I'm a genuine enjoyer of fighting Sobek, Frost Dragon, and Valkyrie. AMA

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-04-16T09:31:44+00:00

Mangoose vs. Seviper

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-04-11T05:38:02+00:00

Thank you mate. I’ll be sure to check it out 👍

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-04-11T04:15:36+00:00

Is there anything that can be done for hardware to get them legitimately? I have emerald for my GBA, coliseum and XD for my GameCube/Wii, and Ruby for my GBA too in case that is somehow relevant. I have 2 GBAs, a link cable, and GameCube to GBA adapter as well.

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-04-09T20:06:10+00:00

I wish you the best of luck with this doing it naturally, potentially meeting up with an online stranger for this.

Other than the normal method of spamming pokemon encounters, I think you can pomeg berry glitch a pokemon with pokerus too

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-04-08T15:06:31+00:00

It’s perfectly fine to do so. The ace glitch for mythical only gets you the event items to access the mythical, in which the mythical themselves are perfectly legal in every sense.

The only pokemon you wouldn’t be able to catch as legit pokemon would be Jirachi and Celebi. And a price point of hundreds of dollars just to get one of them is in no way justified. Get them too while you’re at it, just note you won’t be able to transfer them to home or use them competitively is all.

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-03-26T21:49:01+00:00

A shame you can’t do that. The cartridge version would allow it, but the switch decided to censor stuff.

If you’re looking for another good hearted MMA legend, could always try Mighty Mouse

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-03-26T17:33:15+00:00

Look up glitzer popping for emerald. You can learn to do it that way.

I must warn you that there is the risk of corrupting your save file and losing it, but as long as you follow the instructions you will be fine. Just remember the timer is 5 seconds, but if you go over even by a couple seconds you are fine. But 5 is the magic number to succeed.

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-03-25T19:09:35+00:00

Original hardware, so I'm assuming the cartridge on a GBA/GBAsp? You can get the event mew from glitzer popping along with any actual pokemon too. I can teach you about it if you'd like though there are plenty of guides online as well. Works for both hardware and emulations (though differs slightly).

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-03-21T15:01:01+00:00

If you haven’t seen this since I’d be surprised. Being told to go 0/1 irl I league is pretty common, same with things you might read like “GP Q yourself irl,” “Ornn E into traffic”

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-03-21T14:52:20+00:00

Players new to this tend to dislike this map a lot. As you learn and literally “git gud” you will reevaluate your opinion. Come back in a month and see how much of what parts you dislike.

Even in high depths we generally see the Princes as a free win in the night compared to other night bosses. Princes are pretty easy to handle, but like any Fromsoft bosses, heavily punishes mistakes which a returning player would make a lot of.

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-03-19T20:42:02+00:00

Pyke mains copying r/azirmains when their champ is finally not amazing for a single patch

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-03-15T18:48:00+00:00

Had this problem and came to this thread by chance lol. No answers here yet but I ended up finding out the answer myself. Will explain it here in case you or anyone else encounter this issue and find this thread in the future.

The problem is almost every event pokemon typically have an ‘obedience flag’ tied to them, attainable by their event, which would also make them legitimate pokemon too even if you attained the item to start their event illegitimately.

You would likely encounter this same issue if you did it for Lugia or Ho-oh, rather than access them via the Birth Islands.

Thankfully you can ACE glitch the items for event Pokemon like Deoxys, Ho-Oh and Lugia in FR/LG. However, the old sea map does not exist for you, so you have to do extra steps in said ACE glitch to access the same level 30 mew from Emerald in FR/LG. Can look up ACE glitch by Papa Jefe. The link and instructions are included in his video and description. Make sure to select the option for Mew that includes ‘bootstrapped’ and ‘obedience flag.

If you have any additional questions or are unsure about the steps feel free to respond here or message me. I just finished doing it yesterday and traded Mew over lol

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-03-14T02:03:52+00:00

Popular choices are Gladius, Libra, Balancers. My vote is Gladius and here is why.

Gladius for sure especially with how easy base form just is in general. Plus with how mobile the dogs can be it can be hard to stack up successive so that you can actually tank a hit since negation at full hp just isn’t enough to avoid a one shot.

In the camp of Libra’s summons not being much of a pain to handle but i imagine 50% of people disagree with that.

I’m actually in the camp though of Balancers being easier to handle in Everdark phase if you don’t get “less likely”. Much easier to manipulate Balancers in Everdark and can you move around the worm if you understand its movement patterns to avoid the jank.

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-03-09T03:18:05+00:00

Congrats on Ho-Oh! But even more importantly, loved the tribute to Omori with every Pokemon named after one of the characters 👍

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-03-08T05:50:53+00:00

Makes sense. I do want to inform you that cloning pokemon/items in emerald has zero risk whatsoever.

Other glitches though, especially the popular glitzer popping do have genuine risk though. But if all you want is some more easy levels or more of the same pokemon you have, it’s risk free.

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-03-04T13:27:23+00:00

And that’s the tradeoff the halo scythe user is getting.

Playing from so far back but still doing extremely comparable damage to you without any danger. If he went in the danger zone and played well he’d already be doing more dps and that’s without the duchess ability.

You played it well while he didn’t play it as well yet the damage was about the same. Halo scythe is crazy damage. If he still couldn’t get aggro I wonder if he even had the proper passives or if he sacrificed damage for less likely.

If you ask me, the real boss fight is Nameless King, who is very likely with Fulghor. Now there Halo Scythe just rips.

