Kithros

Oh, one thing worth mentioning - put an exp. share on a pokemon to help prevent the sweeper from overleveling past the level cap. I've had a few times I've lost fights because of something silly like that happening, and it can be really frustrating especially when you rely on a lot of luck.

I don't need to run counters to pokemon - the strategy revolved around getting a setup sweeper to +6 attack or special attack and enough speed to outspeed her pokemon (in my case I had speed buffs from ancient power on a grounded pokemon, but swoobat should work fine too). A +6 special attack psychic from a swoobat will KO the lanturn just fine, and even if it didn't if you kept it at high health before starting the sweep it should be able to tank a hit with +6 special defense. The goal with the whole paralyze/accuracy hax/debuffs is to make it trivial to setup a setup sweeper, and once the setup sweeper is set up it can easily OHKO everything - if the AI were intelligent they would obviously just switch pokemon to prevent these shenanigans, but the AI isn't smart.

Do you have a quick claw? If you do you can reset until you get a thunder wave off which would help out a ton - the quick claw should have been really easy to get early in the game, but if you don't have it of course you won't be able to head back to pick it up. If you have any roggenrolas with sturdy they can (almost) guaranteed get 1 sand attack off unless some hax like ice beam freeze happens, and sometimes much more than just 1 sand attack - I always try to pick up roggenrolas with sturdy+ sand attack, or once possible magnetons with thunder wave/flash (not available for Valerie sadly) for this to deal with overpowered pokemon in games like reborn/rejuvenation. If you have a Muk iirc you can get a muk to debuff her politoed if you level it up enough (there haven't been any changes to the amount of damage her attacks do in v6 afaik so this should still work) - when I did it I had to poison gas one turn, switch to a fodder pokemon to heal the muk with an item before switching back and venom drenching + healing the muk a bunch of times before finally using the setup sweeper. In my v6 playthrough I did earlier I could set up with a togetic too with serene grace on ancient power before baton passing it to a better pokemon, but that came from the mystery egg so it's unlikely you could reproduce that (togetic had just enough health to survive being hit by blizzard for me). There are probably a lot of other pokemon that could do these kinds of things, but I don't know what pokemon you've caught up to this point so it's hard for me to really say.

If you're really having trouble with any (1v1) fight then the strategy that's always seemed most effective (albeit kind of cheesy and borderline exploiting because the AI is too stupid to switch) for me is to debuff one of their pokemon (not necessarily the pokemon they lead with, you can use roar or KO it to try to get a better pokemon out if necessary) with sand attack/charm/any other debuffs, and then have another pokemon set up like mad on them and sweep the entire team. If you're using accuracy hax then putting substitute on your setup sweeper is really really helpful too, but it's unlikely you have the substitute TM unless you grinded the 7000 coins for it at the casino a long time ago.. I'm not sure the entire list of pokemon you have available to you, but when you have the right pokemon you can just forget about type advantages and just focus on making your setup sweep work - even if she has a ton of super effective moves against a Swoobat for instance you can still make a Swoobat sweep her if you debuff her stats enough before sending the Swoobat out (and provided your Swoobat is fast enough to outspeed her team or can at least tank some hits at +6 special defense from the pokemon that do outspeed it). If I remember correctly I once had a lot of trouble with Valerie in one of my playthroughs and I ended up using a Muk to venom drench her politoed to -6 special attack (healing the muk with items as necessary), then 3x calm minded with a simple swoobat, used any healing items necessary after setting up and then swept with the swoobat, and the field effects haven't really done anything that would make that strategy (with a flying pokemon or a pokemon that can boost its speed at least) significantly more difficult. I've swept Angie before using a Swoobat too.

As far as I know it's still not possible yet unless v6 changed it.

You only get there by telling Augustus (the ship captain) to take you there from Gearan City.

I feel like if you aren't going out of your way to EV train that a mixed set makes by far the most sense for the time being - the main reason mixed sets aren't used very often is that it's wasteful to divide your EVs between 2 attacking stats when just committing to 1 usually suffices (or the pokemon just has a much higher attack/special attack stat than the other, but Greninja isn't one of those pokemon), but if you aren't actively EV training the pokemon that's a non-issue. There aren't really many moves to teach Greninja for the time being either so you kind of have to just run with whatever moves you can actually use on it. Bounce is a pretty underwhelming ability on protean greninja in my opinion because the AI will be able to switch to a move that hits flying pokemon for super effective before you land - 2 turn moves kind of contradict protean to an extent (you still get the STAB but you won't get the full benefit of the resistance changes), so personally once there are enough decent moves that you actually can't use all of them bounce would probably be the first move I'd drop (plus I hate the 85% accuracy on it). Bounce also doesn't give particularly good coverage that extrasensory + X-Scissor doesn't - except for some dual typed pokemon only bugs get hit for super effective and frankly most bug pokemon aren't threatening anyway.

I'd like to take the moment to point out that there are some instances in the game of characters implying you have a choice when you still don't have a choice, so it's entirely reasonable to have thought that this would be more or less the same thing. Venam after beating her for the gym badge comes to mind - 'you aren't being forced to come this time' - yeah right.

I didn't even realize there was any option while going through the mountain, and never saw anything about Kyogre when I played through. EDIT: Loaded an earlier save and fought it - a sturdy magneton makes pretty short work of it with thunder wave like most big bosses.

It has to do with whether they're the same species and who the original trainer were. Pokemon that are different species (including ditto) that were caught by the same trainer will say that they don't like each other very much - that's all there really is to it, and it doesn't mean that they won't make an egg, it just means the odds are lower. If they're the same species and/or were traded from a different trainer then they'll have higher odds of getting an egg.

