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So much has changed that honestly it'd be a shorter list as to what DIDN'T change. I'd recommend just playing through the game yourself to see it.

The easiest way to deal with it is to lower it's defensive stats. Using something like screech you can easily get it to -4 or -6 def at which point it becomes very easy to take down. You can do the same thing to it's spdef with fake tears. I'm not sure which mons will have fake tears, but there is an absolute mountain of different mons that learn screech/leer/something similar.

That isn't until almost the end of the game. You have to consider more than just the endgame potential that your starter will have. In fact that early and midgame will be the most important part of the game for your starter as you won't have as many other good pokemon to use.

Also picking a grass starter means your in for a world of pain. Venam's a lot harder than she used to be and your pool of mons that you can obtain before fighting her is a lot smaller than it was in V12.

Torchic is without a doubt the best starter available. Even greninja and cinderace are nowhere near as powerful as blaziken is. Greninja struggles to oneshot anything even when hitting it with protean and supereffective dmg due to it's not great sp att stat (and lack of life orb ingame). Greninja also has the worst level up moves i've ever seen. Your stuck with waterpulse as your strongest attack until like the 5th or 6th gym where you get surf. You also won't learn any coverage moves ever, and your entirely reliant on tms for all your moves. And most of the good tms don't come until later in the game. Cinderace has pretty garbage moves by level up as well outside of pyroball and double edge. You need to the egg move tutor to get good moves like hjk and suckerpunch on cinderace (I'm at the end of chapter 12 rn and i still haven't found the egg move tutor on V13 yet). Blaziken on the other hand, gets speed boost and has access to blaze kick and bulk up right when it evolves. You can also get flare blitz and hjk from the normal move relearner very soon after that. Blaziken can sweep entire teams with just one bulk up and can carry your run pretty hard by itself.

Basically the title. I've had to replay this entire chapter since there are multiple points that can softlock you without the player even realizing it, especially on intense mode. The first softlock I encountered was at the very start since when you walk to axis high your supposed to see a cutscene with madelis, but sometimes the scene doesn't play and you get softlocked. The next softlock is right before the vivian fight. There's a bug where if you leave the spring of purification it won't let you re-enter it. Thus you become softlocked. The next softlock I got was against pirate valarie. For some reason there's no access to a pc the entire time from after the vivian fight to the valarie fight. The team I beat vivian with has a terrible matchup vs valarie and there was no way I could win. Without any aceess to a pc I had to revert back to an older save. Luckily I saved right before vivian and there were mons in my pc that could help me, although they were underleveled. But to level them I would need to leave the spring of purification (becoming softlocked by bug #2), and my next previous save from that point was all the way at axis high. I still haven't gotten to see the parts after valarie yet, but I'm pretty sure there's still more tough fights left in the chapter. I doubt theres pc access before those either, so there's even more potential to get softlocked still. Also just in general, vivan and valarie are both not easy fights and having just one team that can beat both + the other remaining fights left in the chapter seems near impossible, especially on the harder difficulties.

Anyone know where the egg move relearner is in V13? I read it was in GDC now but I have 11 badges atm and I still haven't found it. The move relearner in GDC still doesn't give any egg moves.

I think cubones have a 5% chance of holding one. Also you can get one guaranteed around chapter 10-11 I think.

That being said, if for whatever reason gothitelle is your favourite mon and you really want use it, I'd recommend you just go ahead and use it. In rejuvenation with the exp all you can have a large rotation of team members and there will be a couple fights where goth might be good. It might also just be a good psychic type for trick room teams.

Very bad. Gothitelle has pretty average bulk as well as pretty average sp att, and its speed is low. It also doesnt even reach its final evolution until the late 40's. In all the major boss battles in rejuvenation (gym leaders, enemy team admins, etc) the opposing mons are so strong and fast that gothitelle will probably be lucky to even get a hit off. There is also nothing special about its typing, coverage moves, nor its abilities.

You need some fighting types vs her or she's just going to roll you. The best one available at that point is probably hariyama. You can get makuhita in sheridan. From the looks of it your team just doesnt have anything that can really hit her mons hard. I can't remember if your allowed to leave the mansion or not at the point your in. There's no helpful pokemon in the grass around the mansion either. If you can't leave you might be softlocked and need to reset to a save before you go into the mansion.

