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I think you can try to play it out spamming switch between your Indimitate Granbull and one of the guaranteed levitates like Solrock or Lunatone, to ppstall dclaw/eq while bringing it to -6, altough if you don't have Grabbull you can use Slurpuff for switches instead, get the first intimidate t1 with Luxray and then go into Levitate-Slurp-etc. After that you can decide what to do according to your other mons but MAYBE you can keep stalling with flash fire Arcanine+a stone edge sponge and it shouldn't take too long. But that's just an idea If you really don't have the right encounters for this, try to pull off something and ignore eventual deaths, idk I'll let you know when I'll get there. But probably it's playable

So, that's what I've been doing: I'm a fan of nuzlockes, and I've played extensively games like Emerald Kaizo or Radical Red (hardcore mode) In nuzlockes you can't afford to rely on luck, but you need solid strats that work regardless of any bad luck you might get I also banned any "cheese" options that can ruin the fun: specifically, you're not allowed to use setup moves or abilities, like swords dance or speed boost. You also can't destroy or generate a field (altough you can change it) and I don't know if I should ban or not weather moves/abilities. Also I refused to use entry hazards and to use pokemon that are banned in Emerald Kaizo like Blissey, Shedinja or MSableye Since I belive that the fun part of this kind of challenge is to plan fights to play carefully and creatively, the difficulty is mitigated by the fact that I'm ok with giving myself vitamines or exp candies to speed up grinding. I finally started playing and... it was easy. Some pokemon like Gulpin or Minun are really too much for the early game handling with ease key pokemon in boss fights. I'll probably start over and mess around with levels: with a tiny level boost the challenge promises to be very fun, while with Pulse2 or a bigger level boost it becomes unfun and requires you to play sketchy or boring strats Maybe I'll try something like +5 levels or +10% or maybe a combination of both, you can experiment a bit You can raise levels even higher while also giving yourself 31ivs, which mitigates even further the luck element. Maybe, I'll try +5lvls, +5%lvls, 31ivs. I'll let you know how it goes What I wanted to say is that a fun but hard challenge is a challenge where you have to plan every boss fight, consider your options and win because you were able to choose the best ones. This means that your options can't be too limited but can't be too broken either. I'm sure you'll have fun somehow

Back in 2018 I'd have never imagined that E19 would have come out before we could even get a single Metroid Prime 4 trailer

We all know that Budew was removed from the game

So excuse me, just to see if I've understood properly The open-beta is actually going to be released in more or less a week and us Reborn fans will be able to play this game and just have to report bugs/etc? It's so exciting I don't even want to think about it. I just know I won't play anything else for MONTHS

