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The Cheap$kate Challenge
(Full credit to PekoponTAS for creating this challenge)
The Premise (written by PekopanTAS):
You're a poor family in need of money, so the youngest child goes off on a Pokemon adventure to gather as much cash as possible to save yourself and your family from poverty!
The cheapskate Challenge is a way to prevent item abuse, and also add a high score element to Pokemon in the same vain as the Wario Land games. Defeat the Elite Four with as much cash as possible, then after the end credits sell off all the items you've gathered to add more to your total! If your total exceeds the maximum amount of money, you'll have to start keeping track on paper or calculator to see your whole total.
The Rules (Reworded by Me):
-You are forbidden from purchasing any items. The only items you are permitted to use are those you find on the ground or ones that are given to you. The purchase of Game Corner prizes (even through coins you won from playing the games) falls under this restriction.
Also forbidden:
-Any means of rematches (Vs. Seeker, Pokegear, etc.)
-The hold item Amulet Coin
-The presence of Pokemon with the ability Pickup in your party
-The use of the moves Metronome and Pay Day
Any items found under Recurring Items or Recurring Gift Items in the Bulbapedia article on Items (including berries and apricorns) may be collected once per game, except for the following, which are forbidden outright:
-Shoal Salts and Shoal Shells
-The items in Turnback Cave
-Honey
-Items received from the Challenge Rock
-Items found in Hidden Grottos
-No gold farming via the selling of items you receive from items held by wild Pokemon*
*By this I mean don't do it on a mass scale for the purpose of making the money. No one's going to notice if you sell that one Berry that one Pokemon you caught was holding.
-No resetting after blackouts. Pay your prize money like the loser you are :) The only exception to this rule is during the Elite Four, because...
-The Elite Four must be done in one session with no saving between battles. If you blackout, reset from your last save and try again. This forces good item management with your precious few hoarded items.
-Immediatley after defeating the Elite Four and the credits roll, make your way to a mart and sell all of your items (including your TMs). Your total amount of money after doing this is your Final Score.
-The challenge is considered completed after you defeat the Elite Four for the first time and sell everything., with the only exception being Johto games, where you must beat the Elite Four Rematch after collecting all 16 badges. This means no end-game content or areas are permitted to be explored.
-In the event that your total money somehow exceeds the highest amount the games allowes you to get (I believe it is 999,999) you'll have to keep track of additional earnings pen-and-paper style (or in a word processor, if you live in the 21 century)
-In your final post, make sure to tell us your Final Score and (when possible) include a screenshot of your Hall of Fame
Other Rules:
-Any Pokemon found naturally in your game are valid to use on your team, including legendaries.
-Hacking/Trading is ONLY permitted for the purpose of evolution (where applicable)
-Only games permitted for this challenge are main series games. No hacks, popular or otherwise, are permitted, even if they do take place in Kanto. There isn't really a way to compare scores otherwise.
The $ignup:
Name:
Game:
Current Challenger$:
Spoiler:
High $cores:
Spoiler:
All Champion$:
Spoiler:
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