Cepheus

1. Ok ... yeah... with all of Rens later actions I could have thought about him being a chicken (*bawk*), but if he takes the alternative route (Route 1)... how does he take SO LONG? he must've been on Route 1 when we entere Gearen City... and then we get trapped in Marianettes Manor... we do all this stuff, we get Venam to destroy the blockade, we do all this other Goldenleaf Town stuff... THEN he shows up. But wait! - Route 1 is still blocked by the police and Ren is nowhere to be found there (Don't mind me... just picking out a few plotholes - one of my favorite hobbies ^^) 2. I just used caps... becuase it annoyed me sooooooooooo much, needed a bit of empasize here 3. YAY! (even if it's to late for me now... unless I'll do my Eeveelutions playthorugh sometime soon) 4. yay I found a mistake! 5. .. and a bug! \o/ 6. wohoooo! bye Rock Smash it (possibly) was nice not knowing you!! xD 7. oversights... yay! 8. The battle itself isn't so hard... it get's artificially hard by the level-cap and Melia's Pokemon getting one-rounded by them both teaming up on her making her like only bringing one or two attacks in, and then tehy both gang up on you with 10 Pokemon left. And as I said, I only lost this battle because of the Level-up and dissobeying mid-battle... I would have won the first time if Haxorus hadn't target the empty spot two times in a row... 9. Weeeeeeeee!!! (also, Crawli is blind, how can he READ the Angie-flyer that appears??)

Well... Zekrom and Reshiram... the dragons of Truth and Ideals... Reshiram, the Dragon of Truth Zekrom, the Dragon of Ideals In german their names are a bit distorted, but in the end it means the same 'Truth' becomes "Wirklichkeit" which means reality - how the world is in reality right now 'Ideals' becomes "Wünsche" which means wishes - how someone wishes the world to be If I go on from this aspect, IF they make a major appearance: I think Melia or the Player will get Reshiram, to defend the world how it is now. to protect it against Team Xen and their evil schemes (which we still know almost nothing about) Therefore Zekrom falls into the hands of Team Xen... and I suspect REN of receiving it. Why? - because Ren is an egoistic, whiny... and he would do anything to get his hands onto something that could change the world like he wants to, because 'we stole his glory for converting Goldenleaf Town' - 'him getting the girl' etc. And about Kyurem... well I think this one could go to Neved: It is said that Kyurem abducts humans to steal their souls... what did Neved do? - Abduct humans to kill them in the end to gain some kind of energy... sound like stealing souls to me... (also he has Froslass and Weavile if I recall correctly, so Kyurem fits into his part Ice-type team)

I somehow skipped breakfast this morning... so I'm having my Breakfast for Lunch today: and I made my patended (not really...) pseudo-Egg-McMuffins! - Cut a Meatball in half (so you get two-servings out of one Meatball) - toast 4 slices of bread (whitebread or whole-grain, whatever you like) - heat up the meatball halves (either fry them in a pan or put them in the microwave for 1-2 minutes) - fry 2 eggs from both sides, add some salt and pepper for the flavour - fry 4 slices of Bacon (2 for each McMuffin) when everything is ready put everything together in this order: bread meatball bacon egg bread it is delicious as hell and stuffing, and shouldn't take more than 3-5 minutes to make

hmmm... did you catch a Makuhita in Sheridan? Hariyama is a beast in here (except against Porygon2... this is her true ace in my oppinion) you can catch a Tyrogue there which at level 18-20, and convenyently will evolve at level 20! However it is extremely rare. or you could try using a Dunsparce (the field is full of this little f-tards)... try to get one with Serene grace They can learn Yamn (for sleep) and Glare (for Paralysis), let it learn Rock Smash... (to think I would say this... with Serene Grace the Defence lowering part will come in handy) and it learns Roost Oval Stones are sadly only gotton through mining... at least I didn't find any lying around

