CURIE

Two more support Pokemon confirmed: Frogadier and Eevee

Dang, I was hoping this would be a comparison between the two games to see which is better in which areas, and maybe which one's better overall. Should've known better considering it's Team Showcase.

F12 resets the game ya know. And if it's too late and you've already saved, you can breed it.

Well, it seems my waiting so long for Mr. Taylor and Marcus was pointless, since nothing came of it anyway :\ Oh well, still glad to be able to get back to this!

Edward dropped to the floor, the pole hitting the ground first, his feet second, his knees third, and his left hand fourth. Looking at his left hand, he noticed the bluish electricity was still there, indicating he still had one more use of Kenny Power. The impact kinda stung, but he had no time to deal with that! He jumped back up, spun around to Kenny, pole ready, and- oh. Oooohhhh. Well that was a bit anticlimatic. Kenny was laying on the floor unconscious, with one arm completely severed. Something weird was happening to him as usual, the halves of his body shrouded in a glowy light: One half blue, the other black. Edward had a hunch that this signified some kind of inner struggle like Enya was going through. He was wondering how he could help, when another trapdoor stole the body, just like it did a few minutes ago. "OH COME ON BANK, BE MORE ORIGINAL" he said to whoever activated the trap, in case they could hear him. "You JUST did that trick!" And then the announcement came that the work day was over. Already? It had only seemed like a few minutes. Guess time flies when you're having fun. Prometheus was calling to him, telling him the gang had to go discuss something. Oh boy, are they gonna be stoked when they hear what he can do now!

Okay, I think I figured out the exact way to get that Spinel Town event to activate, and added it to the OP. I actually discovered this a few days ago, but had forgotten to post it here. Sorry.

Think it's been long enough for you to start bunnying Mr. Taylor?

You know what we WON'T be getting is Mega Machamp, cuz of Pokken. All Pokemon in that game have a "rage mode" that's essentially a super form. Lucario, Gardevoir and Blaziken mega evolve, and Machamp... glows red.

So I guess the fact that we have a "rage mode" for all Pokemon that becomes a Mega form for those who have it, means that Mega Machamp or Mega Legendary Beasts will never happen... Also, Gardevoir's gonna wreck Machamp, just like she does in the actual games.

I haven't gotten there on my 6th gen mono run, but I have a plan or two. First of all, I'm going to use my Sylveon's signature one-use-per-battle ultimate move: The Nuclear Trump Card, and see how much damage it does. It probably won't OHKO it, so my real plan is to lead with Skrelp holding a Quick Claw, soft reset until the thing kicks in, and Toxic it. Then, when Skrelp inevitably dies, I'll go to Inkay who's holding a Focus Sash and use Embargo. Now, El can't use a Full Restore! From there it's just a matter of using Meowstic(male)'s Light Screen and Sylveon to tank until it goes down.

This just in: Pikachu, Gardevoir, and SUICUNE are playable! Whaddya know, that's all 3 of my predictions at once. Well actually, Suicune wasn't exactly the quadruped I predicted. Also, there are "support pokemon" you can use to help you out in some way. Not sure how that works, but anyway the confirmed support Pokemon so far are Fennekin, Emolga, Snivy, and... Lapras? Lapras kinda seems a bit big for the role considering the sizes of the other three... The game uses a D-pad rather than a joystick, they probably did that for its inevitable Wii U release. And if you live in Japan, you'll have a chance to play it early on the weekend of January 30th-Febuary 1st.

Well, considering Milotic is tanky, and it's my favorite Pokemon of all anyway, yeah... Already having Special Defense as her highest stat, She can do rest/sleep talk to activate Marvel Scale and defend against Physical moves too! Also, she has access to recover which apparently a lot of tanky water types wished they could have. But latley with my 6th gen run, I've gotta say I'm really into Slurpuff. He's not competitive by any means, but in Reborn he's done miracles, including TAKING DOWN SOLARIS' GARCHOMP (almost) SINGLE HANDEDLY. Already having a high defense, he can use Cotton Guard only twice to become all but immune to Physical attacks, and can use Draining Kiss (which can be made even stronger by a few fake tears) to replenish what HP he did lose. Plus, he has Play Rough, a consistently powerful move to fall back on.

Update 42.5: Test battle against Serra I decided that since I compared Sylveon to Rainbow Dash earlier, I might name her after the pony. Called her Dashie, a common nickname for her (forgot if it was just fan invented or actually used in the show), I didn’t want to straight up call her Rainbow Dash because that’s already a thing in Reborn. I really wanna find an excuse to use that in a future run… I like it as a name, but it seems kinda akward to be named after someone who can go 10 times the speed of sound, when you’re the slowest Pokemon on the team. Anyway, I’m not going to actually fight Serra to progress the story until episode 15, but I did some test battles to see what she’s like now, before the field effect. The most trouble I got from her was actually her first Pokemon, Cloyster. Yeah, it’s the infamous Skill Link-Shell Smash-Icicle Spear Cloyster. If I led with Pumpkin and started off with screens, it would use Shell Smash and sweep everyone, even with Reflect up. I tried leading with Apollo, who was faster than it and could easily KO it with Thunderbolt, but it had a Focus Sash and would always skip the Shell Smash and go straight to Icicle Spear, which barley kills Apollo every time. I tried going back to buy a Snowball and make Apollo hold it, but apparently I was wrong in thinking it absorbed the damage. What I ended up having to do was bring out Strawberry and use Cotton Guard twice, using a Berry Ice Cream in between uses, then spam Draining Kiss to victory. I had to try this multiple times though, because that Cloyster got more critical hits in a row than I’ve ever seen in my entire lifetime of playing Pokemon. Next was Abomasnow, who obviously went down in one hit to Braveheart’s Flamethrower, though not before making it hail. Next was Avalugg, and I switched to Pumpkin to use this oppritunity to set up screens. Then came out Dashie. I knew how tanky Avalugg was, so I was going to reduce its bulk to nothing with a single attack. I used Dashie’s signature Nuclear Trump Card attack- and it had Sturdy. NOPE, restart. I’m not wasting such a special move on something that will survive it. So the next time, after setting up the screens with Pumpkin, I got one Psychic in (to negate Sturdy, ya know) before switching to Braveheart, using Flamethrower, and hoping for the best. Surprisingly, I did get the best, as Flamethrower took it down in one hit. I guess Avalugg’s tankiness is just limited to physical moves, huh. Braveheart had taken an Earthquake coming in, surviving with the help of Pumpkin’s Reflect, and was at too low health to really be useful anymore. Next up was Lapras. Turns out this thing is the special tank to Avalugg’s physical, even being able to survive a couple of Apollo’s Thunderbolts before confusion haxing him. You know what that means. NUKE TIME! Wait, it SURVIVED???????? Okay, let me take this time to express my issue with Pixilate. Turns out in Reborn, pixilated normal moves have their type changed AFTER damage calculation, rather than before like in the real Pokemon games. This means they can’t hit Ghost types, don’t get STAB, and in the case of Dashie, don’t get a boost from the Pixie Plate. I also didn’t have the Misty Field up (I thought I wouldn’t need it), so that means rather than 540, it only did 260 base damage, which is apparently enough for Lapras to barley survive when at full health. I REALLY hope this is fixed by episode 15. So, take 27. When Lapras was coming out, I switched back to Pumpkin to set up the Misty Field, THEN went to Dashie to drop the nuke. THAT was enough to one-shot the Lapras. Next stop, Froslass. I had switched Apollo with Jack this time around, hoping he could do something with his super effective priority Shadow Sneak, but alas, it was not to be. Froslass only took half damage, and one shot Jack in return. Dashie had to come back in and clean things up, bypassing Froslass’ Snow Cloak with Swift- oh wait, the Pixilate thing. Right. Okay, Dashie had to come back in and clean things up with Moonblast, hoping she didn’t get haxed out by Snow Cloak. Finally, Cryognal. Dashie probably could have taken it on her own, but I decided to give Strider a chance with Smack Down. Didn’t expect him to OHKO it, but whaddya know, he did. And that was Serra. Definitely the most trouble I’ve had with a gym battle since episode 13, and I’m kinda nervous since this is WITHOUT a field effect on her side. Please Ame, if you make Serra even harder next episode, at least fix Pixilate!

