Jess

If you have got a zigzagoon/skitty/espurr/illumise, they learn covet. Try fishing in Tanzan Lake and kill Luvdiscs with Covet. 50% you will steal a Heart Scale. If you have at the first spot of your team a fainted pokemon with Compound eyes (e.g. Butterfree), this chance gets even greater. http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Covet_(move)

Again... Heart scale-->move relearner, and reteach Gear Grind on Klinklang. It's same process for every move your pokemon has "missed" or can learn at level one. Use this, it helps. http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Klinklang_(Pokémon)/Generation_VI_learnset#By_leveling_up

Find a heart scale by mining rocks and go to move relearner at the Onyx ward to reteach bug bite to heatmor.

That is just not possible... Either give Klinklang the correct held item to boost the attack a bit, or EV train it slightly in attack. If a Klinklang can't kill a Gardevoir then frankly, I don't know anything that can.

If female, Nora. If male, Nori. Since nori is the edible sushi seaweed... And name Trapinch/Flygon, Smaug or something like that.

Don't try to brute force all fights and read the notes about the fields. Kricketune doesn't really work well, psychic attacks make chess pieces to drop on pokemon, adding rock type damage, so the already fragile Kricketune gets OHKO'ed by any Psychic type attack. Also, Sawk with Sturdy can provide a kill on metagross or gallade through counter. Play smart, find a strategy... You don't need the type advantage to win, if you did then all the monotype runs you see here would be doomed to fail... Also, Heatmor can learn Bug Bite. Oneshot Malamar with that, it is 4 times effective, hell, give Heatmor a Bug Gem and destroy that stupid contrary thing...

