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I find myself agreeing with you about the worst characters @Commander. With the addition of Ren. He just turns evil because he couldn't change the minds/mentality/attitude of his Town himself. He also demanded that MC stops advancing till he becomes good enough to do it himself. It's a very forced way the game chooses to use the cliche of good-turned-evil rival. Also, about Aelita. She is in my eyes the opposite of Victoria. Charges ahead without thinking too much. Has also high morals and I see the similarities, but Aelita is a positive life-force that revitalizes you, while Victoria is always on the pessimistic side that tries to avoid problems instead of facing them. Personally, I'd pick Aelita over Victoria any day. PS: The Devon Corp. Victoria is amazing, let's keep her this way please Ame.

Sadly, yes... But you can get one traded to you and pretend that mystery Egg gave you Axew xD I'd not consider it cheating, as long as you'd not use any other Pokemon only obtainable by Mystery Egg.

In E16 weather is broken. Gonna be fixed in E17. But (if it is urgent) you can download the weather mod from here!

They don't serve the same role, since Confusion isn't the same as lowering Speed. If a Pokemon lowers the Speed of a Deoxys/Electrode by one stage, it will still be outsped probably. But if it confuses it, it has 50% chance for it to hurt itself. If they were the same, they'd be the same. The "giving you the possibility to hit first" isn't same with the "giving you the possibility (50%) to hit without getting hit, with the enemy doing additional damage to himself". So, they CAN serve a SIMILAR role, but not the same role. Now, when it comes to personal preference, it is completely personal (and situational, as I already prove to you).

Pardon me if I got something wrong, but I thought Water Pulse can Confuse, not lower Speed... So, how is Douse a better Water Pulse? Also, I disagree that "Due to them having a use it is justified to not change them at all.". If something has a unique occasional use, but is useless 99% of times, this is a reason for trying to improve it. Besides, better is the enemy of good. Also, if you never try to make something better, you will never succeed in improving anything. And Jan's way of thinking has been proven to be this, since he has repolished many aspects of his game, spending a lot of his time doing so. If he thought like you suggest, he could say "since the map already works, has a use and isn't buggy, it is justified to leave it this way". But he didn't.

Oh, it is fine! I like supporting my opinion with arguments! When it comes to Flygon, why not replace Flygon with Haxorus? I think the team could still work similarly, just miss the STAB Earthquake. But you can get Bulldoze, Dragon Dance, Outrage/Dragon Claw and also Taunt, which can be quite useful in Reborn sometimes (looking at you Luna with your Umbreon). Or, if you prefer, get a Dragalge. Another bulky Sp. Defensive 'mon, that can't be Poisoned too. Adaptability boosted Dragon Pulse and Sludge Wave hurt (A LOT) and Acid Armor can boost its Defense too, creating an impenetrable wall. Get that to set up Toxic Spikes, and let Forretress have Rapid Spin, Gyro Ball, Stealth Rock and Spikes/Protect. Wear down the enemy team with your bulk and use the devastating Mega Charizard Y (Drought)-Sawsbuck (Chlorophyll) combo to sweep later. Hope I helped. My final suggestion then, would be Charizard (Mega Charizardite Y) [Fire/Flying] (Drought) Solrock [Psychic/Rock] Sawsbuck [Grass/Normal] (Chlorophyll) Vaporeon [Water] (Special wall-Wish passer) Forretress [Bug/Steel] (Rapid Spinner-Stealth Rock setter-Physical wall) Dragalge [Dragon/Poison]/Haxorus [Dragon]

Delta Ambipom looks awesome, and quite ominous, I agree! LOL, I knew I'd attract strong reactions about my Gardevoir comment Yep, I thought of sharing my run, since I was recording it and uploading it anyways. This way you'll get to see for yourself all the weird glitches I've encountered too! xD Mega Donphan has a great Ability... Irrelephant I think? I'd love to hit that confounded Talonflames with their broken Gale Wings with an Earthquake from Mega Donphan! Yes, Delta Ambipom has pathetic defenses, but is very very fast and has an interesting typing and movepool... Not to mention the creepy badass design! PS: Just letting you know, I read that if you disconnect your PC from Internet, you avoid having your game stuck before/after Gym/major battles due to server being dead. So, it does work properly, but you need to be 100% offline.

