Lord Chespin

Actually, I made a Mega Whiscash a while back that I think isn't actually an inferior Gyrados. Here it is: MEGA WHISCASH Type: Water/Ground Ability: Sap Sipper HP: 110 Attack: 128 Defense: 93 Special Attack: 56 Special Defense: 91 Speed: 90 With this Mega, Whiscash finally becomes viable, if only in the lower tiers. With a Water/Ground-typing and Sap Sipper, it has no weaknesses, meaning that you'll have to just take it down the hard way with neutral hits- and with great 110/93/91 bulk, it's easier said than done. While it has no reliable recovery, it still excels as a bulky attacker with dragon dance, as just one boost or misprediction allows it to sweep entire teams. Unfortunately, if it doesn't get off a boost, it's rather slow and weak for a Mega; it also lacks many coverage moves. Regardless, if it gets just one boost, it's a terrifying foe to face.

Hey! I'm doing an Ash run (where I can only use Pokemon that Ash used in the Anime), and it turns out that my mystery egg was a Shroomish. Could somebody edit my save file so that my egg is a Starly? Game.rxdata

Update #8: Day of the Tangrowth Well, the Tangrowth was a lot harder than I expected, but Ash got through it. Ash led with Noibat, and ZEL led with the Tangrowth. Noibat fainted fast to two acid sprays, but he was able to fulfill his job in that time span: set up two screeches. Butterfree came out next, and she dented the Tangrowth with a confusion and two gusts before fainting to a knock off and two acid sprays. Mankey came out, ready to abuse the Tangrowth's low defense with a focus-energy boosted fury swipes, but the combo didn't do too much damage at first, and the Tangrowth was able to fire off a mega drain and set up a growth. While she was able to knock Tangrowth down to the yellow with a second barrage of fury swipes, it still took her down with an acid spray. Ash sent out Frogadier next, and for once, things went right, as Frogadier was able to land a critical-hit lick that paralyzed the Tangrowth! Sure, it healed back some of the damage with a mega drain, but it looked like Ash had a fighting chance... then ZEL used a super potion, fully healing it. ...Is this how Ash feels every time he loses a championship? Anyway, Frogadier was able to slowly chisel away at it with a lick and a round, but got KO'd by a knock off. This led to the second-to-last Pokemon on the team, Pidgeotto, coming out, and miraculously, Tangrowth was immobilized by paralysis for most of the turns Pidgeotto was out! Sure, it landed an acid spray, but it failed to KO him, and he took it out with a few tackles! With the Tangrowth down and the Obsidia Ward saved, it's time to challenge Florina! The team so far:

Well, I'd say Reborn is more of a case of Gray and Grey morality, with the heroes being A Lighter Shade of Grey. The nooks of Team Meteor are nice enough people, and some of the Admins (Taka and ZEL) are nice enough, but the higher-ups are rotten to the core, making the dysfunctional but well-meaning heroes more sympathetic.

So, not sure if you guys know, but there's a page on TVTropes for Pokemon Reborn (and, thanks to me, a page for Pokemon Rejuvenation). I'm trying to update them, but I figured for the YMMV (Your Mileage Might Vary) Tropes should be run by the community before I edit them. So, today we're talking about Base Breakers and Scrappies. Base Breakers are characters who are loved by one part of the fanbase, and hated by the other. There is no meaningful middle ground; you either like them, or you hate them. The Scrappy, however, is a character who pretty much the whole fandom hates. This guy has pretty much no fans, and for good (albeit non-story-related) reasons: he's annoying, never gets comeuppance, is unhelpful, is boring, gets no character development, et cetera. So, with that in mind, I figured I'd start by nominating Titania and Saphira as Reborn's resident base breakers. A good chunk of the fandom that I've seen like Titania for her snarky, no-nonsense attitude; Saphira for her intense loyalty to her sisters; and both for being no-nonsense antiheroes who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty to save the day. However, another part of the fandom (a part that includes me) find their playing of What Measure is a Mook (for those who don't want to check the link, basically the belief that henchmen don't really matter and can be massacred without remorse) dead-straight (no pun intended) disturbing, especially since you wade through the gory aftermath. It doesn't help that the story split where Laura accompanies you to the Tanzan Mountain base that there was a non-violent solution to massacring the mooks, and that the grunts in the Water Treatment Center actually cared for Titania and didn't try to hurt her before she murdered them. Titania gets hit harder by this, since Saphira at least has the excuse of trying to protect her sisters, even if she does go overboard; Titania, however, is a full-blown sociopath who justifies her rampages with "Team Meteor stops at nothing to achieve their goals, so I shouldn't either", when (in my opinion) that mentality makes you no better than the people you're fighting. As for the ignoble honor of being Reborn's Scrappy, I'd like to nominate Victoria. She means well, yes, but she tries to stop you from progressing when there's really no other way. Additionally, she doesn't get as much character development and puts her interests before the common good (yes, I'm sorry your mentor is terminally ill, but without Strength I can't save actual orphans who are being tortured). However, what really secures her Scrappy-ness for me is her chewing Cal out atop Pyrous Mountain; yes, it's not an unjustified reaction, but if you recall, he was the one to save Apophyll- not Kiki- and you find out he would have saved Apophyll anyway if Kiki didn't try to be a hero, making her hatred of him taste kind of bitter. Hopefully she gets redeemed in Episode 16... So, what do you guys think? Be sure to let me know!

