Ultimate Monotype Challenge

ok guys, im back from holiday and currently training the last member of my team to lvl 40 to take on pryce in maogany, expect a vid of the battle in the next 2 days

Caught Articuno and cleared the oceans out. Explored the old mansion and got the key then headed for the gym. Got all the questions right then beat the trainers anyway. Next beat Blaine. Then flew to Viridian and cleared all the trainers and finally giovanni. Finished by beating my rival, then had my night class, but am back now.

My team:

Hitmonlee
Lv. 50
-Hi Jump Kick
-Meditate
-Rolling Kick
-Body Slam

Machamp
Lv. 50
-Low Kick
-Seismic Toss
-Rock Slide
-Earthquake

Poliwrath
Lv. 50
-Surf
-Strength
-Hypnosis
-Ice Beam

Primeape
Lv. 50
-Thrash
-Screech
-Low Kick
-Dig

Edit: And made it to the league, got a couple levels on the way, but not really gonna highlight that much as I am gonna give a play by play of the elite 4(plus rival)

First up: Loreli
1. Dewgong:
-Lead off with Hitmonlee, Hi Jump Kick, OHKO
2. Cloyster:
-Crit on Hi Jump Kick, again OHKO
3. Slowbro:
-Body Slam
-switch out for Primeape, uses amnesia
-Screech, uses amnesia
-Screech, uses psychic, OHKOs Primeape, switch in Machamp
-Earthquake, KO slowbro
4. Jynx
-jynx uses ice punch, freezes machamp
-use full restore to unfreeze, uses doubleslap
-jynx uses ice punch, does about half damage, machamp uses rock slide, OHKOs Jynx
5. Lapras
-Switch in Hitmonlee
-Hi Jump Kick, do about 2/3s damage, Lapras uses confuse ray, confuses Hitmonlee
-Hitmonlee hits self, lapras just uses confuse ray again
-Hitmonlee gets out of confusion, hi jump kick, finishes off lapras

Heal between battles

Next Up: Bruno
1. Onix
-Lead off with Poliwrath
-Surf, OHKO Onix
2. Hitmonchan
-Switch to Primeape
-use thrash, do about half damage, bruno uses X Defend
-next hit of thrash crits, KOs Hitmonchan
3. Hitmonlee
-last hit of thrash does about 2/3's damage, hitmonlee misses(forget what it used, it missed so is more or less irrelevant anyway)
-Primeape hits self in confusion, hitmonlee uses double team
-use thrash, miss, hitmonlee uses low kick, misses
-second thrash turn hits and KOs hitmonlee
4. Onix
-switch in Poliwrath
-Poliwrath uses surf, OHKOs Onix
5. Machamp
-poliwrath uses surf, does about a third, machamp leers, lowers defense
-use surf again, crit, KOs Machamp

No real healing needed

Next up: Agatha
1. Gengar
-lead off with Machamp
-gengar uses lick, does negligible damage, machamp uses earthquake, OHKOs Gengar
2. Golbat
-Golbat uses toxic, badly poisons machamp, machamp uses rock slide, does about 90% damage to golbat, hurt by poison
-Agatha withdraws golbat, sends out:
3. Haunter
-hit by rock slide, about 2/3s damage
-rock slide again, KO Haunter
2. Golbat
-Gets sent back out, uses supersonic, misses, Machamp uses Seismic Toss, KOs Golbat
4. Arbok
-Agatha withdraws Arbok, sends out:
5. Gengar
-Earthquake hits and OHKOs gengar (man the AI can be dumb sometimes)
4. Arbok
-gets sent back out, uses screech, greatly drops machamp's defense, machamp uses earthquake, OHKOs Arbok

