Tengri Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 Hello everyone, so I found the Reborn and Reju titles earlier last month and while I haven't completed them (they're huge and definitely a difficulty spike even for someone like myself who has done a few nuzlockes) I found this game yesterday and it has something to it that I can't seem to turn away from. So while I haven't gotten very far on my first playthrough (Conner is a jerk if you aren't prepped for that set-up), I will be making a new team and posting here as a sort of progress log/journal. Hopefully this will be entertaining for you guys as well and please continue to hide spoilers until I've posted that I went past that area and missed it lol. I don't freak out over them anymore but it's more fun to find things organically especially when devs are doing such a great job with the personal touches. I haven't gotten the Helix Cave to open it's secrets to me for instance, (even though I translated the "plates" instantly when I saw the first one thanks to a bit of obsession over languages) so that is a sort of example of how I go through things and hopefully it all makes sense. As stated I haven't ruined anything for myself as of yet and this is technically my first post and Poke-Community I've joined so hopefully I haven't put my foot in my mouth already. Thanks everyone for your time and feel free to post potential team ideas until I make another update post. For a little preview of what I "plan" on doing now that I have some idea of what to expect in the first hurdle of the game I hid it below. Reveal hidden contents Current team "plan" is using Rockruff as my "starter" so I can hopefully get access to it's terrain busting z-move. I know that won't be for awhile most likely as even in the other two games I still haven't gotten access to them but since terrain disadvantages are what seem to bust me up the most that's my main concern. For my official starter though I'm feeling a bit crushed by the timing and Connor. I used Venipede, Pidgeotto, Numel, Vivillon, Wartortle and Zigzagoon and got roasted a few times. I used gust on my flyers to get rid of the effect but I can't seem to keep numel alive in either field type long enough to magnitude my way to victory and Wartortle for his bulk just doesn't seem to be up to the challenge of OHKO any of his pokemon without Rain Dance up which I don't have on that team. Current plan was to see how well I can do with Rockruff and his rock throw but given my past experience I'm expecting a 2HKO from most of his pokemon especially since there's doublekick in the mix. Lotad is something I'm planning to try since I've always been curious about him but never got a chance to catch one early enough to bother. Aside from that I tend to like bug pokemon since they give interesting early/mid-game options but given the fire types he sports and the overwhelming firepower there I don't think it would be much help. Croagunk and Noibat are my only other two "planned" catches at the moment. Assuming there are ability capsules in this game too I could get some good synergy with dryskin/rain dish with Croagunk and Lotad respectively but given how easy these games dash your hopes with opponents having early access to moves it's hard to tell if this is a trap or not. Anyway that was a long ramble. TL;DR: Rockruff/Steadfast, Croagunk/Dry Skin, Lotad/Rain Dish, Noibat/Infiltrator are my current planned team members. Feel free to make recommendations or shoot these down in the comments and thanks for stopping by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tengri Posted October 6, 2022 Author Share Posted October 6, 2022 Update, after some grinding and getting back to the pokemon lab I've taken a break to update everyone. Still working on catching a noibat with infiltrator but otherwise I caught most of my aforementioned team. A shiny Vivilon found it's way into my save so I'm wanting to keep it on my team alongside the shiny (not rain dish but swift swimmer) Lotad. Most of my team is lvl 18 already but I haven't decided on my proper starter pick. I found some synergy with making a rain team as follows below so we'll see. I've also grabbed all the event mons in the area so far although for whatever reason the bidoofs don't wanna cooperate despite knowing the solution. Rain Team Concept Reveal hidden contents Rockruff/Steadfast -Planning to use him as coverage and physical bruiser/pivot once Rockruff evolves preferrably into his midnight form, not to mention if there is early Z-move access I can destroy terrain effects on demand. Noivern/Infiltrator -Dragon coverage and Wall breaker, not to mention hurricane+rain dance synergy makes this an easy pick imo. Fire Starter? -Probably the hardest slot for me to fill at the moment with my limited knowledge. I know Charmander would make easy work of most non-fairy mons early game with dragon rage but I would assume there's a lot of cons to choosing everyone's favorite Gen 1 starter in this game as with most hacks I've played. The bulk of tepig's forms have me leaning that way for a temporary wall but nothing really seems to synergize with rain dance for the fire starters (go figure right? ) Ludicolo/Swift Swim -Swift Swimmer and sweeper should be able to do well with most casual threats. Gengar/Levitate -Thinking about having it be my "bizarre" Rain dancer, paired with thunder, hex and toxic was thinking it would work well for a few areas that might not normally have this set up in mind. Croagunk/Dry Skin -Standard set-up sweeper imo, but we'll see since it already has some cool moves thanks to the devs. As usual feel free to give feedback on the team or my progress so far, Tengri has a lot of growing to do in this region but I'm looking forward to the journey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tengri Posted October 6, 2022 Author Share Posted October 6, 2022 Connor has been defeated! I couldn't quite pull it off with my main team but I kept a few for the battle. Lombre, Poliwag, Bibarel, Surskit, Rockruff and Braixen won it for me. Basically used Rockruff to take out his Vulpix and almost his Torracat, then ran amok with poliwag to take down his cat and set up water sport and rain dance. Swapped into Surskit on his Pignite which wiped out that and Magby with a 1HKO of Bubblebeam, unfortunately his Fletchinder was able to catch up by taking out my Surskit, poliwag after I set up Rain dance again and Lombre. But I was able to use Braixen and Bibarel to get his Fletchinder then Growlithe. Current main team leaving the town. Spike/Steadfast Anya/Magician Batty/Infiltrator Tiny Dancer/Swift swim -Will swap out once I can. Yoh/Swift Swim Karren/Dry Skin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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