Jess

Oh, DAMN! I didn't know that. Well, RIP Bennett!

Your team is fine. You don't need to add anyone to defet Bennett. Just, as @HongaarseBeer said, evolve your Graveler to Golem, use an Earthquake to destroy the field (which will make the Signal Beams hit much less hard), and set up Stealth Rocks. Golem will take easily 2 hits from a Larvesta. You can also set up Light Screen with your Meowstic, and proceed to OHKO everything with Houndoom. Stealth Rocks will get everyone down to half HP anyways, except for Venomoth, which will go down to 3/4.

Ah... I like this! Let me share the greatest highlight of my Bug monotype. Facing Charlotte, a Powder by Vivillon and a Wide Guard from a level 1 Paras give 2 free Shell Smashes to my Crustle. Then, a Rock Slide sweep was performed, and my level 1 Paras ended the battle gaining approximately 40 levels. For more details...

Have you tried it yourself and failed numerous times? Or you are just asking to get an easy win and advance with the plot? Anyways, you should not create new topics but post a reply under the Gym Leader help thread of Team Showcase. Here: Regardless, Golem should help as well. Maybe set a trick room with someone and proceed to Heavy Slam everyone with Golem. Or just brute force it with all the Fire types you have and Toxicroak. Should be no problem.

Because they lack imagination and like effortless victories? xD

Magnezone would be the best choice game wise. But also the most boring choice, since like half people who play reborn use Magnezone and gardevoir.

You lost interest in your Grass mono BEFORE facing Ciel? Hmmmm, that's a bit fishy...

Join the club! It is super-fun, I'm telling you! Also, yes, I will play Reborn from scratch, but only after continuing my original run, shiny run, Bug and Poison monotypes. Then, I have a couple themed runs I'd like to do as well, so a lot of exploration is going to happen!

Ah, yes, that would be impossible...

I've done it with 2 copies of vanilla Reborn. Used 2 different online names and two PCs (laptop and desktop). Was piece of cake.

Personally, I mostly try to win without using healing items (or using less than the amount the NPC uses), just for the challenge of it. So, for example, I have a moveset of Defend Order, Heal Order, Toxic and Infestation on the defensive Vespiquen I run on my Bug monorun. It feels like cheating to me if I win a battle by spamming healing items. You can just stack up, then PP stall literally everything (do it the Dark Rising way). But I agree with your other statements. And I DO agree that healing items are better than healing moves, because they always go first in a turn. However, it just feels cheap.

I thought of it cause sand... Ghost... Kiki's ashes... Too morbid maybe. Also the misdreavus pretended to be Kiki. Could establish some supernatural connection. I think you know where it is going.

Thanks Lykos! Yes, Damian kinda let me win, if we can say that xD Delta Pidgeot-to-be is a great Pokemon, yes, and I have used it quite a lot in next battles, so you will enjoy it in action soon! Delta Muk needs to puke ASAP, I want that Grass immunity back! I like Damian, he is naive for sure, and a bit of an airhead, but he is a nice guy Thank you for always following my runs and leaving comments! Means a lot <3

I can think of a certain evil redhead female that adds a month every time we ask about release dates Don't make me mention the Beldum quest! xD

@bepe @NickCrash How awesome it would be if Sandygast was obtainable at night on Apophyll beach, where we first met Kiki. Even better if it was appearing in overworld only if you have that Misdreavus that pretended to be Kiki in your party at the time.

Today I learned that Pokemon Showdown is equally tilting as League of Legends. Every PvP is the same actually.

