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What version of Hardcore do you have? Julia's team should have been different. Simple Swoobat is going to be great, especially once you have access to the TM shop in the Grand Hall which has Calm Mind. Are you going to wait until Jasper Ward to grab Fearow or are you going to headbutt a tree to get a Spearow? Oh man just thinking of the possible flying types you'll be able to get soon/eventually, I'm looking forward to how diverse your team will be. Love the nickname for Apache. I always like seeing people give mons nicknames so you can see what they named them. Does Apache know smokescreen? Running Dragon Rage and Smokescreen have been the saving grace for so many tough battles from Julia to Radomus, anything lower accuracy really. But on the flip side of things, you have access to more mons with sand attack etc. I look forward to your battle against Florinia (really all gym leaders/major battles) because she was an interesting battle. Will you be asking in Request-A-Mon for the mystery egg change if you don't get a flying type from it?

Have you ever played any of the following; Star Wars Battlefront I or II Donkey Kong Country Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday Crash Bandicoot Racing Megaman X series Have you ever played Dungeons and Dragons? Did you have a favorite book/book series as a child/growing up? If you had to choose to master one of the following instruments, which would it be? Violin Viola Cello Bass Banjo Harmonica Harp Piano If you had to pick, would you rather live above sea-level or below sea-level? Have you ever seen a Tornado? Do you think that the Super Volcano under Yellowstone will erupt in your life time? Do you have a favorite mountain/volcano? Do you prefer winter or summer? Rain or sunshine? Do you ever lose track of what day it is/think that it is a different day than it actually is? Do you like Fairs or Amusement Parks? Do you have a favorite word? Do you like the metric system? Do you know the Quadratic Formula? Out of the four suits, Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, and Spades do you have one you like better than the other? Out of a standard deck of playing cards, is there a card you like better than others? Do you have any interest in ARGs? (like Marble Hornets) Did you have to raise a butterfly in school at some point? Do you have a favorite type of tree? How about flowers? How do you feel about AMAs? Do you prefer a clear blue sky, mostly clear sky with some clouds, mostly cloudy, or overcast? Have you seen a sugar glider or flying squirrel IRL? Would you rather have bonfires or a lit fireplace? Have you ever flown in a plane? Have you ridden on a train before? Do you prefer walking, running, biking, or driving somewhere? Would you like to be on Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, or any other game show like that? Do you like movies that are based on true stories? Do you like the Planet Earth documentaries? Do you think that space travel will be viable in your lifetime? If so, would you travel? Did you ever watch zoboomafoo? Have you ever purchased something from an infomercial? I really like reading your responses. Thanks for answering all the questions I've asked up to this point, including the stranger ones.

