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I have a very strong inclination to believe that battling 'trainer081' will finally mean we get our Magikarp. I mean, an irrelevant trainer giving us that kind of reward for defeating him seems kinda fishy, if you catch my drift. The stolen Magikarp saga is by far the longest sidequest in the game, so it only makes sense for it to conclude with a guy using the trainer tag 'Mastermind' -- presumably mastermind of a Pokemon stealing/selling ring. It would be even more perfect if the existence of this ring is why 7th Street is the way we see it today. We're cleaning up other parts of the city already, so maybe ousting the mastermind could be how we fix 7th Street? Unless it was already renovated; I haven't actually gone there to check. Am I getting my hopes up too much?

This doneonriver guy has kept his nuzlocke run alive past Ciel, and is still going. He used event Pokemon as well, but it's still pretty damn impressive nonetheless. https://m.youtube.com/user/doneonriver EDIT: @Dai Laughing I didn't even look at the posts above me while typing this comment. That's pretty funny, you beat me to citing yourself! Lol

Reborn is tougher and more rugged than any of the main series regions, that much goes without saying. For that exact reason, I like to think that the local Magikarp population went extinct long ago -- just like the various Pokedex entries have said it should be.

So I wonder then, if we'll be able to get more than one Cosmog in-game. If not, the only way to get both Solgaleo and Lunala to complete the dex would be by trading. definitely not bc Ame loves making us suffer

Really? So the thing about the dead leader must've been from an older Episode. I'll see if I can find a screenshot of that line anywhere. But yeah, it looks to me like Ame is cleverly altering dialogue to set the stage for GG to be a gym leader like she was in Season 1. And with regards to Anna, she's almost guaranteed to be E4 at this point.

I haven't played that far into my E16-native save file, but I know for a fact that the game mentioned a reserve Fairy leader in E15 -- the dialogue may have just changed a bit. Before, it used to say that the Fairy leader appointed by Ame after xyr disappearance was killed by the PULSE Tangrowth in Jasper.

I'm willing to bet that the remnants of Meteor will manage to open a dimensional hole to allow the UBs through in the postgame. So as far as that goes, I'm envisioning something kinda like Team Galactic's meddling with Heatran in the Gen IV games. And they'll certainly be roaming. Actually, that raises another question -- what legendaries will roam around Reborn?

Ahh. Then I suppose the others aren't new, either? EDIT: @Ice Cream Sand Witch Sidequest, huh? Seems legit. Would you have any idea what those numbers mean?

This is a screenshot of one of Reborn's PBS files. More specifically, it's the one that outlines the game's trainer tags. The number at the beginning of each line corresponds to the trainer's .png battle sprite in the Characters folder. After the series of commas in each line, there is an indicted gender and a seemingly random number. I noticed a pattern with trainers who have the number '100.' All of them are either protagonists, characters from the Reborn League, or Meteors. ...except for this one.

Bennett and Elias might just be confirmed for E17. I was looking in Reborn's graphics folder for any hidden easter eggs, and I found this telltale overworld sprite: I found some other interesting (and less relevant) things in my search, too: There's one more tidbit that I have to include in a separate post because there's no more space left on this one.

I never played Conquest simply because I was super busy with things around the time of its release. I need need NEED to play it someday bc it looks amazing.

Interesting would be an understatement :/ So I think that means at least 5 people who became gym leaders (El, Radomus, Serra, Saphira, Sigmund) did so for purposes that had nothing to do with an affinity for Pokemon -- something that they may well have not even possessed given each of their reasons for joining in the first place. After hearing all this, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if IRL Bennett was also involved in that mess. I'm not sure about GG though, because she used to be very vocal on the forums; and I would think that she'd have mentioned it somewhere at least once. EDIT: @Farnsworth Oddly enough, I can't remember running across Radomus or Gardevoir on the server. I suppose that was because my online sessions never coincided with their schedules; or I just saw them so infrequently that I don't remember them at all. Also, I think the season was well underway by the time I began challenging leaders, so it could just be that I didn't have many opportunities to see them online. But if that's what GG's trainer card said, it's most likely true. As for Radomus being her ace... there were a few strange things on the leaders' trainer cards if memory serves, so it's probably just that -- some intentionally strange text. Actually, I'm pretty sure El had two cards, with one of them (as Elias) talking about how he's employed as a butler to Radomus at Vanhanen Castle -- hence why he plays that very role in Episode 10, almost 4 years later. I don't know of any other instances of trainer cards mentioning other leaders by name. Perhaps IRL El did that to feign civility towards Radomus and to give Luna some sense of security? Not too sure. It's weird, just as with GG's card.

Wow... all I can say is "damn."

One loophole for Ame that I can think of is for her to exploit the whole New World thing. She could get away with killing off some major good-aligned characters in brutal fashion if Meteor is successful in creating it -- because if the MC is somehow able to terminate it, that would undo the New World itself, and everything that transpired there by extension. That would bring back all but Corey, Kiki, Ame, Eclipse, etc. Maybe we break it by defeating Lin, and the New World shatters just as Lin did on the screen at Shade's gym so many episodes ago? I could see something like that going down.