It's possible to survive quite a long time without food - without water you won't last very long, but I'm not sure whether the water from the waterfall is relatively safe to drink or not - if you assume that it is, then it's possible to last about a month potentially without food (admittedly, if she had gone that long without eating anything at all she probably wouldn't be in any kind of condition to fight even if she could still be alive).

With enough luck definitely - put double team on a pokemon, reset until it works. Alternatively, you can cheese the entire game with revives - you can buy revives early on (albeit expensively), and you can get infinite amounts of money by rebattling trainers.

Honestly, i don't see how his absence would have prevented Kiki's death - you could maybe argue that the medicham would've survived (but even that isn't very certain), but there's no reason Solaris would react any differently afterwards. It's even plausible that if Cal weren't there that there would be some other team meteor member there instead, who could have still stopped the Medicham and wouldn't have sabotaged the PULSE, which would've led to everyone on the island dying and Kiki still dying (not to mention you dying).

I didn't have that much trouble with it, but it was either a bugged or a dumb puzzle because the rules for the puzzle were simply inconsistent. There was one ridiculous part I remember where I could move left and right across the screens and somehow end up on a different floor, sometimes when I dropped in on the left side I would be on the right side of the floor below me and some similar bugs where it doesn't actually drop you where it logically should have, which made it pretty much impossible to actually keep track of where you are without first going as far left/right as you could to see where you are rather than actually keep track of it.

His charmander also has dragon rage which is completely ridiculous at low levels. I'd very highly recommend getting a Bibarel for anyone having trouble with Connor - it evolves early so at such an early stage in the game it's really strong (and of course it's a water pokemon), and on top of helping you with Connor it's also useful for that scientists sidequest, plus you can trade it for a Budew afterwards which 'eventually' becomes a fairly strong lategame pokemon. Rollout/headbutt is better than water gun on the bibarel since it has much higher attack than special attack (especially if sunny day is still up).

I've only just started playing this.. but I feel obligated to mention this: Please, please don't have a quiz for picking your starter - just keep it simple and let the player pick. Every single time a pokemon game tries to have a quiz for the starter pokemon I always either savescum until I get the one I want or google what starters are available and what you need to say to get them - it's a layer of tedium that's just unnecessary in my opinion. On that note, for anyone who thinks similarly to me, the starters corresponding to the choices you make (1 means the top choice and 2 means the bottom choice for each question)

No need for revives - just use sand attack/flash + charm/intimidate spam on it and it'll do laughable amounts of damage unless it's given something like 500 base attack (does the game even allow for base attack that high?). Even with virtually infinite amounts of attack you can sand attack/flash spam it with sturdy/prankster pokemon and then use a pokemon with substitute and a recovery move.

I used common candy immediately after evolving it to put it down to 18 so I could at least get triple kick on my hitmontop (not that triple kick is particularly great, but it's better than the alternatives) - unfortunately I hadn't really been paying attention to his ability though and it doesn't have technician so it's still pretty underwhelming.

I tried it for a bit but didn't particularly like it - the game felt too empty to me personally (ie. even if there are a lot of choices the paths just weren't very interesting and most parts of the map had seemingly no point to them) - it didn't seem like it really had enough time/testing devoted to it for what's necessary for a game of that scope (admittedly, it's really really hard to make open ended games so it's not like I hold it against the creator, but my point stands).

Klefki might be a decent pokemon, but I think you vastly overestimate the competence of the AI if you think Klefki would make it a difficult fight. If there's a klefki you can just send out a setup sweeper, buff it up for 2-3 turns, use an item to remove status and sweep his entire team, because the AI is stupid.

I beat her with a team of Swanna, Meowstic, Granbull, Budew, Pawniard and Hitmontop (incidentally was there actually any reason to make it a hitmontop as Hera told you to? If I had known there would be nno storyline significance I'd have probably picked a different one..) between level 30-35 (they just happened to be the pokemon I leveled - a lot of these pokemon didn't actually contribute very much to the fight, especially budew as it hasbad typing and I didn't get it evolved yet..) Swanna was the one that more or less carried the team with a lot of resets, leftovers, roost and being very patient - Swanna could easily beat the first pokemon, then she sends out Armaldo which I switched to Pawniard for and reduced its HP low enough for Swanna to finish it off in one hit. I beat Heracross by fake outing it multiple times and letting poison kill it more or less, and sacrificing my budew since it was garbage for the fight anyway, beat Dugtrio with the Granbull (intimidate + charm then headbutt*3), and used charm on the scyther with my prankster meowstic to let my Swanna tank hits from it with roost+feather dance (if the scyther crits then you just lose though). The scizor can be 1v1ed with Swanna provided it starts off at high health with feather dance + roost since Swanna resists all of Scizors attacks (you can also survive a single critical provided it's at high health). Most of my losses were to the scyther, so if you have any pokemon that can deal with it particularly well then it would probably improve your odds of winning quite a bit. I wouldn't consider this an optimal strategy by any means, especially since I don't actually know what pokemon are obtainable, but it was a strategy I made work with the pokemon that I had been using without any real EV training and not maxed out in levels either except for Swanna.

Every gym leader that isn't a 2v2 fight is a pushover if you have the right setup sweeper for them. The AI just doesn't know how to deal with setup sweepers at all properly.

It's faster than grinding a kricketune to level 50 or breeding pokemon to get the right moves on them - getting a level 1 sturdy pokemon and a hoppip is really easy to do even if the fight takes a bit longer (and you can get the experience from KOing the garchomp on some of your pokemon too).

Eviolite isn't in the game yet so Chansey is just worse than Blissey in game for the time being.