Tower of God - 9F

[Fragos]

What's up, everyone? Surprised to see the old good avatar of mine now? The change of my avatar means one thing - a new challenge for you regulars is now availible! This time, it will be an individual challenge where each participating regular will aim to show his best possible results. This month, you shall play the certain game. And the name of that game will be...

Tower of God - 9F:
http://i1.ytimg.com/sh/kptRdbJSfnA/showposter.jpg?v=5142da57

To participate in this challenge, you need to install Pokemon Reborn on your computer. You can download this fan-made Pokemon game from Pokemon Reborn website (http://www.pokemonreborn.com/game/).

The objective of your challenge might be simple, yet you will quickly find out that it will be your most difficult challenge that you have ever faced, cosindering the fact that you have to finish this challenge on your own. In the game that you have installed, you need to catch as many different kinds of Pokemon as possible - in other words, filling up your Pokedex! Pokemon from all 6 generations will be obtainable in this game, so if your dedication is strong enough you can end up with several hundred entries in your Pokedex. And yeah - the amount of Test Points awarded will be proportional to the amount of Pokemon that you have registered in your Pokedex. Shiny Pokemon in your collection can also increase your overall score. But it you think that this game will be all about catching Pokemon, that you are clearly wrong! Of course you have to make some progress in the game itself in order to unlock new areas where you can catch new Pokemon. Besides, it's always thrilling to find out who can catch the most amount of Pokemon ^^

In order to participate in this challenge, you need to install the game and notify everyone in this thread that you are willing to participate. You also need to tell everyone which starter Pokemon you will begin with. Pokemon Reborn will allow you to choose from one of 18 possible starters: Bulbasaur, Chikorita, Treecko, Turtwig, Snivy, Chespin, Charmander, Cyndaquil, Torchic, Chimchar, Tepig, Fennekin, Squirtle, Totodile, Mudkip, Piplup, Oshawott, Froakie. Just make sure that each one of you picks up a different starter Pokemon.

The entire challenge will last from October 1st to November 1st. That will be your time limit. Once October ends, so does the challenge. Before the deadline ends, you need to send me a copy of your own save file to my email: fragsbunny@gmail.com. This will allow me to directly evaluate your own Pokedex and see how far you have progressed. If you decide to give on your challenge midway for some reasons, you should still send me copy of your save file so that you can earn some Test Points. I'm not planning to give any hints to you on how to beat the game, but you are free to share your experiences with each other in this thread.

One more thing. Among those regulars that have decided to participate in this test, there will be always at least one loser. That will be the person who caught the least amount of Pokemon after the test ends. So you your best to catch as many Pokemon as possible! You also need to send your save file to me before the deadline ends, or else you will also fail the test. If you end up with least amount of the Pokedex entries, you'll lose Test Points instead of gaining then. The second to last place person's Test Points will not gain any Test Points at all (but he won't lose then either), so do your best to WIN! You have entire month in your disposal, so use your time well.

If you are not a fan of Pokemon or whatever, you can abstain from this challenge if you want. But for those who decided to participate I wish you good luck!

[Nick]

I'll test it out first.

[SuperJack]

I claim Bulbasaur.

[Fragos]

I claim Bulbasaur.

So this means you are already going to participate?

And Nick, if your "test" ever turns into real deal, mind telling us your starter already?

[Fragos]

Oh, I almost forgot to add important information!

The save file you need to send to me is called "Game.rxdata". Don't forget that before sending anything to me. You can send your save files at any day, not just near the end of the month.

[SuperJack]

/sign

Bulbasaur

[Nick]

/reserve

Charmander

[Nick]

Very nice game. Thanks for the recommendation.

[Fragos]

So, there are already two fierce rivals, competing for Reborn Pokedex! Will there be any more challengers?

Come in, everyone! This test is going to challenge more than just your own wits. The earlier you start, the better chances for you! Nick and SuperJack already got their headstart.

[SuperJack]

They swore at me! They did.

[SuperJack]

Caught a Pimped up Rat. Gold Plated.

