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Easy mode: May takes on Reborn. That blaziken...

Another good place to train is inside the Grand Hall, each day a new trainer (or on certain days set of trainers) will appear. The pokemon are generally around the level of the last gym leader you beat, so they give out plenty of exp. After you beat the trainer just reset your clock to the next day so that more trainers will appear.

So it probably won't happen.

Am I the only one who had no problem with the Ferroseed? I easily defeated it with my Noibat.

I think he means that whatever type the last gym leader uses you are stuck with. Then you can only use pokemon of the same type, but they must have it as their primary type (hence his comment of Noiverns).

Yes, but after getting a few of the good TM moves Froakie completely overshadows Fennekin. Also there is no point in using Espurr if you start with Fennekin. Just don't use Espurr period, it's good early game but very bad late game.

It's because Swablu doesn't learn Outrage... And Altaria can't learn it through level up.

We already have Pokemon Insurgence for cults... Maybe organization (sounds so sinister) or squad instead. I'd like to see useful move tutors in the game, but I'm sure we won't get them until after the league. Maybe some HM replacement moves/items similar to Insurgence.

NU Team: Totodile Jolly (Sheer Force): Aqua Tail Dragon Dance Ice Punch Bite Onix Sassy (Rock Head) @Steelixite: Earthquake Dragon Tail Harden Tackle Litleo Modest (Unnerve): Ember Tackle Dark Pulse Hidden Power (Grass) Inkay Brave (Contrary): Superpower Psybeam Topsy-Turvy Trick Room Snubbull Brave (Intimidate): Earthquake Ice Punch Thunder Punch Bite Altaria Careful (Natural Cure): Outrage Earthquake Peck Astonish Altaria can't use the Altariaite.

My guess is that the elite block of leaders will consist of Amaria, Titania, Saphira and Adrienn. Flying and Rock just don't seem strong enough as the other four types. Although we might get to fight Amaria before the other elites since she will inevitably lose her memories after the fall (if she drops from the elite block she will probably be replaced by Ciel).

Sorry for the side track. But don't we already know that the girl is Sigmund's sister, and that she killed herself. And this ultimately led to Sigmund performing shock therapy with children he believes are mentally unstable (so that they don't suffer the same fate as his sister).

Isn't that the Citae Arc-d'Astrae Aerie? I'm referencing the Mirage Tower found in the Tourmaline Desert. You can see it in this map.

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The shiny chance is indeed increased. I don't know what it is exactly (maybe 1/100?).

Who knows, the Mirage Tower is begging to be the fairy gym (it's so fitting!). And my theory might also be wrong and Adrienn will be the fairy leader. We will only know the answers in later episodes!

Has this been confirmed? Because, with the evidence given so far it does not seem very likely that xe will be the fairy leader. And that mirage tower just looks like it'll be the fairy gym. Edit: Not to mention that xe was missing for 10 years, this was before the Reborn League was even formed. There has to be another fairy leader in the league for all these years, so unless we have another Kiki/Corey situation, I don't see how xe will be the leader. Also won't xe be busy fixing the city?

The Reborn League seems to happen months after the in game story (at least based on Amaria's and Luna's descriptions). So I don't think we'll see Sigmund as a leader anytime soon in the game (if at all. also wasn't he replaced by Arclight?). I'm also interested to see who will be the in game fairy-type leader (since its the only one we don't know about).

My theory is that the girl with blonde hair was Sigmund's daughter and she also passed away. After that he began adopting young girls to replace his lost daughter (but theres probably more than that).

I agree with Etesian, Meowstic won't be useful anymore. There are far better choices for psychic types such as Alakazam, Reuniclus, Metagross, Gallade and Gothitelle. However, I'd recommend a fairy type instead such as Clefable, Sylveon, Azumarill or Gardevoir to deal with Dragons. Clefable with Magic Guard and Moonblast/Flamethrower/Calm Mind/Thunderbolt works great. You'd have to breed CM and Tbolt from episode 12- though (for Calm Mind go with Spritzee > Clefable and Tbolt Pikachu > Clefable).

Yes, but be careful with Sharpedo since its VERY frail (always give it screen support with Sylveon). Also remeber to give Sylveon moldy clay.

Your team is looking pretty solid so far, can you post the natures and abilities of the pokemons? I'd say evolve your eevee to a Sylveon (hopefully its an HA Eevee, if not change it). Unfortunately, the tutor for Hyper Voice is still unavailable, but you can give Sylveon Moonblast/Light Screen/Shadow Ball/Misty Terrain (to shut down field effects). For the last slot I'd recommend something to deal with Psychic types, Sharpedo fits well with your team. Capture one with Speed Boost and give it Crunch/Waterfall/Ice Fang/Poison Fang (?). Also, you need an HM slave such as Bibarel to save up space for your main pokemons moves (to get rid of Rock Smash). Edit: Rotom would also be a good option for the last slot with Discharge/Shadow Ball/Thunder Wave/Form move. You can change its type before any major battle (although you won't get to do that until the very end). Probably better to train a rotom as soon as you finish episode 14 since its pretty useless before that (stuck in its Electric/Ghost form).

Rotom would also be a solid choice, it has Levitate and you can change its type before the big battles to give you an extra edge (for example before Saphira you could change its form to frost).

Well, every ghost pokemon is actually a dead pokemon (except maybe a few of Shade's pokemon), so there was plenty of pokemon death in Reborn.

I'm pretty sure that the secret Meteor base is located in the sewers of Reborn City. So we will probably see it in the next episode, when we go save Titania and Amaria. So maybe it can be under the grand hall in the sewers. On another note, one piece of backstory I'm interested in finding out is what happened between Titania and Florinia (we still don't have an answer!). Edit: We even get a clue that the base is right "under our noses". I'm almost certain about it being in the sewers. Maybe we get to clean the sewers after beating Team Meteor there.

If you think Azumarill is too good then I shiver at the thought of what you'll do to poor Clefable.