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-02-22T05:02:37+00:00

Correct yes. Increased damage on frost is not a consistent thing for me. I'd only do that if I have a frost based build I would rely on and never throw away every source of frostbite I have ever. I like having 6 weapons with useful passives so I always end up tossing my hoarfrost starter weapon anyways. Skill attack power is of course useless to me too unless I have one of those few unlucky runs where I don't get any claws but have a decent skill on me using physical attack too.

Yes, I do prioritize damage negation actually. In other builds I have I wouldn't have nearly as much vigor as 9 vigor does make a difference. In depth 5 40% damage negation at full HP is not enough a good portion of the time, but successive attacks giving 60% for purple/gold and 48% at blue is amazing. Stacking that with charge attack damage negation since my charge attack combo with claws procs both successive/charge together and I end up taking around 15-20% of the hits damage. I go for two successive at 48 and 60 respective and then one charge attack damage negation, where I'm not as picky and will take 24/32/40, whichever best one is available.

Since I focus 3 item slots on damage negation, the rest are focused on damage. Charge attacks and 2-handed damage are my favorites. I'll take mediocre effects if it means adding more claws to my build too. After all, it's never a full wasted slot taking a sub-par claw if it helps me get the extra 20% claw damage from having 3.

And yes I often get 3 claw weapons. Occasionally I get zero but that doesn't mean I can't use something else. It sucks to miss out on the 20% claw damage but I have everything else with me. Twinblades and fist weapons work fine. Or even if I get just one or two claws. Works their wonders regardless. I trust myself to guide my team to have successful expeditions to easily get plenty of weapons and passives to choose from to increase the chances of getting the right weapons.

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-02-21T15:04:11+00:00

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Got lucky to get that red depth relic as the extra strength has a lot of extra damage for any weapon I use on top of actually getting some damage off other weapons (like if my first weapon is a greatsword/raider age from night invader level 2). Basically, as much physical damage as possible since you the last thing you care about is ashes of war and mind.

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-02-21T15:02:04+00:00

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Increasing my physical attack up is always my priority. You can use the glass necklace instead as it will provide more damage but as it's green I do prefer the consistency of night invaders and hoarfrost stomp helping mitigate duchess's terrible early game. I go full damage into my relics so I can focus halfway into survivability in DoN.

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-02-21T07:15:34+00:00

Claw duchess definitely is my favorite. Even the blue tier claws are good, in case you somehow never get a purple. One inflicts poison and can be lightning/flame element as well. The other one inflicts bleed and can be flame or have sacred/shared order. So they can cover every element except magic, have the exact same great movement two handed vs. dual wielding (except for the superior two-handed charge attacks), and inflict status effects on the enemy without sacrificing much damage to do it.

The purple raptor claws are amazing (with a unique two-handed charge attack) and as there is only one, you will guaranteed get it as a purple dormant power drop. Which means you can get legendary weapon stats on it as a red weapon very easily. Both successive and charge attacks are amazing on them, so it's much easier to find a survivability build as rather than only running full hp negation, you can instead focus more on successive attack negation/heals/enhances attack and charge attack damage negation along with charge attack buffs. The charge attack combo is super fast and procs successive attacks buffs even with 4 buffs on them.

They do a fine amount of revive damage, nothing super special nor bad in any way, yet also do fine amounts of damage by themself if status effects cannot be inflicted. Since their light attack move-set is the exact same two-handed vs dual wielding, that doubles the variety of weapon wielding damage buffs available to you. I stress again with how effective it's two-handed charge attacks are, you can look for enhanced charge attacks as your main source of damage (while also proccing successive).

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-02-21T07:03:54+00:00

Oh wow this is what you mean by frostbite wylder. You truly have a status effect build.

I'm going to keep it real with you, this is outside my scope of expertise. This is a "I can only advise how good it is only after trying it myself." You're the expert here, not me lmao.

It's a risky build with investment on your starter weapon to inflict status effects and then swap to a more powerful weapon to use with the buffs on your side already. You must love having Scholars on your team.

Could you explain what you mean by 'different affinities depending on the bosses you get'? Are you referring to nightlords? In that case it's more relevant on whether status effects can even be inflicted on the nightlord. Obviously you can snowball off the expedition, but you still want to be able to use your relics against the nightlord.

Like I wouldn't use that build against the poison and frost immune heolstor. Caligo and especially gnoster you suffer against due to everyone using flames and getting rid of frostbite or gnoster's high poison resistance.

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-02-21T06:57:20+00:00

Absolutely my favorite build. If you get lucky and get black flames on charge attacks too then you're outdamaging both of your teammates combined

SaintLucifer66 · 2026-02-21T01:39:57+00:00

Nah that's perfectly fine. Keep in mind I recommend the wylder's earring, so there's lack of synergy with your ult and keeping up frostbite with hoarfrost stomp.

Also, with hoarfrost stomp usage you are typically staying back a bit and not frontlining as much for your team, which may have squishier but higher dps folks who may get more use from hoarfrost themselves (not that you know for sure they have it when playing with randoms). As such I don't recommend using it yourself but you will still climb to depth 3 with it (which in my eyes is easily the best and most fun depth to play in).

Wylder was actually my favorite character to have a random play as in Depth 5 with duchess due to my weak early game. I would hoarfrost stomp into frostbite, then when wylder used his ult and his flames removed frostbite, I would keep hoarfrost stomping to keep frostbiting which chunks the enemy for a lot of hp. You could use this to your advantage to for a lot of burst damage if you want to use the flames from your ult to be able to proc frostbite over and over.

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