EternalJinn

I've really identified with my protagonist - the silent type with good intentions.

Caz - you evil genius. This game's storyline is so addictive and enticing that I've literally ended up staying up all night at the end of the past two episodes contemplating the possibilities. I want to thank you for this game and shake you over these cliffhangers.

Here's my team after about 63 hours with my main team at the top of the box:

Its just as good if not better for some. Rejuvenation offers several modes for the gameplay including Intense, Reborn, and Normal modes to offer different levels of difficulty based on the preference of the player. Highly recommended

The boy with the spiked tooth necklace appears to be Fern while the man with spiked bracelets might be DJ Arclight

You might want to try asking in the Reborn City help threads

Personally the anime seems to have taken a major step backward after the most recent season in kalos where we saw some actual character development with Ash as a trainer as opposed to previous seasons like Unova. Also, I think it may be possible for ash to have more than one fully evolved starter like he did in Sinnoh if he ends up catching more than one.

If you have any shadow pokemon on hand some of them can resist mewtwo's shadow attacks, especially torkoal.

This sounds like a fantastic idea. I think it'd be really interesting to see how the story would play out with multiple heroes of reborn taking on gym leaders and fighting team meteor. Can't wait to see how to develops!

While the text is really hard to read I think the style and general idea is great. As soon as the texting is fixed I think it'd be a nice reference for new comers to the game.

Yeah I really didn’t think through all the runs I’ve done where it only took one good part flying mon to save my butt, especially swoobat and jumpluff. In the past I guess I’ve just found some types easier than others but this run is definitely reminding me to appreciate some of my older mons. Summary 2-2.5: Florinia put me to work with that Cradily. I could get my other pokemon to take down every single member but that Cradily would sweep my flying types and Lysandre 6-1 every time so I came up with one of my kick-grass strategies and the battle was a cake walk from there. Florinia starts with Cacturne and I come in with Arrow to lay down some aerial ace damage. She comes back with spikes and a buncha super potions but Arrow moves through the healing and pierces Cacturne for its last bit of hp. Next up is Breloom who gets one shot by another aerial ace from Arrow. Tropius comes out next and gets a little annoying with harvest sitrus berries; we use aerial ace and it counters with d-dance but a crit aerial ace saves our butts. I switch it out for my ace in the hole, Anna, while Florinia sends in Grotle. I have Anna use Attract thanks to an earlier stop at the game corner. Grotle becomes completely immobilized as we set up calm minds. Anna proceeds to knock out Grotle and Rini’s Gourgeist leaving the desert rose with her last thorn in my side, Cradily. I have Anna use attract which completely immobilizes Cradily and allows us to knock it out with a barrage of confusion and air cutter attacks straight through the leftover healing. With no pokemon left Florinia admits her null hypothesis was a little misguided and we win the Canopy Badge. So after the gym Rini points us in the direction of yet another overgrown Tangrowth under the control of a different psychopath. Along the way we manage to catch an Emolga nicknamed Sparky and Jump evolves into Jumpluff who’s really boosted in the forest. After taking out some meteor goons, we find ole red scarf waiting for us: The battle with Taka went pretty quick. Turn 1 I send out Anna against Lileep and start off immediately with attract. I proceed to set up calm minds while Lileep remains immobilized and follow up with a nice air cutter for the ko. The same thing happens to Gligar and a critical hit allows me to ohko Tangrowth after that. I decide to test my luck by keep Anna out against Taka’s Klefki and it falls to two air cutters after Anna takes some damage from foul play. Taka sends out his last pokemon and ace Chatot but it gets knocked out by a crit air cutter as well. (I played the same battle without all the crits and get the same result: Anna is too OP) After getting yelled at by Heather for saving the day, we head through the second forest in the Beryl ward. I free the rest of the officers and eventually end up in a showdown with Taka and ZEL: Taka and ZEL together are normally kind of a challenge for me to take on but with the combination of Swoobat and Jumpluff it became one of the easiest battles so far. I start off with Anna and Jump against Glaceon and Lileep. Jump puts Glaceon to sleep with some powder while Anna seduces Lileep with attract; Glaceon takes a nice snooze and Lileep is immobilized by attraction. Anna uses attract on Glaceon in case it wakes up but it keeps snoozing while Jump hits Glaceon with a barrage of Bullet seed but Lileep manages to break through attraction and pull off an ancient power against Anna to put her in the yellow. After that Jump keeps attacking Glaceon while ZEL tries to heal and Anna sets up while Lileep keeps up its googly eyes instead of attacking. I use Jump's turn to heal Anna while she proceeds to knock out Glaceon with backup from Jump and Lileep avoids the attack but stays crazy in love. ZEL sends out Jolteon next but a combo from Jump and Anna takes it out as well with Jump only sustaining minimal damage from a double kick and continued immobilization from Lileep. The battle proceeds in a similar pattern with Jump and Anna taking out Espeon and Umbreon while taking out Taka’s Lileep, Gligar, and Tangrowth. With all of Zel’s pokemon out, Anna and Jump proceed to knock out Chatot and Klefki ftw. Before I face Corey I decide to do some grinding to train up the 11 mons I’ve caught so far to get everyone up to speed; Trainquill evolves into Unfezant and Pidgeotto evolves into Pidgeot in the process. After knocking out some hypnotized officers in the gym, we head to the battlefield to face the self-righteous bastard: Corey definitely got tougher in hardcore, especially with some of his opening ice moves, but regardless we had to put him in his place. Corey sends out Qwilfish while we send out Sparky. Sparky uses Nuzzle while Qwilfish counters with a powered up bubble beam but we knock it out with electro ball next turn. I switch out Sparky for Pidgeot while Corey sends out Swalot. We finally get rid of the field effect with a gust from Pidgeot but it gets frozen by an ice beam from Swalot. I switch out Pidgeot for good ole Anna the Asskicker and she eats a hit from Swalot’s ice beam. Anna proceeds to seduce Swalot with an attract and immobilizes it with love. Anna continues to set up calm minds while Swalot gazes at its glorious siren. We get Anna healed up and start to sweep with a ohko confusion on Swalot. We do the same to Nidoqueen, Scolipede, and Skuntank with a barrage of confusion and air slash attacks until Corey is left with his last pokemon. Corey sends out Crobat and attempts to flinch us with Air Slash but to no avail. Anna knocks out Crobat with one last confusion and we win the battle. We send Corey into a suicidal state of enlightenment that results in his sad ending. We leave from the bridge and head towards the Lapis Ward to check out the explosion near the staircase and get our 3rd official gym badge. Current Team and Rotation Mons: I’m starting to realize how ridonkulous of a pokemon Swoobat really is with the simple calm mind combo. I’m thinking the next gyms with bug and ghost type leaders will put a temporary stop to Anna’s rampage for now so this entire journey doesn’t become completely redundant but if that’s not the case I might put a limit on when I can actually battle with Anna. The team has gotten to that OP stage and that’s only with the mons that are currently available. Once Surskit learns baton pass and later quiver dance as a Masquirain I can pretty much set up against any major boss fight so I won’t rely on Anna alone. I’m gonna wait a couple of days to grieve for Corey and finish some applications irl. -Till next time.

I definitely expect it to be tougher than a normal monotype with the combined boss advantages of some major bosses(Julia, Florinia's Cradily, Sigmund, Blake, etc.) plus the fact that its reborn hardcore, but that's all part of the fun I expect from trying to complete it. I'm probably gonna catch almost every flying type available to keep up with hardcore's crazy leveling.