Twitchapher

Too OP, plz nerf.

I first started playing in Episode 13 and i got...A decent way in...I think I was just at route 1...Then my hard drive crashed and I lost everything....And I would sit for HOURS and soft reset for female event pokemon. Broke my heart. I didn't touch the game again until last year and, of course, I do fear this happening again.

Thank you Fg, it's been really fun and challenging! I've gotten a few messages of people who wanted my save file to try it themselves. Granted I have RPG Maker so I just ask for their save file and give them to it myself. Anyways, short update just because it's gonna take me a bit to get to the next gym. First off I was wondering what my Mystery Egg was so I checked it out. That's Cottonee. My main file also had Cottonee. I smell hacks! So while doing the Route 2 there was that mini boss Goomy. Fell to one Acrobatics. WELCOME TO HE- Oh... This was the second try...It would have been the first if I remembered Lucario had a Focus Sash. Here's what my team looked like after I won. Now why in the world would I lead with Bastiodon, a rock/steel type with x4 weakness to fighting types? Easy. Bastiodon's egg move for the run is Stealth Rocks. Bastiodon, with it's whopping base stat of 30 speed, outsped Hariyama. and put up Stealth Rocks. Stealth Rocks negated the Focus Sash. Now surprisingly Murder Birb could not one shot Lucario but Samson used all his potions on it and only used Extremespeed once. All I had to do for the fight was press C over and over and over again until everything was dead. Now I'm not too worried about Charlotte. I've read how people easily solo her with Tyrantrum. Not only that, but I got the TM Rain Dance so I have two options. One, set up Tyrantrum with Dragon Dance and Earthquake everything to death or destroy the field before she can set it up and water everything down with my Swift Swimmers. I'm more afraid of the double jerk fight of Fern and Blake than anything else now.

I've learned one thing and one thing only. We're still not getting our magikarp from the quest line. How far down the rabbit hole do we need to go Ame?

My first file got Pawniard from it and I was super excited(even know you can get them later in the game). My current file and my Fossil-mono run both got Cottonee...I smell hacks!

I have....18 pokemon in 'rotation' and I'm working on 4 more. They are all my team and I pick and choose what I need when I need it. It's not that bad and well...I crush things dead. So really, all of them. First let me help you with that Arcanine. I got Morning Sun on mine as well so I run Outrage Flare Blitz Crunch(never really use it) Morning Sun Pretty much Outrage and Flare Blitz destroy everything and I use Morning Sun to heal the damage taken from Flare Blitz. Crunch is situational but it's useful when you need it. For Ampharos I run Discharge Power Gem/Signal Beam Confuse Ray Dragon Pulse Not the best set but it works for me. If you're up to it, your missing a few types. If you want a new steel type how about Metagross? You don't have any psychic types so that would help with coverage. Gardevoir is also a good psychic type to think about getting. Aggron could be another option. Pretty much it's better to have a bunch of pokemon rather than a few.

Nope they are not. Here's a picture of the first traded pokemon you can get, Munna. It's easier to tell on traded pokemon because they'll pop on your screen shiny. It's really handy.

My rocks keep rolling with umm....EVERYTHING HAS A STEEL OR A FIGHTING MOVE! When you're playing a really restricted mono rock run yaaa it's hard. BUT we've made some great progress. First! CAIN GIVE ME THE KEY! Then their was the Fern fight which took 3 tries...Steel types give me so much trouble. Aya was the gym I was worried about but with some team planning well...I beat her my first go. Then it was NEW TEAMMATE ROLL TIME! YES THE RNG LOVES ME! Seems I had suffered enough for the moment. Yeeeeee that's a good dino for my team. The only one of my rocks that learns Earthquake naturally. Not that it really helped since Noel has two fairy pokemon. Anyways, first we saved some orphans And then we threw rocks at Bennett and that was oh so satisfying. I forgot to take a screen shot. Then we took on his mom...Now I did break the field but only after what...Four of her pokemon were down? She took a few times because dem steel moves. For once I used a TM. Frost Breath went onto Aurorus for a better ice attack. Moving forward! Next teammate! I was so stupidly happy. Canidos has Hammer Arm and also got Zen Headbutt. These moves has been so useful for my run. Yeeeee! I took on Sirius instead of Connal because I didn't want to deal with the good doctor...Plus I could throw rocks at Chandalure. I did try Giant Steelix but with most of my team being physical attackers...Yaaaa...Perish Song cheese go. I did not cheese the abra fight. Go go Knock Off between Hyper Beams. Noel took some planning. I had to run back to the city for berries because I couldn't down his Wigglytuff in one hit no matter what I tried and then his Minccino with Skill Link Bullet Seed and Rock Blast...But finally I got his team down. With Noel down that meant I got...Shieldon... Why couldn't you be Aggron? Aggron is so much more useful. Buh. I'm bad at using walls. I prefer to just 'hit things dead'. This was the aftermath of the Fern fight and I only lost Tyrantrum because I am not smart. Squishing his plants is always fun though. There was a Cain fight I forgot to screen shot but eh. It's Cain. Next was faux Arceus. Yeeee free exp! Hopefully the last time I need to use cheese tactics. Radomus was...Interesting. If I messed up, his Gallade would wipe half my team in no time. So I lead with Murder Bird and Killer Bug and let me tell you Killer Bug was MPV of this fight, downing at least four of Radomus' pokemon before falling to let my other fossils clean up. I forgot to take a screen shot but it took me two tries to get Bennett down because Signal beam suckkkkkkssss~ Then there was Luna... Aha. Aha. Aha. Poor thing didn't know what hit her. Lead with Rampardos to Hammer Arm Bisharp down. Switched to Killer Bug. Killer Bug processed to down three of her team and weakening Umbreon enough for Omastar to clean it up with Brine. I showed Luna whose murder birb was better by throwing rocks at hers with mine. Took one try. After battle photo of my team. I now to think about the upcoming rematch vs Fighting types again because I will forever be stuck in fighting/grass/steel hell.

OH HEY I picked this up again and to make up for it I played up until just past Kiki. ALSO I learned I had an ​illegal kabuto. It learns Stealth Rock through Move Tutors, not breeding. OOPS not that I had really used it. So I gave it Knock Off and it instantly became 400% more useful. MURDER MY FOSSILS! Second Fern fight! Nothing murder birb and ice dino couldn't handle. Florinia took me three resets because I messed up. I think it took all my dinos to get her down. So then it was randomize my next fossil! Really wanted either Tyrunt or Canidos but fine. I can work with this. This was just funny and took awhile but with Ingrain I health up any of the damage this trainers Sweppa or Metapod did. Horray for free levels! Seems I missed the screen shot of me beating Taka but I beat Taka and he wasn't that hard. I had more trouble with the Tanglegrowths than anything else. Last pulse fight needed one or two restarts because of future sight killing what I needed out at the time...BUT! Corey came down to murder birb. I think I got him on my first or second try. There wasn't anything note worthy to say about the Aster and Eclipse fight and Victoria's fight. Got them my first try. Then it was Shelly....AHHHHH I had more problems with her than anything else. First, EVERYTHING KNOWS ENERGY BALL! When half your team is water/rock, this is a huge problem. Then there was Wormadam...Grass steel with no fire moves to handle it? Ya...Yanmega was easier to down then the Wormadam. FINALLY THOUGH My whole team but murder birb was down. Thank you murder birb for being awesome. NEXT FOSSIL- *sigggghhhhhhhhhh* Ok. Now that I have all the rock/waters out of the way...Shelly's badge meant one thing...MASS EVOLUTION! I forgot to take a picture of Tirtouga evolving so he's a post Kiki shot. Shade...Shade took...Three resets? Good news, most of my dinos have dark moves. The bad news? Everything knows energy ball. I had to time my attacks and kills so Chandalure had a bit of damage done on it so murder birb's acrobatics could finish it off in one hit. YEEEE NEW FOSSIL! I was hoping for this one before the second gym. *one training montage later* There was a Cain fight in there somewhere but murder birb took care of his team with sea lily downing his one water pokemon. I think I was afraid for Pulse Muk but I downed it first try. Cal's fight was...Easy...I thought I was going to have a harder time. I needed to reset once due to bad rng with burns. Murder Birb took care of Infernape and Magmortar and then super turtle downed everything else. Smack Down is such a fun move. Victoriiiii-Oh you can guess what happened Then it was Kiki... Kiki was... Kiki was... Oh who am I kidding MURDER BIRB ONE SHOT EVERYTHING I think I'm a bit more worried about Aya then I was with Kiki. Normally I just total her with a psychic pokemon but I don't have that or and real psychic moves. Murder Birb can only do so much as does throwing rocks at stuff.

Yes it is! Just keep pressing F12. It will shine for you soon enough.

I'm pretty sure you find more pidgeys during the day than at night so if it's night switch your computer clock back a few hours. Like Alistair said, Beldum has the catch of a legendary. that is a whopping....3. It also only knows take down, so you have 20 turns to catch it. For added challenge, go for a shiny one. That's what I did. Took me three shinies to catch one but it murders just about everything.

