Redo.

REALLY? SCRAGGY IS NOW AFTER AYA?! FML, FIRST THE MYSTERY EGG GIVE ME ONE OF THE WORST OPTIONS FOR THIS RUN AND NOW YOU AXE ONE OF MY FEW GOOD CHOICES FOR SOLARIS. AND YES, I'M ANGRY, THE MYSTERY EGG WAS ONE OF THE FEW CHANCES I HAD TO GET AN EARLY, AWESOME POKÉMON THAT WOULD CARRY MY TEAM UNTIL AGATE (Where most of the good NFE become availeable... and I can't breed them anymore for good egg moves) BUT HECK THEY GAVE ME A STARLY, AND DON'T GET ME WRONG, STARAPTOR IS AWESOME AND A GREAT POKÉMON IN ANY OTHER RUN, BUT HERE I GOT A EXTREMELY MEDIOCRE POKÉMON ON STARAVIA AND NO FLIPPIN' CLOSE COMBAT TO MAKE UP FOR IT, AND AFTER THE ZEL AND TAKA BATTLE I GET DODUO WHO IS BETTER IN ALMOST EVERYTHING THAN THAT BIRD (It's only use is to breed Brave Bird on stuff). [/End rant] I'm sorry if I sounded harsh or anything, but I'm quite pissed off at the RNG with so many awesome pokémon like Rhyhorn, Magby, Elekid, Sneasel or Axew to name a few that would have been extremely awesome pokémon, but now they're very late to make an impact or directly impossible to get, and Staravia on it's own doesn't add anything to my team that Doduo or whatever Normal/Flying can't do. For Corey, I have to face him in the Misty Field, and for once I'm quite scared of the few good options I have, like, Drowzee who doesn't have SpA, Gothorita, Bunnelby who lack STAB on Ground, Onix who doesn't learn Ground STAB bar if I stupidly overgrind it, probably Munna or Spoink if I want to go and catch them and Phanpy who sucks so... yeah. Also @Genesis: Klink evolves at level 38 if I'm not mistaken, so it's way over the level cap for Corey (If I really want to overgrind, maybe I can get it for Shelly, but right now it's not worth it).

Ar Tonelico?! Ahhhw yeah my 2nd favorite RPG of my life (Surprisingly, both of my favorites are from the PS2). Also, go full on Misha route, Aurica was never worth ir in my books, and shame there's no Shurelia route. Sony should release THIS game on the PSN, insta buy for me.

I might be wrong here, but the gang 2nd mission is activated after beating Shelly, so Carvanha/Houndour is after her (Also, if I want, I can easily get both if I go Aqua). So yeah, please change your vote for Shelly because it's technically impossible to get. Wait, 4 votes? I don't want to sound rude, but can you narrow it to only one? I'll make my job easier and it sounds more democratic that everyone have only 1 vote. Like gryson, can you please narrow it down to one pokémon?. For now, the table of votes look like: 1 vote Pikachu 1 vote Flaffy 1 vote Bunnelby

What are Solaris's pokémon level, like... I need to beat him with a team full of NFE, and I don't have that many options at that point.

First I finally fixed the first update for those who want to see my team in detail for Julia. Replies: So by popular choice my obligatory pokémon is Herdier who got the most vote, and to be honest I was considering it too before you obligated me to use it, I'm not complaining this time. ______________________ UPDATE#2: FLORINIA AND THE BLOB Caught: Onix Klink Pacham Pidove Makuhita Mankey Drowzee Litleo Vanillite Electrike Seel Happiny Lillipup Slakoth Shinx Slugma Spearow Bellsprout Wow, I did catch a lot this time. VS Victoria: Lost in my 1st try to that Pignite. After my first lost I made my team a bit more "anti Victoria" with stuff like Goldeen and Noibat, well, this time was easier. Roselia handled the Scraggy and paralized the Pignite, but that pig killed Roselia, Goldeen and Trubbish before falling to Grimer, who also destroyed Kirlia. Finally Poliwag beat Grimer but Servine finished the job. VS Scrafty Gang: Well, I could set up easily my 2 Toxic Spikes, but my team was massacred by Dragonborn and the Moxie Scraggy, but Stallord, meet Grimer and Minimize, YES I STALLED 2 SCRAGGY (ONE WITH 3 IRON DEFENSE AND 3 AMNESIA) AND ONE SCRAFTY WITH ONE GRIMER AND WON, GG GAME. VS Cain: The AI derped and I won in my 1st try, because Cain's Grimer got 3 Minimize in but then decided to switch, and I'm happy with it. Well, Onix used Stealth Rock but failed to KO the Grimer, but then my own blob came in and he decided to switch, then a few kockouts on each side until my Servine ended this battle with Leech Seed saving my ass (It got me out of Night Shade range). VS ZEL: Trubbish used Acid Spray 3 times, then Tranquill finished the job with 1 Air Cutter. VS Fern: Minimize Grimer and Moxie Litleo did the job. VS Florinia: Breloom destroyed my team in my 1st try. Also in my 2nd try... changing team. Failed a 3rd time... DAMN THAT BRELOOM OF DOOM. At least killed the Breloom in my 4th try... and died to the Gourgeist. Dragon Dance, two +70 BP STAB and Toxic on a Sitrus Berry Harvest Tropius (Who is decently bulk)... Really? (Needless to say, it detroyed me in my 5th try). CHUBB YOU'RE SO OP I LOVE YOU (No Homo). In my 6th tryOkay, I got my two Toxc Spikes in, but Cacturne killed Trubbish and Litleo. Luxio revenged them and paralized the Tropius and that was the key as Grimer used Minimize 3 times and that was the game. Tropius, Grotle, Breloom fainted to it's hand, Gourgeist managed to KO the blob but Tranquill was alive, first killing Gourgeist with Air Cutter and then poison stalling Cradily with Detect + Roost (With Roost Rock Slide failed to do 50% damage). Team: ____________________________ Okay guys, cast your votes for Corey. This update shouldn't take that long.

