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here's what seems like a pretty awesome spriting guide to me, as you seem to be interested in learning! it's well structured and explains understandably even for the last noob on this planet - like myself! https://www.dragonflycave.com/spriting-guide

I don't disagree at all, elitist thinking can be another side of the coin to make people feel unwelcome. But if someone comes charging in with their second post being a rant about how something is shit and terrible and garbage, I might advise to join another website's community I do not even wanna mention by its name as well. Now, things cooled down just as quickly, but man, does it have to be so ugly at the start? Emotional control and not lashing out is a thing. Obviously being human is also a thing, yet there's really no harm in asking for the former and I would not see how it drives people away.

Don't be so explosive if you don't like something, haha. Not liking something is okay, but make sure to stay respectful when writing about it. People always seem to think that a developer is not aware of what they are doing. Ame herself has probably mentioned more things she is unhappy about with Reborn than anyone else. At least, she is the most aware of them. Likewise, she's aware of the up- and downsides of the level cap system. Who knows, if Reborn would start to be developed these days, she might even use a different one. Reborn is 6 years old by now, which you might not know. Changing it at this point however would throw over everything - unless, by some miracle, it would be a very smooth solution. I hope you can enjoy the game anyway. You can always ask for advice on the forums, quite some people here know a lot about Pokémon and Reborn in particular.

there is no other way to get it (yet) I'm sure. if you ever find yourself asking if a certain Pokemon is obtainable somehow, check this out. it'll give you an idea. from there on it's your decision if you wanna wait and search for it, ask for a trade or simply look up how to get it.

Yep, Patreon charges on 1st, that's why your history is still blank. It will show every month you decide to continue pledging. Well, I can't speak for Ame since obviously it's hers and she has to decide about the perk things, but usually you get instant access to them, i.e. you should be able to read all posts that are not reserved for a higher tier. The only exception from this time onwards is that only people who have pledged before the start of Alpha testing will gain access to it. If you pledged for that tier or above, you might still get lucky since it'll start in about... Ame's sleeping time + a bit. ^^ If there are any questions, I'm sure you can simply message her directly.

Noibat does not need to be removed *permanently*, but before evolving there is no reason to ever take it into a gym or boss battle if you find yourself struggling. put it away for the battle, take a Pokémon that can actually do something, then you can grab it right back afterwards. on the other hand, you find higher and higher levelled Noibats in the wild throughout the game to the point you even encounter Noiverns. imo it felt not worth at all "wasting" the XP in all previous episodes on Noibat x)

for your own mental health's sake, do not use Noibat ever ever ever ever in important battles it will just not do anything tbh any Pokemon with any random moves would be better tbh been there, done that tbh I'm far from an expert, but from what you have in your boxes, I'd say Swoobat, Camerupt, Nidoqueen, Claydol, maybe even Alola Sandslash? can do a great job.

That's good to hear! Because frankly I don't have much of a clue about Pokémon. Almost all I know is if I kill them first they can't kill me!

Saphira is Dragon. My current team is the Ametrine Team, handpicked by Amethyst (purple three) and myself (yellow three). No plans on altering it after finally scratching it together in E17. There will be ways to beat everyone.

you need some fantasy for it, but there's... let's say, a visible hint in Titania's gym ~ and don't forget where you realistically have to be on the worldmap once you enter that gym :p (the cursor on the worldmap is actually still bugged in E17 release and puts you in the top left corner of the map tho)

given that it appears to be built into the mountain, it appears Amaria was lucky to find a sparkling rock/crystal surface imo. x) "another" mystery though? do you refer to Titania's gym ?

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@ZEL likewise, haha. I'm still very sorry for keeping you waiting for so long. that one was. on me. our trip was very enjoyable! I'll make sure to notify you should Ame find her way back again. ^^ P.S. pls send the photos you took of us (I'm not sure why you said you need to adjust their size last time on stream, but I'd be thankful if you eventually did it ^-^) @Amethyst I don't think we need too many words here. ^^ ~ thanks for being you, for fighting so much both against and for yourself (and others). you are remarkable - and so are your efforts. especially as a person you've gone a long way since I've known you. we will watch your career with great interest. @Jan you seem to be all right? somewhat? not bad, not bad. I'll try Rejuvenation after your next update. now let's bully Monodam! I'm oh... @DJ Mewdeon ft Dan Punk and Dan, I hope you'll find every stability and happiness you need (in whatever context you need it, may it be financially or other). bad ends deserve to be axed. I guess that pun doesn't make much sense if you haven't played 999, but you got the expert right next to you. you're super pleasant to talk to, and from what else I know about you, I think it's worth to make that friendliness your most outstanding quality - consideration is king, so out to Korvanjund with you and grab the crown. ... ... that would be Skyrim.

