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If you faint, the reviver seeds will revive you, replenishing hunger and PP so you can set up on evasion and take more clones on. Remember to use your regular attacks aswell to save PP. You want to inflict as much damage as possible. Start using your other offensive moves to take out the clones, until you recruit one. Wield the Friend Bow and Defeat the clonesĪs soon as Kecleon becomes hostile, the clones should start spawning rapidly. At the same time, you should consider finding an area where you can safely defeat Kecleons and set up again if you faint. It is preferred to do it on a water tile away from land, where you can't take any damage. Ten double teams should max out your evasion. The best ways to do this is by taking an item without paying (the way I did it) or by using the trawl orb near an area where you can freely set up Double Team without taking damage.Īfter setting Kecleon off (and hopefully defeating it), you need to set up your double teams. If you see a pattern that resembled the one that I showed before (Red dot in the middle surrounded by blue dots), then you've found one. The best way to do this is by using the X-ray Specs. I was lucky to find one on the fourth floor in the room that I spawned in. To be clear, I had to venture through Wyvern Hill twice because a Kecleon shop didn't spawn the first time round. The X-Ray specs can reveal all foes, teammates and unclaimed items, and the X-ray Specs reveal the whereabouts of Kecleon's store using this pattern: That gets replenished when a Reviver Seed is used, which is why I have a majority of the item box filled with reviver seeds. After 10 Double Teams, the Pokémon's evasion is maxed out and won't be affected by attacks as often as they should. Which is why the Pokémon you choose to bring must have Double Team. On top of that, you're also dealing with its endless amount of clones and their ongoing attacks. For the high rank level, it boosts the chances of recruiting Pokémon. Some can include: walking on all water tiles, clouds, lava tiles and digging through walls (Super Mobile), not setting off traps automatically (Trap Seer) and resisting sleep (Nonsleeper). it makes things just much more difficult.īut why Max IQ though? When you max out your IQ with gummis, you character can learn a number of new skills. but what happens after you make Kecleon hostile? Using/someone throwing a warp seed at you whilst you're shopping (happened twice to me) A trap or Pokémon using Self-destruct or Explosion next to the shop to destroy the shop (even though it was not you setting it off, you'd still get blamed) Using a trawl orb (preferably near the stairs) They are actually many ways to do a shoplift: Shoplifting may seem easy, but successfully pulling it off is actually quite challenging. It takes the word 'complicated' to a whole new level. So we'd assume that recruiting a Kecleon is just as easy as recruiting some other random mon like Stantler but it's not true at all. You'd think it would be easy, but NOPE I'm just getting started. ‘Trapped in an elevator’ – two people who barely know each other, or don’t like each other are forced together into a relatively small space. Mistaken declaration of love leads to love Forced Proximity In love with best man/chief bridesmaid/groom/ etc Honorable marriage (typical of historical novels) Mistaken declaration of love leads to love/can be coupled with marriage of honourįling/one night stand (can lead to unexpected baby)Īltar diplomacy (arranged for political reasons) Two person love triangle (mistaken identity) eg superman This may be seen as very contentious but in real life, these situations do occur. Sudden/unexpected baby (can be coupled with fling/one night stand)įorbidden love/star-crossed lovers Blind to loveĮveryone can see it (fits well with friends to lovers)Ĭhanging sexual preferences. Love interest reminds of estranged family member Parent with new love – kids want them to get together or don’t want them to Not good enough for him/her (pov of anyone) Matchmaker/ matchmaker gone wrong Enemies Many are applicable to several groups, and some are so iconic they need to stand on their own. Rather than list these romance tropes alphabetically, I’ve tried to organise them into groups with similar themes. I know someone in a very loving, and very sexual relationship with his best mate’s mother… How’s about that for an interesting take on a trope? Tropes used in my books I actually have a book in my head (currently about book fifteen), which explores this issue, using the example of a male friend of mine who is in a long-term relationship with his best friend’s mum. An example that would work in my world would be to use the ‘May to December’ age gap trope but have the man the younger party. Thinking of it in those terms makes the whole trope even more appalling to me. Imagine if Ana was the billionairess alpha dom in Fifty Shades of Grey, and Christian the poor virginal sub. Tropes work best when you don’t notice them, or can subvert them in some way. What is most important in your story are your characters, the relationship between them, and the ‘journey’ they go on. Tropes should serve your story, not the other way around. I saw a scene I had imagined between Sam and Jamie in a whole new way, and as such have changed it. Just as I was in the planning stages of Musical Games, I read a fantastic blog entitled ‘ Ten romance tropes that need to die already’. However as we move (hopefully) forward, I still find myself accidentally handling a trope in a way that offends even my own sensibilities. In today’s society it’s okay to write a female heroine who initiates sex without her being viewed as some kind of unstable jezebel. Triggered? Moi? Mais oui.Īs sexual politics and society changes, so do tropes. This may float many people’s boats, but it makes my blood run cold when I accidentally read a well-reviewed book that has a female ‘liking’ pain and humiliation at the hands of some jealous misogynist who controls every aspect of her life. After Fifty Shades of Grey exploded into the houses of pretty much everyone on the planet, the market boomed with the Billionaire alpha male dom/virgin female sub-trope. Other issues surround the tropes themselves. Rest assured, nookie was brought forward considerably in subsequent drafts. At the time of writing, I was nervous about writing my first sex scene and felt that I had to fall in love with Rory before he could have sex with Zoe/me… My alpha reader was literally screaming at me down the phone to make things happen between them. When I was writing Highland Games, the first sex scene didn’t happen until ninety percent through. If you have the trope of continual ‘will they, won’t they’ sexual tension between your characters, then the longer it is eked out, the more annoyed your reader is likely to be. They have to have more to their relationship than the one point connection of a trope. So, if we have the ‘friends to lovers’ trope with no explanation as to why they are friends and what makes their relationship a success, then simply calling them ‘friends’ then having them get drunk and make out isn’t going to cut it. The first issue with tropes is when they are used with a heavy hand. Wedding fever – runaway brides/jilted/best men/wedding planners.Stuck together – ‘trapped in an elevator’.Virgin falling for alpha male Arab Sheikh who forces himself on her, used to be very popular. Bear in mind some tropes are loved by some and loathed by others. Here are the twelve most popular tropes used in romance novels. 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