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October 28, 2019

Oh, that black. That looks like it's the helmet cracking to me, but it's hard to say for sure. The black goes down past her head which could be hair, but her hand and arm aren't clearly visible so it's also possible she's reaching up to cover her face and/or hold the helmet so it doesn't fall completely apart.

October 28, 2019

41 minutes ago, nhehvnukl said:

I meant for Madame X. We dont see any animation for her, so its possible Melanie just killed her. I'm not disputing the fact that Melia= Melanie.

Oh, yeah, that's why that one is just "kinda implied"

Anyway, the color on Madame X's skin is the same (and I mean literally the same, the RBG and HSV values are identical) as the darker parts of other light-skinned characters, including Melia but also definitely not Melia characters, such as the pink-haired PC, Jenner, and various generic NPC models. The black line right above it is almost certainly her eye since they're always represented like that on sprites. Then the spot above that is where her hair would start, and it's light enough that she's probably blonde--it's much lighter than the outline of Jenner's hair for example, let alone someone with darker hair like Ren or journalist Valarie. So the sprite suggests Madame X is a blonde with similar if not the same skin tone as Melia.

October 28, 2019

Just now, nhehvnukl said:

"Melanie clearly overlaps her in the bad end"- I mean, its possible that she just killed her. There's also the fact that Madame X looks more like Nymiera (or Alexandra (or Nim)) then anyone else, too.

Nah, for Melia, Melanie grabs her arm and it does the pillar of light animation that also happens when you and Melia overlap your other selves. It's very explicit

October 28, 2019

On 10/24/2019 at 2:48 PM, Lost Lore said:

...Uh, doesn't Florinia lead with Hippowdon, not Torterra? Or was that changed in E18?

Wait yeah you're right. That's why the lead always Yawns.

October 28, 2019

1 hour ago, HUEnd said:

Also, could someone refresh my memory regarding of what happened with Melanie/Melia in the alternate timeline? Did they just happened to touch at some point and they 'fused' together? Becaue if that's a thing, I recall Madame X stating at some point that she didn't want Melia to touch her, possibly meaning that she's probably Melia of another timeline...I dunno. I'm just bad at keeping track of what happens in this game. I should play it again and write down every single question that's still unanswered.

It's likely they touched when Melia awakened regardless of which non-bad ending route you take, since in Melia's dream sequence in Ch. 14, Melanie explicitly says Melia overlapped her. Melanie clearly overlaps her in the bad end, so Melanie being bad future Melia is confirmed with how overlapping has been explained to us. It's kinda also implied in the bad end that Melanie overlapped Madame X since you see her armor in a pile near the throne.

I'm about 99% confident that Madame X, Melia, Maria, and Melanie are all the same person but all from different timelines or something like that. Madame X might just be Melia after some sort of future trauma perhaps from another cataclysmic event--something is definitely coming because Crescent in Nightmare City repeatedly says "not much time left" and "soon". I don't think Madame X is evil either, she seems to have some sort of noble goal, but has a serious case of "the ends justify the means" where she is willing to sacrifice a lot of innocents if it means saving the world or something like that. For example, she states that part of the reason you end up in the bad future is she was watching the gang try to stop Vivian, but when she tried to rewind time (like she did to tell you where the bomb was in the first visit to the past), it was too late and this is when her Time Diamond broke.

The interesting thing is why she is teamed up with Kieran and Freya and what they want, since they have Ultra Beasts and Kieran talks like he doesn't like the Interceptor's job ("Everything's on a predetermined path. At least, that's how it's supposed to be.") and both he and Risa refer to Team Xen negatively (Risa calls Ren "Team Xen scum" and Kieran says Ren is "wearing that disgraceful uniform"). Considering Madame X is the leader of Team Xen, I've gotta wonder why they are working for her. And I say "for her," because the dialogue at Eclysia Pyramid has the two of them referring to Madame X like you might a superior, giving her honorifics and talking like she's their leader.

Also like, Indriad is clearly the real BBEG here. He is set up from the prologue and his shadow is felt throughout the game from the weird time portal in Ch.3 to whatever happened to create Angie (which is definitely coming back to bite us Soon because Cera is stalking us). And he's clearly still around because he was messing around in Goldenleaf with Geara and Narcissa. And he's obviously the father of Melia/Erin/Allen/Alice so there needs to be a confrontation there eventually.

October 27, 2019

His team might be bulky because he's setting up Arenite Wall. It's a Rejuvenation-exclusive move that can only be used in sandstorm, and sets a screen that cuts super effective damage (I think by half). Like other screen moves, it can be broken by Brick Break.

Also, if you change the terrain, when it wears off the field will revert to being fieldless instead of the inverse field, which helps since his team is made with the Inverse Field in mind and a lot of pokemon lack coverage in a normal battle as a result. For example, on Normal difficulty, he doesn't have anything that will hit a Fighting type super effectively in regular terrain.

October 24, 2019

3 minutes ago, Seel The Deal said:

LCCC wouldn't be so bad if water spam worked, but Surf gains an electric typing making many of their 'mons immune. Blizzard is probably my next best bet, and I can get Snow Warning Vanilluxe with a pair of Indra's patented Early Specs^tm, so that might work - Milotic's still a problem, but Aya's Dragalge has Thunderbolt so hopefully 2x Blizzard + Thunderbolt kills it before it can recover. Vanilluxe is also very nearly the strongest Blizzard user at this point, with Jynx's SpA being only 5 points higher and Glaceon being locked behind Dive.

Looking into Fiore further: Haxorus + Walrein's bulk and lack of shared weaknesses aren't even the biggest problem. Walrein has Protect, and every reliable way of getting around that ONLY WORKS IN SINGLES. Even if I find a working strategy, Blake can just say "no" and that's that. Roserade also has high speed + Sleep Powder, and Gyarados has Intimidate. Solaris' Gyarados also has Intimidate, and Solaris' team is exceptionally bulky and quite well rounded. In fact, Solaris+John alone is probably going to be impossible with Julia as a partner, and likewise with Fern+Blake and Florinia. If the two were swapped, things would likely get a decent bit simpler, buuuuuut they're not. The only saving grace here is that Fern and Solaris are both quite weak to Ice, and Scizor, their only resist, has very poor SpD. So if Florinia can pull her weight against Blake, there might just be a chance.

Walrein tends to not use Protect turn 1, at least from my memory of trying that fight like 30 times for my 3-mon run. It probably depends on what you lead with, but from my memory it likes Surf

My first thought was something like Choice Band Moxie Krookodile Earthquake to try to push through, but the Ground immunities make that infeasible. So the alternative is maybe something using Banded Rock Slide, but Rock resists like what Solaris has make that rough. Blizzard might be the best out if you reset til Florinia Wood Hammers Walrein on turn 1, but I don't think that even OHKOs.

October 23, 2019

What stands out to me is a lot of the pokemon you are raising are weak to Fire, including multiple that are double weak. There's a couple good Rock and Water options coming up, or you could try training Geodude (I've personally never used it so I don't know how good it is).

October 23, 2019

I think the game rounds up when it should be rounding down, because your calcs are right and I've experienced similar

October 22, 2019

45 minutes ago, Seel The Deal said:

It's hard to say whether LCCC or Fiore will be harder; probably the latter, because you don't get to switch your lead between battles and you can't Shift Mode switch between kills in Doubles, meaning either I need to plan to sac something AFTER it gets its kills or incorporate Volt-Turn into a strat unless I can do it with just 1 mon (and I probably can't).

I think I've found a 3-mon strat that works for the Glass Gauntlet (the only post-Noel battle I have planned atm) - it's actually VERY close to being 2 mon, but gets stopped by a lack of raw single-target killing power. Items are already optimized for maximum damage, an offense-boosting nature isn't enough to make the difference and there's no room for a stronger move unless I can find a way to drop the anti-Disguise move. Oh, and the problem 'mon in question has Protect, which is just lovely.

Fiore definitely has the big issue where almost every trainer has no real type theme and them not doing real EV training means they have some extra bulk, unlike Glass where everything just dies to fire. Like, Fern and Blake lead with Haxorus + Walrein, and in my experience Flobot's Torterra is 90% just gonna Yawn. I'm not sure if anything can grab 2 KOs there. Also if it goes over 75 it stops obeying vs. Solaris

LCCC only have 5 each iirc so that gives you a turn of breathing room. John in Fiore also only has 5 but idk how much that helps.

