[I need help beating the 4th gym (shade)]

Well seems like this is already answered, but I was just wanting to add in that if you have moxie on mightyena and some status move like sleep or paralysis (possibly from ampharos?) To put on Gengar, you can stack up a couple of X speeds from the department store and pretty much sweep the entire team. 

[Best Early Game Starters?]

37 minutes ago, Firebane said:

Reason for this is that I might attempt some mono runs soon so in case I go with a type like Bug, I want a starter to get me as quickly as possible to the first available mon of the mono type I'm running.

if you wanna mono run I would suggest maybe getting someone to trade you in the first available mon in exchange for your starter asap. or if you dont feel like doing that you could just spam wondertrade until one of your type pops up and roll from there. (both have their advantages and disadvantages, but imo they both beat running through the game until you find your type)

 

[Saphira.]

15 hours ago, Sceptilespy said:

In any case, from the looks of it, Saphira is broken. I legitimately think this battle will make some people quit the game and that's because Amethyst is a master of teambuilding, whereas I made this up off the top of my head. 

I mean I think this might be going a LITTLE bit overboard. anyone who stuck around through the previous gyms probably wont quit just based off of one leader, no matter how seemingly "broken" the fight is... I would be willing to bet 90% or higher of the people who would "rage quit" off a gym leader were gone by Corey, and the other 10% wouldn't have made it past Charlotte.

[Who did you find to be the toughest/easiest gym leader so far?]

I mean I understand the nature of the topic of this thread, but to me there isnt really a "hardest" leader. it just depends on who your team is atm. IMO the only way to determine who the hardest leader is would be if you caught and trained a direct counter team for each leader (using only pokemon you could legitimately obtain up to that point of course) and then run through each leader like that. THEN you could truly say a gym leader was "more difficult" if it was powering through a team designed to beat it. I have had trouble with Noel before in certain runs but i learned after a while he crumples to any pokemon with a good setup. All you have to do is stall out on one of his tanks by paralyzing it and repeatedly dropping its stats until it practically cant hurt you then throw in a set up sweeper with d-dance, belly drum, howl, etc and boost its speed either through a move or give it an xSpeed and then blow through the rest of his team.

[Saphira.]

so i already posted this in the Amaria thread but if you are worried about getting swept hard by hard hitters, an ezpz way to win is to just take 6 aggrons with sturdy and metal burst and let the enemy kill itself. if they hit for 100, you dish out 200, if they hit for 200, you give 400 straight back to them. I mean that is aside from the other dirty things you could

come up with. We have a TON of tools this late in the game to be able to combat pretty much anything thrown at us. The key is that we have flexibility, whereas the gym leaders cant change their teams/playstyles. I have been handicapping myself for a while doing monoruns just to see how far i can take it and honestly as long as you get out of the early game

where you have extremely limited options, the rest should be a cakewalk as long as you take time to prepare correctly.

[Vs Amaria]

ezpz. breed 6 aggrons with sturdy and metal burst. just let them hit you to one and then reflect it right back at 'em. I mean thats just one way. the glory of being this far into the game is that we have a LOT of tools in our belt, and so she might be a pain but if push comes to shove you have access to ALMOST every non legendary along with 

the daycare and IV breeding items. We will be fine

[Last two spots go to?]

Dragonrush Flygon is pretty great, especially if you can get decent attack and speed IV/EV and a dragon plate.

also, Magnezone is a solid Hard-hitter who only really gets blown up by ground moves (unfortunately it looks like your team is a little bit weak to ground already though)

maybe even an altaria would work if you wanna go down that route, but all in all it looks like a pretty solid team!

[Side-questing, Good Game-Design and The Future of Reborn?]

Just my personal perspective here, but I feel like Skyrim is the game that comes to mind when I think of "maximum side questing" and that game is so great that even though it was made in like 2012 it's still relevant today (and actually sold more copies on steam in the last year than fallout 4 lol). But anyway, the point is side quests are cool BECAUSE they are optional. I feel like it adds depth to your character in the game because what you do shapes who you are. Much like in Skyrim where you can go beat dragons to death with nothing but a pointy stick  or smite them with godlike power collected through countless hours of dungeon grinding, you can go through reborn with the mindset of collecting the strongest mons from epic side quests or just try to beat the game by the easier roads.

 

Tldr - can't ever have too many side quests, if you want a "full team" of questions mons you will only need to do 6 side quests any way

[Adrian too easy or am I too strong?]

On 5/30/2017 at 4:56 PM, V for Vendetta said:

Well i said "in regards to "normal teams" as in regular play through T_T lol plus i said im stuck on serras gym cuz dragons vs ice so im not up to adrien on my mono run save.Hope u understand now

I actually ended up making a full dragon run (up to the current episode at least). I agree Serra fight was rough but it gets WAY easier if you send out a noivern and use boomburst to clear the field and then throw out a flygon with superpower to take care of her Mon. (Best of luck)

[A question for the end game]

17 minutes ago, Gentleman Jaggi said:

Arc himself says that one way to become an Ace is to beat the Reborn League.
I also remember reading somewhere around here that rematches with Gym Leaders using their teams from the Online League would take place there, but I don't remember who said that or how old that post was, so don't quote me on that.

Well that sounds cool too. Really I just hope that there is SOME mechanic that gives a pretty much infinite goal for us to achieve... I have made quite a few runs through reborn to the current episode and every time I start over I feel bad that my old team that I spent hours breeding and then training feels like it is just getting shelfed.... I guess I feel that a Challenger league type situation would give us a goal to kind of "keep" our title as the strongest trainer(s) in reborn

[A question for the end game]

Apologies in advance if I botched this/didn't post this in the right area as i'm brand new to posting on forums in general, but I just HAD to ask whether there are any plans to make a system to "hold your championship" after the elite 4. The one thing that I have always felt that was missing from Pokemon games is a way to just live out your glory days as a champion defending your title.

 

Anyway, I know it would be a lot of work but it would be super cool if you could sort of "customize" your own gym as the champion and be able to choose the way it looks from a couple of subsets as well as even choose the type of terrain to fight on. Then you could have an endless stream of contestants to challenge you and your work in a way would never be done.

 

But I don't want this to be a spoiler or anything and I apologize if this has come as a grievance to any of the mods. Just floating a huge hope of mine out there and seeing where it goes 

 

TL;DR - will there be a way to endlessly fend off challengers after you become champion