Lord Chespin

Hey! So, I remember that when I first joined the forums, somebody suggested a "Ash run", or a run where you could only use Pokemon that Ash has caught. I tried an undocumented one a couple years ago, but I never finished it, and lost it when my computer's hard drive crashed. Now that the XYZ Anime's almost over, I've decided to boot a new Ash run up, and document it this time, in Pokemon Reborn Hardcore! Here's the Pokemon I can use: Well, that seems like a lot, but keep in mind that a lot of these guys are either too powerful to be implemented yet, or are in the lower tiers of Smogon. So, here's the team so far: Here's the Pokemon in Ash's PC: Here's the bosses Ash has to face: I think that's it. Wish me luck, and here's hoping Ash actually beats the Elite Four this time!

Well, she probably is our biological mother, but was most likely an artificial human; possibly a Solosis-turned-human, like Zetta.

Update #25: Nashandra, Queen of Dark Well, Madelis was actually pretty tricky, but Solaire managed to get past her eventually. On TEH URN, Solaire led with bed of Chaos, and Madelis led with her Houndoom. Bed of Chaos got hit pretty hard with a dark pulse, but was able to do massive damage in return with an earth power. Madelis, quite clearly shaking in her boots from this display of raw prowess, swapped out to her Skuntank, which took massive damage on the switch from an earth power. Madelis tried healing it with a hyper potion, but Bed of Chaos kept spamming earth power, even lowering its special defense. This prompted her to swap back out to Houndoom, but Bed of Chaos just got healed by a moomoo milk on the switch, then tanked a flamethrower and took out the Houndoom with an earth power! Madelis' toughest Pokemon, her Sharpedo, came out next, and so Solaire swapped Bed of Chaos out to Siegmeyer. He was able to do massive damage to it with an electro ball, but then was OHKO'd by an earthquake, prompting Solaire to swap out to Grandahl. Grandahl was able to slightly dent Sharpedo with a feint attack and set up a howl, but then Sharpedo took him out with a dive; fortunately, this left the Sharpedo weak enough for Big Hat Logan to swoop in and KO it with a flamethrower! Up next came Madelis' Shiftry, and while Big Hat Logan was able to do insane damage to it with a flamethrower, it still survived and took him out with a rock slide. Undeterred, Solaire swapped out to Rat King, who ended it with an acrobatics! Madelis' Skuntank came back out, but Bed of Chaos was ready for it, and took it down with an earth power after tanking a night slash, surviving with 10 HP to spare! ...Not much else to say, really... All that remained was Madelis' ace, Zweilous. Solaire swapped out to Ornstein, and he paralyzed it with a thunder wave and then did chip damage with a discharge before fainting to a dragon rush. Bed of Chaos came out next, and she was able to do significant damage to it with an earth power before fainting. Luckily, when Rat King came back out, he was able to get an extra turn thanks to paralysis immobilization, and took out Zweilous with two acrobatics! With Madelis down, it's time to take the fight to Neved! The team so far:

Um, so, I was playing through the game again for my duotype run, and I'm up to Blacksteeple Castle. I realized that when Neved talks to you after Saki rips the antenna out of the ground, he says that killing you then and there would have solved 50% of their problems, or 25% if Melia hadn't died. That means that killing us would have solved one-fourth of their problems. Now, what two prophecies mention four people? That's right, the Dual Prophecies. Since Team Xen needs Ren for their goals, and earlier versions confirmed that Ren was one of the shadows, this confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt that Melia and the protagonist are two of the lights, and that Team Xen's working to start the Prophecy of Darkness. Not only that, but I remember from an earlier playthrough that when you meet Nancy in the generator room in Blacksteeple Castle, she mentions to Nastasia something to the effect of "I wasn't there when he instructed the others". That means that there are more artificial humans out there besides Nancy. Combined with the realization above, as well as the fact that Professor Jenner's soul didn't show up in the Soul gem when he died, I guess this confirms that Professor Jenner was an artificial human as well. Of course, there are still some problems with this. For example, if Madame X wants us dead, why would she save Kanon and save us from the destruction of Kugearen City? Maybe Kanon's actually one of the Shadows, and she can't risk him getting killed before destroying the world? And what does this mean for Crescent? What is she planning? Feel free to discuss this in the comments!

Wow, glad to see a lot of love for this run! Thank you, and even though I'm on vacation I'll try to keep it updated! Anywho... Update #24: Dusk of Oolacile Well, the rematch with Nim was really close, but Solaire managed to pulll through. On TEH URN, Solaire led with Ornstein and our newest team member: Rat King the Emolga; Nim, meanwhile, led with her Solrock and her Lunatone. Ornstein damaged both foes and boosted Rat King's speed with a discharge while Rat King set up a light screen, but the two took massive damage from a stone edge and a psychic, respectively. Fortunately, before they fainted to a second stone edge and an ancientpower, Ornstein was able to paralyze Lunatone with a discharge, and Rat Vanguard was able to seriously dent Lunatone with an electro ball. Siegmeyer and Grandahl came out next, and while Siegmeyer took out Lunatone with an electro ball, Grandahl took out Solrock with a feint attack! Up next came Nim's Malamar and Duosion, and although Siegmeyer dented Malamar with a charge beam and Grandahl nailed Duosion with a feint attack, Malamar OHKO'd Grandahl with a superpower, giving itself a buff to its attack and defense while Duosion injured Siegmeyer with an energy ball. Bed of Chaos came out next, but before she could even attack she was taken down by a superpower from Malamar, leaving Siegmeyer to get injured by a psyshock from Duosion. Running out of options,Solaire sent out Big Hat Logan, and had Siegmeyer and Big Hat Logan gang up on Malamar; however, then a miracle happened: Big Hat Logan's flamethrower burned Malamar, causing it to faint after it took out Siegmeyer with a psycho cut! All that remained besides the Duosion was Nim's Meowstic; Big Hat Logan tanked a thunderbolt from it and a psyshock from Duosion, took out Duosion with a flamethrower, and began spamming flamethrower on Meowstic. However, as he did this, Solaire realized that he would run out of HP before Meowstic did, so he healed Big Hat Logan with a moomoo milk, allowing him to live long enough to KO Meowstic! With Nim defeated, it's time to enter Akuwa Town and face impending doom... The team so far:

Update #23: Alsanna, Silent Oracle Well, even though Solaire beat Narcissa on his first try, he still had one heck of a time. On TEH URN, Solaire led with Rat Vanguard, and Narcissa led with her Drifblim. Rat Vanguard set up a nuzzle, which immobilized the Drifblim from paralysis and allowed Rat Vanguard to weaken its speed boost from unburden. He then started spamming charge beam, but only managed to get off one before fainting to two ghostly wails. Solaire sent out Siegmeyer next, and amazingly, he managed to KO Drifblim with a single electro ball! Up next came Narcissa's Chandelure, and Solaire swapped out for Bed of Chaos. She tanked a ghostly wail and managed to fire off an earth power, which seriously injured Chandelure. Unfortunately, before Bed of Chaos could finish the job, Narcissa swapped out to her Rotom, which shrugged off an earth power thanks to levitate. Solaire swapped out to Ornstein, but he took some serious damage from a ghostly wail and was only able to do paltry damage in return with a bite. However, Narcissa then swapped out to her most dangerous and diabolically evil Pokemon: Spiritomb. It wasn't so bad at first, as Ornstein managed to paralyze it with a thunder wave and do considerable damage with two discharges; however, then the Spiritomb put him to sleep, causing him to get KO'd by a dream eater. Siegmeyer came out next, and started spamming electro ball; unfortunately, he got put to sleep too, and Narcissa just healed off all the damage he did to it with a hyper potion. Solaire tried waking him up with a full heal, but he got put to sleep again the next turn with a hypnosis, so Solaire just decided "screw it" and swapped out to Big Hat Logan. Big Hat Logan was able to dodge a hypnosis and do massive damage with three mystical fires (making Narcissa use up her last hyper potion in the process), but then he used psyshock because I'm a doofus and forgot that psychic-type moves do nothing against dark-types, allowing Spiritomb to put him to sleep with a hypnosis. Fortunately, Spiritomb's special attack was lowered significantly by all the mystical fires, so it didn't even do too much damage with its dream eaters. Big Hat Logan woke up a few turns later, and took advantage of the Spiritomb being immobilized by paralysis by setting up a fire spin before ending it with a field-boosted flame charge! Up next came Narcissa's Rotom again, but Big Hat Logan tanked a thunderbolt and took it out pretty fast with a fire spin and a flame charge! Narcissa's Chandelure came out afterwards, but it fell to a psyshock. Unfortunately, Big Hat Logan's sweep was cut short by Narcissa's ace: Mismagius. Big Hat Logan missed a fire spin, and thus Mismagius was able to take him out with a ghostly wail. Fortunately, Grandahl was able to come in on Big Hat Logan's demise, and while Mismagius set up a nasty plot, Grandahl was able to fire off two flame charges, ending it! All that remained was Narcissa's Gengar, and while it was able to do considerable damage to Grandahl with a sludge wave, Grandahl was able to survive and take it out with two more flame charges! With Narcissa defeated, Ren throws a hissy fit and vows revenge for us... helping him to accomplish his lifelong dream. ...Needless to say, I don't really like Ren. The team so far:

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Unfortunately, no. At least, not until after the ninth gym leader.

