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  1. First time playing Rejuv since they added the gen 8 mons, and I'm having a lot of fun with scorbunny's line(froakie, eat your heart out) and surprised by how useful Eldegoss has been so far, her cotton down ability is super useful. Just gotta makes sure I don't send up against anything with defiant or competitive lol.

    1. Magus

      Magus

      I started playing rejuvenation about a week ago (I played back when it first came out). There is one fight in the relatively early where there is a point of no return, it is a 6v6 battle too so make sure you are ready. It is super obvious when it is.

  2. Okay so I downloaded v13 from the download but when I try to extract the 13.0.5 patch into the folder it never actually does anything? It just stays stuck at 0. I don't understand why? EDIT: actually better, how can I check what version I have?
  3. lol remember Incineroar's old overworld sprite? And Delphox's old battle sprite, along with fem-Pyroar?  Blake's old battle sprite? I find it kind of funny looking back on them.

    1. Magus

      Magus

      The fact the devs were able to hand sprite all gen 6 mons is really cool, I can't imagine how tedious that was

  4. Doesn't grookey set auto terrain with its HA? That seems like a big deal especially with pokemon to support it. I planned on using scorbunny since it's like, my favorite galar starter. Glad to hear it kicks butt.
  5. I'VE BEATEDN THE E4 FOR THE FIRST TIME WOOO! If I had to rank them from easiest to hardest for me, it would go

    Spoiler

    Anna > Heather > Laura/Bennet > Elias

    Spoiler

    Elias was a huge pain  and Lura/Bennet's field was giving me quite the struggle. Heather isn't so bad if you remove her field(her using poison types was cute) and Anna was the only one I beat first try as Excadrill rips much of her team apart. But wait, what happened to her Gothitelle?  I don't remember it during the fight.

     

    Lin was a headache. Both fights for the same reason. And of course she has honchkrow! Gah BUT that actually served me I learned eventually because honchkrow would just spam sucker punch on cloyster if it sash'd through a move, allowing me to set up shell smashes and ice shard him, then take down  Hydriegon with ease and do some damage to the PULSE arc. Several times I got close to defeating the PULSE Arc but Lin would either heal it(booo!) or it'd moonlight itself.  Eventually I got lucky on a quick claw activation winning attempt and was able to KO it before it used moonlight. I was surprised Lin didn't heal it herself but good. 

     

    I was kind of confused as to what happened in regards to her Flygon? First time I lost because like no heals after Lin and PULSE arceus is well, TOUGH but after the 4th wall blocking fake error she just replaced flygon with PULSE arc.  I guess it was a design choice done so we wouldn't have to watch the anna scene over an over? Or did I get a bad end because I lost the first time? 

     

    1. Oscarus

      Oscarus

      Spoiler

      Because of losing to Lin the first time, you are automatically reverted to Lin Route instead of Anna Route. 

      And in Lin Route, there is no third battle - only two, with the second having Arc-PULSE instead of Flygon. 

       

      Spoiler

      Postgame differs as well, in that regard. 

      But, personally, Lin Route's postgame is overall funnier and more satisfying.

       

       

    2. Monochrome_Complex

      Monochrome_Complex

      Spoiler

      Thanks for clearing that up, it's a bit sad I blew it at the end but like, there was no way I was going to beat arc-pulse with just one pokemon which is all I had left at the time lol

       


       

  6. Blake was really difficult.  I'm still not entirely fond of seeds in Reborn because on some fields they're just too good, this fight being a shining example of that in regards to Gyrados essentially getting an agility for free. 

  7. Just spent the last 2 and a half hours doing that 4th gem puzzle. I had to write all the gems and properties down on a paper and eliminate each property based off the clues. I can at least I say I figured it out on my own. 

     

    Still not as bad as Crawli's old puzzle in Rejuv lol.

  8. Finding victory road a bit tedious, I don't feel like we needed 4 of the gem puzzles, especially with the 4th one being as wordy as it is.

