NickCrash

And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids! we would need to know the city we start in

If I may, I'd like to add that sometimes people do not mean to insult others. As written speach does not convey the emotions the oral counterpart does, it is natural things like irony or humour be misinterpreted as personal offense. I am well aware this thread originally did not target this type of problems, rather the open insults, aka flame war, however I believe this is a perfect opportunity to address this issue as well. Some project their arguments in a more... fervent manner, while others tend to be more careful with their phrazing. Most disputes stem from misinterpreting the commenters' intentions, the discussion gets heated and then proceeds to turn into an exchange of oral poison. Even if things end up as such, please control your anger and impulses of responding likewise or in a more offensive manner, because as soon as the flame war goes on, few things stop it, and they are not beneficial for anyone involved.

Perhaps people didn't read the whole wall of text, and that's ok. Given she used Dragons, she wouldn't be E4. If she uses Flying types, that's a completely different story, mentioned in the last 2 lines. Based on the dragon hypothesis it made little for her to be in E4. If her using Flying types is established, we have a different story. I like however how people try to degrade arguments about characters, even if certain things are said about them by NPCs, however at the same time choose to ignore comments by the same NPCs stating that Laura was stripped off of her position, but still consider her to return. Following the same logic, Heather's position is frail, since it is implied that she was already beaten. Not a fact (before you jump up with counter-arguments), since no-pokemon may have been involved.

Try one with Raikou and Breloom.

Do we have a map with all cities named? Also possible other locations?

I'm expecting that pirate ship pokemon promised in the OP

It is so obvious that she uses Bug types! Edit: My profile picture is a monkey inside water that uses a smartphone. What types do I use?

Do you know what is really unfair? Every type having at least 1 Legendary, except for Poison.

Just half of the people who commented and many more. I like how everyone has Heather as a given for E4 spot. I believe she was defeated (or just beaten) by Blake. An E4 or champion could fend for themselves and find a way to avoid capture. The reason I doubt this is the mere fact that if Heather is indeed E4, we will have to fight two dragon masters consecutively (hypothesis: she uses dragons). Given that Dragon is one of the most powerful types, and as such left for the last positions, Sapphira will be challenged right before the E4, or at best second last. Therefore it will feel monotonous or even bad to see us battle another Dragon tamer in the next episode. Given how limited our choices on dragons are, without the legendaries, we will be fighting two very similar teams. That is something nobody wants, and especially Ame, because we've seen that the gym leaders so far only seldom own common pokemon. Even if they do, some things get changed in their teams for it not to be noted. Sigmund cannot be an E4, as he is too weak for the spot. This is actually the same reason Sirius is not considered a viable choice. They have been beaten and they had low-level pokemon. Remember when we battled alongside Amaria, an established gym leader? Her Lapras was lvl75 (now 80) which means that she already had a high position. If Sigmund owned another, wouldn't it make more sense for his pokemon to be of higher levels? I know that in that case we wouldn't beat him, so he could battle us in a fashion like Elias and Solaris. Arkhidon Arclight could be a choice, since he hasn't appeared much, if only for brief moments trying to see what's going on with bombings and the pokemon black market. Him being an electric type trainer is more than obvious. However we already have 2 of those: 1 good and 1 evil. He's just... redundant. Unless he develops like Fern (who didn't stick to his grass pokemon) and gains a new role in the story, even as a dj in the nightclub, I cannot see him in the upper positions. Solaris is a cool guy and really promising. He's not weak, and you were not supposed to beat him in Pyrous mountain (regardless if we did). Given T-Tar is on his side, a powerful sandstorm team is to be expected, and this is much fitting for a complete battler. I am willing to bet he has a position of power in the league, now that he no longer is occupied with leading Team Meteor (working more as an executive producer). Hence him having the position of the champion is possible. Anna is a weird case in the essence that we know nothing of her. Fanfiction wants her and Noel to be Radomus's children. She is hinted to have a position of power so an E4 place seems quite fitting. It has been long since we fought the Psychic gym and her team cannot have a different type, as far as I am concerned. Therefore E4 is where I'd put her. She is assumed to be higher than Luna, who was once the Grass type E4, but I can hardly see her as a champion. Elias is more or less established to be in a position of power. We already know he uses Normal types (Ditto and Snorlax are some), a type many people underestimate, but few dare to challenge. Be his position and E4 or an executive who replaced Ame is yet to be seen. Serra seemed to treat him like her guest, which means she is familiar with him. Be it that his eyesight miracle has been broadcasted by GG all over the region and he's a celebrity, or he has a E4 (which I believe to be the truth) is yet to be officially revealed. Blake is another interesting fellow. He is not the gym leader, as the position is currently occupied by Serra, and I believe it has not been shown for him to be a leader that retired, much like his younger brother, Cal. Be it the case, he is free to work under the Meteors. However he could also hold a position higher up. I doubt it since he has already been defeated and as such cannot fill the criteria. Bennet. I know that he has already been defeated, in fact multiple times, but he falls under a complete different category simply due to the fact that he is still evolving. We met him as a nerd, got familiar with his more perverted side, and now he is training as we do in order to acheive greatness, subsidized by El who has connections and pulls strings behind the scenes, helping the boy rise in power and perhaps position. It also fills the criteria, as it has been too long since we fought a bug expert, so he is quite probable. Laura is actually absent from the story. We met her at the Tanzan cove and first learned that she used to have an E4 position. Given her Grass types, she also fills that role with her weaker same-type-leader being Flobot, the 2nd leader. This however cannot end up as a motiv, therefore her removal from E4 seems actually right. Actually if you choose the dialogues that end up with HER being kidnapped, she disappears again. That was Laura for you. So far we have Champion: Solaris - powerful sandstorm team E4(1): Anna - psychic team E4(2): Elias - normal team E4(3): Bennet - bug team E4(4): up to thought / possible candidates: Heather(dragons, just for type coverage to make the E4 more difficult to manage), Laura(grass, to deal with a water monotype that can potentially breeze through this E4), Blake(ice, weak type, not giving much help, but he's a bad guy that can fit the role), Heather (if she sports a flying monotype instead)

