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With switch style and and items it's not hard (by the way, did you know Revive resets Mimikyu's Disguise?), but with set style and no items, if you build a good 3v3 team that uses the chess field well, you can probably pull through, but realistically, build for one matchup and F12 'till you roll is your best bet. That it happens while you're locked in GDC, so you can't exactly travel around the region to build the perfect 3v3 chessboard team doesn't help (seriously, the GDC arc existing is more than a good reason to catch any new pokemon on sight). Anyway, I find the gym battle, which happens immediately after, to be way harder. Reborn does do creative stuff time to time (like PULSE Camerupt), but there the difficulty most of the time is from PULSE having absurd stats, PULSE2, opponents abusing the field so that everything OHKOs every possible counter, and hellish gauntlets, and the game throws 6v12s at you like they're rice and you've just got married. Currently, Rejuv only has one hellish gauntlet, and it's a Paragon exclusive.

As for the Aelita thing, I think the rift is a fine conclusion to the arc: Aelita and Taelia accept each other as mother and daughter, and Aelita never calls herself "a monster that should have never existed" ever again. I don't think that that Keta is actually her husband from her previous life really hit her, at least not emotionally, until later when she started visiting the springs but that's all done off screen. And I don't think there's much of a doubt on her feelings being more complicated than she lets out: according to Venam, everyone in the task force is putting a strong front, and she's the only one without complicated personal matters going on at the moment. This part really does need to be expanded, but there's plenty of time for it. Saki got a lot of exposition because it was a "now or not until way into the postgame" deal. As for Melia, M2 is a key part in understanding her character, imho, especially with Renegade MC insisting there's no fundamental difference between the two ( (Rot13) "Lbh unir n frevbhf vffhr jvgu nppbhagnovyvgl. Lbh arire gnxr erfcbafvovyvgl sbe nalguvat. Rira jvgu gur anzr, "Z2". Lbh pubfr vg gb nyvrangr lbhefrys sebz "Zryvn", orpnhfr lbh qvqa'g jnag gb gneavfu ure anzr, be fbzrguvat. Orpnhfr fjrrg by' Zryvn jbhyqa'g qb fbzrguvat fb ivyr, urvabhf, pehry. Ohg Zryvn jbhyq. Naq Zryvn unf.") With keeping the plan secret, it makes sense, since it does rely on the targets not knowing it: "we have to deepen our friendship or the world will burn or something" doesn't quite have the same vibe as simply saying: "Hey, let's hang out!" As for why she requested access to the Zeight in the first place, it's because events in the ruined timeline taught her just how important MC is, and pushed her to support them the best way that she can.

There are two Fairy-types you get from a certain someone in Rejuv: Mawile, and Sylveon. Mawile doesn't really need help to be viable, well, at least Mega Mawile and its 678 Attack doesn't, Sylveon definitely could. Sure, it could get a copy-paste of the Sinnoh Eeveelitions crests, which just swap a couple of weaknessess for resistances, which makes sense: they're primarily held back by being slow mons with a terrible defensive typing, but that's not the case for Sylveon, and such a copy-paste would leave it with no weakness, an immunity, and 5 resistances. Instead, something way more interesting can be done with the Sylveon Crest: give it Misty Surge. Hyper Voice gets STAB from Pixilate, the 1.5x Pixilate boost from the terrain, and the 1.5x boosts that all Fairy moves get on the Misty Terrain, it hits with an insane 303 base bower. This concept can be applied to all the eevelutions to make a series crests: Flareon gets Drought, Joteon Electric Surge, etc. That leaves only Umbron, since there's no Dark-type weather/terrain, its crest, instead could allow it to clear the weather and terrain on switch in, which is in character with it being a Dark-type and a notoriously defensive mon.

This is definitely interesting. A giant mech is also an obvious giant target, and that alone gives a city full of strong trainers, like GDC, a chance to fight back, but how are you going to fight something too small to see that's going to kill you before you even begin to understand what's happening? But this also means there's not going to be a rift Stakataka battle, which, let's be real, there's definitely going to be a rift Stakataka battle.

