The Ultimate Monotype Challenge

Charblade111 · Jul 23, 2013

Update on Crystal Water Monotype:

Breezed through first half of game, forgot how ridiculously easy 2nd gen was. Very easy to grind in Victory Road from everyone being 40 to around 49 for everyone. Beat E4 first try. Poliwhirl was a champion whole way through. 8/16.

Team (as of now)
Feraligatr Level 50
Poliwhirl Level 50
Tentacruel Level 49
Gyarados Level 48
Lanturn Level 50
Slowbro Level 53

RefinedHornet · Jul 23, 2013

Platinum Dragon Monotype:
-chose Turtwig as a starter
-defeated Roark
-defeated Gardenia
-received the Togepi egg from Cynthia
-captured a Gible in Wayward Cave
-the Togepi egg hatched
-Gible evolved into Gabite
-captured a Bibarel on Route 208
-defeated Fantina

Team:

Spoiler:

Charblade111 · Jul 23, 2013

Red was, just like the rest of the game, a push-over. Literally nothing gave me much trouble other than Espeon. Took down my Gyarados and Feraligatr after they spammed Bite and Slowbro managed to finish it off with a Shadow Ball. Other than that, I was able to mostly 2-3HKO all of his Pokemon. Lanturn once again helped greatly considering it's STAB combo is amazing. Final Team:
Poliwrath, Level 54.
Stats: 179 / 124 / 140 / 108 / 129 / 106
Surf / Hypnosis / Body Slam / Earthquake
Lanturn, Level 55.
228 / 105 / 105 / 107 / 107 / 107 (Wut)
Thunder Wave / Supersonic / Spark / Surf
Gyarados, Level 54.
189 / 172 / 115 / 88 / 131 / 123
Dragonbreath / Hydro Pump / Bite / Surf
Slowbro, Level 54.
195 / 112 / 146 / 142 / 120 / 67
Surf / Shadow Ball / Psychic / Flash
Feraligatr, Level 53.
183 / 143 / 145 / 114 / 118 / 104
Bite / Surf / Slash / Hydro Pump
Tentacruel, Level 55.
182 / 121 / 107 / 128 / 172 / 132
Surf / Supersonic / Wrap / Acid

Time for Sapphire. Should be easy enough.

lukesk1 · Jul 24, 2013

Pokemon Heartgold Mono-Water Update #8
Badges:

I went through the Ice path and breezed through it and got to Blackthorn and beat Clair which was moderately easy with my Quagsire and Lapras's Ice Beam, but I went the cheap way and used perish song on Kingdra XD.
Team:

Spoiler:

P.S i'm going to revert back to the - posts from now on to make my posts a bit more detailed.

Pekin · Jul 24, 2013

Type: Grass
Game: White
Badges: 1

Okay, so after spending more time than I'd care to admit soft resetting for a Jolly Snivy in my White version and breeding a ton of eggs in my Black 2 version to get a plausibly Modest Cottonee with Prankster, (I'm using rule #10 as an excuse for this. If that doesn't count in this case, I'm now using the loophole I'm allowed for congratulating the monotype challenge on its birthday) I'm finally ready for my first update.

I set off with Serpentina the Snivy. Blasted through it all. Arrived at Striaton City and had a bit of trouble at the gym, until Serpentina learned Growth. After that, she was unstoppable. After beating Chili, I chased off some Plasma grunts, and before I knew it, I was able to trade with my Black 2 version! So I traded in three eggs, and from the first one hatched Scotch the Cottonee - the Modest Prankster. I boxed the other two for life and set off to train Scotch. And this is more or less where I am now, just outside Striaton City. And here's my current team:

Spoiler:

ryuzakix7 · Jul 24, 2013

Ultimate Monotype Psychic
Finished Pokemon Heart Gold

Kanto

Spoiler:

Final Team

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Dr. Koga · Jul 24, 2013

Okay. Update #1 for Pokemon Blaze Black

Monotype Challenge!

