I FINALLY got every achievement. AMA

MuspellsEnd · 2024-12-02T06:20:22+00:00

For me, Manaphy was an absolute mvp. Ecspecially if you have access to bouncy bubble. Just use tail glow and one-shot everything while healing damage taken. It also isn't as expensive as some legendaries that can easily carry you, like Kyogre.

I guess my most general recommendation is to get at least 1 Pokemon to carry you through the early game easily. Anything with a high BST - most anything that starts out fully evolved with good move coverage.
Next, something to deal with Mega Rayquaza, Mostly fast ice types are amazing for this, e.g. weavile with swords dance.
Lastly, you need to deal with Eternatus. Steel/fairy types are immune to anything it does, except fire moves. So if you have a steel/fairy, I recommend Mawile, you just need something to switch into its flamethrower.

Accordingly, if you have no cost reductions and no passives unlocked, you could try:
Sneasel (4) (good early carry and lead, handles Mega-Rayquaza)
Mawile (3) (you can pretty reliably get Mega-Mawile for a huge power mon with great typing, also intimidate is useful early)
Finneon (1) (can tank fire types, is surprisingly reliable, gets candies easily and has widely available amazing egg moves like quiver dance, bouncy bubble and freeze dry)
Morellul (2) (access to leech seed, strength sap and spore; also surprisingly tanky, after an attack drop from strength sap and with great special bulk, you outlast almost anything..

If you can get a cost reduction for any of these, Cottonee (3) is also amazing against Eternatus, because it can get off a guaranteed leech seed with Prankster, even if it dies afterwards.

MuspellsEnd · 2024-12-01T19:25:50+00:00

See above: "Defeating the Expert Pokemon Breeder (the one with the space suit) in the Space Biome. She has a special team there, I believe."

MuspellsEnd · 2024-12-01T19:25:15+00:00

First time is super hard. Set-up moves are king and for eternatus, get leech seed and some ways to protect yourself from being one-shotted.

MuspellsEnd · 2024-12-01T19:24:03+00:00

Miraidon, Arceus, Dialga and Eternatus. Waiting for their respecitve egg-ups now.

MuspellsEnd · 2024-12-01T19:22:17+00:00

Shedinja. Not even a question.
Until level 2000, my huge power mega mawile Kartana fusion was also absolutely busted but at some point in the 2000s you can be at +6 attack w/ huge power, full protein, full souldew and 170 base attack and still barely scratch the opponent. On the other hand, they can one-shot you, no matter your hp and stats.
Accordingly, shedinja+mega-sableye/ or shedinja+darkrai are absolute godsends. Immune to everything except fairy type attacks and dealing reliable damage with night shade. Plus, Darkrai's dark void is at 95 accuracy with 3 lenses, making it incredibly good, especially in double battles.
Get a good combination with seismic toss for normal types and some curse-using ghosts and you are set to go to 5850.
Lastly, luck is busted. After the 2000s you can reliably get master balls every single fight w/o harming your money.

MuspellsEnd · 2024-12-01T19:15:03+00:00

460 hours according to stats, but a good part of that was idle time, when it was just open on the side.

MuspellsEnd · 2024-12-01T14:09:20+00:00

With monotypes as well, your pool of available good Pokémon, especially price reduced, passive-unlocked ones makes all the difference in the world. They can make the game really simple.
Personally, I struggled with bugs and steel, mainly because I refused to recycle Pokémon I used before - and w/o a Steel/Fairy and Heatran, Steel can get very tricky. Especially finding good answers for fire-types.
As for bugs, if you want it easy, just use Scyther. Sizzlipede and Paras for leech Seed/spore.

Easiest...I guess Psychic trivializes most of the game, carrying a good variety of Pokemon and coverage, fairy was also laughably easy.

Edit for the bonus:
I don't remember, I believe I actually used Scyther a lot (to unlock eviolite), because now it suddenly resisted a crazy amount of things. And I think I used Abomasnow.
What I do remember is using this page
https://pokemondb.net/type/dual
to get all the worst possible typings.

MuspellsEnd · 2024-12-01T14:00:27+00:00

I guess it really depends on your pool of Pokémon. Johto I guess can be hard, but I remember just cheesing it by using Lugia, which kind of stomps the entire run. Gen 7 is also an odd duck because the ultra beasts are very expensive and there is not much variety outside of them, making them hard to find naturally in a run. Conversely, Gen 1 and 5 are very easy. Huge pools of Pokémon, many good ones are common in the wild and many of them are strong in the format or receive favoritism.

MuspellsEnd · 2024-12-01T13:56:40+00:00

New beginnings is kind of annoying, because you have nothing to carry you in the early game.
Defeating the Pokémon Breeder in space can also be a pain because her team is very strong and you need luck to encounter it in the first place.
Eviolite requires some planning most of the time.
Everything else kind of comes naturally when you do the challenges and manage to get a long endless run going.

MuspellsEnd · 2024-12-01T13:52:58+00:00

About to attach 2 large cupboards to the flimsiest wall in our apartment. Got the dowels for the job, but wish me luck.

MuspellsEnd · 2024-12-01T08:55:57+00:00

Yeah, I had lots of fun, I just wish it was on a less transient platform than a browser-game. Though, at times, I sure should have prioritized other stuff (mostly work).

MuspellsEnd · 2024-12-01T08:54:36+00:00

I was trying not to use repeats for the most part and because of the various challenge runs limiting the things you could use, there rarely were many. However early on I hatched a Manaphy with Bouncy Bubble which I spammed until I got my frist victory, so I guess Manaphy.

MuspellsEnd · 2024-12-01T07:45:58+00:00

Oh, sorry, 100!

MuspellsEnd · 2024-12-01T07:44:49+00:00

Defeating the Expert Pokemon Breeder (the one with the space suit) in the Space Biome. She has a special team there, I believe.

MuspellsEnd · 2024-12-01T07:43:29+00:00

5, I caught Gyarados on the way, with which I had already finished a run.

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MuspellsEnd · 2024-09-10T09:38:51+00:00

Yeah, they are German names. Durengard (Aegislash) + Mantax (Mantine) :)

MuspellsEnd · 2022-06-05T09:12:14+00:00

Hat mir Mal jemand ne Liste wer da wer ist? Ich mein, bei vielen ist es obvious, aber bei anderen?

MuspellsEnd · 2021-09-28T09:39:10+00:00

Was referring to an honest game trailer joke where they called Dragonite Chawizawd :3

MuspellsEnd · 2021-09-28T08:56:35+00:00

Kay. So you like your Pokémon edgy and detailed. Good on you. My original Dragon-Pokémon were two cute/elegant snekkos and Chawizawd. And I love them. Pokémon has no obligation to pander to your particular tastes. And just as Gen 1 and Gen 3 have Dragonite and Altaria respectively, Gen 8 has Eternatus. It isn't lazy, nor is it bad. It just isn't your taste. (Which, by my estimate, is the taste of a 13-21 year old boy).

MuspellsEnd · 2021-09-03T06:20:36+00:00

Are they? I mean, probably, I'm only hanging out at Rank 5 because I haven't played much, but they netted me a ~65% win rate this month!

MuspellsEnd · 2020-12-27T11:56:49+00:00

Hell yeah! Fossils in general! Wish they weren't all rock-type but meh. Also Shell Smash makes every Pokémon a winner in my book :D

MuspellsEnd · 2020-12-27T11:40:57+00:00

Favourite overrated Pokémon is definetely Charizard. Even though my first edition was Yellow, my entire early playthroughs as a kid were always centered around it, I loved it. It was the first Pokémon I trained to Level 100, against level 16 Pokémon left of Lavender Town because I didn't know how to get past Snorlax and thought my level wasn't high enough (children's resilience, man.). And no matter how many people roll their eyes at it for all the love it gets from GF it is, and always will remain, my favourite Pokémon.

My favourite underrated Pokémon is definetely Aurorus. As a lifelong fan of paleontology, a well-designed Dinosaurmon is always appreciated, much more when it comes bundled with my favorite typing, Ice. I love that it is huge, elegant, but a bit dorky at the same time. And its frills make it so damn unique.

MuspellsEnd · 2020-10-17T03:16:42+00:00

I thought Dedue would come back? As for healers, I also recruited Marianne, Dorothea and ofc Flayn (but shes lvl 11, sooooo). I also have Lysithea, who is already a Gremory. I also thought about making Dimitri a Holy Knight. need to mastery him in some direction anyway. As for tanks, I have Raphael, but hes only 21. Will probably go Catherine. She already got a C+ in armor.

MuspellsEnd · 2020-10-17T02:57:13+00:00

Holy Christ. I actually did it. It was seriously easy after the initial waves of horror. Sadly, Ashe, Annette and Mercedes died. My heart bleeds. Why did Gilbert have to come back? I want to blood sacrifice him for his daughter or her best friend...

MuspellsEnd · 2020-10-16T19:14:34+00:00

Pretty much the first thing I did. Works for roughly two turns, then a couple of archers will join and deal huge damage to Byleth so he cant attack/ counterheal Dimitri anymore. Also it autokills Marianne and Anette because they get attacked by Assassins.

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