alphaplayer

Thanks for the responses! Right, Camaraderie is -that- limited, fair enough. I only got it via googling porygon2 passwords because I was frustrated by the shiny recruit failure, a consequence of the recruit chances not being obvious (which is fine). As for the shiny recruits, yeah it was either gonna be similar to the non-shiny, similar to legendaries (-10%), or similar to kecleon (must be literally capped in recruit rate). It's the latter and I've wasted a couple of days then but, so be it. I regret not starting with Recruit Em All, which is why I was hoping I could enable it midway through a save. This is only really because it's impossible to know recruit chances of pokemon, which is how I ended up with the shiny grind even though it was 0% odds, but I'm glad you answered that (and that that recruit item exists). Thank you. As for the Manectric... range moves don't help unless they're room-wide, right? You start off at an L shape to all enemies and they close the distance into 1 tile range from there, you can't actually hit them from the initial position with linear moves. Room-wide ones though, I guess if you're lucky enough to run into them in the kecleon shop? Or you expect me to not do the main story until I roll roomwide TMs in the shop? It's fine, just I guess I underestimated the difficulty and it's about figuring out your expectations for how I play. Especially because my starters are H sneasel and A vulpix, which I think leaves my only option blizzard? Perhaps you expect me to bring in two more fully trained pokemon (I've just been proceeding with my starters and a stack of reviver seeds), again it's just a matter of me figuring out your expectations, and how much it's a 'difficulty hack' or not. I don't understand how they could not one shot though, given that they get at minimum 3 howls a turn with there being so many of them. They're capped out in attack almost immediately. I'm much beyond that now but, this was by far the biggest hurdle I've come across. Really enjoying it by the way, I think it's just a matter of me setting my expectations to match what you think a player should be doing. Thanks for the info.

Hey, just a few questions. Who can actually learn Camaraderie? I've got the TM and 100+ recruits but it seems not one pokemon can learn it? Is it possible to turn on Recruit Em All without restarting the entire game? Edit: I've looked at the challenge options through the L menu but Recruit Em All is missing, most (maybe all) others I can activate, but not this one. Also, the way Recruit Em All is worded is a tad confusing- if I recruit say Wurmple then evolve it to Cascoon, is Wurmple recruitable again as I don't currently have one? I believe that's how it works but confirmation would be great, thanks. I'm currently 140 kills on Shiny Buneary with Friend Bow on and I've never recruited it once- I suspect the odds are 0% or negative right now. And this is frustrating me no end. Overall I've realized that recruit rates as a whole are going to be impossible to find for this game, so I'd like to take advantage of Camaraderie or Recruit Em All to fix this, but I don't want to start again. On a side note, balance so far has been mostly great and I'm loving the romhack- but I think it's really, really unfair giving the Manectrics in the Amp Plains boss fight access to Howl. The entire team will permanently oneshot mine due to howl spam, it just felt deeply unfair. Otherwise, zero real problems with it, amazing hack.