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I DID IT. HA.
Adrienn:
SpoilerSo I swapped Sylveon's EVs from Defense to Sp. Def so he would survive those Dazzling Gleam hits. I changed some Defense points into Attack points on Flareon since a Rock Slide from Mawile OHKO's from full HP, to more reliably kill off Granbull.
Leafeon: Wide Lens - No item to boost Steel moves so no item really needed, just less RNG for me.
Flareon: Iron Plate - Since I have to use Detect it works better than Metronome
Sylveon: Leftovers - Last battle vs Florges is about letting Toxic do it's work and surviving
Jolteon: Zap Plate - I need to OHKO Togekiss.
Vaporeon: Wave Incense - Instead of Metronome because I need to kill off Mawile ASAP.
Espeon: Don't need an item, I don't want Trick Room to last longer than Tailwind so I'm not using Amplified Rock and I don't get to use any offensive moves, so it's whatever.
Now! Lead off with Leafeon and Flareon, double Iron Tail to take out Granbull before he gets Earthquake off. Turn 2, Sacrifice Leafeon to get a clean switch, get Whimsicott low for later. Then set up Trick Room while he sets up Tailwind. Ensures I attack first on everyone except Jolteon and Espeon. Detect on Flareon so he lives long enough to hit Mawile. Then Helping Hand + Iron Tail to OHKO Gardevoir, his Whimsicott gets Espeon and I send out Vaporeon. I needed Whimsicott low, but not killed because I can't deal with Mawile + full HP Togekiss or Gardevoir. Muddy Water is the only thing I have that will hurt Mawile and it kills off Whimsicott in the process because it's already low. With a little assistance from Flareon and Sylveon, Mawile goes down. Set up Wish before Vaporeon faints, it transfers to Jolteon. Set up Light Screen last Trick Room+Tail Wind turn, then Wish, then Toxic on Florges. Thunder SHOULD have OHKO'd Togekiss, this is the first time that's not happened lol. Could have cost me the match with that. Worked out in the end though despite double miss on Thunder. Fucking lol.
This fight sucked. I found out what to do yesterday and because of Eeveelutions lackluster move pool I had to rely on Iron Tail, Muddy Water and Thunder so basically I had to soft reset until the stars aligned and I didn't miss crucial moves. Seriously, one Iron Tail miss and the game's over. One Muddy Water miss on Mawile and it's another reset. One Thunder miss on Togekiss means it's over.
Fuuuuuuuck me,, ha. I'm just glad I remembered to record it. I think this took ~120 tries....
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I don't know, I stopped using it after I tried it for the 3rd or 4th time getting a Kricktune that had been nicknamed to "lolololo" or "getfkd" or some variant. Figured WonderTrading had kind of died.
A shame really because it's a cool concept.
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1 hour ago, Xtrack said:
Yeah I could see Adrienn being a tough one for ya. If only there was a steel evolution for eevee.
Yeah I've kind of hit a wall.
The only steel moves I have access to is Iron Tail and the 70 Acc is murder. Plus he has double Intimidate on Granbull and again on Mawile and things just get kind of silly from there. Lol.
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16th Update
I am mega stuck on Adrienn and will update once I actually get through this fight. If I get through it. This one's well hard, really difficult. Ha.
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15th Update
SpoilerBeing able to use Waterfall outside of battles means I can follow Titania and help get Amaria back.
After working through the Water Treatment Center with Titania I found yet another pulse machine with a Swalot inside, and now we know why the water's all fucked.
Took a few tries for me, this ones usually rather difficult and as it turns out I just overcomplicated this for myself trying a bunch of things lol when all I had to do was set up Light Screen, Thunder Wave and then just do damage. Fair play.
So I dealt with the Swalot, went through the entire WTC and got the water cleaned up, met back up with Titania and we went into the back room. We found Amaria on a table and Taka. Apparently he's like a secret double agent type.
He wanted me to battle and defeat him, but I'm not going to do that. Just don't fancy it. Give the guys a bit of rest 'n that.
So we leave and meet up back at the Celestine Cascade to find it overrun with the Meteor Gang. Great.
I, uhm, was really surprised at how quickly I got through this. I definitely didn't expect to get it on the 3rd try, lol. Didn't really have a plan, I gave Hidden Power to Jolteon, which is Dragon, I figured I needed it for Haxorus and Garchomp. Not much else to say, got it on the first time I got to the last fight so things are a little messy with a couple of mistakes.
Team Meteor cleared out after we dealt with them so all that's left is go back to the Circus and challenge Ciel for the last Circus badge.
Making his grand debut: Glaceon (Sparkles). Wasn't exactly a great success, but hey.
No special strategy. Her Oricorio was perhaps the biggest problem until I got Yawn on Espeon. After that it wasn't a big deal. Would have OHKO'd Minior if I had given Espeon Metronome instead of a Twisted Spoon.
Looking forward to getting rid of Big Top Arena. I fucking hate that field. Now that the city's restored I can get Leftovers and access to a few important moves from tutors. Also access to Reflect and Will-o-Whisp TM. Going to take a bit to grab everything.
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Been a little busy lately, sorry and Terra also proved to be a rather difficult battle. Also forgot to press record that one time I won after ~25 losses. Needed some fresh air after that haha.
14th Update
SpoilerGot the fire badge and the machine for Flamethrower from Charlotte, meaning next up is the Ground gym. But first we go to Ametrine City. Which means I have to find a way through or around that huge ice wall inside the mountain.
I found a way around and dove into the waters. Very cold. Freezing cold, in fact.
But Blue picked up the pace and we ended up inside the huge ice wall. Friggin crazy. Turns out the ice wall is the result of an Avalugg and a Pulse machine. Lovely.
