Seconding Golduck! I'd also recommend Adaptability Whiscash, Vikavolt, Lopunny (even without its mega stone), Gigalith, Lycanroc Midday and Escavalier. Dodrio was pretty good on my test playthrough too, and that was before I gave it Moxie.
Hey, you'll have to hack in the mega stones you want along with the ring. It's a little inconvenient in a Nuzlocke as you don't know which stones you'll need, but the only other option I had was making available as wild held items.
It's possible but not something I'd want to to do. Doing it yourself is actually pretty straightforward; the movepool changes are all included in one file, so all you have to do is copy it from the rebalanced version to the same place in the legal version. So you'd copy the file named "3" in romfs/a/0/1 in the rebalanced version to romfs/a/0/1 in the standard version. That will also copy across the rebalanced movepool changes, but the only other options are adding all the Sw/Sh moves again manually (look up pk3DS if you want to do that) or removing the rebalanced changes by hand after copying the files over.
Hi, the hack is basically a patch that gets applied over your base ROM while it's installed, so they use the same save file. You'll need to start a new game (maybe back up your old save first) to play the hack from the beginning.
Yup, Dark Void has 80% accuracy again. I still don't get why they nerfed it after making it Darkrai only, one of the two would've been enough.
I think the Excadrill thing's been brought up before, I'll give it Smart Strike by level up in the next update. It's level up move pool is ridiculously good as it is, so I'd like it to need a tutor or TM for something. The Drill Run/Earthquake thing is pretty weird and was fixed in gen 8, might actually do that.
You need the eshop update installed to prevent that.
Guess I was feeling a bit rude when editing that thing, it's definitely EV trained:
Yep you're spot on, it's a bug with the AI that's been around for ages. I was hoping GF had fixed it by now, but I guess not. They had it sorted for frontier trainers in Emerald but it seems they never added it to the regular AI. I'll swap Return out for something else, will probably need to do that for a few other trainers too.
That Grimer's there in vanilla too, though it's slightly stronger in the hack. Most of the early physical attackers can handle it with some help from your starter, and Shellos can also handle it by itself. Your own Grimer is a good way to beat it too, but of course that's not much help in a nuzlocke.
Guess I was feeling a bit rude when editing that thing, it's definitely EV trained:
It'd make a good frontier set at least!
Yep you're spot on, it's a bug with the AI that's been around for ages. I was hoping GF had fixed it by now, but I guess not. They had it sorted for frontier trainers in Emerald but it seems they never added it to the regular AI. I'll swap Return out for something else, will probably need to do that for a few other trainers too.
That Grimer's there in vanilla too, though it's slightly stronger in the hack. Most of the early physical attackers can handle it with some help from your starter, and Shellos can also handle it by itself. Your own Grimer is a good way to beat it too, but of course that's not much help in a nuzlocke.
Hey! Thanks, happy to hear that! Bisharp does learn Sucker Punch via TM, the Pokemon changes doc just doesn't make that as clear as it should. It only lists Pokemon that couldn't normally learn the move at all; any Pokemon that can learn it through any means in the official games are also compatible with the TM.
Good luck! Installing the update is covered in the install guide, which is included with the hack's files and is also in the hack's google drive. Yep, Mantine surf gives you plenty of BP; it's even faster than cheesing the battle tree if you get good scores.
