Jess

CHAPTER 9: Getting sidetracked to oblivion! After a brief two-week hiatus, it's time to get back on track and rolling! So, in the previous chapter, Kairi Hime, my Bibarel went on super saiyan mode I defeated Venam, and she gave me the Poisonheart Badge, and a TM Disc, which was supposed to be Poison Sweep! I immediately tried teaching it to Hidenka, my Nidorina... Hidenka, the Nidorina: "Hmmmm, Sir, I believe that this is not a technical machine disc, but something much more casual, widely used to entertain human beings by applying sound waves to their eardrums which are pleasantly translated into emotions by the nerval synapses of their brai- San-D, the Patrat (Screaming intimidated while sat on my shoulder, her skull scepter hidden behind her back): "It is demonic and creates sounds!" Gundham: ......................... (while intensely troubled and scratching his head, having no clue what Hidenka just said) Jum-P, the Quilava: "She just said it's a music CD, duh!" Gundham: "Oh, that won't help Hidenka, or Gaidoku get stronge-" Gaidoku, the Nidorino: "Speak for yasself, I'm as strong as it gets already!" *burps after swallowing a Cherri Berry whole* Gundham: "You gotta stop getting drunk on Cherri Berries first, then estimate your power, impatient demon... But we will try practicing drunken fist soon! You'd be an expert in that!" After Hidenka handcrafted a Full Heal to treat Gaidoku's hangover, I put the whole party in their Pokeballs and attempted to exit Venam's Gym... I was determined to go by Venam's House and ask for what is mine by her relatives... But before having the chance to do so, a friend of Venam's stopped me and said that, since Venam mentioned that I will need the TM for Rock Smash, I need to go get it from a gang leader, the gang of whom is located by the Abandoned Sewers... "Damn, those lowly humans keep toying me like a ping-pong ball, tossing me here and there...", I thought to myself, annoyed... Then, when I exited the Gym, a lunatic drawn from the lowest pits of Hell was jumping up anddown before me. He was dressed like a scientist and had bright purple hair. Dr. Jenkel: "My experiment finally worked, I cannot believe it... Oh my God, could this be the one... A strong trainer... YOU! NO IFS, NO BUTS, CERTAINLY NO BUTTS BUT COME WITH ME! You have to help me test my invention!" I initially refused, since we had more pressing matters to attend to, but Hidenka sprang free from her Pokeball... She was in her labcoat, on my shoulder, and was gazing adoringly and admiringly at Dr. Jenkel... She was asking him a whole lot of questions on potion crafting, optimizing of EV training, the potential of IV altering... Then, they started discussing Pokemon breeding... And all Hell broke loose... Gaidoku, the Nidorino *obviously infuriated*: "Oiiii, leave the girl alone, you creep! She is my girlf-... Eh... You aren't even a Pokemon! So, back off!" *tries to use Horn Attack on Dr. Jenkel* Jum-P, the Quilava *holding Gaidoku by his ears*: "Help me hold him, God dammit!!" Gaidoku, the Nidorino *even more obviously infuriated*: "LEMME LEMME LEMME LEMME KEEL 'IMMMMMMMM!!!!" Maga-Z, the Pachirisu: *used Nuzzle on Gaidoku* GAIDOKU IS PARALYZED! HE CAN'T MOVE! Hidenka was witnessing the whole thing wordless, in awe, as Dr.Jenkel was keeping notes like a maniac, unfazed by the danger he was facing as my entire squad was trying to contain the enraged Nidorino! Then, Hidenka walked closely to Gaidoku... And nuzzled him with her non-electric cheek... Muttering in his ear... Hidenka, the Nidorina: "So, I'm your girlf-.... Finish your line..." Gaidoku, the Nidorino *even more obviously paralysed*: "You... you... y.y.y.yyyy.....yyyyyyou're my g.g...g.... girlfriend... " *blushing* Dr. Jenkel: "An exquisite example of Pokemon growing