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Welcome to the forums, I hope you enjoy yourself while you're here!
To add in spoilers just type [*spoiler][*/spoiler] and remove the asterisks. I believe you'd post them in the Creative Works under Etcetera.
Here's a Vulpix!
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Do you like the Alien movies?
What do you think of the Space Horror genre?
What is your avatar of/from?
What is your favorite fire type Pokemon?
If you were transported out of reality and into a parallel world where Arceus needed you to save the world of Pokemon but you had no idea why, how, or from what. What region would you choose to start in and why? Also what is your starter?
Did you hear about Pluto? That's messed up.If you could be any vegetable for a fortnight BUT one, what would that one be?
How often do you hear/see the word 'fortnight' being used?
Would you rather have a pet snake, pet turtle, or pet lizard?
What state in the US would you not want to visit and which would you want to visit?
Do you prefer seeing shooting stars or the arm of the milky way?
You are trapped in a room for as long as it takes you to master a skill. Once you master said skill, the exit appears. Do you pick a skill that you think would be the fastest or one you actually want to master? What would it be and why?
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Not only have we progressed significantly but we picked up our 7th member of the run, Happy the Vulpix. We spent
maybe too much time mining for fire stonesnot that long getting fire stones (still missing 2 of them, one for Ember the Growlithe and the other for our future Flareon). Also Ninetails is OP. Seriously. Anyway, let's start things off.==================
Entry #5 - A Mega Turn of Events.
So first thing is first is we have to inform Ame about Corey and see what needs to be done next. But of course everyone's favorite
burntFern is waiting for us already. Fern didn't really put up a fight, except for Roserade OHKO'ing Ember. As usual, I FERN BURN and he goes down easy. Moxie'd Fire Fang on Ignis is really something fun.
Next up was Cain but man oh MAN was he tough. His lead of Samurott and followed by a Nidoking with Thunder Punch made my life troublesome. But after a few attempts, the most I've had to use on a rival battle so far, we got it. Leading with Ignis we Headbutted Samurott to death, haxing Cain far more than anyone should have been haxed. STAB Headbutt is great. Next Nidoking came out and with Moxie boosting Ignis' horrid attack, we somehow flinched Nidoking 4 times, 3 in a row to KO.Haunter went down to a single Lava Plume from Vulcan. Vulcan pretty much Earth Powered the rest of his team into submission.
Fighting through Dr. Sigmund's orderlys was interesting. Happy evolved into Ninetails, knowing Flamethrower, Hex, Confuse Ray, and Extrasensory(which will be swapped back to Will-O-Wisp once I obtain the future MVP of the run, Krakatoa). Lo and behold I need to switch on the power.
So we go against Shade and oh my stars he has a Mega Gengar.
Shade leads with Rotom and this thing has NO CHILL WHATSOEVER. It's discharge after discharge. I end up sacrificing 4-5 mons to bring him down with only Golurk to mop up the mess. Two runs later I make it all the way to Chandelure using one of my Max Revives to only be broomed by it. ARHGLJF
Then it started. Happy's Drought mixed with a Heat Rock was key. Confusing Rotom and spamming Flamethrower he fell. Cinder Fire Pledged Golurk into submission. Ignis Fire Fanged Dusknoir down. Happy burned Aegislash into ashes with Flamethrower spam. Out came Corey and he Mega evolved. Scorch used yawn to put him to sleep and Corey OHKO'd with a boosted Shadow Ball. Out came Cinder to take a hit and Cinder fell. Corey fell asleep and Vulcan came out and hit him with an Earth Power, OHKO'ing Mega Gengar. Last but not least, Chandelure came out and mopped everyone up save for Happy and Vulcan. Happy led a vailent effort in confusing Chandelure, only for a boosted Shadow Ball to KO her. But her work would not go unnoticed. Vulcan ate a Shadow Ball to only blast back an Earth Power, leaving the frightening Ghost at red health. Chandelure hits itself while I heal. It then hit itself in its own confusion, sealing the deal for Vulcan and earning me my 4th badge!
Cya at Kiki!
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Wow, this is a really interesting run, especially with the rules. When you put the list up there it really surprises me just how many pokemon Ash ended up having. Are there any specific fights you foresee having trouble with, Julia excluded?
Good luck on Julia!
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I've been listening to this on repeat for the last few days.
Bring me the Horizon - Empire (Let Them Sing)
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We did it. We DID IT.
I was struggling big time with this battle. It's a bug gym and I'm using fire types? Yikes. Basically that perma rain was only helping to shut me down completely. I could take out Masquerain but besides that I couldn't do much. Shelly would just confuse me while Masquerain scald'd me in the rain. Occasionally Illumise would switch out the Armaldo who outspeeds everything on my team. YAY. I spent a lot of time trying. So much that I just didn't bother keeping track. It was that bad. So I asked Commander about it and he gave me a pretty big tip on how to avoid the rain.
So I gave it a try without the rain. Scorch and Aodh led against her Masquerain and Illumise. Scald hits Aodh and OHKOs him while Illumise uses Struggle Bug. Scorch hits with Flame Burst to set the field ablaze. Next comes out Ignist, who Fire Fangs Masquerain repeatedly to have Shelly use all of her potion ups. Illumise contiues to do a mix of Confuse Ray and struggle bug before switching to Armaldo. Scorch continues to flame burst Illumise and Armaldo. Rock Slide KOs both. Next come out Ember and Cinder. Ember uses flamethrower to KO Masquerain and Charizard using Fire Pledge on Armaldo. Rock Slide missed Ember and KOs Cinder. Next Heather comes out and I send out Vulcan. Fire Pledge on Armaldo to KO it while Heather uses Ancient Power on Vulcan. Lava Plume takes it to near death. Vespiqueen comes out next and uses Attack Order on Ember and Heather KOs Ember with Ancient Power. Lava Plume KOs Heather and takes Vespiqueen to half HP. Bugsy comes out. Attack Order and Lava Plume crits Bugsy, KO'ing it and Vespiqueen goes down.
Next time we take on Shade.
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I ended up getting an Elekid egg while doing my Fire Monotype run and I was wondering if it could be swapped out for Vulpix. I don't care about what any stats or anything on it are. I have the egg in my party if it helps.
Thank you in advance!
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Do you know the Canadian national anthem?
Do you tried/enjoy stargazing?
If you could live in any other time period, what would it be?
Favorite Comedian?
Have you ever done one of those nifty coal walks/runs that you see people do on beaches in movies and TV shows?
Do you often come across posts either online or questions asked by people in the realworldTM that make you raise eyebrows and go "...Wha?" as you slightly shake your head in disbelief?
Fire or Ice?
Wind or Water?
Destruction or Healing?
How would you define Will? (not the document)
If you could be any fruit for a fortnight, which fruit would you be and why?
If a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich hurriedly made its way into the kitchen where you were preparing something that was only sort of delicious and plopped on the counter to explain why your toaster was evil and that you should get rid of it, what would you say? If it helps, the PB&J sandwich can cite diary entries of when the toaster's malice filled gaze was directed at it or when the sandwich was frozen in fear while the toaster did the unimaginable - toast bread. Also the sandwich wouldn't judge you whatsoever for your decision.
The counter was reached via jumping, if that is a concern or not.
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Just finished Kimi ni Todoke.
Currently I am watching;
Re:Zero
Mob Psycho 100
Orange
Berserk 2016
Monster (Rewatching)
Once I finish Monster it'll be time for my yearly rewatch of Yu Yu Hakusho Dub
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Technically that fight was going to be a 6 vs 8 but since I gave Taka 5 before, it wouldn't make since for his Klefki to disappear. That Qwilfish probably is the most interesting thing on his team and just as an FYI all those Pokemon you suffered will be available to get including that Nidoqueen which is implemented already. Just have to make a pain in the butt sidequest to make.
Oh Corey how everyone loves and hates him for being that frustrating. I won't lie when I say that I purposely made him harder than he should be difficulty wise (aka Field Corey is much easier for that reason). You completely ruined what little happiness he had in his life so I wanted the fight to reflect that which is why he can hit so dang hard as he wants to completely destroy you. That's a hard feeling to capture in a battle.
