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Alrighty guys. So, I've been experimenting, and I MAY have a way to beat Solaris with the team I have. It relies on a lot of luck, and theoretically two misses from him. But... Let's see! (Also, I really like Solaris' hair. Just thought I'd throw that out there.) Team Vs. Solaris: Jalapeno?@Focus Sash Lv42 Mozilla@Sticky Barb LV45 0/10NotGrbdr@Black Sludge Lv41 Brainfreeze Lv44 Lucky #6 Lv45 The Manbat Lv44 So. This plan revolves around piling as much residual damage on him as possible, and then Minimize spam. I need a few lucky misses early, but otherwise... this should be fine. He only has 1 Full Restore, right? Step 1: Leech Seed. Step 2: Pray he misses so I get off a Nature Power Step 3: Pray he gets the Sticky Barb from Mozilla Step 4: Pray he misses so I can set up a Minimize on 0/10 Step 5: Repeat Step 4 Step 6: Stall the hell out of him as three lots of residual damage screw him over. Step 7: I somehow actually beat Solaris with only my Shinies? So, Step 2 MAY be optional, but it'd speed things up to have a burning field. And then I realised Step 3 wouldn't work. It appears he has Leftovers. That's one less source of residual damage I can rely on. I put Attract on Brainfreeze, my only female Team Member, on the off chance that Garchomp misses him, I can stall a bit more. This might take a while to get the luck right, but I WILL pull it off! And then a battle got off to a brilliant start. Garchomp missed Jalapeno? Twice in a row. Unfortunately, what I'm really relying on is the Miss against 0/10, which didn't happen. And then I realised Garchomp now was Earthquake to deal with NotGrbdr. Which means the miss I hope for won't happen. I DID have a plan B but, that relies on a bit more training. So, a bit more training I did, now I've figured this plan is bust. If I'm right, plan B only means hoping for a single miss, against Jalapeno? My trip back to the city was brief, but fruitful, all I did was train a certain team member a few levels above cap, and then candy them down. So, the first step this time: Have Garchomp miss so Jalapeno? [No longer sashed] can get off a Leech Seed. This took 3 battles. Step 2, you ask? Send out The Manbat. Focus Sash activates. The Manbat uses his newly learnt Endeavor [Who knew Swoobat could learn it?]. Then Leech Seed activates on the 1HP Garchomp. But, umm... Focus Sash didn't appear to activate. Huh. Step 1 took a further 4 battles to work again. And, umm... It happened again. Focus Sash seems to refuse to activate while The Manbat is holding it. Then I realised this is a KLUTZ Swoobat... After some serious Facepalming, and an Ability Capsule, we tried again, this time with my newly Simple Manbat. So, Getting Garchomp to miss Jalapeno? took 7 battles this time. And then, once more, my dreams were dashed. This Garchomp has Rough Skin. Which means The Manbat dies before Leech Seed procs, and then he Restores next turn. ALRIGHT. Next plan. Which is exactly the same as the last one, but I open with Nature Power instead of Leech Seed. Residual Field Damage doesn't matter whether The Manbat is alive! I was lucky enough to get the miss first time here. And then? It worked. I did it. On my Shiny Run, I somehow achieved a feat I couldn't even do on my main run. Solaris is defeated. Now, I know I said I would venture to the Wasteland and Biggles this episode, but that was largely because I wasn't expecting to pull this off. I won't put the Shiny Collection at the end of this one. I think the screenshot is the only picture needed. I, restricted to only 12 pokemon that I happened to catch Shiny (Or even 11, because two of them are the same), have defeated Solaris. I think I'm far more proud of this than I should be. Either way, that's all for this update. Next one really WILL feature the greatest boss of Pokemon Reborn, Bigglesworth himself.

