Jess

God damn it @Alistair! xD

I think it's OK! If date has changed, it's a new day. At least I'm voting this way too, so... We are either both OK, or both cheats! xD

God damn, Steel got an all-out pummeling!

Grass: 5 Steel: 10 Ice: 11 Ghost: 13 Bug: 20 Poison: 12

True, but she was quite weak anyways. I didn't really need to counter it. She needed more 'mons with Whirlpool or something with Blizzard to counter such stuff effectively. Plus, Sludge Wave on Toxicroak isn't something I like, because it's physical. I know it would be just situational for this battle, but I'd not like it. Regardless, there were a couple easy battles. As I said, annoying, because she tries to stall a bit with Dive and Whirlpools, but still, not very hard.

Yes, Magical Seeds are pretty broken in that field. Mostly because King's Shield is freaking OP there, not so much for the Attack boost. If King's Shield wasn't protecting even from status move, it would be better and more balanced imo. I've seen people face Titania with all 6 of their 'mons holding a Magical Seed, it's pretty ridiculous xD When it comes to the Oasis, that would certainly help me, if you can PM these to me, I'd be forever grateful! I did click Sludge Wave a lot, but she countered it with Swampert's Whirlpool a lot, so it turned into a switching battle to gain momentum. Her Dive after she cleared the waters hurt a lot and she turned out to be quite annoying. Not a tough win, more like an annoying win.

Thank you! LOL, even now, after defating Amaria, Bulk Up isn't in my inventory. This desert is huge and I keep missing areas. Some day I will properly explore all of it. Maybe I'll manage to find the 3rd location of the Oasis as well, in order to make Mirage Tower appear! Also, duh me, I didn't even think of using Dry Skin Toxicroak vs Amaria. I defeated her in both Singles and Doubles, cause it was in Public release and I wanted to check the changes between this and community. And Toxicroak was benched for both battles. Could've been so much easier, damn! Thanks! I had a Sniper Drapion in my roster, which has literally saved me many times (especially vs Radomus). To be honest, I didn't think of getting a Defense boost by Battle Armor. Also, I still don't really get how Magical Seed works in this field. Which stat of you does it boost? I swear I've seen someone getting a Defense boost by it as well, so I reckoned it boosted the higher stat. But then, my Qwilfish got an Attack boost while it had its Defense as its highest stat (post EV training). Also, I consider Silvally a Normal type when it comes to monotypes

Once again, mandatory post to prevent this from getting archived. I will get back in it soon. I've finished the run and got all videos uploaded, so I will start covering it! Just bear with me people, cause I've got quite a busy schedule! I promise, I will resurrect this one!

Thank you! Hope you will enjoy these videos and the post overall! It was fun to face Steel types with Poison types, knowing I can't touch them with my main STAB! It worked out much better (and easier) than I thought though! James would be proud of me! xD

