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  1. It's a pity Psychic types aren't that bulky... And they don't have any Intimidate mons either. My thought to stall it out would be to train an Exeggutor fully in HP and Defense and wait for a rainy day and Leech Seed it. It would probably be able to survive one hit and you'd be able to Lemonade/Ultra Pot it up every turn.
  2. My question is, which member of your team managed to take a hit from Garchomp! Or you just PP stalled him from the very beginning till it Struggled? Edit: I would've bred Destiny Bond on a Ralts from Koffing/Cofagrigus and given it a Focus Sash or a Quick Claw (found from wild Meowths I think) if you don't want to waste your Focus Sash this way. Counter Focus Sash Medicham could've also worked.
  3. Good job Jaggi! That is true, you had no chance of doing something else. It was pretty much same for me in my Bug Mono, maybe a bit worse for you cause you had to deal with water while being fire. Or for me cause I didn't have type advantage, I don't know, lol! If I were you I would've started with Chimchar (of course, Infernape <3) and bred Fake Out on it (possible with Meowth/Liepard I think), to prevent Illumise from setting up.
  4. Yes, that is true. Bug and Poison are the most abundant early on, so no need to ask for anything to get your run going... I'd think that Cutiefly would be available by Headbutting trees early on like the Combees are... That's weird... Maybe it's too good to get pre-Julia. Btw, when can you get Igglybuff from the event in Peridot Ward (i think)? Is it after Julia too?
  5. That Emolga made me have bad thoughts too. I had to get my Pineco to selfdestruct in its face to get rid of it, cause it was impossible otherwise. It swept all my bugs like 4 times in a row.
  6. Yes, Cutiefly evolves at twenty something I think, so it won't get strong till Florinia... And Popplio is water. At least Cutiefly has Struggle Bug to cripple down their Sp.Attack and counter Julia's Charge Beams!
  7. Let's hope E17 gets released soon, so you can get yourself a Popplio Just be patient Wolfox! Like I am for my Ribombee (which I assume you'll want too!)...
  8. I agree. I got the first couple fights done with a Squirtle in my Bug mono. But again, I needed Squirtle to breed Hydro Pump on my Surskit/Masquerain, so I had different motives for that! xD
  9. It's just couple levels, from 5 to 7. Kill 5 Rattatas and Ekans and it's just the same. You aren't facing the big guys early on anyways.
  10. Or you can simply get the two first silly rival battles done with w/e starter(Cain and Victoria) and get the mons you want traded to you. I find it easier and faster, since it doesn't involve save file editing. The two first battles don't count anyways, they're just tackle fights.
  11. Wouldn't it be a bit game breaking to play with a lv.5 Kingdra or Garchomp, or Haxorus? I mean, where is the challenge in this? You can get some traded by the request-a-mon thread Wolfox Glace mentioned. Plus, you can use mons that mega evolve into dragons too, like Charmander, or Sceptile.
  12. CHAPTER 22: Heretics, Lepidopterists and... the Twilight Zone After visiting the Magma Gang headquarters (or hideout), we ask Maxwell about the dodgiest place he can think of, where would a kidnapper flee to with his prey. He immediately mentions Reborn's 7th Street, the black market of the Reborn City. He grants us access to it, and we manage to find -oh God- Bennett there. Bennett appears willing to help us save Luna and guides us into the Subseven Sanctum, the temple of the Arceus lunatics... Of course we know it's a trap, cause Bennett is a fucking idiot, but we have no choice. Gotta help Cain and Luna. But surely enough, El and his lackeys surround us and capture us, throwing us into a cell. But the prisoner in next cell and his Klefki release us, so we cautiously sneak under the eyes of the stupid guards and escape! We battle our way out and read weird prophecies of the Arceotic equivalent to Bible. We solve the puzzle, proving our knowledge of their religion, and open the gate into the centre room of the temple. Where Luna is tied on an altar and is about to get sacrificed to Arceus. But then, the Mad Hatter aka Radomus turns out to be disguised into a lackey of El! And G. Gardevoir teleports away the real guards, after teleporting in herself and theatrically dimming out the lights! After a brief confrontation during which Gardevoir ridicules the nerdy pervert Bennett and El, we save Luna and Cain and leave the place. El doesn't even fight back, since they are heavily outnumbered and Bennett is useless in battle if he has not a field boosting his Signal Beams, as we all know. Radomus keeps the Amethyst pendant we just reclaimed in order to do his research and asks from us to trust him, we just keep hold of the Ruby Ring for now. Radomus then leaves to unknown destination with G.Gardevoir, ditching Cain who wants his badge battle, so Cain sets off to Agate gate to try and wake up the guards. Luna reveals indirectly that she is sane and knew the truth all along, that El is her biological father. However she tried to fill the hole in Radomus' heart, and I presume she tried to do the same with Serra. I respect her much more now, and I promise to do a dark mono run for her at some point. Luna hands us a Crystal Key and invites us to Iolia Valley and her Gym. The entrance to Iolia Valley is behind the only tree that exists in Vanhanen Labyrinth... So, we are off! After wandering in the beautifully mystical Iolia Valley and the magically dark crystal caverns that surround it, activating Crystals and collecting all 4 Crystal Keys, we are able to admire the view from above blue crystal bridges access Luna's Gym! However, the stalker Bennett, whose level of cringeness has exceeded 9000, follows us and confronts Luna, revealing he is in love with her and wants her to be his. Oh God... Luna flees to where we will only be able to find her by using our Crystal Keys and Bennett tries to steal the Keys from us to keep chasing her. OK Bennett, time to get destroyed again! (@FactoryofSadness, you asked for this! ) VS BENNETT I won't bother including the whole team I had on myself vs Bennett... It can be summarised as "one man pokemon army". Well, Kindness is male, so one man army might be correct too after all. Kindness, the Masquerain (Male) Naive/Intimidate (Item: Wide Lens) Air Slash Water Sport Quiver Dance Hydro Pump Bennett sent in Larvesta and I sent in Kindness. Kindness outsped Larvesta and Water Sported, tanking a Flame Charge like a champion. In the next couple turns we saw the same thing happen. Larvesta outsped and used Flame Charge, which did eventually get Kindness down to yellow HP, but Kindness gathered 2 Quiver Dance boosts. In the next turn Larvesta Flame Charged Kindness into red HP, but an Air Slash annihilated Larvesta. And Venomoth. And Dustox. Oh, and Yanmega. And Scyther?! Yes. And his ace, Butterfree. Kindness swept them all while being in red HP, without even using a single potion. Checking afterwards, Kindness survived with just 10 HP. Can you stop wasting my time now, Bennett? He leaves displeased that his training hasn't paid off... YET, as he says, since he will keep training and ask for El to keep his promise to take him into Elite 4. How you dumbass? You got swept by another Bug trainer twice, how do you even think you're more qualified than me for this position? xD, What a pathetic lil nerd, can't outnerd me! VS LUNA Anyways, we go deeper into the cave, and find Luna, finally challenging her for our next badge! The team I used vs Luna was: Sir Galahad, the Heracross (Male) Jolly/Moxie (Item: Hard Stone) Aerial Ace Close Combat Megahorn Rock Blast Gaia, the Galvantula (Female) Modest/Unnerve (Item: Insect Plate) Thunder Wave Discharge Signal Beam Hidden Power Ground Valiant, the Kricketune (Male) Bold/Swarm (Item: Scope Lens) Taunt Sticky Web Night Slash X-Scissor Ecstasy, the Yanmega (Female) Modest/Speed Boost (Item: Insect Plate) Bug Buzz Detect Air Slash Ancient Power Braveheart, the Butterfree (Male) Timid/Tinted Lens (Item: Insect Plate) Psybeam Quiver Dance Tailwind Bug Buzz Fiery Wings, the Vivillon (Male) Naive/Compound Eyes (Item: Insect Plate) Bug Buzz Hurricane Draining Kiss Quiver Dance So, Luna starts with Bisharp and I send in Sir Galahad. Heracross outspeeds Bisharp and Close Combats it for an easy OHKO. +1 in Attack thanks to Moxie, -1 in Sp.Defence and Defence though. Luna tries to check my Heracross before it gets out of hand and sends in her Honchkrow. She is indeed a clever leader, which is a blessing to see after burning brain cells from my encounter with Bennett. However, Heracross outspeeds Honchkrow and uses Rock Blast. It connects 4 times, and since it is boosted by the Moxie boost and the Hard Stone, it is enough to take down the threatening bird of doom. Moxie activates again, +2 in Attack. Malamar comes in and gets OHKO'ed by a Megahorn, giving Sir Galahad a third Moxie boost... Tyranitar faces the same fate, but by a Close Combat this time. +4 in Attack, but -2 in Sp. Defence and Defence for Sir Galahad right now. Sableye comes in then. I go for the Aerial Ace, knowing that it must be enough to take it out with my Attack tripled right now! But it has Prankster and uses fucking Confuse Ray on Sir Galahad. However, Heracross fights back, beats his suicidal thoughts and Aerial Aces the annoying no weakness (except Fairy) thing to death! +5 in Attack thanks to Moxie! Finally, it is the time for Luna's ace, Umbreon and I desperately need my sweep! The broom is on my hand, Sir Galahad is instructed by me to use Close Combat, but nope! The suicidal thoughts prove themselves to be too strong to defeat, darkness wins and Sir Galahad OHKO'es himself by hurting himself in confusion with +5 in Attack and -2 in Defense. Ouch. I sent in Valiant, my Kricketune. He outspeeds Umbreon and uses Taunt, immediately preventing it from using Confuse Ray on me. I actually did this to prevent Umbreon from Toxic stalling me to death with combined Moonlight (which heals 75% of max HP in this field), Toxic and Confuse Ray. In the next turn, Kricketune outspeeds again and X-Scissors Umbreon to about 45% of its HP, but Leftovers bring it to green again. A Dark Pulse gets Valiant to yellow, but, in the next turn a critical X-Scissor is enough to take out Umbreon and grant me a relatively easy victory. Second Gym Battle in a row where I have immense type advantage, and I begin to get too spoilt! I am still a bit salty about failing to get my sweep, but pleased with Valiant, my Kricketune who proved that he isn't a solely early game Pokemon! Anyways, Level Cap up to 70 now, TM for Dark Pulse, which is semi-useless again (maybe Willpower, my Shedinja can learn it, but has pathetic Sp.Attack anyways) and 9th baddge in the bag! Now, we have to make breeding preparations for the time we will spend trapped post Agate City and go meet Cain at the Gate... The Gate to Agate... I love saying this, LOL. OK, I will stop now. Till the next time, enjoy everyone!
  13. It is, but you need to have upgraded the Railnet I think... If you got your Goodra by getting it traded to you, get the right upgrade and collect it from where the underground railnet is. If not then, I guess you have to get an Assault Vest traded to you as a held item via online trading...
  14. Goodra is awesome if you use it as a wall and not an all-out attacker. Breed Acid Armor, or even better, Curse on it, and you can then run Power whip, outrage, aqua tail and have a very versatile attacker that is too bulky as well. You can also give it Iron Tail to deal with fairies or fire punch to deal with steel types. I think it is better as an attack oriented bulky set up hitter. Let it have Sap Sipper as well, and they can't outstall you with Leech Seed either so their only hope is Poison or Burn. If you insist on a special attacking set, just give the Assault Vest to Goodra and replace Hydration with Sap Sipper and Rain Dance with something like Flamethrower.
  15. Before passing the Agate gate, Cain says "it may even be a long time before we can come back" and asks you whether you're ready or not. In this game, every warning must be taken seriously, as you learned the hard way! xD Read carefully through dialog and try not to skip fast through it, since you might make bad choices, or miss important stuff about the plot.
  16. Then, it is just their policy to draw attention! Film critics have based their careers on hating everything, what would stop them from doing the same for games?
  17. That's why we all love Reborn though! They won't even get there if they genuinely hate it,lol. I'm in anticipation of the whining about Julia's OP Sonicbooms, while they try to solo beat her with their OP Protean Frogadier! These noob kids think that Hidden abilities so early break the game... Little they know...
  18. Looks like their LP is purposedly edgy and whining about everything to get more clicks. If they hated it THAT much, why do a detailed let's play of it and burn their brain cells by doing something they hate? The criticism about stuff that can be improved (e.g. that skipping occasional line of dialogue that makes me read "something something..." before the actual text), some (very few) dull shinies/sprites and the map, which could be better (the first days I played reborn I honestly struggled to read the map, but it gets fine the more you get used to it. Still not very appealing/clear though), can be considered as positives from harsh criticism. I feel like "something awful" is for Reborn what Gordon Ramsay is for food. An extremely harsh judge who whines too much to get publicity, but occasionally throws in some good advice! Edit: Notice that many people complimented some custom starter pokemon shiny sprites as amazing.
  19. You can also check here to have an overview of how much the development of the new episode has progressed so far. But exact dates aren't announced by Ame, who is the main developer. http://www.rebornevo.com/index.php?/pr/development/
  20. I greet your savagery. And I couldn't agree more! Speaking about Goodra and Metagross? I'm not too familiar with the pseudolegendary term, but I'm 100% sure that Volcarona is not one.
  21. I'm gonna give Leavanny a try, thanks! ^^ I agree with this suggestion, Leavanny is awesome. X-Scissor, Leaf Blade, Fell stinger, Swords Dance, Shadow Claw, Nature Power make it really versatile and quite deadly if given the chance to set up.
  22. I love destroying Fern and Bennett! I might show mercy to Cain, but never to these two idiots!
  23. CHAPTER 21: Entomophobia When we get back in Vanhanen Castle, we are presented to Elias, Radomus' buttler, who is, of course, to Luna's great disbelief and displeasure, El. Of course, we continue unfazed towards our goal... Winning ourselves another badge. Ugh, so... Chess puzzles. Cause defeating an Arceus and proving my logical thinking capabilities wasn't good enough. Anyways, my (tiny) chess playing experience allowed me to solve these regularly easily, took only 45 mins o.O. And then, it is time for the big battle! My team: VS RADOMUS Sir Galahad, the Heracross (Male) Jolly/Moxie (Item: Bug Gem) Aerial Ace Close Combat Megahorn Rock Blast Honesty, the Scolipede (Male) Adamant/Speed Boost (Item: Insect Plate) Protect Pursuit Poison Tail Steamroller Passion, the Volcarona (Male) Timid/Flame Body (Item: Wide Lens) Heat Wave Bug Buzz Hurricane Quiver Dance Valor, the Forretress (Male) Careful/Sturdy (Item: Dread Plate) Toxic Spikes Gyro Ball Payback Spikes Fiery Wings, the Vivillon (Male) Naive/Compound Eyes (Item: Insect Plate) Bug Buzz Hurricane Draining Kiss Quiver Dance Willpower, the Shedinja Hardy/Wonder Guard (Item: Ghost Gem) Heal Block Confuse Ray Shadow Sneak Phantom Force Radomus starts with Gallade and Reuniclus and I reply with Sir Galahad and Honesty. Honesty Protects to win a Speed Boost, then Sir Galahad OHKO'es Reuniclus with Megahorn, collecting one Moxie boost in Attack. Gallade uses Strength against Honesty, but it gets protected. I was safe by Reuniclus' Trick Room now, plus, I still had both my mons intact. Then, Radomus sends in his Malamar. I wonder what on Earth is he thinking, as a Steamroller by Honesty takes it down in one hit. Makes sense, it is 4x Effective. Then, another Megahorn OHKO'es Gallade, granting a second Moxie boost for Sir Galahad. Slowking and Metagross are sent in. I know Slowking knows Trick Room, so it is my top priority. A Steamroller by Honesty just scratches Metagross and a Megahorn by Sir Galahad takes down Slowking, granting my Heracross a third Moxie boost. Metagross, for some reason uses Zen Headbutt against my Honesty instead of Sir Galahad, taking my Scolipede down (I know I should've used Protect again, misplay...). Gossip Gardevoir comes in and I send in Passion, my Volcarona in the place of my fainted Scolipede. My Volcarona uses Heat Wave, getting Metagross down to red HP and Gardevoir down to 60%. I try to take down Gardevoir with a Megahorn by Sir Gallahad. I thought 3 Moxie boosts would've been enough, but I'm wrong. Gardevoir survives, cause Megahorn misses (my typical luck here). After that, Gardevoir Psychics Sir Galahad to oblivion and Metagross Zen Headbutts my Volcarona, who lives with 40% of his HP. In the next turn, I send in Willpower, my Shedinja. Radomus heals up his Metagross to full HP with a Hyper Potion, as my Shedinja Shadow Sneaks Gardevoir, which, empowered by Ghost Gem, does insane damage and takes down Gardevoir from 60% of her HP. Passion Heat Waves again, getting Metagross to red HP again, making Radomus use his second and last Hyper Potion. After that though, a combined Heat Wave by Passion and Shadow Sneak by Willpower take down Metagross as well, granting me the win and the Psychic Badge! This was an easy win in my first try, as expected, since I had a huge typing advantage. Even though I tried to alleviate it (for Radomus) by using a Poison-Bug and a Fighting-Bug as my aces! xD Now, with this badge, we get the TM for Trick Room, which is also useless, cause no bug pokemon can learn it, and we raise the level cap to 65. I am slightly annoyed cause G.Gardevoir fought "admirably", as Luna says, only to add "and you as well, Angel". WTF DO YOU MEAN? I WON!!! I want to be in the spotlight, damnit! xD Spotlight? NOPE! Cause even the regular lights go out. And it isn't the work of Luna, who invited us to her Gym in Iolia Valley to battle for the Dark Badge. We go outwards, and buttler Elias tries to "take us to safety". Apparently it is a trap, cause he isn't as hypnotized to believe he is a battler as everyone thought he is. He kidnaps Luna and Cain and escape with the assist of Team Meteor. Radomus helps us get away from the grassy maze, thanks to his Meteor Grunt disguise! Then flees, telling us to talk with some shady people to find where they went... 7th Street, here we come... Of course we have to ask our Magma Gang buddies for this lead... Which we will do in the next chapter! Till then, enjoy everyone!
  24. Thanks a lot! Weirdly enough, in none of my 3 runs I had issues with Arceus... I was always able to tank a Judgement and take it down slowly with a certain mon (e.g. Arcanine's Close Combat), and then it was all down to Reviving this certain mon and taking it down slowly. But I wanted something more robust for this run, since (as you prolly have noticed), I try to keep the healing item use to a minimum! And I think I succeed reasonably well! I've never used more than my opponent anyways, so I call this fair! Hope you keep enjoying my playthrough!
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