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The team looks solid at first glance, but I noticed you had Iron Tail instead of Iron Head. Iron Head/Heavy Slam are way better option on Aggron than that low accuracy move. The other thing to note is that Fire type weakness. I know we've more or less passed Cal and Charlotte, but your team is pretty defenseless against them especially special. Gourgeist really isn't doing you any help there so maybe something like Thick Fat Walrein would be good there to cover for those weakness gaps.

So when I said Friday, I lied. This is one of those rare cases where Florinia worked out so well the first go around she didn't need any edits. There's only one move on Breloom I might consider removing but Breeloom is Florinia's secondary Ace...so maybe not. (I might also put Sandstorm on Cacturne). So anyways, here's the conclusion of Ep II. Episode 2...6? Florinia the Troll So basically I didn't grind that much because it turned out I had everything I needed. Poison types/Toxic Spikes will make her really easy, but pretty much Hariyama can more or less take care of her still, but you still might have a hard time winning. She's got a few new tricks up her sleeve so I'll put my battle in the spoilers in case somebody wants to wait and experience it for themselves. Summary of the Battle: So yeah, Florinia got a huge boost in difficulty, but she's not really too hard if you use bulky/evolved Pokemon. I used poison here as a substitute because I wanted to make sure she was beatable without a Hariyama. You'll also be happy to know that Cradily and Breloom are her two biggest threats still keeping to the Reborn tradition. I may remove a couple moves, but this is more or less the final Florinia for hardcore (and she is harder than Julia imo). The team so far:

I think it would've taken 6 months at the least if everyone is in good condition, but yeah I'd say at least a year so that everyone can recover. It is better to delay one episode by a year then to push Ame and delay the game's completion for 3 more after all. Patience is the key here.

Female Dorms "Where am I from?" Citrine was surprised someone was interested in that place, but if the boy wanted to know, she wanted to hide. "Well, I pretty much grew up on the streets of Pyrite Town. I suppose the best way to describe it is something like a junkyard because there's junk all around the place. But yeah, the Orre Region is a big dessert so it's pretty hot especially in the summer." Citrine then looked over to the Sneasel who decided to sit this one out. "Can't really say I understand it as I never really got into the whole battle stuff. To each his own." The girl looked over to the Skitty. "By the way, that's Rosie over there. Technically, it's not really mine, but Henry gave it to me to keep me out of trouble."

Triple battles is a little confusing, but it's on there. And oh yeah there will be triple battles which are kind of something a bit different than double battles. You will see all 3 types of battles so it's best to get a general idea of them.

I know. I've actually beaten everybody on the game except the Solaris fight on the Volcano. And Corey got a nerf too which is just showing how brutal he can be. ---------------------------------------------------------- Anyways, I'm just going to throw a little teaser on the Florinia fight as it's yet to be finalized. Some of you might be surprised by the changes I did (I think she might be a little too tough now):

...I thought you'd have a harder time on Samson, but then again Trick Room helps. One shotting Hariyama probably save you a lot of grief because if you can, it'll pretty much OHKO the attacker. Good job winning that battle and good luck on Charlotte. For some reason, I've always had trouble with her (and now Florinia).

I may as well share the current one I'm using.