CHAPTER 18: Death is only the beginning OK, so, after a really, REALLY long (mandatory) hiatus, due to E17 taking ages to be released, it is time to get this one back into life! (@Awesome_One will be very happy about this) After defeating Adrienn, we headed straight into the Tourmaline Desert via train, to find ourselves immersed in sand. And Alolan Exeggutors. At least I had my Flying Crobat, so I could'nt get lost in here! I went straight to the North, to find the Scrapyard. Met Bouffalant Bill and the others and headed straight for Titania's fairytale land! But, before getting into action, let's welcome the new members of my team! I do remind you that all the 'mons I use are named after Greek mythological deities/monsters/people/heroes, so let's give a warm round of applause for... Aphrodite, the Salazzle (Female) Shiny: No Bashful/Oblivious Sludge Wave Flamethrower Dragon Pulse/Encore Nasty Plot Name Origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite (Greek Goddess of love and anything sexual. Can't think of a more fitting name, honestly) Nereus, the Qwilfish (Female) Shiny: No Relaxed/Intimidate Aqua Tail/Dive/Waterfall Fell Stinger Spikes Destiny Bond Name Origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nereus (The oldest son of Pontus (the Sea) and Gaia (the Earth) in Greek mythology. Lived in the Aegean Sea and called "The Old Man of the Sea". Only now I noticed that my Qwilfish is Female and not Male. Well... Oops? I promote the LGBT rights in my run via this!) As we all know, Lin had followed us in Titania's cold, hostile magical fairytale castle. And she kinda put me in bed to sleep. I solve a fairytale-oriented puzzle (not really a puzzle), and climb on the poison ivy. Meet up with Titania and she hands me the Sapphire Bracelets for save-keeping, until she has dealt with Lin. We advance deeper, where we eventually have to battle versus a Zekrom statue which is an actual Zekrom (Galio, you?). VS ZEKROM The 'mons that participated in the battle vs Zekrom were: Zekrom exchanges Earth Powers with Nidoking, then Nidoking goes down to a second Earth Power. Then Prometheus, my Vileplume goes in and is immediately OHKO'ed by Outrage (no Moonblast today). Then, Nereus, my Qwilfish Intimidates Zekrom, survives the second round of Outrage and Destiny Bonds Zekrom. Zekrom then KO'es Qwilfish, but I played in Community release, where Destiny Bond was bugged, and Zekrom didn't go down too. So, Aphrodite took over, outsped Zekrom and finished it off with a field-boosted Dragon Pulse. Soon after, Lin threatens me to get the Sapphire Bracelets, Titania kills her (?) from behind with her Aegislash, and happily we go forward to have our Gym Battle. In my first try, I took out (mostly thanks to Nidoking and Salazzle) all of Titania's team. Then Aegislash came in. I had 4 of my 'mons KO'ed (Nereus the Qwilfish, Cerastes the Arbok, Prometheus the Vileplume and Hemera the Skuntank) and only Aphrodite the Salazzle and Colcheum the Nidoking were not fainted. So, balance happens. Aegislash comes in. Its held Magical Seed activates, giving it a +1 in Attack and a free King's Shield. King's Shield is boosted by the field as well and if I touch it now I get -2 Sp. Attack and Attack. I also can't touch Aegislash with status moves either while it has King's Shield active. RIP Taunt/Haze/Will O' Wisp strategies. I use Nasty Plot with Salazzle, but of course Aegislash uses Swords Dance. Which is ALSO boosted by the field and gives another +3 in Aegislash's Attack. In the next turn, I go for Flamethrower, which will surely OHKO, but Aegislash also has a priority move! Shadow Sneak! It triggers Stance Change, which is mother-fuckin' ALSO boosted by the field, giving it YET ANOTHER +1 in Attack. You get it? +5 stages in Attack before I even had the chance to touch it! WITH ANYTHING! Status, Special OR Physical moves! And, of course, it just OHKO'es both Salazzle and Nidoking... As I said in a discussion I had with @FairFamily, this is a bit over the top, even for Reborn standards... Anyways, check the Zekrom fight and the first (failed) attempt vs Titania in the following video... VS TITANIA This defeat only made me clench my fists and get prepared better to woop Titania's arrogant ass! After a couple attempts, here's what my team (the winning combination) looked like! The winning battle starts at 19:30 of the following video. Enjoy! Strategy worked out really well in this one. Intimidate by Nereus (she also set up 2 layers of Spikes) on Alolan Sandslash helped Prometheus barely tank an Icicle Crash and set up the Amplified Rock-boosted Grassy Terrain. Then, Hemera the Skuntank set it on fire with Flame Burst and finished off Sandslash (I couldn't bring in Salazzle for this because Hail was still up, so Slush Rush Sandslash would outspeed Aphrodite and OHKO her with Earthquake, which is 4x effective vs Poison/Fire plus I didn't wanna use Air Balloon). Salazzle handled easily Excadrill (its Magical Seed didn't activate in a blazing field), Mega-Scizor and Klefki (which accepted its fate and didn't even try to Prankster-Thunder Wave the flaming lizard) while making Titania waste her healing items. Empoleon finished off Salazzle with Terrain returning to normal (normal my ass, this is OP as fuck), but Colcheum the Nidoking easily finished off Empoleon, making Titania waste her last Ultra Potion too (the less she has for Aegislash, the better). Then, I let Aegislash waste its Magical Seed vs Hemera the Skuntank. It OHKO'ed her, but suffered some Aftermath damage. I let Aegislash finish off Nidoking too, in order for Hail to add some more damage-over-time, and I sent in Artemis, my Toxicroak. She had a free King's Shield and +1 in Attack by her own Magical Seed. I Sucker Punch'ed and easily took out the beast! Victory! Pity that Lin is alive, so we had not much time to enjoy our 15th Badge, the so-called Alloy Badge or our brand new Flash Cannon TM. Lin spews out some bs about me and her working together, and threatens Titania about Amaria's life. So, off we are to Fiore Mansion, with the Sapphire Bracelets still in our possession. I wonder for how long... Till the next time, enjoy everyone!

@Gengar768 No biggie! Have fun voting!

@Gengar768 You downvoted Steel (-2) and upvoted Ghost (+1). Delphoxian Prophecy downvoted Ground (-2) and upvoted Bug (+1). The list before xe voted was Grass: 7 Steel: 14 Ground: 5 Ice: 13 Ghost: 13 Bug: 16 Poison: 11 So, after your votes, we have: Grass: 7 Steel: 14-2=12 Ground: 5-2=3 Ice: 13 Ghost: 13+1=14 Bug: 16+1=17 Poison: 11 When you vote, you mark with red the one you downvote and with green the one you upvote.

*Sigh... And again, you guys make a mess of your votes and I have to clean it up... Here we go, then, Jess the referee is on duty! And the correct list is the following: Grass: 7 Steel: 12 Ground: 3 Ice: 13 Ghost: 14 Bug: 17 Poison: 11

I honestly don't want to do this, but it is the type I like the least among the ones that remained... Grass: 8 Steel: 12 Ground: 9 Ice: 13 Ghost: 12 Bug: 23 Poison: 12

Let me merge the last few votes! Grass: 10 Steel: 14 Ground: 8 Ice: 18 Ghost: 15 Bug: 21 Poison: 13

Grass: 9 Steel: 14 Ground: 8 Ice: 18 Ghost: 17 Dark: 2 Bug: 20 Poison: 13

Not even close. Much more engineering-oriented name. It comes from Eisen und Stahl , which is the Steel and Iron Standards Committee. It's actually the German name for steel.

I've got Duckess, the shiny female Swanna, cause duck+duchess. Maple, the Sudowoodo, Viva Aldia the female Sawsbuck (cause 4 seasons, my favourite music is Vivaldi's work), Vesuvius the shiny Camerupt, Edelweiss the shiny Avalugg, Stahl the shiny Steelix and Aegean the shiny Lapras (cause Aegean sea). And many many more, like Affection the shiny Leavanny and Gaia the (HP Ground-knowing) Galvantula. Just giving you an idea of my Pokemon naming style! xD Got a lot more in my Bug and Poison monoruns, but won't write down all of them... Bugs are mostly named after morals (e.g. Kindness, Generosity, etc.) and Poison ones are themed after the Greek mythology (deities, monsters, etc.)

I'd honestly suggest Insurgence, Rejuvenation, Desolation, Apex and Full Moon. They are all pretty good, despite of some bugs/flaws.

I'm with @Wolfox on that! A DRAGONfly not being part Dragon is a bit stupid... Besides, it's like they just refuse to create a Bug/Dragon. Dragon has at least one dual-typed 'mon with every other type, apart from Bug. What is this discrimination? xD

Just talk to the X of flowers on the very back side of Adrienn's Gym. Another imposter is there.

@Zargerth I think it should have Sand Force or Sand Rush. Honestly, it wouldn't be terrible to not have Levitate, since Bugs resist Ground type attacks anyways. There are other cases of mons that can obviously fly, but are affected (neutrally, too) by Ground (Venomoth, Volcarona).

@Bobert III Bug/Dragon Mega Flygon... A dream that will remain unfulfilled, because the artists of the franchise suffered from.... lack of ideas, so they aborted it. They didn't suffer from this when they gave fucking Mewtwo TWO needless Megas though...