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Can we just send this post to every person who bashed on nintendo's direct video? If people use this logic, then there wouldn't be anything said about smash bros until today. As for PMD, maybe they aren't ready to present something yet (or will do it another day). Take a look at Xenoblade X or SMTxFE. People thought surely those two would appear at E3 last year but they didn't (iirc). Stuff will be released at a later time giving a little more sneak peak at the world they have in store. Who knows, they might reveal a past character in the Mystery Dungeon to hook people in. Just be patient and news will appear as it comes. You people are impatient. I waited three years for Nintendo to give X an american release date. Surely you people can wait a month more for PMD news.

Sorry for the brief pause but I've been busy playing Roy in Smash. I have to write speeches for a class which takes up a bit of my time. I also have to move furniture around every other day while my mother touches up the house. I also wanted to say something about Shelly's leader fight. While her AI is a little finky (why she used Dazzling Gleam instead of struggle bug idk) it works pretty well for her overall team that is quite good...scary good. I'd love challenging her team like that again without electric types (not on this run though). I just couldn't use 80% of my boxed Pokemon which made it a little difficult to pick a good team. Now onto the mini-update: Rival Revivals To start off, I boxed my two normal types and brought out Manectric and Stoutland (newly evolved I might add). This was after a few attempts of him kicking my butt and then he kicked my butt even more (that freaking Roserade). I boxed Nyu (he wasn't much help) to bring out Lv 22 Scorch (Pansear) who put in work. The guy took down Ferroseed by himself. I think Zebstrika took down Ludicolo (he wasn't a threat for once) and the combined efforts of Stoutland and Manectric took out that Roserade. I don't remember how I KO'd it, but I used Scorch's Yawn before it KO'd him. I was so happy when I took this sucker down. I swear, Fern is my arch nemesis on this run. Not looking forward to the rematch. I also did a lot of Sidequesting. I took out that Beartic with the team's combined efforts, knocked out the Shiftry and Nuzleaf guild (and took all of the Nuzleafs), found Croagunk and Nidorina, and I finally got some sunshine to do a certain few events. That's about it before fighting Cain. As for the Cain battle, nothing particularly interesting happened other than Stoutland beating up his Nidoking. It was pretty easy with the team I had. I will say due to Shade's field effect, I'm going to box all my normal and electric types so that I don't accidentally screw up his field. (It'll be a challenge keeping it a short circuit field with the rotom). I'm only going to put Stoutland's data as all the guys are gonna get replaced. RIP Electric Monotype Run Barksalot (Stoutland) Lv 35 Ability: Scrappy -Baby-doll Eyes -Crunch -Ice Fang -Take Down

I'll admit the whole cockpit concept is really cool from what I've seen. Nintendo is really playing it safe by basing it off the 64 game which isn't necessarily a bad thing. My guess is that if this one succeeds, the successor will replace Assault reviving the series. (Now all they need to do is make an F-zero game). By the way, that Metroid game looked like crap ngl. It felt more like a third party game trying to convey the name of metriod (let's be honest here, metroid is metroid because you feel alone and isolated). Then there's that Paper Mario and Mario and Luigi crossover. I've grown less fond of the Mario and Luigi series since Bowser's inside story so I'll probably pass on this one. All I want is a Paper Mario game like TTYD without all these gimmicky attacks and 5-8 party members.

I've been in a similar situation. The best strategy I can give you is to have Hariyama use a fake out + guts combo before removing the field (or any priority moves for the matter). Venoshock, Nasty Plot, and Air Cutter are nasty attacks on Crobat, especially if you are weak to them (though Air Cutter is the lesser of two evils). I also looked at your team and many of them are very frail. It might seem like a foolish move, but evolving Jigglypuff with a moonstone (and have rollout) might be your best be in looking for tanky Pokemon. You may also wanna figure out how to confuse it, lower its attack, and its accuracy and hax your way to victory.

I never understood the big talk of E3, but whatever. I thought Nintendo did a good show for what they had. I don't think they were planning on winning it as they tend to release their stuff out little by little. I little bit of FE story and X's release date is all that I asked for. As for Star Fox 0, re-imaging =/= remake. I'm sure the storyline will flow similarly but levels and such will be different. I haven't played the original Star Fox 64, but this new one intrigues me. It'll be it's own separate entity so don't compare it to 64 until you play it. As for SMT x FE, it feels like a persona game with FE characters as Personas. It could be really good or it could be really bad depending what direction they go with it.

To be honest, it's kind of hard to rank them for since almost all of the Gym leaders I faced either have new teams or I completely had a Pokemon who destroyed them. But if I had to rank them: Pre Field effect Leaders: (From most difficult to easiest) Serra, Aya, Florinia, Radomus, Shade, Noel, Kiki, Shelly, Corey, Julia Field Effect Leaders I've Faced So Far Corey, Shelly, Florinia, Julia

Probably the whole "Now that I have this magical/special weapon, I can defeat the final boss." That literally is used in about 80% of the RPGs out there and quite a lot of other genres as well. I generally hate when I game makes a huge focus on a weapon, often a sword if it's supposed to have a deeper storyline (Xenoblade is a game that did this right).

It's probably going to be a bigger gap in accuracy vs power (which is often why I carry a Steel Sword...even at the end game). Speed also could play a factor as they could add weight back in (Speed is more important than Strength tbh). I haven't said much, but I'm excited for this too. And considering I buy two of every Pokemon game...even though they're the same, definitely not buying both versions of this... But seriously the two versions give me the impressions of Oracles of Seasons and Ages which both shared very little similarities. We'll have to wait and see if having both is worth the money (and yes, I'll be buying both).

And now for another update The Path of Shelly De Killer Banned Types: Additional Banned Pokemon Lv Cap: 31 After Correy made his speech, I made my way back, defeating the Scolioped group (rather easily with Delcatty) and swapped the team around a bit. I put Rosie back in the box, but I withdrew Vanillite and Blitzle took the place of Luxio. I can't remember too much other than me having to basically heal after every trainer due to the level difference. The Magma fights were also kind of nightmarish with Manectric basically having to take down 3 Pokemon by himself. I also continued that Magikarp event which is kind of hard facing Lv 37 with a team of 25 and under. The Aster and Eclipse battle consisted of my Pokemon getting their butt kick and Victoria kind of doing her own thing. Belly Drum Hariyama ftw! Not a hard fight, but I evolved Blitzle into Zebstrika and Buizel into Floatzel (that's how underleveled I was). The Orphanage fight was also a bit hectic consider my team was Electric types and Normal types and he had a Magneton. Somehow I won. Somehow. As for Victoria, not a hard fight, but not an easy one either. 28 was my highest, but with a bit of para haxing, I haxed my way to victory. Gym fight team Nyu (Pikachu) Lv 29 Ability: Static -Charge Beam -Sweet Kiss -Nuzzle -Volt Tackle Ruso (Zebstrika) Lv 30 Ability: Lightning Rod -Flame Charge -Spark -Shock Wave -Thunder Wave Rinoa (Luxray) Lv 30 Ability: Intimidate -Spark -Bite -Swagger -Charge Tiki (Floatzel) Lv 30 Ability: Swift Swim -Aqua Jet -Swift -Fury Cutter -Pursuit Jenny (Raticate) Lv 29 Ability: Guts -Hyper Fang -Quick Attack -Crunch -Sucker Punch Rocket (Persian) Lv 28 Ability: Technician -Cut -Fake Out -Screech -Swift Overview of the battle: On my first attempt, I completely destroyed her Sigmund style. I had Manectric spam Discharge which powered up Zebstrika who spammed shock wave and she went down pretty fast. On my second attempt, I forced myself not to use Shock Wave, but Discharge pretty much just decimated her team. I then banned Manectric because he just broke the fight (only because my partner didn't take damage). I was going to bring Tediursa, but I got bored trying to train it and Stoutland was just right above the level cap so...he wasn't an option either. As for the real battle, it wasn't too bad. Nyu pretty much set up Paralysis and heavily damaged Masquerain before she switched into Arnorith. Illumise was giving me a ton of trouble, but she didn't do too much thanks to confusion and Para hax. Confuse Ray gave me a ton of trouble, but Luxray was able to not hit herself and kept turning her Swagger on. She didn't really attack as I was setting up a whole bunch of charges. Ruso pretty much just T-wave then Spark on repeat. Wormadam was probably my biggest threat thanks to its tanky type and that boosted Giga drain. Every time it attacked, it hurt. Yanmega was the same way, but it was at least a bit frail. Those two went down at the cost of my Zebstrika. Bugsy was the last one out. I actually had a battle before this one and it pretty much just decimated the remainder of my team (not like Crobat though). The thing did Pull of a tail glow and a Struggle Bug, but Luxray and Floatzel survived slowly chipping its HP down while it was trapped in a Parafuse hax. Jenny didn't get any action this time, . Thoughts on Battle: Eh, this was kind of a letdown compared to Correy and Florinia. She was kind of tough, but not too tough. She'll either be really easy or really hard depending on the team as Struggle Bug hurts. I kind of wish the Rain Dance AI worked because that'd be a huge advantage to me (she only did it once). Illumise and Wormadam are a pain. If I didn't have those Electric Types, this would've been a very tough battle to the point it'd be nearly impossible. I would've used something else, but the only other option I had was a Teddiursa. (Don't worry, we're going to see a completely different team for Shade). I also have a little question: Since my Mystery Egg was an Elekid, do you think I should be allowed to use it, or keep it permaboxed until Charlotte?

