If anyone is interested in playing

Episode 2: Highly Responsive to Analysis

To drive the point further that Reisen learns Reason type moves, the very first move she learns is Reason type. Psyshot is a renamed Confusion.

Hello item that I'll never use.

Hey Maribel.

Time to discuss about the second starter of the game, Sanae!

CSanae - 65/35/90/55/90/45

Sanae - 90/60/115/80/115/70

Tensoku - 90/110/180/60/60/50

ASanae - 80/70/80/130/80/90

TSanae - 90/60/85/105/80/110

The entire line has Serene Grace, except for Tensoku who has Maintenance.

CSanae is Pure Faith, but her secondary typing changes a lot depending of the form.

Regular Sanae is the best tank this side of Blissey, having 90/110/110 defenses, acess to Calm Mind and Wish as well as Mirror Coat and Giga Drain make it very hard to cause any Special damage to her, and even if you do, there's the risk of getting a Mirror Coat to the face for your troubles. Regular Sanae is Faith/Wind, which resists Fire, Water, Heart, Flying and doubly resists Wind, she's weak to Earth, Reason and Beast only, which makes her even more of a tank. She has acess to a nice offensive moveset as well, being able to learn Aeroblast (which is Wind typed in this game), Extrasensory (Faith type here), Heat Wave by level and Surf and Giga Drain by TM as well as having decent Sp.A. Basically, once Regular Sanae gets a Calm Mind in, start running.

You might be wondering what Tensoku is, it's a Humongous Mecha introduced in Touhou Hisoutensoku, apparently Sanae is a Mecha otaku so I guess she's the one who would pilot it, you can get it from the same stones as the Advent forms. Anyway, DAT DEFENSE. Tensoku is Steel/Fire and as such it's doubly weak to Earth and weak to Water and Dream, while resisting Flying, Reason, Nature and doubly resisting Steel. It has acess to the elemental punches as well as Superpower, like Golurk, he can also Fly. You're probably not going to beat it using Physical moves, even Earth type moves may be unable to OHKO it unless it's Special.

ASanae is basically a more offensive Regular Sanae, it still has a decent bulk and is able to learn Aqua Shower (renamed Water Spout) as well as Thunder, giving it Rain Dance can be really devastating if you can't outspeed it. It's Faith/Water, making her doubly resistant to Water and Fire and resistant to Ice, Steel and Heart, it's weak to Reason, Beast, Miasma and Nature. She has a slightly more limited movepool than Regular Sanae though, being unable to learn Heat Wave and Aeroblast, making Thunder it's only Wind STAB.

TSanae is Speedy Sanae, still with a good bulk and offense, it's Faith/Nature, making her doubly resistant to Water and Wind and resistant to Heart, Nature, Earth and Beast, it's weak to Reason, Flying, Miasma and Ice. It has the benefit of learning Calm Mind naturally, but it's movepool is comprised only of STAB moves, Surf and Mirror Coat, it's pretty mediocre compared to the others.

One thing for people who start with Sanae, the Faith type is weak against Beast, Tackle is a Beast move, there are Beast types around, that means you'll be dealing with Super-effective STAB moves right off the bat, I'd say it's well worth it though, Regular Sanae is beastly.

Hello weakness to Reason, it was a two hit KO and it even got confused.

Unfortunately I lost the post-battle dialogue, but she did say the usual thing of "Look at you! Your puppet already likes you". Let that sink in for a moment.

I guess Herbert already has a crush on Sarah (this was totally unintentional by the way, I love how appropriate it is =P)

We got our Orbs! Nice detail that the Pokéball is now a Yin-Yang orb.

Now let's catch something on Route 101!

It's a kitty!

It's a known fact that catnip works on Chen =3

CChen - 55/75/35/40/40/95

Chen -  80/100/60/60/60/130

AChen - 70/130/65/60/65/100

AdChen - 80/90/80/60/70/110

TChen - 70/90/65/90/65/110

CChen can have Pick Up or Run Away, which become Limber and Early Bird once she evolves, with the exception of AdChen who has the Advent Ability, which is basically White Smoke. Alli has Pick Up. CChen is also Pure Beast.

