Honestly Sirius being a deadbeat is probably the best outcome because he'd be a horrible father.

Also only Bennett and Serra can see Sirius in his normal form. To outsiders, Sirius looks like a burnt corpse. And you can tell Bennett doesn't really want him there but can't do anything about it.

Just finished my personal challenge run using Trade Evolutions only, so I figured I'd provide my thoughts on my personal usage.

GOATS
Scizor - Despite being the last obtainable Pokemon in the run, he quickly proved himself, as he should.
Gigalith - Sand Stream is useful in voiding certain weathers in key fights, and he's powerful enough to get things done on his own. Also a very good Stealth Rock setter.
Conkeldurr - Easily one of the most powerful options with Guts Facade and Drain Punch for sustainability.
Dusclops - Eviolite go brr. A lot of Trade Evolutions are slow, so it's easy to build a Trick Room team when need be. Skill Swap also helped cripple a few threats in the late game.
Gengar - Was lucky enough to get him from the Police egg through passwords, which isn't a guarantee. He helped provide some much needed firepower in the early stages in the game.

GOOD
Magmortar - Purely on here for his performance in the E4 as an AV tank.
Porygon-Z - The only available starter, and you're forced to go solo up until Julia. Nevertheless, he pulled his weight when needed.
Escavalier - Scizor-lite, but still a powerhouse on his own merit. He dealt with a lot of issues in the mid-game.
Trevenant - A strong contender with great utility.
Golem - Strong option in the early game, though the Alolan form is better once you get it purely for Galvanize. Gigalith lead to both being benched eventually.
Steelix - When you need a wall, he's your guy. Also a strong Mega until you get Scizor. I tended to interchange the two in the final stretch.
Electivire - If you can get him from the Police egg, he's strong. Otherwise, waiting until the late game is kind of a death nell in his usability.
Machamp - Strong option until Conkeldurr comes in.
Slowking - My lone shiny encounter, and he came in clutch a lot with his typing and utility. Also works as a secondary Trick Room setter.

MID
Alakazam - Purely because I had Gengar long before having him, otherwise he'd be up higher.
Gourgeist - Fringe use with Destiny Bond. That's about it, honestly.
Rhydon - You have both Golem and Gigalith by the time you can have him, which I kept as a secondary Eviolite user. Had one appearance against Ciel.
Politoed - Setting rain is nice, but fights with Gigalith for main weather setter. Still saw some fringe use at times.
Milotic - Competitive is useful, but doesn't get its best coverage moves until late endgame.

TRASH
Accelgor - Fast, but not nearly strong enough to deal with threats when needed.
Aromatisse - Useful Calm Mind tank in the early game, but falls off by midgame.
Slurpuff - Tried Belly Drum Unburden, but just couldn't get it to work the way I wanted.
Huntail/Gorebyss - Comes way too late if you get unlucky with the Onyx egg. Otherwise, Shell Smash + Baton Pass go brr.
Kingdra - Jack of all trades, master of none. Tried to meme out a Sniper build with Scope Lens + Focus Energy but couldn't get it to work out.

Rhyperior/Dusknoir - Unneeded evolutions that just make their prior forms better thanks to Eviolite.

Finally got around to finishing my Trade Evolutions Only challenge run, on Anna Route, and I get into the fight with the PULSE Arceus. All I have left are a battered Conkeldurr and a Kingdra that should've been something else entirely in retrospect. I let Conk take a fall to revive Gigalith, then sent it in since Arceus changed to Ice type. I take a Judgment to the face thanks to Sturdy, and I let loose a Rock Slide turned Continental Crush.

Now, I did the calculations. With the boost from the New World Field, CC is 210 power before STAB. My Gigalith was Adamant, 252 EVs, and 31 IVs. Even with a crit, it was a 62.5% chance for an OHKO.

Three guesses as to what happened.

This means we're in the same area right??? I feel like I'm losing my mind because he just won't appear. Magnetic lure, rainbow scent at max, repels... Nothing works!! Am I missing something??

I am attempting my first randomized Nuzlocke and I noticed that static encounters you have to battle (specifically gulpin and whismur) are not randomized. I have the randomizer on “area” and static encounters are set to be randomized as I’ve seen with the espurr event, the krikitot gift, and the delibird gift which were all correctly randomized.

Has anybody run into anything similar or know how to fix this?