If I get Ducklett I can use it, but I can't use Wormadam as it's a fully evolved pokémon, and it break the point of this challenge run

Replies: Really guys, Noibat? Ugghhh well, the word of the people is my obligation. Also, I'll only name the pokemon that are on the team that beat a gym leader/important battle, as a prize of some sort. _________________________ UPDATE#1: JULIA AND THE SHINIES I got Snivy has my starter. VS Cain: Tackle spam beat Cain. VS Victoria: Tackle spam beat Victoria. Caught: Goldeen Zigzagoon Grimer Trubbish Budew Whismur Noibat VS Fern: Trubbish'S Acid Spray destroyed Lombre, Servine and Roselia. VS Aster and Eclipse: Wiped te 1st time. Wiped the 2nd time. Wiped the 3rd time. Wiped the 4th time Got tired and changed to my best possible team (I box all the pokemon that hit the level cap (In this case Lv19) so I can continue grinding my rotation, but this proved impossible to beat those guys so I had to go back and withdraw some stuff). Wiped a 5th time. Wiped a 6th time. Finally beat them in the 7th try. I had to use a cheap tactic of using Acid Spray to destroy both pokemon SpDef. Luckily for me the AI derped and used Shock Wave a lot of times on Goldeen. Commander you should nerf this battle a bit, specially the Magmar who was a pain. VS Julia: 4, FOUR CRITICIAL HITS from Emolga of doom destroyed my team the 1st time. I lost the 2nd time because of Noibat is a pokemon less... really guys, I hate you, why would you force me to use such a bad pokemon? NOPE, 3RD TRY VS JULIA, AGAIN NOIBAT COULDN'T TAKE A HIT. 4th time, Emolga destroyed me. 5th time is the charm I guess, for once my strategy vs Magnemite failed as Grimer decided to miss that key Mud Bomb and died to a Charge Beam, also Goldeen died and Noibat [!] revenged both of them (To be fair, Noibat outspeed Magnemite and it was on red health) but then Emolga begin to destroy my team again until Servine put a stop to it. Luckily my MVP Roselia could easily use Growth 3 times on Chinchou (That thing couldn't touch him) and finally I could beat that Electrode. Team after the battle: _________________________ Okay guys, you can continue to vote for my obligatory pokemon vs Florinia, but please no Noibat.

Good job mate, I wish I have some success in my Hardcore adventure.

If you haven't caught a Stunfisk yet, you will have to wait until beating the EP15 for one, because you can only get one in Aphopyll.

Name: Redo.? I guess, actually a few here actually use they real names when answering this. Age: 20 right now. Birthday: May 26th. Location: Argentina Height: 1.75m or 5'9. Hair Color: Dark brown. Eye Color: Dark brown. Live With: Father, mother, sister. Pets?: A Houndour black dog. Relationships?: None at the moment. Crushes lately?: None. Dream Job: Something that feels important, probably teaching. Currently Playing: Reborn, Football Manager and DA:I. Favourite Food: Sphagetti. Favourite Drink: Orange juice. Favourite Color: Dark Red. Favourite kind of Music: Melodic. Favourite Band: RED. Favourite Album: Until We Have Faces. Favourite Game: Disgaea 2. Favourite Genre of Game: SRPG. Favourite Hobbies: Cooking, reading, sleeping. Favourite Movies: Spirited Away, Tamako Love Story, Lady in the Water. Favourite Shows: <Insert a bunch of anime here>.

Here are a few tips: Level up everyone to level 37-39, at level 33 Magneton can't do much. Evolve Graveler, there's a Link Stone in sell at the Grand Staircase for $10000. Drop Dusclops. he can't do much in this gym, and grab a Dark type pokémon (Drapion is the best one in this point of the game).