Volta seems MOST LIKELY we will leave Terajuma Island... but where to? - We know of no other place then Gearen City and the hidden shore, and since the hidden shore only has an abandoned Xen-Lab, Gearen City will be our destination. And what is left in Gearen City to explore? - west Gearen! which was conviniently blocked off before, because we weren't strong enough (hell must be tough for new trainers coming from west-gearen... "Yay I got my first Pokemon, I want to show it to mom!" - "Sorry kid, you are not strong enough to be here!" - "but... I live in west Gearen..." - "Tough luck kid... West Gearen is only for the STRONG Trainers! Now buzz off!" - "but... but...") or Jan pulls a Marianette again... senidng us in one direction only to block our path again so we have to go somewhere else, which conviniently leads us to an unexpected Gym-battle we have already beaten: Poison, Fighting, Normal, Ghost, Water, Bug, Ice, Fire what's left is: Electric (Volta), Steel (Saki), Rock (Adam), Ground (???), Dark (???), Fairy (???), Psychic (Crescent? / Nim? / ???), Grass (???), Flying (???), Dragon (???) We won't face Adam anytime soon, well at least not for the next two, since he was confirmed to be on of the last 8 ("so you must be in the double-digits...") Since we don't know any other names or destinations, and Adam and Saki being in Grand Dream City, Volta is the safest bet as of now

The thing is: Speed from EVERY non flying/levitating, non-water type gets HALFED! IF you have caught a Snover on Blacksteeple... use its Hailwarning to cancel out Politoads Drizzle and use its Mist to cancel out the entire field (well for 5 turns at least...)

the only one I'll nickname is my starter Eufur... and his (yes, I'll soft reset if I have to... to get a male) name will be: Reginald Soo... I've gon thorugh Oppossites STAB moves (Normal and Poison) and came to the conclusion, that he has like no STAB move with which he can utilize Contrary. HELL if it learns Coil it will lower it's stats instead of increasing them! (since Contrary works both ways...) I hope it learns some moves later that lower it's stats afterwards so it can make use Contrary... and early on there are not many moves with this trait of lowering stats... this is mostly a trait of powerful late-game moves to compensate their strength... That means Contrary could ONLY be used passively, to use the enemies stat-lowering moves to your advantage, and who knows what you guys do to the AI Suddenly I don't think Contrary is THAT good on it... but then again, I don't know it's movepool...

I am DISSAPPOINTED!!!!!! I mean it's cool and all and Contrary as a regular ability is frickin' awesome! What I'm dissappointed about is the fact that it is known as the "poser" Pokemon and not the "ROADKILL" Pokemon! I mean... it EVEN HAS TIRE TRACKS (markings) on it's back!!! also I guess it will evolve into a Drak/Poison type???

The thing with the double-edged sword: good: it is easy to quickly grind up Pokemon for your rotation! bad: it is TOO easy to bring your Pokemon to the new level-cap after receiving a badge with Pokemon at the new level-cap, trainer and wild Pokemon just become a chore, a thorn in the eye... frankly a nuissance! you don't want to battle wild Pokemon, because they don't give any EXP and just slow you down... You buy a mass amounts of Repels to avoid them (after you found out which Pokemon are on this route) Trainers just get "rofl-stomped" by your maxed out team so you can progress, the EXP they give is irrelevent because if you go above the level-cap you use a reverse candy and 'delete' these gained EXP... So aside from Breeders there is NO NEED for other trainers! And wild Pokemon get looked at once to see which you want to catch for your team... and then you destroy the ozone-layer with Repels

Yeah Leavanny is weak to Rock because of it's Bug-Type... but only SINGLE-weakness not DOUBLE weakness and it's Grass-Type could make use of STAB-Bonus from the Forest-field

