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If you look at the recent GG interview, Serra discovers that Bennett is connected to Meteor, and she seems to be reasonably upset by it. I wish we would meet her again soon!

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Mono-Grass Team Debut (well technically it's not really a debut but oh well). Storming through a Mono-Dragon team (requiring a bit of luck of course) http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/monotype-245820552

ENTRY #22: The Prodigy Mission: vs(HP) vs(SpA) vs(Speed) vs(Speed) vs(SpA) vs(HP) Noel lead off with Wigglytuff which launched a Dazzling Gleam towards Squelch, dealing pretty much negligible damage. It was gifted with a Gunk Shot as a reply from Squelch, fainting the balloon Pokemon. Porygon-Z was a tough challenge. It attacked Donar with a Tri Attack - which was lucky for me as a Psychic from this thing would have OHKOed Donar. After taking a LOT of damage, Donar performed his usual trick of Sleep Powder-Quiver Dance combos. Unfortunately, after 2 Quiver Dances, Porygon-Z woke up and fired off a Psychic - but thanks to the boost gained from Quiver Dance, Donar survived! He was now faster too - enabling him to send green slumber-inducing powders towards Porygon-Z again, putting it to sleep once more. Bug Buzz 2HKOed Porygon-Z afterwards. By now, Donar recovered nearly all of his health thanks to the field and Black Sludge, and we were doing well! 4 more to go! I had to sacrifice Root for Cinccino - as Skill Link-Bullet Seed from this speedy little creature was too much for both Jan and Paruto to take without getting one shotted. Cinccino also packed HP Fire - which it launched towards Root - but it only took away less than half of Root's HP. Will-O-Wisp connected on the Cinccino - and this thing was less threatening. I felt sorry for Root - as her Horn Leech would 2HKOed Cinccino... but rules were rules. She went down to a combination of HP Fire-Rock Blast and Bullet Seed, and I sent out Paruto to deal with the rest. For some reason, the Cinccino attacked Paruto with HP Fire dealing about 40 HP, while Paruto delivered the final blow with Hammer Arm. Swellow... urgh. This thing has a Flame Orb to activate its Guts, which is deadly. I sent out Jan and I was preparing for a deadly attack which was.... Steel Wing? Really? That didn't even scratch Jan! Meanwhile, Jan dug through Swellow's body with fangs that radiated frosts of cold air which took two-thirds of the bird's HP. And as I predicted, the Swellow became burned thanks to its held-item. The Swellow's eyes suddenly turned sharp - and it shot a Facade - which left Jan with just 7 HP! Okay, I'm sorry for taunting you earlier !! Luckily, Jan's second Ice Fang connected - and the bird was knocked out. That was close! Girafarig would have been easy... if Sleep Powder hadn't missed. GODDAMNIT - Donar fainted to a Psychic from Girafarig, and I was forced to use my Cotton Candy while I sent Purugly out to stall for time. I ordered Purugly to deliver a Body Slam, which paralyzed the normal-psychic Pokemon - and Noel ordered the Girafarig to deliver consecutive Thunderbolts - which eventually took down Purugly. I sent the revived Donar out, and a Bug Buzz was enough to finish this round. Clefable, which was Noel's ace, was taken down easily with Squelch - who was clearly at an advantage. Hidden Power did score a super-effective hit on Squelch though - so I'm guessing it was HP Ground. Noel attempted to recover the enormous amount of health lost to a Gunk Shot with Ultra Potions and Softboiled, but healing had limits, and the fairy Pokemon eventually succumbed to the toxic power of my Pokemon. Noel praised me for my efforts in this match, and he gave me a Standard Badge and TM10 (Hidden Power). Just as I was putting the newly acquired badge in my badge case, Laura showed up - asking if she has missed anything. Anna excitedly stated that I just won a match against Noel, while Shelly asked how Charlotte was. Laura replied that she was fine, but it would be best to leave her alone right now. Anna asked if it was alright if she could continue with the story she started but hadn't finished - and Laura reluctantly told us that there was an accident when Charlotte was very young. Five people lived in this house - Laura and her sisters, and their parents. Charlotte liked to sneak out of the house late every night - to play in the garden or stare out at the lake. But one night, she was playing with her Vulpix, and a sudden fire spread quickly. Fortunately for Laura, Saphira woke her up and rushed her out just in time - but her parents weren't so lucky. Ever since then, Saphira has taken over the role of looking after Laura and Charlotte - making sacrifices to protect her family at all costs. Laura was in tears by this point - stating that she wouldn't know what to do if Saphira was gone. She then began to apologize that she shouldn't cry since she was an adult now, but Anna walked up to her, and patted her on the back - saying that crying is not a childish thing to do - and tears are people's way of getting the sadness out of one's body. She suggested that we all go inside, and have a small break to relax a little. We agreed, and headed inside... Current Team: Jan (Feraligatr) Lv. 49 - Water Pledge - Crunch - Ice Fang - Rock Smash Squelch (Muk) Lv. 49 - Gunk Shot - Mud Bomb - Strength - Screech Donar (Venomoth) Lv. 52 - Bug Buzz - Sleep Powder - Psybeam - Quiver Dance Paruto (Diggersby) Lv. 49 - Bounce - Dig - Hammer Arm - Nature Power Root (Trevenant) Lv. 48 - Destiny Bond - Horn Leech - Shadow Claw - Will-O-Wisp Purugly (Dummy) Lv. 54 - Body Slam - Shadow Claw - Swagger - Hypnosis

Most of the answers you are looking for ARE somewhere in the forums - use the 'Search' function!

Same here. I never switch any of my main team members (except for the battle with Solaris's Garchomp) - because even though its difficult, I always to manage to find a way to defeat tough opponents with my team of six.