Chapter 5: Caves and Deserts-AI is dumb! Once again, if you're bored to read, just skip to 15th through 18th Part, to watch the video coverage via Youtube! Ahem, so let's get straight into action. We have a lot of stuff to cover today. This means "Get ready for Jess ranting/getting salty about stuff". Hence, @seki108 and @Wolfox will have some additional fun reading this, since we've roasted (fairly though) the flaws of this game together many times. After earning my second badge, I thought I was done with the abhorrent Vipik City. But no, I have to save Damian from Vipik Dump, where his kidnappers, aka Abyssal Cultists took him. So, that's what I did straight away! The worst thing in Vipik Dump isn't the tough Cultist battles (some ARE bit tough indeed). But no. The worst part is the fact that there are tiny objects (aka trash) EVERYWHERE, most of which don't seem to be blocking the way. But they are. At certain points you see a HUGE gap, but you can't fit because my character ate too much in the 2nd-badge-celebration-feast apparently, and in other areas there is a teeny weeny tiny mo opening, but you can squeeze yourself in! Because Yoga power too stronk and I lost weight immediately. Apart from that, Damian is kept by the 3 high-ranked Abyssal Cultists on a tiny island in the middle of a tiny pond filled with polluted (green) water. Or whatever liquid that is. I go ahead and talk to them, just to realise they doubted that I'd come. Then why even bother kidnapping Damian? Leave him alone and save me some time, idiots! Then, they say that they want Mew as exchange for blabbermouth Damian. Damian tells me to not give in to their demands, thinking reasonably and quite bravely (cliche'ed, but courageous)! There are two problems with that: 1) I don't have Mew yet, 2) If I had Mew, why not just kill the grunts/cultists, Teleport Damian with Mew and get away? Like always, religious-obsessed freaks who think that a huge fish is a God aren't exactly thinking. So, I enter a double-battle vs two Abyssal Cultists. I won't bother describing the battle because: 1) Double battles are a pain to describe in detail, 2) It is in the video below, 3) It wasn't even a hard battle. The Starmie, Dewgong, Skrelp and Crawdaunt they had couldn't really hit hard and, apart from the fact that Dewgong tried (unsuccessfully) to murder me twice with Sheer Cold, it was an uneventful battle. Easy win, even with a weakened team (Viva Aldia, the Delta Snorlax fainted and Lucifer, the Delta Charmeleon into red HP at battle start, because I was too bored to go back and heal again and had ran out of healing items). Then, an Abyssal Cultist (the middle one, so the strongest among the 3?) talks directly to the absent (yet omnipresent) Mew, threatening that, if it doesn't appear, he will push Damian into the corrosive liquid. There's one obvious problem with this threat. Damian is on the island in the middle of the polluted lake. The Cultist threatens to PUSH HIM IN THE LIQUID, while he stands next to me, on the other side of the lake. If he jumps on the island, what stops Damian from jumping away and saving himself? Also, if he means that he will surf to the island (I doubt it cause it is polluted), why can't we surf on the (highly corrosive) fluid too? A logical flaw in the story there, but I won't keep overthinking of it. Thing is, Mew appears, then Shaymin appears too, uses Seed Flare (the overworld animation of which is FUCKING AWESOME by the way) to purify the polluted water, saving Damian (and Mew and me, even though Mew would Teleport him to safety, we had a plan). Then Shaymin chooses to travel with Damian, who joins the (not so closed anymore) club of people-who-have-been-chosen-by-legendary-pixies. And Mew still vanishes. Cleverest of them all. GJ Shaymin and Celebi, joining your chosen trainers, but then trying to keep it hush-hush. Kinda contradictory, isn't it? But anyways... Now Mew has the Shaymin DNA, so we can use Seed Flare whenever we want as well! Mew, the Passepartout! 15th Part: Rescuing Damian from Vipik Dump! After that, Damian leaves with his new friend to go tell Nora the good news and we keep on travelling, finally free to leave behind us Vipik City, once and for all! So, I headed South, and to the Crossroads and then West, into Route 5! There, we entered the mysterious Samsara Cave, where some mysterious force petrifies everyone who enters it. I had to go hiking in there and, like a good speleologist, unveil the truth! Turns out that, the culprit would become the newest addition to my Delta squad! Meet Basiliscus, the Delta Pidgey! Basiliscus, the Delta Pidgey (Male) Typing: Dark/Dragon Shiny: No Lvl. 12 Adamant/Intimidate Bite Leer Twister We also had an evolution in this video! Go to 8:00 to see Lucifer becoming a beautiful(ly ominous) Delta Charizard! Lucifer, the Delta Charizard (Male) Typing: Ghost/Dragon Shiny: No Lvl. 36 Naughty/Spirit Call Shadow Sneak Dragon Breath Shadow Ball Dragon Dance And when all these exciting team member additions/improvements, we finally reached Koril Town! Which, on first sight, is much cleaner than Vipik. This is, on itself, a vast improvement! 