Dartu-san

Yeh there are only 4 evolution lines that are actual mushrooms so you'd have to go for other Grass types that have been mencioned like Bulbasaur or Vileplume even if they don't really qualify entirely.

I'm sorry I'm not keeping track of specifics I'm just voting against one of the starter lines I feel more meh about xD

Tch everyone is killing my favorite starters. Must take measures. Bulbasaur: 24 Cyndaquil: 28 Totodile: 22 Mudkip: 23 Turtwig: 16 Chimchar: 10 Piplup: 21 Snivy: 14 Oshawott: 17 Chespin: 20 Fennekin: 13 Froakie: 12 Rowlet: 19 Litten: 6 Popplio: 20

Haven't even seen anyone else from my country yet to be honest, although I'm sure there's bound to be someone. Until then I probably won't meet anyone here in person for a long while. Oh well I just recently started voicing my thoughs in this community so it is to be expected.

Hmm GameFreak could answer some of those issues if they made Mega Evolutions for all the starters at some point. A Water/Dragon Feraligatr would also be pretty cool. I see Meganium more as a fairy type and Samurott as Steel though because of some elements in their design.

Heck even if this site were to be terminated at some point, as long as the people wished for it, the community could still live on elsewhere right? I may be new around here but I can tell there's a positive aura flowing through everyone's interactions. There is also a discord right? I think I might go check that out once I'm done with my exams.

I have never stopped playing Pokémon ever since I started around 9-10 years ago. I've had a lot of fun but a couple years back some of the main series games just started loosing their inicial shine to me and I gravitated towards fan games more. Stuff like Pokémon Insurgence and Reborn really made me feel like a kid again in the sense that I was truly amazed at its world building and such even if the themes are nothing like the core of the franchise. This time I'm gonna give this game the respect it deserves and slowly but surely clear all its current story.

Hmm this does sound promising. Will make sure to keep my eyes on it. Good luck and have fun with your run m'lady.

Hmm I'm 20 years old right now and will be 21 in a few months from now on. I only became an active member in the community at the start of this year but I have been reading some of its posts from the shadows for at least a couple years now~

Hello once again my dear readers. It has been a while but let's get this story driven monotype run on the road. With the victory at the first gym ended the first chapter, so let's move on. Chapter II: The Root of all Evil After browsing through his collection of Normal Types and doing a few changes to his roster, Stanley closed the PC and stepped out of the Pokémon Center. He came to the conclusion that in order to be better prepared for the challenges to come he needed to evolve more of his Pokémon, so he grabbed one of his Bidoof and proceeded to train it in the Alleys around Peridot. After some time it evolved and Stanley decided it was time to go back to the Opal Bridge. There a couple more battles took place until he reached the eastern side of the bridge, which was still being blocked by a couple officers, however a familiar face was also there, Florinia. She noticed him and said: "Ah Stanley Greetings. Unfortunetly I cannot stay and chat for my presence at Obsidia is of utmost priority, farewell". She walked a few steps passing by the guards and then added "Reconsidering, you may be able to assist with the issue regarding the flora at the Obsidia Park since you have proved yourself capable back at the Factory. Guards, is passage permitable to this person? He may be able to help". They nodded and stepped aside for him to pass aswell. Florinia then shared a bit more of intel regarding the situation and left for the park, which would serve as the rendezvous point. With that our hero decided to explore the ward for a bit. He talked with some of the inhabitants who were mostly scared or concerced with the state of Obsidia since the plant attacks begun. The streets were in very bad shape with a large crack in the middle of sidewalk which stopped people from crossing to the other side. There was also a woman in the Pokémon Center who was very worried because her little boy was missing, a few people mencioned the Day Care Couple just next door were acting very strangely compared to they usual selves, however these were issues that Stanley decided to take care of a bit later. He also visited the available shops around and the Beauty Saloon, where after showing an understandable skeptical woman how his Pokémon actually enjoyed his company and had respect for him she congratulated him for his efforts and gave him a Soothe Bell. One of the trainers he beated outside mencioned that the only other way to get to the other side of the ward was throught the slums down south and so he headed that way. On his way there he met a man who was having trouble with his Lillipup who wouldn't obey him and had a fiery look in his eyes. After being given a couple commands by its owner, it decided to run off. The man sighed and let out a complain after which he left aswell in pursuit of his desobidient puppy. Just then while going to the Slums, Stanley came across Victoria once again, who was standing still with a worried expression on her face. Protag-kun touched her shoulder and called out her name: "Hey Victoria. So what are you doing around here?" She looked at him and said: "Ah hello Stanley. The thing is, it appears the slums are the only way to get through Obsidia right now. I went in there but it's pretty dangerous. All these men kept staring me down and challenging me to a battle and there were also boxes moving on their own! It's not safe so please, don't go in there". - "Sorry but I promised Florinia that I would meet her at the park to help her deal with this mess, so I really need to cross this place". She looked at him once more, her expression still conflicted. She firmly clutched a Pokéball in her hand and replied with: "I'm sorry Stanley but I've gotta make sure you are ready to deal with all of this. Reborn isn't really kind to its people right now, let alone outsiders. So, let's have a battle. If you win I'll let you pass". - "Fair enough I guess. Let's do it". After being defeated Victoria gave out a sincere smile and said: "Well I guess I don't need to worry, you'll be fine. Sorry for stopping you". - "It's okay, I know you had good intentions, be seeing you Victoria". Once inside he was indeed swarmed by the many Street Rats who made the slums their home. A few of them also mentioned the boxes being alive, among other strange things that Stanley paid no mind to. As he kept exploring he caught a Pidove and sent it to the PC and also came across a yellow egg with brown markings. He wasn't sure what was inside it at first but he had pretty good memory regarding all Normal Types color schemes and came to the conclusion that it probably wasn't one of them. As he went deeper into the slums he started realizing there was a connection between the moving boxes and a gang of Scraggy that were roaming around the place and he decided to follow one of them. After a bried rest at one of the so called Light Shards he pressed on until he came across a youngster who seemed to recognize him but tried to avoid eye contact. Stanley aproached and asked what his problem was and his reply was to throw out one of his Pokémon. After getting beaten he spilled the beans. He was the one who had swiped the thug from the Pokémon Selling scheme back in Peridot. Unfortunetly for our hero, the kid had already sold it to a gang member in the Lapis Ward in order to buy himself a week's worth of food. He taught to himself "well can't really be pissed with that, a guy's got to get some grub after all. I'll check it out once I get there". After grabbing a few items and battling a couple more crazed homeless he followed the Scraggy into a room in the back and there he met their gang leader (and most likely their mamma too). After a few grunts the thing goes Scraaaaaafty and her little ones jumped out of the boxes in the room and proceeded to challenge the young trainer. Supposedly impressed by his team's strenght the Scrafty admited defeat and opened the door that lead to the Slums exit. It was good being able to breath 'fresh air' since Stanley was getting a bit tired of the smell of Trubbish and Mankey's sweat back there. He was heading north however a couple of strangely uninformed officers was blocking that way too. With no other options he headed south towards the Coral Ward to se what he could find. Once there he immediately noticed the mist surrounding the area. While there was nearly not a soul to be seen on the streets the pier had a soothing air to it. Stanley headed inside the few houses in the area. In one of them after answering a quiz he received some data for his Fields app and in another he met a young boy who as trying to heal a injured Skitty that he found (but to no avail). His grandmother noticed Stanley's presence and asked him if he could help her little boy by lending an Ultra Potion. He agreed (despite being fully aware the kitten didn't have that much Hp anyway) and after being sprayed the little one meowed happily prompting the old woman to ask our protagonist to keep it in order for it to avoid being injured again. Even though he wasn't planning on using it in his team he agreed and sent it to the PC. After leaving the house he tried to enter the warehouses but all the doors were locked for he had no Klefki. He noticed what looked to be the ruins of a gym and an old woman who just next to them told him about the tale of how evewryything was fine until the Meteor Nation attacked. With that he was about to leave but then he noticed a beautiful blue haired woman by the pier looking sadly at a nearby lighthouse. He approached her and said: "Hey name's Stanley, is everything alright miss?" To which she replied: "Well hello there. Sorry I was just thinking how I can save that poor Popplio who's stuck on that Lighthouse. I'm a Water Type trainer but if I send any of my partners across there they'll get hurt for sure since the water is so toxic". - "Well that isn't a problem I'll just send my Stara... - "HEEEEEY Stanley!" He quickly looked back and saw