You have two more Pokemon than they do. Also...about Mickey...you'll see in a minute --------------------------------------------------------------------- Episode 2.5 Alice got class I actually got a lot done in this episode, but the Cain fight wasn't anything too special. Just picture a Skitty (Rosie) pretty much kicking his butt outside of Nidorino and Dewott. I'm keeping it a Dewott in order to be consistent with the other two (what? You didn't realize they all used the Gen V starters?). Anyways, Nidorino took down Espurr pretty easily, but Sally (Numel) came in and KO'd it with a Magnitude. The only real threat was his Dewott which spammed Fury Cutter thankfully letting Leon slowly kill it with Mega Drain and by some miracle, it survived an air slash letting me win. BTW, I'm doing this with level 18s so...that Pulse fight was a nightmare. I had to pull Chichi (Pachirusu) out of the box because I got beat pretty badly. Anyways, I started the fight off by having Chichi use nuzzle to paralyze it followed by a Bide. I managed to put a pretty big dent with Pachirusu, but it got ko'd before I could try anything else. Next I sent out Espurr who I managed to parafuse this thing to get two hits off before it died. Next came out my main attacker, Numel. While I did have simple so that I could max her defenses in two turns, I just went on the offensive. By some miracle, I barely got it into the red again after the super potion. Eventually, Numel got taken down as well. After a couple turns, I had it down to the red, but all I had was Skitty. I used a Zen Headbutt and thankfully it stayed paralyzed so I could KO it with a second one. That was a crazy fight. I decided to do some sidequests. The elecktrike one pretty much wasn't anything special, but the Mechanightmare was hilarious. All you need to beat it is a Volt Absorb Pachirusu with Nuzzle. Literally, Chichi beat the demon by herself...and light shot isn't working for me...again...stupid windows 10. Let's see if... Anyways, I'm just going to tell you up front. Never fight anything in Onyx Ward on a rainy day. I learned that one the hard way (still not as bad as Taka on a windy day good lord). I had a rough time in Onyx, but I pulled through and man there are a lot of places to get experience in the school. Still not as bad as when they were all in the 25-26 range. Yes, two levels do make a huge difference. Eventually, I made it to Fern, but I evolved Shaggy into a Swalot and Mickey...into this... Now onto Fern...who was kind of easy. I had Shaggy lead against that Ludicolo who is the master of fraustration. I had to fight confusion from those water pulses, but thankfully Sludge poisoned the Ludi letting Fern waste his super potions. After Ludi's defeat, I stayed in to fight Grovyle. After a leaf blade and a Normal Gen Quick Attack, Shaggy went down. I sent in Nala (Litleo) to finish the Grovyle off. Next came out Ferroseed who died instantly to a Fire Fang...yeah, Florinia is definitely losing hers after seeing that performance. Next came out Roselia who I forget how it died, but it didn't really do anything. Fern's last Pokemon was Servine, who I forgot had Contrary so I used fake tears on it...making for a long stall battle of endeavor before Mickey came in to KO it. I'm going to give Florinia her own post on Friday or Saturday when I close the poll. I've got a pretty good idea how to fix this, but I want to give some last minute voters a chance to vote just in case. Trust me, this is going to take a while to fix and make decent. The team so far:

Female Dorms "I'm actually from Snowpoint City, Shinnoh, and if you couldn't tell by the name it's probably a little cold there. I don't mind the cold that much, though that's to be expected since I lived there. I don't hate the heat either, I just don't like it when it's humid. But I guess you don't mind how pale my skin is judging by how you were looking at me earlier." Citrine couldn't help but grin. This guys knew how to talk back to her. Something about this kid seemed familiar, but she still couldn't put her finger on it. "It's not that, but you remind me of somebody. Something about seeing you with those glasses and being a fun killer. Oh...Henry, that's who you remind me of." She remembered how she met Henry who was pretty grouchy. This guy seemed a little bit nicer though. "So uh...I'm guessing you're a battle obsessed guy as well. I don't think that Sneasel is going into any beauty pageants anytime soon." Rosie turned her focus back on Citrine. This girl...was always looking for trouble it seemed. It didn't seem like she was going to get into a fight so the little Skitty curled up into a ball to catch a few minutes before some other chaos arose.

It's okay, I'm actually doing a run through where I'm going to try and adjust for some of the fights in order to avoid a couple issues that kept popping up. Anyways, I am doing a poll to fix Florinia who I've probably spent 10 hours alone trying to fix (Ciel I did an overnighter and she still has a long way to go before meeting expectations). She's a major pain and trust me when I say she's a hell of a lot better than what you were originally going to fight. http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=17984 (In case anyone wants to cast a vote and doesn't know about it). Now for a bit on your feedback:

I don't know where you were going with that, but I suggest to avoid offensive terms around here. And secondly, Dynamic Punch is a horrible move on anything without No Guard. It would make Breloom weaker than stronger and Cradily can't learn it legally either. Anyways, I kind of have a general idea of what to do, but sometimes I like looking at suggestions to see what I should do. I'm surprised at how much people want to see Ferroseed scrapped, but I suppose I can see it as justified. ...I know I put Rock Polish as an option, but I'm leaning more on boosting its Bulk and removing the Lum Berry. It's a risky play, but I originally thought people would spam toxic spikes. Given the situation, I'll remove that trick in order to give Florinia the power to pretty much slowly kill anyone off if they're too careless. Too bad Roserade is the only Pokemon who learns Toxic Spikes as a Grass type. Cradily will also have Rock Slide instead of Smack Down because Smack Down is worthless without Sand Tomb. NOW BACK TO ADVENTURE! ------------------------------------------------- Episode 2.2 Meet the Scraggisons This is another short update as again, I want to kind of have a lot of feedback on Florinia since she is the weakest overall leader of hardcore. Anyways, I certain idiot forgot to take a pic of his team and then realized it after the said episode. Just picture a level 15 Swirlix fighting Victoria and you'll have my team. I actually did a lot of swapping and placed a few oldies in the box in exchange for Numel, Mankey, Wingull, and Yum-yum (Grovyle and Gulpin stayed with me). Did I mention Wingull (Mickey) was a shiny who looked like something from an old cartoon? So after a bit of grinding, I ventured down to fight some naughty little Scraggys. I'm sure all of you remember the fan favorite, now with his nickname: Stallord is a bit new, but it's the same dealeo. He now has Drain Punch instead of counter and Toxic instead of Wide Guard. Evil, I know. So at the start of the fight I poisoned Dragonborn and Stallord with Poison Gas and hit Dragonborn with a Karate chop while they set up Iron Defense and Dragon Dance. After a second round of this (curse you Shed Skin), Dragonborn decided to go on the offensive and KO Monkeyman with Brick Break before dying to the Poison. Tyson came out while I sent out Mickey...and it used Fire Punch on the bird to burn it? I just went with it while having Wingull spam water pulse after the burn. Why it didn't use T-Punch...I won't understand. Stallord tried Drain Punching my Gulpin, but it just ended up hurting itself. A little bit later and Tyson died to poisoning. Next came out big boss who decided he had enough of this. Shaggy was able to poison Big Boss while Numel got destroyed by the boss's Brick Break. Tyson finally kicked the bucket so now it was Yum-yum's time to shine. Fairy wind put a huge dent into Scrafty who decided to take out Leon with a Payback while I had Leon use quick attack. That was a big mistake. Thankfully, Big Boss died to poison letting Yum-yum net some nice experience. Geeze, I forgot how hard this fight could get. But thankfully, I'm free of trainers (I think). Here's the current team (who pretty much got the living daylights beaten out of them):