Heal between battles

Next is: Lance
1. Gyrados
-Lead off with Machamp
-gyrados uses dragon rage, machamp uses rock slide, crits, OHKOs Gyrados
2. Dragonair
-Switch out Poliwrath
-Poliwrath uses ice beam, does about 2/3s, dragonair uses thunderbolt, does about 1/3 and paralyzes
-dragonair uses thunderbolt, reduces poliwrath to 1/3, poliwrath uses ice beam, finishes dragonair
3. Dragonair
-use full restore on Poliwrath, dragonair uses hyper beam, does surprisingly low damage
-dragonair must recharge, poliwrath uses ice beam, does about 2/3s
-dragonair uses hyper beam again, gets poliwrath to about half, poliwrath uses strength, finishes off dragonair
4. Aerodactyl
-use hyper potion on poliwrath, Aerodactyl flies up high(this is gonna hurt)
-aerodactyl uses fly, does about 2/3s, poliwrath uses surf, does about 90-95% damage
-lance uses hyper potion, poliwrath repeats surf, does same heavy damage again
-Aerodactyl flies up high, poliwrath misses with surf
-Use hyper potion on poliwrath, fly again does about 2/3s
-Use hyper potion on poliwrath Aerodactyl uses wing attack, does about a quarter, maybe a bit more
-Aerodactyl flies up high, surf misses
-Fly crits, KOs Poliwrath
-switch in machamp, use revive on poliwrath, aerodactyl flies up high
-aerodactyl uses fly, almost KOs Machamp, Machamp finishes it with Seismic Toss
5. Dragonite
-switch in poliwrath
-dragonite uses thunder, KOs poliwrath, switch in Primeape
-use max revive on on Poliwrath, dragonite uses fire blast, crits, KOs primeape
-switch in poliwrath
-dragonite uses thunder, does about 85% damage to poliwrath, poliwrath uses ice beam, does slightly over half to dragonite
-use hyper potion on poliwrath, thunder again heavily damages it
-use hyper potion again on poliwrath (waiting for thunder to miss), again heavy damage
-again hyper potion, more heavy damage
-again hyper potion, more heavy damage
-Thunder crits this time, takes out poliwrath, new tactic, switch in Machamp
-use hyper potion on machamp, dragonite uses thunder, crits, reduces machamp to 8 HP
-use hyper potion again on machamp, thunder misses
-dragonite uses fire blast, burns machamp, machamp uses rock slide, does about half of dragonite's remaining health
-use full restore on machamp, lance uses hyper potion on dragonite
-dragonite uses thunder misses, machamp hits for paltry damage with rock slide
-use revive on primeape, dragonite uses thunder, does about half and paralyzes machamp
-use hyper potion on primeape, dragonite uses blizzard, reduces machamp to 19 HP
-let dragonite take out machamp with a fireblast to get a safe switch in, switch in primeape
-primeape uses screech, greatly drops dragonite's defense, thunder does over half damage
-primeape again uses screech, further drops defense, dragonite finishes it with a fire blast
-switch in hitmonlee, use revive on machamp, blizzard almost kills hitmonlee
-use hyper potion on machamp, fireblast finishes hitmonlee
-switch in machamp, dragonite uses fireblast, does just under half, machamp uses rock slide, KOs Dragonite...finally
Lance finally beaten, next up is rival

My team prerival:
Machamp
Lv. 54
-Earthquake
-Rock Slide
-Low Kick
-Seismic Toss

Hitmonlee
Lv. 52
-Hi Jump Kick
-Rolling Kick
-Body Slam
-Meditate

Primeape
Lv. 51
-Screech
-Thrash
-Low Kick
-Dig

Poliwrath
Lv. 52
-Surf
-Ice Beam
-Hypnosis
-Strength

Edit: and finally rival

1. Sandslash
-lead off with poliwrath
-use surf, do about 95% damage to sandslash, sandslash misses with fury swipes
-use strength, finish sandslash
2. Alakazam
-Switch in Machamp
-alakazam uses kinesis, it fails, machamp uses earthquake, does about 90% damage
-alakazam uses psychic, crits, OHKOs machamp, switch in Hitmonlee
-alakazam uses psybeam, KOs hitmonlee, switch in Poliwrath
-alakazam uses psybeam, just barely does not kill poliwrath(thank heavens), poliwrath uses strength, finishes it off
3. Exeggutor
-use hyper potion on poliwrath, exeggutor uses hypnosis, puts poliwrath to sleep
-jam out on pokeflute to wake up poliwrath, exeggutor uses hypnosis again, it fails
-poliwrath uses ice beam, does about 1/4th, exeggutor uses leach seed, seeds poliwrath
-use revive on machamp, exeggutor uses hypnosis, puts poliwrath to sleep, leach seed drains health
-use hyper potion on machamp, leech seed saps health, exeggutor uses leech seed again
-switch in primeape, exeggutor uses hypnosis
-more tunes from the flute to awaken primeape, hypnosis puts him to sleep again
-more tunes from the flute to awaken primeape, hypnosis puts him to sleep again
-more tunes from the flute to awaken primeape, hypnosis puts him to sleep again
-more tunes from the flute to awaken primeape, hypnosis puts him to sleep again
-more tunes from the flute to awaken primeape, hypnosis fails, woot
-primeape uses screech, gets put to sleep again
-more tunes from the flute to awaken primeape, hypnosis puts him to sleep again
-more tunes from the flute to awaken primeape, hypnosis fails again
-screech again, hypnosis fails again
-screech again, get put to sleep
-play pokeflute, hypnosis fails
-use thrash, KO exeggutor
4. Magneton
-switch in machamp
-magneton does thunderbolt, does more than half damage, machamp uses earthquake, does about 90%
-switch in primeape, primeape takes about 2/3s from thunderbolt
-use hyper potion on machamp, magneton finishes primeape with thunder
-switch in machamp, magneton uses screech, machamp finishes it with seismic toss
5. Cloyster
-revive hitmonlee, cloyster uses ice beam, does about a third
-use hyper potion on hitmonlee, ice beam does another third
-use hyper potion on machamp, cloyster uses spike cannon, totals about a fourth between both hits
-machamp uses submission, cloyster uses spike cannon, between recoil, previous damage, and the 3 hits, machamp has about 1/3 left
-machamp uses submission, finishes cloyster
6. Flareon
-machamp uses earthquake, OHKOs flareon, game complete

