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The entity's name is Adrest, which is like 99% a mythological reference

Yeah this is accurate Do you have access to Strength yet? One of the doors is behind the Strength puzzle

Have you opened all 9 badge doors?

Half of the hard double battles you have an AI partner so you can't abuse mat block to set up. With Blaziken you can build the rest of your team to help in the few fights it's bad in because it sweeps like 85 to 90% of them effortlessly. Gren doesn't even trivialize those few fights on its own, you need a setup mon that can hit both enemies to truly abuse it

This is probably the usual bug here where if you reach the end before ren and aelita it bugs out. You'll have to reload from a previous save

Seconding that Coil saves Serp's early-mid game. You can tutor Pledge moves to starters in Lapis so any special attacking starter has an 80BP STAB after you beat Corey. This is mostly relevant for Greninja Charizard isn't a bad starter but it's probably the worst Fire starter. Dragon Rage is cute but Fire starters already yeet the early game and go on to do bigger and better things. Charizard's power peak ends after the first gym, at least until we can utilize its mega evo I'd probably do something like this, not ordered within tiers S Blaziken A Greninja, Infernape B Venusaur with Vulpix from Mystery Egg/something to set Sun for it, Incineroar, Typhlosion, Serperior, Primarina, Swampert, Delphox C Sceptile, Emboar, Charizard, Decidueye, Chesnaught, Torterra, Samurott, Feraligatr D Meganium, Venusaur without Sun, Blastoise E is for Empoleon I'm mostly unsure about the B and C tiers. I've used every starter in a full playthrough, but 2/3 of them were done pre-gen7 and they were all done pre-episode 18 (which removed badge boosts so my idea of how much Speed is good enough is muddy)

I thought the same until I used it. The issue I ran into is that its coverage moves usually weren't powerful enough to OHKO and are only better than Eruption vs. thing that will KO it back anyway (Rock or Water types). So I usually ended up going back to Charcoal to secure KOs. Also, the Beheeyem Crest always disables if the attacker isn't already disabled (that or I was playing pokemon when I should've been buying lottery tickets) and it's a massive 33% damage reduction. That's the equivalent of having an Eviolite, which makes Beheeyem bulkier than Toxapex, and with significantly better offenses

the Shade point choices often involves characters facing reality/the truth even if ends up hurting them, rather than continuing to live in a more comfortable situation where they aren't being honest with themselves or what they want (Heather learns about her dad, Taka leaving something he knows is wrong, Aster leaving Team Meteor, Fern and Florinia extra dialogue at Fiore Mansion, Titania breaking it off with Amaria rather than continuing to lie to her)

Not yet implemented

Entrainment Slaking is very good, it can function as either utility with stuff like Yawn or a setup sweeper with Curse. One of the best shadow mons

You can buy them after the 6th gym, in Teila Resort, at this vendor

It needs to be holding Apophyll Pancakes when you use a Thunderstone on it

I saw a theory a while ago that suggested Alice and Allen would be the Dark and Fairy leaders, which could apply to everything in the above post other than the hair thing. It would also fit the pokemon they summoned in Eclysia (Sableye and Alolan Ninetales respectively)..

Latias is used by Alexandra iirc, she is shown using her to keep the people alive at Eclysia

The AI will pretty much always go for the lower HP mon in that situation (there seems to be a slight variance factor so there's like a 2% chance they do something different) Normally I'd say Outrage is not great in a non-STAB situation esp for a nuzlocke, but I think it was probably better than his third best fire move. Also Noibat will be good when it evolves but that's not til after Aya (and then it's bad vs. Serra)

Looking at ttube's bench though, a lot of his bench aren't very good and a couple are redundant with what he already has (or had, in the case of Trubbish). Mareep and Sawk are good, Sandygast was probably a bad sac, Woobat is okay, and that's about it.

And the tedium of grinding itself is likely to make you more prone to making a careless mistake and lose someone to the Grand Hall trainers.

I haven't watched his videos in their entirety (I generally just skip to boss fights), but I don't think he's playing poorly for someone coming in doing a blind nuzlocke. In fact, I think he's doing pretty well considering the team he has. How many people beat all these fights on their first attempt in their first playthrough of the game without Nuzlocke rules forcing crap like Pidgeot onto their team? I sure didn't. Anyway, his pokemon are pretty limited in flexibility, and it's not great for the viewer experience that his best 'mon he has after losing his starter is something that leads to these stalled out situations where he just spams Lemonades while it slowly kills things. But he does use his other strong members when they can contribute (such as Kiki vs. Shade or ZEL) I do agree with the sentiment that he should just play through the game normally, he seems to enjoy it a lot outside of bosses, where he seems genuinely stressed because of the stakes involved in a Nuzlocke. Also it'd lead less to "oh shit, I can't afford to lose anyone so I am gonna spam potions on my tankiest pokemon until it chips down the enemy"

My feelings on Indriad are basically "I don't know what he wants, but it's definitely Bad and he or something he unleashes is gonna be the Final Boss"

Yeah, if you buy Maria is Melia, that would line up with Erin, Allen, and Alice. Her believing she has only one child makes sense if Indriad locked away the other 3 in the Unown Dimension. Maybe the scar is how the Archetype was applied/removed?

Also, since I finally did the sidequest for it, the people who were talking about "humans who are pokemon" might be interested in the Archive (dive spot in Route 6). Transcribed text here for reference: Interestingly, another bookcase in here says the Archetype changes the eyes, hair, and sometimes skin of those influenced by it to gold. Additionally, removing its influence sometimes restores the original appearance of the subject. This is especially attention grabbing because the hospital report on Anathea in Zone Zero describes her hair color as black.

Alright that's probably hair.