I think what he's saying is that he'll trade a growlithe egg to see if it's a shroomish, but if it's not, he'll simply reset so that he doesn't have any Pokemon other than Fire types in the PC. I mean...I could change it but there honestly isn't a reason as Shroomish would not be useful until Kiki and then worthless until about Noel. I mean it can to damage to Serra, but she'll one shot Breloom if it doesn't one shot her Pokemon. And by that time, there'll be a large handful of good fighting types. And seriously, how are you people soloing Julia? Then again, I didn't even think it was possible to monotype, but people have proven me wrong.

Considering what's coming up, I'm just going to say ouch! I mean Chandelure would've been useful to Samson and Charlotte, but they wouldn't be surefire. Also, I think the RNG has an issue with 5. I said this before and I will say it again, make sure you are prepared for the Point of No Return as there are some very, very hard battles past this point. Samson is easily the strongest of the circus trio and I might nerf his levels (or make a level cap of 67) due to this little exp issue. As for Luna, I actually watched a video of a league battle and those were nicknames for the Pokemon she used pre Gen VI iirc (season 2). I decided to base her more on a defensive strategy as it seemed to work for her better...which is odd since the AI prefers hyper offensive usually. As for Mega T-tar, I didn't have much choice as Mega Sableye kind screwed over Sableye as a Pokemon due to the loss of Prankster. I'm not sure what Hardy will have, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

...Give this artist a graphics table pronto. I mean pronto.

I think I'm going to stick with Curse but give it some better moves so that it can do a bit more. I mean 60 speed after one Rock Polish is not fast for Cradily as it's almost as slow as a Fortress. So yeah, probably not happening. As for Ferro, I might axe it due to Fern having one for a while. I think I know what to do to help Flobot out a bit, but it'll need to be tested out. The poll will close when I face new Florinia for the first time (or the official new one). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Episode 2.1: Victoria's Secret I think I finally understand why you guys were having so much trouble on Victoria. She's a bit too high leveled given there is no area to grind before her. I'm going to lower her levels down by two so that should help a little bit with the problem. She'll still be hard, but still a bit more managable. Anyways, the battle started with Yum-yum (Swirlix) spamming Fairy Wind on Scraggy while it tanked a Low Kick and was hit pretty hard by Headbutt. After fainting, Victoria then decided to go full force and send out her Pignite. I sent out Espurr who nailed it with a Psybeam in exchange for a Smog with poisoned him (curse you hax). Victoria got smart and switched out to Kirlia, but my Psybeam decided to confuse it. I decided to switch out to Leon while the Kirlia hit itself. I decided to play a risk trick by spamming Fury Cutter and Kirlia only nailed me with a Confusion before dying to Leon's fury. My risk was for naught as Leon wouldn't be able to put a dent in Pignite. Next Pignite came back out in which a potion spam began (I don't remember what happened exactly, but I know I almost lost Espurr to the poison). I then kept Espurr in on Makuhita, but Fake out KO'd him. I decided to say what the heck and sent Freddy out to use Yawn on the Makuhita. It landed one Incenerate before fainting to force palm. I sent Yum-yum back out to slowly chip Makuhita with Fairy Wind until it died. Next game Victoria's ultimate Pokemon...Poliwag. I had a Grovyle at the same level with Mega Drain and a Pachirusu with Spark. It missed a mud shot and died to two Mega Drains. I wouldn't say she's super hard, but she needs a little nerf because there's nowhere good to grind. IIRC, I think Jamak had her Pignite at level 25 or something before I nerfed it (or maybe this is the one I just left alone thinking it wasn't hard at all). So...I'll be fixing that. Also, it might be a little while before the next update as I'm going to grind up a couple of my 'mons (thank you base Lucky Egg).

Female dorms He's not really my type so you can have him. Citrine thought to herself as she saw the red head target Claude. Then again, he does seem to be kind of fun to be around. And he's a coordinator. Definitely beats the heck out of Frostbite over there. Something then hit her. It reminded her of something that happened a little while back. She ignored the little bit of chaos that was going around and stood in front of Wolt examining him closely. Moving her head slowly down then back up may have looked a bit awkward, but she didn't care. When she locked into Wolt's dark blue eyes, then it hit her. "You don't really socialize that much, do you Frosty? I mean with skin that white, it's like you've never been in the sun before." She then looked over to the Sneasel. "That or you come from some place really, really cold. Though I don't get why people are crazy enough to live in those ice blocks. The heat is so much better."

I'm probably going to have to side with Hu...Plague Knight here. Part of the reason I was hesitant was because of how chaotic it could get. I mean the only reason I wanted to participate is so that Citrine and Claude could meet. Literally, I pretty much had zero clue what to do after that. I'll get to a post, but it's going to take me a little bit as I actually am doing something irl for once but I don't really know what it will be. Seriously, Citrine really does cause brain damage playing as.

I must applaud you for beating Julia with one Pokemon. That's no easy feat. Also, I actually used Hariyama in the late game and it really pulled through on a couple fights like Terra. But yeah, different leaders will feel more or less challenging depending on teams. I really struggled with Corey, but the rest of you guys made him look easy. But yeah, I'm really impressed people not only are able to get through those fight, but are able to do them with monotypes. I mean I did leave some leeway so that people could make the game as hard as they want. Of course, hardcore was an attempt to satisfy all the complaints about Reborn's nerfs and the game becoming too easy due to the field effects. (Also because I'm tired of seeing that topic).

TBH, I'm not sure what I did to his team, but I know it wasn't much. IIRC, Gallade is now Assault Vested and I think his team has coverage moves (thankfully, he uses his inaccurate moves unlike some people cough*Ciel*cough). Not much changed for Radomus outside a huge level buff. That's how good his team is. Very underrated and Ame did a good job. Radomus doesn't do trick room because he doesn't need to. If you run fast mons though, I have seen him do it (which saves you on Gardevoir). But yeah GG terrifies me. Radomus team is strong and if you don't plan your moves in advanced, it will devour your team. The first time I beat it was under Trick Room which was a godsend seeing it destroyed. But yeah, that was the one and only time I used Escalvier. And man, the RNG really doesn't like you having nice things. I see you praise a new comrade...and then they get axed. I do recommend picking up a big number of Pokemon (even if you aren't going to use them) as there are some very, very hard fights up there. Seriously, don't even consider going there without having a good selection of backups because some of those fights are at the peak of difficulty (like Samson).

Guys, I kind of notice this RP has been dead for a little bit. I know we have a few new people, but I think a lot of us are kind of busy. I mean I'm not always on the RP section, but I check it daily so that I can make sure there's nothing on my side that needs done. I'll probably make a post tomorrow to move things forward or for activity. But if you're lost, not sure what to do, or need some type of interaction, I'd recommend writing something here to keep track as generally, I'll just get back to work on schooling or work on the fan-game or mod that I'm a part of. I'm not going to be as assertive as I was so...it might be a good idea to leave me something just in case. Anyways, I'll be on tomorrow after work to get a post in.

I'm just going to pop in and say I completely agree on entry hazards. You should do thorough research on speeds based on types to see if a certain hazard would really be beneficial. Sticky Webs is really only good against a handful of mons (Dragons specifically) so running them may or may not be useful depending on your strategy. Sticky Webs doesn't make or break a team though, in fact it's really only good for the just not fast enough mons. And now I get into entry hazards. TBH, I find stealth rock more or less worthless. Never had I had a battle where stealth rock screwed me over hard (sometimes it would Sash Nape, but Nape could still put in work). In fact, I sometimes tease my opponent that they would've won if they hadn't used the move in the first place. Now if there were a lot of tanks weak to stealth rock, this would be a different story, but chip damage really varies across the board. IMO, don't waste your time setting up hazards when going on the offensive would have better results. It's one of those things to consider whether or not you need a certain attack (some teams do need stealth rock though).