BillyBob

You can get a quick claw off of wild Meowths, I think its a really low chance though. As for Focus Band, as Lucky said, you need access the the 8th floor of the department store for that

I feel similar to the way Alistair does on this subject. While it is a valid criticism, the lack of strong male characters never really made me uncomfortable. I actually didn't even realize it until reading this thread. I usually look at characters on an individual basis (and while it probably sounds unrealistic, usually dont really take gender into account.) That being said, I still feel like there are plenty of great male characters in this game. Like right off the bat you have Cain, someone who always makes me smile when he has screen time (except for when he sings.) On top of guys like Arc, Cal, and Taka, not to mention the best character ever fight me Radomus, I really can't personally complain about the male characters in this game. And honestly, whats wrong with having the stoic defender be a female for a change? In the end, I can totally see where this complaint is coming from by a sheer numbers calculation. And I can definitely see that many of the Female characters in this are good while many of the men are working for team meteor (even though by far the most evil entity in this entire game is female). But I feel like maybe we are reading way too far into this. Most of the characters in this game were written based on real people, after all. I feel like absolute parity is impossible without specifically ensuring it. And that really isn't what we should be encouraging. We shouldn't be hamstringing writers by forcing them to have certain roles fulfilled by both genders. Otherwise you end up with characters that don't need to exist simply to ensure parity. The characters in this game are each great individually, and I don't think there is anything wrong with leaving it at that. By the way, does no one remember aster? Or Simon? Like those two guys and their reactions to the events of their side stories hit me right in the feels ;-;

Chapter 2: Hariyama and his KFC Onward i go to the Jasper ward, to attempt a rescue of the police force, as well as training my mons to a point at which they finally become usefull! I feel as though I have my work cut out for me, as poor as the stats on all my mons not called Combusken are. Soon, however, my Makuhita evolves and, well, take a look for yourself. With access to knock off, as well as a respectable attack stat given its level, Hariyama quickly becomes one of my favorite mons on the team, able to fake out knock off almost all fighting resists for massive damage or a KO! This comes as a huge relief, as I was seriously worried about many of the upcoming fights, as Medicham is quite a ways away and that's going to be one of my first good options. Hariyama is a freaking tank though, and I mean that both defensively and offensively! Anyway, I move through the Jasper ward, on a mission to stop the PULSE Tangrowth. Soon enough I'm fighting Taka. My Hariyama destroys his Lileep, a fight which could have been far more frustrating, but soon it was time to switch. Because we all know what comes next. The Dreadful. The abomination. The cutest thing I've ever cursed at. Taka's Chatot. Chatter is an insane move this early in the game, especially with the confuse chance. Combusken almost had a fighting chance, until this happened. This guy right here caused me to have to restart this fight several times, as it would severely weaken my team for the tangrowth, or would just cause them all to KO themselves in confusion. When i was finally able to KO it without losing half my team, I soon discovered the one shotting PULSE Tangrowth level power of Belly Drum Hariyama! Moving on through Jasper and into Beryl, I basically had two pokemon. Mankey would die to scatterbugs when i tried to train him, he was that weak. With pancham, I'll admit I was just being lazy. However, this got a bit more complicated when I came upon the double battle with ZEL and Taka. My only competent mons were Hariyama and Combusken, but i made the best of it, leading Hariyama Pancham. Hariyama was able to take out many mons, including ZEL's espeon, because of knock off. Umbreon, however, was a problem. Because of synchronize. Eventually, I had a confused, paralyzed Hariyama, and a dead combusken, and I had to fight an Umbreon and a PULSE Tangrowth! So I used a paralyz heal and an ultra potion and got to work! So yeah, needless to say Hariyama is a god. He might have even earned himself a nickname. Sadly I am not creative. If you have an idea, tell me and I might have to go hit up the name rater! With nothing else to do but Corey's gym, I caught a Poochyena (to evolve Pancham) and set out to train my mons to around level 32, as well as evolving all of my mons to their final forms (Using common candy on Blaziken to bring him back down to 34.) This actually took a long time, and was the majority of the actual play time this chapter, but I dont regret it since it made it much nicer having these mons evolved. It turns out I way over prepared for Corey. Leading Primeape, i take out his Skrelp, as it is the only thing on his team that resisted blaze kick. Afterwards I just went into blaziken, set up a bulk up, and swept his entire team with Blaziken. This fight was far easier than I expected, and, strangely, it was easier than it was in my normal run of reborn. I guess KFC is OP. Not really an interesting screenshot of this because it was such a simple fight. Anyway, I feel this is a pretty good time to wrap up this chapter! Its organized differently than the last one, but thats because im experimenting with some suggestions and different ideas of how to set this up. I didnt make much in game progress, but I feel a lot better about where I am in the game, now that I have more trust in mons like Hariyama. Im definitely planning on getting Scrafty and then Medicham the moment they become available! Any suggestions or feedback is as always welcome! Current team, as of the end of this chapter, is below. Blaziken Lv.34 Bashful/Speed Boost Double Kick Bulk Up Blaze Kick Sand Attack Hariyama Lv.34 Adamant/Thick Fat Belly Drum Fake Out Knock off Force Palm Pangoro Lv.32 Adamant/Iron Fist Slash Vital Throw Work Up Karate Chop Primeape Lv.28 Hasty/Defiant Low Kick Screech Karate Chop Assurance