Uhmmm, so I didn't really make a plan for this as it's never been much of a fight so I just kind of brute-forced it. Got a little messy haha.
Now that's taken care of I can get to Ametrine City.
I meet up with Shelly and they all talk about a haunted house and an angel.
Shelly thinks it's Heather helping out the people. So we investigate further and after talking to a few people around the town we end up at the top floor of one of the apartment complexes where we meet Blake. He wants the ring in exchange for Heather, she's been locked up somewhere.
Despite Shelly getting upset, I told Blake to sod off. No way he's getting the ring.
Rat bastard snatched it on his way out though. Ugh.
I fiddled around his rooms and I found what I needed to turn on the computer.
Plus the genuis that he is had papers laying around with his password written out. A hidden door opened up that lead into a mountain behind the house and to a shed.
Heather was locked up inside the shed. She got herself out and we backtracked all the way out of the mountain, out of the house and I met up with Cal in the west side of town. We fought our way through Meteor grunts to the top of the mountain to get Blake. First I ran into Aster, who gave me the machine for Waterfall and wanted a battle.
Fight got a little messy, it was on the first try. I forgot Passimian had Close Combat, unfortunate for Starlight. Also underestimated how much Krookodile would damage Blue, but I had to see if I could swap him in, trial and error 'n that. Still won.
At the top of the mountain Blake was waiting for us. Let's go.
Figured I would just win by type advantage mostly. I made a few mistakes like attacking Walrein with Payback instead of attacking Starmie. It took a few tries to figure out what to do but overall it wasn't super difficult.
After the battle Blake left on a helicopter and I went back to the Circus to get the next badge.
T3RR4 jumped into a friggin' computer. Kind of like The Matrix. I went after her, followed her through old places, absolutely awesome nostalgia.
I later found I forgot to record the Mewtwo fight. You're not missing much, I used Flash on Pixie + Light Screen and then Curse'd up Starlight and eventually took him down.
After Mewtwo it was time to battle T3RR4.
So I think this has been the toughest battle yet.
My strategy was to use Blue to kill Garchomp, which is why I sacrificed Tails, I needed Blue at full health with one Wish use.
Then swap to Pixie and utilize Flash in order to get her to swap out Quagmire and Pallossand to get rid of their seeds, then use Ganja to take care of them with Metronome and Leaf Blade spam.
The problem was Excadrill requiring a sacrifice and Garchomp outspeeding everyone in my team. Blue needed good rolls in order to take out Garchomp, most of the time he would survive with ~5% hp, then take out Blue and sweep the rest.
Fortunately for me I got an amazing proc on Quick Claw on Fluffers allowing me to use Wish and essentially give Blue an extra turn. After that the fight was done.
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12 hours ago, Gabry said:
Sorry I didn't know... If you can trade me one with Poison Barb would be perfect
Poison Barb and Modest Nature?
Sure thing.
9 hours ago, yuripuello4 said:can you trade me one?
Absolutely, anything you would like? Natures, moves?
Sorry but I got a little busy, let me know when you're ready to trade!
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It's going to be incredibly difficult for you to find one with perfect IVs as it can't be bred or caught in the wild, there's only one in the game.
Mine is 25/30/31/31/8/31 and Shiny.
I have a couple of it if you want one. I can give it both Dragon Pulse and Sludge Wave. Would you like any specific item to go with it? Life Orb or something?
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13th Update
SpoilerNext up: Charlotte's fire gym.
I trailed all the way back to the Celestine Cascade to talk to Amaria and Titania again and get the machine for Surf.
Quite the drama household they live in. I didn't even read Titania's diary and sshe doesn't believe me. Then Amaria walked in and overheard us talking and decided to read it herself. Must have been something crazy since she stormed out. Titania's gone after her..
I decided to just get on with my journey. Get to Calcenon City and win my fire badge.
I can now surf so now I can manoeuvre the mountain.
I found Cain and the others near this maa-haaassive ice wall. Huuuuuge thing. It doesn't look.. natural. We're thinking it's definitely not supposed to be there.
But we all move on and get ourselves outside to Route 3.
The path to Calcenon is absolutely destroyed. So we have to take a bit of a detour around and through the mountains.
As we're making our way we come across Meteor grunts. These guys are fucking everywhere. Jesus. We find this.. base of sorts, inside the mountains. I mean, impressive engineering building all of this in here, but man these guys need a better hobby. We run into Aster and Eclipse again.
I accidentally deleted my fight with Aster and Eclipse so unfortunately I don't have the recording. Sorry. Dumb mistake.
Blue did most of the work here. Equipped him with a Wave Incense instead of Metronome as I planned to swap him in and out to keep him healthy for their Lycanroc's. It worked very nicely. Wasn't super difficult.
After the battle we moved on through the mountain and ended up on Route 4.
Not a long way to Calcenon, didn't take long to get there.
Everyone's there. Well, almost. Aya's missing. More missing people. Good grief. It really is getting old. Can't Meteor come up with something new? When has this ever worked for them?
They put up this huge wall thing.
Fern showed up on the other side of it. With Meteor. He's gone full retard and joined up with Meteor. Haha. What's that saying? Don't ever go full retard?
Goddamnit Fern you silly plonker. This is low. Even for him.
They're trying to leverage Aya for the ring. Might sound cold, but it's not happening. Ain't doing it. I've seen enough movies to know the bad guys won't keep their word even if I give it to them, so no thanks.
Charlotte took the ring and ran off. I found her at the east entrance to the city. She explained their plan and the show they just put on. Nice. After we talked we went back to her gym for our battle.
This fight was awesome. I loved it. I had so many close endings to this and it was fucking awesome even though I lost quite a bit.
