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I mean, obviously you have a solid team considering you're utilizing the three main legendary pokemon of the game lol I will say, I am not sure how useful it would be if you decide to battle competitively considering most legendary pokemon are banned from competitive battling. I do agree that you have quite a few steel types and that a ground type could be useful. I would personally recommend Gastrodon or Hippowdon though. Hippowdon is tanky and can set hazards such as stealth rocks/spikes plus has the sand stream ability which would pair nicely with the other steel types on your team. He also has the recover-ability with Slack Off. Gastrodon is great too for type coverage, being both immune to water and electricity. He can also use Recover so he can last a while in battle if played effectively.

I personally have always enjoyed running a Serene Grace Togekiss with Air Slash Dazzling Gleam Heat Wave/Ancient Power Wish/Morning Sun

Hey everyone, serious question here. Do pokemon not learn moves naturally at the same rate? Im pretty sure my swoobat should have learned Psychic at level 40 but it did not. It also learned calm mind a while ago but im fairly certain that it normally doesnt learn this til lvl 45. It tried to learn future site at level like 36 too which normally it learns at 50. I just want a better psychic attack already lol help

Hey Everyone, now I dont think this at all to be the case but thought it would be a neat twist. What if the Meteor, the one they say brought Arceus and that Reborn is built above, was not actually a meteor bringing Arceus, but instead it was Deoxys. Perhaps Arceus sealed the Deoxys away to prevent it from destroying the world it had created and thats why people thought Arceus had a tie there. Lin is actually a puppet animated by Deoxys psychic power which explains her unnatural abilities.

Heck yeah! Thats awesome. I have never actually used a Meowstic myself but my first time playing through Reborn I played it alongside two of my best friends and one of them ran a Meowstic. (We actually had quite different teams too without even trying to playthough the game differently which was cool to see how we were all different as trainers). But he loved that thing. I've watched quite a few Lets Plays as well where people have used and swore by their Meowstic too so I could see how it would arguably be one of the most useful mons to pick up early. And I couldn't agree more with Alolan Ninetails. Combo'd with Alolan Sandslash. That Slush Rush is a godsend- leading with a swords dance then single handedly sweeping everything else. It is amazing to the point that I think my next mono run may be an ice challenge.

More updates to my journey are coming once I beat Shade. I am a little stuck on him at the moment (which is new for me, I usually never struggle on him), he's just been getting SOOOOO lucky landing crit after crit after crit and somehow outspeeding when he shouldn't be. I know how to beat him, its just he's been so random. Sometime his attack does like 20 damage, the next time itll OHKO me. I'm figuring it out!

Oh, I thought they axed that as an egg option and kept it only for late game event.

Ooof I am sorry I do not. I will say though, those are some pretty powerful pokemon for so early in the game. Tbh I'd recommend like Shuppet, Duskull, or Drifloon to be your early level mon or two. I think that would help keep the challenge of a mono run that early in the game, but definitely do what you think you would have the most fun with as well. I know that early on you don't have access to like any ghosts, so I understand wanting to get a couple so you're not stranded, I just know Gengar, Honedge, and Mimikyu are all very late game acquires because of how potent they are.

Yeah not much can outspeed a Mega Aerodactyl. And even though Archeops is certainly very strong , if it does get weakened enough for Defeatist to trip, its useless. I do agree though that its a great mon and were it obtainable earlier I would totally get one to tide me over til I got Aerodactyl. Tbh though, even when its not a mega, I still prefer Aerodactyl. Its speed outclasses the Archeops and it still has a fantastic attack so it can pretty much take out whatever Archeops can, but faster. In a head to head fight between the two, it would fall to whoever hits first, which would be Aerodactyl. Plus I love my OG Dino-bird. As someone who works for a Natural History Museum its even more fitting to be my favorite pokemon!

Hahah yeah, the plan is to just not let it evolve until I can find something to replace Datrix. Personally I adore Decidueye but I think it should have stayed Grass/Flying. I love that typing but the few we have are not that great. When I found out Decidueye was ghost I was a little disappointed. I agree Archeops is awesome, but I much prefer Aerodactyl. Aerodactyl is actaully my favorite Pokemon and its Mega Evolution makes it shred through everything. I might get myself a Jumpluff at some point. I am planning on picking up a Fletchinder before Corey's gym for the Fire Flying type (gonna make that toxic mist go boom) and if I can find one, a Drifloon because I want that Destiny Bond.

If Volcarona could Sleep Powder it would 100000000% be better than Vivillon in my book.

Oh I agree that there are situations where Vivillon will be outdone, but honestly from my times using it, it is few and far between. I've ran Vivillon competitvely in Showdown too and it is usually trouble for alot of people. Also, most competitive runs of Vivillon use a Focus Sash to ensure it cant be OHKO'd. Additionally, you should always look into trying to mask some of the weaknesses of you mon, for example with Hypno, I would just immediately Bug Buzz instead of sleeping to avoid wasting a turn and killing it in most likely 1 hit. Volcarona, you could sleep it and quiver dance, or immediately hurricane it for an OHKO. And while I totally love Volcarona, I have a harder time sweeping through teams like a do with Vivillon. Being able to set a Sleep Powder to buff your stats to me is more valuable than higher base stats. For example, Volcarona has a base Speed of 100 and Special Attack of 135. After one Quiver Dance, Vivillons Speed jumps from 89 to 133 and its special attack to 135 completely outspeeding Volcarona. Now I know Volcarona can Quiver Dance too but it is much riskier to set up without the ability to Sleep the opponent. Plus with Reborn, you typically learn pretty quickly what pokemon you'll need to match up with on your enemy so you can plan accordingly to get those stats boosted properly. Again, I love Volcarona, I am just stating from my uses, Vivillon has been more useful in the long run with my experiences. I have a lvl 73 Vivillon that solo sweeps the high lvl 80 teams in the Grand Hall when I need to grind for money and while I have a Volcarona that I have added to my rotation, it cannot sweep like that unless you get that 50% fiery dance boost and if you dont get outsped. I would argue most of the downfalls Vivillon faces are the same as Volcarona too, stealth rocks. Accelrock, etc. I'd just rather have the potential to sweep through teams a little easier and save a little more of the rest of my team just incase something happens. Granted there are times where I don't use Vivillon. My main team for example uses Aerodactyl and I dont like doubling up types too often. I had a vacant spot on the team that I was testing out different mons to fill it and actually landed on using Volcarona, but that is only because Aerodactyl covers my Flying type already.

The beauty of Vivillon lies in her potential. You get yourself a Timid or Modest Vivillon with Compound Eyes ability. Immediately Sleep Powder your enemy. Quiver Dance, usually you can get off about two before they wake up, but at that point your pretty beefy and can probly tank the hit. Put them back to sleep and quiver dance again/ heal if needed. After a few times Quiver Dancing your stats beyond reason, you then use Hurricane. Hurricanes base power is 110, but Vivillon gets STAB with it AND with all the Special Attack increases it will OHKO pretty much anything. Now I know it doesn't have the best accuracy, but that is where Compound Eyes comes in handy so it almost NEVER misses. You can sweep most anything with a Vivillon. It can learn Giga Drain, Draining Kiss, or Dream Eater to get health stealing moves, Bug Buzz, Psychic, Energy Ball, etc. too. It really is a beast of a pokemon. There is a reason they chose it's number in the dex to be 666, it was not coincidental.

HELLO EVERYONE! So after finally learning that the 18.2 update allows multiple saves, I am finally doing it! I am attempting a mono run with my favorite type, Flying. I feel like this will be a fun yet challenging experience considering the first gym is Electric, theres an Ice Gym in the mid-game, and the final gym at the moment is Rock which should provide me with some hurdles along the way. I started this past weekend and will give you a bit of a runthrough as to how the first little bit has gone! My current team: Butterfree (Beefwee) Bond (Dartrix) Hedwig (Noctowl) Clarise (Tranquil) Batman (Swoobat) Lillith (Vivillon) / Stereo (Noibat) I started with Rowlet (nicknamed Bond), being the ONLY flying type starter (Other than Charizard). I didn't choose Charmander because he does not start out as a flying type. The main rule that I set for myself is that I cannot use any non-flying pokemon (even if they evolve into flying types) for main battles- such as story missions, gym battles etc. Now I can train non flying types that will evolve into flying types outside of the story through just straight up grinding. An example of this is Butterfree. Caterpie and Metapod had to be trained in alleys until it evolves into its flying type. Then it can be used. The other rule that I am using is to nickname any mon that ends up on my team- just makes it more personal and fun. I swept Victoria's Litten and Cains Nidoran with ease and went out to try and assemble some early pokemon to help with Julia, the first big hurdle. First things first I caught a Woobat (which I named Batman) and a Noibat (named Stereo). I trained them up to level 10 to match my Rowlett and then went to catch Caterpie. Training it into a Butterfree took time but was well worth it which gave me my 4th team member, Beefwee. I then caught my self a Hoothoot named Hedwig, and a Pidgey named Flappy Bird. I beat Fern easily and made it through the power plant relatively fine. Woobat came in clutch with its confusion during the main fight there and then it was on to Julia. Julia wrecked me... Utterly destroyed my team which was right around level 15. I reset as to not lose any money and decided to train up til my whole team was level 18. Both Batman and Bond evolved at level 17 and Flappy Bird at 18. This, while still tough, was enough to Heart Stamp spam Julia to get those flinches and win the first gym battle. Stereo basically was cannon fodder as I did not train him up to 18. I know Noivern is amazing, but that grind for him is ROUGH. I pretty much kept him to swap into to tank a hit and heal up Batman. I moved on, swapped out Flappy Bird for a Pidove named Clarise after the character from The Silence of the Lambs- I dont know why, but thats what I felt clicked. Fortunately, I caught one with Super Luck and a Serious nature. I was hoping to get a Ducklett egg, but got a Bronzong from the Slums and a Clampearl from the Day Care Couple quest so I boxed them and kept moving to the first Pulse fight. I STOMPED Tangrowth and moved on to face Florina. Now Florina had given me many headaches in my previous playthroughs. That Cradily always hits hard and heals up so much that it caused many hair-tearing out moments in my life, but let me tell you this was the easiest gym battle ever which I solo swept with one pokemon and didn't even need to heal. I even managed to OHKO the Cradily! All thanks to Beefwee, Goddess of the Butterfrees. It had learned Silver Wind from it's fight with Tangrowth and somehow managed to get the stat boost effect for the first three times using it. First time out it killed Cacnea and then just kept boosting. I didn't take a hit of damage. I have never felt so lucky in this game. It is a shame, because Beefwee's time on the team will be limited because of what I will be training up next. I move on to Jasper and Beryl Ward and catch myself a Scatterbug to quickly evolve into Vivillon which I nicknamed Lilith. She is a BEAST in the latter of the game, so I swapped out beloved Beefwee. I make my way through saving all the officers, beat Taka easily, picked up the egg, and continue onward to the next Ward to Double Battle with zEL and Taka and hit a wall. Glaceon kept slowing me down and Chatot is a b*tch. I realized however that Lilith is probly not the best for this fight and the Goddess of Butterfrees herself comes to save the day. I Hypnosis Glaceon with Hedwig and one-shot exeggcute with Beefwee's Silver Wind getting my stats boosted. I then Hypnosis Chatot and Silver Wind Glaceon getting my stats boosted again. Then I silver winded Umbreon and Espeon killing both with ease while I chipped away at Chatot. It woke up during my battle with Umbreon but Beefwee's defenses were too high and it barely scratched its health. Once it was just down to Taka, I killed off Chatot and then the two took down the Tangrowth for the final time. I am currently at Corey's Gym trying to hatch the third egg I found in the forest- but I have a feeling it wont be another flyer . If not though I'll be using both Beefwee and Lilith til something new comes along- I do plan on keeping both in rotation, training alongside eachother throughout the game because how valuable they both can and have been (Vivillon in other playthroughs has been astounding). My main team plan is listed below: Aerodactyl (with Aerodactylite) Braviary Togekiss Hawlucha Vivillon Swanna/Pelipper/Gyardos/Dragonite/Skarmory My 6th slot will pretty much be whatever I can use most effectively. I feel like Swanna or Pelipper may be better for the Special Attack as I'll only have Vivillon and Togekiss for that. I usually like to keep an even balance of 3 Physical Attackers and 3 Special Attackers. That being said, the Tanks of Dragonite and Skarmory could be pretty dang useful too, especially for Hardy. Please feel free to post your favorite Flying Type recommendations and why you think they'd be valuable for my playthough! I'll probably end up using A LOT as I go along with a healthy sized rotation. I'll also try to give updates on how the mono run is going and would also love to hear about your own mono run experiences too. Hope to hear from you all soon!

Yeah, when I got a new laptop and lost my previous game, I had to restart. (My older game had me just after I beat Ciel who is MY ARCH NEMESIS). I spent my entire new playthrough training up a rotation of mons specifically to deal with Ciel which involved me having a Rhyperior (had never used one before) and a Trick Room Solrock. HOLY HELL was it fantastic and I beat Ciel my first time through. Additionally, I had totally forgotten that Charlotte can be such a challenging fight, but honestly wrecked her with my Ciel crushing team. I am currently in the middle of a Mono-flying run so I am excited to see how well I can manage.

Vivillon is my number 1 most terrifyingly good bug mons. My list goes: Vivillon Volcarona Galvantula Heracross Scisor Escavalier

If you're going up against Charlotte next, I'd highly recommend adding a Rhyperior to your rotation and using it for the fight. You can get Rhydon in the caves just outside Calcenon. It is certainly slow, however if you teach another mon Trick Room, you can pretty much OHKO her whole team with Rockslide.

Tbh I always utilized Rapidash. I recently used Salazzle and Volcarona though and their both fantastic!

Yeah I am doing a monoflying run rn and gotta say, not impressed with Pidgeotto

Hello everyone! So I recently decided that I want to embark on doing a Mono-Flying run of Pokemon Reborn! Flying is my favorite type and I think it will be pretty challenging consistently through the game considering Gym 1 is Electric, the last Gym (so far) is Rock and theres an Ice Gym about halfway through as well. Definitely think this will be a fun time. HOWEVER, I have a current save file that I absolutely DO NOT want to lose. I am not the best with computers so with all that said, does anyone have any advice for how I can safely have multiple save files without running the risk of losing either of them? Thanks!

You can use Vivillon- you win.

Gahhhh, I figured. I don't really need them as most I can get elsewhere in the game anyways- I just wanted to get his whole team back together lol

Donphan is a beast. I like to watch other people's playthroughs to see how their experience was different than mine and the guy mained a donphan and yeah it was amazing! Never attempted a Cacturne myself but I can see how it would be valuable. Drapion is amaziing. Used him in Diamond and have one trained up to lvl 88 for my rotation in Reborn!

Wow! I also have not heard of anyone utilizing Kecleon in Reborn let alone as their MVP! That is awesome! I have a shiny one (the sprite is hilarious) that is at a decent level. Maybe I can train him up some for whenever Episode 19 comes out.

Hey everyone, I was just wondering if everyone has the remainder of Corey's team? I managed to find and get myself his Nidorina, Croagunk, and Skuntank but cant quite find the others yet. I hear you can't get crowbat yet- and may not be able to ever as its speculated that its on Heather's team. Just curious if anyone has got the others yet? Thanks!