NEW! Update #1:

Spoiler:

Badges:

Team:

Construct:

The Level 15, careful, female Drilbur that scatters things often.
Item: None; Ability: Mold Breaker
Moves: Metal Claw, Fury Swipes, Mud-Slap, and Rapid Spin

Monster:

The Level 14, lonely, male Aron that is highly curious.
Item: None; Ability: Sturdy
Moves: Headbutt, Tackle, Mud-Slap, and Harden

Machine:

The Level 13, impish, genderless Bronzor that likes to trash about.
Item: None; Ability: Levitate
Moves: Confusion, Tackle, Hypnosis, and Imprison

idlephantom · Jul 24, 2013

I am going to apply a challenge to my ultimate normal monotype run, that challenge is that I can't use any pokemon again if I have used it in previous gens, so that means that after completing kanto I am unable to use rattata line, snorlax and spearow line.

Bob III · Jul 24, 2013

Pokemon SoulSilver Dragon Monotype Challenge Log

Got Totodile as a temporary team member
Did Mr. Pokemon Stuff
Cleared Sprout Tower
Defeated Falkner (1/16)
Defeated Team Rocket at Slowpoke Well
Defeated Rival in Azalea Town
Defeated Bugsy (2/16)
Got to Goldenrod and flipped voltorbs until I got a dratini - used name rater to rename him Bagel
Beat Whitney using Dragon Rage (3/16)
Trained Bagel to LVL 30, where he evolved
Defeated Morty (4/16)
Made it through the lighthouse
Defeated Chuck with Dragon Rush (5/16)
Defeated Jasmine using Surf (6/16)
Defeated Red Gyarados at Lake of Rage
Defeated Team Rocket in their hideout
Defeated Pryce with Dragon Rush (7/16)
Went to Whirl Islands and caught a Horsea named Pancake
Went to Mr. Pokemon and got and EXP Share, which I gave to Pancake
Defeated Team Rocket at the Goldenrod Radio Tower
Trained Bagel and Pancake to LVL 50 and hacked Pancake into a Kingdra
Defeated Clair, proving myself the best Dragon Trainer in Johto
Her Grandfather agreed with me and made Clair give me the Rising Badge (8/16)
Defeated Lugia in Whirl Islands
Defeated my rival in Victory Road
Trained both pokemon to LVL 55, Bagel Evolving
Defeated Elite 4 easily with type advantage moves (I think I overleveled)
Took Boat to Kanto
Defeated Lt. Surge Dragon Claw due to lack of type advantages (9/16)
Defeated Sabrina with Dragon Claw and Ice Beam (10/16)
Defeated Erica with Flamethrower, Wing Attack, and Ice Beam (11/16)
Retrieved the missing Power Plant Generator part
Defeated Janine with Ice Beam and Flamethrower (12/16)
Defeated Misty with Thundershock and Dragon Claw (13/16)
Defeated Brock with Surf (14/16)
Defeated Blaine with Surf (15/16)
Defeated Blue with type advantage moves (16/16)
Trained Bagel and Pancake to LVL 80
Defeated Red

Final Team

Spoiler:

On to Pearl!

Sindrie · Jul 24, 2013

I haven't updated in like almost 2 weeks ( thanks to company of heroes 2 and the steam summer sale) but I'm back to playing my bug monotype so I will be back to updating tomorrow.

Bob III · Jul 25, 2013

Pokemon Pearl Dragon Monotype Log Update 1:

Hacked in a Gible named Walrus
Did begining story stuff
Defeated Rival outside Jubilee City
Defeated Roark, Dragon Rage is pretty good at LVL 13 (1/8)
Defeated Team Galactic at Valley Windworks
Defeated Gardenia (2/8)

Current Team:

Walrus - LVL 23 Gible
-Tackle
-Sand Attack
-Dragon Rage
-Sandstorm

RefinedHornet · Jul 25, 2013

Platinum Dragon Run Update:
-defeated Maylene
-Gabite evolved into Garchomp
-defeated Crasher Wake
-captured a Swablu on Route 210
-Swablu evolved into Altaria
-defeated Byron
-defeated Candice
-defeated Cyrus at the Distortion World
-defeated Giratina

Team:

Spoiler:

ryuzakix7 · Jul 25, 2013

Ultimate Monotype Challenge Psychic
Finished Pokemon Sapphire

Hoenn

Spoiler:

Final Team

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Porygon Z · Jul 25, 2013

Update time!

Pokèmon Yellow

Basically, I've trained Zubat for a couple of hours, then I got rid fo Misty with ease, thanks to my powerful Poison trio. Can someone explain me why I can't get Bulbasaur from the girl in Cerulean City? :(

EDIT: Got my Bulbasaur! I used the Potion method to raise Pikachu's happiness. I am now at the entrance of Rock Tunnel.

Nidoking Lv. 25 - Horn Attack, Thrash, Poison Sting, Double Kick
Nidoqueen Lv. 25 - Body Slam, Mega Punch, Poison Sting, Double Kick
Golbat Lv. 26 - Leech Life, Supersonic, Bite, Confuse Ray
Ivysaur Lv. 27 - Body Slam, Leech Seed, Razor Leaf, Vine Whip
Paras Lv. 11 - HM for Cut and Flash

Pokèmon Platinum

Made my way to Pastoria City, got myself a Skorupi, defeated Crasher Wake and did some grinding. Currently in Route 211, heading to that town where you get HM03 Surf.

Murkrow Lv. 36 - Fly, Astonish, Steel Wing, Faint Attack
Umbreon Lv. 36 - Return, Sand-Attack, Faint Attack, Baton Pass
Houndoom Lv. 36 - Fire Fang, Beat Up, Bite, Smog
Skorupi Lv. 36 - Brick Break, Aerial Ace, Bug Bite, Toxic Spikes

Austin · Jul 25, 2013

Oh wow, I completely forgot I signed up for this. Anyway, all of my save files are deleted, so I would like to remove both of my Ultimate Challenges.

And start a new one.
Username: Ðelta
Challenge: Ultimate
Type: Water
Games: Blue->Silver->Sapphire->Pearl->White

waveguidebuizel · Jul 25, 2013

And... second update for both Emerald and Platinum in my ultimate grass monotype! ^-^

Hoenn (Emerald) - 4 Badges

Spoiler:

Realized I forgot to clear out Cycling Road, so I go do that before taking on Mauville Gym.
It's been a while since I did the gym, and I don't really remember the battle well. I believe this was Poplar's (breloom) time to shine, what with Headbutt and Mach Punch. Yeah, for sure Mach Punch against Magneton. I think Manectric paralyzed him, but Effect Spore paralyzed him right back. Also Mach Punch ignores the speed drop. So yeah, thanks to Poplar, we won the Dynamo Badge! ^-^
Ugh, I need an HM Slave! After a bit a searching, I caught a Marill to teach Rock Smash and soon, Strength. With that, we head north around the desert D:, and make our way to Fallarbor. I also take the time to gather enough soot to make the Blue, Yellow, and Red Flutes.
At Meteor Falls, we see both Team Aqua and Team Magma, and Archie and his goons give chase all the way to Mt. Chimney. Of course, we also go.
I don't really remember the battle with Maxie. Guess it wasn't that crazy, though I don't think it was a curbstomp.
I pick up the Meteorite, deliver it to Professor Cozmo, and battle the regular trainers at Mt. Chimney's peak before taking on the Lavaridge gym.
Ouch, this gym! Flannery was an especially difficult battle! Numel and Slugma were easily taken care of, doing little against Cypress (lombre). Camerupt, though, was quite a pain to take down, seeing as it could take hits much better than the other two. Also, Sunny Day and Overheat... I switched out Cypress for Poplar, only to be immediately taken out by her first Overheat. >_< It's alright, I needed Cypress for my little plan. Eventually, Camerupt somehow went down, after using up one Hyper Potion. Finally, the dreaded Torkoal appeared. I believe I had Cypress steal the White Herb right away, using Thief. With the Red Flute, Attract was not as annoying as it was in my previous experiences. Cypress ended up fainting, but at least he weakened the Overheat. Willow (grovyle) was able to do some damage with Rock Tomb and a critical Leaf Blade. But I forgot about White Smoke and wasted a turn with Screech, and the paralysis from Body Slam was annoying at times. >_< I used a few healing items, and she used her second Hyper Potion before taking Willow down to 1 HP! I decided to revive Cypress, who eventually finished the battle with just 6 HP left. Phew! And thus, we won our hard-fought Heat Badge! ^-^
Outside, May gives me the Go-Goggles. Yes! With this, two more pokémon should be joining the party next time!

The team so far:

Spoiler:

Sinnoh (Platinum) - 4 Badges

Spoiler:

Hmm, Gardenia was not too difficult, actually. Starf (roselia) did this battle by herself. Against Turtwig, I started setting up Growths as it set up a Reflect. Surprisingly, she switched out for Roserade. We paralyzed each other with Stun Spore. Starf eventually got off six Growths, maximizing her Special Attack, and so we move on to attack mode. From here on, it was just a matter of spamming Mega Drain (or Giga Drain, if I had that already) until we won the Forest Badge! ^-^
Now that we can use Cut outside of battle, I go visit another of my favorite locations, the Old Chateau. Yay! Unfortunately, I didn't see any of the human ghosts. At least we raided its rooms for items.
I decide to do a bit of spelunking, so I head to the Underground and found lots of treasure, including what I was hoping for: a Meadow Plate!
We clear out the grunts and scientist in the Eterna Galactic Building and find Jupiter at the top. I am wary about this battle. Buuuuut... with a little luck, my strategy worked just fine! I just had Salac (grotle) set up a few Curses while tanking Zubat's Wing Attacks. Then she tore it up. Skuntank was worrisome because its typing resists both Razor Leaf and Bite and because Night Slash has a high critical hit ratio (thus bypassing the Defense boosts from Curse). But no criticals, and Skuntank also falls.
And with that, we get a Bike! Woohoo! ^-^ We ride down Cycling Road (that's two Cycling Road updates in one post!) and take a rest at Oreburgh. I decide to skip the Wayward Cave for now and just press on towards Hearthome. I take a walk with Salac at Amity Square sometime.
Here, we meet our fourth team member: Aguav the eevee. I return to Eterna Forest in order to evolve him into leafeon and proceed to teach him Bullet Seed.
With Aguav tagging along, now we visit the Wayward Cave so as to take advantage of Mira's healing to do a bit of training. With everyone at Level 30 (it didn't take much, as most of the team was like 28 or 29 by this point), we move on to the gym.
Ah, the Hearthome gym. Fantina is the toughest gym leader in this run as of yet. I don't remember much, but I remember Mismagius being quite a pain. I think Starf was able to tank a few Psybeams and finished the battle. The team was a bit battered after the battle, but we did win the Relic Badge! ^-^
And Barry wants to battle. Sure. Salac's usual strategy of Curse (and Quick Claw) made this battle a cinch. We set up six Curses against Staravia (+5 to Attack, because Intimidate), who gets up several Double Teams. Wing Attack doesn't do much damage though, and we get a Bite through, so that's a OHKO. Monferno? Quick Claw, Razor Leaf, OHKO. Roselia? Quick Claw, Bite, OHKO. Buizel got in some damage with Water Gun or something, but another OHKO for us. And that's it! ^-^
Ah, Route 208 and its nice, peaceful music. I catch two chansey in the hopes of scoring a Lucky Egg, but no luck. I also catch a hoothoot and bibarel for HMs. It might not necessarily be from this exact route that this happened, but whatever.
We reach Solaceon, visit the Ruins and pick up Defog (taught to Hoothoot). With that, I return to the Lost Tower on Route 209 to get Strength, I think it was. Might've taught that to Geodude. Anyways, we move on through the rainy route and end up in Veilstone.
Checked out the city and met Crasher Wake coming out of Maylene's gym. We leave Veilstone from the southern exit and explore the route, as well as the resort. Eventually, we get to Pastoria.
I check out the Great Marsh and run into several carnivine. Finally, after many, many tries, I catch one, and so Babiri joins the team as the fifth member! ^-^
We explore the route west of Pastoria and return full circle to Hearthome. Now that all that is taken care of, it's time to hit the Veilstone Gym!
Maylene wasn't too difficult, but an unlucky crit from Lucario's Drain Punch bypassed Babiri's Stockpile (after being able to set that up against Meditite), so we lost her that battle. So in revenge, Salac comes out and sends off an Earthquake (oh yeah, she evolved into a torterra sometime during exploration!) for a OHKO. Machoke also met with a similar fate. And that's our fourth badge, the Cobble Badge! ^-^
Outside the gym, Dawn wants us to help her get her 'dex back from some Galactic grunts. So I guess that's what we'll be doing next time.