Okay, so, my plan was: Twisted Spoon on Espeon + Helping Hand allows me to OHKO Typhlosion and Darmanitan. Light Clay on Sylveon and Metronome on Vaporeon.
Start off with Detect to give me time to set up Light Screen on Sylveon's side where Blue is going to be. The screen gives me time to spam Muddy Water for days without having to heal up allowing me to utilize Metronome very well.
Starlight takes care of Delphox with type advantage.
Swagger on Volcarona, I don't have to worry about the Attack boost hurting me, only itself.
It would have been smoother had Thunder not missed - I am so replacing this. I really wish Jolteon was able to learn Thunderbolt on his own, especially since the TM isn't available until much later - It still worked out since Rotom does no damage to Fluffers and I just really needed to get Ninetails out.
Loved this fight!
Next up is Terra and her Glitch World.
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3 hours ago, Edo said:
Wait how can Mienshao tank a hit when Hariyama can't? And after one use of Psychic on Hariyama, the Metronome should already give you a 20% boost like Twisted spoon does, so you could use someone else to weaken Hariyama before finishing it with Espeon.
Nevermind that, the reason I thought Hawlucha is your problem is because in your video, the only thing Misty Terrain does is prevent Hawlucha's seed from activating. It doesn't weaken Samson's pokemon, except for less damage, but Espeon isn't getting hit in the first place. And Psychic isn't boosted by the field either, but you did manage to OHKO everything besides Lucario.
I think you should just try the same route as in your video. Espeon with Twisted Spoon, For Hawlucha and Lucario sent fodder out, then send Jolteon out for Hawlucha and defeat it, for Lucario send another fodder that will weaken it, then finish it with Espeon which will also take care of the remaining team.
Serve up the fodder to keep Espeon alive.
It worked, yeah. Got him done but took a few tries as I needed lucky rolls, lol. Even with Spoon Hariyama and Conkeldurr would some times survive a Psychic. Same with Discharge on Hawlucha.
What's weird is I started one shotting Mienshao, I swear yesterday it survived every single time lol.Jolteon's kind of a boss surviving Hawlucha with no defensive EVs.
Thanks for the help!
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1 hour ago, Edo said:
Was Hawlucha with its seed the problem? Probably none of the eeveelutions could survive a hit from Hawlucha, except Vaporeon might be able to after the Helping Hand boost from the seed was used up on someone else.
Didn't Baby doll eyes work like last time, or did you replace it? Do you have a Focus Sash to spare? You could use it for Jolteon.
And what item did your Espeon have? Anything else should be easy for Espeon, but in case of Lucario, which can take one Psychic, a Metronome could help to increase the damage if the Lucario comes in late enough.
Jolteon actually survives a hit from Hawlucha and on a good roll Discharge OHKO's it, Thunder will every time. That wasn't the problem.
I tried Metronome as well as Twisted Spoon on Espeon. I tried a few times starting Espeon. With Spoon I OHKO Hariyama, in comes Mienshao who tanks a Psychic and OHKO's me. With Metronome I take a hit from Hariyama before getting him, in comes Lucario and uses Extreme Speed, so I could never really get on a good roll with Metronome.
Problem was mostly I had to burn through 2 mons to get through Lucario, 2 for Mienshao and Blaziken would Bounce out the remaining of my team.
I can't at any point swap mons because the power boost the field gives does too much damage, so I would have to let my Mons faint out before switching in for type advantage. A roll of Powerful or Over 9000 would OHKO anything.
Was also too much damage to allow me time to setup Curse or any Wish use since everything would get 2 shotted at least.
I don't like using Focus Sash, it feels too cheesy using something so limited so I try to avoid it
Only thing I didn't really try was Umbreon or Glaceon, but with their Fighting weakness it feels pointless to.
I'm genuinely at a loss for ideas, lol.
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12th Update
SpoilerSo, off to Agate Circus for my next gym badge. The fighting gym.
When I got to the border to Agate, Cain was waiting and the guards were all asleep.
Slackers.
We'll just walk past them. Couldn't wake them up, quite the heavy sleepers this lot.
We walk through to the other side and Cain just falls over. Instantly asleep.
That's interesting. Hardy and Aya are here, too.
While trying to figure out what the hell to do, this chick came flying in from out of nowhere. Carrying a huge fucking Harley Quinn-like mallet. Kinda cool.
The only way to the circus is to hit us with the mallet? What? How does that make sense.
And oh god the way this girl talks. Kill me. Kill me now. I'll take the mallet over listening to her. Give me the mallet, right in the face. Do it. Do it. D- OUCH. Wooooow.
Well look at that, we did land at the circus. Cool. Really cool.
After getting myself familiar with the Circus grounds and walking by.. so, so many clowns, I finally found Samson. We go inside the big tent and evidently I need a pass in order to challenge the gym leader.
The fuck? What happened to gym leaders must accept any and all challenges? I thought thems the rules, ya know?
Whatever. They tell me I have to go see Amaria and Titania at their house. Fine.
Out on Route 2 thinking about how happy I am that I'm not wearing heels right now while jumping these huge rocks.
Got my vial filled up with some sweet scents to put the crustles to sleep. I need to move them to fill up these holes so I can move forward. They are properly heavy. Seriously. Pushing these things.. woof, one hell of a work-out I'll say.
A few jumps and crustles later I find myself at the Celestine Cascade talking to Titania and Amaria. They gave me the Battle Pass-Fury so that I can go back and challenge Samson. Silly idea, battle passes but whatever.
I make my way back to the Circus to Samson and let the battle begin.
So this fight was a genuine nightmare. I tried SO many different things. None of it worked. At all. I couldn't get through his team no matter what I did.
So I did something I really don't like to do, I changed the fields and the battle I uploaded is the first try doing that. Fucking LOL.