There's absolutely no reason for someone to ever choose Normal Chen over AChen, if you thought Reisen was Glassy, look at this line. AChen and Normal Chen have virtually the same movepool and the former has a higher attack and makes up for the lower Speed with Tailwind, which is basically Dragon Dance in this game, there's literally nothing Normal Chen can do that AChen can't do better. The two puppets can learn Night Slash, Slash (which is Beast type here), Soar (Flying Sky Uppercut), while also getting Brick Break and Dig by TM, which has the Gen V power if I remember right.

AdChen is the closest Chen gets to being balanced, she has a rather low attack but Tailwind makes up for it, her defenses are still a bit too low though AdChen, as well as Normal Chen and AdChen, is Beast type, meaning it's resistant Ghost and Earth, but weak to Fire, Water and Flying, not very good for an already frail puppet. It doesn't help that AdChen trades Night Slash for Volt Tackle, making her even more frail, it's not even that good with dealing with Water puppets since she can also learn Cross Poison instead of Soar in this form.

TChen is... Bad. She's Beast/Wind, making her resistant to Ghost and Wind, but weak to Water and Fire. Her stats aren't very good and while she's able to learn Tail Wind to make up for her low attack, she only learn physical Beast type moves by level up and Dig, Brick Break and Return (which is Illusion type, which is basically Normal type) by TM, probably one of the worst puppets in the game.

Now for the other route!

OH MY GOD YEEEEEEES! MOMIJI!

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-Does this to Herbert-

Anyway...

CMomiji - 65/80/70/25/25/65 (Abilities: Run Away/Early Bird)

Momiji - 80/130/80/50/50/90 (Abilities: Intimidate/Guts)

DMomiji - 100/70/115/40/90/65 (Sand Veil/ Early Bird)

CMomiji is a pure Beast type, but becomes Beast/Steel upon evolving.

Normal Momiji works as a counterpart for AChen, with the difference in that she can take physical hits well, but is bad with dealing with Special moves. Being Beast/Steel, she's doubly weak to Fire and also weak to Water and Dream, she resists Ghost, Reason and Nature. She's also able to learn Tailwind by level and also Crunch (Beast type), Night Slash and Braver (Steel type Facade) while having Earthquake and Brick Break by TM. She also has an interesting gimmick in that she can also learn Rage, which has 60 BP and can burn the user, but since one of Momiji's abilities is Guts, that actually works at her favor, making her able to dish out damage very quickly especially if she has Braver on her moveset. Intimidate is great too and she can compensate by using Swords Dance or Tailwind.

DMomiji is very similar to Normal Momiji, she has lower Speed and Atk, but a better Defense, she can compensate for the decreases with Tailwind, but would need to use it twice to reach Normal Momiji's power and she lacks Intimidate to make her more bulky against physical attackers, she still can be very useful, it really depends if you want something more bulky or a sweeper, just remember that Fire types are the devil for her.

By the way Momiji is a rare encounter on Route 103.

Now for Route 102...

We get a bird.

Fortis is a pink birdie~

CMystia - 50/75/45/45/55/90

Mystia - 75/100/70/70/80/115

AdMystia - 80/50/105/70/70/105

AMystia - 75/80/65/120/65/105

HMystia - 90/60/80/80/110/80

CMystia is pure Flying, as are Normal Mystia and HMystia. All of them with the exception of AdMystia have Diva (basically Illuminate) and Cute Charm as their abilities, AdMystia has Advent.

... I'm not really sure what to say here, I was never very fond of the Mystia line, so I really can't say much about them.

Regular Mystia is a bit glassy and her attack isn't that great either, but she's cursed with learning more special than physical moves, making her... Quite bad. She's pure Flying, so she's weak to Wind, Ice and Steel and resistant to Nature, Beast and Dream. Her only notable move is Soar and maybe Steel Wing by TM.

AdMystia has poor stats and is Heart/Flying, so she's resistant to Nature, Beast, Reason, Ghost, Heart and Dark, but weak to Wind, Faith, Ice and Steel, she has a nice offensive and support movepool, but she doesn't really have the stats to do it well and lacks a way to boost her stats.

AMystia is a Glass Cannon and is of the Flying/Dream type, so she's resistant to Heart, Illusion, Nature, Beast and doubly resistant to Dream, while being weak to Wind, Ice, Reason, Dark and Steel. She has nice moves such as Air Slash, Hyper Voice (Dream type), Energy Light (80 BP Nature move), Binding Voice (Beast type move with 90 BP if I'm right) by level up and Ice Beam, Heart Break (90 BP Dark Move) and Shadow Ball by TM. She can be pretty useful, I just have bad luck keeping her alive =P

HMystia is a support form and learns the same moves as AMystia by level-up, and can make good use of Roost unlike her, but...  There's nothing really special about her. She shares the same weakenesses and resistances with Normal Mystia.