I was around for first couple years of the league, though I had only defeated 6 or 7 leaders (I was like 11 lol) before I stopped using Pokemon Online; which was the original domain for PokePlace Reborn and the Reborn league. Though I did make an account, I never engaged much in forum affairs and only knew what I knew through chatting people up on the server. That being said, I never learned the stories of the leaders' real lives until I got lucky and stumbled across this game because I remembered my Reborn days by happenstance one night. I'm also fairly confident that I battled Kiki IRL. Ominous... I've heard about many of the real-life parallels now (like Terra being nuts in the chat and so forth), but the Luna one is news to me. So I'm guessing she was the only one involved in a custody dispute and that the other leaders were just the vessels for that element of the story? And I didn't know about Sigmund being a doctor IRL; that's really interesting. Now I'm really curious about the twins, the Belrose sisters, and whatever the hell went down with Titania and Florinia.

Wow; I had no idea how popular 4th Gen was among Rebornites! I expected to see a lot of 2nd and 3rd Gen at #1, so this is definitely a surprise to me -- especially since I see so much hate for D/P (not so much Platinum) in other places. Diamond was my first Pokemon game, but even if it didn't turn out that way, I still believe that Gen IV would've been my favorite. For one, the music was alluring -- that piano though. I mean, we got arguably the two most content-heavy games in the entire series with HG/SS and Explorers of Sky; the latter of which came with arguably the best soundtrack in the series. That's without even mentioning the wonderful physical/special split which made competitive battling a viable thing, the peak state of the TCG (which I stopped playing a year or so after B/W), the Global Trading System and Nintendo Wi-Fi, or the two Ranger games that dropped in this gen. Ahh.. when I remember my time with Gen IV, it's nothing but smiles. As for my favorite Pokemon game? It's this one right here. If Explorers of Sky is a 10, then Reborn is a solid 13 in my book.

1.) Gen IV (nostalgia; most complete generation) 2.) Gen V (unique feel; competitive golden age; N) 3.) Gen II (long postgame; Pokémon brand solidified) 4.) Gen VII (jury's still out; Sinnoh remakes??) 5.) Gen VI (megas ruined competitive; cool music; 3D) 6.) Gen III (felt bland & drab; Battle Frontier) 7.) Gen I *gets THISISSPARTA'd by genwunners*

True, but then Ability Capsules are still a thing. That's why Blaziken is so busted in this game, since you're guaranteed to get it before the first gym if you want it. EDIT: Yeah, what Alex said. Lol

Now I'm wondering what encounters we'll have at Apophyll Beach before the restoration of the city. Right now that consists of 1% Pelipper and 99% Wingull ._.

No question. But I wouldn't be surprised if they were pushed back an episode if it would significantly add to the release time. EDIT: I just saw that you said they're being implemented now. Ignore what I just said

If Gen 7 is in, the Alolan forms are in. There's no way Ame is including Sun & Moon mons without Frostales. I'd say that means the stat and move changes will go in too. I could see the Z-Moves waiting bc of the animation issue, but everything else will probably get thrown in if I had to guess.

@Alistair Thanks for the long reply! Tbh I was kinda being modest with the inclusion of the Johto Gym track, being that it's already in the game and I wasn't sure how seriously people would take me here. Especially since I was iffy on even using that theme there to begin with I like the Lake Trio theme a lot better there; nice call. My thought process with Lin was that Cyrus' theme gives off this feeling of "everyone in the universe is counting on you to win right now!", and it would play on the atmosphere of the situation the MC is in when they meet Lin in battle -- since she is a doomsday-level threat by all means, and especially since she'll almost certainly be the final boss. But I know what you're saying; when I first ran across that ominous Weather Trio remix, I was convinced that there couldn't possibly be a more fitting theme for Lin. I could still see it working, but the dealbreaker for me was that the battle just wouldn't feel as special or important if 15+ Pokemon go on to use her music. I didn't play OR/AS either haha, I'm just on YouTube too much. That being said, I know it's not ideal, but I don't know what could take its place from what I remember listening to. I'm sure that there must be something, though. I'll go back through Glitch's channel and then I (or someone else in the comments) will get back to you on that. If Laura is reinstated into the Elite 4 by the time we get that far, and she takes El's place rather than Bennett's (which is my personal theory), I think that El should have a theme distinct from that of the Elite 4. Now that I think about it, it makes a lot of sense for him to have a theme all to himself. He's definitely both significant and 'evil' enough for it -- and I think it would be doing an injustice to El if Sigmund can have a signature theme, but he can't. My headcanon is that we'll face off against El in E17, as I'm ~90% sure that the teaser quote at the end of the episode was actually him speaking to Titania. And for some reason I just feel like that track isn't grandiose enough for the Elite 4 -- like I think even the in-game gym leader theme sounds better for a big stage. The opening is awesome, but to me it just tails after that.