Update #22: Felicia the Brave Well, Alieta was rather tricky, but Solaire managed to get past her. On TEH URN, Solaire led with Rat vanguard, and she led with her Scraggy. Rat Vanguard lowered Scraggy's attack with a charm, tanked two ice punches, paralyzed it with a nuzzle, and started spamming charge beam! Unfortunately, he fainted after three charge beams, giving Scraggy an attack boost thanks to moxie, but Siegmeyer came out and 2HKO'd it with two electro balls despite Alieta using a hyper potion! Up next came Alieta's Meinfoo, but it was kind of easy to beat. Big Hat Logan came out, and was able to outspeed and KO it with a psyshock! Up next came Alieta's trickiest Pokemon, Gallade. Ornstein came out, and he was able to paralyze Gallade with a thunder wave and get off a discharge (um, that came out wrong, but whatever); unfortunately, he fell to two night slashes. SIegemyer came out and managed to knock it down to the red with two electro balls, but then Alieta healed it and it did serious damage with a night slash. Siegmeyer survived and dished out an electro ball and a charge beam, but Gallade was able to take him out with a second night slash. Fortunately, Big Hat Logan was able to come out, and although he took massive damage from a night slash, he held on and took out the Gallade with two swords dances! Up next came Alieta's Hawlucha, and sadly, it took out Big Hat Logan with a knock off. Bed of Chaos came out next, and was able to survive two knock offs to gravely injure the Hawlucha with two lava plumes. Fortunately, she got healed by a moomoo milk, and tanked two aerial aces to end the Hawlucha with a lava plume! All that remained was Alieta's ace, Hawlucha. Solaire swapped out to Grandahl, and but he knew he couldn't do anything, so he just healed Bed of Chaos with a moomoo milk before getting KO'd by two thunder punches. Bed of Chaos came back out, and she managed to survive a night slash to do massive damage with an earth power, then got healed with a moomoo milk and tanked two more night slashes before ending the Blaziken with a night slash! With Alieta defeated, it's time to take on Narcissa for real! The team so far:

Well, there's always hidden abilities. Also, even though it's a great wall for Ice monotypes, those are some pretty common weaknesses...

Well, with the reveal of CANON Delta Pokemon today, I figured it was time to breathe some life back into this thread! Today, I'll be describing a Pokemon that's kind of stuck in a no-man's land competitively, and could really use a new form to help it out. Say hello to... Delta Aipom -> Delta Ambipom Description: Actually, the concept for this guy was already made on the Holon Academy, but I don't think it was adopted into Insurgence. Here's the sprites: yes I know they were pure ghost-types but I added the fighting-type because it gives it great coverage Reason for Making: Aipom and Ambipom are Pokemon that got shafted competitively. Sure, they have Technician STAB Fake Out, but that's easily predicted around, and it has no really good coverage options for Rock or Steel types. This guy seeks to change this by giving it two godly STAB moves to abuse with Technician in Storm Throw and Shadow Punch, both of which get boosted to 90 Base Power (and Storm Throw gets boosted even further with critical-hit damage). Of course, it still has membranes for defenses, and it has kind of weak offenses, but STAB Technician Storm Throw makes up for that. Abilities: Cursed Body/Run Away/Skill Link -> Cursed Body/Technician/Skill Link Level-Up Movepool: Delta Aipom: Delta Ambipom: TM Moves: Basically unchanged. Tutor Moves: Basically Unchanged. Bred Moves: Compatibility with mach punch added; otherwise, basically unchanged. Egg Group: Field

...I kinda like the Popplio one... at least it's not Pennywise the Dancing Clown, right? Also, DELTA POKEMON ARE CANON I CAN DIE HAPPY