Okay, today we got a Gen. 1 OU favorite, and I tried my hardest to make it viable. Say hello to... Mega Tauros Type: Normal Ability: Sheer Force HP: 75 Attack: 130 Defense: 95 Special Attack: 110 Special Defense: 70 Speed: 110 The idea for this guy was to make him basically a better version of what he is in NU: a speedy mixed all-out attacker. With most of the stat boosts going into special attack, Tauros can use moves like fire blast, thunder, and blizzard, all of which get a Sheer Force boost. It's no slouch physically, either, as it can fire of powerful rock climbs, iron tails, earthquakes, and zen headbutts with its hefty 130 Attack. Add in great physical bulk thanks to its pre-mega ability in intimidate and a blazing 110 base speed, and you have an awesome wrecking ball that not many teams can prepare for. It's not all perfect, though, as it has no boosting moves (aside from the unorthodox work up, which I guess could work) and has pitiful special bulk (especially since it'll be investing against special bulk most of the time), but we can't all be Mega Rayquaza, can't we?

Update #7: The Bigger, The Better (Thank you, Commander, for this new scene) Well, Cain was a lot harder than I anticipated, but Ash was able to get past him. On TEH URN, Ash led with Frogadier, and Cain led with his Grimer. While Grimer was able to lower Frogadier's special defense with an acid spray, Frogadier was able to survive and started to spam water pulses; Cain had Grimer use a minimize and even used a potion on it, but Frogadier's aim was true, and he KO'd Grimer before it could even get another attack in! Up next came Cain's ace, Nidorino. Ash swapped out Greninja for Grimer, and although he was able to do some damage with a mud bomb, he still took massive damage from a horn attack; thus, Ash swapped him out for Frogadier. Luckily, Nidorino missed a double kick, so Frogadier was able to get a free switch in. This let him do massive damage with a water pulse, and although the Nidorino did massive damage to him with a double kick, Frogadier survived and took it out with a lick and a water pulse! Up next came Cain's newly-evolved Dewott, and Ash swapped out to Mankey. Unfortunately, Mankey got KO'd by a razor shell immediatel after setting up a focus energy, so Butterfree came out next. He tanked an air slash and did some damage with a confusion, but missed a sleep powder and fainted to a razor shell after Dewott set up a focus energy. The Dewott sweep continued as Noibat came out and fell to two air slashes, but he was at least able to weaken its defense with a screech. Pidgeotto then came out, and miraculously dodged a razor shell; this let him KO the Dewott with two quick attacks! Cain's Venonat was a pushover, or at least it was in comparison to his Dewott; while it was able to poison Pidgeotto with a poison powder and did some damage with a bug bite, Pidgeotto was still able to KO it with three gusts! All that remained was Cain's Gastly. Ash quickly healed Frogadier while keeping Pidgeotto on the field, allowing Gastly to land a confuse ray; despite this, Pidgeotto was still able to land one last gust after getting hit by a curse. Luckily, although he fainted to poison and curse damage that turn, Pidgeotto was able to give Frogadier a free switch-in with his fainting, allowing him to outspeed Gastly and KO it with a water pulse! With Cain defeated, it's time to save the Obsidia Ward! The team so far:

Well, the Smogon article was kind of stupid, but at least the Smogon guy gave alternate typings and abilities in case the ones he produced were too broken. Also, funnily enough, I made a Mega Octillery too, but it went more like this: Mega Octillery Type: Water/Fire Ability: Analytic HP: 75 Attack: 130 Defense: 100 Special Attack: 130 Special Defense: 100 Speed: 45 In comparison to pyrromanis' Mega, I decided to give it lower defenses and offenses, but higher speed (not that it matters, since it gets outsped by most stuff anyway; I might change that later). I gave it a Water/Fire typing because it's one of the few water-types to learn fire-type moves (excluding Volcanion), and I gave it Analytic to patch up its relatively low offenses (for a Mega, at least) and abuse its low speed. I might take some cues from your mega, though, pyrro, since you've got great ideas. That's what I like about this thread: we can get feedback about our megas, and refine them until they're balanced!

Aw man, I was going to make a space field for my Pokemon game. Looks like you beat me to it... ...Well, I guess I could make a different field similar to it...

This makes me actually kind of nervous to make my own fan-game. I feel like all my hard work and time could be destroyed by one C&D. I mean, I'll still probably make it anyway, but it's kind of disheartening.

Update #6: Thug Lyfe Well, the Scraggy Gang took a couple tries (mainly because of Tyson), but Ash got past it eventually. On TEH URN, Ash led with Grimer and Pidgeotto, and the Gang led with Stallord and Dragonborn. Pidgeotto got badly poisoned while hitting Stallord withb a gust, and Grimer got slammed with a headbutt after poisoning Stallord and Dragonborn with a poison gas (although Stallord shed its skin, recovering from the poison). The next turn, Pidgeotto got lucky with a critical-hit gust on Stallord- and just in time, as it used amnesia; Dragonborn, meanwhile, did serious damage to Pidgeotto with a brick break, and Grimer poisoned Stallord again with a poison gas. This time, it stuck, and while Pidgeotto fainted to a drain punch, he was still able to damage Dragonborn with a gust while Grimer tanked a brick break and damaged Stallord with a pound. Our newest team member, Mankey, came out, and she set up a focus energy while poor Grimer fainted to a headbutt and a drain punch. Noibat came out to avenge him, and while Mankey was able to KO Stallord with a karate chop, Noibat was able to KO Dragonborn with a wing attack! Up next came Tyson and the Gang's leader, Big Boss. Mankey did massive damage to Big Boss with a karate chop while Noibat tanked a payback and lowered Big Boss' defense with a screech. Unfortunately, Mankey fainted to a fire punch from Tyson and a brick break from Big Boss before he could counter attack and Noibat fainted to a thunder punch from Tyson after getting off a thunder punch. Butterfree and Frogadier came out to pick up the torch, and together they took out Tyson with a water pulse and a gust while Butterfree tanked a brick break! With only Big Boss remaining, he tried to land a swagger, but failed; Butterfree, meanwhile, tried to use a poisonpower and missed, and Frogadier did some serious damage with a water pulse. Frogadier then paralyzed Big Boss with a lick, and while Big Boss only marginally dented Butterfree with a brick break, Butterfree tried to use poisonpower and failed, because I'm an idiot and forgot you can only be afflicted by one status at a time. It didn't even stick thanks to shed skin! Frogadier was able to damage Big Boss with a quick attack, but fainted to a payback immediately afterwards; fortunately, this let Butterfree take out Big Boss with a with two gusts after tanking a payback! With the gang defeated, it's time to go to the Coral Ward! The team so far:

Update #5: The Apprentice Well, Victoria was kind of tricky, but not nearly as bad as Julia. On TEH URN, Ash led with Noibat, and Victoria led with her Scraggy. Despite getting his attack lowered by an intimidate, his accuracy lowered by a sand-attack, and hit by a headbutt, Noibat was able to lower the Scraggy's defenses with a screech and take it down with two wing attacks! Up next came Victoria's Kirlia, and Ash swapped out to Grimer. Despite taking massive damage from two confusions, Grimer was able to end it with two sludges (with 4 HP remaining, as well)! Victoria sent out her Poliwag next, and Ash sent out Butterfree. Butterfree tanked a bubble beam and put it to sleep with a sleep powder, allowing him to chisel away at it with gusts and a confusion. Victoria used up her two potions on it, and it even managed to wake up and land a bubble beam again, but it was too little, too late, as Butterfree took it out with a gust! Victoria, running out of options, sent out her Pignite, and Ash sent out Noibat again. He managed to survive an arm thrust and set up a screech, but before he could use a wing attack he got smacked hard by a flame charge, causing him to faint. Frogadier came out next, and he did insane damage to the Pignite with a water pulse; the Pignite tried to use sunny day, but it still fell to a quick attack the next turn. All that was left was Victoria's Makuhita, and Ash swapped out to Hoothoot. Hoothoot set up a reflect while Makuhita set up a focus energy, and beat the Makuhita within an inch of its life with an uproar; unfortunately, the Makuhita then took him out with two force palms. Luckily, Butterfree was able to swoop in and KO the Makuhita with a gust, ending the fight! With that over with, it's time to enter the slums! The team so far:

Hey, look, I updated something on time! What are the odds? Update #4: Gotta Get That Boom Boom Pow Well, Julia was just as hard as I remember, although Grimer helped immensely with its ground-type coverage. On TEH URN, Ash led with Grimer, and Julia led with Magnemite. Grimer tanked a sonicboom and popped the air balloon Magnemite held with a pound; unfortunately, he took massive damage from a charge beam and missed a mud bomb, forcing Ash to heal it with a super potion. Grimer's aim was better on the second try, as after tanking another sonicboom and charge beam, he KO'd the Magnemite with a mud bomb! Up next came Julia's Emolga. Despite being rather tricky to deal with on other runs, it went down pretty quickly this time: Frogadier managed to confuse it with a water pulse and it hurt itself, allowing Frogadier to end it with two more water pulses, making Julia use up her first super potion as well! Julia decided to stop messing around and sent out a way more threatening Pokemon: her Heliolisk. Noibat came out, and miraculously, Heliolisk used two hidden powers, a rain dance, and an eerie impulse before using a prabolic charge; this let Noibat lower its defenses all the way with four screeches (he missed one), and allowed him to heal Grimer with a super potion before fainting to the parabolic charge! I slipped up and sent out Pidgeotto by accident, but he was able to KO the Heliolisk in one hit with a quick attack! Julia's Voltorb came out next, and it was slightly trickier than I expected. Pidgeotto stayed out, and he barely survived a charge beam to lower the Voltorb's accuracy with a sand-attack. The Voltorb then proceeded to miss three charge beams in a row, allowing Pidgeotto to chisel away at it with some quick attacks and make Julia use up her last super potion! After two more quick attacks, Julia rage-quit and blew up her Voltorb with an explosion, taking Pidgeotto with it. Julia's Chinchou came out next, and Ash swapped out to Grimer. Grimer tanked a water gun and poisoned the Chinchou with a poison gas, cutting through its eviolite boost. Despite getting paralyzed by a thunder wave, Grimer was able to land a mud bomb and lower the Chinchou's accuracy; this then caused Julia to pull a shocking move: she swapped Chinchou out for her ace, Electrode! As she did this, Grimer was cured of its paralysis with a parlyz heal, and dodged a sonicboom to poison the Electrode with a poison gas. Electrode landed a sonicboom the next two turns, allowing Grimer to land two mud bombs with 8 HP remaining. Having run out of super potions, Ash used a berry ice cream on Grimer... only for Electrode to KO him with two charge beams. Well, luckily, by this point the poison had taken its toll on Electrode, and it fainted to a quick attack from Frogadier! All that remained was Julia's weakened CHinchou, and while Frogadier disobeyed orders at first (which allowed Chinchou to set up two free charges), he obeyed Ash for just long enough to fatally injure it with a quick attack, leaving it to faint from poison after futilely firing off a thunder wave! With Julia down, it's time to head to the Slums! The team so far:

Hey! Um, I've talked to at least 700 people in the Goldenleaf region, and Spiritomb hasn't shown up. Am I missing something, or was it axed? And yes, I made sure to beat Narcissa.

Thank you! Aside from Julia, I'm a little worried about Corey, since I won't have many good psychic- or ground-types, and Shelly, because Perma-rain. Thank you! I'll try to make similar decisions to him. Also, since Julia's really tough and I have to do some grinding, I might not be able to update for a while (made harder by the fact that I'm going to be in a two-day car trip home from Key West). I'll try to get this updated by Monday at the latest!