I'm willing to stay, but...I won't be as active before (I'll try to post daily though).

I generally play on Shift tbh. I feel Set would be more fair, but then I'd have to grind my mons up to higher levels than 1 or 2 levels below the weakest, use healing items more, and build better sets/breed. Shift is just more convenient and lets me get stuff done faster and create interesting challenges. Set is certainly more difficult, but I never cared to change it because trainer grinding is even more of a pain.

The Path the Correy Banned Types Banned Pokemon Lv Cap: 26 Not much happened between Taka (and the Nightmare of a Tangrowth) up to the final Pulse Tangrowth battle. I did a little bit of switching and placed Skitty and Vanillite in the box to take out Electrike and Drowzee (who I leveled up to a Hypno). I also temporarily boxed Luxio so that I could have Surskit Sweet Scent spam in order to train. My team range was in all direction, but most were 23-25. The first time I faced them, I struggled a bit as Drowzee and Meowth could barely withstand the attacks and hax would pretty much be the death of me. After a training session, I did go back, but guess what I forgot. I left Luxio in the PC so he had no action this time around. That final Pulse battle was kind of hard. ZEL's team really hurts especially the Glaceon and Espeon. Luckily, Creeper (Hypno) was able to shut those two down with Hypnosis. Lileep was also a bit of a threat with Confuse Ray, but other than that, I just let him do his own thing or put him to sleep. Meowth's job was to Screech until all of Zel's Pokemon were KO'd which he became death fodder to future sight. Then there's Taka's team. Lileep is always pathetic and went down easy. Pulse Tangrowth was the thing that was really giving me problems. While it's nowhere near as threatening as the Forest one, the thing can still put a huge dent into my team or practically sweep it. Thankfully, Hypno was the foundation here and combined with Litleo could take it down. And Chatot came back driving me up the wall with its Chatter Haxing. Thank the heavens he went after Hypno in my final attempt or I might've had to retry even more. Still not as hard as the Taka battle though. Now for the fun part: Gym leader Team: Rinoa (Luxio) Lv 25 Abiltiy: Intimidate -Sparks -Baby-Doll Eyes -Charge -Bite Nyu (Pikachu) Lv 25 Ability: Static -Charge Beam (I was a noob and forgot Electro Ball was actually good) -Thunder Wave -Sweet Kiss -Volt Tackle Sparks (Manectric) Lv 26 Ability: Static -Thunder Fang -Bite -Ice Fang -Quick Attack Bo (Flaaffy) Lv 26 Ability: Static -Electro Ball -Thunder Wave -Take Down -Charge Rosie (Delcatty) Lv 25 Ability: Wonder Skin -Feint Attack -Doubleslap -Charm -Zen Headbutt Jenny (Raticate) Lv 25 Ability: Guts -Hyper Fang -Sucker Punch -Crunch -Quick Attack Overview of the battle: I just want to say that this fight was epic. I knew that Corrosive Mist Field was dangerous which is why I made some adjustments to create a team that hit hard and fast. I wasted used my only ability capsule on Jenny to get Guts because I couldn't use Bo until the end. The fight started out pretty good (minus the like 10 retries) where Luxio would be knocked down into the red while facing Skrelp. Croagunk never did anything as he always got a Zen Headbutt to the face (poor guy). Nidorina was a threat so I used the last bit of life in Luxio to cut her offense down to nothing with Intimidate and Baby-doll eyes. Jenny would then finish her off (though she did get knocked out on my final attempt). Skuntank was another big threat for me. While most of my Pokemon could survive a hit, they'd easily go down in two from this thing. I pretty much sacrificed both Nyu and Sparks to this thing because Aftermath pretty much promises someone is going to get KO'd. Grimer was also a pain because Acid Armor made its defense impenetrable (fortunately, Rosie got a crit with Zen Headbutt). Then there was Crobat. Venoshock alone could practically OHKO any of the Pokemon I chose. He KO'd Bo twice with that move, used Nasty Plot the third time, and Air Cutter that last time. Basically, Bo would Paralyze in and I'd prayed he and Rosie could take it down. Jenny would've one this battle earlier, but she had to miss with Hyper Fang and the Crobat had to KO her with Venoshock. Luck was on my side and the beast was paralyzed twice so that I could finish him off with a red HP Delcatty. Thoughts on Correy: I loved this battle. I actually had to plan out my attacks ahead of time due to the Poisoning of my Pokemon. The scary thing is that Crobat alone could've destroyed me. I'm not sure if the Corrisive Field fight has the same Pokemon, but the team I fought was definitely made for the Mist version. This fight was very hard for me (I'm terrified of Aya now) as I had to figure out what I wanted to bring to this fight. Delcatty was the hero (she jumped to Lv 29 at the end of the fight) by tearing through a couple of those Pokemon with Zen Headbutt. Other Pokemon used: Pokemon I posted in previous update, Surskit

Reborn is a little bit different nowadays then like it was in the olden days. Being a long time member, I can agree and disagree with a lot of these points: 1. I disagree with this one a lot. When I first started out, we didn't have Common Candies, but keeping an eye on the Lv Cap was important. Generally, I'd train a team of six and keep them level balanced so that I didn't use one more than another. In fact, I recommend having a rotation team of 8 instead of trying to pick six for the whole game. Florinia's Badge now raises to Lv 35 instead of 30 so you should only be close to it if you're really struggling. 2. If I disagree with anything, it would be this. While having an OU mon with a good ability, EVs, and IV is helpful, its the moveset that's most important. Moves like Baby-doll eyes and Charm may be worthless in the Metagame, but in Reborn, they can completely turn a fight around. Building strategies and choosing mons who fit your style/needs is the key to victory. 3. Yes, learn those field effects. Gym leaders will use them to their advantage, but you can easily turn the tides such as using a Psychic type on the glitch field. It's like learning about moves all over again. 4. Again, no. Most of the event Pokemon available are weak to the upcoming leader. Getting them is useful, but every Pokemon is viable at certain points. Mightyena is probably one of the best wild Pokemon early on due to its early evolution, moveset, and Moxie. Experiment and you'll be surprised what "weak" Pokemon will be your savior (mine is Arbok and Cherrim...Cherrim is awesome). 5. Training is much easier than it used to be. However, rpg experts know there are certain Pokemon who they should search for to grind. Beedrill is one of the better Pokemon to train off before Correy because its very frail and nets a ton of exp. "One-shotting" areas are also a good idea because you can gain EVs while not paying very much attention to what you're Pokemon is doing. The Grand Hall also has trainers that you can constantly rebattle which will shoot levels up very fast. Places close to healing spots are also great so that you don't have to keep running back and forth so much to grind I also feel like you forgot the most important piece of advice: At first you don't succeed, try, try again. The battle might feel impossible at first, but you'll start to get the feel of the opponent's team and eventually be able to overcome and win it. I've probably lost to each leader at least 5 times.

Yeah sorry about not responding, but I don't have the time or motivation to continue RPing right now so I'm taking a break. Yash and Tyrunt, you are free to do what you want with my characters (King Cold, Yuki, Gilgamesh, Artemis, Enkidu, etc) as I probably won't ever rejoin this one.

Hmm...Xenoblade is a fantastic game to play even though the level system is a bit complex. The hardest mode is to go through the game without doing sidequests (which there are a ton of) as doing those will make the game pretty easy. Golden Sun, Any of the Tales Games, and the Last Story are all RPGs I really liked. The Xenosaga series is turn based, but its very heavy Sci-fi based and the combat is a little slow (and II's is kind of confusing and complex starting out) so that's not a series I can recommend (even though I could talk about it for hours). I haven't actually played too many PS2 RPGs so there's not much I can reccomend. I played Symphonia and I enjoyed it, even though a majority of the bosses are pitifully easy (Gnome was one of the very few I struggled a bit on). If you haven't played it, I'd try Chrono Cross. There's no level up system, but the music alone is worth playing it (and there are a lot...I mean a lot of characters you can play as).

