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Thanks for the Marill which also came with Belly Drum and Aqua Jet, you're the best!

Rufflet is available in the wild, on Route 2.

But how? Noel and Charlotte are both in Calcenon, which is off limits to him (Saphira and Hardy would tear him to pieces if he showed up, and Team Meteor wouldn't want him there either), and he definitely didn't battle either of them before us. Luna seems very difficult to approach in Iolia Valley without the keys, and he most likely didn't battle her in Radomus's castle (I don't think he talks about another gym leader being there after the Route 1 battle). I can't find a timeframe when he could've battled Noel and Charlotte. Unless he bought those badges at 7th Street, or got them from a Meteor admin who's also high up in the league administration.

If you check a Pokémon's page on Bulbapedia, you can see the moves it can get from the relearner. I believe this includes egg moves in reborn, but not TMs.

Titania's Aegislash is starting to look even scarier than normal. It'll take a hit, SD up (+4), change stance (+1) and start spamming STAB Shadow Sneak at +5 Attack. +5. In one turn. With no drawbacks.

Can we sign up for this "post-beta" phase, or is it strictly for a select few of the community?

Give one of the Gen I games a try, as crude and unbalanced as those broken, glitchy games were, they were fun

The classic Minimize-Cosmic Power-Stored Power Clefable (or any Clefable at all) should work well in that field, since Cosmic Power's effect is doubled. It can also create the field, but you're completely walled by Dark types if Misty Terrain takes up the fourth slot. Also, I disagree with Heliolisk having a shallow movepool. Volt Switch and Thunderbolt as level-up moves, STAB Hyper Voice, and for coverage moves, Grass Knot, Surf, Signal Beam, Focus Blast, Dark Pulse (not very useful in this field, sure, but it's there), you can even breed Glare onto it which is actually better than Thunder Wave because it can paralyze Ground types. That's pretty good coverage.

Galvantula doesn't learn Ice Beam, only the Surskit line and Genesect do. Coming to think of it, aside from strong neutral hits, Bug types really have absolutely nothing to hit Dragon types with, so Saphira is going to be a pain in the butt once we get there (even more so since it's pretty much confirmed that Ice moves are going to be heavily nerfed by the field and as far as I know none of them learn Dragon or Fairy moves, aside from Volbeat and Illumise). A Vivillon would've been very useful for Samson (90%+ accurate Sleep Powder, Quiver Dance, 90%+ accurate STAB Hurricane), I think it's better than Butterfree because it has the aforementioned Hurricane and higher speed so it can actually land a Sleep Powder before it's annihilated by a breeze blown towards it by the opposing Pokémon (though outspeeding the Hariyama Samson leads off with shouldn't be a concern for Butterfree either). Good luck with Charlotte. With a Bug mono, you're going to need it. Edit: also, if you don't mind E12 TM breeding, it is possible to breed Earthquake and Stone Edge onto Crustle, Energy Ball onto Galvantula, Poison Jab onto Scolipede and Hone Claws and Rock Slide onto Durant.

I say Darmanitan hits the hardest, very useful if it's not outsped.

The first time I played through the game I got stuck there because none of my special attackers could hit Steelix super effectively. I am pretty sure you can't leave now, so if really the only pokémon that you have boxed is that Corsola, I'd say the best thing you can do is catch at least two Diglett/Dugtrio (provided that you have Pokéballs) and level them up until they learn Earth Power, preferably even higher. They will outspeed the Steelix pretty easily and dent it enough so your remaining 4 main team members can hopefully finish it off. If not, repeat the process with more Dugtrio. I don't know if Heatmor can outspeed at lvl 55, but if it can, well, that's one less Dugtrio you have to train up.

Here's how you get a Life Orb quicker: - (Optional: speed up the game with Cheat Engine) - Get a Pokémon with Compound Eyes, put said Pokémon to the front of the party - Save near the waterfall where you can trigger the Absol event - Trigger said event - If the Absol has a Life Orb, weaken it, catch it, or just use Thief if you don't want the Absol - If not, press F12 to reload the game The original 5% chance increases to 20% this way. Realistically you should be able to find one in 10 or so tries.

Will you change the learnset of some Gen V and VI Pokémon to be able to learn Rock Climb (and Whirlpool, if that stupid HM makes a return) via TMX (aside from those who already learn it via level-up), or will you stick strictly to the HG/SS (currently canon) learnsets for these moves?

I thought that event was repeatable, sorry. I meant the double battle in the Great Hall (top right corner), I managed to max out my pokédollars while training up a few mons there. Candy store in Obsidia, south of the Day Care.

