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Tres Hm, she owns this place. Guess I really walked right into her trap. Tres sighed. A purple rock...could it have been a Spectracite? Refined Spectracites can be used to expand on a Pokemon's potential, but what about raw ones? Maybe this Tesla was driven mad by the energy...sounds familiar. "Um, you mentioned about my basement containing some sort of evil entity. Was it the rock that was hidden there?" He asked, interrupting Trish's rush of sadness. "If it helps, I can take you to my house and look for a way to the hidden basement."

Tres "He didn't tell me explicitly, but I figured out it was a Rotom. After all, there are barely any Pokemon out there that would put electronics in their houses." Tres said. "I've heard that the Rotom wreaked quite a havoc, but no one has really told me what he really did." Basement? There was only a flight of stairs leading to the second floor...a secret switch?

(Holy shit, well played!) Tres "Why?" Tres asked. "All the problems that I'm not aware of..." He paused for a bit. If he was a real duck, he'd be visibly exhausted from the consecutive usage of Trick Room. Not having facial muscles outside of the eyes ended up being useful for once. "If there's anything you want to tell me, just go ahead. No need to sneak up on me like you're trying to assassinate me...unless that's actually what you're trying to do."

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/randombattle-443848277 You know what's better than bird spam? Bird PP stall.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/randombattle-443785013 Mmmm Malamar's Malicious Comeback~

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/randombattle-442544565 Based Rhyperior. Rock Polish + Weakness Policy = WRECKING BALL. http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/randombattle-442548867 Bow before the TRUE God of the Earth!

Bargus "Sure. I guess you have other men in the room too, otherwise you wouldn't leave Cana alone, would ya?" Bargus lead the way to the restaurant. Central Hotel 2F, Restaurant Chandeliers hanged over the tables and candles on the tables glowed orange, with the carpets and the wallpapers colored with red and brown, the whole restaurant was designed to get the appetite going! The waiter seemed to recognize the magic ID in their hands from afar, and immediately came to take them to an empty table. Surprisingly, they use paper menus here. Bargus quickly read the menu and put it down, waiting for a waiter to come and take their orders. "Ah, where was I...oh yes, one of the friends I spoke of is staying here with me tonight. I doubt if he would actually sit there and relax, though." He smirked and continued. "It's all right. I'm sure he will come back sooner or later, and when that happens, I'll have him meet with ya."

Sand, you say? Mega Claydol Type: Ground/Psychic Ability: Guardian Gale - Shares the user's stats boosts with its allies. Fades if the user leaves the field. HP: 60 Atk: 70 -> 90 (+20) Def: 105 -> 125 (+20) SpA: 70 -> 120 (+50) SpD: 120 -> 130 (+10) Spe: 75 BST: 500 -> 600 Behold, the grand Doubles/Triples great wall! Claydol pays respects to its Gen 3 origins, losing Levitate but getting a powerful ability in Guardian Gale (albeit completely useless in Singles). With improved bulk and power, it can run a horrifying Calm Mind set with a team of special attackers to steamroll the opponent, or a Cosmic Power set to outlast the opponent, or heck, a Rock Polish set to simulate Tailwind. Despite all the things going for it, without using Cosmic Power first, it gets demolished by a variety of threats, so Follow Me/Rage Powder support is greatly appreciated. Doubles OU Defensive Calcs (Note - Spread moves are weakened in the calculations): Doubles OU Offensive Sample Sets: Saharan Sandstorm (Calm Mind) Taklamakan Aegis (Cosmic Power)

