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It probably comes from a leak, I found a reference to this here: http://pokejungle.net/2016/07/07/pokemon-sun-moon-rumors-2ch/ but I'm sure I read that somewhere else By the way, I meant Lusamine and not Lysandre. I edited my post

On the official website it is said that Gladion LENDS his strengh to Team Skull. This plus the fact he doesn't have a skull on his clothes makes me think he's not a real member of team Skull, rather an ally or a mercenary. I also remember reading somewhere that Guzmo is Lillie's father. Can't remember if it was just a theory of a leak but if it's true they could be an entire family. Guzmo, Gladion, Lillie, Lusamine. I just noticed the similarity of the names

UB-01 really makes me think about Lillie. I'm sure there's a link between the two

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/unratedrandombattle-432069280 Look at the name of my opponent then how I destroyed his team

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/unratedrandombattle-431976548 Very bad start followed by an incredible come back in the end. Small advice to all the noobs that forfeit (or leave without even forfeiting...) as soon as they lose a pokemon: never give up

I love how everybody say a small thing but not too much to avoid spoil, but each time a different thing so that in the end he will know a lot xD

Not too far from here there's another entrance to the upper level. There you can push a boulder in a hole to fall on these rocks blocking the path.

I remember this one. It was Ame's idea of a 1st April fool x)

It's been a while, with a lot of work and some other games in the meantime (Rejuvenation v8, Uranium), but it's time to come back to my run. Last time I played Taka's Chattot swept my team. But this time I think I can do it. Let's start ! This was as expected long and painful, but I did it. I think it could have worked in hardcore too. Maybe. Maybe I'll try again in hardcore later. But for now, Beryl's pulse is waiting for me. I'm scared :'(

I'm usually between two versions of hyper offense. The first one is direct attack, with a fast hard hitter that can OHKO most pokemons before they can hurt it, or in case I've nothing fast enough bulkier mons that can endure a hit and hit hard in return. The second one is set up. Bulk up Blaziken, Quiver Dance Volcarona (or even Butterfree) with some potions if necessary, then destroy the entire team of the opponent with a single pokemon. I case that doesn't work (like in a hardcore mono dragon with only a Deino and Noibat to begin with), I tend to rely more on hax. Confusion mainly. Noibat's Supersonic saved me more than once

In Chrono Trigger, though Chrono wasn't exactly the main protagonist. Yes he was the character you couldn't remove from the party and also the one that doesn't talk, but you had plenty of other characters you controlled too so you could still play without him. And you had the possibility to bring him back while in here it's going to be a definitive goodbye If we had to control another character, it would most likely be Cain. But first he's not as strong as the main character. It's not just that its pokemons are weaker, he's just a less good trainer. Controlling him would imply either he suddenly becomes the "wrecking ball" the MC used to be, or he keeps getting beaten, captured, etc by Meteors, so in the end we lose. Second, we worked hard to raise our pokemons, starting from scratch with our starter. Then we lose all of them and start anew with a complety different set of already trained pokemons we never chose ? No way. Having something like that for a short period, like the MC is hurt and captured and we control Cain to save him could be possible. But definitively losing it, no. And in Rejuvenation, the MC didn't die. His friends and team Xen thought so, but he was just teleported and you never lost control on him

I never thought we would get the mega ring that early. But I guess we won't get much more mega stones for now. Currently we have stone for Abomasnow, Pinsir/Heracross and another one I don't remember. I guess metagrossite isn't for now. And I wonder what can be the implications of that mega ring on the story. Stronger pulses ? Many Meteors and others with mega evolution ? And where do we get it ? I don't think it's the kind of thing you can find at the department store even with all the stickers. Something found in a mysterious place kind of like under the Grand Gates ? Found in an important Meteor base like Lin's office ? It already pretty sure we'll find a new meteor base in the city (Devon surely). Or maybe a long and painfull sidequest in one of those new sidequest areas ?

There are 19 episodes planned, gym badges to win, an elite 4 and a champion to defeat. We won't lose the main character. His death is possible, since he could be resurrected with I don't know what trick (ex: the lava bath in Rejuvenation), but Ame said it would be a definitive goodbye. The phrasing excludes this option

It wasn't pointless. Radomus is a chess master, remember ? His reason for not calling Gardevoir wasn't just to please Luna, but also to see what El was preparing. So we went together under the Grand Gate, and there El tries to manipulate Adrienn and us to turn us against Radomus. Also, Radomus discovered that we have two of the keys, including the amethyst pendant he seems to personnaly know (I'm almost sure Anna is his daughter). So going after El was a way to see what was going on, recover the stolen ruby ring and test the judgement our character that seems implied in very important and dangerous stuff. All but pointless. Plus from a story point of view it was a way to indroduce us to the birth place of Arceus and help us understand what the Meteors want

