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Hmmm. In that case, what's more important: Removing Cal so town is a unified front and get rid of potential mafia or keeping him out of fear he actually is a third party?

Is Cal a new player? If he is, his behavior can easily be explained as just inexperience, no?

He's not talking about the gauntlet.

I'm in! Ralph Fernandez would be my name.

Wild Magnemite's have a chance of holding them too, I believe.

The linked Google Sheet lists a few challenge runs I've done and ones others in the Discord have suggested. It also links to my E18 pokemon location spreadsheet. For all mono runs, the E18 pokemon location sheet that is linked has Filter Views for each monotype run. It will list the available Pokemon in the order you can first obtain them. Here is the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n-iHCVl8YIg9BWSM6cCm9NDE57LGLXvGdp4SkluLGzY/edit?usp=sharing

Every Pokemon is now accounted for, even if the Pokemon cannot be obtained or can only be obtained through breeding or evolution. If you see any inaccurate information, please let me know. Also check out the Filter Views. I have quite a few that are useful for Challenge runs.

I've checked everywhere in Peridot Ward and can't find Swablu. Am I missing something? Is there a weather event or a story event you need to hit before it appears?

Memborn is apparently incredibly difficult.

Unfortunate that your Sp. Def is bad all the way through. I'd suggest Snowbell, though. You can always change the nature later at 7th St.

Ha! Beat Solari's Garchomp. Quick Claw on Ditto means that I can usually survive an Earthquake and so long as one of my turns goes before Solaris, I 2HKO his Garchomp. Take that, chump.

Thanks man, yeah, it's been fun so far. Do you have any suggestions on Smeargle movesets?

General thoughts so far: EV training is not bad at all once you get the Power Items. Delibird is really amazing, actually. Hustle and Drill Peck can do so much damage it's unreal. It carried me through the beginning of the game. Nincada holds up fairly well for a while, compared to Shedinja. My current Shedinja and Nincada are both evenly EV trained (252 Attack, 252 Speed) but they shared the same speed and Shedinja has only ~20 more speed. Bug Bite is fucking strong. So worth it to breed. The chain breeding took a fair amount of time. Catching Unowns for specific HPs takes a long time and a lot of money. I've released 3 boxes worth of Unowns and still don't have what I want. Julia wasn't but was a little luck reliant. It's necessary to overlevel Delibird to Lvl 25 and then Common Candy back down Delibird destroys all of the bosses between Julia and Florinia. Hustle FTW. Fern is laughable with Delibird early game. Florinia was a fun fight. Only having two Pokemon made it a bit RNG but not by much. Endure on Shedinja is super useful in Double Battles, actually. Corey wasn't too bad either. Fake Out strats are useful from Delibird. Metronome is definitely worth it. It got me through Cal. I was super worried about Cal since most of the team is weak to fire, but he actually wasn't that bad. I used HP Psychic Unown for most of it, actually. Metronome essentially worked like a Special Attack Moxie since each repeated use made it stronger. Currently stuck on Taka on Azurine Island. We'll see how it goes. I'll have to get through Aya before I can consider getting Luvidsc and Smeargle. Still have no idea what moves I want Smeargle, either. I'd be open to suggestions.

So I managed to defeat the two goons through a combo of luck and breaking one of my rules. I used two Unown for the fight: One Steel HP and one Psychic HP. 1. Lead with Ditto and Shedinja. Ditto transforms into Lunatone. 2. Ditto uses Hypnosis on Solrock. Shedinja OHKO's Lunatone with Bug Bite. 3. AI sends out Lycanroc 4. Ditto uses Hypnosis on Solrock. Shedinja switches to Nincada. Lycanroc uses Rock Slide. 5. Lunatone uses Psybeam on Lycanroc. Nincada uses Bug Bite. AI asleep. 6. Lunatone uses Hypnosis on Solrock. Nincada KO's Lycanroc with Bug Bite. Solrock beats Lunatone in the speed tie and wakes up, uses Rock Slide, goes back to sleep. 7. AI sends out second Lycanroc 8. Lycanroc uses Rock Slide. Ditto faints. Nincada uses Bug Bite on Lycanroc. Solrock uses Rock Slide. Nincada faints. 9. Send out HP Steel Unown and HP Psychic Unown. 10. Lycanroc uses Rock Slide. Both Unown use HP on Lycanroc, Lycanroc faints. Solrock uses Rock Slide, faints both Unowns. 11. Send out Delibird and Shedinja. AI sends out Passimian. 12. Delibird OHKO's Passimian with Drill Peck (hell yes to Hustle). Shedinja OHKO's Solrock with Bug Bite. 13. AI sends out Oranguru. Delibird and Shedinja outspeed and kill. Took so fucking long to do.

Just defeated Kiki. Currently stuck on Azurine Island's double battle against the Meteor goons. Simply don't have the firepower so I'm trying to figure something out. Here's my team atm: Since I forgot to post, this was what my team looked like after Corey:

Yep! My "Late Game" build for Delibird is the following: Delibird - Hustle Fake Out Freeze-Dry Destiny Bond Signal Beam/Water Pulse I'll likely keep Counter until I get to the tutor that can give Signal Beam/Water Pulse. I haven't decided which I want at that point, though.

So I've been mulling over another challenge run to do and decided on these 6 Pokemon: Shedinja Smeargle Ditto Delibird Luvdisc Unown Ignoring Wishiwashi, these are the 6 Pokemon with the lowest average base stats. I'll be playing with the following rules: Can only use these six (and Nincada since he is the pre-evolution for Shedinja). I may breed another of the same species, but can only use one of each of these. That means I can't just use six Delibirds or something silly. After I have all six Pokemon, battle style is Set. Until then, it is Shift. No healing items in battle. No X-items. I will give myself Delibird and Nincada as starters. Delibird because she's only available before Charlotte and this will be difficult enough. Nincada because I only have a 25% chance of getting it from the egg. I have just beaten Florinia and spent a long time breeding for an early-game Nincada and Delibird that I can use. I used these two to beat Fern and Florinia: Nincada (Run Away) Mud-Slap Metal Claw Bug Bite Night Slash Delibird (Hustle) Drill Peck Counter Fake Out Quick Attack Now that I've beaten Florinia, I'll be creating a Nincada with the following moves: Nincada (Run Away) Bug Bite Night Slash Endure Shadow Sneak (Metal Claw until I evolve him and Shedinja learns it) The Delibird and Nincada/Shedinja will need to last me until I can pick up an Unown after Shelly. I think I'll be catching Unown until I get one of each Hidden Power, but I haven't quite decided yet. I'll keep this thread updated as I progress.

Updated the spreadsheet with Egg Groups for every Pokemon listed.

Will you be switching out Meowstic later on?

This is actually interesting enough of a challenge for me to want to try it. Only three Pokemon at any one time is interesting enough for a new playthrough.

Oh, huh. Do we know who the next gym leader is?

Thanks, updated on Turtwig. The rock climb stuff should be labeled as Hardy because it's "Aavailabe before this leader". Since it's after Amaria, the next leader is Hardy so that's who I list. Interesting, I didn't know that phone stuff shows all that. All of those tabs you listed are hidden normally, not sure why they're not on your phone. The only sheet that matters is "Pokemon Reborn E18 Locations".

For Turtwig, when is that? Before what badge? All of the other I have those on there. I had hidden Locations 2-22 on the sheet. Are people that can view not able to unhide things?

wow. No, this is entirely wrong. Vegeta is who claimed this, and it was bigotry more than anything. "High class warriors" were determined entirely by PL. Those with 10k+ power level were considered elite. And yet Goku has achieved every significant transformation well before Vegeta did. Note how during the 7 year gap, Goku managed SSJ3 while Vegeta only did SSJ2. Note that in the few weeks travelling to Namek, Goku majorly eclipsed Vegeta. Not going to bother going through every other instance. They're numerous. Goku couldn't beat Android 19 because the heart virus hit... Vegeta beat Freeza because Goku wore him out. Like I said, Main Character syndrome. It's the same reason on why Goku managed to beat Vegeta in the Saiyan Saga, why he went SSJ first, why he was able to go SSJ3. He's the main character, so he gets the upgrades first, in general.

People have gone UI before, but the Gods have said that it's extraordinarily rare and usually only GoDs or Angels managed to reach that level. Most of the Gods of Destruction couldn't manage it, either. Goku's just a prodigy among prodigies. Main character complex mainly, but the others simply didn't fall into the right state of mind. Note I don't say "clear their mind". It's a state of mind.