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I wanna feel bad, but I'm too delighted to finally see Chatot doing massive damage. There is never an inappropriate time to be proud of the little death bird. I'm gonna be curious to see if any of them manage to put up a fight against the Garchomp, but I'm mostly just excited for that part of the game because people's reactions to it story-wise are often fun to watch. Not expecting them to count that battle towards their Nuzlocke, just wanna see how they feel about the story.

I'm not sure there's much of a point in trying to figure out whether or not Cain has enough badges to use Strength, anyway. Dude surfs across the lake well before we are even close to the gym that enables it. On a Muk.

From what I understood, Cain was just this uncomfortable with us meeting his family. I can see how he would be hesitant for us to talk to the people he ran away from. They might tell us things about him that he hasn't been willing to disclose yet, and he probably also just doesn't want his newfound friend to be dragged into his family drama It's still pretty frustrating considering he knows we need that badge to help the very kids he's shown so much concern for, but I do see motivation for why he would want to drag it out to see if we can find another way to solve the problem.

I mean, even if Shelly was one hundred percent serious about being okay enough to battle us, it's pretty easy to side with Victoria here IMO. Shelly is like, 12. She just saw the dead body of her best friend's father splattered all over the ground next to her gym. Any kid her age having to be witness to a suicide is terrible as is, but the double wham of having it happen with someone she actually knows? If I were Victoria, I wouldn't have believed her either. I always thought of battling Shelly as being simultaneously the best thing we could do at the time, and pretty unfair. She could probably really use a distraction at the time, and battling us may just have helped her pull her mind away from what happened earlier. But I also believe that in-story, it made the battle easier for the MC since she was still too shaken to give it her all. So I guess it was, as Fern said, a free badge. (Now, obviously, in-game that's a different matter, haha.) Never understood people's hatred for Victoria tbh. Oh no, we have to battle! In a Pokémon game! I actually like her character arc, which is largely about her struggle to balance her caring, emotional side and the side of her that wants to step into the footsteps of "we must not let our inner turmoil complicate outside affairs" Kiki, and having to learn not to lose sight of the forest between all the trees. I always thought it was touching how she just cares about everyone. Like Feng Lei already said, Cain roadblocks us just as much, but I rarely see people giving him anywhere as much grief for the whole Wasteland key chase as for Victoria.

If you are determined to get the most out of it you can always have multiple pickup mons at the same time for when you're just running around doing stuff that you don't need your full team for, haha. They'll already pick up stuff for you while you train them, so at least it's not labor without immediate reward :3 Reborn's pickup table can be found here: http://www.rebornevo.com/index.php?/pr/pickup/ (It's also worth noting that Cotton Candy can be bought in the Obsidia ward, and it's pretty much the same thing as a revive, so there's that. If you have the money, that is.)

You can also sometimes get Blast Powder from Pokémon with the Pickup ability (up to Lv. 60 iirc), so it can pay off to have a well-levelled pickup 'mon with you. (They can also sometimes find Revives if they're at least Lv 20).

Additionally, if you're not already doing this I'd suggest just saving in front of one and soft resetting until you found the item/s you want from them. That way you can reduce the number of rocks you "use up" a bit. ^^

Klinklang and Magnezone are part of my main team, Silvally and Metagross are currently rotation. People already pointed out that breeding with Ditto is possible, but tbqh I don't even care about that. None of the above 'mons have been IV bred, nor did I reset for good IVs on any of them. (Magnezone is half an exception; I got it as a prize from a community event and specifically asked to make sure it's HP Fire.) Magnezone in Reborn actually does fine without Tbolt. Discharge is a good move; it makes up for the lower base power by hitting multiple 'mons, and it gets boosted in perhaps the most common field set in the game anyway. Klinklang doesn't really need a wide move pool; most the time you'll only want Shift Gear + Gear Grind, I run Magnet Rise and Wild Charge on it as well. Like Magnezone, Klinklang greatly benefits from the factory fields. Pity the fool who lets it set up on them. Metagross is just an all around solid mon with plenty of useful coverage moves and useful STAB. I've used Claydol and Solrock in my Psychic mono for a while. I did eventually bench both, but Solrock especially was actually quite useful for a 'mon that I had always overlooked until then.

Oh hey, neat! That's actually still on my watch list. Since the Reborn episodes only come out every second day and none on weekends I figured I'd start watching some of their other stuff in the meantime. Guess I know what to move on to next.

Leave your Manectric alone, Nappy, it's doing its best :C I just... fucking lost it when Mo stalled out Sucker Punch by throwing poke balls That's hands down the funniest shit I've seen all day, farewell my sides

Guess we'll find out if Serra is a believer :3c

Hax God vs. Hax Queen FIGHT! And like... that's hoping they have something to destroy the mirrors or overwrite the field at that time. I don't see all off them being so lucky.

Who now? :^) I say about one of my favourite characters

They're not gonna be pleased when they find out how long it takes until they actually get that level cap raise :') It really is a big stretch though, having to battle Muk, Cal, Aster & Eclipse, Taka, Victoria, Kiki, Cain and Aya (and technically Solaris) before you're finally allowed to go past 45. Also tbh js but the segment with Kiki's introduction speech from the previous episode was painfully unfunny. At least their reactions to looking down on the academy from the top of Pyrous were adorable. It's cute to see them enjoy things like that~ Doesn't look like they recognized Kiki from the monitor in Shade's gym yet, but I wonder if maybe they will when she breaks down on the battle field?

Oh hey, soon they can get their very own Heated Mo(r)! I'll also agree with everyone who said they enjoy Mo's parts of the op the most. I don't really use yt for more than finding new music any more, so I went into this without a clue who any of those guys are. Not only was he the first person who stood out to me and my abysmal ability to tell people's voices apart, but I also do enjoy his commentary (and all the concern he's shown) and he's left the best impression on me so far. Seems like a cool guy.

Seems to be divided between three characters for me. Amaria, Zero and Aya are all pretty damn relatable and remind me of different parts of my life. Now, nobody on Reborn has known me long enough to have experienced me like this, but Zero's behavior is a pretty good representation of what I was like before I had my breakdown. I was the whole package: impulsive, uncooperative, couldn't get along with people for shit, never took blame for my mistakes, and even the people who did like me regularly had to tell me "hey, don't insult me" and "you can't always have it your way" and "don't take your mood out on us!". The slightest sign of stress was enough to turn me into a complaining, frustrated jerk. I believe a huge deal of the sympathy I have for this character stems from the fact that I know what it's like to be like that and not realize just how bad it is until a traumatizing change occurs and shakes me up to the core. (Complete with losing people I depended on.) Though on a scale from Zero to Aya, I dealt with "How do you take feeling abandoned in a bad environment" more like Aya. The more my behavior caused me to drive people away and shit to go wrong in my life, the more I felt like perhaps I was just a fundamentally unlikable person, and that I was doing people a favor by turning them away from me. Like Aya I didn't have the most wholesome home situation, and between the constant conflict with my parents and the deterioration of relationships, I was left with absolutely no self-worth and no optimism that things could improve from there on. I couldn't imagine for the life of me why anyone would bother with me (be it in private or professionally), and expected that everyone who did would surely end up regretting it. Where I had formerly taken my moods out on others, I turned against myself completely, treating myself harshly over any mistake (real or perceived) I made. It's best if I don't go into the details, let's just say that I ultimately ended up on the psych ward. That's where I got my diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder and severe depression, and began therapy. I can thankfully say that it helped me a ton. It was a much, much needed intervention just in time. There's a certain bitterness in knowing I had been in need of help for years - but still, finding out that I'm not actually a shitty person, and that much of what happened had been beyond my control, was the biggest relief in the world to me. Except... no amount of realizations and self-reflection make the actual process of change easy. And I guess that brings me to Amy. I don't want to talk about this as much because it's an ongoing thing. What I'll say is that there's a vast disconnect between what I know, rationally, and what I feel. And that's what she put into words in her onyx diary: "I have lots of friends, an amazing partner, a great education and life... But it doesn't feel like it." "I'm tired of feeling this way. I'm tired of feeling like I'm always drowning." All this progress, but I still wake up every morning dreading existence so much that I feel physically sick. It takes enormous effort to convince myself that if I just keep going on, I'll experience a first good morning one day.

cass likes glaceon therefore cass is good and that's the facts

On one hand I wanna point out that "Budew has been removed" has been a note in the change files for ages now, and that it's not actually removed ...on the other I really want to experience a Budew flood in wonder trade Do it

It might have... if it had actually survived :^)

That Espeon hit so hard because it heard you talking shit about Glaceon :] "He has a Garchomp?" - famous, but thankfully not last words. I enjoy their reactions to stuff in the game more and more, it was fun to hear them lose their shit at seeing Absol before Shade's gym, or at Amy taking that Superpower. (Good thing it wasn't a contrary Malamar, eh?) Also, lucky them (or, well, only lucky Twit now I guess) for still getting Magneton before the axe hit it, lolol. Now that the key is no longer post-renovation... I guess it'd be worth letting them know to download the public release for E18 once it's out, should be any day now, anyway, I assume.

Yeah, Kiki's field is also one of the easier ones to play on IMO. Easy to turn it against her. I don't think they'll have particular problems with the next few big battles. Serra strikes me as the most likely next "oh fuck" moment. Though I do think the Bennett battle beforehand serves as enough of a wake-up slap in terms of preparing them for the mirror arena. I don't think they'll charge into the Serra fight unprepared after that, seeing how Bennett demonstrates the concept of the field quite well. PULSE Abra might take a few lives, too. It's not hard to defeat once you hit it, but few things like getting hit in the process, so there may be a heroic death or two.