Monochrome_Complex
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I had no idea saving the officers affected corey's IVs. So Gassy Corey's crobat would be slightly slower and weaker? This might explain why some people find him easier than Corrosive Gorey. Also like, high jump kick missing is one of the WORST feelings when you're the one missing. You don't crash so much as jump into your own grave. -
I freakin HATE Taka. One of my most disliked Reborn characters. His minior swept my entire team. Really wasn't expecting him to jump me in the desert.
ugh jerk.
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The grand hall guys become too tough later on to be consistently reliable, it's a bit counter intuitive TBH. Like they really don't need megas if they're there for grinding, especially when they're probably at the level cap. I guess we gotta "earn" our grinds but like when trying to catch up mons it's annoying since most things under 75 won't even last against say level 85 pixilate hyper voice megardevoir. Indra is a better bet but some of his sets are kind of obnoxious too. Yellow is an easy team to beat but brown is kind of tough. The desert was one of my favorite places to grind but it's only accessible AFTER adrienne. Idk why but the idea of strolling around the desert knocking out legions of 35 ft draconic palmtrees is hilarious.
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So is alolatales being Ame's spirit pokemon canon?
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Adrienne down!!! Took about 3-4 attempts, it was a matter of knowing when to send out my pokemon and keeping granbull alive long enough to where I could focus on the other mons without getting killed first(he's slow). Weezing could OHKO whimsicott and Tsareena could OHKO Gardevoir, provided she wasn't intimidated. Volcarona is probably my MVP atm, she has been putting in so much work since Charlotte. Megawile didn't stand a chance. it ended up coming down to swampert and florges, and with florges weakened by two heat waves already swampert was able to tough her out and triumph.
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I feel like you should have a chance to change your party right before the big house meteor fight(especially since there's a healing machine next to the house PC) without having to trek back to the circus. I wiped out on solaris due to having a freakin level 37 floatzel on my team for using waterfall/surf during the treatment center. That kind of sucked.
Ciel took only two tries, and 1st try was because I grossly underestimated her togekiss' speed. The majority of her team went down easy(setting up electric terrain this fight helps so much, and an ice type that can tank noivern's heat wave and outspeed gliscor make them easy) but altaria nearly wiped out 5 mons alone, thankfully donphan was able to reduce her speed enough to where swampert could finish her off. I was going to KO her with destiny bond initially but she used roost instead and messed that up lol.
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Terra was tough, took me about 6-7 tries to beat her. Her Garchomp is so strong it can solo half my team by itself. Excadrill was annoying too since it would oneshot nearly all my mons while outspeeding them. Key was keeping swampert or donphan alive long enough to KO excadrill and having electric terrain out when garchomp showed up so its flamethrower wouldn't deal as much to tsareena. I kept having an issue of Tsareena not being able to KO garchomp quickly enough and dying before getting it past half, but I had togedamaru set up electric terrain, donphan and skuntank bring garchomp to yellow before sending tsareena out, had her play rough garchomp to finish it, and since the electric terrain was still around she was able to handle quagsire and hippowdon no problem.
PULSE swalot was a piece of cake, togedamaru handled it by herself.
On to the showdown at amy's house with meteor. I decided not to fight taka this time.
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Charmander is fantastic, and early on OP. I used him flying run and we was decimating early game with dragon rage and as Charizard he's still quite strong, problem is that he can't get fire bonuses off fire fields due to his typing. But with sunny day/solar power he's a something of a glass cannnon. Chimchar of course is always reliable and quite good, though his fire movepool lacks field control you'll find in charizard's heat wave or typholsions' lava plume/eruption. How he's pretty fast, hits hard with close combat which he gets relatively early, and in every fangame i've played he's been legit. However certain fights will give him a hard time. Cyndaquil is just kind of decent for early game, as his lacking movepool and poor defense is a bit of a hassle. However if you can teach it fire pledge early on(preferably before shelly) it'll be a lot stronger and due to flash fire his line can put out the highest damage on a burning field. Typhlosion is an absolute MONSTER on a fire field, as you probably remember from Charlotte. He also gets lava plume which can let him start said fires but I found lava plume pretty cumbersome in doubles as it hits your ally too, just make sure they're running protect or a nonphysical attacker who can resist it. I never used torchic, but I hear he's one of the best. I never used tepig either, but I imagine he's not as good as his other fighter counterparts. That said I doubt he's bad. fennekin is a lot of fun. Unlike the other fire starters she's not as offensively strong but her typing is good for the game and mystical fire gets a buff on misty field which let's her even take on shade's team. I find her underrated myself and she can do more than just damage.. litten is boss. Incineroar is slow as dirt but since a lot of leaders are gonna outspeed you anyway it's not that big a deal, as he takes hits better than most of the other fire starters and his typing is very useful. mudkip I used last playthrough, he's quite good. He does struggle with some gyms but so does everyone to be fair. But I've found him useful entire game and he has a good typing.
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Rock does NOT resist bug, and never has. This means bug WON'T be SE against his rock types. on the Reverse field, but will resist them. Keep that in mind, that might be where you're going wrong. Masquerain should be using flying moves for SE damage. flying, fire, normal, and poison will be SE against rock.
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So yeah I beat charlotte, and she was a PITA as expected. Took me about 5 tries. Sometimes I'd end up with terrible luck(like missing 3 targets with muddy water in a row) or just crumble under her relentless offense. I ended up winning because instead of using a potion on her rotom who was in red, she switched to ninetales while I had my own volcarona on the field, who was able to set up a quiver dance and luckily avoid her volcarona's heat wave. With a field boosted, sun boosted, quiver boosted heat wave my volcarona was able to one shot hers, finish off rotom and two shot Ninetales while also surviving ninetales' heat wave. Praise be to volcarona.
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No matter how many times I play through Reborn, Charlotte's battle gets me dreading it every single time. Wish me luck haha.
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Good lord I just pulled off the hypest finish with samson. It was like straight out an anime.
-so he opens with hariyama, I use tsareena who takes it down with two play roughs
-next is Blaziken, who I take out with swampert's earthquake, which lands a NICE and OHKOs him. Swampert loses about a 3rd health to brick break.
-Uh oh, Hawlucha. UGH. I wasn't taking any chances with this jerk so I sent out weezing, who BARELY survives acrobatics with 3 HP and destiny bonds for the kill next turn. Phew.
-But my woes weren't over yet, Mienshao made its debut. This guy was a nightmare. He outspeeds my entire team and takes out swampert before swamp can even do anything. Due to life orb damage I abuse switching between togedamaru(while using spikey shield)/tsreena/volcarona and he eventually just sort of kills himself. I'm lucky samson didn't use any potions this fight, for some reason. I only have one pokemon left by the time he does get Ko'd though, which is medicham.
-Lucario is faster, and meteor mash lands an okay which brings cham to yellow, but cham gets a powerful drain punch 1st turn and is able to finish him off next turn but is in red now.
-Boss battle, here comes conkledurr. He's juiced up on his seed, the crowd's cheering for him. Medicham has only one shot. She's level 65, conkledurr 71, full health. It all comes down to the next move. Medicham centers herself, for she must make the best high jump kick she's ever made in her life. The pressure is on.
She makes the jump and the kick...
It hits..
AND IT'S OVER 9000!!
Instant KO, the giant falls, and the badge is ours.
What a battle.
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Which do you personally think is more difficult
Monochrome_Complex replied to Abyssreaper99's topic in Reborn City
Rejuv on intense, though I never tried it. I saw the souta fight though via shinyscarlet and I was like nah. Rejuv has harder puzzles than reborn too. The glass baking puzzle was a hassle and in the old versions crawli's gym was...something. -
I wasn't expecting luna to be one of the harder leaders so far. She was such a pushover before. Thankfully she gets easier as the battle goes on but that life orb absol lead is disgusting. And leading with a fighter yourself gets you play roughed. It and honchkrow are her biggest threats, thankfully the battle is pretty easy after them.
I also rose my level 15 larvesta into a volcarona. That was a bit of a drag but it's worth it.
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1st time using stunky/skuntank in reborn and i'm surprised by how long this guy has been a main on my squad. He starts off really weak, but once he gets acid spray then later bite, he's able to hold his own. He gets toxic naturally which is great, then gets nightslash which combined with focus energy = crits all day. Sucker punch is an excellent move and he also gets flamethrower on evolving, which despite his special attack stat can still come in handy on certain fields. I got radomus' badge and he's still pulling his weight on my team. Can't believe I slept on this guy before, he's pretty legit.
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You know if you trained up an oricorio a little, she copies every quiver dance bennet uses(and nearly all his his team abuses that move) to where he can be swept with almost zero effort. Two air slashes can take out whatever started dancing usually and after she rips the rest apart. It was my favorite strat against him episode 17. But you beat him so conrgrats regardless. Though if I have to be honest bennet isn't really that hard and I'm a bit worried if you had to spend so many resources to beat him.
