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I hate to sound like a broken record, but go into the UU room on showdown, ask around and fucking take off the Bias Goggles. wonder guard is the most broken ability in the game, no matter what you say, having that many IMMUNITIES (I put it in caps so you don't confuse them for resists) is about as broken as can get. And you don't seem to understand how exactly Powercreep works, so allow me to explain as simple as I can: Big Strong Thingy gets replaced by Bigger Stronger Thingy. And about that quick killing and stalling, THAT'S LITERALLY OU. If you don't like it, don't play it. Crazy right, not playing something you don't like

Everyone else has pretty much covered it once again, but I’ll just make it clear that giving hydreigon, a pseudo-legendary with great offensive capability and an already good typing, 13 immunities from wonder guard is not OU potential; that is Uber potential.  And at that point you wouldn’t even be allowed to play it in OU.

Just to clarify, I wasn't referring to the lore regarding the lernean hydra itself, but to the ingame lore regarding Hydreigon (i.e Pokedéx entries), as a being whose purpose is to consume and destroy.

Alright it's ready. I'll request a trade now.

Thank you very much mate! Appreciate it a lot!

Alright enjoy! And thanks for eevee.

If there weren't a lock during the first few days, then people will inevitably spoil themselves off of someone else's mislabeled topic and throw a hissy fit- the locks exist to try and keep that on the down low as possible. After all, different people complete thises things at drastically different rates, and battles that may be easy for some will leave others stuck for a horridly long while.

I don't think it'd really be any different to the release of any other episode, so yes. after all, there will be people who want help with specific battles, people who complete the whole thing within a few days and want to discuss story/ending etc, while other people won't have even gotten around to downloading/playing it yet, or will be waiting for public release while community is out

Considering people might want to actually try to use the forums or server even if they haven't played the episode yet, yes.  It's really not that hard to put spoiler tags and keep titles vague...

I don't think so? As far as I'm aware, bulbasaur is just stupendously rare- and a little under 20 levels weaker than the local wooper when you do finally find it. Oh, and it knows Take Down by then as well, so False Swipe is a bit too risky here. Add in that all starters have a rather low Catch Rate (45), and this particular one is immune to a solid number of Status moves, and... Well, may RNGesus bestow their blessings upon that encounter.

I don´t really think it´s too hard. At least this way you have to work for it a little and can´t just copy a magic square solution you found on the internet. And as far as I can tell, the numbers can be put in "freely" - meaning that every starting pattern can be changed into the correct pattern. Compared to some of the tile puzzles found in the circus that´s definitely progress.

@Tacos

Every department store sticker puzzle has been a puzzle for just that with no additional rewards. And as far as I can tell, every z crystal puzzle has also been it's own thing. With this many rewards in one puzzle it's clearly a case of cramming.

@LilyX

Oh right I guess you could copy it from the internet. I hate the agate circus puzzles though and have actively avoided them for the whole game. Probably the best decision I made in the game.

Plenty of z crystals are rewards for other side quests that also reward you with something else.

in regards to stickers, the most obvious other one with multiple rewards is the route 1 puzzle + sticker as you get a lot from it.

Litten is the final gift from the Aqua Gang. You have to take and give all the appropriate applications for each member. Then, Archer will give you Litten. However, it means you won't get the Oshawott who can be obtained from Maxwell when you side with the Magma Gang. To compensate, you can still get the little guy from a woman living in Agate City. She will give you a Litten in exchange of a Stantler, so it should work the same way as with Oshawott.

And you're right, Bulbasaur can be found as a rare encounter in Azurine Island once you've paid for the renovation. Also, the appearence rate for Snivy is 5%. He can only be found in a very specific area from Route 4. You have to do the hiker quest from Agate City to unlock the path leading to it.

Ah okay. I accidentally did the hiker quest and got a fist plate but after that idk what to do.

I'll go find the woman in Agate for Litten and I already have Oshowatt because I played the game before gen 7 and the poplio event was Oshowatt at that time lol. Thanks.

It’s a lot higher leveled than the rest of his mons (and yours).

Mine was level 90. It's something like level 96 I think which doesn't warrant the speed difference.

EVs and IVs make every battle ingame easy. Solaris’ Garchomp has 252 EVs in every stat, as do all of his other Pokemon. Hardy would of course be easy with 2 steels and then a water and ground type respectively that can easily shrug off attacks/outsped him.

Every Stat...

I want what he has

Oh yikes, I almost made that mistake :0

Galileo would have not approved this moveset.

Y'know, it took me way too long to realise this was a flat earth joke. RIP me.

Hmm yes I wonder if Amethyst likes gems.

Well the whole of Reborn is about getting all the keys which are gems too

Yeah, gemstones, with quite a few birthstones actually. If you look at the names of birthstones quite a few are used in Reborn in some way. Opal, Citrine, Tanzan, Sapphire, Tourmaline, Peridot, Spinel...

Obsidia(n), too. 

The kartana excuse really only works this Gen., while magnezone's been running high-Speed Choice sets from it's introduction. My guess is that it's due to the fact that magnezone has no means of active recovery, and is thusly prone to being worn down throughout the fight simply by switching in to do its actual job (hunting down, entrapping, and ultimately elimination opposing Steel Types). It doesn't want to take any more blows than it already has to, and the best way to make sure that doesn't happen is to blast your target to smithereens before they can even move!

I'm personally a little annoyed that Smogon only has Magnet Pull sets for it (and probopass), but that may have something to do that I play in-game rather than comp.- the need to off Steels isn't quite so significant in the majority of fights, no?

magnezone is limited by its stats, other than special attack and to a lesser extent defense, being rather bad. id argue magnet pull is the only reason its still in ou, even. sturdy had a fall from grace with stealth rock appearing on pretty much every team.

ingame trapping isnt even as important, as ai trainers often dont even switch out to begin with. so ingame id 100% go with sturdy magnezone.

Analytic Magnezone is cool too.

and why does a little gust of wind hurt? putting logic into Pokémon moves is about as hard as figuring out the plot of the first Yugioh anime

*snickers* plot  *snickers*

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Mega-Hydreigon gets 7 heads and Parental Bond making it hit 6 times

Lol or it's ability in Pokémon Insurgence, Learnen which gives it 5 heads at full and 7 in red hp. I thought it was a pretty balanced ability. Because the power of a move is calculated very nicely.

Dragon pulse= 85

85÷5= 17 per head+5 more power= 22 per head×5 heads= 110 base power. 

I like this concept a lot because it basically gives Hydreigon a more harder hitting move and it's stats get boosted with mega evolution so it can really do some great damage.