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I'm probably going to end up buying the neutral version from the Nintendo store and restart ~70 times trying to decide which to go with.

Japan gets everything before us *pouts angrily*

Personally, I find in Reborn that I have an abundance of strong Fighting type sweepers; Infernape/Blaziken (if starter), Hariyama, Machamp, Lucario, Conkeldurr, Mienshao, Medicham, ect, the list goes on. How many strong special attackers are there who can fill a similar role to Gardevoir? While there are a few who do their job superbly, Gardevoir outshines quite few of them. I'm not going to mention Mr. Mine because he's trash, Alakazam has extra weaknesses to deal with in Dark and Bug, while the only real weaknesses Garde has are Ghost and Steel. Yes, Poison can kill Garde as well, but Garde can also fire off a STAB Psychic. As a result of Gardevoir outshining most other mons who can fill a similar role, I would say Gardevoir here. Gallade is an extremely awesome pokemon, so don't get me wrong. Gallade is actualy one of my all time favorites. But when looking at other options, if it must be one or the other, Gardevoir wins. Although if you can have it, definitely go for having both. Maybe add a normal/dark type if you were to do that as well to help with the Ghost weakness?

Report VI: Things Don't Go According to Plan, So I Have To Get Some Skrelp Yes, I had to make that pun. You'll understand why in a few moments once you read some of the text below this. Okay, so remember in the last report how I said that I was going to face Serra in both episodes just for the extra challenge? If not just look above and read it... Well, um, yeah. About that. Basically my game didn't want to let me even find Serra in Episode 15, so I asked our friendly tech support folks/devs/bug catchers what was up and I was told there wasn't really a way to make it work where i could face Serra in Episode 15 without things "looking weird." So that's all fine and well I suppose. I only went through all the trouble of breeding a Machamp with Ice/Thunder/Dynamic Punch, Knock Off, 31 Attack IVs, and No Guard to completely blindside The Hax Queen (the Machamp is named "Rel" btw, short for "Reliable" because well, Rel will never, ever miss an attack). Oh well. Onward to other things I suppose. While I was waiting for the community release so I could actually make an update to this post, I progressed a bit outside of the story, caught a few mons, did a couple events, redid some older ones, and then worked on real life stuff for a while. Notably, the Pokemon that I obtained/trained up a bit more that I will probably use at some point are Lachesis the Nidorina (FE4 Reference because why not) Drapion (TB Nicknamed, taking suggestions) Aron (See Drapion) Julius the Dragalge (reference to Julius Robert Oppenheimer, who said the famous quote "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.") Rel the Machamp (See above paragraph) Faith the Gardevoir (because yeah it survived... and it believed in it's trainer... yes, I know it's not very creative, but sue me) Anyway, I made a ton of progress since I last reported in. Like, I now have another two gym badges. As expected, my Hariyama, Machamp, and Camerupt tore EP14 Serra to shreds. Nikola the Manectric helped too. I then saved in the Belrose Manse and returned to EP15. Now, I must admit, I did something stupid. I know what you're thinking: What is is this time? but just bear with me. I had forgotten that the first time that you try to fight Noel, the battle is interrupted. And so I saw the levels of my pokemon, figured Noel's would be about 50-54, and so I grinded up my Pokemon to about 50-51 each. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Then I got to go and get more leveling for my pokemon. I am so smart, Anyway, my team was a bit overleveled and so they tore through the meteors quickly. I got teleported around and took down the Steelix, then went up to take down the Abra. Normally, Abra is an absolute Pain, but this time around, I simply lured a Hyper Beam, delivered a Dynamic Punch, then killed it with Reya the Camerupt. I met Lin and ran away as only the bravest protagonists do. From there, I remebered what a pain Noel was to fight. Most of his team is easy-peasy. The only problem was Cinccino. So after getting destroyed by Cinccino a time or two, I decided to try something never had before. Now, there are a lot of troll-y gimmicks we Reborn users love to abuse. But I just tried out one of the most brutally efficient ones that I have ever witnessed. Dragalge has excellent typing for most things, especially when paired with strong STAB moves and Adaptability. But Dragalge also gets another few moves besides its designated STABs. In this case, Double Team and Toxic. It is a gorgeous combo. You simply Toxic turn 1, then as your foe dies, Double Team to make them eternally miss. On the field where you fight Noel, there's also free recovery so getting hit isn't too bit of a problem if you can take a hit. Gym leaders will waste their potions simply trying to have their precious mons survive the toxic. But there is no relief. You cannot kill what you cannot hit and if you do hit Dragalge, all Dragalge must do is fire back a powerful STAB attack and wreck you. I really love the Double Team/Toxic combo. It's quite beautiful. Normally, I don't go for cheesy, underhanded strats. But for Pete's sake, Noel has a King's Rock Skill Link Cincinno. I think he owes me some hax. Just to give you an idea of my progress though: Badges: Seven (up to Standard Badge) Pokedex Progress: Pokemon Seen-422 (up from 373) Pokemon Obtained-126 (up from 90. Yes, you read that right. I actually caught/evolved into 36 species of Pokemon since the last report) Pokedex Progress: ~17.48% Verdict:

Alrighty, I'll edit the OP now with Elgyem then.

So in the latest release, there was discovered to be a newly added bit to the glade inside the Beryl Ward Cave: a totem. On the totem, there are four faces. In my image, as you can see attached, the order goes- Natu Golett Edit: Elgyem (special thanks to Pyrrhon) Baltoy Basically, this thread is to ask a simple question: what is up with this totem? Further than this, I am unsure how this event progresses and was wondering if anyone knew how to proceed and/or what the final face was. further into the mini-event chain.

Nidoran ♂ wasn't the only member of the species to be moved around:

Houndour:

Audino is now available in the Hidden Cove. It randomly pops up in the grass. I would assume it to be rather rare. Edit: also now available in Crysolia Forest.

So Mawile has been moved Edit: Drapion has been relocated to the same place as well.

I believe Trapnich has been moved to the trade in the Crysolia Forest which previously awarded a Cryognal.

I just did a general search through this topic and while I saw that this post will be soon replaced, I figured it'd be good to mention it is possible to obtain Rindo Berries, which weaken SE Grass attacks, on wild Finneon in the first little poll you can fish in. Just figured it was worth noting.

They're also fairly easy to obtain through pickup once you have a level 51+ Pickup Pokemon. I personally wouldn't waste my mining rocks on a few heart scales since they are a renewable resource elsewhere and the mining rocks are not. Just a personally opinion though. Heart scales can also be obtained by grabbing them off Luvdisc, only found in the Hidden Cove. Simply have a fainted Pokemon with Compound Eyes be in the first slot of the party, then have a pokemon with Frisk be in the second slot to have a decent chance of find some scales.

I just started with my Episode 15 progress and so far I've noticed one change in Pokemon in the past few minutes OBVIOUSLY SPOILERS EXCEPT NOT REALLY SO READ AT YOUR OWN RISK: And another now that I've looked around a tad: Whole new event here: Other Pokemon who get egg moves now: