I'm afraid you'll have to take that to the admins on discord, I don't have much say in adding new mods.

I've created a new category for this chapter, you may submit your run now.

Hey, I have been contacted by the SRC mods and have created the new category and accepted your run, retiming it to 10:03.

I haven't received any messages from you on discord :( Next time make sure that you are messaging Ridelith (hashtag) 1546

You can also try and contact me through twitter whenever needed, I check that social media more often than discord, @Ride_Lith

I'm just waiting for the runs to be made. If you want to run a chapter, go for it, post it here or send me the run somehow and I'll create the category. No point in having dozens of categories with no submitted runs.

I tested Bisharp and Lucario, with conventional route and using Ralts (from Motochika) with Lucario and Spheal alongside Bisharp. Didn't get good results. Bisharp gets bodied HARD on Cragspur and Yaksha, losing like 5+ minutes. Lucario gets bodied hard in the early game by basically everything.

Still need to try Excadrill and Tyranitar, but things are not looking so good for those new pokés. Ice Beam is just way too good for late game castles.

Also worth noting that you can enter event passwords, like the one that gives you Motonari and Motochika instantly. No clue how useful those events will be to Any%.

Quickly looking through the newly available pokés, here are those that I think are worth considering. Mostly I look for good coverage for late game castles and a move that can hit multiple enemies, has good range and isn't clunky to use. The ones I'm most excited about are highlighted.

• Bastiodon: Rock Slide has a little bit less accuracy and power compared to Ice Beam, and Bastiodon has way less attack than Lapras. Would help a lot in Avia though, so we could reroute Jolteon into Vaporeon to cover most of what Ice Beam would. Not that excited about this one, though.

• Beedrill and Leavanny: Really good against Yaksha, really bad against anything else.

- Bisharp: Extremelly high Attack stat coupled with a good move and neutral coverage for most castles, except for Spectra, where it hits for super-effective, and Yaksha, where it would struggle a lot. Definitely worth testing.

• Boldore: Similar problems compared to Bastiodon. We can't reasonably evolve this during the run, but 215 attack is very attractive.

• Crobat, Drapion, Toxicroak: Very strong move, unfortunately Poison sucks for later castles.

- Excadrill: Now this is interesting, as we'd get an Excadrill anyways, so having two of them in the Password slots frees up a slot in the party and I'm not sure how I'd fill it. It would absolutely demolish Violight, Valora and Cragspur, but would be useless against Avia. Maybe this could be coupled with an electric type recruit from Violight and Vaporeon route, but I'm not sure.

- Lucario: A beefed up version of Gurdurr that would help significantly with Yaksha, Cragspur, Valora and Nixtorm. Worth trying out, although hitting a single target bums me out. Will also be completely useless in Spectra, but hey it could mean routing out Excadrill and getting something else for Spectra so who knows.

• Staraptor: Really storng pokémon overall, but lacks the coverage for later castles.

- Tyranitar: While the 80% accuracy is a bummer, it's attack is massive and it has great coverage for Avia and Nixtorm. It doesn't do much in Valora but hey, neither does Lapras. I'm still very skeptical about the accuracy and, of the highlighted pokés this is the one I'm the least excited to test.

• Zebstrika and Galvantula: Sorta meh... Discharge is nuts, but it'd be doing Jolteon's job and we'd be going Vaporeon route. Almost completely dead on Cragspur, where we need a lot of help.

Worth noting that choosing any of those would imply a harder Dragnor fight since we'd be lacking Ice coverage.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/pokemon-conquest-password-generator.329260/

So I just found out this very old thread with a password generator for Conquest (already downloaded, apparently safe).

Thing is, it can generate passwords for Pokémons that were not released officially, potentially rendering the Lapras route obsolete (and demanding extensive rerouting with the new options).

I'd argue that we could find those passwords by brute force, and a player could randomly insert those characters in the Password box and get those Pokémons in a casual playthrough, so it sorta is a feature that could be used in runs.

On the other side, using Passwords is already a stretch and using non-official passwords is stretching the 'spirit' of speedrunning even further.

I don't know of any other examples of other games/communities that had this sort of problems, so idk about precedents to make a ruling on this.

What do you guys think, should non-official Passwords be allowed on Any% Passwords or not?

If you start a new game with a save file already in place the game does not prompt you to save, even after credits. It's what I do in my runs to automatically skip the save prompts after each castle.

If unlocks are allowed it's a precedent for allowing previous gameplay to influence the run. I'm in favour of that, but if that's the case then the precedent is there to allow using the whale bonus at the start. Unless we wanna just arbitrarily allow unlocks and ban whale.

What about unlockable cards/relics and S+Q (to reset battles)? Will those be allowed?