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umm didn't he say he wouldn't be uploading vids for a while because a relative passed away?

yes apparently

I did Shelly's battle, but then I was like "hecc why not also beat Blake with Vanilla's team, since this is Vanilla's run and skipping the fite would be cheating" besides I liked the prospect of Blake getting his ass handed twice (on separate universes of course). LOL I knew at least one of you would comment on that hahaha but I'm disappointed no one commented on my 80% plagiarized drawing from the previous episode. that one actually took me hours to finish xD

you can go back. just follow the openings between trees.

it depends on your game file, has 50-50 chance of being grubbin or joltik. go to Peridot Ward, check the buildings. One of the buildings has a electricity shortage and will be dark. Press A while moving around (I don't really know exactly where the pokemon is) and you'll trigger a battle with the pokemon. I think this is only available in old Reborn City (before going to Agate).

Blake did suggest he wouldn't hesitate tho cause he a jerk I'm shook that I'm almost reaching the end of E14 wow time flies. Is that really it? Answer: who knows? at least you don't. muwahahaha but seriously how could someone survive a free fall from a mountain? there's also the fact that Vanilla didn't "see" the fall so the readers might never know lol If the tone of shyness was obvious, then I might be doing something right haha Glad you liked the episode of Shelly's peak contribution (also pun intended since she's on the peak of the mountain). Shelly vs Blake's battle took me a while to win cause it ain't easy getting all those Detects without failing and not getting crits in the same battle. Like Nexus would say, I was like "this is the run!" This smol candy got me some mons and trained them to appropriate level, then changed to Shelly's sprites. Only issue was changing my player's name which I didn't know there was a way to, so I recorded as Vanilla (if you paid attention, it said "Vanilla defeated Meteor Agent Blake") but after I figured out that I could change the name, I re-recorded the intro VS transition (if you paid attention, there's a little frame movement between the start of the video and the rest of the battle) but forgot to do the same for the "defeated" screen lol Yayy edgelord Vanini getting more attention lol this is where my "QUICK LINK TO NEXT EPISODE" buttons will come handy

From Everland to Reborn ~ Episode 57 Blake continued to send Team Meteor grunts to battle me as he walked toward the peak of Ametrine Mountain with little to no signs of haste. It may have just been that lack of haste, or his form of walking- the unnaturally bold movement of his shoulders on each step he took- but it gave me an impression that he was the type to be confident and self-important. For that I envied him, for I could never have such attributes. When I made it to the top of the mountain, my stock of healing items had been cut in half from all the battles I had to endure. Blake was standing there, watching as the helicopter struggled to approach the peak, thanks to the interference from Heather and Cal. “Seems like your little friends pitched in to give me a headache,” Blake said, shaking his head. “Welp and here I thought I was the untrustworthy dealmaker. Solaris was dumb thinking that you'd keep your side of the bargain if I gave you the Waterfall TM.” “I-it's not like we wanted to b-back on our, um, deal. Er, Heather. Yes, Heather wants it, s-so we're helping her.” Blake laughed at my blatant lie. “You're funny, little girl. But unfortunately, I'm not going to keep playing games with you. Let's see what your punny bugs can do against me.” The battle was evidently rough from the start, given that I led with Noel and Heather, both bug/flying types, while Blake sent out mamoswine (ground/ice) and gyarados (water/flying). I was definitely in the disadvantage, not only because of type match ups, but also because of the boost in ice type moves which the cold and snow that surrounded us offered Blake's ice types. As I supposed, Noel fainted on the first turn just with an Ice Shard. Luckily, I told Heather to protect herself, so I didn’t have a double KO on turn one. Every step, every choice was a game of gambling against the odds. One mistake could mean the end. It saddened me deeply that while everyone from our group was giving their all to recover the Ruby Ring, which had been taken from us because of my insistence, I could not pull my weight and would let the guy with the ring slip away when he was right in front of my noses. But how to win, in the face of so much disadvantage? How to win, when I’m barely a mediocre battler? My thoughts were thus engaged, when there was a sudden addition to our party. It was Pikachu, Vanilla’s mimikyu. Pikachu was holding a leather-cover book, but he didn’t seem to have come all the way here for me to read it. He was jumping and squeaking, sometimes waving his dark amorphous arms in the air. “Pikachu, d-did you come to cheer f-for me?” A nod of his cloth head affirmed it. The thought that Vanilla might have been the one to send her partner for that purpose crossed my mind, and it almost brought me to tears. “Thank you,” I said. “I won’t let Vanilla down.” Even if there was just a 1% chance that my strategy would work, I had to do it. If it didn’t work, I would improvise a new strategy. I just… I had to do my best! The battle was over, and I couldn’t believe I had won. I’d had so much stress that my legs wobbled, and I almost slipped on the snow. “Impressive, I must say,” Blake said. “But whatever. My ride is almost here, and I’m going to get the fuck out of here.” “What? But I w-won the battle,” I said. “Do I look like I care? Get close to me, and I won’t hold back just because you’re a minor,” he said. “As your friend said, anything is allowed in war.” I hesitated. Blake’s angry face reminded me of Cal’s, when he slapped my face. It’d hurt. At that precise moment, the ground shook, and I fell to the floor. At the moment, I thought it was an earthquake or an explosion, but a little after, I managed to prop myself up to see that the other side of the mountain was breaking away and falling down. With a bad premonition creeping in my chest, I looked down the mountain, and spotted two people running towards the cliff. A few seconds must have elapsed between the moment we saw the snow on the top of the mountain crumble, and the moment we became aware of what that meant for our safety. I instinctively grabbed Aladdin’s arm and started running to the other side of the mountain where Ametrine City was, but before we could pass, a thick streak of sliding snow cut us off. I glanced to the other side, and that was seconds before we realized we were locked to our doom. The wall of snow was quickly approaching, and we had nowhere else to run but down the cliff. How we were going to run down the cliff was to be determined, but there was no time to ponder idly. Hence we ran to the cliff, which had one large protruding rock. Looking down, we saw a forest that extended to pretty much the horizon, but I judged we were way too high up to make the fall alive. With quick judgement, I yanked a green leaf-shaped crystal from my dress, and stretched my bubblegum dress’ hem as much as the time allowed. Then, I fixed the loose end to the rock using the crystal. “Get ready to jump,” I told Aladdin. He was confused by the suggestion, but I grabbed his waist and pushed us off the cliff before he could open his mouth. He did open it, however, to let out an echo-amplified scream. We swung from side to side as a pendulum, but I witnessed that the snow reached the cliff with so much momentum that it formed an arch as it fell down to the forest below. Hence the snow didn’t touch us, and we kept swinging until our path started becoming irregular due to the wind and hit the cliffside with full force. I almost dropped Aladdin because of the impact, but I managed to hold onto one of his arms as we now swung and rotated simultaneously. At last, we came to a stop, but I felt dizzy with all the movement. “Aladdin, give me your other hand,” I said, since my grip on the one arm was starting to slip. “I thought you wanted me dead,” he responded, not budging his arm. I didn’t notice until he mentioned it, but he had a point. What in the world was I doing saving the life of my nemesis? This was my chance to obtain revenge on him. I just had to open my hand and let it slip… “I’ll have you dead, but not like this,” I said, tightening my grip on his wrist. “Give me your other arm, damn it!” Aladdin still didn’t oblige. “You won the battle. You deserve the prize you wanted,” he said. “I have nothing else I can offer.” With that, he bent the arm I was holding, and bit my hand so suddenly and strongly that I released my grip in reflex. I saw the hand move away from me, and I reached for it with my left, then my right hand, but my speed could not compete against gravity. I saw Aladdin close his eyes and fall to his end, but I couldn’t watch past the moment I knew I could not save him. I shrunk to a ball, still hanging from the rock, and closed my eyes tightly shut. “That didn’t happen just now,” I said to myself. I don’t know how many minutes passed since then, but I woke again when I heard Shelly’s voice calling my name. I used the dress’ extension as a rope to climb back to the protruding rock that pretty much saved our- my life. Shelly and Cal helped me up the cliff, and I dislodged the green crystal from the rock, which caused it to crumble into dust that flew away with the wind. Shelly at me with a questioning look, which I imagined was tied to Aladdin’s absence. Instead of talking about him, I pretended to misunderstand her look for curiosity about the leaf-shaped crystal that had just vanished to thin air. I showed her the three remaining crystals on my traditional dress, and attempted to keep a facade of nonchalance. “They’re single-time use hard candies. Ugh, once they’re nailed into a surface, they won’t dislodge until I touch them.” But that was all I could say, because I was exhausted. Not only because of the mental exhaustion that Aladdin brought upon me, but also because the blood gushing down to my feet after being accumulated on my head wasn’t a particularly pleasant feeling. Cal, who was taller than me, volunteered to lend me a shoulder on which to support myself as we walked back to the Pokemon Center. I said I didn’t need treatment, but they insisted on Nurse Joy checking a light scrape I received on my arm when Aladdin and I hit the cliffside wall. It turned out that wasn’t a bad idea at all, because at least it allowed me to sit down and wait for my sight to stabilize. “What happened with Blake?” I asked Shelly, but the question was meant for everyone in general. Heather triumphantly raised the Ruby Ring. “Shelly beat him in battle! Then, Cal and I flew close to the peak and pushed the jerk side to side until the ring fell out from his pocket and I caught it before it even hit the floor,” she explained. “Then he ran off on the helicopter like the coward he is.” “And I asked him about the, um, sleeping signal again, but the helicopter took off before he could r-respond. Sorry.” “He’d probably not give us reliable information anyway,” I said. “Good job on winning the battle against Blake.” Shelly smiled a little, but also seemed embarrassed by my comment. “May I ask what sleeping signal you’re referring to?” Cal asked. “Right, you used to be one of them. Team Meteor apparently has a PULSE or something up on this mountain that is emitting a signal that has put the people of Agate City asleep.” “But we, um, inspected I think everywhere here but, we didn’t find anything like that,” Shelly added. “Well, if you want my honest opinion, I don’t think anything has been set up here,” Cal said with a stern face. “They made plans, but it was discarded because the weather isn’t optimal for a machine to be out in the open on the long-term.” “Eh, but how can that be?” Shelly sighed. “Terra said she definitely found the signal coming from here.” “Terra, you say?” Cal said. “She lied to you. She’s part of Team Meteor.” “What are you talking about?” I retorted. One thing was to assume Terra had made a mistake in reading the data from the computer, with her leet skills and all. Another entirely different thing was to accuse her of being Team Meteor. She, of all people? “I know it can seem farfetched, but you have to trust me on this,” Cal insisted. “I didn’t meet her personally, but I heard quite a lot of talk from other grunts. They said she was an obnoxious pain in the neck to deal with.” “They wouldn’t be wrong about that,” I commented. “Pray, continue.” “She started out as a general grunt, but ever since Lin took over Team Meteor, she’s been getting promotions. Or at least she was, I’m not sure what happened with her after I left.” “If that’s the kind of people that get promotions, it might be best to let Team Meteor destroy itself from within,” I smirked. “Don’t underestimate her, though. She may have the craziest persona, but her skills in hacking are unparalleled.” “Alright then. Shall we get going back to Agate Circus?” I asked Shelly. “Wait, can you help me move the food Blake stole back to the storage facility? I would do it myself, but I think it’d take me ages.” “Sure thing,” Cal said. I agreed to help out too, because working while trying to look collected in front of the three others was just what I needed to take my mind off of the incident with Aladdin. Yet, I reminded myself that I didn’t have much time to waste. The disk that would allow me to head down the large waterfall was weighing in my bag and the back of my conscience, and I still needed Terra’s Gym badge in order to use it. VANILLA RATES: REBORN CHARACTERS Also, I used my hopefully improved spriting skillz to make a hopefully better Vanilla sprite. Hope you like it~ QUICK LINK TO NEXT EPISODE

well according to Merriam-Webster dictionary, a theory is "a plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomena". That means it can be a plausible principle, which encompasses a lot of things. The same dictionary also has this other definition for theory: "a hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or investigation" so theory is pretty much a synonym for hypothesis at this point lol

I'm 23 and still a pokemon nerdd so I feel ya bud and welcome to this land of similar nerds mi fren

Yaaas fren you did it! Crazy to think a game where people have boxes full of mons and still struggle can be beaten (to E18) with 3 mons

Original games? As in the leaked names? Idk any of that lol

if you're talking about the animations during battles inducing a "wait" time, then it depends on your computer. I play on a mac so there's some lag on the animations. That's why I just have animations turned off (Options > Battle Scene > Off).

One video that was made before Sword and Shield came about but that kinda gives me hype about Gen 8 is this:

I know how you feel because I think of death constantly during the day. I'm a scientist, and I studied science because I found it interesting, but I kinda ruined it for myself because I became an atheist due to science, and on top of that it made me feel the inevitability of death more than ever before. I won't talk of it in detail because if you have a religion, I think it's best to keep it like that. What I, as a scientist, have found most effective in relieving my death anxiety is to think that our brains are literally configured to fear death. It makes sense because if we didn't fear death, humanity would go extinct as people did reckless actions or committed suicide for any reason. But death is a natural process, and it's actually neither good nor bad in itself. Another thing that I find helpful is to keep death in the back of my mind as I sense my surroundings and enjoy the gift of life. It's insane honestly how sometimes as coordinated, complex and self-aware as human beings could come into existence in this universe composed of mostly dust and giant rocks. Even if it's for a brief moment in the universe's entire history, the odds were in our favor and we came to be. So enjoy time with your loved ones, find pleasure in the process of living day by day, because even what you think are the worst days of your life can be what makes life fun to live. Other than that, I think therapy is an option but I don't know how helpful another person would be to take away anxiety about something inevitable. I was going to go for therapy but my university doesn't provide the service unless I've been treated for some other malady so my files are already in their system. Guess I'll have to wait until I get sick to get therapy I guess And lastly, I don't know how realistic this would be, but I want to extend human life and possibly stop death by studying science. Neuroscience, to be precise. That's because I believe if we could find a way to maintain the brain alive and find an alternative body for it when the current one dies, we could theoretically live forever. If you don't want to die, looking for ways to defeat death might be something attractive to you idk

r00d xD I like bunnies, that's why I like the fire starter also scorbunny looks energetic which is a plus~

team Scorchare Scorbunny represent!

not until later when they all go somewhere else (that'd be around the time you have 8 badges me thinks)

Well I liked all starters from gen6 and gen7, and the trend is continuing! I look forward to seeing their evolved forms~

Lol true Or plot twist, maybe Xave is part of game freak and was actually working on the real gen 8 all this time haha

Welcome welcome~ I'm Team Primarina but I like incineroar's design despite all the hate it got :3

Henlo~ Welcome to these sweet forums :3

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1 a number befitting the #1 in smol-candy-ness~

Reborn is a game that personally will help to have a rotation-style team in. Some bold people who've played the game multiple times can try set teams, but personally I'd recommend to have at least a dozen mons so you can reinforce certain typings during certain battles. In canon games, it might be hard to but a frail pokemon with type disadvantage may still pull its weight- in Reborn it gonna get one-shotted bruh. Early game pokemon are limited, but one suggestion is to get the budew from an event. If you haven't beaten Julia's gym already, you can get a minccino/espurr by paying some money to a guy close to the gym. Soft reset for a male espurr because male meowstic with Prankster is great for setting up defense. I think that's about it for now