Ironbound

I have no words.

I love it! I'd move the useless attack points to speed though, and shift maybe more to speed to make it tie with Mega Metagross. In fact, I wasn't idly quoting Mega Magnezone, because in fact I had already made this thing on this thread, some three pages ago or so. But yes, I am honestly overjoyed that other people agree with me in that Magnezone needs a Mega and needs Levitate! For the record, here's my version, which I posted earlier:

How about Analytic Metagross? Analytic is perhaps my favourite ability, for reasons probably already known to most. The point is that Analytic often finds itself on robotic, non-bionic or otherwise unconventional life forms that embody an alien intelligence, the best examples being Magnezone, Starmie, Porygon-Z and Beeheeyem. Metagross is as fine a candidate as you could ask for, being much the same physically as Magnezone: a robotic, computerised life form. Analytic definitely makes for a better ability than Light Metal on it, giving Metagross a lethal power-up to its Meteor Mashes and Zen Headbutts. Since regular Metagross is also quite slow, it can make full use of Analytic's power boost.

Oh no! What a nightmare! I'd like to point out that the reason for ZEL's existence was an experiment on a Magnezone. Therefore it will be a Magnezone who will separate the three again, and it will be revealed that Magnezone is in fact the leader of Team Meteor. THE LORD MAGNEZONE GIVETH AND THE LORD MAGNEZONE TAKETH AWAY!

Many times I was proud of an achievement. However, my most signal honour was in the happiness of the people of two villages, whose water bodies and landscape had been cleaned and made verdant by an NGO I co-founded to help preserve rural beauty and promote environment-friendly development. It's a sad truth that thousands of villages across the state, let alone the country, are in dire apathy. Governmental schemes rarely reach them for any significant development; most just live on the dole in an ungodly status quo. Our organization, over two years, helped secure governmental attention to the place and ensured that it received paved roads, safe and modern public toilets and lots and lots of plants, the importance of which was taught to the villagers. That village is now one of the cleanest and most hygienic in the district. I will ask the same question to the next person: what was your happiest or proudest moment.

8/10 I like me some dinosaurian eyes, but it needs more Magnezone.

Can't understand but looks cool anyways/10 Mhh...I never really change my avatar though.

What? Today is TRHS's birthday? Wishing you a great year ahead! Dhan?

Oh my lord, that is heeeheeelarious. Probably because that is an accurate representation of me. If only I could upvote this more than once...

Hahahahahahaha, I know that pig mud-wrestling joke, only with a Lawyer, because Engineers hereare mostly seen as machines who don't really enjoy anything.

I'm interested to see Taka's fate. What will our choice in the water treatment centre affect, besides the tiny rooftop dialogue? If we battle Taka, and he is viewed as incompetent rather than treacherous, he will at least be still in Meteor, though probably shorn of any power or responsibilty. Had we left him to be discovered as an unwilling traitor, is his life in danger? I doubt Solaris would allow his son's death, what with the whole 'pure bloodline' thing. But will Lin secretly snipe him? So many theories. I doubt Taka can be useful to the player in either case, since he would be either not trusted with any information or power anymore, or he'd be...eliminated. Still, it'd be very interesting to see how things pan out.

Moar steel! Magnetic Pulse Type: Steel Category: Special Power: 60 PP: 15 Accuracy: 100% The user looses an odd electromagnetic Pulse at the opponent. It has a 100% chance to lower the foe's SpAtk. A steel type version of Delphox's Mystical Fire.

...Weenie... TIL that functioning for a week on twenty or so hours of sleep is possible...but results on absolute exhaustion on the weekend.

Oh, my mistake. Forget it then. Kingdra might be a good partner in that case, as it can learn all of Waterfall, Surf and Dive, as well as naturally learning Dragon Pulse and Hydro Pump (and Outrage by breeding with Druddigon) so it can make an excellent rain abuser as well. You won't miss a grass type note since you'll be up sharing the fire gym. Consider continuing with Archeops, then.

Fat physical tanks like Chesnaught and opposing bulky waters may give this team a hassle, since Escavalier is easy to wear down or even diapatch, unless you keep it safe. Other than than, it seems quite fine. I don't usually play UU much, since OU and Ubers were my forte back in my Smogon days when I played competitive on PS main, but as of now this team may also have some issues with Zapdos IMO, especially offensive HP Grass versions which I believe are not uncommon. You'll have to have Reuniclus and/or Swampert healthy to keep it in check. I also believe Crawdaunt is now in UU, so that thing is always a threat. If it manages an SD or if its teammates weaken down Mienshao and Salamence the rest of your team is murked by Crabhammer and Knock Off. Perhaps consider a defensive Intimidate Defog+Roost Salamence and replace Blastoise for mega Ampharos? It can run a physdef RestTalk set with Dragon Pulse and Volt Switch to help vs some of the above, and also act as an absorber of Knock Off and status in general. This also makes much of your team slow, so Trick Room is viable on Reuniclus. Mienshao can also work well with Ampharos.

