Jess

As a bug monotyper, I couldn't agree more with this statement. I'd also suggest to get some good grass types from the Obsidia park, when you reach it... Some cool stuff exists there! No spoilers

CHAPTER 20: Lies and truth... among the fake gods After the happenings of the previous chapter, we track down El, heading West from Vanhanen Castle along Route 1, towards the sealed Grand Gate. We find him in the chamber behind the Grand Gate and get rejoined by Radomus aka Sherlock Holmes and Cain aka Watson. We bravely sneak behind a stopped gear that is fucking immense, and more bravely, jump into the Unown unknown void, and in the crystal caverns under the Grand Stairway. Well, Radomus and I jumped, Cain got pushed. Oops? We eventually find into an underground temple-like structure, in a place called Citae Arc d'Astrae. We find a person of non-binary gender, Adrienn (really cute I admit, since my character, Angel, is also of non-binary sex) together with a Gardevoir that claims to be Gossip Gardevoir. However, she tries to convince us that she hates Radomus and the only reason for her previous declarations of adoration and love was her fear towards her master's face. Of course this rings to my ears like Taurosshit, since El is behind this, El= religious fanatic= lying and manipulative to the bone. Unfortunately, Adrienn, who is also the long lost Fairy Gym leader has taken the bait and believes Gardevoir... Gardevoir steals the Amethyst Pendant from us and proceeds with Adrienn to enter the temple, climbing to the top. We use the Ruby Ring and, after solving logic puzzles to prove our ability to discriminate between good and evil, truth and lies, we also reach the top. meeting El, Adrienn and Gardevoir. After the confrontation, of course we side with Radomus, based not on our knowledge of his personality, but our knowledge of El's foul personality. Gardevoir turns out to be a decoy, made from a Ditto, who, after it gets revealed, absorbs the energy from the meteor that is hidden in the foundations of the temple and transforms into Arceus. Oh God... And guess who has to fight this beast... Off we go then! VS DITTO/ARCEUS (PARSON EL) Gaia, the Galvantula (Female) Modest/Unnerve (Item: Bright Powder) Thunder Wave Discharge Signal Beam Hidden Power Ground Passion, the Volcarona (Male) Timid/Flame Body (Item: Insect Plate) Heat Wave Bug Buzz Hurricane Quiver Dance Sir Galahad, the Heracross (Male) Jolly/Moxie (Item: Fighting Gem) Aerial Ace Close Combat Megahorn Rock Blast Courage, the Armaldo (Male) Jolly/Swift Swim (Item: Dark Gem) Knock Off X-Scissor Aqua Jet Cross Poison Ecstasy, the Yanmega (Female) Modest/Speed Boost (Item: Insect Plate) Bug Buzz Detect Air Slash Ancient Power Valor, the Forretress (Male) Careful/Sturdy (Item: Steel Gem) Toxic Spikes Gyro Ball Payback Spikes I started with Gaia, who debuted vs the fake God... Bright Powder (after a couple failed tries) makes Arceus miss a Judgement, and it gets Thunder Waved and paralyzed. I keep using Thunder Wave for two turns, since El has two full heals, making him waste them, rendering Arceus paralyzed for the entire fight. A Discharge deals roughly 1/4 of Arceus' HP and Gaia goes down to Judgement... Then, I send in Courage, my Armaldo, who also debuts today! A Knock Off removes Arceus' Leftovers but deals minimal damage, Arceus is still in green and Courage also goes down to Judgement. It is the turn of Sir Galahad, who uses Close Combat, which Arceus survives with only a sliver of its helth bar, and Shadow Balls my Heracross to oblivion. Finally, Ecstasy comes in, Detecting to get a Speed Boost (just in case) and then finishing Arceus-Ditto with a Bug Buzz. Olympus has fallen, heretics shall get arrested! The real G.Gardevoir teleports on "stage" after Radomus calls her, and hypnotizes El to sleep. Radomus aka the Mad Hatter becomes a police officer and arrests El. We all leave Citae Arc d'Astrae, and I leave faster than everyone, overtaking even my shadow as a Lucky Luke wannabe after an eerie voice of a small girl (?) tells us to come play again, for a long loooong time... NO THANKS! We climb up the cavern and end up in the chamber behind the Grand Gate. But.. the Gates are now open and the gear is miraculously spinning! We face Reborn City again, but Adrienn says this isn't the city he knew... Azurine Lake isn't blue and there is filth and pollution everywhere... So he flees to Coral Ward, to his long abandoned Fairy Gym to see what happens... Of course we follow him, only to find him devastated, saying that he only left for a few hours... Radomus concludes that the magic energy of the meteor bent time and caused him to be lost in the gears of time for much longer than he experienced! We were saved from a similar side-effect only thanks to the keys we had, which were infused with the same energy... Ruby and Amethyst... So, Adrienn decides to renovate the whole city and goes to Grand Hall, to meet Ame... Good luck Adrienn! <3 Aaaand Cain, me, Radomus and G.Gardevoir return to Vanhanen Castle to meet Luna, who must be worried as fuck! Also, a new Gym battle and badge await us!!! But, we will see that in the next chapter, which will be uploaded probably tomorrow! (sorry, too much story to cover tonight, I don't like just describing battles, feels "naked" to me!) Till the next chapter, enjoy everyone!