So... Like miy (current) Status-Update might have told you - I just beat Amber and therefore completed the Story-line of Episode 6. I have not completed every side-quest yet but I still wanted to share my thoughts about this episode and bring in some suggestions regarding the contents of Episode 6 (content after the Angie Gym-Battle) Ok so here I go: My thoughts: - I really liked the new maps for the 'old' areas (Gearen City, Route 2, Sheridan Village, Goldenleaf Town, Akuwa Town) - I DIDN'T like that D-Gyarados was weakened so much... in V5 I liked that we encountered an almost impossible enemy early on to show us the power of those Dimensional Rifts - and it gave us a good reason to come back to Route 1 later to defeat it, with a stronger and better team - Ok here is a double/edged sword -> the Pokemon Breeders! - It is great to have them to quickly level up Pokemon for the upcoming Gym-Fight... but I caught myself using them to quickly level up my team to just below the Level-cap... and therefore almost all wild-encounters became a nuisance, that I quickly just fled and only fought if I encountered a Pokemon that I actually wanted to catch (*** Something about this later) - The Story-changes, or rather expansions for the old content, were great... although Rens motives are now more understandable... but still weird, egoistic and non-sensical further explanation (or Ranting about Ren): He blocks us of, because he wants to be the one to 'change' Goldenleaf Town, ok... but WHY is he walking back from it? - instead of going IN and blocking it of - that way we would be out of his way and he could start harrassing Narcissa like we would do later... ALSO - he's in his hometown, his mother is worried sick, and he doesn't even care to say hello??? I mean... that is one way... or we could have BOTH entered and we could have done it together (with giving him most of the credit for his ego of course)... Also later he says "My friends betrayed me first..." That's bullshit! - HE betrayed us first, with blocking our path on our quest. In the hidden Xen-Lab when he sees that Melia is alive and complains about being lied to... WHY does he insist on fighting us later - when he clearly was against Team Xen and on our (well... Melias) side at this point? He could have just sided with us and attacked Nastasia and maybe earn back Melias trust! - with that - WHY is EVERYONE so cryptic? example: Nim on Route 4 "Don't go into Akuwa Town! It's bad!" ... Ok... it's bad... but I need a new badge... WHY IS IT BAD?? JUST TELL ME!!! If Nim would have just told us what's wrong with Akuwa Town, we might have escaped capture and Blacksteeple alltogether (But I guess... it's all for Story-progression purposes... *sigh*) - after Blacksteeple almost everything was like it was in V5, except the hidden-shore / Wetlands and Xen-Lab part (if that is subject to change... we have to see)... - Valerie... SWEET BABY JEEZUZ! - I see why she needs that field effect... because like all electric and Grass types would demolish her without it... but Holy damn is it overpowerd as hell! 50% Speed cut for all grounded non-water types (that don't have swift swim or other special abilities) If you try a Mono-run that is weak to water - your journey ends here! She will OHKO EVERYTHING with a speed-advantage, Rain and field-empowered TidalWave! I could only defeat her with Abamosnows Hailwarning and Mist to change the field into Misty-Terrain... - Crawli... in comparison with Valerie - was a total joke! Golem just outright slaughtered EVERYTHING he threw at me in one turn, except Crustle because I used it as setup - Stealth Rocks, 3*Rock Polish, heal up if neccessary, done... this battle is over! - just use Rock Blast 6 times and you walk away with the Stagweb Badge. - Angie... Nothing much has changed here except her field effect... Golem and Hariyama were the key here. Stealth Rock setup and Rock Blast to kill Weavile (for some reason it only used Beat Up instead of a super-effective Ice-move...) Hariyama had Close Combat and Knock Off as Counter to Frosslass and her other Ice mons Nothing other really special here - V6 Content, yay!!! - So the level progression is INSANE! We just beat Angie and our Pokemon are maximum Level 56 (if they leveled up during the fight...) and then the first thing you throw at us is Aelita with a bunch of Level 58 and 59??? That's cheating! She wouldn't be able to control them! we JUST got the badge to do this, and she just got Crawli's Badge her Pokemon should be Level 55 MAX So I trained my team up to level 59... almost the level Cap again... just to beat her... and then... as I mentioned above with the Breeders... I had to avoid like EVERY Encounter so that my Pokemon don't go over the level cap (I hate wasting Exp with Reverse Candies) - After that Battle there is SOOOOO MUCH stuff to do, that my Pokemon were level 60 almost the entire time... and THAT IS FRICKIN' annoying when you are about to face Zetta and Geara... I lost that battle 3 times just because my Haxorus gained a level and refused to obey me multiple times in a row (or was targeting Gearas Pokemon... WHICH weren't there anymore... it targeted an EMPTY slot...) ... also in that Battle... Melia... *sigh* - However