Final team stats:
Poliwrath
Lv. 53
-Surf
-Ice Beam
-Hypnosis
-Strength

Machamp
Lv. 55
-Earthquake
-Rock Slide
-Low Kick
-Seismic Toss

Primeape
Lv. 52
-Screech
-Thrash
-Low Kick
-Dig

Hitmonlee
Lv. 52
-Hi Jump Kick
-Rolling Kick
-Body Slam
-Meditate


Edit: Will start crystal tomorrow. Looking ahead at it, I plan for a Heracross, a Poliwrath, and probably Machamp and Primeape, though am not sure, I may use some of the tyrogue evolutions ultimately, we will have to see

Edit 2: started Crystal. Used Totodile to beat my rival, then to beat Falkner. After grounding Falkner, I carefully made my way down to the pokemon center before Union Cave without fighting any trainers and got the old rod. Next I carefully made my way back to Violet and caught a poliwag, my first pokemon for the challenge(will evolve it once I can get to Tully, the first chance for a water stone).

my team:

Poliwag
Lv. 10
-Bubble
-Hypnosis

beat anyone until olivine (except for the ppl in ecruteak) with mareep which is an ampharos now and finally met some other electrics.


current team, in chronological order

Ampharos

Lv. 32
- Swift
- Cotton Spore (damn, thunderwave would've been much better here)
- Thunderpunch
- Firepunch
It was pretty easy to beat the early enemys with this thing, even whitney was no problem

Magnemite

Lv. 21
- Tackle
- Thundershock
- Thunderwave
- Sonicboom
Has tons of Resistances now, thanks to Steel type

Chinchou

Lv. 20
- Thunder Wave
- Supersonic
- Flail
- Water Gun
Finally something against ground, giovannis rhydon and blues sandwich were like hell.

Voltorb "Volty" (why did that stupid guy who traded me this for a krabby call this thing volty? why not jut voltorb?)

Lv. 15
- Tackle
- Screech
Training such a thing 10 levels with 4 rare candys was hard enough, i think i'll only use this thing for revives this time

hm slave: bayleef lv.16 (cut, rocksmash)


oh, and may i use eevee? because i wont be able to evolve it till the end of the game... or might i trade eevee to my gen 1 save, evolve it there and trade it back?

UPDATE:

Flew to Ecruteak City.
Made my way to Mahogany Town.
Went to the Lake of Rage defeating trainers on the way, picking up TM's and finding ENTEI.
Skiploom evolved into Jumpluff!
Made my way to the Red Gyarados before realising I didn't have any Pokeballs.
Flew to Cianwood - where there wasn't a Mart.
Did the event with Suicune and defeated Eusine.
Flew to Olivine and bought 5 Great Balls.
Flew back to Lake of Rage and Captured the Red Gyarados.
Met Lance.
Flew to Mahogany, deposited Paras and withdrawed Gyarados.
Went into the Rocket Hideout.
Defeated All the Rockets and obtained HM06 from Lance.
Went into the Mahogany Gym.
Defeated all the trainers - constantly going back to the PokeCentre.
Challenged Pryce and suprisingly, he was easier than the trainers.
Defeated Pryce.
Saved.

My Team -

Pidgeotto (Level 29)

Gust
Quick Attack
Fly
Mud-Slap

Butterfree (Level 30)

Confusion
Tackle
Sleep Powder
Gust

Jumpluff w/ Miracle Seed (Level 31)

Headbutt
Synthesis
Sleep Powder
Leech Seed

Yes, it still dosen't know any attacking grass type moves.

Golbat (Level 30)

Bite
Leech Life
Confuse Ray
Wing Attack

Gyarados (Level 30)

Thrash
Bite
Dragon Rage
Surf

HM Slaves:

Tauros (Surf, Strength)
Paras (Cut, Flash)

Took my poliwag and trained until I got it up a few levels, then beat sprout tower. Next headed for azalea and cleared the well, then beat bugsy. Got cut, then got headbutt and taught it to poliwag. Spent a couple hours headbutting trees until I got a heracross before proceeding, then went to goldenrod and looped back for the egg. Saved before grabbing it and hatched it over and over until I got a tyrogue, took a long time and many, many reloads, which I plan to evolve into hitmonlee to eventually breed for a hitmontop with high jump kick. Anyway, I then beat whitney, and headed quickly to ecruteak, snagging tully's number along the way, now am sitting around in mahogany waiting for him to call with my water stone, as my poliwag recently evolved.

