[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Lord Windos]

The catch with Beldum is it gets 0 egg moves due to being genderless.  No rare moves to be had there.

Iron/those Breeders could always find a way for a Beldum to get an ? Move, somehow. Either that, of those breeders spend resources to teach it a useful TM/Tutor Move before sending it off to Heart. Plenty ways to make sure that Spirit/Heart ain't stiffed by accepting a Beldum, I think.

[Spiritmon]

Hmm that's actually a awesome idea. It is indeed a good course of action. If it is actual possible in get a Beldum with such moves... must think about that first though.

[Spiritmon]

Talking about moves, have you decided what type Arete gonna become? Do you want keep her Bug/Water typing? Or want to change to other type? Like Steel/Bug?

[Lord Windos]

Talking about moves, have you decided what type Arete gonna become? Do you want keep her Bug/Water typing? Or want to change to other type? Like Steel/Bug?

I would prefer Arete to keep their/her Water/Bug Typing, as it's actually a pretty great one in all honestly. Only has three Weaknesses (Rock, Electric, and Flying), one of which it's counters with one of its STABs and the other pseudo countered with their HP Fire, leaving it with only 1.5 Weakness to their name. Combine that with a great Ability in Water Absorb and their just wide enough Movepool to take advantage of their Typing , and they're/she's just plain great as they/she is!

Honestly, the only other types I'd want Arete to change into are Fire/Bug (Power up that HP Fire! Turn it into Volcarona 2.0!), Electric/Bug (Another rare and great Typing, and shenanigans to be there!), Steel/Bug (The Classic!), and Normal/Bug (Quick Attack would get buffed, It would only have the typical Bug Weaknesses, and Normal Types have an absurdly large TM Movepool). Hopefully they'll maintain their current Typing for quite awhile after Terra gets done installing the Mecha Volcanion Parts and the Genesect Exoskeleton.....among other things....

One thing I'd be interested in is improving upon Arete's Longevity Plot Device, as that path lies interesting developments, like Recovery Moves and enhanced regeneration capability.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Also, Mika said Spira had 1 of the keys (and was splitting the funds from it evenly), Heart has the second...there were three, right?  I'm guessing Shiva had the third one?

I'm keeping that one because it makes a great gift for shiny Klefki to start up his new collection of keys. We all got so much loot to sell that this should be fine, please none try to pressure Shiva into parting with it.

(...)He (Terra)'s still patiently waiting for everyone's opinion on whether they should wait a day to Fight DEOXYS or not, where they should stay for the night (or if they were all going to bed in diff. locals), and their opinion on him attempting to recruit Chuckles!(...)

I responded to that as the only one, found here and here. If you like to contact Chuckles, nothing speaks against that at all, it's worth a try definitely.

[Dragonstrike]

Sorry about the wait, guys. Was busy last night. About to head to work. I'll post when I can. Just did a little number crunching, so that should ideally be soon.

[Spiritmon]

Talking about moves, have you decided what type Arete gonna become? Do you want keep her Bug/Water typing? Or want to change to other type? Like Steel/Bug?

I would prefer Arete to keep their/her Water/Bug Typing, as it's actually a pretty great one in all honestly. Only has three Weaknesses (Rock, Electric, and Flying), one of which it's counters with one of its STABs and the other pseudo countered with their HP Fire, leaving it with only 1.5 Weakness to their name. Combine that with a great Ability in Water Absorb and their just wide enough Movepool to take advantage of their Typing , and they're/she's just plain great as they/she is!

Honestly, the only other types I'd want Arete to change into are Fire/Bug (Power up that HP Fire! Turn it into Volcarona 2.0!), Electric/Bug (Another rare and great Typing, and shenanigans to be there!), Steel/Bug (The Classic!), and Normal/Bug (Quick Attack would get buffed, It would only have the typical Bug Weaknesses, and Normal Types have an absurdly large TM Movepool). Hopefully they'll maintain their current Typing for quite awhile after Terra gets done installing the Mecha Volcanion Parts and the Genesect Exoskeleton.....among other things....

One thing I'd be interested in is improving upon Arete's Longevity Plot Device, as that path lies interesting developments, like Recovery Moves and enhanced regeneration capability.

Heart could actual help Terra to give Arete Fire/Bug typing. Maybe. Yeah, Volcanion parts could give Genesect the Fire typing too, but maybe Heart Fire Bless could help her receive her fire power. But just if you want of course, but thats just a idea of mine.

Now, about if we should rest for the next day in game, I total favor with that idea. We had a long run in the run in the Skull Ruins, and Gustav didnt recover his slots of Heal Pulses. And if we go now, a long and hard battles will await for us.

[Spiritmon]

Hmm considerally the situation and stage of late game, Beldum would make be the best pick to get. And after the battle against Deoxys, I could make a request to Dagny in give Heart the last Beldum to make a almight Metagross. Problem is that he doesnt have Egg moves.

@Iron, it is possible to open a exception for Baby Beldum have some other moves since he doesnt learn any Egg moves? I remember a time ago Nintendo and GameFreak give players a pokemon gift with a shiny Beldum who had this order of moves: Hold Back, Iron Head, Zen Headbutt and Iron Defense. Could be possible if the breeders could make a Beldum with Headbutt, Iron Head, Zen Headbutt and Iron Defense as request of breeding? If there is any Pokedollar charge along with Conkelkurr, Heart will paid with no problems. Since the Ruin Conkelkurr is very rare, than nothing more than a Rare Beldum no? Doesnt need to be shiny (although the white Beldum is really beautiful).

[Lord Windos]

Hey Dragonstrike, have a couple of ideas I want to shot at ya, so here they are!

- Given the wording of Princess's Orders, you could possibly spend XP on them to make them Spread (Or Make Heal Order both Self and Other Targeting).
- If Night Slash could conceivably be channeled as an energy attack (Ala Psycho Cut), it could be made into a Ranged Attack or even a Spread One with enough XP.

I'm also wondering if you had any ideas yourself with our battle strategy against Deoxys, and general suggestions really, or any future Mods you could suggest for Arete? Because Nathan is one of the people Terra's going to 'hire' to research/help him with Arete after the DEOXYS Disaster is done, alongside perhaps Ventus (Oh, the irony), some Scimitar lads (maybe), and probably some researchers from Dr. Mallorn , if at all possible.

[Spiritmon]

Hmm... according to the corebook, Larvesta can learn Bug Buzz and Bug Bite via level. Metang can also learn Signal Beam, but it is not in his ??? Move list unfortunately.