As most of you probably know, the last update from Legends Arceus added an endless survival mode called Eternal Battle Reverie and that thing. Is. Amazing. I cleared battle50 with relative ease using a team of lv85ish mons with random natures and close to no EVs/Grit. After a couple days, I tried again with an optimized version of the same team in order to get to battle 999 which is the maximum the game can register. After some hundreds of battles I got a quite bored (and also wanted to turn off the switch) so I gave up eventually, but I'm more than sure that this team can clear thousands of battles. So here I am talking about this team Arceus (Legend Plate) Modest Nature - Judgment - Earth Power - Flash Cannon - Recover Arceus is just too got to not use it. It has coverage, sustain and whenever it clicks Judgment something drops. The coverage moves are for Heatran, Empoleon, Alolatales and Kleavor. Enamorus (F) Modest Nature - Draining Kiss - Moonblast - Mystical Fire - Calm Mind Draining Kiss is the most valuable move here. It lets you counter big targets like Giratina while still keeping yourself healthy. Togekiss might be an alternative option, but I don't think it's as good as Enamorus as it can easily get free turns on slower opponents and can deal massive damage with kiss after a calm mind. Enamorus can also deal with Decidueye/Samurott, Spiritomb and lots of random pokemon Weavile Adamant Nature - Ice Shard - Ice Punch - Night Slash - Rest I didn't know about this back when I cleared battle50, I had Giratina here. Giratina is very good, but this is broken. Even more than Arceus. As you guys probably know, ice shard can lock any target from EVER attacking - even the opposing Arceus - as long as you spam ice shard and sometimes use agile style ice shard. This "wobbling" is not really the whole reason why Weavile is here, far from it. This lock consumes way too many ice shard pps and, besides Arceus, you should only do it on ice weak mons not named Giratina (seriously, Giratina takes nothing from ice shards). The best application, however, is to use one or two shards and switch into something that can finish off the target, like Heatran or Empoleon which resist judgment/strong style close combat respectively but not after a couple shards. Weavile's strenght also comes from the fact that it will ALWAYS get the first move on any opponent so you can easily switch around without taking damage from the lead. Also rest is an amazing sustain option because you can often agile style rest t1 and switch to something else. And yes this is your lead. One last thing, Weavile can usually damage pretty hard lv80 Giratina or straight up ko it before being forced to switch by Dialga+Palkia so you also have the chance to get your easy 60pts Lilligant-Hisui (F) Adamant Nature - Drain Punch - Close Combat - Leaf Blade - Victory Dance If you ask me to say a pokemon in this team that is impossible to replace, I'd say Lilligant. Lilligant can take out some key targets for easy points like Rampardos+Bastiodon, Dialga, Snorlax/Regigigas, Empoleon, Torterra and so on. Victory Dance is one of the craziest moves in this game as it basically gives x2.25 damage and adds bulk on a pokemon that alredy has high damage and sustain. This thing takes ice beams like nothing if you play her correctly. Be ware to preserve drain punch pp tho: sometimes you might want to use Arceus or something else on some of Lilligant's target if she's running too low (I'm only saying this for whoever's mad like me and wants to pull off a 999run, there's no need to worry otherwise) Cresselia (F) - Calm Mind - Psychic - Moonblast - Lunar Blessing Cresselia's main goal here is to TOTALLY stall out Dialga+Palkia. A crit roar of time doesn't deal even 20%. As you can see I'm not showing a nature here because my Cresselia was actually docile (too lazy to farm mints) and she doesn't even need a nature. She can also beat Infernape, Gallade and some other pokemon while also stalling out an opposing Cresselia if you ever run into her. Don't run into her. I also suggest avoiding "female pokemon" just because of the chance to get Cresselia. Ppstalling opposing Cresselia's moonblasts with your own Cresselia before going into Weavile is probably better than wasting ice shard pps for a lock. I've tried Manaphy in place of Cresselia, but Lunar Blessing is just too good Dusknoir Adamant Nature - Leech Life - Calm Mind - Shadow Sneak - Rest At last, my personal call. I don't think anyone else is running Dusknoir but I do and he's great. Dusknoir's main goal is to get rid of the lake trio for free points as well as Unowns and other psychic types. It's also crucial vs lv80 Scyther+Kleavor in some rare scenarios. Dusknoir's gameplay is very simple: calm mind, then leech life all the targets one by one. This thing can also beat Cresselia most of the times. Leech life pps are precious, but sneak/rest give you reliably ways to never use more than two leech lifes to beat a trio. The cool thing about Dusknoir is that since it's a bulky pokemon with low hp, leech life will give back A TON of health even vs fragile targets like Unowns. It's not the most flashy pokemon out here and you have to be careful while using it but the payoff is worth it since it's the only mon in this team able to take out a trio and end up more healthy than when it started - while also consuming a very low amount of pps Probably Drapion is an interesting alternative with a similar set but I've never tested it AND THAT'S IT, this team can EASILY win indefinitely. I'm going to look for BETTER alternatives as I'm very hyped about this mode

I think I've made my predictions as well as soon ad e18 came out so quite some time ago... the fun part was coming up with LauraBennett 6v12 strategies

Hi I'm tired and I haven't read all but it seems like you had a fun journey I've never played through Reborn (or any game) with more than 6 pokemon because I would feel very guilty to abandon them in a box for the rest of the playthrough. If you can spam yawn you win. If you lay toxic spikes you also win. I've once found a shiny Beedrill and it proved itself extremely useful and beautiful. Now I would go back to sleep like a Jirachi but sadly I can't even sleep Goodbye and good luck for your playthroughs!

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I just wanna point out how Serra's fieldless doubles winrate is very similar to her fieldless singles, despite not being a doubles trainer, just because of the sheer power of Aurora Veil Also this is one of the best posts I've ever seen but... just out of curiosity, which were some of the coolest upsets in the tournament?

I have no words to describe how excited I am for e19 since it has the best feature of all time: THERE IS NO DYNAMAXING Jokes aside, my hype for this game is over the roof. It's much more than just "a game" to me As soon as it comes out I want to fully translate it in italian because I know way too many people who say that "Reborn is cool, but I'm not good enough with english". I've always wanted to do it but it was a bit pointless doing it before e19 you know (Also I love that there is no gen8 but plz buff Silvally's multi attack like in sword shield it would be pog)

"man i hope you kids like double battles" I don't "like" them. I LOVE THEM. I feel so thankful for this game

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