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Hello everyone Stompa here to bring you a mono run using Dark type. I chose this as they are my favorite type (along side rock) and can be done as a Reborn mono run without having to trade or cheat any pokemon in. Also I won't really be covering too much story just enough to show what point I am at.

So without delay lets begin.

 

Part 1: The Begining

So here I am.

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The bombing thing happens and I choose a starter.

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Now I head downstairs and meet Cain. The most outrageously, fabulously gay character I have ever met. So of course we battle after a little flirting.

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So with the first battle over i move onto victoria. Also cain calls ame 'Master'.

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After the rest of the talking I grab 5 extra balls and 5 common candy cause they are cheeper here than at the sweet shop a bit later on.

 

That is it for today as I have some things to do but I hope to get a large ammount of progress done and uploaded tomorrow. And sorry for it being a bit short.

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  On 7/11/2017 at 6:17 AM, ogur0007 said:

I'm currently running dark mono myself. Can't wait to see your aproach to Shelly and Kiki, good luck :)

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Kiki isn't too bad, doesn't her field give many of her attacks a partial psychic typing? I remember Dark types being pretty good against her...

 

Shelly, though... good luck :P  My advice would be to take Pawniard or Vullaby as your mystery egg mon 

 

Looking forward to this, since I like Dark types :) 

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Hello everyone Stompa here brining you part 2 of my mono dark run. Sorry this is comming out a day later than I would have liked I spent all day playing an MMO and lost track of time to do this. Also I am writing this up as I am going along so some sections may be shorter if I don't have the time to do more and there may be gaps if I need to do some grinding. But without further ado onto part 2. Also note i am using the set battle style (you don't get given the option to swap after you KO something) just cause it adds a little chalenge and I prefer it.

 

Part 2: The First Gym

(and the other bits before it)

 

 

So after a bit of grinding and gathering my new team and wiping out all the availible trainers in this part of the city I am off to fight fern with this team.

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Now onto Fern.

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Now onto the next part. After healing up I head over to the gym only to have to go to the other factory. (I did pick up the ability capsule that was there).

Well the factory was a little bit of a let down as for all of it except aster and eclipse I just spammed assist on purrloin. For aster and eclipse I did that until Purrloin died then brought out Frogadier licked Elekid then died to feint attack (cause protean made me ghost type) by that point Fern was down to Snivy in the red as on the same turn the frog died so did elekid, I brought in Stunky and poisoned magby and scratched it for the win. I didn't take screen shots as it was a little dull and not super important.

But I did take this one which I love.

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After clearing the gym out of the regular trainers I head back to the northern allyway to go back to training to make sure everyone (but the 2 pickup mons) is at least level 18. (I also pick up another shiny while I am leveling)

My team heading into the Julia fight.

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So with my team all ready I head into the Julia fight.

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And after that she goes to sleep. Once I leave Victoria tells me about what is happening in Obsidia. After heading back to the grand hall to heal I take out the new trainers arround that area then talk to Florina who gives me passage to Obsidia. I head in and fight my way over to the pokemon center. But before I head in I go over and battle the 'Day care couple'. So after that I head into the center to heal up.

 

That is where I am leaving it for now I will be back next time to take on the Slums and the PULSE machine.

 

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My Party.

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Edit1: Fixed some spacing things after the spoilers.

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  On 7/12/2017 at 7:08 PM, Orasha said:

Protean is an amazing ability :P Turned the suicide lead into something that lasted a long time. Nice work! Moxie Mightyena is really good, and I think you'll come to love Prankster Purrloin (if you don't already). 

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I haven't yet as it doesn't have many good status moves yet but I am holding out hope for it as I know of its potential.

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  On 7/12/2017 at 7:24 PM, Orasha said:

It learns Sand Attack through level up I think, which makes it really handy later. Might be your only hope against Solaris :P 

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I have some plans one of which is relying on the encounter murkrow having an egg move specifically perish song. But I have never done the event before so I don't know.

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  On 7/12/2017 at 7:27 PM, St0mpa said:

I have some plans one of which is relying on the encounter murkrow having an egg move specifically perish song. But I have never done the event before so I don't know.

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Murkrow can have Perish Song if you soft reset enough (or are just lucky), but you miss out on Brave Bird or Roost, though you can just breed them yourself. If you want Murkrow before Shelly you'll need to join the Aqua Gang though (and oh god, Shelly is the worst :D

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  On 7/12/2017 at 7:29 PM, Orasha said:

Murkrow can have Perish Song if you soft reset enough (or are just lucky), but you miss out on Brave Bird or Roost, though you can just breed them yourself. If you want Murkrow before Shelly you'll need to join the Aqua Gang though (and oh god, Shelly is the worst :D

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I was planning on joining them to use murkrow on shelly. And I was possibly gonna trade my mystery egg if its not dark. Also I was gonna breed a mixed Skunktank with flame burst. Also I heard you can just random encounter houndor in the magma gang hideout. Is that true?

