Awesome / Pokémon Reborn

• Amaria, the Water Gym Leader, saves you from being killed by Solaris’s Garchomp with her Lapras, right after she and her team took down a small army of Team Meteor grunts and their Pokémon.
  • Right afterwards, Solaris orders his Tyranitar, a high leveled pseudo-legendary capable of soloing your entire team at that point, to attack her before he gets away. Amaria comes out of it with nothing worse than a few broken ribs.
• The Establishing Character Moment of Amaria’s Lapras Deliverance, and a clear indicator of how strong Amaria’s team is. Namely, Deliverance freezing a Waterfall that they just made with an Ice Beam to create a set of stairs for you and Amaria.
  • Sadly, Episode 19 removed this, instead having Ace, through unknown means, teleport both the player and Amaria up to the top of the building.
• Saphira’s way of telling Connal to shut up when she meets him at Belrose Manor when he claims to be there for Charlotte, Anna, and Noel? She has her Dragonite blast him through the wall with a Hyper Beam.
• You and Florinia, in succession, fight off two Meteor Aces, Fern and Blake, and finally an orderly and Solaris, all by yourselves! Considering the last time you fought Solaris alone you were all but guaranteed the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle, fighting off him as well as his backup is a huge indication of how far you and your team have come.
• The early Gym Leaders are in no way falling behind you. You thought you and your rivals alone can utilize Took a Level in Badass? It doesn't matter how far you advance, they are not far behind you, and never fail to lend a hand.
• The Gym Leaders of Reborn in general, really; they are arguably the toughest in the Pokémon Franchise. From the first gym, all of them have a six-Pokemon team, as well as a terrain that is designed to make things as advantageous for them as possible, and multiple ways of dealing with attempts at exploiting their weaknesses. There are many reports of players having to go back and raise several new Pokémon, or even an entire team, just to defeat a single Gym Leader.
• Cal having the balls to turn on Team Meteor for killing Kiki. Sure, he was stupid enough to join them in the first place, but he actually admitted his weakness and saved everyone at the Academy.
• Charlotte helping you storm the orphanage to rescue Heather- and not only that, she burns Dr Sigmund's face with her cigarettes.
• The giant Steelix in Tanzan Mountain. Not only is fighting it amazing, but the sheer amount of work put in to animating it must have been massive- and once you defeat it, you and Saphira ride it.
• Adrienn. Xe gets frozen in time for at least ten years, and upon being rescued and finding out how things have gone to shit while they weren't around... they go out there and make it better. Reborn City gets fixed up considerably, and Adrienn's the one behind most of it.
• It may be in a bad context, given that you, Cain, and Shelly are all Brainwashed and Crazy for part of it, but the Gauntlet battle is this. You're taking on a former Reserve Gym Leader (Cain), and four current Gym Leaders (Shelly, Radomus, Serra, and Luna), all by yourself. These are five people who have incredible experience in battling, six-Pokémon teams higher-leveled than most Champions by now, two Mega Evolutions total as well as a Z-move, and have individually caused many Reborn players to have to prepare specifically for how to take them down. And the game's canon route has you taking on all five of them in succession, and you beat them all.
• Just the sheer amount of work and effort that went into making episode 19 and the postgame. Not only does the latter have quests for all the legendaries, but there's a ton of plot and character development in them. Ame and the team deserve a medal.
• Sirius getting a well-deserved Karmic Death at Saphira's hands in Victory Road after he gloats to Charlotte that he was the one who caused the fire that killed her parents. After all he's done, he likely won't be missed.
• A rare example that doesn't involve one took place in the backstory, and it came from Fern of all people. In a moment that's also quite sweet, Florinia tells you a story. On her 15th birthday, her parents got her a doll, among many other things - and when she opened it, it had been defaced by two other students in her year, who had crashed her party and then fled. In the meantime, Fern had forgotten to get her a present - so he made do. How did he do this? He tracked down those two other students, who Florinia mentions were five years older than him, and stole their shoes as revenge for his sister. He came back covered in mud, grinning from ear to ear.
  Florinia: I don't remember a single other thing I got that year.
• During Lin's postgame route, she claims that the player was just another of her dolls. Sparing her at the end of the route sees her flabbergasted, unable to understand what the player did or why. This would seem to indicate that, after everything, the player character managed to grow a sense of self.

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