THIS ONE IS FOR YOU DAD! Sorry, had to be super dramatic or something there because R4WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR ... Anyway, with that sentiment out of the way, where was I? Oh yeah, the PULSE Avalugg or w/e. Burned it to the ground. Blake's apartment puzzle was so far the easiest puzzle compared to Shelly Gym and 7th Street Sub Sanctum. ZEL's backstory Anyway after learning that Heather is actually an E4 member no one is shocked, surprisingly. Cal no. Pls. I thought it was cool that we got to go up the mountain and fight with Cal/Shelly. DAT FIRE TEAM DOE Heat Rotom joins the ranks! Run into an old friend who for some reason IS OP LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE the trainer of a beautiful milotic who I hope freezes and shatters just like Giovanni did to that Magmar in Pewter City that is rare and pretty. Took about 13 tries to get them beat and we got waterfall, and next we head up to Blake. YES I GOT ANOTHER MEGA RIGHT. Unfortunately Blake is a piece of trash and was defeated in 3 moves because the volcano's eruption that was heard around the world, KRAKATOA, greeted him from the start and OHKO'd all of his pokemon. MY MAN. Then we Mafia'd him dragon drivebys flybys and got the Ruby Ring back. Learned that Terra is a liar. So back to Agate. Terra escapes into the video game world aka gen 1 so we make haste. First few trainers aren't bad, this can't be too bad right? WRONG. Oh look, it's some guy trapped in a corner. No wait, it's Commander! I'll battle you in a second, I have a funny feeling that the next area is going to make me rage hardcore (see what I did there?) anyway we make our way to Mewtwo who, surprise surprise, Mega Evolves [which I did not see coming] So like 9 years of me being defeated because this thing is Kungfu Fighting and it's fast as lightning. To be frank, it was a little bit frightening. Yet somehow we prevailed, by haxing it because it missed something somehow or I tanked something finally. IDK. I literally beat it and immediately blocked it from my memory. That was painful. So there was a battle with Commander for a bit inbetween losses. Needless to say, I abstained from further shame as he put me in my place multiple times. Snorlax doesn't take well to fire. Lesson learned. Also, Mega Alakazam is terrifyingly strong. If only it didn't refuse to use any move but energy ball on Houndoom... We'll be back. Onto Terra. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Nidoking ammirite? This thing outspeeds my entire team despite having lower base speed and them matching level with some EVs in speed. But you know what, that's the name of the game. Nidokings always have scared me since Cain, so thank you Hardcore devs. Next up is more fast groundtypes that scare me. SWAAAAAAAAAAAGSIRE is the absolute bane of my existence. It is due to him that I spent about 2 hours bashing my head against the wall. I will admit that I swapped to regular Reborn and gave him a shot and still struggled with him. It fascinated me that he was giving me such a problem. Perhaps I'm just bad. Then I remembered something. Swagsire. Quagsire. Fat. Fat. Fat. Like 75 lbs fat. Hmmm. Grass Knot? But it has to be someone speedy and sorta strong as I know that its Spe but based off of weight. SCORCH WELCOME BACK. Speaking of movesets, what kind of hidden power do you hav- OMG YOU HAVE GROUND HIDDEN POWER COME HERE YOU LOVABLE MONKEY. Now, the problem is these pesky earth types are just too gosh darn mean and hit me like a semitruck. What could I possibly do...>intense flashback of Julia battle -Checks inventory -Air Balloon Let's get this show started... Let me preface this by saying that I was basing this strat around the game's AI with typings and my own experience. So for example with Nidoking you see me spending 10ish seconds maybe on the party screen going crazy. I wasn't sure who would be best to send out, who needs to stay alive, who has enough power to KO Nidoking for sure with sun out if he hits himself, who has a chance to possibly resist a Sludge Wave if it doesn't quit. Running the choices through my head. It landed and I said sure. I was thinking of reviving Happy for Sunny Day but 1. I hate using items mid battle. 2. She'll get OHKO'd 4. I don't know if Garchomp has more PP than standard. I was also going for the defense down chance but for some reason it wasn't in the cards. Next time I see ya it'll be after I complete Episode 15! I have a few plans in store for the file after I defeat Ciel and I certainly plan to evaluate the Fire types available and all that jazz in regards to the gym leaders and general trainers. After Ciel we also have to head back to 7th street to take care of Archie rematch. ===== I've been pretty spoiled in the run up to this point. This was the first gym that was actually my type weakness and it makes me think to Rock/Water. If Chimchar or Torchic become available in Episode 16 I'll get a real giggle out of it. Seriously Terra was a nightmare. Either Happy survived a hit from Nidoking or he swept everyone. It wasn't funny. He was way to fast for me to handle and I had to rely on hax. I would rather not resort to abusing AI to get past things but damn is that battle difficult. I sort of want to go back and try it on regular with my strat and see how that goes but Mewtwo AND Terra were just absolute nightmares. Part of me is worried about Ciel because Flying/Dragon and I have a strong feeling that she has a CHATOT which alone is enough to make me rage. I hate confusion more than anything because for some reason RNG is never on my side but when I confuse the enemy, they snap out quickly or rarely hit themselves. Then again I did flinchhax Cain's Nidoking 5 times in a row with Pyroar's STAB Headbutt, so win some lose some? Finding Commander was honestly one of my favorite parts. I look forward to finding other NPCs that were added once I finish and finding Corey's mon. Right now I have Nidorina and Toxicroak's first evo. Both before I updated. Also Qwilfish. So I'm going to spend some time looking for them. I have a feeling I'm going to be looking for a while to say the least. Depending on how the CoM goes, I may or may not try to reconstruct the teams they have in my Alpha Sapphire to use for fun in random link battles. Idea that popped into my head today. Granted it will take a lot of time and breeding to do but something I can do. The goal is to wrap E15 by tomorrow night as Monday I head back to Campus so we'll see. I'd like to just have CoM to do during school as I'll be getting an essay or two plus book reviews right off the bat. Anywho, those are the plans. Very rough. Reuniting with friends, dungeons and dragons, tons of reading because History, progress will be much slower come next week but the biggest part of the run is going to be finished before then, so yay. Buh-bye.

Do any of the gym leaders have EV trained teams?

Yeah, I imagine that she would be more difficult if I didn't have her locked down to non-fire type moves. I've come to realize the difference between what was easy for the run and how easy it is for a regular team. When my other file gets to Charlotte I'm going to abuse Flash Fire if possible because it made it easy, with the except of Darmanitan but I just need to have something outspeed it and Typhlosion. On one hand I was really expecting Lucario so I had that as preparation in my mind, so when I happened to see Mega Blaziken I heavy sighed so yeah. My first few attempts were basically Blaziken sweep. If I didn't have bounce I imagine I would have been stuck on him for a lot longer. I've never battled/encountered Mega Heracross but if it's any faster than regular Heracross then I want to thank everyone for voting for Blaziken. I fought Luna at low 60s and the only mon near cap was Charizard against Samson. I can't vouch for a run that has more available pokemon than I did but I thought his levels were fine. Not to mention that his Heracross, Mienshao, and Hawlucha are the only fast ones excluding SB Blaziken. I haven't really felt any issues with levels except for Eclipse and Aster after Samson as they were a lot higher than me but I hadn't fought wilds or the repeatable. The fight before Blake was rough but that wasn't due to levels. Funny story about Cradburry. When I originally went through the game I was pretty sure that I'd be facing Megas at some point and so I'd take measure to see each Ace of named battles. When I learned that they didn't I was relieved. So when I started Hardcore I made careful note of possible Megas after Shade. I wasn't sure if Cradburry would have one but on the off chance she did I had to prepare for it. She couldn't have any of the starters as Megas. Deffo not Metagross or anything that I have fought up to this point. She also wouldn't have any of the possible ones for the last few leaders/big battles. The only one that made any sense for her to have would be Banette because the other ones seem too strong for her and I don't see us fighting another Ghost User to use Banette. That also assumes that we won't face anyone that has a surprise mega that doesn't fit the team. So I kept Houndoom for it. I thought it was funny that I got Blake and Serra's Megas mixed up as far as guesses go. I was worried about Glalie from Serra and bought potions just in case due to it being faster than most of my mons at the time and has decent offense. I'm not sure if it's a good thing that I'm more worried about the other 5 mons than I am about the Mega. Because more often than not it seems each Leader has 1-3 pokemon that are an absolute nightmare not including their Mega. No, I had no idea and I often check my card because I get paranoid that I mix up the level caps. Kudos for that. Completely slipped by me. When I was looking at what monotype to do for my first run of Hardcore I had a set of nicknames/people that I was going to do it of. Fire happened to have the right amount. I'm assuming that Ninetails is a favorite of yours? I have it named after someone that I think of a cornerstone of sorts, given the role of a Drought Ninetails in this type of run. Others were named either due to availability or utility. I actually named my Darmanitan Commander because of Sheer Force and STAB Flare Blitz because Shelly caused me such grief I wanted a mon that if hit could OHKO pretty much anything given sunlight and a hold item. I have my Magby named Solarance, but I don't have access to a spare Magmarizer and I don't feel like it would be right to add a spare one in. I'm really excited to have a Magmortar as I haven't used one before.

Double update. Not sure how far I'll get tonight but figured since there wasn't much between Luna and Samson that I would combine Samson with Charlotte. First thing is first, after many many many repeatedly heavy sighs I figured out the strength puzzle for the Rotom Key. My first time doing that puzzle and no me gusta. Anyway after placing Rotom in the PC and mixed around my party I made my way to Agate to meet Terra. While I get an occasional laugh from Terra, I'm not necessarily a fan. There are characters I like much more, like Cain. Anyway we made our way to Agate and dealt with the clowns. Found the move tutor guy who has drill run and Rapidash Lord Chespin learned it, guessing that it might be useful in the near future. I assumed that I would be going against either Mega Lucario or Mega Blaziken. Part of me was holding out hope that Charlotte had Mega Blaziken and so far I've been fairly accurate when guessing Mega Evolutions for Gym Leaders. Shade -- Yes Cal -- No Kiki -- Yes Archie -- Yes Aya -- Yes Serra -- No Noel -- No Fern -- Yes Radomus -- Yes Luna -- Yes Solaris/Sirius whoever had the mega Manectric -- Yes The annoying old lady that I stole pokemon from -- Yes Samson -- No Charlotte -- No So I'm going to guess the rest of the Mega Evos that I can think of. Blake -- Glalie Terra -- Garchomp Ciel -- Altaria Taka -- Aerodactyl if he has one? What gyms are left after Ep15? Fairy, Rock, Steel, Dragon, Water? Judging from the types alone, Rock and Water are going to throw me into the dirt. Dragon might. Steel will hopefully not be very difficult. Fairy IDK, don't have much experience battling fairy types honestly. Luckily we have Rotom so hopefully the water gym is completely weak to Electric pls >:] anyway back to Agate. Before we can battle Samson we need to get a Battle Pass because it would far to easy to challenge him straight up. Also where is Hardy? Route 2's puzzle of the Crustle took me a while, mainly because I did the top portion first and I had no recollection of how to do it. I prevailed. The bottom portion wasn't too bad from how it went compared to my memory of it. Anyway, make our way to meet our favorite Garchomp food and her friend Titania. We find Hardy and are told that Team Meteor has not only captured a town with a super long name but is sieging another town with a shorter yet still long name. So we are going to head there and back Saphira up but before we can we need Surf. Back to Agate. Now we can challenge Samson! Now to have a level 15 Horsea in my party >.< Back to grab Surf, I chose to read the diary and not say anything about it. I'm pretty nosey plus I figured that's what I had to do to get Surf. After they both dive down the waterfall it's time to surf finally! Grabbed ton of goodies in the mountain, kept an eye out for any of Corey's pokemon which I didn't find. Teamed up with Aya who was surprisingly strong and made our way past Team Meteor to our next Eclipse/Aster battle. I swapped out Horsea for Cobalt996 (Chandelure) and battled them. Infiltrator destroyed Lunatone and Solrock because Shadow Ball. Milotic was the bane of my existence. Why didn't I train up Rotom? WHY? After a two attempts Aya wins with me watching. Then I was pretty sad about the death that happened. I grabbed Grass Knot from the left path and finally made my way to my first destination. FIRE CITY. Found a Magby that I can't yet get but I will because Magmortar is going to be great. Blahblahblah everyone is excited to see me, I give the Ruby Ring to Charlotte and we I get to go challenge her. I liked the gym puzzle, and only the last part I had to retry because I had running shoes on and messed up. Turned em off and did it fine. Onto the battle that I had been waiting for since starting this run. And I'll seeya next time when we get pounded in the ground light Terra on fire. ============================ Was a bit weird not having many trainers to battle but it's been that way since Radomus so I'm not very surprised. Samson was more difficult than Charlotte imo. More could go wrong. I'm just a bit surprised that Charlotte wasn't able to take full advantage of the field and have more Flash Fire. That would have made the fight much more difficult as I couldn't use Fire attacks boosted by the Field, Sunny Day, STAB and Item Boosted. But it was a fun fight nonetheless. I'm looking forward to CoM Charlotte after I complete Episode 15. Concerned about Terra but I have a ways to go until that battle so we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Gotta train up Rotom once we can turn it into Electric/Fire. Super excited for him.

Do you read Haikyuu!, Berserk, or Hiatus x Hiatus Togashi's Side Hobby inbetween Dragon Quest releases Hunter x Hunter? Did you read Bleach? Omg this is weird to say now Given Bakugo's newest technique and during the sports festival he thought of bestBRO Todoroki's power in terms of mana, that his future moves will have some sort of game name or mechanic name in them?

Is there a way to turn on the Level Limiter or TM Breeding midway through the game or is it something that has to be edited/turned on via RPG Maker if you're playing an already existing save file?

omg yas Bakumom is the best, real discipline. I loved the little in home visits. Especially Jirou's house because her dad. Who is best girl in Tokyo Ghoul and why is it Eto? Man I'm still salty about the Eto situation. Did you like Tokyo Ghoul Jack better or Root A better? Favorite moment from Tokyo Ghoul? Favorite moment from MHA? Do you have a favorite animal? Would you rather have a pet turtle or a pet snake? If you could have any quirk, what quirk would it be? Who is best girl in MHA? Top 5 anime/manga? If you could live in the pokemon world, which region would you live in and why?