Ultimate Monotype Challenge

Somehow in Emerald I've managed to make it with 3 badges.

Roxanne was a piece o' cake obviously with her Rock types, Dewford took me ages though :[
Mauville was easy and Flannery is a beast that cannot be stopped. I know my pokemon are grass but jeez, I trained a lot I thought. Everytime I get close she stomps me.

Here's so far though:

WELL, OKAY - Lv. 34
Pound - Rock Tomb - Absorb - Leaf Blade

ISH - Lv. 34
Mega Drain - Headbutt - Counter - Rock Smash




I know, I need a HM mule. D:

Leafgreen water monotype:

-Started the game. Named myself Winter. My rival's name is Matt.
-Picked up my squirtle from Professor Oak, named him Aegean, Aegean defeated Matt's bulbasaur
-Got to Viridian, fought with Matt again, emerged victorious
Fought my way into pewter city with only Aegean. Viridian forest was irritating, all the poisoning!
-Went to fight Brock. Aegean evolved into a wartortle just before I fought him. The battle was a piece of cake and I defeated Brock!
-Moved along to Mt Moon. Bought a magikarp for $500, named her Vedenemo
-Trained Vedenemo in Mt Moon by getting Aegean to fight her battles for her
-Picked up a Dome fossil in Mt Moon, not that I'm going to resurrect it...
-Trained Vedenemo more in the route beside Cerulean city, Vedenemo eventually evolved into a Gyarados!
-Fought Matt again, still victorious
-Nugget bridge! Then I met Bill the clefairy...I mean human. I get a ship ticket
-Fought Misty with my water pokemon. It worked out, so it was fine and I defeated her
-Team rocket's up to no good! Defeated a grunt, got TM28 Dig
-Commenced my journey to Vermillion City. Caught a Meowth along the way to learn Flash and Cut
-I get stuff done on the SS Anne. I see Matt, I defeat Matt. I get HM01 Cut from the captain!
-I get off the SS Anne and defeat Lt Surge. It wasn't fun, but I made it somehow
I run through Diglett Cave to get back to Pewter City so I can pick up HM05 Flash. I teach Meowth Flash
-Rock tunnel is boring. I eventually reach Lavender City, yay!
-I go into Lavender Tower and meet Matt again. I defeat him
-I go to Celadon to get an Eevee. I pay $2100 for a water stone to evolve him into Vaporeon. His name is Neptune
-I teach Neptune Dig for some type coverage
-I fight and defeat Erika. Again, not very fun.
-I go onto the top part of route 16 to get HM02 Fly!
-Team Rocket again! I don't like their arrows and stuff. While fighting grunts, Aegean evolves into Blastoise!
-I defeat Giovanni after some wandering around in the base. I get the Silph Scope
-I return to Lavender to free the spirit of the ghost Marowak and to free Mr Fuji from the Rockets. I obtain the pokeflute!
-I go through Route 12, waking up a Snorlax, then obtaining a super rod
-I fly back to Vermillion City to catch a Staryu. I name it Valene
-I go through the routes leading to Fuchsia, then I fly to Celadon to get some Tea so I can enter Saffron
-Pick up TM29 Psychic! Taught it to Valene, who has been evolved into a Starmie
-Went through cycling road
-Got HM03 Surf from the Safari Zone! Taught it to all my water pokemon!
-Defeated Koga. It was easy with Valene spamming Psychic

Current Team:

Aegean the Blastoise
Level 40
-Strength
-Water gun
-Bite
-Surf

Vedenemo the Gyarados
Level 40
-Dragon Rage
-Surf
-Bite
-Water Pulse

Neptune the Vaporeon
Level 40
-Bite
-Dig
-Aurora Beam
-Surf

Valene the Starmie
Level 39
-Surf
-Psychic
-Bubblebeam
-Swift

And my HM slave is a farfetch'd with cut and fly

dozo, catching a Lotad/Lombre can help :)

Tomreaper - how are you finding using both Gulpin and Grimer? Because I always thought they were pretty similar.

I'm gonna use one to stack tm's on, when i get to a certain point.

Update #3: Johto CLEARED
-Trained Poliwag up to level 25 so she'd evolve
-Beat Whitney
-Headed up to Sudowoodo, only to have to head back for the squirt bottle. Never really got the point of that whole thing. Also took the guard's Spearow for Fly
-Got the Squirt Bottle, accidently KO'd Sudowoodo, which I wanted for HM's but meh.
-Went to Ecruteak and got HM03 for beating the Kimono girls
-Beat Rival in Burned Tower and freed the Legendary Beasts
-Headed east, cut through Mt. Mortar and beat Fisher Tully, in hopes of a Water Stone. Also caught a Machop for Strength and Rock Smash
-Went back, then headed west, picked up HM04 and caught a Chinchou in Olivine
-Headed back to Ecruteak, where I beat Morty
-Headed to Olivine, and went up the Light House, where Chinchou evolved
-Got my orders and headed to Cianwood, Lanturn had some fun on the way with all the swimmers
-Slowpoke handled all the fighting types and beat Chuck
-Got HM02
-Flew back to Olivine, delivered the meds and beat Jasmine with Poliwhirl
-Flew to Mahogany, headed to the lake and caught the red gyarados, ran into lance and headed back to town
-Got a Water Stone and evolved Poliwhirl
-Went into the Rocket Hideout, beat everyone in there, mostly using Slowpoke
-Got HM06
-Beat the gym Trainers with Lanturn and Pryce with Poliwrath, who learned Submission
-Beat the trainers on the way to the Ice Path
-Flew to Azalea to train in the lower levels of the Union Cave
-Let Lanturn KO Lapras
-Went to Goldenrod
-Slowpoke evolved after the first Rocket Grunt in Goldenrod
-After clearing out all the rockets, everyone was level 40
-Found HM07 in the Ice Path…which totodile can't learn…
-In retrospect, the only reason I found the ice path puzzle hard as a kid is because I went to fast and didn't use repels
-made it to Blackthorn City
-Defeated Clair with ease, went into the Dragon's Den, passed the test and got the badge
-Removed Surf and replaced it with Waterfall on Poliwrath
-Went south back to New Bark and got the master ball before heading to the league
-Headed to the pokemon league
-Made it through the incredibly short Victory Road
-Going into the Pokemon league everyone was level 45
-Beat the Elite Four and Lance with out much difficulty
-Heading into Kanto:
-Set sail, beat all the trainers and found the girl
-Arrived in Vermillion, but before going in the gym, went to visit Mr. Psychic and got me TM29 for my Slowbro
-Went back and beat LT. Surge, then went to Saffron and beat Sabrina, both with Slowbro doing everything
-headed north of Cerulean, beat the Nugget Bridge
-Went to Celadon, and Poliwrath beat all the gym trainers and Erika solo
-Went to Fuschia, and despite the lack of type advantage, Lanturn demolished Janine's lvl 33 team
-Went to the power plant, found out about the missing part, found it, returned it, found Misty, went to her gym and beat all her trainers and her with Lanturn
-Went to wake up snorlax only to realize I don't have a radio… flew to the Indigo Plataue and WALKED back to New Bark, flew to Goldenrod, got the radio card, flew back to New Bark, surfed to Route 27 and then flew back to Vermillion
-Ko'd Snorlax out of annoyance
-Let Poliwhirl beat Brock to catch up in level
-At this point, everyone is level 53
-Went to Mt. Moon, beat Rival there and headed south to Viridian, to Pallet and Surfed to Cinnabar, met Blue, went to the Seafoam Island to OHKO all of Blaine's Pokemon with Lanturn's Surf
-Beat Blue
-Went to mt. Silver, got lost without Flash, so I flew to violet, stormed the Sprout Tower, got HM05, and taught it to Togepi
-Made it to Red, my team is level 55.
Red Battle
-Pikachu: Started with Poliwrath, survived Thunder, put it to sleep, I got him to use 2 full restores to wake him up only to have me put it back to sleep in the same turn. Switched to Slowbro who OHKO'd it with Earthquake
-Espeon: in the process of trading shots, it got a lucky crit and KO'd slowbro. Lanturn confused it. Slowbro KO'd it with Shadow Ball
-Snorlax: Healed Poliwrath, put it to sleep and hacked away with submission until I got critical hit AGAIN, and finished it with an Earthquake
-Venusaur: sacrificed Slowbro to revive Poliwrath, put it to sleep, it stayed asleep long enough to revive and heal my team. It woke up and drew sunlight, but I put it back to sleep, and switched to Slowbro who ko'd it with 3 psychics
-Blastoise: Spark paralyzed it; lanturn just hacked away until it went down
-Charizard: said screw it and just waterfalled and surfed it until it went down
[FONT=&quot][/FONT]After the credits, I delivered the spearow to the guy.

Final Team:

Poliwrath (lvl 56)
@Mystic Water
-Waterfall
-Ice Punch
-Hypnosis
-Submission

Slowbro (lvl 56)
@Quick Claw
-Earthquake
-Surf
-Shadow Ball
-Psychic

Lanturn (lvl 55)
@Amulet Coin
-Surf
-Confuse Ray
-Take Down
-Spark

HM Slaves
Totodile: Cut, Whirlpool
Togepi: Flash
Machop: Strength, Rock Smash

Delivered to Owner
Spearow: Fly

[FONT=&quot]Onto Hoenn I go…[/FONT]

I'll join this with the grass type. I'll start on Red.

EDIT: Named myself Dude and Rival Kal. Chose Bulbasaur ( nicknamed him Seedy) and beat my rival. Deliered Oaks parcel to Professor Oak and trained to level 13. I beat my rival Kal again and went through Viridian Forest. I beat Brock and also evolved. I cleared my way to Mt.Moon and caught a Paras. Got out of Mt. Moon and healed up. Beat Rival Kal again and went up to to Bill. Saved Bill and went down to Misty. Beat Misty on my first try.

Team:
Seedy (Ivysaur) level 26
Vine Whip
Tackle
Leech Seed
Poison Powder

Paras level 20
Scratch
Stun Spore
Leech Life

Just beat Roark, got Drifloon (Shade) and Gastly (Enigma) and then beat Gardenia thanks to 'floon. I'm in the galactic building in Eterna now.

Smallish update

I went back into the volcano cave thingy, to move the boulders to see what i could find (toxic and a fire stone) and, by a stroke of luck, a gastly appeared! Even more grinding!... yay. im estatic about THAT of allll things :\

After a surprisingly short grinding session, i went to Petalburg and battled my "Dad".

The battle was pretty challenging. I developed the strategy to attck while he loafed and heal when he attacked and it worked pretty good.

Caught a zigzagoon for hm slave, and surfed on route 118

caught a linoone in place of the zigzagoon, because he's a better slave.

made it to the weather center thingy, and now currently grinding


My Current Team...


Slime/Grimer

Level 31

-Pound
-Minimize
-Screech
-Sludge


Stomach/Swalot

Level 30

-Pound
-Yawn
-Body Slam
-Sludge


Python/Seviper

Level 30

-Bite
-Lick
-Crunch
-Poison Tail


Toxicity/Koffing

Level 30

-Sludge
-Tackle
-Smoke Screen
-Self Destruct


Fang/Crobat

Level 35

-Air Cutter
-Bite
-Confuse Ray
-Wing Attack


Might be going to vegas tomorrow, so don't think ill be updating again soon

Update #2

I went down to train and found a Oddish! Caught it and started training, then realized i didn't want it, so i put it in the PC. I started to train and finally went on the SS Anne. I beat all the trainers then beat my Rival. Got Cut and taught it to my newly evolved Parasect. Taught Parasect Dig for the electric gym and beat Lt.Surge. Got through Mt.Moon simply and battled all of the trainers. I went to Celadon and beat Erika.

Team:
Venusuar level 38
Leech Seed
Bide
Body Slam ( accidentely replaced Razor LEaf)
Poison Powder

Parasect level 39
Leech Life
Cut
Dig
Slash


THIS IS MY FINAL TEAM

Found my Diamond version and decided to finish off where i was with the ground type challenge...

