what I do now. I teach high school math, and purely by chance it happens I'm extremely good at it and enjoy myself. So the point here is this: I picked for myself an option you possibly haven't considered. I refused to make the choice. I studied everything that sounded cool to me and nothing that didn't, even ignoring course "required prerequisites" to sign up for whatever captured my imagination. And then in my professional life I wound up using none of it... then all of it together at once, needing so many different pieces I never could have gotten if I'd just picked a major... then back to none of it again. And yes there are a few other "career paths" in that sequence that I'm not admitting to publicly, but all of those fell under the category of using none of what I'd learned. What I think my life underscores is just how little the choice matters, if you want it to. I DID study all the things and they still mostly weren't useful to me. I DIDN'T get a degree and that has never held me back. If I'd followed a more traditional path and just did the normal thing, I probably would have wound up a person with a lot more money. But instead I let all my whimsical flights of fantasy pull me around, and I wound up a person with enough money to get by, a truckload of happiness, and no regrets. And I'm still living that way! My heart has no college major, my heart has not priced me into one career, and I'll probably find many more wild adventures as my life goes forward
  12. @Ice Cream Sand Witch are we to infer from this that you're Catholic? Or at least were raised Catholic? That's neat! Tacking on one of my own: My brother and I were always extremely close in childhood. I was born just one year before him, but when I was very young I couldn't really internalize that. He was such a big part of my life, my best friend... he looked after me more than my parents ever did. I couldn't imagine a world without him. Literally. I could not get my head around the idea of a year where I was alive and he wasn't. So until I was 6 years old, I happily went on believing that he was born before me. I just got older faster The strong irony was later in life the reverse is what actually happened to us. I was born a year before him, but he's managed to age quite a lot more than I ever will. We may have grown apart since strangers began thinking I must be his daughter, but I will always remember the little version of him that was my world <3
  13. Titania

    Roselia

    I can confirm, having played the game through entirely in episode 16 and used Budew in my early party. In fact, you can pick up Budew shockingly early; before you even fight Julia! Grab a rose incense from the prostitute in Peridot at about the same latitude as the train tracks - you have to talk to her again after you beat her up (okay wow sex workers already take unbelievable abuse from cops... should we really be doing this?). Then just head up to the train gate into the Tourmaline dessert. You'll see Budew up on the wall between Peridot and Lapis. Despite it appearing to be far above your reach, if you do your best to harass it with your A button it'll somehow figure out to hop down and make friends <3
  14. OMIGOSHRLY?!? Oooooo !!!!!!!??!?!!!!!!!!!!!?!!!!??!!?!!?!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!?! Everyone he loves making elaborate and extravagant ordeals out of many mundane occurrences! *bounces up and down excitedly* That's AMAAAAZING!! I'm making a really big deal out of this! MOAR EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One might even say "an elaborate and extravagant ordeal" out of this!!!! Yay! *curtsy*
  15. The oft-quoted saying is at last revealed to be a one-letter typo! All along it was supposed to be: When life gives you demons, Make lemonade!
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