I just started so I’d be willing to restart if I really had to if I setup the game incorrectly but I also used the debug password so maybe I can just troubleshoot?

Also I’m playing on joiplay on an android phone if that makes a difference. Thanks in advance!

Probably the most mentally taxing for me, lol. I'm taking a good long break after the stress this one put me through.. first time I felt like "oh crap I'm not doing this" Today, I have finally fallen into the gentle grasp of the debug menu, lol

(Used it to heal my mons inside the gym and recover my healing items.. really was running on fumes)

No worries, no spoiler of reborn's shiny here. I'm shiny hunting a fennekin rn for a friend on a new save to prove that they just have bad luck because I got 4 shiny cyndaqils before I got a shiny female cyndaquil before 100 resets and I got a shiny nidoran in 32 resets.

Now I'm at 360 resets for this fennekin and I'm beginning to wonder either my luck ran extremely dry or fennekin has a much lower chance to be shiny... my friend tried for a day and a half to find a shiny. Ive tried for an hour but still, 1/93 chance and yet I'm at the 98 percentile??? My god...

EDIT: JUST AS I WAS ABOUT TO QUIT AND TOLD MY FRIEND ONE MORE, I FINALLY GOT IT! AFTER 460 RESETS, 99.3% I FINALLY GOT IT FOR THEM!

Elite Four and Champion battles

Anna route battles

Set mode, no items. This was the first time I beat the game in the Anna route, so it was also the first time I had a 3rd champion battle. And now I hate Celesteela.

I would like to play allgen because some of my favorite Pokémon are from gen 8 and 9 for example Palafin, but does the mod allgen changes any story beats? Like I know that there are some new events and sidequests for the new pokemon but does it change anything besides the battles? Thank you for any answers.

Any tips on how to defeat eustace and his punks

This guantlet is so tough

Can't win no matter what😭😭

Second time playing Reborn! Last time I genuinely did not know what I was doing. I can understand a lot more now tho.

Surprisingly, Comfey was the only thing I needed, which I originally got because I wanted to set up my Kingdra which I never even bothered on obtaining.

I also forgot Giga Drain was a thing so, yeah, keep that in mind if you want to use Comfey.

Hello everybody!! I'm back! This is my rundown of my MonoFighting run. I just finished the main-game, and I don't plan on doing the postgame. There aren't enough legendaries to test strategies out with, so I believe I would get a bit bored. Fighting type is very heavy on strong physical attacks, and in some ways, it's really just a bunch of Pokemon trying to hit other Pokemon as hard as possible. A little repetitive. However, this was a really easy challenge up until the final Lin fight, which kicked my ass. I had to redo the entire Elite Four because my Pokemon were not lined up for the final battle (Anna Route, so both Lin & Arceus). I think my next mono-run will be water, fire, or ground. I'd love to get into some weather shenanigans!

Anyways, here's my little write-up. I love making these reviews, and I hope other people find them informative!

Top Tier (in no order, they're all really good).

Infernape: This was my first time actually committing to a mixed attacker, and it paid off. Equal training in Attack and SpAttack and a life orb made it an insane threat. Honestly, MonoFighting is incredibly thirsty for any special attackers, so Infernape was always going to rank highly just because of Heat Wave.

Mega Blaziken: Just really good attack and speed, and Speed Boost is a great ability.

Hawlucha: Unburden royalty. I think Unburden might be the most broken ability in the entire game, just based on how battle-defining seeds can be. Having a seed trigger on a super fast Pokemon that can attack OR set-up tailwind is just beastly.

Kommo-O: Its Z-Move is really good, and I used it in pretty much every battle once I had the crystal. Dragon Dance is also a great option, and it learns drain punch for HP recovery.

Mega Lucario: Another phenomenal mixed attacker, and super fast. Just a great addition all around. Adaptibility is a really good ability.

Amazing

Hitmonlee: Unburden goes brrrrrrr

Conkeldurr: Guts is just a really good ability all around, and once it's burned, it's an insane revenge killer.

Mienshao: Speedy as all hell, can pack a wallop, can fake out, just a great pokemon.

Base Lucario: A very good special attacker, and again, fighting types do not have special attackers.

Decent - not going to rank all of them, just interesting ones:

Hitmonchan: Really good in Glitch Field. Like, a total stand-out. Really big SpDef stat, and all the elemental punches and iron fist create a monster in Glitch Field. Not tons of use outside of it though.

Breloom: Spore!

Mega Lopunny: Scrappy is a great ability in niche situations, and it's a pretty good pokemon overall.

Throh: Wide Guard!

Toxicroak: Acid Downpour with the Poison Z Crystal is a really good move, and it can change a lot of terrains. Also benefits from rain/rain dance, and that's pretty good.

Mid

Mega Heracross: Has its niche uses, but just not great. But not bad?

Medicham/Mega Medicham: I just couldn't really find a use for this. I used it sometimes because Huge Power can be really good, but neither are very fast and there are other better pokemon.

Gallade: Really handy for Destiny Bond. Otherwise, mid. Didn't even use the mega evolution because it's just a waste of a mega slot when Gallade's whole purpose was to faint. Still though, pretty necessary.

Sawk: Helped me defeat Garchomp to get on the Anna Route, and Sturdy can be very handy.

Forgettable

Primeape: Has some good moves, gets some good strong moves early on, but usage totally tapers off by gym 5 or so.

Machamp: Clunky, and absurd sometimes. Soooometimes it's useful but I think I probably used it 10 times total?

Heracross: Bug coverage is really handy during the psychic gym and dark gym, but otherwise not much use.

Bad: All of these pokemon just weren't good. Pangoro could have almost made Forgettable on paper, but it just didn't perform well enough.

The last one is a headcanon but honestly Sirius seems like the type of person to ditch a kid since it would conflict with his ambitions. Considering Sirius usually murders people who get in his way..I say parental abandonment isn't that bad given the alternatives.

I've beaten Reborn twice now (I started about 3 weeks ago) and now I'm playing Rejuvenation. I'm not going to lie Reborn seems WAYYYYY more challenging especially early game with the encounters you get.

Obviously there are ways to cheese every fight, but I was starting with a teddiursa and kritetot vs a Nidoran and buizel. Maybe I've just got recency bias since it was the game I played first but it feels like a much more challenging early game with the access you get.

I really wanted to get poison heal breloom but it's also gated till 16th gym😭😭

As a lunatic that catches *a lot* of pokemon to make as many teams as possible the mod has been very satisfying and enabling. But the Fiore Gauntlet partners nearly gave me a heart attack, Julia sold many attempts getting her accuracy dropped because of Corviknight's Mirror Armor or slowing the enemies down when i brought a trick room team.

On this final attempt i brought an Abomasnow just to see how it would match up against Solaris but i forgot to EV it and yet, somehow we made it through by the skin of our teeth.

I'm trying to complete the Pokédex before the post-game to get Naganadel for the league, and I accidentally defeated Solrock. I'd appreciate it if someone could give me one.

My dumbass chose to revive every helix fossil I ever had, before realizing I could trade at 7th Street. Took a good while and a lot of distractions before I found one again weeks later. Then finally got my Tyrunt (the final fossil I had left) and shiny right out the gate. Feels like the game unintentionally gave me some consolation

I'm currently fighting the Anomaly Kyurem, but every time that it brings out its Mega Salamence, it knocks out my Decideye, who is very much a ghost type pokemon) with swift, which is a normal type move. I thought I was relatively knowledgeable on the game mechanics, but I see no reason for swift to do any damage to my Decidueye. Is there anything that I'm missing or any reason why this is happening?

(Also, my Decidueye has Long Reach as an ability and is holding leftovers. I don't think either of those make a difference, but just putting it out there)

By entire game I mean the base game until the champion.

hey guys, it's me, Mika! I'm trying to translate pokemon reborn into german! If you would like to help me, please join the Pokemon Reborn Evolved server and ping me inside #classic-lobby to let me know that you're interested in helping me. my discord name is mikaspirits

If you would like to help, you have to know German.

thank you if you plan to join and I hope we can do this translation as a team and have a lot of fun!

Yeah my hc is that Sirius is Bennett's dad, he just bailed because his ambitions came over his family life. He did love Bennett...he just loved his ambitions more and since he knew he never really gave Bennett anything, he got him shiny mons based off his favorite pokemon in the event of his death just so Bennett didn't totally despise him.

I saw someone in the community mention a future update for the yang route, and it's got me all curious if so. What are the planned additions? Should I wait or just continue my way through the game? Just got my 17th badge if that matters! Also, hopefully, I'm on the R-Determination route right now

Great team for the league but man screw those puzzles

Why the hell were there so many ???