My team:
Poliwhirl
Lv. 26
-Ice Punch
-Headbutt
-Water Gun
-Hypnosis

Tyrogue
Lv. 17
-Tackle
-Dizzy Punch
-Headbutt

Heracross
Lv. 18
-Horn Attack
-Leer
-Headbutt
-Endure

unsure whether im allowed to evolve eevee by trading or not, and if yes, when and if not if i might use it till i get a thunder stone (which would take too long, so jolteon would maybe have his first bossfight appearance against red, i was bored (once again) and just decided not to take eevee and i didnt regret it yet (of course jolteon would be helpful, but its not too much harder without it, there are a lot better electrics in this gen)
so i continued playing and i just beat lance.
i used only 2 main pokemon again through the game and had no problems, only kogas crobat was annoying was annoying with double team+luck, then double team spam and then toxic and these dragonites (and clairs dragonairs too) always t-waved me, but didnt cause any serious trouble.


Hall of Fame Team:


So its Kanto time again now =)


Update: went to pallet town and beat everyone on the way there. lanturn is 62 now and ampharos is 61, lanturn learned hydro pump for water gun, ampharos learned thunder for cotton spore.
i think i'll be 65 when i beat blue and i think i'll need at least l.80 for red, so i'll have to train which will be pretty boring (even with speedincrease) so maybe i wont be that insanely fast any more

After my game crashed, I tried to play a random game using VBA but the buttons didn't respond...I couldn't even change the config.
Any ideas on how to fix this problem so I can continue (or restart) my challenge?

(Finnally!) Update time!!!!

well this is the last update on this serie so it took me a long to write, here it is:

took on lavaridge town's gym
went to the dessert and got anorith
trained anorith and party
defeated my dad
got surf and went to route 118
arrived weather institute and defeated team aqua
arrived fortree city but a stupid camouflaged thing didnt let me pass...
got devon scope and defeated a kekleon
went to fortree gym and defeated kekleon
defeated winona with anorith (anorith rocks!!!)
arrived lilycove city but before getting there went to safari zone
catched heracross and pinsir
trained the new catched pokemon and party a bit
went to mt pyre and defeated team aqua
went to team aqua hideout and "defeated" team aqua (again)
arrived mosdeep city and defeated the gym leaders with ease
arrived sootopolis city to heal pokemon
went to seaflorr cavern and defeated team aqua for last time
went to sootopolis city and defeated kyogre (lol my heracross defeated it on 3 breack bricks! he rocks!)
defeated sootopolis city gym and went to victory road
defeated wall.e the girl trainer and arrived the elite four
defeated all the elite four
defeated the champion (damn that steven guy is good! it took me like 10 tries to beat him...)

PIC:


final team:
armaldo lv 50
iron tail
ancient power
fury cutter
earthquake

-One of the aces of the team it helped on all things gyms elite four, etc

heracross lv 50
take down
reversal
endure
brick break

another ace of the team it helped A LOT with the E-4 it used the endure-reversal combo to 1HKO them

ninjask lvl 50
aerial ace
swords dance
fury cutter
shadow ball

one of my Fav pokemon i like this one cause i love his ability and i counter attack attaching him macho brace :D

shedinja lvl 47
shadow ball
fury cutter
hyper beam
flash

Well... emm.. no comments :D

pinsir lvl 49
guillotine
seismic toss
hyper beam
submission

another good pokemon it helped KOing claydol and skarmory of steven



so.. i finished my monotype on sapphire but still 1 more region left! but the bad thing is that school got me busy with exams..

well ill see u again guys!

i just beat red, i attempted him as soon as i reached mt. silver without having trained before, just for fun. Pikachu was easy, of course. Espeon caused a bit trouble with it hard-hitting psychics, but wasnt invincible. snorlax was hell. first he maxed special defence with amnesia, which made 6 of the 8 moves my main pokemon know completely useless, and thunder wave was useless anyway becasue snorlax is slow and knows rest. rest, it always used that move when i had finally iron-tailed its hp to red. but after a lot of revives and potions, ampharos finally got a crit and ohkod snorlax (maybe because snorlax had a lowered defence because of previous iron tails... lanturn was dead at that time but when venusaur was dead, two rounds later, i thought nothing can stop me now, killed blastoise, and charizard got a crit and raped my hp that were still at 2/3 with one single flamethrower. at this point a minute before i complete the game, my two-pokemon-policy had failed and i had to switch in voltorb to revive lanturn :( which ohkod charizard with surf.

Ampharos

Lv. 65
- Iron Tail
- Thunder
- Thunderpunch
- Firepunch

Lanturn

Lv. 64
- Thunder Wave
- Surf
- Spark
- Hydro Pump

(thunder/hydro pump were just for additional pp, and of course because i didnt find any move of another type (except for normal, which is useless))

so i'm ready with gold now, now i've to look which 3rd gen game has the most/best electrics...

update: started in emerald, called self "BACON!", chose mudkip, beat everyone, caught a minun, saved, caught several electrikes. all had -speed natures, so i realoaded, caught a plusle and an useable electrike. started beating trainers i skipped with electrike (i wont need the other two, just take a look at their stats...)


team:

Electrike l.12

Serious Nature (+/, -/)
- Tackle
- Thunderwave
- Leer
- Howl
Of course, neutral nature doesnt improve anything but at least it doesnt decrease my speed. i was so happy to see an electrike with a nature that isnt -speed, so i took it xD

On box:
Mudkip l. 18 (tackle, growl, mud slap, water gun),
Minun l.13 (growl, thunderwave, quick attack, helping hand),
Plusle l. 12 (growl, thunderwave, quick attack)

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damn, i just wanted to continue playing and appearently i forgot to save so now all i have is minun, so i've to go catch an electrike again>_> but maybe i'll get one with a better nature this time


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honestly, start in hoenn with electric is no fun. electrike already by a lv9 machop (e. was l.14) and a l.10 makuhita (in l.17) so i already blacked out two times. electrike, minun, plusle (i dont have one this time) - why are there no useful electrics in this game?
... finally learned spark at lv.20, beat brawly and aqua but blacked out against an aroma lady with a scroomish and a roselia and a mean paralysis-luck-leechseed combo
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next update: got to the weather institute, didnt meet any other electric pokemon yet (maybe it wouldnt have been that bad to train minun). blacked out several other times, mostly against hikers, but since it knows bite, manectric doesnt have any problems with them anymore (but its still far away from being a good pokemon)

team:

Manectric "Hawtdogz" Lv. 47

Timid Nature
Lightningrod
- Spark
- Double Team
- Thunder
- Bite
dunno why i called it hawtdogz, i think i was just hungry and thinking about food

slave: zigzagoon lv. 13 (this thing always levels when i accidentally walk into a double battle and steals experience. originally it was lv.3)

I think I'll sign up for this mono-type challenge starting in the Ruby Generation using Bug-Types ^^.

Thoughts said:

I think I'll sign up for this mono-type challenge starting in the Ruby Generation using Bug-Types ^^.

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sorry but you need to start first with the first generations
e.g.

first: blue
second: crystal
third: ruby
fourth: platinum

played a decent bit, here are highlights:
-Made the first tyrogue a hitmonlee, got it hi jump kick, then bred me one with hi jump kick.
-Caught a machop
-got a water stone and evolved poliqhirl
-did the first suicune event and beat my rival
-beat ecruteak gym after evolving new tyrogue into hitmontop
-cleared lighthouse out
-surfed to cianwood, clearing trainers along the way
-beat the gym there

My team(and more or less my permanent team, only moves and evolutionary stage in machop's case will change):

Machop
Lv. 27
-Thunderpunch
-Foresight
-Karate Chop
-Focus Energy

Hitmontop
Lv. 27
-Headbutt
-Tackle
-Hi Jump Kick
-Strength

Heracross
Lv. 27
-Headbutt
-Attract
-Endure
-Leer

Poliwrath(quick claw)
Lv. 30
-ice punch
-surf
-hypnosis
-headbutt

Soo... Ignore my last post. I'm gonna start the secondary challenge with Electric

more highlights:
-flew back to olivine with the secretpotion, healed amphy
-beat the gym leader without too much trouble after evolving machop to machoke, then trading it and trading back so I have a machamp(not really a seperate highlight as machop was almost there last update)
-caught red gyarados
-cleared the rocket base out
-beat pryce
-made my way to blackthorn
-cleared out the rockets from the tower
-beat the last gym on this region(ie johto, not kanto)
-cleared route 45 and those left in union cave
-cleared route to pokemon league, including rival

my team pre league:

Machamp
Lv. 40
-Earthquake
-Vital Throw
-Foresight
-Karate Chop

Heracross
Lv. 40
-Attract
-Take Down
-Headbutt
-Endure

Hitmontop (Amulet Coin)
Lv. 39
-Counter
-Hi Jump Kick
-Strength
-Headbutt

Poliwrath (Quick Claw)
Lv. 39
-Ice Punch
-Surf
-Headbutt
-Hypnosis

next update will be league play by play

got to lilycove and caught some pikachus in safari zone (finally my slaves cant steal exp in double battles anymore) and chose the one with the best nature. started training and found out that there are other electrics (i could've caught them much earlier) at new mauville, i completely forgot about that place.

team:

Manectric "Hawtdogz" Lv. 55
@ Blackglasses
Timid Nature
Lightningrod (<-- didnt notice this until it was l.47, damn me)
- Spark
- Double Team
- Thunder
- Bite

Pikachu "Zurkas" Lv. 36
@ Lax Incense
Lonely Nature (this was in fact the best nature i found, since i dont care about evs ingame, i use mixed sweepers if possible (more type coverage) and anything else lowered either stk, stak or speed)
Static
- Thunderbolt
- Dig
- Double Team
- Slam

slaves: tropius, mudkip (zigzagoon is in box now)

I just entered rat in wikipedia and chose some language where the word for rat didnt include these 3 letters in a row and in this language (i'm sorry i forgot which one it was), zurkas is the word for rat =)

can i start a flying mono type challange?? (although i will start it if you say yes or no :D) i'll play fr/lf because i don't know where r/b/y are.