I'll be happy if it's two new pokemon families. Their early stages are just fine.

Several type problems that are hindering the game and make it unfair for certain types. Hold on to your butts, cause I'm doing them all. Normal --- not super effective against anything. I might as well use Bird type. Don't really know how to solve this one. Water --- should be weak to poison. This way we nerf Water, which is an awesome, almost untouched type. Face it, how often do you see Grass moves used against you? Also, when electric is used, it probably comes as a STAB so you know to avoid it. At the same time, Poison is one of the types that has almost no offensive presence. It had absolutely none last gen, when it was SE only against Grass. Now with Fairy one would argue that things got better, but it's still underused and tossed aside in favor of Steel, and is still resisted by 4 types and one is immune to it. Fairy --- should be weak to bug, not resist it! Now it's an OP powertype that tosses the most offensive types and makes them less usuable (Dragon, Dark, Fighting). It's worth mentioning that poor Bug type is now resisted by a total of 7 types and effective against only 3. If the change is applied we suddenly have a boost for the Bugs which are horrible defensively and now even more horrible offensively. Yes, bugs would get better over Poison types in terms of usage, but not Steel, as the latter also has a defensive presence, thus remaining usable. Also, Psychic should be resistant from Fairy attacks. It balances the metagame, as it doesn't have many resistances, and Fairies can easily be outsmarted by humans, based in lore.

You people really hate pure types. Apart from certain changes that I'd like, most retypings seem unnecessary in my opinion. If I were to provide a list of possible changes, including possible future megas for those pokemon that change their typing, I'd go this way. Feraligatr Florges Glalie Victini Luxray Masquerain (wtf with that name) Octillery

Next thing you know Ame puts taxes Good choice on the Ace memberships. People not knowing each other long enough makes things harder, at least in the nightclub. About Ark's inquiry, I believe that the potD can stop functioning while a randoms tourney is on. It's not like it has to work every single day. I do not know how good of an idea that is, for the pokemon to be in 100% battles. Perhaps we can just increase the probability to something like: "You have 50% chance to encounter it after playing 20 games". Also, it should probably be limited for fully evolved pokemon. Also, rust in pieces Athletics thread. Jerry might be disheartened, but not many people will miss you. Suggestion: When using sotD, if there is high demand, perhaps users could have a choice out of 3 songs to click on and have playing while on the forum.

Courtesy of myself, here's a much better team. The Wallbreaker The Cleric The U-Turner The Screener The set-up The speed Adjusted for OU, but can be used for other tiers too. I'll be waiting for your constructive criticism and you can always use the team if you like. Importable:

Avi me?