Ultimate Monotype Challenge Thread

So eventually, after suiciding into the Elite Four a few times, my physical based Aggron got strong enough to OHKO Mightyena with Black Belt powered Brick Break, if he doesn't get intimidated. So, I led Zigzagoon, who immediately died to Crunch. Aggron OHKO'd Mightyena. Sharpedo was coming up, so I switched to Electrike, who took Crunch like a boss and Static Paralyzed Sharpedo. He was then OHKO'd by Brick Break. After that, 3 Brick Breaks later, I was done with Sydney.

I switched Black Belt for Metal Coat and fought Phoebe. Iron Tail + Curse = Duskull dead. I switched to Skarmory to get rid of Curse for her second Duskull. I first thief'd its Sitrus Berry, then used Fly, and soon died to Ice Beam. Without the Sitrus Berry, Aggron 2HKO'd with Earthquakes. He then went on to either OHKO or 2HKO with either Iron Tail or Earthquake. They couldn't hurt me with their puny NVE moves.

Glacia was really tough. I healed Aggron and reswitched to Black Belt, as well as switching the other Aggron's (who from now on will be referred to as Aggron2) Magnet to Charcoal. Aggron took an Ice Beam and OHKO'd with Brick Break. Sealeo was slower than me, but didn't die to Brick Break, and got me into yellow with Surf. Then he died. The next Sealeo came out, who opted to use Hail instead of Dive. 2 BB's did the trick. Then came Walrein. I switched to Aggron2, hoping to do some damage with Thunderbolt or something, but Walrein was faster, and OHKO with Surf. I then sent out Marshtomp, healed Aggron, and revived my Pokemon until Hail ran out (he used Blizzard I think on Marshtomp, and it missed the first time). Full health Aggron was still outsped by Walrein and got down to about 10 health in one surf, but Walrein was at half after one BB. So, I switched to Skarmory, which barely survived a Surf, rehealed Aggron, and then finished Walrein off with one final BB (at like 10 health).

Drake was much easier. I saved after Glacia thinking that I wouldn't get very far against Drake, so not everyone (of my good Pokemon) were fully healed. Also I switched back to Metal Coat and Charcoal -> NevermeltIce. Shellgon used Rock tomb and was 2HKO by Iron Tail. So were his two flygon, using Sandstorm and Dragonbreath instead of the Ground type move I'm sure they had. Then was Salamence. He was able to 3HKO me with Flamethrower, which I'm sure I could have 3HKO him with Iron Tail, but for some reason, I thought I needed to use Ice Beam instead, so I tried switching to Aggron2, who died in one hit (from half health). I then revived and fully healed him with 2/3 of Aggron's life, and then switched to a slave so that Aggron2 could come in for free. Ice Beam did like 1/3 of Salamence's health. Poo. Aggron finished him and Altaria off with like one more Hyper Potion.

I went on to Steven, afraid of what kind of nasty things his Metagross was going to do to my team. Pretty sure I went with Soft Sand for Aggron, Metal Coat for Skarmory, and Charcoal for Aggron2. Not that important I guess. Also I led with Aggron2, since Skarmory could only use NVEx2 Steel Wing and Aerial Ace. He fainted to a few Flamethrower/Thunderbolts, but he laid one layer of Spikes. Next was Aggron, so I switched to my Aggron. I did 3/4 of his health with an EQ, he did barely over half with his own EQ. I decided that I might as well finish him off, but he surprisingly switched to Metagross, which took a Crit EQ and died in one hit. O_o o_O I celebrated. He then was about to send out Claydol, but I had a fairly underleveled Skarmory to fight him with. Ancient Power did like 1/5 of my health, and EQ didn't effect me. Wootz. Once he ran out of damaging moves, I switched to Aggron2, who Surfed all over him (twice, because Steven used a Full Restore). Aggron was coming back out, so I switched to Aggron, who finished him off with EQ. Next was Armaldo and Cradidly, but I don't really remember them, so I'm guessing they weren't that bad. Apparently I switched to Skarmory at some point, because that was who I used at the end.

The End.

I know it's not much but it's what I have.


Took a ton of Tail Whips on Onix with Bide, then Hyper Fang was good.

- Forgot Misty's screenshot. Fairy's Mega Punch was the winner here.


3 Digs FTW.


Easy with Fly/Drill Peck, although Fly missed a couple times so Twin went down, and Fairy finished it.