Is it okay if I can join in on Pokemon Blue?

Type: Grass

and now, for my turn by turn E4 commentary

First up: Will:
1: Xatu:
-Lead off with Poliwrath
-poliwrath uses ice punch, crits, OHKOs Xatu
2. Jynx:
-switch in Hitmontop
-jynx uses psychic, OHKOs hitmontop, switch in poliwrath
-poliwrath uses surf, crits, does about 2/3, jynx uses doubleslap, does negligible damage
-jynx uses lovely kiss, puts poliwrath to sleep, poliwrath stays asleep
-use mint berry on poliwrath, jynx uses psychic, crits, KOs poliwrath, switch in heracross
-heracross uses headbutt, finishes jynx
3. Xatu:
-heracross uses attract, xatu uses psychic, does about 2/3 damage
-heracross uses headbutt, does a bit under half, Xatu's love prevents attack
-heracross again uses headbutt, leaves xatu almost dead, again xatu cannot attack
-will uses max potion, heracross uses headbutt, brings it back down to about half
-heracross uses headbutt again, brings xatu to just over 1/4, xatu flinches
-heracross finishes it with headbutt
4. Exeggutor
-heracross uses attract, exeggutor uses psychic, finishes heracross, switch in machamp
-use revive on poliwrath, exeggutor uses psychic, OHKOs machamp, switch in poliwrath
-use revive on heracross, exeggutor KOs poliwrath with psychic, switch in heracross
-use revive on poliwrath, exeggutor KOs heracross with psychic, switch in poliwrath
-use revive on heracross, exeggutor KOs poliwrath with psychic, switch in heracross
-use revive on poliwrath, exeggutor KOs heracross with psychic, switch in poliwrath
-use revive on heracross, exeggutor KOs poliwrath with psychic, switch in heracross
-use revive on poliwrath, exeggutor KOs heracross with psychic, switch in poliwrath
-use revive on heracross, exeggutor KOs poliwrath with psychic, switch in heracross
-use revive on poliwrath, exeggutor KOs heracross with psychic, switch in poliwrath
-use revive on heracross, exeggutor uses reflect
-use revive on hitmontop, exeggutor uses egg bomb, misses
-use revive on machamp, exeggutor uses egg bomb, does negligible damage
-use hyper potion on machamp, exeggutor misses with egg bomb
-use hyper potion on heracross, exeggutor again misses with egg bomb, reflect fades
-use hyper potion on hitmontop, exeggutor uses reflect
-use hyper potion on poliwrath, egg bomb does minor damage
-poliwrath uses ice punch, does about half damage, exeggutor uses leech seed, misses
-poliwrath uses ice punch again, finishes it
5. Slowbro:
-switch in heracross
-heracross uses attract, love stops slowbro's attack, reflect fades
-heracross uses take down, does about a third, slowbro uses curse
-heracross uses takedown again, brings it to half, slowbro again uses curse
-takedown brings slowbro down to maybe a third, love stops its attack
-takedown gets slowbro to red, love stops it again
-heracross uses headbutt, brings slowbro to a tiny sliver of health, love again stops attack(yay for attracthax)
-heracross finishes it with takedown, will defeated

next up: koga:
1. Ariados
-lead off with poliwrath
-poliwrath uses surf, crits, OHKOs ariados
2. Venomoth
-venomoth uses supersonic, confuses poliwrath, poliwrath hurts self
-venomoth uses psychic, brings poliwrath down to about 1/3, poliwrath, no longer confused, uses hypnosis, puts venomoth to sleep
-venomoth stays asleep, poliwrath uses surf, crits, does about 90% damage
-poliwrath uses headbutt, finishes venomoth
3. crobat
-crobat uses wing attack, KOs poliwrath, switch in machamp
-use revive on poliwrath, wing attack does a bit under half
-use hyper potion on poliwrath, wing attack leaves machamp barely alive, but not quite dead
-use hyper potion on machamp, wing attack does a bit over half
-crobat finishes it with another wing attack, switch in poliwrath
-crobat uses wing attack, does a bit under half, poliwrath uses ice punch, does a bit under half
-poliwrath uses ice punch, almost killing crobat, crobat uses toxic
-koga uses full restore on crobat, poliwrath brings it back down to about half with ice punch, hurt by toxic
-crobat uses double team, poliwrath almost downs it with another ice punch, hurt again by poison
-poliwrath finishes it with surf
4. Forretress
-switch in hitmontop
-hitmontop uses hi jump kick, misses, forretress uses spikes
-forretress uses protect, hitmontop uses hi jump kick, misses due to protect
-hitmontop hits with hi jump kick, does about 1/4, forretress uses swift, brings hitmontop to about 1/4 including damage from missed kicks
-hitmontop uses hi jump kick, brings forretress down to half, forretress uses swift, brings hitmontop down to half
-forretress uses swift brings hitmontop down to about 1/3, hitmontop uses counter, almost kills forretress
-hitmontop uses hi jump kick, crits, KOs forretress
5. Muk
-switch in heracross, spikes damages it
-heracross uses attract, muk uses minimize
-heracross uses headbutt, does about 1/4, muk is stopped by love
-headbutt brings muk under half, love again stops attack
-heracross KOs it with takedown

