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If you breed a Hitmonchan with Buneary, then the new Buneary with Scrafty, you can get the 3 elemental punches onto Scrafty.

Holy-yeah I just looked it up. Guess I played to many ROM hacks and paid too little attention, I thought it was 1-6 like in the good ol' (emulated) Gen 3 games. Drapion actually doesn't resist it, due to it's secondary Dark typing, but that one reKt Radomus almost on it's own, so meh. I also think his Gallade has Psycho Cut, but Crobat one-shot a gym-edition Gallade before, it'll do it again. Aaaand I'm too lazy to search for a Sky Plate. Although, on this run, I somehow got my miner's hands on 2 Toxic Plates, 1 Ground Plate, 1 Meadow Plate, 1 Mind Plate, 2 Dread Plates and 1 Spooky Plate (oooh~ spookyyy~), so I might try it and get lucky. Still, even though my team's levels after Luna were all levels 57-60, my main save beat her with levels 52-56, and I've got quite the type advantage against Samson. Should go well, could be tough. Might nead a Toxic Spiker for this. Just for Conkeldurr/funsies. Reborn and Zeta are the only Pokemon games I've ever named my squad in. I usually name characters after bosses of my favourite game, MGR, by similarity to them. (Leavanny has 2 blade-like arms=is named Sundowner). But this run is type-based, so I figured the names had to be too. Only the genders don't really match. Samurott, Venomoth and Crobat have fitting ones (f,f,m). But Luna the Drapion is male, Shade the Gengar is female (do ghosts have gender?) and Terra the Nidoking is from an all-male species. Well, considering that we're talking about Terra, some confusion actually fits, wouldn't you say?

Banned for lack of realism.

And it's done. Without any grinding actually. I really am a perfectionist only when it comes to games for some reason. The instant something didn't turn out the way I expected it, I reloaded That is the sole reason this took about 18 tries, of which all but the first and last one ended as soon as even one of my Pokemon fainted. At first, I successfully beat Bisharp with Samurott's Fighting Gem-ed Revenge and sent out Drapion for Malamar. The 4x effective Bug Bite took only barely above half health from it and after it's Hypnosis hit me on the 6-7 turns, I reset. Next, I tried for a Venomoth sweep, but that bastard Bisharp just wouldn't stay down. Almost as if it knew that Venomoth needs 4 Quiver Dances to take down the following Tyranitar, it would always screw me over as I got the fourth one. After ten attempts at that, I tried applying Brute Force. Bisharp fell to Nidoking's Earth Power, Malamar was eliminated by 2 of them. After 2 Hyper Potions, Tyranitar took down Samurott, who almost did the same to it. Venomoth ended it with a Bug Buzz. Honchkrow almost died to Gengar's Electric Gem-ed Thunderbolt, but it kamikaze'd with Brave Bird anyways, taking Gengar with it. Expecting Umbreon, I sent out Venomoth and I was right. I put it to sleep, used a Quiver Dance while it dreamt and as it awoke, Bug Buzz removed 60% of it's health, although it's Dark Pulse did the same to me, though another Bug Buzz put an end to it. "March Hare", the Sableye whose name Is the only one of her squad I forgot, was almost one-shot by Bug Buzz, and it's Dark Pulse put me to 10 Health. I noticed that I never posted their held items, so I've added those here now. I've also gone ahead and changed all my team members names. They bear the same names as the gym leaders of their respective Non-Poison type, except for Crobat. It was Corey's ace and he is the reason I ever even looked at Crobat, so a tribute of some name is in order. As such, say hello to: Luna Corey Shade Shelly Terra Amaria Black Sludge -Nothing- Spooky Plate Silver Powder Earth plate Mystic Water Keen Eye Infiltrator Levitate Tinted Lens Sheer Force Battle Armor Naive Lonely Naive Modest Timid Jolly Knock Off Acrobatics Shadow Ball Quiver Dance Sludge Wave Razor Shell Bug Bite Cross Poison Dark Pulse Psychic Earth Power Grass Knot Cross Poison Bite Thunderbolt Sleep Powder Ice Beam Megahorn Swords Dance Screech Destiny Bond Bug Buzz Thunderbolt Revenge I really Jynx-ed myself by saying she'd be a pushover after Radomus. Well, the final try against her was fun enough, after I stopped bothering by trying to buff against Bisharp, who would almost never sleep for longer than 3 turns, counting the one it fell asleep on. By that logic, Samson is gonna be the toughest fight of my life. Yeah. Totally. No chance he'll be a push-over.

Oh, I am SO underleveld for this. Where's a good grinding spot before Luna?

It can't learn it. However, OP can get a male Stunfisk, level it to level 45 to have it learn Thunderbolt, breed it with a female Grimer/Muk, level the new male Grimer to level 26 for Sludge Bomb and breed that with a female Gastly/Haunter/Gengar. That gives OP a Gengar with Sludge Bomb and Thunderbolt. Hypnosis is worthless and Dark Pulse has the same coverage as Shadow Ball, minus the STAB. Destiny Bond is neat. Jynx can be bred with either Drowzee/Hypno or Croagunk/Toxicroak for Nasty Plot, though I don't know how you got Psychic onto Jynx. And yeah, Frost Breath>Powder Snow. Instead of Rock Smash, get Arcanine's Thunder Fang or even better Crunch, TF won't one-shot any water types, but can help vs Flying types. No comment on Magnezone as I've never used one. Scraggy/Scrafty can breed for Zen Headbutt with Spoink/Stantler/Girafarig/Tauros/Psyduck/Golduck, for the 3 Elemental punches with a Buneary/Loppuny which has bred with Hitmonchan, and for Dragon Dance with Gyarados/Altaria. You lack Ground, Rock, Bug, Grass, Fairy, Water, Ground and Flying, quite a few. Possible team members would be: Archeops provides Bug, Rock, Flying and Ground for your team. U-Turn, Rock Slide, Acrobatics and it also has Dragon Claw and Crunch and Earth power from Corsola. Crustle which has been bred with Geodude for EQ and the level-up moves Rock Slide and x-Scissor. The fourth slot could be Stealth Rock or Shell Smash, use Weak Armor with SS. You would have to wait until after Luna for this one. Excadrill which has been bred with a Zangoose for X-Scissor. XS, EQ, Rock Slide and I guess Hone Claws would be great for it. Durant which has been bred with a Shuckle for Rock Slide. Dig, Iron Head, Crunch, XS, Rock Slide or maybe Hone Claws with Hustle is godly, just keep it away from special attacks and fire. This thing could solo Luna.

My memory of my first shiny encounter is one filled with dissapointment. It was in Pokemon Dark Rising, at the time I discovered emulation, 2 years ago. Just before, I played some game in which differently colored enemies yeilded extra money/XP. So when I saw a shiny Chikorita during a grinding session, I killed it without hesitation, only to be disappointed to recieve standard XP. I was even more disappointed to later find out what Shinies were and that wild starters in that game hold Exp.Shares. Well, even after I found out what shinies are, if they weren't a Pokemon I would use, I would kill 'em most of the time. No point in catching them if I'll never use them. The only Shiny I ever caught and used was here in Reborn, a Shiny Infiltrator Golbat on my first run which was also the first shiny I found in this game.

That's...rather vague.

Right, before we get started, I am terribly sorry for the obscene delay. My only excuse is that college exam preparations were getting wraped up and the actually exam had to be done. Only yesterday did I get back to my hometown. Lemme tell you, 5 hour long buss rides sure do suck. Unless you want to tack a nap (-.-)zzZZ Although something that did happen with my save was that I used the amazing "Beefkek's Breeding Shop!" to get a shiny Sheer Force timid Nidoking with maxed Speed and Sp.Attack EVs, and SP.Attack Sp.Defense and Speed IVs of over 29, 31 and 29 respectively, AND with the bred-on moves Thunderbolt and Ice Beam. Beefkek is amazing at what he does, so I whole-heartedly recommend using his services. He can even get you starters! Though one account may only get 2 Pokemon at most and- why am I typing this when he's got his own topic for it. Anyways, check it out~! Regarding progress, I'm starting to see a pattern here. The fight before the gym was tougher than the actual gym. It was the Arceus fight this time. It took quite a few reloads until I made up my mind on what strategy to use. I settled for reviving my Focus Banded Venomoth twice so that I may get 6 Flashes on it and use Gengar's Destiny Bond. Didn't think I could beat it on a Mono run, but here we are. Past Aventurine, the most tedious area the traverse, and probably my least favourite. The Cain fight was pretty much a Venomoth sweep. I had to restart once to get a perfect sweep, since Venomoth needed the XP. Anyways, the Radomus fight was rather anti-climatic. Here's the run-down for ya! 1st Turn! Radomus leads with Exeggutor and Reuniclus, I send out Venomoth and Drapion. Venomoth one-shots Exeggutor with a Bug Buzz and Radomus sends out Metagross. Drapion uses Swords Dance. Reuniclus obviously OHKOs Venomoth with a Psychic, as expected. To match Metagross, I use Nidoking. 2nd Turn! Drapion OHKOs Reuniclus with Knock Off, Slowking comes out. Nidoking kills Metagross in one shot with Earth Power, Malamar follows. 3rd Turn! Drapion's Bug Bite takes advantage of Malamar's 4x weakness to Bug for a quick and easy kill Gardevoir appears. Nidoking's Thunderbolt takes ~60% of health off of Slowking. Slowking's Psychic does added Rock Damage to Nidoking, resulting in a neutral hit overall, though it still takes approx. 80% of Nidoking's plentiful health. That thing needs to go. 4th Turn! Gardevoir's fairy typing means Knock Off wouldn't strike super-effectively, so I use Nidoking's Sludge Wave on it. On everyone actually. SW actually takes half health from Drapion because I forgot about it's abysimal SP.Defense. Gardevoir loses 75% health and Slowking would've died, if not for it's Hyper Potion. But the ever-reliable Drapion cleans up nicely, promptly making this a 2v1. Another Psychic comes toward Nidoking from Gardevoir, finishing what Slowking had started. I send in Gengar merely to make sure Gardevoir doesn't suddenly somehow outspeed and kill Drapion. 5th Turn! Shadow Ball. Gardevoir's gone. The end. SO! Drapion lost 69 health due to friendly fire and Venomoth(expectedly) and Nidoking(unexpectedly) bit the bullet. His special field hurt Radomus more than it helped him due to Nidoking's fortunate typing (in this case, fortunate). 4-0 against a leader with a type advantage was rather anti-climatic for a return to this thread. Again, please do forgive me for the extreme delay. Again, Samurott saw no action, so this counts as a pure-monotype victory in my book, cause only Poison types were used/needed. As you've heard/seen/read, Nidoking is here now. Thanks to it's amazing STAB ground attacks, Skuntank's niche of having a way to hit hard against Steel types was taken away from it. As such, Nidoking replaces Skuntank. I've also given up on the idea of using Roserade, as I honestly couldn't think of who to replace it with. Here's the details after the Radomus fight: Drapion Crobat Gengar Venomoth Nidoking Samurott Keen Eye Infiltrator Levitate Tinted Lens Sheer Force Battle Armor Naive Lonely Naive Modest Timid Jolly Knock Off Acrobatics Shadow Ball Quiver Dance Sludge Wave Razor Shell Bug Bite Cross Poison Dark Pulse Psychic Earth Power Grass Knot Fire Fang Bite Thunderbolt Sleep Powder Ice Beam Megahorn Swords Dance Screech Destiny Bond Bug Buzz Thunderbolt Revenge Drapion has Fire Fang for Metagross and Bisharp, I'll swap it for Cross Poison when it learns it. Venomoth has/had Flash for Aventurine Cave and for the Arceus battle, but I've swapped it for Psychic at level 55. And now we get to the actual worst area to get through, Iolia Valley. After Radomus, Luna shouldn't be too tough.

Right, I forgot things changed in E12.

After beating the two, did you keep going or did you go backwards to heal and then for the gym? Policemen will only be in the gym if you find all 5 before the scene that happens after the double battle. If you find them afterward, the cops won't be in the gym. Edit: Ninja'd. And to get to Corey, you have to make all the pillars red or all blue, can't remember. Just pressing space on them changes them. A door opens in the back of his gym, up the stairs.

It's not the Daycare couple that gives it to you, but the same girl that told you that they're acting suspicious. The one that used to be/give you Ducklett.

There's also the "2 max per player" rule, so keep that in mind.

Oughta be Regigigas. To get it to "awaken" you need to gaher the other 3 golems, hat's he gathered part. It is said to have pulled he continets togeher long ago, history. As for failure, well, just look at it's ability.

Scrafty can breed for Zen Headbutt with Spoink or for the 3 elemental Punches with a Buneary that bred with a Hitmonchan. HJK has solid accuracy, no need for Brick Break as well. Drapion can breed with a Ninjask for Swords Dance. instead of a Fang, you should get/use Bug Bite. I think Pyroar won't be of much use anymore, I've dropped mine after Shelly, because of it's paper-thin defenses. Some attack types you're missing are Rock, Steel, Bug, Flying, Ground and Dragon. Archeops and Durant provide those types as well as amazing stats, so if you're looking for new team members, consider those two.

Welp, time for a Jigglypuff PULSE.

Well, bells can be used to make a tripwire alarm. Tripwires are a type of trap. The only real traps we've seen in Reborn is the Nuzleaf trap. The cage they put the Player in maybe kind sorta looks like a bell too? Anyways, my current guess is Nuzleaf.

Bronzong is also a bell with Levitate. Is that the solution?

Oooh, I was hoping for something like this after I saw you post riddles on some other topic around here. This'll be fun. Anyways, my guess will be a Heart Scale. No need for an explanation as this should be rather obvious.

Check the topic I linked. If you have the patience, you can get some amazing moves onto Nidoking. As for new team members, whatever you add should replace Exploud. You have no Grass type attacks, no Rock type attacks and your only Bug attack is the unreliable Megahorn. I can wholeheartedly recommend Leavanny. Great stats, it's weaknesses and resistances work well with your team especially because 1/2 of your team is weak to Ground and 1/3 is weak to water. It also gets some nice toys to play with in the form of Leaf Blade, X-Scissor, Swords Dance, Fell Stinger(should it ever be fixed), Sticky Web, Poison Jab(through breeding). My Leavanny took down 4 Pokemon of Radomus' and Luna's Gyms each. There's also the amazing Archeops. 140 Attack and 112 Speed with moves like Acrobatics, Crunch, U-turn, Rock Slide and Dragon Claw is insanely powerful. It's ability is terrible, but easy to manage. Or take Durant. 109 Attack + Hustle, 109 Speed, 112 Defense + Steel typing. Iron Head, Dig X-Scissor and Crunch have only 80 BP, but with that insane attack stat, you could use Tackle and OHKO things.

Here's for E10.1 http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=7756&page=2 And this should be E9 http://www.mediafire.com/download/22wrxzindi66mts/Pokemon_Reborn.rar