16th Part: Crossroads, Route 5 and Samsara Cave! To my great disappointment, Koril Town turned out to be boring as hell, since the most action I had was help the Scientists in the Scientist Club gather their Fossil Pokemons that were freed and wreaking havoc in the lab by an armored (never saw its armor) Kabutops. Easy job, small payment. I await the second job though! Oh, another exciting moment was a guy who mentioned being afraid of the terrfying stories that are heard about Samsara Cave. I had solved the mystery, but chose to keep my mouth shut. Monster is my ally now! In other news, Sandman evolved after some grinding (yayyyy!), and got his Sap Sipper ability replaced by Regurgitation (nayyyy.... ), because he was so extremely blinded by hunger after evolution that he swallowed a nearby Bellsprout and kept it imprisoned alive in his stomach. I tried to make him release it, but he refused. Kinda used Submission. On me. My ribs hurt. An Ability Capsule will make him change his mind (if I EVER be given one by the game). Seriously, the Ability Capsules are given to us too late (in Helios City), considering that they don't allow Hidden Abilities by the swap too. But oh well. Meet his new form. He is for Bellsprouts what Obelix is for wild boars. Sandman, the Delta Muk (Male) Typing: Ground Shiny: No Lvl. 38 (Item: Leftovers) Careful/Regurgitation Magnitude Bulldoze Submission Minimize Without having much to do in Koril (a nearby Cave in the North of the Town only had a hideous Meloetta puzzle in there. I like this kind of puzzles, but not being able to tell what the f@ck is the image supposed to be isn't helping me much, so I gave up on them for good.), we stocked up healing items and headed North, into Rezzai Desert. The only thing in there that I like, is the music! Sandstorm all the time, no Safety Goggles given to us to remove the awful visual effect (at least I didn't find them, and I'm sure I checked everything in Koril Town!) and my myopia is increased. My red-eye isn't getting any better either. In Rezzai Desert (I keep typing dessert and correcting it), all you do is: Head North, pick up random items and battle casual trainers. In one of these battles, Chidori, my Delta Ralts evolved! He is now getting through his sexuality-exploration teenage phase, being a Kirlia. A Dawn Stone will get your mindset and attitude back to original (as soon as I find one too!)... Chidori, the Delta Kirlia (Male) Typing: Ice/Electric Shiny: No Lvl. 20 Gentle/Lightningrod Nuzzle Powder Snow Thunder Shock Double Team 17th Part: Koril Town is boring Having a lot of the Desert to clear still, I decided it was time to grind up Basiliscus. And soon enough, he evolved into a Delta Pidgeotto! I shall rename Rezzai Desert to Evolution Desert! Basiliscus, the Delta Pidgeotto (Male) Typing: Dark/Dragon Shiny: No Lvl. 27 Adamant/Intimidate Bite Twister Quick Attack Dragon Dance But, the first part of the Desert was over, and I had to cross the Rezzai Cavern. Some more casual trainers and... Cultists?! SKY CULTISTS! That's a new one! They threatened a Hiker that they'd kill his family unless he handed an Ancient Scroll he dug up while mining. Apparently, this Scroll contains the ritual for the summoning of Rayquaza! Obvious plan, for the SKY Cult. He hands it to them and they leave, but not before breaking their promise of letting him go and burying him and his family under tons of debris, via a forced explosion in their mine, in an effort to "leave no witnesses"... They are indeed ruthless. After healing up, we try to exit Rezzai Cavern, only to stumble onto Damian. He goes straight into business and challenges me to a battle! VS RIVAL DAMIAN My team for this battle looked like this: This battle was quite hard actually. I should've lost. But AI decided I should win, even with a 5 level disadvantage, and without any EV training. Count with me the pathetic battle AI strikes... Damian started with Infernape, and I started with Hidan, so I switched in my Lucifer right away, and tanked an Overheat that hurt like hell. After an exchange of a Shadow Ball and a Rock Slide (wtf are these movesets), Infernape is in 1/4 