So, I've been playing the series for a long time, and I'm generally one of those Veteran fans like Kamina that accepts the new changes. However I figured I'd respond to all of the stuff you said to give some insight. (For record, I started playing with Sacred Stones, but grew to love the whole series so much that I've played every game except 1 [Which felt just a little too outdated to me. I played S.D. though.] So, there were a couple of features of Fates that, while I liked the ideas or liked them in Awakening, I had reservations. I think a lot of the problems people had with the Avatar in New Mystery & Awakening was that in 12, he was entirely irrelevant as a character, and in 13, he/she completely overshadowed Chrom, who was meant to be the main character. Making the Avatar actually the main character in Fates is the best way I think it can be done, so I'm totally happy with that. Now, I'm okay with Time Travel as a plot mechanic, as long as it was done well I swear I'm the only person that liked that aspect of the FFXIII series. I wasn't so keen on it in Awakening. I love kids as a mechanic (Geneaology is one of my favourite FE games), and Iappreciated how it was done in Awakening but... I'd rather them not pull Time Travel again. Not a huge issue to me, but it'd be nice if they could integrate it better. Or even just not have them as part of the plot at all, then I wouldn't care how the kids are there if they're just a bit of fun side content. Now, I've totally never had any problem with Casual being an option. I like it being an option, brings more people in that'd otherwise be put off the series Plus I can act all smug that I play classic. Not to mention Casual is the only way I managed to beat Lunatic Mode in Awakening. The only thing that dissapoints me about Phoenix mode is that it can only be played on Normal. I wanted to Nohr!Lunatic!Phoenix mode. Still, moreo ptions I don't have ot use are fine. Now, I had two key reservations about Weapon Durability being removed, and both were addressed. Firstly, things like it just entirely breaking balance. The fact that each weapon has it's associated buff and debuffs means that the stronger weapons WILL be largely better, but there's still a use for the weaker stuff. My second issue with Staves, which I figured couldn't possibly be balanced with infinite uses. Which it appeared I was right about, because they're limited as always. I do wonder how Legendary weapons will be handled though, whether they're downright broken, or just slightly better than normal... I'll be happy either way, but I'm curious. Anyway, that's just my two cents, I guess.

Ice is my favourite type alongside poison, so I love Snorunt and Froslass. Although I have to say I prefer Glalie, it was the first ORAS Mega I used (Before I upgraded to the beast that is Beedrill), plus way back in Ruby, Glalie was the main reason I was able to get through the league. I have a soft spot for that thing. As for Mareep, I really liked Ampharos design when I was younger, and that's naturally how most kids choose what pokemon to use. So in Crystal I had a really overlevelled Ampharos because I basically just soloed everything with it. Good memories. Plus I love Amphabulous, it's both hilarious and awesome as a Mega Evolution design. And I've taken a break from playing now while I decide what to do about Solaris, so Muk is still the latest addition [As well as the Numel that could've been, but damn crits.]

The pictures aren't working? That might be an issue, given I rarely say what the pokemon are, whoops. With Ground Types, I'll take what I can get. Anything which learns Earthquake naturally is a keeper, so Sandslash'll likely get a spot until I find something better. Plus the Blue Pallette is pretty awesome. For Poison, which is probably tied with ice for my favourite type, I have to say i've never used Weezing. I quite like Muk, especially with it's reasonably early learning of Gunk Shot, but as you MAY be able to tell, one of my favourite Poison types will always be Garbodor. I hugely love Beedrill too, but with no Mega available ingame, I'm not crazy enough to try and use one. As for ideal grass type? Petilil or Cotonee. Both are incredibly good Grass lines, I love their Reborn Shiny Palettes, abilities that work well with their moves... They would be hugely strong additions to the team, although I doubt I'll be lucky enough to get either of them. Even though it's not the best pokemon in the world, I also really like Exeggcute. And I suppose special mention to Snover, although I always forget he isn't pure ice.

Shiny Male Nidoran? You mean sorta like that Shiny Nidoking that's ben my MVP against pretty much everyone since he evolved? That aside, I'd love a Marowak. A ground type would be good for the team, but I don't like Sandslash all that much. That said, given that it has respectable attack, AND learns earthquake after I think two more badges, Sonicette is likely to end up on my team very soon. As much as I love Cacturne, Jalapeno? is starting to lag behind a bit, so is the most likely candidate to be swapped. The Wasteland shouldn't be that important for me on pokemon, because I already have a really solid poison type, but there's all sorts of wonderful oppurtunities in the railnet, tanzan, chrylosia... So, hopefully luck is on my side for shinies in those areas!

I meant it's shiny palette in COMPARISON to Volcarona's who's my favourite Reborn shiny... Sneasel and Weavile have awesome shiny pallettes, honest! See, I don't QUITE have a plan yet. Maybe Evasion Hax, maybe gather some prankster mons... I'll be able to find a way, but I think restricted to just my shinies, there may not be one.

Alright! I have a 3 day weekend before my last exam, so it's time to blow off some steam with the Shiny Run. I'm going to try for a mega update and get through the entire crazy gauntlet of boss battle the Apophyll scenario brings. As many of you know, this starts with a brief foray to Apophyll, before Azurine, then back to Apophyll. Buuuut, on a whim, I went fishing on the beach. In case there was anything in there except Grimer. As it turns out, not only does it have grimer, it has SHINY grimer! So the box we welcome our 12th team member, 0/10 Not Garbodor. Or we would, but the damn character limit thwarted us. So we'll settle for 0/10NotGrbdr. Which is close enough, Grbdr is funny in itself because it reminds me of a hilarious comic about how the pokemon was created (Despite the fact I love Garbodor). Once more, I seem to be misremembering things, we're climbing Pyrous BEFORE going to Azurine. Which is fine with me. I like the music here. And Cal is a fun fight, I like that music too. I'd also probably rate Cal as the second hardest fight I ever had on my original run, right before Charlotte (I played episode 13 at release, so this was pre-nerf Charlotte.) But something sadly got in the way of our battle with Cal. Team member number 13, who might actually not go in the box! Hello Shiny Nume- Annnd crit. Nevermind, still on 12 team members. That sucked. But no point moping, I suppose... Team Vs Cal I guess [i miss you Shiny Numel :'(]: Lucky #6 Lv42 Mozilla Lv41 Brainfreeze Lv40 Jackie Pan Lv41 The Manbat Lv41 Jalapeno? Lv41 So, opening with 2 layers of Toxic Spikes, I got seriously worried when that Infernape SD'd, but luckily, it seems Lucky #6 can still eat two =2 Close Combat's from an Infernape and just survive. And my Delphox even managed to take down his (Just barely because his gets Shadowball, which sucks because we don't get Shadow Ball anymore ) And umm, well... That was the point in time a 5hp Delphox swept two members of his team before finally being felled by Magmortar. Thn Blaziken happened. I was left in the situation where I only had Jackie Pan, Jalapeno, and Brainfreeze left, all of whom Blaziken can destroy. Luckily, i had a revive to toss at Mozilla, and he dealt with Blaziken and Typhlosion, meaning I (narrowly) beat Cal. That was pretty... Heated. Please don't hurt me, it was one pun, it won't happen again! Annnd... Apparently I fight Kiki and Victoria before Azurine too? Huh, my memory of this segment is really messed up. So, time for another battle against Victoria Who I still totally think is the Champ. Team Vs. Victoria (4): The Manbat Lv41 Brainfreeze Lv40 Jalapeno? Lv41 Lucky #6 Lv42 Jackie Pan Lv42 Mozilla Lv43 I think it's funny how my crack theory is that she's the Champion, given that she's a complete and utter pushover in every damn battle... Onwards to a gym leader that I'll totally get my next badge from! Team Vs. Kiki: Lucky #6 Lv42 Mozilla Lv44 Brainfreeze Lv41 The Manbat Lv42 Jalapeno? Lv41 Jackie Pan Lv42 Now, I'm well aware I have three flyig types in the box that could help with this match. And that Jalapeno?, Brainfreeze, and Jackie Pan are probably dead weight in this fight. BUT I started takling to Kiki before realising this mistake. Thus, I think this is going to go something like Shade or Corey. So, the battle started simply enough. I laid Toxic Spikes down, #6 even managed to take out Machamp! Luke ate a flamethrower. Hell, I was doing pretty damn good, and I was even set to win. It was just Medicham Vs Mozilla. And Medicham got off a crit, and I lost So, for the second battle, a different team! Now, I'm leaving UniqueTyping out, because all he has is Air Slash, and I don't fancy accuracy Shenanigans. But temporarily on team are our favourite phycisicst duo, and our newest team member (after a brief stint of training and evolution.) Team Vs. Kiki, Second Attempt: Lucky #6 Lv43 The Manbat Lv43 Mozilla Lv44 S. Quawking Lv41 Dr. HAWKing Lv41 0/10NotGrbdr Lv41 So, I lead by setting out spikes again, although I'm aware Toxicroak eats them pretty quick. The goal, however, is to bait out Lucario. I do as such and switch to The Manbat. Calm Mind. Calm Mind. Calm Mind. Hello +6 Spatk/Spdef. Now, The rest of the battle went something like... This: ...And with focus...! ...And with focus...! ...And with focus...! Hitmonlee used Fake Out and Knock Off. Which is fine. I just wiped out 4 members of her team without even breaking into the team members I specifically trained up. Mozilla actually dealt with Hitmonlee. And that left me with a Team of 5 against Medicham. But then Medicham stupidly used Ice Punch and so I got off 2 Flamethrowers and won. Long story short, I just trained up three pokemon to Level 41 for this battle and didn't use them. Which is fine though, given that I plan to keep all my team members reasonably well levelled, so I would've had to do it anyway. NOW it's off to Azurine. Annnd terrorists. Again. Team Vs. Aster & Eclipse (3) Brainfreeze Lv41 Jackie Pan Lv42 Jalapeno? Lv41 Mozilla Lv44 The Manbat Lv44 Lucky #6 Lv44 Well, that was uneventful. Luckily, if I remember correctly, there's something else down here to keep me entertained. Or rather, someone... Team Vs. Taka (3): Literally identical to the Team Vs. Aster & Eclipse, except I put Mozilla in front. So, Klefki went down straight away, which is pretty awesome because Prankster shenanigans can suck. And Luckily Chatot can only take 2 Poison Jabs, whereas Lucky can take 3 Heatwaves. So, that was surprisingly easy, especially because it was against Taka. Not that I'm complaining though. So. I'm at the top of Mt. Pyrous. Now, Solaris has lost 5 levels since I was last at the top of Pyrous. BUT I never beat him on my original file. So here's the dilemma, because my collection of Shinies doesn't really have the necesarry gimmicks to win. So, I'm going to do what I can between now and the next update to work with what I have, see how much damage an Ice Shard from Sneasel will do, stuff like that. But I'm going to leave it up to a poll on how I approach the Solaris battle. Because it's highly likely I won't be able to beat him with my Shinies. So the next update will feature that battle, whether I win or lose. It will also feature a discussion on why Mr. Bigglesworth NOT ONLY counts as a boss, but also why he is the best boss. And maybe Aya I guess, we'll see. If anyone has any crazy suggestions on how I COULD beat Solaris with my Shinies, please say so, I don't quite think I'm creative enough to come up with anything that brilliant. Shiny Collection Mozilla Brainfreeze Jalapeno? UniqueTyping Jackie Pan Lucky #6 S. Quawking Sonicette Dr. HAWKing The Manbat Mystery 0/10NotGrbdr /

I only meant it's Shiny Palette, I swear! In seriousness, the only problem I have with Sneasel is the lack of a Weavile thus far in game. I'm a lover of Ice types, but I can't really justify using Sneasel when he's gonna drop off. You have my word the moment Weavile is available, no matter what Shinies I have, Mystery gets a spot on my team. It looks like The Manbat is going to be staying on my team for now, but come Samson, I'll just load up on all the flying types, haha. And thanks, with the way the difficulty is picking up, and my inexperience with the new teams and fields of nearly all the leaders, I think I'll need good luck. Might not update until tomorrow because exams though. Unless I just get super procrastinate-y.

Are you sure? I did that event in E15 and still got a Cacnea.

Haha, always glad to have other people try out my idea. And a Larvesta, that's awesome. I love Reborn's Volc shiny sprite, it's so pretty. I just got stuck with boring old Sneasel. Whoops, gave it away! Well, anyway, I have indeed been training up Mystery the Sneasel. But I did more than that. I went a bit overboard, and trained Mozilla, The Manbat, & Lucky #6 a few levels above cap so they could learn new moves, before candying them down. So now it's time to take on the Dreaded Shade, but things'll be different this time. I have a Swoobat with Psychic. I have a Delphox with Flamethrower. I have a Sneasel. And, of course, a newly evolved Nidoking with Earth Power and Poison Jab! Team Vs Shade: The Manbat Lv39 Mystery Lv38 Brainfreeze Lv38 Lucky #6 Lv39 Mozilla lv39 Jalapeno? Lv39 So, my plan for this battle is to wail on Corey with The Manbat, and then hope things go well from there. If that doesn't work, 'll set up both Toxic and Normal Spikes to begin with and hope the second battle goes better! The battle opened promisingly. The Manbat got off a Calm Mind, just survived a Tbolt, and then Corey ate a Psychic. I, naiively, figured the Calm Mind boost could help ferry me through a few oneshots. It two shotted Bannette thanks to a lucky Air Slash flinch. Beign the smart fellow I am, I recall that Rotom is way tankier than I ever estimate it to begin, so he got Leech Seed stalled. During which time Jalapeno? & Lucky#6 set up all different sorts of spikes between 'em. Doublade fell quickly to an Earth Power. And HOLY CRAP HE DID NOT HAVE A TREVENANT BEFORE. Ahem, well. He used Leech Seed? Mystery honed her claws. And then mystery tore through him with a single feint attack. And Chandelure? Mystery did the exact same thing. I am SO glad I took the time to train her, that was a damn good battle, which I managed to win only on the second try. All I needed was to train up in between. Also, what the hell up with this hax? How come Cain's Nidoking knows Earthquake, who give him the TM? >:[ On the note of asking questions, what's this Dull Key for? I tried the Move relearner's house but it didn't seem to work there. Sadly, Mystery's lack of an evolution being available will really hinder her, so, while she will be kept trained for the eventuality a Razor Claw shows itself or a gym leader requires a second dark or ice type, she's going back to the box for Jackie Pan. Seeing as the poll is currently even, however, I WILL be keeping on The Manbat instead of UniqueTyping for the forseeable future. And with that, it's onwards! Now, I recall this next section of the game before our next badge being awfully long. Has it always been restricted to only 5 levels? Either way, off to the Azurine Islands to rescue our damsel in distress. I smell terrorists at work. Or not, I misremember event orders. It's still terrorists, just at a factory. And weirdly enough, this actually bloats this long stretch of plot that's still only 5 levels. Huh. Weeeelp, guess I'm off to Blackstream instead, then! Now, as I've wandered through Blackstream, it HAS occured to me that, from the lower levels of the meteors and my team barely growing at all, maybe there's segment is fine on it's level progression, and I'm just inflating it in my mind. Enough about that though, it's battle time! Team Vs. ZEL (3): Jackie Pan Lv40 Mozilla Lv40 Jalapeno? Lv39 The Manbat :v40 Brainfreeze Lv39 Lucky #6 Lv40 Not only did Jackie take out Glaceon, he almost did just enough damage to make ZEL eat his potions up in the process. Good start. I'm streating how this battle ends though... Or not, he sent out Muk right away. Jalapeno? fainted trying and failing to set up seeds, but Delphox tanked a sludge wave and discharge to take him out. It was easy from there, Pan dealt with Umbreon, The Manbat dealt with Espeon, and that's another victory for me. Although while I may have lucked out with a rather balanced team, the restriction of choice is starting to hit me, difficulty is picking up, now. Anyway, that's that for now, next time I guess it's Azurine, and perhaps some of the MANY Apophyll plot battles. Shiny Collection: Mozilla Brainfreeze Jalapeno? UniqueTyping Jackie Pan Lucky #6 S.Quawking Sonicette Dr. HAWKing The Manbat Mystery

Alright, so as you may have already seen, I've put up a poll. While I WILL rotate my team to train and if a particular Leader's typing requires it, I will naturally have my main six, and at the moment, that is the original 6. But with three Flyers to choose from, why not put up a poll! But anyway, enough about that. On with the game! Although exciting news from a brief Excursion to Obsidia before I go and break into an orphanage, recklessly endangering possibly hundreds of children. Two new team members! Not only did I luck out on breeding a shiny version of the result of my Mystery Egg, while i was running around aimlessly to hatch it, so I would like the box you to al welcome our new Teamates: The Manbat and Mystery! The Manbat was promptly pumped full of drugs pokesnax and evolved, and will be added to the poll options. As for Mystery... Well, I'll train it up after this update, but if you wanna see what it is, I think you'll just have to wait... Anyway, the orphanage was stormed, but there aren't actually any noteworthy battles in there, although this is one of my favourite segments within the plot, Anna is pretty awesome. Plus i like then ew orphanage music, it's even creepier than before :S Between hatching Mystery, cramming Pokesnax down The Manbat's throat, and storming an orphanage, I've been playing for ages. Buuut I can hardly just NOT do an important battle. So it looks like I'm trekking onto Shade. This gym is more than a little creepy, huh? Especially because on the firt light flicker Shade is just standing there... But at least it's not a hard puzzle like Shelly's or anything! And I didn't have trouble with Shade on my original file, but admittedly, that was before his field effect. I can hope! Anyway, it's on. Team Vs Shade: Mozilla Lv 38 Jalapeno? Lv36 Lucky #6 Lv38 Jackie Pan Lv38 UniqueTyping Lv35 Brainfreeze Lv37 My first try went suitably terribly. Corey went down easy enough, Banette took out half my team, Rotom dealt with the rest. It turns out I'm not prepared for Ghosts. Luckily, I have a certain new team member who I get a feeling may be able to help. Unfortunately, I did say I wouldn't reveal them here, not to mention I'm running out of steam and she's only level one so... I gues that's it for this update, only one important battle and I lost it. I'll train up Mystery for now, and reveal who the helpful new Team Member is next time as she (hopefully) destroys Shade! Shiny collection Mozilla Brainfreeze Jalapeno? UniqueTyping Jackie Pan Lucky #6 S.Quawking Sonicette Dr. HAWKing The Manbat Mystery

In almost every situation, I WOULD reccomend Offensive, because M.Venusaur is terrifying. BUT seeing as this is ingame and Megas don't seem to be rearing their heads very soon, not to mention Poison and Grass are both good offensive type, I'd probably reccomend the offensive one, until Megas become a thing.

I was REALLY tempted to just grind it out until I found a shiny male sandshrew and name it Amy to complete the pair, but it wasn't meant to be. But I think I sorta took a middleground solution with a quick trip to the name rater while I was training her. Anyway, on with Shelly! But before I can battle Shelly, Victoria. Interrupting me before a gym battle, shes acting just like those damn terrorists. Although my crack theory HAS always been that Victoria's the Champion, so I'll probably forgive her for these little intrusions, until I'm proved wrong. Team Vs. Victoria (3): UniqueTyping Lv33 S.Quawking Lv33 Mozilla Lv34 Brainfreeze Lv34 Jackie Pan Lv34 Lucky #6 Lv 34 In preparation for Shelly, I swapped out the team member with the 4x bug weakness for someone a little more appropriate. The two flying types were naturally also helpful here, utterly slaughtering Victoria. Onwards, to Shelly! ...Now, I like puzzles. Particularly the ones in Pokemon Reborn. Every one of them, I've had to think about but gotten through in the end. Except Shelly's. I've never been able to do this one, and ended up looking up a guide in my original playthrough. I hope not to have to this time, but I don't have high hopes. Wait, I spoke to Ame's computer thing. Shelly does doubles now? Rain? Forest Field? It's been a pretty damn long time since I've gotten this far in the game, so that's all pretty new, haha. But anyway, back to trekking through the puzzle I suck at. So, wait... The bookcases are coloured, and the colour things are ON the switches. Huh. I may be able to figure it out on my my own. ...So fter that realisation, I did the puzzle on my first try. Past me is likely kicking himself at his stupidity, but i have no time to kick myself, I have a Bug Leader to fight! And also a free leaf stone to claim, apparently. Score. Team Vs. Shelly: Mozilla Lv34 S.Quawking Lv34 UniqueTyping Lv34 Jackie Pan Lv34 Brainfreeze Lv34 Lucky #6 Lv34 Between Dr. Quawking and Mozilla, I managed to take out Masquerain and set the field on fire before any kind of rain could be set up. And then the pair of them proceeded to sweep her whole team. That presult pleases me greatly, I didn't want another repeat of Corey, especially with how Anti-Bug my team is. Now, let's see if things are as much of a curbstomp against everyone's favourite character, then. Team Vs. Fern (3): Sonicette Lv34 Mozilla Lv 34 Brainfreeze Lv35 Jackie Pan Lv34 UniqueTyping Lv34 Lucky #6 Lv34 Now, that was particularly satisfying. Soncette couldn't handle Ferroseed, but otherwise, another total curbstomp! I do enjoy the battles against Fern before he diversifies his team, it's so fun to just have a Fire Type like Mozilla tear him to absolute shreds. Naturally, while in the cemetary on the way to meet up with Cain, a new team member. Although perhaps my good luck run is finally ending, but we should all nontheless welcome S.Quawking's close associate, Dr. HAWKing. Anyway though, we're gonna battle all of the rivals in one update it seems, and only fair to save the best for last! Team Vs. Cain (3): Sonicette Lv34 Brainfreeze Lv35 Mozilla Lv36 UniqueTyping Lv34 Lucky #6 Lv34 Jackie Pan Lv34 I'm so jealous of his Nidoking. I want my Robo-Nidoking already, but I'm no idiot, TMs are scarce and I only have on Shiny Nidorino. So it looks like he's waiting till Level 43 to evolve. Sad times This was another pretty straightforward battle, although Brainfreeze was the surprising MVP here. In other news I'm so glad Heather's (very reasonable) angst didn't get her confrontational enough to battle. That Salamence is probably at least Level 90. And with that, I think I'll leave this update here. We had a Gym Leader and all three rivals after all, as well as a new team member, even if he isn't the most ideal one in the world. Shingy Collection Mozilla Brainfreeze Jalapeno? UniqueTyping Jackie Pan Lucky #6 S.Quawking Sonicette Dr. HAWKing

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Alright, so after a bit of a break (and a little/lot) of ofscreen grinding, I'm back! Thanks to the Frand Hall battles now being convenient, I MAY have trained every up a fair bit, got some cool moves and evos, and then Candy'd everyone back down to 33 because Caps. So yeah. I'm off to the Lapis Ward and Shelly's gym! ..Buuuut first some more stuff with some terrorists, who keep insisting on getting in the way of my gym battles. How inconsiderate. On the bright side, in their leading me under the Grand Staircase, they had me meet a new team member! So all give a welcome to the originally named (and inexplicably female) Sonic! Team Vs. Aster & Eclipse (2): Brainfreeze Lv33 Mozilla Lv33 Jackie Pan Lv33 UniqueTyping Lv33 Jalapeno Lv33 Lucky #6 Lv34 So this battle went off to a great start. It's amazing how many turns of Icy Wind Brainfreeze can get off before they think to use an attack. Even after that, they did, Mozilla made short work of their remaining pokemon. I know it was short, but I'm gonna leave this here for now. I'll train up Sonic before my next post, battle Shelly, and who knows? Maybe I'll even get Shade in the same update. And with my current string of luck, probably 400 new team members too, maybe I'll even get lucky and get a Shiny of the Mysterious Myster Egg pokemon? Only time well tell. Shiny Collection Mozilla Brainfreeze Jalapeno? UniqueTyping Jackie Pan Lucky #6 S.Quawking Sonic

I don't know what sorta consoles you have access to, but I find the Atelier series, (particularly Rorona, Meruru & Ayesha) to be a brilliant way to spend a lot of time, and with the focus on item crafting and your continually imoroving items, it really feels like you're progressing. Although certain games in the series, like Rorona or Totori, don't have the best pacing, others really fix that issue.

At first when I heard about the lack of weapon durability, I was sceptical, mainly about how you could possibly balance high level staves. Then we found out staves are the one weapon type that DO have limited durability, and I was entirely sold.