Hiroki Tatsumi

That's indeed what i was thinking, I really want to stick to fighting types, so i'll soft reset to dont have the growlith if i dont have shroomish ^^ Breloom would be useful in late game only because i need toxic orb to make it worth it, if not for that he's just a cheap attacker, but spore seems useful too. I wont hack the egg, that's nice to make the offer, but i wanna play the whole run without any "trick" , i dont even use older episodes to get pokemons , so i'll just pass on hacking The next pokemon to join the team should be Meditite if i'm not wrong, that will give some "punch" to the team ^^ Monotype is full of surprises ;p

I will wait until Scraggy to evolve Korrina, i make a point to catch only Fighting types unless REALLY necessary, i'll breed that Growlith without save and if i see the pokemon isn't fighting i'll soft reset, so i'll have only fighting pokemons in my save Also, Grats for defeating Julia with a single pokemon

There will be anevent before you fight Radomus then, the next opponent you'll have will be Cain

If you're battleing radomus you can go back to the city

why not try to have calm mind back on Munna? And evolving it?

Yep, i know how it feels. My advice would be to farm Julia until you get level 31 , then you learn Bulbk up and you try to setup two bulk up against magnemite and then sweep the whole team at once.

I know how it feels the random obedience from your pokemons xD GL with Florinia, you certainly have the advantage, but dont feel cunfortable, she's smart enough to compensate it

Fourth Rock to Smash : The Big Plant and the Singing Bird Well ! Florinia was crushed, meaning that i have now two badges in the pocket. Well the game is as hard as expected since i had an hard time for almost all the story fights i faced, and i hope there will be even harder deals to make ! My next mission is so Jasper and the Tangrowth Catastrophe leaded by Taka, well, that will be hard because my mono fails against Chatot badly. So well, i'm grinding again and again, leveling up a little my pokemons until i reach the Jasper ward, i'm taking the policemens mission to find all the missing one, and then i'm ready to travel the forest. To meet...The guy who kicks asses, Taka <3 Versus Taka So we start with Lileep VS Kenji the Mankey Karate chop halved Lileep's Life, while her ancient power only took 21 HP from Kenji. Kenji uses Karate chop, making Lileep faint. Taka sends gligar, i switch for Ginpei, but i'm insta killed by acrobatics before putting a nasty plot. I send Mario, who immediately uses Fake out, then spams knock off while he spams super potions, in the end, Gligar Faint and Taka sends Chatot. At this point, i switch for Kenji the Mankey but it got wrecked by boomburst. Sent Korrina, who got OHKO'ed too. Sent Mario who got OHKO'ed too. End of the ride. Well, i wasted my Ginpei sadly. I'm grinding some more wild pokemons with him , to tank an acrobatics and put a nasty plot, and here we go again Lileep vs Kenji Same outcome as the first one, Karate Punch GG Taka sends gligar, i switch for Ginpei. I'm placing a nasty plot while it's acrobatics takes all my HP except 4 small points. There is the sun, so i counterattack with ember, OHKOing the Gligar. Taka sends Chatot, and it gets instant kill by ember. So there is Tangrotwh left and it becomes Pulse, it takes 1 ember, lowering severely its HP, and take down Ginpei by Giga Draining it. I sent Kenji, and i use immediately Seismic toss, as i know it will deal 27 damages anyway, i almost kill the growth, but he giga drains me, making him restore 3/4 the HP dealt by Seismic toss Korrina takes the place and use slash, taking some hp from tangrowth, she takes a sludge bomb and got poisoned. Was about to slash again, but taka used a super potion, healing the tangrowth. It finished Korrina 1 turn later. Mario was my last pokemon, i sent him and used fake out to take some HPs putting him in the orange. I was predicting a super potion, so i used belly drum, boosting my Mario, i then used knock off, moving first and tanked a thunderbold from the tangrowth. Knock off again, the match is mine !...That's what i thought. Taka sent Klefki and killed my Mario before it could even move.....O. That's so frustrating....Grinding again, but this time, Mankey has to evolve, it's the only way to deal damages and not faint in one turn x_x Beated ~25 pokemons, and he finaly evolved into primeape !!!! Third Match ! Lileep VS Kenji THE PRIMEAPE This time, Karate Punch did OHKO the foe Lileep. Once more, i sent Ginpei, nasty plotting it, but this time gligar knocked of the Black belt i had, dealings only 12 Damages, lucky me :3 Ginpei crushed Gligar with ember. Same goes for Chatot. Pulse Tangrowth was 2HK0 by Ember. And Finaly, Klefki, even if it setted light screen with it's prankster ability, fainted from ember aswell giving me the real win this time ! Taka Ran away, i'm thinking of making the hardcore run only with Ginpei since the less i think the better it works x) Joke joke, i dont think Ginpei alone will be enough in middle game x) Well, I found Heather speaking loudly on me, shut up little girl , your father is corrupted è_é Well, so i'm going to Beryl, i'll save all the policemens before since i want to battle Corey on a mist corrosive to poison all my pokemons during the fight. We'll see how it goes ;o The team so far !

Be sure to take speed boost then, you'll need it for Julia X_X Mienshao could be an idea yep , but too far in the game, so i guess i'll try to find a tank like breloom but well, i 'm not lucky. xD Hmmmm You see, hacking in the mono run while it isn't mandatory would ruin the fun in the game, i wanna have a 100% legit playthrough from Julia to Seel included , i managed to beat Julia with only Monferno, so that's possible Anyway thanks for following, i'll post the next episode just after this, again, sorry for double posting, but i want to keep my episodes commentless

GJ at beating PULSE Tangrowth !! Especially with no type advantage ^^ Btw team pic isn't displaying.

Well it's not as awesome as yours , but i wanted to do something to post here :blushes: Dont mind the text, i can take it out if you want, it's just because i will open Deviantart to receive tips from pros and i will have a different username ^^

Does reborn hardcore run counts for mono ranking?

Laughed too at that level 26 Infernape xD To be honest i would love to have Breeloom in the mystery egg, but i'm not a lucker so i'll have a thing like.....Sneasel ? :3 There souldn't be any new pokemon in my incoming episode since there isn't any fighting type available between Flo and Corey

Good job for that shiny

I heard you can catch wild magby in older episodes also

Mega Sableye is cancer with those recover magic bounces and calm mind, that would be just unfair x) Anyway yep, RNG doesn't like you i guess...I hope you will be able to beat Samson D: But sorry for asking because i looked for all episodes at once , but did you get Ralts yet? You can turn him into a Gallade, making it the gen 4 spot and having a good weapon agaisnt Samson D:

Third Rock to Smash : Smoke Weed Everyday !!! Well well, freshly beated Da Pretty boy , but as stated in previous episode, i wanted to grind to get better monsters and not relying too much on my Ginpei the Monferno. Well so i'm back to the slums and 'im training my Mankey. I finaly catch a Makuhita that is decent. I forgot to screen it at the catch, but it has decent speed , HP and attack IVs and it has Guts, and that's what i wanted to deal with Corey and Aya Later. Sooooooo ~40 Random battle after that, I decided i was prepared.....To beat......The unbeattable.... PULSE Tangrowth !!!!!! Well, it was easier than i thought. To be honest, i was preparing myself to be wrecked, but it was decided another way. Kenji the Mankey fainted after a giga drain , so i sent out Ginpei my Monferno, and after a Nasty Plot i beated him with double ember attack. Easy and Fast. Well for once. X) Zel cried and ran away, letting me free to go in Onyx School. At this point, my team is composed of Mario my Makuhita level 20 , Kenji my Mankey level 26 , Korrina my Pancham level 23 and Ginpei the Monferno level 30, i didn't plan to use common candies on him right now, i had something else planned. Well, so got rid of all students and went to have the blood of that dumbass :3 T Mario started, and Fern Started with Ludicolo Mario the Makuhita used Fake Out, making Ludicolo Flinch. Ludicolo used water pulse and bullet seed, killing instantly my Mario. That was fast…..I sent Kenji to deal with Ludicolo. Seismic Toss delt a good amount of damages, while Kenji tanked quite well the water pulses , but super potions made the duel extremely hard and Kenji Fainted in the end, leaving Korrina on the ring. Korrina managed to tank water pulses and put one Work up on herself, but was haxxed by bullet seed and KO’ed before moving.I sent Ginpei against Ludicolo, who was in low HP count, so a Flame Wheel got rid of it quickly. Fern immédiate sent Grovyle as a replacement. But that Grovyle left after one Flame Wheel. Roselia took its place and laught at me when Ginpei didn’t want to listen, she put leech seed and a poison jab, and i finaly killed her with Flame Wheel. Fern Sent out Ferroseed , but didn’t realize that Flame Wheel would activate iron barb, both Pokémons were Killed, i lose. Well i wanted to go reckless, so i setted my Monferno Ginpei in first line this time, and somehow it ore. Flame charge knocked off all Fern’s pokemons and i won xD Also, i used a Rare Candy on Monferno, Leveling him up at level 36 and evolving him into Infernape , that's why i wanted to keep at level high since now it also has Close Combat Well, that worked against Fern, but not against Florinia, so the better way to take the challenge was to grind. I went back in the alleys and the slums to fight, solving the mansion event for training my pokemons. Makuhita was really a pain the ass to train, but once it evoled, everything went better Oh and hey look at that. I Started with Mario the Hariyama and she sent Cacnea Fake out took some HP and made cacnea flinch, then i used Force Palm to attack the cacnea who fainted because of crits, Lucky me <3 Florinia sent Grotle against my Mario who immediately knocked off the Leftovers and delt a good amount of damages he took two façades in the face, but with 107 HP at level 24 it was bulky enough to hit two times with force palm, destroying the Grotle. Florinia Sent Tropius, while i withdrew my Mario to send Ginpei, expecting to 1HK0 the tropius with Flame Wheel, i used it, and even with crit i dealt 90% damages, letting the Tropius Leech seed my monkey and eat a sitrus Berry. Fortunately, i beated him just after by another Flame Wheel. Florinia Sent Breloom. I used Flame Wheel on it, once again for 90% , i took a Mach Punch before, was drained by leech seed and trigered Poison Heal. Florinia Spammed Super potions to keep my HP Draining by Leech seed and final switcher for Ferroseed to take the Flame Charge and making my Ginpei Faint. Ginpei’s Replacement was Mario the Hariyama who kicked Ferroseed with Force Palm. It learned belly drum with that but sadly cant use it immédiately . When Florinia called Breloom again, i sent Kenjy my Mankey as an answer to it, but it got insta killed by giga drain. Korrina took his place. Korinna was Leech Seeded, poison healed, and i got literraly wrecked by Breloom. All my 4 Pokémons got kicked by it. That’s insane. I threw my Ginpei too fast i think. For the next try, i’ll stick with my Nasty Ember Strategy. REMATCH !!! This time, that’s Ginpei who led the team ! He used nasty plot once while cacnea setted spikes around my team, i tried an ember after that and it 1HKO’ed Cacnea , and the following Grotle :3 Florinia sent tropius, i used my ember but 10% were left, letting the flying tree set a toxic on my monster. I killed it next turn even with that super potion Florinia used. Breloom Came, and was insta killed by ember, removing the threat from last time. But Ginpei leveled up to level 26, that level that i didn’t want to reach since he desobey from now. Ferroseed came, and after 1 ignore , Ginpei moved and insta killed the metal plant with Ember., Leaving Flornia with only Cradily left. I was gonna use Close Combat, but he desobeid , letting poison finish him. To be honest, winning with only Ginpei again would be boring as fuck. XD Mario my Hariyama took his place, my only goal with him was to Knock off the leftovers she certainly had. Cradily did use curse, and i could Knock off its item, but i was very worried since curse may permit to Cradily to tank all my physical moves, while my special attacker is gone…Well, i did use belly drum to hit strong and fast, while she used another curse move. I tried a force palm, but he didn’t listen to me , leaving it wide open for a body slam who left my Rocky to 18HP. Thanks to his tank ability, Mario survived and hit the cradily with a super effective force palm and x4 attack from belly drum , ending the match in my favor =) Well well, Florinia took only two tries, but i had the type advantage with my Ginpei the Infernape, Nasty Plot is a really good investment for the adventure, as it granted me the win against both Julia and Florinia. But well, Corey wont be a piece of cake as i clearly have a disadvantage in the match XD Well so , this is the team so far, Hariyama needs to be renamed when i'll pass in the Ward, named it Mario because of that Spark of Life ;o Well, that concludes the third rock who is smashed ! Seeya guys in the next update

Well, i dont deserve any applausement for beating Julia since it was all based on Luck. The only real strategy i picked was to keep chimchar at level 23 and learning nasty plot. Otherwise i couldn't win without hacking another fighting-type pokemon, and that pokemon would be able to tank emolga's acrobatics with 220 base power. But still, every move was random because he could disobey me at any time. In fact i took some damages VS Heliolisk, but i tanked quite well because of high level. I'm not planning of keeping that team for the entire run, because it has an extreme weakness as psychic moves, so i might release Kenji the Mankey soon ^^ Monotype is hard, but fun. It really opens to challenge while you're playing Hardcore, because you have to make things with a very small amount of potential new pokemons, that's why it's fun ;p Pokemon Reborn Hardcore is really fun to play and deserves the title ;p That's exactly what i thought when picking a special Chimchar. Also as you stated Calm mind is cool and get boosted in focus fields ^^ I did get an ability capsule from the factory, and yes i'm planning on getting Crunch to have a decent stab move. But i'll also get scrappy instead of iron fist, since Pancham doesnt learn Close Combat. I finaly used a Makuhita when i caught a decent one, i'll post that right after that post, i'm sorry for the double post, but i wanna keep a "Clean" Episode without answering to my trainers comrades on it

Well, Victoria isn't that hard to be honest, she was because we're adding a monotype clause in our run, but with lucky egg and all trainers in the wards, that makes it imo. Also, you should add roots on cradily :3

You can have Slugma in the casino with 1000 tokens Also, you can beat the level 35 thing with dragon rage while it setups

Nope ! Blanchette come at me sis !

Hahaha xD I also was like "Wtf Dewott? Are you Kidding?" XD Anyway, my Cain was softer than yours though. Didnt face any minimize for example, that's a good point, Nidorino wasn't that hard to deal with. Well, you're doing it kinda well, since there is no real tank in your team, dragon is my fav for the moment <3 Will you try to provocate wind to get an Emolga when you will be at Jasper?

