Tomas Elliot

I did exactly that, and I got a message "the card was edited successfully"... Except it wasn't ;-; And thanks to all the others who posted

Oh ok, I had read somewhere that some events had changed, so I was just afraid that the Bulbasaur one wasn't there anymore... But if it is, then I'm fine

I am not going through 39 pages of messages but... I couldn't help but notice the OP doesn't list the event to get Bulbasaur by showing a Chimecho to that one guy... Was the event edited out in my absence?

Sigh... Any way to get rid of it?

Thank you all once again! Also... I've tried like ten times to update the damn trainer card now, I can see the page that is supposed to edit it and I put all the new info in, it says the card was succesfully updated... And then I still get the empty card with the "Miriam" name. Am I doing something wrong? O.o

Eh, it's hard to make a coherent team out of this... You have Ninetales to set up sun, but nothing that can exploit it! Let's proceed carefully: first thing first, what kind of team you want to create with these guys? I recommend a Sun team if you are still in Ep 5, because a certain Gym Leader will abuse a different weather later on, so yeah, taking out their (generic pronoun so I won't spoiler) weather lead and then setting up a weather of your own would be very advantageous. So, Ninetales is gonna be our mainstay. Who can benefit from sun, and be very useful for the team? Among the pokemon I see in your list, the first that comes to mind is Gigalith: not only is his weakness to water reduced by the Sun, not only does he synergize fairly well with Ninetales (he fears Special Grass-type attacks, which Ninetales can sponge easily), he also is capable of naturally learning Stealth Rocks, and trust me when I say, later on you will meet enemies who have great strategies, so putting up a great strategy of your own will be mandatory. And every great strategy needs Stealth Rocks. So, Ninetales and Gigalith. Now we need someone that can abuse the Sun, right? Luckily, we can get our hands on a very good Sun abuser: if you check out the "On the Hunt" section, you'll see there is an event to get a Bulbasaur. And seriously, there is no better Sun abuser than Venusaur in Gen 6, because with the nerf to weather, nowadays abusers need to be good at doing their job of for the team even after the weather wears off. And Venusaur has the bulk, the offensive presence and the wide movepool to do just that. So we have Ninetles, Venusaur and Gigalith. Now, what does a good in-game team need more than anything else? That's right, coverage. In any good in-game team for every Pokemon game, not just Reborn, it is mandatory to have a core consisting of a Grass, a Fire and a Water Pokemon, to take advantage from the fact that most opponents use Pokemon of a single type: assuming an opponent is using all Pokemon of the same type, if you have a Fire, a Water and a Grass Pokemon you'll be virtually guaranteed that your opponent won't be able to hit all 3 of them for supereffective, there will always be at least one you'll be able to use to defend from their offense. So now we need to add a Water-type to our team, to complement Ninetales and Venusaur: you already have two great Pokemon to fill in the role, Clawitzer and Azumarill, pick the one you like the most! DO NOT pick Barbaracle because that would make you too weak to Grass, as you already have another Rock-type. So, Ninetales-Venusaur-Azumarill (or Clawitzer)-Gigalith. This is a very good core that can address many different situations in game, and give you a basic combo to use when you push for game (NInetales-->Venusaur). Fill in the last two spots with whatever Pokemon you like the most, if you pick Clawitzer as your main Water Pokemon then I would recommend including Gardevoir, as a Fairy Pokemon can come in handy to try and win a certain hopeless boss fight. But if you run Azumarill don't include Gardevoir, two Fairies are redundant. Should you go the Clawitzer-Gardevoir route, then your team would be mostly specially-oriented, so in such a case it would be wise to throw a physical attacker like Hawlucha or Bisharp in the last spot. This is all for now, I hope this can be of help. If you need further advice on movesets and the likes, just ask

I have a lot of these, as in, I think to myself such "nicknames" and I start laughing like a silly kid while playing... However, they are all jokes in Italian, so I dunno if you guys can get them, but I'll try anyway: 1) The one I am most fond of is "Uccello Coraggioso" for Brave Bird. Explanation: "Uccello Coraggioso" is the literal translation of "Brave Bird" in Italian, however "uccello" is also the the word we use to indicate, in a rather vulgar way, the male genitalia, not unlike "cock" in English. So yeah, knowing this about "Uccello", and knowing that "Coraggioso" means "brave", "Uccello Coraggioso" would be... You get the picture. 2) Similarly, "TROPPOFORTE" (Yeah I think that in caps) for Superpower. "TROPPOFORTE" is the way Superpower was translated in Italian, but it literally means "Too Strong", so yeah, it is so cheesy and redundant I can't help but lough, and even when playing the games in English (I usually do), whenever I select the move I cannot help but scream "Go! Use TROPPOFORTE!" These are the first two that came to my mind, I'll post again if I come up with more.

Thanks! And... I tried eberything to update my trainer card, to no avail... O.o

Wait a minute, so now there's a window in the status screen of Reborn to check a Pokemon's IVs?

Ok, thanks a lot... Well, if it is something that has to do with battling on the server, then I'm afraid it will have to wait... Currently, I have no WiFi, I am relying on an internet key which has only 2 GB per month, and for this month I am already halfway to expiration... I cannot even download Reborn, let alone downloading and playing on PO!

Thank you everyone! Is good to see I wasn't forgotten So, what's this Zero Alliance thing I see everywhere around the forum?

If the trainer card cannot be removed, I would like to at least change the name to Tomas Elliot... And hi there, Hukuna-sensei. I am genuinely glad to see you after all this time, and I am particularly happy to see you in charge of the RP section. As always, week-ends are kinda odd periods for me, but starting on monay my activity here will skyrocket, and I'll make sure to drop by and play a bit. Incidentally, you know I am good at RPing and you know I am always up to helping people, so if you need a hand with anything just ask away. I would love to celebrate my return by making myself useful...

Hi everyone! It's me, Tomas Elliot, your friendly daydreamer-slash-writer wannabe who spent some time here back around the time when Gen 6 first came out! I used to be in love with this community and the game alike, hell it had actually caused me to return to the competitive Pokemon scene after a long hiatus (some of you may remember my RMTs I posted here)... And then I suddenly and utterly disappeared. Why did I just vanish without even saying goodbye? Well, it's a long story. It all started when my PC got a virus. It never recovered, and I was eventually forced to buy a new one, and just throw the old one in the trash... Along with 10 episodes of Pokemon Reborn, with all the save data of the awesome team I had built, which was eaten by the virus (imagine my pain). At least that experience taught me to keep all my save data for all my games in a USB key. After a short while, just when I was about to make my return to Reborn, I broke up with my girlfirend after 3 years of (seemingly) idilliac love. What does it have to do with Pokemon, you ask? Easy: my girlfriend LOVED Pokemon, and she had discovered them thanks to me. I had introduced her to the games, I had taught her the basics, it was a passion we would share together. Because of this, I had made a point of always playing as a female in all my Pokemon games, naming the PC "Miriam" (like my GF) and giving all my Pokemon nicknames based on songs that were important to us (classic rock mostly, a gender we both loved). So yeah, after braking up with her, I tried to play X/Y to relax, but my PC there was named Miriam; I tried to play some competitive Pokemon on Showdown, but all the Pokemon on all my teams there followed the aforementioned nickname pattern. Because of this, I just grew sick of the whole thing, and abandoned Pokemon altogether for a while. And then I just forgot about everything involving games, as more important stuff happened in my life: I successfully completed the first part of my studies at university, and I had to move to a different city to start the second part... As you can imagine, getting settled in the new environment wasn't easy, specially with the exams I had to pass all the while, so I really didn't have any time for Pokemon or other games for that matters. And then, just like it had come, the storm ended. I am really "reborn", in a way: I am starting a new life, (relatively) new studies, in a new city, with new friends, and I am slowly coming to terms with the end of my 3-years-long love story. And I started missing this place: the nice people, the fun roleplays, the chit-chat around the forum, the funny status updates, and most importantly the best Pokemon game ever, developed just for us by Ame & co. So here I am, I've come back: it was quite a masochistic decision on my part because, due to some crap that befell me during the aforementioned storm, I don't have my 3DS anymore, which means that, as ORAS come out and people start going crazy about it, exchanging friend codes, suggestions and impressions all over the forum, I'll be forced to just sit in the sidelines, biting my hands in frustration for not being able to join the fray. But alas, I still have Reborn. If this community is still half the great place I remember, I won't need anything else. Long story short: I am back! I wonder if the people I used to know (Ame aside, of course) are still around? There are a couple in particular I would love to talk to once again... EDIT: GAH how do I remove that trainer card from my sig? The name on it is still "Miriam"!

