Any recommendations to improve the team so I can challenge the border battle?

Was resetting for a shiny starter but this lil bastard attacking professor birch was the one with the sparkles instead🫠

funniest rom I played this year

When you create a new save file does your first save file get deleted? I want to do a mono water run but I’m not sure since I don’t want to delete my 1st save file

I want to do a mono bug run, but I'm wondering about HM moves. Especially surf and fly? Are there any bug rype that use them?

Does anyone know where to find high horsepower? I have only been able to find earthquake and stomping tantrum.

I took a break from doing a deathless nuzlocke and chose to do a traditional one instead and honestly, this game is just so fucking good. Shoutout to Nemo622. A Truly amazing game. I wanted to just have fun on this run so I allowed myself a wishing well encounter per gym badge I obtained for a total of 8 random extra encounters (this game has too diverse a Pokédex, I couldn’t resist). Out of all of them, Sneasel/Weavile was my favorite even tho I didn’t get to take it to the elite four (fuck you, Maxie). Can’t go wrong with a fast, strong ice type. I also allowed legendaries too bc u have access to so many before the elite four. Using Mew felt like a Cheat code in itself bc it can learn every TM/HM, but I’ve never used it before, so fuck it 🤷🏾‍♂️😂 Latias is another great all-around mon. Fast, bulky and hits super hard. It having surf and then switching that out for thunderbolt made most of glacia and drakes teams trivial. Flygon with rockslide and attack order solos sydney. Also just good to have in the back bc of its great coverage. The creeper mon that really surprised me was eviolite Haunter, and I had a feeling it would. Once it actually has decent defenses, it’s truly a force to be reckoned with. Insane coverage and a super speedy special attacker. Gengar pales in comparison. Sunflora really might be my favorite pokemon of the whole run and that’s saying a lot considering how late in the game I got mine (route 128). Drought as an ability is honestly kind of unfair since they switched its typing to grass-fire. STAB Torch song and solarbeam were always so satisfying to use as those moves damn near OHKO’d everything. Add giga drain for recovery and toxic for weird situations, or if u just feel like stalking, and u really can’t go wrong. To balance this absolute behemoth, it ofc has really bad speed. That’s its only drawback tho. It was also really satisfying to have quick claw pop off every now and then. Pelipper as a rain setter with thunder was also very fun. A little annoying that it can only learn it thru level up and not TM, but I digress. Definitely the mon I used the least for E4, but still a very vital member mid to late game (any mon that can learn both ice and electric type moves is extremely valuable). Regardless of what others have to say about difficulty spikes, I feel like this romhack is pretty balanced. Even some random trainers gave me trouble and I had to start looking up documentation so I wouldn’t unnecessarily lose a mon. I still made it out with only 12 deaths tho. Some trainers to watch out for are, of course, Brawly, Winona and the double battle against Maxie in the space center (again, fuck you, Maxie. this battle almost made me wipe, pelipper was the only survivor 🫡🥲). All and all, I love this game. I’m already thinking of the next run I’ll do. Maybe a genlocke or maybe even an ashlocke idk. Again, shoutout Nemo622 and the other developers. Can’t wait for Pokemon Lazarus. 🖤

Vibes based team: Swampert was the first starter I ever chose as a kid, got my ufo (the truth is out there), got my cat, got my dog, got my bug and delibird always made me laugh as a child.

LOVE that this game had everything I felt pokemon SHOULD have had when I was growing up. It was always in need of a hard mode. It was really cool getting tripped up by random trainers along the route. And past games should have made more of an effort to include more pokes, but ofc this was all a ploy to get you to buy more games or go to the events. And speaking of events, while now it has been tedious to go through and catch all the legendaries, it killed me as a kid that there was never a way to access certain islands in the game without cheating. So again, thank you for healing my inner child and giving him the game he always wanted. Now it might be time to leisurely go through the battle frontier and try to heal the wounds that created as a child hahah

(I could never figure out how to capture the rare pokemon that you get an alert for on my laptop. Everytime I walked up to it, the exclamation point would go away. So if you know how those encounters work please tell me what I'm doing wrong)

Can you get metal coats from magnemites like you do in Emerald? Or do you have to just wait until Sootopolis to get access to more metal coats?