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The Tri-Species Challenge: New & Improved

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bilzandpap

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Honestly, I am SHOCKED that there is no longer a Tri-Species Challenge thread anymore. That was one of my favorite ones. So, here's a (hopefully successful) Revival.

First off, I don't remember all the rules, but the basic one is:

YOU MUST COMPLETE THE GAME WITH 3 POKEMON.

That's pretty much it. You get to pick the three Pokemon that you want, and then you progress through the game using only these three Pokemon.

Other rules:
  • HM slaves are allowed, but, as usual, can't be used in battle unless completely necessary.
  • Hacking/trading in Pokemon at or below Lv. 10 is allowed, just no perfect IV's, illegal moves/abilities, etc. You get to pick the 3 Pokemon you use, so it's only fair that you be allowed obtain them early on.
  • However, no legendaries.
  • All three Pokemon must be of different species. It's called the Tri-Species Challenge, after all.
  • No 2 Pokemon of the same type (optional, but this was in the last thread).
  • You can hack in a Shiny Pokemon if you want one or more of your team members to be shiny.
  • Your challenge is over when the credits roll for the first time.
  • You can do an Ultimate Challenge, where you use the same 3 Pokemon for one game from each generation. This means that your team has to be made up of all Gen I Pokemon, though, or Gen 1-3 if you're going to play Kanto and Johto in FR/LG and HG/SS ;)

That's all I can think of right now, but I'll edit this if something comes up.

If anyone wants a userbar, here are some, credits to jdthebud:
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Here's the sign up sheet:
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And here's my sign up:
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Challengers:
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Champions:
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HM Slaves:

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The Journey Begins:

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Brock And What Not:

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Karp Diem:

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Pacifist

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Game: i will be playing Platinum
Pokémons:
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Starting my journey:
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My way to the school!
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Gear up!
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I'm glad to see any good challenge be revived, so I'll join, even though I have like 6 challenges already.

Game: Yellow, Crystal, Emerald, Platinum, White (Can I do an Ultimate?)
Pokemon: (This list took forever to make because I had to go find the sprite pictures)
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Alright, sign me up please! Peace!
 
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Sounds like fun.

GAME YOU WILL BE PLAYING: Blaze Black 2
POKEMON YOU WILL BE USING: Gardevoir, Blaziken and Garchomp
 

bilzandpap

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I'm glad to see any good challenge be revived, so I'll join, even though I have like 6 challenges already.

Game: Yellow, Crystal, Emerald, Platinum, White (Can I do an Ultimate?)
Pokemon: (This list took forever to make because I had to go find the sprite pictures)
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Alright, sign me up please! Peace!

An Ultimate Challenge requires you to use the same Pokemon for all five generations... shall I sign you up for five different Trio-species challenges with these teams, or are you gonna pick one to use?

I'm going to post my first update soon... I'm just having a really hard time with Roxanne because my team has nothing that isn't not-very-effective against rock :'(

EDIT: All right! Sorry it took so long, my Internet was down. Here's my update:

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ANOTHER EDIT: and here's my next update:

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YET ANOTHER EDIT: here's yet another update:

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Time to begin!

-Received the Easy Key, Challenge Key, and the Treehollow Key
NB: I will be playing in Challenge Mode, just to make things more difficult.
-Received Tepig (M, Lv.5)
NB: I will be releasing Tepig as soon as I get the first of the three Pokémon I will be using.
-Obtained the Pokédex

-Was challenged by Rival Sosuke
-Rival Sosuke sent out Oshawott (M, Lv.6)
-Tepig used Tail Whip twice, then used Tackle twice to KO Oshawott
-Tepig learned Ember
-Rival Sosuke was defeated

-Received 30 Poké Balls
-Received the Running Shoes
-Received the Town Map
-Obtained the Bicycle
NB: Okay, so I just looked over the Wild List for Blaze Black 2, and I'm going to have to wait a while to get Torchic and Gible. Looks like I'm stuck with Ralts until Castelia City.
-Arrived in Floccesy Town
-Tepig learned Odor Sleuth
-Caught Minazuki/Ralts (F, Lv.5)
-Minazuki learned Confusion
-Shoved Tepig into the PC, never to see the light of day again
-Saved progress for now

Team:

Minazuki/Ralts (F, Lv.7)
Confusion, Growl
Ability: Trace
Stats: HP 21, ATK 9, DEF 8, SP. ATK 18, SP. DEF 9, SPD 13
Lax nature
Somewhat of a clown.
 

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GAME YOU WILL BE PLAYING: LeafGreen
POKEMON YOU WILL BE USING: Jynx, Electabuzz, and Magmar (I plan to hack in Jynx as my starter, then hack in Electabuzz and Magmar early on since Jynx is only avalible in an in-game trade you can't do until later, Electabuzz is in the Power Plant, with I think a low encounter rate, and Magmar is found extremely late in the game at Mt. Ember)
 

bilzandpap

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My final update:

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BlissyMKW

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Update time

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GAME YOU WILL BE PLAYING: Leaf green
POKEMON YOU WILL BE USING: Starmie, Snorlax, Nidoking
 
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Username: Kerg
Game you will be playing: White
Team: Starmie, Magmortar and Metagross.

NOTE: This is a completely blind run.
 

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Final update for LeafGreen

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I might go on and do a Gen 2 game next with this same trio, but not quite yet. Maybe after I finish another challenge.
 
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update.

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Final update
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Time to update!

