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Sadly, Sheer Force only negates positive added effects. Thrash gets no boost and still confuses. Flare Blitz has a chance to burn and recoil damage. Sheer Force removes the burn chance, but you still take recoil damage. The only negative effects it negates are those of held items which occur after attacking, like Life orb recoil.

Like quite a few people on this topic, I haven't gotten to know you. However, as you can see, people are fine with it, they accept it. Why wouldn't they? On the internet no one knows your location, age, gender, race or species(according to a couple thousand memes). We may not know what you are, but we know who you are. Who you are hasn't changed one bit. If someone is shallow enough to hate someone because of things they have or had no influence on, such as their birth, it's better to have no contact with those, they're not worth it. No true friend would hate someone merely because of such things. I actually know how things can turn out if you stop correcting the same mistake over and over and over again when it's not even your mistake. I know what it's like to have something you've been bottling up for years finally break free, to tell someone/some people who cares, to have someone listen. I also know that overwhelming sense of relief which follows getting something important off of your chest. Look at these comments. There's no judging, no hate and no reason for either. You're still the same person. Everyone's got some secrets of their own, and it sure ain't easy to share them like you have. For that you have my respect.

Well, if it's in-game, then this is what I'd do: Swap Infernape's Mach Punch for Punishment. With 108 base speed, being outsped is hardly a concern. The only Pokemon with base speed above 108 which might die in one Mach Punch are Persian, Weavile, Absol, Sneasel, Ambipom, Raichu and Heliolisk. Anything else would hit you anyway, so the 3x stronger Close Combat is much better. Punishment could hit Psychic types hard, especially if they buff themselves. For Gyarados, get rid of Rock Smash for Thrash or Bite. Whenever you get Waterfall, get an HM slave or swap it with Aqua Tail if you want accuracy over power. Or finish the puzzle at the circus and swap Aqua Tail for Dive.. Gardevoir seems fine. If you need a Grass move, which you seem to have none of, you can teach it Magical Leaf. If you need it. Exploud could use some breeding to get Flamethrower and Ice Beam. Same for Nidoking. This could help you: http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=8566 Oh, and swap Magnezone's Magnet Rise for Screech, keep Metal Sound, helps the team. There's also the guy in 7th Street that changes natures. I'd recommend Adamant for Infernape, Adamant or Jolly for Gyarados, Modest or Timid for Gardevoir, Exploud and Magnezone, and Hasty or Naive for Nidoking.

It's random. You just gotta get lucky.

Oh right, Arbok also has access to both Screech and Acid Spray to lower defenses, and if you have a Heart Scale, it can learn Thunder/Ice Fang to anihilate Crobat.

Why does everyone say to scrap Ekans? Intimidate Arbok can survive at least one hit from Crobat and use Glare to paralyze it. The random Lv23 Arbok I caught next to his gym almost killed it on it's own.

I had no Pokemon above level 60 when I fought him, Crobat could've easily swept him after some grinding. It killed 4 of his Pokes and the rest of my team (mostly Archeops) handled the rest. I don't even remember much because it was over so quickly. As for other underleveled victories on my main save, I was never less than 4 levels under the cap, only the Aya fight was with a Level 45 team. No gym battle was all that tough, Serra was the worst and she was annoying at best. I was like 7-8 levels below the cap vs Luna, but Leavanny destroyed all but Bisharp and Honchkrow, even without it's Swords Dance. I was kind of underleveled for Noel which took like 7 turns. On my main save (monotype runs hurt)

S-Senpai noticed me! Just kidding, but I guess I'm earning my keep here. I actually meant to change my name for a while, but forgot until I saw this topic. As for the numbers, numeric sequences are the only things I can instantly remember, yet everything else is forgotten in the blink of an eye. It's why some of my passwords have 20+ characters, all numbers, no specific order. I lost my sanity way before finding Reborn .-.

For Zorua, It'll be standing in the Magma Gang's hideout, dunno if weather is a condition. Talk to it and it'll leave to be in random alleyways disguised as random Pokemon like Zangoose, Zigzagoon, Z named Pokemon. After you've gone through all the alleyways, you'll fight it in the last one.

Welp, glad that worked out for you!

My "main name" was just an easy-to-remember sequence of numbers (1+2-1+2...) to avoid having to try 20 different names and end up with something like Bob172407, it's what I do with any account anywhere. As for my alias, Bob, I have been using that since waaaay back in the day when I was still using my PS1. A lot of the games I was playing asked for a name of sorts, yet had a max character, so that didn't help with my overflowing creativity. My actual name isn't Bob, but rather than being "AAA", I thought "What is a short, generic name I could use?". "Bob" was the first thing that came to mind and I've been rolling with that. Ever since, any character I've ever played as I've named Bob. EDIT: Speaking of which 13243546 won't do if the site has a name change thingy. To pay homage to my fav game ever, MGRR, I just went and picked a local wind's name close to me which has a name I wouldn't forget and sounds good. I'm not greek, but it's in the area. (And "Bob" is taken )

Care to clarify? They're not in the same areas as far as I know. If you're sticking to the Ralts you already have, don't bother with getting another one, keep some variety. Also, Espurr is also in Lapis Ward, the only Psychic type in Lapis.

Might wanna consider adding fewer pictures, there's a total attachment size limit of 500KB, you'll eventually run out and be forced to remove some from this thread. Other than that, good luck. There's really not that many Psychic types you can use in Reborn, a lot of them come way later, I wouldn't even be surprised if you have to take an Unown. It's why many people opt for a Poison Mono, only skrelp/dragalge, tentacool/tentacruel, qwilfish and the Megas aren't obtainable.

He certainly wasn't mentioning Team Meteor when he recruited Bennett, he's not that open about it. The reason he's not hiding anything from the MC is because they know about most of everything, the keys, their objective (the meteor) and all that. And him being refered to as an "Elite" may not mean that he's an Elite 4 member. Considering he's at the top of a religious cult, "Elite" may refer to a member of High Society. In that case, the conections he claims to have could be through Team Meteor's influence. Corey may not have been the only one in a tricky situation. For all we know, some gym leader could be part of El's cult. Though I haven't played through that bit in a while, so take this with a grain of salt.

Pretty much, though I messed up, could've gotten Sludge Bomb on it as well, but I was under the illusion that Dark Pulse hits both foes in double battles and went for that instead of a stab. When I get Ditto to breed Roselia, I'll re-breed Gengar, most likely.

The idea that astronomical events somehow affect the ones on Earth seems extremely Farfetch'd, unless we're talking about a humongous meteor about to obliterate the planet. From a scientific point of view, astrology holds no merit whatsoever. It makes no sense, there's no logic to it. Also, being an atheist also leads me to think that, if an almighty creator doesn't exist, clusters of Helium and Hydrogen probably don't have any "cosmic power" or somesuch thing. The most noteworthy thing that could happen "up there" is a solar eclipse. Or, well, the meteor.

Probably to add a bit of a challenge with the need manage money, rather than mining for revives. As the title states, it's a modified Nuzlocke. AND a Monotype. Doing a pure Nuzlocke or a Monotype on their own is tough, a combination of both would be absurdly difficult. Welp, time to follow this post

Well, this isn't exactly a substitution, but we've talked about OP Pokemon here as well, so I think Yamask should be moved to somewhere past Kiki. Not only is Cofagrigus's Mummy the perfect counter to Medicham, her arguably toughest Pokemon, it can also be bred to gain moves like Nasty Plot, making a sweep against Kiki really easy to pull off.

Bug attacks will be crucial to beating Radomus and Luna. I'll most likely swap TS for Cross Poison later on, whenever I get to that stage. The fangs have basicaly the same power as Bug Bite, but there's way less Pokemon in the following 2 gyms that would be super-effectively hit by any Fang than by Bug Bite. Knock Off and Bug Bite together hit both gyms for at least neutral damage, and for super-effective damage more often than a Knock Off and Cross Poison combo.

On the chess field, where Psychic does 50% Psychic and 50% Rock damage, it should. That's what someone on this thread told me. I'd prefer Acrobatics over Brave Bird. Only 10 base power less, no recoil, and I don't even know what I'd give it. As for Venomoth, I'd say that I'll have gotten it's final final set when I swap Psybeam for Psychic. I need Sleep Powder to enable setting up, QD to set up, Bug Buzz for strong stab and Psychic for good coverage. Giga Drain would be weaker than Psychic and honestly, if it's not at +6, Venomoth can't take all that much damage, so some more health is kinda eh. After Radomus, I'll get Roserade instead of Skuntank. I also only have 2 Rock Weaknesses and 2 Ground weaknesses and all my team members have something to hit those types for at least neutral damage.

If anyone else wantsa not-so-shady link: http://www.mediafire.com/download/22wrxzindi66mts/Pokemon_Reborn.rar

Still, I'd say we can look past Vespiquen and Stoutland. They ARE good, but next to no one uses them, so it's fine. Every other trainer had a Gyarados on their team and Crobat wasn't rare either. They also downright broke gyms, which was one of the main reasons those to got moved/axed. Stoutland can't hit super effectively with it's Stab,the fang moves are last resorts, only used if you have no other fire/electric/ice attacks, and it's second strongest move is gotten at level 63, at which point plenty of simply better Pokemon are availible. Even Take Down at LV15 won't save it from needing to be babysat until it evolves, and even when it does, better stuff is availible. Vespiquen is very good for that point, but removing/moving it is unnecessary if 1/500 people use it and even fewer keep it in the long run.