[Nick]

Caught nothing fancy. Just the usual ones. :(

Story is good though. Lots of parody and humor.

[SuperJack]

Love the Level limits with the Gym badges though.

[Nick]

Caught a Pimped up Rat. Gold Plated.

Found Trashy with a Star.

[Fragos]

With powerofdeath's recent PM to me, there should be 3 participating regulars... Is that it?

Well, I can't blame you, since only about 10 people have seen this thread - our site is still largely inactive. I'll probably give some wake up calls if nessesary, but I'm sure that with the current popularity level more regulars will start to flow in. Damus Graves have just returned, so he'll eventually see this as well... Just keep spreading the word!

By the way, I hope you still remember that Heart Gold Community Nuzlocke? Out of all Nuzlocke games that I have prevously made, that one was a total blast. I have another similar thing in mind, but it does not relate to Pokemon at all, and will probably not relate to Tower of God either. Unfortunately, my life is still busy, so I'm just using this 9F challenge as some sort of excuse to take a break from Tower myself )

[Nick]

Dragon Rage at Lvl15 is OP. Massive power spike.

[powerofdeath]

The only reason I'm hesitating to do this is because there are only two other people playing. I never played pokemon and this put me in an disadvantage. I would sign if a few more would play

[SuperJack]

Honestly. It's an enjoyable RPG. Worth a try. I played Pokemon when I was younger, but its all changed and I'm basically just as new as you now.

Perhaps Fragos can remove the point loss untill there are at least 5 people playing.

[Nick]

This gotta catch them all is making my OCD worse, and it's tied to the story :(

[Nick]

http://www.pokemonreborn.com/typequiz.html

I'm a grass-psychic. But I hate Exeggutor :(

[AppleyNO]

>.<

Steel Type

[Fragos]

It has been nearly a week, so who is still partcipating in this challenge? I am planning to give a spare week for those who start out late.

[Nick]

Gym leaders too tough. Tried multiple times, only won with luck. :(

[Fragos]

But of course! This is the part of the challenge as well. If you can't beat then, then try to focus on capturing the Pokemon that are still avalible to you.

Or are you afraid that SuperJack gets the bast of you?

[Nick]

Sharing my team:

Charmeleon
Grimer
Meowstic-F
---
Pidgeotto
Kricketune
Goldeen
---
Pachirisu

[SuperJack]

Forgot I had to play it.

I have Ivysaur and Ekens atm.

[SuperJack]

Rewrite

I have

Ivysaur
Ekens
Panpour
Rattata (Shiny)
Hoothoot (Shiny)
Skunk



Got a skype Nick so we can talk about the game together?

[SuperJack]

So Far:

1st Badge Recieved. 4 Shinys Caught (I'm really lucky lol)

Team:
Ivysaur Lvl 20
Raticate Lvl 20 (Shiny)
PanPour Lvl 20
Makuhita Lvl 13
Noibat Lvl 16
Trubbish Lvl 14 (Shiny)


Back Up
Ekens: Lvl 17
Hoothoot: Lvl 12
Skunk: Lvl 17

[Fragos]

Don't forget that your primary goal is not competling gyms one after another, but collecting as many Pokemon as possible with the given time limit. Maybe once your game comes to an end, other will be probably impressed to play it in the next month.

[Fragos]

Also, the Reborn team is using their own variation of Shiny Pokemon. Here is an example of shiny Squirtle evolution line:

http://www.sc2mafia.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=17397&stc=1http://www.sc2mafia.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=17398&stc=1http://www.sc2mafia.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=17399&stc=1

[Nick]

I'm in only for the story...

[Nick]

I stole a Ponyta. I'm a Pokemon thief. No different from Team Rocket. :(

Had been nicking stuff from houses since day 1 though. Hehehe.

