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I would probably bank on M.Sceptile, MegaZard X, or Amphabulous for Sapphira's Mega. Just because it seems pretty reasonable that Heather would get Mega Salamence & Solaris will probably have another battle where his 'Chomp goes Mega. And while None of those mons START Dragon type, Ciel's ace wasn't even flying after it went Mega, and then there's the Noel Clefable thing... Basically the rules SEEM flexible enough to allow it. And all three of them offer type combinations that Sapphira would otherwise not have available to her. Megazard particularly would be teriffying with the field boosting both of it's STABs AND DD.

Seems it, but because the field halves ice damage as well, it will functionally make that neutral. Leaving Dragonite only weak to rock, really. And while you're surfing to get rid of the field, it will probably Dragon Dance and then you're in for a whole world of hurt...

If two gym leaders have this field because we have to fight them at the same time... I don't think I could survive 6 v 12, especially when at least half of that 6 will be so drastically boosted :x

Damn Ame. I don't fix anywhere near that amount in a day... Way to make me look bad.

Pokemon? Nah, you had to use your fists

Can 6000% confirm that the victory road puzzle involves Chess, Sliding Tiles, a fetch quest, an irl treasure hunt, an in game treasure hunt, and donating all your life savings to Reborn. And, and naturally all of that will still fail to work unless you soloed Solaris back on Pyrous.

And hurt your ears? Colour me impressed.

I mean, depends what you mean by vacation. Doing bugfixes and the like is fun, so I wouldn't really say vacation is an apt word, but I suppose it'll depend on if I actually have something to work on when Reborn is done or not. The code and stuff has turned into a pretty fun hobby so I'll no doubt find something else to do with it. I occasionally think about the gym in passing. That counts, right? Paranoia, my two favourite pokemon aren't available in game (Mega Beedrill & Articuno) so I guess Porygon-Z, and I think Aya (provided she's with her brother) or Noel would be my fave leader. As in, you saw text in caps and you shouted it out loud? I really didn't think other people did that.

E16 could have literally 0 real content and I would still be happy with it because we don't have to read the diary. This makes me so very happy.