Not sure if this is my place to say this, but Smogon actaully did a similar article to this. You can find it here!

Update #3: Meteor Strike Well, Aster and Eclipse were actually really tricky, as most of Ash's team was weak to either fire or electric. On TEH URN, Ash led with Grimer, Fern led with Roselia, Aster led with his Electabuzz, and Eclipse led with her Magmar. Poor Grimer fainted to an ember and a swift, but Roselia was able to land a mega drain... on Magmar. Fern... are you an idiot? Anyway, Ash's Frogadier came out next, and he was able to turn the fight around by confusing the Magmar with a water pulse! This caused the Magmar to injure itself, leaving only the Electabuzz to do pathetic damage with a swift and let Fern to continue to be as unhelpful as possible by using mega drain on Magmar. Eclipse tried to use her potion on Magmar, but Frogadier finished it off with a water pulse, allowing Fern to try and paralyze Electabuzz because, as mentioned above, he's an idiot. Luckily, Fern's Roselia fainted from a fire punch, letting Fern's Lombre come out and actually do some semblance of damage with a bubble, which in turn let Frogadier take out Electabuzz with two water pulses after tanking a low kick and a fire punch! With the Mosswater Factory a smoldering wreck, it's time to take on Julia! ...I'm not looking forward to this... The team so far:

Well, if you notice the shape of the Sea Cucumber Pokemon's mouth, it's shaped like the character for "big" or "great", which is the shape used for the bonfire in the Japanese festival Gozan no Okuribi. Maybe it'll be a Fire/Fighting-type? Also,

Well, that applies to Hardcore, too. =P Update #2: The Grasshole Enters Well, Fern was tricky, but Ash managed to beat him on his second try. On TEH URN, Ash led with his Pidgey, and Fern led with his Lombre. Pidgey managed to land a gust, but then Lombre took him out with two bubbles, so Ash sent out his Hoothoot next. Hoothoot got smacked by two growls, so his pecks did almost nothing, but "almost nothing" isn't that same as "nothing", so he was able to slowly chisel away at Lombre while tanking Absorbs and bubbles. Fern tried to heal Lombre, but Hoothoot managed to get a critical hit and do serious damage with a peck; unfortunately, Lady Luck proved her impartiality and took out Hoothoot with a critical-hit bubble. Noibat came out to avenge his fallen brethren, and while Fern used up his last potion, Noibat was able to tank an astonish and end the Lombre with a gust! Up next came Fern's pseudo-ace, his Servine. Ash swapped out to Grimer, and he managed to poison it with a poison gas; Servine, however, managed to land a wrap, and the damage slowly ticked away at him. Grimer then got smacked by a leer, but was able to lower Servine's accuracy with a mud-slap, tank a vine whip, and disable the Servine's vine whip; Sadly, he fainted to a tackle the next turn. However, Froakie was able to come in, tank a tackle and a wrap, and take out the Servine with three quick attacks (and poison damage)! All that remained was Fern's true ace: his Roselia. Ash sent out his Butterfree, and he got off to a rocky start by being instantly poisoned by a poison sting. Fortunately, while Roselia set up a growth,Butterfree was able to spam confusion and shrug off two mega drains; this allowed him to KO Roselia before fainting to poison damage, with 7 HP to spare! Onward to the Mosswater Factory! The team so far:

Well, he only had the Haunter and Raticate temporarily, so I'll pass on them (although I might change my mind about Haunter, just to see what you did for the Haunter event). I don't really regret picking Froakie, since Ash-Greninja is a thing, but it took me almost a week of constant trying just to get by Julia (and I still have PTSD about Florina), so maybe I'll eat my words. Once I get Pikachu, I'm probably going to keep it on the team, like I did with Commander the Lanturn back in my Electric Monotype; however, I'll bend the rules a little, and make it so that I can evolve it (because let's face it, ain't nobody beatin' Reborn with a Pikachu).

Update #1: Pilot Well, the tutorial battles weren't too bad for Ash. For Cain, Ash led with his Froakie, and Cain led with his Nidoran-Male. Froakie was able to tank a scratch and dodge a second one, then took out the Nidoran with a pound and two bubbles! Victoria was a little trickier, but still kind of easy. Her Tepig did some serious damage with a critical-hit tackle, but Froakie lived and KO'd it with two bubbles! With the two of them down, it's time to build a team! The team so far: