Commander

Hardcore is not a game designed to get your butt kicked a thousand times over. If you want that, go play Rejuvenation's Intense mode. Hardcore is the point that rewards skills and punishes people who charge into a battle expecting an easy win. No leader is at the point you have to rely on cheap strategies to win it, but any restriction you put on yourself will make the game hell at some points. Even on a casual playthrough, you will white out a few times. I actually lost to every leader so far and I even know everything about them. I suppose it would be possible to complete an NFE run, but you'd be grinding 12-15 Pokemon up rotations with about 4 cycling through each episode compared to a normal run of Hardcore where you could easily run a rotation team of 8 (I run 10 no problem and I'm up to Kiki). Trust me, even a normal playthrough is quite fun. I'm on my second run and some fights still give me quite the surprise like the Pulse Muk. I'd go for a monotype honestly if I were you though as then you can start getting a good team together early on.

So I finished up all the stuff for 1.8 so you can download that on the front page if you want. Dumb old me may have forgotten to delete the PBS file on it, but that's pretty much worthless outside of getting info on trainers/leaders. I fixed that though. You can download it on the first post. Shade got some revamps as well (3 members changed) so I'll be putting this one in the spoilers: Episode 5: The Real Slim Shade(y) Here's a pic of the team: Again, 1.8 is available in the OP like right at the top. Most of the leaders only got slight buffs to help round out their teams or make their overall teams/aces stronger.

Sorry about being inactive especially after that post I made a bit ago. A certain little thorn decided to pop up to stir a little trouble and make my life hell yesterday and today hasn't been going to swell. I'll try to get the ball rolling tomorrow as I'm not really feeling it today. It's also a good reason why I might seem so inactive or grouchy on here for the past month or why my post quality is lacking. It shouldn't be a problem anymore though...I really hope so.

So you're waiting on 1.8. Is this what you're talking about? Anyways, I think you'll have more fun with the PU/FU, but I personally use Pokemon that are in lower tiers and a lot of them are surprisingly useful aka Creepy Bird, Lord Yum-Yum, and Shaggy. Commander away.

That Glalie is a demon. I'm like surprised Heartbreak could live that as that right there is the strongest attack in the game. Good job beating Blake and now all you have is one super tough battle ahead (well 3 if you count Terra and that bonus fight). Good luck and may lady luck be on your side. (See what I did...nevermind...you'll get it in like a day or two).

Sadly, Mickey is starting to fall from grace as well as many others in my party. I'll try to keep him on my party, but if it gets to be too much, he'll be put in the reserves for a bit. As for the battles, I'm going to skip the rivals as I kind of forgot what I did, I know I used Leech Seed and stalled Cain (Mahagony was the MVP there killing Fern's Roserade and destroying Cain's Muk) and both battles were kind of close. Only big difference is that Cain's Nidoking is now Lv 39. I decided to make a poll for Shade due to a couple little things I want to see. This will be the final poll before 1.8 is released with the fixes from the beginning of the game to Shade. The only huge difference outside of Florinia so far is a couple level nerf (to make it easier on you guys) as well as some of the leader's weaker mons getting buffs. There's not too much you'll be missing. (1.9 will be released at Noel and 2.0's big focus will be a heavy nerf on the Blake and Fern fight at the Maison).

It's more like the universe is pushing Commander to new levels of insanity. It's okay as most of the data was preserved except for a very buggy Jamak fight.

