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Happy birthday Jericho! Have a great one.

I did too. Jac tho.

*Mikzal is loafing around because of truant. Now Ark! Land the finishing blow!

Solrock.

Yes you have to beat Shelly.

You need to have pokesnacks.

I've got a point to raise. If I'm correct then Skitty's A game is OU, she herself stated that she's ranked #2 #1 in that meta at the moment. If this is a form of gameplay that she is particularly familiar with then why aren't we using her? It's your decision in the end, and I'm happy to be on the team but I just thought I'd bring this up because I thought she'd be a given. Oh and Skitty? I'm not saying you won't be useful elsewhere, just that this is your forte as I understand it.

Bear witness now to what's gotta be the quickest league match in history. It all came about from a plan I concocted to get past Laura. Very little skill involved but it did take some outside the box thinking. Now that league's down for good I guess I can share this with you all without giving anyone else ideas.  

Yeah, ok then. I guess it's really a trade off between realism and convenience then isn't it? On the one hand you have low level pokemon joining your party (which is more like what it would actually be) and people have to work to raise them but you have the unintended side effect of discouraging their use. On the other you have high level pokemon who probably shouldn't actually be found at that level joining your party but it's easier to integrate them into your team. Obviously you advocate one option whereas I advocate the other. Again it's not really our decision though, so assuming you've said everything that's on your mind ('cause I know I have) we can leave it here can't we? Additionally, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to do this (even though I don't really represent anything to do with the game) because it's always good to get different opinions and view points on things. Who knows? Maybe stuff will change because of what you've done here. Maybe it won't, but if you hadn't brought all of this up it certainly wouldn't have. That's not to say I support the changes you're suggesting though.

Uh, you should pick me because I managed to get a rating of around 1450 on showdown one time? I've dropped since then, and I probably do a bit better in the lower tiers. I just don't really like OU that much, I mean look at my league team, even when I have access to OU 'mons I still tend to bring a fair bit of UUish stuff. I don't mind if I get picked or not, if you're struggling to make up the numbers then I'll go for it. I'm certainly not the best battler we have in the nation, but I'd be willing to bet I'm not the worst either.

This should be immortalized. PWB stated that there is something better than Xatu. What do you think about this turn of events Mikzal?

Unfortunately, when it comes to the placement in the game, that's not your call to make, and neither is it mine. You've said your piece on this, unless you have more to add, and so I'm going to leave it there. Your opinion will no doubt be taken into consideration and we'll have to wait to see what comes of it. Nope, you're still not getting me. I wouldn't breed the Mareep. I'd take the one at level 50 and go. The difference between you and me (as far as I can tell) is that you don't want to work particularly hard for what you use, whereas I appreciate the hard work that goes into raising a new pokemon, but still won't do it unless I'm forced to because I'm lazy. That's why I like event pokemon, and new wild pokemon being lower levels, it forces me to train them.

Level 36 isn't that high leveled. We're talking level 50+ The reason it's ridiculous is, why haven't they evolved yet? It's not like they need a trainer to evolve. Hmm... I'm not sure you get what I'm trying to say. If I was given the choice between the level 10 Mareep and the level 50 one, I'd take the level 50 so why would I want to undo all of that by breeding it?. That's only 'cause I'm lazy though, the fact that Ame doesn't give me the choice, and instead just gives me the level 10 one means I don't get to be lazy. The not lazy part of me is grateful for that.

I quite like this. Perhaps he does agree with what Meteor is doing, but not how they're doing it.

I turned up 'cause you said my name. #BlameTempest Ark?

Mystic water can be found in the hidden cave in Chrysolia Forest. You know, the one behind a tree? Up-Grade can be found in the Tanzan Depths. I've included a couple of pictures to help you out with that one, basically it's in that cave.

Just use print screen and then crop it in paint. That's what I do.

Personally I really liked the Crustle puzzle. I dunno, I just found it really enjoyable. I definitely agree with adding in a PC on Azurine Island though. I like that there's cut trees there but I don't like having a cut slave as one of my pokemon when going up against Taka. Also is it just me or did Aster and Eclipse recently get a buff there? I don't remember them having a Rhydon and a Milotic before. Could just be me though, either way it's awesome. Same deal with strength and the Yureyu Building, but strength can at least be kind of useful in battle sometimes.