I haven't looked into Cherrim a lot, but the Ledian Crest is busted. Full IV, 252 Attack EV, Adamant Ledian is like it had 740 Attack whenever it uses a punch move, git it Iron Fist with the Ability Capsule and it's going to be like it has 888, and does learn Mach Punch. 888 Attack Mach Punch is busted on its own. Then, the crest also makes secondary effects proc twice, and Ledian learns Power-Up Punch, which means it's a mini Mega Kangaskhan but its main move has priority. Survive one turn to land a Power-Up Punch and you're going to have 1776 Attack Mach Punch. On top of that, it has access to Drain Punch for healing, and all the elemental punches for coverage, and U-Turn, which is U-Turn, except it won't hit hard at all.

I'm stuck in Beryl Ward. I've beaten the Pulse Tangrowth, got access to the hidden room in the gym, but the former gym leader is nowhere to be found.

Wasn't Ch. 3's Marble Mansion in a parallel universe? And I think that the person that cries for help and the one that accuses MC of betrayal in Terajuma are different people. Also, if the Genesis Syndrome came from the Archetype being forcibly stripped from Maria and put into Melia, wouldn't M2 suffer from Genesis Syndrome in her universe as well, instead of getting it only after the switch with Melia? Seriously, the more you think about Maria/Melia/Melanie/M2 in general the less anything about them makes sense.

If PorygonZ with far better stats and Adaptability has its biggest competitive achievement making Porygon2 able to run the Evolite, I doubt this A-Absol is busted, and running a setup sweeper without a sash is risky. Sure, Fire and Fairy are good offensive types, unlike Normal, but with mediocre speed and being about as frail as Dedenne (I have it at 252 HP with the crest, and it still dies to a sneeze!) if think it makes a good wallbreaker, but not much else. Sure, if you send it against a wall and somehow manage to stick double Tremor Dance it's gg (even with single Tremor Dance it's going to outspeed most things), unless the opponent has Sashed/Sturdy/priority mons. A way to nerf it, rather than changing its ability, would be getting rid of Tremor Dance: if anything that's the thing that might cause problems. A lot of regional forms don't get a signature move anyway. It could get Calm Mind for a setup set, which, of course, it's not nearly as good. Another more crafty nerf is keep Tremor Dance, but make so it also gives -1 Def, the idea is that it becomes a glass cannot that literally dies to Quick Attack. We can go a big more heavy handed with that nerf: For where you would be able to find it, Valor Mountain (Angry) and Carotos Mountain. The latter is Ch 2, which is definitely too early. Valor Mountain would be during the later parts of Chaper 8, where you do get some very interesting pokemon already (like A-Gastrogon, the MVP of my mono Fairy run). But I think that being an event pokemon after you backtrack to Magrodar Crater after the GDC arc is fine: specie power creep plateaus in GDC (maybe it's locked behind a Strenght puzzle?).

Pokémon is already the biggest and most recognizable franchise on the planet. Using the Pokémon world, lore, and mythology as a substrate for your own world, lore, and mythology at this point in time can be seen as nothing different than doing the same with Tolkien's or D&D's, except that with Pokémon you risk Nintendo lawyers coming after you butt and that we're less to used to Pokémon being used in that way thanks to the risk of Nintendo coming after the author(s)'s butt.

Any Fairy/Fire for my mono-Fairy runs. It's the only way to stop the Ferrothorns in my nightmares!

I think it's the 11th or something. Anyway, when Melia talks to MC remotely via the Zeight, Aelita and Venam are off-screen and one of them checks on MC claiming to have heard a familiar voice. Melia is confused on how Aelita/Venam might have possibly heard a telepathic message to MC, and, later on, she pulls the same trick with both of them on screen but neither of them hears anything. This reeks of Karma.

Continuation of: Long story short, I've completed Hidden Library 3 and obtained the Banettite, and I have yet to start the Alice story segment in Oblitus Town, yet Karen doesn't want to show up stranded in the Zorrialyn Coast.

Karrina isn't there, and I can confirm I have the Banettite in the bag.

I think Karen was with the twins, but I can't say for sure I'm not mixing it up with another save. Still, I have Hidden Library 3 marked as completed, and I've been doing quests as soon as possible this save.

I've just checked, and she isn't in the inn. I've even finished the labyrinth at some point and interacted with the door, but, of course, my character hasn't learned the spell yet.

The thing is, I've been checking after every single event, and Karen was never there. I have a bunch of backup saves, so going back to pre-Oblitus isn't a problem. Loaded that save, and, yup, she's not there.