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  On 7/12/2017 at 7:33 PM, St0mpa said:

I was planning on joining them to use murkrow on shelly. And I was possibly gonna trade my mystery egg if its not dark. Also I was gonna breed a mixed Skunktank with flame burst. Also I heard you can just random encounter houndor in the magma gang hideout. Is that true?

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I recommend Vullaby as your mystery egg if you decide to trade. Sneasel is okay but without the evolution item it isn't as good in the mid-game, and you can pick both Sneasel and Pawniard up later. I heard that too, but I don't think it's true. I spent HOURS on sped up mode running around the Magma hideout. Later, after you defeat Magma Gang and they leave that alleyway, you can encounter a Houndour as an event encounter. 

 

I could be wrong about Houndour being regularly available, but I'd need to see evidence of it :D 

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  On 7/12/2017 at 7:42 PM, Orasha said:

I recommend Vullaby as your mystery egg if you decide to trade. Sneasel is okay but without the evolution item it isn't as good in the mid-game, and you can pick both Sneasel and Pawniard up later. I heard that too, but I don't think it's true. I spent HOURS on sped up mode running around the Magma hideout. Later, after you defeat Magma Gang and they leave that alleyway, you can encounter a Houndour as an event encounter. 

 

I could be wrong about Houndour being regularly available, but I'd need to see evidence of it :D 

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I would be using it as a field burner but I may be able to use the mixed Skuntank for that role to deal with shelly while using fake out on the rain setter (don't remember its name) and flame burst it.

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  On 7/12/2017 at 7:52 PM, St0mpa said:

I would be using it as a field burner but I may be able to use the mixed Skuntank for that role to deal with shelly while using fake out on the rain setter (don't remember its name) and flame burst it.

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Oh yeah, if you Fake Out the rain setter you should be able to change the terrain :) 

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@Orasha looks like there's an ability capsule before Julia, as well :D

Life is swell~

 

On topic though, I recommend breeding sucker punch on your mightyena: coupled with Moxie, you'll get a great revenge killing machine

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  On 7/13/2017 at 2:05 AM, RedAlert said:

@Orasha looks like there's an ability capsule before Julia, as well :D

Life is swell~

 

On topic though, I recommend breeding sucker punch on your mightyena: coupled with Moxie, you'll get a great revenge killing machine

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Yeh there is one before julia but i used it on... i think mighyena well poochyena at the time its stats were very good but it had the wrong ability

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Hello everyone Stompa here with part 3 of my mono dark playthrough on pokemon reborn. I am just going to remind you here that I write this as I play and that I use the set battle mode (so no free swapping after a kill). Also to help set a few things up for the future I installed the weather change mod. I will only be using this to trigger certain weather related events and to change all major battles weather to neutral. That last part is so that major battles aren't effected by the RNG of the weather. Also I disabled all the other parts of the mod so I only had the weather parts (like being able to use TMX's without teaching them). So without further ado.

 

Part 3: The First PULSE

(and the other bits before it and maybe some things after it)

 

So after that last part I am almost ready to go off to the slums. I decided to drop the 2 pickup pokes now as they are now taking up space for the slots of other pokes on my team. (pancham and hopefully the ducklett egg) Using the weather mod as stated above I go and pick up this litte guy for later.

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He is going to be used for mixed Skuntank breeding later.

 

Now after setting the weather back to clear I drop the little guy off and head towards the slums. And we meet Victoria who tries to stop us getting past by battling us.

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Kinda dissapointing fight but what can you do Frogadier is OP!

 

Once I head into the slums I spy this blue beauty. Now Ducklett is important because it is the only pokemon is Murkrow's egg group that learns brave bird via level up before Shelly and as an added plus it also gets roost which helps as well.

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So until I clear out the first room and run arround until I catch this cutie.

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I am gonna leave it with Scrappy until it learns Crunch at least for now. I also put him at the front of the party to do some swap training to get him up to level.

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I pick up this thing which as I said will be usefull later.

 

At the end of the slumms after following a Scraggy box we meet the Pokemon Gang.

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Now with the Pokemon Gang down I can head out of the Slums.

 

Over in the Coral ward before doing the battle with Cain I head south to pick up a few more items and to battle the fisherman to hopefully get some more exp on pancham. And it did gain another level. Now off to save the oshawott and battle Cain.

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Yeh moxie Mightyena is OP and I love it.