Second Rock to Smash : Obsidia, my Dear Obsidia, Candies, Victoria , and....Huge Evil Plant... Well well, with that new badge a new town comes , And that's Obsidia Ward, you know that town just below Onyx? Yep , first huge battle with antagonists awaits me there, well well, i still have some things to pass before, like that stupid Victoria that thinks she can help me by sending all her pokemons against my single Ginpei the Monferno. Is she actually retarded? :3 So yeah, battle vs Victoria was still in 1VSX since the place where i can catch fighting Pokémons are still unavailables at this point Scraggy vs Ginpei was the start. I place 3 Nasty Plots while she places three low kicks, i manage to put a potion without take damages because she chose to use sand Stream,ember, Scraggy faints. She send Poliwag, but with 3 Nasty Plots, even a non effective Ember becomes Huge, She send Kirlia but my Ginpei isn’t listening anymore, so she kills it with Confusion. Back to center and buying 2 common candies and intend to fight her again. That time, that’s two Headbutts and a Sand Attack i take, well, that’s cool too :3I OHKO Scraggy with Ember, she sends Poliwag, but this time i dont OHKO because i’m at level 24 and that **** Uses rain dance, making OHKO Ember litteraly impossible for 5 turns. Finaly i kill the poliwag and she send Kirlia. Who kills me with a confusion….Damn x_x That’s at the third time i finally pass that Poliwag AND the Kirlia with overboosted Ember at level 25, Hurray i beated a mono fight with my…..Only Fight o/ Sooooooooooooo i went to Obsidia Slums, and that happened !!! I Caught my first pokemon in the game !!! 8D Female Pancham, so i named her Korrina because of the Gym Leader Korrina, not original but still like it. By chance, it got decent Ivs, it’s a plus that will help me, because in hardcore i'm hardly selecting my new recruits by their natural potential. I dont wanna change my whole team at the middle game because that just doesn't work. Well, let's see that Korrina Well, it lacks some Speed IV , but well. Also, defense is a problem, but Pancham is frail anyway so that doesn't matter x) Well, spent some time grinding in the slums and capturedsSome Makuhitas and some Mankeys, and picked the one who was the best out of all, Defiant Lonely Mankey is Kenji, AKA the third pokemon in the party ~ Right There partner, dont be shy, show your face :3 Those Scraggys were pretty hard though, Moxie and Ddance, it’s Sadistic. :3 Actually that took me two times, because the first time i was too focused on Settings with Korrina the Pancham, Work up work once, but not twice, and so i was wrecked by the final Scrafty, even with Ginpei my Monferno, that's craaaazy how things are turning when you're not well prepared. Second run into it, i finally manage to defeat them by using a random Makuhita's Fake out to flinch the DDance one and kill it before it even dances once. :3 Finally, i'm going to coral, and Oshawott is being saved by the prince of Reborn and i’m confronting him. That’s a Grimer vs Kenji (Mankey) for the start, but Kenji is still level 16. I’m Starting with Focus Energy while grimer uses acid spray, lowering spe defense of my Kenji, who instantly activâtes Defiant raising his attack by two stages, he then uses fury swipes, but it’s not enough to OHKO even with two crits and he end up getting killed by acid spray. I send Korrina the Pancham, she’s level 21, i’m setting up a work up, raising it’s attack stat while Da pretty boy will use a potion to keep some HP, in final, black sludge and potions are using my resources, and my Korrina get killed by Dewott. In fact, that doesnt make any sense that he has a Dewott since he just caught Oshawott….Well. Ginpei Arrived, still above the level (29) and Killed Dewott with Ember. Da pretty boy Sent Nidorino but got wrecked by Flame Wheel Twice, Venohoth followed him, but got kicked in an instant. He sent Gastly who also got kicked by flame Wheel , ending the battle . Well well, even rival battles are a pain in da ass when you’re in hardcore. From Victoria to Cain, all is very difficult. I’m planning on Grinding more before beating PULSE Tangrowth, because i wont be able with my current team. Well, i got a pretty decent HM Slave in the person of Makuhita who can learn both strenght, surf and rock smash, but that wont be anough to continue. So Kenji the Mankey and Korrina the Pancham have to train more. Oh and i got a Black Belt from one of the Makuhitas, that’s useful in mono fighting :3 The Team so far ! And my Box ! Well, thanks for following the Adventures, and see ya in the next rock to Smash !

Wow, you passed the gang pretty easily. I wonder when you'll meet the very difficulties? Hardcore Electric doesn't seem that bad at all by reading this ^^ Do you think Cain will be hard?

Thanks I'm planning on Catching Pancham since it resists psychic moves, if i can get a Guts Makuhita i will also certainly use him as a status absorber to later fight Corey and Aya =) Actually, until i have access to Fire Pledge, i will use a kind of mixed Infernape , with Close Combat at level 36 , even at 0 IV Attack there is iron fist that will boost + stab for getting decent damages. Once i will have the TMs and the Move Tutor, i will turn it into a Nasty Plot attacker. Still useful to have Nasty plot ember though