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Hello and welcome to Reborn! I hope you'll have fun and enjoy your time here. So you are only 3 hours into Reborn? That explains everything.

http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=15490 The Reborn Hardcore is actually in this thread (in the Fan Game Exposè section). The download links should actually be in page #10, so the last one.

Contest Hall The two trainers arrived early and found some seats; after a while, what could be referred to as an introduction speech began, without any significant delay. Lucas listened quietly, trying to understand everything Professor Redwood said. As he didn't do that before, Lucas put his card in the Pokedex making his information appear on the device's screen. He also registered his Pokemon Grimace and checked his BP amount. Lucas didn't have any question to ask in the first place and seemed to have understood all of the important information. Some students were talking by themselves and others were just waiting for the next topic, which likely almost everyone was finding more appealing. Only after a while, Lucas came up with a question, regarding what was more like a small detail: "Excuse me, Professor, how do I link my Pokedex to someone else's one?" Sim was sitting beside him without saying anything, but most likely thinking about what had been just explained. Lucas found the BP system fairly interesting, to say the truth: it was kind of an added reason for the students to do the best they could, both in lessons and during battles, and the Pokedex's added functions were also something nice to have. This new system was overall rather good, in Lucas' opinion.

Happy Birthday Azery!

It has been a long time... Part 9: The infamous Paraflinch strategy! So, I have explored Route 6, beating all of the trainers and reaching the entrance to Chargestone cave, which was open. At first I was surprised because I thought the cave was supposed to be closed like in White, but then I remembered that the cave became partially accessible in Black 2, so I entered and got myself this: Too bad it evolves at level 36, which is actually fairly late for the next gym. I didn't beat the trainers in that area due to relative lack of time; I preferred to just beat the Gym first. I also got myself a Water Pokemon so that I could use Surf. Nothing special, also if I wanted a Marill I'd have caught Azurill in Fioccesy Ranch. Also, last but not least, here's a special Pokemon I received as a gift from the former members of Team Plasma: Being N's Pokemon, he'll get more experience, effectively making the challenge a lot easier. So, I can't use this Pokemon in battle. Also I have Sandile already. Well.. although I had to box Zorua, there was a positive thing that happened: And, in Route 6... Two evolutions, not bad. With our newly evolved companions and Route 6 cleared, I just challenged the gym right off the bat. I needed something interesting to put in this update. The battle started with a mirror match between our Krokorok: Clay's one defeated mine but got defeated as well because of Crobat. Excadrill was sent out later, and I immediately paralyzed the threat with Cottonee, abusing Stun Spore and the ability Prankster. Cottonee was replaced by Crobat, who confused Excadrill, this way pulling off the Paraflinch strategy. With Excadrill severely crippled, Crobat was able to weaken it and let my Lucario finish the gorund-type. Clay's last Pokemon, Sandslash, was handled by Servine, granting me the fifth badge. With the gym challenge out of the way, Clay invites me and Hugh to the newly opened PWT, and then walks away, telling us that he'll be waiting there. I'll be going there too, but in the next update... The Team: Announcement: As you might have noticed, currently I'm relatively busy. This should go on until december: during this time I may not be able to post updates as frequently as before.

First, I already defeated all the trainers available before catching Cottonee. Second, my Magnemite has Magnet Pull (my bad) and last, I find Cottonee more reliable because of Prankster... One more reasoning is also that I didn't plan to use Magnemite in the future, but hopefully get a different Pokemon.

New update! I'm starting to see a majority in the poll so that is nice. Also, unknown person who is giving me reputation points for every update, thank you. Well, I picked up a new Pokemon for that, and it's because of it that I won. You'll see in this update... Part 8: "Couldn't get away!" and a long technical explanation You see, in Route 5 and 16 there are wild Liepard (among other things) with levels that are on par with my team and that often don't let you run away. Very frustrating, also because I can't KO them and don't want to use all of my Poke Balls. The same could be said about Lostlorn forest, but this time there weren't any interesting Pokemon for me, except one... Now onto the gym challenge! Last time I was still training my squad in the nearby routes; now I've also cleared out the previous Gym a.k.a. the rollercoaster building, the gym trainers (who surprisingly didn't have any Emolga) and a female Clerk that also let me ride the Ferris wheel with her, after defeating her in a Pokemon battle. She'll be mother soon Now, the fight against Elesa was almost on Reborn levels of difficulty at first. All of her Pokemon were faster than mine and would hit hard. I tried to get some safe switch-ins by predicting the AI but it wouldn't really matter. Then I came up with a great idea: getting a new Pokemon that could give me the upper hand. I headed to Lostlorn Forest and caught her almost immediately, and I also got lucky with her ability. Meet Prankster? (yes that is the actual nickname I gave her): Cottonee is so useful in this kind of run just because I can abuse her ability. Regardless of the levels of the Pokemon, she can always go first and paralyze (or poison) the opponent, unless it uses a priority move. Because of her role, the nature here is not so important. Now, you might ask why I didn't use Magnemite to paralyze my enemies... Well, it has Magnet Pull and not Sturdy, making it unable to perform this role (unless it can endure an attack without any help, which is impossible when the level difference starts getting high). So, I sent out Prankster? first, and she was able to paralyze both Emolga and Zebstrika with Stun Spore, while enduring Emolga's Volt Switch rather well. After going down to Zebstrika's own Volt Switch, I sent out Sandile to deal with the enemy Flaaffy and later with Zebstrika. Servine then took care of the paralyzed Emolga with Leech Seed and some Leaf Tornadoes. This actually makes me more handsome! (cit) After that, I ran into Team Plasma again on my way to Driftveil city, who I defeated with the help of my rival. I also beat Charles in a Rotation Battle, this way being able to access the Drawbridge, and then the city, where I found for the first time someone from the "old" Team Plasma, who remained faithful to N. Hugh, of course, intervened and tried to chase the new Team Plasma grunt while the other guy told me that I could visit him in a house in the city. (The one on the hill). So, we arrived to Driftveil city, where the fifth gym is, but first of all, in the next update, we'll also visit Route 6 and the old Team Plasma house. And, after that, we'll challenge the Gym, and hopefully get out fifth badge soonTM! The Team:

Well, I could probably help more: I can actually see the screenshots in which Rowan congratulates you for "evolving" your Pokemon, the beedrill one and the nickname choice screen one, but only those three. Are you posting your images as attachments or using an external site? That aside...

Male dorms "To all first years students; please gather at the Contest Hall where Professor Redwood will welcome you and your families personally. There he will explain how things like the Battle Points System works as well as how to obtain your second Pokémon. He will also inform you about the excursion to a Dragon Breeding Facility. The welcoming starts in 30 minutes!" Lucas finished unpacking some of his stuff before leaving the room and heading towards the exit. Everything would have been more clear after that meeting. Grimace, of course, was following his trainer. Unlike some minutes before, everything was going well, aside from some students that were still looking uneasy in the building. It was at that moment that Lucas noticed Sim, who remained inside of the dorms during the ghosts' "prank", while the other trainers had the opportunity to leave the place. "There you are!" the black haired trainer exclaimed, while approaching his peer. "Are you alright now? The ghosts are finally gone."

Quick notice: I'll post this afternoon, and I think I'll be leaving the dorms; this way you (Sim) can notice me, I think

Wow, this poll is so helpful. Jokes aside, I thought that I could keep it and let you change your votes depending on the situation, as right now I'm not terribly underleveled. Also, I need to remember not to reply right away, to avoid double posting. Oh well... Anyways, here is a rather fast update, featuring two new friends. Part 7: Nimbasa City Last time I was in the Desert Resort training up my Pokemon by battling against various opponents. Of course, fairly easy battles. After that I headed towards the Join Avenue and become the manager of that place before arriving to Nimbasa city. The first thing I did was battle Ingo and Emmet, alongside my female counterpart. The levels of the enemy Pokemon were rather high but we won anyways. That'll certainly happen again. See you soon! ...I like doing Multiple Battles After that I entered the stadium and didn't find anything interesting, then I entered the building to its right... The Pokemon musical building... I don't want to dress up my Servine... get away from me... I had to try it out and, well, I put on like two things and called it a day, before being able to exit again. I tried to explore Route 16 and Route 5, beating some trainers and finding the first Hidden Grotto with Bianca (who also gave me HM02, Fly!). Technical details: Those small places between the trees usually have a item (sometimes it's hidden) and, more rarely, a Pokemon with a hidden ability that you can fight and catch. Here, though, there should always be a Minccino. Luckily, these events can be "regenerated" (5% probability every 255 steps taken...). I got myself a Minccino with the hidden ability, Skill Link, but I don't think I'll use it. Here he is, anyway. The Quiet nature and the fact that he's male makes everything worse, but I guess he has his uses. I also explored Lostlorn Forest, where a suspicious man staring at a log decided to talk with me about Zoroark and then gave me TM95, then walked away and... Oh, that explains everything. After that strange encounter I was defeated by a DoubleTeam-spamming Pikachu clone (Emolga, of course) and decided to get a new Pokemon that could help me, as I had no super effective attacks to hit it with and Elesa had two of them (from what I remember). FYI I don't really like Emolga. It helped me in Reborn, but it's so annoying to fight against just because they spam Double team. Meet my newly acquired companion: I caught her in the Desert resort just because of the existance of Emolgas, but she might help me even later thanks to her ability. Calm nature is not good, but we have a great ability, Sturdy, and Take Down. Also the level is fairly high for a wild Pokemon. Well, next time I'll beat some other rogue trainers and possibly enter the next Gym! I'm expecting kind of a hard challenge because of the Emolgas though... The Team:

I still have that problem. Weird... but if that's only me, then no need to change anything; I'll understand from the text Also, as evolutions work differently and you might get to evolve Porygon2... I've changed my vote to it right away! It'd be great to see my favourite Pokemon in here, I'll admit that.