I don't know with cheat engine, but modifying the game's scripts for that shouldn't be hard. But I said that only to say its pointless to take cheats as a reference for the game's balance. I didn't mean to give ideas xD

Cheaters are the exception, you can't balance of the game using cheated pokemons as a reference, even more since there's no online battle. Otherwise why not allow pokemons to have up to 100 IV per stat since cheaters can surely do that ? But I admit a way to improve IV could be good. In official games you don't see them, most people don't even know they exist, so outside of competitive play people don't care. But in Reborn you see them, sometimes shitty values you can't change. It can be frustrating, even though you can still easily finish the game with 0 IV for all your pokemons. And there's the time between episodes when most people improve their teams and can't improve IV. Even more frustrating. That's why a way to improve IV, though not really needed, can be interesting. But I'm not sure something like steroids would be suited for that. First it's not definitive, you need to take them regularly. Then you would need a full cocktail of different products to improve several IV. It would give a complex system that would give much more importance to IV which isn't the point. Someone said IV reflect genes right ? I don't know the current state-of-the-art in the domain of genetic modifications, but I know there's a lot of research to modify human genes (to cure genetical deseases mainly). And I know many of them involve the use of viruses, since viruses naturally change the infected cell's genes to make it produce new viruses. So something like gene therapy to boost a stat could work I think. And in order to keep something fixed to make each pokemon unique, it could replace the psychologist. Good nature are much easier to obtain with soft reset and much easier to breed too. And even though the technology doesn't exist in reality yet, I think it's more realistic to change someone's genes in one session than changing its personnality. Even after years of psychotherapy people don't change that drastically.

I don't exactly know how university/engineering school courses are funded, but I don't think it's only by the government. First I know some researchers in them have an obligation to teach in their contract. I'm also sure some teachers give their courses freely. A researcher because he likes to teach or to give some help to the school, people from outside companies because a friend in the school asked them and/or because the company helps the school. In my school at least, a lot of companies try to recruit us even early in our studies, so they can often send some people for teaching. Maybe directly giving money. Schools also have a lot of fundings for research, maybe some of it is used for teaching. I don't know, but there are surely ways to at least decrease the tuition fees. And if you worry about hurting research by taking its resources, do not. I think France is among the best on a research plan (the problem is more about turning our findings into businesses, but that's another issue) About healthcare, I can't say France is the best example. Doctors, hospital staff, practitioner, almost all think they are underpaid are that hospitals lack resources, yet the healthcare system has a huge budget deficit (12 billions, they plan to get rid of it around 2021). But if you're ill, if you need surgery or heavy treatments, you and your family won't have to pay dozens of thousands bucks to save you. Both French and American system have huge flaws, but I prefer by far the French one. The good thing with the US is since you start from almost nothing (compared to France at least), you can still try to build something that works while in France, if you dare try to remove or decrease a "social advance", you'll soon have hundred of thousands people in the streets. That's something I hate in France. Most of the time it's "Yell first, think later. Or never". But it's off topic As for the wealth accumulation, I disagree with the fact it's dead currency. Many wealthy people, and surely the wealthiest, won't just just store their money. They will invest. Stock exchange, creation of start-up, etc. They will contribute to the economy, contribute to the creation of new businesses, and make more money in return. While non-wealthy people will usually just spend their money in food and other consumables and probably spare what remains. This is even more true in France where we tend to spend more. First we rarely use consumer credits which I think are common in the US, we don't buy stuff we can't pay now (cars and houses excepted of course), and what we spare in our bank account is on low interest investments, barely more than a storage for us. While wealthy people, even if they don't care about investment, won't just store their money like that (at least because you can store only a limited amount of this type of account), so that their money would still contribute more. So the issue with taxes is not to make money move, it's more to make it move where it's the most needed. Investing in Google's stock won't pay the education or healthcare system. It's the same as the taxes paid by lower classes, the amount is just bigger since they have much more money. I don't say it's the best solution, that is very fair or anything. Just that is seems to be the less bad solution we found. We want to keep our education system, our healthcare system, our social advantages in general, so we need to take the money for it where we can. Wealthy people may complain that they pay to many taxes, but if for whatever reason they lose everything, they will be happy that rich people pay whose taxes so that they can have the minimum to live. Same for the poor that ask to increase the taxes on the wealthiest. The day they get rich, they will complain about taxes. It's human nature. You can't please everyone so you just try to find the less bad balance. And France is small (actually smaller than many of your states) but dense, 67 million people for 320 in the US. I guess it's more your division into states that makes such systems harder to create. And indeed I feel like France, though very far from perfect, is better than the US. As I guess many Americans feel the US are better than France. It's in a good part due to different ways of thinking. And what works rather well for us may not be suited to you. But since many Americans seem to want a better social system, it can only be good to look at how things are done abroad to see what would work in your country.

In my main run I have around 40 shiny pokemons fully trained, including some you mentionned. From what I've seen, Lapras wasn't very good. It has access to good stab moves and is pretty bulky, but it doesn't hit hard enough to kill a pokemon with a single hit, or even two (I think it could hardly kill the Goodra of one of the Grand Hall's trainer with an ice beam at the same level) and isn't bulky enough to stay long in the battle since it lacks boosts or health recovery (maybe with a rest-talk set, I haven't tried). It was a pain to train, I had to use the Exp share until lvl 70 or something like that. Liligant instead was better than expected. Well placed, it can easily set up with Quiver Dance then heal with Synthesis and/or Giga Drain. At level 50 or maybe even less, it was able to easily destroy a lvl 60 Charizard with Petal Dance. I used the Swampert before to set up at the max but still. It lacks type coverage, but when you can hit with a 130 BP stabbed move at +3-4 SpA while tanking with an also heavily boosted SpD, who cares ? And just think about that monster in the new flower field ! Also if you like troll you can also use Butterfree the same way. Not as good but it's quite fun to wreck powerful teams with the small butterfly x) Clefairy is quite good too, though I don't remember using it outside of Showdown. Magic Guard plus Cosmic Power / Soft Boiled / Lucky Chant / Stored Power can stall anything while hitting rather hard when at 6 Cosmic Power (260 BP for Stored Power). Lucky Chant is rarely used but from my experience, you can't take the time to fully set up without taking at least one critical hit that bypasses your boosts. Maybe you can also try with Calm Mind instead of Cosmic Power for more power though you're vulnerable physically. I should really train a Clefairy in Reborn... I trained a Drapion too. I think its set uses Night Slash and Cross poison combined with a hold Scope Lens and Sniper, so that it has 50% chance to land a critical hit dealing 2.25 times more damage while ignoring its debuffs and the opponents boosts. Too bad is doesn't learn Focus Energy but it's still rather good.