I have a save file before Samson, I want to see if I can figure out a way to beat him without changing fields. I am so very much open to suggestions and feedback on how to do that!
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Battle VS Samson (no field change)
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11th Update
SpoilerImmediately after getting my badge and Trick Room TM the power went out in the castle. I ran to the entrance and I see El dragging Luna out. Another kidnapping? This is getting kind of old. I manage to make it outside before the doors to the castle get jammed shut.
Right. The maze. How was the way out again? I came from.. here? Right? Yeah. This looks familiar.
Wait.
No. Not this way. F- A meteor grunt. Great. Alright. Let's go.
Oh, it's Radomus. Nice disguise. Fooled me.
He leads me off to a way to walk up ontop of the hedges. Very cool. Should be able to slip past those dumb grunts without a fuss.
You know what I've realized? Getting through a maze is a lot easier when you can walk up here and see everything. Ha.
Aahhhh. Yeah, the sun in my face, wind in my hair. This beats walking all the way down in the shadows of the maze.
From now on this is how I want my mazes to be.
See? Hassle-free. Brilliant. Alright, gotta get back to the city. West. Right. Long walk.
Woah.
That Tauros looks well out of control. I wonder what's got it all riled up. It looks freaking crazed just runing around in circles. How does it not exhaust itself?
Heeeyy buddy. Oh it just stopped.
It's looking at me. Huh.
Can I ride it? Can't be safe. Right? Surely it's out of it's mind.
C-c.. could I ride you to the far west buddy?
Hmm. I'm going to take that head tilt as a yes. Let's try this. Screw danger. Danger's my middle name.
Nice Tauros. Calm Tauros. Niiice and easy doooes it.
Alright! Success! Now, just gotta get herr goi-WOOOOOOOOOOOW.
Whheeew. Made it. Whooof. A little too wild but that was a good ride still. I have to find 7th street. A secret, hidden street for shady dealers. Sounds like a lovely place to hang out.
The Magma Gang I joined should know about this.
Yep. Maxwell gave me an all-in access to the entrance. Being part of a gang isn't such a bad thing afterall.
Man this place is a dump. I swear the lights down here flickering like this is going to give me epilepsy.
Oh, a Magma member. Nice. Hey bud. Yeah I'm looking for a religious dude, kidnapped a girl.
You saw a weird-looking dude in a white robe? Yeah that's him.
Where? RIght. Cheers mate.
There! White robe alright but that didn't look like El. Let's check it out.
Bennett. They said they saw a weird-looking guy. Should've said creepy.
I followed him into a secret passage way that led to a very weird place.
Aw crap. I'm surrounded.
A trap? Okay, Bennett and El, okay. Credit where credit is due, I guess. Smart play.
Locked up. Awesome. I wish I had that Cyndaquil, Vanilite and Roggenrola with me. Hm, now what?
A Klefki?
Oh I have a neighbour. The Klefki's his! Nice! Real-life Prison Break! Let's do this!
And I didn't even need to cover my body in tattoos.
He's staying? What? Weird guy, alright, well, I'm gonezo.
Right, gotta just sneak past all these goons. So. Many. Goons. How they recruit these people?!
You know, I kinda feel like a ninja sneaking around like this. Stealthy and without a sound. Unseen in the shadows.
Or James Bond. Holy shit I'm James Bond.
Que the 007 Theme song.
Dundundunduuun-dudududuun-duuduuDUUDUUU.. duu-duuu-duuu.
(Yes this is my attempt at sounding out the James Bond theme.)
Ah, the exit. Nice. And there's Luna. Tied to a fucking altar. Is this sicko going to SACRIFICE HER?! WHAT?!
And there's El. And Bennett. I thought she was El's daughter. Who the fuck does that to their daughter?!
Woah. Lights are out. Luna's free? Does she have crazy powers? What the hell is going on.
What the hell have I got myself into. These people are fucking crazy.
And she just drove them all out. Nice. Okay. I'm glad she's on my side of things.
What's that Luna? Am I afraid of the dark? No, I've got Starlight for that. But I'm kind of scared of you a little bit if I'm honest.
A key? Cool. Yeah, okay. I'll see you there. No of course I'll come alone.
Wait, where exactly is Iolia Valley?
Gotcha. Thanks love.
After finding the entrance in Radomus' maze I had to go rummaging through caves for more keys. Walk across ice slippery ice bridges and I ran into Bennett again.
Apparently he's realized what he did was wrong. LOL. Just.. LOL. The creeper followed me around like Gollum from the LoTR movies. I'm just imagining this guy "luna.. my preciousssss." Ha.
I finally made it all the way to the end and after "Gollum" here declared his undying love for Luna and got shot down (turns out, kidnapping isn't a great aphrodisiac), he wanted to battle me. Yeah, sure. Gladly.
Fight was incredibly easy. There's not a whole lot to say about it.
My biggest problem was her Umbreon. I had plenty of ways to deal with her Tyranitar in Ganja, Blue and Pixie, but her Umbreon was difficult without any Fighting moves, leaving only Pixie so I needed to keep him healthy to deal with it.
My first try didn't go very well, she stalled me out with Double Team, Toxic and Leftovers while tanking the Moonblasts that actually went through. (Can you please make Toxic available earlier in the game?? I can't wait to get it for my Umbreon!)
Next try I decided to give Pixie a Metronome to boost the damage. I should have used Thunder Wave on it while Spike was still alive so Pixie would have been faster, but it worked out quite nicely with her having to spam Moonlight just to survive this time around. Awesome, one more badge in the bag and I'm well on my way through Reborn!
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1 minute ago, Gabry said:
thank you!
You're very welcome! Take good care of her.
Have a good day/night!
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1 minute ago, Gabry said:
Could you exchange one with a modest nature?I gave it Modest nature yeah.
My ID is Si, can trade now. I'll wait for a request
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4 minutes ago, Gabry said:
In this way also a Gastly is fine, thank you
What is its nature?
Can give it whichever nature you want.
E* Gave it Modest. Let me know if you want something else.
I can trade now, my ID is Si.
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I have a shiny Gastly with perfect IVs.
I can level it up to a Haunter if you would like or I can give you the Gastly and attach a Link Stone to it so you can evolve it to Gengar whenever you want.
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1 hour ago, Vanitas said:
shared box from a sandbox mode game
Would you trade me a Y stone?
I have a shiny Charmander with some egg moves and solid IVs if you'd like one to go with your new mega stone.
31/31/21/16/31/31 or a 31/15/31/31/31/31
both are shiny!
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10th Update
SpoilerIt didn't take me very long to find Saphira inside Tanzan Mountain. After beating Noel and getting my badge I had decided to go out and look for her, I'm not a fan of staying put and being idle. When I found her she gave me a ring, told me it was a rather important piece of jewelry and to take good care of it. She went on her way back to the Cove and the others while I kept going to find the next gym.
Coming out of the mountain I wound up in a thick forest. Just hope this isn't one of those where the trees keep dissapearing, so far it's looking alright, some of the grass is crazy tall but no trees have dissapeared on me so there's todays silver lining.
Ah, there's an opening. Awesome.
So this is route 1, eh. Nice. Looks clean and the air is fresh. Ahh. And there's Tauros here! Fighting Bouffalants. Crazy.
Eh, is.. that.. Fern? Great. And here I thought the air was clean. I'll just have to deal with him.
He wants to battle, right, I can beat this brat in my sleep.
Underestimated Ryhorns damage to Blue and lost him, but other than that fairly straight forward and simple win. The reason I went through the trouble of using Light Screen and Wish is because I wanted to keep Fluffers healthy against Decidueye, but Starlight ended up dealing with him beautifully.
Fern sods off with his tail between his legs once again and I keep going. The next gym, I'm told, is to the far east of Route 1 in a castle. Never been to a castle before, this could be cool. Far east. Sounds like a long way. Lots of walking. You know, I wonder.. what if I help out that Tauros. They're not quite as wild as Bouffalants, maybe it'll let me ride it. It could take me all the way to the castle. Ha, brilliant. My feet are sore as hell from all the walking inside a mountain.
Yeeeeeeee-haaawww! I feel like a proper cowboy! Yee-haw! Let's gooooooo.
Woop, woop, woop and over the ledges we go. This might not be a huge-arse Steelix, but full-on gallop and with the wind in my hair this is bloody amazing.
Oh I can see the castle. Has to be it. Time to slow down so I can get off.
Slow down.
Slow doooooown.
Shit.
Maybe if I pull the hair here.
Slooooooooow dooooowwn.
Yes!
Thanks for the ride Tauros, go, be free!
Alright so just gotta find my way through the maze and I'll be at the castle. No problems, right?
Okay, it's been hours. Fucking. Hours. The sun is burning, I'm soaked in sweat and my feet are bloody. Where in the fuck is this castle! How is a castle so difficult to find! It's a castle! A castle!! F--- Wait. Is this it?
Am I hallucinating? I haven't had water in a long time.
It feels real. Would I be able to feel it if it was an hallucination?
I'm gonna try knocking.
Door's open. Huh. Alright, do I just.. walk in?
This has to be real.
Right?
Oh there's a girl. Hopefully she can help me.
Okay, deep breath, relax.
Luna? Hey isn't that the girl Serra and her creeper son was talking about? The girl the nutjob with the DItto was looking for?
Shit she's been talking this whole time, I gotta get out of my head.
Is that a talking Gardevoir? That's crazy. Woof, quite the personality she has. Ha, I love her!
Radomus is quite the character. Likes to play dress-up. I don't judge, he looks to be having fun. I can respect that.
Cain's here? Okay this is definitely real. No way my psyche would hallucinate this weirdo. A battle? I'm knackered. Come on, man. Right, what ever. Let's do it.
Okay so I had lots of trouble getting through this guy. His Muk is real mean and I have no ground moves. I had to unequip Fluffers item to lower the Knock Off damage enough just to get through him.
His Mimikyu presented quite a problem, too. I tried using Flash but it didn't work, so I powered through with Moonblast while he set up Swords Dance. I mean even with Pixie being fully stacked on HP and Def EVs his Play Rough absolutely destroys me, lol.
After getting through those two, the only real problem was Nidoking. Tails, even with Twisted Spoon + field advantage couldn't OHKO it (????????), and he OHKO's Tails. Then Blue and Starlight, too.
So, I had to let Meowstic live a little longer and set up Curse on Starlight. He survives a hit from Nidoking and takes him out with a powered up Payback.
Nice. Took me a while to figure this one out, surprisingly.
Battle is over, I figure I finally get to rest for a bit.
Nope. El shows up. Took Radomus' Gardevoir. More abduction. Wonderful. No rest for the weary, eh.
Although it doesn't seem like Radomus is too bothered by it, we still go after El to get Gardevoir back.
We end up underground. More mountains. Lovely. Deeper and deeper into the mountain and down the ladders we go.
Finally.. outside? Inside? What is this place? That's a huge building. Under a mountain no less. This is freaky.
Ah! Gardevoir! Aaaand some other dude.
Okay, so, Gardevoir hates Radomus and Radomus doesn't give a toss.
Huh?
This is.. weird, to say the least.
The guy wants the ring Saphira gave me. Well that's not happening.
Adrienn. Alright, that's our mystery mans name. And he's working with El. Cool.
He's a fucking nutjob in a white robe. Come on, bud.