fond to each other and developing intimacy through jealousy and superiority actions over potential threats! Hmmmm hmmmm hmmmm..." *keeps thinking and writing in his notebook as Hidenka un-paralyses Gaidoku* Gundham: "Devil damn it, enough with this, loverodents... Back in your Pokeballs! And you, Dr. Jenkel. Tell me about your abominable experiments! I shall offer my help to your endeavors!" Dr. Jenkel: "Ah, yes, apologies, I forgot! So, this machine let's you relive past incidents! Such as the Goldenwood incident! And gain stuff from it (e.g. capture Shadow Pokemon you missed, grind your Pokemon, remember details etc. Also, you can use my Pokemon purifier to purify your shadow 'mons!" Gundham: "The dark lord offers his eternal appreciation, doctor! My disposition might be opting for the dark side, but not by violating my 'mons feelings! It will greatly help me in my quest! I shall repay this debt with the blood of your enemies..." Doctor Jenkel looked intimidated and greeted me goodbye, but he smiled! He probably was happy that he met me! Next stop, Venam's House! I knocked on the door, and immediately heard a loud voice of a female (presumably, Venam's mother), telling me to fuck off, thinking I'm Venam! Gundham: "This is the last heir of the Tanaka Empire, and a successful challenger of Venam's Gym! I am not Ven-" Jum-P, the Quilava *playing Venam's CD in a CD-player (for the kids of '90s)*: "D-O-G-A-R-S DOGARS!!!!!" *dancing to the tune* Venam's mom: "That nightmare of a daughter must be close then, I hear her abominable music!" Gundham: "YOU AREN'T HELPING, JUM-P, YOU DEVILISH PEST!" I recalled Jum-P and stopped the music, because, apparently, this wasn't helping the situation. Venam's mother, Chasity, as she is called, was quite nice, she let me in her house, offered me some tea and gave me the TM for Poison Sweep (finally!). So, then, it was time to go do gang-related stuff to get the TM for Rock Smash! VS KARRINA I went to the Abandoned Sewers and met Karrina, the Gang Leader. She challenged me to a battle, and I faced her, to get the -much needed- Rock Smash TM! The battle vs Karrina starts at 16:15 of the following video (Part 10) and is held at Chrisola Hotel's Arena! In this battle, I used: Bun, my Lopunny easily handled Gothita, after the tiny Psychic demon scared the living shit out of Hidenka, who was the lead. Then, Kairi Hime, my Bibarel handled it all again... She seemed more eager to battle this time... Only a scream from Jum-P that we have to find and save Melia and her Buneary afterwards and that our chances of saving them get slimmer by the second, was needed to get her all fired up and start Rolling Out! Kairi Hime destroyed Salandit, Houndour and Torracat all by herself (praise Queen Beaver) and we got the TM for Rock Smash! Karrina tried to sugarcoat her defeat, saying that her main team is much stronger, and she was only testing me out, which I think is true, but Jum-P was singing "they see you rollin', they hatin'" at Kairi Hime, ecstatic after yet another majestic performance by my almighty Queen Beaver! Part 10: Dr. Jenkel and Karrina! Now... Thinking of Venam's informative friend, Dr. Jenkel, Venam's mother and Karrina... IF I GET SIDETRACKED ANY MORE BY SOMEONE ELSE, THEY SHALL FACE THE RAGE OF THE DARK OVERLORD OF ICE! Then I lost my way to Amethyst Cave. With all that stuff, I forgot that I had to take a train to Route 2. I even forgot which train station I should depart from. Because even the reincarnation of Darkness himself, has one brain 24/7. And I ended up utterly lost, defeating the RK9 gang of Growlithes in Oceana Pier. Fuck my life. We will keep going the next time everyone! Till then, enjoy yourselves boys and girls! And don't forget to leave comments/likes/dislikes/criticism or anything!

