Azeria

Hi there I exist yes. So we were wondering about what to do for Alain's second outfit(The ones you get after you go to Amberette Town.) Jan made a few mockups but couldn't really decide between them, so we thought to take this to YOU, the players to decide. There's 6 versions to choose from, so go ahead and pick the one you like best in the strawpoll below; https://www.strawpoll.me/16658845

y'all don't know how much marcello sucks at Pokemon

Personal favourite is Charmander.

I've done Dragon, Ghost and Steel. I personally couldn't care less about availability, what matters most is how much I like the type. Ghost and Dragon are my two favourites. Steel is 5th. All of them were done with set mode no items. I had to add mons for Dragon to save me a headache though. I'll say that after I got past Shade on my Dragon mono, I really just steamrolled everything aside from Blake and Titania with little effort. The game can't really stand up to the overwhelming force of fully evolved Dragon spam. Steel I had to actively restrict myself to prevent me steamrolling the game because of how easy it was to do, incidentally I recorded that run. Ghost was the nice middle ground between stupid challenge at one point that dragons early game posed and the freedom to use a lot of meme stuff to win I had with steel. Personally the 3 monos I would stay away from would be Electric, Dragon and Fairy as they have the worst early game of them all.

let her suffer, she's the worst character in the game

Honestly, Hardy is infinitely more difficult than Amaria and just about on par with Titania imo.

yikes sirius ended their careers LOL

Idk I'd say him complaining about the ridiculous length of the post gauntlet section was perfectly valid and even correct.

honestly speaking the gauntlet was easier than both Solaris and Hardy for me but each person has their own experience My team's just had a really easy time spamming AoE to one shot both mons whereas Solaris and Hardy either outsped and outpowered me or just prevented my set up sweepers from doing anything, which the gauntlet couldn't do. It can honestly get far harder than that.

Cool character. Worst fight in the game.

They stack, and you'd be surprised at how much the lack of investment can hurt stuff. As I said, it'd be a phenomenal counter to Hydreigon but mediocre elsewhere.

Yeah but if you're running that spread on Primarina, good luck doing much damage to most other fights lol, Primarina is a nuke but that set loses A LARGE amount of it's offensive appeal.

It's Mega, it's just that the PULSE2 isn't a hold item, it's a manual buff granting 252 to every stat.

No it, literally just one shots Chansey with Dark Pulse as the base. Black Hole Eclipse gets boosted by 6x on the New World Field lol. (4x to just Black Hole Eclipse, 1.5x to Dark moves in general.) ; +6 252+ SpA Hydreigon Black Hole Eclipse (160 BP) vs. 244 HP / 12 SpD Eviolite Chansey: 705-831 (100.4 - 118.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO (+6 = 4x boost to SpAtk, Specs = 1.5x.) +6 252+ SpA Hydreigon Black Hole Eclipse (160 BP) vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Primarina: 336-396 (95.1 - 112.1%) -- 68.8% chance to OHKO

It wouldn't be good vs Black Hole Eclipse. That thing's Black Hole Eclipse one shots Eviolite Chansey's, no way Primarina is living lol.

Yeah Typh and Charizard literally do the same thing, imo the choice is based on whether you prefer the raw nuclear power from Eruption or having some coverage in case stuff can live those strong fire moves.

If you like Ninetales/Sun setters, I highly suggest Charizard. Dude's heat waves do ridiculous amounts of damage, cleanly carried my team for numerous boss fights before and after evolving.

While yes that is true, we're approaching a point where bosses are pulling out a lot of bullshit such as PULSE2 and 6v12s and such, which make it a LOT harder from personal experience for lower stat Pokemon to keep themselves affloat as much. I've not really used Gyarados but not mentioning it when it's as ludicrously powerful as it is and has a legacy of being ludicrously good(s/o to it being the answer to literally ANY problem in Reborn back in the day.)is somewhat of a disservice to a Pokemon with a history like that. Furthermore while I can appreciate the set up niches Flygon and Excadrill have and Krookodile's Moxie, Flygon from personal experience(I use this Pokemon a lot until Garchomp is available, where I'll either run both or drop it for Garchomp) is comparatively far too reliant on it and over time loses a LOT of it's damage output due to it's average at best attack stat. Given the later we go on, the harder bosses tend to hit, it starts having genuine problems comparatively to Garchomp/Excadrill/Krookodile who can keep themselves affloat due to higher initial damage. I won't even try to contest Excadrill though, that thing is ludicrously good. At the end of the day I feel that they are strong enough that -despite- coming as late as they do they deserve a ranking on this list, if on the lower end due to their availability problems. That being said it's nice to get someone else's perspective on this stuff as there is some personal bias involved on my suggestions, especially given you've pointed out most of the standout ones at the start. That being said, why Amoonguss/Venusaur. From experience neither were particularly good. As for Scizor, honestly if Aegis gets ranked, so should Scizor IMO.

Yeah but for the team this guy is going for, the combination of speed and utility from Garchomp is better imo, especially since it's secondary stab hits much harder than Exca's.

I mean Exca is amazing, but at the same time it requires Sand Rush for it's absolute maximum potential which requires Hippowdon and or Tyranitar/Gigalith on your team. Meanwhile Garchomp is much more self sufficient and provides more team support in having the bulk to set up Stealth Rock AND nuke with Dragonium-Z Outrage. Fairies can't really take it's Poison Jab/Iron Head's well either given their generally low physical defense.

Despite being available late the following two Pokemon are TOO good to not give a mention to; Scizor: Literally solo's E18. Solaris is the only one that can pose ANY resistance to it whatsoever. It's the best swords dance sweeper in the game in my opinion. Good bulk, amazing typing, technician boosted bullet punch and a choice between knock off and superpower to cover what Bullet Punch and Bug Bite cannot. It is well worth the hype it got, comes at around level 75 out the gate meaning it doesn't take much to grind up. It's late but honestly it just curbstomps nearly anything it's path. Gyarados: Same story for this bad boi, except it trades priority for two great abilities and Dragon Dance. Completely puts Amaria and Titania into the dirt, and it's intimidate can prove quite handy against Hardy. Even in the Gauntlet where it can be doubled up on it hardy actually cares as it can quite easily stomp all 3 battles. Just too good to not mention. And here are a few that I believe are underrated atm; Garchomp: A lot of people are currently taking a little trash on it due to it's lack of natural Earthquake, however I actually don't think that's enough to detract from how much of a monster this Pokemon is in reality. It provides role compression very few other Pokemon do, hitting extremely hard with Dragonium-Z Outrage as well as Stomping Tantrum(which from experience is a good enough substitute for now, hitting for about as hard as Flygon's earthquake actually) and has access to Stealth Rock which it has the space to actually run due the lack of Swords Dance. Stealth Rock's ability to passively chip down opposing Pokemon into range for your others making it a great team player as it upholds the role of both a support and an offensive pokemon. Finally it has a good amount of coverage moves in Stone Edge/Rock Slide, Iron Head and Poison Jab for fairies and Brick Break to beat screens. It's stats are very well rounded meaning that it can take quite a few hits, which it's competition; Flygon and Excadrill can't quite do from my experience(though Krookodile can.) as well as naturally being faster than any of them. It also has a wide range of other items it can use over Dragonium-Z in Garchompite(very useful if you need the added bulk, as well as Sand Force. This thing completely destroys Hardy's team with no effort.) Rocky Helmet for passive chip damage on top of Rough Skin, the myriad of seeds and soon the Choice Scarf. From experience this thing took an absolute piss on most of Titania's team, proved invaluable vs the Gauntlet and curbstomped Hardy many times. Typhlosion: The fact that this beast of a Pokemon isn't on that starter list is a disgrace tbh. This thing's Eruptions are absolutely brutal and melt basically anything in their path. Particularly brutal as there's a lot of areas in the game with the Forest/Grassy Fields which it just burns down in an instant and turns it into the burning field, which activates Blaze and boosts fire moves by 1.5x, turning it's Eruptions into forces of nature. Like, you can argue that it's a one trick pony, which it is, but that one trick is so ludicrously powerful that it absolutely deserves to be mentioned, especially when it gets that right before Bug and Ice using Bosses, as well as Noel who's field is just asking to be burnt by it. Doesn't even come that late if you don't pick it as a starter and has a really easy time with both Charlotte and Blake.

For Garchomp go Dragonium Z Outrage with Stomping Tantrum, Rock Slide and Stealth Rock in the other two slots. Bulldoze is too weak and Stomping Tantrums 75bp gets the job done.

Reasonably support for online will only last so long. Having Gallade and Gardevoir available a whole 10 badges after you get Medicham who is actually better than Gallade in nearly every way is just inexcusable. From personal experience the Ralts line is nowhere near that good to be forced back that long. Same argument applies to Magby/Elekid, they're good Pokemon but not being able to evolve them to their final stage after you get them when EVERYTHING else at that point essentially can is just insult to injury. Seriously, why force people into Magmar when you give Ninetales/Darmanitan literally right before this.

Yet in turn their current location leaves them completely behind actually better Pokemon who come earlier ON top of those 'underrated' Pokemon. It's a worse deal for everyone who actually likes those Pokemon as they can't get them until ludicrously late into the game, far later than they should reasonably be. Also Sludge Bomb being too early despite being after the only Gym Leader it's actually good for is just absolutely obscene, makes no sense to say.