CHAPTER 17: Establishing... shocking defences! After defeating Serra, in a fight observed by El and Bennett, the two jerks both go outside, where El manipulates Bennett into helping him find Luna, his daughter who apparently has gone to Vanhanen Castle to live with Radomus and Gardevoir. El promises to boost the useless bug type trainer into the Elite 4. Bennett is dumb enough that doesn't even wonder how he is more suitable than me for that spot, providing that my monobug team destroyed his. Anyways, the Poke Mart leaves the ceiling of Voclain estate, so we move around to trace it. We find it outside the entrance to Tanzan Mountain, buy the medicine and return to Tanzan Cove. We offer the medicine to Anna, who offers it to Nostra (!) and they both get immediately well! I suppose that mental illnesses need the appropriate treatment... And Anna is an expert to understanding the human soul! She gets up and suggests we fight Noel to get the normal badge, since she has a feeling that I need to gather all badges ASAP. But, when Noel and I have taken our places and are ready for the fight, Charlotte and Laura's older sister, Saphira appears riding her Dragonite. Looks like Team Meteor traced us and followed us here. She starts blasting down the boats transferring the Meteors over the lake, resulting in heavy casualties, but we still have to battle to save Noel, Anna and Charlotte, who are fugitives from mad doctor's mental institution. So, we take our place... Laura upstairs, defending Noel and Anna who hide in the bedroom and me downstairs, defending Charlotte and Shelly who are in the kitchen. Doctor Sigmund storms in and decides that he must reclaim "what is his property". So he fights us... VS DR. SIGMUND CONNAL My team was consisted of: Sakura, the Ninjask (Female) Hardy/Infiltrator (Item: Ground Gem) Dig Metal Claw X-Scissor Swords Dance Valor, the Forretress (Male) Careful/Sturdy (Item: Metronome) Toxic Spikes Gyro Ball Payback Spikes Happiness, the Ariados (Female) Hardy/Sniper (Item: Dread Plate) Sucker Punch Psychic Poison Jab Shadow Sneak Affection, the Leavanny (Female) Quirky/Chlorophyll (Item: Rose Incense) X-Scissor Leaf Blade Fell Stinger Swords Dance Fiery Wings, the Vivillon (Male) Naive/Compound Eyes (Item: Insect Plate) Bug Buzz Hurricane Draining Kiss Quiver Dance Braveheart, the Butterfree (Male) Timid/Tinted Lens (Item: Insect Plate) Psybeam Quiver Dance Tailwind Bug Buzz Dr. Weird sends in Jolteon and I send in Sakura, my Ninjask, who outspeeds Jolteon and OHKO'es it with a Ground Gem boosted Dig. Thank God he was dumb enough to not swap Pokemon. Probably thought that the Double Team he used, combined with the Bright Powder it carried would make me miss and grant him an easy sweep, since Jolteon is fast as lightning and hits sooooo hard. Plus, its moves counter most of my team. Then, he sent in Luxray and I kept in Sakura. Another Dig, but after Intimidate, gets Luxray to half HP, before one-shotting my Ninjask with Thunder Fang. Then I sent in Valor, my Forretress. Luxray Crunches, Thunder Fangs me in vain, as I set 3 layers of Spikes and 2 of Toxic Spikes, healing Valor with an Ultra and a Super Potion in between. Then, I proceed to Payback him. Luxray is faster, doubling Payback's power and Metronome further boosts its power gradually, to the point that it deals about 70% of Luxray's HP in one hit and makes Sigmund waste all three of his Ultra Potions. The first one got wasted from the very first Payback, that got Luxray to red HP. The fact that Forretress could tank like 5 Crunches/Thunder Fangs from full HP without healing helped me stack up Metronome boosts of Payback and eventually take down Luxray, leaving however my Valor in red. Lanturn then came in, and got OHKO'ed after Spikes damage by Affection, my Leavanny, with a single Leaf Blade. Rotom came in, got Sucker Punched by my Happiness, the Ariados and got into yellow HP. Happiness survived an Ominous Wind relatively well, and took out Rotom with another Sucker Punch. Sigmund sends in his Eelektross and I send in my Vivillon to put a dent on it, even a small one. Fiery Wings outspeeds it and deals about 50% of its HP with Bug Buzz, but is easily OHKO'ed by Discharge. Thinking of the fast Electivire that is ahead, I then send in Butterfree, only to use Tailwind before fainting to Eelektross as well, by another Discharge. I sent in Affection again, to face Eelektorss who is the most annoying thing ever. Bulky, no weaknesses, pretty much unkillable. Affection Leaf Blades and deals slightly less than 50% of its HP. It is enough, however, to get it into critical HP. Leavanny tanks with about 50% of her HP a Crunch, then Affection finishes Eelektross with Fell Stinger, getting a +2 stage boost in Attack. Only Electivire to go, and we have still one turn of Tailwind. Thanks to Tailwind, Spikes and the +2 boost in Attack, Leavanny destroys Electivire with a Leaf Blade, granting us the victory! Once again, Tailwind coming in clutch! After that, we decide to stay downstairs, preventing Sigmund from going upstairs, where Laura is. Saphira stormed in with her Dragonite and Hyper Beamed Dr. Geezer, as Cain calls him, through the fucking wall, creating a hole on it, in the most satisfying scene of the entire game! Sadly, after that Sirius came in as well, surprised Saphira and attacked her with a Poison Fang by his Seviper, capturing her and taking her into Team Meteor's hideout in the depths of Tanzan Mountain... Our job now, after regrouping with Laura and the others whom we have successfully defended, is to storm into Team Meteor's hideout and ruin their plans once more! Laura gets going first, being surprisingly confident and determined, unlike the personality traits that she had demonstrated so far! As a true Elite 4 member, she had no trouble to put nighty night all the guards and find the opening for the door, granting us access into Team Meteor's operating base. After a huge amount of puzzles and stepping on weirdly coloured tiles, beating some useless grunts in the process as well, we release Saphira (technically, she had already released herself, and then went berserk, creating a whole mess against Meteor defences already-I love the destructive power of Saphira) and end up facing ZEL, Sigmund and Sirius that have trouble to control a PULSE Abra unit. So this is what caused the whole teleporting mess in Spinel Town and Chrysolia Forest! We find out by Sirius that Lin, the true fearsome and ruthless leader of Team Meteor is coming to oversee the PULSE Abra project. So we are sent bye-bye to unknown location, by Abra's teleporting skills... It's deep darkness, in the slime polluted depths of Tanzan mountain, us, Laura, and Saphira is missing again... We will continue from here in the next chapter! Till then, enjoy everyone!

you can get a speed boost venipede in byxbysion wasteland. or a nincada and evolve it into speed boost ninjask. Get speed up by scolipede, then baton pass it to someone slow to get advantage, like muk. this way youll outspeed swellow/clefable and gain one more hit.

You can also breed Flame burst on skuntank and set the bloody field on fire. Then use Smackdown on swellow. It will get in critical HP and field damage will finish it.

You didn't get what I meant... All that Wigglytuff can do is Moonblast. Find a mon that can use attack/sp.attack/speed boosting moves and set up as it uses stealth rock and stuff. Then sweep all his mons using those boosts. Many have done that with a speed boost bulk up blaziken.

Use something that can set up against Wigglytuff and proceed to sweep Noel. It can work, if you have a pretty bulky pokemon.

At least Contrary Malamar's Supepower is neutral vs Mawile. Plus, boosts Def. I always found it easier vs Mega Mawile than Gardevoir anyways.

Adrienn's Gardevoir surely won't be merciful!

Looking forward for that Kiki fight, especially because you don't have access to Malamar by then... Honchkrow will be your best chance, but it isn't the fastest thing! Wondering what the strategy will be!

Or this >Root, is that pun intended? lol LOL! I shall edit it and turn it into "I can't not roo(s)t for you".

I can't not root for you, you have a Butterfree! <3 Good luck fellow monorunner!

It is easy to do this, go to Graphics-->Battlers folder (in the game folder) and swap the names of Dewott sprites pics with the respective names of Samurott number pics. More specifically, rename pics named 502 and 502b to 503 and 503b and vice versa. Good job Anstane, a water mono is too hard based on type disadvantages early on, don't be discouraged!

Yes, I thought so too. So many times I catch a mon, then I find a shiny version of it in the next encounters, and end up with two of the same species.

@Another Retired Shipper Got objections your honour! 1) Koffing doesn't appear to be shiny in the screenshot Unless DoDo is a different one! 2) Come on... With a type advantage and you needed the X-items? JK! Good job Amine! Keep going! <3

In honour of my Pokemon Zeta Glaceon... Evolve it into Glaceon, name it Borealis. Or Aurora. Whichever you prefer. Edit: If Female, you can call it Borealice too... Borealis+Alice

Hahaha, OK! Pity I don't have my bug mono recorded... I'd love to rewatch some parts... Will do it with the next monos I plan on doing! Got poison ready to start and wanna do normal too!

Don't worry about that, I have a crapload of notes taken down and takes me ages to figure out what happened and which one is of a successful try! Some small inconsistencies are of no consequences, nor they decrease the value of your success! If you want to get every detail right, you can record a video as you play, then rewatch it and write every detail properly. I have downloaded, installed and tried out debut video capture software. I can send you a link if you want. It's very easy to use too! Edit: Try it if you want. http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/

Amineeeeee! Thank you! It was such a long update,lol! And the toughest part is always figuring out what the hell happened based on my notes! Fucking scribbles! xD At least I hope that you enjoyed it