     

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    2. Monochrome_Complex

      Monochrome_Complex

      I was already in there for around a good 3 hours and enjoyed the first 2 gem puzzles, then the 3rd I did but hoped that was he last, then not even 10 minutes later a bigger one pops up and I'm kind of just over them at that point. Itried doing it but was so tired I just closed the game lol. Maybe I'll do it tonight, I do want to try and figure it out on my own since I was able to figure out the previous ones.

    3. SilverAngelus

      SilverAngelus

      I like the gem puzzles, but after the third one I was like "nope," and proceeded to search for a guide.

    4. NeoBolt

      NeoBolt

      Yea it was honestly annoying and kinda ruins the fun in a sense and i just needed a break from playing after that

  9.  

    I don't get where I'm supposed to go after blowing up the 4 minecarts in victory road. Been wondering around for like 40 minutes now.

    EDIT: had to look it up, it was a rock climb part in the room with all the strength rocks.  That was easy to miss.

  10.  

    And Saphira is down! 1st try even! Only ended up using 4 pokemon too. Lead with Golduck to change the dragon field into regular cave(he survived the dragon pulse), though I forgot about boomburst's boost on it lol. Then had Hypno tank a boomburst and set up trick room. After that, I sent in Cloyster who CLEANED house and swept through 5 of her pokemon. I was able to do damage to CharXizard who put himself into red via flare blitz, which let Noivern finish him off. I was not expecting Saphira to end up the easiest gym leader this playthrough lol.

     

  11. Okay if we're extending to moustaches, Stoutland is a must lol.
  12. Beards or moustache? Jellicent is more of a mustache IMO. Conkledurr has a goatee and is a good pokemon. Beartic has a beard of ice. He's even better in Reborn due to field effects Mega-aerodactyl for lategame Emboar of course with the firebeard.
  13. Took down Hardy, it was trick because I realized early on I had virtually no chance of outspeeding his team, even by changing excadrill's ability to sand rush and Golduck with swift swim after setting rain his fliers and Lycanrocs outsped them still. So after several failed attempts I decided to screw speed and embrace sloth by taking out Hypno again for trick room, and much like with Samson, it worked really well, perhaps even better there. Only thing I had to do was to get rid of Gigalith turn 1, which Excadrill did with ease. I also turned the field into a psychic field which was even better as it not only weakened his rock slides noticeably, but also prevented accelrock due to sealing priority moves. Only pokemon at that point who was a threat was Rampardos who couldn't manage to take out Excadrill anyway so it was GGs once trick room and psychic field were both up. Fun fight though and the solution was pretty satisfying.

     

  14. 6 HOURS

     

    6 PAINFUL HOURS 

     

    It took for me to beat the freakin glass gauntlet. UGH. 

     

    Cain/Shelly seem to have been nerfed from ep18  as  "Anna" is no longer sash'd.  By far the easiest part of the gauntlet, I could handle them with just Excadrill/Noivern provided I didn't get unlucky and miss an air slash or get crit by mimikyu's play rough.

     

    Luna used to be the easy part of the fight but she was the hardest IMO, or more accurately the most problematic due to how it impacts the next fight.   Shadow tag gothitelle is scummy when you're playing on set mode because it effectively guarantees a loss of pokemon if she sends it out against something that matches poorly and can't switch out. I had to remove Emboar from my team because of it. Then there's the ever annoying jubjub bird in his sucker punching glory, Umbreon turning your physical sweeper against itself with foul play and her super fast Mismagius whose seed gives her a guranteed crit. Oh and Megabsol I guess but tbh he's not THAT big a deal. Weavile's flinch hax off icicle crash happened more times than I would have liked. I kept losing nearly all my team in this fight which made the next one impossible. I figured the best way to minimize loss was to switch to A-muk on weavile, hopefully not flinch and land a memento, and have Cloyster set up shell smash. Weavile would always get switched out to Mismagius, which after a shell smash was easy pickings. When she brought weavile back out I'd try to get another shell smash(cloyster at -2 could survive a brick break, even moreso with a white herb) so I could get the KO on Umbreon. If I got eveything executed right,  I'd have 5 pokemon for the next fight.