Team:

Torterra lv.74
Earthquake
Crunch
Wood Hammer
Razor Leaf

Garchomp lv. 69
Fire Fang
Dragon Rush
Dragon Claw
Dig

Hippowdon lv. 54
Earthquake
Ice fang
Thunder Fang
Crunch

HM Slaves:
Quagsire-Surf, Strength, Rock Smash, Waterfall
Starly- Fly Defog
Budew- Cut
Geodude- Rock Climb

so.... I'm moving on to Yellow Version with Poison Type.

Uhh.... My file got corrupted. Was wondering if I could switch to fire? Going to Start on Red. Thanks

Ok, new Leafgreen Bug update (no Water update cuz my brother uses the DS for his ultimate solo challenge with Tyranitar)

- brought Pinsir in the Game Corner, named it Pincher
- beat Erika (cant remember anything else than using Confusion)
- beat rockets in the Game Corner
- calmed cubones mother
- rescued Fuji and got Pokeflute
- beat Cycling Road and Silence Bridge routes
- beat rockets in Silph co.
- got the Master Ball to send to Diamond
- beat Sabrina with only Stinger´s Twineedle
- beat Koga with Winger´s Psychic and Pincher´s Return
- beat up all the swimmers between Fuchsia and Pallet
- found secret key in the mansion (i ran out of repels 2 steps from it)
- beat Blaine. Pincher´s Rock Slide OHKO´ed his first 3 pokemon´s, but Arcanine survived a hit and used Fire Blast... And missed! i beat it with Return for a higher accuracy hit, an then i got my 7. badge.
- doing the Sevii stuff for training

From now on my Team will be in the post rather than in my signature(now i can use pictures again. Yay:D)

Leafgreen Bug Team:

Stinger/Beedrill Lv. 45: Brick Break, Double Team, Twineedle, Toxic
Winger/Butterfree Lv. 46: Psychic, Aerial Ace, Dream Eater, Sleep Powder
Drainer/Parasect Lv. 46: Dig, Giga Drain, Spore, Slash
Pincher/Pinsir Lv. 48: Return, Brick Break, Bulk Up, Rock Slide

Since my last update:
-Went through Silph Co.
-Took down the Rockets
-Beat Rival Derp
-Beat Giovanni
-Took on Saffron Gym

Sabrina:
Kadabra stood no chance against a few well-landed hits from Dodrio. Golbat took down Mr. Mime with a few Bites. Dragonair took care of Venomoth with two Slams. Finally, Charizard completely toasted Alakazam, making this battle quite a walk in the park.

My current team:
Charizard, 42
Dragonair, 40
Gyarados, 39
Dodrio, 38
Pidgeot, 37
Golbat, 35

Since the last update:

-Took on Sabrina. I had 3 pokemon with a dark type move, so it was ok
-Took on the fighting dojo. Valene the Starmie thrashed it
-Silph co. was a confusing place. Defeated my rival, got a female Lapras, named her Scylla
-Defeated Giovanni. He was a piece of cake
-Flew to Pallet town and fought swimmers until Cinnabar
-Flew to Fuchsia and went down the sea route to get to Cinnabar for more experience
-Blaine met the wrath of my water pokemon
-Went back to Viridian City
-Giovanni then met the wrath of my water pokemon
-Disbanded Team Rocket!
-Fought my rival again. It wasn't too difficult
-Went through victory road. Nearly got lost. Grinded my team to around level 49/50 and rare candied Valene and Scylla to level 52
-Lorelei was taken down quite easily
-Valene single-handedly brought down Bruno using Surf and Psychic
-Scylla and Valene worked together to take down Agatha, with Scylla using Ice Beam and Valene using Psychic
-Lance was brought down by Scylla's Ice Beam and Aegean's Surf and Strength. Vedenemo and Neptune both faint while stalling
-My rival is the champion! I teach Vedenemo Toxic (to stall) and realize that I forgot to buy revives. Oh dear
-He sends out a Pidgeot against Vedenemo. Toxic helps quite a bit, and Pidgeot eventually faints from the toxic poisoning
-Rhydon didn't even stand a chance. A surf from Neptune took it down
-An Alakazam! This is problematic. I stall it until it runs out of Psychic PP, then Aegean bites (and gets some lucky flinches) and it faints
-A Venusaur! Solarbeam takes out Vedenemo, Neptune, Aegean and my HM slave, but Scylla pulls through with Ice Beam
-Arcanine was quite simple. Scylla fainted it quickly
-His last pokemon is a Gyarados! I get Valene to Psychic it to death, although I could have used Scylla's Shock Wave
-And I'm League Champion! Yay! (also, my champion battle might be slightly out of order, I can't really remember the order of pokemon)