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Iconoclasts is a really neat game. Black has to be one of my favorite villains in a long time.
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Man I wish I had known this fighting aya yesterday, I used candies specifically to avoid them getting overleveled during the fight. Not that it would've helped too much TBH as she was giving me hard time despite having a better level average on my side. Good to know. Oh yeah thanks for linking the canopy song, it's actually really nice. And wow I didn't even know snubbull could come with close combat.
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Ooh loving this, I like you're little quips as well. Yeah fern's got some classic lines that get a chuckle out of me no matter how many times I play. But what's this about in battle level cap changes in 18? I still recall my pangoro acting a fool minute she hit level 41 before beating shade.
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Pokemon you wish did not evolve
Monochrome_Complex replied to Burningchill's topic in Pokémon Fan Club
I've come to appreciate dragonite, but he should've been his own line or something. Dragonair is majestic. Bunnelby, because diggersby is repulsive and my most disliked pokemon. -
Rock's my least favorite type., but I do like lycanroc, especially midnight.
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Is there a pokemon that you have a constant name for
Monochrome_Complex replied to Samtale's topic in Pokémon Fan Club
Crobat I usually name Gotham, as a batman homage. And Mimi for mimikyu, if it's a girl. Pangoro females I always named Jolyne, I'm even using one in Reborn atm. It's a reference to Jojo's bizarre adventure, as Jotaro(who pangoro takes some inspiration from) has a daughter named Jolyne. -
My opinions tend to change on these, and I kind of feel differently between stages, but I'll shoot. Gen 1 base stage - Squirtle, he's just too freakin cute, and his anime personality was really cool. middle evo - charmeleon is the only one whose look I really like, as Ivysaur just looks like a mean bulbasaur with a more developed plant and wartortle reminds me of an old guy. final evo - all are cool but I think I like blastoise the most, though I've used charizard more. However the overexposure for charizard kind of soured me a bit on him. Plus blastoise is a bit more creative as charizard is just a typical fire breathing dragon. mega- Megazard X is the only one i really care for. The others have too many body parts going on but don't mesh elegantly. Well megavenus just looks boring to me. Gen 2 base stage - Totodile is totes awesome, and was the first starter I ever owned. middle stage - quilava is easily the coolest looking of them, and my favorite from his line. final evo - Feraligtr, though admittedly I found him kind of underwhelming last playthrough in Reborn and think typhlosion is undoubtedly better for that game, but otherwise prefer the gator. Gen 3 base stage - treecko just oozes this subdued coolness, whereas the other two are more typically cute. middle stage- grovyle no contest. The other two look quite goofy honestly. final stage - It used to be Blaziken, as he was one of the 1st hoenn pokemon to really appeal to me, but these days I prefer Sceptile, especially after playing emerald. mega - Hmmm mega sceptile I guess for actually giving a new type, but they're all cool. Gen 4 base stage - chimchar easily, it was a no brainer the minute I saw him. middle stage - monferno, not too big on the other two. final stage - Infernape, and he's probably my #1 starter. He's usually my first pick for first playthroughs of fangames. Gen 5 base stage - snivy easily, her dreamy eyes and smug expression puts her among the top among base form starters. middle stage - Dewott looks pretty darn cool, let's you know he's nobody's chump anymore! final stage - I actually like all 3, even the underloved emboar but Serperior takes it for me. Gen 6 base stage - chespin oddly enough, despite his evos being my least favorite starters period. middle stage - Braixen easily. Braixen is just really pleasing to look at and Pokken made her even better. final stage - now originally it was greninja, and i still think he's awesome, but Reborn gave me a lot of respect for Delphox. Plus greninja's kind of become overexposed which makes me want to show delphox some more love. Gen 7 base stage - litten easily, much like treecko he's just got this coolness to him. middle stage - Torracat I suppose. final stage - okay this one is tough. Incineroar is freakin awesome and my favorite to actually use, but Primarina I like more aesthetically. I think I'll go with Incineroar, but it's really close.
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Decided to download reborn again for my new laptop, as i haven't been here or played in quite a while(since ep 17). I started a new file, this time with mudkip who I never used before. While my team is...not my best I've played with I will admit swampert isn't half bad, though his abilities are underwhelming. Just beat serra, took only one try though I only had medicham remaining. Oddly the hardest gym leader so far was Aya. She took like 6 tries, with only shelly taking more than one(about 2-3). Shade was oddly a pushover this time, like even his mimikyu was able to be handled by weezing alone.
