CURIE

If this were a serious fight, like Death Battle, there would be no question that Superman would win. Sure, Batman does have feats that call his status as "normal human" into question, but Superman has survived multiple supernovas, punched through dimensions, carried the Earth around, flies at multiple times the speed of light, kicked the crap out of Goku (no it wasn't "biased", do your own research and you'll see for yourself how badly the stats go in Supe's favor), has overcome his own weakness to Kryptonite, and could even put up a good fight against Kirby (and if you just now thought "that's not as impressive a feat as the others you just said", then you have NO idea of Kirby's true power). Batman can't outsmart Superman either, you try outsmarting a guy who has a mind that's a bajilion times faster than a super computer. However, this is a movie, which might as well be a popularity contest. And we all know who's more popular...

Update 40: More fun with caves Opening the door to the railnet figuratively opens the door for a bunch of other stuff I wanted to get done. First of all, if you keep heading straight ahead from the entrance, you’ll come by a cracked wall that can be Rock Smashed to reveal a secret cave. There are several of these things throughout the railnet, but this one contains the House Key- finally allowing me to access the move relearner again. Now I don’t have to feel bad about using all my Pokemon’s moves anymore. Also, the Noibats here are of the highest levels I’ll come across, going up to level 41 (7 levels before evolution). I really don’t feel like having a Noivern on my team right now, but I caught one for later in case I change my mind (not to mention expert mode). I intended to keep looking until I found one that was exactly level 41, so that I’d have the minimum amount of grinding ahead of me, but then… Shiny happened. The subrailnet (the room with all the Arons) has a few things I needed too- the TM for flash and a guy who gives me another sticker. I taught flash to Sweetie so that she could do something more than smell good, and as for the sticker, well actually there’s nothing I wanted from the floor it opened up. Still good to have it though, because it gets me a step closer to floors with stuff I DO want. As soon as we got out of THAT cave, it was time for another one, the Tanzaan Mountain. Not much happened there. Now, the next thing to do is go into Chrysolia Forest to head for Spinel Town, and I have plenty of time to do that today, but I want to wait until tomorrow. It just so happens that tomorrow is a windy day, and I need that weather for something special.

Gender changing would be cool and helpful for breeding, but to make sense it would have to be done through some kind of magic rather than surgery. Because keep in mind when a guy gets a sex change, he can't suddenly get pregnant and give birth because his DNA and internal organs say he's still male.

Update 39: Sirius The split in the story here is that when you reach the floor where Connal is keeping Heather, you have a choice to either fight him and release Heather, or move on to the top floor where you would end up fighting Sirius instead. I scouted out the short term outcomes of both choices, and it turns out that Sirius’ team has higher levels than Connal’s does. Also, if you say no to fighting Connal, he reveals that he’s sticking around Team Meteor due to hearing a name being tossed around that he’s familiar with, and is curious to find out more. So, harder battle + more information = probably the route you’re supposed to take for the secret ending. Obviously I led with Pumpkin and started off by setting up some screens. While I did, my ally actually made one smart choice by Shadow Balling Chandelure and almost KOed it. I tried switching to Strider, but as soon as he came out he got confused. I tried Water Pulse anyway, and actually hit, but by then Sirius had already used an Ultra Potion on it. But then my ally Nidoking finally came through and used Shadow Ball on the right target for once, taking Chandelure down! All this time, Hitmontop’s attempts at doing damage were kinda sucking. Since it wasn’t much of a threat, my plan was to keep it alive as long as possible and take out everything that appears on the right side, one by one. Unfortunatley, Cain didn’t understand my plan and kept whaling on it. Out came Manectric, so I switched to Jack, who would resist its electric moves and avoid Hitmontop completely. Didn’t expect Hitmontop to aim a High Jump Kick at Strider just as he switched out, though. The resulting recoil damage almost killed it, but Sirius fixed that with an Ultra Potion one turn later. Manectric had Fire and Ice Fang, which I also didn’t expect, but it didn’t matter that much because a Phantom Force and a field boosted Shadow Sneak were enough to take it down. Next up was Honchkrow, so Strawberry was the obvious choice. Just then my screens went down, so I spent two turns setting up Cotton Guard to compensate before using Draining Kiss. In those three turns, Honchckrow WRECKED Cain, killing half his team (yes, one of his Pokemon died every freaking turn) and leaving him with Haunter. Out came Serviper, and since I had no screens I had to switch to Pumpkin, hoping he wouldn’t get one shot. He didn’t, but guess who did? Haunter. Man, Cain was doing kinda well at first, and now he’s just getting the crap beat out of him. Since Cain was doing so badly anyway, I went with a strategy that would sacrifice him. After setting up a reflect, DiggersbyTho came out… and was promptly shot down in one hit by a critical hit super effective Aqua Tail from Serviper. Well, never mind then. I sent out Apollo this time, and went for a Thunderbolt (I would have used Parabolic Charge first to reactivate the field, but I didn’t know how long he could last with Hitmontop out there). By the way, what was Cain doing this whole time you ask? Using Sludge Bomb on Serviper. WHAT THE HECK CAIN. Suprisingly, Apollo outsped everyone on the field, and destroyed Serviper in one hit with his attack! Glad to see he’s useful again now that he’s evolved. Unfortunatley, he seems to be the “glass cannon” type, because he died in one hit immediately afterward to Hi Jump Kick. Last guy out was Probopass, so I went back to Jack and finally took out that Hitmontop with Phantom Force. From there, it was two against one, so obviously I wo- no wait, it was just one on one. Yeah, Cain sucked so hard this battle (oh crap I just realized what I said) that Muk was his last Pokemon, and Probopass just took it down. Right, well It didn’t matter much anyway. Jack was tougher and dealt more damage, so a bit of Phantom Force spam later I had won the batt- THIS THING HAS REST? I had to change to Strider and Spam Water Pulse, and only after getting it to be slower, asleep, AND confused, was I able to take it down. Ughh it’s a good thing this came out last, it took WAY more hits than any one Pokemon could possibly survive. After beating that battle and the subsequent cutscene, don’t just run out the door and down the stairs. In the bottom left corner of the room you fight Sirius in, there’s an item ball with a key you need to progress. If you miss it you’ll have to come all the way back up again, like I did. Also, in case you were worried about how I didn’t take Heather back from Connal, she’s with the rest of the gang in the next scene. I guess the other kids came in and got her while Cain and I were fighting Sirius.

