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Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites. Sorry, I cannot get rid of this quote ;-)

Jynx was my MVP against Kiki. Psychic hits hard and the speed is decent. Still a glass cannon though.

Wow, I totally forgot about Torchic. This was a super hard one that should belong to my list. But I was happy with the amount of hints the game gave me: I knew there was something in Charlotte´s gym and it was very likely that the answer was about the big segment of ground panels. On the other hand, there was a super strange basement in Agate with absolutely nothing inside. I spend quite some time in this basement trying to figure out what to do there. It took me many visits (I always hoped that something changed) to notice that the floor was not a regular pattern. However, it took again much more time to figure out the connection between the two places. Super satisfying! As you mentioned, the game gives no hint about the connection between these places. I wonder if there is a story-based reason why the code for Caroline´s room is written in some basement in Agate.

Yes, Mimikyu also was a hard one. I thought that I had finished everything around Mirage Tower by getting Phione and Honedge. However, at some point, I returned to this place to check everything another time. Once I found the basement, I found Mimikyu rather quickly (you can use Flash down there). But I feel bad about all the broken glass in the first floor now There are some other tough Pokémon where I got lucky, so they are not on my list (I am thinking about Piplup... I was lucky that I had the correct idea at the correct moment). On the other hand, I don´t think that anyone would put Shuckle on his list 100+ hours are in fact 160 hours. This was my second run, so I already knew how to finish the E18-story and had an idea how to approach the battles. Also, I used the speed up pretty often.

Hey everyone, after way more than 100 hours play time, I finally finished my E18-Pokédex. I always loved to think about possible locations, unfinished side quest, and all subtle hints the game gives me to find every Pokémon without help. The satisfaction after finding a Pokémon you were searching for hours is just great. In the end, I did not 100% succeed but it was quite close and I am still happy with my performance. Here are the top 10 Pokémon that made me struggle the most (obviously contains SPOILERS): 10. Shuckle: Well, that is a rather strange beginning, since you can look up Shuckle in the Pokédex and it is rather easy to find then. Easy, IF you are not totally blind and only see the blinking spot in the scrapyard and miss the spot at the academy. Until today, I failed to encounter a Shuckle in the scrapyard, in particular since I could not find a smashable rock there. Maybe these rocks are only available during the train puzzle? Anyway, I had to look up Shuckle and was really mad at myself. 9. Deino: Another miss I am unhappy about. Although I checked all places in Reborn several times, I forgot about Luna´s gym. Thus, I did not even get my third dark material. 8. Chespin: I figured out that I sometimes have to play in the morning to get all Pokémon. Usually, I play in the evening or at night, so I spend my few morning sessions to check all routes and even caves in order to complete my mission. However, I never had the urge to go down to the seventh street in the morning. Unfortunate, but it´s okay! 7. Natu: Natu is obviously super easy if you catch a Xatu during your journey through Citae Astrae. I saw no reason to do that and was suddenly missing two birds, which I did not expect to be a problem. The sad story is that the totem in the jungle indeed caught my attention. I had one or two ill-fated dolls left, so I went to the merchant to buy another 30 dolls to make sure to get all encounters at the totem. After like 20 encounters, I was positive that there are only three Pokémon, which are for sure neither Natu not Xatu, so I went on and finally looked them up. Needless to say that I was quite sad. 6. Magnezone: Nosepass was rather easy but where to evolve my Magneton? LCCC? Tanzan mountain? Julia´s gym? Devon Corp? Fake Devon Corp? Shade´s gym? Somewhere deeper in Tanzan mountain? Somewhere around Titania´s gym (quite desperate but it´s steel....)? The Fennekin room? Any mountain, somewhere? Byxbysion (because Byxbysion)? Ahhh, after checking like every place in Reborn that could made any sense, I was sure that I got the solution: Level up in a specific field. Electric field? No! Factory field? No! Short circuit field? Are you kidding? Well, I finally looked it up. I have been there but in the wrong room... but yeah, makes sense. I kinda agree. Could have found that. 5. Gastly: I had everything but couldn´t put the pieces together: Same strange shack in the mountains that almost cries: "I have a secret!" And a TV report that tells me exactly what to do. Gastly is put on place 5 since it never came to my mind to interact with a non-solid tile. I felt super stupid. 4. Gible: Big ooouf! How to approach this thing? From left, from right, from above (haha), from below, walking, running, using the bike, mashing the A-button, pressing the A-button at the correct time, not pressing any button at all, even pause buffering... nothing worked. I even killed all Garchomp statues, hoping to change something. Frustrated, I left the cave and came back some days later. Again, attempt after attempt failed and I left again. Much later, I searched for Sigilyph. I could not find it near the entrance, so I went to the back, fell down a hole and suddenly had a Gible in my pocket. This makes Gible the only Pokémon on this list which I stumbled into found on my own. Like in the case of Gastly, I lacked imagination: The game appears to be two-dimension but this does not mean that there is no third dimension. Fun fact: I never encountered Sigilyph in the cave. 3. Bounsweet: Wow, I have to show the Glameow from the second beauty shop to the girl in the first beauty shop? Of course there is some rivalry between them but I don´t think, that I would ever have found the solution on my own. Is there any more specific hint in the game, which I have missed? Also, it is quite tough that you are not supposed to evolve the Glameow before obtaining Bounsweet, otherwise there is no chance to get it without trading(?). 2. Lapras: I really, really wanted to find this thing. Citrine, Celestine and Ametrine were my first guesses. So I checked every path and every diving spot twice - without success. My next guess was somewhere around Route 4 but there were not many places for a Lapras to hide. Suddenly Amaria´s gym came to my mind and I was quite confident that Lapras might be somewhere in the underwater labyrinth. It took me almost 30 minutes to make sure that I have checked every single passage. At least, the music was great. Next, Serra´s gym. I mean, it makes not much sense but ice is ice, so I shattered every single mirror before conceding defeat... for now! Talking about shattering mirrors: Back to mirage tower and the water spot in the inside (btw probably the most fantastic place in the game). It was unlikely that Lapras chilled alongside Phione but I had to convince myself. Again, I had the correct intuition that Citrine/Celestine/Ametrine had to be the correct place so I checked everything again, making sure not to miss any underwater cave but finally I had to give up and looked in the solution. Well, I know the Lapras from GSK and HGSS but I did not come to the conclusion that Reborn might use the same mechanic. Is there any hint in the game or any NPC who mentions something like this? Further, the Lapras place is so far out of the way that you don´t run into it by accident, let´s say, when you decide to go the Ametrine by bike again. So I guess it is okay not to find Lapras without help. 1. Beldum: Yes, the game gives you a hint. At some point in time, you have to wonder why the Pokémon in Aya´s gym appear. It might only be a joke, since Lana always complains about the gym stuff and suddenly appearing Pokémon in the living room make it even more funny. But there is too much going on to not be a side quest, so I searched for the trainers of the Pokémon. At this point, I had explored almost everything in the game, so I was not very confident - for a good reason. However, I failed to see that this might be a hint to faint while riding a Tauros. And, to be honest, I think that this is too hard without further hints. The main reason is that Pokémon games never have a good explanation what happens after fainting. I get crushed by a giant dragon near a volcano and suddenly I am back on a scrapyard? Okay, apparently the player ran away and saved his Pokémon, that´s fine for me. On the other hand, I faint to a hiker on Route 4 and suddenly I am back at the academy because this was the last center I visited? This makes no sense but still it is fine for me, since this is the known game mechanic and it is my mistake to die, so no reason to blame the game. (Things like this become worse when we start discussing about the consequences of losing to Team Meteor, or Victory/Arclight in Devon Corp, but this is another story.) What I want to say is that there is no reason to assume that fainting might solve a riddle. It is just super out of the box, which makes it a cool and funny riddle, but I don´t feel bad that I needed some help here. Honorable mentions, which took way too much time: Scyther (had the correct idea, but was very unlucky), Shinx (cause I´m stupid), Whismur (missed the first and gave Loudred away without breeding first, stupid again), Charmander (super cool (haha), was very happy that I did something stupid), Nincada (idk, took me ages), Feebas (was afraid that there are only like six fishing spots in the whole mountain), Bagon (took me five visits to notice that the IS a path). So, in the end, I failed to get 10 Pokémon plus evolutions (had to trade Whismur), which is quite okay for me. What were the Pokémon you struggled the most with? PS: I rarely write long texts in English. If there are any crucial mistakes or very bad phrasing, I would appreciate a PM with corrections

I kinda had the same feeling. In general, I love the puzzles in Reborn and I rarely had the feeling that the puzzles delay exciting moments. This was one of the very few situations where it felt wrong to find a way through a labyrinth instead of... well... just entering daylight would also feel wrong. Maybe we should be forced to stay in the room for two or three minutes until the door opens and the story progresses.

The music alone is worth it.

I remember that this question came up a while ago but I cannot find the post anymore. There, if I remember correctly, Cass posted a file (or link to a file) of the slowed down version.

"hope you kids like puzzles" YESSSSSS!!

Well, this did not work exactly as intended but at least I am confident to be able to complete the dex now. Luckily, I still have about 50 Pokemon where I dont know the location

Hi there, at the moment I am trying to complete my Pokedex. I love to find everything by myself, so I do not use the spreadsheet that contains all Pokemon locations. However, I have one concern. Can it happen that you progress in the story and thereby miss a unique chance for a Pokemon? I heard that this can be the case for Azurill but I picked up the required item in old Reborn city. But what about Natu/Xatu? I only have the dex entry for Xatu which shows the Great Stairway. Could it be that the area where Xatu can be found is not accessible anymore AND that Natu can nowhere be found? Please dont tell me where to find it, just yes/no if it is still possible or not. Are there other Pokemon that can be missed? Of course, I didnt kill static encounters and I know that most legendaries are not obtainable (yet). Thanks, and please dont spoiler me

Well, finding two shinies in a row without shiny charm is more unlikely than one shiny in gen 2.

And maybe exactly these emotions are the logic behind this

How about this: In each arena, you are only allowed to use Pokémon of the arena type.

Still love your style of reviewing. It´s super entertaining for me and I hope the next part will be there soon

There are rare candies for 20.000 bucks in the sweets shop. Quite expensive but with an amulet coin you can afford one every few battles.

This episode was so satisfying. Finally, the water is clean again and he chose my prefered route Now let´s hope he manages the gauntlet since I wait for these reactions: 1. The rebuild city 2. Amaria underwater before the gym battle 3. Everything around Titanias gym So please don´t ragequit!

Well, I really enjoyed the review and hope that there will be a next part. The part about the abduction of the children is some kind of strange "Schnitzeljagd" just to get over a small gap in the underground. However, I guess this is how Pokémon works: Don't question the necessary and usage rules of HMs Starting in Gen 1, you find your path blocked by a tree. So you have to walk to a small house behind a bridge with like 100 trainers to find some nerd who gives you a ticket for a ship. There, you have to cure the seasick captain in order to get the HM "cut" to be able to get rid of the tree. However, this is not possible until you got Misty's badge. Reborn kinda followed that logic but I totally agree that you rather wants to proceed in the story instead of this quite large detour. The good thing is that you can enjoy the awesome music at Apophyll Beach Concerning your "slave army": I also have some Pokémon which I used for only one or two major battles. All these Pokémon are in a separate box named "Legends". So it is just a matter of the point of view Like almost everyone, I struggled at many battles in my first playthrough. I enjoyed this because it is like puzzle solving and I love puzzle solving. Since you appear not to be the greatest fan of puzzles, I am glad that you found ways to brute-force through battles. You like Anna (best character!!), thus you will like the upcoming story. She is insane!

Sure, but they are not that expensive and you can grind money in the great hall (not anymore in ttars situation). In practise, few of them are sufficient to make hard battles super easy which is kinda boring. Btw. the same holds for (max) revives and other healing items. I would really like if any trainer items are forbidden in gym battles (i have seen lets plays where revives were used to pp stall...). I know that there is a mod for that but yeah... I feel that the battles in reborn should be won by having a good strategy / choosing the correct team. With items, in particular x-items, you can win battles by grinding.

This buff was just stupid. Now every single mon has Swords Dance, Iron Defense, Nasty Plot, Amnesia and Agility in addition to the other four moves. But wait, they still work 100% while sleeping, being paralysed, frozen or confused. Oh, did I mention that they also have maximum priority? Even the PP is not really bounded. Stupid!

What is the Strength Glitch?

Smoochum gets Psychic at level 38, then Jynx was my MVP against Kiki.

What is the problem of losing relationship points?

I wonder what happens in the gauntlet in Fiore Mansion in terms of Nuzlocke rules. What if his leading Pokémon dies in the first battle, gets auto-healed und starts in the next battle? Does he have to switch immediately or how does he handle this? Anyway, the double battles together with Florinia may kill the run.

Once, a Top4 trainer told us "Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites."