Filthy Casual

This may sound absolutely blasphemous, but while I think Blaziken and Greninja are the best individual starters in the game, if you want to build a solid team around one starter, you go for Swampert. You just need something to cover the grass weakness, and you're solid. With Florinia, it also helps that there are Trubbish right nearby with Toxic Spikes alongside Kricketot, and her ace has no grass moves (only one offensive move, and it's Smack Down).

Do the forgotten Pokemon run! Pokemon you may not remember exist on the top of your hand! Some examples may include: Stantler Spinda Sigilyph Maractus Heatmor Dewgong This is only a suggestion, however.

Chapter 20: Ren's Radical Realization As we began the second meeting without interruptions Melia, we discussed who should be left behind in order to guard the ship. Eventually, it was decided that it would be Adam and Braixen. Honestly, while I loved Adam, he added nothing to the story. At least you fought Valerie before, and it's also clear Braixen sucks, anyway. Afterwards, we heard loud music, only to see something awesome: Either way, as Melia and Venam were catching up, we decided to look for Crawli. Instead, we found Rorim B, who was once again a complete pushover. Fortunately, however, we were able to secure that Shadow Sudowoodo with the Snag Machine this time! Other than that, the battle was boring. Rorim B told us his son, Crawli, was at his secret base in the Sheridan Wetlands. We grabbed Melia and Aelita, and decided to head out! The Sheridan Wetlands were quite hostile. However, they allowed us to test out our Good Rod. As such, say hello to the newest member of our team: Of course, before I elaborate on the next section, I'm going to nitpick a bit here; how did Melia and Aelita traverse through the Wetlands? Neither of their Pokemon can learn Surf, and Aelita doesn't even have badges. You could say that Melia could have used her Togekiss to take Aelita across the water, but even so, why didn't they do that for the volcano? The quest for Magma Drift would be pointless if we just flew there... ...anyway, as we were walking, we found an abandoned factory, only to see a familiar face... After that unpleasant reunion, we decided to find power switches in order to lower the bridges. Along the way, we discovered this: We eventually made it down the end of the base, where Crawli was attempting to stop Nastasia. As such, she tasked Ren with stalling us. It was time for a fight! Despite our best efforts, Nastasia was able to get away. We will eventually catch up to her, but first, we have a gym battle to prepare for! Who should we go after? What should their names be? Who should we box? Who should we use against Crawli? It's up to you! Current Team

Honestly, I feel as if a Crawdaunt with Hyper Cutter, Dragon Dance, and Tartarus could really put in work.

Good luck! Infernape is a fun choice, and I'm sure you'll win!

If I remember correctly, the key is by the top right of the hedge maze. It looks like the maid's bracelet you had to find earlier.

Chapter 19: Shore-ly, You Could do Better Last time, we went ahead an made it to Kakori Village. We started this chapter with the long and fabled meeting Melia talked about. We were granted access to Route 5 by Crawli when suddenly, the mountain erupted! Without hesitation, we went to confront Team Xen. As we were traversing through Route 5, we all ran into Zetta, who was looking to pick a fight! Of course, Zetta put up no fight. However, he had another card left to play: distraction. With Geara's winged chicken, Zetta ran off to the volcano, where he told us that we would need to learn how to cross lava in order to progress. Why Melia doesn't just use Togekiss to send everyone over is beyond me, but whatever... ...in fact, couldn't Aelita's Hawlucha have also done the job? Before you say it needs to know Fly, Melia's Togekiss doesn't know it, either, and it seems to manage. Either way, Zetta then told us that we have been played in one of the most painful ways possible... ...a really bad pun. ...no, Zetta. Just no... We ended up moving back to the beach in order to fend off from the Xen threat: the Dexoy from the boat! This provided Hazard Smell with the perfect opportunity to train. As such, we knocked them out, and went back home... ...which is extremely anticlimactic, but okay, I'll roll with it. Next time, we will be participating in another meeting ran by Melia (which means we'll just be walking with her to tell her to stop being sad, but whatever)! Current Team

Just looked at the team for the first time. That Greninja name is actually really good! I may have to use that name myself!

Chapter 18 Part 2: Pointless For the second part, it's going to mainly act as a rant. Keep in mind, I am keeping everything in unless there is one of the text boxes has only one word in it, so if you don't want to be bombarded with text, DON'T CLICK SPOILER: TLDR: I didn't like it. Either way, next time, we will be beginning this fabled meeting! Who should we catch (we WILL be going after a Corphish soon)? What should their names be? Who should we use/box? It's up to you! Current Team

Chapter 18 Part 1: Little Rift of Horrors This update will be short, as it is going to be a two parter (the second part is going to be a rant about a particular cutscene coming up next). Either way, last time, we decimated Valerie with field effect boosted +2 Discharges. This time, we were ready to head out to Kakori Village, where Crawli was supposed to live. However, as we were about to use the teleporter... ...nothing. This meant we would have to take the long path. It would be a long and arduous journey, filled with many strong and powerful trainers... We ended up making it to the end of the jungle, when suddenly, Nim started apologizing profusely, stating that she couldn't "hold it it" anymore. While confused, we were shocked to find out that she was holding back old enemies! That's right! Jenner, Geara, and Zetta were back! They knew they were outnumbered, but decided to take advantage of a certain dimensional rift... This inspired Melia to say some words of wisdom to rally the troops. That didn't matter to Zetta, however, as he sent us into the rift. There, we fought our next boss... Either way, we win, and Zetta and Geara rage quit by taking Nim hostage. We then found our way to Kakori Village, where we met a familiar face! This is the end of part one! Soon, the rant begins...

Chapter 17: The Doctor gets Discharged After a small hiatus, we continued on with our journey. I had decided to swap out Sonya Blade (Scrafty) for Clubber Lang (Pangoro) so he can get some experience. I'm thinking I could use some slower Pokemon when Radomus sets up Trick Room, and having Crunch can't hurt. Of course, I also found out he can get Shadow Claw, so hooray for coverage! Either way, Cain and I stumbled upon the old Yuyeyru building, only to find it crawling with Meteor goons. My poor fighting types stood very little chance against Golbat, but Cain's Nidoking was able to handle them. Overall, it was a nice team up. We ended up finding the children! They were being held captive in that building. We decided to confront the person in charge of this operation, and... ...dear god, it's the doctor again. Next time, we will be finding a safe haven for the children! Current Team

So I was looking through my main Rejuvenation file, and I found this: Keep in mind that the IVs are pretty bad, so this is for anyone just wanting an Eevee early in the game for fun. Do you want one? If so, I would love something like a Starly (if you have any lying around) or just a basic trash mon. I don't care about natures or IVs.

Thank you so much! I lucked out! All I know is that in Rejuvenation, ghost types reign supreme (at least in my own opinion).

He was only out of the party for this episode. He will be back. But first, if he should come back, who gets boxed?

Here's an idea for one of my personal favorites: Mega Raichu (Kantonian) Type: Electric Ability: Rock Head HP: 75 (+15) Attack: 160 (+70) Defense: 55 (+0) Special Attack: 40 (-50) Special Defense: 90 (+10) Speed: 165 (+55) BST: 485 -> 585 (+100) New Move: Flare Blitz (learned at level 60 as Pikachu) As you can see from the stat change, Mega Raichu becomes much more physically offensive than its other counterparts. It has developed such a habit into ramming its hardened head into the opponent that it now can fully utilize moves such as Volt Tackle and Flare Blitz without taking any damage. It's major weaknesses would be ground types and priority moves. Of course, Alolan Raichu would also get one that is Specially Offensive, but that's a topic for another day.

Definitely going for the Rejuvenation Bug Mono Run. There are just so many bug types you can use (although I'm not sure if there's a sandbox mode).

Chapter 17: Valerie gets Washed Up After being set free from Blacksteeple, Melia wanted to apologize to Valerie, Aelita, and the player for her mistreatment of us (most of all ourselves, because I guess electrocuting Aelita wasn't a big deal). She said some things about "strength" and "on that fateful day", and then repaired our snag machine! That would be awesome if we weren't about to run out of Shadow Pokemon, but hey, whatever works. Having said that, she did offer up a fight. We were quick to accept the challenge! Before it was time for us to leave the ship, we were treated to a cutscene involving Team Xen. After getting off the boat, we discovered we were on the island of Terajuma. Fortunately, we were close to a village named Kakori Village, home to a gym leader named Crawli. However, the jungle was infested with thick vines. We decided to go towards a path which required us to have the HM for Surf. While we couldn't use it, Valerie offered to fight us in order to give us the opportunity to use the HM. Without hesitation, we went to battle! We were able to secure our next badge! We now have Surf! Who should we catch? Box? What should the nicknames of our new team members be? It's up to you! Current Team

For me, I prefer Reborn. While Rejuvenation is better than Reborn in a lot of ways, it suffers from one huge flaw: something I like to call "Sonic Syndrome". There are just way too many characters in Rejuvenation, and they all really make the plot kind of lackluster. For example, why introduce Mosely as a huge character in Goldenleaf and then never use her again? Also, why try and convince us that Melia is the next coming of Jesus, and then have her do nothing of value (she still got captured by Zetta and Geara, and needed our help to win).

Awesome! Let's try Darumaka with Fire Punch named Oppenheimer (for the atomic bomb).