But yeah, making some of the early game teams was kind of fun...and Rain Dance Heliolisk was the most frustrating thing every to create. But yeah I try to stay a little bit unpredictable since most people who play hardcore played Reborn and I also like to take everyone's cheese strategies and rip them in half more or less to make them think. Of course even I have limits in my skills which start to show very late in the game.
It's probably the AI but out of probably the 15/16 times that I got to Heliolisk, I saw Rain Dance once. It was much more happy to use Eerie Impulse or Parabolic Charge, which was my first time seeing that move.
That Qwilfish was odd. 5 of my 6 pokemon it would bubblebeam. The minute Pyroar came out, it would usually signal beam me. I've noticed that a lot of water pokemon will end up using something that isn't water on Pyroar most of the time. I'm not sure what that's about, but it's allowed me to set up or get Echoed Voice strong enough to where I just one shot everything else.
I can imagine field would be easier, but I've always fought the corrosive mist. So if there's a way to get him to do the regular field then I need to figure that out and try that. Although having the corrosive mist allows for a few explosive strategies.
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Entry #4
After the event at the Beryl Bridge, we head to the Lapis Ward!
Lvl 30 Porygon2/Lvl 30 Kadabra
Lvl 32 Marill/Lvl 30 Granbull
Lvl 30 Octillery/Lvl 31 Honchcrow
Lvl 30 Breloom/Lvl 30 Hippowdon
AAAAAAAAAAAND I've figured out what I wanted to, so not going to list every trainers mons now.
And after visiting the Pokemon Center, finding the Aqua hideout, we make our way to Team Magma’s.
Lvl 32 Camerupt/Lvl 34 Ninetails/Lvl 34 Slugma/Lvl 32 Houndoom/Lvl 32 Houndoom/Lvl 32 Delphox
Dear god this was a nightmare. I'm legitimately afraid to take on Archie now for the Houndour.
Okay, so yes, trainers have most definitely changed. Glad I figured that out. Anyway, we find Victoria with Shelly outside the gym. After a few minutes of talking they head back in. Victoria decides to head to the Grand Stair and we follow. She gets captured and we gather Rock Strength, a Heart Scale, Ability Capsule, and a few other items before we make our way down to save her.
Aster and Eclipse again
Lvl 34 Solrock and Lunatone vs. Lvl 34 Aodh and Lvl 36 Emboar
Emboar uses sucker punch but completely wiffs it and Solrock uses Heat Wave, which Aodh avoids. Aodh uses Rock Slide which does little damage to Solrock but hurts Lunatone. Lunatone gets a super potion. AGAIN Sucker Punch wiff. Solrock hits Aodh with Psychic. Aodh uses lava plume, which gives both Solrock and Lunatone a burn. Sucker Punch finally hits and KOs Lunatone. Psychic on Aodh again followed by Rock Slide.
Lvl 37 Rhyhorn and Lvl 34 Solrock vs. Lvl 34 Aodh and Lvl 36 Emboar
WHY ARE YOU SUCKER PUNCHING A RHYHORN? DAMNIT VICTORIA. Solrock KOs Aodh. Rhyhorn knows Dragon Rush? Cool. Okay.
Lvl 37 Rhyhorn and Lvl 34 Solrock vs. Lvl 34 Vulcan and Lvl 36 Emboar
Turns out Earth Power is single target. Cool. Sucker Punch KOs Solrock. And Earth Power KOs Rhyhorn.
Lvl 35 Electabuzz and Lvl 34 Milotic vs. Lvl 34 Vulcan and Lvl 36 Emboar
Heavy sigh. Low Kick hits Vulcan. Milotic water pulses Emboar. GG Confused. Fire Punch crit hits Electabuzz. GREAT. Earth Power to hit Milotic.
Lvl 35 Magmar and Lvl 34 Milotic vs. Lvl 34 Vulcan and Lvl 36 Emboar
Cool, KO Emboar so the water hits 4x weak Vulcan. Water Pulse KO on Vulcan.
Lvl 35 Magmar and Lvl 34 Milotic vs. Lvl 33 Scorch and Scraggy
Feint Attack and Water Pulse KO Scorch before he can yawn Milotic. Scraggy poison jabs Milotic for near 0 damage.
Lvl 35 Magmar and Lvl 34 Milotic vs. Lvl 35 Ignis and Lvl 33 Scraggy
Echoed Voice on Milotic and Flame Burst hits Scraggy. Water Pulse KOs Scraggy
Lvl 35 Magmar and Lvl 34 Milotic vs. Lvl 35 Ignis and Hariyama
Echoed Voice on Milotic. Magmar uses confuse ray on Ignis. Milotic uses aqua ring. Hariyama uses belly drum. Ignis somehow hurtfully yells at herself. Magmar flame bursts Ignis. I NEED POKEMON WITH FLASH FIRE. Milotic water pulses Hariyama who KOs Milotic with Knock Off
Lvl 35 Magmar vs. Lvl 36 Ignis and Lvl 35 Hariyama
I love being confused and not listening to orders. Hariyama brick breaks and wins.
If episode 16 features the Water Gym after we do the fairy one I just may snap and laugh until the end of time. Don’t worry, there’s still a ground gym that will test my mettle.
Anyway, escape rope out and heal up. Only Charizard can learn fire pledge so I teach it to him then head to the gym
Dr. Sigmund ew. Time to fight his orderly.
Lvl 33 Wishcash vs. Lvl 33 Scorch
I feel my soul being destroyed.
Lvl 33 Wishcash vs. Lvl 34 Ignis
Echoed Voice, Aqua Tail. Echoed Voice, Zen Headbutt
Lvl 33 Wishcash vs. Lvl 34 Cinder
DR, not ded. Aqua Tail, DR KO.
Lvl 34 Kecleon vs. Lvl 34 Vulcan
Lava Plume and Shadow Claw
Lvl 34 Slowking vs. Lvl 34 Cinder
Flame Pledge and Water Pulse
Lvl 34 Ember vs. Lvl 34 Slowking
Retaliate and Water Pulses
Lvl 34 Slowking vs. Lvl 34 Aodh
Lava Plume and Water Pulse. He’s burned.
Lvl 34 Slowking vs. Lvl 35 Vulcan
Earth Power KO
Lvl 34 Dousin vs Lvl 35 Vulcan
Wtf is that? Kill it, kill it with fire. Burned.
Lvl 34 Electross vs. Lvl 36 Vulcan
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Second attempt? GET BROOMED.
Sacrifice Cinder to Wishcash, Yawn him on Scorch. PYROAR/IGNIS ECHOED VOICE w/ Metronome
Swept.
Victoria time
Lvl 34 Vulcan vs. Lvl 34 Scraggy
Poison Jab by Genius Victoria and is that a life orb? Lava Plume.
Lvl 34 Cinder vs. Lvl 35 Poliwrath
WHERE WAS HE WHEN YOU WERE CAPTURED? Wing Attack for almost half hp. Wing Attack again. Waterfall, finally. Victoria is horrid.
Lvl 33 Scorch vs. Lvl 35 Poliwrath
Super Potion followed by Acrobatics. Super Potion and yawn. Waterfall OHKO
Lvl 34 Ignis vs. Lvl 35 Poliwrath
3x Echoed Voice.
Lvl 35 Ignis vs. Lvl 35 Hariyama
Hariyama gets a crit brick break OFC.
Lvl 34 Ember vs. Lvl 35 Hariyama
Intimidate and Super Potion Vulcan. It Belly Drums to 1hp basically and Flame Burst KO.
Lvl 34 Ember vs. Lvl 34 Gallade
Swords Dance and RIP.
Lvl 34 Vulcan vs. Lvl 34 Gallade
Lava Plumeeeeeee
Lvl 34 Vulcan vs. Lvl 37 Emboar because why not.