[SuperJack]

Ouch man. That sounds bad. but yet for a fire type :)

[Fragos]

Speaking of which... the shiny Ponyta is nothing special, but shiny Rapidash in Pokemon Reborn is a competely different story:

http://www.sc2mafia.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=17413&stc=1http://www.sc2mafia.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=17414&stc=1

[Helios]

I´m joining in too with Fennekin.
Playing already since 3 days, I´m searching the way to the 4th badge atm.^^

My Team:
Primeape lvl 37
Diggersby lvl 38
Delphox lvl 40
Meowstic lvl 37
Pachirisu lvl 38 (MVP)
Aromatisse lvl 36

Then a little question, since I never played gen6 I´m not that familiar with the pokemon their, is Noibat worth training? I used it in beginning, but the stats growth was horrible and it just died one hit from everything on the same lvl, thought it is a dragon and the max stats dont seem so bad on Bulbapedia.

[Nick]

So fast in 3 days? Level so high after bridge jumper, before reaching Shelly? Do you mean 5th?

[Helios]

Since Corvey (the bridge jumper) never gives you a badge I dont count him, since the actual poison badge is the 5th, I just finished the 4th (Omen Badge) were you need to fight Shade.
And yeah I have plenty free time atm holidays and stuff.^^ So my overall playtime lays at 24 hours, the problem I actually have is to keep my pokemon under the lvl cap, I needed 4 tries for the first badge because 2 of my six pokes were overlvld lol.

[Nick]

Shinies... they mean nothing if they don't have bonus stats. Only IVs and potential count.

[Helios]

Shinies... they mean nothing if they don't have bonus stats. Only IVs and potential count.

Yeah, agree on that, i found only 5 so far anyway, all pretty useless (Bidoof, Makuhita, e.t.c.)

[SuperJack]

Trubbish was a good help at the start with toxic spikes

[Nick]

Coveted Black Sludge from a Trubbish for my Grimer. Love Espurr.

[Helios]

Yeah my Meowstic is awesome, espacially for the fighting and poison gyms.^^ I´m at Pyrous mountain atm, the battle music there contains tetris. XD

Also Flame Body everywhere and no Burn Heals T.T

[Helios]

Just found a Helixfossil, wall broke down before i dug it out.... this luck :D

[SuperJack]

17415

[Helios]

exactly and helix would have been a nice reserve as water rock type. But well lets hope I find another one.^^

[Nick]

Close battle with burning field. Burnt Shelly's Pokemon. HM Slave saved the day. But I forgot to save, resetting after losing to Aqua Leader. Vent vent vent.

[Helios]

wow thats bad. XD I´m at the 7th badge atm and I can tell this is by far the hardest pokemon game ever, not alone the fights but the puzzles I need to solve the whole time, just so difficult.

Edit: Also I need to battle a giant Steelix now, wich is lvl 75 (my max lvl is 55 atm)

[Nick]

7 means 5 more gyms for you until the next update.

Around which gym do we get our Magikarp back?

[Nick]

Edit: Also I need to battle a giant Steelix now, wich is lvl 75 (my max lvl is 55 atm)

Gasp!

But it's ok. I beat a Lvl45 Klang with Lvl30+ Pokemons.

[Helios]

Gasp!

But it's ok. I beat a Lvl45 Klang with Lvl30+ Pokemons.

yeah that was actually the easy part the lvl 75 PULSE Abra after that is a pain, I swear it just melted my team down.

[Nick]

Must use pure Dark eh... so troublesome. Need to raise one from scratch?

[Helios]

Must use pure Dark eh... so troublesome. Need to raise one from scratch?

Nah it spams hyper beam so you have some turns to attack and then my Meowstick went in with Sucker Punch and finished it but with like 5 hp left and only because it used all hyper beams up for the rest of my team XD Also The "magikarp" is something else need to recheck it you get it somewhere between the 9th and 10th badge, where you need to solve some "Arcreus is our all god" puzzle, with bible verses from the Arcreus bible.

[Helios]

Yeah man riding a Tauros right now, beating ledges.^^

[Helios]

A hitn for everyone, you need to fight a lvl 80 Arceus after the 7th badge, it is impossible to kill without a Destiny Bond + Quick claw combo so get a pokemon that can learn destiny bond as early as possible (I would recommend koffing) or ghastly here a little hint were you can find it: http://prntscr.com/4w82ep .