or, you can try pressing X to cancel the evolution

Update 38: Yureyu Remember when I said it wouldn’t be long until I had better healing items? Turns out, I can get them now! As fate would have it, today was a sunny day, which means there was a girl outside the Grand Hall selling Ice Cream. If you buy one from her, of any flavor, and give it to the kid in the candy shop who’s blocking the vending machine, he’ll leave. Now I can buy Berry Flavored Ice Cream, which heals 90 HP compared to Super Potion’s 50! Normally, I’d have to wait until I got to Spinel Town to buy these, and then would have to take one all the way back to Reborn City to unlock the vending machine there. With all the preparations done, it was finally time to go rescue those kidnapped kids. I’ve been keeping them waiting for WAY too long. I used Strength to get into the railnet, and if you hadn’t picked up the Dull Key all the way back when I told you to, NOW is the point where you can get to it again. Also, on the way to Yureyu headquarters, I found another Link Stone, meaning I can evolve my Spritzee without having to worry about not having one for as soon as I get a Phantump. And so Cain and I began the raid on the ruined office building. The battles there were in the short circuited factory field, which I don’t get. How does an office building constitute as a factory? Anyway, Cain’s Nidoking has Shadow Ball, a move that is boosted by the field we’re battling in. Not often that a doubles partner does that, usually they’re weakened by the field if anything. Granted it doesn’t matter that much if he doesn’t know when to use it. “Oh look I’m fighting a steel type, I should use Poison Tail!” No wonder Ame says she loses brain cells writing for him. Since Nidoking’s a Ground type, Parabolic Charge wrecked the house with most of the grunts, making Apollo the most useful he’s been in a while. Still not ready to evolve him yet, though. Apollo reached level 48 while we were fighting, and since it was close enough I just used a rare candy to boost him to 49, finally allowing him to learn Thunderbolt, and therefore, to evolve. Hopefully, I can start using him again.

Update 37: Even more hard battles Now that Aya was out of the way, I decided to take a break from the story to do some of the other quests in the wasteland. I know the rewards for those things are mostly Pokemon I can’t use, but come on, how can you turn down a battle against a level 65 Medicham? So first of all, Spectral Kiki. So it turns out if you beat Solaris, she STILL blames you for her death, instead of questioning how Garchomp was still able to kill her (then again, it isn’t really her and just a Ghastly trying to mess with you). Her Medicham is always shiny, to show off the new “spectral” shiny look that this game has. But since Ame didn’t give the female sprite a makeover, and the Medicham’s gender isn’t set, you have a 50/50 chance of actually seeing it the way it was meant to be seen. Led with Jack, thinking he had the type advantage, but noooo, it has Ice Punch. Take two, leading with Pumpkin. Instead of Reflect, I go for Charm first. And second. And third. And finally I put up Reflect, all without fainting. Pumpkin seems to be pretty good at tanking for a Meowstic! Once Medicham was at minimum damage output, THEN I switched to Jack. Went for Trick or Treat, remembered it doesn’t work, then went for Phantom force. Half damage. Medicham then started spamming Meditate, in an attempt to undo what Pumpkin had done to it. But it was too late, by the time it attacked again, Jack had vanished in preparation for his final Phantom Force. The Medicham went down next turn. Weirdly enough, neither he nor Pumpkin leveled up from that battle… Next up, Mr. Bigglesworth. Led with Sassy and Braveheart, and instead of one-shotting both of the Trubbish minions at once like I easily could have, I took an extra turn to kill them with Charge Beam and Headbutt, in order to get their respective boosts (I wouldn’t need to do that with Headbutt though if Moxie worked properly). That may have been a bad idea though, because one of the Trubbishes knew Toxic Spikes, which instantly poisons both my Pokemon in this field. It didn’t hinder me in the battle, at least, because one turn later the level 60 Garbador succumbed to the might of a Moxie Boosted Headbutt followed immediately by a +2 supereffective Psychic. And since I had the Odd Keystone with me, I decided I might as well do the Spiritomb quest. Needless to say, it wasn’t nearly as intense or interesting as the previous two battles. Going through the caves, I got a TON of cool stuff. An extra Focus Sash, more Heart Scales and Shards, a Max Revive, a bunch of sellable items, and a bunch of evolutionary stones to sell (I only need 1 Shiny Stone, 1 Dusk Stone, 1 Sun Stone, and some Link Stones to complete the Gen 6 Pokedex), and a Pixie Plate for Strawberry. And maybe some other Pokemon later on down the road... With this sudden windfall, and the money from the new trainers in Opal Ward, I went on a bit of a shopping spree. Went out and bought all the EV training items, stocked up on status healers, got some Pokeballs, the works. I didn’t get any more Super Potions though, because it won’t be long before I can finally start buying some healing items more powerful than them.

So Smogon said the testing would last until January 4, and the voting will take place "no more than a week after that". So will we finally get the verdict on this Sunday?

BRACE YOURSELVES, NERF INCOMING!!! Though it wouldn't matter that much since I've only bought Cotton Candy for one thing: the sticker quest.

You forgot Kirby, he's powerful enough to destroy worlds with a single punch, tanked galaxy busting attacks, and fought Dragon Ball Z character Majin Buu and won, WHILE being hugely nerfed. Anyway as for my favorite type, well, at first I didn't really have one (if I was asked I would've just said Water, since my favorite Pokemon happens to be a Water type), but recently I gotta say I really like Fairy. So many people are fanboys of stuff like Dragon and Dark types because "hurr durr dey look kool so dat mens thay is powrfulz" but then Fairy comes in and starts wrecking all those "cool" pokemon while looking cute and fluffy and adorable (and whatever Gardevoir is. By the way, that's another reason I love Fairy, Gardevoir's one of my favorites). Just look at the mascots for X and Y, before the games came out, everyone was getting Y because Yveltal looked "cooler", and then the games came out and guess which one of the two outclassed the other in every single way? Also I love how much hate the Fairy types generate, if you see someone on here whose favorite type is Dragon or Dark, you can almost guarantee that their least favorite type is Fairy, because they're mad that something pink is better than their "cool" pokemon. Also, in my 6th gen monorun of Reborn, my Slurpuff took down Solaris' Garchomp almost single handedly! And finally, Pixilate. That thing is like, the best ability ever.