Sucker Punch fails, Super Potion. Sucker Punch fails, Earth Power. Sucker Punch hits and Earth Power KO
At this point I’m almost afraid to try to get Houdour because I know Archie is going to be op
Shelly having perma rain is going to delay me a bit. heavy sigh. I thought Fire Pledge would solve my problems if it rained, turns out it doesn't. Right about now I wish I had that Drought Vulpix hatch. Anyway, next post will cover both Shelly and Shade.
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Facial hair is my saving grace. I'm 22 but without any facial hair I guess I look 16 or so. With a beard I don't have any issues when I go to a bar or if I have to buy. However, if I shave I get asked to see my ID or if my parents are with me when I want to go see a rated R movie. I've argued with a few bartenders and bouncers when it's been an issue. Restaurants always tried to give me a kid's menu when I was in my early to mid teenage years. It was frustrating to say the least.
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Phew, what a doozy...
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Entry #3 Beryl Ward
Well it’s time to face our (my) fears and take on the most frustrating move in the game. Chatter. The first thing to do is to talk to the girl in the house right before the Jasper Ward for the sticker we’ll be picking up later on. Make sure to grab the genius wing on the rock to the left of the office, and proceed into the Jaspar Ward!
First thing is first. Get our next team member! So we’ll start the police quest. Back outside, we’re going to head right and fight the Team Meteor Grunt hanging about.
Going to try this out;
Lvl 24 Carnivine/Lvl 25 Grimer
Lvl 24 Spewpa/Lvl 25 Butterfree
Anywho, after another trainer battle we head up to grab the Pokemon Center in Jasper. Once we healed up, head back into the apartment and go left this time.
Lvl 24 Kricketune
Right when we get outside there is a Pecha Berry on the rock above us. Grabbed that. Another Meteor grunt awaits us inside the building.
Lvl 24 Whirlipede x2
Into Malchous Forest. So first we’re going to take a detour and go up to the right and exit the forest. In the first building is the first Police Officer to rescue, so we’re going to save him from Team Meteor.
Lvl 24 Raticate
The next building has an elevator in it, which we need to use to rescue the girl from Peridot Ward told us about. We’ll access it after we deal with PULSE. Back into Malchous forest, cut the tree on the left path this time, where we went right to the officer. Time for a Team Meteor gauntlet. The rock with a tree in the way has nothing, so don’t bother. However, the rock off to the left of it has a revive.
Lvl 24 Venomoth/Lvl 25 Golbat
It was at this point that I remembered Numel has Own Tempo, so he cannot be confused. Get ready to be shrekt Chatot.
Lvl 24 Gallade/Lvl 25 Lunatone
Lvl 23 Staravia/Lvl 25 Gravaler/Lvl 25 Flaffy
Lvl 24 Scolipede/Lvl 25 Solrock
Oh boy, the fight that I’ve been worried about since Julia. Well, this one and the next one in Beryl. I’m going to lead with Scorch, because he’s fairly quick and has flame burst. Going to yawn PULSE Tangrowth and hope that I can burn him to death. Vulcan should be enough to take Chatot, but just in case we have Cinder who should (please) outspeed Chatot.
Vs. Taka
Lvl 27 Scorch vs. Lvl 26 Lileep
Leading with Flame Burst to burn the forest. Lileep hits Scorch with a confuse ray. It also has leftovers. Sigh. A boosted Flame Burst brings it down to red hp and it uses Ancient Power. Super Potion #1 and Flame Burst crits. Snapped out of confusion and Flame Burst KO. Silly me, forgetting that they have different teams.
Lvl 27 Cinder vs. Lvl 27 Gligar
It leads with Quick Attack and Cinder hits with Dragon Rage, which lowers it to half. Super Potion #2 and DR again. Dragon Rage KO.
Lvl 27 Cinder vs. Lvl 27 PULSE Tangrowth
Can’t choose between Smokescreen or Flame Burst to lead with. I Flame Burst because this is a monofire run and everything can and must burn. Flame Burst takes him to just a bit before half HP, and he crits a Giga Drain on Cinder for like 10hp. Lol’d. Also WOW the burning field damage was much more than I thought it was for. Another Flame Burst KO.
Lvl 27 Vulcan vs. Lvl 29 Chatot
Hyper Voice OHKO.
Lvl 27 Scorch vs. Lvl 29 Chatot
Chatter OHKO.
Lvl 27 Cinder vs. Lvl 29 Chatot
Flame Burst takes him to red and he hits with a Chatter. Despite being confused by FIRE everywhere, Cinder knows that this lil punk of a bird needs to be burned again. Flame Burst KO.
Lvl 27 Aodh vs. Lvl 26 Klefki
It sets up Light Screen since 4 out of my 5 mons are special no biggie. Incinerate to check for berries. Foul Play and Flame Burst KO.
VICTORY!
I’m actually really surprised that I did that on my first try. Also, this run should be renamed Flame Burst KO. I was disappointed that Incinerate doesn’t get strengthened by the flames text like Flame Burst does. I also take back what I said earlier about Scorch/Pansear. He’s doing very well, better than Aodh/Slugma currently.
Moving on, we can now make our way back to the broken elevator to rescue the girl trapped up there. That nets us another stick, bringing us to the 3rd floor of the Dept. Store.
With PULSE Tangrowth defeated, we can rescue the 2nd police officer. I need repels. Onto Beryl Ward! A lot of shards are found on the rocks around here as well, which will be nice for Fire Pledge. Our next stop is the Rhodochrine Jungle.
Of course since I burn Fern all the time, he comes to me when I’m in the cage and tries some first year psych student bullshit on me, but I’ve taken Intro to Psychology. So I just tell him that I’m going to Fern Burn again soon and he runs off, seriously madbro.
After the escape, we free our 3rd police officer and flip the first of the three switches to proceed through the jungle. After flipping the 2nd switch for the bridge, we make our way out of the jungle.
Lvl 25 Mothim/Lvl 25 Ivysaur
After healing up the library we head to the back room and find a growlithe standing over a pit. In the pit is an office who had fallen in. Growlithe heads back to the police station and that’s our 4th officer. Time to flip the final switch. Exiting the Library we go and cut the tree right next to us.
Lvl 25 Boldore/Lvl 26 Carnivine
After flipping the final switch and one quick heal at the library, we make our way back to the bridge in Rhodochrine.
Lvl 25 Golbat/Lvl 24 Lairon
We’re going to head into the building ahead instead of going down, which takes us to our last police officer.
Lvl 25 Mightyena/Lvl 25 Arcanine
Lvl 32 Growlithe/Lvl 33 Growlithe
Aaaaaaaaaaand just like that we have our 6th pokemon, a Growlithe! Since we came all the way back here, we’re going to make a few pit stops. Grabbing the sticker, giving Growlithe a nickname, getting the growlithe egg, and buying some repels! Ember the Growlithe! I traded the egg in and got an Elekid. Anyway, back to danger.
And the egg
Lvl 25 Grimer/Lvl 25 Boldore
Here we go
Lvl 28 Scorch and Aodh vs. Lvl 26 Glaceon and Lileep
Oh, did I mention the weather was sunny today? Scorch uses yawn on Lileep with Aodh going for a Flame Burst on Glaceon. Glaceon hits both of them with an icy wind, lowering Aodh to half hp and Lileep’s Ancient Power KO’s Aodh.
Lvl 28 Scorch and Lvl 25 Ember vs. Lvl 26 Glaceon and Lileep
Super Potion on Glaceon. Fire Fang lowers Glaceon to redbar followed by a Flame Burst KO. Ancient Power hits Scorch and Lileep falls asleep
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Lvl 28 Scorch and Lvl 25 Ember vs. Lvl 27 Jolteon and Lileep
I know this is hardcore but I continue to be surprised by changed mons. Jolteon uses double kick to KO Scorch.
Lvl 29 Vulcan and Lvl 25 Ember vs. Lvl 27 Jolteon and Lileep
Jolteon uses Charge Beam on Ember. Ember follows up with a Fire Fang, lowering it to red health. Vulcan uses curse. Charge Beam KOs Ember and Lava Plume KOs Jolteon.
Lvl 30 Vulcan and Lvl 28 Ignis vs. Lvl 26 Espeon and Lvl 26 Lileep
Espeon uses Reflect, Ignis uses Fire Fang, and Vulcan uses Lava Plume. Lileep wakes up and uses Ingrain. Taka uses a Super Potion on Lileep. Espeon psybeams Ignis. Ignis finishes off Espeon with Fire Fang. Lava Plume KOs Ignis.
Lvl 30 Vulcan and Lvl 29 Cinder vs. Lvl 26 Lileep and Lvl 27 Umbreon
Umbreon uses quick attack on Vulcan and Cinder uses Flame Burst on Umbreon. Vulcan uses Lava Plume to KO Lileep.
Lvl 31 Vulcan and Lvl 30 Cinder vs. Lvl 27 Umbreon and Lvl 25 Gligar
Gligar uses Quick Attack and Cinder KOs him with Flame Burst.
Lvl 31 Vulcan and Lvl 30 Cinder vs. Lvl 27 Umbreon and Lvl 26 Tangrowth
Flame Burst on Tangrowth takes him to half hp. Feint Attack and Giga Drain hit Cinder, along with Lava Plume to KO both him and Umbreon.
Lvl 31 Vulcan vs. Lvl 26 Tangrowth
Revive on Cinder and Tangrowth uses Growth. Flame Burst KO
Lvl 31 Vulcan and Lvl 30 Cinder vs. Lvl ?? Chatot
Flame Burst KO on Chatot was quick enough where I didn’t look at his level, rip.
Lvl 31 Vulcan vs. Lvl 26 Klefki
WHY DO THEY HAVE SO MANY POKEMON? Foul Play and a Lava Plume KO
VICTORY!!
After all that, Corey getting caught by the police and buying a few super potions from the Pokemart, we make our way to the gym and solve the puzzle to get Corey to come out and play. Now to smack some sense into the police officers.
Lvl 30 Arcanine
Vulcan evolved into Camerupt!
Lvl 30 Amphraros/Lvl 29 Arcanine
Just for the record, seeing all of these Arcanines lately make me jealous.
Lvl 28 Herdier/Lvl 30 Arcanine
Let's go for under 10 Attempts again!
Attempt #1
Lvl 28 Scorch vs. Lvl 32 Qwilfish
Um wat. Bubblebeam OHKO.
Lvl 28 Aodh vs. Lvl 32 Qwilfish
Bubblebeam OHKO.
Lvl 30 Cinder vs. Lvl 32 Qwilfish
WE ALL DEAD NOW
Lvl 29 Ignis vs. Lvl 31 Nidoqueen
Poison Jab OHKO
Lvl 27 Ember vs. Lvl 31 Nidoqueen
Bulldoze OHKO
Lvl 33 Vulcan vs. Lvl 31 Nidoqueen
Bulldoze and Earth power.
Lvl 33 Vulcan vs. Lvl 30 Swalot
Earth Power hits on switch in. Ice Beam hits and Earth Power finishes him off.
Nidoqueen Bulldoze KO.
Defeat #1
Time to grind.
Alright, so after a while of grinding up everyone to match Corey’s levels and grabbing Mareep for breeding purposes later, it was time to challenge Corey to a rematch!
(Duel of Fates came on my playlist when this started, it’s on shuffle.)
Attempt #2
I’m going to see if Ignis can tank a Bubblebeam and Echo Voice out Qwilfish. Doesn’t do enough. Also Qwilfish has Intimidate.
Attempt #3
Attempt to see if Aodh can get off a Flame Burst to KO Qwilfish. Nope.
Attempt #4
So I’m going to have to sacrifice someone. Can Ember outspeed it? No, but Qwilfish crit.
Attempt #5
Can Ember tank a bubblebeam? Nope. So that leaves Scorch to try and outspeed it. If not, only Cinder/Ignis can.
Attempt #6
Qwilfish is faster but it crit, so attempt again to see if he can tank it.
Attempt #7
Nope. Someone has to be sacrificed. Cinder it is.
Attempt #8
Lvl 33 Cinder vs. Lvl 32 Qwilfish
Cinder flame bursted to defeat Qwilfish. Both faint.
Lvl 32 Scorch vs. Lvl 31 Nidoqueen
Nidoqueen is faster and KOs with bulldoze before yawn can be used. Not looking good fam.
Lvl 34 Vulcan vs. Lvl 31 Nidoqueen
It used ice punch? Earth Power takes it to nearly red hp. Bulldoze KO.
Lvl 33 Ember vs. Lvl 31 Nidoqueen
Intimidate + a CC. Nope. Super Potion + Bulldoze KO.
Lvl 34 Ignis vs. Lvl 31 Nidoqueen
Work Up to get Attack up. Nido uses a poison jab. 2x Headbutt and Ignis eats another jab. Nidoqueen is down.
Lvl 34 Ignis vs. Lvl 30 Scolipede
With a Work Up and Moxie, Fire Fang OHKOs
Lvl 34 Ignis vs. Lvl 31 Skunktank
Work Up x1 and Moxie x2 Fire Fang. Not enough, Ignis is KO’d with Night Slash.
Lvl 31 Aodh vs. Lvl 31 Skunktank
Accidently used Incinerate instead of Flame Burst, Night Slash KO.
Defeat #2
Attempt #9
I have an idea. Risky but I have it nonetheless.
Lvl 34 Ignis vs. Lvl 32 Qwilfish
2x Hyper Voices used while holding a Meteronome, one crit and Qwilfish is redbarred.
Lvl 33 Cinder vs. Lvl 32 Qwilfish
Corey uses a Super Potion, Cinder uses DR. DR again to KO Qwilfish.
Lvl 33 Ember vs. Lvl 30 Scolipede
Scolipede leads with Rock Tomb and Ember uses a toxic powered up Fire Fang. Rock Tomb KO.
Lvl 33 Cinder vs. Lvl 30 Scolipede
Scolipede is faster and hits with Rock Tomb, but Cinder tanks it and uses a DR to KO.
Lvl 34 Vulcan vs. Lvl 30 Swalot
Ice Beam? Anyway, Earth Power to Redbar. Venoshock and Earth Power KO.
Lvl 33 Cinder vs. Lvl 31 Nidoqueen
Flame Burst OHKO
Lvl 33 Aodh vs. Lvl 31 Skunktank
Antidote on Vulcan. Choc. Ice Cream to heal Vulcan. Aodh is KO’d by 2x Night Slashes.
Lvl 34 Vulcan vs. Lvl 31 Skunktank
Night Slash does little damage and Earth Power KOs Skunktank.
Lvl 33 Scorch vs. Lvl 33 Crobat
Tried to Yawn but Crobat KOs with a Venoshock.
Lvl 35 Vulcan vs. Lvl 33 Crobat
Healed up with Ice cream. Crobat hits with Venoshock. Air Slash and Lava Plume. Crobat is a sliver from turning yellow. Air Slash flinches Vulcan. Ice Cream again and tank Air Slash. Air Slash again and Rock Slide KOs Crobat.
VICTORY
The team afterwards
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I both loved and hated this battle. The field is not one of my favorites. However, the most problematic part of it wasn't Qwilfish, even though it was the one doing most of the damage to me, it was Nidoqueen. She could easily eat an Earth power and at that point KO Camerupt. So I had to use the field explosion on her and not on Qwilfish. That presented an entire new problem. Qwilfish is so damn fast that only Charizard and Pyroar can outspeed it. Pyroar doesn't have a move that can ignite the field. Charizard does but he needs to be the one to finish it.
So I was trying a few different things in there and resetting, hence the quick, repeated attempts. Then I noticed that when I had Pyroar in, Qwilfish was using Signal beam more than it did Bubblebeam. But the intimidate was the issue. I didn't want to lose any more pokemon then I had to. So thinking it over and deciding that I wanted to buy more potions incase I used them, I checked to see what I could buy and saw the Meteronome. I figured using that with Hyper Voice might be enough to take out Qwilfish and then I could eat the poison until I saw Nidoqueen. Lo and behold, it actually worked out.
I was debating at some point to train up Slugma to evolve into Magcargo but the 4x weakness from water would be the same result with his base Special Defense going from 20 to 40. So there was no point there. Due to his fraility and speed, I figured I'd use him to antidote up or use potions. Happened to be a sunny day so sold a few items I was waiting on and bought the ice cream. Personally I don't like using items in battle, but in cases like Corey, where I need it for a strategy to work, I deemed it necessary. I also used that revive on the ZEL/Taka fight because I did not want to repeat that. I only ended up KO'ing Charizard immediately with Lava Plume, but he was able to help get the KO.
Disappointed I couldn't pull a Larvesta or Vulpix from the egg, as I haven't used them before and another member would be greatly appreciated. However, after I beat Shelly I can grab a Houndour and finally some fire stones. I also grabbed Mareep to breed later to give Charizard Dragon Pulse, and I plan on getting Nuzleaf for Extrasensory for Typhlosion.
I guess Shelly is going to be the victim of my frustration when I raze the gym to the ground.
Also going to expect more than 6 pokemon from now on in 2x trainer double battles.
EDIT: Not sure why I said he needs to finish it food. I don't even know what my train of thought was.
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The thing about Julia is that if you try to power through her and treat her like vanilla reborn's pushover, you're going to get your ass whooped. Funny enough I'm the only person in the world who never thought she was hard but to each their own. It's to teach people a painful lesson of you can't beat a leader with just one or two Pokemon (generally recommend a full team) and to learn about the tools around you such as the majestic Gulpin.
Anyways, designing the leaders could be a real...unpleasant experience of face smashing into a wall. Getting Florinia to even use hazards and statuses was an ordeal in and of itself. Let's just say I put way too much effort into these designs since enemies hitting stupidly hard does not make for fun gameplay which is why my focus was strategy. As long as AI doesn't go to janktown next episode, their shouldn't be that much of a difference in difficulty in future episodes other than the AI stops being...dumb sometimes.
As for Obsidia, that's the original game's designs fault since there's a ton of events (300 maybe) which can actually cause it to lag hard especially due to no gates connecting the maps meaning it all has to unload a ton of events then load just as many. Pain in the butt, but it picks and chooses when to kick in but goes away eventually.
I definitely agree with that. Julia is a nightmare with just two, and I imagine having a full team would make the battle much more enjoyable.
So far Florinia has been my favorite fight, and that's not because of the fire types. I usually breeze through her with Kricketune and Numel. However her team this time around was much more interesting and I can already tell that she can't be cheesed with fury cutter spam. On my second attempt stealth rocks were thrown in, which was something unexpected. Not to mention Grotle and Gourgeist were able to take a flame burst from an at cap Charizard, I'm looking forward to running Hardcore normally after this run. Cradily though was a monster. I think that if I wasn't able to put it to sleep and kill it while sleeping it would have taken me a much longer time.
I just ran through Obsidia actually and it was fine. I think it was just something on my end.
I'm actually about to go fight Corey right now, so I'm looking forward to seeing how his team has changed. Not on the Corrosive Mist field though, rescued everyone before the second Tangrowth fight so I could get Growlithe and the egg before to see what I'd get.
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How tf- I was gonna ask how you got a charizard but realized overleved and came back down
I'm stupid sometimes.You can get growlithe before corey btw.
Good luck on beating Corey, don't let him swim in concrete.
I didn't even think about it until after Julia and I had Charmeleon at 33 with 16 Common Candies left. It was as if the stars aligned.
Awesome, thank you! I'll make sure to keep my eye out for it then
Thanks, I'll need it. I have a feeling that Corey is going to be a handful. Also have Taka to worry about.
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Entry 2: PULSE and Florinia
After healing up, we end up meeting our third member of the run, Vulcan the Numel!
We run into Victoria after dealing with a trainer or two. No surprise here, we mop the floor with her.
Cinder takes down Scraggy, Makuhita, Poliwag, and Pignite. Scorch finishes off Kirlia.
Next up is the Scraggy gang. I loved the nicknames they had. But they were wittled down through a combination of yawn and flame burst.
Finally after we made our way out of the slums we head to Coral ward to heal up, and run into Cain. I really like that we see Oshawatt evolve.
Lvl 20 Scorch vs. Lvl 21 Grimer
Start off with a Flame Burst to see how much it does, not much unfortunately. Grimer uses Shadow Sneak x2 and look at that, Black Sludge. Swap out to Vulcan.
Lvl 15 Vulcan vs. Lvl 21 Grimer
Takes a Shadow Sneak on switch in. Acid Spray hits and Magnitude 9 hits. Acid Spray drops Vulcan to 2HP and he hits with a Magnitude 6 and Grimer has a sliver of HP -.-. Cain uses a potion x2 while Vulcan uses Flame Burst, and Magnitude 9 which crits for the win.
Lvl 20 Scorch vs. Lvl 20 Dewott
I mess up and use yawn when the terrain prevents it. GG me. Razor Shell.
Lvl 21 Cinder vs. 20 Dewott
Wing Attack hits and he responds with Air Slash. Dragon Rage redbars him while Razor Shell drops Cinder to 1hp. DR for the KO
Lvl 17 Vulcan vs. Lvl 23 Nidorino
Super Potion Cinder and Horn attack gets the KO
Lvl 21 Cinder vs. Lvl 23 Nidorino
2x Flame Burst for the KO, Horn Attack misses.
Lvl 22 Cinder vs. Lvl 21 Venonat
OHKO Flame Burst
Lvl 22 Cinder vs. Lvl 21 Gastly
I out speed it. Flame Burst redbars him, Nightshade and then Flame Burst for the KO
The next trainer on the way to PULSE Tangrowth has a Barboach that KO’s Scorch. Got the yawn off tho. Was Spinda always that strong early game? Psybeam tore up Vulcan. Healed up then made my way to PULSE. I don’t think Spinda was strong, but that Vulcan is like paper.
Scorch yawns PULSE, followed by a Flame Burst which crits. Tangrowth crits a Knock Off, KOing Scorch. He falls asleep.
Cinder comes out and Dragon Rages.
Victory!
Onwards towards the Academy!
I’d also like to point out how far Scorch/Pansear is falling behind. He’s not doing very well.
We managed to acquire the coin case which we used to gain our next member of the run, Aodh the Slugma! As well as grabbing Ignis the Litleo!
I'd also like to point out that the trainers in the school/academy were pretty challenging. I struggled more with them than with Fern. I hesitate to say Florinia but I think that she is an exception.
Anyway, FERN BURN time.
Lvl 23 Scorch vs. Lvl 22 Ludicolo
Yawn followed by a Bite to flinch him. Swap into Cinder.
Lvl 25 Cinder vs. Lvl 22 Ludicolo
Asleep. Dragon Rage into the Super Potion, Wing Attack. Wing Attack again into the Super Potion. Crit hit, Ludicolo down!
Lvl 25 Aodh vs. Lvl 24 Grovyle
Leaf Blade vs Incinerate. Normal Gem boosted Quick Attack, which doesn’t do much against another Incinerate. Grovyle down!
Lvl 25 Aodh vs. Lvl 25 Roselia
Fully expect to go down, hoped to be hit by a physical move to trigger flame body and got poison jabbed! Roselia burned.
Lvl 25 Vulcan vs. Lvl 25 Roselia
Growth and Amnesia. Poison Jab which does hardly any damage and Lava Plume, which redbars Roselia with a burn KO.
Lvl 25 Cinder vs. Lvl 24 Servine
Flame Burst OHKO. Got so excited to take a screenie that I accidently pressed F12…
Lvl 25 Cinder vs. Lvl 24 Ferroseed
I just want to point out, that as Ferroseed comes out, Fern says that I’m not special. Flame Burst OHKO.
And onto the main event.Same as last gym, 10 attempt goal.
Attempt #1
Lvl 25 Vulcan vs. Lvl 23 Cacturne
Feint Attack hits for over half HP. Lava Plume OHKOs.
Lvl 25 Ignis vs. Lvl 24 Grotle
Ignis uses Work Up and Grotle misses a Sand Tomb. 2x Fire Fang to get Grotle to yellow HP. Hits Ignis with Seed Bomb and Sand Tomb. Grotle KO’s Ignis with a sand tomb after a Fire Fang redbars him. I know Ignis is pretty weak atm but I thought he could handle Grotle. Guess his phy defence was way better than I expected.
