Jess

Thank you! And it is very flattering that I inspired you to do a mono run! But the most important thing, what I wanted to achieve was for everyone to have a good time following my adventures! And I think I succeeded at a reasonably high level!

Haha, I see what you mean about Ash's occasional blockheadiness... But he is quite good at manipulating fields to his advantage (vs Brock, vs Pryce, etc). He is a bit underrated by the community I think... Besides, I like how Ash has morals and isn't all about POWAHHHHH

@Orasha Great job once again! Cain got a few aces up his sleeve to face a Psychic Gym and get destroyed by a Pixie monotyper! I can imagine the dialog... "HAHA, I NOW HAVE AN ABSOL TO COVER MY WEAKNESS!!!" "Errrr, I've only got fairies..."

Hmmmm, let me think... 1) I liked how especially underrated Pokemon like Butterfree, Vivillon, Beedrill, Shedinja, Vespiquen and Ariados can cope especially well when the appropriate strategy is made. 2) I also enjoyed trying to develop strategies to make up for the lack of bulk/speed/damage in various circumstances. 3) My favourite part was scrolling through Bulbapedia to find movesets, and considering every single possibility to give me even a small opening on the opponent's team. e.g. Battle vs Charlotte. I thought it would be hell. I studied her well and knew what she does by my previous runs and youtube playthroughs. Then, I found a way to counter it. It felt like a walk in the park. 4) One thing I'd d same EVER SINGLE TIME is not ask for tips about beating a boss from anyone in the forums. I don't know... Maybe I'm weird. But I'd feel that it wasn't my victory, if someone else had suggested the strategy. 5) I enjoyed trying to do things differently with regards to my previous runs. I had used a Compound Eyes/Sleep Powder/Quiver Dance Butterfree before with great success. It is definitely the best (and most mainstream) build for Butterfree. But now I opted for a Tinted Lens/Tailwind/Electroweb support, giving less emphasis on building it to sweep. And I admit that it saved me in numerous circumstances. Especially vs Cal at Pyrous Mountain, it actually turned around an impossible fight. Tinted Lens damage boost finished fights that would've been lost otherwise. 6) I also liked trying my powers by doing my first ever Monotype run (in general) in a game like Pokemon Reborn, that most people find challenging and hard to beat even without running a challenge run. I'm much more confident now. 7) I learned to appreciate Type Berries and Type Gems! If not for Coba Berry, I don't think I'd EVER defeated Ciel. 8) I gained a lot of friends who share the same passion as me There are not many things I have regret doing... Maybe not giving a chance to my Beedrill to shine earlier because of my dislike for that pokemon... I admit I'd change this now. Maybe I'd try to use my Shuckle too... And I regret not having done this ages ago, when I first thought about it and discarded it as impossible! Stuff that came in mind on first thought @Revan

Yes, that would've been the safe way to play it. One good thing with recordings is that you find later possible flaws in your strategy! And this was a possible flaw in mine, even though I'd call it more like an "ALL IN" moment. Win or lose. And I made this decision because I didn't know how much damage Florges would deal... Beedrill isn't famous for its Special Defence, or HP and the field maybe would allow Florges to oneshot it, even with Dazzling Gleam (Florges also has Hidden Power Ground, which would be neutral vs Beedrill). And I didn't want to waste a turn of dealing a good chunk of Florges' HP with Poison Jab. Because, afterwards, in a 1v1 of Florges vs Volcarona, I honestly don't think I'd win it, even with 2 Quiver Dances (would be the maximum amount I'd be able to set up before getting KO'ed by Hidden Power Ground...). Plus, Adrienn had a Hyper Potion left. I'd really not like it if he used it on Florges in a 1v1 with Volcarona! xD As, I said I took a risk. And it paid off! Phew!

Apparently not! xD

CHAPTER 34: Here comes your Angel... ft. the Pixies! After having a whole load of bad thought, we have decided that we must keep going, or the sacrifice of all our friends and beloved frienemies will be in vain. So, I go to Adrienn's Gym at Coral Ward and visit xem... Turns out xe wants to battle us, and will support us as much as xe can, because xe thinks that the only person capable of becoming the next champion of the Reborn Region is... us! Yes, lil old Angel, who started as a newbie and considered Bugs to be weak... I am stunned, but agree to take up this role... Then, Adrienn asks us to recruit some volunteers to work in the new works of the City Restoration Project, to which we readily agree! So, without further ado, we hit the road... And... I still don't know which one I missed, but maybe someone didn't appear in front of the Grand Hall because it was raining . Anyways, when we return to the Gym, Adrienn gives us the Wise Glasses as a gift, and takes xyr place at the other end of the pixie arena! VS ADRIENN (Anyone who is unwilling to read the fight description can just hop right into the following video!) The team I decided to use for the fight had a couple surprises and consisted of: Valor, the Forretress (Male) Careful/Sturdy (Item: Iron Ball) Toxic Spikes Gyro Ball Payback Spikes Humbleness, the Durant (Male) Jolly/Swarm (Item: Steel Gem) Iron Head Crunch X-Scissor Dig Passion, the Volcarona (Male) Timid/Flame Body (Item: Wide Lens) Heat Wave Bug Buzz Hurricane Quiver Dance Arwen, the Escavalier (Female) Hasty/Swarm (Item: Metal Coat) Double-Edge X-Scrissor Iron Head Swords Dance Majesty, the Beedrill (Female) Jolly/Sniper (Item: Scope Lens) Twineedle Poison Jab Fell Stinger Focus Energy Happiness, the Ariados (Female) Naive/Sniper (Item: Scope Lens) Sticky Web Sucker Punch Cross Poison Shadow Sneak Adrienn starts with Gardevoir ("Kailen") and Granbull ("Eolande") and I start with Valor, my Forretress and Humbleness, my Durant. Granbull Intimidates both my pokemon, which isn't good for physical attackers. My Durant goes first and goes for a Steel Gem-boosted Iron Head on Gardevoir, which is also critical and OHKO'es Gardevoir! Granbull Plays Rough with my Steel ant and deals 1/3 of Durant's HP as damage, and Valor Gyro Balls the Granbull, dealing roughly 25% of its HP. Then Adrienn sends in Togekiss ("Orin"). Humbleness deals half of Togekiss' HP with an Iron Head, but then goes down to a Field-boosted Aura Sphere by Togekiss... Granbull's Earthquake only scratches Valor, whose Gyro Ball gets Togekiss in red HP. Then, I send in Arwen, my Escavalier. I know Arwen has crazy Defences, so I estimate that I will get away with a Swords Dance. Adrienn Hyper Potions the Togekiss and Granbull Earthquakes. The EQ does nothing to Forretress (again), but unfortunately, it crits Arwen and gets my Escavalier to half HP. Then, Arwen Swords Dances and Valor Gyro Balls Togekiss to half HP again. In the next turn, Togekiss Ancient Powers Arwen, and the Granbull Earthquakes again, finally getting Valor to yellow HP (!), but knocking out Escavalier, without it having the chance to Iron Head Togekiss to oblivion... Turns out that the critical hits are not going to let Arwen do work... Luxray's Crunch in the fight vs DJ Arclight at Chapter 32, now this... But at least Valor Gyro Balls Togekiss again into red HP! I send in Happiness, my Ariados. Adrienn Hyper Potions again (Jesus Christ, pls stahp) his Togekiss, giving my Ariados the chance to destroy Granbull with a critical Cross Poison. Then, Forretress Gyro Balls yet again the Togekiss, getting it down to half HP again (is this deja vu that I'm feeling?). Mawile ("Orphne") comes in then, applying second Intimidate on Valor, and a first one on Happiness. It then Mega evolves. Togekiss Psyshocks my Ariados and OHKO'es it, then Mega Mawile gets Valor in red HP with an Iron Head, as I realise that Gyro Ball's PP has expired (why didn't I get PP UPs???), so Forretress sets up one layer of Spikes. Oh well, maybe it's better this way. Now with -2 in Attack, Forretress would've done nothing to Togekiss, even with Gyro Ball. I send in Passion, my Volcarona. Mega Mawile tries to Sucker Punch my Valor in vain (I picked Spikes), then Passion Heat Waves both Mawile and Togekiss to about 30% of their HP. Finally, Forretress goes down to an Aura Sphere by Togekiss (Thank you for not Ancient Powering my Volcarona, thank you God!). In the next turn, I send in Majesty, my Beedrill, who debuts in this run in such a fight! Big moment for my lil (quite menacing) shiny bee! Passion Heat Waves again, finishing off the Mega Mawile and getting Togekiss in critical HP again. Then, my Beedrill outspeeds Togekiss and uses Poison Jab, which gets weakened by Togekiss' Kebia Berry, but this isn't enough to save it from fainting! Only 2 to go! Adrienn's Florges ("Rhyannon") and Whimsicott ("Pryderi") come in and suffer some damage because of the one layer of Spikes. Passion Heat Waves Whimsicott to red HP, but does literally NOTHING to the Specially Defensive beast that resembles a flower. Then, Whimsicott Dazzling Gleams and does also NOTHING to both Beedrill and Volcarona. Majesty's Poison Jab focuses Florges' weak Defence and gets it down to red HP too! Then, Florges uses Dazzling Gleam too, which is tanked easily by Volcarona, but gets Beedrill in critical HP. In the next turn, Adrienn Hyper Potions Whimsicott now (HOW MANY OF THOSE THINGS YOU HAVE, JESUS). Then Passion Heat Waves Whimsicott into red yet again (!), but is unable to finish off Florges, which was already in red HP (this thing is indeed a beast). However, Beedrill's Poison Jab finishes of Florges, leaving only a severely weakened Whimsicott! In the final turn, another Heat Wave by Passion KO'es Whimsicott and grants me the VICTORY!!! And the TM for Dazzling Gleam, together with the Amaranth Badge (our 14th badge) which increases the level cap to Lv.85. Battle recording! And, with misty eyes , this also concludes Episode 16 of Pokemon Reborn, which is the latest update so far! I will probably create a new topic with suggestions and usefulness of Bug types for other ambitious monotypers and speak out my opinions about this (wonderful so far) experience I lived with those little buggers! See what I did there? And OF COURSE, when Episode 17 is released (Ame PLS), I will update my run here! Until then, feel free to tell me your impressions, give me any feedback or just chat with me through this topic! And never forget to enjoy yourselves!

This. In my Bug Mono, I had like 30 Heart Scales before advancing to Agate Circus. When I returned to Reborn, I had half of them. Now I have zero left, but oh well.

This is incredible! In fact, it is so inspiring, that I decided to name all my pokemon in my Poison mono run that I just started after Greek mythological creatures/deities! (I'm Greek, so makes sense, doesn't it? )

I think so too! One question I'd like to make is, what does every pokemon's nickname mean? I've been enjoying the japanese-deriving names, but sadly I have no clue what they mean...

Post all new updates under the topic you just created, or the parts will be all over the place and it will be hard to tidy up afterwards... Plus, they will flood the room...

No problem! Feel free to message me if I can help someway

Yes! @FactoryofSadness had a crazy inspiration when he made it! I've already defeated xem... On first try too! And had couple surprises in the team I used as well! I will upload the vids and write the final update when I find a proper internet connection! Probably tomorrow!

Under the Team Showcase Forum. It's the place where we all like boasting about how good we are by exposing our runs! xD

Skuntank however can learn Flamethrower, which will come in handy vs Steel types. Especially vs Fern's infernal Ferrothorn! xD But yes, it is your choice to play with the mons you like Consider covering your run here, like so many people do! I'd love to see your progress. Good luck!

Haha, absolutely! In battles vs Victoria, DJ Arclight and ZEL, I think that the MVPs were clearly my Galvantula, my Volcarona and my Vespiquen respectively! I also loved the fact that all battles seemed to be going horribly at some point, but then a comeback was performed in each one. I'm proud of all the mons in my squad!

Hah, no problem Ask me anytime

No problem! I managed to upload the battle vs ZEL too and updated my run as well! Youtube has been awful to me, but my uni's extremely fast connection does the trick... LOL

That's super weird, I had refreshed 3 times and they remained 404... Now they appear properly. Sorry for troubling you Great job by the way

Weird... I'm getting 404 not Found messages and they do not appeared... But they appear normally in previous posts... Oh well...

@Satoshi For some reason I cannot see the screenshots in your last update... Is it just me? Just letting you know...

Damn, all those Vivillons look beautiful. As someone who knows absolutely nothing about spriting, congratulations to all guys and girls working on them

I can't NOT express how much I admire you for making such an underused (and underrated) pokemon such as Castform work! I really love it when pokemon that some people characterize with terms like "trashmon", "roadkill", "useless" etc. prove that, under the correct strategy, they can wreck ANY opponent! Congrats and keep going You're doing an excellent work!

Lol, I knew Umbreon had Synchronize, so I didn't use Toxic first. But then it used Toxic on me, so (since I was poisoned anyways) I just went for it. Thank God Umbreon didn't have Moonlight, or this fight would've lasted for ages! But I still think I would've won it, because Vespiquen has Pressure and Moonlight has maximum 8 PP (so, 4 vs Vespiquen). I mostly try not to use healing items if it is not absolutely necessary!

Haha, thanks! I was honestly worried that Magnezone would have something crazy in its moveset like Hidden Power Rock to counter Fire types or Flying to counter Fighting Types! xD (Mostly worried that it'd have Rock, cause their team has 2 Psychics to take care of Fighting ones, but nothing to check Fire types). And credits to Camaraderie, my Vespiquen who turned the tides of this battle when I had nearly lost!