Next time I swear we're going to make actual progress in the game, I'm only going to give an analysis about the puppets of important trainers and the ones I catch (or try, in Momiji's case).

Episode 4 - Phantasmagoria of Rustboro Dream

Let's start things out with catches!

First puppet named after a mon! The reasoning is that Kyouko's power is to create echoes, and she yells a lot too, so I asked in the chat for a character that yells a lot, that was the response.

And I suppose now Fortis and Ghostus can create a rock band.

Yes, this pic is official.

CKyouko - 60/50/60/60/70/60

Kyouko - 90/60/90/90/100/65

CKyouko is Dream type, Kyouko is Dream/Beast. Their abilities is either Soundproof or Early Bird. Ghostus has Soundproof as shown above.

Kyouko is a very good balanced puppet, having 90/90/100 bulk and acceptable Sp.A. She has access to Yawn, Mirror Coat, Counter, Jamming (Block/Mean Look) and Perish Song which make good use of her bulky nature if you want to use her for defense. On the other hand she learns Hyper Voice (Dream typed), Binding Voice, Nature Sound and Sonicboom by level and Signal Beam by TM as well as Calm Mind, very useful for offense as well and becoming even more bulky in the special side. Her Dream/Beast typing makes her resistant to Heart, Ghost, Illusion and Earth while being weak to Reason, Water, Fire, Dark and Flying. Admitedlly her typing is bad for defense, but Signal Beam is SE against Dark types and Sonicboom is SE against Flying, so she at least can cover her weaknesses a little bit. Overall, a very solid puppet to use early on.

You might wonder why she only has one evolution, she's the first of the Ten Desires puppets you'll find, they're almost exclusive to this version and only get their Normal evolution. The same also applies for the characters that come from the PC-98 games, such as Ellen.

Now for the cave, the only puppets in there are the CKyoukos like Ghostus and...

Buckets.

I will forever picture Alyssa hiding in a bucket from now on, seriously, it's just as appropriate as it's ironic. Why it's appropriate? Kisume is a Water type and at least in this game she seems to be shy. Why is it ironic? She's also Fire type =P

CKisume - 50/30/115/45/60/30

Kisume - 75/50/155/60/90/50

TKisume - 75/60/115/105/75/50

All of them are Water/Fire as mentioned earlier and can have the abilities Guard Armor (Battle Armor) and Sturdy. Alyssa has Sturdy. Their typing make them doubly resistant to Fire and Steel and resistant to Ice while being weak to Wind, Miasma and Earth.

DAT DEFENSE. Normal Kisume is basically Skarmory on a bucket. She's a mighty tank with access to Will-O-Wisp, Substitute, Destiny Bond, Pain Split and Mystic Water (Ingrain) by level as well as Rest by TM. Even with her low offenses, she still can make good use of Surf, Heat Wave and Shadow Ball by level as well as Giga Drain by TM. If you need something to deal with physical attacks, Normal Kisume is what you need.

TKisume is just if you need something with good defenses and also a good offense, her moveset is the same as Normal Kisume's except for learning Hydro Pump instead of Destiny Bond. She's still just as useful, but in another department. Though admitedlly there are better offensive mons out there, but not many are better than Normal Kisume at being a wall.

And now... We grind!

-insert Rocky theme here-

Finally...

... We go in!

And deal with some weaklings.

And now for the first gym leader!

CChen
Lvl: 15
Stats: 55/75/35/40/40/95
Moveset: Fury Swipes/Tail Whip/Quick Attack/Rock Tomb

CMomiji
Lvl: 17
Stats: 65/80/70/25/25/65
Moveset: Bite/Howl/Scratch/Rock Tomb

CNazrin
Lvl: 15
Stats: 30/65/45/65/60/75
Movepool: Tackle/Cut/Roar/Mirror Shot

Roxanne is very well covered. All of her Puppets have the same weaknesses: Fire, Water and Flying. Out of those three, CNazrin and CMomiji cover Flying with Cut and Scratch (Steel type), respectively, while Fire is covered by CMomiji and CChen's Rock Tomb. Not only that, but CMomiji will gladly set-up on you and murder your entire team with STAB Bites if you let her, all in all, this works very well as a Wake-Up Call battle, though Roxanne does have one weakness.

