Dragon116

"Atta girl Heather! Antagonize the man. That'll solve it" - Hey, it worked on Corey. "This girl is like 80% "Ugh"" - And Aya is 100% "Grr" to quote Cain. "Guess he took a short cut to get that 7 year doctorate huh?" - Assuming he has a doctorate and didn't just print one online http://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Mfd900d4d866cacb73c72cb4b5d44acd5o0&pid=15.1 "And she goes in for the killing blow!" - Critical hit! Dr. Butt uses Bind! Heather is defeated! "Maybe they're powered by the screams of children or something like in Monsters Inc" - I lol'd "Corey was right all along. He knew he'd run into Cain eventually so he preemptively killed himself" - Considering Cain was the reserve leader, it's very likely Corey had the displeasure of knowing the purple dildo. "I'm here because I'm a good person." - You also have a gun and dirty bombs. "I mean who could have predicted a faceless mook wouldn't suck?" - HA! Good pun. ""I strongly disagree with these methods I carry out on a daily basis without complaint"" - How do you think the US Govt does it? "I'm afraid something's "barring" our way. That was the first pun ladies and gent" - Lies. "He was beaten quite badly." - Local authorities believe a juvenile delinquent by the name of Sean may be a person of interest. If found, please contact your local hobo until one of the dozen officers in Reborn feels like giving a shit. "ESPECIALLY WHEN I'M WITHIN STABBING RANGE" - Eyesight. Not stabbing. "Stop trying to make Good Trainer Cain happen" - #DiggersbyTho "Men never go into childcare jobs." - That's because this is a torture facility. Did you learn nothing in the 20 hours spent here? "And I'm actually doing stuff while he holds back 4 fucking guards." - You got the 4 and fucking backwards. "Some other variation of "Let Heather go"" - Surprised there was no Frozen reference here. "OH BOO HOO HOO. MY BACKSTORY IS SO SAD AND THAT'S WHY I'M AN ASSHOLE" - Err....isn't that your backstory too? "FIND OUT NEXT WEEK ON : I'M SLOWLY GROWING A TUMOR BECAUSE OF THIS SHOW!" - Help me I can't breathe!!! And I don't have one of those things!

Update #10 Went to see the hubabaloo in the railnet, found Victoria. She pointed me to Coral Ward, where we met Cain...who then surfed on a Muk because screw the rules, he has purple hair and fishnets. As I turn to go, Amaria jumps me and tells me about how this factory is making wine or something. So we bust in there all Rambo-style and then I get captured. Found a breed-to in the cage, then busted out. Almost got my ass kicked, but managed to open the door without losing. Got my pokemon healed up, and a quick sweep later we're at the end room. Holy fuck, ZEL is a nightmare. Took me 15 tries between all the misses, criticals, water pulse confusions. But we managed at the end, and here's how it went down. Opening Scene. Crime Vs Glaceon - Spam a bunch of Rock Tombs, burn up both ZEL's ultra potions, force a swap to Espeon which gets nailed with a Rock Tomb. Crime Vs Espeon - Sucka Punch motha fuckaaaaaa. That's what we call a No-Touch takedown. Out comes PULSE Muk, countered with Plight. Plight Vs P.Muk - Plight gets a Charge off while P.Muk goes with Water Pulse, confusing me. By the might of RNGJesus, it doesn't hurt itself and one shots P.Muk. Out returns Glaceon, so let's give Crime another go. Crime Vs Glaceon - Sucka Punch motha fuckaaaaa. Heh, living up to his name. Out comes Jolteon, so I counter with Disorder. Disorder Vs Jolteon - Only manage to get one Earth Power up before falling to 2 Hyper Voices. Ouch. Misery Vs Jolteon - Outsped and wrecked with a Thunderbolt. Grr. Crime Vs Jolteon - Sucka Punch mo-you know what, this is too brutal. NEXT! Mayhem the Swoobat vs Flareon - After one Calm Mind and an Air Slash, Mayhem falls to a critical Flamethrower (HAXXXX!!!!). Scourge vs Flareon - Scourge gets off an Aerial Ace, but falls to Flamethrower. Sigh. Crime vs Flareon - *SKIP* Crime vs Umbreon - Finally at the end. After 2 Rock Tombs, I'm down to 11 hp while Umbreon is down if I get a Rock SLide off. It's too risky so I super potion and kick it to the curb next turn with Rock Slide. After barely seizing victory, I watch the events unfold and receive my next mission. I hope it's a yacht. I would like a yacht. And a surfing Muk. Here's the team as it stands.

Wishy Washy is clearly better. Go with it. Your run never said you were forced to use the first version of the pokemon you find.

Update #9 Once we got past Cain, it was off to chase Heather into Shelly's room (why does everyone get to barge in there? That seems dangerous for a 12 year old). Heather throws a fit and storms off...right into the hands of Dr. Butt. Heather is whisked away to the penitentiary mental health orphanage, and we decide to break in. Anna lets us in, and we take down the 3 guardian goons. My new recruits Woe, the growlithe, and Disorder, the numel, got the opportunity to shine, but most of the work was done by the veterans Misery, Plight, and Desolation. Moving on to the upper floors, Disorder managed to get some more easy xp and more dumb goons fell. Yada, yada, fast-forward to Dr. Butt getting burned by Charlotte. We depart with Heather, make our way to the railnet, and Anna forces me to go fight Shade. After a few more level grinds, we evolve Woe into Arcanine with Crunch (yippie!), and Disorder leveled up to 38 (it already evolved into Camerupt in the orphanage). So a quick glimpse at the fate of people I don't even recognize at this point (except having played this twice before, I do) sans Corey. And start! The first attempt went really well until I got up to Aegislash and realized all my fire pokemon were dead and all I had left were a weakened Desolation and fresh Crime (sounds like a new movie). At which point I opted to restart, and took another 5 tries until Corey opened with a weak Thunderbolt, which gave Arcanine the opportunity to Crunch, leading to a Crunch-Ultra Potion fight, that was broken with a swap to Trevant, which took a huge Crunch, but attempted to heal with a Sitrus berry. Arcanine's speed finished it off with a Flamethrower, and out comes Dusknoir. Pressure was making me sweat because i was afraid of losing all my Crunch PP, but I managed to put Dusknoir down to 20% left before fainting to Shadow Punch (or Ball, idr). I send out Misery to Flamethrower it (as Dusknoir seemed to be the old normal-type check), getting the Moxie boosts going. Back comes Corey, which falls to a Flamethrower after a decent Thunderbolt. 2 Moxies up, out comes Aegislash. Flamethrower only knocks it down to 40% (shield form is really bulky), and Aegislash retaliates with Iron Head, dropping me to about 25%, to which i finish it off with another Flamethrower. Out comes Mega Banette, which KO's Misery with Shadow Claw. Not really knowing what else to put out (At this point I have Disorder, Desolation, Crime, and Plight left), I send out Crime to get some easy damage going. Open up with Rock Slide after a Shadow Claw, and almost wiped it out with a Sucker Punch, but it held in with 3% HP and killed me with another Shadow Claw. Out comes Desolation and wipes it out with Spark. All that's left is Shade's Chandlure, so I keep Desolation out. I get outsped and killed by a Shadow Ball, so I send out Plight...which similarly gets wrecked. Out comes Disorder. With incredible luck Chandlure used Energy Ball, knocking me down to 30 HP and giving me the chance to use Amnesia. A Shadow Ball - Berry Ice Cream fight goes for about 3 turns before Chandlure uses Energy ball again, breaking the momentum and giving Disorder a full opening to Earth Power it to death in one hit. With only 14 HP left, I am declared victorious! The spoils With that done, I get to witness Shade's miraculous TV of Fate...showing this No Anna!! You assworm! Couldn't you have used Sludge Wave or something not as destructive?? Now we need strength...grrrrrr. With 4 badges under my control, it's time to send one of our friends off for a permanent vacation. Let's present the candidate! The Selection... The Release... Guess I should go check on the assworm Cain...

It needs to level up inside the locked room in Shade's gym, which requires the Yueryu key, which is only obtainable with the crystal plug during the hunt for the dark type badge

I would say Blastoise because it's the only obtainable Gen 1 starter you can get outside the initial selection.

Can't wait till you get your thread caught up. I'm eager to see the reaction pics.

I fully agree. At first I was confused about what to do because it's not in my nature to go reading books unless they're abandoned (because those are usually clues like Scooby Doo). I would prefer if it was like the Nuzleaf trap, where Amaria comes along after some time and Titania forgets to close the journal, so that the MC isn't involved in that horror.

Skuntank, Drapion, and Toxicroak are very viable pokemon right now, since you got Corey's ring and Rock Smash. The first two are especially lethal because they resist ghost and are only weak to ground.

Wait, you find that boring? How? They're optional. Personally, I think it gives life to reborn. You're supposed to get the idea that even the pokemon are survivors in this apocalyptic hellhole known as Reborn. They get abused, abandoned, killed, and those that survive had to scavenge for food and shelter in human areas. Personally, I don't like grinding. In Hardcore, Commander and his crew give you more than enough xp through fights, so you're never left wanting for it. In Reborn proper, especially front end, the pokemon you have available to grind on just suck xp wise. Later on you get rebattlable trainers, but that doesn't help pre-Corey.

Update #8 @Commander - Technically Penthus was Punished, but we'll let that slide because that awesome ASCII art Also, Shelly just got unlucky. Rock Slide in a double battle while she has 2 4x rock weakness pokemon out. Then I had 2 electric types in addition for her Energy ball Masquerian. I'm sure she'd be harder if I didn't set up that well. Anyways, this update leads us to training up Pestilence, the Breloom, to lv 30 and then kicking both Fern and Cain's butts (although that damn Nidoking...) I like this kid. Helped train Pestilence up. And then we find this tool. At first I opened with Misery against him, but found out he was opening with Ludicolo (thought it would be Ferrothorn). So one team swap later and we open with Scourge against Ludicolo. It took a couple of tries, but eventually Ludicolo went with Ice Beam instead of Rain Dance and I got Aerial Ace off before dying. So out comes Plight and I get rid of that Ludicolo with a Spark. Out comes Sceptile, so I bring out Misery (which is why I did not want rain). Misery goes at it with Fire Fangs, and several turns later (damn ice cream), Misery stands the victor. Then out comes Serperior and I stick with Misery, hitting it with an Endeavor before finishing it off with Fire Fang (it tried to Leaf Storm like a genius). Out comes Roserade, which forces me to switch out to Crime. Crime uses it's Sturdy to Rock Tomb it and drop its speed, giving Misery the opportunity to kill it with Flamethrower once Crime dies. Then of course Ferrothorn is just obliterated, and Fern sulks off into a bus to fight Aya. Moving on to Beryl. That damn Nidoking kept wrecking me. Eventually we got a great start with a paralysis Spark against Samurott, which made it a no-damage takedown with Cain wasting both Super Potions on it. Out comes Nidoking, so I swap to Crime. Crime gets off a boosted Rock Tomb and a Sucker Punch before going down, With no really good options, I send out Misery. Misery gets off a critical Flamethrower and Nidoking goes down. Out comes Venomoth (I honestly don't get why) and it goes down to another Flamethrower after it fires a Signal Beam. Out comes Muk, but my 2x Moxie boosted Misery is just warming up, and gets a Fire Fang flinch out of it. Another Fire Fang later Misery goes down to Sludge Bomb, but Muk is down to 20% so Desolation comes out and finishes it off. Out comes Haunter, and I manage to get a Spark off before going down to a Shadow Ball and Sludge Bomb. Ouch. But Plight comes out and kills it with a Bite, leaving me with questions about team changes. Which will very likely happen as Shade is coming up and I don't think Scourge is going to survive against boosted electric attacks.

I would recommend redoing Charizard's moveset. According to monotype viability, they suggest Heat Wave (for field changes), Air Slash, and 2 Egg moves which is not possible at this point. So I suggest Heat Wave, Air Slash, Sunny Day, and maybe Echoed Voice? Not sure what you could put in that last slot.

I have no idea what room you're stuck in. I think there's a guide somewhere. Try using the search feature to the left of the forums.

UPDATE #7 I posted update 6 last night in an edit of a previous post. Anyways, just thought I'd share what hatched from that surprise.

Not going to read through all the posts to see if this was suggested, but a solution to the log is an Excel spreadsheet. Put the league challenges on the left side and the badges at the top, then you can quickly see if a challenger has actually beaten the gym. Google has excel spreadsheets, and you can limit permission to edit them.

Probably Goyle. It doesn't seem to do anything for the team, but I'll be interested to see what happens.

I'm thinking it would only be gyms 17 and 18 at best. E4 seems more probable without requiring us to go through all 4 no pauses between to bag heal and move the team around.

And if they only have 1 abilty and no HA (Acheops, Slaking), then it fails and your capsule is not spent.

I submit proof from your 10th episode of gleeful destruction "Yes. You look adorable in it." And you have since removed the bow. For shame.

I really wouldn't be surprised if Ame removes Full restores later on and gives gym leaders 1-2 revives and/or max revives. That's the easiest was to up the challenge level.

Interesting line up. First, don't kill the Lileep until all the Eeveelutions are down. As for team changes, I'm not really sure as you seem to have all the bases covered. You're just underleveled (should be around 28-30 right now).

It's a 1% chance rate on a x% chance for Noibat. It's normal RNG love-hate relationship.

It's kind of tough to say UGYHHHHHHHH when you had the wind knocked out of you,

A very important note - Your trainer card on the Nuzlocke forums needs updating. Flounder the First is no longer with us. God rest his pixel soul. I'm failing to see Das Kampf here, other than "I think she'd rather burn the school down herself than let you have it" - I think you already blew up the school, so she's has nothing left to stop Fern from taking over after she retires. Maybe if you push him off a cliff in the near future? "They make great kindling" - So does Bennett, muahahah. "You're lucky you aren't a HootHoot" - 3rd slot, Tayto's been warned. Best image ever right here -> "A LIMITED EDITION GO FUCK YOURSELF!" - That's pretty much the motto of this whole run. Julia, Flobot, Corey, Victoria, and of course Fern. "I'm such a fucking loser" - NOOOO, you are the amazing master of disaster! Do not give up on yourself! You have the powah!! Don't you dare let me catch you talking that way again!! "HOW?!? These two are STILL in the way!" - Do not deny the power or the teleport. "AND NOW YOU BROKE MY HAND!" - Damn, letting us Magmas piss you off. Selina could teach a thing or two about inner peace. - Where the fuck did the bow go??? You ruined the cuteness of Sickle!!!!!!!! - Took your ass long enough. He's killed about 6 or 7 potential catches, and one of them was actually resistant to him. - You forgot to get the One Ring. You seem to have a lot of nicknames with A in this episode. That's unusual. I like all the new Slaves in the work camp though.

Past Agate is a shard clown. He's harsh but that's the only repeatable.