Mono-Steel run: First gym and others.

[Vhandrake]

Alright, so as i promised, one of the 2 mono runs i'll be doing it's the steel type, since i'm still waiting for the dragons i want to (Apparentely i'll get them by Monday, but who knows?) I started my steel run today, i chose the Pokémon i was going to use with Sandbox, then transfered it to Reborn and i started! 

The team: 

 

Spoiler

Had kind of a hard time choosing some of them, but i had it clear for most of them:

 

Piplup was the one i started with, since it becomes a Steel type, but to be honest, i dropped it quickly, i lost both Cain and Victoria battles, and i hated that penguin since pretty much released, so i decided to not use it, and have Riolu as a symbolic starter.

 

Riolu:

Male, Hasty nature, Inner Focus

Probably one of the best Pokémon i ever had, you see, since i pretty much chose all my team, i decided to stick with the randomized Pokémon i would get with Riolu, and i came out to be amazing, Hasty nature is a lovely thing, and it has 3 31 IVs, 2 29 IVs and 1 23 IV... I know it's not the best ever, but since i never cared about IVs, it might be the best one i ever had when it comes to that... A great starter.

 

Honedge:

Female (How it comes that sword can get a gender?) Gentle nature, No Guard

One of my huge doubts, i didn't know if Honedge would be able to fulfill what i want, cause sure it can become a glass cannon, thing i love in Pokémon and games in general, but every glass cannon needs something Honedge and it's evolutions doesn't have, and that is speed... Still doubts on it, but will do for now.

 

Beldum:
Serious nature, Light Metal

The only one i decided to be shiny, since at least for myself, the shiny form is the most Reborn thing ever, at least Metagross is, so it's kind of like a tribute to this game, community and everything that gave me so much fun.

 

Skarmory:

Male, Naive nature, Sturdy

The bird one, not really that much to say about it, not horrible, not amazing, it's just there, and it helps when i need some flying moves.

 

Drilbur:

Male, Lonely nature, Mold Breaker

Another strike of luck, even his IVs aren't the best, the nature and the ability cerntainly are, very happy with it and very important in the early game

 

Magnezone:

Serious, Sturdy

This one i feel guilty using it, so i use it as less i can, i decided to add it to the team cause right now it's pretty much in very last of the game (E16) that i can get a Magneton into a Magnezone, so i just did this

 

Scizor and Pawniard in rotation

So the adveture begins, till the guys could learn anything slighty good, i struggled quite a bit with the first encounters, Honedge with Fury Cutter did good against Fern (I'll give that one to it) Riolu did the rest, trying my best to not make him faint cause of friendship.

 

Team Meteor event was kind of tough, cause i wanted to level them all equally, and some of them were really hard to balance with the others (LOOKING A YOU BELDUM AND DRILBUR) and after a few re-tries with Eclipse and Aster i managed it out (I just needed to hit like 16510684 times Magby with Mud Slap, so Elekid won't be that big of a deal)

 

And after that, the gym, i had to do some lvling so everybody was 15-16 before this

I couldn't pass the Emolga on the first try, everything didn't seem to work, the lead on my team was Drilbur, he could take care of Helioptile kind of easy, but eventually i ran out of mud-slaps, so it worked only that much .. I lost of course

 

On the second try, everything changed... I was going to the gym again when i realized how dumb i am: Helioptile is not only Electric, It's Normal too... I guess i don't need to say who was in the lead the second time...

 

After Riolu knocked Helioptile with 1 Force Palm, Emolga was next, and the only viable option was Magnezone with Sonic Boom, he did the trick... Then Honedge and Beldum took care of the Voltorbs, Skarmory being pretty much useless, since it was too slow for this, it got knocked out really easy against the Voltorbs, who costed me 3 knockouts total all thank to the Aftermath, at this point i had Drilbur, Riolu and Magnezone left, against her Blitze and Electrode, no big deal... Right?