Gen 4! Yay! Platinum is my favourite Pokemon game. Anyways, good luck for your Platinum run! (regardless of the starter you'll choose). This is going to be interesting. I have also picked Hoothoot, as it seems to be the most interesting option of the three and I also have never used one. And also because seeing you use a Porygon2 without evolving it is just sad. That aside; for some reason I can't see the screenshot and only see the file name.

Hello and welcome to Reborn! I hope you will have fun and enjoy your stay here!

Actually that one trainer you mentioned is avoidable. There are other trainers that I can only avoid with Surf (Route 6 and 11, I think) but I don't remember of breeders you couldn't avoid. That would be very annoying.

Thank you for the feedback! Things are going rather well here and in a moment you'll see why. Part 6: What a pleasant surprise! As I said before. This happened at level 19, which is much earlier than I expected (usually my Pokemon that evolve by happiness do so between levels 25 and 30). That is a great way to start off. It happened while I was searching around Castelia city for other trainers, which I've found in the Game Freak building (where Riolu evolved) and in Route 4 (including the fishermen). I've also visited the Liberty Garden but there is nothing noteworthy in that place: no trainers, no items, no wild Pokemon. Of course, once I had beaten all the trainers I could I headed to the Castelia Gym, in which there are only three trainers. Zubat and Lucario handled them without many problems but the bat Pokemon still hadn't evolved into Golbat. This is one of the biggest obstacles you'll find in a challenge like this: not being able to evolve your Pokemon before an important battle even though you were so close to do so. But against Burgh, that is only going to be a minor nuisance, because of the help of an old friend of mine. I started with Zubat, who took care of the enemy Swadloon while taking only minor damage from the enemy Razor Leaf. Dwebble was dealt with by Lucario with multiple Palm Force, and Burgh's ace Pokemon, Leavanny, was out against my Magnemite. Magnemite has always remained at the same level (15) since I defeated Roxie, as I planned to replace it and as it wasn't really needed. But thanks to its typing and stats, it managed to paralyze Leavanny and weakening him before fainting (something that I wanted to happen, as the other teammates will get all the experience). Zubat took the place of Magnemite and easily defeated the weakened Leavanny, finally getting to level 22 and granting me the third badge! Right after the fight. It would have been easier if Zubat evolved sooner but... this right here is the interesting part about this challenge. I can finally head out to Route 4... except that "Mr. Internet Explorer" (I still don't know his name) stops me and tells me that he wants to battle me in Route 4. Which was previously blocked by some weird stones. Now that we get there, this scientist introduces himself as Colress and moves the rocks, which turn out to be Crustle, out of the way with some sort of electronic device. They look like they are sleeping, and you wake them up like that... After that we also battle Colress, who seems to be a Steel type expert: his Magnemite and Klink are handled by Sandile and Lucario without much hassle. After the fight, we can now proceed in Route 4 and Desert Resort. So, first things first, I cleared out all the trainers in Route 4 and got the TM28 (Dig, can be very useful for Sandile and Lucario), then reached the Desert and started battling the other trainers... and that is where I am now... The desert is a hostile and hot place (also I despise deserts in all Pokemon games and in reality too) that we need to explore to get stronger... the next gym leader might be like Cheren, especially if the level difference starts to show. On the other hand, we have many trainer battles ahead of us: Route 4, Lostlorn forest, and the Desert. The team: Announcement: I'm also putting here a poll (if I can, as it's my first time creating one there might be some errors) because there is one feature of Black 2 that can screw up totally with the rules and the objective of this run, and I'd like you to choose what to do.

Male dorms (Room 041) "Maybe the ghosts are afraid of teachers..." Lucas whispered, returing inside of the building with Grimace following him. He looked at the map of the building before heading towards his room. He opened the door and looked around, then unpacked his things and tidied the room; Johnny in the meantime hadn't returned form the main building and was still on his way.

New update! I have one new friend and that's it; I had to make a fast update. Part 5: Mr. Internet Explorer Remember how I said "train up our team in the sewers"? Well, there are only three trainers inside (and three more in the Relic Passage). The same could be said about the Battle Company. And because of this the team is starting to look underleveled, at least for me. But they were still helpful in a different way: Snivy finally evolved into a Servine! Thanks, Relic Passage trainers! (I guess) First things first: me and the rival defeated two Plasma grunts in the sewers, met Burgh, and then another man. It's Mr. Internet Explorer! (kind of an overused joke actually) After that encounter I entered the Relic Passage, defeated the trainers and tried to catch a wild Onix for some reason. After ending up in a bad situation with that Onix, I got a Woobat instead... Only to replace it for another (hopefully more useful) bat. In this game Zubat can actually shine, because of the level you can find it in the wild. Zubat already knows Wing Attack and is not totally useless, and is going to evolve into a very fast and overall great Flying-type Pokemon that I really like, too. Nature and Ability are nothing special but also aren't bad at all. I visited the Castelia Garden (which is full of Cottonees) and the rest of the sewers; then cleared out the Battle Company. I also entered the Gym but the first trainer had two level 20 Sewaddle, and, altough they put up an easy battle for my Zubat, they made me realize that at this time of the game, things start to get real. The upcoming gym leader won't be easy. I have to prepare myself (more than my team. I can't train them deliberately). The team: