Cyanna Cyril

If toxic is an E16 Episodes, you could use Milotic to toxic stall others. Having recover is fantastic to boost your already great bulk, and I've found this mon to be incredibly useful in many situations.

I'm just posting to say that I'm still interesting in the Scolipede line, and will likely have some sprite done later on this weekend. Don't release my claim yet D:

The arms seem a little short in my opinion. From what I remember about perspective, arms/fingertips usually reach down to about mid thigh when relaxed, where it would appear on your sprite to only reach the top of her waist. They also appear to lack elbows.

I'd like the scolipede line if possible

Is the league too hard? Yes and No. The difficulty of the league is fair mostly for those who use Pokemon that are designed to be highly competitive and are adaptable to many different formats and strategies. However, going outside a certain set of "Redemption-Meta" mons basically means you're going to have a bad time. Even if you do win a few, the flexibility of some leaders simply prevents you from advancing further in brackets, and so the difficult really derives in the decision of having an enjoyable team versus a redemption competitive team. Where I think this example is more evident is battles with ICSW, who can't get an equal match from leaders when she's using a delibird and a pykueurakumyyu (or whatever it is). Like, you guys have the time to choose counterpicks to competitive teams, but can't make fun trolly teams where she can still win against them? The league should have be difficult enough later on to prevent anyone from beating the entire challenge so only those who fought well with their teams (*cough* not only those who bring copypasta teams *cough*) win. The other part of the difficulty is I don't believe that you guys have properly defined C-teaming. Yes, I understand your definition, but frankly it's a really poor definition of c-teaming and doesn't necessarily stop it. I bring up the case of Haley. Poor Haley basically has one strat, hail/aurora veil triples. By the current rule of C-teaming, she should have 4 pokemon as a core on this hail team, with only 2 ever being able to be switched out at a time. Yet, if you've watched some of her battles, you can see that she's had more than 3 pokemon difference using the hail/veil strategy. By the current definition, her c-teaming is against the rules. Yet, her dependency on that single strategy and the nature of her counterpicks don't make it c-teaming. And this brings up my argument that c-teaming isn't necessarily about quantity of pokemon switched out, but more about how effective they counter the enemy team, whether shutting down a single mon entirely or shutting down multiple mons entirely. I've heard about an instance of a Mega-lopunny getting protected by a bewear during a high jump kick. I've seen an instance where a gastrodon used icy win to prevent a m-gyarados from successfully setting up d-dances and potentially doing the same to a garchomp, when just as effective of a move doing similar action but not as strong against that team was clear smog. There's even a sigilith that has been used on teams with 4+ physical mons and spreading burns to most of them, when it could have been an offensive set and still be effective without being a significant counter. I really think you guys should revisit what your rules are on c-teaming, because as they are now, leaders who break the rule don't appear to be c-teaming while those who don't break the rule appear to be c-teaming. Finally, I think that the league shouldn't be focused around difficulty, but rather fun. It's not enjoyable to get completely walled be a leader in B2 because you preferred to make a team that you enjoyed rather than a team with metagross, rotom-w, garchomp, etc. So, basically my advice to the league, especially some of the lower leaders, is not necessarily try to act as walls, but rather give us fun matches. Olivia is great at this in my opinion, where despite being difficult, she also is willing to try so many different formats and battle styles where you never know what'll happen until you battle her that day. Haley's good at this too because she uses a diversity of pokemon that don't necessarily counter you, but provide you a challenge that's enjoyable and always winnable. Mira's battles were enjoyable personally, and I'm glad to see she's testing out the waters of doubles and using something as unique as m-banette rather than sableye. And then there's battles against someone like Edgar, who basically chooses a team to use against you and never changes. And some of these teams, you know it's not possible to win without hax, so then it's not even in your control whether you win or lose if his team's 2 picks simply counter + megagross/regencore/SR user counter your team too hard. Difficulty like that should really start around later b3 or b4, because then challengers actually get to play the league with their teams in more than one bracket. Anways this is a lot to read, but basically these are my thoughts.

Hey, I'm restarting again. Same card and sprite as before and here's new team.

Gonna be restarting my team Same Sprite:

Yes it's better than I imagine! Thanks so much for making these!

Hey Jan, gonna have to let you know that due to a bunch of things happening, I'm not gonna be able to finish the sceptile line. Sorry about that, but just too much going on right now.

Jan, I had an idea for the line past treecko where some portion of the pokemon has additional colors representing Ruby, Saphire, and Emerald. It would kind of look like this: http://prntscr.com/e1nqmi (Top leaf color hasn't been decided yet). Would something like this be okay, or would you rather the leaves/bulbs be within the base colors?

What is your favorite color? Have you ever wondered what it'd be like to be a Sm0lJra? Say you'll remember me, standing in a nice dress, staring at the sunset babe. Red lips and rosy cheeks. Say you'll see me again even if it's just in your... ??? (Aaaah aaaaah)

Official Submission of Treecko:

Hey Jan, just wanted to see if this type of style for the treecko line would be acceptable. Looking into cleaning it up, but wanted to know if color scheme generally works out.

Thank you Sparky! The card looks great and thanks for putting all the custom things together!

Welcome to Reborn! Hope you find this place to be great fun!

I'd like to claim the Sceptile line if possible. It's likely that I'll get to it later in the week just a heads up!

Happy Birthday Etesian! Hope you have a super great day!

Highly would recommend getting metagross for the fight. Bullet punch gets buffed and meteor mash in general hits hard. He'll also resist and outspeed most fairy threats which is another bonus. Besides that, I think your team has the possibility to beat Adrienn already. Mine was even more underleveled compared to yours and I managed. Protect the magnezone as much as you can, use arcanine with intimidate to get debuff mawille, maybe get Greninja to learn gunk shot for protean stab (don't know how he learns it, but should be available). And someone should be able to take down Whimsicott before it gets a tailwind going (Mamo or Ninja with Gunk). Besides the agate clown, you can also use the trainer(s) in the grandhall if you've got one hard carry. Gallade/Glaceon were my primaries for training there, and I bet gallade/mamoswine can do just as good for you. Be careful as they're around level 80, but if you have a team to beat them its nice EXP. EV training may help, but it's not necessary if you battle with a plan.

Congratulations on your 1000th posts! You're a great friend and definitely a fun person to hang around! Here's to 1000 more!

I guess something to add to this would be where you're struggling to be the couple. From what I remember, it's the double battle with your own ally, right? How far do you get into the fight? In terms of team composition, it may be time to replace Lopunny, Pidgeot, and maybe Mawille. As of the current episode, we do not have access to megas, so these pokemon are really subpar compared to many others. Gallade should be significantly stronger than Lopunny. I'm a little foggy on who is still available at that point, so I don't really know who else to recommend.

I'll be waiting for a trade as Cyanna in the online play.

Can I trade for a torchic and chespin then?

Here's my chickorita Here's my totodile (thought it was better, but I can quickly breed a baby from the feraligatr I trained already) Also got a decent porygon Lemme know if these are okay. TOTODILE UPDATE (just hatched): http://prntscr.com/dw3tcj

I have a totodile (with dragon dance) and chickorita breeding program, so I could get you one of those. If you're looking for in game power houses and are towards the end of E-16, there's magnezone and excadrill obtainable from the wild. Could probably also get you an attack oriented ralts from my gallade.