Lizard Troop

Somebody with intelligence, thank you. That explains at least some things. Nothing was answered, no. Not by you or him. I doubt actual answers for these questions exist, though, considering no one has any. Had I not explained my location in the game, I doubt you would have even thought to tell me to finish the game. But it's cool, I was just bringing these plot holes to some attention at least.

That sounds like a response from someone who knows nothing about it either.

The doctor's name is connal, by the way. Saying "who cares" is one of the worst ways to look at stories in general. The entire reason stories exist is because people care why and how things happen. Preventing the leaders from being challenged for their badges at all halts progression in the league entirely, especially considering that one of the elite four (apparently at the time) was with them too. "It doesn't matter because we got the badges anyway" is a terrible response, too. I expect an amazing story to make sense as a whole regardless of what the player does. At least, good stories are like that.

First off, shade is partially acceptable considering nothing is really wrong about the choice. Second, no dialogue uttered by anyone gives any indication of there being replacements for the gym leaders. In fact, on the contrary. The leaders themselves keep referring to you having to battle them and only them for their badges in the middle of the orphanage. I understand that games that leave some part of the story up to your own imagination is how great stories are made, (Case in point the Souls series) but none of this is unexplained. It's all explained and it doesn't make sense with the world.

I wonder if El is still there, too. Regardless, Laura was referred as being a member inside of the orphanage, so their entire inprisonment is the only part of the game where I thought the plot really needed some reconsidering.

Alright, I didn't know that. As of the time of writing, I'm only at route 2.

But the player faces all of them. Even inside the orphanage, the leaders constantly remark that we will have to face them eventually. Does Laura have someone to fill in for her at the elite four? That doesn't really make sense either. What about Adrienn, too? Is his gym still part of the league? If so, that doesn't make sense, either.

Let me start by saying Reborn is one of the greatest games I have ever had the privilege of playing. Everything from it's well written story, challenging fights, beautiful world(relatively), and vibrant characters make it a joy to play. The latter of which range from people I would love to hang out with (Cain, Adrienn, Radomus) and people I would like nothing more than to throw them off a cliff and feed them to a flock of mandibuzz (Heather, Victoria, Anna, Terra). That being said, something about the choice of gym leaders and elite four members has irked me from the very beginning. Why is shade a gym leader? He's an embodiment of death, or a spirit of some kind. I don't mind that he isn't human, but there had to have been a point where he had to sign up for membership among the other gym leaders. Also, every gym leader is supposed to have a backup leader, so who is shades? Other really odd choices include everyone in the orphanage. They've clearly been in there for a long time, so why are they still leaders? They don't have access to their gyms or pokemon, so are people looking on to take the league just out of luck when they get to them? Just glaring holes in the story logic like that don't even make sense.

This "gym" is impossible. Tail slap does half of all my pokemon's hp with it being burned, tri attack does 75% of everyone's hp, and all his pokemon are faster than all mine. Were I to send out ampharos to paralyze anything, it would die in 2 turns. I can't win this.

Let me just start by saying this is the best Pokemon game I have ever played, ever. However, I made an account just to rant about the ludicrously unfair gyms in the game. It seems every gym I've beaten so far I've only done through sheer luck, and I don't really feel accomlished doing that, but that's how I have to do it. The fighting leader flinched me three times in a row, I was paralyzed three times in a row, then I got frozen all in the same battle. The odds of that happening in actual pokemon is basically 0, but it's possible, so I played on and won through RNG. I'mm currently on the normal gym, and if I flinch from tail slap on the first turn one more time from a move that doesn't have any flinch chance, I'm done.