I've been anticipating this post for a while now: I'm finally finished with my Ground UMC! My last update was a while ago, detailing my completion of the gym challenge in every region as well as the defeat of N and Ghestis in Black. Shortly after that update I was able to complete LeafGreen, but I quickly got bogged down in school. However, this week my spring break started and one of my major goals was to finish this challenge. The first thing I did was complete Ruby, since it didn't require as much grinding as HeartGold. Then I went ahead finished Platinum yesterday for the same reason. After that, the only two games I had left were HeartGold and Black, which both required a fair amount of grinding before I was comfortable with taking on the final bosses. Yesterday I got my team in HeartGold to level 65 and my team in Black to level 73. This morning I woke up and worked on my movesets a little bit then decided to try to take on Red with failure expected. However, I actually managed to pull a victory out of the jaws of defeat! I started with Steelix, setting up Stealth Rocks (mainly to help defeat Lapras) them OHKOing Pikachu with Earthquake. I then stalled out Blastoise until it used all of its Blizzards, and managed to take it down after that. I used the same method to defeat both Lapras and Snorlax, getting lucky with a critical hit Earthquake that knocked out Snorlax. Next, Charizard was extremely easy with half of its HP lost upon entry and a Stone Edge by Golem. Finally, Venusaur managed to give my team a run for its money so I had to stall until it ran out of Giga Drain PP so I was able to take it out with a few Blizzards and Earthquakes in between Frenzy Plants and failed Sleep Powders! After my miraculous defeat of Red, I could see the end of the challenge so clearly so I quickly defeated the Elite Four and Alder in Black, which proved to be much less difficult.
Now that I'm finished with my second UMC, I'm going to take a small break before doing a Monotype on Black 2 (which I haven't opened in the 3 months since I've gotten it..) which will likely be expanded into another Ultimate Monotype. Any suggestions for a good type to mono on Black 2 (as in good team choices early in the game)?
Anyways, here are the point by point updates and final teams for each game for my Ground UMC:
LeafGreen
- Traveled through Victory Road
- Arrived at Indigo Plateau
- Grinded the team to level 55
- Boutht some TM's at the Game Corner and adjusted movesets
- Defeated Lorelei - MVP Sandslash
- Defeated Bruno
- Defeated Agatha
- Defeated Lance - MVP Nidoking
- Defeated Blue - MVP Nidoking
Ground UMC Kanto: Complete! Time 23:08
Team:
Golem / lv57 / Strength, Earthquake, Rock Blast, Rock Throw
Nidoking / lv58 / Shadow Ball, Thunderbolt, Surf, Ice Beam
Kanto MVP
Sandslash / lv57 / Aerial Ace, Earthquake, Strength, Brick Break
Dugtrio / lv57 / Earthquake, Magnitude, Dig, Slash
HeartGold
- Grinded the team to level 65
- Adjusted the team's movesets
- Defeated Red!
Ground UMC Johto: Complete! Time 48:26
Team:
Golem / lv65 / Earthquake, Stone Edge, Rock Blast, Flamethrower
Quagsire / lv65 / Waterfall, Earthquake, Headbutt, Sludge Bomb
Steelix / lv65 / Fire Fang, Earthquake, Stealth Rock, Crunch
Nidoking / lv65 / Poison Jab, Earth Power, Shadow Claw, Thunderbolt
Mamoswine / lv65 / AncientPower, Strength, Blizzard, Earthquake
Johto MVP
Ruby
- Traveled to Ever Grande City
- Traveled through Victory Road
- Defeated Wally
- Arrived at the Pokemon League
- Grinded the team to level 53
- Adjusted the team's movesets
- Defeated Sidney - MVP Swampert
- Defeated Phoebe - MVP Flygon
- Defeated Glacia - MVP Swampert
- Defeated Drake - MVP Flygon
- Defeated Steven - MVP Swampert
Ground UMC Hoenn: Complete! Time 17:56
Team:
Swampert / lv55 / Surf, Ice Beam, Earthquake, Brick Break
Hoenn MVP
Camerupt / lv54 / Earthquake, Rock Slide, Eruption, Flamethrower
Flygon / lv54 / Crunch, Dragon Claw, Earthquake, Fly
Platinum
- Got HM07 Waterfall
- Traveled through Victory Road
- Defeated Barry
- Adjusted the team's movesets
- Defeated Aaron - MVP Gliscor
- Defeated Bertha - MVP Garchomp
- Defeated Flint - MVP Rhyperior
- Defeated Lucian - MVP Garchomp
- Defeated Cynthia - MVP Garchomp
Ground UMC Sinnoh: Complete! Time 28:52
Team:
Torterra / lv52 / Earthquake, Crunch, Giga Drain, Razor Leaf
Gliscor / lv54 / X-Scissor, Rock Slide, Brick Break, Aerial Ace
Garchomp / lv57 / Dragon Claw, Surf, Shadow Claw, Earthquke
Sinnoh MVP
Rhyperior / lv54 / Surf, Earthquake, Hammer Arm, Stone Edge
Black
- Traveled around to get some TM's and adjusted movesets
- Grinded the team to level 73
- Defeated Marshal - MVP Golurk
- Defeated Shauntal
- Defeated Grimsley - MVP Krookodile
- Defeated Caitlin - MVP Excadrill
- Defeated Alder - co-MVP's Excadrill and Golurk
Ground UMC Unova: Complete! Time 25:02
Team:
Excadrill / lv76 / Earthquake, Aerial Ace, Rock Slide, X-Scissor
Unova MVP
Seismitoad / lv74 / Surf, Earthquake, Sludge Bomb, Drain Punch
Endgame MVP
Krookodile / lv74 / Crunch, Earthquake, Dragon Claw, Hidden Power (Ice)
Golurk / lv75 / Shadow Punch, Earthquake, Psychic, Thunderbolt
Pokemon LeafGreen Version
Pokemon HeartGold Version
Pokemon Ruby Version
Pokemon Platinum Version
Pokemon Black Version
Type: Ground