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How do you feel about Deku? I love both your avatar and sig. Do you prefer Bakumom or Dekumom? Are you up to date with MHA?

Do you like Delphox? If so, do you prefer regular or shiny? What kind of birds do you have? Do you have any hummingbirds around where you live? Do you have a favorite type/breed of bird? Macaw, Woodpecker etc Have you ever seen the graceful [prehistoric, reminds me of a pterodactyl] creature that is a Pileated Woodpecker? Are you interested in Black Holes? Do you have a favorite color that cats have? Would you rather be in a room with 1,000,000 watermelon sized grapes or 1,000,000 grape sized watermelons and why?

Well it has been a minute or two since my last update. Few things have happened. We've gained a few new teammates. We caught a Ponyta, Litwick, Cyndaquil, and Darmanitan. All of which have been nicknamed. I also spent a ton of time trying to level everyone up only to realize I most likely won't use them all. Anyway, onto 7th Street! Immediately soft reset for shiny Cyndaquil. WORTH IT. Next we deal with everyone's favorite old lady who isn't very difficult surprisingly. Afterwords we meet Bennett and are captured by El's crazy cult. An hour or two of frustration with memorization and distractions and we make our way past the maze and puzzle to capture Litwick after saving Luna. Afterwords we head up to train. Not much really happens. I grabbed the dusk stone for Litwick and made my way to Luna. My battle with Bennett was actually rather close but I still won in the end. Onto Luna! I also recorded the battle because I'd rather not deal with typing it out and forgetting everything that happened. I will preface this with saying this is my second attempt. My first ended up with me losing to Luna's ace as I made some bad choices the first run. Video of the battle Short update though, and going to go find Rotom before we head to Agate! I'll see you after Samson! =============== Honestly I was more worried for the battle than I should have been. My first attempt had Darmanitan doing work as Ninetails fainted early on, but it annihilated Spiritomb and Sableye my first run, just Sandstorm + toxic on Typhlosion didn't help with Eruption and ultimately Umbreon outlasted me with Moonlight/Leftovers. I was debating about bringing Emboar but I just couldn't think of who to switch out as I remembered Luna's regular team barely but I guessed that there would be more coverage against fighting types so decided against it. While I didn't use Darmanitan as much in the video, it was useful in the battle and my only regret is I didn't use it in place of Typhlosion because I think Flare Blitz would have given me the KO.