 

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I head back to the Obsidia Ward meet a spoink that runs away and get TMX cut, teach it to Purrloin instead of scratch and then go to fight the PULSE. After I head back to the sweet shop give the girl a choc ice cream (gathered via pickup) to get her to move and buy some strawberry ice cream that I might need in the future.

Now onto ZEL and the PULSE.

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After the PULSE is gone I spend a bit of time running arround clearing out some trainers, rescuing the day care couple and picking up some items. While doing that I grab this.

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The egg hatched into this beauty.

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(I did soft reset the egg for different stats and all the ones I got had both nasty plot and low kick so even though they are egg moves I think they are set egg moves not like other encounters. 3 of the 4 eggs I did were timid nature)

 

So with this gal obtained I finally have a full party. Now off to school. Now I never want to say that again.

I went through the school up to Fern but that is where I am going to leave this here as before I fight the 2 of them I want everyone that can be bred with the egg moves I want them to have to have the egg moves (and nature and good stats) that they need at this point in the game i.e. sucker punch on Mightyena and the mixed Stunky/Skuntank.

 

I am also not doing a party/box checkup at the end of this part but i will be doing one at the start of the next part because alot of things will be changing. So until next time stay safe, have fun and may RNGesus bless you.

 

Edit1/ps: I will be buying slugma to help speed up egg hatching

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Hello everyone Stompa here with part 4 of my mono dark playthrough. Now it has been a little while and that is mostly due to all the breeding it did and some of the training that went into it. The first thing I learned from it is that play rough has an awesome animation the second thing I learned was that grinding past the level cap significantly is the most annoying thing I have ever done. Not to mention that one of the pokes I hugely over leveled was a slakoth with truant. So in the end worth the payoff but I am never doing that level of grinding again. Now onto the actual results.

Part 4: The Second Gym

 

First off. My boxes.

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Secondly. My party.

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I have also started to name the pokemon that are in their final form. This means that they no longer need breeding for egg moves.

 

Now finally I get to go and pound Fern into the ground.

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After that battle I head back to the pokemon center to get healed up and I also grab some super potions before I head back over to Florina.

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After that fight I get the badge, TM and a PULSE dex and then she askes me to go and investigate the Jasper Ward.

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After healing up I head over to the Jasper Ward and before heading into the police station I rek the random meteor member that is hiding nearby. I fight my way over to the pokemon center and after healing make my way over towards the PULSE machine. I get side tracked and find the first police officer who is trapped in a corner behind a meteor grunt who gets 2 shot by Skunkzilla's crunches. As I get closer to the PULSE and start fighting the meteor grunts in the forest I have large ammounts of fun burning it down with flame burst. Also Skunkzilla tries to learn toxic so I replace poison gas for it. Though with the burning down the forrest most of the time I was the one taking damage as Skunkzilla 1 shot most of team meteor's pokes. Once I eventually get to the PULSE machine we meet one of the slightly more likeable members of team meteor but have to fight him to destroy the PULSE machine. The fight also has awesome music.

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After the battle he tells us to go and find the other machine that is over in the Beryl Ward so we head that way after being yelled at by the pink haired dragon girl. But before I head over to the PULSE I rescue the girl trapped in the house and head back to her friends to pick up a sticker. I also rescue another policeman. I also get the feild readout for the forest feild but that doesn't matter as I plan to burn the whole forrest down anyway. I head into the jungle and fall into the most obvious trap there is (as long as it isn't dark cause then the trap can kinda be hard to spot). After Fern laughs at us and asks us to beg and we say no demon burb itself comes and helps us out (I still hate the damm thing). I start running arround the jungle and find the 2 caves 1 with the exit switch and 1 with a policeman inside of a trap. I make my way over to the mansion to heal up and to find another policeman only this one is dead. :( We also find the feild readout for the corrosive feild.

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After fighing my way right to the PULSE and rescuing the last of the officers I head back to the police station to get myself the growlith to pick up my mystery egg.

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And after that we have the mystery egg!

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And after poking arround the game files I find its a cottonee which sucks. I was hoping for a Vullaby or any of the dark types but of well I will just trade for it after I finish this part write up.

 

After that small distraction I head back to the PULSE and start the battle.

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So after Corey is unmasked him and the police all head to his gym. But before I follow there was an item I spotted in the mansion that I couldn't get to because of the plants so I am going to get first. It was a Twisted Spoon something that wasn't really worth the time but whatever I got it anyway.

 

That is where I am going to leave it this time. Next time I take on Coreys gym and deal with the repercussions of that and get 1 step closer to *shudders* Shelly.

 

PS: I will also be doing a bit of level grinding so everyone is up to snuff for the gym and if anyone has a Vullaby egg to trade for my Cottonee pls pm me so we can do that trade.

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