Mortally Divine

As a mono-type steel trainer, firstly I'm going to spit on your weak poison types. As for tips to a monotype run, you will have a lot of problems, but don't give up, each win is very satisfying. Make sure that you cover as many different types with as many pokemon as you can, and make sure each of your 'mons gets a good moveset. I don't know a ton about good poison types, I honestly never liked the type. I would guess setting up toxic spikes on one of your guys would be good, entry hazards are actually pretty strong. For a poison type, I would recommend at least 1 wall, so you can let poison wear them down

Save before you mine them, they're different each time =P

Ame iz 3 troll 5 u but seriously, I don't think completing episode 14 will help, because Damn, I got ninja'd

An Empoleon / prinplup with defiant is very good against corey. Just wait until he uses venom drain, and then BAM. Maxed attack, spam metal claw for GG.

I went back to reborn city and bought like 10-20 common candies. Hoorah! TBH, I expected to have a lot more trouble with Cain, but surprisingly enough he only took like 3-4 tries. Kiki though.... omg... I actually backed up my save right before I fought her, just incase I ever get an idea that would make the fight easier, and see if I can try it. If you want me to I could upload the save file and let you have a whack at it ? EDIT: as for help with charlotte, Rock Slide and Surf are pretty much the best moves in her gym, as they're super effective + hit both people (IIRC it is a double battle? if not, ignore this) EDIT2: Just had an idea to beat Kiki. Theres someone doing trades again, so I trade from my main to get a Riolu and a Beldum, train them up and Bam, I have a steel/psychic type and a steel/fighting that both have REALLY good stats. EDIT5: deleted 3 + 4, irrelevant now. As for this one, I am upset about the PULSE abra changes. Before, it was a level 100 abra that uses hyper beam to kill your team, and you get a hit inbetween. NOW, its a PULSE abra that 1 shots my whole team using dark pulse. How am I supposed to beat an abra with dark pulse that has 25 levels on me xD

Boooo! Still mad that that litleo replaced my prized abra, I refuse to acknowledge its existence.

I don't, but I'm kinda new-ish

As of X and Y, these pokemon have a chance to hold quick claw: Sandshrew Sandslash Zangoose Sneasel Persian

Quickest way to get headbutt IMHO is level up a Bidoof to level 17. Stop it from evolving, bibarel learns it at 18? I had to get headbutt in my mono-steel run to headbutt trees for a Pineco and Burmy, and a level 17 bidoof was really easy to get, and you can easily get it before the first gym badge (which is required for the snubbull IIRC)

For starters, I think it might help a little if I level up my mons a few times? Here's how the battle has been going: Magneton can kill machamp, but is usually left really weak (lower yellow zone / red zone) afterwards. She then sends out medicham, who kills the rest of my team with High Jump Kick. Maybe one of these times she'll miss and Empoleon can go back to sweeping? Klang is almost worthless, he's insanely slow and squishy, and gets 1 shot by pretty much anything, and doesn't do much damage in return. Steelix can survive 1-2 hits, and because of sturdy is guaranteed to hit at least once. Bad thing is, due to medicham's typing, his Crunch isn't super effective, which would help a lot. I'll list the TMs I have and the poke that can learn them, and see if we can make anything from that? I could also maybe grind for another metal coat to power up steel type moves? Is there an item obtainable at this point in the game to power up water type moves? EDIT: gonna be a breakdown of the field effect in a spoiler.. EDIT: I JUST HAD AN EPIPHANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If forretress or wormadam use protect, WOULDN'T MEDICHAM FAIL HIGH JUMP KICK + CRASH? OMG, TESTING NOW EDIT2: alright, so it does work, but it is now up to the RNG gods of protect + high jump kick. And my prediction levels. RNGesus pls EDIT3: RNGESUS IS SO MEAN. I'm about to rip my hair out, I have the potential to beat Kiki with this team, using protect, but the RNG fucks me over every time. EVERY TIME. EDIT4: I've broken down and grinded some levels. Hopefully levels will solve, I'm thinking if I just put everyone at 44 (right below cap) then I should have an easier time? EDIT5: Way too many edits D:. anyways, only in pokemon reborn can I get Kiki down to her last pokemon, Lucario, with empoleon still full HP. As my hopes skyrocket, I watch empoleon get ONE SHOT by aura sphere due to the field effect. *flashback to the post where field effects were introduced, noticing that the field effect was HELPING ASH WIN AGAINST GYM LEADER helpful, rather than annoying an obstacle that only makes me angry better as a trainer. EDIT6: After 4 hours of RNGesus betraying me and not going my way, steven found victory in his steel types. Never. Again. 4. Hours. Of. Soft. Resetting.

Gonna need some help with Kiki Monotype Steel run Empoleon Level 44 (Hardy) Defiant Metal Claw Bubble Beam Aqua Jet Brine Magnemite Level 44 (Jolly) Analytic Flash Cannon Magnet Bomb Metal Sound Electro Ball Klang Level 39 (Naive) Minus Gear Grind Mirror Shot Charge Beam Rock Smash Wormadam Level 39 (Docile) Overcoat Protect Psybeam Hidden Power(Ice) Bug Bite Forretress Level 43 (Rash) Overcoat Spikes Protect Payback Bug Bite Steelix Level 40 (Docile) Sturdy Iron Tail Crunch Rock Slide Sand Tomb Having a lot of problems with her fighting types D: Not exactly sure what to do >.<...

Summoning etesian always works

OK. Your best bet for help would be to summon etesian. He knows more about teams than I do

One thing I've noticed right off the bat is that you have no "walls". All of them are EV trained to be sweepers. You might want to change one of them to be really tanky? Idk too much about it, other than the fact that an all sweeper team can be swept.

I'm glad to see that someone is doing this again. I would ask for a trade, but right now I'm doing a Steel monotype run, and it would feel a bit illegitimate if I bypassed the struggle of early game steel types and traded for them =P. Good luck though !

Absol is in-game, check the obtainable pokemon list. I don't know if Ame would be nice enough to give us an Axew, I mean, she took Gyarados away and Magby

Or you could record yourself playing and watch it again ^.^ I'd edit out the grinding, crying trying gym leaders 50 times, and whatnot, but basically you'd make your own video journal you could watch if you get lost on the story.

Will do. Right now Shade is giving me the WORST RNG I've had EVER. I can't tell you how many times I've had his last poke one hit away from death, just for him to get a crit hit ( or a BZZZAPP!! from that complete BS field effect) and kill my last pokemon . So frustrating.... EDIT: I dont know why, but for some reason, RNGesus finally accepted me as a disciple... I'm just going to put this in story mode; Down to his last pokemon, Steelix, tears in his eyes, Steven is about to accept his fate of that weird time warp thing that happens every time he loses. Shade smiles, and withdraws Rotom, sending out Gourgeist. Steelix is confused, but uses Crunch anyways. *chomp* Gourgeist takes about 1/3 HP worth of damage. Steven orders another Crunch attack. Shade withdraws Gourgeist, and sends out Rotom. Steven wonders why, as steelix crunches again, dealing super effective dark damage to Rotom's stupid little body. Another Crunch. Shade switches Rotom for Gourgeist. *What?* Steelix Crunches, hitting Gourgeist, who is now in the red zone. Gourgeist uses Confuse ray. Steelix 'aint got time fo' dat, and finishes off Gourgeist. Rotom is sent out, just to use confuse ray again. Steelix snaps out of confusion, and satisfyingly kills Rotom. Steven falls out of his chair backwards, astounded at how weird RNGesus is, making him soft reset way too many 19 times, only to give him a cheesy victory.

at least 10 soft-resets later..................... A Magnemite holding a metal coat, not to mention pretty decent IVs and a good ability for a slow steel type.

Or you could just soft-reset every time it kills itself? I dunno, maybe some people think that that is cheating

Alright, that sounds pretty good. Thanks BTW: Might've not expected it, but so far prinplup/empoleon has swept Corey and Shelly's gym using metal claw and defiant. Extremely strong pokemon EDIT: and while I'm catching some magnemites.... may as well pick one up for the team

Having some major problems with Shelly, quite frustrating really; I'm doing a Steel Monotype runthrough; so I'm pretty limited on choice Currently my team is Empoleon: Level 35 (Defiant) Metal Claw Brine Bubblebeam Aqua Jet Onix: (Sturdy) Level 34 Rock Slide Stealth Rock Smack Down Dragon Breath Forretress: (Overcoat) Level 33 Spikes Protect Payback Bug Bite Wormadam: (Overcoat) Level 34: Bug Bite Protect Psybeam Hidden Power (Ice) That's it. Not a full team, but there aren't many catcheable Steel (or things that evolve into steel) types available at this stage in the game. If you know of others, or a way to help, that'd be great EDIT: Currently wondering if it would be worthwhile to level the prinplup to 36 to evolve it, then use a common candy to get it back down to 35.... seems like an idea... EDIT2: Went ahead and did it. Stats increased by +12/+13/+13/+19/+15/+6, along with Metal Claw now being a STAB move, giving it 1.5X damage EDIT3: Well, Empoleon with Defiant valiantly SWEPT PRETTY MUCH THE ENTIRE TEAM. They kept using struggle bug which lowers his special attack, capped out his physical attack, and he 1-2 shot everything with metal claw. Was GLORIOUS to see the pokemon that had been giving me trouble be instantly dropped to the red zone after hearing *shank shank* So uhh... I guess I solved my own problem. Feels pretty satisfying, to be honest. Thanks anyways

@arision1 What other pokemon do you have in the PC (if any?) EDIT: For starters, would it help if you leveled up your Grimer to match the levels of your other pokemon?

Thanks for the advice! I was also wondering: what is the earliest time I could get a metal coat + link stone to get Steelix? I'm also having a slight trouble with Shelly and the dual battle, I'm trying to train Onix to level 34 so that he learns rock slide, which SHOULD make the battle a breeze, considering for some reason Onix has a really high speed stat. ( and 26 IVs in attack and SP attack, which are also high for some reason)

Herp a Derp, didnt even notice that...... *whispers* Go back and catch another one, and make sure its female...