Edit: Lucky me the game is bugged and I cant get the quick claw on the department store 3F so I need to catch around 50 sandshrews for one. :D

[Helios]

Team update:
Gengar lvl 57
Delphox lvl 60
Aromatisse lvl 60
Diggersby lvl 58
Pachirisu lvl 59
Primeape lvl 59

[SuperJack]

Broke my game. :(
So I started again with Torchic

[Helios]

Broke my game. :(
So I started again with Torchic

:( Hopefully a torchic with Speed boost.^^ I got the 10th badge now and I met the biggest troll ever even greater as necroplant and he is just an NPC called Terra, I swear I couldn´t stop laughing, that guy, if not for the challenge just play the game to meet him. :D

Also heretics: http://prntscr.com/4wocu8
http://prntscr.com/4wocwp

[SuperJack]

Yeh, Good Stats n Nature also!

[Helios]

Yeah btw, if you need to find anything I recommend checking the Reborn Forum: http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/
It is really really helpful without it I would be stuck at the 3rd badge still. XD

[Fragos]

Only 11 more days left before your challenge comes to its conclusion! Your primary objective is to fill up the Reborn Pokedex as much as you can.

Remember that you need to send your save file to me before the deadline so that I can validate your progress directly. The file is called "Game.rxdata".

[Helios]

Only 11 more days left before your challenge comes to its conclusion! Your primary objective is to fill up the Reborn Pokedex as much as you can.

Remember that you need to send your save file to me before the deadline so that I can validate your progress directly. The file is called "Game.rxdata".

Should we sort our shinys before sending it so you don´t need to search them in 12 filled boxes XD.

[Fragos]

Won't they show up in your Pokedex automatically?

[Helios]

Won't they show up in your Pokedex automatically?

Yes, as normal entries like every other pokemon, but not as shinys, if you want to give bonus points for them, you would need to look into the boxes.

[SuperJack]

Question

Do multiple of the same shinys count as extra points also?

Do evolution stages count as separate Shinys?

If so, If you had separate shinys for each state, are they worth points e.g.

[Fragos]

Do multiple of the same shinys count as extra points also?
No.

Do evolution stages count as separate Shinys?
That is not needed, as long as you have one shiny Pokemon in the single evolution line and can evolve it to advance your Pokedex.

[Fragos]

Only one more week left until the deadline! I hope that Nick, SuperJack and Helios have something really good to show in the end.

[Helios]

Well, I fucked a bit up and I´m stuck at the 11th gym so I couldnt do much anymore, but maybe i get 200 together still.^^

[SuperJack]

Lol no.

[Fragos]

Three days left until the deadline! I believe that you have already prepared your save files. My current email is fragsbunny@gmail.com. Make sure to send your Game.rxdata there!

[Helios]

Sended it over.^^

[Nick]

No find file...

[Fragos]

My own save was located in Users/<my own name>/Saved Games. Try to find your file there.

[Helios]

No find file...

Just search for game.rxdata on your computer and then you have it.

[Fragos]

I only need the save file from SuperJack now. Better show us something rather than nothing! It's the last day before the deadline!

[Fragos]

The time is out! I have never received any save file from SuperJack. He said that he caught about 30-40 Pokemon, but unfortunately, Nick and Helios have caught more Pokemon anyway.

For short summary:

Nick has registered 72 Pokemon in his Pokedex, 3 of which are Shiny. He earns 75 Test Points.
Helios has registered 163 Pokemon in his Pokedex, 11 of which are Shiny. I'll award him 175 Test Points, just because I am that generous! ^^
SuperJack will lose the same number of points as the point leader - 175 Test Points.

I'll show you the total summary of Nick and Helios collection soon. And... I'll see everyone else on 10F soon! Get ready for your next trial.

[Helios]

#PokemonMaster ,it would have been more fun, if ppl actually had participated actively and talked about the game and traded some pokemon locations. This way I lost my interest in Reborn for the time being, since I was stuck at the 11th gym and couldn´t go back throught Agate city, because it is under the eternal sleep that gets resolved in Ep14 first at best.