Team:
Aegean the Blastoise
Level 51
-Strength
-Brick Break
-Bite
-Surf

Vedenemo the Gyarados
Level 49
-Earthquake
-Surf
-Bite
-Toxic

Neptune the Vaporeon
Level 50
-Bite
-Dig
-Aurora Beam
-Surf

Valene the Starmie
Level 53
-Surf
-Psychic
-Bubblebeam
-Swift

Scylla the Lapras
Level 53
-Shock Wave
-Body Slam
-Surf
-Ice Beam

And my HM slave is Farfetch'd with Cut and Fly

Now I can move on to Heartgold I guess.

There we go, all done. Congrats to dragon0fangz and Jayster 23 for being the most recent UMC Champions! :D

And @tomreaper: You can start a Steel Challenge in Blue with Magnemite, but you don't have to. For Steel and Dark only, you can start in Johto.

Update #1
-Named myself Jacob
-Chose Mudkip as my starter
-Beat May
-Got the Pokedex and Pokeballs
-Helped Wally catch his Ralts
-Caught a Wingull
-Caught a Zigzagoon for HM's and picking up items
-Headed through the Petalburg woods, got to Rustboro, got HM01
-Beat Roxanne with Wingull taking out her Geodudes and Mudkip taking out Nosepass
-Rescued Peeko and the Devon Goods
-Got the Pokenav
-Beat May
-Got a ride to Dewford
-Beat Brawly
-After getting HM05, I caught an Abra by lobbing a Great Ball, so I got through the cave much easier
-Delivered the letter to Steven
-Sailed to Slateport
That's all for tonight
Current Team:

Marshtomp (lvl 18)
-Tackle
-Rock Tomb
-Mud Shot
-Water Gun

Wingull (lvl 18)
-Water Gun
-Growl
-Supersonic
-Wing Attack

HM Slaves
Zigzagoon: Cut
Abra: Flash

Update #2
-Battled all the trainers on the beach and in the soda shop
-Delivered the goods and halted Team Aqua
-Headed North, took a small detour to Route 103 before heading to Mauville
-Ran into May, beat her, and she gave me an Itemfinder that I'll never use…
-Arrived in Mauvillie, got HM06
-Beat Wally outside the Gym before going in
-Marshtomp beat all the gym trainers and Wattson
-trained Wingull, who evolved, in the routes to the east and west
-Got HM04
-Headed north, beat the battling family and all the trainers
-saved in Fiery Path
Current Team:

Marshtomp (lvl 28)
-Tackle
-Rock Tomb
-Mud Shot
-Water Gun

Pelipper (lvl 30)
-Water Gun
-Steel Wing
-Supersonic
-Wing Attack

HM Slaves
Zigzagoon: Cut, Rock Smash
Abra: Flash

Might do another round after I'm done with my second HG/SS Monotype Challenge :P

But I was curious, if we were to do Dark, would you allow us to do R/B/Y with just Eevee? (considering she can evolve into a dark type later), or even FireRed/LeafGreen with some dark types? (Since I really dun wanna skip a generation XD)

You don't have to do the 1st Gen in that case, but I'm not forcing you not to. ^_^

I know :P I want to do it, should I decide to do another challenge after the one I'm currently doing (different challenge thread :P)

I was asking if I did do the first generation, could I use Eevee in R/B/Y, or would I have to do FR/LG and use dark types there? XD