I'm reading this thread with a headache (surely not my best idea) so I may have missed a some points. But I think my own experience can bring some interesting things First of all, I'm French. France is a country with a lot of social help. Minimum wage, income when you're jobless (for a few months if you're actively seraching a new one), nearly free healthcare and education. Second thing: I'm clever. 130 IQ if I recall correctly, which I just looked is the minimum value defining giftedness, the 2% most clever people. And in one month, I'll be engineer, a graduate from a French high rank engineering school (these are equivalent to universities but much smaller, around 100 students per year, and with a much higher level. They are usually said to create the elite of France). For my school, the average income for the first job is around 40000€/year, while the average income in France is around 35000 €. Now the presentations are done, I'd like to come back on some of your points First, Chase, you seem to mean that to earn money you need to work hard. The harder you work, the more you earn. This is wrong, or at least oversimplified. And I'm a good example of that. As I said I'm in an engineering school. Most of the students from these schools come from undergraduate classes called preparatory classes. These are 2-3 years of high level courses in maths, physics, with some philosophy, english, etc. Their only goal is to prepare us for a competition at the end of the second year, a full month of exams, very long and very hard, in order to sort the students. Then you make a list of the schools you want, and the schools take the best that applied to their school. This basically means the better the student, the better the school. Prépa are said to be years of very hard work and pain, students being nicknamed "moles" like they are so much on their work they can hardly go outside and see the sun. This is right of many people. Not for me. I was in a low rank prépa, where I was better than anyone else without working. I still worked a minimum to get a good school, but I had a far better school than the others of my prépa while working much less. The funniest part is when I started in my engineering school. The first day, I learned I had the best results among the students of that school. Almost without working in my low rank prépa, I had better results than moles that worked really hard in high to top rank prépa. This has been the same for all my schooling. And now, with the minimum of work, I'm going to be an engineer, have the job of my dreams, earn a lot of money. While people working much harder than me, cumulating several jobs they hate can hardly earn enough to eat. The only difference is that I was more lucky than them at the genetical lottery. This is unfair. But live's unfair. Some people will struggle because they are not born with the good skills, or in the good environment. Some will do rather well until a crisis or something else makes them lose their jobs. They could have been working really hard, it would change nothing. This is the reason social policies exist, to compensate these lacks of luck, help people that can hardly be more than cashier to earn enough to live, help a man those job was moved abroad to live until he can find something else. In fact, all this discussion reminds me of a quote from Frank Fontaine in Bioshock: "They come to Rapture thinking they're gonna be captains of industry, but they all forget that somebody's gotta scrub the toilets". It's exactly that. Capitalism is the best base for a society, but it also implies there will always be people above the others, no matter how hard they can work. Social policies are made to ensure those under are not crushed by those above. For my philosophy courses in prépa I had to read The Grapes of Wrath, which is a good example of what happens when you have capitalism without some limits/social policies. In the 30s in the middle of the US, most farmers (so the main part of the population) lost their jobs to tractors and other new machines. Jobless, they all answered to the call of western landowners looking for people to harvest their crops. They easily had 10 people for one jobs, so thanks to the principle of supply and demand, the wages for those jobs dropped, so much than one could hardly feed himself, even less feeding a family of finding a home. This is why a minimum wage is necessary. Though you wouldn't have such an extreme situation today, things like that could easily happen in a crisis without a minimum wage. You all say that people are going to abuse the system, and you're right. There will always be people to abuse the system. But for one that abuse the system, how many will use it genuinely and keep working hard? You can't punish a hundred people for the crimes of one. And saying that people in general won't want to work anymore is a huge cliché. Minimum wage won't make people stop working. And incomes for the jobless aren't big. In France (which as I said as a lot of social helps), I'm rather sure these incomes are something based on your previous wage. So less than what you used to earn. And even if it was fixed, it would be just a small income to allow you to eat for sometime without having to sell your house. Surely not something you can comfortably live with. And it's temporary, depending on how long you worked previously (so no 10 months income for one month of work). Except for a few people that found the flaws of the system and like to abuse it, you clearly want to find a new job. Then there the question of finding the money for that, usually by taking it from the wealthiest. As someone that's probably going to be among the wealthy ones, I can't say I like that. But it's necessary to compensate the flaws of capitalism. The problem is more a question of balance of taxes. As (I think, thanks headache) you said Chase, the middle class are usually hurt by those, while the very rich that alone could bring more money than the entire middle class often find ways to escape taxes. This is the problem that needs to be solved The problem is not the theory, it's the practice. Such systems are usually poorly done. There's also the issue of healthcare and education. Here again I think I'm an example of the interest of free education. My mother was single. She works for the SNCF (French trains), so with irregular hours like during the night. Without my grand mother to keep me I don't know how she would have done, but I'm sure she couldn't afford a baby-sitter. We're from middle class. We never struggled to eat or anything, and I could usually have the last video game station for christmas with my family. But if the French education system was similar to the US one, I wouldn't have been able to afford studies, unless sparing money and struggling my entire life. Compared to the US, school in France in nearly free. The only tuition fees I've ever paid were for the engineering school, less than 1000€ per year. Plus around 400€/month for a studio (since the school was far from where I lived) in the school residence. I had something like 20000€ spare money at the beginning, just enough for the three years before graduation. I don't remember the fees in US universities, but I'm rather sure these 20000€ couldn't even pay the fees for a year. Either would I have to find a job next to my studies (something I clearly had no time for with the amount of work we have in engineering school), or give up on studies and wasting my potential in small jobs someone without diploma can do. But thanks to the free education, I'm going to be engineer, advancing research, developping new technologies, maybe someday creating my own company. The money lost on tuition fees is going to be repaid by what I will produce during my life. Free education isn't just some help for the poor, it's a real investment. However, I agree with you on something Chase, the taxes it creates for small businesses is bad. For a year I've been treasurer of a Junior-Entreprise, a special kind of association in engineering or business schools (mainly in France but also in some countries abroad) doing the job of a consulting company in a lower scale. We had to find customers needing a website, a translation of technical documents, a mechanical study, this kind of thing, then recruit a student from the schooll to do it. Then the customer paid us and we paid the student. I was in charge of that part. Despite the Junior-Entreprise having a special status with less taxes, the amount we had to pay seemed huge. Then I had courses on French company laws. We were said that for let's say a gross salary of 1000€, the company had to pay a total of around 2000€, the double. I don't remember many things from these courses, but there's at least one I remember: if one day I want to create my own business, I better not create it in France. France is very far from perfect, our social system has a lot of flaws (and our politicians are shit, but I guess it's universal), but even in this state I feel like it's much better than in the US and other very liberal countries

I think some already asked for something like that and Ame answered that she wanted to pokemon to keep something that makes them unique and not just a set of stats. Since you can change nature, IV won't change. Now maybe to stay close to the canon games the psychologist can be changed for an IV changer, but I don't think we'll get both

No one mentionned Ame as a character that could die ? She rebuilt the city the first time and leads it now, so she could be the heart of Reborn that shall fall. Plus she's not very present in the story and now there's Adrienn to take care of the city so she's not to important from a story point of view, while her death could have huge consequences on the city. And (the real) Ame already said she regrets she put herself in the game, so it could be a way to remove it. Though a way giving this character much more importance

Maybe a bit late, but I won vs Trevore http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/reborn-tiershift-67350 Really close this time, gg