Toa of Gallifrey

I've been hearing a lot about how much easier ORAS is than RSE (and I actually do remember Ruby being a little harder) so I decided to take a second crack at Ruby after all this time. I was paying close attention to how fast my Pokemon leveled, the levels of opposing Pokemon and overall how long battles took or whether I ever got in any pinches. I saw my Pokemon growing pretty much like in Alpha Sapphire, comparing levels of trainers from ORAS in Serebii to their original RS counterparts, they were mostly the same (and some even had a Pokemon a level or 2 lower in the originals). Still, battles took longer and I wasn't sure why. I picked the same starter (Mudkip), I used the same moves as in Alpha Sapphire and they were growing at pretty much the same rate, but still my moves felt less powerful. Then I noticed why: the physical/special split. Since in the first 3 generations the damage type was determined by the move's type, Swampert only got the bigger boost by using Ground moves, rather than being able to use both Water and Ground moves so long as they were both physical. That's why when I hit with Waterfall in Ruby I dealt less than in Alpha Sapphire. In other news, found Cresselia thanks to Streetpass (or PSSpass?) today, took a looooong time to catch her but I got her in the nature I wanted.

I just caught up to Akame ga Kill! (though a new episode is airing today). I really like it, a cool shonen to watch but it's utterly heartbreaking. ;_;

If others enjoy it and you can just ignore the details you don't want and focus on G2, why not just let the others carry on? Yes, a lot of these things are trivial but evidently some find them cool enough.

It was a ton of fun, and made me much more confident in what I can achieve. Good luck to all!

That's a really cool idea, Phoenix! I found myself being pretty on par with the Gym Leaders using the Exp. Share (though I was a bit overleveled for the E4) and I explored pretty thoroughly.

I thought series 8 has been the best written series since 5, certain episodes excluded.

You post them on the entry thread.

I know there's been a lot of reported shinies from Mirage Spots (both normal Pokemon and legendaries), so I'd go on a limb and say they're probably a bit up (even factoring the gen 6 bump), like Friend Safaris in XY. Also, I thought powersaved Pokemon got glitchy when put on the GTS? If not then those shiny Deoxys there are probably powersaved. I was thinking the story legendaries (the weather trio, the eon duo and Deoxys) would be shiny locked but then proof came up that the eon duo wasn't shiny locked so I figured I'd give Deoxys a shot. @Alyska, I'm not sure. You can put it on the GTS now so if I had to guess, I'd say yes.

EDIT: Nevermind I just uploaded to Flickr.

No I was soft resetting to see if it wasn't shiny locked (since Mirage Spots aren't shiny locked and thus shiny Zekrom and shiny Reshiram are now legal) but the one I caught wasn't. I have reason to believe it's not shiny locked, because I've seen shiny Deoxys with the gen 6 pentagram on the GTS.

Thanks Ballom! I'll go ahead and use Flickr then.

I spent like 3 hours soft resetting for a shiny Deoxys, then threw a Quickball for fun and caught it. When I check its nature, it's Naive, the nature I wanted. I chose to keep it. xD

Entry #1: Pourewa http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Toa-of-Gallifrey/BIONICLE/Pourewa/1.png Gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/128941361@N03/sets/72157649113753439/ Thread: http://www.bzpower.com/board/topic/15994-pourewa-bftgm/ Pourewa used to be a pet Nui-Rama owned by Makuta Chirox and used in experiments. One of these experiments gave it sentience. It also gained an interest in experiments and creations. Pourewa made itself a valuable assistant to Chirox. Some Makuta say Chirox even considered it a friend. One of the first experiments Chirox conducted on Pourewa mutated his lower body and gave it four legs, but also left it vulnerable in the area where its legs and lower body connected. To try and fix this, Chirox repurposed a prototype defense turret from Destral into armored reinforcements for Pourewa’s weak spots. Additionally, the armored reinforcements were weaponized with two sphere lauchers and 16 nozzles (8 on the front and 8 on the back) that could launch Pourewa’s excess bodily energy in the form of bullets. One day, Chirox was summoned to Karda Nui and left Pourewa behind at his home in Visorak for safety. Pourewa, thinking Chirox was kidnapped, armed itself with Chirox’s warhammer and a Cordak Blaster modified to shoot elemental Shadow energy, and set off to find him. Even after the Battle of Bara Magna, Pourewa endlessly seeks his master and friend and crushes anyone he meets who isn’t Chirox. Pourewa features articulation in its head, jaw, legs, arms, wings, launchers and even its torso. It has internal gears which allow his launchers to be flipped up and down by flicking a lever, as seen in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g01XzFUwoOY Entry #2: Moana-Nui http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Toa-of-Gallifrey/BIONICLE/Moana-Nui/1.jpg Gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/128941361@N03/sets/72157649534101275/ Thread: http://www.bzpower.com/board/topic/15996-moana-nui-bftgm/ Moana-Nui is the fusion of a former Dark Hunter and a variety of aquatic Rahi. Only some Dark Hunters remember who Moana-Nui was before being fused to the aquatic Rahi. Those who know can’t say, for they know what the Shadowed One will do if they speak. The only thing they can say is Moana-Nui sold information on the Dark Hunters, especially the Shadowed One, to the Brotherhood of Makuta. Moana-Nui’s mind and feelings were taken over by those of the Rahi, but one of the Dark Hunter’s feelings remains: hatred. Armed with an axe imbued with elemental Water powers, Moana-Nui despises all living creatures, especially the Shadowed One and will go out of its way to harm anyone, especially Dark Hunters. Note: edited to fix bad links

