The Ultimate Monotype Challenge

[Griffinbane]

Ground Monotype - SoulSilver

So when I got to Goldenrod last night, I was super hyped because I had two bulky defensive 'mon. Then just after I finished running through the gym, I realized... my team was completely male! Wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry. Clefairy went down easily but of course, Miltank was the troublesome one. I had to switch back and forth between Geodude and Quagsire everytime one of them got hit with Attract. It made for a very tedious battle. A win's a win, but now some trainer who's got a Tangela with Growth has got me trapped. Grr.

Current team:
Golem Lv. 25 - Magnitude|Rock Blast|Tackle|Self Destruct
Quagsire Lv. 25 - Water Gun|Slam|Mud Shot|Amnesia

 

[jdthebud]

Update for Final Ultimate Monotype Challenge - Water!

Update #3 on Black 2.

• Beat the Grunts that Hugh stopped in Nimbasa City, then headed over to the Driftveil Drawbridge, where I caught Coby the Ducklett.
• Moved on to Driftviel City, where I beat Rood in a battle. Afterwards we talked and he gave me N's Zorua.
• Defeated the trainers on Route 6, then took on the Driftviel Gym.
• Clay was tougher than I thought he would be since I didn't have a whole lot of good Water moves yet, but Torrent finished strong.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Won the Driftveil Tournament at the PWT, then helped Hugh and Cheren beat Team Plasma on the Plasma Frigate.
• Went back to Route 6 and got the Surf HM from Cheren! \o/\o/\o/\o/!
• Surfed in the water on Route 6 and caught my fourth team member, Piranha the Basculin! He ironically has a Docile nature, hehe.
• Took my team to the newly ascessible water areas around Aspertia City for items and stuff.
• Explored the rest of the Castelia Sewers, Mistralton Cave, and Relic Passage, and Coby evolved into Swanna!
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Went up to Chargestone Cave to make my way through to Mistralton Cave, and Torrent evolved into Samurott!
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Continued on to Route 7, and after learning Shell Smash at L38, Archelon evolved into Carracosta!
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Defeated all the trainers on Route 7 and also in Celestial Tower, then took on the gym.
• Skyla wasn't too difficult, although she required multiple party members to take her down.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Got a ride to Lentimas Town on Skyla'a plane and saved the game there.

Team Devin:

Archelon the Careful Carracosta, ♂ - L39 @ Amulet Coin
Ability: Solid Rock
Moves: Aqua Jet, Rock Slide, Shell Smash, Strength

Piranha the Docile Red-Striped Basculin, ♂ - L39 @ Mystic Water
Ability: Adaptibility
Moves: Aqua Tail, Crunch, Surf, Double-Edge

Coby the Modest Swanna, ♂ - L39 @ Sharp Beak
Ability: Big Pecks
Moves: Air Slash, Fly, Surf, Rain Dance

Torrent the Hasty Samurott, ♂ - L39 @ Mystic Water
Ability: Torrent
Moves: Razor Shell, Water Pulse, Megahorn, Dig

Aquaman the Bold Vaporeon, ♂ - L40 @ Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
Moves: Surf, Quick Attack, Aurora Beam, Acid Armor

HM Slaves:

Lilligant - Cut, Flash [boxed]

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[qw13]

Final team for Fire Monotype:

Spoiler:

Charizard is sure a classic. Ignis rocked everybody, that's sure. He was really overleveled since he was the only Pokemon I had til' I got to Celadon which is fourth badge and an easy one for my fire types. He got Fly, Flamethrower, Dig and Slash. He was also the only one with a secondary type. MVP.

He was weak since he doesn't get Flamethrower until later levels. But when he evolved, he was a beast. If he didn't took all that time to evolve, he would be MVP, but he was still good anyway.

She was a good supporter overall. Toxic+Confuse Ray+Reflect+Flamethrower combo was really good. I am going to use her again next time.

I am really going to reduce the number of Pokemon I use in the next challenges. They were good, but they didn't do anything special. Charizard had flying type, Arcanine had monster special, Ninetales was supportive. But Gallops and Inferno were really the same, and they had nothing special.

Flareon is really waste of a Rare Eevee and a Fire Stone. Never gonna use Flareon again. LVP.

Flying monotype didn't change yet. Next monotype is....
Ghost! Creepy isn't it? Going to hack a Gastly as starter, then get a second from Pokemon Tower.

 

[kirax7]

#1 Update for Monoground

-Picked

-caugth a

in Route 22
-grinded it to LV8 in the wood
-defeated Gary
-

evolved into

in the wood

: difficulty 1/5
*

was strong enough to kill his rock type easily
-caught a

in Mt.Moon
-evolved

as soon as I got Moon Stone into

-caught a

in Route 4
-defeated Gary on the Nugget Bridge
-got SS ticket

: difficulty 4/5
*Bubble Beam from

destroyed

but he hit hard and for

then was a joke to finish

off
-

and

evolved into

and

in SS Anne
-defeated Gary

: difficulty 0/5
*

knew Dig so I'll let you wonder how I defeated him xD

that's it for now.

 

[Harmonixer3500]

Second to last update for my Poison run in Fire Red version. Trained my team to lvl 43 and made short work of Blaine thanks in no small part to Tentacruel's Surf attack. After I healed at the Pokémon Center I made my way back to Viridian Gym and made short work of the Jr. trainers and Giovanni himself thanks to the combined efforts of Golbat, Venusaur, and Tentacruel. I'll be omitting Beedrill's stat block this time since I used the Rare Candies I've been saving the whole game to get it to lvl 50. Besides I can only post 5 pics and I don't want to give the admins a reason to dislike me so from now on I'm only posting 5 stat blocks at a time

 

[kirax7]

#2 Update for Monoground - Blue

-evolved

into

ASAP
-got the bycicle
-done Rock Tunnel
-taught

Ice Beam

: difficulty 0/5
*

froze everything

-done Rocket Hideout, Pokemon Tower and Silph Co.
-done cycling road and routes before Fucshia City
-got Surf and Strength

Koga: difficulty 0/5
*

shaked him for good

-done Fighting Dojo

: difficulty 0/5
*

Sword Dance+Body Slam

-done Water Routes near Pallet Town
-done Pokèmon Mansion

: difficulty 0/5
*

and the Earthquake

: difficulty 0/5
*this time

and Earthquake

-defeated Gary on route 22
-done Victory Road

Elite 4

*Lorelei: difficulty 1/5 died once but then Sansdslash's Sword Dance+Earthquake made it
*Bruno: difficulty 0/5 he is weak as always Nidoking destroyed him
*Agatha: difficulty 0/5 weak to Earthquake=victory
*

: difficulty 0/5

Thunderbolt on

and

Ice Beam on

x2 and

: difficulty 1/5

vs

double Ice Beam 3-5

vs

double Earthquake 3-4(he set up Reflect)

vs

Ice Beam OHKO 3-3

vs

Earthquake 3-2

vs

Ice Beam 3-1

vs

Sword Dance-Withdraw Earthquake Withdraw-Earthquake 3-0

Final Team:

MVP LV57
Thunderbolt
Ice Beam
Thrash
Bubblebeam

LV56
Earthquake
Submission
Rock Throw
Strength

LV56
Earthquake
Body Slam
Swords Dance
Rock Slide


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[WarriorCat]

Pokemon White 2 Flying Update

I've been playing White 2 and waiting to finish FireRed. I played on Monday, but haven't been able to update til now.

Here are a collection of pictures.

