Pokemon Moon FAQ V1.0

	Pokemon Moon Any% Speedrun FAQ

Q: Why not Sun?
A: Because Pokemon Sun is a lot more inconsistent in areas. The most obvious ones are Dexio with confuse spam, which can waste like a minute if it goes well for him, and Totem Gumshoos has Super Fang which is very dangerous (and Totem Raticate only has Bite).

You also fight Parasect in Lush Jungle which has Spore and a bunch of stab life draining moves which makes it hard to kill.

Other than that, Solgaleo has a better movepool but has inconsistent accuracy on his moves making it much riskier to play with.

Q: Why the boy?
A: He is chosen to skip getting the Makeup Bag; only the girl recieves this key item, saving around 4 seconds.

Q: What is the best starter in the game for a speedrun?
A: Popplio is the best starter. It has the best type coverage early on with Normal, Water and Fairy, and all the moves it learns early on work off its amazing special stat. It can be chosen with very low IVs which makes it perfect as it makes resetting less often; it only struggles with one area in particular, that being the Totem Lurantis fight. In the super late game, it even has uses in the Elite 4 where you would normally just use the legendary Pokemon, Lunala.

Q: Why is Lunala used in the Elite 4?
A: It has amazing special stat and great speed, with an amazing ability that halves all damage; this lets it setup on literally anything and makes it amazing to abuse X items with.

Q: You catch Pikipek at the start. Why is that?
A: You need two Pokemon to enter Po Town, otherwise the Team Skull grunts force you away. It is faster to catch Pikipek and deposit him later for withdrawal as the catch rate is 100% on Route 1, and it is a guaranteed encounter; this wastes the least amount of time overall.

Q: How long is this run?
A: This run is around 6~ hours long, but can probably go as low as 5 hours and 30 minutes or even less. Note that this is for Old 3DS; New 3DS runs a lot faster and unless someone donates a lot of money, I will not be running this version of the game.

Q: "But you can't speedrun this game it's full of cutscenes!!!"
A: Not a question but just because a game has downtime it doesn't mean it can't be speedran. This would invalidate almost every new game.

If you can't handle cutscenes, then watching this speedrun probably isn't for you either lol.