CHAPTER 16: Now you see me... now you don't... through the mirror Spinel Town is weird... Stuff disappear and reappear, which we understand best when we try to access the Poke Mart to buy medicine for Nostra (or Anna). Turns out that it has ended up on the balcony of Spinel Town's Gym, Serra Voclain's estate. This is noticed by her weird son, Bennett, who is a nerd that is obsessed with bugs. A rival to us then! Bennett keeps asking about Luna, a girl that apparently lived there with a Gardevoir friend of hers, and assumed that she was Serra's daughter. Luna's real dad, El, appears and asks for her. Apparently he is obsessed with Arceus, thinking that a pokemon can truly be a God... Bleh... Anyways, since we have nothing better to do, and Poke Mart is inaccessible, we can as well get the Ice type badge from Serra! So, we start advancing through her Gym, smashing mirrors after spotting the asymmetric points... Then, Bennett out of nowhere says that he demands to fight all of his mother's challengers first, since this is a good training for him... As good as going around and challenging Gym Leaders yourself, but you're too busy hiding under your mum's skirt, aren't you Bennett? Team we used was the following... Let me note that I found in Underground Railnet the key of Move Relearner's house, so (at last!) I can improve my movesets substantially! VS BENNETT Fiery Wings, the Vivillon (Male) Naive/Compound Eyes (Item: Sky Plate) Bug Buzz Hurricane Draining Kiss Quiver Dance Valor, the Forretress (Male) Careful/Sturdy (Item: Iron Ball) Toxic Spikes Gyro Ball Rapid Spin Spikes Kindness, the Masquerain (Male) Naive/Intimidate (Item: Sky Plate) Air Slash Bug Buzz Quiver Dance Hydro Pump Royalty, the Vespiquen (Female) Bold/Pressure (Item: Hard Stone) Heal Order Air Slash Toxic Power Gem Ecstasy, the Yanmega (Female) Modest/Speed Boost (Item: Hard Stone) Bug Buzz Detect Air Slash Ancient Power Willpower, the Shedinja Hardy/Wonder Guard (Item: Metronome) Heal Block Confuse Ray Shadow Sneak Phantom Force It should be easy, I know how one-sided Bennett's team is... His strategy is... The following one: Quiver Dance and Mirror Field-boosted Signal Beams. He sends in Larvesta and I send in Ecstasy, my Yanmega. He tries to Flame Charge, but I use Detect and gain a Speed Boost. Then, in the next turn, Larvesta goes down easily to an Ancient Power. Venomoth comes in and I ecstatically watch it go also down to an Air Slash by my Yanmega, which is an absolute beast. But it is unfair to prevent others from having fun with Bennett's incompetence as well. As Dustox comes in, I send in Fiery Wings, my Vivillon. I Quiver Dance, Dustox Quiver Dances too. OK, I can do it again. So, I do, as Dustox Signal Beams me for about 1/4 of my Vivillon's HP. I Quiver Dance for a third time, tanking one more Signal Beam with even more ease and then... Let's just say Fiery Wings one-shotted with Hurricane three of Bennett's Pokemons in a row: his Dustox, Vivillon and Masquerain. Then, he sent in his ace, Butterfree. I switch in to my Willpower, the Shedinja, the newest addition of my team. Of course, Bennett is such a professional bug trainer, that none of his flying bugs know any flying type attacks! Also, no Poison Powder/entry hazards/Rock type attacks. Yes, good luck dealing with Shedinja's Wonder Guard, "Elite 4 candidate". Process is easy, I confuse Ray Butterfree, which destroys itself 3 times in a row by self-harming in confusion. I knew that being Bennett's pokemon must be depressing, but this was a bit extreme. This drops its evasion, Heal Block prevents it from Healing with Leftovers or Healing Items and it just goes down to Phantom Forces eventually... El somehow considers this pathetic demonstration "amazing" and claims that Bennett is suitable for an Elite-4 position with his skill, if he keeps working hard and does everything El asks, including helping him to reclaim his runaway daughter... Of course Bennett, having no interaction with people so far, apart from watching porn, agrees and gets excited, without seeing through the shady personality of El. Anyways, after this charade, we can actually do what we came here for. Fight Serra and win ourselves another badge. After some small adjustment, like giving Willpower a Spooky Plate instead of Metronome, giving Ecstasy a Yache Berry instead of Hard Stone and Fiery Wings a Yache Berry instead of Sky Plate, I gave it a try! Oh, I also replaced Royalty with Happiness, cause I needed some super effective priority moves against Froslass, who is fast and evasive as a Nightmare. Happiness, the Ariados (Female) Hardy/Sniper (Item: Dread Plate) Sucker Punch Pin Missile Night Shade Shadow Sneak VS SERRA Serra sends in her Cryogonal, and I send in Valor, my Forretress. Cryogonal Frost Breaths for about a quarter of Valor's HP and I set a layer of Toxic