Spoiler:

Team:

Spoiler:

Braviary Lv.34
- Wing Attack
- Hone Claws
- Strength
- Aerial Ace

Golbat Lv.34
- Confuse Ray
- U-Turn
- Bite
- Wing Attack

Tranquill Lv.21 (Boxed)

 

[kirax7]

#3 Update for Monoground - Gold

-picked

-done beginning stuff
-caught a female

on Route 46
-grinded to LV8
-caught a

and traded it for Nixy the Male

-grinded

to LV7

: difficulty 2/5
*easy enough with two Rock Pokemon

-caught a female

on Route 32
-grinding

-done Union Cave and Slowpoke's Well

: difficulty 5/5
*with my LV17

I couldn's kill

without the using

's Rock Throw

-defeated the Rival
-done the wood and various Routes
-taught Ice Punch and Headbutt to

and

-

evolved into

at National Park

: difficulty 1/5
*

's Screechx2 on both

and

and they died quite fast

-with Ice Punch gone to Sprout Tower and finished it
-defeated Kimono Girls
-defeated Rival at Burnt Tower

: difficulty 0/5
*

's Dig OHKO everyone

-done the Lighthouse
-done the water Routes

: difficulty 0/5
*

just learnt Earthquake and killed it really fast

: difficulty 0/5
*Earthquake worked here too

-continuing to the Lake of Rage
-defeated Rocket's Hideout

: difficulty 0/5
*difficult for

so I changed strategy to Earthquake,

OHKO everyone

-done Radio Tower quest
-caught a female

-grinded a lot to LV35

: difficulty 2/5

died to Surfs so

Earthquaked everything xD

-done Victory Road and defeated rival

 

[kosuke]

This is my 3rd update already

Ultimate Monotype Challenge - Normal

Pokemon LeafGreen Update

Spoiler:

• arrived at Celadon City
• battled Erika, the Celadon City gym leader, and ended up with an easy win
  
• got a coin case, played slots, and got a new team member: Rogon the Porygon
• GRIND GRIND GRIND
• found a little girl and she gave me the HM Fly
• GRIND GRIND GRIND GRIND
• proceeded to the rocket hideout (basement of the game corner) and defeated all of team Rocket (completely OWNED Giovanni using only Treble)
  
• cleared the Pokemon Tower and got the PokeFlute
• GRIND GRIND GRIND
• took on the fighting dojo at Saffron City
• proceeded to Cycling Road
• got to Fuschia City, battled Koga, and whited out (his Muk is soooo HARD)
• had my second attempt immediately after i whited out (got a new strategy)
• i won against Koga!!! Yay!!! (never knew he had a Lv43 Weezing, but oh well...still managed to beat em)
  
• heading to Saffron City

My Pokemon

Spoiler:

My Team

Rater the Raticate || Lv39
Relaxed || Run Away
Focus Energy
Dig
Cut
Hyper Fang

Fare the Fearow || Lv40
Timid || Keen Eye
Drill Peck
Fly
Leer
Fury Attack

Treble the Clefable || Lv43
Sassy || Cute Charm
Mega Kick
Flash
Water Pulse
Sing

Rogon the Porygon || Lv40
Jolly || Trace
Tri Attack
Recover
Shock Wave
Psychic


HM slaves

Squirtle - Not yet. but at the next update, i'm sure he'll have those HM moves

Badges

Spoiler:

 

[miltankRancher]

UPDATE!

Ultimate Monotype Challenge: Water || Kanto​

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Number of Badges: 8 + Hall of Fame (fudge yeah!)​

Update 3:

Spoiler:

• Caught a Slowpoke, and grinded to Slowbro.
• Bought a Water Stone for Poliwhirl's evolution.
• Done Silph Co. quest beating Rival's team again.
• Liberated Saffron from Team Rocket and got the Marsh Badge from Sabrina.
• Got amulet Coin and Vs. Seeker (two key items I forgot to grab O_O).
• Grinded my mon's to mid forties.
• Flew to pallet town (using a pidgey) and swam towards Cinnabar
• caught a tentacool
• Went to Seafoam Islands and defeated Articuno for a bunch of exp.
• Did the Cinnabar mansion quest and some grinding
• Defeated Blaine and got the Volcano Badge
• Went to Sevii Islands. Did a bunch of things, but mostly grinding.
• Decided to take on Moltres.
• Tentacool evolution! Yeah. Team completed.
• Went back to main Kanto Region and defeated Giovani once and for all.
• Defeated Zapdos.
• Grinded my team from early to mid-sixties, and went on to the Pokemon League.
• Defeated them one by one. Including rival.
• HELLO HALL OF FAME.

