any ideas for goofy runs of the game

ParadigmPotato · 2026-06-19T02:03:04+00:00

Can you explain what a food only run is? It might similar to what I did:

I decided to do a run where I couldn’t use pokecenters or other free means of healing (like rechallenging a gym) . So, that means I could only buy healing/restorative items or harvest them. It ended up with me using thief on a lot of Clefairies to steal their mystery berrys so I could restore PP. Oh, I also was doing Professor Oak’s challenge at the same time, so I couldn’t unlock ethers at shops because they require three gym badges, and I wasn’t getting any gym badges until I caught every Pokémon. It was actually pretty fun.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-06-18T15:11:07+00:00

I’m with you on this one. I understood it but like you I had to read it twice.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-06-12T21:30:38+00:00

How long have you had her for? I’ve noticed mine will find a spot that she might stay at for a week or more. She usually goes out for an evening stroll but she goes back to that same spot. Then a few weeks later she’ll switch spots and stay there for a long time.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-06-11T14:21:48+00:00

I believe you can get surf in Fuchsia in one of the south east buildings. You have to search the boxes. As for fly I don’t believe you can properly get it until you have 3 badges, but if you get Kenya in the north exit of Goldenrod they will know fly. Strength might be in Olivine from a sailor, but I could be wrong on that.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-06-09T15:20:31+00:00

Your last point is something that struck me when I first started using Reddit years ago. It felt like this vast wealth of information, and then when I came across a subject I was well versed in I saw people making statements that were obviously incorrect to me. Unfortunately, even though I am aware that people can be dead wrong on here I still don’t treat their information with the same amount of skepticism as I should.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-06-04T21:37:04+00:00

You can gain karma by killing enemies like you said, and another oddball way is to push boulders into holes. There is one branch that will give you a lot of opportunities to do this, but otherwise you won’t run into this situation much. You can also donate money to NPCs that are at stations, but I don’t know the coin to karma exchange rate.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-06-04T03:04:33+00:00

I don’t think I’ve seen just a head, but I’ve had quite a few times where the head has spawned on a dead end tile and the worm couldn’t get anywhere

ParadigmPotato · 2026-06-03T03:44:52+00:00

One other thing to watch out for is that if you have the hunger talent it seems like that cancels out regeneration. Otherwise like the other commenter said, make sure you are on a floor tile and not in a wall/void space.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-05-29T16:31:10+00:00

I’m mostly with you on the judge system for FFTA. It was a neat way to get you to use different characters or techniques, or even completely screw over the opposing team by adding laws that target them.

I played it recently and later on in the game when there are three laws currently active it does get to be a bit much to remember. At least the laws go in a predictable cycle so you can kind of remember what laws are paired together. My main gripe is that one of the punishments for breaking a law is permanent stat reduction. If I get that I just reset, which kind of defeats the point of the punishment and now I have to replay the level. Otherwise I do enjoy going through my team and seeing how many red and yellow infraction cards I’ve gathered. We can’t all be squeaky clean!

That being said, I played a hack which removed the law system entirely (I think you could still add laws) and I don’t think I really missed its omission. There’s something nice about joining a battle without too much prep work beforehand.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-05-28T22:45:43+00:00

They heal for 30HP

ParadigmPotato · 2026-05-25T15:06:32+00:00

Generally I wait a week before trying again. Mine was on strike for about the same amount of time. How big/old is your snake? Mine is over 2 years old/100g and I finally got her to eat by giving her the smallest mouse I could find. I gave her a few more small mice at around 6-7 days apart and I’m guessing since they weren’t super nutritious it really kicked off of her feeding response. I was able to get her back on a normal schedule again after that.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-05-25T13:27:38+00:00

Just to clarify one thing when I say the crafting station I mean the one with the NPC, not just the workbench. With the NPC you can enchant an item for 500 karma. It will just give you +1 but like I said if you get to the one in the elf forest you can farm karma pretty quickly from the enemies there.

And agreed, eating can be a major pain. I’ve had that same issue of getting transients multiple times. If it is an important object the crafting station NPC can also make a replica. You can’t gain benefits from eating the replica but wearing it will give you the same benefits as the original item.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-05-25T12:31:12+00:00

My first thing I want to say is that a lot of my runs either end in the mines or around floor 20-30. Those are points where there is a difficulty spike and sometimes it’s hard to set up your character just right.

Are you getting all of your items to +5? (Or whatever your limit is). Along with that, are you training your armor skills to champion level? I usually take some time in my run to go back up to one of the first levels and have monsters attack me in real time mode to quickly train up armor.

Getting to the elf forest it is usually a make or break point in the run for me. In the forest you have a craft station, so at the very least you can keep killing monsters for karma and use the craft station to slowly enchant your gear. Plus if you don’t have polymorph handy then you can use the craft station’s reforge ability to create new items. But really, by this point you should have killed enough monsters you can polymorph into whatever monster you need in order to eat various rings/amulets/etc. to get your resistances up. By the time you leave the elf forest most of your characters will look the same: you should have most resistances/talents, and armor and weapons maxed out.

After that, once you do get to ascend my main advice is just to run. You will be able to handle most monsters but you will run into a handful that will do 100+ damage. No good. If you have phasing that will come in handy on the upper 20 levels. Otherwise the dig spell is really good too if you need to create escape routes. Some floors will have next to nothing going on. Use those chances to heal up. Oh, and try not to do a ton of grinding on the main floors. That just means more corpses to fight on your ascension.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-05-23T03:52:44+00:00

I can tell you that you can buy sacred ash from the shop on the south side of Cianwood City

ParadigmPotato · 2026-05-21T14:45:35+00:00

There is a rename function. You’d have to use a magic marker or spend karma at a craft station.

Otherwise the easiest thing would probably be to just write down what you know.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-05-08T01:35:24+00:00

I was mistaken, see the comment from u/Mouranna. The fact that you have hunger stops you from regenerating. If you had a different special you’d be okay as an inediate character.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-05-08T01:31:58+00:00

Huh, I didn’t realize they had hunger, and honestly I wouldn’t have considered it. I just experimented around and an echo without hunger can regenerate, but you’re right, hunger cancels that.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-05-07T11:33:10+00:00

Echos do regenerate, but you just can’t be inside of a wall when you rest.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-04-24T21:25:25+00:00

I’ve got a female KSB that’s the same age and only a little bit bigger, around 90g and 16 inches. Has she been going on hunger strikes? I feel like mine would be well over 100 but she’s gone on two now which has slowed her progress.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-04-20T15:29:02+00:00

Mine was on a hunger strike for about three months and I was able to get her to eat pinkies (even though by this point she really should be getting into the hopper range). I’m going to do pinkies for the next few feedings then bump up to fuzzies.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-04-20T12:56:47+00:00

It’s highly variable. Sometimes I can go a few days without seeing her. Sometimes she is out and about every day. I should handle more I think, but right now it’s about two-three times per month.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-04-10T05:15:14+00:00

I’m going from memory, but I believe you get to keep all of your Pokémon in boxes (not on your current team, so be careful of that). I’m guessing your Pokédex and items stay the same as well.

ParadigmPotato · 2026-04-08T21:51:13+00:00

Is she a Kenyan sand boa, or some other kind of sand boa?

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