Kelazi5

One of my coolest moments was the face-off between my Infernape vegeta and Luna's Umbreon in the Dark Gym battle. I had mowed through all her previous mon and tried to have Vegeta pummel it with Close Combat like I usually do but it kept healing and putting me to sleep and KOd Vegeta. I revived him but Close Combat ran out and ethers weren't working properly yet. I then realized not only did I have calm mind on him but all of Umbreon's attacks were special ones. So I started using calm mind when I wasn't asleep or healing myself in hopes of taking it down to struggle. I was so exciting seeing its attacks do less and less damage and when it started using yawn when i was already asleep I knew I had it. It was really satisfying seeing it finally faint. That was a really fun fight. Another epic moment was in the fight with that giant steelix. My powerhouses had done their best and gotten it down to a sliver of health but I was out of revives and all I had left was my HM/Pickup Specialist Linoone. But the little guy pulled through beat it. Then there's the fight against Admin Taka and his Chatot on Azurine Island. I only won because my panpour was able to burn chatot with scald and had some mad jukes. As hard and annoying as this game can be sometimes, it definitely produces its fair share of moments of awesome and down to the wire fights that make it all worth it. Can't wait to get back to the game and play Chapter 15 once I finish my pokedex and stuff in Alpha Sapphire.

I'd probably get this with Reborn too if I didn't make my runs into a freakin' fanfic every time. I mean I have half a dozen games for the PS2/3 I started but haven't gotten back to like Dragon's Crown, Jak II, and Lego Batman. Plus after I finished both regions and the major sidequests in Pokemon Zeta/Omicron I lost interest in it pretty quick despite it having the battle frontier of almost every pokefan's dreams. I guess getting attached to these characters my mon have become helps me want to see their story to the end. It did help make IV training nearly two dozen mon in Reborn here tolerable. Still, it'll be a bit tougher to get back into Reborn since I'm still doing stuff with my Alpha Saphire game and won't be coming back until I'm done with it. Though it'd mean the wait for the next episode would be much shorter.

My biggest surprise was my beautifly. When I got her I figured she'd be more support while my noibat would be my main flyer. But thanks to Beautifly getting a diverse movepool pretty early she became an absolute power house almost on par with my infernape, mainly because of Flobot and the Pulse Tangela/Tangrowths. I ended up using her up until the Noel/Normal Gym fight. Another surprise was my octillery. I had mainly gotten it so I could breed an ice beam lotad, this was before the mechanics were updated. Yet he's turned out to be more useful, effective than my ice beam lotad has, thanks to his great move pool. With a little set up from my cosmic power/baton pass Lopunny he was able to storm through a few of the really tough episode 14 team meteor battles.

I've only played it through once so far and I picked Chimchar since I thought Infernape looked pretty cool and it looked like a fun mon to use. He's been pretty awesome. Very handy with Florina and all those Pulse Tangela/Tangrowth. Once the game is completed I plan on starting a new run to experience it in its full glory. I'm planning on picking Treecko since it gets a pretty good/diverse moveset early on. Though that plan hinges on Ame not removing the post-Julia train station numel. Half of my troubles in my main run early game came from not having anyone with any decent ground moves, and that noibat is a pain in the butt to train early game.

I say at least train it up to be battle ready, it's a very good mon. It's good to have plenty of alternates in case you run into that level cap. You can probably rotate it with Gothi or Meowstic depending on the situation. As for a bulky mon if you EV train Gothi solely in defense and special defense she can be a solid tank since her defense is a good deal higher than Gardevoir's, just gotta get her a few good tms (charge beam can be surprisingly useful). Plus she can be a good thief with frisk if you invest in trick once you get to the black market.

Personally with me the trainer almost always ends up being a blank slate/vehicle/puppet for my pokemon team's adventures. Usually my starter ends up as the main character with the team acting more like a roving band of pokemon adventurers fighting evil and stuff. I've never been good at projecting myself or much of any character into silent protagonists. But who knows, it could change since my answers to the interview questions in Alpha Sapphire turned my guy into a disgusting memelord/generic anime shonen protag. I just think we need a bit more to work with. Honestly I think it'd be cool if we had an interview feature or something similar to the ORAS ones, it would give us a bit more to work with for us personality wise. Or have options to type in our own responses to questions. For the next Gen VI Kalos game, which I'm assuming is coming out next year, I plan on basing my character on the one I chose in Reborn, to act as a prequel of sorts. My only grip is that we were forced to read Titania's diary and was annoyed when I found that was the only possible way to advance the story. It felt like we were a bit too railroaded at that point.

For me Beautifly was a beast in early game but after Noel she just couldn't cut it anymore and had to retire from active service, even with near perfect EV training. My Arbok and Simipour were starting to become this but after some solid EV training and moveset shuffling I was able to turn them into glass cannons and save them from having to retire. It was a similar situation with my pachirisu except I turned her into a tanky set up mon with T-wave, charm, bide, and super fang.

Actually to get ancient power on piloswine just go to the move relearner, gotta get the key in the railnet first though. Piloswine learns it at lvl 1, that's what serebii, bulbapedia, and pokemondb say.

