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Knock out a Bouffalant, hop on a Tauros and head east. That will take you to the Vanhanen Labyrinth. When you need to go back just go the other way. If you need a log removed look around for another Boufallant which is facing the log and in line with it, then knock out the Tauros its fighting. Route 1's pretty straightforward.

The repair has been moved in the rebuilt city.

Playing with your favorites IS a self-imposed challenge. Because there's no reason to expect that your favorites will be the best option for any given situation. Like I said, Pokemon is a numbers game, and some options will always be better than others. Not being able to get through a playthrough with awful Pokemon is not a flaw, Glaceon is my favorite and I virtually never use her because her speed is just so awful. And saying its encouraged by GF and Nintendo honestly isn't much of an argument considering what direction they've gone with the franchise.

But...that's a self-imposed challenge. You're going to have more trouble, that's just how it works. Pokemon is a numbers game, and some options are just outright better than others. Honestly at this point I kinda feel like the Gauntlet could be buffed a bit, as could a fair few of the gym leaders.

Dragon. Dratini Drampa Gible Axew Deino Bagon 1st gym. The challenge is that they all know Dragon Rage. And there are no fairy types available beforehand.

The thought is that when Episode 19 is released and the game is "finished" (post-game or no post-game) the odds of Nintendo issuing a DMCA go way up. So by releasing the whole thing at once we're more likely to actually get the content if Nintendo's hammer comes down.

The first battle with Victoria is the start of the game. All the mix variables are set to 0 when the save file is created, and only get filled in when you go battle her. All the random values are set at the same time IIRC.

When you fight Victoria IIRC.

The people who got sucked into the void aren’t dead.

This sort of behavior out of Nintendo isn't new. They've done things like locking difficulty modes behind paywalls before, see BotW's DLC, and amiibo were basically just ways of locking content behind more paywalls, that they then DELIBERATELY made incredibly hard to find for no reason whatsoever (see getting Epona in BotW). The reason the N64 used cartridges and the gamecube used those stupid microdisk things was because Nintendo wanted to be able to make more money off of game developers. People just ignore it this stuff when Nintendo does it because they like NIntendo's first party games, so make excuses. To grab the EA comparison, look at all the excuses people made up about Bioware games over the past decade as those steadily got worse and more crap snuck in.

Nineteen is the last one.

Go grab some rock types from the caves and route you've been going through. Gigalith with Wide Guard and Rock Slide basically makes her a cakewalk for instance. Lycanroc is also good for that.

You should ditch Noibat. The thing is useless until it evolves. As an alternative I’d recommend Swoobat, whose simple ability and access to Calm Mind let it boost SA and SD by 3 or 4 stages at a time on the field.

Either Ame or Kiki. They have the benefit of not being mass murdering terrorists bent on destroying the world.

You get Bulldoze for beating Terra. You shouldn’t be too far from her if you have caught a Gligar. And Earth Power would be really awful on Gliscor anyway.

Your main problem is that you only have three Pokemon tbh. Two really since Noibat is so awful. In Reborn you really should be carrying around six throughout the game.

You can get Skorupi in the Wasteland. Bounsweet can be obtained by showing the Glameow from the second salon to one of the ladies in the first. Though while those two are nice I wouldn’t recommend going out of your way for them. I just tend to use both at this point of the game anyway.

IIRC Ame has said in the past that the Gothitelle at the Orphanage was just a placeholder, since removed, and shouldn’t be taken as an indication of Anna’s team.

One thing you can do is use his own tricks against him. He has a trick room team, but not necessarily good slow Pokemon in a lot of cases. So if you can grab slower Pokemon that hit him supereffectively you'll be golden. Some great Pokemon for this are Crawdaunt and Escalvier. You can find Corphish near Apophyll Academy using Rock Smash. For Karrablast you can catch a Shelmet on Azurine Island and trade it over for a Karrablast that will evolve immediately in Spinel Town. Tsarina might also be a good choice since her Queenly Majesty gives her 1.5 times damage on the field. I like to use Drapion as well.

Anna will be psychic, because that's what she used in the online league.

Psychic is a pretty good one I understand. By the first gym you can grab four pretty solid early-game Pokemon in Braixen, Munna, Espurr, and Woobat.

It really isn't under sand. An attack stat of 110 is extremely high for a normal type, matching a Pokemon like Snorlax, having decent defenses, and under Sand being almost as fast as Kingdra under rain. Add on the elemental fangs by move relearner, both play rough and crunch by level up, and you end up with a Pokemon who's main weakness in the mid-game is just that its best abusable STAB move is retaliate, which is perfectly servicable until late-game. Armaldo, with a base speed of 45, will have a final speed faster than Timid Gengar under rain assuming a decent speed IV and full EV training. Beartic meanwhile gets Icicle Crash, I know you dismissed it but its literally Ice-type rock slide. 30% chance to flinch is a solid one. It also gets Superpower to hit steel types, and Aqua Jet for pseudo-stab. Usually my fourth move is Shadow Claw or breeding play rough onto it. While true theoretically, I can guarantee what Pokemon I get so...

Sand isn’t just Excadrill. Early game is main problem is just that there are no sand setters before the Flygon trade. But you get Hippowdon soon after. Once you’ve got that you can use a lot of unconventional sand abusers. Heliolisk with Sand Veil, Sand Rush Stoutland, Lycanroc, and Sandslash, and Sand Force Dugtrio which is already incredibly fast. By the circus you can add Alakazam and Clefable to Pokemon to use. Rain actually gets a lot of early abusers. You can grab a good setter in Finneon before the first gym, and Goldeen gets Swift Swim as an ability. You can get Swift Swim Buizel from the Magma Gang quest, and of course Lotad, which far from useless is really good. Once you’ve beaten Shellybyou can grab a Beartic for a completely unconventional rain abuser. Later Armando is another solid rain abuser (better than Kabutops because the latter’s movepool is actual garbage). If you need an electric type then either Raichu or Jolteon can work. Or even Heliolisk since it gets Rain Dish. And you can just grab a Noivern for Hurricane spam before heading to the Circus. For sun, you don’t need Charizard Y. Castform’s the early setter, and you can grab a Bellsprout before Florinia for a Chlorophyll user. Plus Solar Power Charizard. Plus you can get a Deerling from the Forest Egg, and Vulpix from the Police Egg. Then grab Heliolisk (again) for another Solar Power Pokemon. After that things get worse since sun abusers are often meh even in sun, and grass is just not a great type in general, there aren’t Pokemon like Beartic or Armaldo that provide type variety. Hail isn’t very good at all IMO.

Reborn is looking for files named Game, Game_1, Game_2, and etc. The reason its not detecting the others is because they aren't named correctly. If you want to load up one of your old files you just rename it to one of those. Or grab the Game.rxdata from your old laptop and move it to the new one*. *For clarity, the file will only be called "Game". The .rxdata is the file type that the actual game uses for saves.

As someone who does troubleshooting, let me just interject DO NOT use debug to get yourself to certain points in the story unless you are extremely familiar with it. You will mess up flags, variables, and almost certainly end up with a busted save file.