LOL, I just clicked to see your answer and lost my entire update on my bug monotype. More specifically the Arceus fight. Gotta rewrite it now, fuck my luck! xD

Don't upload them, just copy and paste the gif sprites. That's how i've been doing it and no frame gets attached. Edit: Get them from here http://www.pokestadium.com/tools/sprites

Just 3 words from me... Get.a.Sawsbuck Great job otherwise! Maybe also get some more coverage. Breed Extrasensory on Roserade to replace Petal Dance, Leech Seed and Bulldoze with Curse and Petal Blizzard on a physical/tank Venusaur... In general, get rid of Petal Dance. It locks you in a move and can destroy you if opponent switches into a counter.

CHAPTER 19: Endless grass and rivalries... After destroying Team Meteor's plans, we head into the West Side of Tanzan Mountain, searching for Saphira who is MIA after her brief fight with Lin. To my relief, we find her, and she not only managed to completely destroy and seal the Meteor base, but also hands us the Anna's Amethyst Pendant and Heather's Ruby Ring, which she managed to reclaim. Total success, Saphira is a badass, nothing less expected from her. She says that she and the kids will relocate to Carnelia Region, in Labradorra and Calcenon cities, where Saphira's and Charlotte's gyms are located respectively. We agree, say farewell, and proceed to the green hellish maze South Aventurine woods (where Heracrosses and Pinsirs fight), from where we keep going North, till we enter the -ever troublesome- Route 1, where Tauros and Bouffalants fight! OK, we will g West... FUCK OFF FERN! I've got no time for your nonsense! VS FERN Anyways, the dick wants to fight us again, so I won't refuse... Oh, by the way, this happened between the last two chapters... Passion, the Volcarona (Male) Timid/Flame Body (Item: Insect Plate) Heat Wave Bug Buzz Hurricane Quiver Dance Yep! Thanks to some training and a few Heart Scales, Passion became a Volcarona and now has a perfect moveset as well! Well, Fern, meet Passion, the bane of your existence. No need to present the rest of the team in this fight, for obvious reasons. So, Fern sends in Fraxure and I send in Passion. Fern has enriched his Grass monotype team with a Dragon now. What a loser... Anyways, Fern's Fraxure Dragon Dances after Passion Quiver Dances. Then Passion Bug Buzzes Fraxure to extinction. Ferrothorn comes in, only to get a Heat Wave in the face, which also sets the field on fire! In the next turns, an uneventful, boring fight happened, since Fern's Pokemon all got obliterated by Bug Buzzes (Krookodile and Serperior) or Heat Waves (Roserade and Scyther). So satisfying to destroy Fern, who flees like a crying baby to track Noel, who is now on the way to Calcenon. Good luck with that, Fern! After wandering for a while in Tanzan Depths (and getting a Durant) and solving the ungodly puzzle of Route 1 to get the eighth sticker (and to catch a Heracross and a Joltik), I perfect the EV spreads of my squad and head to Vanhanen Castle, where I meet Luna and her friend (and Radomus' ace), Gossip Gardevoir (finally!), Radomus Vanhanen, and rejoin Cain, who wants the Psychic Badge as well! Luna behaves like Radomus is her dad, which he isn't, since El is her biological father, but Luna abandoned him cause he is a fanatic cultist. Hardly any more excuses are needed to justify Luna's actions, are they? So, to decide who will fight Radomus first, Cain and I need to battle. VS CAIN Valor, the Forretress (Male) Careful/Sturdy (Item: Dread Plate) Toxic Spikes Gyro Ball Payback Spikes Sir Galahad, the Heracross (Male) Jolly/Moxie (Item: Hard Stone) Bullet Seed Close Combat Megahorn Rock Blast Passion, the Volcarona (Male) Timid/Flame Body (Item: Insect Plate) Heat Wave Bug Buzz Hurricane Quiver Dance Kindness, the Masquerain (Male) Naive/Intimidate (Item: Sea Incense) Air Slash Bug Buzz Quiver Dance Hydro Pump Generosity, the Venomoth (Male) Hardy/Shield Dust (Item: Mind Plate) Giga Drain Bug Buzz Sleep Powder Psychic Affection, the Leavanny (Female) Quirky/Chlorophyll (Item: Rose Incense) X-Scissor Leaf Blade Fell Stinger Swords Dance At last, I see my squad and notice that I can say that I have a team with good coverage! Cain sends in Muk, I send in Generosity and put it to sleep. I don't want it to start Minimizing. After that a barrage of Psychics take Muk down, together with Cain's two Moomoo Milks. Then, Cain sends in Absol. WAIT WHAT? Oh, another cute lil non-poison type like Oshawott forcing you to break your monotype, huh Cain? Anyways, I send in Sir Galahad and, after tanking one Sucker Punch easily, my Heracross Close Combats it to death, collecting one Moxie boost. Galvantula then comes in. CAIN WTF? 3 hits of Sir Galahad's Rock Blast are enough to OHKO it and collect a second Moxie boost, after tanking a Discharge, getting in red HP. Samurott comes in and Sir Gallahad Bullet Seeds it, again 3 hits are enough to OHKO it (after the 2 Moxie boosts), granting him a third one! Gengar comes in and I decide to see if I can outspeed it with my Heracross. I can't and it puts Sir Galahad to bed with Hypnosis, so I decide to heal up with an Ultra Potion next turn and wait till it wakes up. NOPE! Gengar knows Dream Eater and there goes my sweep. Anyways, I send in Valor who uses Payback after tanking relatively easily one Focus Blast, bringing Gengar to yellow HP. But then, Gengar decides to crit Valor with a Shadow Ball, knocking him down. Damn crits. Generosity, my Venomoth is sent in, Gengar tries to put it to sleep, but Hypnosis misses, and a Psychic takes Gengar out. Only Nidoking remains now. I keep in my Generosity, who outspeeds Nidoking and Psychics him down to just below half HP. This thing is tanky! Nidoking hits Venomoth with Earthquake, dealing also just above half HP, but in the next turn another Psychic seals the deal and grants me the victory against Cain. At least it was harder than beating Fern! After that, we notice that Gardevoir is missing... And, after Radomus reads a letter left for him, it turns out that El has kidnapped her. So, after Luna and Cain's demand, my, Cain and the (rather unwilling) Radomus, go off towards the Grand Gate to claim back the sassy Gossip Gardevoir from the heretic weirdo! (Possibly fighting a pseudo-god Pokemon will be involved in next Chapter, so, stay tuned!) Till the next time, enjoy everyone!

Replace it with Beeveeon.

You'll change your mind when you face Terra's Quagsire. God damn it, you bully! xD

I wanted to be a bug anyways! I will take one for the team if necessary! Put me in and heal the others...

ο.Ο Such hate... When I my eeveelution soloes Terra with Swords Dance and Leaf Blades talk to me again! Brats... xDD

Hey, that's a great name for my Ribombee when Episode 17 is released! <3 And yes, I hope it does exist one day! I dare you to tell me that these aren't cool, especially the second one!!

Wow, talk about fast service!!! Thanks! I'd ask you to name the bug eeveelution after me, but then I realized that such thing doesn't exist...

Ohhh, I'm sorry. Thought that thread also included these information. Try this link. http://pokemon-reborn.wikia.com/wiki/Ciel Hope it has all the data you need.

