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Nope, you get Band or Specs. Not Scarf.

No Sludge Wave either unfortunately

I'd go 190 hp / 252 atk / 66 spe and adamant on Scizor. Swap out X-Scissor for Bug Bite because of Technician and then give it Roost instead of Acrobatics, then a Leftovers. But I prefer bulk over pure glass cannon personally. Also, did you debug in Scarf or am I missing something?

It would be suuuper boring! Planning ahead for Mono type battles with all Mons available just seems too easy for me. Plus the E4 strategies with monotypes would be really limited, as I think, is shown with the gym leaders. I have finished E18, I've just forgot most of the RP stuff and these days whenever I finish a challenge run I rush through it all lol. I see.. I still maintain I'd be dissapointed if any of the E4 battles were 12v6, but I don't know. Maybe it's because I just dislike Bennett but I hope El "lied" to him in some way and he gets screwed over. Thank you for the little bit of insight!

Doesn't really make sense to have the E4 be mono-typed when we have just gone through all typings with the gym leader. Makes far more sense to have the E4 have a general theme/idea - like El's religion, as an example. At least, I would be severely dissapointed if the E4 were mono-typed. Your predictions look very interesting. Can I hear more about the idea that Laura/Bennett is a 12v6 and why that is? I get that El is prepping Bennett for an E4 spot but surely it doesn't make sense to have one of these battles be 12v6 format? I hope not. At least, I think it makes more sense if Bennett ends up getting burned on becoming an E4 member or if he somehow takes El's spot. Maybe it ends badly for El. In the coming episode we'll focus more on the rings/keys/crystals and I'm guessing El and his religion might play a role and maybe it ends badly for El. I just hope an E4 member isn't 2 people.. that would suck, I think. Is Laura confirmed as an E4 member? So far it's only Heather and El who are confirmed, right? Or am I misremembering?

Don't really understand the point of suggestion moves that aren't available. And regardless, I wouldn't want to use Swords Dance on Infernape, even if it was. Just have to heeeaavily disagree on Flygon. First of all it's a Dragon/Ground, there is no Flying type overlap. Second, with access to Dragon Dance and Earthquake, Flygon is easily one of the strongest mons easily available in Reborn. There's a good reason I refuse to use it when I play through as it's just broken once you get perfect EV spreads. Flygon has a brilliant movepool and is bulky enough to get you going with D-Dance. Freeze-Dry > Blizzard on A-Ninetales, definitely keep Freeze-Dry over Blizzard. Personally I find Extrasensory weak on non-Psychic, without the STAB boost but I guess our mindset differs as I would suggest Hypnosis on Ninetales, when you run Aurora Veil, Hypnosis allows you to get a clean swap and start setting up for example a Flygon Dragon Dance while protected under Aurora Veil. It's A-Ninetales' biggest selling point and you're just handicapping yourself by not playing into it. Freeze-Dry / Moonblast / A-Veil / Hypnosis is my suggestion for A-Ninetales. I've often found a common trap people fall into is overloading themselves with "coverage" moves, tunnelvisioning on the idea that you absolutely MUST have coverage for EVERYTHING and you end up forgetting about the individual strengths of your pokemon - when really, you need to focus on having coverage for your teams weak points. And not add in moves for the sake of having a specific type move without it fitting into your team strategy. If there's one thing I've learned building teams for Reborn playthroughs it is that coverage is overrated. Sounds silly at first glance but think of the fights you're in. Single-type Gym fights. Most other big fights they don't have these mega varied teams where you need 10 different type moves. You're far better off building into your Mons' strengths and then learning how to abuse field effects and Seeds. You're wearing yourself thin. Just a thought.

I admire your tenacity my friend. This run looks like fun! How did you choose your team?

Well done! You get a whole new appreciation for your Pokemon doing runs like these. I've done runs only using Eeveelutions and a 6 Random Mons team (Lopunny, Gengar, Poliwrath, Lycanroc, Lycanroc and Rotom-NoForm) Some of these have become favourites because of those runs. And have no doubt been the most enjoyable playthroughs I've done! Who was your MVP? Have you, like me, gotten a new-found appreciation for some of your Mons used?

I'd use Focus Sash on Infernape and give it Stealth Rock, then use it as my lead. Blaze would be better I think, Iron Fist only boosts Mach Punch, it has no effect on Close Combat, Flare Blitz. Iron Head over Smart Strike on Excadrill. Also Jolly just to make sure I don't get outsped, especially if for whatever reason Sandstorm isn't available. Knock Off over Throat Chop on Weavile imo. Volcarona and Aegislash are both top tier picks, they are going to make life a lot easier.

Naga and Aegislash takes care of Fairies. Volcarona can deal with most Dark types, I think except Tyranitar. But Mega Kanga handles it. He has plenty of coverage against Flying with 2 Ice-type moves and Thunder Fang on Hippowdon. I'd recommend swapping Heat Wave out for Thunderbolt on Naganadel. And instead use Whirlwind or Toxic on Hippo instead of Thunder Fang. Also I'd swap Hurricane out for Psychic on Volcarona. Or Giga Drain to give you the option to run Grassium-Z. Kind of depends what you're looking to take down. But overall your team consists of 3 uber-tier mons and the rest are basically the strongest there is available. It's a solid team.

I would replace Noctowl with Fearow. A very strong mon early game. Also maybe catch a new Buneary just to get rid of Modest nature. Grab Growlithe, that will serve you well all the way through the game. Maybe replace Kricketune with Beedrill when you get to Beryl. Cross your fingers for something interesting from the mystery egg.

Speed Boost Blaziken destroys the whole game, lol. Yes, early game too. Charmander -> Charmeleon also destroys Julia. Especially if you bother to invest some time into Speed EVs fighting Woobats. They both also knock over Florinia's team as well as Fern's. They kind of just need someone to cover Primarina against Cain. It's definitely harder with just a team of 6 as you have to get creative with your movesets, itemization and EV spreads throughout the game (depending on which 6 mons you choose). But it's not as hard as you make it out to be. I've done with 5 random mons and the random mystery egg. I don't know if this will give me some sour responses but the game really isn't that difficult. Just look at some the challenge runs people have done and the handicaps people give themselves just to get a challenge out of the game. I'll say this though, one of my favourite playthroughs was doing a set team of 6. You develop a bit of a connection to your mons and you learn to think very differently and you learn to innovate (as long as your team isn't made up of 6 pseudo-legendaries that runs over the game for you). It was a very cool run, can highly recommend trying it.

Intimidate Growlithe into Arcanine has probably been one of the most useful members throughout the game I think. Is great early game with focus on SpA against Shelly and Serra. Takes out Kiki's Lucario and Intimidate means there's always a place for it. Just Seed it against Amaria when it's Underwater and teach it Wild Charge and it's still useful there. And because of Intimidate and it's access to Close Combat it's even good against Hardy's rock types. Contrary Malamar is also really useful. Especially against the Solrock/Lunatone fights. Kind of destroys Aya. Is good against Samson as well as Hardy and Radomus.

You don't feel like giving out a little more information? Movesets? EV spreads? Which of Hardy's mons is giving you trouble in particular? Seems to me your Gyarados and Metagross would be your stars here. Incineroar's Intimidate could also come in handy. Eelektross could potentially take care of Aerodactyl. Maybe make use of double Intimidate from Incineroar and Gyarados and use that to safely set up 1 or maybe even 2 Dragon Dance on Gyarados, then sweep as much as it can, then use Metagross to clean up the rest. Could even set up a Light Clay Reflect before you switch Gyarados in to keep it even more safe.

~~Where is Jonathan located in Corey's gym? I can't for the life of me find him to activate Corey's Masters team.~~ Found it. Have to rescue the officers BEFORE you beat the PULSE battle, otherwise he doesn't show up.. Also, who's the lady in the HQ with the machine that turns my mons to level 100? And what's her purpose? The game keep freezing after rescuing Charlotte at Yureyu HQ. Any fix for this?