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Toa-of-Gallifrey/BIONICLE/Moana-Nui/1.jpg Gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/128941361@N03/sets/72157649534101275/ Moana-Nui is the fusion of a former Dark Hunter and a variety of aquatic Rahi. Only some Dark Hunters remember who Moana-Nui was before being fused to the aquatic Rahi. Those who know can’t say, for they know what the Shadowed One will do if they speak. The only thing they can say is Moana-Nui sold information on the Dark Hunters, especially the Shadowed One, to the Brotherhood of Makuta. Moana-Nui’s mind and feelings were taken over by those of the Rahi, but one of the Dark Hunter’s feelings remains: hatred. Armed with an axe imbued with elemental Water powers, Moana-Nui despises all living creatures, especially the Shadowed One and will go out of its way to harm anyone, especially Dark Hunters. Note: edited to fix bad links

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Toa-of-Gallifrey/BIONICLE/Pourewa/1.png Gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/128941361@N03/sets/72157649113753439/ Pourewa used to be a pet Nui-Rama owned by Makuta Chirox and used in experiments. One of these experiments gave it sentience. It also gained an interest in experiments and creations. Pourewa made itself a valuable assistant to Chirox. Some Makuta say Chirox even considered it a friend. One of the first experiments Chirox conducted on Pourewa mutated his lower body and gave it four legs, but also left it vulnerable in the area where its legs and lower body connected. To try and fix this, Chirox repurposed a prototype defense turret from Destral into armored reinforcements for Pourewa’s weak spots. Additionally, the armored reinforcements were weaponized with two sphere lauchers and 16 nozzles (8 on the front and 8 on the back) that could launch Pourewa’s excess bodily energy in the form of bullets. One day, Chirox was summoned to Karda Nui and left Pourewa behind at his home in Visorak for safety. Pourewa, thinking Chirox was kidnapped, armed itself with Chirox’s warhammer and a Cordak Blaster modified to shoot elemental Shadow energy, and set off to find him. Even after the Battle of Bara Magna, Pourewa endlessly seeks his master and friend and crushes anyone he meets who isn’t Chirox. Pourewa features articulation in its head, jaw, legs, arms, wings, launchers and even its torso. It has internal gears which allow his launchers to be flipped up and down by flicking a lever, as seen in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g01XzFUwoOY Note: edited to fix bad links

I just finished the Delta Episode and running the Elite Four again. As for the above argument, There's a big mix of old Pokemon at the beginning of XY to balance out with the new ones and give variety and tap a little into nostalgia. This tends to be the least of the complaints of people who fervently hate anything new brought to the table. The 3 Pokedexes are also to put out lots of variety and allow new players to collect lots of Pokemon from all generations, plus it has the side benefit of allowing lots of variety in the online VGC battles where only regional Pokemon are allowed. Mega Evolution is a pretty cool concept (though storywise they kinda mucked it up with making it confusing when matching it to the timeline or game mechanics) in that you can make a mediocre Pokemon from a previous region that you don't like much stronger (like Mawile who went from NU to OU) or give a new alternative to an already powerful Pokemon (like allowing Scizor to act as a really good sweeper rather than just bulky support), without making it a permanent evolution and by handicapping said Pokemon to only being able to hold its Mega Stone (except Mega Rayquaza, imagine Mega Mawile @ Choice Band or Life Orb *shudders*) and only being allowed one Mega per team (with the exception of Hoenn's Primal duo). Gameplay-wise it has the added benefit of not making the Pokemon's former final majorly overpowered by having Eviolite work on it (like how Chansey @ Eviolite almost overshadows Blissey @ Leftovers in its sheer special walling capabilities), and being able to improve lackluster Legendaries without breaking tradition (although this possibility has only been applied to Diancie so far, since non-Mega Mewtwo and Rayquaza (who doesn't even suffer the biggest drawback from Megas!) and non-Primal Groudon and Kyogre (who also don't suffer one of the drawbacks from Megas). That's not to say Megas can't go too far, namely Blaziken (although normal Blaziken was already Ubers), Salamence, Kangaskhan and Gengar whose mega forms have been banished to the land of Ubers, and Groudon and Kyogre undoing the Gen 6 weather nerf (albeit thankfully only for them, and consequently only in Ubers), but when looking at Pokemon like Mawile, Sableye, Altaria, Swampert, Lopunny, Charizard, Blastoise, Diancie, Metagross and more, you can see that it does more good than harm to the metagame. Fairy works just the same way as Steel and Dark did back in Gen 2, only more Pokemon have their typing retconned since it's been longer. Just like Steel and Dark nerfed Psychic and buffed Fighting back in Gen 2, Fairy is here to balance out the Dragon, Fighting and Dark types that ran amok in Gen 4 and 5 metagames and buff Steel and Poison. Like with Steel and Dark, it had some adverse side effects such as giving less offensive presence to Bug and buffing Fire defensively (should've been the opposite, imo) but there's always room to help Bug types in the future, which I'm sure will happen given the marvelous Volcarona and actually pretty good Vivillon (it's quite good in Doubles) and while I don't really ever expect Fire to get shafted, it's not exactly top priority right now. I'd give ORAS a go, since (if I remember correctly) the only retconned non-Mega Hoenn Fairy is Azurill and only a couple Pokemon from later gens were added to the regional Pokedex (mainly Gen 4 evolutions like Dusknoir and Froslass). However, Megas are still pretty important (albeit less so than in XY), Still, it's a fresh take on Hoenn with beautiful 3D environments and cutscenes, spectacular music, great new features and the return of old features, an expanded plot (with some FANTASTIC postgame story), access to every non-Event Pokemon that wasn't available one way or another in XY as well as some character development for characters who lacked it in RSE like your rival, the Aqua/Magma admins and leaders and even Steven (who, while I always liked, felt a bit like a canon sue to me).

To me, it envokes the Glatorian, Piraka and Metru heads in a sweet combination

Oh man the music reminds me so much of Gravity Hurts. I can't wait!

I just beat the League a few hours ago. Wally and May made me tear up. ;_; I got the Shiny Charm for transferring my Livingdex from X and went off to mirage spots. Found a spot with Virizion and a spot with Mesprit but I soft resetted after finding out which Pokemon they are because I didn't bring preparations. I found an Unown mirage spot and I've been spending the last couple hours trying to get all 28. Only 2 left (S and ?), and I got a shiny K!

Toys R Us tends to break the street date, but there's no guarantee. I'm gonna check out my closest TRU within a week or two to see if anything has arrived.

The sets are created before the story team writes them. They couldn't have made them look like the Nuva, even if they wanted to. Actually, as I mentioned before, it seems the set designers had the Nuva in mind since the beginning because the original prototypes much more closely resembled the Nuva (and even the Mata), but focus group tests responded negatively and they were changed until they responded positively to the final (or at least near final) product.

Setwise, I'd say awesome. They were some of the most creative in HF and, while I'm not sure if they were the best sendoff, they were certainly great. Storywise, good God that was horrifying. Suddenly Von Nebula making a villain factory doesn't sound too bad. (jk it still does but seriously what the heck heroes?)

Oh alright, thanks for the confirmation!

I heard before that the Phantoka and Mistika originally much more closely resembled the Nuva (and even the Mata) but focus group testing results were negative until radical changes took place. I don't know if there's any truth behind that (I don't even know if TLG does focus group tests like that). I like the Phantoka and Mistika when I keep in mind that's Adaptive Armor and they can always take it off.

The Komau would've been so much fun to use against the Piraka.