Personally I still consider the 252 HP - 252 SpAtk - Assault Vest - 4 attacks to be the best set, given the insanely wide special movepool Goodra offers... It can tank any special attack in existance and hit back hard!

Each generation has a rodent you find early on in the game, a bird-related family that you can find early on and turns out to be pretty good, a cute electric-type rodent, and a cute legendary Pokemon. Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, Manaphy and Victini (and rumors are going rampant that we will soon get a Gen 6 one too) have stolen a place in our hearts for the importance they have in the movies they appear in, for their effectiveness in battle, and of course for their cute appearance. These are, by far, my favorite legendaries. Hell, I don't know what I wouldn't do to get one of these in a Gen 6 game, just so I can pet them on the Pokemon Amie...

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Too lazy to read through the whole topic, if I made points already made by other people just ignore this post please. 1) Blaziken is broken in itself. It is arguably the most broken non-legedary around right now. So we shouldn't be here talking about banning its Mega form, we should ban the guy altogether. 2) Gengar gets Perish Song. I found that out only recently. A set consisting of Perish Song, Substitute, Protect and Shadow Ball allows it, thanks to Shadow Tag, to kill any defensive Pokemon (most notably Chansey/Blissey and Ferrothorn) without them being able to do nothing in return. Basically, it tells you "you use stall, you cannot play Pokemon" which is something that should never be allowed, regardless of how much I dislike stall. A single Pokemon should never be able to cripple a whole playing style. 3) Kangaskhan was banned from PO beta (dunno what Smogon did on SD, as I haven't been much active lately), but I am not sure it deserved to be. Ironically, regular Gengar (the Sub-disable set) shuts it down easily, and there are a lot of physical walls that won't even take that much damage, being able to recover off anything it throws at them and retalitate or just phaze away: Skarmory and Vaporeon come to mind, unless I have been missing something. 4) Lucario is... Debatable. It can be easily killed by an insane amount of things, but the problem is that said things cannot switch into it. Scenario: a Pokemon of yours that has a type disadvantage against Lucario kills something, opponent sends in Lucario, and at this point you are screwed, because chances are that the insanely powerful, Adaptability-boosted Close Combat will be able to 2KO anything you have in your team: yes, you maybe have stuff that could tank a hit from the guy and kill back, but can your Pokemon take TWO hits? This is what you have to wonder. The problem with Luke is not revenge-killing it, it is switching something into it. Well, these were my two cents into the discussion. I hope I helped put things in the right perspective.

  Yep, I've seen that too. Back when I made that post Charizard X used to lose 50% HPs to rocks and then revert to its Mega form, but it was probably a bug that has been fixed since, considering that it works correctly now.

I'll be busy 'till January the 8th due to university exams but afterwards, except another exam on January the 13th, I'll be relatively free, and I could help you if you want, I am quite good at this thing, even if I rarely play competitively for reasons that it would be too long to explain...

Water Pulse and Dark Pulse on Blastoise over Scald and Dragon Pulse. Water Pulse has more power, and you need Dark Pulse to kill those pesky ghosts attempting to spinblock on the switch. If you want Deoxys to act as a taunter instead of laying Spikes, consider the Speed form over the Defense form. It can even carry enough Atk to nail Absol and Ttar with Superpower, which they will never see coming. I'll give more detals on this if required. That Heatran set NEEDS Specs. You don't switch it into a ground-type period. You have Gliscor for that. Speaking of Gliscor, get Toxic back in there, you are running the standard Toxic staller set without Toxic, which doesn't make much sense, also considering that Aqua Tail doesn't really add anything to EQ's coverage (you still have no way of touching any Grass-type Pokmon). And get Seismic Toss on Chansey over Toxic, i is useful to break so many Subs, end some stall wars, and above all avoid getting Taunted to death... Also, I don't really like Scarfchomp this gen, there are so many physical sweepers you could run over that, but I know by experience that people dislike it when they are told to drop one Pokemon altogether, so yeah, your choice...