I'm not surprised about that, Flareon has no moves really... And no speed/defence/HP as well! Good job Zarc! If you get a Leafeon and name it Jess, I will love you even more!

It's pinned on top of the Team Showcase Forum, titled "Official Gym Leader Help Thread"... How can you miss this,lol Edit: (SALT WARNING)

Thanks Wisper! I am not actually a man, but I will accept your compliment! Be patient and stay tuned, and you'll find out about Charlotte too

LOL, thanks Zell! Seriously, this butterfly is looking even more menacing since the day it solo'ed Noel. BTW, I read how you dealt with Shade in your psychic mono, also great job!

CHAPTER 18: From chasms to peaks.... and off to sweeps! We find ourselves in a dark room, Laura is fainted next to us and Saphira is missing... So, after wandering around a bit with Laura, who comes to her senses quickly, we find that the whole place is polluted with poisonous flowing out of some barrels... Laura reveals to us that Lin was the name of a girl that was kept in the orphanage together with them. A girl with a vicious personality that experienced happiness by finding and exploiting the mental traumas (like Laura's love of the number eight, steeling always the 8th pen off her, leaving her sad with only 7 pens...) of the other children. Till one day, Dr. Sigmund punished her and she wasn't seen ever again... She quickly dismisses the idea that the Meteor Leader is the same person as her... Same as was implied by Dr. Sigmund earlier... Soon, we find Saphira, as she is trapped in a deep, dark chasm, while the earthquakes intensify. The cause is revealed to be a gigantic Steelix, which knocks Laura unconscious, so we have to take it out ourselves! My team: Passion, the Larvesta (Male) Timid/Flame Body (Fire Gem) Ember Bug Bite Double Edge Flame Charge Valor, the Forretress (Male) Careful/Sturdy (Item: Dark Gem) Toxic Spikes Gyro Ball Payback Spikes Braveheart, the Butterfree (Male) Timid/Tinted Lens (Item: Insect Plate) Psybeam Quiver Dance Tailwind Bug Buzz Kindness, the Masquerain (Male) Naive/Intimidate (Item: Sea Incense) Air Slash Bug Buzz Quiver Dance Hydro Pump Ecstasy, the Yanmega (Female) Modest/Speed Boost (Item: Insect Plate) Bug Buzz Detect Air Slash Ancient Power Happiness, the Ariados (Female) Hardy/Sniper (Item: Dread Plate) Sucker Punch Pin Missile Poison Jab Shadow Sneak VS GIANT STEELIX/PULSE ABRA Passion's Ember did burn Steelix (after a couple failed efforts where I got my a** kicked), then Braveheart's Tinted Lens boosted Bug Buzz brought Steelix in yellow HP, only to be finished by Kindness' Hydro Pump. Saphira emerges from the chasm riding the Steelix, handing us the task to go and take care of the PULSE Abra as she takes on the task of destroying the Meteor's Base and reclaiming the stolen jewelleries. So, we do... PULSE Abra is a pain, but I lead with Valor, who tanks a Dark Pulse thanks to Sturdy, and uses Payback to deal half of Abra's HP. In the next turn Valor goes down to (thank God) Hyper Beam. I send in Ecstasy, my Yanmega, who Bug Buzzes it down to red HP in the recharging turn. Then I use Detect, get another Speed Boost as Abra fails to Dark Pulse me, and then Ecstasy outspeeds Abra to finish it with another Bug Buzz. Another easy win, and a blessing for Sigmund, ZEL and Sirius. Lin arrives and immediately realizes the lie that Sirius used to avoid her wrath, by saying that we are a new recruit. Sigmund tries to understand if she is the same person that was in the orphanage in vain, as Saphira destroys the mountain, forcing Lin to go face her... Saphira confronts Lin, the former on giant Steelix, the latter on her Hydreigon. Saphira underestimates Lin, who annihilates Steelix and forces Saphira to fall down the mountain, to an unknown (for now) fate... At the same time, we escape the now ruined, Meteor Base and return to Tanzan Cove, to reunite with our friends who are worried sick about Saphira... In a talk with Charlotte, Laura, Shelly and the twins (Anna and Noel), we realize that the jewellery that Team Meteor hunts are the keys to the hidden Arceus' temple that exist beneath Reborn City. A temple that was built around a meteor that had fallen there ages ago, and holds mystical powers. But chat moves to Charlotte's (soul) fire burn scars which only Anna can see... Laura tries to explain about the fire that killed their parents, and Charlotte flees. Anna suggests that we seize the opportunity to face Noel (finally!) in a Gym Battle, to lighten up the mood! So... (after a brief visit to the Move relearner, like every time I need it, to reteach Aromatherapy to my Vivillon)... OFF WE GO! My team: Pretty much same as VS Steelix and PULSE Abra with the small change of me using Fiery Wings, my Vivillon instead of Passion, my Larvesta. Fiery Wings, the Vivillon (Male) Naive/Compound Eyes (Item: Sky Plate) Aromatherapy Hurricane Draining Kiss Quiver Dance VS NOEL So, Noel starts with his Wigglytuff and I sent in Fiery Wings. This fight has given me trouble soooo many times, so I wanted to take revenge! My Vivillon Quiver Dances and Wigglytuff sets Stealth Rocks, to be expected vs a bug trainer... In the next turn Wigglytuff sets up Reflect, after Fiery Wings uses Quiver Dance for the second time in a row. Third turn, another Quiver Dance and Wigglytuff Thunder Waves Vivillon, paralyzing him. Fiery Wings still outspeeds and uses Aromatherapy, tanking a Dazzling Gleam with about 60% of his HP. In the next turn, another Quiver Dance gets Fiery Wings to +4 in Speed, Sp. Attack and Sp. Defence, while another Dazzling Gleam gets him to 35% of his HP. I try to sustain with Draining Kiss, dealing half of Wigglytuff's HP and returning to full health, as it Thunder Waves me again! Grrrrrrr, outspeeding it anyways, Aromatherapy, and down to 70% of HP with another Dazzling Gleam. In the next turn, Noel gets so frustrated that he swaps to Swellow, as I set up a 5th Quiver Dance! And then... THEN......... *Cues the music...* Swellow, Cincinno, Porygon-Z, Wigglytuff, Girafarig, Clefable, one after the other... ALL DOWN, to Hurricanes. Compound Eyes ability boosts this move's accuracy to 91%, making it pretty overpowered, a bit of luck helps me not miss a single one and all of Noel's Pokemon get outsped and destroyed by a butterfly. That is shiny, hence on fire. And has a Pokedex number of 666. Now I know why. Aromatherapy was used just because of a bet I had with myself. Beating Noel without any healing items. Well, this went way better than expected though! Sorry for the anti-fun and anti-climactic battle guys and girls! xD So, we get our seventh Gym badge, raising level cap to Lv.60 and granting us the TM for Hidden Power, which might turn out to be useful for coverage, if we are lucky! In the next chapter, we will follow Noel's advice to go and search quickly for Saphira, since Tanzan Mountain's peak got blown away, and advance with story! Till then, enjoy everyone!