My vote is for Delta Turtwig! But I haven't caught that yet. From the ones I have, Charizard and Muk.

Thanks @LykosHand! Yes, I don't like the original Sunflora, but Delta one looks cool and helped A LOT in this one! I have only 2 Ghosts, Lucifer and Mischief, but they both are good. I will rotate squad around a lot in this run As you will see later on, I love Delta Scyther... I'd pick it over ANY other Ice type Delta...

Especially Reborn/Rejuvenation. This is a rule. Lower Speed, make your life better. Why Icy Wind and Bulldoze are give to us THAT late in Reborn. Cause if we had them early, we'd be having much MUCH less trouble! Also, personally I loved Poison Sweep in Rejuvenation. Replaced the pitiful Poison Sting and made my Nidorino relevant without having to wait till 43 for Poison Jab, or for a Moon Stone and Sludge Wave TM.

Vaporeon is actually quite good in Sun teams just because it can Baton Pass Wishes and extremely high HP Substitutes to others. In Sun teams, Pokemon tend to use recoil moves like Flare Blitz or Double Edge. A Vaporeon can revitalize such a member. Sawsbuck is one of those. Also, imagine someone trying to use Thunderbolt or Energy Ball against Vaporeon as it Baton Passes Substitute to Sawsbuck. Sawsbuck resists both those moves. So? A free Substitute (unbroken) and a Wish coming as well. Add maybe a Toxic to that, or an Ice Beam to hit the dangerous (to Sun teams) dragons hard and poof! There you go. Vaporeon IS great in Sun teams. A Sun team isn't only Fire types and Chlorophyll users.

Haha, I know about Gardevoir. I don't hate it, I grew to dislike it with the extreme hype of Reborn forums. It's the same reason I dislike Magnezone. I soft-resetted for the Ralts to be Male Thanks for the compliment! I will keep it up, since some people here seem to enjoy it! @seki108 and @Wolfox are people whose opinion I'd like too! Pls don't kill me Wolfox about my Gardevoir opinion I never thought about it! Game Freak predicted Delta Aipom/Ambipom, God damn! In all honesty though, this is great. Insurgence team took a random element from the very first pokemon games released and gave us such a connection! Props to whoever thought of it!

