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Most of the steel types are already in the game. Afaik all except legendaries, Scizor, Honeedge and Ferroseed. Look here to search for specific mons: http://www.rebornevo.com/forum/index.php?/topic/16407-pokémon-location-guide-v3-episode-16/ As for waitng time to E17 Ame said she really doesn't want it to be that long this time. Her supporters on patreon get some more details about what she is working on at the moment - she writes daily posts (although not all of them are related to reborn) and there are occasional streams for the supporters.

I don't know about guide but here is a list. It does not contain specific places to start but it is probably more satisfying to find them yourself anyway.

Thank you!

Because they never lived up to their reputation for me.

Well considering all my Reborn playthroughs I really like Vaporeon, Espeon, Sylveon, Froslass, Heracross, Florges and Donphan. Probably nothing surprising. My hatelist might raise some eyebrows but whatever. Because of Reborn I hate Ampharos, Greninja and Jynx.

Can you elaborate? Hyposis always had only 60% accuracy except Diamond and Pearl. I don't see any recent nerf. Confusion was long overdue to get nerfed.

Could be. But who is the other one? There are two girls disappearing in the vision.

What confuses me the most though is the fifth vision in the old power plant. The one you see just before battling Rotom. Does anyone know who the characters are? I don't remember seeing them elsewhere in the game.

Yeah Corey does have quite a few of tricks up his sleave. I think I read somewhere he is meant to be a bit harder than normal gym leader in the mist field because you kind of pissed him off by revealing his secret. However I never found him particularly difficult. All you need against him are good counter pokemon. Munsharna and Meowstic are both very good psychic types for this part of the game and are very helpful against Corey. Another good counter is Donphan with Magnitude. These three you probably expected as they're the obvious and usual choices against Corey. Lastly there is Sudowoodo who is probably the best counter against his Crobat - accidently found that out in my Reborn Hardcore run. The Crobat felt like just another annoying but harmless bat.

Yeah I wanted to try some of the pokes from weather-based events this time. Also I like it when Kiki and Noel have some weather effect for their battle to make it a bit unusual. Sandile is a good egg. I never used it in Reborn yet. I'll look into the guide where it can be obtained. Pretty sure he means Fiore Mansion at Celestinine Cascade. Oh yeah. I remember him being more difficult than Terra herself on my first playthrough.

What mystery egg did you get? I got an Omanyte which is pretty useless yet. I might try a rain team later on though. Against Serra maybe? Dunno when that might happen though. I somehow don't want to play Hardcore with the broken weather system. In regular reborn I also don't remember any gym leader to be a real wall for me. The only exception was Ciel on my very first playthrough. She crushed me really good. On my other playthrough she wasn't too difficult but I think I never managed to beat her without losing to her first - but I was very very close with my eeveelutions, only lost because Glaceon didn't know Ice Shard to finish her ace. I should have made some statistics which Gym leader was easy and which was difficult. Oh also Kiki was always quite good against me. On the other hand Samson is almost always a pushover. I think Kiki has far better coverage of her weaknesses. Samson is extremely weak against psychic types.

So far Hardcore Taka in Beryl and Hardcore Shelly. But I've yet to battle Hardcore Shade so it's likely to change. From normal Reborn I think Skydancer Ciel is the one who gives me some trouble on every single playthrough.

Yes it is and it will also come with Sun/Moon pokemon. http://www.rebornevo.com/index.php?/pr/development/ @S.paul is a Greninja!

Sure, take your time. And thanks. :-)

@KingCoin Is it possible to specify all the parameters for your program non-interactively? I'd like to run it from a script which is not possible because it interactively asks for the parameters - I need to skip that somehow.

Dratini is not yet available in Reborn. Once it is it'll likely have a chance to know Extreme Speed as well - just like Pichu has a chance to know Volt Tackle.

Beyond fixing? What do you mean by that? Will it never be fixed? Or it will be fixed later like when E17 comes out? Is it possible to enable the new weather system? I don't know if it's worse than the old one or not but even if it is worse it surely is much better than no weather at all, right?

Double posting is intentional in this case as the second post is completely unrelated and it has been a few days. I have feedback about the fourth Gym battle. Shelly Battle-style: Set Challenge: No-Items Team: Doubles, without rain Result: First I thought she was too strong, I forfeited like dozen times. But when I finally beat her she felt like a pushover. Missing permarain doesn't make much difference as her prankster Illumise fixes that right away. The rain boosts Masquerians and Armaldos Water attacks and Swift Swim Armaldo with Rock Slide is insane. She has her weaknesses covered really well and her team is very fast. However the battle felt way too random - my Luxray never managed to cause paralysis with Spark (30% chance), Illumise kept using Confuse Ray which I hate so I mitigated it with Persim Berries (there are no good items to hold anyway), in one case I lowered Armaldos attack by 3 stages to mitigate his Rock Slide - he scored two critical hits and flinched my Sudowoodo twice so it could not Counter. On the other hand her team was easily crushed after I gave Electric Gem to my Luxray to OHKO Masquerain. Pelipper and Donphan took down Armaldo and the rest of her team was easily defeated by Sudowoodos Rock Slide. In the final battle only used 4 pokemon out of which only one fainted. Issues: It was too easy with Sudowoodo. I'm almost certain that Heather or someone else knew Giga Drain but failed to use it.

Also PULSE-evolutions will most likely be never available to the player. I expect we will only be able to use the original megas. Of course the insanely powerful legendary megas and primals will only be available post-game.

Yeah something is definitely off with the weather. I can now see Drifloon as well (although it wasn't there before). Is it still clear weather, not windy. The weather isn't active in battle either. If I load the same save file in regular Reborn the Drifloon is gone. Also I'm not quite sure what are the requirements for Emolga - in this playthrough she was sleeping there right when I got into Jasper. That never hapenned to me before, sometimes it was gone and sometimes it was jumping on the roofs but never sleeping on my first visit.

@Commander Can you tell me how the weather system currently works in Hardcore? I know there was some discussion about old and new weather system but I don't know what that was all about and what is the result. The thing is that ever since I started playing Hardcore there was always nothing but clear weather - even though the TV said something about light rain every time I tried. How can I change the weather to something different? Shelly completely crushed me so I desperately need some new mons.

If you remember the black doors all over Reborn I'm pretty sure each door will hold one legendary. Of course you will only be able open them after finishing the main story.

Hmm... well some guides like this one list Beldum as post-Ciel mon and I think I read somewhere else that the evnt is supposed to work only after Agate. Maybe it was just not implemented in the end or it's a planned change for E17? Sorry for the confusion.

You're wrong here. Reuniclus and Solosis are both available after Radomus. Beldum is only available after Ciel which is a huge difference. But yeah, you're right that either Reuniclus should be sooner or Alakazam later. And I agree with you about Arcanine, the problem is that moving it would also move the Mystery Egg thing. Talonflame could be earlier too especially since Gen 7 crushed Gale Wings. Jasper is way too early though. There is also Gardevoir/Gallade who are available way too early (far before Alakazam and Solosis). Ame said whe might move Ralts to Neo Reborn (after Ciel) so let's se if she actually will. However all in all it is impossible to really balance the availability of all mons. And Ame is doing a really good job already, the availability is far better balanced than any other pokemon game. There is also the fact that it makes even less sense to rebalance these with the online trading thing already out - if you wish a good mon early, there will always be someone to give it to you.

Well I would like to look into it but as I have zero experience with RPG Maker I have no idea where to even start and I assume it's difficult to debug this kind of thing - I need to first understand why the AI made certain decision before trying to improve it. Then I might get easily discouraged if the code is badly written and it would take a long time to fix anything. And I tend to cover my own code with tests which is probably impossible here although an AI algorithm would certainly need it. I see. Well it seems that by solving the issue with Steel you just created another one with Rock. If I'm right to assume that aside of Nasty Plot and Hidden Power (Fire) it has a Poison STAB and Flying STAB it means there is nothing to hit Rock with normal effectiveness (never mind supereffectiveness). If the STAB moves are both physical than I understand why the AI went for Hidden Power - Sudowoodo has good Def but bad Sp. Def. so physical STAB would not help at all. Anyway I understand it better now and I can't really see any good solution. Maybe Hidden Power Ground instead of Fire but then again it is only normally effective against Foretress. Looks like I accidently found the best counter-pokemon against the Crobat. In any case great work with Corey's team! I know about the txt file - it is a must have for designing battles. However as a player I prefer to read the information in the game directly and only if I manage to get the field notes before the battle. I like that I have to make effort to get the information needed to better prepare for a Gym.