Update #21: High Lord Wolnir Well, Geara was infinitely easier than I expected! On TEH URN, Solaire led with Bed of Chaos and Grandahl, and Geara led with Haunter and Drifblim. Poor Haunter went down to a single beat up, and while Drifblim was able to do some damage to Bed of Chaos with an acrobatics, it got burned by a lava plume, turning it into dead weight. Geara tried to end the fight early by sending out his Giratina, but it took quite a bit of damage from a beat up, did underwhelming damage to Grandahl in return with a shadow claw, and ended up getting burned by a lava plume. While that was happening, Drifblim tried to do more damage to Bed of Chaos with an acrobatics, but Bed of Chaos got healed by a moomoo milk, negating its efforts. The Giratina then fainted to a beat up, and Drifblim continued do pitiful damage with an acrobatics. Geara's ace, Doublade, came out next, and Bed of Chaos was able to one-shot it with an earth power while Grandahl negated Drifblim getting healed by Geara by hitting it with a beat up. All that remained was the burned Drifblim that hit like a wet noodle, and Grandahl was able to KO it with a feint attack! With Geara beaten and Wispy Laboratory locked up for good, it's time to take on Narcissa! The team so far:

Update #20: Vordt and Dancer of the Boreal Valley, Part 2 Well, Eli and Sharon were pretty tricky, but Solaire was able to get past them on his first try (albeit with a little luck). On TEH URN, Solaire led with Bed of Chaos and Grandahl, and the Misfortune Duo led with Solrock and Lunatone. Grandahl managed to do massive damage to Lunatone with a beat up, but he and Bed of Chaos took massive damage from a rock slide (and, in Bed of Chaos' case, a psybeam); fortunately, Bed of Chaos was able to burn Solrock with a lava plume, neutering its attack power. Bed of Chaos then gave up its turn to heal Grandahl, and while the Misfortune Duo healed their Lunatone, Grandahl was able to knock it back down to the red while tanking a rock slide (which Bed of Chaos avoided). Lunatone got healed again the next turn, but Grandahl turned his attention to Solrock, which went down to a beat up, leaving Lunatone to get smacked by a flame burst! Up next came the Misfortune Duo's Tangrowth, and while it KO'd Bed of Chaos with a power whip, Grandahl was able to KO their Lunatone. This led to Big Hat Logan coming out on Solaire's side and Gyarados coming out on the Misfortune Duo's side. Grandahl did some damage to Grados with a flame charge before fainting to a waterfall, and Big Hat Logan was able to do massive damage to Tangrowth with a mystical fire before taking massive damage from a knock off and an icy fang. Fortunately, he lived, and KO'd Tangrowth with another mystical fire after Siegmeyer came out and seriously damaged Gyarados with an electro ball. Sadly, Big Hat Logan fainted to a surf from the duo's Milotic the next turn, but not before taking out Gyrados with a mystical fire! After the Gyarados fell, the Misfortune Duo sent out their toughest Pokemon: Rhydon. Siegmeyer tried to damage Milotic with two electro balls, and Rat Vanguard (who came out next) tried to weaken Rhydon with a charm, but after Milotic weakened Rat Vanguard with an ice beam, Rhydon took out both Siegmeyer and Rat Vanguard with an earthquake. Just as I thought that the battle was lost, however, a miracle happened: Milotic used surf when Ornstein came out, taking out Rhydon for me! This let Ornstein KO Milotic with a mighty discharge, knocking it out! With the Misfortune Duo down, it's time to take down Geara! The team so far:

You gotta do this: (SPOILERS FOR THE MID-GAME)

Well, there could be some justification, just not in-story. For example, the Lady in Snowpoint City who trades you a Haunter holding an everstone. I guess "lack of character development" and "turns evil for an incredibly petty reason" are pretty good reasons.

Hey! So, not sure if you guys knew this or not, but I've made a page for Pokemon Rejuvenation on TVTropes. It could use a little love, however, and since I'm just one guy I don't feel qualified to do the YMMV-section tropes without some community feedback. Therefore, I'd like your feedback on two tropes: Ensemble Darkhorse: An unexpectedly popular minor character. The Scrappy: The fans hate this character for some reason. As you can see, these are some pretty controversial tropes, so I figure I'd ask you guys for feedback. Try to keep it civil, 'kay? Thanks!

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Hey! It's me again, and I'm stuck on the quest in Weeping Depths where you have to solve the logic puzzle with the graves. Any idea what I'm supposed to do?

Although I like Diggersby, I kind of had this reaction when I first evolved my Bunnelby in Pokemon X. I was like, "Oh boy, my Bunnelby's evolving! I wonder what it's gonna turn into... oh. Why did it turn into the Pokemon equivalent of Simon Lane?"

yay somebody noticed me Anyway, TVTropes is a website that you can find here. It's a Wikipedia-esque website that seeks to analyze media by breaking down recurring elements into "Tropes", concepts that don't need too much explaining (think literary elements, but more specific).

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