So first of all, Fern in the rain sucks. I made sure to copy that specific save and fought him in the rain. There's a reason why when Julia put up Rain Dance earlier today on her Heliolisk that I immediately soft-resetted on habit only to realize that rain didn't affect that team. ===== Entry # I really, really hate Radomus So immediately we fight yaboi Fern who gets burned. Although when we battled in the rain he showed me what a broom looks like I let him off easy. After navigating Route 1 we meet up with Cain at Radomus's place and omg he isn't leading with Samurott, THANK ARCEUS. Something about Curse Camerupt? Cain wasn't very tough, Samurott and Nidoking being the most terrifying of his mons. Those aside it was pretty regular for Hardcore I guess. We end up having to chase after El since he kidnapped GG. We make our way to the gates and fall in where we meet an interesting character, the Coral Ward's Gym Leader. Xe doesn't like us at first but once we expose El Xe sides with us. Cue Arceus fight. Fire Spin + Smokescreen essentially. Few soft resets to get rng on my side but it worked. Sided with Radomus btw. Gates open and we tail Adreinn to xe's gym cue the freakout. After talking for a bit we split ways. I happen to catch a Tepig and head to the Lapis Ward to battle Team Aqua. Now being nearly 30 levels makes a difference. Lemme tell ya. I GUESS I HAD A BROOM AFTER ALL! Got my houndour, trained everyone up to 57/58 at the Grand Hall and ran back to Radomus. I'm actually ight at Puzzles and only had to consult an outside source for the last one (; I also updated to the newest version of Hardcore at this point and found this gym guy who explained how to go from doubles/singles. So naturally I chose doubles. I instantly regretted everything. First of all what I failed to realize was that Psychic now does rock damage. So we'll leave that there. Also, there are multiple pokemon with trick room, so focusing down Exeggutor only to have Slowking through it up makes me sadface. I spent a bit more time struggling through it until I realized that with the pokemon I have, I can't do doubles because Radomus literally one shots me without calm mind or anything. Even Leah who has like 150 spec def or something gets one shot with a unaltered psychic/strength. So I tried Singles. Single Radomus is deceptively difficult for an entire other reason. Starmie. Let me tell you how the battle went. Lead with Houndoom and Feint Attack Girafarig to use up all the Hyper Potions. Before the final attack Radomus does one of two moves. A. Girafarig dies. B. Switches to Gallade for Justified Attack Boost. So after seeing this switch, I learned to anticipate it. There were a few losses from Gallade alone. So with Girafarig dead I swap to Happy for drought and then switch into Houndoom. Most of the time when Happy comes out Gallade uses Close Combat. So Houndoom dies. Gallade has def/spec def down. In comes Ember for intimidate. Ember can now tank any of Gallade's attack unless they crit. Flamethrower spam because sun. Next comes Starmie. Starmie outspeeds everything. RNG dependant for Leah being able to tank a hit, but usually it's all OHKO from this point. So I swapped out Vulcan for Ignis. Back to Starmie. Hyper Voice Starmie. If Starmie calm minds, Headbutt for flinchhax, if not, KO with Hyper Voice. Metagross comes out next and Cinder OHKO's with Flamethrower. Next is Renunicles and Leah comes out and Flare Blitzs it for over 50%. Calm Minds and Flare Blitz for the KO. Next comes GG! Cinder comes out to smokescreen spam. That is his life. After two he gets Hyper Voiced. Next comes Ember who Intimidates (just incase) and Hyper Voiced. Next is Happy who dodges a Hyper Voice to use confuse ray on GG. Hyper misses again and Flamethrower + burn. Rinse repeat. Repeat. Happy gets KO'd and as she falls so does GG. and relevant because trained up today ========================== I think doubles Radomus is impossible on a firemono. I could be wrong, but I think it's impossible. Hell, the only reason I won is because Starmie refused to use Psychic on Pyroar. It would either use Calm Mind or Thunderbolt. I think it only used Psychic once on Pyroar on 12 attempts. I tell ya, there's a lot of times that I giggle as things burn and cheer after a hard fought win, but I feel like I cheesed that fight, like I did with Shelly and it doesn't sit right with me. Then again, with the fire types available at her I couldn't see how I could win in the rain. With Radomus I have a wider selection but again, when he outspeeds you and is far bulkier and only needs one hit to KO, it makes it really dependent on things like accuracy or status conditions. Like I'm going to keep Smokescreen on both Charizard and Typhlosion because I need it. IDK what I'm going to do when I have to go underwater. Probably laugh/cry. I will say that around Shade it got much easier. Early game was deff the most difficult part so far, due to the lack of pokemon or evolution stones. However I haven't got to late game as I still have Dark, Fighting, Fire, Ground, Flying and I don't think any of those are going to be easy. Although having Fire/Electric will be nice. I need to level everyone up to 65 before I head to Agate though. That being said, I think that at this point it isn't so much as me getting better per se but that I have decent mons and moves. I will definitely offer up that I've improved in both how I play and movesets from this run so far, but the available pokemon and two new ones I can get soon really made a difference. Even battling Julia today with a team of 6 was a huge difference compared to 2. Anyway, more soft resetting for me tomorrow because I want that blue flame.

Alrighty, thank you very much.

I tried using the search function and I didn't see the answer so figured I'd ask. I just realized that I've been playing on v2.1 and want to update so I can check out the CoM. Do I need to save inside anywhere for updating from 2.1 to CoM?