You are more stoic than me, what can I say!

LOL, Zarc, you really hit the bullseye with this. I don't care if I sound salty, I loved how it sounded! @Exodus Are you really enjoying this game at the moment? I don't wanna sound offensive, but it feels like the forum helpers have been advancing your save more than you. Try to find strategies, use bulbapedia, study a bit, lol, even take a break. I've gotten stuck a lot of times, took a break, had an idea and the next day I won first time. Anyways, I keep wondering, how can a team EVER survive without grass/electric coverage and w/o fire too? You miss three of the most basic types and your movesets themselves make no sense sometimes. You have sunny day on Ninjask... You don't even have fire type attacks, or mons with chlorophyll, so... just why? lol Also, you have many bulky mons but not a single one that knows toxic/healing moves to stall out bulky pokemon. Really though, no grass and no electric pretty much means "good luck with water types". And also, good luck with Terra's Quagsire, I'm really wanting to see that!

Me too, but then noticed that he has no laptop internet connection!

Well, Gengar was a bit OP and Ame wanted to make a challenging game! But it still depends on what you consider "cheating". You can get one probably if you ask for a trade (when you find net connection on your laptop), but I'd only consider it non-cheating if it was for a monorun or custom run... But again, I only set the rules for myself!

No, replaced by Misdreavus ages ago.

How exactly you are gonna try Gengar, it isn't available on current release... xD

I'm glad it helped! As I said, it's more about strategy than brute force!