Hahaha. The dialogue or the battles? Because if you mean that last run through the void then I definitely agree but the battles were pretty cool the first time around. Kind of wish they were a bit harder nowadays :P

I don't care about his pronouns. That's his business. Life is short, if you get more out of it wanting/needing to go by different pronouns then fuck what other people say or think, go for it. I might have misremembered him getting snippy, it's been a while and I've run through the game enough times I don't read the dialogue anymore.. if I have misremembered then that's my bad!

Hmm. Honestly doesn't sound too hard. Still a good amount of options available..

All I'm hearing here is just 2 more people are going to have accidents. Haha. Shit, I just realized I might be a bit of a villain. On a serious note though - they couldn't kill me, it's against the law, remember? So if that's their motive then they wouldn't cross that line themselves. But also, given the state of Amaria I think I have a pretty decent case to argue for self defense. She's clearly got obssessive personality disorder, severe depression and she shows signs of a complete lack of empathy, she has no regard for other peoples health and feelings, plus she's tried to kill me already so she's displayed she's a danger to others. She still blames me for her losing Titania so I'm still the object of her obsession and since no one around us took any action to help her or to prevent her from doing any further harm to others, it's not too far fetched to argue she's still an active, legitimate threat to my life. Self defense. Who would you want spared? Heather or Terra? Because I definitely take back my hit on Heather. She's the only one with any decent character development. If Terra, then uhm, she has to go. She just has to. Honestly though the more I think about it, the more I want to spare Titania. As awful as she is to the player, I respect the hell out of her for cutting down the Meteor grunts at the WTC. With all these super-hero series and movies around I'm seriously tired of this whole "killing bad guys is wrong" argument. They're bad guys. They kidnap, torture and kill people. Literally. They poison an entire citys water supply. They literally make the world a worse place to live for every day people. Just kill them and be done with it. Who wants to keep battling the same arseholes over and over because they obviously keep coming back. The only thing that stopped Simon was when his friend got killed by Sapphira.. when he found out there's actual consequences when he starts fucking with peoples lives.. so clearly, that's the only thing that works. Otherwise you're just wacking out the weed in the backyard over and over because they keep sprouting. Preventative action is the best action. Go Titania and go Sapphira, mow those suckers down!

Yeah it's kind of crazy how many of the characters I just don't like. I don't like Julia either. She just has a too big personality, ya know? Feels like it's quirky for the sake of being quirky, like a lesser version of Terra. Never played through Rejuvenation. So, I hear the characters are based on actual people - Elias and Luna, too. Did that genuinely happen in real life? Or was that last bit about her father hiring a woman to have her just in the game? Also where did you find that out?

Mfw I want to kill off almost everyone, on both sides. I genuinely hate most characters in this game lol. Terra because anyone who talks like that should just be put down immediately. Fern because, obviously. Although admittedly I kind of regret it as it's always fun to beat someone who gets all butthurt about it afterwards. It's a great laugh. Sigmund, because, you know, the torturing kids. He doesn't even do ECT right!! Nevermind the fact that he's doing it to kids against their will: he's supposed to give them muscle relaxers and put them under anesthesia.... they're not supposed to be fucking awake. Second: it's only used on kids with some pretty severe personality disorders or schizophrenia. On adults, mostly depression.. Only Anna really seems to fit that description given her pretty obvious schizophrenia. The rest are all pretty damn healthy. Amaria could probably benefit from it.. That's also not mentioning fact that it causes brain damage every single time you do it.. oh and the potential from permanent memory loss. What an awesome doctor. Kill him for sheer incompetence. Bennett is a stalker. Helped kidnap and hold hostage the object of his obsession. And then threatened the player as if it's our fault. Honestly not worth the money it costs to treat this sicko at the nuthouse, just get rid of him. Elias as a character is so fucking boring. He's a fanatic who stalks and kidnaps his supposed daughter (can't remember if we find out if she really is his?).. just kill him. Friendly fire.. Titania, Amaria, Heather, Adrienn. Titania didn't believe me when I didn't read her stupid diary and then proceeded to antagonize us for the rest of the game. Sorry, stray bullet when I was shooting at Sigmund. My bad. Amaria tries to drown us. That is a horrible freaking death. Like, super horrible way to die. Also holds Titania hostage in their relationship by using her depression and suicide as a bargaining chip to keep her around. That's some pretty sick manipulative behavior. I don't think I'd even bother to try to make this look like accidental friendly fire.. Adrienn.. gives me the creeps. Our first encounter with him he buds into business that isn't his and tries to steal from strangers. Sorry but whatever lies Elias told him, it's pretty clear who's in the wrong and who's in the right, given what happened. I haven't liked him since then. Second, how am I supposed to know what pronouns you identify as?! No need to get snippy mate, we've just met. Literally JKUST met. Third, no one - NO ONE is THAT good a person.. Nu-uh, I'm calling secret Meteor super-villain or something. Just wait and see. Gives me the creeps. Given how liked he is though that is definitely going to be "an accident." Heather has annoyed me since our first encounter after the PULSE Tangrowth fight. But honestly, as a character she kind of grew a lot. Ametrine City events proves that. Kinda regret picking her. I take it back. She's alright.

I voted Titania simply because she accused me of reading her silly diary when I bloody didn't. Arrogant brat, as if her diary would be of interest. In her defense on what you mentioned, she didn't lead Amaria on. Amaria manipulated the hell out of her, using her depression and threatening with suicide to keep her around. That's freaking nuts. All on Amaria, the manipulative, murderous horrible character.

Taking advantage of field effects and changing the field to take their advantage away is just smart play.. only reason not to do it is to intentionally cripple yourself for a bigger challenge. Are you planning on debugging the mons from the start or are you picking them up as they become available to you? So with Mega-Cham not having the fastest base speed, I would try and build something around gaining speed control for yourself so you can sweep with Medicham as your main win condition, then find a backup win con. Arcanine / Intimidate @ Leftovers - Flare Blitz - Close Combat - Extreme Speed - Morning Sun Medicham / Huge Power @ Mega Stone - Fake Out - High Jump Kick - Zen Headbutt - Ice Punch Whimsicott / Prankster @ Leftovers - Moonblast - Tailwind - Leech Seed - Protect / Giga Drain Magnezone / Sturdy @ - Flash Cannon - Thunderbolt - Thunder Wave - HP: Fire / Volt Switch (when available) Swampert / Torrent @ Focus Sash (for important fights) - Scald - Earthquake - Rock Slide - Stealth Rock Honchkrow / Moxie @ - Sucker Punch - Night Slash - Brave Bird - Tailwind / Roost Alternative to Honch is Weavile / Pressure - Ice Shard - Icicle Crash - Knock Off - Fake Out Serves a nice back up win condition / cleaner Another idea could be to take advantage of Fake Out by using Toxic Spikes with an Infestation, Haze, Toxic Spikes, Recover Toxapex build. However I think you would have to compromise on your no-type-clash as you might need another Toxic setter in your team. Like Amoongus or something. Then give Brick Break to your Weavile as another tool to combat Steel types, together with Arcanine and Cham's HJK you have a win condition against Steel types, too.

So thaaat's why Ferns a walk-over in this gauntlet.. I never could understand why he was this easy with his team, I never knew his EV/IV's were so poor outside of Roserade and Decidueye..

You get Water stone regardless of which gang you join. The Fire Stone is available when you reach Apophyll Beach. Oh, and it would be a big waste to evolve Growlithe before you have access to Flare Blitz. Besides, against Shelly Flame Burst is there on Growlithe and if you have someone with Fake Out (Meowstic or maybe Pikachu) to take care of her Rain Dance on turn 1 you can really make good work by seeding your Growlithe. My eye sight is too bad to see which mons you have in those screens so I can't help you, sorry. But Fearow learns Aerial Ace early, Ampharos and Persian learn Power Gem and Emolga has Acrobatics. Easiest strategy is to Fake Out turn 1 and the burn the field with Flame Burst, then you can start sweeping with Growlithe and your birds/power gem users. Good luck!