-Minazuki learned Double Team
-Minazuki learned Teleport

-Was challenged by Rival Sosuke
-Rival Sosuke sent out Taillow (M, Lv.9)
-Confusion OHKO Taillow
-Rival Sosuke sent out Oshawott (M, Lv.11)
-Two hits of Confusion were needed to eliminate Oshawott
-Rival Sosuke was defeated

-Minazuki learned Psybeam
-Found the "missing" Herdier and got TM21 Frustration
-Trained with Alder
-Obtained the Medal Box

-Challenged PKMN Trainer Roxanne
-Roxanne sent out Anorith (M, Lv.11)
-Psybeam OHKO
-Roxanne sent out Lileep (M, Lv.11)
-Psybeam spam was needed to eliminate Lileep
-Roxanne sent out Nosepass (F, Lv.13)
-Three hits of Psybeam took down Nosepass
-PKMN Trainer Roxanne was defeated

-Minazuki learned Shock Wave
-Minazuki evolved into Kirlia
-Saved progress for now

Team:

Minazuki/Kirlia (F, Lv.20)
Psybeam, Growl, Shock Wave, Teleport
Ability: Trace
Stats: HP 53, ATK 25, DEF 27, SP. ATK 56, SP. DEF 33, SPD 35
Lax nature.
Somewhat of a clown.
 
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Ended up using :t374: , :t041: , :t120: .

Badges: 5

Quake (Metang): Metal claw, Psychic, Rock tomb, Strength.

Pat (Staryu): Thunderbolt, Ice beam, Surf, Recover.

Drac (Crobat): Steel wing, Air cutter, Toxic, Bite.

Slave (Zigzagoon): Cut, Rock smash, Growl, Tackle.


Update: Though the first and second gym were easy victories with Drac and Pat, the third gym was quite the challenge due to two of my three pokemon being weak to electric and having zero super effective moves. The unlikely hero of this gym was Pat after learning Bubblebeam ended up beating the gym. Pat destroyed the fourth gym and Drac with Toxic eventually took out my poor fathers Slaking. Now headed towards Fortee.
 

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You know what? I'm doing it. I'm bringing the murderous elemental punch trio over to Johto. Might go and do Vaporeon, Jolteon, and Flareon afterwards on LeafGreen, but we'll see.

GAME YOU WILL BE PLAYING: Silver
POKEMON YOU WILL BE USING: Jynx, Electabuzz, and Magmar (This time around, I'm going to hack all three of them in on the first route as their baby forms so it'll add to the challenge and force me to get them all to Lv. 30 to evolve them all to their real glory. Well, in Jynx's case. For Electabuzz and Magmar, their true glory doesn't exist in Gen 2. Even so, I'm not going to evolve them into Electivire and Magmorter when I reach Gen 4)
 
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Futatabi kōshin suru Jikan!

-Challenged Aspertia City Gym Leader Cheren
-Cheren sent out Minccino (F, Lv.12)
-Psybeam OHKO Minccino
-Cheren sent out Lillipup (M, Lv.12)
-Psybeam OHKO Lillipup
-Cheren sent out Buneary (M, Lv.12)
-Shock Wave OHKO Buneary
-Cheren sent out Teddiursa (M, Lv.12)
-Psybeam OHKO Teddiursa
-Cheren sent out Munchlax (M, Lv.14)
-Two hits of Psybeam were fired off, eliminating Munchlax
-Cheren sent out Pidove (M, Lv.12)
-Psybeam OHKO Pidove
-Gym Leader Cheren was defeated

-Received the Basic Badge and TM83 Work Up
-Received TM27 Return
-Registered Cheren, Bianca and Prof. Juniper in the Xtransceiver
-Received the C-Gear
-Pokédex was upgraded with Habitat List
-Minazuki learned Magical Leaf
-Received the Super Rod
-Arrived in Virbank City
-Minazuki learned Confuse Ray
-Minazuki evolved into Gardevoir

-Challenged Virbank City Gym Leader Roxie
-Roxie sent out Trubbish (F, Lv.19)
-Psybeam OHKO Trubbish
-Roxie sent out Seviper (F, Lv.19)
-Psybeam OHKO Seviper
-Roxie sent out Whirlipede (F, Lv.21)
-Psybeam OHKO Whirlipede
-Roxie sent out Koffing (F, Lv.19)
-Psybeam OHKO Koffing
-Roxie sent out Golbat (F, Lv.19)
-Shock Wave OHKO Golbat
-Roxie sent out Croagunk (F, Lv.19)
-Croagunk managed to get in a Fake Out attack before Psybeam eliminated it
-Gym Leader Roxie was defeated

-Received the Toxic Badge and TM09 Venoshock
-Saved progress for now

Current team:

Minazuki/Gardevoir (F, Lv.32)
Psybeam, Magical Leaf, Shock Wave, Confuse Ray
Ability: Trace
Stats: HP 93, ATK 57, DEF 61, SP. ATK 99, SP. DEF 84, SPD 65
Lax nature.
Somewhat of a clown.
 
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GAME YOU WILL BE PLAYING: FR
POKEMON YOU WILL BE USING: Raichu Pidgeot Sharpedo

Time for an update
Started Game and called myself P1, started off with a Carvanha which i named Jack.
Battled Gary, beat him up and left, got the prof's package and got the pokedex, caught a pidgey which i named sparrow, trained Jack and Sparrow to level 10 and took out Gary then went to Viridian.
Caught a Pikachu and named him Captain, I now had my full team for the whole game!!!
Saved and turned it off
PARTY
Captain (Pikachu lv10)
Jack (Carvanha lv10)
Sparrow (Pidgey lv10)
See ya Next time!
P1
 
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