the story progression was really nice and I liked the branched path. I chose to save the Elder, because... well Aelita wouldn't be too happy and I could have always get that Magma Stone back... Cera wanted to defrost Angie as soon as possible... but she is still frozen (yeah, I went to check) --------------------------------------- My Ideas/Suggestions - Well Ren... I know his motives are so weird and non-sensical for story-reasons... but I feel something is still missing... like I said before: WHY is he backing off from Goldenleaf Town after blocking us? there is no explenation for this... because when we arrive he IS just about to enter... - EARLY PARALYZE HEAL!! - Holy damn... I had to went back to a Poke Center or Healing Machine just because my Pokemon got Paralyzed in the beginning... we get Rawst Berries for Burn heal... when there is like nothing (almost nothing) that could inflict the Burn Status to us? I'd suggest switching it with the Paralyze Berry (which name I always forget) and the only Paralyze heal are LAVA COOKIES... which HEAL EVERYTHING... but early in the game they are kinda expansive with the low income we have there - EXCLUSIVE Pokemon in TEMPORARY locations... yeah... please NO! Best example is Tyroque in Marianettes Manor under Gearen City. Thios place dissappears after you beat her and with it the possibility to catch Tyroque (if you haven't encountered it while you were there) The Pokedex says it's only habitat is Gearen City... and inside the Manor was the only time I encountered it in Gearen. It MAYBE available in West Gearen... but for now we can't enter it and therefore in V6 it is the only location for it... - Level-Cap after Angie... As I said above with Aelita, the Level Progression is insane... either lower her Pokemon levels to be more on our level... or increase the Level Cap from Angies badge. Being on Level-Cap for a whole episode because of a 'cheating' Trainer in the beginning is... well contra-productive, when there is so much to do in that episode. - Corrupted Cave Everyone who saw my status about it will know what I'm about to say (and I know Jan saw it, because he made a smiley-face as a comment...) With our Levels we are effectively LATE-Game for a normal Pokemon game, now this isn't a normal Pokemon game... so we are just about Mid-Game... but that doesn't change relatively high levels of our Pokemon. MAKING US USE SHITTY progression moves at this high-level is just stupid! Cut gets a little bonus because of its boost in the forest field... I mean our Pokemon have very Powerful level-up moves at this point, that can't be just relearned at a whim (heartscales are valuable), or just the move-set we want to use on this Pokemon and we don't want to ruin that move-set for that shitty move we need to progress! Here are TWO Options I see for this part: 1. Give us the ability to use Cut and Rock Smash with Items (We have a MINING Kit to MINE Rocks... why can't we break Rocks with it??) 2. at that Corrupted Cave (other possible parts, like the wetlands or others yet to come) give us EASY access to a Computer to quicky swap out a Pokemon for an HM-Slave! The backtrack to a Computer would have been insane (if even possible) in there! - Through half of Carotus mountain (and Texen told his girls to BLOCK the entrance) Luckily I had Hariyama with Rock Climb... so I could swap these two moves out... (and sometimes no Pokemon on your team can learn Cut or Rock Smash...) - Valor Mountain 'Backdoor' (Save the Elder-route) when going thorugh Crawli's Gym to get to Valor Mountain, because we don't have Magma Drift yet, we encounter Kyogre... and MAYBE our team is REALLY hurt after that fight... we can't exit through the main entrance, because we don't have Magma Drift... so we have to go back thorugh Crawli's Gym into the Town into the Pokemon Center and back... that way is a bit long, considering Crawli HAS A HEALING MACHINE IN HIS ROOM!! - which unfortunately doesn't work for the player... just make this machine work and it's good! (also... HOLY JEZUZ we KILLED that Science guy! O.o) - Valor Mountain Zetta/Geara Battle Like I said with the Level Cap... it is annoying to lose that fight because of disobeying Pokemon, because they leveled up in that battle... because we were on the levelcap the whole episode One thing that makes this battle a torture is... MELIA... WHY DOES SHE ONLY USE 3 (Togekiss, Gardevoir and Zoroark) of her Pokemon?? SHE HAS 6!!! MAKE HER USE THEM!! - Crawli Gym-Battle As I stated above, Crawli got Slaughtered by my Golem... Instead of a Crustle give him an Armaldo with swift swim - the same Typing... utilizing the Rain and with AquaJet a Priority Move against Rock and Fire-types... Make him utilize the Rain (which currently is only there to weaken fire-moves... which HURTS his ace Volcarona)! and maybe make his Special-Move boosted by the Forest-field... Switch out Vespiqueen... he doesn't need half of his team having a double-weakness against Rock... maybe give him an Scizor, Escavalier or Leafanny instead --------------------------- These are my thoughts and ideas about V6... now I'll take a break and play something else for a while... until I get back for the sidequests