Hey guys, I know this is technically not a pokémon, but if you can edit my save and give me Infinite Money/10 stocks of 99 Common Candies for my Hardcore NFE challenge I will be happy. Also, if you want to play around the IV's of the Snivy, you're free to do so. Game.rxdata

Ok guys, time to close the poll, the following things won: Snivy is my starter. No axe Yes on the obligatory community pokémon. No banlist. So yeah, I'm going to start soon the challenge, but for now you guys can choose the obligatory one for the following battles, remember this is a democracy and the most wanted pokémon is on the team. Also, if you guys don't choose anything, I can't continue playing, so please try to at least say "Use Metapod for ALL THE GYM LEADERS" at least. The following trainers get the obligatory pokémon rule: Julia Florinia Corey Shelly Shade Cal Kiki Solaris Aya Serra Noel El Radomus Luna Samson Charlotte Blake Terra Both double battles at the mansion Ciel So cast your votes starting now! (I won't be able to play without at least 1 person saying "Use x for Julia") ALSO, because I love you, I'll name my pokémon after people of this forum, cool right?

Arceus, meet Altaria. Perish Song is too OP.

Don't forget the book in your cell, that one took me 30 minutes to figure.

See those statues? Well, they tell you a phrase and you have to write of which Arceus book it is. There are a lot of book there, so you have to write down the number of them if they have the phrase. Ooooor... just use youtube and save 30 minutes of your life, that puzzle sucks.

If you guy don't troll me, it's an awesome idea, with pokémon that aren't in the main team of anyone having the time to shine to particular gym leaders (Like Butterfree vs Ciel). And about the banlist that some people want, please tell me all the pokémon I should ban, so later in the game I don't have to rebattle some leaders because "ELECTABUZZ IS TOO OP, NO FUN, HE IS WAY BETTER THAN RAICHU OR <INSERT ELECTRIC TYPE HERE>, BATTLE IT AGAIN!"

Nothing is impossible, the good NFE are there and, worst case scenario, I can easily re-catch everything and EV train them to perfection after Corey. And for the level cap... well, the Common Candies are there and I'll ask if someone can edit me in infinite money or a stupid amount of Common Candies.

Yeah guys, my next challenge is here, and it's harder than ever (Because I want to die, obviously). So yeah, Hardcore NFE, if I win this I guess pokémon won't prove to be a challenge anymore, but what can you do... Before I start, I have 4 question that you guys will choose, you have in your hands the key of how hard this thing will be, so yeah, bring it on. The rules: I can't use in battle any pokémon that can't evolve, no exceptions. Set mode, Shift is for pussies. No item in battle, like a competitive player. I have to beat all the trainers, so yeah wish me luck against Solaris I can't go to any important battle with my level over the level cap, gotta be hardcore. For each important battle, you guys can decide a pokémon that I'm obligated to use, here are the list of those battles: So yeah guys, and here are your choices: My starter Chimchar, he has that beautiful Nasty Plot and can go mixed. Snivy, he is fast, bulky and Contrary Leaf Storm is strong. Froakie, because he is the fastest and Protean. Axing a pokémon after each gym: Yes, like in the Rainbow Generation run, with this you may lose some great NFE and have to use least viable options. No, NFE is challenge enough. Have an obligatory pokémon for each gym choosen by the community: Totally yes, good luck beating Ciel with that awesome Metapod. No, that's stupid, go with the best you can, those base stats of the NFE are bad enough. A banlist: Yes, some NFE are as good as a lot of fully evolved pokémon. Things like Rhydon, Magneton, Sneasel, Magmar or Porygon2 shouldn't be used. No, you can use the few pokémon that can pull their weight, you deserve it.

So guys, for someone that never played this game before, can you give a guide, recommendations or something?

Rhydon is on par with Golem, the movepool are about the same and the base stats too, the difference is made with Rhyperior. Aggron can easily deal with Cinccino all Steel pokémon can, but yeah good luck for now.

Rhyhorn is awesome, use it right now. Also, if you want to know, there's a Link Stone in a rock near the Yureyu building, and before the 9th gym (Noel is the 7th) there's a Protector. Another good idea for the Cinccino is to use priorities, that thing doesn't have much bulk and can be killed easily.

I used a cheap tactic to sweep through Noel, but yeah that Cinccino can be a pain. The biggest problem come with Cinccino's item, King Rock, that grants that little thing with a wooping 40.951% chance of flinching. Ypur best option are Inner Focus Throh or Sawk, because they can't get flinched and if they survive Tail Slap, they'll easily kill back with <Insert Fighting move here>. And if you got lucky with your Mystery Egg, Pawniard makes Cinccino even easier (Again, go with Inner Focus just to avoid hax).