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Combined Pokemon Solo Challenge Thread

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Well, I decided to go to Ruby before Soul Silver since I wanted to get Gen III over and done with. Which it now is :P Trixie the Mawile and I destroyed everything in our path. cbf putting up all the screenies, but I will add a few:
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I got kind of bored of just battling, so decided to enter some contests. Managed to get to Hyper Rank in Cool, Cute, Tough and Smart. The moveset for those was slightly different: Return, Facade, Crunch and Rock Tomb. However, my conditions weren't high enough to get me wins in Master Rank ;( the other ribbons were for Hall of Fame and Effort Ribbon. I'll start Soul Silver shortly.
 
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I have decided to change my group of hack solos so that I am playing through 4 386 challenges in the order of Emerald 386->Sapphire386->Firered386->Firered Omega. I will be using Abra/Kadabra/Alakazam.
 
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More updates on the Gold leg of my Blastoise Ultimate Solo Challenge:

-Climbed the Lighthouse, then went to Cianwood and got the Secretpotion
-Defeated Chuck and got Fly (and caught a Hoothoot to use with it)
-Cured Amphy in Olivine, then defeated Jasmine
-Caught the Red Gyarados
-Removed Team Rocket from Mahogany Town and defeated Pryce
-Cleared Team Rocket out of the Radio Tower in Goldenrod
-Passed through Ice Path and beat Clair for my eighth gym badge
-Reached Victory Road and defeated my rival again

The Elite Four:

-Will: Mostly used Bite, with Ice Punch on the first Xatu
-Koga: Surf for four Pokemon, Ice Punch for Crobat
-Bruno: Mixture of Surf, Ice Punch, and Headbutt
-Karen: Mixture of Surf, Ice Punch, Bite, and Headbutt. Hurt myself in confusion for four straight turns against Umbreon, but the battle still turned out okay.
-Lance: Don't remember what I used for Gyarados, but Ice Punch for the dragons and Surf for the others. Easy enough.

The Team:

BLASTER (Blastoise) lvl. 62
-Surf
-Ice Punch
-Bite
-Headbutt

Totodile lvl. 9 (Cut)
Togepi lvl. 5 (Flash)
Sudowoodo lvl. 20 (Strength)
Hoothoot lvl. 12 (Fly)
Gyarados lvl. 30

Next up: Kanto!


Update: I ended up speeding through Kanto without recording the details as I went along, so I don't have a precise log for that part. Nothing unusual happened, and no one else joined my team (I opted to KO Snorlax instead). Kanto was a breeze. I don't really know why there's a 20-level jump between Blue and Red, but it all worked out anyway.

The battle with Red was slightly more challenging than the rest of the post-Elite Four game. Blaster KOed Pikachu with a single Surf, then used Ice Punch for Venusaur, a lot of Headbutts for Snorlax, Bite for Espeon and the opposing Blastoise, and Surf for Charizard to finish things off.

Final Stats (only bothering to list Blastoise here, everyone else was the same as before):

BLASTER (Blastoise) lvl. 78
-Surf
-Bite
-Ice Punch
-Headbutt


Reflections: I love Blastoise. I've never played through Gold with him before (I added one to my original Gold team after beating Red for the first time), but it was a blast. The whole thing was pretty easy, but that's the nature of a lot of solo runs (with some exceptions), once you get a decent moveset.

Coming up next: Ruby! It's probably my least favorite region, but hopefully it'll be fun.
 
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wingman11

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Another update on the Zangoose Solo run:
-Caught the two Farfetch'd and got HM01
-Navigated through Ilex Forest
-Arrived in Goldenrod
-Got the Radio Card and bike
-Took on Whitney and easily won with Slash for the Plain badge (Funny yet aggravating story: I actually had to battle her three times, but not due to losses. The emulator I'm using glitched up on the next trainer battle I entered and I forgot to save, then it glitched up again later when I reached Ecruteak and erased my data to when I last opened it. I was sooooooo pissed.)
-Traveled to that annoying tree/Sudowoodo and beat it
-Arrived in Ecruteak City
-Saved the Kimono girl
-Battled GingerTits in the Burned Tower
-Found the legendary dogs/cats/whatever-they-are
-Entered Morty's Gym and beat him using Pursuit for the Fog badge
-Got HM04
-Traveled to Olivine
-Climbed the lighthouse and met Jasmine
-Surfed to Cianwood
-Battled Eusine after seeing Suicune (anyone else notice the similarity in names? I just did today... LOL)
-Entered Chuck's Gym and beat him with a Slash spam (hypnosis missing = lucky for me) to get his badge
-Got HM02
-Grabbed the SecretPotion
-Flew back to Olivine, delivered the potion, and got Jasmine back in the kitchen Gym
-Entered her Gym (armed with Parylz Heals) and beat her with a Swords Dance/Slash combo on the second try for the Mineral badge

And that's it for now. Next update will probably be tomorrow, and I hope to have taken care of the Elite Four by then.
 

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Quick update: I beat Will and Koga. I hate Slowbro and Forretress and...Crobat. And that's all the haters I got so far. (:
 

jdthebud

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Update for USC #2.

Crystal Update #3.

Went from Ecruteak to Mahogany Town.

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2 Psybeams, game over.

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Steelix took a few Psybeams, but Iron Tail wasn't powerful enough.

- Gonna do Lake of Rage now.

Team Gerry:
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Palin the Girafarig, ♂ - L44 @ Quick Claw
Moves: Psybeam, Return, Agility, Headbutt
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Totodile, ♂ - L7
Slave Moves: Cut, Surf
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Hoothoot, ♂ - L4
Slave Moves: Flash, Fly
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Geodude, ♀ - L6
Slave Moves: Rock Smash, Dig, Strength
 

wingman11

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Another update on my USC with Katana the Zangoose:
-Flew back to Ecruteak and surfed to Mahogany
-Traveled to the Lake of Rage and defeated the red Gyarados
-Met Lance and headed back to Mahogany
-Infiltrated the Rocket base
-Defeated the admins and took out the generator
-Entered Pryce's Gym
-Battled him and won with a Swords Dance/Slash combo (I'm starting to really appreciate Swords Dance) and got the Glacier badge
-Traversed Ice Cave and arrived in Blackthorn
-Took on Clair's Gym and beat her with the same strategy from Pryce's battle
-Entered the Dragon's Den and passed the elder's test
-Received the Rising badge
-Met with Elm and got the Master Ball
-Sweeped through the five Kimono girls
-Flew to the Whirl Islands and got to the bottom
-Defeated Lugia for EXP
-Flew back to New Bark Town and headed east
-Passed through Tohjo Falls
-Traveled to the entrance to Victory Road
-Navigated through it until GingerTits stopped me
-Battled and destroyed his team without using Swords Dance
-Entered Indigo Plateau and began my challenge
-Will: X-Scissor spam
-Koga: Took out Ariados, then used Swords Dance while Foretress was out, then sweeped the rest of his team
-Bruno: Three Swords Dances, then easy sweeping with Slash (Close Combat on Onix)
-Karen: See above (other than Gengar, who was a pain; I had to use X-Scissor and it barely survived, she healed, then another two X-Scissors)
-Lance: Three Swords Dances while Gyarados was out, then sweeped with Slash

So now all that's left is Kanto and Red. I'll probably just have all of that in one giant update sometime late tonight/tomorrow.
 
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I started my Blastoise solo run on Ruby last night, but never got around to posting about it. So, here it goes:

-Chose Treecko as my starter (HMs, plus, not sure how the game would respond if I hacked Squirtle in as my starter and the game thought I had a Pokedex of zero)
-Did the beginning game stuff, then hacked a Squirtle into Route 101 and caught it (BLASTER is back!)
-Went to Petalburg City, beating trainers along the way, and accompanied Wally as he caught his first Pokemon
-Passed through Petalburg Woods, taking care of a small Team Magma problem
-Easily won my first badge in Rustboro. Squirtle evolved into Wartortle here
-Got the goods back for the Devon guy and got the PokeNav
-Beat Brawly and delivered the letter to Steven
-Took care of Team Magma in Slateport
-Beat my rival again on the way to Mauville
-Beat the gym leader in Mauville (and the trainers on the surrounding routes)
-Blaster evolved into Blastoise
-Traveled to Fallarbor Town
-Beat Team Magma people in Meteor Falls and Mt. Chimney
-Got my fourth and fifth gym badges
-Beat Team Magma at the Weather Institute and got Castform
-Beat Winona for my sixth gym badge
-Cleared the Team Magma Hideout

The team:

BLASTER the Brave Blastoise (too lazy to try to get a different nature) lvl. 56
-Surf
-Ice Beam
-Bite
-Protect

Grovyle lvl. 17 (Cut, Rock Smash, Flash, Strength) (levels up way too much in double battles)

Castform lvl. 25

Wingull lvl. 3 (Fly)
 
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wingman11

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Update number four on the Johto portion of the USC, and I'm already done!
-Sailed to Kanto on the ship
-Arrived in Vermillion and beat Lt. Surge immediately
-Went to Saffron City and took on Sabrina, beating her all too easily
-Walked to Celadon, beat Erika just as easily
-Biked to Fuchsia and battled Janine, winning just like all the other Gyms so far
-Flew back to Saffron, then went north to Cerulean
-Went to the Power Plant and found out about the missing part
-Got the part back from the Engrish speaking Rocket
-Katana reached level 100 already, with no help from Rare Candies this time, either
-Found Misty
-Took Misty down just like every other leader
-Returned the missing part
-Went to Lavender and got the Radio upgrade card
-Woke up the Snorlax in front of Diglett's Cave
-Traveled to Pewter and battled Brock, taking him down with ease
-Ran down to Viridian, then Pallet, then surfed to the remains of Cinnabar
-Headed to the Seafoam Islands and entered Blaine's makeshift Gym
-Beat Blaine, though Magcargo's Flame Body pissed me off
-Flew back to Viridian
-Took on Blue and kicked his ass
-Got HM08
-Went to Mt. Silver and climbed to the top
-Took on Red, who was the first and only challenge of the second half of the game
-Beat his Pikachu easily, but I couldn't pull off a Swords Dance until Charizard came out, which was after I beat down both Blastoise and Venasaur
-After the Swords Dance, everything was a piece of cake

So with the Champion title mine and with Red defeated, I now move on to Hoenn.
 
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Well I started my hacks solo today with Emerald386, and made a lot of progress in about 2 hours, getting 6 gym badges. I am missing a few images, but thats because my laptop kept choosing to crash windows explorer D:<

Progress:
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Alakazam:
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I may update this post later if i make any more progress today.
 
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I Finished the challenge.

Story:

Fooze and Belte made their way to Celestic town after beating Crasher Wake and Stopped team Galactic from blowing the town up.
They then defeated the leader of team galactic and headed to Canalave city where together they helped riley in Iron Island and Defeated Byron for their 6th Gym badge.
Soon the duo learnt that Team galactic was stealing the lake trio. Fooze and Belte defeated two comanders before enduring mt Coronet and making their way to snowpoint city. They defeated Candice and witnessed Jupiter Beat their Rival Terrale.
They headed to the Galactic Headquarters and rid Veilstone city of Team Galactic and freeing the lake trio. Fooze later headed to mt Coronet again but this time scaled it to the top and went into the distortion world and defeated Cyrus for the final time. He caught the mighty Giratina and left for sunnyshore city. Once there Fooze and Belte encouraged Volkner to battle with them and they defeated him earning the final gym badge. Fooze surfed over to victory road and navigated his way to the elite four H.Q.
Him and Belte the Bronzong defeated all four members and also defeated the Sinnoh champion Cynthia, gaining the title of Sinnoh Champion.

Final Stats:

Belte the Bronzong @ Mind Plate
lv. 87 w/th Levitate
Psychic
Flash Cannon
Rock Slide
Shadow Ball

Mentions to
Wave Rider the Prinplup
Slave moves-Surf/waterfall/strength

Rocky the Bidoof
Slave moves-Cut/Rock Smash

Starry the Staravia
Slave moves-Fly/Defog

Choka the Machoke
Slave Moves-Rock Climb


Edit: I will now start a Roserade Solo Run on Platinum
 
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More progress on Ruby for my Blastoise Solo Challenge:

-Won my seventh gym badge
-Caught a Tentacool for Dive
-Caught Groudon for good measure
-Beat Wallace for my eighth gym badge
-Passed through Victory Road
-Defeated Wally

The team:

BLASTER (Blastoise) lvl. 63
-Surf
-Ice Beam
-Bite
-Earthquake

Grovyle lvl. 18 (Cut, Strength, Rock Smash, Flash)
Castform lvl. 25
Wingull lvl. 3 (Fly)
Tentacool lvl. 10 (Dive, Waterfall)
Groudon lvl. 45


Elite Four Battle Details:

Sidney: Surf for Mightyena and Absol, Ice Beam for Shiftry and Cacturne, Earthquake for Sharpedo. Easy enough.
Phoebe: Surf for Sableye, Bite for everyone else. Attraction caused some problems at one point, but everything resolved itself.
Glacia: Mixture of Surf, Bite, and Earthquake.
Drake: Ice Beam x 5 = easy victory
Steven: Ice Beam for Cradily, Surf for Skarmory, Aggron, Claydol, and Armaldo, Earthquake for Metagross.

Final details on Blastoise (everyone else stayed the same):

BLASTER (Blastoise) lvl. 67
-Surf
-Ice Beam
-Bite
-Earthquake

Game time: 15:36

Next up: Sinnoh (Platinum)! One game left in the challenge!
 
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Well I have finished the Emerald386 part of my challenge, which was relatively easy excluding Sidney.

Progress:
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Alakazam:
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I will start on Sapphire386 wither later today, or tomorrow.
 

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Oh look! A picture of me and Champ as League Champions!
Yup, I finally managed to beat up Bruno, Karen, and Lance. I decided to take a quick picture of my success on my phone as proof. Champ finished the first League challenge at level 66; his moves are Waterfall, Ice Fang, Crunch, and Earthquake.
I also made my way over to Kanto via the boat, where I then beat up Lt. Surge, Sabrina, Erika, and Janine. Now I'm on the path to Lavendar Town.
 

wingman11

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Update number one on the Sapphire leg of my Zangoose Solo Run:
-Got Zangoose and saved Birch
-Beat May
-Traveled to Petalburg
-Helped Wally catch a Ralts
-Saved a dude from an Aqua grunt
-Arrived in Rustboro
-Got HM01
-Took on Roxanne and beat her with a string of Fury Cutter
-Retrieved the goods from the Aqua grunt
-Got the letter for Steven
-Sailed to Dewford
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-Took on Brawly and won with a Slash spam
-Got HM05
-Navigated Granite Cave and delivered Steven's letter
-Sailed to Slateport
-Protected Capt. Stern from Aqua grunts and delivered the goods
-Beat May on the way to Mauville
-Arrived in Mauville and got a bike
-Beat Wally with ease
-Took on Wattson and won with one Swords Dance followed by spamming Slash
-Went to Verdanturf and cleared out the tunnel
-Got HM04
-Traveled north of Mauville
-Beat the Winstrates
-Walked all the way to Fallarbor
-Journeyed to Meteor Falls
-Watched Aqua grunts take a meteorite
-Returned to Mt. Chimney
-Took the cable car to the top and cleared the place of Aqua by beating Archie with no difficulty
-Traveled to Lavaridge
-Took on Flannery and won by spamming Slash after a Swords Dance
-Got the Go-Goggles from May
-Currently exploring the desert

Hopefully the next update will take me past the Champion (I hope).

EDIT: Final update for Hoenn!
-Traveled back to Petalburg
-Took on Norman and won with a Swords Dance/Slash combo
-Got HM03
-Surfed across the river and traveled north to the Weather Institute
-Kicked the Aqua grunts out
-Beat May and got HM02
-Got the Devon Scope from Steven
-Entered Winona's Gym and beat her with a Swords Dance/Slash combo (Swords Dance FTW)
-Traveled south and watched some Aqua grunts head to Mt. Pyre and followed them
-Climbed to the top and saw Archie take the Red Orb
-Flew to Slateport and witnessed Archie steal the sub
-Flew to Lilycove
-Beat May for the final time
-Entered Aqua's base
-Defeated the admin and saw the sub leave
-Surfed to Mossdeep City
-Took on Tate&Liza and won with another Swords Dance/Slash combo
-Got HM08
-Surfed south and dove into the Seafloor Cavern
-Reached where Kyogre slept and beat Archie rather easily
-Saw Kyogre wake up and wreak havoc
-Flew to Sootopolis
-Entered the Cave of Origin
-Got HM07
-Defeated Kyogre
-Took on Wallace and won with (guess what) Swords Dance/Slash
-Traveled all around Hoenn battling the leftover trainers
-Surfed to Ever Grande City
-Navigated Victory Road and beat every trainer including Wally
-Entered the Pokémon League building at level 91 and used all my Rare Candies to get to level 100
-Took on the E4
-Sidney: Brick Break spam
-Phoebe: Aerial Ace spam
-Glacia: See strategy for Sidney
-Drake: See strategy for every Gym Leader after Wattson (LOL)
-Steven: Swords Dance twice, then a combo of every move (Slash for Skarmory, Claydol, and Metagross; Brick Break for Armaldo and Aggron; Aerial Ace for Cradily)

And now on to the final leg: Platinum! (Yeah, it WAS gonna be Pearl, but due to the annoying unavailability of TM31 [I.E. Brick Break] until after beating the E4, I changed it to Platinum.)
 
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Blastoise Solo Challenge Segment 4: Platinum

Here's what I've accomplished so far:

-Chose Turtwig as my starter and completed the beginning of the game stuff
-Finally managed to hack a Squirtle into one of the routes after a lot of frustrating failed attempts (when I finally caught said Squirtle, I nicknamed it BLASTER, like usual)
-Defeated my rival and made my way to Oreburgh City
-Blaster evolved into Wartortle
-Defeated Roark for gym badge #1

The team:

BLASTER the Modest Wartortle, lvl. 17
-Water Gun
-Bubble
-Tackle
-Bite

Turtwig lvl. 9
 
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Sadly I'm gonna have to quit my ultimate solo with Nidoran some pathetic ass snuck into my house and stole my DS along with some others things, so pretty much now I can't play the Johto or Sinnoh parts of the solo.

P.S. I was extremely lucky that my game wasn't in the DS seen as it has 3 boxes of chained shinys and a few boxes of lvl 100's(including all my Metagross's and Kabutop's from runs I've done here.)
 
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Firstly, 11wildy, this threat barely gets updated, possibly due to Myrrhman being busy, i dont know, but it isnt updated very often.

Now for Update1 of Sapphire386!
I started around an hour ago, and due to Sapphire386 running almost twice as fast as Emerald386, I have made progress much faster, even with staying up so late with it almost being 5am here. I will simply post images today, due to tiredness, and will not post alakazams stats, as i forgot to upload them.

Progress:
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wingman11

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Sadly I'm gonna have to quit my ultimate solo with Nidoran some pathetic ass snuck into my house and stole my DS along with some others things, so pretty much now I can't play the Johto or Sinnoh parts of the solo.

P.S. I was extremely lucky that my game wasn't in the DS seen as it has 3 boxes of chained shinys and a few boxes of lvl 100's(including all my Metagross's and Kabutop's from runs I've done here.)

Damn, that sucks. I hope that bastard gets caught soon. If my DS got stolen, I'd flip. Thankfully all of my solo challenges are on my computer (I use ROMs because I don't wanna delete my other game files lol) so unless my computer gets taken, they're safe. Was it a DSi, DS Lite, or just an old DS, if I may ask?

Anyways, here's the first update on my Platinum leg.
-Got Zangoose from Rowan
-Beat the rival, who I named Barry (I know it's a stock name, but anything other than the Barry Dance doesn't sound right; you know what I'm talking about)
-Got a PokéDex
-Ran to Jubilife and delivered the parcel to Barry
-Got a Pokétch
-Beat Barry again
-Traveled to Oreburg
-Met Roark and followed him back to the Gym
-Beat Roark with a Swords Dance/Fury Cutter spam combo
-Went back to Jubilife and beat down the Galactic weirdos
-Walked to Floaroma Town
-Went to the Valley Windworks and beat the Galactic freak
-Beat his cohorts and got the key
-Entered the Windworks and beat Mars
-Journeyed up to Eterna City
-Took on Gardenia and beat her with a Fury Cutter spam and Crush Claw
-Got HM01 from Cynthia
-Entered the Galactic building
-Took down Jupiter with ease
-Got a bike
-Rode down to Oreburg
-Got the Dowsing App and VS Seeker
-Navigated through Mt. Coronet
-Arrived in Hearthome
-Took on Fantina and beat her with Pursuit
-Battled Barry yet again and beat him
-Currently heading towards Solaceon Town
 
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