The team so far:

Spoiler:

Bob III · Jul 26, 2013

Pokemon Pearl Dragon Monotype Final Update

Defeated Team Galactic in Eterna City
Defeated Rival in Hearthome City
Got to the top of Lost Tower
Defeated Maylene with Dragon Claw (3/8)
Defeated Crasher Wake (4/8)
Defeated Rival in Pastoria City
Delivered Old Charm to Celestic Town's Elder
Defeated Fantina (5/8)
Defeated Rival in Canalave City
Walrus evolved into Garchomp
Defeated Byron with Dig (6/8)
Caught a second Gible named Mammoth and gave it the Exp. Share
Defeated Team Galactic at the lakes
Mammoth evolved into Gabite, and then was grinded to evolve into Garchomp to even my pokemon up
Defeated Candice with Flamethrower (Got it from Feugo Ironworks TM)
Defeated Team Galactic at their Headquarters
Defeated Cyrus on the top of Mt. Coronet
Defeated Palkia with one Dragon Claw
Defeated Volkner (8/8)
Defeated Rival before Elite Four
Defeated Cynthia

Final Team:

Spoiler:

-Gonna play White next

ScubaDouch3 · Jul 26, 2013

Finished Ultimate Fire-Mono Challenge today:

Ultimate Fire-Mono Challenge: White2

Heavy - Male Lv.57
Moves:
Head Smash
Arm Thrust
Fire Punch
Thunder Punch

Baxter - Male Lv.57
Moves:
Flamethrower
Crunch
Wild Charge
Aerial Ace

Daruma - Male Lv.56
Moves:
Fire Punch
Flare Blitz
Bulldoze
Zen Headbutt

Helios - Male Lv.57
Moves:
Signal Beam
Flamethrower
Psychic
Solarbeam

BlackLight - Male Lv.58
Moves:
Energy Ball
Shadow Ball
Flamethrower
Dark Pulse

Wednesday - Female Lv.56
Moves:
Earth Power
Flamethrower
Eruption
Rock Slide

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Okay, guess I'll start up my Ultimate Poison-Mono Challenge again, I've beaten Gen 1 through 3 so I'm gonna beat Platinum next.

ryuzakix7 · Jul 26, 2013

Ultimate Monotype Psychic
Finished Pokemon Platinum

Sinnoh Storyline

Spoiler:

Final Team

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Crystalanachrony · Jul 26, 2013

Username: Crystalanachrony
Type: Dark
Challenge: Ultimate
Game(s): Black 2, and then some others I'll figure out once I complete this one.

Update #1.

Started Black 2; named main character Grey and gave her an Oshawott named Sparkles. Sparkles will be kept as an HM slave.
Caught my first Dark-type on the first Route, a male Purrloin by the name of Azathoth. No regrets.
Met Alder.
Went to the Ranch to find the ranch doggy.

Azathoth (Purrloinn) @ (none)
Dark, Lv9
Scratch, Growl, Assist


Name	Willow	Cypress	Poplar
Level	34	34	33
Gender	F	M	M
Nature	Serious	Naughty	Impish
Ability	Overgrow	Swift Swim	Effect Spore
Item	Black Glasses	None	Silk Scarf
Stats	90/59/40/67/58/80	93/50/47/56/52/48	92/100/70/45/49/64
Moves	Leaf Blade	Fake Out	Mach Punch
	Pursuit	Bullet Seed	Headbutt
	Rock Tomb	Thief	Leech Seed
	Screech	Nature Power	Bulk Up


Name	Salac	Starf	Cheri	Aguav	Babiri
Level	36	37	36	37	36
Gender	F	F	M	M	F
Nature	Sassy	Relaxed	Relaxed	Mild	Hasty
Characteristic	Strongly defiant	Likes to run	Good endurance	Capable of taking hits	Likes to run
Ability	Overgrow	Natural Cure	Chlorophyll	Leaf Guard	Levitate
Item	Quick Claw	Big Root	Meadow Plate	Razor Fang	Shell Bell
Stats	124/86/91/71/83/53	96/60/57/93/67/63	102/53/74/77/64/66	105/96/106/58/59/87	102/87/55/70/61/51
Moves	Wood Hammer	Giga Drain	Magical Leaf	Razor Leaf	Vine Whip
	Earthquake	Growth	Petal Dance	Secret Power	Faint Attack
	Stealth Rock	Mega Drain	Leech Seed	Sand-Attack	Stockpile
	Curse	Toxic	Sunny Day	Aerial Ace	Swallow

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