of its HP and Lucifer in red. A Shadow Sneak barely misses the kill and Infernape finishes off my Lucifer with another Overheat. I send in Erebus and Infernape Taunts him (Strike 1: I never understood why not use Rock Slide... Honestly, I'd set up Nasty Plots if I hadn't seen that before, so a poor choice anyways). Infernape goes down to a Flame Charge. Then Damian sends in Crawdaunt and I send in Hidan. Crawdaunt's Aqua Jet hits like a truck getting Hidan to yellow, as he sets up a Bulk Up. In the next turn Hidan uses Low Sweep, getting Crawdaunt to red (and lowering Speed) and survives a Crunch with 16 HP (Strike 2: why the hell would you Crunch a Fighting type? Seriously, this AI is giving me this battle, while I'm outlevelled and without EV training). Another Low Sweep finishes off Crawdaunt. Damian sends in Metang and I send Sandman. Metang outspeeds and its Zen Headbutt fails to flinch, but deals half HP, as much as Sandman's Bulldoze, which fails to lower Speed due to Metang's Clear Body. I have to risk it and try Magnitude. Sandman gets to red HP after another Zen Headbutt, but Magnitude scores a pathetic 5 and only barely gets Metang to red. Another Zen Headbutt finishes off Sandman. I send in Hidan who finishes off Metang with a Low Sweep. It is the time for Damian to send in his Delta Blastoise, so I send in Framboise. Delta Blastoise outspeeds and an Aura Sphere deals 2/3 of my Delta Crustle's HP. Then, a Dazzling Gleam gets Delta Blastoise into yellow too. In the next turn, Blastoise decides to go for the priority Vacuum Wave, even though it outsped Framboise on 1st turn. Framboise survives with 12 HP, which would not be possible if the AI wasn't STUPID and chose Aura Sphere again, which was a 100% 2HKO (Strike 3, and worst of them all). Another Dazzling Gleam then takes out Damian's Delta Blastoise. Damian sends in Luxray and I send in Hidan. Luxray Intimidates Hidan, making the Low Sweep deal roughly 1/4 of Luxray's HP, but lowers its Speed. Then, Hidan is KO'ed by a Fire Fang. I send in Viva Aldia, who tanks an Ice Fang with just above half HP, before Bulldozing Luxray, further reducing its Speed and getting it to half HP. Luxray though still outspeeds and two turns pass with Luxray using Fire Fangs to get Viva Aldia to about 10 HP, and Viva Aldia using Synthesis to heal the EXACT same amount of HP. The lack of Thick Fat hurts a lot and I decide that time is against me (it's game over if it manages to Burn/Freeze me), so, after tanking easily a Crunch this time (Strike 4, unless it wanted to get the possible Defense drop to finish me off), Viva Aldia Bulldozes again, getting Luxray to red HP and lowering its Speed again, now to 40% of its initial Speed. In the next turn Delta Snorlax (finally!) outspeeds and finishes off Luxray with -yet another- Bulldoze. Damian's final Pokemon is Shaymin. I leave Viva Aldia in, and she tanks like a champ a Psychic, using Synthesis afterwards! Shaymin can't put a dent to Viva Aldia's HP and I Bulk Up 4 times while sustaining easily with Synthesis. Note that Shaymin wasted 1 turn by using Synthesis while being in full HP (Strike 5, this AI is the worst EVER!). I then start using Bulldoze which does a tiny bit of damage, but (more importantly) lower's Shaymin's Speed A LOT. Viva Aldia gets outstalled and taken out easily by Shaymin eventually (Shaymin had about 2/3 of its HP when Delta Snorlax fainted!), but Shaymin's Speed is at -6 stages, which means that Erebus can outspeed it! I send in my Delta Sunflora and go straight for Flamethrower. It gets Shaymin to red, but Shaymin decides to Leech Seed instead of OHKO my Poison/Fire type with Psychic! (Strike 6, kill me now). Another Flamethrower in the next turn KO'es Shaymin, giving me the much desired and much deserved (not really) victory! 18th Part: Rezzai Dessert and Sky Cult introduction! Damian wonders why he keeps losing to me (because AI is non-existant, a watermelon would take better decisions than THOSE) and then I tell him that Sky Cultists got the Rayquaza summoning scroll and are heading towards Helios City to blackmail the Augur into performing the ritual to fulfill their goals. He tells me we have to help the Augur (again) and we start a race towards Helios City... But we will continue in the next chapter of my Pokemon Insurgence mono-Delta run in Hard (?) mode, since this one is already too long! Till the next chapter, enjoy everyone!

The first mon I got in my Bug mono since I started Headbutting trees outside Grand Hall with my Linoone was a shiny Combee! Of couuuurse it was Male. They are obnoxious creatures.

A Vespiquen is never rude... It is just territorial! xD