ENTRY #21: Armored Enemies Mission: vs Well... this was harder than I thought. Paruto's Nature Power (Rock Smash) and Jan's Rock Smash lowered Steelix's defense by 2 in total. Then, Squelch came in and went for a Screech. Unfortunately, all three of my team members were 2HKOed by the Steelix's Iron Head... which made sense cuz that thing is Level 75 urgh. But then, Purugly came in - put it to sleep, and after a Swagger and Steelix hurting itself a couple of times with its tail, Purugly delivered the final Shadow Claw which defeated the giant creature. The giant steel snake retreated towards the bottom, shrieking in pain. But strangely, the beast was ascending up towards us again! Thinking that it recovered its strength, I got ready for battle - but I noticed that Saphira was standing on top of its crevice head! She told me to grab Laura and hop-on - and we'll go on a joy-ride. Eventually, we ended up back at the Meteor base main entrance. Saphira firmly stated that Team Meteor has to be stopped, while Laura must make herself back home. Laura began to protest - but Saphira was serious. She turned to me instead, and said she will leave dealing with the PULSE-Abra to me while she will take Laura back home (Laura was whining that she could do it herself, but Saphira shut her up) and join me as soon as possible. I made my way back to the chamber which hosted the PULSE-Abra. Zero was demanding the Abra to behave itself - while Lumi took a different approach and tried to ask the Abra nicely. In the next second, the Abra teleported ZEL to another tile in the room, and Sigmund sighed that he could guess what the Abra's reply was. Zero was about to throw a tantrum at the psychic Pokemon until he noticed me, and was surprised to see I made my way back. Sigmund suggested that they abandon this project before 'Lin' arrives as she does sound quite menacing. Eve agreed - and if Lin sees that they have failed in maintaining control in Abra, she will be furious. Zero grunted that they can't do a thing right now as they can't even get close to deactivating the machine. Eve suggested to me that I should defeat this PULSE if I wanted to spare the people of Spinel Town with all the confusing teleportation mechanics (wow she wasn't giving me a choice was she?). Zero shouted that he agrees, and was going on about how annoying this thing was, until he disappeared all of a sudden. It turns out that the Abra has teleported him outside of the room - as an angry-looking ZEL stormed through the door again. Zero pleaded me to stop the Pokemon, and I guess I had no choice... Mission: vs Basically like the Steelix fight - wear the Abra down with other Pokemon (Root's Phantom Force and Jan's Crunch was enough) by using the recharging turn Abra gets from Hyper Beam. Put the Abra to sleep with Sleep Powder, and 2HKO with Bug Buzz! Sigmund was glad that the Abra was finally silent. He asked Eve if the regions that were affected by Abra's mischief would be restored, and she replied with a nod. Suddenly, Sirius burst through the front door - alerted at the fact that Lin has arrived. He wasn't pleased to see me back here - and Lumi informed him that I helped calm Abra. For the first time, Sirius looked worried - as according to him, Lin will be furious if she knows that there is an enemy amongst them. He shot me a cold look, and told me to pretend that I was one of them. I frowned, asking why I should do that - but he replied that he doesn't like the idea himself, but if he wanted to avoid being ripped to shreds, this was the only way. Shortly, a green haired woman walked in to the room. She seemed quite familiar, although I couldn't remember where I have seen her before. She coldly ordered to report their progress, and Sirius calmly, although in a intimidated voice that their experimentation with PULSE Abra was not successful. Lin stated he was incompetent, and asked why 'these' were here. Sirius then explained that I was a new recruit - and was a big asset to the PULSE Abra project. I really didn't like the fact that I was referred to as 'these', but Lin stated that he was lying, which shocked all three of us. She asked to explain who the 'other one' is, and Sigmund stepped up to introduce himself formally with Sirius praising him for his achieving the Ruby and Amethyst keys. Sigmund apologetically asked Lin if they have met before, which Lin replied to be impossible. The reply was so cold that Sigmund stuttered his words. Sirius continued to explain that the other keys are being tracked as well - with Solaris reporting a lead on Sapphire and Elias hunting down Emerald. The name Elias sounded rather familiar too... who was this person? My brain wasn't working too well... Just then, a giant earthquake shook the whole base, getting Sigmund, ZEL, Sirius and I to lose balance. Lin seemed rather emotionless about the sudden attack. A Meteor grunt hurriedly stormed through the door - reporting that a giant Steelix is tearing the side of the base! Sirius seemed baffled, while I noticed that Lin was looking directly at my eyes. Okay... she was intimidating. She asked me if I happened to know anything about this, and I almost replied that I did. Thankfully, before hearing my reply, she proceeded to exit the room, and said she'll deal with this. Sirius suddenly turned towards me, and urged me to leave right now - since it was better for everyone involved - and I hurriedly shot out of the room, and back to Belrose Mansion. Everyone was gathered around the table in the living room - all worried about Saphira. Laura seemed to be sighing a lot - and Charlotte told her Saphira is probably the least to be worried about in terms of danger (I kinda had to agree...). Anna agreed, saying that she looked so cool riding the giant Steelix, and wondered if she would give her a ride if she comes back. Noel sighed that she fell off the Steelix at the top of Tanzan Mountain, and while he hates to admit it, she probably won't come back ever. Anna slapped him in the back to stop being silly, but Noel stated that he was being serious and even Nomos agrees with him. Charlotte still seemed untouched about the situation - as she assured that Saphira doesn't go down so easily, and that applies to all of her family members. Then, Shelly asked a rather rude question of what happened to her parents. Charlotte's smile suddenly faded, and quietly whispered that nothing has happened. A moment of silence was heard, and Charlotte tried to change the subject by asking who the woman with the Hydreigon was. I assumed that she was referring to Lin. Anna apparently didn't see this woman too, as Noel explained to her that wild (if there was one) Hydreigons don't just randomly attack people. I told everyone that her name was Lin - and Charlotte scratched her head, stating that the name sounded extremely familiar. Anna asked me if I didn't happen to get her Amethyst pendant back, and I replied that I couldn't, but I found that they were using it as a some sort of key. Anna asked what she meant by that, and Shelly suddenly jolted in shock - which left everyone with question marks. Shelly explained to us she just remembered an old story she has read - which described an ancient city which was built around the crash site of a fallen meteor. The temple that housed the meteor was sealed by four crystal keys - ruby, sapphire, emerald and amethyst. But eventually, the city fell into ruin, and it was thought to be lost. Shelly exclaimed that it was possible that Team Meteor was predicting that Anna's pendant was actually the Amethyst Key to the ruin. Noel seemed shocked - as that would mean that the ancient city became Reborn. Shelly also exclaimed that explains the reason why the organization blew up the Grand Stairway - as a huge cavern (confirmed by me) with a ruin at its base was discovered. Anna stated that Heather's Ruby Ring must be one of those keys too - and Laura said that only left Emerald and Sapphire. Anna determinedly stated that they must stop Team Meteor - as whatever they were wishing to achieve with those keys wouldn't be good. Charlotte seemed to be lost in thought - mumbling that if those 'keys' were disguised as jewelry, she might have seen the Sapphire counterpart. She asked Laura if she remembers the Sapphire Bracelet their father gave her as a present for her birthday. Laura nodded - saying that she remembers, but she sadly said she lost it when their parents have died. She added that the jewelry probably didn't survive the burning flames too, and Anna wondered what fire she meant. Laura began to explain that during their youth, Charlotte did something - but Charlotte seemed offended by that remark, and ran out of the house. Laura called out to her, and followed the red-haired girl out. The four of us were left with an awkward silence, and Anna broke the ice by saying that we should finish up what we were going to do before. I asked what she meant by that - and she slapped me in the back, saying that I was about to have a Gym Battle with Noel before Saphira showed up. Noel sighed, and he supposed they should if it was necessary, and all of us proceeded out to the front lawn... Current Team: Jan (Feraligatr) Lv. 49 - Water Pledge - Crunch - Ice Fang - Rock Smash Squelch (Muk) Lv. 49 - Gunk Shot - Mud Bomb - Strength - Screech Donar (Venomoth) Lv. 52 - Bug Buzz - Sleep Powder - Psybeam - Quiver Dance Paruto (Diggersby) Lv. 49 - Bounce - Dig - Hammer Arm - Nature Power Root (Trevenant) Lv. 48 - Destiny Bond - Horn Leech - Shadow Claw - Will-O-Wisp Purugly (Dummy) Lv. 54 - Body Slam - Shadow Claw - Swagger - Hypnosis

ENTRY #20: Infiltration A metal gate was blocking our way towards the interior of Meteor's hideout in Tanzan Mountain. Laura began to search around - positive that a switch was present somewhere. Suddenly though, she tripped over some rocks, and the door... magically opened. Laura was going frantic about getting dirty - but I dragged her forward. We sneaked on - and noticed two grunts were guarding the main entrance. Laura said she will handle this, and she proceeded to release her Lilligant from its Poke Ball. Laura whispered the command, 'Sleep Powder' - and green powders flew towards the grunts, slowly drifting them off to sleep. With the way clear, we progressed inside. We defeated myriads of grunts along the way - and we came across an empty cellar... which seemed to have a massive hole. Laura guessed that Saphira already managed to escape from her imprisonment, and urged me to search for her quicker. We split up - and I found Saphira in some sort of a control room. She scolded me for coming - as she could have handled the situation herself. I informed her that Laura was here too, and she grunted in frustration. I asked her what she was doing - and she told me she was trying to disable the security system, to open the central gate. At that moment however, two Meteor grunts stormed in, and I defeated them gracefully. As the two grunts fell in defeat, Saphira managed to successfully disengage the atrium lock. The grunts cried that they have failed - and Saphira grinned rather intimidatingly, confirming this. She actually scared these two away (she probably has built quite a reputation amongst the Meteors by now...), and the two of us proceeded, while Laura joined us in front of a rather important-looking room. Inside the room was Sigmund and ZEL, with a PULSE Abra machine. Saphira gritted her teeth at the sight of the evil doctor. The two began to quarrel - and the doctor actually lost his temper as Saphira taunted him by using the word 'caring'. It was the first time I saw him lose his calm like this - so that was pretty interesting. Then, a voice was heard near the entrance, asking the doctor if something was the matter. Sirius slided in, and was not pleased to see us, especially Saphira. But he said there were more important matters, and rudely shoved me to the side to talk to ZEL, and he informed the person that 'Lin' was arriving shortly to monitor their progress. Both the doctor and Saphira seemed to be familiar with the name, and Sirius humphed that Lin was the true leader of Team Meteor, and even Solaris answers to her. So someone who was worse than Solaris... who killed Kiki, was in this organization? Lumi started to stutter - saying that the Abra still won't listen to their commands. Laura demanded to know what they were doing with Abra, and Lumi replied that they are trying to enter a sealed place, so they were trying to utilize Abra's teleportation powers to achieve their goal. Zero angrily complained, however that the sleeping Pokemon was refusing to listen to a single command, but instead has been constantly causing trouble. Laura and I exclaimed that the teleporting mechanism observed in Spinel Town must be due to this Abra, and Eve confirmed our theory to be correct. Sirius hushed her - saying that is enough information, and ordered to focus on taming the Pokemon, or Lin is going to be extremely displeased with all of them. Saphira halted them - saying that we weren't hear to spectate. Sirius laughed, saying that if she really wants to, she could be their 'test subject'. We were wondering what he meant by that, but in a flash, I lost consciousness. As I opened my eyes, unpleasant smells infiltrated my nostrils. I woke up in what seemed to be a dark, cavern - filled with containers that were leaking green chemicals, which seemed to be corrosive. The earthquakes seemed to be a lot more vigorous in this area - so I proceeded with caution, on the lookout for Laura and Saphira. I found Laura in the next chamber, also lying unconsciously. I woke her up (with a Wake-Up Slap), and the first thing she said was how disappointed she was with her dirty clothing (...). She then asked me where we were, and I replied that I had no clue. She also seemed to notice the foul smell of acid resonating in the area, and she also recognized that these containers look similar to that present inside the Meteor base. She counted that there were seven containers, and shivered slightly, saying that she hates the number. I asked her why, and she hesitantly replied, since she didn't know it was okay to tell me all of this, that odd numbers strangely bother her - and the number eight has always had some significance on her, as it offered her a sense of relaxation and perfection. She continued that the reason why she particularly dislikes the number seven is that back at the orphanage, there was a girl called 'Lin', who was even younger than Anna. She told me that Lin was pretty sadistic, and her hobby was to expose other peoples' secrets and disturbing other people. Lin knew that Laura was fond of the number eight, so Lin would do things that stopped Laura from having eight objects. I asked if she knew what happened to Lin afterwards, but Laura shook her head. She replied that Lin pulled a trick on Lin one day, and the doctor was extremely mad about that. The last moment Laura witnessed of her was the doctor taking her upstairs while she and the others were locked up in their respective cells. Some says she has escaped while some say the doctor has killed her. I asked if this 'Lin' was somehow related to Team Meteor, as Sirius did mention the person with the same name. Laura said that it was impossible - as she was too young to be involved in such a large organization, despite being pretty malevolent. An earthquake disturbed our conversation - and Laura suggested that we get a move on, and try to search for Saphira. A brighter opening was awaiting us, as we stepped out of the dark cave. However, we came across a dead end, and Laura was getting worried about Saphira. Just then, a booming voice from below echoed to our ears, and Laura recognized the voice as Saphira's. Saphira shouted that she became stuck at the bottom of the chasm. Laura asked her if she was hurt - and Saphira replied she isn't, but she isn't so lucky in discovering a way up. Just then, an enormous earthquake struck, causing me to tumble to the floor, as I lost my balance. Laura helped me back up, and said that the sources of these earthquakes are somewhere near here. Saphira said that she will try to find a way up, and told us to see if we can find anything related to the earthquakes. As we backtracked, we were shocked to see a new passage has formed on its own! Saphira wondered what we were surprised about from below, and Laura told her about the new tunnel - as if something really big has just dug through the stones completely. Saphira implied that something extremely big and strong must have caused that to happen, and was extremely close-by. Yet another passage appeared as we backtracked to discover what was going on. Saphira notified us by confirming the containers at the bottom, that was leaking acid, are identical to the ones from the base. Laura wondered how those could have ended up down there, and Saphira guessed that they appeared in the same way as we did. Based on that, Saphira theorized that we weren't far from the Meteor Base, and we're probably somewhere in the depths of Tanzan Mountain. She also added that the sudden injection of the poison probably upset the Pokemon that lived down here - which would explain all the earthquakes, and the source of the earthquakes was probably just trying to retaliate against the Meteors for this toxicity. Laura said she'll look for another passage - and backtracked. But just then, Laura's scream was heard, and both Saphira and I became alarmed. I was shocked to see Laura lying unconscious on the floor again - and Saphira warned me that something was moving very fast, and it was headed towards our direction! A gigantic Steelix materialized out of the bottom of the chasm within seconds - and let out a deafening roar. Saphira screamed that this Steelix was probably responsible for all the earthquakes, and if we can defeat it, the earthquakes will be subdued... Current Team: Jan (Feraligatr) Lv. 49 - Water Pledge - Crunch - Ice Fang - Rock Smash Squelch (Muk) Lv. 49 - Gunk Shot - Mud Bomb - Strength - Screech Donar (Venomoth) Lv. 52 - Bug Buzz - Sleep Powder - Psybeam - Quiver Dance Paruto (Diggersby) Lv. 49 - Bounce - Dig - Hammer Arm - Nature Power Root (Trevenant) Lv. 48 - Destiny Bond - Horn Leech - Shadow Claw - Will-O-Wisp Purugly (Dummy) Lv. 54 - Body Slam - Shadow Claw - Swagger - Hypnosis