I'm keeping the ring so they took off into that huge building.
At the top I run into El and Gardevoir.
The others soon follow and El and Radomus get real into it.
Now I'm put right in the middle of it all. Who do I side with? Who am I trusting?
Right, look, I get the Gardevoir thing is kinda weird, but El's been spouting religious nonsense the entire time, there's no way I'm siding with him. Radomus is a bit eccentric but that's all I've seen. I like eccentric.
Woooooooo-aaaaait. Ditto. It's a Ditto.
I fucking knew something was up.
New rule of thumb: Don't trust people mucking about in white robes spouting religious crap.
He wants to battle, I'll do this. No problemo.
I was kind of dreading this battle. I went about it like I did Abra, utilized Flash and got rid of his accuracy. Set up Light Screen just in case and then get Curse going so I could out damage his Leftovers and bypass his Recover.
It's a tough fight when Arceus has Leftovers and Recover in his moveset. Took me a few tries before I got it done.
El is beaten, done with.
Apparently, Adrienn is a gym leader in the Coral Ward. Imagine that. That's.. wow. He's been down here for.. years. Jesus. That's got to be a mind-fuck if I've ever seen one.
The real Gardevoir pops up and teleports them all out. Could have taken me with, jerk. Now I have to walk all the way back.
So I make my way back through the mountain and back to Reborn City. That big-ass gate is now open. Very cool. We meet up back at the Coral Ward gym with Adrienn and the others.
He's going on a mission to restoring the city. That's awesome. This whole dump needs it. I go with Radomus back to the castle to challenge him to a battle so I can get that next badge!
His Metagross lives up to it's name. It's gross. That bleeding thing is well tanky and is able to take a lot of hits, even from my Fire and Dark moves. But I manage to push through him. I honestly expected Gardevoir to be the biggest problem but it was fairly easy compared to that Metagross.
Pixie did an amazing job for me this battle. I can't wait until I get the Reflect TM for him.
Strategy was my usual one for doubles: Paralyze one guy and ignore him. In this case, Reuniclus, then focus on his friends. Worked out nicely!
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SpoilerBack at the Cove I gave Anna the medicine and she.. she gave it to her doll. All of it. And then she got better.
This girl is freaking cray cray. What on earth did Sigmund do to her, I wonder how many shock "treatments" she got. Definitely a few screws got loose.
Well, now that she's better I can challenge the Normal gym leader. Noel. One of the boys from the orphanage. How many gym leaders are kids? That seems rather irresponsible, doesn't it? Oh well. Just thinking out loud.
This is nice. No crazy thing happening before I can challenge the gym leader; no crazy plot unfolding; no wacky trip that needs to be done; no one's abducted; no crazy Pulse machines or mega high level 'Mons to beat, no sir, there's just me, and the gym. Let's do this!
Alright, this time I come prepared, well-read and ready with a strategy. I hope. Starting Ganja! I choose y-- what? WHAT? Team Meteor's coming? OH COME ON.
Man I just want to do gym battles. Get my badges and be the very best. God damnit. Alright, we'll deal with this. And then my gym battle. Yeah, then my gym battle.
I'm liking this Saphira. Total badass. And that Dragonite, oof.
She'll be outside covering us and we'll deal with whomever makes it through. Cool. I'm ready. Time to kick gum and chew ass, and I'm all out of- wait, that's not right.. oh, hey Sigmund.
What a happy coincidence you made it through. I've been wanting to do this for a while.
So, no particular strategy here. I kinda cocked it up with Ganja, did not expect him to get KO'd like that. Oh well. Starlight clear MVP with a clutch Wish heal at 4 HP, ha.
Really liking the use I've gotten out of Baby-Doll Eyes, it's been a huge help. Definitely glad I spent extra time getting it!
Unfortunately Sirius showed up after the battle, massive buzz kill if you ask me, they decided to divide and conquer so I had to choose which one to stop. I went with Sigmund. I just really felt like that was the right choice, y'know? Really didn't want to let this arsehole go loose.
The badass showed up. Saphira. And her Dragonite. She started pushing around Sigmund.
I had to ask her to stop.
No, no, not permanently, let just grab a good seat over here, put my feet up and get real comfy.
Aahh, yeah, all I need now is a cold one and I'd be set. Alright, keep going.
Oof, that Hyper Beam has got to hurt. Yowza. Do another one!
Bulls-eye! Beauty!
Ooh, the wall. You shot him through the wall. Ha. I wouldn't want to fight the power of that Dragonite's Hyper Beam!
Oh, oi! That was such a cheap shot. Out of nowhere Sirius and a Poison Jab hit Saphira. Not cool. Well, she's out cold and they took her. Lovely.
So much for a simple gym battle, eh. Another abduction. Sigh. Well, Laura and I are headed to Meteor's base within the mountain to get her back and hopefully cause a bit of damage to them.
After a bit of exploration we find a couple guards out cold and a big hole in a cell. I'm guessing that's the queen of the badasses' work. Doesn't exactly look like she needs us to come get her, buuut just in case we'll march on.
Teleportation pads, weird one-way escalators that change direction.. this place is properly wacky. Seems like such an inefficient way to get around.. can you imagine if someone, like really had to use the bathroom?
"Fucking tele-pads, how's the sequence go again? Fuck I gotta pee baaaaadly, argh, oh right, just keep going up and up".. haha. Imagine.
Anyways. Here's a new room.
Oh, hey Saphira. You know, I was just thinking earlier we probably didn't need to have come, no need to get pissy. Just trying to help.
We make our way up to the final room and.. that's an Abra. In a full-on Mewtwo outfit. That would be so bloody awesome if it wasn't on Meteor's side.