Cain: 26 Adrienn: 12 Amaria: 19 Aya: 23 Charlotte: 22 Ciel: 19 Corey: 9 Florina: 29 Hardy: 30 Julia: 25 Kiki: 21 Luna: 22 Noel: 19 Samson: 19 Saphira: 19 Serra: 11 Shade: 30 Shelly: 29 Anna: 21 DJ Arclight: 16 Cal: 27 Laura: 23 Taka: 12 Zel: 18

It was how I defeated @Wolfox's Belly Drum Aqua Jet Azumarill in our Bug vs Fairy battle... Pity that: 1) He is too good and 2) My luck is too bad and I was destroyed anyways...

@walpurgis @CrimsonDragon21 My experience says that Moxie Heracross is more useful than Mega Heracross, at least in Bug-mono teams. Moxie and better speed are too good. And a Choice Scarf Heracross is quite good to check even flying types with Rock Blast. Also, Focus Sash Counter Heracross is quite a surprising thing to use and it has saved me a lot of times. Plus, if you get Mega Heracross in a Bug monoteam, you have to pass on much better Megas, such as Mega Pinsir (seriously, wtf is this monster) or Mega Scizor (aka bye bye Fairies doombot). Gimme. ASAP

My Froakie starter in my original run is named Gamakichi. Never too many Naruto nicknames!

She certainly has OCD. Relatable to me. And yes, I love Laura!

I'm murdering her after Charlotte, rest assured. Weird sisters. Only one adorable and sane is Laura.

Super happy to see Terra, Lin and Titania already dead. There is hope for this world actually! Now, let's focus another annoying bitch... At least Charlotte has some backstory and character development behind her cnstant "I'm the absolute superior and you aren't at my level yet" act. Unlike Titania, who does exactly the same, trying to bruteforce everything, but only has a fake lovestory as a traumatising cause, to justify being a bitch. Still, Charlotte, my lvl 1 Paras survived the whole battle with you. In a Bug monotype. And you got 1-6'ed. REKT. Actual footage of my victory vs Charlotte (battle end). Cain: 23 Adrienn: 14 Amaria: 20 Aya: 21 Charlotte: 25 Ciel: 20 Corey: 19 Florinia: 28 Hardy: 29 Julia: 21 Kiki: 21 Luna: 20 Noel: 19 Radomus: 9 Samson: 20 Saphira: 19 Serra: 15 Shade: 30 Shelly: 31 Anna: 21 DJ Arclight: 16 Cal: 28 El: 10 Laura: 22 Taka: 16 ZEL: 17 Solaris: 11

Scolipede Edit: The H&H topics hurt nobody... Their proper place is in Onyx Arcade... They aren't enough to bury other topics. Plus, they are like the most interactive/interesting game and you want to ban it from Onyx Arcade just because it's popular? That is not right imo...

Nihilego: 13 Kartana: 14 Poipole: 17 Naganadel: 13 Stakataka: 13

Rowan: 6 Juniper: 17 Sycamore: 6

D13 Y4 B14TCH!!!!11!one!!1!lne Cain: 23 Victoria: 4 Adrienn: 14 Amaria: 18 Aya: 21 Charlotte: 27 Ciel: 20 Corey: 18 Florinia: 29 Hardy:28 Julia: 21 Kiki: 21 Luna: 20 Noel: 19 Radomus: 11 Samson: 19 Saphira: 21 Serra: 15 Shade: 30 Shelly: 30 Terra: 1 Anna: 21 DJ Arclight: 16 Cal: 28 El: 12 Laura: 22 Taka: 15 ZEL: 21 Solaris: 10

Mega Venusaur: 17 Mega Charizard X: 24 Mega Charizard Y: 24 Mega Alakazam: 20 Mega Gengar: 22 Mega Kangaskhan: 18 Mega Pinsir: 22 Mega Aerodactyl: 24 Mega Mewtwo Y: 18 Mega Ampharos: 13 Mega Scizor: 18 Mega Heracross: 22 Mega Houndoom: 23 Mega Tyranitar: 21 Mega Gardevoir: 11 Mega Mawile: 27 Mega Aggron: 22 Mega Medicham: 8 Mega Manectric: 24 Mega Banette: 16 Mega Absol: 16 Mega Garchomp: 2 Mega Lucario: 13 Mega Abomasnow: 17

I'm using one in my Bug monorun. The moveset I use is Leaf Blade (or Razor Leaf in doubles-hi Amaria xD)/X-Scissor/Swords Dance and Fell Stinger. Gotta say that, to me, since Leavanny is very fragile and its typing is godawful defensively, Fell Stinger has given me more chances to setup than Swords Dance. But Reborn is one of the hardest games to setup in, due to the Field Effects usually amping the leaders' moves enough to OHKO you. Consider Nature Power too, it is quite useful, but mostly turns into special moves, and Leavanny special attack is awful... But it still has its uses. (e.g switch on the light in Shade's Gym via Nature Power-->Discharge).

*Helix bless you.