You might want to consider leveling one or two of them up to 91 for better items (my level 100 Gourgeist already got me a couple of Lucky Eggs, still no Leftovers though). The Sunday double battle is a good place for farming money to buy Rare Candies. Edit: also, yes, episode jumping is kind of necessary if you really want those Leftovers. Maybe, just maybe, in E16 we'll get a reliable way of obtaining one considering we can already farm Life Orbs off Absols (plus we have quite a few Sheer Force Pokémon available) and we have the Toxic Orb while being able to legally obtain Gliscor as soon as E16 is released.

Belly Drum could be decent on Azumarill if you don't mind breeding some more (Poliwag should be available by now), you could even get Sitrus Berries back in E10 I believe. Otherwise just wait for Waterfall. I'd consider getting a good Electric type since you have nothing against Water and Flying (Heliolisk, Magnezone, Eelektross; Heliolisk is also a good Surf user). Keep using Excadrill, it's a beast and a Ground type is never a bad thing to have. Scrafty is also top-tier in Reborn if you got Dragon Dance as an egg move (it can easily sweep Luna's team). Switching to a Trick Room team is also an option seeing that you have Dragalge, Azumarill and Scrafty, all with pretty terrible speed (Magnezone fits that too), so getting a Cofagrigus or a Reuniclus to set up TR could be worthwhile (you need to defeat Luna if you want to evolve a Magneton or get the Solosis though).

I found that saving in the Grand Hall or Apophyll Beach in E15 before episode jumping doesn't screw up the graphics. Also, as far as I know you don't need to go back as far as E10 to breed TMs, E12 also uses Gen V breeding mechanics while actually being able to handle Gen VI Pokémon, feel me to correct me on this one though.

Sturdy Phanpy/Donphan with Endeavor and Ice Shard. Extreme Speed is no longer legal on an in-game Dragonite, so this should work in theory.

Forget about this idea, please. Everyone's life has a purpose, suicide is NEVER the solution to any problem that might arise - especially if we're talking about a 16 year old girl. Especially if it is triggered by something that is not even remotely your fault. People will continue telling you that you're nothing, that you're a worthless piece of dung - ignore them, whoever they are. They are not your judges. Don't take criticism too seriously, especially if it's not constructive at all. Most people are assholes, you have to accept this, move on and live your own life. You write the book, nobody else does. But if you fill the pages with "I'm a loser"s and "I'm a failure"s, you might as well title the book "I'm a loser and a failure", so basically don't do it. Fill the pages with positivity as much as you can. Spend time with whom you can rely on, whom you trust, in the outside world if possible (the Internet is scientifically confirmed to be depressing). I'm certain that you have people around you who can give you much more valuable advice than I ever could anonymously. Try talking to your parents about serious subjects, your thoughts, your concerns, at this stage in life they are supposed to be the people to fall back on. You should also talk to a psychologist (you'd be surprised how many people need one) if you haven't already. You will fit in if you try, if you hold on to the helping hands you may not even see yet. Long story short, get these thoughts out of your mind. Don't hurt yourself. I will be checking this thread again soon. More people love you than you think, take care!

I don't think you can. Julia's pokémon love spamming Sonic Boom, you cannot really solo her with one pokémon unless you have a really good setup sweeper (which at this stage of the game means Torchic/Combusken). Ask for 3-4 decent Fairy-types here. Something like Togepi, Azurill, Mawile should be able to do the job. Good luck!

There's apparently a "leaked" list of new Pokémon with their Japanese names and types included. Assuming it isn't fake (which it probably is), the most interesting thing about it is that it doesn't have the classic 3-stage fire/water/grass type evolutions which would usually signify a new generation. So unless the starters were omitted from the list for some reason Gen 6.5 seems more likely than Gen 7.

I just can't see the offensive Shuckle happening. Even with three Shell Smashes its offensive stats are absolute garbage plus you're increasing its speed which you really don't want to do because of Trick Room. Maybe a sandstorm resetter/stalling Chesto Berry set with Toxic/Rest/Sandstorm/Stealth Rock or Infestation? It's not like anyone's going to use Taunt on that thing Otherwise I like this team. Tyranitar-Lunatone/Solrock lead, get the Trick Room, rocks and sandstorm up, once TTar is down, bring in Gigalith and sweep with Sand Force Earthquake or Rock Slide. Trick Room's over? DD Tyrantrum and Aerodactyl-M clean everything up. This could be very, very painful...