So that's why everything's gone wonky in Spinel Town, the Abra is teleporting random objects around. Even the pokemart. That is one powerful Psychic.
Aaaand it teleported us. To.. oh god the smell.
Great. More rubbish and what is... eeew, I don't want to know what that is. Okay, I can do this, just think about pleasant things and walk with a pace. God the ground is icky. And shaky. What the hell. Is Mega Abra doing Earthquake? No, Abra can't learn Earthquake. What on earth is that.
Woooooow. Whew. That was a close one. Almost fell into that puddle of sewage. Ew.
Finally we make it out of that nose-destroying hell hole. Seems we're inside the mountain and the quakes are getting worse..
Uhm. Ehhh that's a Steelix. A huge Steelix. Fucking hell. Yeah I'll do this, just step back Laura.
So since this guy is Physical I figured I'd just go with another Baby-Doll Eyes strategy. I originally planned to take him out with Fluffers, but I saw just how little damage Starlight was taking and figured.. why not. Not much to say.
After the battle, I rush back into Meteos base to properly end this and deal with that Abra. I do have Starlight, after all.
Ok, so admittedly this was really messy. First I figured: Abra, Psychic.. Starlight is immune, easy, right? I get in, he uses Hyper Beam aaand it hit me this guy only spams Hyper Beam. Right, I forgot. Okay, no problems.
On top of that I forgot to put Light Clay on Pixie for his Light Screen, I gave him Exp. Share earlier. Geeenius, I know,
After a bit of thinking I landed on utilizing Flash + Screen + Starlight's maxxed-out Sp.D EV's and his super effective Dark moves. Worked without a hitch. Lots of good misses gave me plenty of opportunity to get more Flashes off which allowed an easy time to set up my Curse and get him.
After the battle, I pad myself on my back, good job Siv. Deserved back-pad right there, I should think. Apparently their super-evil leader is on her way, so we are out and back to the cove for my next battle against Noel.
So. I went in not really knowing the best way to deal with his Porygon. I have zero Fighting moves on my team, I thought Ganja would do alright. I was very wrong. He barely touched Porygon and that Tri Attack was a nasty hit.
Luckily Spike steps in and takes care of him with a beautiful Paralysis from DIscharge.
I honestly figured I'd have to do some trial and error here, so when Bewear came out I wanted to see if I could make a swap to Tails and survive. I could. And his Psychic OHKO'd him. Brilliant. Unexpected, but brilliant.
Swap Spike back in against the Flying type, no-brainer and a lovely OHKO once again.
Starlight takes on the Psychic giraffe.
I was hoping he'd be able to handle Cincinno but after the Para on my second Payback I wasn't sure if I'd be able to survive a hit, so Baby-Doll Eyes. I end up barely surviving, definitely not happening again, so a second one to allow the incoming Spike to better deal with him
Now, IIRC Clefable likes to set up Calm Mind (I honestly can't remember!) so I figured I'd Paralyze him and hope for the best.
And oh my did the best scenario occur, lol. Double paralysis as well as double Thunder hit.
Spike you absolute beauty. Carried the match hard. Definitely didn't expect to one shot Noel like this and especially not after fucking up the start with Ganja like that, lol.
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3 hours ago, Xander1922 said:
Very entertaining log
Beautiful fight against SolarisThank you! Glad you think so!
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SpoilerLooking for the kids took us to the Yureyu HQ, fighting our way to the top through the Meteor grunts I learned how tough Charlotte is, yikes. Remind me not piss her off. Finally at the top I face off against Sirius, one of their top dogs.
Not a difficult battle, didn't have much of a strategy to be honest.
After the battle we grabbed the Railnet key and get the hell out of here.
Everything's gone to shit down here. The tracks are all buggered up, there's rubble laying about all over the place and the exit is blocked. Great. We explore a bit further and find a train. They came up with the great idea that we ride the train into, hopefully, through the rubble. They're mad. Absolute lunatics the lot of them.
But they do make a good point.. what else are we supposed to do?
Screw it. It'll be one hell of an experience, ha.
Well look at that, we made it. We fucking made it. Good shit. They were talking about a family cabin through the mountain, so that's where we're headed.
Immediately after arriving at the cabin one of the girls falls ill. The others mention a town, Spinel Town, not too far off. They're going to stay there and look after her while I go fetch some medicine. Conveniently for me, the next gym is there, too!
Okay so I'm definitely going in circles. Yep, I've walked past that geezer twice already. Fuck this forest. Good lord. The trees keep dissapearing!! Am I losing my mind? I could be. Given everything that's happened since arriving in Reborn it wouldn't be a stretch.
No, get it together, man. I wonder if there's some sort of trick to this dissapearing madness.
Took me a while, I'll have to admit, but I figured it out.
Ahhhh, sunshine, sunshine how I've missed you so. Gosh it feels great to be out of that wretched mind-fuck of a forest. Now where's the pokemart..
Woah. Things just seem to randomly dissapear here, too. What in the hell is going on. The pokemart better not bloody dissapear too.
Yep. It dissapeared, too. Of course it did.
Where to I wonder?
Perhaps the gym leader knows what's going on..
Oh. That's where the pokemart went. On her balcony. Hahaha, she's going to freak the fuck out when she se-- Yep, haha, there she is. Shit, I shouldn't be laughing but let's be honest, it's kind of hilarious, ha.
After a looot of talking, some weird religious tosser shows up looking for some girl. It's kind of impressive how many children seem to go missing over here, don't you think?
Anyways, Serra finally moves on into her battle room.
Through a couple mirrors and I run into her weird-as-fuck son. He wants a battle. Let's do it.
