Ice Cream Sand Witch

Fern seems like he's been built up all his life by everyone around him because he's next in line as a Gym Leader and he did good in school. He's been surrounded by yes men his entire life and he let it go to his head, and when he finally loses to you, it's a huge blow to him and he tries to play it off by making excuses about why he lost and still thinking he's better than you. That's the impression I got after beating him at the trainer's school from his speech about "You think you're cool because you're battling gym leaders? Well I can do that too. I'll show you!" It's kind of similar to how Bennett's defeat speech ends at Iollia Valley. Not that I'm justifying his actions. He pisses me off, but at the same time I laugh at him because I just imagine him desperately trying to prove himself to the player and acting tough to hide his humiliation that there are people who are better than him. His team is the easiest for me because I have type advantages against everything he uses. I would have trouble with Ludicolo if he kept it, though. Ludicolo with Rain Dish + Giga Drain + Big Root would be so annoying to deal with if you can't hit it for super effective damage. I like Cain. He's fun in a world where not so fun things happen sometimes. His team is kind of challenging for me, although like Fern I have advantages against everything. Victoria has my favorite design of the rivals. Her outfit and battle pose are badass. She lets her emotions get the better of her, but considering the school she's at, I'm assuming she'll develop if she appears again in the game. She's the only rival that hasn't incorporated other types in their team to deal with common weaknesses, which would probably be a good idea. Scraggy negates Psychic, but all of her team is weak to Flying.

Heatran. Looking at it makes me think of terrible screeching noises, like sharp metal object on blunt metal object contact. Also, Kyurem (not Black or White Kyurem, the plain one) looks like it has flaky skin and lost its sanity and senses as a result of doing meth everyday for a hundred years. I wish Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf weren't the exact same typing. Maybe have Uxie be Electric/Psychic, Mesprit Fire/Psychic, and Azelf Water/Psychic.

That gate will be opened after a few more events. To progress you need to go all the way to the right of the route from where you started and then south. When you see the Bouffalant and Tauros fighting, KO the Bouffalant and you can ride the Tauros up ledges. There's one or two places where you'll need to KO a Tauros and have a Bouffalant charge into a log to get it out of the way, but you'll only need to do this once because it's a permanent solution.

Pimp.

Thanks. You're cute too.

How do I get to the bottom right part of the wasteland in this picture, where the ledge is meant to be jumped down from the other side? I think I've been everywhere else including the Gastly place, but I can't seem to find a way to get there.

Shelly, Luna, and Samson were the easiest for me. I 1-shotted most of their Pokemon, including the Yanmega lots of people have trouble with.

Pumpkin.

My team right now is Delphox, Ampharos, Sylveon, Scrafty, and Gourgeist-in-training. Yeah, sometimes they disobey and use the move anyway. When that happens, there's a chance they'll use the move successfully and a chance nothing happens and the game says "But there was no target..." There are other disobedience messages where the Pokemon don't do anything, though, and sometimes (very rarely for me, though) they take a nap.

With the exception of a few Gym Leaders (especially Serra) and Aster & Eclipse during the last two battles, I actually haven't found it to be nightmarishly difficult like it is for a lot of people. There are specific battles that have really given me problems, and they have some excellent teams and type coverage, but team matchups and understanding how the field effects work do play a large role in how difficult an opponent will be. Then again, I have 4 Pokemon (training my 5th) and have pretty much been ignoring the level cap because being below or just barely on par with the NPCs' levels makes me feel insecure and vulnerable, and I'm willing to sacrifice complete obedience for self-confidence. So I probably take out Pokemon quicker than most people and take less damage per hit. The four I've gone through the game with so far are at 82-83, which is also where I intend to get my new team member (Gourgeist) before the next episode.

Green.

Ravioli.

Hi and welcome. Your avatar made me lol.

Electronics.

Illumise.

Granted. The potato peelers win. I wish there was a country made out of donuts.

I had the most difficulty with Serra. Cloyster takes out a large amount of health with its 5 hit moves (it actually brought Sylveon into red health), and I could one shot it if not for Focus Sash and Ultra Potion. The only Pokemon I had that was faster than it was weak to Rock Blast. Avalugg has low special defense, but 2/3 of my special attackers, who were also the ones with super effective moves against it, were weak to Earthquake. Lapras is Lapras. When I won, I had just Scrafty left with 9 HP. Other ones that were notably difficult for me: Florinia (solely because of Cradily), Shade (because of type disadvantages), and Randomus (because of Gardevoir and bad strategy/timing on my part).

@the Victoria thing: I can understand her intentions, but I don't get Kiki's at all with having you climb a mountain and battle someone before you can challenge her for Rock Smash. Her reasoning was that it would disrespect everyone who worked for it. Is that really more important than the fact that children were kidnapped?

Granted, but Hippowdon is even uglier than original Hippopotas. I wish scarecrows liked orange pudding.

Granted. There will be never be ice anywhere else in the world. I wish I was Snoop Dogg.

Today I learned how to sleep with my eyes closed.

Who's Nyu?

Granted. You become SeNile. I wish I could make scrambled eggs appear out of nowhere.

I think I found a bug relating to 14.5 that I haven't seen mentioned by anyone else. I was unable to evolve my Pumpkaboo with a Link Stone. I used it and it just said "It won't have any effect." I tried several times, even closing the game and re-opening. I've never used a Link Stone before, so I spent a lot of time searching and asking to see if 1) this was a known issue, 2) I was using the Link Stone wrong, or 3) there was another requirement to evolve Pumpkaboo. I couldn't find anything regarding any of those, so I went back to base Episode 14 and tried it there. I was able to evolve Pumpkaboo in the original 14.

Are there any other requirements for Pumpkaboo's evolution besides using a Link Stone? Because I just tried to evolve mine twice and it said "It won't have any effect." Or does it have to hold the Link Stone while leveling up? I've never used one before, so I don't know if it works the same as the other evolution stones, and therefore don't know if I'm experiencing a glitch or just using the stone wrong. Pumpkaboo is at level 33. EDIT: It worked when I went back to base Episode 14.