Cain posing flamboyantly as usual as he walked towards. "Sooo wwhat's going on in here? Already making friends in high places eh~" The mysterious woman answered with "Awh come on you'll make me blush. I'm just a normal trainer like you". - "Hmm I guess you didn't now Stanley, but this here is Amaria, Reborn's Water Type Gym leader and one of the strongest ones at that - "Well I wasn't sure but I guess that makes sense. Anyway I was just about to help the..." - "Ooooh poor little thing ~You're not alone..." As he started singing he sent out his Alolan Grimer which then crossed the water and picked up Popplio at Cain's request and brought it back to safe land. Amaria gleefuly looked at him and thanked him for his help. Stanley though "I was going to do just that you know..." but decided not to say anything. As Cain was about to leave Popplio skipped in his direction and when he turned to face it, it did a pose while balancing itself on a water bubble. Cain lookke dimpressed and said: "Ara what a fabulous little cuttie e have here~" Amaria added "And it seems it liked you quite a lot, why don't you let it join you?" - "Hmm is that what you want buddy?" to which it replied with another pose. It then jumped in the air and faced Stanley with a determined look in its face. "What's wrong Poppie?" - "It would seem the little guy is interested in proving itself to you Cain" said Stanley. - "Yes". added Amaria "It appears it wants to test its strenght against Stnaley over here". Cain answered with a "Weeell Stanley, you up for it? A rematch sounds fun~" - "Aye let's go". Afterwards he left with his new buddy and Amaria commented how the two of them made a good match to which Stanley though "For sure". She then explained how she was also supposed to meet with 'Rini' at the park but got sidetracked with her visit to the Coral Ward. Stanley took that as a I'll meet you there so please get rid of the guard who have nothing to do but block streets and they bid each other farewell. Our hero then started heading north once more and he came across a little kid who was by himself with a scared look on his face. After asking him what was wrong he said he had got lost from his mother to which Stanley replied that he would tell her where he was so she could go and get him. He also came across another Beauty Saloon which was clearly trying to compete with the other one which not only had a better price but also a better location in the ward. Nonetheless our hero listened to the owner's request and agreed to give her some info regarding the other Saloon's prices in exchange for a Glameow. After the deed was done he left the place with a new Sponsored kitten and a guaranteed 100$ discount on every visit (wow). As he finally reached the park he found both Gym Leaders standing right at the entrance waiting for him (Thanks girls). After a brief change of words they gave our hero the Tmx Cut and asked him to clear them a path (was this really how little they expected of my help). After going Edward Scizor Pincers on the small trees he bowed to them and made a gesture with his arm poiting the way. Amaria giggled and went right ahead with Florinia towards the park. A few second later he heard them screaming and with a strong "NANI?!" rushed to the scene. There he gasped as the two young ladies were wraped by huge almost tentacle like (eich) vines. In the middle of the park was a huge strange machine and in front of it a hooded man (?) who kept whispering to himself until he noticed our here's arrival. He turned to him and said: "Hm...he.hello I'm Lumi and this..." - "Oi! Shut it!" said him in a much deeper voice. "Name's Zero! So you are the third to enter this place. Any more of you coming? If it's just three we can easily deal with 'ya". He looked at Stanley's puzzled face and then in a third softer but almost emotionless voice: "Yes, we get that reaction a lot. I am Eve and together we are known as ZEL, Admins to Team Meteor". - "Okay..." said Stanley still grasping the fact that this person had some clear issues. - "You see..." said Lumi. "Thanks to this impressive machine that Eve built by herself Tangrowth here is doing its best to please us" - "Yeh!" said Zero. "But by itself it didn't have enough power so thanks to this even his little salad fingers can turn into devastating weapons of mass destruction. You want to stop it little shirmp? Then try it!" ZEL looked at Stanley intensely and then Eve said: "It seems our plan has been thwarted. Zero, next time don't just brag about our machine's capabilities and use our Pokémon instead" - "Tch don't blame me! Hey Lumi didn't do anything either right?" - "Hum...so...sorry Tangrowth, I should have intervened". - "Gah this isn't over punk. Watch your back from now on". And then suddenly a flash envoloped the area and 'they' disappeared along with the PULSE machine. Florinia and Amaria then came back to their senses. Aparently, unpleasantly enough the vines were choking her and she couldn't even move. "Thanks a lot Stanley, if you weren't with us I don't know what would have happened. And beating that thing on your own... I'm impressed!" - "Well I only did what was right I'm glad everything is back to normal, I mean, it is right?" Flornia then replied: "Yes. It would appear the malignant growth has receeded and no further harm has been inflicted to the area. Good work." Amaria thanked our hero once again and after saying goodbye to Rini she then left. Stanley was thinking to himself "It's strange, I wonder what could have happened to Florinia to make her act so emotionless when she still has such good friends around her". As he was pondering about this questioned Florinia suddenly declared: "Well the immediate crisis has been resolved. Stanley I will now return to my gym in the Onyx Ward. I expect you to come challenge me at your leisure. Farewell." And just like that it was just our Hero and his partner Pokémon again. This time Stufful didn't jump out of his Pokéball as usual when something involving danger was going on, regardless Stanley was pretty sure the little guy was amused by the whole thing, comfortably watching from inside his Ball. After a brief running around in the grass of the now trimmed park he came across a few Normal Types for his collection. He caught a Buneary which surprisingly came helding a Chople Berry which was a pretty good bonus, aswell as a Sentret which he trained a couple levels in order for it to evolve. When he was exploring the ward before he came across a young girl who was complaining her father gave her a weird tablecloth looking Pokémon that kept 'making it rain' inside the house when in reality she wanted something cuter like... a Furret. Turns out it was a Castform, the Menace (yeah right) of the Hoen Weather Institute. Stanley eagerly went with the trade and then deposited the Castform in his PC. The next step before heading out to the Onyx Ward was to check out the Department Store and battle a couple trainers were hanging around the area. While passing through the park again he came across yet another Normal Type Pokémon, a Slakoth. After weakening it a bit he threw a premier ball at it for he felt something special about the little sloth. Surely enough the 3rd shake came and another member joined the squad. After looking at its summary he decided right there he was boxing Zigzagoon and welcoming Slakoth into his team. With that out of the way he then checked the Department store and got himself his Membership card along with a free first sticker for it, however nothing currently available for purchase (besides a couple Pokésnax) really interested Stanley so he just left the building and prepared to venture forth to the Onyx Ward home to the next gym he would challenge. And that's that. Here ends the first part of this second chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it and I'll see you guys soon (like I said I'll try to post the battle with Florinia today)!

I've though about the feline run aswell before and it seems like it could be fun, with Litten as your starter. Another run that I will do eventually when I finish my current one is with the Oriental theme which means I'll only use Pokémon that have elements related to China or Japan, with the folklore element being specially important. Examples of this would be Pokémon like Ninetales, Shiftry, Mawile and Froslass (all based around japanese mythology) or other that just have characteristics that are related to those countries story, like Greninja, Volcarona or Serperior. There's actually a lot of different mons you could use with this theme, but at least early on there wouldn't be many options.

Is there anyone who can make the Stufful and Bewear shiny follower sprites to be exactly like their shiny forms in Reborn? I'm not used to it otherwise I would try it myself. Edit: I was able to do a base of it but if someone who's good at spriting could give me a hand I'd appreciate it.

Thank you for this. It's gonna be pretty cool to do my Monotype run with my partners following me.

Well the pool of available choices isn't that large, but nonetheless there are some good Mons in there. Good luck on your run :)!

Poor guy. You'll always be my first

Since you are packing swords dance the best item to pair it with is the Life Orb for sure, although you could also go for consumable items like Focus Sash or Air Baloon which are used on a lot of competitive sets. And yeh Choice Scarf is also not a bad option and if you wanna go for it just swap SD for something like Rapid Spin or even Horn Drill if you are feeling crazy xD. Edit: All of walpurgis suggestions are also great. Coverage never hurts.

Ah yes that one is a work of art. Here's some JoJo shitposting:

Bulbasaur: 25 Charmander: 10 Cyndaquil: 28 Totodile: 20 Treecko: 5 Torchic: 3 Mudkip: 21 Turtwig: 21 Chimchar: 15 Piplup: 22 Snivy: 16 Oshawott: 19 Chespin: 19 Fennekin: 19 Froakie: 16 Rowlett: 20 Litten: 12 Popplio: 22 Not my wood gecko!

The only times I have seem to have encountered it were during thunderstorms alongside rain. Nonetheless the event was unchanged since I caught in my most recent run at the ususal spot.

Ah welcome it would seem we are from neighbouring countries. Hope you enjoy your stay at the forums

Sorry for being so late for the party but yeh what they've said is completely right. Rhyperior surely isn't worth your time (hell, like Dusclops, at some point I think eviolite Rhydon as being used more often), as for Flygon it certainly has potencial yes, but at the end of the day Excadrill outclasses almost every other Ground type that isn't a legendary. I do like Krookodile and Diggersby a lot as offensive mons though, they can certainly get some work done and make great sweepers.

Ahah that made me laugh aswell. Newcomers that are used to the nonexistent difficulty of the main series games will most definitely have it rough on Reborn.

Sorry to say that you'll need to have at least 13 badges to access said event I think. For now your only way to evolve it is to trade it with someone who can do it for you.

I like that, seems fun to use indeed. I also enjoy coming up with a few set of my own sometimes but I haven't tried them in something like reborn. I shall now work on finnaly clearing it in the first place ahah.