You get the Itemfinder in Akora Forest (Route 3 north exit) you need Cut and the "Ancient Wing" to get past the Seadraking Statue. A guy in the northwest house will give you the itemfinder also If you have a Pokemon with Flash you can get Zubat in the Cave above the northwestern house (you have to fight a Zubat-gang + Crobat however)

yeah... Anouncement... it's already Friday again... *cough* *cough*

Yay sites finally up, and I can finally download V6.2 ... jeez... I wanted to load 6.2 and suddenly the site is down. Why are those updates so sneaky?? - Couls you update the title next time you make an update? also: I think Normal/Reborn-difficulty Crawly is in DESPERATE NEED of a team update!!! Holy cow! Why? - I absolutely SLAUGHTERED him with ONLY my level 48 Golem! How? - Stealth Rock + 3x Rockpolish + Rock Blast = every Pokemon (except Crustle) get's "OHKOed" (two-hit if you count the individual Rock Blast hits...) Crustle is a GREAT Enemy to set up against, because it can't really hurt Golem. If you don't kill it in one hit, he will waste his Hyper Potions on it. also 3 double weaknesses against Rock with Volcarona, Yanmega and Vespiqueen. maybe instead of Crustle make it Armaldo with Swift Swim, to utilize the rain, and with the Moveset: Aqua Jet, X-Scissors, Slash, Rock Slide - Swift Swim to increase it's low speed, - Aqua Jet for an rain-empowerd priority move against Rock and Fire types. - Slash for the Forest-field empowered grass-type attack for Rock and water-types - X-scissors and Rock Slide for STAB maybe switch out Vespiqueen out for Heracross or Escavalier, for the additional coverage? edit: oh, and one thing about Valerie... Her team is ok... BUT THAT FIELD EFFECT - JEEZUZ!!! Her field effect is plausible and stuff and ALMOST balanced... the ONE thing that is totally overpowered / unfair is the 'speed cut in half' part for all grounded non-water-types! (again) HOLY JEEZUZ... IF her team would be slow to begin with I could understand that... but her team isn't THAT slow at all, and I guess it was implemented just to slow down those ridicilously fast Electric types (like Manectric or Electrode), to give her water-pokemon the speed advantage, but everything else just becomes SOOOO slow... I could only beat her because my Abomasnow knew Mist to cancel out her field... Personally I would say, reduce the speed cut to 25% or 30% instead of 50%... 50% is just way to brutal...