Alright folks, I'm going to pretty much halt the whole Mystery Egg changing because it's starting to get a little bit ridiculous. Originally, I said I'd help people mainly for those people who haven't completed the episode or are pretty close to Correy and wanted to have a mystery, not this whole "I'm at the end and have nothing to do so I want a different Pokemon than Azurill." I'll still do people who have 2-7 badges (or pretty much up to Luna), but that's it. I'm still behind on saves and I'll still do those ones. I'm just tired of seeing save files at the end.

I kind of view this the same as the gates being put into the cities and the first Tangrowth Pulse being cut short. While we may not like some of these changes, it pretty much leads to the greater good or hardly hurts the overall game. I'm actually kind of glad the item storage was gotten rid of because there was no need for it. As for the complaint about being able to organize your items, it's pretty much your choice for carrying all those items. I mean if there's something valuable like a Bannetite, you could just place it onto a Banette in the PC instead letting it take up space in your bag. And you probably don't need to hall around any Protiens, HP Ups, or all of that candy everywhere you go. Selling items and the whole putting items on Pokemon pretty much allows you to reorganize and clean your items. Generally, what I do is let all the junk be kept in the middle until I needed it and keep the most important stuff at the top or bottom such as the Exp Share. No point in trying to shuffle or mess with an item if it's not in the way. In Xenoblade, you have to mess around with thousands of items from collectibles, gems, equipment, materials and other things (did I mention there's a limit so the stuff you can carry). The item bag in Pokemon seems small in comparison to that.

Her team got a little bit of a change. Honestly, I prefer the Cottonee to Grotle as Grotle was hardly a threat. I mean Curse is dangerous but just about any special attacker makes short work of it. Her team is now: Maractus, Breloom, Cottonee, Cacnea, Ferroseed, and Cradily Her field is still the dessert field which she uses to slowly chip away your HP (Though Breloom and Cacnea are offensive). I never fought any of her other teams since her debut one so I can't really say which version is the most difficult. Spikes was my biggest fear from Maractus because if she set them up, I was toast.

So I'm just going to do a quick little update. Not much happened but what happened was kind of hilarious. From Florinia to Taka So to start this off, I trained up a Hopip because I needed something to take down Mechanightmare. It took so many resets but I finally managed to paralyze that thing in order to beat it. I then placed Litleo onto my team...wait a minute (I'll have to fix that typo in my previous post). So Luxio, Litleo, Skitty, Meowth, Skiploom, and Ice Cream Cone were placed onto the team. Jasper Ward wasn't too exciting other than the fact it was a windy day. When I reached Taka, all hell broke loose. Lileep was hardly a threat, but that Pulse Tangrowth was a nightmare. By the time the thing would die, he would super potion it back to nearly full health. I had to Screech Spam just to put dents in that thing. What's worse is the fact it would never flinch and everything I had could be one shoted by it. Then there was that Chatot. It's one thing to face it normally, but when you throw Delta Stream into the mix, oh lordy. All I had not KO'd by that Tangrowth was a Skiploom and a Luxio. I don't know how, but Luxio decided to not hit himself and somehow paralyzed the demon with Spark. I barely one that fight with 9 HP remaining on Luxio. So yeah, don't fight Taka on a Windy day. (I'm not looking forward to that upcoming Pulse Battle). Team Used (too lazy to give Pics this time): Rocket (Meowth) Lv 21 Ability: Technician -Screech -Cut -Bite -Fake Out Hane (Skiploom) Lv 22 Ability: Infiltrator -Fairy Wind -Stun Spore -Sleep Powder -Bullet Seed Nala (Litleo) Lv 20 Ability: Unnerve -Ember -Work Up -Headbutt -Noble Roar Rinoa (Luxio) Lv 24 Ability: Intimidate -Charge -Baby-Doll Eyes -Spark -Bite Rosie (Skitty) Lv 21 Ability: Wonder Skin -Disarming Voice -Double slap -Copy Cat -Zen Headbutt Blueberry (Vanillite) Lv 21 Ability: Ice Body -Harden -Icy Wind -Avalanche -Uproar

Hmm...Well, I just finished the Phoenix Wright Trilogy (there were plenty of moments of me screaming in frustration). I'm not sure what I'm going to play next. Probably a mix of Smash4, Reborn, and ToS: DoTNW