Update 42: A new team member! It’s been a while since I updated this, and that’s because I’ve ton a crapton of stuff since then. First of all, the new Pokemon. In the poisonous waters of… Well, anywhere actually as long as the water is poisonous, I can now get Skrelp since I have the good rod. I don’t think I’ll actually use it as a team member, but I do know I’ll make use of its Toxic. It’s the only 6th Gen Pokemon to learn it by level up, and of course we’re not getting it by TM anytime soon. I also filled my Pokedex some more with a Dedenne from Taanzan Cove and a Furfrou from the forest. Am I missing any other 6th gen Pokemon I can get right now? And now for the standard grinding. As is the norm, I’ve grinded the whole team up to the level cap of 50. Insert any changes in movesets. Pumpkin learned Misty Terrain, which I replaced for Charm so he could help support his new teammate. So about that new teammate. Remember Hardhead? The male Litleo that I kept around as a spare Headbutt slave? I grinded him all the way up to evolution, because at 33 he learns Echoed Voice. You see, my plan was to go back to episode 12.1, where you could breed TM moves, and breed Echoed Voice onto a baby Eevee. But as it turns out, Echoed Voice apparently was bugged and unable to be bred, and no one had noticed until now. Of course, that bug will never be fixed, since the breeding system has moved on to Gen 6 mechanics starting in episode 13. So new plan, we’re going with Breedee and leveling her up to 45, preventing her from evolving the whole way so that she can learn Trump Card. Since I was going through all this trouble, I decided I might as well go the whole distance and EV train her. Gave her 252 in Special Attack, and split the defenses evenly. When she evolved, she didn’t have Pixilate like I wanted, but I easily fixed that with an Ability Capsule. Anyway, about the move I went through so much effort to get. Trump Card is a move that gets stronger the less PP it has, starting at 40, then going to 50, 60, 80, and suddenly jumping up to 200. Before a major battle (like say, Serra), I’ll go waste 4 Trump Cards on random wild Pokemon to give her a one-time use super attack. And BOY is it super. With STAB, the added Pixilate bonus, and the Pixie Plate bonus (I gave Strawberry the Metronome back), the attack will have a base power of 468, 540 if it’s in a Misty Field! She pretty much becomes this: Her other moves by the way, are Moonblast (a consistently powerful move to fall back on), Swift (with Pixilate, this is pretty much the strongest never-miss move in existence. Plus, it’s a spread move), and Misty Terrain (see above description of Trump Card). Her weakness? Well, apart from being the slowest member of the team, she has the same problem as Strawberry: Her attacks, while powerful, are all of one type. For now, at least, maybe I’ll give her some other moves when I get the TMs for them. And when I get the Tutor for Hyper Voice… Hehehehehe… Sylveon here has, by far, the most effort I’ve put in to any Pokemon in this run, maybe even the most out of any Pokemon ever (even though half of it was futile because of that stupid bug that will never be fixed). I hope she doesn’t disappoint. By the way, after all this stuff I’ve gone through with her, I still have yet to come up with a nickname! Any ideas?

Obviously the the protagonist used would be Vero. He did win the poll and is much more iconic looking after all. Also, the story would follow all the events needed for the secret ending.

Give us Mega Milotic already! You gave Gyrados one and she's a specially oriented counterpart of him!

Does this have to include making retarded decisions in battle? (Okay I should quit hating, I've heard that in the current generation Ash has actually been improving and is evolving all his Pokemon save Pikachu)