Alright, so I wrote up most of this as I was playing and then I closed the tab when I meant to change and that makes me grumpy. So all of my witty commentary throughout the sewers is gone. I even transcribed the conversation with Titania when you give her a Blue Moon Ice Cream, which is a pretty nice exchange, and detailed my struggles against Pulse Swalot. I fought some cultists, observed the team I remembered was indeed the same cultist Kaiden, remarked about how Titania has no chill but that's entirely to be expected. There were comments in the nature of liking the sewer puzzles, liking Titania's blatant calling Taka out on helping us and remarks he's odd before doing so. Also that the cultist put up a reasonable fight but Aegislash soloed them when you were partnered up. I seriously struggled with PULSE Swalot just like my original file, and eventually resorted to the same strategy of making a rainbow field, because without Murkwater, he's sorta a pushover. Oh, and I didn't fight Taka because I'm pretty sure I did on my original file. Although I'm not sure which choice is the right thing to do here. Oh, yeah, and I observed Julia is like Terra with spelling. ANYWAY, I guess it's time for me to grumpily continue on after losing all I had written. Still, we have a chunk of content left for the update so at least that'll be good! Well, as good as usual. Jumping right in... Team Vs. Fern(6) & Blake (2) Brainfreeze Lv73 Pearl Lv72 Mozilla Lv73 HOWDOIBLOCK? Lv74 I have base? Lv74 Peach Lv72 Seeing as I opened with Brainfreeze, we start by dealing with Fern's Hazorus. In fact, the goal is more or less focus on Fern because his team is pretty weak to Ice. Rini can deal with Blake. Or try & fail to given her groung & grass types. Although Scizor ruined the plan by taking out Brainfreeze, we send out Mozilla to still more or less focus on Fern. I made that decision before realising he had Rhyperior, but Torterra was kind enough to deal with that for me. Then Florinia sent out Breloom and suddenly started destroying Blake as fast as I was destroying Fern. I gotta say, this battle was really satisfying. Right up until Serperior came out and destroyed me because I missed a Fire Blast. That happened. Err... Ahem. Take 2 went more smoothly. Serperior came out early and we dealt with it early. And beyond that, it was more or less smooth sailing. So, now the big one. Which will hopefully go well, lest I have to repeat all that again. Oooh, so that's how we end up paired with Julia for the Solaris fight on the path you beat him on Pyrous. Rini gets Poison Fang'd. So I guess it's battle time. Team Vs Solaris(2) & New World Orderly John (2) The same as the last one with a level up or two. There WAS no break in between. I immediately switch out Brainfreeze because I want him on hand to deal with the Garchomp. Thus Pearl starts. Not the best matchup, but she can take hits. We take out both starting pokemon, but Pearl is lost shortly after. HOWDOIBLOCK? takes down Tyranitar while the two Eelektrosses are duking it out. Gyarados is a little scary, so I turn to Eelektross while I hope Julia deals with Gyara. She does, and I deal with Eelektross, but Machamp is down. Peach comes into set up because of the favourable matchup agaisnt Kecleon & Excadrill.She goes on a rampage and takes out both opponents, but Solaris' Mandibuzz halts her in her tracks.I have base? wrecks said Mandibuzz, and Garchomp comes out. And he's only a level higher than the glitchy porygon-z. So I go for a Tri Attack, but he earthquakes first so that doesn't work out. It ALSO takes out John & Julia's current pokemon. So now I'm back to Brainfreeze. John is out of pokemon so we're 2v1. He Dragon Rushes Julia's Rotom Fan, which I swear was holding an air balloon, meanwhile he gets oneshotted with an Ice Beam. And thus victory is ours. Leaving some plot and then one big battle left before the end of E15. Julia: Will she be okay? Titania: I would say 'yes'. But Florinia has a history of being more affected by things than she should be. Julia: Will you stop it already!? Titania: I will when she does. Julia: In case you didn't notice, it's NORMAL for peope to be hurt when their friend blows up on them. She trusted you, and you betrayed her! Titania: Seems to be a recurring theme lately. Amaria: Hey, what's with all the yelling...? Well, that's at least a bit of insight into the incident between Florinia & Titania. One has to wonder what it entails, but only time will tell. That said, sounds sorta like Rini was in love with Amaria or somesuch. That'd make for some interesting events down the line. Also Julia said Retrogravy Amnesty instead of Retrograde Amnesia. That's too good to not write down. When I get back to the circus, the gym machine is once again online! Nothing much interesting there, just Ame warning us that Ciel plays defensive. Which remind me I've not checked the TV! Interview is nothing much, Gardevoir telling Serra that Bennet is a terrorist now and Serra demanding to be taken to him. The profile doesn't work, which I recall being a bug suffered in some of the very early E15 releases that was later fixed. I must not have downloaded the updated version on my laptop, or something like that. Anyway, I think it's time for us to finish off the run until E16 releases. So, without further ado... Team Vs. Ciel Mozilla Lv73 Pearl Lv73 Brainfreeze Lv74 HOWDOIBLOCK Lv75 I have base? Lv75 Peach Lv73 So I may change the team up if the first attempt doesn't go well, because I have plenty of mons which would be good for Ciel. Still, may as well try with the main lot first! Now presenting...! Togekiss is a good start. Between the lucky burn from fire blast and doing the right amount of damage, I made Ciel eat up a Hyper Potion. Pearl took on Archeops and wasted her other two potions. Brainfreeze was going to destroy Noivern but a crit happened so... Oops. I have base? Did it instead. And then I got swept by Gliscor. Oops again. Alright, I think I'll try that again and save Brainfreeze for Gliscor... So the next few tries involved serious paraflinching off the bat and yeah. They went really bad. Second Team Vs. Seel Lucky #6 Lv71 Pearl Lv73 Mozilla Lv73 I have base? Lv75 moar ice pls Lv72 Brainfreeze Lv74 Okay, so hopefully this goes a little better. Now presenting...! Poison Jab is the perfect opener because it eats Hyper potions ideally. It does JUST over 200 damage so she wastes all 3 hyper potions and the Poison Jab after the last one takes her out anyway. Then Archeops critquakes both my water types, but luckily gets a weak quake on Brainfreeze who just barely manages to take it out. I have base? Deals with Noivern, Brainfreeze deals with Gliscor (But I lose Mozilla in the process.) I have base? clips the gale wings and Talonflame goes down, just barely. Lucky #6 goes for the Poison Jab on Altaria, knowing the Mega is coming. But Altaria went straight for the earthquake and took me down. So now all I have left is I have base? & Brainfreeze, both on low health. I can sacrifice one to heal the other. Brainfreeze has type advantage but I have base? has raw power. And I THINK she runs Heatwave. All I remember for sure is Return/Earthquake. I gamble on being wrong about that, and send out I have base so I can heal Brainfreeze. Hyper Voice got me down to 2HP, but my Ice Beam did most of Altaria's health as damage. Seems Ciel runs Hyper Voice and not Return, which I shoulda expected. She goes for an Earthquake after I heal, which gets me to more han half health. It's make or break, I just gotta hope the ai is stupid and doesn't Hyper Voice, and then I win... Ai wasn't stupid. So next attempt, which I hope will be more the same but I won't lose 2 pokemon to crits at the start. So, ignoring the three tries where Togekiss flinched the hell out of #6, we have a try that went to a good start. We lost Pearl, but moar ice pls took down Archeops while taking minimal damage. Base? took out Noivern as usual, & moar ice pls dealt with Gliscor. And then Talonflame swept me because Base took too much damge to beat it like last time... I struggled way less with Ciel on my main file. Then again, I didn't struggle with Samson at al and he was the bane of this file. Next battle was weird. Ciel switched Togekiss at the last minute which meant that of all things, Lucky #6 dealt with Archeops. lost Base but moar ice pls took out Togekiss, Gliscor & Noivern, taking no damage. Pearl tried to deal with Talonflame but it got off a Swords dance and then I lost again after a brilliant start. Or at least I thought that was the case. But it went with a flare Blitz instead of an Acrobatics to take down moar ice, leaving Brainfreeze, #6 & Mozilla to deal with Altaria. Open with Brainfreeze in hopes of an Icy Wind. Manage to get it off, and a second because Brainfreeze now outsped the Altaria. Then a Poison Jab from #6 and it was finally over. Suspension Badge get! So, seeing as it's the end of E15, I should probably organise my team members differently or something. So time for some creative spoiler tagging! The Team