That's fair then. Personally, I'd be against any movement to reduce the amount of experience in the early game because I think it works well as is, but I'd also advise caution where increasing the amount of experience in the (current) late game is concerned. I think it'd be best to wait until more of the game is created and we can see how close we're running to level 100. Pretty sure that's already been covered to death though so that's cool. No you're right you can't. However, Ame is right in saying it's slightly ridiculous to have high level first stage pokemon running around reborn towards the end of the game. The easiest solution to this problem that I can see is to simply have fully evolved pokemon as the main wild species association in the later parts of the game. However, there are people who enjoy the process of evolving their pokemon from the first stage to the last, even if the required level to obtain the last stage of the evolutionary line is below your current team level. Perhaps wild species associations should be a mix of both pre-evolved and post-evolved pokemon, each equally common in order to cater for everyone's individual tastes. Ultimately these sorts of decisions aren't for us to make though, they're for Ame. No, I don't think I would find it any less enjoyable. However, I would probably be less satisfied with (for example) leveling a Mareep up once to see it evolve into a Flaaffy, and then leveling that Flaaffy up once more to obtain an Ampharos, no matter how many levels you need to train the Ampharos for after that, than I would be with a full blown grind from level 10 or so. Whether that lack of satisfaction would be enough to overcome the convenience of catching a Mareep at level 50 rather than level 10 I don't know. I'd probably go with the level 50 one if given the choice. However being someone who doesn't necessarily dislike grinding I'm somewhat grateful to Ame for denying me that choice as I get more satisfaction from the grind. Does that make sense? Allow me to be a little snarky and say that I don't think Reborn want's anything in particular seeing as it's a game. That aside I don't think anyone wants to see it become something like that, but I also don't think it is at the moment. There's a difference between endless mindless grinding and occasional purposeful grinding. I don't change my team structure enough that Reborn becomes more about the grind than the gameplay, and therefore I'm of the mindset that not many (if any) people do.

Wait, so you want to reduce the number of mandatory trainers in the early game to an amount such that a team of only 2-3 pokemon will wind up near the level caps by their respective gym battles? Why? Isn't it easy enough to just use common candies to regulate the level of your pokemon if you prefer to play with less? I usually have around 3-4 pokemon by Julia and 5 by Florinia, and my pokemon are usually at an appropriate level. On my first run through the game, when I still had my fire emblem perspective, I had 3 by Florinia and my pokemon were all around 25. By having a large experience load in the early game, with access to common candies it allows for playstyles with both large and small parties to be viable. When you decrease the amount of trainer experience available, you restrict us to only using small parties through the early game, and if we want to use larger ones we have to grind. As for having non-mandatory trainers for people using more pokemon, wouldn't that complicate level design to an unnecessary level? From what I've read here your problems can simply be fixed with a few common candies. As for grinding new pokemon up to the level of your current team? I kind of like the grind. It reminds you how tough the rest of your pokemon are, seeing as you have to work so hard to bring fresh pokemon to their level. Besides a little grinding isn't going to hurt anyone.

There isn't anything. The potential for blaming Tempest is infinite. Vinny.

Welcome to reborn.

*CoughRoggenrollainTanzanMountainCough* I know Roggenrolla used to be obtainable in the caves in the Rhodochrine Jungle (is that what it's called?) but now that you've removed it from there you might want to lower the level of wild Roggenrolla in Tanzan Mountain if you want to avoid instant evolution syndrome. Oh, there's also the Skiddo's at Route 1, a place where Flabebe is level 20 but Skiddo comes in at 39, pretty sure that's the first point at which you get both.

I don't remember you being in our nation, so I don't know why: a: you're trying to run the vote for our mascot b: you're telling us to pick up the pace c: you think for some reason we should limit it to just three choices Also, I believe there's 3 (4 after counting Jaromir's) votes for Aurorus and Tyrantrum. Nothing yet, the first challenge will be out this weekend.