Spikes. The same happens in the next turn. In the third turn, I also set a layer of Spikes, before using an Ultra Potion after Cryogonal's third consecutive Frost Breath brings me in red. Serra switches to Aurorus, as I set a second layer of Spikes. Serra changes strategy and begins to set up as well. She uses Stealth Rocks as I set the third and final layer of Spikes. In the next turn, I Rapid Spin the Stealth Rocks away and Nature Power-->Mirror Shot reduces my accuracy, but does no damage. Thank God I have EV trained Forretress mostly in Sp.Defence, so he is a mixed tank! In the next turn, Valor tanks another Frost Breath, now in red, but OHKO'es Aurorus with Gyro Ball. Iron Ball helps a lot, making Valor the slowest thing on earth, so Gyro Ball hits like a truck! Cryogonal comes back in. I use another Ultra Potion on Valor and tank easily a Frost Breath. This is the fourth turn of Hail and Aurorus had an Icy Rock probably... So, I have to wait it out before being able to use Willpower. After Spikes damage, another Gyro Ball on the much faster Cryogonal is also a OHKO. Cryogonal goes down. Glaceon comes in, takes Spikes damage and gets badly poisoned. I switch to Fiery Wings, my Vivillon (Valor is withdrawn with just less than half HP). Fiery Wings outspeeds and Quiver Dances, while Glaceon uses Frost Breath. Yache Berry weakens the hit and Vivillon survives with about 15% of his HP. In the next turn, I am stunned to see that a Bug Buzz isn't enough to finish Glaceon, who on top of the Spikes had also suffered Poison Damage by now. It lived with just a sliver of its HP bar. This meant that another Frost Breath took down my Vivillon ... At least Glaceon went also down to Poison damage at the end of this turn... Jynx comes in and I send in my Yanmega. Seventh turn of Hail, as I am counting. I use Detect on Jynx's Frost Breath and gain a Speed Boost, stalling also the Hail. At the eighth and final turn of hail, I use Bug Buzz which, combined with Spike damage and poison damage takes easily down Jynx. Ecstasy triumphs, successfully removing hail and getting down Jynx! Vanilluxe comes in then. It gets outsped, since Ecstasy has now 2 Speed Boosts, and gets down to 30% of its HP after Ecstasy's Ancient Power and Spikes damage. Vanilluxe is also badly poisoned. However, Ecstasy fails to survive a Frost Breath by Vanilluxe, even with it weakened due to Yache Berry and faints. So, I now send in Willpower, my Shedinja. Serra heals her Vanilluxe to full HP, as I use Confuse Ray on it. Vanilluxe only has Frost Breath, Mirror Shot, Signal Beam and Reflect (if I am not confused), so it can't touch my Shedinja. After a few rounds of trying, hitting itself and getting stalled with Toxic poison (also getting hit by Phantom Force), Serra has to use one of her Ultra Potions. She then sets up Reflect (what a cheeky move!) and switches out to Froslass, as my Shedinja vanishes for another Phantom Force. Vanilluxe is withdrawn only with 50% of its HP and Froslass loses immediately 25% of its HP and gets badly poisoned. Froslass immediately gets hit by Phantom Force as she comes in. Willpower really does good damage, bringing her to about 15% of her HP. Reflect saved her ass here... Froslass survives poison with a sliver of her health bar too (second time this happens after Glaceon, fml), so Serra heals her to full HP using her second (I hope final!) Ultra Potion, and Willpower vanishes again... In the next turn, Froslass gets again to about 30% of her HP thanks to Poison damage and Phantom Force. I try to get some more damage on her with a Shadow Sneak, since I know she is faster than Shedinja, but I miss, and Shedinja kills itself by hitting the mirror... #$^#$@ At least another turn of poison kicks in and Froslass is at about 10% of her HP now. I decide that I can't be this unlucky all the time, so I send in Happiness, my Ariados and Sucker Punch her. This time, my hit connects, and Froslass goes down! One to go! Vanilluxe comes in again. I keep in my Ariados. Spikes hurt Vanilluxe again, who is now at only 25% of its HP. Happiness Sucker Punches and connects again, taking out Vanilluxe too and giving me a spectacular win! And I didn't even got to use Kindness. I doubt he'd be able to do anything though... Too slow for Serra's fast Ice Types. Anyways, we now got our sixth badge, raised level cap to level 55 and got TM for Frost Breath, which is highly useless, since no bugs can learn it . In the next episode we will wander around Spinel Town-Chrysolia Woods-Tanzan Cove and Mountain a bit more and advance with story! We still have to heal Nostra and Anna... Till then... Enjoy everyone!

Lol, you are the opposite of me. I didn't take screenshots, but took notes, so I'm going into details about big battles. Plus, I don't mind typing. You are the exact opposite! Edit: Good job by the way!