@Commander looks like I got what your points/premises were correctly. context of target audience matters a lot. of course their presentation would be much better regardless of what they do, since GF or any other well-known studio has an enormous staff-skill and software foundation. but that's like a logical cycle anyway. now, games even of great franchises can still flop (ME Andromeda, which was kinda outsourced iirc) or not fit into their own series (MGS V, cries about it - now that you talked about accessibility of online features is a strong point for sales, I think that's a thing it tried, but went 274° of bending itself and broke a lot of bones) Pokémon has not done that and I agree it works well for what they intend to do. anyway, thanks for putting in the time to explain further!

@Commander so what exactly makes people be "kind of out of their mind" in saying they think fangames are better? I'm not sure what to take from your points to reach that conclusion tbh. 1) graphics - fangame graphic is hugely outdated, but people at least made the effort to improve the base - official games keep improving on graphical presentation and are really appealing in that sense do old graphics make for an inferior game? that is highly subjective. but I think you were also referring to the possibilities opened up by that newer technology, and more possibilities = usually superior, which is a good point and can't really be denied. so let's take Reborn and put it into modern Pokemon graphics. that is cool and one would definitely enjoy the improved presentation and how puzzles, hidden stuff and more could be handled differently, at the same time games that get uh, "enhanced" this way, would also lose some of their old charm. but probably that's not a thing quite everyone appreciates the same way, just like the other way round. there's actually that pretty well known and highly regarded guy Hideo Kojima (Metal Gear Solid, of course), who's always been adamant about not remaking his old games because they also resemble the time they were made in. now, fangames with 3rd and 4th gen graphics (there's nothing out there that uses anything more modern, right? granted, I would not have heard of it anyway x) ) and limitations deduced from that would not quite fall under this, since they obviously came out wayyyyyyyy later to resemble it themselves. yet, if you use the premise that Pokemon fangames can't even be made using higher up technology (caveat: I'm not familiar with what is out there) given the limitations in - available software to do so - properly trained and qualified indie staff to make use of that software if it would exist to then create a full game ... then you could say fangames are at the best they can be at the given time and therefore resemble it for fan games. but maybe fan games can't even follow that view simply due to the nature of being what they are. if I look at indie games in general, there's a wild mix of ranging from what looks like stone age (...hey there Minecraft) over hand-drawn 2d (like Ori) to full-blown 3d, and either format is fully enjoyable to people who like it respectively. 2) online communication and interaction - fangames do not or barely make use of it - official games keep improving on it and implementing new possibilities in the long run, staff qualification probably plays a role in this again, is what I'd presume. anyway - if singleplayer or any form of multiplayer/interaction are "superior" is another subjective point in general, but for Pokemon in specific, this franchise has always aimed and improved at bringing people together and promote exchange, so you could say it is quite a defining principle. under that premise, fangames surely lag behind. I'm amazed Reborn got a working trade, wondertrade and battle system. you could say those are the basic online interaction functions in Pokemon, and it's great they are covered. now, personally I couldn't care less about all the online stuff 7th gen did in addition to that. the plaza thing made for quite an explosion in online functions I feel? (due to me missing most games after gen 2, I'm not very familiar with the advancement of those over time, was super hyped about GTS in gen 5+ tho) to me, most of that is a pretty useless time sink - lots of other people find it fun and entertaining to do the things and cash in the rewards though! I'm not sure if it would hurt the overall game quality to keep that a lower priority, but like above, I think it suits Pokemon super well. (now if Alola also had some real dungeons to explore in addition to that, or anything else that mentally challenges the player at least a little bit....) 3) story let's maybe summarize from my viewpoint. 1st + 2nd gen feel very much the same to me in that regard ; the focus is really put on the adventure feeling, Team Rocket's shenanigans do not really make for what you could call a story. a lil' lil' bit. 3rd and 4th gen I did not play originally 5th gen still felt like having the same focus. I felt pretty "at home" in Unova. 6th gen I did not play X/Y, but finally got my hands on Hoenn. personal investment seems to have gone up, it contains some cute scenes with the protagonists. the criminal teams are. well. I mean, I think it works rather well 'cause those legendaries, man. pretty epic. but it's like, "we want more land!!" vs "we want more water!!!". that's pretty meaningless imo. 7th gen I have played S/M, not US/UM. for the most part, not much was going on. Team Skull never felt like they had a real purpose, but it was fun. I super enjoyed it once the story took off for what unfortunately was only a small part of the game. I want to see personal conflicts, motivations and inner thoughts and conclusions on how to act of characters that then shape the story. S/M still didn't have much of that, but what it had felt the best of any main series game. so now we come back to Reborn and there is exactly that all over the place. some of it is yet to be told. I'm sure there'd be better formats than Pokemon to present these things. but man, if you are into putting yourself into the protagonist's shoes (...unfortunately it's a blank mute character, which is no difference from the official games tho), if you are into a plot with some twists and revelations.... ...then the main series has a loooong way to go, because that is exactly what it is lacking so far. thing is, that probably will never be a focus due to the nature of the franchise, and that makes these games considerably more boring than the combination of that with the adventure framework. going from gym to gym or trial to trial for the sake of it (or to unlock an HM to cut a tree or move a rock...) is just super one-dimensional. it's not bad or badly executed in its own right, but it's the way down one long spaghetti without sauce. -- did I miss any important point? with all that being said, I think your definition of "inferior/superior" is rather very technical, am I getting that right? story and characters do play some sort of part for you, but it's not what you'd put your focus on to judge the overall quality. so idk, I don't see anything out of one's mind here.