There we go. Now for my team.

Spoiler:

Blastoise || Level 65
- Surf
- Brick Break
- Bite
- Earthquake

Gyarados || Level 62
- Surf
- Thunderbolt
- Bite
- Twister

Vaporeon || Level 64
- Shadow Ball
- Return
- Ice Beam
- Surf

Poliwrath || Level 60
- Hypnosis
- Brick Break
- Body Slam
- Surf

Slowbro || Level 66
- Surf
- Psychic
- Flamethrower
- Amnesia

Tentacruel || Level 60
-Surf
-Toxic
-Giga Drain
-Waterfall​

Yay for done! Moving on to Johto run! :)

 

[kirax7]

#4 Update for Monoground - Gold

Elite 4:
-Will: difficulty 1/5 Icy Wind on

, Iron Tail on

and Earthquake on the other
-Koga: difficulty 0/5 mostly Earthquake on everyone
-Bruno: diffciulty 0/5 easy as always

on

and

on the other
-Karen: difficulty 2/5

was annoying as always xD the other were easy and weak

: difficulty 2/5

vs

some Icy Wind and then 2-6

vs

weakening him 1-6

vs

Headbutt 1-5

vs

revive and heal 2-5

vs

double Icy Wind 2-4

vs

double Surf 2-3

vs

double Icy Wind 2-2

vs

double Ice Punch 2-1

vs

double Surf 2-0

(Nixy) LV46

LV50

LV46

-got the ticket
-finally got the Metal Coat and evolved

into

: difficulty 0/5
....

-

learnt Crunch so...

: difficulty 0/5
Crunch her to the death

-done Radio and Power Plant things

: difficulty 1/5

earthquake on everything Starmie killed her but

finished it

: difficulty 0/5

Surf and Earthquake

-defeated rival at Mt.Moon

: difficulty 0/5
Icy Wind and Ice Punch

: difficulty 0/5
....

: difficulty 0/5
....

: difficulty 2/5

was annoying but i managed to beat him with 3 Blizzards the others were easy

: difficulty

vs

Earthquake 3-5
everyone vs

Icy Wind slow him down then 2-4(Quagsire died)

vs

Surfx3 3-3

vs

healing time then Crunch 3-2

vs

triple Amnesia then Earthquake 3-1

vs

Iron Tail got a critical and 3-0

ok here we are Red screenshot and Final Team:

LV58 MVP
Dig
Strength
Iron Tail
Crunch

LV57
Surf
Ice Punch
Amnesia
Earthquake

LV57
Earthquake
Icy Wind
Blizzard
Strength


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[Pekin]

Okay, so here goes my first, early update on my Ultimate Bug Monotype Challenge, starting with Emerald. Just for the sake of changing up these Monotype Challenges for once.

Type: Bug
Game: Emerald
Badges: 1

So. Not much to tell, honestly. I caught myself a Nincada and a Wurmple. Well, a couple, actually, but I eventually ended up with the two I wanted. Or the two I'm gonna settle for, anyway. I trained for a short while, then challenged Roxanne. And boy, did that turn out unexpected. Nosepass wrecked Beautifly, so I thought the battle was won, and that I had to go train some more. But Nincada pulled off a couple of Sand-Attacks, a few Hardens and then blasted away Fury Swipes and Leech Life, until it fainted. Damn, Nincada, you're boss.

Team so far:

Spoiler:

Beautifly, lv. 15
Female // Timid // Swarm
- Tackle
- Gust
- Poison Sting
- Absorb

Nincada, lv. 15
Male // Adamant // Compoundeyes
- Fury Swipes
- Harden
- Leech Life
- Sand-Attack

 

[Necrum]

Updated main post through Post #1653.

 

[kirax7]

#5 Update for Monoground - Sapphire

-Picked the Careful Male

-defeated rival
-bla bla Wally
-defeated Team Idro grunt
-

evolved into

on Route 116

: difficulty 0/5
Water Gun+Mud Shot

-helped Devon guy
-delievered the letter

: difficulty 0/5
Mud Shot 2HKO on both

-got Soda Pops
-defeated Idro at the Museum
-defeated May
-defeated Wally

: difficulty 0/5
OHKO everything with Mud Shot

-caught the Sassy Female

on Route 112
-grinded it by defeating trainer I've left
-continuing by defeating a huge amount of trainers
-Meteor Falls
-defeated Team Idro
-

evolved into

inside the gym

: diffiulty 0/5
OHKO everyone with Mud Shot xD

-caught the Careful

in the desert
-I'm grinding right now

 

[WarriorCat]

I have a big but quick update.
For White 2, like my previous update, I have pics of each Gym Leader beaten, evolution, and capture, but I forgot to screenshot Gligar's evolution. :P

Firered: Champion
Platinum: 6 Badges
SoulSilver: 5 Badges
White 2: 7 Badges

FireRed

Spoiler:

Platinum

Spoiler:

SoulSilver

Spoiler:

And finally, White 2

Spoiler:

Team for White 2:

Spoiler:

Crobat Lv.52
- Confuse Ray
- X-Scissor
- Poison Fang
- Fly

Braviary Lv.52
- Shadow Claw
- Rock Slide (I was surprised that he could learn this)
- Strength
- Aerial Ace

Swanna Lv.52
- Surf
- Aerial Ace
- Roost
- Air Slash

Drifblim Lv.52
- Hidden Power (Dark, Power??)
- Shadow Ball
- Round
- Psychic

Skarmory Lv.51
- Cut
- Night Slash
- Pluck
- Iron Head (yay for move tutors)

Gliscor Lv.52
- Rock Slide
- X-Scissor
- Slash
- Brick Break

 

[lmcde22]

Single Challenge, Ghost Type, Emerald
First Update!

-Chose Mudkip as my starter and hurried through the early game until catching Nincada on route 116.
-Beat Roxanne (OHKO except Nosepass)
-Evolved Nincada into Ninjask (Lv 20) and obtained Shedinja.
-Deposited Ninjask and Marshtomp in the PC box and trained Shedinja.
- Travelled to Dewford Town and captured Sableye (Nyx)
-Trained both Nyx and Shedinja to around Lv 22 and breezed through Brawley's gym.
- Travelled to Slateport and re-named Shedinja 'Casper'
- Currently levelling up Casper and Nyx in order to beat May

CURRENT TEAM:

Casper/Shedinja Lv. 2 (genderless)
- Cut (Normal)
- Mind Reader (Normal)
- Fury Cutter (Bug)
- Fury Swipes (Normal)

Nyx/Sableye Lv. 26 (female)
- Astonish (Ghost)
- Scratch (Normal)
- Fake Out (Normal)
- Night Shade (Ghost)

 

[hollywooddream]

Update for Monotype Water on FireRed! I've decided to turn it into an ultimate challenge. Should I make a whole new sign-up form or should I just add it in here? Anyway, on to the update!

Spoiler:

I kind of iron manned my way through half the game in one night.
-Chose Squirtle as my starter, nicknamed it Torrent[going for a water theme with my entire team's name.
-Beat the tar out of Rival Green in Oak's lab
-After doing all the parcel stuff, I trained Torrent up enough to beat Green outside of Viridian City
-Blazed through Viridian Forest and easily beat Brock, with Torrent evolving into a Wartortle at the end
-Bought the Magikarp from the Pokemon Center outside of Mt. Moon. Nicknamed him Poseidon
-Blazed through Mt. Moon, training Poseidon along the way
-Beat Green inside Cerulean. Bulbasaur was a pain, but Poseidon evolved into a Gyarados
-With Poseidon's help, Misty was almost easier than Brock
-Ran through S.S. Anne with the help of Poseidon, he wrecked Green's Bulbasaur
-Taught Torrent Dig, Surge went down super quick
-Rushed through Rock Tunnel, leaving as many trainers un fought as I could
-Rushed to Celadon, netting an Eevee that I named Rain and immediately bought a water stone and evolved into a Vaporeon, teaching it Water Pulse
-Trained up my team in Rocket Game Corner for the Silph Scope
-Went back to Lavender Town for the Pokeflute. Green proved easy, with Poseidon destroying Ivysaur and Rain one or two hit KOing everything else
-Rushed past Cycling Road to get the Good Rod, using it to catch a Poliwag[Nicknamed Tadpole], Krabby[Crusher], and Horsea[Tidal]
-Trained up my newest pokemon on the trainers I'd left in Rock Tunnel and just sitting around
-Raced through Celadon once I remembered that Rain knew Aurora Beam

In case I don't need to enter a new sign-up form, I'm just gonna tack HeartGold, Sapphire, Platinum, Black, and possibly White 2 on as my other games, all under water type. Black, White2, and Heartgold should be fun, as I've never played those versions, although I have played regular gold, so I should be ok there.

 

[kosuke]

Ultimate Monotype Challenge - Normal

Pokemon LeafGreen Update

Spoiler:

• arrived at Saffron City
• entered Silph Co
• another easy win against Pink
  
• got a Lapras (too bad I can't use it)
• cleared Silph Co (Giovanni is really weak) (forgot to take a screenshot but...oh well)
• defeated gym leader Sabrina (her pokemon's sp atk is HIGH but havepretty LOW sp def/def...so its a moderately easy win)
  
• flew to Fuchsia City
• entered Safari Zone, got the HM Surf, and found golden teeth
• got HM Strength from the warden
• surfed to Seafoam Islands
• entered Seafoam Islands
• defeated Articuno
  
• GOT LOST
• arrived at Cinnabar Island (Finally!)
• revived Kabuto and Aerodactyl (gotta release them afterwards though)
• picked up the key from the Pokemon Mansion
• defeated Blaine (his excessive use of Fire Blast really hurts, ya know?)
  

My Pokemon

Spoiler:

Rater the Raticate || Lv48
New Move : Super Fang (replaced Hyper Fang)

Fare the Fearow || Lv48
New Move : Agility (replaced Leer)

Treble the Clefable || Lv51
New Move : Metronome (replaced Flash)

Rogon the Porygon || Lv50
New Move : Zap Cannon (replaced Shock Wave)

HM Slave : Suirtle - Surf, Strength​

My Badges

Spoiler:

 

[blue]

Just out of curiosity, am I allowed to hack in one Water type Pokemon at the start of my challenge on Yellow? The only two I can obtain before the 3rd Gym is Magikarp and Squirtle.

 

[kirax7]

#6 Update for Monoground - Sapphire

: difficulty 3/5
*they were tough but

managed to beat him with some healing

-

evolved into

in the Abandoned Ship
-I hate this game it has too much trainers xD
-after a lot of trainer and Routes later
-

evolved into

on Route 119
-defeated Team Idro and May, got Fly and Devon Scope

: difficulty 1/5
*

Rock Slide OHKO

killed her,

finished it off

-defeated another load of trainer
-defeated May
-defeated Team Idro everywhere
-done Water Routes

: difficulty 1/5
*Shadow Ball+Surf OHKO

-defeated Team Idro again

: difficulty 2/5
*long but not difficult

killed everyone

-defeated Wally
-done Victory Road

E4:
Sidney:difficulty 0/5

+ Brick Break 2HKO
Phoebe: difficulty 4/5 everything ok but the second

I hate him
Glacia: difficulty 1/5 easy with

and

's Brick Break
Drake: difficulty 2/5 Ice Beam and

healing

: difficulty 2/5

vs

Eruption 3-5

vs

Earthquake 3-4

vs

Psychic lowering its SpDef 2-4

vs

Flamethrower 2-3

vs

healing and Earthquake 2HKO 3-2

vs

Shadow Ball vs AncientPower I won 3-1

vs

healing and attacking 3-0

Final Team

LV55
Male Careful Nature
Earthquake
Strength
Brick Break/Ice Beam
Surf

LV52
Female Sassy Nature
Flamethrower
Eruption
Rock Slide
Earthquake

LV52 MVP for healing
Careful Nature
Earthquake
Psychic
Shadow Ball
Self-Destruct

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