What a productive day. =================== Shiver me Timbers! Off to save the children! The wonderful children of Reborn! We team up with Cain to mop the floor with Team Meteor until we reach the top of the Yuruyu building and find the Doctor shocking Heather. We step in to battle him. We then make our escape through the railnet, but before we do we find the Move Relearner's house key as well as the dull key and take them back. We let go of Crunch on Ember and replace it with Thunder Fang for some very slight coverage. Let's face it, I usually just burn water types now and hope for the best. Anyway. We exit and make our way to Laura's house and are tasked to get Medicine from the nearest pokemart which happens to be where our next Badge is. We run into some Arceus fanatic, a bug type lover (YOU SHOULD MEET SHELLY), and Serra the Ice gym leader. After some talking we notice that things are teleporting around (grabbed the spare EXP.Share because why not) and then make our way to the center to heal up before taking the gym on. We get flawless victory on the puzzle and mop the floor with Serra's son, bugboy. He fell to the greatest type of pokemon, Fire. Onto Serra! Next we buy the medicine and head back and regroup. We also grab Eevee at this point and evolve it into Flareon and slap on an EXP share. Team Meteor is making their way over to us we meet Charlotte's sister, who has a Dragonite! Team Meteor is coming in to attack and we finally meet ol' eyepatch. Next we go after to hit Team Meteor back. Now I will preface that this was a very difficult part because of the Team Meteor members. I had to go back and heal up 5 times during this. Eventually we are teleported away and find a giant Steelix. We engage in battle with it! However, with the gift that is FIRE we BURN it to cinders. Back to the base to confront ZEL, Sirius, and Pulse Abra. We put Abra down and meet Lin who knows we aren't part of Team Meteor and leaves to take on the Steelix. We make our escape at this point and regroup at the house, having rescued everyone. Noel is now ready to battle us for our next badge but we take a slight detour beforehand. Meet our newest teammate, Leah! We raise everyone quickly to level 53 and head back to take on Noel! Cya next time! ================== WOW. I know I had the advantage with Serra but singles? That trivialized her. If she had been doubles it would have been much more difficult. Nothing much to say here. Mega Abomasnow wasn't even threatening as it ate damage from the mirror. I expected Mega Glalie but /shrug. Glaceon could take a hit which was nice, but Serra destroyed any chance she had by swapping into Froslass who could probably outpseed my team. Noel though was what surprised me. He's always given me trouble in Reborn so I was ready to do multiple attempts. Porygon-Z and Cincinno were the tipping points for me. Tail Slap missing and Flareon just destroying Porygon is what made that run possible. Flareon has most definetly earned a spot perm on the team. I also bought Shadow Ball and gave it to her for now. Won't hurt for the next gym perhaps. The next thing for us to do is to fish a Luvadisc, go get Tepig and Darmanitan, and go finish the Team Magma quest to get Houndoom. Since Commander loves watching me have horrid flashbacks of the rain Since Commander suggested that I take on Fern on route 1 in the rain, I plan on doing that next. Rip. I'm excited for 7th street. Like you have no idea. Cyndaquil timeee! Although I'm nervous about the next Gym, I should be fine.

If you could tame any wild animal, what would it be and why? It would basically be your buddy and not eat you. Favorite cereal? Do you have milk or no milk with your cereal? Do you like grapes? Favorite sweet? Do you like candy? If so, what is your favorite? If not, why not? If you could visit any body of water in the world, which would you visit and why? Do you have a favorite continent? Would you live on Pangaea given the chance? Do you like learning the history of areas/peoples? Do you like Museums? Do you expect a really weird question at the end of this post? Do you like math problems? Do you like story problems? Which do you prefer, flip-flops or Crocs? Do you like wearing socks or walking around barefoot? Would you rather visit Hawaii or the Galapagos Islands? Do you prefer writing with pens, penicls, or quills? Do you have any bird feeders or anything? Would you rather read minds or have telekinesis? Do you have a favorite European country? Actually, what is your favorite country on each continent? Penguins or Pandas?

So we head off to find Cain because we're taking the Reborn league challenge! Anyway, we run into Eclipse and Aster on our way to Cain and they're very, very cocky about how they're going to capture us since they captured Cain. They go down fairly easily to a combo of Solar powered fire attacks and Curse Camerupt EQ spam. Next we heal up and move to take on the true threattm. Taka. After we freed Cain we learned about Team Meteor's plan to use CAMERUPT to destroy Apophyll. Using such a great, sacred pokemon for their schemes has our rage consume the hero. We head back to Apophyll and speak with Kiki, Victoria, and Cain. We then decided to go up and stop Team Meteor. Victoria decides to team up with us and we go on a rampage, burning everything in the mountain that we come across. Eventually we come to the peak and find Cain facing trench coat and Taka. Cal is facing the lava. He exclaims that he lost and the trench coat reveals himself to be someone named Solaris. He says that his plan is to have the Camerupt force the volcano to erupt and destroy the entire island. Hearing his plans for harming the sacred fire type pokemon, our hero is consumed with rage and attacks Solaris. Solaris sends out his Scizor and the enraged trainer sends out Ember the Arcanine. Ember ignites the field and leaves Scizor with one HP. Scizor burns from the field. Solaris sends out his next member, Garchomp. Garchomp OHKO's Ember. Scorch comes out to yawn and is OHKO. The enraged trainer's rage becomes forcibly quelled by Solaris as Garchomp proceeds to annihilate each and every team member, leaving Drev completely and utterly defeated. Victoria and Cain cannot believe it, shocked in disbelief as the very trainer that was a mystical timelord that can rewrite history when defeated undefeated in their eyes, stood in defeat. Kiki arrived and told the shell shocked trainers to back up and brings forth her Medicham who moves to destroy the PULSE machine, only for Cal's Magmortar to catch it and throw it into the lava. Everyone while already in a state of shock, is dumbfounded and while they were mesmerized by Cal's action, Solaris has Garchomp Dragon Rush Kiki. Cal has a change of heart and has Magmortar destroy PULSE Camerupt and Solaris retreats. After a falling out between Victoria and Cal everyone retreats. Victoria says something that we've come to expect at this point and we get no badge. Cain tells us that we need to head into the Wasteland and challenge Aya for the Venom Badge and the power to use Strength. We sail back to Reborn City. At the gate to the wasteland Cain tells us a bit about him and Aya and battles us before unlocking the door. Curse Camerupt says hi. We then make our trek through the wasteland and it's badass music. We finally find the next Gym and run into Fern talking trash to Aya. We meet Hardy, the Rock Gym Leader from Agate City. We then find out a bit about Fern and Hardy before battling. Fern talked a big game about switching out grass types but he still got burned. Krokodile fell to 2x Flamethrowers. Next Aya returned with her team healed and we challenged her. Fern and Hardy watched with Hardy being the ref. Victory! We can FINALLY use Strength. So now we can make our way back to the Railnet to save the kiddos! The team so far; Torkoal, Magcargo, and Heatmor in the PC. =============================================== Okay so wow. Solaris has a team. Half expected Mega Garchomp but owell. I didn't expect to win and I personally prefer losing here for the later dialogue. Taka was frustrating because Floatzel completely outspeeds everything. Thank Arcues that Cain didn't lead with Samurott. If he did I would have struggled much more than I actually did, seeing as I beat him on my first try. Nothing new with Fern. I'm probably over confident whenever we battle because Fern Burn but yeah, nothing special to note. Aya was a fun fight, and it only took me two tries. The first battle I got to Dragelge and it finished off my exhausted team so I swapped members around and took care of business. I tell you what though, Gengar and Tentacruel were the scary ones here. Tentacruel had toxic spikes which it used the first time and Muddy Water which thankfully neither we used on the second fight. Nidoqueen was meh. Gengar KO'd 3 of my mons the first attempt which was annoying. Mega Venasaur was surprisingly lackluster, being surprisingly weak even with Thick Fat. I didn't think STAB/Sunny Day boosted made that much of a difference compared to it's relative defenses and Thick Fat but I'll take it. Dragelge was the most worrisome part. I had to make sure I could lock it down without items and ASAP. Smokescreen continues to stay on Charizard for that very reason. I'm going to be excited to get Dragon Rage off in the near future so he can have Dragon Pulse. I don't see my team changing much. Emboar, Flareon, and Darmanitan will probably see places on the team. Flareon has some defense along with a few interesting moves. Emboar for the fighting coverage finally and Darmanitan for dat OP Flare Blitz. Darmanitan will most likely replace Pyroar, and Typhlosion will replace Charizard. We'll see how the team members rotate. As of now I can confirm that Camerupt and Ninetails have a permanment spot on the team. Camerupt is surprisingly my most devastating pokemon. He's reliable, powerful, and strangely enough always the one to get the final KO, Aya excluded.

I actually went on youtube just to see if there was any hardcore reborn stuff but I couldn't find anything past Julia. Then I saw tests against the Gym leaders by a channel named Commander, figured it was yours. Everytime I've beaten a leader I've checked the test video to see it done with a non monofire. So I saw the Mega Banette and wondered if that would have made the fight more difficult. I feel like I should tell both Solarence and you that the regular trainers themselves have given me some trouble. Nothing on the scale of Shelly but it's been really rough at some spots to just battle some of the regular trainers. Having leveled up mons with a variety of types has been terrifying to say the least water. I never realized how many water types there are until this run and dear Arceus it is fear inducing. I was legitimately afraid of the first Team Magma quest because I had to face Team Aqua and I still haven't touched Archie. Actually stuck on Taka's Floatzel as I write this, damn Waterfall. I'm not sure how others would have done but if Cal had Mega Zard Y I think I would have had to try him a few more times. Yes he's 4x to rock and 2x electric but once the field is combusted water hardly does anything without setup and Y has higher base Special Def and has ground immunity. I probably would have had to go back to Reborn and level up my Magcargo and gone back purely for Mega Zard Y. I was really hoping for X so I could KO him with ground. I was surprised he didn't run a Flareon. Fern on a rainy day on route 1? Fern on a rainy day? Fern rainy day? Rainy day? Rain?