If you had to play Reborn with only 1 type what would it be?

[Ironbound]

Pleb that you are, would never know the nobility of the steel type.

As a matter of fact I did do mono steel before, and I also actually did do mono magnet.

I literally only used magnet family members.

Let me share some hilarious aspects:

Sturdy+BerryJuice+Recycle level1 Magnemites can solve a lot more problems than you think. Like every single-pokemon boss battle ever, such as all Pulses and Solaris's Garchomp and whatnot. PP stall for days.

Charlotte is an issue but again, I scummed my way through with sturdy Magnemites and hundreds of potions, until I exhausted her PP and forced most of her mons to struggle to death. Made the Magnemites hold Rawst berries to avoid KO from incidental burns. Took a few attempts but succeeded eventually.

Terra is a joke once you set up Magnet Rise. She can't touch you, except maybe with Garchomp's flamethrower and stuff, but you can take one and hit back with a HP Ice to decimate her team.

Same logic as Charlotte for Samson, though less need to prepare for burns and more sturdyjuice recycle.

A single Magneton was all that was needed for Serra and Corey respectively. A single Magnemite did the trick for Julia and Florinia.

Radomus and Kiki were a pain, but when in trouble, use SturdyJuice.

I'm scum, but I have proven indisputably that Magnets beat everything (given circumstances) in Reborn! PRAISE MAGNEZONE

[Damage]

I did it with fighting. And Ciel being the final current gym was rather diffitcult

[Nadrel]

I'm surprised noone mentionned electric.

The availability should be quite good early game and it's quite a cool type with only one weakness.

[enu]

Grass simply because I like a challenge and grass is the worst possible mono-type for Reborn. It has many weaknesses and for each of those weaknesses save flying there are two powerful trainers who use that type - Corey, Shelly, Cal, Aya, Bennet, Serra, Blake, Charlotte and Ciel.

[Vinny]

Assuming the order I could pick pokémons was different from what we have in Reborn right now, I would pick Ice because it's my favorite type and the majority of my favorite mons are ice types. I'd have to do good work though.

However, if we're just talking about being powerful and forgetting the funzies, they I would go Water. 10/10~

[Synvilla]

Fighting, without a doubt, something I've already done and had hilariously few issues with.

[ShadowQuilava]

Ghost types for sure, there move pool is quite big, and if you were to get a Froslass with Snow Cloak as its ability and use Hail, defeating it will be hard! even though my Ace would be Gengar

[Sr.F]

Monotype? Dragon of course.

[sandy]

dragon is my favourite with fire a close second its very difficult to do a mono dragon run due to the lack of them available....only 3 if i remember correctly without editing files

Edited November 17, 2016 by sandy

[Lorac]

Sturdy+BerryJuice+Recycle level1 Magnemites can solve a lot more problems than you think. Like every single-pokemon boss battle ever, such as all Pulses and Solaris's Garchomp and whatnot. PP stall for days.

Charlotte is an issue but again, I scummed my way through with sturdy Magnemites and hundreds of potions, until I exhausted her PP and forced most of her mons to struggle to death. Made the Magnemites hold Rawst berries to avoid KO from incidental burns. Took a few attempts but succeeded eventually.

I guess most your battles were painfully long, then. I wouldn't have had the patience, but I am also a little "guilty" of using stalling strategies(more on Rejuvenation than Reborn, though).

[Login]

My favorite type Fire....

Already done mono and it was easy as *ehm* cos of its destructive nature.

[Damage]

Fighting type mono and I was lucky enough to discover that Ciel had a mega... that was fun.... Seriously..... MUCH FUN

[FrostieFoxy]

Normal types. Of course that would make Samson an... interesting fight but besides him you can have quite the verity of pokemon at your disposal

[Josef]

Dragon-type. Might prove very hard, as the strong dragons won't be available until very late in the game, but its just my favorite type.

[NatJones]

Normal, they learn a lot of moves, some of them are fairly rapid and they have a few dual typings

[Tartar]

Just out of curiosity, what is the most difficult type to do a monotype run with?

[Drymus]

Flying has a fair amount of diversity, I find.

As for most difficult, I assume it would be one of the types with poor distribution like Steel, Ghost, or Dragon.

Edited November 18, 2016 by Drymus

[RebornRejuvinator]

I'd do fire honestly mostly because i feel like fire has a lot of power in their dual types like Houndoom Numel or even Delphox. i wish Talonflame was in the game it would make it so much easier

[kurohana]

GHOST type for me . nyahahaha :9

[reniwi]

Grass, because masochism.

Or bug, because of extra distributions (there are many bugs with flying, poison, psychic, etc. and lots of status effects to help).

[Alistair]

Just out of curiosity, what is the most difficult type to do a monotype run with?

I can only assume since I haven't done it myself, but a Rock mono could be troublesome due to the horrible amount of common weaknesses and the lack of good rockies early on.

[Monochrome_Complex]

Bug and grass seem like they'd get walled really hard by charlotte.

I don't think rock is that good and ground honestly has problems in doubles due to friendly fire.

[Anstane]

I heard talk about how Grass is the worst type in Reborn right now because of just how many trainers are there that can exploit their weaknesses. Corey, Aya and Charlotte stand out. So, while Grass is not a bad type, I can see why it would be a difficult type to Mono with. Other types that might be a pain include Bug (Lots of Meteor Grunts with Golems, plus Flying is quite common, not to mention Charlotte) and Rock.

I know someone will say Ice (Frankly I'm surprised no one has yet), to which I say: It's actually nowhere near as bad as it sounds. The only Gym Leader I'd say that really caused me nightmares on said run was Kiki. Charlotte? If you lead with two Water/Ice mons (In my case, Dewgong and Walrein), her Typhlosion will likely use SolarBeam, meaning you can use Blizzard to eliminate her field altogether, and Rain Dance to nerf her fire. As for Samson, he was probably the easiest Gym Leader for me, somehow.

[Tartar]

@Anstane Just out of curiosity. What was your team during the game? (And how did it evolve over time)

[Anstane]

@Anstane Just out of curiosity. What was your team during the game? (And how did it evolve over time)

Well, obviously all my mons were (Or eventually became) Ice-type. Until after Shelly I had four Pokemon: Snorunt (My lone Starter, didn't go for a full early-team), Seel/Dewgong, Vanillite and Sneasel. After that I was able to pick up Cubchoo/Beartic and Smoochum/Jynx. This was the part where I had probably the most issues with, between Victoria, Fern right before Aya and ESPECIALLY Kiki...yeesh, I still have PTSD nightmares when I fight her now. After that, right before Radomus I swapped out Dewgong for Glaceon (Obviously), then Jynx for Amaura/Aurorus before Luna. So my team right before Agate was Mamoswine/Weavile (Evolved not long before Radomus)/Vanilluxe/Beartic/Glaceon/Aurorus.

Post-Agate I got a number of extra options, though only one of them really stuck: Walrein replaced Vanilluxe, though that was only after Samson. I swapped Jynx back in for Samson, replacing Vanilluxe, before Walrein took her place permanently. After that...yeah, I swapped in Dewgong back in in place of Beartic before replacing both with Froslass for Blake (As well as Mamoswine for Rotom-Frost...in fact take Blake's Team, replace Jynx with Glaceon and you have my team for Blake + Terra). After that I went back to Mamoswine/Glaceon/Walrein/Aurorus/Weavile, as well as training up Lapras for the Mansion Gauntlet. So yeah, my final team as of the end of E15 is Mamoswine/Glaceon/Walrein/Aurorus/Weavile/Lapras, and I can assure you all six of them are fully able to handle anything that comes our way.