Revman

This must've been a hard decision for the team to make, and harder still to announce considering the attachment so many have to the mode. I've cleared the current release on Intense myself and had a fair share of feedback I was considering giving, but ultimately I think this is probably for the best. One thing I am wondering, will there be an option in future to disable mid battle items both for yourself and the enemy trainers? This was by far my favourite mechanic from Intense and would love to see it be an option or otherwise available in 13.5

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Yeah my bad. Was tired when I edited, didn't fact check; it happens to everyone. Still don't think it's A or B even with Earth Power, without a life orb it doesn't pack enough of a punch and doesn't have a justifiable amount of bulk especially with its lack of Scald. Besides, it seems as if we disagree on pretty much every Pokemon that isn't a clear cut candidate for a specific rank anyway let's be real here Thank you for your Butterfree analysis. I've already wrote up an analysis for Vivillon, but thanks anyway!

I wasn't even aware Mega Stones were in Reborn even though we don't have a Mega Bracelet... But with Mega Evolution, Banette's Phys atk hits 165 which is incredible coupled with an average 75 but being able to Burn with Prankster Will O Wisp take your opponent with you with Prankster Destiny Bond is pretty great. Well I won't be counting Mega Evolution for these rankings until we get a Mega Bracelet anyway. As for Dusclops being a better Physical attacker, Dusclops is 70 base attack, Dusknoir is 100 and Banette is 115. Although I agree that some of its best moves are Sucker Punch/Shadow Sneak, I don't believe it deserves D since it has notable niche as a Physical attacker until Golurk is available and as a faster/stronger/less bulky alternative to Dusclops/noir as well as natural access to Knock off. I won't lie, Dusclops/noir is a better choice, but Banette isn't D tier. Imo the only Ghost that should be D or E even is Drifblim because I can't think of literally anything it can do that another Ghost can't do better or just anything it can do fullstop. Probably gonna give it C though, I'll draft up a moveset and a quick analysis for it. I agree with Seismitoad since even Swampert out classes it as a Rock setter and the other Water/Grounds outclass it as an Electric Immunity, will drop now. As for Venu I've gotta think about it, I'll edit my comment when I'm done.

Hi there! I think that the thread in my signature may be of service to your run, and hopefully after you complete it may be able to contribute yourself! As for a personal opinion, I'd use Gardevoir, Clefable, Malamar, Metagross, Delphox and Azumarill. Delphox gets the steel types, Metagross is metagross, Malamar can also help with opposing Steel types with Contrary Superpower, Clefable is a good wall, Gardevoir's great for handling Poison types and Belly Drum Azumarill is dope. Also I just love all those Pokemon haha

All Hidden Power base powers in Gen 6 are 60, regardless of the IVs of each individual Pokemon, not that that makes a difference for Unown, just thought you might wanna know for future. I kinda think that natural access to Sub/Screens could be handy. As well as being able to have Nasty Plot bred on to it, but since I've only used it once, I'll trust you and put it as D until I see an argument suggesting otherwise. Also, ranked Malamar as S because of its great ability to handle Dark types and set up in the same turn, no other Psychic type available aside from Metagross (with a lucky meteor mash boost) can do that.

If Pokemon has taught me anything, it's that even Preschoolers are capable of taming the fiercest of Dragons despite them not being old enough to receive their first Pokemon. Looking at YOU B2/W2 Battle Subway

Hmm. I think it's a bit useless if it's not obtainable for anyone else at any point in the game. But we do have some for Abomasnow/Walrein that were injected as starters since Ice got nothing until 3rd gym, so why not I guess but only for types that have nothing.

Thank you very much, very much appreciated as always! I added some analyses of my own as well and will probably be doing a few more sometime later this week (rip school major work) Normal: Blissey, Snorlax Fire: Infernape Rank changes: (Grass) Ludicolo from A to S: Best Rain Dance setter/user Grass has available and can be used as a win condition against tough Fire users such as Cal and Charlotte.

Ice type AND Stealth Rock user? Gotta agree with Sonikku, breed Stealth Rock onto Mamoswine (and Icicle Crash while you're at it.)