Update 36: Aya If you haven’t noticed, I was not looking forward to this battle. Remember back in episode 13, when I said I wanted to fight the next two gym leaders at their best? Well, the new field effects are as if Ame saw that post and was like “CHALLENGE ACCEPTED”. Aya was already a notoriously difficult gym leader, and her field does something for almost every one of her attacks, from making the already ridiculous Sludge Wave spam even worse to turning Stealth Rock into an instantaneous attack with DOUBLE the power. There’s nothing about the field that I can use to my advantage with my limited choice of Pokemon, and no way to eliminate the field at all. But the worst part is Bulldoze and Earthquake. If this was pre episode 14 Aya, my MVP this match would be DiggersbyTho and her Bulldoze, but the wasteland field reduces Bulldoze and Earthquake to ONE FOURTH their power, making them pretty much useless except for speed reduction on Bulldoze’s part. Now, I’ll have to rely on Strength and Swords Dance when using my would-be MVP. There is something good to be said about the new Aya, however: I REALLY like her transition image now that she’s not going all Miley Cyrus on us. I started with Pumpkin and DiggersbyTho, setting up screens and a Swords Dance on the first turn, hoping not to get sweeped instantly. Thankfully that didn’t happen, and from there Diggersby managed to one-shot both of the first two opponents (Tentacruel and Nidoqueen) with Strength, while Pumpkin offered the screen support. Things were going well, until the next two came out. Both of Aya’s best at once, Dragalage and Gengar. Pumpkin went down, and was replaced by Strider, who I thought would help against the Gengar. Here was my plan: The Gengar sees my Dark type Greninja and uses Focus Blast, just after Greninja uses Water Pulse to kill or almost kill it. Focus Blast either misses or doesn’t do much damage if it hits. It went almost as planned (Water Pulse almost killed it), but then Focus Blast not only landed, but got a critical hit and one shot Strider! By the way, on this turn I was healing DiggersbyTho so she wouldn’t get rekt by Dragalage. Kinda at a loss of what to do, I just threw Braveheart and used Flamethrower, knowing Aya would spend the turn using an Ultra Potion. And as fate would have it, I got a revenge critical hit for a revene one-shot KO! Meanwhile, Diggersby landed Strength and almost killed Dragalage (It SURVIVED a Swords Dance boosted Strength from a Huge Power Diggersby? WHAT IS THAT THING?). It used Dragon Pulse on Braveheart, got a critical hit as well, and also almost killed her. Critical hits galore. Knowing Braveheart was either going to get healed or get killed, I decided to gamble that she was faster than the new Pokemon (Drapion) and went for the Flamethrower. Meanwhile, DiggersbyTho kept Dragalage busy with Strength spam. I was right, but unfortunately I didn’t get any critical hits this time, and only did half damage to it. Understandably, Braveheart went down shortly afterward. On a brighter note, Aya didn’t use any more Ultra Potions, so Dragalage went down. So now it was DiggersbyTho and Sassy against Drapion and Venasaur. I also had Strawberry, but… I don’t think he would’ve done much there. Knowing Drapion could one-shot Sassy and it was slower than the rabbit, I used Strength on it despite the Venasaur having more health. From there the Venasaur was quite literal case of Sassy taking out the trash (‘cause you know, the field effect is… okay fine I’ll stop with the puns). After all my dread of this battle, it was the third(?) gym battle I won on my first try! As cool as that is, I can't help but feel like a cheater about it. The main reason I won was DiggersbyTho's Swords Dance boosted Strength, and Swords Dance can only be learned through the move relearner. And starting in episode 14, you can only use the move relearner AFTER Aya...

Yeah, that

That's really cool, thanks! Now to figure out which boxes I'm actually going to use these for...

And Kenny's opening a portal. Figures, that tied with fireballs for most likely thing he'd do next. As Edward watched the rift slide open, he could already guess where Lucario was gonna grab: at his pole to try and take the energy back. Well then, let's see how well he grabs THIS! He spun the pole in his hand like a gigantic, deadly baton, at speeds that could pass for helicopter blades. If anyone touched that, they would get a bunch of broken bones at best. More likely they would lose whatever body part made contact.

Go back to having all the Pokemon available That's all that's needed. Well that and the personality test.

Update 35: Dawn of the final day Fern’s first Pokemon was Ferrothorn, so obviously I led with Braveheart. And obviously, I used Flamethrower. And obviously, it went down in one hit. Not so obvious, however, is the fact that she didn’t get the Moxie boost from it. I had a sneaking suspicion, and decided to test it by letting her stay in against the incoming Krokorok and 2-shot it with Headbutt. THEN, she got the Moxie boost. My suspicions were confirmed, Moxie in this game only works if you knock out the Pokemon with a physical attack. That is COMPLETE BULLCRAP, because I’ve used Moxie in the real Pokemon games and can confirm that it activates when you knock out the opponent with any attack, as long as it’s direct damage. This needs to be fixed, it’s cramping my strategy with Braveheart (and will make matters even worse against Aya). STAB Smack Down > Scyther, but that Serperior gave me a problem or two, tanking multiple Signal Beams and doing annoying stuff to heal itself. I decided to fight grass with grass and go to Jack. A Phantom Force later, and it was about to go down. Used Shadow Sneak, and then FREAKIN PARAHAX (it used glare the previous turn). I tried Trick or Treat, but GUESS WHAT? THAT’S BROKEN TOO! I had to try again and change my strategy. Braveheart can only KO two opponents before overleveling, so this time I saved her for the Serperior and used Strider on the Krokorok. This time Fern decided to send out everyone else in his team before Serperior, but it was fine- I could handle them. When it finally came out, Flamethrower took it down in two shots. Even its Giga Drain and Leftovers couldn’t save it. Hey, now some of my ‘mons are almost overleveled. Better go level them up so I can common candy them right? I don’t have to fight Aya JUST yet right?

Everyone's talking about how wether or not Gible would make the game easy, and not the Tournaline Desert... Besides, Y'all are forgetting Ame's policy on pseudo legendaries. I'm sure Gible WILL be in the desert, just not obtainable until late or post game. Like how Dratini is in Ametrine Mountain.