[Fragos]

Actually the story will stop afther clearing 11th gym, after which you will be able to revisit previous areas. Still, you could catch more Pokemon around with the given time. Oh well.

[Fragos]

Here are Nick's Pokedex entries. Gold means that Nick has a Shiny Pokemon on the same evolition line. Green means that Helios also has the same entry:



Charmander
Charmeleon
Caterpie
Beedrill
Pidgey
Pidgeotto
Spearow
Fearow
Ekans

Sandshrew

Vulpix

Oddish
Paras
Venonat
Diglett
Meowth

Mankey

Growlithe
Bellsprout

Geodude
Ponyta

Doduo
Grimer
Koffing
Tangela
Goldeen

Hoothoot
Spinarak
Cleffa
Mareep

Hoppip
Unown
Dunsparce
Poochyena
Zigzagoon
Wurmple
Whismur
Azurill
Skitty
Plusle
Minun
Gulpin

Spoink
Cacnea
Shuppet
Bidoof

Kricketot
Kricketune
Budew
Pachirisu

Glameow
Chingling
Stunky
Happiny
Carnivine
Finneon
Lillipup

Purrloin
Pansage

Pansear
Panpour
Pidove
Woobat

Sewaddle
Trubbish
Bunnelby
Scatterbug

Espurr
Meowstic
Spritzee
Swirlix
Noibat


Not bad for someone who only has 2 Gym badges!

[Fragos]

And now, Helios's Pokedex entries. Gold means that this entry also has a shiny Pokemon. Green means that Helios has the same entry as Nick:



Pidgey
Ekans
Arbok
Sandshrew
Clefairy
Vulpix
Jigglypuff
Oddish
Gloom
Paras

Venonat
Meowth

Mankey
Primeape
Growlithe
Abra
Machop
Bellsprout
Weepinbell
Geodude
Graveler
Ponyta
Magnemite
Farfetch'd
Grimer
Gastly
Haunter
Gengar
Voltorb
Electrode
Cubone
Rhyhorn
Rhydon
Kangaskhan
Goldeen
Seaking
Tauros
Ditto
Cyndaquil
Noctowl
Spinarak
Ariados
Pichu
Xatu
Mareep
Hoppip
Skiploom
Wooper
Unown

Dunsparce
Snubbull
Teddiursa
Ursaring
Slugma
Magcargo
Swinub
Piloswine
Remoraid
Delibird
Houndour
Phanpy
Tyrogue
Smoochum
Miltank
Zigzagoon
Lotad
Wingull
Whismur
Loudred
Makuhita
Nosepass
Meditite
Minun
Gulpin
Carvanha
Wailmer
Numel
Spoink
Spinda
Cacnea
Lunatone
Solrock
Barboach
Baltoy
Kecleon
Duskull
Absol
Wynaut
Sealeo
Piplup
Starly
Bidoof
Kricketot

Kricketune

Pachirisu
Drifloon
Buneary
Glameow

Chingling
Bronzor
Bronzong
Happiny
Skorupi
Croagunk
Lumineon
Rotom
Lillipup

Pansage

Pansear

Panpour
Blitzle
Zebstrika
Roggenrola
Boldore
Woobat
Drillbur
Sewaddle
Venipede
Cottonee
Basculin
Sandile
Crustle
Scraggy
Yamask
Mincino
Gothita
Solosis
Ducklett
Deerling
Emolga
Karrablast
Foongus
Klink
Klang
Cubchoo
Cryogonal
Shelmet
Accelgor
Stunfisk
Mienfoo
Druddigon
Golett
Pawniard
Bouffalant
Heatmor
Durant
Fennekin
Braixen
Delphox
Bunnelby
Diggersby
Skiddo
Pancham
Furfrou
Espurr

Meowstic

Spritzee
Aromatisse
Swirlix
Carbink
Phantump
Bergmite
Noibat



What else we can expect from someone who already has 10 badges? I believe Nick could catch even more if he had as much progress as Helios. Regardless, you did a great job for coming this far!