Change Dragalge's Ability if you can to Adaptability, this will give all moves that are either Poison or Dragon type (STAB) a 1.5x boost in power. If you have a Heart Scale, consider getting the move reminder to teach Gardevoir Moonblast, otherwise it'll only naturally learn it at like Level 74 if I remember right. Up to you which Pokemon specifically you replace, but I reckon training up Lotad would be worth it. Maybe replace Seismitoad? If you feel like breeding you could catch a Cubchoo in that mountain near Shade's gym that you need Rock Smash to enter. If you teach that Cubchoo Icicle Crash you can bread Icicle Crash onto Swinub/Mamoswine which would turn it into a monstrosity. Personally I'm not a very big fan of Emboar, I recommend training up Growlithe so it learns Flare Blitz (Level 45) and evolving it into Arcanine and maybe using Intimidate as an ability. I love Drapion as a Pokemon personally, it's one of my favourites but I don't see it working for you since you're against doubling up on types, it would make a great switch pivot for Psychic types used against Emboar and Dragalge.

Welp looks like it's time to do a LC run to one up the entire forum

For evolving Magneton into Magnezone, this thread should help http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/?showtopic=7274 though you've gotta beat another 2 gyms from the point you're at to evolve it. Also it should be getting discharge soon like around Level 50ish, so teach it that. If you wanna keep Exploud I recommend getting the move reminder to teach it Boomburst (140 Base Power Special Normal attack) I highly recommend switching Meowstic since there are better Psychic types like Gardevoir which is available as a Ralts from the Corrupted Pokeball event under the railnet (after beating Aya) Seismitoad has a pretty poor level up move set, but you get Sludge Wave as a TM for beating Aya so that's a plus I guess. If you want a better Water type with better moves via Level up, I recommend Ludicolo with Surf/Bubblebeam, Giga Drain (ONLY LEARNED BY LEVEL 30 LOTAD, NOT LOMBRE OR LUDICOLO or as an Egg move), Rain dance and Mist. If you're looking for a new Pokemon that'll continuously help you out, I highly recommend a Speed Boost Yanma with Air Slash, Bug Buzz, Ancientpower and Detect. (You can use Struggle Bug until it gets Bug Buzz)

Oh another good idea for a run might be Ice/Water in case you're still wondering for a duo-type run idea.

Just saying, Snek Arbok is a monster and I highly recommend you give him a go. Intimidate+Glare is so handy especially versus Pokemon that would normally sweep you and make life difficult. Also later on if you keep him around you get Coil+Gunk Shot which has such a good amount of power, it's beautiful. thank u snek

Sozzo I'm blind, good luck with your run tho

Maybe Lucario with Bullet Punch or Gyro Ball Foretress with Toxic Spikes? Or get Heatran somehow and destroy every fairy type except Azumarill ever Edit: I'm blind and somehow didn't see Foretress 4givepls

Would normally agree, but Beautifly's niche is that it's the best Quiver Dancer/Flying STAB user that Bug gets until Vivillon learns Hurricane. B's rank states that it can be incredibly useful for a particular part of the game, and Beautifly's niche is that it's a great Special Attacker that gains access to relatively strong moves such as Air Slash, Bug Buzz and Giga Drain really early. I wouldn't believe me unless I'd used it myself, I guess you'll have to trust me on it because it saved my behind more than once. Edit: Also it swept right on past Shelly, Florinia (not that that's a big feat) and did a number on 2-3 of Shade's Pokemon which is a tough leader for Bug considering he resists your STAB. Also, it learns Quiver at 40 and Bug Buzz at 35. Entire point of using Beautifly as I stated is that it's an early bloomer and will give you early access to good moves. (Also Air Cutter is soooo good until you get Hurricane Vivillon oh my lord, it's good to have a Bug that early on with a decently powered secondary stab) Edit again: However if enough people think that it's more deserving of C, I can move it. Rank changes: (Normal) Diggersby from A to S; only good Pokemon Normal has access to that can reliably break Rock and Steel type Pokemon and overall acts as a great wrecking ball and wall breaker.

Welp if you think using Turtwig/Mudkip is cheating but you want someone to hack you in a starter you kinda might wanna revisit your morals, just sayin' but I don't judge, hacks or no as long as you don't give yourself something like a Groudon for a stater. Most Mono runs allow you to pick a starter as long as it evolves into your type, so Flying's cool with you picking Charmander, Fighting's fine with Chespin, Tochic etc, so you don't need to limit yourself. Anyway if you do decide to pick a starter I'd take Turtwig, will come in handy for handling Water types down the track.

I have noticed the broken spoiler tags, I've rewritten some of the broken tags at least 10 times and they remain broken despite it looking fine; I'll try again though. Edit: Success! Finally, that's been annoying me SO much. (Stemmed from a bunch of weird linebreaks/spaces in Crawdaunt's tag.) I'll go check for any grammatical mistakes now. Oh also, with Arbok I used it before Ep 14 came out which is why I hadn't factored in Bulldoze/Rock Tomb. Also, I wanna add to Tentacruel's thing that it gets Acid Spray which is an incredible move with amazing wall breaking potential, I do heaps of competitive Monotype and Acid Spray Tentacruel is incredible. I reckon if it had Scald/Acid Spray it could be a serious contender for A-Rank due to it breaking and burning walls/bulky attackers. Also in future could you add whether a move is an Egg move or tutor move? It could probably save people a bit of time/disappointment if they don't want to breed or don't go shard hunting for tutors after they find out themselves. Yeah that's what I've been doing so far, which is why Kricketune is B for Bug it's a pretty neat Pokemon until Bug gets literally any other Physical Attacker. I'll probably update the description for B rank to include something along the lines of "...can be highly useful if not invaluable in certain fights in the game" I've done a bit of thinking, and I think I'm not gonna rank Pokemon based on how well they do on Pokemon Reborn's multiplayer system when it's implemented. Smogon University already have an incredible competitive Monotype ranking thread which far surpasses my knowledge on Monotype and goes far more indepth into the Monotype Metagame than this thread does, I originally just meant this to be helpful for people playing Mono in game and I reckon that's the way it should stay. Rank edits: Hippowdon to S 'cos sand amirite (Stuff like Sand Rush Excadrill is amazing, also helps break sashes/residual damage/prevents hostile weather etc) (Ground) Camerupt to B from S (what was i thinking tho) Massive 4x weakness and Nidoking can handle Grass types better with STAB Sludge Wave/Flamethrower and isn't as slow. (Ground) Torterra to B from S (again man jeez) Ice decimates it and doesn't exactly offer an amazing niche in return; also pretty much perfectly fits B's description of having flaws and being slightly problematic whilst still being good. (handling water types) Meowstic-Female to C since there are better Competitive users like Gothitelle in Trick Room and its Mediocre bulk/special attack don't make it B material despite it having a pretty good speed stat.

Hm. For the sole purpose of it being the best defensive pivot due to its stats and abilities, I'll give it S then. I do however still think that Offense is more needed than Defense in game. I had a bit of time to think about it and with the lack of Skarmory it's the best Ground pivot Steel has access to, despite the fact that it might not be able to do much in return. Since Episode 16 has the potential of releasing online play I may change my view on the whole Offense over Bulk thing since bulk is absolutely necessary when versing other players and Pokemon isn't as much of a mental game of strategy versus a computer when it comes to stuff like move prediction, switching etc. If I had to rank Foretress on Steel I'd probably give it B due to its typing; I've got experience using it with Bug and the thing about Foretress is even with Spikes support and a 140 defense stat, it usually just gets 2-3hko'd without returning as much as a layer of spikes or a Bug Bite/Gyro Ball and this if for a type that's mostly weak to Flying. Whilst defensive utility is great, it doesn't mean much if the Pokemon in question is KO'd without as much as scratching what it's up against. As for talking in a medium outside of this thread, yeah I don't see why not. Thing is though that it seems our Timezones are polar opposite really so that may be the tiniest bit difficult.

What I love about Pokemon is that there's always a new Pokemon that shows itself to be awesome and amazing in some way. Whilst I love Nidoking, Gardevoir and a few other Pokemon, I always find myself using something new and interesting which works wonders like Clefable or Yanmega.

For my Poison run, I pretty much had my Nidoqueen use helping hand to have my faster Pokemon like Crobat and Gengar one shot all of his threats to my team like Weavile, Jynx and Walrein. After that I changed the Terrain with Grassy Terrain Vileplume+Sludge Wave and set rain dance with Crobat. I don't know how many other people would've been able to face Blake on a raining corrosive field haha

Well it could be argued that Bug Pokemon are just really hardy and durable. Also considering a fair amount are part Poison it kinda makes sense.

Specially Defensive Special sweeper wasn't what I personally called it lol, but I've used Bronzong a fair bit in competitive and without Screens/Rocks/Status it's basically a big floating blob even when you've got Gyro Ball which arguably is its only viable attack unless you wanna use Calm Mind Psychic, which is probably not the best of ideas considering its mediocre special attack and impossible due to there not being the TMs for it yet. Trick Room of course has its merits on a type as slow and bulky as Steel, but I don't think that alone is enough for it to go S. If we wanna get super technical, S states that a Pokemon has little to no draw backs, and I'd call its lack of utility based moves that compliment its stats a pretty decent draw back. Considering that in game isn't a competitive Meta, imo offensive coverage and damage is a lot more important than defensive utility not to understate how useful it can be though. Not calling Bronzong bad, but it's not S material.