heal between battles

next up: Bruno:
1. hitmontop
-lead off with hitmontop
-my hitmontop uses hi jump kick, does about half, his digs a hole
-his uses dig, mine counters, almost finishes it
-mine uses headbutt, KOs his
2. Hitmonlee
-hitmonlee uses double kick, brings hitmontop down to about half, hitmontop uses hi jump kick, brings it down to about 1/3
-hitmonlee uses hi jump kick, KOs hitmontop
-hitmonlee uses swagger, greatly raises poliwrath's attack and confuses it, poliwrath finishes it with surf
3. Hitmonchan
-poliwrath uses surf, does about 1/4, hitmonchan uses thunderpunch, does about 1/5
-poliwrath confused no more, uses headbutt, brings hitmonchan down to maybe 10%, hitmonchan uses thunderpunch, brings poliwrath down to 1/4
-poliwrath finishes it off with headbutt
4. Machamp
-poliwrath does a bit under half with headbutt, machamp flinches
-poliwrath uses headbutt, crits, KOs machamp
5. Onix
-poliwrath uses surf, OHKOs onix

heal between battles
(gah, forgot to save so having to refight karen)
Next along: Karen
1. Umbreon
-lead off with hitmontop
-hitmontop uses hi jump kick, damages umbreon for 2/3, umbreon uses confuse ray, confuses hitmontop
-hitmontop uses hi jump kick, KOs Umbreon
2. Vileplume
-switch in poliwrath
-poliwrath uses ice punch, does just under half damage, vileplume uses stun spore, paralyzes poliwrath
-poliwrath uses ice punch again, reduces vileplume to a sliver and freezes it, vileplume is frozen solid
-poliwrath finishes it with a final ice punch
3. Gengar
-switch in machamp
-Gengar uses curse, machamp finishes it with earthquake
4. Murkrow
-switch in hitmontop
-murkrow uses faint attack, criticals, does about 1/4, hitmontop uses hi jump kick, does about 2/3
-murkrow uses faint attack, combined with hitmontop missing hi jump kick, brings hitmontop under half
-murkrow brings hitmontop to a bit over 1/4 with another faint attack, hitmontop finishes it with hi jump kick
5. Houndoom
-switch in Machamp
-houndoom uses flamethrower, does a bit over half, machamp uses vital throw, KOs houndoom

Heal before Lance

Pre Lance Party:

Poliwrath
Lv. 42
-Ice Punch
-Surf
-Hypnosis
-Headbutt

Hitmontop
Lv. 40
-Headbutt
-Hi Jump Kick
-Strength
-Counter

Machamp
Lv. 41
-Karate Chop
-Foresight
-Vital Throw
-Earthquake

Heracross
Lv. 41
-Headbutt
-Take Down
-Attract
-Endure

last up: Lance
1.Gyarados
-lead off with heracross
-heracross uses attract, love stops gyarados from attacking
-heracross uses takedown, does about 1/3 to gyarados, gyarados uses rain dance, it starts raining
-heracross uses takedown, reduces gyarados to 1/3, love stops its attack
-heracross finishes it with a final takedown
2. Aerodactyl
-switch in poliwrath
-poliwrath uses surf, OHKOs aerodactyl
3. Dragonite
-poliwrath uses ice punch, does about 2/3 to dragonite, dragonite uses thunder wave, paralyzes poliwrath, rain stops
-dragonite misses with thunder, poliwrath finishes it with another ice punch
4. Dragonite
-Dragonite uses hyper beam, does under half, poliwrath does about 2/3 with an ice punch
-use full restore on poliwrath, dragonite recharges
-dragonite uses hyper beam again, does again under half, poliwrath uses headbutt, reduces dragonite to about 1/6
-poliwrath uses headbutt, finishes dragonite
5. Charizard
-Charizard uses wing attack, reduces poliwrath to about 1/5, poliwrath uses surf, does about 2/3
-use hyper potion on poliwrath, charizard uses wing attack, does about 1/3
-charizard uses wing attack, reduces poliwrath to under 1/3, poliwrath finishes it with another surf
6. Dragonite
-use hyper potion on poliwrath, dragonite uses outrage, does under half
-dragonite uses outrage, brings poliwrath down to about 10%, poliwrath uses ice punch, does over half
-use hyper potion on poliwrath, dragonite hurts self in confusion
-lance uses full restore, poliwrath uses last ice punch, bringing it under half
-dragonite uses hyper beam, misses, poliwrath uses hypnosis, fails
-dragonite uses hyper beam, hits, does over half, poliwrath uses hypnosis, puts dragonite to sleep
-dragonite must recharge, poliwrath uses headbutt, brings dragonite to about 1/3
-lance uses full heal on dragonite, poliwrath uses surf, brings it down to 1/4
-poliwrath uses headbutt, crits, KOs dragonite