As the post above mine said, I would just reset to an earlier save. As you go through valor mountain i would save very often. I found that the v13 valor mountain is EXTREMELY buggy. There are countless ways to get stuck and some really funky stuff happens (like venam being in front of the kyogre monument saying "we need to change the mood" even AFTER i beat zetta and geara).

I just managed to take him down. I had a similiar strategy with using tailwind+my own screens + breaking his screens. Then this bad boy put in some work: Still, I think this fight is far too unfair. It requires VERY specific mons with specific moves for it to be remotely winnable. You must have your own tailwind and you must have a fast infiltrator mon that can one-hit the medicham (as far as I know noivern and crobat are the ONLY mons that fit the bill). You must also have mons that can set up screens, break screens, and take psychic and fairy hits while also being able to do massive dmg to psychic types. Once you progress to GDC, you can't even get those mons anymore since the only things you can catch anymore are the garbage mons in the city grass. Even with all the right tools and a monster volcarona (which most players wont have), I still only won with one mon left and none on aelitas side. Puppetmaster definitly needs to nerfed, or aelita buffed, or both. I think the easiest way to make this a fairer fight is to allow the player to change the terrain. All of puppetmaster's mons benefit way too much from it and aelita's team matchup vs puppetmaster is way too weak.

I've replayed the entirety of V13 up to the double battle against puppet master with aelita on intense. V13 is significantly harder as a whole and almost every major boss battle is harder. However, puppetmaster has been buffed so much compared to earlier versions that I don't see how he's beatable. All of their mons are insanely fast due to the terrain and will outspeed basically all of your and aelita's mons (almost every mon on their team also has 100% accuracy hypnosis and have a tendency to sleep you/aelita before you get to attack). They also hit way too hard, their psychic beatdown move will one-shot almost any mon. Also in V13 you cannot change the terrain at all, which you could in V12. They also have a bunch of sash mons and 2 different screen setters as well as 2 mega mons. The mega medicham in particular is silly, that thing can probably oneshot dark mons with psychic moves (its psychic beatdown 100-0'd my 252hp ev slowbro from neutral). The worst part is that aelita is near useless in this fight. Her mon's just dont hit hard enough and usually can't even 2hko most of the opposing mons. They will also die in one hit to any psychic/fairy move so your left in a 2v1 pretty quickly (at which point it becomes 100% unwinnable). I have a team entirely tailored for this fight and i still can't win. Also another big issues, the break brick tm got moved and I haven't been able to find it in V13, so your pretty limited on choices of mons that have it to break the screens. My current team is: Heracross, Volcarona (i got really lucky from the mystery egg), meowstic (for my own screens, although aelitas mons still die in one hit even with screens), Luxray with crest, noivern (i bring this one since it has hurricane and infiltrator and can outspeed and 1 hit the medicham), and slowbro (pretty much the only mon that can take more then one hit to get off twaves to cripple all of puppetmaster's fast mons). TLDR: Puppetmaster is buffed way too much, especially considering that aelita didn't get any kind of buff. (Actually she got nerfed, since she leads gliscor now instead of starraptor, and starraptor was a much better lead). If anyone has been able to complete this fight on intense i'm super curious how.

Just got to west gearen and tried to start the generator problems quest, however it said I needed to start odd house first. I remember in older versions you would start that by going to narcissa's gym but when i went to goldenwood forest I got softlocked and had to go to a previous save since I couldnt leave the town. Whenever I tried to leave my character would say something along the lines of "better stay in this area". The truck transport guy was also missing. The way to the gym was locked and so was narcissa's house. I also noticed that there was an npc blocking the pokecenter and there was no one at all in the pokemart. I talked to all the npcs and searched the area but there was nothing that triggered an event or would let me leave town (in any direction). Anyone know what's going on in goldenwood?

Its true that her terrain is a mix of ice and dark (ice and dark are both boosted), but her ice moves do not gain an added dark type. I fought her with multiple fighting types and they did not resist any of her ice attacks.