Games that are misleading / mindfucking you: Spec-Ops: The Line I mean... if you don't know what happens in the end... HOLY COW! ... although there are subtle hints to it throughout the entire game... if you manage to catch them Bioshock 1 / Bioshock Infinite The first time I played Bioshock 1 ... the reveal... dayum... Bioshock Infinte... over the course of the game I knew something was fishy... but I only could piece it together right before the big reveal...

you know... one thing bothered me all the time, and now I know what it is: Validar of PLEGIA... yeah... ok He is is kind of the Plegian-King in the second half of the game... but I don't actually see him as a Plegian. Personally I'd rather see the Mad King Gangrel as Plegias leader, and Validar as the leader of "Grimleal Cult" or something like that

But those NORMAL-Type Sound moves (e.g. Uproar) would do nothing to normal types anymore...

Favorites Kanto: Giovanni This battle had so much weight on it... thorughout the game you faced him twice before, without knowing he was a Gym-Leader. And now with this battle EVERYTHING is on the line - your eight Badge for the Pokemon League and his evil organization Team Rocket! Johto: Morty He works with the Type with tha least Pokemon at this stage - Ghost! He has a somewhat big role in the story around the two towers, Ho-oh and the 3 legendary cats. Hoenn: Tate & Liza The first official Gym Double Battle! (but dissappointed that, except for emerald, they only use Lunatone and Solrock) Sinnoh: Gardenia ... seriously? - She is the ONLY gym-leader I actually remember... and that's because she was in so many Sinnoh Episodes of the Anime... Sinnoh's Gym-leaders are just soooo... forgettable... (and I played all 3 Gen.4 games... platinum I think twice...) Unova: Elesa as said before - she actually has something to do with the character development of the protagonist and the rivals. also her Emolga was beast. (and I liked the Rolecoaster gym-puzzle) Kalos: Korrina got to be her... M-Lucario, she has to do wit hthe Story (Mega-evolution etc.) yeah... but like Sinnoh... most of the Gen6 gym-leaders are somewhat forgettable Reborn: Julia / Terra It's a tie... both are severely Hyperactive and funny as hell! espacially Julia in the last episode "you must beat Seel!" and stuff like that Special mention: Blue (Kanto in G/S) He was former Champion and doesn't care for the rules, because he uses a MIXED type Team - something no other Gym-Leader does! Dislikes Kanto: Surge You NEED Cut to get to his Gym... that means you will NEVER see his Gym without a Pokemon with Cut in your team... and his team is lowsy... Johto: Jasmin / Clair again a tie... Jasmin, because this Gym battle just felt rushed... you just beat Chuck, you return and GYM-BATTLE TIME... 2 Gyms in like 10-15 minutes... and her Gym is a joke... Claire because... I BEAT YOU! I legitamately BEAT THE S...STUFF out of your dragons and you refuse to give me my badge??? Oh I have to go into that Cave to proof I'm worthy? Well I could have gone there first and didn't need to battle you? - Is that it??? JEEZ WOMAN! Hoenn: Brawly you know... Brawly can do NOTHING to you... if you bring a Sableye from the nearby cave (R/S/E only)... just sayin'... Sinnoh: ALL ... as I said before... I can't really remember them... I vagueley remember their names and types... but other than that... Unova: Clay B2/W2 Gym-Puzzle was stupid as hell... and his team is only saved by that beastly Excadrill... Kalos: Grant Although every other, except Korrina, could get this spot... I decided on Grant... becuase: SERIOUSLY? EARLY Rock-type Gym.. AGAIN? We only had 3 Rock-type gyms as the first gyms before... switching it into second gym... SO ORIGINAL... Why do you not finally give us a DARK-Type gym??? *sob* *sob* and you use the regions fossils... like that other dude before you... Reborn: Correy yeah... I dislike Correy... because of the events that happen... if he had just given us the badge after the fight... life would have been so much easier... special mention: The Triplettes (Unova B/W) I mean I REALLY LIKE the Idea of a first gym that depends on your starter... but the execution was just... terrible... not to mention, you get the counter monkey to theirs directly before the Gym-battle... making it a walk in the park, regardless of your chosen starter...

but Ash has won the Orange-Island League! That's the main regional league of the Orange-Archipelago