Why hello there, my name is Billybob, and you've probably never heard of me. And that is perfectly okay. However, I, being the adventurous soul that I am, decided to begin a Monotype run of reborn. At first, this idea was for fun alone, but then I thought to make it a real challenge. I had beaten the game itself up to Ep. 16 without too much trouble, so an extra challenge would be welcome. After scouring a few of the monotype threads and totally not being jealous of their organizational skills I noticed a distinct lack of Fighting Monotype runs. How sad, that my favorite type had such little representation. And to top it off, hacking or trading is not even required to do a fighting mono run! With these things in mind, I decide to embark on this journey, that I quickly realized to be quite insane. The Rules: 1: Only fighting mons used in any battle throughout the entire game 2: Weather/TMx Mod allowed (because I'm lazy and weather is currently a wee bit broken.) 3: No mons hacked/ traded in, I'm catching everything! 4: The type is determined by the final evolution of the mon. I.E, Blaziken has a secondary fighting typing, so Torchic is allowed. I will apologize in advance for the terrible organization and lack of screenshots. This will likely be mostly a write-up because i suck at this. Chapter 1: Praise the Chicken Okay, so we load up the game, create a new save file, and have to pick an Avatar and Name. For the avatar, I have always almost went with the Alice character, simply because it is by far my favorite avatar in the game. However, for the sake of variety, i decided to pick the Dark haired male. Because, well, I'm a dark haired Male, real original right? As for the name, i kinda just threw sounds around in my head until one stuck that sounded somewhat name like. Look im really bad at coming up with names alright? So we will adventure under the name Drakk. So I make my way into reborn city and get to choose a starter. Being a mono fighting run, I have four choices: torchic, chimchar, tepig, and chespin. While pondering the choice, I quickly realized my starter would be pulling a lot of weight in the early game, and as such chose torchic, as Cumbusken and Blaziken have the best shot at sweeping gyms early on. After obtaining my starter, I quickly take down Cain and Victoria, noting that even torchic is relatively strong for an unevolved pokemon. After buying several common candies and a few potions, I set off to blaze a trail to Julia's gym. There are absolutely zero eligible mons before Julia's gym, so I quickly progress through the story (taking a break for just a moment to curb stomp Fern) before standing outside of the power plant with a level 18 combusken. And this brings me to Julia. Ah, Julia. I've lost battles against your team many times. Your booms, both sonic and explosive, have frequently caused me to lose faith in my own ability, as I have a harder time with you sometimes than I do with competitive battles!! And now I have to 6-0 you. I believe i tried this battle 3 or 4 times. The main problem was her emolga, which could soften up my combusken for the Electrode to finish, since I could OHKO neither. I eventually was able to sand attack her emolga into missing acrobatics every time, healed up, and took it out, eventually completing the gym. It's satisfying to 6-0 a gym in a game like Reborn! Next, It was on to Obsidia ward, where, after a brief skirmish with Victoria, I had access to the slums. Now, after roughly an hour of play, I could finally catch some new pokemon! And I did just that, catching a thick fat Makuhita, an iron fist Pancham, and a Defiant Mankey!. Other than possibly the Makuhita, these mons will all get replaced by vastly superior ones later in my run. But as of now, per my rules, this is all I can have. The other problem, is that these mons just really arent even that good. Like Pancham can hit pretty hard, and as such he has faired better than the others. But mankey is both weak and has pitiful bulk, while Makuhita doesn't even really get tanky until he evolves. I didnt put much time into training these guys, although I will after Florina when they can evolve and get way better to use. Anyway, I went on to crush the scraggy gang, and eventually found myself at Florina's gym. And honestly, all I can say is... praise the chicken. Combusken pretty much carried this fight, as my other mons did pitiful damage against Florina's surprisingly bulky pokemon. I had to reset this fight until combusken was able to overpower her team because of a few misplays on her part and some crits. Now, with the ability to level cap at 35, I can finally evolve all 4 of my pokemon to their final form (using common candy on the Blaziken when it hits 36.) At least, I'll be able to when I continue the run! This is as far as I've gotten in the run thus far, next I have to deal with, Corey, Shelly, and Shade... all in a row. Boy have I got my work cut out for me. Any suggestions for how to tackle these gyms will be much appreciated. This monotype is pretty rough early on, but i think once i get past Aya I'll have a better time! I'll try to update occasionally as I move on, I'm new to this so formatting tips or any feedback at all is greatly appreciated!! Team as of the end of Chapter 1 below Combusken Lv.26 Bashful/Speed Boost Double Kick Peck Flame charge Sand attack Pancham Lv.22 Adamant/Iron Fist Slash Arm Thrust Work Up Karate Chop Makuhita Lv.20 Adamant/Thick Fat Sand Attack Knock Off Fake Out Force Palm Mankey Lv.18 Hasty/Defiant Low Kick Leer Karate Chop Fury Swipes