I kind of forgot that you get thrown into a battle with this guy as soon as you enter the 3rd room, so I went in somewhat unprepared and without much of a strategy. Buut as soon as he started using Quiver Dance it all came back to me that he likes to set that up and potentially Baton Pass it on to Masquerain and do a sweep.
Not this time lad.
Admittedly the miss on DIscharge two turns in a row tilted me a little bit.
Fuck this field.
On to Serra!
My plan was to start Fluffers and equip him with a Quick Claw.. I know she always starts the battle with Aurora Veil, so I figured I would take the opportunity, knowing Glaceon also does not have any effective moves against Fluffers, to set up my Curse and then go for a sweep with Fire Fang.
I'm going to go on a bit of a rant hereSpoilerI really despise this fight. It isn't hard, it isn't fun and having an entire battle centered around RNG is awful.
I actually had Fluffers get frozen several times on the turn I had finished setting up Curses, ready to attack with Fire Fang. I had Fluffers get frozen the first Ice Beam Jynx threw my way, I think 2 times, lol. I had Fluffers miss and hurt himself 3 turns in a row, within the same battle. And muuuch more.
My problem is that I've never had a close win against her. I've always swept her and absolutely destroyed her every time I've beaten her. And on the other side of the coin, when I lose it's kind of majestically. RNG is cool.
It's just not fun, that's my point. She's easy to figure out and easy to beat.. but RNG ruins the fun for me. I wish a new strategy would be implemented for this gym battle! Something difficult! And fun!
Having said all of that, I completely realize I'm working against myself using a move with less than 100 accuracy (Fire Fang), a direct-contact move. Thinking back I probably should have gone back to the move relearner and taught Fluffers Lava Plume, since I haven't invested EVs into his Attack stat it wouldn't be the worst idea. And it cuts a lot of the RNG out of that fight. Could have kept him going with Wish, wouldn't need turns to set up Curse for the Attack.. it honestly might have been a far better strategy for me to have used instead. Lol. I might go back to an earlier save just to try it out, for the sake of my curiosity, haha.
Moving on..
After getting my badge and a new TM I won't be using, I'm off to find the pokemart that has, once again, dissapeared. Perhaps it's somewhere in the forest or nearby..
I almost made it all the way back to the cabin before I found the pokemart. Jesus what evers going on here is fucking bonkers, man.
Whatever, I got the medicine, time to head back to the others..
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2 hours ago, Edo said:
Nice so far. But oof, downgrading two mons to lvl 8 seems harsh. Maybe leveling down one mon for Sand Attack with Quick Claw would've been enough for Solaris?
It could have but it felt more reliant on RNG. A lot of stars would need to align, I prefer consistency.
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SpoilerA fairly uneventful episode.
I meet up with Cain at the doors to the Byxbysion Wastelands and for some reason, he tries to stop me.
Uhm, Cain, what about the kids? Your.. friends? The ones who got kidnapped by the rather insane Doctor and Team Meteor?
Whatever. Just a quick battle, I've beaten him before. No problems.
Not difficult at all. Same as last time, play to my teams type strengths over his and roll him over.
He opens the doors and off I go.
Oof, the stench in this place.. oof. I should've brought nose clamps or something, that is bloody foul. Wasteland indeed. I soldier through the smell and after some exploring, turning some machines on I end up in a cave. A very dark cave. I don't like dark caves. I really don't. I'll explore it nonetheless, I've got my team of Eeveelutions to keep me safe and sound.
Turns out there's not a whole lot down here. I did find the TM for Payback, which is going to be a very nice addition to Starlight's moveset. In fact, I've been looking forward to finding this bad boy. Beautiful. Alright, let's get out of here. The smell isn't exactly better in here and I'm pretty sure it's seeped into my clothes at this point. I wonder if a wash is enough to get it out? Just might have to get Fluffers to burn it.
I find my way to Aya's gym and am greeted by a very unpleasant person. Honestly, I have to say, people in this region aren't very nice, like, at all. Team Meteor aside, of course, people over here seem fucking bonkers. Anyways, I get my team sorted and enter the battle room just to have Fern get all up in my face about how easy it is and how far behind I am of him.
Dude, you've literally never won a battle against me. Come on. Does this guys arrogance not have a ceiling?
Nope, he wants another battle. Fine by me, after walking through a literal sea of rubbish and waste I could use the entertaintment of watching this tosser try to take me on.
As expected. Play to his weaknesses, unfortunate flinch on Fluffers but it's okay. Spike deals nicely with Scyther and gets a few Baby-Doll Eyes off on his Decidueye and while he's getting his Attack back up Starlight takes him out. Poor guy. It might have been one hell of a grind getting Baby-Doll Eyes back but it's been worth it so far.
I am not liking my choice to replace Fire Fang with Flare Blitz on Fluffers though, it just requires too much setup so I'm thinking once I get access to the Move Relearner I'll make some changes. I am not grinding him back up like the others.
After the battle I approach an incredibly apathetic Aya for the next gym battle.
Great, battling someone who couldn't give a toss, this is going to be super fun!
I'll be honest, it got a little messy. I did her on my first try. Things went according to plan still, so that's nice.
Thunder Wave Toxapex and then tag team the other, basically. Basically being 2v1 gives me a free switch-in so I can utilize type advantage, plus Toxapex really doesn't do a whole lott.
Could have just ended it with DIscharge, but I really wanted to end it in glory with a glorious Thunder. And then it misses. Ha. Serves me right, sorry Spike!!
Not sure if I want to keep Thunder, I've never been a fan of low accuracy/high damage moves. I tend to lean towards consistency. But Charge Beam has too low damage for later on in the game and I'm not sure if I get to set up Charge Beam for the Sp.A boost. And Thunderbolt isn't available until the game is over, soooo.. time will tell!
I get the badge and I can now use Strength outside of battles! Let's go get the kids!!
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