Karen is supposed to show up stranded in the Zorrialyn Coast at some point, but she just isn't there. I did Hidden Library 1 to 3, I'm deep into .Karma Files (I finished the Alice event), and she's still not showing up. Is there some weird condition?

I'm getting conflicting messages on this. On one end I'm drawn to think that Karma is extremely powerful: It created a Paradox Gear in the ruined timeline It straight-up transformed Talon into a monster in the Renegade timeline There's the mystery of what's behind the Team Lorem Ipsum quest in the Paragon timeline, whatever it is it's extremely powerful, and Karma was definitely involved (was it Venam or Aelita? Either way, one of them "heard a familiar voice" before the raid started, but she was out of screen when that happened, so, the presence of Karma's eye cannot be confirmed) It REWRITES the Nightmare Remix battle into the regular Evil Gardevoir battle. (But Nightmare Remix is a NG+ bonus, this might be non-canon) On the other, I think that Karma is rather weak or limited: Karma hasn't been shown to be able to make anyone do whatever at any moment, but it needs slowly corrupt people over time, Talon even managed to tank several days of Karma's influence until he snapped and went after MC Karma might be able to only influence a limited amount of people at any given time, otherwise why would it corrupt one person at a time instead of trying to overwhelm Renegade MC with numbers? That numbers also is more than one: Karma influences both Alexandra and MC at the same time in the train to GDC But, all the arguments for Karma being weak might just be Karma trying to play 5D chess. There's also another detail: even if Karma might be be able to bring back people from the dead, Renegade MC doesn't kill people normally, but uses End of Night which erases its target across the entirety of space and time. Which is stronger, Karma or End of Night?

There's a point where un unmistakably have the choice to enter the Renegade route, after which there's no going back. You could wait until then and start doing side quests right after that, but it will probably have consequences later on:

I had no way of winning in my main run, but just did in my Fairy monotype run. I can't wait to see those changes in first person! How did I win? Sash Dedenne to Nuzzle the Yveltal, send out Sylven, pray that Yveltal is paralyzed so that Sylveon can set up the Light Screen, and it's Moon Force/Play Rough sweep with Sylveon, Florges, and Granbull from there.

You can actually get Eevee in chapter 5: you have access to just enough lost souls to upgrade Maman's Garden twice and get the event Eevee. You just need to do it before, you know.

I do get Madam X's reasoning there: if she secures the archetype, she won, the protagonist only matters in quality of Melia's strongest bodyguard, and up to that point you never scored a clean win against Team Xen: Melia's kidnapping: D.N.F. by Melia's supposed death. Carotos Mountain: the Sheridan Village didn't explode, only thanks to the intervention of Crescent and Keta himself, but Keta still died. I'm gonna call that a draw. Wispy Tower: MC barely won thanks to Narcissa holding off Giratina. MC's and Aelita's kidnapping: utter loss for the protagonist. Confinement at Blacksteeple Castle: MC and crew did win, but at what cost? If we assume she only knows about the situation from the reports, and that the admins want to look good in said reports, I wouldn't fault Madam X for noticing that something's off with the protagonist only by them doing the impossible (beating Yveltal).

Valerie also lost a 3v3 with Melia and her Level 40 team in Blacksteeple Castle, and she definitely wasn't holding back, since the stakes were having food on the table. Also, there are other instances of the game using levels to convey strength other than it telling you: "you gotta lose": the Charizar Venam steals from Tesla is level 75 when the level cap is 60, Nancy's team at Blacksteeple Castle, when the level cap is 40, is level 65. There's also the Gooink quest, and that you're told over and over again that the trainers of East Gearen City are notoriously weak. Still there are some inconsistencies, for example, where did Angie find the time to train her team from level 50 to level 85 while she was an ice pop? And wasn't she supposed to be about as strong as VIvian to begin with? So, I'd say that levels are about 95% game logic and 5% power scaling.

Paralyze/Burn and sweep with fairies (all hail Mega Mawile), the only annoyances with that strat is that there's no 100% precision burn move, if you paralyze you still need a few tries to get Spacea to not attack a couple times, and the Heal Bell. I really miss the Renegade exclusive Z-move Chthonic Malady in these boss fights (especially since the Paragon exclusive Elysian Shield which kinda sucks, even more so against indirect damage strats), that really trivialized Tiempa in my Renegade run!