To be honest, it's the Rain Dance what's screwing the fight over now. Galvantula would actually make the fight easier given Armaldo would shred it to pieces. I probably would give Armaldo stronger moves to compensate for it's others failure (EQ, XScissor, Aqua Jet, Rockslide). All I really did was add a crap ton of bulk to her Pokemon and she's kicking my butt way harder than Corey...I barely won that battle...I mean barely won. I think she's going to keep her team as I actually got Vespiquen to set up as a bulky Pokemon. It has defenses higher than a Shuckles after one Defend Order which it often uses first now. I'm probably going to keep it like this as when a Rain Dance AI is implemented...(trust me, I tried hard to get it to work)...she'll probably be too difficult. Now for the battle: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Episode 4: Shelly Got Game God I forgot how painful the bookcase puzzle was, but I survived. Anyways, Shelly managed to kick my butt 10 times with her modifications. 10 times. I wasn't using a Fire type because I need to test for monotypes now since those are a thing. New Shelly is harder than Corey, that's saying something. The battle started out with Manectric and Trifecta (Onix). Shelly's Illumise used Confuse Ray my Onix while Masquerain Scald burned it. Manectric used Discharge to nail both of his opponents while Onix managed to pull through with a Stealth Rock before dying to the burn. This was looking like another ugly episode so I sent Mickey in to use Protect while Manectric got confused, but pulled another Discharge off. I decided to take a gamble and had Pelipper protect on more time and Manectric pulled off a Discharge before getting double shotted by Struggle bug. Seeing both my opponents in red, I decided to have both use quick attack on Masquerain. Illumise decided to be a prick and launched a Confuse Ray on Mickey, but Mickey pulled through and KO'd Masquerain. Armaldo came out next and while Pelipper KO'd Illumise, Armaldo KO'd Manectric with Rock Slide and put Pelipper into the red. Stoutland came out next against Yanmega. I decided to have Mickey use Protect in an attempt to KO that Yanmega with take down. Of course I missed making the turn pointless. I decided to go with Fire Fang this time which got it down to the red while I healed Mickey with a Super Potion. I then decided to Sacrifice Mickey by having him Quick Attack Yanmega to death. While Stoutland did a Chunk of Damage to Armaldo. Said foe used Rock Slide KOing Mickey and putting Stoutland in the yellow. This was now a 3v3 and...it was still a toss up who won. So I decided to send Kawaii bear out next. Seeing as Armaldo was the lesser of two evils, I directed both their attacks to Vespiquen, but unfortunately, Stoutland decided to disobey me and Kawaii bear chipped Vespiquen down to the red...when the darn thing just had to use Defend Order. Screaming in rage, I watched Stoutland go down to a bug bite. I sent out Shaggy who poisoned Armaldo with Toxic while Kawaii bear managed to finish Vespiquen off with a Slash. I don't remember what Armaldo did but it hurt. Now comes the end. I had Shaggy Toxic Bugsy who used a Tail glow while Kawaii bear used Baby-Doll Eyes on Armaldo. I had Shaggy use Amnesia the next round while I healed up Kawaii bear...and now I had only two super potions. Seeing as Shaggy would be slaughtered alone, I healed both Pokemon up at once and Kawaii bear just managed to leave another harsh blow. The next turn Bugsy killed Kawaii bear with Struggle bug, but thankfully Armaldo was down to the poison. Now I just had to outlive this demon. When it got down to the red it used moonlight, but Shaggy's sludge combined with the poison finished it off. (I'm not sure how exactly the battle went thinking I lost because that was too close...Shaggy was in the red with 10 HP close). I have to say Bugsy really isn't that much of a threat even with a ton of EVs jammed into him, but when he tail glows...it's going to put a dent into both Pokemon. Not kill but barely not kill.

...Well now I'm out of ideas what to use these Reborn Rupees for. But...I do suppose it is for the best. At least it usually didn't turn out too bad while it lasted. Oh well!

Episode 3.1 And to the Victoria go the Spoils bad pun is bad. Anyways, not much really went on outside of raising Mahogany my Phantump and Underdog my now Granbull. I just realized how brutal I was in Lapis so trainers got a slight level nerf to make it a little bit easier. Slight doesn't really mean that much. I'm going to skip the Aster and Eclipse fight even though that Rhyhorn did give me a pretty good beating. The rest were kind of pathetic. Orderly John Cena was a toughie and I really don't think I need to level or team adjust him given his team is quite good. Very fun and difficult fight, but not too difficult. Stuff happens and we get to Victoria who isn't too tough but she kicked my butt. That Scrafty KO'd Granbull and Mahagony with a Poison Jab (after a Dragon Dance) in which both were KO'd by the Poison. Manectric came in and finished the job though. Next came out Gallade so I sent out my ace this run, Creepy Bird! (Seriously, Pelipper is an amazing Pokemon so don't judge). It used a Swords Dance Shadow Sneak combo which did about 1/3rd of Mickey's HP 1/3rd! Then it died to Air Cutter. Manectric one shotted Poliwrath with a Crit hit Discharge (thank go). Swalot then came out to take on the Hariyama. Shaggy poisoned it while Hariyama used the Belly Drum. I then used this time to heal up a couple of my Pokemon just in case (Victoria used her Super Potion during this time). The next turn, she nailed Swalot with a brick break...which knocked it down to 4 HP. Let me just give you an example of how powerful that attack is. It's like a jet plane crashing into a woods and the explosion caused from it hitting a man in blank zero range. Yeah, that's not a weak attack at all. I had no choice but to send Creepy bird to protect stall. Victoria used another Super Potion, but Creepy Bird was able to protect 3 times in a row to watch his foe fall to the poison. I told you Mickey was my ace. Next came out Emboar so I sent out Grumpig. I used Confuse Ray to dodge a Sucker Punch and then it hit itself twice before dying to a second Psybeam. There's definitely a ton of experience in this area so I was actually able to raise a team of 8 with ease. I only hit above the cap with Mickey fighting Shelly's gym trainers, but nobody else even got close. My current team actually got swept by Shelly, but I'm adding a few little buffs to her Pokemon. The only thing I would remove is Vespiquen for Escalvier, but I really like her team. If you guys want to say something you can, but I'm not gonna make a poll for her. The Team for the Episode:

I don't know why y'all are assuming this is for the plot. It could be anything truthfully.

Sorry for the lack of news, I was waiting for something. Thanks to Shia, we actually now have an official trainer sprite (well...we were going to use Jacob's, but Shia knocked it out of the park). If you go to her sprite shop page, you can see what the male BN grunt will look like. And before you ask about a female...that's going to be on the to do list for a later episode.

Yes, they are two different teams. Field Corey is more or less the easy Corey or what Corey would fight you as a normal fight. Mist Corey is more or less a PO'd Corey who has a far stronger team (dat Scolipede) or is believed. You ruined his life so he's going to try and ruin yours. Field Corey got nerfed hard because Mega Beedrill was way too strong and Scolipede was about 2/3rds of its strength which is why they're swapped (though Field has regular Beedrill).

I'm just going to post this here now so that I don't have to do any more of them. Hardcore runs off of the same save file system as Episode 15 (and will be updated after every release). If you need a mon added in, please post it here as anyone can help you here.

In the actual ORAS, it needs to know Dragon Ascent, but I'm not sure how it works in Reborn tbh. I think it can Mega Evolve without the move currently, but I probably could test it. As for that meteor picture, I'm pretty sure it's a rock...that's all I'm gonna say.

First off, thank you for telling me this. I'm going to be quite frank that this is one of the reasons I've kind of been trying to avoid big stuff. I didn't realize the Samantha was a big thing I was initially going to avoid it...but I honestly would have nothing to do other than pretty much fly solo if I left the girls dorm completely. This is one of those situations if you give me something to do, I would gladly leave, but right now...what honestly is there to do? Not a single PC is not in the dorm area. I'll also explain a bit more about my posting pattern. I left Mie alone so that Hiss had a chance to interact with other PCs given I spent quite a bit of time with her. I've been in a discussion with Exlink, but it hasn't been too deep in order to give Chim a chance to jump in and continue that Samantha interaction. I'm certainly not going to defend things I did with Henry cause at some points I did go too far, but I really am not trying to cause a mess. (I also am a bit aware I jump into conversations where I shouldn't...but I've been doing other things to help keep my mouth shut in that area). But feel free to bite me as much as you want if I'm doing something a little bit overboard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now for the overall and more important subject. I would not fucking blame you for walking out here and right now. It would've been a good heads up saying that you weren't going to be updating or posting as often as you did due to Murdoc's post as some of use naturally assumed it was going to be like the old system. I kind feel the need for you to be just a little bit more involved as we've got kind of a bad cycle going on right now. An unmotivated host and some unmotivated players as it seems. Chim, you're not a bad host, if anything, you're one of the bests hosts here as you did go the extra mile to make things work. The amount of time and dedication you put into this really shows and it's sad to see how this has finally hit rock bottom. I would love to have you lead this project forward, but I am only one person and one single person can only do so much. I suggest the rest of you kind of talk what's going on so that we can fix this big issue here and now so that we don't let this ship sink. Btw, I'm probably going to have Citrine get out of the school dorms so that at least some of this "jumbled mess" will be removed. So my goal in the next few posts is this: 1. Wrap up the conversation with Wolt and tie up anything around 2. Figure out a way to get Citrine out of there while still in-character (she's not really doing anything for it anyway) Edit: Err...I think we should all take a breather from that. I'd...rather not start a war right now so...maybe when everyone is read(ish) we can kind of figure out where to go character movement wise to...um...make posts.

Statements like this pretty much chuck you out of qualifying for a monotype. I have a practice grass monotype I used to test a couple redemption teams and most of the Pokemon aren't even in OU (a couple are...but they fit what I needed best). Yet, it's able to take on some of the big threats with ease. The other big assumption is that it's horrible in singles and I agree it can be, but did you forget doubles and triples was a thing? A skilled player can use a monotype to take on even some fearsome challenges. And yeah, I probably couldn't meet the time requirements as most of my weekends are booked by something. Wish those participants luck though and may the best man win.

There are no branch ending as the one thing that is confirmed is the normal ending and an extended ending which are affected by some choices (such as losing to Solaris's Garchomp is believed to be part of the extended).

(Has a pretty good idea what it is considering he saw Ame make a comment on it long ago). Eh, I don't think it's a meteorite...I'm going to be mysterious again because I'm like 80% sure I'm right.

Uhh...Julia's Magnemite has Analytic and Magnet bomb...which is more or less a 120 BP (Bonus from the field) attack plus stab against a bunch of frail ice types. Something is going to die to the Magnemite and y'all are implying he can solo Julia with a Piloswine. And due to picking Vanillite...you'd have to solo the whole game up until Shelly with it. You expect to solo Corey with a Vanillite...you're going to have a bad day (both versions would devour you). And then there's Shelly who has an Armaldo and a Yanmega who can dish out a ton of damage and you're saying it's possible to do with just a Vanillite once again. And why are you all saying he'll sweep with a Swinub...quite the opposite really. Helioptile can take a special attack quite easily and given how fast Julia's team is, it'd have to be in the mid 20s to even have a shot of winning. Julia has counters to ground types (ghost...not so much) as leaders are made to counter their weaknesses like irl monotypes (just not at player level though).