CKisume. Her high defense allows her to take SE non-STAB Rock Tombs with ease while dishing out damage with Water Gun or Ember, both of which have been boosted to 60 BP.

And she can also do this. Denied!

CMomiji also carries this with her, being Roxanne's signature puppet. This is bad because if she manages to set-up too many Howls, you're in trouble.

Oddly enough, neither CMomij or CChen tried to use Rock Tomb on Alyssa despite her being weak to it, CChen used Bite and Tail Whip before going down and CMomiji just spammed Howl.

Alyssa got close to sweeping Roxanne by herself, but Mirror Shot lowered her accuracy and she missed with Water Gun, I didn't want to risk a Critical, so I decided to switch her out.

Fortis had to take a Mirror Shot to the face, but being faster and thanks to Alyssa's previous damage, she easily disposed of the CNazrin without fear of being hit by Cut.

Thanks miss. The TM is still Rock Tomb, just remember that Rock and Ground fused into the Earth type here and the Flying type is actually immune to rock moves now!

Now let's talk about the one puppet Roxanne had that wasn't covered here:

Mousey~

CNazrin - 30/65/45/65/60/75

Nazrin - 60/90/70/90/85/105

TNazrin - 60/70/105/115//70/80

HNazrin - 80/75/100/75/110/60

CNazrin is pure Beast and has Pick Up and Sand Veil as abilities while her evolutions are Beast/Heart and have Collector (Sticky Hold) and Sand Veil as abilities. The evolutions's typing makes them doubly resistant to Ghost and resistant to Earth, Reason, Dark and Heart while being weak to Fire, Water, Flying, Faith and Dream.

Normal Nazrin is a Master of None. Fragile with decent offense, but her best Beast STAB has shaky accuracy and so do most of her physical moves, while she can technically go for special offense, which is more reliable, she lacks a way to boost her Sp.A, while having Swords Dance and Tailwind by level. Notable moves include Killing Bite (100 BP, 80 ACC and is Beast type), Double-Edge (Beast type), Body Slam (Heart type), Tri Attack (Heart type), Zen Headbutt and Energy Light by level. Still, the other ones are better, so you really have no reason to go for Normal Nazrin.

TNazrin is the route you should go if you a CNazrin who is better at special offense. Good Defense, Sp.A with a decent Speed, but bad on the Special defensive side. Her notable moves are the same Special moves that Normal Nazrin learns, but she also has Binding Voice for Beast STAB as well as Mist Ball (120 BP, 80 ACC and is Heart type). A solid Special attacker overall and she can also learn Mirror Coat in case you want to take advantage of her lower Sp.D.

HNazrin is what you should aim in case you got a CNazrin who is better at physical offense. Highly defensive, but with a low Atk, however she still learns Swords Dance by level up, which makes it less of a problem. Her moveset is similar to Normal Nazrin's, but with Crush Claw (75 BP, 90 ACC, Beast type) instead of Killing Bite and Night Slash instead of Tri-Attack, which helps dealing with Dream types. She's a Mighty Glacier, but does a pretty good job at being one.

The entire line can learn Thunderbolt, Energy Ball and Sonicboom by level-up, but only TNazrin can really get much use out of those, giving her an edge over the others when it comes to movepool and coverage, since Thunderbolt lets her fight Water types and Sonicboom helps with the Flying types.

And once we get outside, we're ambushed by plot.

IT TOOK YOU THIS LONG TO LEARN A STAB MOVE (65 BP, 90 ACC).

... Though Ghostus is being worse in that regard, no STAB until he evolves at 27, seriously?

I pity the poor puppet that was named "Peeko". Though a Kyouko named Ghostus is pretty bad too, would be better if she was an actual Ghost type =P

Oh boy. I wasn't looking forward to this at all.

CNitori
Lvl:14
Stats:45/50/55/85/75/60
Movepool: Whirlpool

Yes, it only knows Whirlpool, however it has 65 BP and gets STAB as well as doing extra damage at the end of every turn. Coming from a high Sp.A, it hurts a lot and can easily catch off-guard if you're not careful, in fact...

I sent Ghostus out because he had a better Sp.D, but as you can see, it didn't work very well thanks to him not getting STAB on Decision, I was planning to switch out to Herbert since I figured he could take a Whirlpool and finish her with a Mirror Shot...

... But I forgot that Whirlpool prevented switching. All I could do was hope that Headbutt did more damage to OHKO or critted it, or even flinching it.

Never. Again.

Crisis averted, thank Suwako. I could put a Nitori analysis here, but I'll leave that for another battle.

You know, at the same time I think it's rather cute that elderly people can have cute little/teenage girls to give them company, there are still... You know, those people

I'll spare you from having to watch the Pokénav scene, however...

No forced Match Call tutorial! =3

And now for the last thing before we wrap everything we had to do in Rustboro...

CTokiko
Level: 14
Stats: 70/55/70/30/60/45
Moveset: Agility/Quick Attack/Peck/Stomp

CSanae
Level:16
Stats: 65/35/90/55/90/45
Moveset: Pound/Growl/Nature Power/Gust

CMomiji
Level: 15
Stats: 65/80/70/25/25/65
Movepool: Tail Whip/Focus Energy/Howl/Bite

This is mostly a breather after the last two battles, CSanae lacks STAB, just sending in a Flying type will make CMomiji a total non-issue compared to the last two we had to face previously and CTokiko doesn't really have much that makes it a threat.

Case in point.

And Alli finally gets into an important battle!

Everyone and their mom has a CMomiji... DAMNIT HERBERT I WANTED ONE T-T

Good job wasting your one turn in which you'd be able to fight back.

Why thank you!

And of course, one last analysis:

CTokiko - 70/55/70/30/60/45

Tokiko - 100/80/100/40/90/70

ATokiko - 80/100/70/40/70/120

CTokiko and Normal Tokiko have Limber/Early Bird as abilities, but ATokiko has Guts instead of Early Bird. The entire line is Flying type, making them immune to Earth, resitant to Beast, Nature and Dream and weak to Steel, Ice and Wind.

Tokiko is the physical equivalent of Kyouko, however, she lacks a boosting move in trade of a healing move in the form of Roost, that has it's benefits and disadvantages, on one side this allows her to last longer against foes and eventually defeat them, but it also makes her unable to cause much damage on her own, so she's a fairly mediocre puppet. Notable moves include Mirror Coat, Roost, Zen Headbutt, Soar and Slash by level-up.

ATokiko is a good sweeper with solid stats, a bit glassy, but maybe Roost could compensate for that. Her moveset is virtually the same as well, but she learns Soar earlier and also learns Brave Bird if you don't mind the recoil. She also learns Facade by level, which would be nice if the Toxic or Flame orb existed in this game, since she has Guts as an ability.

The only really notable TM move for this line really is Steel Wing, which helps them deal with the Ice types a bit better. Overall, solid puppet, but there are better choices, kinda like Mystia really.

Finally, we are done with Rustboro. Next time we'll make some team changes and go to Dewford get even more puppets!

Now that you've caught Straw, the countdown to his death begins. :P

Episode 5: Ghost Land Story

This is the place where my non-active puppets will stay and they probably hope to stay there forever.

The TM you get here is still Steel Wing. Also, amusingly, Touhoumon did the Steel nerf before it officially happened. Ghost and Dark hit Steel neutraly here as you can see in the type chart in the first post. Of course, Steel is a lot more nerfed here as well.

Quick trip to Slateport because new catches!

Damnit you can find Aya here =(

She's a Grass specialist!

Daiyousei was just a nameless midboss in Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil, but the fanbase gave her a name and ZUN just said Sure Why Not and rolled with it. She really doesn't have much to her otherwise since she has no canon personality or even power. She also appears in the games Fairy Wars as a midboss and Hopeless Masquerade as a background character.

CDaiyousei - 55/30/50/55/50/90

Daiyousei - 80/50/70/80/80/120

ADaiyousei - 70/50/70/120/80/90

DDaiyousei - 80/40/70/80/160/50

All of them are Nature type except DDaiyousei who is Nature/Wind. CDaiyousei only has Run Away as an ability, the others have either Serene Grace or Natural Cure. Also nice attempt at being Blissey there DDaiyousei.