It depends on how that Mega is built. And it's better than slapping a Mega onto an extremely strong Pokemon. I really see no point in giving Megas to pokemon like Latias, Latios, Mewtwo, Garchomp, Metagross etc. So, in order for a Meg to be "good", it has to have no counters? Because that's what I see you're implying. Unless I have misunderstood. You also said that OU and uber aren't quality measures, but measures on how much they're used, and that's what I knew anyways. Thing is that, it might not be as good as Volcarona, but I'd have a chance to make it work in a strong, yet unconventional team. With the standard Butterfree, you have no such chance. The point is that this kind of Meta promotes certain pokemon. But, if we had more "weak" Megas, we'd have the chance to experiment more. And good stats. So, the point is that there is no hope for weaker pokemon to be good with Megas, so we don't do anything about them? Because I honestly don't see how Butterfree (in this example) will become relevant by only getting tiny power creeps and an addition of a move like Air Slash every now and then. So, a Mega would be a good example. I'm against the very existence of Megas all along, but I'd see their use in balaning game by making more 'mons relevant. But all they think of is how to sell more to new generations of kiddos.

There isn't a single canon Mega that takes prior lore under consideration. Also, I'll give you an example. You could introduce a Mega Butterfree, one of my favourites. I'd use it anyways in my playthroughs even without a Mega. And I only want a Bug/Psychic Mega Butterfree for balance reason and because the only actual attacking moves it has in Gen I were Psychic ones (plus Gust). So, lore-wise, it fits. Design would fit too. It really isn't. Pokemon that are bad even in NU need buffs. Pokemon that are in OU or Ubers even without a Mega don't need one.- 2nd worst pseudo, but still a pseudo. No pseudo needed or will ever need a Mega.- Unless you wanna create a broken beast (hi Mega Salamence). Blaziken with Speed Boost is too strong even without a Mega, nobody ever understood why it needed to get one... I agree in general, but with a note. I'm not stopped from using Ariados or Butterfree competitively. But I'll lose 5/6 games with them in my team. I know we can't have 800 perfectly equal 'mons, but I do think that the gap is too wide between the strongest and weakest ones. And giving Megas to the strongest ones while ignoring the weakest is only making the gap wider (apart from few failures, see Mega Garchomp). So, Megas are purely a marketing tool, aiming to please the masses (mostly, as I said, young kids who focus on POWAH more than Jeremy Clarkson did in Top Gear) and not truly a means to balance the game and bring weak 'mons back to viability.

True... They go the safe way than risking when it comes to profit. I'd prefer seeing a Mega Beautifly or a Mega Masquerain for example, than seeing a Mega Dragonite or Mega Goodra.

Cain: 22 Victoria: 9 Adrienn: 14 Amaria: 17 Aya: 21 Charlotte: 23 Ciel: 20 Corey: 19 Florinia: 28 Hardy: 26 Julia: 20 Kiki: 20 Luna: 20 Noel: 19 Radomus: 15 Samson: 19 Saphira: 19 Serra: 14 Shade: 30 Shelly: 28 Terra: 11 Anna: 21 DJ Arclight: 16 Cal: 30 El: 18 Laura: 22 Taka: 16 ZEL: 21 Sirius: 4 Solaris: 23

Nihilego: 15 Kartana: 15 Poipole: 17 Naganadel: 18 Stakataka: 13

Mega Venusaur: 21 Mega Charizard X: 23 Mega Charizard Y: 25 Mega Alakazam: 20 Mega Gengar: 22 Mega Kangaskhan: 18 Mega Pinsir: 22 Mega Aerodactyl: 24 Mega Mewtwo X: 4 Mega Mewtwo Y: 18 Mega Ampharos: 15 Mega Scizor: 18 Mega Heracross: 21 Mega Houndoom: 23 Mega Tyranitar: 23 Mega Gardevoir: 13 Mega Mawile: 24 Mega Aggron: 20 Mega Medicham: 12 Mega Manectric: 23 Mega Banette: 16 Mega Absol: 18 Mega Garchomp: 6 Mega Lucario: 14 Mega Abomasnow: 17 They'd actually have more profit from their older fans, who grew up and over the "WOW THAT IS A FUCKING STRONG POKEMON THAT PWNZ EVERYTHING, I LIKE IT!" stage of their lives... But it must forever remain a game for kids... Why I didn't bother with canon games past pokemon red. Too easy and repetitive.

Rowan: 7 Juniper: 14 Sycamore: 14

It's too overhyped... And seeing almost EVERYONE having one in their Reborn teams (hello originality), made me dislike it. It's nice overall, nice design, moveset, typing, stats... But come on, calm down everyone, it's not as great as you all think. So, I 100% agree with you.