Spearow is also available in east gearen and evolves into fearow at level 20. Fearow is prob the only mon you can have at this point that outspeeds the lucario. Also i'd bring your butterfree too and just sleep powder as many of his mons as possible

I answered the question in different post pretty recently so ill just copy paste my answer from there Getting a chimeco is a huge help against keta. You can find chingling in gearen city and also around sheriden at night. The salon in gearen is very helpful for getting chimeco to evolve, since it evolves from happiness. Chimeco naturally learns extrasensory at lvl 22 and it also gets yawn by that point. It also has some very good bulk for the point of the game your in. Extrasensory is a very high power move for this point in this game and it will one shot most (or come close to) a lot of his mons. Yawn is very helpful for putting the lucario to sleep since thats his biggest threat. You can also get a luxio at this point which has intimidate and is super helpful since all of keta's mons are physical. If your still struggling i'd reommend getting a 2nd chimeco and at that point you'll beat him 100%.

Meditite is no longer available at amythyst cave too.

In the safari zone you can get copparajah which is probably the best steel type available up to this point. If you want something fast theres also alolan dugtrio from goldenwood but it probably wouldnt hit hard enough to ohko any of her mons. Forretress is also available in goldenwood but it has pretty bad spdef and im not sure it would help you that much against angie. I beat angie a couple days ago on intense and what you really want are a steel type or two and some fighting types. Hariyama is fantastic since it has thicc fat and learns both fake out and close combat at that point. You can also get sawk from sheridan village and it will have brick break for the aurora veil and close combat as well. The glaceon (with crest) is weak only to steel so you really need to save your steel types for that. Honestly might sound silly, but Hariyama can put in so much work vs her that i'd recommend having two of them vs her.

You can catch natu in the amythst cave, although the encounter rate is now very low i believe. You'll get xatu at lvl 25 and it learns air slash when it evolves. You should outspeed the gallade (as long as your IVs and nature dont suck too bad), and a flinch or two should let you 1v1 it.

In V12 it used to be the sheridan girl you saved from the kristiline help center, but now that girl is the normal move relearner. I think the egg relearner is now the move relearner in GDC.

During my first playthrough I chose blaziken as my starter. With V13 out I'm doing a second run and i chose cinderace as my starter. Both runs are on intense mode. I can say without a doubt that Blaziken is the best starter available in the game, period. Cinderace's libero doesnt really become good until you get to the egg move tutor (which is now in a significantly later part of the game), since thats where you get highjump kick and sucker punch. You cannot get those moves before then and you'll already have been through about 75% of the game at that point. Cinderace's movepool by level up and the tms that are available to you is garbage. Right now im about ~lvl 55-60 and pyro ball and double edge are my only strong moves. With blaziken you get blaze kick but you can also get highjump kick and flare blitz from the NORMAL move relearner (which youll get at about the 1/3 point in the game). Blaziken also learns bulk up by level up so your able to set up and sweep with speed boost. In the very late game maybe cinderace can be on-par with blaziken but for 80-90% of the game there is no contest between the two.

Getting a chimeco is a huge help against keta. You can find chingling in gearen city and also around sheriden at night. The salon in gearen is very helpful for getting chimeco to evolve, since it evolves from happiness. Chimeco naturally learns extrasensory at lvl 22 and it also gets yawn by that point. It also has some very good bulk for the point of the game your in. Extrasensory is a very high power move for this point in this game and it will one shot most (or come close to) a lot of his mons. Yawn is very helpful for putting the lucario to sleep since thats his biggest threat. You can also get a luxio at this point which has intimidate and is super helpful since all of keta's mons are physical. If your still struggling i'd reommend getting a 2nd chimeco and at that point you'll beat him 100%. Natu is actually not that good of an option against about half of his team. The tree terrain adds a grass typing to air slash (and natu wont have any good physic moves yet) and so it'll be neutral against his breloom and komo'mo and his lucario will actually resist the air slash.

Fighting Saki + venam right now. Im quite sure her duraladon is bugged. The damage done to duralodon was done by a machamp dynamic punch with 252 att ev with 20+ iv in att and a neutral nature. Ive checked its item is a expert belt by knocking it off. Duraludon has no abilities that lower super effective fighting damage and I dont have any attack drops. Im also up 3 levels so it seems impossible that i'm doing so little damage. I think its base def stat must be off or it has an ability that duraludon doesnt normally have