Lvl 25 Scorch vs. Lvl 24 Grotle
She finally uses a Super Potion. Holy hell is Grotle tough. Flame Burst for about half of the super potion it looks like. Scorch gets the KO luckily.
Lvl 25 Cinder vs. Lvl 24 Breloom
Flame Burst OHKO
Lvl 26 Vulcan vs. Lvl 23 Tropius
I could have stayed in but I wanted to test another lava plume. Leaf Blade KO.
Lvl 25 Cinder vs. Lvl 23 Tropius
Cinder gets him redbarred with a Flame Burst. Tropius uses toxic and sitrus berry to heal. Cinder finishes him off with a Flame Burst.
Lvl 26 Scorch vs. Lvl 24 Gourgeist
I have never seen this pokemon before. But I’m assuming it’s ghost because of the pumpkin and geist. Scorch ignores me twice and gets hit with two Shadow Sneaks. I use an antidote on Cinder.
Lvl 25 Aodh vs. Lvl 24 Gourgeist
Disable, which does nothing. Incinerate x2. Bullet Seed crits once out of 2 hits. Another Super Potion by Florinia.
Lvl 26 Aodh vs. Lvl 27 Cradily
Potion on Cinder. Rock Slide misses. Get hopes up for a Clear Smog, Rock Slide hits.
Lvl 25 Cinder vs. Lvl 27 Cradily
Dragon Rage hits and Rock Slide OHKOs.
Defeat #1
Well I took some things away from the loss. Firstly I need to down level a few pokemon. Secondly, Scorch is key for Cradily due to yawn (I think). Let’s try again. Good first attempt.
Attempt #2
Scorch yawned Cradily and then Charizard Dragon Raged it.
VICTORY!
And here is the team so far
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So far I'm having a great time with this. It really is cool to not have mons over the cap, levelling up on the fight KO is fine. But having to brute force Julia was not enjoyable at all. Yes, it could have been avoided somewhat if I had chosen a starter that could use Bulk Up or Nasty Plot, but since I didn't have access to those moves I had to smash my face against the wall, and that isn't the point. Thankfully, this time around I had more pokemon to choose from and everyone started out around 24/25 for the gym battle. At this point I'm crossing my fingers that the mystery egg is either Vulpix or Larvesta. The three saves I've played I've got the egg I've had Sneasel each time. RIP.
One thing I did notice that really bothered me was that Obsidia Ward was REALLY framey. I was practically gliding across the floor. When I went into a building, a battle, or the southern part or the north area with the game corner, it was fine. Other places in the game were fine as well. I'm assuming it was on my end but nevertheless.
I have a feeling I'm going to have to stock up on common candies for Corey, because based off the levels of Flo, he should probably have pokemon around 30 with an ace around 32/33 I'm guessing. Then I have to worry about the 35 cap with Shelly.
Also I'm not sure if you can get growlithe BEFORE you fight Corey. I know you can after. I'll have to look into it more. But we have some cool pokemon on the horizon. Growlithe, Houndour, and Heatmor. Possibly Vulpix/Larvesta. I'm beyond excited for 7th street for Cyndaquil. I know it's far off but I already have a name picked out for him.
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Oh, you've not only heard of The Ranger's Apprentice but like it as well? Ohboy, here come the questions.
Who is your favorite character
and why is it Tug?Have you read the Brotherband Chronicles at all?
Have you read the Early Years?
Are you excited for The Battle of Hackham Heath?
Do you like/dislike Morgarath
Favorite book of the series?
Half tempted to spam more loaded Tug questions but I won't.
Did you enjoy the Lost Stories?
Have you read the Tournament of Gorlan yet?
How do you feel about owls?
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Just wait until you're between 10 and 11 badges. Then the Fire-mono fun truly begins.
For bonus "fun," try assaulting Lapis Ward while it's raining.
Dare you not to over-level. It's even more "fun" :3 Although htf are you 33 after rJulia?I'm not looking forward to any rain. Bad enough Heliolisk rain danced me a few times. But why not, we'll see what the
clockweather wizard can do.I'm holding out hope that with more options now I won't have to over level.
I'm actually really looking forward to the 11th badge, should be a hot match.
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Hey Everyone!
(I want to point out that I was writing this as I played.)
I’m Drev and I lurk a lot. I’ve always had an interest in monoruns and recently hardcore reborn, because I like to improve as a trainer. Coming from the official games, light platinum, zeta, and insurgence all helped contribute to my improvement in the games. I’m in the middle of my second run of Reborn and doing my first run in Rejuvenation so I decided to finally start my fire mono run. With an added twist of the Hardcore mod. Yay. This was heavily inspired by Hiroki Tatsumi’s fighting monorun.
After a bit of thinking, I decided on my starter, Charmander. A lot of thought went into this and I came to my decision based on the following;
· Fire/Flying
· Tepig, Cyndaquil, and Fennekin are available later in the game
· Currently using Blaziken in my regular run
· So that leaves Charmander or Chimchar. The first game I played was Blue with Charmander as my starter, so little homage to him.
I wanted to get a decent Charmander as well.
Modest nature, can’t really complain about the stats. Good enough imo. Also named him Cinder after the character in a book.
So onwards to face Cain!
Luckily after a growl, he misses his tackle and it is an easy win for Cinder. Next is Victoria.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand we lost. So close.
I didn’t want to use my potion here that I got so I took the loss. I used growl twice and had 2 crit hits and well phooey.
After doing a bit of research I learned about the *cough* four eyed trainer near the Egg and EXP share, so I avoided him stealthily and grabbed them.
The first thing that I noticed was the difference in the starting trainers compared to regular reborn. Alright, I gotchu.
We find our second member of the run – Pansear!
I’ve never used one of these monkeys before, so this will be interesting. He gets the nickname Scorch. Unfortunately, he is the only member we can get until we defeat Julia.
As far as the regular trainers go, the first one I actually lost to. Starly just rekt Cinder so I had to train him up to Ember real quick, and since then it was a cakewalk. The Panpour had to be smokescreen x2 and then wasn’t a problem. I believe there is Ducklett that I have to fight off of a trainer, but I’m not very worried about it. Smokescreen or Yawn then just KO em. (I take that back.) The trainer near Fern with the Surskit and Finneon were dangerous. Smokescreen + Lick to paralyze it. Scorch was defeated but Cinder was able to clean up after him, though it was a struggle. Finneon used attract on Cinder and then boy did he fall hard for that lil fish.
After defeating all of the available trainers and healing up I made my way to everyone’s favorite character
Lvl 14 Scorch vs. Lvl 15 Lombre.
2x lick to Paralyze. Lombre spammed growl and followed with a bubble, but 2 Incinerates followed by a 3rd crit took him out.
Lvl 15 Cinder vs. Lvl 16 Servine
I remember that the Servine line is fast and will most likely outspeed Cinder, so threw up a smoke screen and he used leer. Lucky for me he misses the wrap and I ember him. He gets burned. He uses pound and takes me from 40hp to 32. I ember and he burns, leaving him with a sliver of hp. After a potion heals him back up, I crit with my next ember and down falls Servine.
Lvl 15 Scorch vs. Lvl 16 Roselia
Roselia hits me with a poison sting, poisoning Scorch and hitting with an Incinerate brings it down to ½ HP. After poison hits Scorch falls to 3HP and even using a potion would be negated by another attack + poison, so Scorch faints.
Lvl 16 Cinder vs. Lvl 16 Roselia.
Poison sting again, only 4 damage. Dragon Rage KO.
Victory! So I won against Cain, lost to Victoria, and beat Fern. (Another reason for the Fire run MIGHT have been to watch Fern burn.)
After the battle Cinder evolved into Charmeleon.
I decided to go do the event where you get ripped off $1000 for the pokemon, just in case it gets changed into a fire type in a future episode (and it’s only 1000). Man dragon rage rules. Off to Burn the Fern!
So I made a decision that I think will both pay off and bite me in the rear later on. I replaced Play Nice with Bite, so that I had an attempt to flinch. I thought about replacing Lick with Bite, but considering how many times it saved me already from deaths due to paralyze, I can’t let go. My only concern is Julia, but I think yawn will help there. IDK. I probably sealed my own doom. I CALLED IT HERE FIRST!
So now we get to fight Aster and Eclipse.
WELL HELLO THERE. I shouldn’t be surprised by their Pokémon, but I am. Nothing out of the ordinary. Cinder got hit twice by Magmar, but just Dragon Raged them both. He did overlevel, so this is going to be fun.
Bought some common candies, and some potions. Onwards to the gym! Beat all the trainers, lowered Cinder and Scorch to level 19, bought some Paralyze Heals, Antidotes, and Potions. No idea what is in store, but I’m going to hopefully win within 10 attempts.
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So I was basically aiming for a win in 10 attempts. LOL. It took me a bit longer. It really is a lot, so going to spoiler tag it all.
HERE WE GO (Duel of Fates on loop)
Lvl 19 Scorch vs. Lvl 17 Magnemite
OKAY. I wasn’t sure if the levels would be raised much but what was I thinking? L20 Magmar/Electabuzz. Sheesh Drev, c’mon.
Incinerate OHKO Magnemite! Honestly shocked.
Lvl 19 Cinder vs. Lvl 17 Emolga
Acrobatics from Emolga hit and I was 22/55 HP. Dragon Rage took him to red. Super potion. Repeat, Super Potion. Ember and Crit, acrobatics to KO Cinder. WELP.
Lvl 19 Scorch vs. Lvl 17 Emolga
Tanked an Acrobatics and hit with Incinerate. Red HP on Emolga. Go for it again (I’ve already lost at this point) and Charge Beam hits, taking me to 7HP. KO Emolga.
Lvl 19 Scorch vs. Lvl 17 Chinchou
Yawn followed by Water Gun KO on Scorch.
Defeat #1
Attempt #2
Scorch vs. Magemite – OHKO Incinerate
Cinder vs. Emolga – Smokescreen this time to see if I can get a miss to get the ball rolling. NOPE.
Scorch vs. Emolga – Nuzzled, and getting the super potions used via Incinerate. Charge Beamed to death.
Defeat #2
Going to switch it up and try to have Scorch take on Emolga from the start, because he seems to take hits better. Cinder just isn’t going to cut it being outsped.
Attempt #3
Apparently ember from Cinder doesn’t OHKO Magnemite. Got the super potions out of the way though. Nuzzled by Emolga, cure it only to be nuzzled again, and finished off with an Acrobatics crit. Something something about replacing PLAY NICE with bite? *Heavy sigh*
Defeat #3
Attempt #4
Acrobatics crit again (both times).
Defeat #4
Attempt #5
Cinder gets hit with Magnet Bombs by Magnemite, Ember KO with Super Potions used. Emolga uses quick attack and Smokescreen goes up. Charge Beam misses and Scary Face goes up. Dragon Rage and Charge Beam hits. Ember to finish it off.
Lvl 20 Cinder vs. Lvl 17 Chinchou.
Smokescreen and Water Gun misses. Dragon Rage and Electro Ball hits. Dragon Rage to finish him off.
Lvl 20 Scorch vs. Lvl 18 Voltorb.
Confident. Use Super potion on Cinder. Voltorb crits with Charge Beam, and finishes off Scorch with sonicboom.
Lvl 20 Cinder vs. Lvl 18 Voltorb.
Charge Beam and Smokescreen. Charge Beam hits again and Dragon Rage. Potion up, expecting a miss. Explosion.
Defeat #5
I just want to say that I really hate Emolga. So far, Emolga is the biggest threat currently. Julia’s team seems pretty good, with what I assume to be Electrode as her ace still even in Hardcore. No clue what her 5th mon that I haven't seen is yet. I think that if I had a 3rd pokemon this would go a bit differently, but it’s all part of the monorun style. That numel is practically laughing at me.
Attempt #6
Cinder OHKO’s Magnemite now, but is over the cap. Emolga broomed me.
Defeat #6
Attempt #7
Cinder ignores orders and embers instead of using ember. I enjoyed that. Downed Emolga, who only used quick attack for some reason… Chinchou got a water gun in, but Cinder KO’d him with DR.
Lvl 21 Scorch vs. Lvl 17 Heliolisk
Oh.
Lvl 22 Cinder vs. Lvl 17 Heliolisk
Parabolic Charge crit. Also outspeeds Cinder.
Defeat #7
Attempt #7
Magenmite OHKO. Emolga KO’d. Chinchou KO’d. Scorch learned Flame Burst. Charge + Charged Beam. Heliolisk is still faster with me at level 23. Outspeeding it is going to be the key, I believe.
Defeat #7
Also it seems that Emolga is favoring Quick Attack when Charmeleon stays in after Magnemite. 2 attempts in a row it led with quick attack then died.
Attempt #8
Brooming with Emolga, coming this fall to NBC.
Defeat #8
Attempt #9
Paralyzed at the start.
Defeat #9
Attempt #10
Defeat #10.
At this point, unless something incredible happens or I get further, just going to keep track of defeats. Cinder now outspeeds Heliolisk.
#11 #12 #13 #14
Lvl 22 Scorch vs. Lvl 20 Electrode
Used Potion on Cinder.
Lvl 29 Cinder vs. Lvl 20 Electrode
It outspeeds Cinder, Charge Beam Crit and Dragon Rage set off the Sitrus Berry. One Dragon Rage away and it KOs Cinder.
Defeat #15
#16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26 #27
Attempt #28
Lvl 22 Scorch vs. Lvl 17 Magnemite
Flame Burst OHKO
Lvl 32 Cinder vs. Lvl 17 Emolga
Flame Burst OHKO
Lvl 32 Cinder vs. Lvl 17 Chinchou
Flame Burst. Electro Ball does 17 damage. Dragon Rage KO.
Lvl 23 Scorch vs. Lvl 18 Voltorb
Charge Beam misses, Flame Burst hits, ¼ hp. Voltorb Explodes living Scorch with 22 HP.
Lvl 32 Cinder vs. Lvl 17 Heliolisk
Flame Burst OHKO
Lvl 24 Scorch vs. Level 20 Electrode
Potion to heal Cinder to full. Sonic Boom KO
Lvl 32 Cinder vs. Level 20 Electrode
MY BODY IS READY FOR I AM ENGULFED IN THE FLAMES OF CONFIDENCE! CHARGE BEAM HITS AND CRITS CINDER FOR 30 DAMAGE. FLAME BURST TAKES HIM TO RED HP. SUPER POTION FOLLOWED BY FLAME BURST. REPEAT. FLAME BURST TO RED HP FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER CHARGE BEAM CRIT. FLAME BURST KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
VICTORY ACHIEVED! FIRST BADGE!!!!!
And we have the team thus far
Anyway, I'm Drev and I'll catch you next time when we get to burn the fern.
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Pop or soda?
Eto or Touka?
If you had to have a lifetime supply of grilled cheese sandwichs (which would be made for you beforehand) or lifetime supply of pb&j (premade as before), which would you choose?
Babyman?
What do you think of the "Griffith did nothing wrong"?
Do you think Guts looks as if he has aged significantly in such a short time?
If you could speak any language fluently at the push of a button, what language would it be?
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I dislike Fairy. Mainly because I never had a chance to deal with it until recently.
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Torn between Colosseum and Fire Red. Fire Red because gen 1 is my favorite and I started with Blue. Naturally a revamp is #1 (including the 7 isles). Colosseum because that was the only reason I purchased a Gamecube when I saw an ad for it in the newest issue of Shonen Jump when I was a kiddo. I loved Shadow pokemon and it was the first time I struggled with a pokemon game. I'd probably pick Fire Red ultimately.
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I recently got back into SWTOR with a new xpac coming out. I was missing the pvp from the game.
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The new EXTRA GAME chapter was pretty awesome. Not only did we see Kise show his full potential but those final few panels with Akashi hnnng. I feel like after maybe 3/4 chapters it'll be over. I hope they animate it into an OVA or something.
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Just finished the current version and I just wanted to say I enjoyed it very much. Can't wait to play more.
Fern Burn - Hardcore Fire Monotype Reborn run (EP15 Complete)
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So after meeting back at the railnet we find out that Cain ran off to the Coral Ward so we give chase. There we meet the
true final boss of this run commander no pleasewater gym leader and she tells us she needs halp at the factory that is pumping all the sludge out. We head over there and thestairway to heavenicewalk appears from her Lapris and we head inside the Factory from above! We run into some grunts and have a double battle. Her Lapras is over level 70violent flashbacks of Shelly occurand it pwns the Meteor Grunts. Eventually we get separated and fall for a trap. Solving puzzles gets us to find that a Muk is trapped in a PULSE machine and that the creepy old guy in Meteor tries to kill us but gets frozen by Kingdra. We fight ZEL next and take on the PULSE Muk.Not much to say, combined with Drought and Earth Power/Fire spam we fell Muk without much trouble. The
true final boss - commander please be kindwater gym leader gets attacked with Superpower and walks it off. Meanwhile she gives us her key to a boat to sail after Cain. She bids us fairwell and to visit her at her mansion if make it that far north. So off after Cain!We arrive at Apophyll and make our way to Kiki who asks us if we're a student. No ma'am, trying to challenge the reborn league as an everyday trainer but some evil Team Meteor keeps interfering and I just want to burn Fern
. So she asks us to wait while she gives a lesson, then retreats to the academy so we chase after someone AGAIN. Odd how no one has noticed Cain isn't here. Run into Victoria who everyone loves and adores, so I get loved and adored because I
pwnam friends with Victoria. I get told to go up to the big ol' mountain that is actually a volcano to fight a student of Kiki's. His name is Cal and he's the ex-Fire Gym Leader. I'm a fire type trainer so ight, let's face off. Victoria tells me some teenage romance stuff but I'm so fired up over Cal that I can't be bothered to listen to whatever she has to say.We make our way around and OMG WE FIND A NEW TEAM MEMBER.
"DREVANCE! We're best friends! Name a pokemon after me!"
"K"
Yup, my best friend is an anteater IRL.
Something about a fire stone and evolving Arcanine, IDK.
Solving one of the puzzles I actually really like in this game when
"DREVANCE!"
"K."
Anyway, we ascend to the top fairly quickly. On my way up I got rid of my beard, fun fact.
So this battle was fun/interesting. Cal starts off with Infernape and I lead with Camerupt. Earth Power KO. Next is Typhlosion and rinse repeat, although Typhlosion turns it from a super heated field to a burning one or whatever. Surprisingly we're both fire trainers. Next comes out his Charizard and I had switched to Scorch. Mega Evolution. I'm pretty sure at this point every major battle from now on has megas. Mega Charizard X. Yawn and two hits later he KOs Scorch, falling asleep. Vulcan comes out and KOs with an Earth Power. Magmortar(?) comes out next and rinse repeat. Finally Blaziken comes out and Ember comes out to lower his attack. Ember drops from Blaziken. Vulcan comes out and Earth Powers which crits. Blaziken goes down and I learn Earthquake.
Back down to the Academy Kiki isn't feeling well but is going to honor our agreement and battle me so I can get strength. Victoria is really upset so we battle.
She was actually pretty tough. Mega Gallade goes down after 2 Lava Plumes. Scrafty goes down after Fire Pledges. Emboar eats Earth Power. After those three she just kinda crumbles from Fire.
Now with that out of the way, just like with Shelly she tells to go on. She watches.
Kiki. Kiki. Kiki.
First attempt has Machamp brutally destroying my team. I retreated and redid my Team. I swapped Ignis and Scorch out for Brian and Patrick.
Attempts 2-4 passed with Machamp brutally destroying me.
Swapped out Brian for Scorch. Yawn'ed Machamp and it seemed to work. Struggled to get past Hitmonlee. 2 Earth Powers for sashed Toxicroak. Lava Plume OHKO Lucario. Scrafty went down from Fire Pledge spam. Mega Medicham decided to not have any of it. Strength KO everyone.
Attempts 6-8 repeated Machamp destroying me as I tried a few different approachs.
Then AuthorReborn told me that he had his Torterra use Curse and had no problems with Machamp's damage.
Attempt #9
Scorch uses Yawn on Machamp and eats a Dynamic Punch and lives. Stone Edge KOs up and he falls asleep. Out comes Vulcan. Vulcan uses Curse and Machamp sleeps. Vulcan uses Curse and Machamp sleeps. Vulcan uses Curse and Machamp sleeps. Machamp wakes up and uses Strength for like 15 damage and Earthquake takes him to nearly 1hp. Potion spam x2. Strength again and he is KO'd. Out comes Scrafty. Earthquake OHKO. Out comes Toxicroak. Earthquake followed by Lava Plume KO. Hitmonlee comes out and uses Poison Jab for like 15 damage. Earthquake OHKO. Lucario comes out and Hidden Powers Vulcan for like 35 HP and Earthquake OHKO. Mega Medicham comes out and hits Vulcan with a strength which takes him to 19HP and Earthquake is a OHKO.
Kiki collapses and we are told that Cain hasn't arrived yet, so we head off to go find him.
Cya next time when we meet Aya and her trusty Broom!
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Not going to lie here, I wasn't expecting to face Megas this soon. Shade surprised me but I guess it's only natural I face some now. I'm assuming that the Aqua Gang leader has Mega Sharpedo? Anyway I'm finding out that the Megas faced so far have actually made it easier for me to win than if they weren't there (excluding Kiki). I only happened to beat Shade because Gengar lost Levitate and that allowed Camerupt to one shot him with Earth Power. Same with Charizard X. Losing flying leaves him open to ground and he just gets shredded. I'm going to guess that Aya has Mega Venasaur which has Thick Fat surprisingly, so not sure what I'll do. Probably just Curse Up again and Earthquake spam. Could always lower it's Defense through Crunch and Rock Smash if I need. Obviously I've only fought 4 megas so far out of idk how many, but those are just my initial thoughts.
I'm a bit worried about both Taka and Cain as they are my next big battles. Leading with Samurott is rough and I'm more than willing to bet that a certain someone has given Taka a water type that is going to make me
laugh maniacallyheavily sigh and soft reset a few times to get a strat. Anyway, I'm really surprised how far I've made it as going into the run I thought this was going to be neigh impossible it's doable.I am concerned with the higher leveled mons that starting now I'm going to have to use items in battle which I am very against. It's already happened in the past where I had to and I'm not okay with that, but I do understand that this is a much more difficult setting. I guess I'm going to have to get used to it. I also made sure when I was mining to keep any max revives I found, so I have a few for important battles. I was saving up for Shadow Ball and Calm Mind but with this now looming before me I will probably either hold off until I have a decent stock of better potions or just get Calm Mind.
It's going to be rough for a bit with no new Fire types until I get to Sierra. I can grab Flareon which has some decent defenses, that one Darmartain or whatever it's called and Tepig. Although I plan on going back and grabbing Rotom because I heard it can change forms in E15 so I can have Fire/Electric and FINALLY HAVE ELECTRIC COVERAGE IS GOING TO BE GREAT. I'll pick up Houndoom as well at that point. Then once I hit 7th street I'll have Cyndaquil and Litwick which will be very nice. I have a ton of heart scales for Eruption is it's K. Then I'm pretty stale until Magby/Fenniken. Rotom is what I'm most excited for if I'm to be honest. Having Electric attacks is going to be an Arceus send, literally. I think that the most difficult part of this run is getting past Aya as I just don't have many choices. I mean there's only what, 20 available fire types in a run if you include Larvesta, which isn't bad. IDK. While I kind of regret not being able to get a Larvesta for bug STAB, Ninetails has saved me so much with Drought it isn't funny. It's a shame that Magcargo has to be benched though, although I think he'll be useful in Ciel's battle and possible in Charlotte's.