     

    Okay so like, Excadrill WRECKS. He OHKO's nearly everything in this fight, but the chip damage from hail + sucker punch and Glaceon  kept doing him in at the worst times. Leading with Noivern meant that it got maybe one turn before it gets iced. I actually taught Noivern sunny day specifically to get rid of the hail, and that actually WORKED. Ninetales' blizzard missed which let noivern set up a tailwind, providing a clean avenue for Excadrill to do its thing. Also this kind of screwed up the AI's usual pattern because once Noivern did get KO'd, I sent out a galvantula on a balloon to set up webs, which Bisharp targeted with sucker punch instead of the 300+ attack killer drill mole...lol. Eventually Galvantula got z-move'd by Frosslass but Excadrill pretty much cleaned house the rest of the fight. Best thing to do is to get rid of the hail ASAP because between the 100% blizzards, chip damage and worst of all aurora veil you can end up getting overwhelmed quickly. 

     

    Hah haha on one hand I feel great beating it, on the other hand I was also getting mega salty  and frustrated. 

     

     

     

     

     

  15. Amaria down...one of the hardest gym leaders yet.  My heaviest hitters are all rendered useless on her field, and her assault vest Vaporeon is insanely tanky, Lanturn as well. I had to switch out Emboar for Sceptile, who along with Hypno were crucial in this fight. Hypno needed to set psychic terrain but was too slow to do so(if vaporeon sends the match underwater, psychic terrain fails) unless I used electroweb from Galvantula to slow her down. I taught toxic to Hypno to help with Vaporeon, and would lead with sunny day from Sceptile to weaken Amaria's surfs. After many attempts my winning team was

     

    sceptile(84), Galvantula(85), Hypno(83), Noivern(78), Houndoom(86), Excadrill(86)

     

    Sceptile took on Seismotoafd, Primarina and Blastoise, but the latter two required me to use Leaf storm which is why Noivern was there, so I could switch out. Houndoom and Excadrill might seem counterintuitive but Excadrill was the only pokemon on my team who could KO lanturn without trouble and Houndoom has d-bond which I planned for Lapras. Interestingly enough the winning strat was me giving houndoom an air balloon and having excadrill use earthquake while houndoom set up a nasty plot. Next turn the dark pulse + earthquake was enough to finish Atlantica. Turns out both of them could take one of atlantica's surfs as long as it wasn't on any of the water fields.

     

    Amaria  has a rep for being one of the easiest if not the easiest late game gym leaders but this playthrough she was one of the hardest, certainly harder than Charlotte or Titania were.

     

  16. Titania down...easily? She only took 2 tries, due to me not setting up webs the first time which let her excadrill run amok. 2nd attempt wasn't even close, she actually got wrecked pretty hard via  sweep from my own Excadrill. I started by leading with galvantula to set up webs, then once it got KO'd had Hypno come out and set up psychic terrain. This move is GREAT against her because it inflicts confusion on her magical seed holders, those being excadrill and Aegislas(wo does get the special attack boost though so watch out). After Hypno I sent out Emboar to break the screens/sandslash  butalso managed to take out Excadrill(and himself lol) with flare blitz. After that it was an easy sweep with choice band Excadrill. Scizor wasted a turn setting up swords dance, empoleon/klefki/aegislash all got OHKO'd. Bizarrely one of the toughest gym leaders ended up being one of the easiest this time.

  17. Hmmm I bought all the 7th street mons but arclight never showed up to give me my egg. Do I really have to beat titania first? I thought the mega ring could be gotten earlier now?

  18. Adrienne down. For the first time I managed to get 10 volunteers too! Adrienne wasn't so bad this time around, as Hypno was able to remover xyr field right away and I didn't have to deal with it the whole fight pretty much since their pokemon went down fairly quickly save for Florges. It did take me a few tries to get the right lineup down, and twice a missed gunk shot from A-muk cost me the match between Houndoom and Emboar megamawile wasn't a threat and with web support Cloyster could instantly delete Whimsicott and take out Togekiss with no set up. Granbull was kind of annoying since it had earthquake but it's thankfully slow. Overall easier than any of the circus trio.

     

    At the devon building, Victoria was actually the hardest fight. It took me about 5 tries to beat. Arclight took 2 tries(once I set up Cloyster it was a done deal), and ZEL took just 1. Might be the easiest time I had with the ZEL fight.

    1. Dark Legend

      Dark Legend

      I'm surprised at myself because I made it through the whole Devon Corp Battles without losing once. Adrienn killed my 9 times though.

    2. Q-Jei

      Q-Jei

      Defeating Adrienn is not an easy task. So are most of the double Gym battles. Good job for beating xem!

       

      What could be annoying during this fight is probably the double loss of Attack due to Grandbull and Mawile’s Intimidate, which generally doesn’t do any good to physical attackers. By chance, Cloyster can be a beast in most of the fights. According that it has Skill Link as its ability, if you combine Shell Smash with multi-strike moves, it can turn out to be a very strong sweeper as well as a great Focus Sash canceller!

    3. Monochrome_Complex

      Monochrome_Complex

      Yeah I lead with galvantula and hypno so I wouldn't lose power to granbull's intimidate, plus it allowed me to set webs and psychic terrain with Hypno. Emboar's flare blitz OHKOs like half of adrienne's team and he's beefy enough to withstand a dazzling gleam and earthquake. Cloyster is one of my favorite mons to use only thing is his special defense is terrible so he doesn't actually last too long in this fight if adrienne's pokemon aside from Megawile and Granbull attack him. 

       

      The winning strat I used for arclight was to have muk use momento on luxray to give Cloyster time to set up shell smash and sweep. 

  19. Lol @ this library strawman. What exactly does his password do?

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    2. Monochrome_Complex

      Monochrome_Complex

      Ahhh okay that's kinda neat.

       

      I didn't know an actual random came on here doing that, I'm guessing on the discord?  I thought the dude was just a jab at general chuds who usually complain about this sort of stuff in general. 

    3. Ice Cream Sand Witch

      Ice Cream Sand Witch

      Do you have notifications turned off for messages? I sent you a message in January but you never read it:

       

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    4. Monochrome_Complex

      Monochrome_Complex

      Hmm I think I do have it off because I don't remember that message. I could've sworn I changed my sig already because I realized all the images broke. I hope I did at elast <_< Sorry about not responding ICSW

  20. Ciel might have been the hardest leader so far this playthrough. Even moreso than Samson was, and I only won through luck with quick claw triggering 3 times in a row, letting me get a d-bond kill against her mega altaria. Her megaltaria while formidable wasn't even the biggest threat, not that goes to freakin Minior, which may easily be one of the most troublesome pokemon in Reborn overall.  Usually I find her the easiest of the circus trio but not this run. I've realized that Big Top just isn't well suited to my lineup and acrobatics just rips everyone apart. 

     

    On the other hand, the Fiore mansion fight went super well. Only took 2 attempts and that's because I messed up and let Blake's starmie set up screens which screwed us over. 2nd attempt I took out Blake's side first then focused on Fern, who was fairly easy once you beat Haxorus. Solaris...got wrecked? Like he honestly got murdered lol. His biggest threats, Gyrados and Mandibuzz were handled by Julia and everything else my team was effectively able to deal with. After taking Solaris out orderly John was made short work of. I feel like Blake was the hardest part of this fight.

    1. Dark Legend

      Dark Legend

      Really? for my 6 run, the whole gauntlet took me 14 tries!

    2. Monochrome_Complex

      Monochrome_Complex

      Oof! Sounds painful, which part gave you the most trouble and how did you finally beat it? OHHH wait I remember your team had trouble dealing with ground types and Solaris tyranitar and Garchomp both have earthquake.

    3. Dark Legend

      Dark Legend

      Yeah, you guessed it Back then, my A. Sandslash was just a A. Sandshrew, so it didn't do much.

  21. Beat Terra, *sigh* it was somewhat frustrating because despite being able to handle 5/6ths of her team(including garchomp)  Swagsire kept walling me at the end and costing me the match. I would only have Golduck left and between  Swagsire stacking amnesias and terra's ultra potions it'd turn into an unwinnable battle. Turns out what I had to  was keep Gothitelle alive as my last mon instead, as she was able to handle swagsire pretty easily since he didn't do much damage even after a +2 amenesia and still took solid damage from psychic.  I had to change up my lineup several times but realizing the solution was so simple made me feel a bit silly lol.

    1. Dark Legend

      Dark Legend

      Alolan Sandslash has been my MVP literally this 6 Pokemon run.

  22. Wow, beat Charlotte first try this time. Maybe the only playthrough where Julia was harder  for me lol. Houndoom w flash fire is the "I'm not trapped here with you, you're trapped  here with me" pokemon for this fight. My whole strat revolved around setting up Houndoom to sweep by using sticky webs to slow her team, drawing aggro with my other pokemon by baiting with protect, and having Houndoom just dark pulse/roast her team alive. Worked like a charm, though everyone else got Ko'd he was untouchable.

  23. Seriously just learned about this and this looks sick. Is it still being worked on? This vid looks rad
  24. Once again many thanks and congratulations on finishing the game. A FINISHED fangame is a triumph in itself but one on the quality level of Reborn is a truly noteworthy accomplishment. Also wow at that wallpaper artwork!!! I do find it a bit funny everyone is so happy considering Reborn is kinda dark lol. But it's nice to see them in full, especially since it's a bit hard to see the outfit details in the game sprites. But wasn't there a Radomus one where he had the pyramid hat? I certainly remember that being a header...
  25. Jeez I hate Samson's Hawlucha. super difficult to outspeed normally and it hits stupidly hard. He was destroying me and forced me to bring back Hypno who I had benched long ago so it was like 20 levels underlevelled. But I realized by leading with galvantula and using electro web to slow down hariyama, Hypno could outspeed it to set up psychic terrain. Then I had gothitelle KO hariyama  who samson would always follow up with Lucario.  lLucario would spend a turn setting up swords dance, which was the perfect opportunity to use trick room. I then switch to Emboar to absorb the boosted meteor mash and push Lucario into red, then let Gothitelle sweep the rest of the team. This strat only took 2 tries and I only lost the first attempt using it because Blaziken barely survived a psychic for some reason. 

     

    But yeah I spent at least 8-10 attempts on him before that. But on the plus side, it did make me ring Hypno out of the PC for more action(I had benched her before for Gothitelle)

    1. Dark Legend

      Dark Legend

      Really? Samson is usually on the easier side of Leaders, for me at least. 

    2. Monochrome_Complex

      Monochrome_Complex

      He either gives me a tough time or he doesn't. So far this playthrough the gym leaders that usually give me difficulty I manage to deal with in 1-3 attempts(shade/corey/aya/serra) but the ones I usually don't struggle on have actually given me the most trouble(Julia/radomus/luna/samson) though in Luna's case it was mainly Jubjub bird causing grief since I didn't have anything that could 1v1 it and come out on top.. 

       

      How well I do against samson always comes down to whether my team is equipped for field- boosted Hawlucha.. Honestly his field is maddening and you're just better off removing it entirely by changing it something not obnoxious lol. 

    3. MangoJush

      MangoJush

      yeah that seed + unburden combo is mad. throughout my two recent runs i used either trick room or gale wings acrobatics talonflame to f him up

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