Chapter 4: Villages and Forests! This introduction gets old, but... If you're bored to read, just skip to 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Part, to watch the video coverage via Youtube! Ahem, sorry about repeating myself. So, let's get on to it, shall we? The first thing I had to do was complete my team, because struggling due to the lack of team members was now getting old. So, while battling my way through Route 3, I found the residence of Hiker Trevor, who was kind enough to trade me his Delta Scyther for my Magnemite (he wanted any Steel type, I gave him the Forum Champion, he probably is happier than ever). Meet my new team member! Hidan, the Delta Scyther (Female) Typing: Ice/Fighting Shiny: No Lvl. 15 Impish/Ice Cleats Pursuit False Swipe Haze Focus Energy I'll be honest, the moveset was quite unimpressive, but what a beautiful beast it is! And named after Naruto's villain (Akatsuki member), Hidan, due to the common use of scythe as weapon. After searching around Route 3, I gathered some Honey and decided to use it to lure a wild Pokemon that kept ruining the garden of a resident of Suntouched City! Again on the fan, again up in the clouds, we found his garden, gave him the Honey... And, oh the surprise! The culprit was a Delta Aipom! The design of which is awesome by the way! I mean... a Ghost with phantom hand/tail?! Does it even get any better than this?! I had to catch it. But this turned out to be harder than I thought. Because this little Satan (not you, Lucifer) had Curse and Pain Split in its moveset. Which meant it killed itself about 10 thousand times before I managed to get it to red. And then it Pain Splitted its health up to green/yellow, getting it impossible for me to ensure a capture! The tilt was strong. The ragequit even stronger. 10th Part: Catching Delta Aipom is even more impossible! But, I kept trying. And was eventually rewarded for my patience! With this beauty! Mischief, the Delta Aipom (Female) Typing: Normal/Ghost Shiny: No Lvl. 20 Docile/Rattled Fake Out Fury Swipes Curse Pain Split Good typing, great moveset! And, at least, a priority move. Fake Out! STAB too! This will definitely be useful! After that, I went back to Route 3, did some grinding of my new team members on random victims trainers, and finally got safe and sound to Metchi Town! A small village, famous for NOT having a Gym in it. I explored around a bit, and discovered that Nora has grown up in this Town. I also met Nora. While my team was unprepared. She challenged me to a battle. It was not a good sight... After that (awful) thing happened, I realised the ugly truth. It was time for some grinding... 11th Part: Full team of six in Metchi Town! And after the inevitable happened and my team was decent and not 5 levels below... It was time to try battling my rival again! VS RIVAL NORA My team before this battle looked like this: As you can easily notice, my Delta squad was considerably stronger now, compared to its pre-grinding state! So, Nora started with her Honedge and I with my Lucifer. After an exchange of Shadow Sneaks, I realised that Delta Charmeleon is A LOT weaker than Honedge and, drowned in a sea of disappointment, swapped into Viva Aldia, my Delta Snorlax. With the help of Synthesis, Viva Aldia sustained easily the damage taken from Honedge and eventually maximised her Attack and Sp.Attack by using 6(!) Growths. Then, Viva Aldia OHKO'ed Honedge with Bulldoze. Nora sent in her Quilava and used Flamethrower, but Delta Snorlax tanked it (relatively) easily and OHKO'ed Quilava as well with another Bulldoze. Then Nora sent in her Golbat, and I was forced to switch out Viva Aldia (RIP sweep) and send in Mischief. Mischief used Fake Out, but Golbat has Inner Focus and doesn't flinch (ffs). Instead, Golbat uses Bite, which gives a +1 Speed boost to Mischief thanks to Rattled, but gets her HP to yellow. In the next turn, Mischief valiantly sacrifices herself and uses Curse on Golbat. It was the time to send in Hidan, for her debut in a big rival battle! Hidan gets confused by Golbat's Confuse Ray, but it doesn't affect her at all (not a single turn she hit herself!)! Delta Scyther sets up Focus Energy and Agility, and tanks a Poison Fang easily, without getting poisoned too! Curse damage forces Nora to use Hyper Potion on Golbat and it gets KO'ed by two consecutive Ice Balls from Hidan! Nora sends in Celebi, but it gets annihilated by Hidan's 3rd consecutive Ice Ball that connects, which is a critical too! Nora's Floette suffers exactly the same kind of death (OHKO'ed by the 4th Ice Ball in a row). Finally Nora's Swadloon survives thanks to its Focus Sash the 5th (!) Ice Ball in a row that connected and sets up Sunny Day. However, thanks to Agility, Hidan outspeeds even the Chlorophyll Swadloon and finishes it off with Low Sweep. Easy victory, great debut for both Mischief and Hidan as well! Ice Ball is now renamed as Snow Ball. Or Sweep Ball. Or Ice/Snow Sweep. That would be awesome, Hidan knows Low Sweep and Snow Sweep! Ahem, anyways. Nora tells us that she revealed to Damian what she knows about the prophecy and STRESSED the importance of him keeping his mouth shut about it. Which is the same as letting the Cultists know everything straight away... Damian can't keep his mouth closed, naive lil Damian... Oh, well! After some more exploration, which included me buying a Secret Base in Metchi Town and paying a visit to the Daycare Couple, I Surfed to the South, towards Vipik City. That meant I had to explore and clear Route 4, which is FULL of water... And, in an abandoned house there, in one of Route 4's secret/hidden shores, I found this little treasure... Chidori, the Delta Ralts (Male) Typing: Ice/Electric Shiny: No Lvl. 15 Gentle/Lightningrod Growl Powder Snow Thunder Shock Double Team However, since we don't have a Dawn Stone to get it to evolve into a Gallade yet (don't start with Gardevoir, I know it is better, but I don't really like it...), it will remain boxed for a while longer... Aaaaand we that, we arrived to Vipik City, aka the Dumpster City, or the Trash Town! 12th Part: Route 4 has A LOT of water! After that, we explored Vipik City, learned that it has a huge dump near it, which causes the whole place to stink and, even though it was pleasant to live there at the era of the First Augur, since he vanished everything went South and the City slowly decayed to its horrible present state. With Xavier, the Gym Leader to share a large portion of responsibility (as many citizens hint towards) for allowing Vipik City to end up like this. A big, unattended, dumpster. Anyways, in the Route 4, again, we found a Hidden Grotto! And, in there, another treasure was waiting for me! Meet our 8th team member! Erebus, the Delta Sunkern (Male) Typing: Fire/Poison Shiny: No Lvl. 10 Timid/Flame Body Growth Ingrain Poison Powder Ember I also did some backtracking and gathered items and TMs that were inaccessible before, but became accessible as soon as we got Instant Lapras! Oh, by the way, as I was heading towards the Gym, I met Damian. And guess what he did. Yes! He let his mouth run about how Nora and I will have no issue against Xavier, since we both have been chosen by legendaries (Mew and Celebi). But wait, it gets better. While he was babbling incessantly, an Abyssal Cultist was right behind his back. I.had.predicted.this. But, no problem. The Cultist said he heard nothing. We can trust him, right? RIGHT? ........... No?... 13th Part: Exploring Vipik City and some backtracking Well, regardless. I couldn't bother too much about how much that Cultist heard. I had a Gym Badge to win. And I had the perfect strategy to do that in mind! Xavier uses only Bug types and Poison types in his Forest-themed team. So, I'd be able to fully utilize my newly acquired Delta Sunkern. Or... ahem. The Delta Sunflora version of it! (We also had a couple more evolutions, as you will see in the team summary below!) VS XAVIER (Forest team) My team looked like this: The plan was to take advantage of Shuckle's setting up stuff like Stealth Rocks, Sticky Web, etc. and its pitiful Attack stat and boost me Sp. Attack to maximum with Nasty Plot and my Speed to maximum with Flame Charge. Then perform a safe sweep like it's a stroll in the park. And it kinda worked. KINDA! Because all my sweeps HAVE TO be spoiled by something. Fml. Thank God when that happened my backup team came to the rescue! So, Xavier sent in Shuckle and did just what I hoped he would do. Plus, AI is dumb enough to not switch when setup is over. Instead it keeps trying to set up Stealth Rocks and Sticky Web again and again, failing and giving me free turns. A major disadvantage of game's AI exposed. So, Erebus gets +6 in Sp. Attack and Speed and proceeds to outspeed and OHKO Shuckle, Mega Beedrill, and Heracross with Flamethrowers. Erebus also 2HKO'es Tentacruel, again with Flamethrowers, after tanking a Scald. Scald however gets Erebus into red HP. Then, Gengar gets outsped too and survives a Flamethrower by Erebus with 1 HP thanks to its Focus Sash. Gengar then finishes off my Delta Sunflora with Shadow Ball. I send in Lucifer (my Delta Charmeleon) and use a few Shadow Sneaks, getting Xavier to waste his Hyper Potion before OHKO'ing Lucifer with Shadow Ball. However, Mischief (my Delta Ambipom) tanks easily a Sludge Bomb and finishes off Gengar with Shadow Punch. Xavier's last Pokemon is Croagunk. I switch into Sandman. Croagunk's Drain Punch 2HKO'es Sandman, who only manages to Bulldoze Croagunk once, lowering its Speed by one stage. This is useful to outspeed Croagunk, since Sticky Web is set on my end of the Arena. I send in Mischief again. A Fake Out, followed by a Return and a Shadow Punch take out Croagunk, which wasted 1 turn to Bulk Up while it had only a sliver of its HP left. Again, great AI choices. With that victory, I earned my Second Badge (the Stinger Badge) and the TM for Venoshock! 14th Part: 2nd (Stinger) Badge [vs Xavier] After leaving the Gym, a Hiker hands me a note from the Abyssal Cultists, saying that they have kidnapped Damian and hold him as a hostage at Vipik Gym. Which means, I will have to rescue him... You won't give me time to savour my victory and enjoy my second badge, game, will you... We will save Damian and do more exciting stuff in the next chapter of my mono Delta run of Pokemon Insurgence in Hard Mode! Till then, enjoy everyone!

I agree, Golem is the best choice probably. Use it to set up Stealth Rocks. But I'm not sure about the Focus Sash. If it has Sturdy, then Focus Sash is just a waste of an item. Also, teach some other moves to your mons to have coverage. 4 Water type moves on Wailord won't help you. And (general suggestion) get Mach Punch over Flame Wheel on Infernape. You need that priority in Reborn.

It's a matter of taste. (However, if you just called Delta Charmeleon or Delta Grimer silly, that's plain blasphemy, as they're twice as badass compared to regular ones xD) I think they look cool. Nothing different that Alola forms actually! Same concept! BTW, many might disagree, but I don't consider Deltas to be Fakemon, becausse they are alternate typings of original Pokemon. They are not made by GameFreak of course, but they are not entirely different concepts, like Uranium's Fakemons. I've argued about this before though, so everyone can keep his/her own opinion on this! I didn't use many Deltas in my original run of Insurgence. But after playing Reborn 4 times and Rejuvenation half, I wanted something refreshing from canon series 'mons... I'm glad you enjoy the run!

Haha, yes, it was a tough set of battles... Especially Orion. Snorlax mostly went down to Acrobatics, because it has not great Defence and the Grass typing didn't help... Deltas have exactly the same stat distribution as the original ones, so Charmeleon isn't a huge Defensive wall... Dragon typing helps though! Haha, and thanks for the name! I like Framboise too! And Sandman is an absolute star. Many more great things will be offered by those two in the future!

Lemme give it a try... @SilverHelio AND BRING THE HEAT! Sunny Day team! Charizard (Mega Charizardite Y) [Fire/Flying] (Drought) Solrock [Psychic/Rock] Sawsbuck [Grass/Normal] (Chlorophyll) Vaporeon [Water] (Special wall-Wish passer) Forretress [Bug/Steel] (Rapid Spinner-Stealth Rock setter-Physical wall) Flygon [Dragon/Ground] (With Swords Dance in Gen VII) Lemme know if you want me to provide items/movesets/EV spreads/natures as well. This was just a first thought of mine!

Anything you want, as long as Vivillon is in there. If I had to pick, I'd also say Kadabra, Sneasel, Hippopotas, Seel and Ponyta.

I see what you mean. I'm sorry, I'm much earlier in game, just defeated the E4 actually. The online elements are useless for those things. Why would we care about how many people challenged a Gym and how many attempts they needed in average? I only care about finding a strategy to defeat the Gym myself. It is a nice touch, but, if you can't get it to consistently work, it is worth that useless, since it endangers the game's stability. My point is that they should've thought of it and coded it in such a way, so that if server is down, these labels display the latest live value, keeping it stored in a variable (maybe creating a txt in game's folder). I'm not familiar with RPG maker coding, but I have done a lot of coding in my life and I don't think that adding an IF statement would be impossible, even though itwould need some thinking on how to bypass those issues. So, I stick to my point that it is a lack of consideration of possible issues by the developers.

It is only working half of the time then. For a game to function half of the time is just as good as not working at all in my book. That is, because I'd hate it if my save file got corrupted somehow because of this. Every developer make their games work as standalone games. I might want to go to holidays to my grandma's house, where she has no net. I will be forced to not play. Or, perhaps we have a power outage, so I decide to play on my laptop's battery for the 1 hour it might take for power to come back on. There are many reasons why a game MUST work at 100% without an internet connection (apart from the Online Play of course). But this means that a game must be built in such a way that online features are absolutely redundant with regards to it's storyline/plot elements. If not, it is a HUGE mistake made by the Devs. When it comes to the Deltas, they have same stats as their original version, so the most beneficial nature is obvious You can ask me about anything you'd like, since I'm doing a Delta monorun and have used quite a lot of them.

Probably yes. I still can't understand why would a developer create a game that won't function w/o internet connection and functioning servers though... Such a bad decision...

You're welcome Hope you win it! Good luck!

Just saying, Illumise has prankster. So, nothing is going to outspeed it, even if you bring a 100 level typhlosion with eruption. Try to Fake Out Illumise to flinch it with a Persian and use Growlithe's Flame Burst to set the field on fire.