End of first half of crystal team:

Poliwrath
Lv. 44
-Ice Punch
-Surf
-Hypnosis
-Headbutt

Hitmontop
Lv. 40
-Headbutt
-Hi Jump Kick
-Strength
-Counter

Machamp
Lv. 41
-Karate Chop
-Foresight
-Vital Throw
-Earthquake

Heracross
Lv. 41
-Headbutt
-Take Down
-Attract
-Endure

YO! I will now resume my monotype, drilling for E4 in Hoenn, yet again!

EDIT: Woots i did it. Beat Steven etc.etc.
Pictures!

Aggron lv 58
Earthquake
Protect
Take Down
Iron Tail
One of my main fighters. He's a good sweeper, but he does have some flaws, the moveset doesn't have the best coverage. Ohwell.

Armaldo lv 63
Brick Break
Protect
Toxic
Rock Blast
One of my main fighters. Almost everybody in E4 is weak to Brick Break... Plus theres the Toxic/Protect combo. So he got leveled up a lot at the end.

Lunatone lv 53
Shadow Ball
Explosion
Psychic
Rock Throw
A good special sweeper, but not very good in general. Lunatone was weak to many types in the E4, and everybody seemed to like Crunch.

Relicanth lv 45
Surf
Rock Tomb
Yawn
Take Down
Caught too late to really be of any use, but still contributed with Yawn and Surf, where it was needed. Also a Revive fodder.

I had fun with this one... ON TO PLATINUM TO COMPLETE MY CHALLENGE!!!!!!
Oh and i see i'm still challenging Johto, according to the list. UPDATE IT NAO.

got to mossdeep and received hm dive. caught several chinchous. taught the best of them some tms

team:

Manectric "HAWTDOGZ" Lv. 57
@ Blackglasses
Timid Nature
Lightningrod (<-- didnt notice this until it was l.47, damn me)
- Spark <-- no money left for another tbolt tm, and this move already got pp-up'd
- Double Team
- Thunder
- Bite

Raichu "ZURKAS" Lv. 47
@ Lax Incense <-- this +double team saved my ass against the 2 team magma leaders with the 2 camerupts
Lonely Nature
Static
- Thunderbolt
- Dig
- Double Team
- Slam <-- gonna be replaced by brick break as soon i find it, but was really useful agianst the psychic gym

Chinchou "TYPE CVRGE" Lv. 25 <-- water, thunder, ice really covers as well as anything and i'm not really creative today morning
@ Sea Incense
Bold Nature
Illuminate <- why does the pokemon with best stats and nature always have the crappy ability?
- Surf
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam <--- this was expensive as hell, 80000$ i think
- Spark

slaves: tropius, mudkip

i still think i dont need voltorb/magnemite, these 3 are a lot better (btw this is the first time i'm going to use more than 2 main pokemon in the entire challenge (electrode in gen 1 doesnt count, i never used it outside the elite 4 and originally only trained it for explosion) since i'm planning to train chinchou)

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very strange: always when my chinchou (now lanturn) is sent out, hearts appear.

i'm glad lanturn is female, otherwise ... this would be even stranger

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got all badges now, going to pokemon league next (of course)


team:

Manectric "HAWTDOGZ" Lv. 57
@ Blackglasses
Timid Nature
Lightningrod
- Spark
- Double Team
- Thunder
- Bite

Raichu "ZURKAS" Lv. 49
@ Lax Incense
Lonely Nature
Static
- Thunderbolt
- Dig
- Double Team
- Brick Break

Lanturn "TYPE CVRGE" Lv. 40
@ Sea Incense
Bold Nature
Illuminate
- Surf
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam
- Spark

slaves: tropius, mudkip

its elite 4 time again!
(manectric 58, raichu 52, lanturn 49)



final team:

@ Blackglasses
Timid Nature
Lightningrod
- Spark
- Double Team
- Thunder
- Bite


@ Lax Incense
Lonely Nature
Static
- Thunderbolt
- Dig
- Double Team
- Brick Break


@ Sea Incense
Bold Nature
Illuminate
- Surf
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam
- Hydro Pump

slaves didnt change too, they were still tropius and mudkip =D

next will be sinnoh, this will probably become even more difficult, since luxray sucks, pacharisu sucks even more and then there is only raichu as good electric pokemon left or did i forget something?
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holy ***, this post became HUGE... why did i write this, no one is going to read it anyway...
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btw i just remembered i lent someone my ds, on which i wanted to play this gen since speed increase doesnt work on ds games (ok, there is 200%, but this is mostly only 120% when playing on my pc), so i cant start on pearl before i have it back