Chapter 16: The Blacksteeple Redemption Oh, man, is this going to be a long chapter! A lot of plot happened, and we were able to progress through a big part of the story. Before we went into Akuwa town, we decided to train our newest member, Haikyuu!! the Azurill. With all of her training: this happened: Despite this interesting new evolution, we ended up in Akuwa town, where everyone had decided to mysteriously disappear. However, in the back of the aquarium, Aelita found a monitor with a police officer trying to contact anyone left. Apparently, the town had been kidnapped by a mysterious group of people. Of course, as we say that, this happened: Well put, Aelita. This is why you're way better than Victoria from Reborn in every way. Either way, we were captured and sent to "the joint" in a place called Blacksteeple Prison. While there, we met some new friends! Eventually, we got in trouble day one (no thanks to our new friend Saki) and had to meet the Warden of the prison, a guy named Neved. He told us he was torturing Aelita for misbehaving, and would make sure to do the same to us if we were caught misbehaving again... ...of course, we did. We ended up finding out that there was a place we could send out our Pokemon. This game me a bit more time to do some training. We ended up finding a way out, but first, we found our mom being held captive by Madelis! It was time to fight! Afterwards, we were able to free the rest of the prisoners. On our way up to face Neved, we ran into his guard, Emma, who proved to be zero challenge. Normal_One completely walled her (except for Gardevoir, who was defeated by Hazard Smell). We finally made it to the top, and got ready to fight Neved, and with Aelita, no less! Of course, with our new found confidence, we were ready to head ou- ...shit. After the battle, we are left with no choice but to flee, where Madame X does something terrible. That's right. Our quest to save our mother ended in utter failure. rip in spaghetti never forghetti Thankfully, we were able to also witness a cool plot twist: That's right! Emma is Melia! She's not dead! ...wait, if you could do that, why didn't you just do that when she was pulling out her blade. She was clearly distracted by her own speech! You could have saved her! (Yes, it's nitpicking, and I know it might have failed, but still...) Either way, we all fled on the boat, where we were given a new team member. This member was the spawn of one of the Mawile from our mother. Meet our newest member... Either way, next time, we will be fighting Valerie. Here is the question for all of you: Which six Pokemon should I use? Also, who else should I catch? What should their names be? It's up to you! Current Team

Good going! You're going to love it when Achilles walls most of what Julia has!

Chapter 15: NIM-Possible Flinching As we were heading to get our TM for Flash, our Mystery Egg finally hatched! Say hello to the newest member of the team: Afterwards, we finally bought the TM for Flash. We gave the move to Chime Chime (Chimecho), and decided to head into the Mirage Forest. There, we encountered a rather grumpy Kingdra statue. However, it was no match for the Toxic of Hazard Smell (Skuntank). We ended up moving into the scientific camp, where we discovered a horde of Zubat. With one flash, we brought out the mother. *Also, that is Lycanroc's sprite. There is no Lycanroc Midday sprite, so it just reuses Rockruff. Sorry, @Vhandrake! Either way, we ended up murdering the parents. This inspired one of the Zubat to fight in the name of justice. Meet our newest team member, inspired by their murder: We FINALLY were able to travel to the next route, where we saw another example of Jan creating excellent and unique environments. Apparently, this was all because of the work of the grass type gym leader. I don't blame her, either, because after Goldenleaf, I would also think that people would want to feel more relaxed. However, before we could head into the town, Nim tried to stop us. She said it was dangerous, and we should head back. Before taking her on, we trained up little Azurill on the wild Tranquill and Sunkern (thank you Huge Power Bounce), and then quickly went to battle! With another win under our belts, we are now ready to head into Akuwa town! Who should we catch? Name? Box? It's up to you! Current Team

Filler Chapter 2: Sheridan Sidequest Showdown Before it was time for us to traverse through Route 4, we decided to occupy our time with side quests! Before we did that, however, we caught ourselves a brand new team member! After catching the new team member, I bred her with a male Yamask in order to create an egg. I then traded away the egg, and got a Mystery Egg instead. Here is what we got: For the sake of keeping time, I will keep this short, and only describe the missions in short detail: Hidden Library 2- A nice ending to a little part of the story, but honestly, Karen is the worst. She is a very poorly written character. Stolen Cargo!- This mission was much better, as it provided a fun and unexpected challenge. Players who come in unprepared will get decimated. Cute Pokemon- Offscreen, I caught an Aipom. For this mission, we had to trade away the Aipom for this Pokemon: Get an item!- This is hands down my personal favorite mission in the game. This mission is a huge love letter to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon- Red/Blue Rescue Team, right down to the music used when stealing from the Kecleon Shop. Of course, any Mystery Dungeon player may think they can't muscle their way through... ...and they'd be both right and wrong. Battle me again?- This is a decent second battle with Novae, but that Lycanroc may take too much advantage of the field effects... After the side quests were finished, we moved onward to Route One once more, where we discovered some secret agents discussing the status of the lake. One was named C, and he appeared to be a bug type master. Thanks to Hazard Smell (Skuntank) and her Toxic, however, we were able to breeze past it. However, that was when we found the threat once more: Once again, we had to take it out, and once more, we succeeded with ease! Next time, we will be trying to obtain a Zubat, as well as heading out to Route 4! Who should we box? Use? Catch? Name? Let me know! Current Team

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Honestly, me too. I would have preferred Victini or Darmanitan, but I know Gamefreak would be the one to push the monkeys on us. It's the only reason Simisear is on the list.