So, I haven't played any fan-game other than Reborn (which is simply due to me valuing a whole lot of other franchises higher). After having played Gen 1 and 2 as a kid and returning to Gen 5 in muh twenties, once again skipping X/Y to then play OR/AS (living dex yay, thanks to all the events), Pokemon returned quite strongly into a list of things I really enjoyed. Discovering that there were fangames out there, decided to give Reborn E15 a try since it was way more than some hack, it seemed to have a very interesting setting and the Pokemon themselves being vanilla. And oh boy, I came for Pokémon and stayed for Reborn, for very obvious reasons. I was a casual player in the official games, do the main story, maybe catch a lot of different Pokemon. And Reborn broke that to a good degree (I know there are harder things out there). It incentivized to actually learn some stuff, and if only gathering them passively from what others say about their strategies (or cheese strategies). Since Reborn kept me captivated for multiple playthroughs, there was no question to also get S/M and staying up to date. Now, S/M was a surprise going into different directions. The region itself is wonderful. The exploration part was basically non-existent, which was horrendous. Team Skull is one joke of an organization, but at least they are quite funny. Kind of a better Team Rocket tbh. Orgs in other games were a tad more serious. Mimikyu was very very very very well executed, props. The difficulty was a bit higher than it had become before, which was good, but also artificial due to it simply being achieved by a steep E4+champ level curve. The drama around Lusamine and her drifting off into obsession (and when Lillie started to become beautiful ~), I found all that much much better than what the main series usually has to offer. Personal problems of characters between each other were a strong point there. Guess what game is also really f-ing good at that. For Reborn, that outstanding quality can be attributed to being based on what actually happened in people's lives. The anime doesn't really count for the game, and I hadn't watched any of that since the beginning of 5th gen (only up to Johto before that). While it is plagued with a lot of episodes that just don't feel relevant at all as well, however when it does go serious or wants to show a message and confer emotions, it does that well. With all the creative freedom the fangames can take in terms of mechanics, character and world setting, all the while not having to watch out for that age 6 rating and being able to rely on a good amount of people who know their stuff, it's not so surprising they become better overall games. Usually they are created by people who are eager to test themselves and advance their horizon in development skills as well, that means quite some sweat and lifeblood goes into them too. Trying to compare any official game with Reborn will fall short on almost every aspect, with the exceptions being the graphics (which is subjective, for me growing up together with the development of computer games, that's not really a negative, especially since so much work was put into the overworld, the animations and a part of the sprites) and the dearly needed higher entry-skill. While I've seen voices that still call it somewhat easy, I have the feeling that it could under no circumstance be advisable to make Reborn the very first Pokemon game you play. Fangames in general are (probably) better, yet I think it's a reasonable give and take and they mutually keep people interested in the franchise.

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if you still need any help, I started into the battle with a Persian (Technician ability) + Fake Out and a Beautifly with Air Cutter (which will do a lot too and grant you a totally decent start into the battle, but it'll go down / switch vs her Rock Slide)

Moxie should be great, Mightyena will pack enough of a punch for quite some time. so I'm not sure what else Fern has at that point, but I'd try to last-hit one Pokemon with Mightyena and then try to let it sweep? it will just be a snowball with Moxie if you can get it rolling at some point in the battle. it definitely has initiative over Dartrix too, so despite that bird being relatively tanky at that point, maybe you can just end up one-shotting it anyway.

I don't know (yet), but I wouldn't count on it being available again before the city restoration, since usually early Event Pokemon reappear as normal wild ones (and with exceptions like Zorua, in a similar event) after that. Since you can't get the final evolution for Grubbin till that point anyway iirc, I hope it doesn't feel too bad.