Notable Moves by TM: Ice Beam/Signal Beam/Sonic Boom/ Blizzard/Mana Burst/Reflect/Light Screen

Regular Daiyousei is your typical Fragile Speedster, she has access to Wish for healing, but all forms can do it as well. She has good coverage with Energy Light (Energy Ball), Air Slash and the TM moves from above and she can also Baton Pass Wish even though that's not that useful in-game.

ADaiyousei is a lot more powerful and is still quite fast, though a little bit more frail. She can use Wish for healing and for some reason can learn Recycle. She can buff herself with Mana Charge which works nicely with Wish. Other than that, she's pretty ordinary

DDaiyousei is a mighty Special tank with Wish, Mystic Water (Aqua Ring) and Leech Seed. She can also cripple physical attackers with Burn Powder, so she can really stall a lot of teams to death. Offensivelly the most notable about her is Aeroblast as her main Wind type move. Her typing also makes her only weak to Fire and Miasma!

Training montage!

And now...

Regina and Fortis kick ass together.

And now...

... We skip Brawly because he scares me.

People get curb-stomped while Sarah sunbathes.

... Why are you carrying a Gym Sweater around in a beach?

And that reminds me...

Now Regina can evolve to Mega Gardevoir!

Plooooot!

This Thief TM is the thing I was looking for the most in the game, seriously.

And now for THIS mess...

One down

Two down.

Oh wait.

Surprise! This game added a battle with Archie! I always thought it was weird that you only fought him once in Emerald while you fight Maxie thrice, so this is quite a nice touch.

CFuto (Faith type)
Level: 16
Stats: 70/75/60/70/50/60
Moveset - Rock Smash/Comet Punch/Water Gun/Secret Power

CToyohime (Water/Earth type)
Level: 17
Stats:  65/55/95/90/50/45 
Moveset: Sand Tomb/Ice Shard/Bubble/Decision

CSuwako (Water type)
Level: 18
Stats: 65/45/70/90/55/75
Moveset: Water Pulse/Decision/Mud Shot/Mist

This team will murder you if you're not prepared.

CFuto isn't much of an issue, especially if you started with Alice, but Koakuma works well too.

CToyohime will kill you repeatedly if you try going physical on her. Sand Tomb is also 65 BP like Whirlpool so it can hurt A LOT coming from 90 Sp.A. Ice Shard shouldn't hurt much but priority can be messy no less. A good special Nature type will bring her down instantly though.

CSuwako can lower your accuracy with Mud Shot and is also somewhat tanky on the physical side. Water Pulse will hurt a lot too and the confusion can be really annoying. Same deal as Toyohime, bring a special Nature type, since she only has a regular weakness to it though, she probably will take more than one hit to KO though.

Insert CFuto beatdown here because I forgot to screenshot

She did a lot more damage than I expected, I was afraid of leaving Regina on CSuwako with that little health event though she has  Shock Wave. In case you're wondering, I didn't bring Alice with me because I forgot to train her.

And then THIS happened. I thought CSuwako was Water/Faith so I sent Ghostus in for Beast SE, but she tanked the hits and did a lot of damage with Water Pulse. Ghostus was left with very little HP and would've KO'd her in his next move, but then of course confusion had to kick in...

STRAW STOP LEAKING MISFORTUNE!

And to add insult to injury she almost got Herbert too because I forgot about Decision hitting him SE. This crisis was averted at least.

This battle wouldn't be so bad if you had time to heal before him, instead you have to go through three fights in a row.

Yes, I won't forget a Nature type next time or Suwako's type. Go away.

Stuff.

First death, or I suppose in Ghostus case it's a double death? A shame really, I wanted to see how good Kyouko was. Anyway, I blame Eskay.

Oh yes, you want to know why I wanted this so much?

Easy mode unlocked.

Now for something different!

You guys choose my team! You can choose anyone, but keep in mind I'm keeping Herbert in the team because he's my starter. So choose five out of these boxed mons.

In order:

Mystia: Fortis
Kisume: Alyssa
Murasa: Dune
Luna Child: Daisy
Daiyousei: Alice
Koakuma: Regina
Hina: Straw
Chen: Alli

You can also suggest which evolution should I go with for them, including Herbert. Just take a look at my gigantic summaries that I probably will edit later so they become less Wall of Text-y and choose one.

As eager as I am to send Chibi!Dune out to wreck some ships people, Straw does seem a natural choice.

Episode 6: Mystic Pulse

All right, so I'm going with Straw, Dune, Herbert, Alice, Alli and Regina for the time being.

Grinding!

Evolution stones I have no use for yet!

TMs!

Cursing like a sailor!

Disclaimer: I didn't actually teach it.

Teleporting Professors!

Trainers!

Aya is a bitch to deal with in this game. By this point of the game she has STAB Wing Attack, Speed Boost and Gale, which is pretty Quick Attack. If your team is glassy, she can easily get someone killed.

chirp

HOW THE [chirp] DOES THIS THING KNOW PSYCHIC?!

AND WHY DOES IT HAVE A SITRUS BERRY

It actually took two of these to knock it out. It also knows Air Slash, Softboiled and FREAKING BLAST BURN

Go away

I'd do the Trick House, but I don't have anyone with Cut I think. Why can't Alli learn it?!

Oh joy.

There's not much to this battle really, it's the same thing as the battle in Rustboro, so no need to elaborate on it.

It actually took two attacks but she wasted her turn using Howl.

STOP THAT THIS INSTANT.

As you can see it took more than one hit here as well.

Unfortunately I'm not using items and Regina was at near death already so I couldn't use her against Sanae. So I have to go for the next best option and go with a Beast type and OH SHIT WATER PULSE

...

And she almost killed Dune too.

I probably should've grinded more. Now I lost my Thief TM which means getting evolutionary stones will be a lot harder.

Not enough. That's quite the Wake-Up-Call.

R.I.P

I blame Eskay.

STOP THROWING AYAS AT ME GAME.

Finally.

Let's end this on a high note. Time for a catch!

... Since when do you appear here?

I suppose Aura and Ki are the same thing? *shrugs*

Anyway, Tagg is a Chinese girl now.

Hong Meiling is the gatekeeper of the Scarlet Devil Mansion and superb martial artist. Nobody know what's her species is, but she's theorized to be a rainbow dragon. She's the Stage 3 Boss of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and is playable in Immaterial and Missing Power and Hisoutensoku as well as appearing in Hopeless Masquerade as a background character.

CMeiling - 65/90/70/35/35/65

Meiling - 90/115/95/60/60/90

AdMeiling - 80/120/80/80/110/60

DMeiling - 110/75/120/60/80/65

SMeiling - 90/100/80/60/60/120

All of them are Dream type, except AdMeiling who is also part Heart.

Notable TMs: Poison Jab, Earthquake, Steel Fist (Iron Tail).

Regular Meiling is what you'd expect from a martial artist. Good physically, bad specially. But with acess to Bulk Up, Slack Off, the three Elemental Punches, Drain Punch and Meteor Mash, she can easily beat any physical treat due to her high Defense and HP and also quite decent Speed. Just keep her away from the Special Attackers.

AdMeiling is a Mighty Glacier with a higher Sp.D than Def and even higher attack. She's only weak to Faith as well so she's even better defensively. She has access to all the stuff regular Meiling has, but includes Blaze Kick and Agility, which aren't particularly notable. All in all probably the best form, but you can only acquire it in Mossdeep.

DMeiling is the choice you should go with if you want a Skarmory on your team. Having the same moveset as the other forms means she can work as a very good offensive tank, but she still lacks a bit on the Special side so that can make her somewhat glassy at times. You also need Bulk Up to really deal some damage so she's pretty much stopped dead by any special attacker.

SMeiling is the speedy and glassy one. Not much to say here other than she being able to use Reversal very effectivelly considering that if something doesn't OHKO her but still does a ton of damage, she's probably going to outspeed and murder everything with Reversal. It's very high-risk though which is bad for a Nuzlocke.

All in all, choosing the form you want depends on what you want: If you want a Speedy Glass Cannon, go with SMeiling, if you want a Jack-Of-All-Stats (except for the Sp.D of course), go with the regular form, if you want a mighty Stone Wall, go with DMeiling. But if you don't have any use for Meiling right away, go after AdMeiling once you can get her.

And this is the second death caused by Water Pulse. Lesson learned, I need to grind a lot more.

Anyway, vote for who I should use for the next update.

Wait, are AdMeiling, DMeiling, and SMeiling Eevee-style divergent evolutions, or are they Deoxys-style form changes?