Hmm... that really depends on the situation but if all else fails usually my infernape Vegeta, camerupt Francine, mawile Chomp Irwin, or escavalier Galahad can usually take care of it. I don't really have a set team though, just have a posse of a couple dozen trained mon I choose from.

I know you can steal metal coats from magnemites in shade's gym. Not sure where the other is.

I've said it before but multiple save slots like regular pokemon games have. Zeta and Insurgence use Essentials and have multiple save slots. I don't see why Reborn can't since I don't want to have to do the manual save file moving around. Though since Ame put in a backup save feature I imagine this isn't too far off.

I was wondering why the banner changed but the episode hadn't shown up on the front page. As much as I'd like to jump into this episode I've still got a lot to do in Alpha Sapphire. Gotta catch 'em all since it's my first official one. Still I'm already looking forward to when the game is complete so I can start a new file and experience it in it's complete, uninterrupted glory.

I'd imagine it would be fine. In Solo runs you are allowed to use another mon as an HM slave/expert you just can't use it to fight. So I imagine as long as you don't use it to fight and level it up like you would a magikarp it would be fine as long as you just use it as a headbutter. Besides in order to get lileo you'd need to get one to bibarel anyway. Also in cases of monotypes where there isn't a starter with that eventual typing you're allowed to use a starter until you find one of your chosen type. Though I'm not familiar with the specific rules of Monotype runs.

Fairy-steel-fighting could be an interesting trio but there aren't as many 2 evolution fairies as other types. Poison-grass-ground is another good potential as well. Whatever you pick good luck with the game. I hear it can be difficult to complete one.

I think next episode we'll be dealing with the Pulse Machine that is causing the sleep over Agate City. My money is on the transmitter somehow being the ferris wheel, though it could also be coming from the Team Meteor controlled city. There's a good chance we will have legit access by either something relating to the waterfalls or by freeing Agate City and opening the long way back. Though Ame could have Agate City's security point on lockdown, keeping us sealed in that area for a couple more episodes.

Yeah there were a lot of missed oportunities. Though I notice a lot of these retyping ideas are what was put in the Blaze Black/Volt White romhacks. Yeah it isn't the same as it being in the legit game but still. I think the Petilil/Lilligant line is a good contender for a grass/fairy retyping, I mean it's moveset is in desperate need of some coverage moves. Spritzee is a major missed opportunity, type and design-wise, since it could have been a really neat fairy/flying type if they had made its evolution more bird-like rather than a vegas dancing girl. Hopefully they fill in some of those typing gaps in gen 7.

There's a monotype availability guide that shows what pokemon of what types are available from beginning to 2nd poison gym. This should help you come up with a team for whatever type you decide on. http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=14182

If Mudkip, Ghastly, and Azuril are being axed I wonder what mon will be taking their places. Earlier Ame replaced the Bulbasaur event with Chikorita so I imagine Totodile or Squirtle will be replacing Mudkip since a dual-type like Turtwig or Fennekin would be too good for that early. For the other she could either just axe the trade and event but I doubt that. I'm just not sure what they'd be replaced with. Either way my team is pretty much already set so I doubt I'll actively use any of these new ones this run.

Seismitoad doesn't look half bad like that. It looks like a frog now, like one of those poisonous south american ones.

The elgyem and beeheeyem are all right but the grey dots around the black markings on Elgym's head need to change. Though I was thinking those two might look cool if made to look like robots or something. The drillbur line looks pretty good now.

Over in the side bar there is a link to the page describing all the field effects. There should be information about what moves change or destroy the field. However some fields can't be terminated and some require going through a chain of fields to fully get rid of them. It's tricky to outright get rid of them because they're one of this game's gimmicks. For example, the only moves that affect the forest field like that are flame burst, lava plume, eruption, and a few others which turn it into a burning field. To remove that you need a move like surf, sludge wave, sand tomb, gust, or a few others to turn that to a regular field.

Hopefully perish song still works on this field, Otherwise my godslayer Jynx is almost useless. Still, I might have to train up an Omastar just for the holy field fights, just for the lulz. But man, the next Arceus fight is going to brutal. I can't imagine Ame making it anything lower than level 100.

Here's a list of a few that could be good, not sure how they fit on your cuteness scale though. Not sure how you feel about Mawile, Farfetch'd, or the elemental monkies but they could be very good with their solid movesets. Normal: A technician meowth could be very handy since it has a bunch of decent moves that would be boosted by it, plus there's payday. And you can get it right off the bat. Ground: Sandshrew is pretty cute and has good attack and defense for a base and it has some good attacks. Swinub is absolutely adorable, plus it learns good moves, though it's stats are a bit meh. Fire: Growlith or tepig Psychic: Abra has massive sp. atk but you'd have to rely on tm moves. But you have to wait until 7th street. Spoink is a good one too. Grass: bellossom is absolutely adorable plus it's fully evolved, though you'd have to suffer through gloom first though. Petilil is also a solid, adorable grass type. Aron, emolga, and joltik are good too. Litwik and Flabebe are solid too but you don't get them until later on in the game. Hopefully this helps you get the cutest bunch of badass pokemon Reborn has ever seen.