Marcello

I remember watching my Dad play Pokemon Gold when I was 5 or 6, and it fascinated me, and I think the first game I ever properly played was Pokemon Crystal, which I got along with a gba for christmas or a birthday. Loved videogames ever since.

Big congrats to Rose, I'm sure you'll do great! And keep up the good work, Jeri! But damn, if I can't start shitposting, I'll never earn the rupees to make Ace.

See, I'm a man of my word, it's only been one month this time. Alright, time to go get Diving in the mountains to save the city where the Agate sleep thing is totally coming from. Which also means we'll open up with the only PULSE battle I've never struggled with on any file! (Well, I maen, I've only gotten this far once before, but y'know. It was ez.) Or at least that was the plan. Until it occured to me that none of my pokemon can Dive. So, umm... I guess I'm arsing around in Ametrine for a while until I find a shiny? ...Huh, that was quick. Only 9 battle. All I need to do is not kill this guy and we finally have a water type Team Member! Who can not onlly Dive, but is a pokemon I like so I may actually add them to the team for T3RRAWR. And luckily, despite my very nearly knocking it out, I hope everyone will welcome the team's newest member... Pearl, the Wailmer! Now, as much as I hate to say it, this team does have to keep growing and evolving. Brainfreeze is the best candidate for being swapped out for Pearl, but he'll have good uses for then next two Gyms. Indeed, my whole team fits together quite nicely. With that said, at least for now, Lucky #6 is going back to the box. He's served well, and been on my team since I first got him, but... Well, he's high levelled, training isn't too hard. I'm sure we'll see some rotation in the future. I'll probably train the whole team up to standard in the wait for E16 And the moment I get a Razor Claw in E16, Mystery is replacing Brainfreeze faster than you can say wut. So, first we had a brief detour to the circus to train up Pearl to becoming a Wailord, and shortly after, we began our adventures diving. While training, I noted my entire team, sans Pearl who is mixed, is special. This MAY cause problems.... I guess we'll see, and i can rotate around if problems do happen! Anyway though,I have a PULSE to fight... Team Vs. PULSE Avalugg Mozilla Lv.68 The Godbat Lv.67 Brainfreeze Lv.67 Peach Lv.66 Airy Lv.68 Pearl Lv.51 Alright, so I opened with a Will-o-Wisp, and then a Fire Pledge to clear the field. It threw a bullldoze (I'm still faster) and a Freeze Dry. Then I just sorta Spammed Fire Blast while it tried to use ineffective moves like Flash Cannon & Freeze Dry instead of stuff that would hurt like Bulldoze or Rock Slide. Much like on my original file; total pushover. Shellly questions why the didn't put Avalugg basically anywhere else. Shelly is a smart cookie. After this, I continue my journey of getting ice puzzles wrong before finally arriving in Ametrine city! And once there, we encounter a seasonally appropriate new friend! So, I hope everyone will give a welcome (Not too warm, she might die because type effectiveness) to our newest friend, Bauble the Snover! Now, Bauble adds the physicality my team needs, and Abomasnow is pretty awesome regardless. But I'm already up in Ametrine and trecking down to train her would be a pain. Plus A physical grass/ice mon would be pretty badly geared statwise against Terra (Although, looking at it, she has a +Sp.Atk nature, so I can run mixed...). Basically, Bauble WILL replace Brainfreeze, but either a little before or a litle after fighting Terra. Time will tell! I DID however take a brief detour to train Bauble up one level so she evolved. So now we have a Christmas Abomasnow, ready to be trained when we get back to the circus! Alright, so I wander around Ametrine, do some stuff, get a Department Sticker. ..Ow, Shelly. Too soon. Shelly: ...Plus it's not like reading diaries ever really got anyone in trouble, right? Anyway though, we discover the origin of ZEL & the beginnings of the PULSE project. Shelly: Umm.. What's your name? ???: Nunya. Shelly: What? Nunya?: I said it's Nunya. Nunya B. Snes. Jeez Blake. As he continues to demonstrate throughout our interactions with him, he's a complete ass. Now, this is gonna be one of the few times I make the same decisions as in my original file. Namely rejecting Blake's offer of Waterfall for the ring. Because it leads to somethign rather important to this run down the line. Oh, and Cal looks way better with blue hair. Also I love this puzzle. Also gems like 'Checked under the bed... Better bot let Shelly see these.' So after getting the code and the cable, the code is 5*83164. I don't know if there's any hints as to what the final digit is, but it's easy enough to just try till I get it. So, after acquiring Banetite, I head up the mountain with Cal to fight some terrorists. FIrst pair was really easy. As was the second. I might've gotten really lucky with AI roulette, although it's probably also just Cal can really pull his own weight. Shelly got good as well, because the third pair was also cake. Third was a bit more of a struggle, but still made it through. And Pearl is levelling up nicely. Next battle a little harder, but still workable. And I think that just leaves the fight against a certain icehole. Oh, right. Forgot this. Team Vs. Aster: Peach Lv69 Pearl Lv62 The Godbat Lv67 Mozilla Lv69 Airy Lv68 Brainfreeze Lv68 The field is covered in ice... So I forgot this was coming and didn't really prepare for it. But I had Peach in the lead, and he opened with Solrock, so I started with my standard Quiver Dancing Peach strategy. Aster got rocks & dual screens up, but in that same time, I got 3 Quiver Dances. I went for a fourth dance, and he changed to Golurk. Down in a Petal Dance. Magmortar almost down in 2 Petal Dances, took me out, and then died to Life Orb damage, taking the field out with it. Which I figured was a cue for Mozilla. Wisped & then Psychiced Rhyperior, who barely took anything, so then Pearl took it out with a Water Spout. Yay for Pearl contributing! Electvire comes out and I'm suddenly feeling the lack of #6, without Peach to tank it, I swap out to Airy. Two Moonblasts dealt with that, and Milotic came out. I kept in Airy because she was too damaged to survive switching back into the rocks anyway. Setup come Calm Minds with The Godbat, and then took out Milotic & Solrock, somewhat narrowly winning the battle for me! Now, with that oh so narrow victory, it's NOW time for fighting the icehole Team Vs. Blake: Mozilla Lv69 Brainfreeze Lv68 Pearl Lv63 Peach Lv70 The Godbat Lv67 Airy Lv68 The snow glows white on the mountain... First turn was Icy wind to lower speed, and of course Fire Pledge to kill that damn icy mountain. Blake swapped out Rotom for Weavile, which Mozilla took out. Then he took out Rotom. And then he narrowly missed out on taking out Froslass, and was taken out in response. Airy finished off Froslass, but Jynx took out Brainfreeze. Blake sent out Vanilluxe, I sent out Pearl, realising that Godbat & Peach BOTH have Ice weaknesses. Airy Moonblasted Jynx to death, but Vanilluxe got her. I had Peach go after Walrein, Pearl after Vanilluxe. Pearl is proving surprisingly useful. It comes down to just a half-health Pearl & a full health Godbat against a half Health Walrein who rather significantly outlevelled them both, weighing in at 73. Godbat went for a psychic, Pearl for a Dive but... Well, it wasn't enough, and so we narrowly missed out on victory... Attempt 2 was more or less the same idea, opening with my destroying the field, but i had Brainfreeze on Mirror Shot duty instead of speed lowring duty. This worked al ittle better and, vitally, I used FIre Blast instead of Pledge on Frostlass and it was taken out, with Mozilla still in tact, although he was shortly dispatched thereafter. Then I got hit by a LOT of freeze hax, and that about covers how I failed attempt 2. Attempt 3 saw Mozilla just setting everythign on fire, and his partners throwing Ultra Potions at him. It worked, and the Icehole crumbled. Of note, Cal mentions Lin favouring Terra for whatever reason. That could be interesting... Either way, after a quick detour to Calcenon, where I pick up my brand new SHINY CHARM I head to the Circus and train up Pearl & Bauble to match everyone else. And with that, I think I'll end the update here. Except... I feel like I'm forgetting something... Oh, right. While I was travelling back from Calcenon where i got my Shiny Charm, some stuff happened. Basically, please welcome moar ice pls, NotEnoughIce, HOWDOIBLOCK?, and Never Forget (There was also an unnamed Cubchoo but I managed to kill it). So yeah, Shiny charm really working out, here. At this rate, I'll just tackle Terra with an Ice Mono. Or perhaps just a whole team of new pokemon, these are all food mons. This was.. Awfully eventful of an update, just on Team Members gained alone. Still, hopefully next time will be even faster than a month to update! Shiny Collection: Mozilla Brainfreeze Jalapeno? UniqueTyping Jackie Pan Lucky #6 S. Quawking Sonicette Dr. HAWKing The Godbat Mystery 0/10NotGrbdr Peach Bigglesworth Kevin Airy Pearl / Bauble / moar ice pls // NotEnoughIce / HOWDOIBLOCK? / Never Forget /

With regards to the leaders with meteor discussion: I have said from day one I don't trust Hardy. I mean, I really like what him and Aya have going, so I really hope I'm wrong about him, but I dunno. Something seems a little but off about the guy. With regards to the Champ/E4 discussion (again): I'm still very sceptical about El's position. At least part of me is inclined to think El is the Champion. Ame went out of her way to have Cain call him 'One of the Elite.' instead of 'Elite Four.' Now, that could very easily be a red herring for people that read WAY too much into stuff, like myself, but I'm not convinced. I think everything makes a lot of sense (Perhaps more sense than the contrary?) if El is not E4, but in fact the Champion. Plus Normal rocks and we should totally have a Normal Champion.

Amusingly enough, I think this run would actually be EASIER for Reborn than for most games, just by merit of the amount of event mons available. I once did a 'No Pokeballs' run, which just boils down to 'Event Mons Only', and it wasn't pretty fun. So having that plus whatever balls you may find should very much be doable. Although the whole having to ration your pokeballs and only catch important stuff is certainly a fun sounding idea.

Persian. Half because I love cats, half because pay day would be the best get-rich-quick scheme ever.

Loving the sig banner, those are some cool designs. And I can't wait to download and play this over the weekend when I actually have free time. So excited.

Have a very happy birthday!

tfw Two layers of socks and your feet are still cold.

Wait, no legendary before the first gym!? 0/10, will not play. None of the legendaries are Dragon type, eh? Inb4 all Se7en of them are poison type, to make up for the lack of any poison legends in canon games. Also because, y'know, Australia.

Probably why Trapinch was taken out of the game corner, tbh.

All this talk of who will & won't be the E4 makes me wonder; Has Ame mentioned whether she's taking the Pre-Gen V approaach to E4 or not? i.e., will there be a set order, or will we get to choose? Edit: I mean, depending on how wrapped up the plot is by the time we get to the E4, it may make more sense to do it an order. Like if El is at large still, it'll probably put him first or last. But y'know, was wondering whether anything had been said on this.

Doesn't Trapinch learn it shortly before evolving as of ORAS? That's a big draw for Flygon, imo.

If we're strictly talking about Charlotte, I would have to say Flygon. The speed, alongside the resistance to fire, both really work well agaisnt her. That said, on the whole, despite how much I love Flygon, I gotta say Diggersby. Extra HP is nice, particularly if you tend to play by lobbing around healing potions. Availability helps to because, unless I'm mistaken, Trapinch got pushed back in E15. I mean, you can Have Diggersby for Corey. And then he just sorta... Never really drops off thanks to that insane attack stat. Flygon learns Earthquake earlier though, iirc, so there's that. They're both very good mons, and despite the fact Diggersby is PROBABLY better, I'd say use Flygon because it looks cool. ALso worth considering the rest of your time and so on and how the mons mesh.

If pokemon Gen VII had a Fire/Fighting starter, I would propably be a little annoyed, because they've done it 3 times already. Even if the 'in a row' streak has been broken. If Se7en does it, I'll actually be quite happy. I'm opposed to it in the next main series pokemon games on princible because I want more new combinations for starters (Still holding out for Fire/Dragon, Grass/Dragon & Water/Dragon) Because Se7en basically happens in a void, and all the other Fire/Fighting starters aren't really existing, except until maybe postgame, so I'd have no problem with it. As a typing, it's one I actually quite like, and it DOES fit the whole kangaroo thing (Although maybe a bit predictable, so it'd be pretty cool to see something out of left field with the typing. tl;dr, Fire/Fighting is cool.