Nope the Porygon is not shiny locked and here's mine to prove it. Nothing is shiny locked(so far) and I would know. I F12'd for all the event pokemon available.

I feel a certain kinship to you as I spent many hours getting all available event pokemon shiny though I took it a step further and they are all female as well. 12% female chance event pokemon are my bane. Just saying you should name any shiny sandshrew Sanic. That's why I did.

I don't think the MM is in the game since the pokemon have about a flat 1% chance of being shiny, 3% with the shiny charm but you can soft reset for a shiny while trading. While you are trading the pokemon you get will appear shiny. Here's my own shiny Trapinch I soft reset for. The Mothim was a normal one by the way.

Bunnelby is rare yes. I think it might be a daytime only pokemon. Anyways, rule number two of reborn(since number one is the game hates you) there is no such thing as too many extra pokemon. Here, this is my on rotation box. Top three are in training but multiple types for multiple jobs and situations is the best way to go. So get that magnamite AND train that bisharp. Both will be useful as you go through the game.

Thanks you two! The way I see it is if people can do rock mono runs, why can't I do a modified version of it myself? I don't think it's as all doom and gloom as it might seem. Archen, who I lucked out on getting, learns Acrobatics at 28. Still might be a problem for Kiki but if I recall my regular run, Archeops soloed most of Samson by itself. To be honest, I think I'm more afraid of Charlotte and Ciel than I am of Kiki and Samson. I didn't feel like playing World of Warcraft today so I worked on this file. First up, nicknames! Kabuto is now named Anarchy, Amaura is named Glacia, and Archen got two nicknames. The first was Yogurt.I had typed into google nicknames for Archen and one thread was called 'I need a good nickname for my Archeops, Yogurt is not an option' and I lost it. I later changed this to Zephyria(she will always be Yogurt in my heart). So major battles...Well... Zephyria was not impressed with an all grass team. Or these two...For some reason they went after Fren's team and left Zeph alone. *SHRUGS* Then it was the first real hurdle, Juilia. Well...You know I almost beat her at level 16 with the pokemon I had? I was one attack off but rollout from Electrode took out Amaura. So after three tries I went to grind to 18. I learned that at level 16, Kabuto learns mud-slap..After getting that well... MPV goes to Anarchy, who took out four of Juilia's six pokemon and really weakened Electrode before fainting. Who would of guessed that one of the two pokemon weak to her would do so much damage. Now it's fun time. NEXT DINO ON MY TEAM! *SIGHS* OK let's add ANOTHER water/rock to the team right before the grass gym. I was hoping for Anorith. At least the shiny sprite is pretty and unlike Kabuto, there's a usable water attack. Also I get to use Knock-Off right away as there are five pokemon that can use it at level one but even disregarding those, the next lowest is Skorupi at level 5. Tirtouga might not be so bad in the long run. Although it suffers from 32 base speed as Carracosta, it has AMAZING base defense at 133 and a really decent attack at 108. Sp. Def, not so much at 65. It also can get Solid Rock as an ability, 1/4ing super effective moves. That might help it survive some of the harder battles. It's move pool is pretty great too. Defensively, there is Protect and Wide Guard. It naturally gets Curse and Shell Smash too(though that speed isn't going to help Shell Smash at all). Crunch, Smack Down, Aqua Tail, Rock Slide are all pretty great and it also gets Rain Dance to set up my swift swimmers like Omanyte and Kabuto. Looks like I got a physical tank on my hands to soak up damage and then hit hard back. Just that poor speed that let's it down. This run is getting more interesting by the moment.

So I've had this idea for awhile and not wanting to EV train anymore in Reborn or Rejuvenation I've set up a file for this different run. I know there was someone doing an ancient run but I wanna go WAY back. Million year old pokemon only...So pretty much the fossil pokemon....And Relicanth...But I have enough rock/water types so I won't be using it. So what am I using? And maybe a suicidal perish song user for some of the bosses because I don't think I can cheese those fights with the dinos. Areodactyl is down in the corner because it's TOO OP AND NEEDS TO THINK ABOUT WHAT IT'S DONE aka that's the last pokemon I'm putting on my team of dinos. They are all shiny and they got a egg move of my choice which are the following Omanyte - Hidden Power Electric. It doesn't really know the move but I did fiddle with the IVs until I got that and I feel bad for that. Kabuto - Stealth Rock Aerodactyl - There wasn't any egg moves I wanted. It's OP enough as it is Lileep - Recover Anorith - Cross Poison Shieldon - Stealth Rock Cranidos - I forgot to edit this one. Thinking Hammer Arm or Crunch Tirtouga - Knock Off Archen - Steel Wing Amaura - Discharge Tyrunt - Dragon Dance Some of those moves are clearly broken SO added challenge: I can not use an egg move until I level up my dino to the lowest level a pokemon naturally learns it according to the ORAS leveling ie Tyrunt will be able to use DDance at level 7 as Latios learns DDance at that level but Amaura won't be able to use Discharge until level 29 as that is when Electrike learns it. I'm not too sure about Cross Poison at this time since Parasect and Crobat learn it at level 1 and the next lowest is 47. How did I pick which dino to start with? Randomizer! What I did was put the ten possible pokemon I could use in the pc and asked my friend to randomize one to ten three time and then I picked the corresponding pokemon to the numbers. After each badge, I will randomize a new dino BUT I need a physical badge. I'm sure everyone know which two fights I won't be getting a new teammate are. With that said, here are my first three dinos. Anarchy A refrigerator OP birb until 50% health. I thought about putting Archen in the corner with Areodactyl but I figured Defeatist was enough of a hindrance to keep it in with the others. I am looking so forward to this. Between the difficulty due to most fossils being VERY slow or some just not being that good(looking at you Shieldon) and being at the mercy of the randomize for my next teammate...Oh this is going to be so fun. I'm already seeing some fights being very difficult(Kiki, Samson, Ciel) but well I'm going to try my best to make this work.

Simple question, do certain shadow pokemon have a set gender? I'm asking since Vanillite seems to be always male but the bonsly right after I've seen male and female.

I think the hardest for me was Shade since his pokemon were fast and hit hard. Beyond that it only really took me a few resets to get most of the gyms down since I had a large number of pokemon trained up. Easiest had to be Samson, Luna or Noel.

Huh. I had a Blue Moon Ice Cream but didn't get any special scene. Guess I missed it. XD

Ok so here's a follow up to your question. I decided to go for a Sp.Attaker Swablu but I forgot the cardinal rule of Reborn, the game hates you. After two hours of hatching eggs, I got this. Both parents have 30s in Sp.Atk IVs. Every one of the eggs I checked had decent IVs so I thought I didn't have to worry about it....But Reborn hates you and you and specially you. I'm going to cry for a bit then slap the Power Lens(Because I clearly made the mistake of trusting the destiny knot) on one of the parents and try again.

Beldum has the same catch rate as most legendary pokemon at 3, so..This happens. I found it was best to stock up on Level Balls, paralyze and Flash 6 times so it's more likely to miss with struggle then throw Level Balls and cross your toes. It's possible but really hard. Just keep pressing f12 until you get another shiny. You can do it!

Are your pokemon EV trained? I would imagine Delphox could take care of most of his team by itself with it's high special attack and speed stats switching between Psyshock and Psychic depending on the stats of the pokemon. If I remember right from my battle, Archeops Acrobatics just about everything itself, and then Gardevoir mopped up the rest with Brave Bird Honchkrow and Crobat for back ups. Knowing what you have in your boxes might help us plan out a team for you since you've got a couple hard gym battles coming up after Samson.

Grats on the Abra! I suppose it would depend on the mon,what I have and are we going to really need it in the long run. I've seen many people say that the IVs shouldn't matter and I know they do help ei my Archeops. The 21s in Attack and Speed are all I really care about. They are above average and the extra points help her outspeed her opponents. Do I want to breed better? With the 12% female chance and even with the shiny charm, not really. If it was my Roserade and I was breeding Extrasensory or HP Fire onto it? Sure. I'd do my best to get better Sp.Atk and Speed IVs. Let's say I was going for that Swinb for more ice and ground coverage, would I IV breed? Yes. Why? I have this godly Teddiursa. Look at this thing. Since it has a 31 attack, two 30s and a 25 Sp.Atk I'd just have to get better HP and Speed and being in the Field egg group there is a large selection of mons to choose from and I could move the IVs to other groups like Grass to help with getting that Roserade with HP Fire. Really it just depends if I want to put in the effort, even with the shiny charm it can take awhile to get what I want.

It's not luck. It's HOURS of sitting there pressing f12. I've clocked in 132h and 52 minutes on Reborn and that's not counting the...Probably over a week total of soft resetting I've done. I'm no stranger to bad IVs either. Lileep and Iggybuff? Both had two 0s for IVs. It happens. You get angry at your luck, throw them in the box and move to the next target. Oooo I can do that. I do need more grass and bug coverage as well and Leavanny's shiny sprite is amazing.