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Red x Ceph, nuff said

Yeah, Nick was propably talking about Azery's love of duck Pokemon I-It's not like I'm hyped for today's announcement, b-baka!

Welp, you have a 6% chance to find it, and only in the morning hours, as per this very accurate in this stuff EV guide. Adjust your PC time accordingly and happy hunting! Poli is one of my old favourites!

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Ok, there has been a misinterpretation on my part: I thought that "axing" explicitely meant completely removing Pokemon X from the game in its current stage, as opposed to moving it back. And, since this is a case of movebacks and not complete removals, many of my points are moot, because I made the case for something that it is not the case. I guess i was too fast to jump the gun. For that, I apologize, and I also apologize if I sounded too harsh or patronizing. I hope you can accept my apology. Some minor points: -OU viability =/= in-game viability, especially for Steel types that more often than not have defensive and utility roles in teams. -older players still carry their Gyarados and the less-than-healthy "I swept last gym with Gyarados" mentality. -The difference between the Peridot quarter and the Mystery Egg shuffles (which I both loved as a concept and I hope we get more randomized events to increase variance, which in turn increases the replayability of the game, and you are really cool for thinking ahead of the E16 curve and planting that ahead) is that in those events, you will get your Pokemon without any pain, no matter what, at that moment. Well, pick the wrong player character name and you can bang your head on the very few Wasteland trees while getting barely anything. The mechanic was made back in Gen2 iirc with these long rows of headbuttable trees. And the odds are stacked in favor of endless mining in Spiritomb's case. Certainly a profitable activity, but quite tedious after a while. I will stand by my concepts. My worries have been at large eliminated, since there wasn't the removal case I was arguing against, and I hope that everything will short itself out in the end. Thanks for taking the time to answer me though, I really appreciate it.

Cheers! Anyway, two of my biggest regrets: not being patient enough as to change Ame's avatar when E15 was released, instead pulling the trigger when Serra's field was announced or something, and that the prank items are now gone and I can't do it when E16 comes rolling in 100 years. What was your, so to say, corner in this community before Se7en came along? Nickname your Redempion team after people from this place: who is who? Oh, and what sounded so good in the name "entreflores"?

What's the sprite you use for the server and Redemption supposed to be? What's the laziest slacker in Se7en and how easy or difficult is Tomas to work with? How do you feel on being a Sand Rush Excadrill? Also, Jesus Christ, don't ever suggest Seven the movie to anyone. I watched it years ago, it's included in an assignment I present tommorow, and I'm still mad about the ending. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA What do you think about the fjal version of Ame?

You will reach the Azurine Island just after fighting Kiki. Just a little more patience. Also, the island is tough to describe because there are no reference points. The Stone is a visible overworld item though, so you'll find it.

I'm pretty late but I thought some about it and I'm gonna be very, very insistent on this one. Sorry, Ame. TL DR version first: -the Byxbysion Wasteland region is becoming increasingly empty -the Steel types distribution in the game is going from bad to worse -stop micromanaging availiability -axing isn't the answer to centralization -Do you like promoting the game as being inconsistent? -Do you like continuing with the "first come, first served" mentality that older players get all the good stuff? In E15 the Byxbysion Wasteland: +got a new starter there, Squirtle +got a TM added retrospectively, Venoshock +got a newly implemented TM added, Secret Power... -...only in the public version it's glitched and it's a second Rock Smash -lost Gastly -lost the Misdreavus event, with Misdreavus taking over Gastly's event -lost Mudkip, a better and more popular starter than Squirtle -lost the Mawille exclusivity (Railnet) -lost the Zubat exclusivity (Azurine) -lost the Nidoran M exclusivity (Arcade) -lost the mid-game Beldum event (became post-game) The Wasteland has always been a region on the edge of the map: you go there, get your badge, get some cool event things and then go in other, far away places. You can return there for two juicy events: the Yureyu Key (Solosis, Rotom, Probopass, Magnezone, the Magnet item) and Beldum. Not to mention that now most of the juicy stuff (Venoshock, Dawn Stone, Sun Stone, Moon Stone, a Capsule, Squirtle, Spiritomb tomb, Secret Power) are pretty much one next to another in the Grotto and post-Grotto areas. And that two Pokemon still exclusively found in the Wasteland, Spiritomb and Inkay, are the definitions of reliance on luck: you have to get very lucky while mining the Keystone and you have to get lucky with the Headbutt formula to get Inkay (or anything, mind you!) from the very few trees left there. I think it's 3 or four trees total. I don't know the extent of the changes you've made, Ame (I'm very afraid Probopass has the same fate just by sharing the same evolution method), but I think all these removals really aren't positive at all, leaving the whole area a barren afterthought at the edge of the map with 0 revisitability. Which is a shame, because it's awesomely made and it deserves more time to play there. And don't try to force stuff. To axe Gastly, you forced a Pokemon who's theme is mischief (Misdreavus) lose its perfectly suiting event of hide and seek to be in a very creepy, very negatively ladden event where it pretends to be a dead person. Gastly can do that job, Misdreavus doing it is just not fitting at all. Another reason to not axe them: the availiability of Steel types in the game won't be balanced at all: we're 75% done with the game, and we have 13 fully-evolved Steels (Steelix, Forretres, Mawille, Aggron, Empoleon, Wormadam, Bastiodon, Bronzong, Lucario, Escavalier, Bisharp, Durant, Klingklang) , leaving out 9 (Magnezone, Scizor, Skarmory, Metagross, Probopass, Excadrill, Ferrothorn, Aegislash and Klefki). 13-9 or 14-8 if someone is lucky enough to get Exca. I am fairly confident that no other type not named Dragon comes close to a 61% availability with the game being at 15/19 episodes released (axes included). Speaking earlier of things that look forced: replacing a mole that lived in freshly dug underground tunnels with a hippopotamus. A hippopotamus, living in freshly dug underground tunnels. Instead of a mole. I get why you did that, but it doesn't make any more sense other than that. Ideas on how to solve some of these: -bring back Gastly in a multiple-stops event -give Missy her old event back -make headbutt trees have a fixed chance of starting a battle -make an Odd Keystone event -keep the Yureyu Key event and all the rewards as they are -keep some variation of the Beldum event (more on that later) -fix the AI to be able to read Air Balloons Yes, I do not see any reason to axe Magnezone. Yes, it is OU. Because it has a certain niche to trap some steel Pokemon and can kill them unlike Probopass. And the steel-trapping ability doesn't even matter outside OU because there is another Pokemon that can do it almost as well (Magneton) but there are no Skarmory, Klefki, Ferrothorn and Scizor outside OU. And the AI doesn't do switches, so trapping isn't really a thing. Axe Gothitelle if trapping is the issue. Yes it is a fan favourite. Nothing we can do on that one. It's impossible to eventually keep fan favourites from getting some big usage. Under that logic, axe your favourite Gardevoir. Also, you know who uses a Magnezone? Shofu, the most popular Reborn LPer. Do you like promoting the game as being inconsistent? I don't think it looks good having people see Shofu use his Mag and not be able to get one for themselves because axerino. Not to mention, post-Magnezone gyms: Luna,then Samson, Charlotte and Terra. Yikes. Just fix the Balloons to make them non-abusable. As of Beldum: -that thing is the biggest momentum-killer in the game, both to catch and to raise. You have to dedicate lots of time, effort, resources and patience to catch one. -it's good, no doubt about it -it's the only pseudo available, so it's a hot commodity. Wows! Centralizing! -in E14, it could be caught before Radomus. The gyms after: Luna, Samson (Koff alert!), Charlotte, Terra. -in E15, it can be caught only in the small window between defeating Luna and going through the checkpoint of no return. If you think that the centralization merrits axing, let me retort with this argument: centralization is the result of a Pokemon being not only very good, but also unique, peerless. A quality Metagross has, because, simply, there is no other pokemon with the pseudo tag to rival it. There are other pretty good psychic types, as well as some ok steel types... and that's that. Take a moment to consider just how much stuff you still have to give out: (with Zone, Probo, Beldum considered in the game) -4 gen4 evolution items for Magmar, Electabuzz, Sneazel and Gligar -9 starters, ranging from underwhelming to very popular to broken -6 pseudos -4 and a half Gen1 waters waiting for the Super Rod (Tenta, Staryu, Shelder, Slowpokes) -3 Dance Sweepers (Gyarados, Volcarona, Haxorus) -3 very different mixed type fairies (Azumarill, Klefki, Togekiss) -3 defensive and one offensive desert-related Pokemon (Mandi, Ferro, Skarmory and Exca, respectively) -1 Pokemon that personifies the generation gap, Jellicent (!) -2 Ghosts (Gastly, Aegis) -3 priority abusers (Scizor, Breloom, Talonflame) That's 38,5 fully evolved Pokemon unavailable as of the end of E15... oh and also another 38 out of the 42 non-legendary Mega Stones, plus the Mega Ring. Stop micro-managing availiability, Ame. E15 was exhibit 0, and E16 is exhibit 1 of much longer development times. You have to consider each episode you release a stand-alove game that will be played, finished, replayed, challenge-run-played, mono-run-played, and replayed some more. You have to concern yourself both with E19 as a finished product and E16 as a finished product. You also have to consider that we're in Gen6, we have 721 Pokemon species, the power levels are shooting upwards and monsters of the older times may be quite tame now. Jellicent is one exhibit, losing all its OU steam and falling to RU in gen6. Salamence, a pseudo DD sweeper, has fallen from Ubers in Gen4 to absolutely unviable in OU in Gen6. You can try to resist the power rise, but it will end up in everything been made availiable in the last episode if you use old measures. In the end, Metagross being centralizing isn't its own fault, or the players' fault, or the community's fault for spreading the knowledge on how to get it: you have put in something great in terms of typing (Steel!) and tag (Pseudo-legendary!) that stands alone without anything to rival it. It's not beating down the game as if it was nothing, oh and it's not the best Pokemon ever in competitive, falling to UU after Smogon broke apart the mega and non-mega usage. It's not Gyarados, setting up a single DD and destoying everything with Moxie. So in short, keep that awfully tedious event, and, if you want my two cents, bring it back to being available before Radomus. I don't believe it merrits the pain of going out of your way to get it, it kills the momentum of the story. But, if you axe it you're just making things even worse in the long run, ignoring the realities of the gen6 power balance, giving even more hype to the pseudolegendary tag, creating a longjam for the availiability in the last few episodes and toning even more the "first come, first served" mentality that older Reborn players get better Pokemon.

252 Atk Salamence Dragon Claw vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Sableye: 169-201 (55.5 - 66.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery +1 252 Atk Salamence Dragon Claw vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Sableye: 255-300 (83.8 - 98.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery 252 SpA Azelf Dazzling Gleam vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Sableye: 160-190 (52.6 - 62.5%) -- 98.8% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery 252+ SpA Azelf Dazzling Gleam vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Sableye: 176-208 (57.8 - 68.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery Mence does the job if it doesn't switch in the Wisp or the Knock-off, Azelf does put just enough pressure on it if Timid, I guess. Knock Off is the biggest fear of both, since Azelf can't revengekill other opponents as well without the Scarf and loses a big chunk of health too.

Speaking of the Blackstream puzzle, the only change it would need is something more visible than Roggenrola. Seriously, that thing is very tough to notice, especially if you don't know it's there in the first place. (and an Abra that cooperates in less steps, but it's ok as of now)

Thanks for reminding me to improve the descriptions of the Evo Stones. Now, the Dusk Stone... The Subrailnet is the deepest part of the Railnet. You reach it after defeating Aya fot your 5th badge and 7th gym fight and after finishing the Yureyu Building operation. When you solve the rail puzzle to open the door to the right, there is an also-locked door on the left. Connect the rails to open it, go there, climb down the stairs to the bottom of it and you'll find it, just as Lostelle said (ninjas everywhere!). It's dark, I know, the TM for Flash is at the end of the stairs too, behind the RockSmashable wall.

For team No12 (UU), I'm worried about how it's gonna play against Sableye. Sure, Azelf can Trick it if it switches in and Coballion can sub if it switches in again, but 1on1 all of your team bar Empoleon gets straight-up trolled by it. Everything gets burned, Azelf gets Taunted and hell, even Empoleon gets Taunted and can't use its utility moves. -I can't think of a fool-proof solution to that. The smallest changes you could do is give Azelf Dazzling Gleam and keep it intact as a revengekiller, give Mence (and maybe Mamo too) a Lum Berry and give Beedrill Protect. -Or you could scrap Azelf in favor of Memento Whimsicott, which can Taunt and beat Sab 1v1 and use Stun Spore and/or Memento to stop opposing sweepers in their tracks and let you gain momentum to set up one of yours. Whimsicott has some on-paper defensive synergy with Empoleon as well, taking the Fighting, Electric and Ground hits and letting Penguin absorb the Flying and Poison hits. -Or you could run Florges over Azelf who funtions as a cleric that Heal Bells your team if it gets burnt and also can beat Sableye, but then you have no revenge-killer. -Or use something that won't mind the burns (Infernape over Coballion or Arcanine/Guts Heracross over Mamo).

Can't resist, 10/10