J-Dawg

Do you have any escape ropes on you or Dig? (Or maybe those just put you back out the top sorry.) Do you have any backup saves from before you entered the mountain? Saving Amber is optional BTW I believe. I think you might get something from saving her, or the story might be different if you don't (like Amber won't invite you to her room after you beat her Gym Battle), but I believe that someone somewhere says that things with Amber will work out regardless of whether you try to save her or not. Also at the top of the mountain in the room with the big door and the PC and Heal things there are 3 different emotion crystals if I recall correctly. I'm trying to help you out here @hamfam000 I really am, but the one thing that I cannot do is edit a save file. So if that's what you're looking for, then I hope you get help from someone you can.

Dude how did you do it so perfectly? I love this.

You are right with how fast EV rooms are now. I value the power of Exp. All more, however, because it allows me to have high enough level pokemon at the time I need them. Early on you don't get that much out of EVs anyway. Sure it means if I want to have mainstays I can't use them until later because I need EV rooms, but this game doesn't require you to have EV trained pokemon early anyway (unless you are playing Hard difficulty). You're free to do you though. I think they're both top priority, though.

Yeah welcome to the forums, BTW I'd recommend you get the Exp. All before you get any EV rooms, though tbh, but that's just me.

Rule 34 content. Obviously. Jokes aside, I love the story, the characters, the music, the atmosphere, the overall feel of the game. Somewhere at the beginning of the game someone said the word "Fuck" and I immediately knew this game was going to be interesting...and indeed it was. Honestly the fact that it's a Pokemon game doesn't mean all that much to me, surprisingly. I remember reading somewhere recently that Jan sorta wishes he didn't do gyms, and I really resonated with that. This game could easily flourish with any decent game format, and probably be better off without the gyms sidetracking the main plot half the time like a damn filler episode. I don't love this game because it's a Pokemon game, but rather because it has created unique memorable experiences for me, and it simply uses the Pokemon format to do so. If I had to pick one thing, I'd probably have to say the music. If the music wasn't as good as it is, I'd probably hate this game for its level of seemingly bullshit difficulty at times. Don't get me wrong, I love the challenge, and it has made the tough victories all the more satisfying, but if the music wasn't as good as it is, I probably would grow to hate every tough fight. This is simply because the atmosphere would be dreadfully painful (in a bad way) the whole time, and I'd get to a point where I'd just say, "Fuck it I'm done." I'd stop playing a game clearly worth my time, all because the atmosphere was too obnoxiously plain/forgettable and it made replaying hard fights 20+ times become too taxing. So yeah, TLDR: I love the music in this game. 10/10 would listen to again.

Oh yeah right now I remember that fucking Unburden LOL Yeah, I can't remember how exactly I dealt with that. By Narcissa I had almost all if not all the EV rooms and had like 15-20 different pokemon sitting at Lv. 35. I'm looking at my PC box right now. I do remember considering training up the Pancham you get from trading Aipom to that girl in Sheridan. It conveniently had Scrappy, but I ended up not needing to do that, as I see it still sits at Lv. 1 in my PC. (It may have Scrappy, but its IVs and nature suck balls.) I might have started out with my bulky AF Carbink and just used Drifblim to set up Stealth Rocks and then followed up by just spamming Smack Downs till the thing died My Greninja with Shadow Sneak that might've helped My Luxray may have simply tanked a hit from Drifblim and 1 shotted it in return I have 3 Mightyena, all with Moxie, so I think I might have swept a good amount of her team with my 252 Atk, 252 Speed Mightyena That's about all I can guess. I do remember this fight being a bit frustrating, but I can't remember it all that well so it must've paled in comparison to my other experiences in this game.

Drifblim outsped your Lycanroc? What?

Boy, if you thought Inkay was annoying before...man do you have it in for you later in the game. A note for you going forward about double battles, when I came into Rejuvenation I was hoping to have some cool dynamic double battles with neat setup and strategies and all that...but from what I've experienced, they all end up being a "who can kill the other faster" fest. Expect a lot of enemy pokemon to seem OP in double battles. A lot of them get items that boost their damage like Life Orb and shit too. So Knock Off will always be useful. A good example is Keta where I wanted to try to have my Swoobat set up with Simple Calm Mind, but nope like all his pokemon have Rock Tomb or some coverage move that made short work of my Swoobat. Maybe someone else has had better luck getting more neat strategies than simply trying to out OHKO them, but that's mainly how I've had to deal with all the double battles in this game. Good thinking with grinding your team. It's simply the safest way to go, especially with the Exp. All.

I agree with this statement on many levels. @doombotmecha That's an Ephiram profile picture, right? Good job beating Keta. I remember my first time playing Rejuvenation and raging at both Ketas, but especially at the 2nd fight because (let me know if I miss anything worth mentioning) I had beaten him the first time and I made the mistake of thinking I'd get my badge from him either right then and there or shortly after (like go to his dojo to talk with him and get it). But nooooo, I had to go through the volcano, beat SEC multiple times, make it to Team Xen's base, do a key hunt, get wiped by Shadow Mewtwo, deal with Rift Volcanion, and then his spirit is telling me that I have to take on his pain-in-the-ass team just so I can finally get my 2nd badge and allow my pokemon to level up again when through all the battles I've been through (post first Keta fight) my pokemon could've easily been Lv. 30 or higher by now. TLDR: Keta's spirit can potentially drive you to be happy that Keta is dead now. According to your account, you're a "Veteran" of this community with almost 500 posts. I haven't played any unofficial Pokemon games besides Rejuvenation, not even Reborn. (I know *gasp* don't worry I plan to play it.) So is Rejuvenation really that much harder than Reborn (or whatever your most challenging Pokemon game/experience has been)?

@Autumn Zephyr Thank you

@SSJG Goku Toybox? Dude I'm so lost between Hiyoshi City and your answer. I just posted where I am at in the game progression-wise right now, but in case you don't wanna read it...I'm at the point where I need to do the gym in West Gearen, but I need to battle Amanda at the elevator first, and I haven't done that yet. Based on that info, can you tell me if it's possible for me to get to where you describe?

FYI: I'm in West Gearen and I still need to beat the gym leader there, but haven't beat Amanda at the elevator yet because I haven't explored all of West Gearen yet. @Vince&Sylveon Hiyoshi City? Where is that?

I'm definitely not going to miss going into the Speed room to get my EVs and suddenly realize my pokemon fainted because I wasn't paying attention to the fact I was fighting a Voltorb and aftermath damage and such. I eventually just gave up and never used contact moves on Voltorb in that room ever again.

"Back then" you say? @Vince&Sylveon How far back do you mean?

The one and only downside I see is now you can only get EVs in sets of 12...so like if I want specifically 100 EVs in a stat, then I have to get it to 96, switch the pokemon out to a different one to prevent it from going over 100, and go out into the wild to find pokemon that will give me 4 more EVs in that stat.

Oh yeah, you're totally right. I totally get why the theme of Teila Resort is what it is, but man does it drive me nuts. It's to the point where I'm always hurrying to where I gotta go ASAP whenever I'm in Teila Resort so I can get outta there. (I really love that we have a house there though. It's weird how starting a pokemon game without a home caused me to miss it to the point of feeling overjoyed to hear Tesla wanted to adopt me and have me live there.) To be fair though, we can always utilize the MP3 files in the CyberNav so we don't have to hear it.

@Autumn Zephyr Thank you! Are you upset with the changes to Teila Resort? I only got that far when I was on V11, so I wouldn't know what it used to look like.

So the last time I saw an Audino trainer was in Amber's gym but that one is gone now. I believe the one before that was all the way back in Kakori Village. The one before that was in the ship we sailed to get off Blacksteeple. The one before that was in Goldenleaf Town. The one before that was in Sheridan Village. Am I right so far? Anyways...I was really happy to have the one in Amber's gym because that one gave the most experience since the one before it in Kakori village was like 10 or something levels behind all my pokemon. So is the next one in like West Gearen somewhere? I also wanted to make this thread to help out players trying to remember where to go to farm fast EXP because shorter grinding times are usually preferred.

Okay so I just went to go do some EV training in the lab for the first time after updating to V12...and HOLY JESUS THERE AREN'T ANY GRASS PATCHES...there is a trainer though so I guess I fight her for them now? I proceed to fight her and LOL 6 Lv. 1 Meltans. I look online to see how many EVs they would give and...they don't. Okay, so I look at my pokemon and see how many EVs I get from that encounter and HOLY FUCKING SHIT 72 Atk EVs from 6 Meltans!!!??? I LOVE IT! Thank you so much Jan! Thank you so much dev team! I don't know who actually came up with that idea but THANK YOU SO MUCH! I can't wait to not have to spend hours to max EVs on my pokemon anymore!

Fuck...looks like I'm spending all my remaining money to get there ASAP now.