Mortally Divine

You could start a whole new game for a different one though

No longer looking for Drillbur, found someone willing to trade Thanks! EDIT: Spelling. Derp.

Gyarados would be a good pokemon to get, buy magikarp from the fisherman at the grand hall. Uhhhh........ Escavalier is a really good type to take out Radomus later in the game, Trick Room only makes him an unstoppable monster.

I want

I wonder how it would react if you jumped from Episode 15 to Episode 1..... Kappa

I missed my chance to get a Drillbur, and can't go back to reborn for a while (Just got past Agate Circus) If anyone is willing to give me a drillbur / excadrill that'd be awesome <3

Story time Steven holds the pokeball of Forretress, who he thinks might be his only hope at beating Samson, who has a team that counters his favorite type of Steel. Steven's team of metal may be strong, but it is no match for the denting blows of Samson's vicious fighting types. Steven throws at Hariyama, starting every fight the same. Steven surprises Samson this time, starting out with forretress, who his horridly underleveled, having sat in a PC for what seemed to it like an eternity. Forretress spun around at the new battle, ready to fight hard for his trainer. Little did he know what was coming. Hariyama jumped up, ready to preform a Heavy Slam onto Forretress. WHAMO! POWERFUL! Forretress was crushed under this Hariyama, and shot Spikes everywhere to get the big thing off of him. Hariyama raised his arms up, and brought them down onto forretress. Brick Break. Forretress fainted from the move, not being able to withstand Hariyama's force. Steven smiled, the plan worked perfectly. Pokeball in hand, he threw it out in front of the crowd. Metagross hummed to life, ready to destroy. Meteor Mash. WHAMO! POWERFUL! Hariyama responded with another Heavy Smash, having the same plan for Metagross as he did for Forretress. He didn't realize Metagross can hit back. Thrown back by the Meteor Mash, Samson used a Super Potion. Out of nowhere, another Meteor Mash onto Hariyama. Samson used another Potion in a vain attempt to save Hariyama from the beating it was receiving at the end of Metagross's furious Meteor Mash. Another one, dropping Hariyama super low. Metagross followed up with a Bullet Punch, finishing off the big brute. Blaziken. Steven withdrew Metagross and Sent out Steelix. Steelix knew the plan, he had been through this many times before. Blaziken kicked, a furious Brick Break. Unfortunately, Steelix was more Sturdy than that, withstanding the blow he dug under the circus, causing rumbles throughout the ground. Blaziken Blaze Kicked in frustration, his opponent having ran from him. The rumbles grew strong, and Steelix dug up from the ground, throwing blaziken into the air, diving back into the ground. Samson used a super potion to heal Blaziken up while Steelix was underground. Blaziken saw it coming this time, and after Steelix emerged, he blaze kicked and finished Steelix off. Steven smiled, Blaziken was weak now. Empoleon, his starting pokemon, had never failed him. Though Blaziken was fast, being pumped up from the battle and his Speed Boost, Empoleon was an Aqua Jet, cutting through the watery air he had made at light speeds, crashing into Blaziken. Blaziken held on from the onslaught, only managing to Blaze Kick Empoleon off of him, which only lasted a second before Empoleon crashed into him again, knocking the fighting chicken out cold. "Return!" exclaimed steven as he withdrew empoleon and sent out Magnezone. Mienshao was Samson's next pokemon, and it was ready for the fight. Brick Break was soming Magnezone wasn't prepared for, and feinted instantly. Meanwhile, Steven had used an ultra potion on Empoleon. He sent empoleon back out, who took off in Aqua Jet, crashing into Mienshao. Mienshao countered with another Brick Break, sending empoleon back into his pokeball, feinted. Geez, Mienshao is tough. Steven sent out Escavalier. Escavalier had a serious look under his helmet, he was ready to kick some ass. Mienshao dashed at him, jumping around with fancy Acrobatics, after making contact with Escavalier once, something stopped him dead cold. He had been slammed by Escavalier's Iron Head, before feinting from the pain. Hawlucha was next. Escavalier was very weak, Mienshao having been a tough fight, his Acrobatics having come close to knocking him out. Steven used a revive on Steelix. Hawlucha hit Escavalier, fainting him. Metagross, you're up. Metagross was prepared, only 2 pokemon left to defeat. Metagross used Zen Headbutt, a slamming attack empowered with his psychic abilities, and slammed into Hawlucha who was trying the same Acrobatics Mienshao had used. "One more Zen headbutt, and he would be out, should I bullet punch to finish him off?" Metagross wondered, when he remembered how Hawlucha could swap places with extreme speed while bouncing off of him in the process, a move he called "U-turn". He prepared a Zen headbutt as he saw Hawlucha preparing to use U-turn, and he suddenly slammed into a much bigger pokemon. Conkledurr, Samson's Ace. Zen headbutt made contact with him, dealing heavy damage. Metagross was faster, and slammed another Zen headbutt into conkledurr, knocking him out. Predicted, and out-smarted. Hawlucha reluctantly flew back out, being the last pokemon Samson had. He tried to U-Turn back and switch with someone else, but it was no use. Clonk! A metallic force slammed into his head, knocking him cold. A final Zen Headbutt to end the fight. Steven returned Metagross back to his belt of pokeballs, and proceeded to rob samson of his pocket change for some more cotton candy, that shit is good! tl;dr I won

Just randomly trying the fight again and again I've made it to conkledurr, leveled up a few times, and am getting closer with the levels I'm gaining. I think I should be able to beat it. Metagross can halfhealth the conkledurr at level 64 with a Zen Headbutt. Forretress already knows spikes, but not toxic spikes. Considering Klingklang / magnezone are practically useless as they get 1 shot by anything and move last, I might use forretress as a spikes first so that thats that. I think I should be good if I get everything leveled up though. idk if I should spend the heart scale on toxic spikes though I will if I need it to get past How the fight goes so far: Metagross kills hariyama with meteor mash, takes a bit of damage ~100 hp left if RNG is good Steelix faints to Blaziken, but baits out a potion use: Empoleon 1 shots blaziken with Hydro Pump after potion. Mienshao wipes pretty much the whole team, finally gets taken out by either Escavalier if he survives the 1 shot, or empoleon if he survives, or metagross if he survives. Lucario gets 1 shot by metagross, hammer arm -> bullet punch. Metagross halfhealths conkledurr, conkledurr kills him. I think if I use some cotton candy / ultra potions wisely, I might be able to win this fight as is If Metagross levels up enough, I can give him Metal Coat and he can 1 shot hariyama with first move meteor mash, but since he cant with metal coat, hariyama always uses knock off which kills him

Samson (EP15) My Team (MONO-STEEL) Metagross (62): (Naive) (Clear Body) Hammer Arm Bullet Punch Meteor Mash Zen Headbutt Escavalier (61): (Naughty) (Overcoat) X-Scissor Iron Head Slash Reversal Empoleon(61): (Hardy) (Defiant) Hydro Pump Aqua Jet Drill Peck Metal Claw Magnezone(61) (Jolly) (Analytic) Magnet Rise Metal Souns Flash Cannon Discharge Klingklang(61) (Naive) (Minus) Gear Grind Shift Gear Dishcharge Brick Break (HM slave, sadly ) Steelix(61)-------(Really want to replace with Excadrill, but cannot go back to get Drillbur ) (Docile) (Sturdy) Iron Tail Crunch Rock Slide Dig I can only use steel types, and I'm pretty much out of Ideas except maybe grinding levels, which is taking forever on the low-leveled wild mons in route 2. Any ideas? (I could grind some levels off of samson himself by failing the battle but killing a few pokemon each time, but I'd lose a HUGE chunk of cash doing that, so I would prefer not to) EDIT: Kiki also gave me a lot of problems, only beat her by RNGesus and using Protect to make High Jump Kick miss. I also have more magnemites, a forretress and a wormadam steel coat thingy in the PC. I have 1 Metal Coat that can be held to boost Steel Type attacks. EDIT2: Just noticed I also have a level 24 Bronzor in the PC. Might be worthwhile? EDIT3: Just learned you dont lose money when you lose to samson... I thought you did? Well, time to use that to train up

Everyone saying Samson / Kiki was easy ;-;. On my first run-through, no gym-leader gave me hell, I was well prepared for each one of them. On my mono-steel type run-through, I spent about 8 hours trying to beat Kiki, a good 3-4 trying to beat Noel and his Secret Power (Fire) with the field effect, and I just made it to Samson.... Another fighting type.... With a better field effect.... FUN. At least this time I have Metagross?

He can't use a trubbish / Ekans, it's a mono ground run

Was just wondering if you can still get Metal Coats from wild Magnemites inside of Shade's Power Plant? (Currently using Episode 14) EDIT: Nevermind, Just got a Metal Coat from one. 2nd try too, using compoundeyes.... What luck Well, for future reference if anyone is looking for another Metal Coat, you CAN get them from Magnemites

You also did a Steel monotype run? Cool dude Right now I'm on the dark leader, I forget her name.... but I need to grind a few levels on my mons first, just gotta find the time to do so

You can get headbutt from a bidoof reaching level 17

During my Monotype Steel run, I can easily say that the poison gym was a piece of cake. The fire leader on top of the volcano by kiki's gym (my horrible memory forgets the name) got rekt by Empoleon. Kiki herself was an absolute nightmare though

I get back after 5 months of living life being busy, finally summer, see this thread, roll through steel and I see you have forgotten something! (OH NOES)! No need to fear, I am here to save the day! (Yaaayyy!) Anyways! Magnemite / Magneton / Magnezone is available in the wild inside of Shade's Gym, not sure when you can first access that, but you can catch those guys as a wild pokemon. Also, I don't know when you can first reach Beldum, but he is also obtainable at some point. I know you haven't gotten to Lucario, but don't forget to include him <3. Thanks!

I've been off for a while, pretty busy with life (I have one of those? never knew) so I probably won't be playing for a while, so any trades I was trying to make just cancel (or postpone, although it will be QUITE a while) until I can play again

Damn! I don't have those starters, so my only option would be to create a new save just to get them, but then the shiny beldum wouldn't be on my steel run xD. I could obtain a mudkip for you, but unfortunately it would be after this weekend, I have a wrestling tournament to manage saturday, and one to go to sunday... so I won't be able to play until sunday night/ monday.

You could also level up a burmy with trash coat so that it become bug/steel type, and it will learn confusion (which is super effective) and the steel typing makes it immune to poison.

Or, instead of saying "this pokemon knows this move when in the canon game it can't learn that!"... consider this game Gen VII, and all moves known by any pokemon is now correct.

If you want I could teach you how to play voltorb flip and you could have trapinch in under an hour from 0 coins?

xD I almost died laughing because of this

Make sure to introduce yourself in the Grand Hall !

Okay, so this is a long standing offer; I don't imagine anyone having one willing to trade anytime soon, but... I love the look of shiny Metagross. So... if anyone has a shiny beldum, or shiny metang, or metagross and you are willing to trade, just tell me what you want and I'll see if I have it, I have a few different saves I can look through

if countless hours of grinding all happened in my mind in 1 second, I think my mind would literally explode.... EDIT: and in the after credits, once you've waken up to go to school, you walk out to see your dad is taking you to school. But the thing is; Fern is your dad.