So this is a reborn specific one, but Krabby. It already has a pretty meh movepool outside of crabhammer, but in Reborn, you can catch a Corpish in the exact same place.. Which is better in basically every single way.

I really didnt want Drifloon at all, I just wanted to be able to get the sticker. Guess im locked out of the top floor permanently :/

Alrighty so I just got TM Fly and am going through the game picking up important events i overlooked before. I was going to do the drifbloon event, seeing as it gives a sticker, and used a weather mod to get windy weather (since its basically impossible atm in ep 16.) However, the woman in Lapis who is supposed to be looking for her son already had her son returned to her, and I've never done the event. Plus, drifbloon still doesnt spawn by the abandoned power plant. Am I doing something wrong, or did i goof the event by waiting so long to do it?

While I would love to support Ame, I'm afraid I'm about out of sanity. Reborn took it from me. Also, thanks all!

So I figured since I've been lurking, and i made an account for an earlier gameplay question, it's about time i introduce myself! I'm known as BillyBob here on the internet (Or Dominance.exe when I'm playing showdown). I always like to say I used to be really into Starcraft 2 because it sounds cool, but I was never really all that good, just a tryhard zerg :P. I actually have never played a main franchise Pokemon game, but a friend of mine got me into Showdown, and I really enjoyed the competitive battling scene. I tried Reborn about a year ago, I loved the tone but for some reason I dropped it. I'm pretty sure I was playing osu at the time so that was taking up most of my focus (I REALLY wanted to get good at that game). Anyway, recently I decided to get back into Reborn and I love it! Besides pokemon, I like gaming in general, RPGs, fighting games, all of it! I'm a huge fan of music, although I've never successfully learned an instrument (I tried to learn guitar for a while.) I also occasionally watch anime, favorite to date is definitely Steins;Gate. So yeah, that about does it. I look forward to finishing my current run of reborn (and probably having many others) and at least occasionally popping up around here! I'm always down to talk about gaming, music, the sometimes ridiculous OU meta, anything!