This Glaceon works pretty well: Glaceon @ Brightpowder Ability: Snow Cloak EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpD / 4 SpA (I guess you could vary in SpD and SpA) - Blizzard - Hail - HP Ground - Shadow Ball/Mirror Coat Hail-Snow Cloak-Brightpowder = An extremely annoying troll xD Glaceon is pretty specially bulky as well, so Mirror Coat works too.

ENTRY #19: Ambush Everyone was beside Anna's bed when I returned. I quickly delivered the medicine to Anna. Anna seemed paler than when I left her, so I urged her to drink it. However, she started to pour all the medicine onto her Jirachi doll! Laura exclaimed at what she was doing, while Noel said to Anna rather calmly that she was wasting medicine. Anna replied that it was nonsense - as Nostra has to drink the medicine or she won't feel better. Dumbfounded, the rest of us watched her pour all of the medicine (which I had to go and get...) over Nostra. Seconds later, Anna cheerfully got out of her bed - overjoyed that Nostra has gone better. Thankfully, Anna seemed better too, so I guess that was all it mattered. Anna turned to me, and thanked me for getting the medicine for Nostra. She wanted to thank me somehow - and said to Noel that he should offer me a gym battle. It certainly was quite an unexpected thing to do, but Anna assured that it was important for me to collect more gym badges. Charlotte told me that I wasn't up to her level yet (really??), so I will have to wait a little longer. Noel seemed unsure - and said that even Nomos thinks that this wasn't the best time. Anna disagreed - saying that Nomos said it was a perfect time for a gym battle (I decided to remain silent). With that, Anna sped off towards the front door - and the rest of us followed rather slowly. Anna already set up a mini-arena in the front lawn, and I guess I had no choice but to battle Noel. Just as Charlotte (who volunteered to be the referee) was about to commence the match, she noticed something in the air, and called out. I turned my head towards the sky and noticed a woman flying on a Dragonite. This woman, who Charlotte referred to as 'Saphira' seemed to recognize Charlotte and the twins, and noticed that they have escaped from the orphanage. Charlotte added that they escaped thanks to me and Shelly's help, and hence they were able to escape from the Doctor twice. Saphira grunted that it was about to be three times as the Doctor was on his way here along with his orderlies and a team dressed in black - which was obviously Team Meteor. Noel seemed to spot them too in the distance - trying to cross the lake. Laura was rolling her feet - asking us what we should do in this bleak situation. Saphira replied that she hasn't got a smart plan, but running was clearly not an option for us. She ordered Charlotte, the twins and Shelly to hurry and hide in the house - while she told me and Laura to defend the house, and secure the protection on the kids. She seemed determined to not let anyone touch her family, and fiercely stated that she is going to take down as many Meteors as possible on the water's surface. With that, she flew off on her Dragonite - which started to shoot Hyper Beam towards the Meteor's raft, just visible on the water's surface ahead. Back inside the house, Noel suggested that they split up into two groups and hide. Charlotte agreed, and she told the others not to worry as Laura and I will handle things well (I thought you were slightly higher in ranking than me, Charlotte? Why can't you protect yourself??). The kids hurried off - with Anna and Noel heading upstairs while Charlotte and Shelly went to the kitchen. Laura advised me to guard downstairs while she will form a defense-line upstairs. Minutes later, someone broke through the front door. It was the doctor - who wasn't too pleased to see me again. He warned that he will not show mercy like last time, and ordered his orderlies to search the upper floor while he will deal with me. Mission: vs vs vs vs vs vs Paruto was caught off-guard by Jolteon's HP Ice (presumably) - but was able to OHKO it with Dig. I would love to have a Eevelution (apart from Glaceon since I already have it) on my team someday... yeah anyway back to the battle. Electivire proved to be tough - as its Fire Punch and Ice Punch almost took Squelch down to the red zone. However, a Screech followed by a Gunk Shot was able to OHKO the Electivire! Whoohoo Luxray was easier than Jolteon - as it was slower than Paruto. Dig OHKOed it - even with the Intimidate drop! Wow my team was putting in the finest today! Lanturn was quite easy with Root's type advantage. 2 Horn Leeches were enough to faint the bulky water Pokemon - but the Lanturn was able to paralyze Root with Discharge. Rotom was actually bulkier than I thought. Donar faced some trouble with this plasma thing, but with 2 Quiver Dances up, it... still faced trouble - because I forgot ghost resists bug so Bug Buzz wasn't as effective - but Psybeam wasn't too good either... GODDAMNIT. But eventually, we took the Rotom down as its Discharge and Ominous Winds weren't doing much to Donar who had a +2 SpD boost. Eelektross was definitely the toughest to take down. It took me several tries - but Root managed to burn the eel, and it significantly lowered the power of its powerful Crunch attack, which almost OHKOed Root. I had to heal stall a little, which was unfortunate, but after a few turns of healing, Horn Leech finally defeated the Eelektross - guaranteeing me victory. As soon as our battle finished, Sirius stormed in through the front door. Sigmund turned towards him - and asked where all his men were. Sirius angrily grunted that they are probably dead as a witch on a Dragonite shot them down while they were crossing the lake. He seemed extremely furious - and shouted that he will not leave empty-handed. Sigmund suggested that they go searching for the children themselves - and Sirius cunningly smiled - saying that is a good idea - since I can't stop two people at once. Urgh I guess Laura was on the top floor - so I had to leave Sirius to her while I hold Sigmund. Sirius headed upstairs, and a few minutes later, Saphira burst the front door open. The doctor and Saphira seemed to know each other (obviously), and the two seemed to hate each other pretty well. Sigmund taunted her - saying that her presence indicates that the kids are definitely here - and started calling out for Charlotte. Saphira stated by calling his name that he was wrong, and the doctor wished to be addressed properly as 'Doctor'. Saphira scoffed at the remark - and he suited 'criminal' better. She began to take move towards him, and the doctor backed away - clearly intimidated. I could sense Saphira's rage building up - and when the doctor was facing the front wall, she swiftly released her Dragonite from its Poke Ball and ordered a Hyper Beam! The doctor was blasted through the wall - and was out of sight. I stared at the massive hole that appeared on the wall, and Saphira chuckled at what she has done. At that moment however, a voice commanding Poison Fang was heard, and just as I was about to figure out what it was, a Seviper was right beside a fallen Saphira. It was Sirius - and I guess Laura was able to hold him off after all. He was still enraged - and said that he is going to promise his words of not leaving empty-handed. Before I could stop him, he took off somewhere with Saphira - and told me to come to his territory if I want to retrieve her. Laura came rushing downstairs, and was shocked to hear... or see that the wall has been destroyed. I told her that Saphira has been taken, and a voice stated that it was a terrible mistake. Charlotte and Shelly appeared from the kitchen, and grinned that Saphira was probably going to destroy their hideout from the inside-out. But obviously we had to go there to rescue her properly, and Charlotte seemed ready to go. Laura, however had second thoughts - and sternly stated that Charlotte will remain here. Charlotte began to argue - but Laura assured that she doesn't get involved anymore as she is a target to them. So together with Laura, I headed towards Tanzan Mountain, where Laura witnessed Team Meteor installing machinery - indicating that the place was their hideout... Current Team: Jan (Feraligatr) Lv. 47 - Water Pledge - Crunch - Ice Fang - Rock Smash Squelch (Muk) Lv. 47 - Gunk Shot - Mud Bomb - Strength - Screech Donar (Venomoth) Lv. 48 - Bug Buzz - Sleep Powder - Psybeam - Quiver Dance Paruto (Diggersby) Lv. 47 - Bounce - Dig - Hammer Arm - Nature Power Root (Trevenant) Lv. 47 - Destiny Bond - Horn Leech - Shadow Claw - Will-O-Wisp Purugly (Dummy) Lv. 50 - Body Slam - Shadow Claw - Swagger - Hypnosis

All legendaries will be available post-game, so you'll have to wait a while unfortunately.

Try exploring the room where Saphira shows up on your way to Route 1 and the Aventurine Woods. You'll eventually end up back in the Wasteland, and the Yureyu Key. You have to defeat Luna first though.

Whoohoo lots of comments let's go! Turns out that I don't really hate Choice Scarf sets now since I feel I'm slightly better at utilizing them. Your Magnezone set does look cool though! I'll definitely try it out on another electric mono-team. And as for AV Latias... yeah I've only encountered it once - but it demolished my team (This was when I had a Raikou instead of Electivire, so I guess it was a reasonable loss) Wow I actually never thought of Thundurus and Psychic! That's actually quite a good solution. I'm really reluctant to get rid of Electivire though - because Earthquake has been helping me immensely with the common mono-fire teams. Nevertheless, I will try out Thundurus. Also, I've replaced Galvantula with your Raikou! Hopefully it will work out! As for Rotom-Wash, I didn't really face any problems with Bisharp to be honest - so I think I'll leave it for now. Thanks for all the input! Urgh yeah Chansey is a problem now! Knock Off is going in definitely!

I've been having a lot of fun playing in monotype tiers - and I was wondering if I managed to build a well-functioing team. Feedback will be much appreciated! And just for your information, I'm planning to make a monotype team for every type (mostly OU). The order is going to follow the order of the Reborn Gyms. I actually made a Grass mono-team a few days ago, so I'll post that team up in a few days. Then, it's going to be Bug, Ghost and so on. ELECTRIC TEAM Thunderbolt (M-Manectric) @ Manectite Ability: Intimidate (Lightningrod) EVs: 252 SpA / 252 Spe / 4 SpD Timid Nature - Flamethrower - Hidden Power Ice - Thunderbolt - Volt Switch The team's Mega and powerhouse! Self-explanatory really. Thunder (Zapdos) @ Leftovers Ability: Pressure EVs: 248 HP / 176 Def / 68 SpA / 16 Spe Bold Nature - Defog - Heat Wave - Thunderbolt - Toxic The team's physically defensive Pokemon. With a Focus Sash-Galvantula and Sturdy-Magnezone chilling in the party, entry hazards are a pain - which Defog handles. I was debating Roost over Toxic - but Roost makes Zapdos Earthquake-bait, and that is obviously not good for it. Toxic seemed to work well by crippling down walls slowly. Evilire (Electivire) @ Expert Belt Ability: Motor Drive EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spe / 4 SpD Jolly Nature - Cross Chop - Earthquake - Ice Punch - Wild Charge The team's only physically offensive member (there weren't many options available in terms of physical attackers for electric types). In this case, Expert Belt seemed to work better than Choice Band or Life Orb - as not being restricted to a single move and suffering recoil damage was too much for this guy. Knife (Rotom-Wash) @ Leftovers Ability: Levitate EVs: 248 HP / 252 SpD / 8 SpA Calm Nature - Hydro Pump - Pain Split - Volt Switch - Will-O-Wisp I always like to make my Rotom-W a specially defensive Pokemon - which applies in this team too - as Zapdos already handles the physical side relatively well. Pretty much the standard Rotom-W set - although I might replace Pain Split with something else. Tulalut (Galvantula) @ Focus Sash Ability: Compoundeyes EVs: 252 SpA / 252 Spe / 4 SpD Timid Nature - Bug Buzz - Energy Ball - Sticky Web - Thunder Galvantula almost always is my lead (unless my opponent is rocking with a mono-flying team). Sticky Web is crucial for fast mono-teams like another electric, flying, dark etc. Thunder is run over Thunderbolt because of Compoundeyes. Coil (Magnezone) @ Choice Scarf Ability: Sturdy EVs: 252 SpA / 252 Spe / 4 Def Timid Nature - Flash Cannon - Hidden Power Fire - Thunderbolt - Volt Switch I used to hate Choice items, but I've grown to love the Scarf item ever since I used this guy in OU (and now in monotype). I'm running Sturdy over Magnet Pull as the only time the latter ability is useful is when I'm fighting a mono-steel team. This team has one SEVERE weakness though - and that is Mega Venusaur. It eats up super-effective fire and ice attacks very easily - and I don't have any Psychic or Flying coverage on this team. Worse, it packs Synthesis, so it can restore its health after I have done so much to inflict damage on it. Since M-Venusaur is pretty much a necessity in mono grass or poison teams, I think I do need to have a decent counter for it. Raikou with Extrasensory seems like an option - but I have no idea who I'll replace... Assault Vest-Latias also wrecked my team too (but this was before Electivire was added, so I might have a better chance now).

I joined when E12 was just released - and this community is probably the one that I'm involved with the most currently

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/randomdoublesbattle-242883772 I tend to win if I have at least 2 Pokemon of my favorite type (Ice) in a random battle. I made some HORRIBLE plays here, and I probably didn't deserve to win - but it looked like this theory is confirming itself to be true

Because Pawniard in that point in the game... (like the other 17 Pokemon) are extremely good.

So no Larvesta for you sir.

ENTRY #18: The Elegant Beauty Queen (in spoilers - as it is new E15 content) Serra walked over to me to hand me the Rime Badge and TM79 containing Frost Breath. A sudden rumbling was heard as she finished explaining the badge's function - and Serra seemed to sarcastically comment that the Poke Center probably landed on her roof now. Serra left the room to check what was going on. I followed her - and she has informed me that the Mart has vanished from the roof. She also added that Bennett seemed to have gone also. He has informed her that he has embarked on a journey to become one of the Elite Four. She wore a sad smile, and she assured that she was happy for her son, which seemed quite ironic. I felt pretty bad for leaving Serra alone, because she really seemed lonely - but I had an errand to run, and that was to grab the medicine for Anna. It seemed that the Poke Mart ended up right outside Tanzan Mountain - which was convenient for me, as I had to pass here to reach Charlotte's house again. I grabbed the Medicine from the shelf, and exited the mart (of course I paid for it), and biked back to the Belrose House. Current Team: Jan (Feraligatr) Lv. 47 - Water Pledge - Crunch - Ice Fang - Rock Smash Squelch (Muk) Lv. 46 - Gunk Shot - Mud Bomb - Strength - Screech Donar (Venomoth) Lv. 48 - Bug Buzz - Sleep Powder - Psybeam - Quiver Dance Paruto (Diggersby) Lv. 46 - Bounce - Dig - Hammer Arm - Nature Power Root (Trevenant) Lv. 47 - Destiny Bond - Horn Leech - Shadow Claw - Will-O-Wisp Purugly (Dummy) Lv. 50 - Body Slam - Shadow Claw - Swagger - Hypnosis

...Basically you just have to look everywhere in Peridot Ward (Can't remember details right now... sorry). As for the Pokesnax vendor, he is in North Peridot Ward - near the house with the Snubbull girl.

I guess you'd be better off playing different games

Look near the entrance of the town - possibly inside...

ENTRY #17: Vanishing Objects With our combined efforts, Shelly and I successfully solved the Railnet Puzzle - and the gate opened to let us outside. As soon as we stepped outside, Heather sent her Salamence out of her Poke Ball, hopped on and flew off. Shelly was dumbfounded that she just left without saying goodbye - and Cain offered to go after her, as he still felt uneasy leaving her alone. With that, he left towards the east. Noel reminded us that Anna was still unwell - which Anna denied for the umpteenth time and said it was Nostra that was sick, not her. Either way, Charlotte decided that they should go to her house as soon as possible - so she lead the way. We had to traverse through Tanzan Mountain to get to Charlotte's house - and we soon realized that there were earthquakes occurring inside and outside of the mountain! Metal junk was also visible throughout the interior of the mountain, which Charlotte said it was something new. At the end of the pathway was a lush floral plain - and a beautifully azure lake was in the middle. I couldn't help but beam at the sight of such beautiful scenery - but the earthquakes disturbed me from appreciating its beauty for long. A house was coming into view - and Charlotte noticed that eight rings made of flowers were present at the front lawn. She sighed that Laura has been busy again, and I asked her what she meant. She replied it was nothing - and we headed into the house. Charlotte rang the bell, and a pink-haired girl greeted us. She seemed to recognize Anna and Noel, and was shocked to see all of us here, when the kids are supposed to be at the Orphanage. Charlotte shrugged that they had enough of prison life, and was on the run. Charlotte proceeded to introduce her sister, Laura to me and Shelly, and told her that we helped them escape from the Doctor. She added that we'll be hanging around here for a while too since it probably wasn't safe for us to return to the City as well. Noel cut in - and said that Anna has to lie down. Laura seemed to finally notice how pale Anna looked like - and ushered the twins upstairs. While they were gone, Charlotte explained to me and Shelly about Laura - how she turned 18 very recently so she was free to leave the orphanage, and it looked like she was busy redecorating their parents' house. Shelly asked Charlotte about what happened to her parents. Charlotte remained silent for a second, and told Shelly that she would rather not talk about it. Realizing her mistake, Shelly hastily apologized, and Laura came back downstairs at that moment - worried about Anna as she seemed to be running an awful fever. Charlotte asked if any medication was available - but Laura shook her head sadly. She stated that the PokeMart in Spinel Town should be selling some though - and Charlotte asked me to get some medicine for Anna (why me??). I guess I had no choice again, so I headed off. I headed down south, and back towards the Railnet entrance. I turned left though - and entered Chrysolia Forest. Something was wrong in this forest though. It looked like a normal forest - but objects, such as trees and wood seemed to vanish all of a sudden! They didn't seem to completely disappear though - as they reappeared elsewhere in the forest. After circling around a few times, I managed to safely reach Spinel Town - but the vanishing mechanism continued to occur here too - as signposts, bushes and even furniture from someone's house just magically disappeared. I saw the Poke Mart in the distant - and tried to approach it, but the entire Poke Mart disappeared in front of my very own eyes! The woman near me sighed that even large buildings are starting to vanish now, and wondered what was going on in this town. I looked around - knowing that it won't have gone too far. And to my bewilderment, the Mart was now relocated on top of a giant estate - which also happened to be a gym. Seriously though, WTF is going on here? I was about to knock on the front door of the large estate, until the door opened right in front of me - and a boy in glasses bumped into me. He called me 'Luna' for some reason. He probably was expecting this 'Luna' because he seemed disappointed that I wasn't 'Luna'. He rudely pushed past me as he was asked to see what the sudden noise was. He looked to see that the Poke Mart ended up on their roof - and shouted to his mother inside that fact. A shocked woman, with blue and violet hair rushed out of the door to see herself, and she realized that was the reason why their balcony door won't open. She noticed my presence, and introduced herself as Serra, the Gym Leader of this town. She invited me inside, and asked Bennett, her son, to close the door behind us. I told Serra that I had some business in the town's Poke Mart - and Serra wore an uneasy expression - as even she had no idea what to do in this situation. Strange things have been happening in the past few days, and she said all we could do was to hope and pray that it will re-appear somewhere more accessible. She smiled and said I was welcome to stay here until things were smooth. She noticed my badges inside my jacket - and asked if I was a Reborn League challenger. I replied with a yes, and Serra told me that she was the Ice-type Leader. Bennett exclaimed that 'Luna' was also a gym leader - but Serra hushed him - as this 'Luna' wasn't the main theme of their conversation. Bennett ignored her and asked me if I have seen a young girl with pretty blonde hair wearing a fancy black and white dress. I shook my head - and Serra told him, a bit more firmly this time, to stop talking about her. Serra noticed my puzzled expression - and explained that Luna is her adopted daughter. Apparently she suddenly appeared out of nowhere at her front door - and claimed that Serra was her mother, which is obviously strange because she clearly had only one child - who was with us in the room. I got curious - and asked her where Luna went - and Serra shook her head, saying that she had no clue. She added that everything seemed to slip away from her, and her smile looked extremely lonely. At that moment, the doorbell rung. Bennett went to greet the visitor - who was a man in white hair. He seemed very religious - mentioning 'Lord Arceus' (WHAT?). He introduced himself as El, a servant of the Lord Arceus (I couldn't help resist turning my head for a laugh). Serra welcomed El - and asked if he was here to query about the Poke Mart too. He denied this, and corrected her by saying he was here to search for his daughter. Bennett seemed shocked, and asked if he meant El, and he conceded. El explained that Luna is a child who has 'lost the Lord's light', and is walking a path of darkness. Because of this, she has denied the fact that he was her father, and hence he was searching for her. Serra's uneasy expression returned - and sighed that unfortunately, Luna wasn't here. El asked if she had any idea where Luna might have gone (don't steal my question!), and Serra gave the same response as she gave to me. Bennett seemed to be quite uncomfortable - and Serra seemed to have noticed this too. She asked if he had any idea where Luna might have gone - and he replied that he doesn't - but he was suspiciously stuttering. El asked Serra if he could stay in the estate for a while - and Serra replied that it wasn't a problem. In fact, she told him he arrived at a really good time and she pointed towards me, saying that I was looking to challenge her for a badge. Serra asked Bennett to show El to the spectators' seat, and told me that she will be waiting in the arena behind her, also wishing me luck. Serra's gym had a very unique design - testing me to figure out symmetry problems. I was doing my best to reach Serra, but in the third room, I ran into Bennett and El, and Bennett asked to battle me. He added to not take it offensively - as he requests battles from challengers who tend to battle his mother. Mission: vs vs vs vs vs vs I ordered Paruto to attack with Bounce. Paruto sprang up as the Larvesta charged towards him with Zen Headbutt. The little bug obviously missed his attack - and ended up hitting a mirror instead. Paruto landed on top of the bug - hitting with a massive force - fainting Larvesta. 1 Down. Urgh that Dustox has Brightpowder. How do I know? Because Root has the 'Frisk' ability! Anyway, Dustox was faster than Root - and he attacked her with a field-boosted Signal Beam - dealing severe damage. Root proceeded to attack with Will-O-Wisp, following with a Phantom Force - as she took another powerful Signal Beam. Both battlers healed our Pokemon - but Root's second Phantom Force was enough to take the Dustox out, although she had to take another Signal Beam in the process. Purugly was extremely lucky in this match. After missing a Hypnosis, Vivillon's Signal Beam almost OHKOed Purugly! However, Purugly was then blessed by the hax god - as she landed successful Hypnosis and Swagger attacks, followed by a Body Slam. The confused butterfly woke up that turn - but ended up hurting itself, and lowering its evasion! Bennett sensed that the situation wasn't good - so he decided to heal up his Vivillon - but it returned to its Poke Ball after taking 2 Body Slam attacks - the first one scoring a paralysis. Sorry, Root but I have to sack you off to avoid getting the Intimidate drop on Purugly .... Purugly's strategy is pretty much the same for every opponent. Hypnosis-Swagger-Body Slam/Shadow Claw spam. The Masquerain wasn't an exception, and it went down to 3 Body Slams. The same went for Butterfree - although it woke up during the middle, and attempted to put my cat to sleep with Sleep Powder, but it missed haha shame xD (sorry I feel really childish today) Finally, the battle reached its climax with a Venomoth vs Venomoth situation. His Venomoth was 2 levels above mine... but I had confidence we would prevail! Bennett's Venomoth attacked first with Signal Beam - and it took away about a quarter of Donar's HP. Donar launched a Sleep Powder to put the opposing moth to slumber, and proceeded with 2 Quiver Dances - before launching a +2 Psybeam - which OHKOed the opponent! El seemed impressed by our battle, and praised us for being gifted by Arceus's light. Pssh old man, I got here with my own skills - not some dumb Pokemon you regard as a God. Bennett seemed to share the same opinion as me - as he denied there being a God. El respected his opinion - but stated that he was dreaming too small. Bennett wondered what he meant by that, and El calmly replied that he recalled Bennett wanting to become a Gym Leader. But, he apparently saw potential in him - and he assured Bennett that with his determination, he could surely rise up to the ranks of the Elite Four. Bennett seemed bewildered by this comment (I wasn't), but stuttered that he still has a long way to go. El said he was correct - but if he trained under him, he will reach those positions in no time. He suggested that they discuss the details elsewhere, and leave me to challenge Serra in peace. El wished me luck as he walked out of the room with the excited Bennett. I have a bad feeling about this... Serra was waiting for me in the next room, which was a large arena full of mirrors. Just as we were about to begin our battle, El and Bennett appeared in the spectators' seat... Current Team: Jan (Feraligatr) Lv. 46 - Water Pledge - Crunch - Ice Fang - Rock Smash Squelch (Muk) Lv. 46 - Gunk Shot - Mud Bomb - Strength - Screech Donar (Venomoth) Lv. 46 - Bug Buzz - Sleep Powder - Psybeam - Quiver Dance Paruto (Diggersby) Lv. 45 - Bounce - Dig - Hammer Arm - Nature Power Root (Trevenant) Lv. 46 - Destiny Bond - Horn Leech - Shadow Claw - Will-O-Wisp Purugly (Dummy) Lv. 50 - Body Slam - Shadow Claw - Swagger - Hypnosis

If you defeated Solaris on Pyrous Mountain, you're partnered with Julia in your third double battle in Fiore Mansion. It also triggers new dialogue too.

If you mean trying to get a Blue Moon Ice Cream, it all really depends on luck. It will randomly appear in your bag when you buy an ice cream.