And here we go, the feedback on Insanity Mode: Insanity Mode is basically a game of sweeps. Starting from Florinia and all the way to Ciel, the player's goal is just simply find a way to sweep. But prior to Shelly, there's really no choice but to buy X-Items to assist you, and they're expensive, forcing players to grind for money using Meowth. This is a huge reason why Torchic is among the few viable starters for Insanity Mode - Speed Boost and Bulk Up saves you the money needed for X-Items. Level Limiter is a must. Not using Level Limiter makes sweeping RNG based, counting on whether your Pokemon obeys you this turn or not. Sure, you can prevent disobedience from ever showing by putting your sweeping Pokemon 5 levels lower than the cap or so, but this only makes it harder and sometimes outright impossible (ie. Solaris 1) to set up. With that said, Level Limiter is still a double-edged sword, forcing you to use Rare Candies to evolve your starters to their final form before Shelly. The Early Game Bosses decide over 80% of a starter's viability. The early game bosses are the worst as the resources your have are scarce. For example, Aster & Eclipse #1 lead with Level 25 Magmar and Electabuzz, a combination that obliterates Fern's team and almost everything in general, making those who picked a Grass starter rely on either the AI screwing up or trying to weaken them as much as possible with Baby-Doll Eyes. Julia, Florinia, Taka & ZEL #1 and Corey are the other major bosses that hit the similar effects, especially the third one, which I'll elaborate right now. Double/Tag Battles are especially difficult. Double battles severely impede the player's ability to sweep, especially 1v2 battles (Although there are only two so far). The outcome of Tag Battles mostly hinges on whether your partner decides to be competent or not. Sometimes, they might not even be able to put in any sort of work. For example, Fern. Luckily partners receive the 20% extra level boost, so they may be able to carry the entire fight for you sometimes. Trick Room dominates outside of speed sweeping. With the level boosts your opponents get, most of the time they're gonna outspeed you, even if it's just that Cradily of Florinia's. Using Trick Room mitigates half of the problem and is in fact very much viable in doubles. The opponent's lead decides the match. Instead of explaining why, I'll just lay down two examples and compare them together. Taka lead with Klefki starting from the fight against him on Azurine Island. The AI isn't smart enough to switch out Klefki once it has done its job, so it's easily set up upon. This makes every Taka battle trivial. Bennett lead with Volcarona in the second fight against him. Volcarona, capable of decimating all Quiver Dancers and Blaziken, forcing me to grind a Blissey and brutally stall its PPs out. Grinding Post-Agate is ridiculous. With Clown Indra getting the 20% boost, his team can wipe the floor with you. The best grinding spot post-Agate is when Aya's tagging you on Route 3, and that's only temporary too. How can everything be balanced? Here are my suggestions: 1) Put a 50% Discount over X-Items in Obsidia Department Store pre-Corey. 2) Make Fern not a complete death fodder against Aster & Eclipse #1 by giving Lombre decent Water-type moves. 3) Don't let Taka lead with Klefki. It may sound like a good idea with human battlers, but alas, our AI isn't nearly as competent as actual humans. 4) Consider either making Level Limiter mandatory for Insanity Mode, or aligning the limiter caps to the gym caps for Insanity Mode only. 5) Consider removing the level boosts for Clown Indra only.

(Holy crepes I don't know how I missed this, could've sworn it was marked read.) Tai "Huh, so this thing is portable? Neat." Tai 'followed' Cardinal to the teleporter, making his way to the car.

Bargus "That, I don't know. I got the information when they subdued the thug. Of all that I know, they might have taken the thug elsewhere to interrogate them." Bargus sighed. "By the way, have you eaten dinner yet?"

Insanity Mode has been completed for the first time ever! If the Ciel glitch (Forcing me to fight her again right after beating her) wasn't a thing, this would've been a splendid finish, but eh, it's a finish nonetheless. Ah, as for the promised feedback on balancing Insanity Mode, that'll have to be tomorrow. I'll also write a quick guide on how to beat Insanity Mode too.

Bargus "Well, some of my friends were attacked by a thug with such glove today. Apparently, the glove self-destructed and immobilized the thug completely, preventing possible interrogation."

Bargus "I want to ask you about a bizarre piece of technology. It's a glove that can steal and use others' magic, have you seen or heard of anything with similar descriptions?"

To add onto Futility4Ever's tips in the spoiler:

https://gyazo.com/8c58d330bb9309e930c6f250bed0c68a Sorry but the scene deserves a gif.