All event Pokemon that you obtain in the overworld can have one random egg move. Growlithe can have Colse Combat or Morning Sun, so you can soft reset to get the right one and avoid breeding later. Similarly, Murkrow can have either Brave Bird or Peraih Song, while Sneasel can have Icicle Crash or Fake Out, and so on and so forth.

Well, in Normal play, even Spore is broken, as entire teams can be levelled by a single Breloom. Freeze is worse than sleep because freeze turns can technically last for ever, but I agree anyhow that a 100% freezing move is a frightening prospect. Anyway, here is moar steel stuff: Resonate Type: Steel Category: Status PP: 15 Power: N/A Accuracy: 90% The user enters into resonance with the opponent, and makes them have an exact copy of the user's stat changes. Reverse Psych Up. Instead of copying the target's stat changes, you impart your own to the target. You don't lose your own, though. It could have its uses to transfer boosts to an ally in a double or triple battle, or even to pass a sat drop to an opponent (say, after using Draco Meteor) to cripple them and force them to switch.

Secrets and sacrets! Don't shoot me, but somehow I feel that an evil person with a backstory loses a lot of the 'evilness' factor. I mean, does everything have to be explained and humanised? Like the exposition about Sirius was sufficient and yet still retains some mystery: He poisoned off Corey's wife to get his hands on the ring, got his eye punctured by Corey as retaliation...and that's it. He's evil, yes, he mysteriously knows about Anna and Noel and their parents, and he is implied to have actually been the one to burn down Belrose Manse. For reasons of his own, probably merely for power, he clearly sides more with Lin than with Solaris, calling the latter's ideals of purifying the ancient city foolish. In my view, that's the ideal bad guy for you. Sinister, hints of his evilness revealed by other people, and not too much backstory so it retains the mystery factor. The moment you say he was bullied in childhood and abused etc etc it loses a lot of that mystery factor, since we start to understand the chap. Understanding breeds empathy, or at least acknowledgement, and the understandable is never mysterious. Of course, I'm just woolgathering. I'd not be unhappy at all to have light she'd about Lin and Sirius and Solaris and everyone else, but I'd be equally happy to just leave their origins in mystery. Bad guys are more terrifying if you don't fully know why they do what they do, or if at least they're not humanised to the extent where it becomes another case study for a psychoanalytics class.

I don't see a Magnezone. What have you been doing with your life? In all seriousness, Magnezone is one of the best Pokémon available in this game so far, and easily the best electric type. It has a fantastic typing that will complete you Fairy/Dragon/Steel defensive core while also giving you a very poor ful electric type that can take on flying and enemy water types. It will have two of its best moves by level up: Flash Cannon and Discharge. You can teach it Charge Beam so that it can accumulate boosts quickly, and also leave a slot for a Hidden Power (preferably ice or fire or grass) or Magnet Risen or Thunder Wave, all useful moves. Aside from that, your team is mostly rather slow, save for Blaziken. I would suggest a Cofagrigus or Reuniclus with Trick Room that can take advantage of this. Cofagrigus is ideal, as it naturally learns Will o Wisp and can be bred Nasty Plot from Misdreavus, so it already has a great set in Trick Room (which Radomus would've given to you), Nasty Plot, Shadow Ball and HP Fighting if you breed for it, or simply Will o Wisp otherwise. Using Hex in conjunction with Will o Wisp is very powerful, though you're walled by normal types. Continuing with Scarfty is excellent, as it is also very slow and can work nicely on TR teams, and gets Dark and Fighting moves to partner with Cofagrigus in taking down normal types. It can be a better user of Bulk Up than Blaziken due to its exceptional defenses, so it's worth considering. It can also either use Intimidate or Moxie to help you set up and sweep. Since Reborn usually needs you to rotate between more than six Pokémon, keep Blaziken, Excadrill and Honchkrow on reserve. Instead, for now, since you seem to be having an almost completely Trick Room style team, a secondary Trick Room setter is not a bad idea. Consider a slow Psychic type like Reuniclus or Exeggutor for the same; Exeggutor even has Harvest + Sitrus Berry (which you should be able to grow by now) and good moves like Sleep Powder, Leaf Storm and Extrasensory to take advantage of. For the record, one does not need to defeat Luna to get Solosis and evolve Magneton; one only needs to receive the second crystal plug from Iolia valley, unless I'm much mistaken. You can go and do the side quest to obtain solosis and the Yureyu Key (which lets you unlock the back room of Shade's gym, where magneton can be levelled up to evolve it) as soon as you get the parts of the crystal plug in Luna's valley, even before you actually face her.

All right, it seems you pay attention to a Pokemon's IVs and EVs to some degree at least, so my suggestions will be based on the assumption that whatever I suggest will be decently bred and raised. In that case, a properly EVd Swanna with good speed and SpAtk IVs is not a bad addition to your team at all. It can use Surf as well as STAB Hurricane, which it learns naturally, and can be a good boon if you have the Rain Dance TM as well, as it can happily run Surf, Hurricane, Roost (which it also happily learns naturally) and Rain Dance + Hydration. Swanna is also a good HM serf, and since HMs can be forgotten and relearned easily, you can keep switching the Surf or Rain Dance slots for Dive as needed and reteach its original movepool back to it after you are done navigating. The only issue is that Swanna cannot learn Waterfall. So you may have to consider another Pokemon that can learn it. Beartic is a good non-water type that can use Waterfall, so it might work out handily. It is powerful, with Icicle Crash, which it learns naturally, and Superpower, which can be taught to it with a Heart Scale at the circus. Beartic also gets Swift Swim, so it can benefit more from Swanna's Rain Dance as well. Beartic can be found in the ice caves to come. I would suggest replacing Archeops for now, as you seem to indicate that it's very weak, and Defeatist makes it weaker still. Besides, Arcanine + Swanna + Serperior is a good FWG core that can handle eacj others' weaknesses decently, especially since Diggersby can absorb rock type moves as well. You don't specifically need Cofagrigus; although it does help to spread burns around, it might be dead weight at times. Besides, Cofagrigus is best when it comes to using Toxic Spikes (for which it must be bred) and as a Nasty Plot Trick Room Sweeper (for which it again needs to be bred with Misdreavus, which you can't do now, and you also need the TR TM) so you can conceivably also drop Cofagrigus for another member. Reborn needs more than six Pokémon anyway to cycle through when fighting, as it's not your typical game where six overlevelled mons can win through anyhow. So it's a good idea to keep.some in check. Some other suggestions: Consider Dragon breath on Serperior, Extreme Speed on Arcanine, Hex on Cofagrigus and Swords Dance on Diggersby. All can be learned waske Heart Scale.

Oh, I forgot that. Well, then, Lin will have the Cuddly Deathsheep for sure :] Seriously, though, it's not to be underestimated. Massive SpAtk and if it runs a defensive set with RestTalk and Dpulse/Vswitch it is very hard to kill.

Why should Lin be assumed to be a dragon type master? She may well have a Mega Gyarados or Tyranitar or Sharpedo if she is a Dark one. Or, more plausibly (and to avoid overlapping) she may just have a diverse team with a non-draconic and non-dark Mega. Like, Aggron or Gengar or Charizard (Y, maybe) or Aerodactyl or anything really. Or she may just view her Pokemon as tools and consequently not be able to unlock Mega evolution at all, and simply use a bunch of ridiculously powerful regular mons. Mega Garchomp seems to fit Solaris, and Mega Salamence might be Heather's. Mega Charizard X fits Saphira, maybe, since her field boosts both fire and Dragon types. This is assuming that megas are not repeated, so it's plausible that Lin and Saphira have similar megas (since there seems to be some connection between Lin and...idk. Everyone seems to find her name 'familiar') I'd laugh if either of these two pulled a Mega Ampharos though. All those intimidating dragons, and the ace is revealed to be a cuddly fluffy sheep of destructive cuteness.

Arcanine is one of the best fire types available to you. I encourage breeding it for perfect IVs and raising it with maximum EVs in attack and speed, but that's OK if you're a more casual player. The ideal Arcanine can use Flare Blitz, Close Combat, Thunder Fang and Extreme Speed. Other options include Crunch on the physical set, or Heat Wave on a special/mixed set. Be warned that Arcanine doesn't learn Flare Blitz or Close Combat naturally; Growlithe can learn Flare Blitz at Lv 45, so don't evolve Arcanine until after that. Close Combat is an egg move that can be obtained from a lv 48 Primeape or Mankey. Thunder Fang and Extreme Speed can both be taught to Arcanine at the move relearner. Other good fire types that will eventually be available in the game as of now are Darmanitan, Chandelure, Delphox and potentially Volcarona from a mystery egg (though itbcpuld be any of 18 mons). Lesser fire types like Camerupt, Ninetales, Houndoom and Pyroar are also available, as are any if the fire starters that you may have chosen at the beginning of the game.

Harpoon Shot Type: Steel Category: Physical PP: 20 (max 32) Power: 25 Accuracy: 95% The target is impaled with vicious jabs of a long born or arm. This move may hit 2-5 times on each use. Basically a Steel-type version of Icicle Spear, Bullet Seed, Rock Blast, Pin Missile l, Arm Thrust and Spike Cannon.