October 22, 2019

I'm not sure if 2-mon is possible while still getting max Shade points, but just completing the game probably? Alolan Ninetales+Blaziken would probably be my choice for that run, although Blaziken+Honchkrow might be able to do it and beat Pyrous Mountain Solaris

Also good luck with Fiore Mansion and LCCC. Glass Gauntlet has some setups that can eat through it which should be doable in 6 turns per battle, so if you get past Fiore I think you're golden.

Edit: also 6 mon is pretty easy, Budew is basically a second starter and you can pick any starter if you think they're better for early game because increased team size lets you hold out for flygon

October 17, 2019

Supposed to be like that as far as I know

October 13, 2019

Infernape doesn't get boosting moves without breeding and while fast, there are faster things that blaziken will outspeed with some boosts while hitting much harder thanks to bulk up and higher attack. Some of the things blaziken can get away with running or doing are nuts

Infernape is a very close second and has real advantages over blaziken though. Most of the fire starters are exceptional, and even the worst of them is good.

October 10, 2019

2 hours ago, doombotmecha said:

Yeah, Meowstic's good as an attacker until about Serra, after that it's lack of stats starts to really show. Afterwards it's exclusively useful for prankster screens/other support.

Yeah this is about where it starts to fall off. Fortunately around there it gets Misty Terrain so it has everything it really needs.

October 10, 2019

I'm glad that meowstic is getting the recognition it deserves. I would put some exp in it though, since it's actually just good vs kiki and aya, as well as earlier fights like corey if you get the lower peridot mix.

October 9, 2019

7 minutes ago, J-Dawg said:

Yeah welcome to the forums, BTW

I'd recommend you get the Exp. All before you get any EV rooms, though tbh, but that's just me.

I hard disagree with this; Audino trainers without exp all are much faster than grinding EVs the hard way. EV rooms let you get a good spread in like 5 minutes tops, without it it probably takes an hour because the macho brace/power items aren't for a while and you have to find a good spot.

October 7, 2019

story spoilers

Spoiler

I generally enjoy how the story starts playing out around the time you get to GDC and onwards. There are a lot of different factions and I'm curious to see how it plays out, since a lot of characters are being set up as potentially ending up siding with the PC and Co., with multiple factions pit against them (whoever made Amanda, Tiempa/Spacea/Storm Chasers, Indriad/Angie/Church of Theolia, Madame X/Kieran/Risa, whatever the Blakeories are up to, the people disguising themselves as the PC/Nancy whose names escape me)

Also something about the Interceptor thing really tickles me.

pokemon customization stuff

Spoiler

Easy EV training is the best. It's quick and painless

I love shadow pokemon and crests, they both give new life to stuff that is normally not really viable and makes the game feel fresh. I'd almost never use something like Slaking or Seviper or Oriocorio long term in a challenging game, but in Rejuvenation they are pretty solid.

battles

Spoiler

The battles starting somewhere around Angie to Erick, are great and then as it goes on there's a lot of unique stuff like Rift Gardevoir that require different strategies without being so wild that you need specific things to win. Fights like Rift Gardevoir as well as sidequests like Dufaux and unspellable Wailord feel like what Totem Battles could have been

miscellaneous

Spoiler

I love the AP system and would love to see it expanded.

I don't know if Ryland's battle theme is an original (it doesn't sound like a remix to me), but that song is a banger

October 7, 2019

Favorite: Burning

Least: mirror

October 7, 2019

6 hours ago, J-Dawg said:

Drifblim outsped your Lycanroc? What?

Unburden

October 1, 2019

This plus the previous post should be an exhaustive list of pokemon with EV spreads being messed up by # of commas.

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Zetta,205
Typhlosion needs an extra comma between their EV spreads and the data before it

Type:Null needs two

Melia,205
Togekiss doesn't have the "false," declaring it not a shadow pokemon, and misses a comma as a result

Flora,200 and Florin,200
Rotom for both is missing one comma between "false" and their EV spread
Florin's Sceptile is also missing the "70," declaring its happiness including the comma involved, meaning its nickname becomes "false" and its EV spread is messed up

Reina,200

Ribombee is missing two commas between 70 and its EV spread

Gumshoe,200

First three pokemon (Incineroar, Luxray, and Granbull) are missing two commas before their EV spreads

Miles,200

Everything but Murkrow is missing two commas before their EV spreads

Reina,1 and Reina,201

Ribombee and Jellicent are missing two commas between 70 and their EV spreads

Mechanisms,200

Everything but Sigilyph needs an extra comma between their nickname and EV spread

Mechanisms,201 and Mechanisms,202

Everything with an EV spread is missing a comma between their nickname and EV spread

Jones,200

Zebstrika and Bellossom are missing a comma before their EV spread

Elayne,200

Meowstic and Cryogonal are missing a comma before their EV spread

Maltus,200 and Nichola,200

Everything is missing a comma before their EV spread

I used the regular expression ([^,\n]*,){23}[^,] to check these, it's a great convenience for this since it's nearly impossible to tell at a glance if something is right or not, and even with testing you pretty much need to be running calcs on everything which would be pretty far beyond thorough. You can adjust it to check other lengths if you want--the number should just correspond to whatever the last defined value's array number is as declared in the PokemonTrainers script.

Also

Spoiler

When you fight him in Hiyoshi City, Kieran's Clawitzer is EV trained on Easy mode but not on Normal, I figured I should report this in case this wasn't intended.

September 30, 2019

Most of your pokemon are still in their weak first stages (especially Pichu). The best first stage mon there is Trubbish, who isn't great vs. Rift Galv because it's also Poison type. In addition, Vivillon is generally pretty solid in other fights around this time, but most pokemon in the Zetta and Rift Galv fights have a move that hits it SE. I usually like to have most of my team at this point to be things that have already evolved at least once just for the stats. Things like Swoobat, Fearow, and Sandslash are solid for this reason, as well as some rare encounters like Chingling

September 30, 2019

19 minutes ago, Vinnie said:

Yeah I wasn't aware of that. I imagine it's because whenever people ask for help they tend to post the parts they get stuck at that I thought there was multiple combos. I have the same solution as you do, but I like the way you wrote it out, so I'll add that.

I wasn't aware either until I looked it up, I had assumed it was just one

Unrelated, but I also have an imgur album with all of the Adrienn volunteer locations with short descriptions of where they are. The screenshots are taken with the person already recruited: https://imgur.com/a/UDjeB

September 29, 2019

Is this what enlightenment is like?

September 28, 2019

59 minutes ago, Vinnie said:

It's different for the Magic Square. You have the same solution every time, but different starting points. Lots of people would need different solutions that I kinda lack at the moment.

I'm looking at the code, and apparently we are both right/wrong. The start is predetermined, but there are two unique ones, based on whether or not Saphira was abducted in Tanzan Cove.

If Saphira is abducted, it should start as:

629   475
134   829
578   316

Otherwise you get:

496   125
583   779
241   638

Here is a solution for the second one:

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Right Column 1 Down
Row 2 right
Row 2 right
Row 1 Right
Row 1 Right
Left Column 3 Up
Row 1 Right
Row 1 Right
Right Column 2 Down
Row 1 Left
Right Column 1 Down
Right Column 1 Down
Row 1 Left
Right Column 1 Up
Row 1 Right
Right Column 1 Up
Left Column 3 Up
Row 3 Left
Left Column 3 Down
Row 3 Right
Left Column 2 Down
Row 1 Left
Row 1 Left
Left Column 2 Up
Row 1 Right
Row 1 Right

At this point, your squares should look like:
648 276
791 951
235 438

Row 3 Left
Row 3 Left
Left Column 1 Up
Row 3 Right
Row 3 Right
Row 2 Left
Row 2 Left
Left Column 1 Down
Row 2 Right
Row 2 Right
Left Column 1 Down
Row 1 Left
Row 1 Left
Left Column 1 Up
Row 1 Right
Row 1 Right
Left Column 2 Up
Left Column 1 Up
Row 2 Left
Left Column 1 Down
Row 2 Right
Row 3 Left
Left Column 1 Up
Row 3 Right
Left Column 1 Up

Done

September 28, 2019

The golems are dark/fighting, so they are weak to fairy, flying, and fighting. The field cuts fairy damage iirc but since they're double weak you still come out ahead. They're not very fast iirc so a strong but slow attacker is still good.

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