Truly Deceptive

Malamar.

Here's an endgame trainer suggestion of my own. You don't have to use it if you don't want to. It should be optional, and have a reward (such as a Jolly Riolu Egg with max IVs, or Lucarionite, if you haven't decided where to put it). Rogue Jon (Ace Trainer Sprite) If you'd go out of your way to give them overpowered stats, I'd love a fully 31-IV team of this: Malamar: Contrary Jolly - Choice Scarf Knock Off Psycho Cut Superpower Switcheroo EVs: 252 Attack, 4 Defense, 252 Speed Bisharp: Defiant Adamant - Leftovers Sucker Punch Iron Head Substitute Swords Dance EVs: 248 HP, 252 Attack, 8 Defense Greninja: Protean Hasty - Expert Belt Scald Ice Beam Extrasensory Gunk Shot EVs: 40 Attack, 216 Special Attack, 252 Speed Aegislash: Stance Change Adamant - Leftovers King's Shield Iron Head Sacred Sword Swords Dance EVs: 248 HP, 252 Attack, 8 Defense Lucario: Justified Jolly - Lucarionite Drain Punch Bullet Punch Crunch Swords Dance EVs: 252 Attack, 4 Defense, 252 Speed Sylveon: Pixilate Modest - Leftovers Hyper Voice Shadow Ball Wish Heal Bell EVs: 248 HP, 252 Special Attack, 8 Special Defense Opening Quote: I will continue to acquire more power until I am the winning side. Is our side yet strong enough to defeat yours? Come; test us! Defeat Quote: Your love for your Pokémon is considerable. Good. But beware: the world will spit in the face of that kindness. Post-Battle Quote: You fought well, but there's no way to know whether or not it'll be enough for the road ahead. Here's something to help you get through tough times. (at this point, the player should receive the egg/Lucarionite) Farewell.

The outline of the top of the 2nd Darkrai's head should also be recolored on the backsprite. You should try using Phione and Manaphy's regular shiny sprites and recoloring their eye outlines red, by the way. Also, use Shiny Darkrai's eye color for its chain; it would probably look better green.

I spent about an hour upset that I didn't get to explore that. Didn't even notice that some Gym Leaders were missing 'til I read this thread. Bennett should have a chance at character redemption instead of being Mr. Generic Creeperface. Radomus should show up at the end with a ridiculously strong team and trash all them Team Meteor mooks (maybe just to get wrecked by someone even stronger and have you try to finish his goals). So, epic. Or both. we need Victoria to show up again. Fern needs to stop being a prick or die in a fire (it would be an awesome twist if Grasshole betrayed Team Meteor's trust as a twist in the end, as unlikely as that may be, but he doesn't look like the type of character who'd care about anything but getting high off of everyone else's misery and fueling his ego)

UnprofessionalAmateur's other shiny Luxray also looked excellent, but people seem to prefer the pale black-and-grey-with-red one. It's just as fine to me, looking at it myself. Robin Staraptor is fantastic. I like the black Chatot Knight_Teutonic made, and I definitely prefer his shiny Togekiss sprite. I kind of preferred the darker Mismagius (I'd prefer either that or the newest one, because the newest one's purple outline parts look amazing, but it still doesn't look quite right because of that greyish hue). The Reborn Magnezone has a pixel of red on the back sprite where it probably shouldn't be. Also, the Drifblim sprites still don't have the right patterns.

The black and white one was better; they felt kind of dull after already seeing however many black and white shinies, but they were a lot better once you start thinking that they're going to be 1-out-of-800 or however many, and, if it's going to be anything, I'd prefer that.

I've got to say that I like the red and green Rhyperior shinies, and the yellow one's alright. You should definitely go with red on it. Also, for the Reborn icon, the purple and green are supposed to be on the other sides. I prefer that shiny Phione and Manaphy be green.

...Florinia.

Epic work. Also, the red on Garchomp's chest should probably be a bit lighter (like, I'd thought FF0000 would look awesome, but, according to Ame, the saturation should also go down).

Uh... you recolored the front left hoof of the back sprite. Glad we caught that now, actually.

Absolutely positively.

@UnprofessionalAmateur: Just noticed you swapped the colors of Spiritomb's orbs in the most recent recolor; why make them any different from the eyes to begin with? Now it's difficult for me to choose which I prefer between the second and the third. Also, the difference between the first and the second is that the second has a darker center.

Also, in response to that, I figured that it should be more difficult to redo the tile structure and scripting for part of the game than to recolor a handful of tiles and sprites. Besides, I personally like the look of red flowing to purple and blue flowing to green in the separate cross-wheel prongs on Arceus' image, and red, blue, and green being visible on all of the sprites from the back. I prefer the first shiny Gallade design that Amethyst posted (with purple only on the emotion-sensing things; after all, before, the ridge on Gallade's head was dark greenish-blue, an entirely different color) and the second Spiritomb recolor.

says the guy who misspells "unprofessional"...

Well, the title screen, Arc-d'Astrae, and the site's icon all show the Amethyst below the Ruby.

As I recall, the Amethyst was on the lower right-hand side instead of the Emerald.

We're talking about what caused the earthquakes in the Obsidia Ward, not Tanzan Mountain.

There'll probably be a Drowzee or Hypno PULSE machine. damnit Well, maybe Mr. Bigglesworth's capability of speech will later be an important plot element. Also, a Dugtrio being the PULSE victim responsible for the earthquakes would really fit in with the whole "hive mind" motif.

It makes you wonder how many other references Ame's been hiding.

Love the Youngster Elliot reference. Just noticed it. I tried Googling it, and, to my astonishment, no one thus far has posted about it.

Definitely Espeon. Or Togekiss. Or Charizard. You know what? It depends (in what sense, at what age, and in which Gen game).

An XD001 plushy I gave to my little sister.

Terra's nonsense powers and minimal effort in explaining her cryptic schemes remind me a great deal of Enoshima Junko-chan.

FireRed and LeafGreen have also got dem feels... I think the main reason I like remakes more than the original games is that they make what was old pertinent to the main series games again.

It used to be anything Colosseum or Gen II. Now, it's mostly Gen IV.