 

Drilbur went against Blitze, he count take care of it, taking some hits, of course, then the Electrode came, i didn't switch, hoping for the best... It didn't happen.. Electrode Sonic-Boomed and knocked out Drilbur... Now i have a hurt Magnezone and a Riolu

 

Magnezone took over and managed to Sonic Boom the Electrode once before fainting with the same move

 

Now my symbolic starter, Riolu, against the Electrode, things didn't look too good, Electrode was faster and Riolu doens't have alot of health, even tho he was full, plus Electrode could deffinitely take 2 of Riolu's hits... Looks like it's over

 

Riolu did a Force Palm after being hit with the Sonic Boom, taking a little more than half it's HP... And the miracle happened, Force Palm was a crit and Electrode was with almost no HP left

 

Last turn, all or nothing, Riolu still had its Quick Attack, if we don't fail we can get our first badge, if we fail it, we'll lose again, we don't want that, do we? 

We gave it a try, the Quick Attack was selected, and when it had to strike ... It did... Electrode fainted, Riolu barely resisted the Aftermath and with that, we took it, we took the first Gym Badge and called it a day... Since it's almost night, i want Riolu to evolve tomorrow so we can get stronger to challenge the next events in our paths...

 

 

I'm loving this run so far, doing mono-runs makes me feel more immersed, like i came to Reborn with my own team, starting a new adventure that pretty much stepped in our way...

 

I'll update what happens tomorrow, with Meteor and the next badge. Thank you to the ones who helped me getting started with this mono-run, see you all in the next one!  

 

[seki108]

Agislash isn't really a glass canon at all.  In those terms, it is usually a Mighty Glacier (Everything high but speed) or a specialized tank.  In shield mode, it has sky high defenses while it sword mode it abandons that for attack.  It's slowness is usually used to it's advantage via gyro ball, while it relies on Shadow Sneak (priority STAB) to take down weaken opponents before they can attack and King's Sheild (priotriy shield) to defend itself with the bonus of lowering an opponents physical attacks.   Trust me, it can one-shot things, but don't try to invest in speed or you are just setting yourself up for disappointment.  Using Agislash relies somewhat on predicting your opponents moves and counterattacking: usually Block, Counter, Block.  It might not fit your glass canon style, but Steel is mostly about defense:  the only really speedy attackers and Sizor and Bisharp (and Mettagross and Jolly Exadrill I suppose).

 

Anyway, good luck.

[Vhandrake]

13 minutes ago, seki108 said:

Agislash isn't really a glass canon at all.  In those terms, it is usually a Mighty Glacier (Everything high but speed) or a specialized tank.  In shield mode, it has sky high defenses while it sword mode it abandons that for attack.  It's slowness is usually used to it's advantage via gyro ball, while it relies on Shadow Sneak (priority STAB) to take down weaken opponents before they can attack and King's Sheild (priotriy shield) to defend itself with the bonus of lowering an opponents physical attacks.   Trust me, it can one-shot things, but don't try to invest in speed or you are just setting yourself up for disappointment.  Using Agislash relies somewhat on predicting your opponents moves and counterattacking: usually Block, Counter, Block.  It might not fit your glass canon style, but Steel is mostly about defense:  the only really speedy attackers and Sizor and Bisharp (and Mettagross and Jolly Exadrill I suppose).

 

Anyway, good luck.

You're very right, it's not my style at all, maybe Lucario is ... As for the others not really, which is something i like, If i don't try another styles i will be stuck forever with just one, I wanna be more versatile! And thanks for the wishes!

[Vhandrake]

19 minutes ago, seki108 said:

Agislash isn't really a glass canon at all.  In those terms, it is usually a Mighty Glacier (Everything high but speed) or a specialized tank.  In shield mode, it has sky high defenses while it sword mode it abandons that for attack.  It's slowness is usually used to it's advantage via gyro ball, while it relies on Shadow Sneak (priority STAB) to take down weaken opponents before they can attack and King's Sheild (priotriy shield) to defend itself with the bonus of lowering an opponents physical attacks.   Trust me, it can one-shot things, but don't try to invest in speed or you are just setting yourself up for disappointment.  Using Agislash relies somewhat on predicting your opponents moves and counterattacking: usually Block, Counter, Block.  It might not fit your glass canon style, but Steel is mostly about defense:  the only really speedy attackers and Sizor and Bisharp (and Mettagross and Jolly Exadrill I suppose).

 

Anyway, good luck.

Oh, and BTW, what level would be the best to lvl up to Aegislash? 

[seki108]

7 minutes ago, Vhandrake said:

You're very right, it's not my style at all, maybe Lucario is ... As for the others not really, which is something i like, If i don't try another styles i will be stuck forever with just one, I wanna be more versatile! And thanks for the wishes!

Yeah, I forgot about Lucario in the speedy attackers for some reason, even though it has two priority moves.  I guess the others aren't glass cannons since they aren't always easy to one shot (execpt Bisharp which has a 4times weakness to fighting, but has Sucker Punch---one of my favorite moves.

 

@Vhandrake "Oh, and BTW, what level would be the best to lvl up to Aegislash?"  Do you mean when to evolve Doublade to Aegislash?  Honestly, as soon as possible.  Most of Aegislash's best moves have to be learned from the Mover Re-learners.

Edited June 4, 2017 by seki108

[J-Awesome_One]

4 hours ago, Vhandrake said:

Alright, so as i promised, one of the 2 mono runs i'll be doing it's the steel type, since i'm still waiting for the dragons i want to (Apparentely i'll get them by Monday, but who knows?) I started my steel run today, i chose the Pokémon i was going to use with Sandbox, then transfered it to Reborn and i started! 

The team: 

 

  Hide contents

Had kind of a hard time choosing some of them, but i had it clear for most of them:

 

Piplup was the one i started with, since it becomes a Steel type, but to be honest, i dropped it quickly, i lost both Cain and Victoria battles, and i hated that penguin since pretty much released, so i decided to not use it, and have Riolu as a symbolic starter.

 

Riolu:

Male, Hasty nature, Inner Focus

Probably one of the best Pokémon i ever had, you see, since i pretty much chose all my team, i decided to stick with the randomized Pokémon i would get with Riolu, and i came out to be amazing, Hasty nature is a lovely thing, and it has 3 31 IVs, 2 29 IVs and 1 23 IV... I know it's not the best ever, but since i never cared about IVs, it might be the best one i ever had when it comes to that... A great starter.

 

Honedge:

Female (How it comes that sword can get a gender?) Gentle nature, No Guard

One of my huge doubts, i didn't know if Honedge would be able to fulfill what i want, cause sure it can become a glass cannon, thing i love in Pokémon and games in general, but every glass cannon needs something Honedge and it's evolutions doesn't have, and that is speed... Still doubts on it, but will do for now.

 

Beldum:
Serious nature, Light Metal

The only one i decided to be shiny, since at least for myself, the shiny form is the most Reborn thing ever, at least Metagross is, so it's kind of like a tribute to this game, community and everything that gave me so much fun.

 

Skarmory:

Male, Naive nature, Sturdy

The bird one, not really that much to say about it, not horrible, not amazing, it's just there, and it helps when i need some flying moves.

 

Drilbur:

Male, Lonely nature, Mold Breaker

Another strike of luck, even his IVs aren't the best, the nature and the ability cerntainly are, very happy with it and very important in the early game

 

Magnezone:

Serious, Sturdy

This one i feel guilty using it, so i use it as less i can, i decided to add it to the team cause right now it's pretty much in very last of the game (E16) that i can get a Magneton into a Magnezone, so i just did this

 

Scizor and Pawniard in rotation

So the adveture begins, till the guys could learn anything slighty good, i struggled quite a bit with the first encounters, Honedge with Fury Cutter did good against Fern (I'll give that one to it) Riolu did the rest, trying my best to not make him faint cause of friendship.

 

Team Meteor event was kind of tough, cause i wanted to level them all equally, and some of them were really hard to balance with the others (LOOKING A YOU BELDUM AND DRILBUR) and after a few re-tries with Eclipse and Aster i managed it out (I just needed to hit like 16510684 times Magby with Mud Slap, so Elekid won't be that big of a deal)

 

And after that, the gym, i had to do some lvling so everybody was 15-16 before this

I couldn't pass the Emolga on the first try, everything didn't seem to work, the lead on my team was Drilbur, he could take care of Helioptile kind of easy, but eventually i ran out of mud-slaps, so it worked only that much .. I lost of course

 

On the second try, everything changed... I was going to the gym again when i realized how dumb i am: Helioptile is not only Electric, It's Normal too... I guess i don't need to say who was in the lead the second time...

 

After Riolu knocked Helioptile with 1 Force Palm, Emolga was next, and the only viable option was Magnezone with Sonic Boom, he did the trick... Then Honedge and Beldum took care of the Voltorbs, Skarmory being pretty much useless, since it was too slow for this, it got knocked out really easy against the Voltorbs, who costed me 3 knockouts total all thank to the Aftermath, at this point i had Drilbur, Riolu and Magnezone left, against her Blitze and Electrode, no big deal... Right?

 

Drilbur went against Blitze, he count take care of it, taking some hits, of course, then the Electrode came, i didn't switch, hoping for the best... It didn't happen.. Electrode Sonic-Boomed and knocked out Drilbur... Now i have a hurt Magnezone and a Riolu

 

Magnezone took over and managed to Sonic Boom the Electrode once before fainting with the same move

 

Now my symbolic starter, Riolu, against the Electrode, things didn't look too good, Electrode was faster and Riolu doens't have alot of health, even tho he was full, plus Electrode could deffinitely take 2 of Riolu's hits... Looks like it's over

 

Riolu did a Force Palm after being hit with the Sonic Boom, taking a little more than half it's HP... And the miracle happened, Force Palm was a crit and Electrode was with almost no HP left

 

Last turn, all or nothing, Riolu still had its Quick Attack, if we don't fail we can get our first badge, if we fail it, we'll lose again, we don't want that, do we? 

We gave it a try, the Quick Attack was selected, and when it had to strike ... It did... Electrode fainted, Riolu barely resisted the Aftermath and with that, we took it, we took the first Gym Badge and called it a day... Since it's almost night, i want Riolu to evolve tomorrow so we can get stronger to challenge the next events in our paths...

 

 

I'm loving this run so far, doing mono-runs makes me feel more immersed, like i came to Reborn with my own team, starting a new adventure that pretty much stepped in our way...

 

I'll update what happens tomorrow, with Meteor and the next badge. Thank you to the ones who helped me getting started with this mono-run, see you all in the next one!  

 

Hello fellow mono runner!  I must say I am enjoying your Steel Type Mono Run. I like the Pokemon you're using. I wish you good luck to your run my friend.

[Vhandrake]

Just now, Awesome_One said:

Hello fellow mono runner!  I must say I am enjoying your Steel Type Mono Run. I like the Pokemon you're using. I wish you good luck to your run my friend.

Thank you alot! What kind of run you're doing? 

[J-Awesome_One]

Just now, Vhandrake said:

Thank you alot! What kind of run you're doing? 

I'm doing a Ground Type Mono Run. I'm just about to take on Corey.

[Vhandrake]

Just now, Awesome_One said:

I'm doing a Ground Type Mono Run. I'm just about to take on Corey.

Oh dang! I'm going to do that in around 5-10 mins! 

[J-Awesome_One]

1 minute ago, Vhandrake said:

Oh dang! I'm going to do that in around 5-10 mins! 

Should be easy for you when you face him. Poison can't touch Steel. Haha.

[Vhandrake]

Just now, Awesome_One said:

Should be easy for you when you face him. Poison can't touch Steel. Haha.

Tomorrow morning i'll update with the second and third gym.. But i guess you're right, it should be easy... You with your ground type should be easy too! I hope you post about it! 

[J-Awesome_One]

Just now, Vhandrake said:

Tomorrow morning i'll update with the second and third gym.. But i guess you're right, it should be easy... You with your ground type should be easy too! I hope you post about it! 

Ohh I shall! Would it be cool if I messaged you the link to my mono run? If not, it's cool but if you wanna read something, it's quite a read.

[Vhandrake]

1 minute ago, Awesome_One said:

Ohh I shall! Would it be cool if I messaged you the link to my mono run? If not, it's cool but if you wanna read something, it's quite a read.

Sure thing! Now i'm interested! 

[J-Awesome_One]

Just now, Vhandrake said:

Sure thing! Now i'm interested! 

Sent!  

[Zellorea]

Steel... Not the rock I've been hoping to see someone struggle with, but still going to be a challenge! Good luck!

[LykosHand]

Here is another interesting Mono Run to follow ^^, your team is very nice and i'm looking forward about your progress