After the 4th badge (steamrolled with Bowser+Surf) I forgot that you can't get to Ice Path for ages but still went to Mahogany Town. Caught Red Gyarados, messed up Rocket Base. Then I tried to get to Ice Path. Guy still blocks me.
Then I defeat Pryce and get my 5th (lawl) badge from him. Guy still blocks my way to Ice Path. Realization dawns. He will block me until I clear out the Rockets from the Radio Tower fffffnnn.... *rage*
Swept the fighting and steel gym (both laughable, the fighting gym because my two main Pokémon were now ten levels over his, steel due to Double-Kick and Surf) and tried to avoid as many trainer battles on my way as possible, to make leveling Swinub easier.
Went to Ice Path, caugh Mom and Dad Swinub and now I'm breeding like crazy.
Since I'm a total noob to this, what are good egg moves / natures for baby Swinub?

I'm having sooo much fun with Attract on this guy. It's just hilarious.
Here's a list of some of his achievements in bringing love to the female Pokémon world: About a dozen random wild Pokémon just for fun, two Nidorinas, two Nidoqueen, Red Gyarados (lawl), all of the red-haired rocket woman's Pokémon in Mahogany base, all of the red-haired rocket woman's Pokémon in the Radio Tower.
Attract appears pretty broken. So far, there has been only one Pokémon that has managed to get more than one attack through after being in luvvv.

The best Pokémon on the team. Pushed his defense a little with items and he can take pretty much any hit. He now knows Surf and Earthquake. Nuff said.

I decided to take JD's advice and grabbed that egg. First hatch ended up being a Smooch so I was pleased with that. Went on to training that, catching a Swinub and Dewgong, and then letting them catch up to the rest of the gang before taking on the Elite Four. Clair was no biggy, I took her out while training the first Pokemon in need of training (Smoochum), but that's to be expected on an Ice run.

After that I decided to finish up my grinding in Victory Road as it was just giving out EXP like it was Christmas. After everyone made it to 50 (And my lead to 55) I headed off to the Elite Four, which I had expected to be a little more difficult... Oh, I also used those TMs I've been hoarding to make my team less mono-tone.

Will - No trouble. May's Ice Beam/Thunder and Trish II's Shadow Ball made quick work of him.

Koga - Another quick battle. Trish II's Psychic and a few Unneeded Ice Beams from others (Free EXP) took them down in one shot.

Bruno - Another easy one. I thought he'd have more Rock/Ground so I had PuhiPuhi lead. Puhi ended up beasting his entire team with STAB'd + Soft Sand Earthqauke. I did switch to Trish II for Machamp just because those random crits can be a pain.

Karen - Led off with Shredder for the Not very effective advantage. Went smoothly until her Murkrow. I wanted the stylish kill so I went for Thunder as the final hit, but missed 4 times in a row and May took some Faint Attacks to the face. But she's tough, she handled it with plenty of HP to spare.

Lance -Led with Travis T. because he hadn't seen ANY action in the League so far. He ended up taking out 5/6 of his Pokemon in one shot. I got a little worried on Aerodactly, but he lived through the Rock Slide and shot a x4 STAB Ice Beam to Aero's face. No way he was living through that. After that just switched to Tap Deck to take out his Charizard fast and easy. That's the end of that.

After that I went through Kanto in less than an hour. 1 hit pretty much everything and anything the Gym leaders brought out with the exception of Blaine (Who I was raising Shredder at so it was a little slower) and good ol' Blue.

Blue - The battle went easy, one-hitting everything but his Pigeot, until Arcanine... He got several Critical Flamethrowers in a row off, leaving me down to just May and Trish II. May took him down 3 times (Full Restore'd twice) and that was the end of him. Like I said in Yellow; Good game Blue, good game.

With Blue's Arcanine shenanigans out of the way I was a little worried about Red, but I decided to just go for it as Cardwell took him out with Pokemon only slightly higher than mine, and with half the team amount. I was slightly off as it didn't exactly go my way...

Red - I decided to lead with my new favorite team member Lv.60 PuhiPuhi (Piloswine) and I was greeted by his lv.81 Pikachu. PuhiPuhi made quick work of ol' Chewy with a Earthquake. After that he brought out Charizard, which ended up being my downfall. I thought "Oh I can bring Tap Deck out and live a Flamethrower/Fire Blast and hit him with a STAB'd Surf." I was dead wrong. That thing 1HKO'd me with that Flamethrower, and I lost my balance and fell victim to it. Had to reload and retry twice and finally got past his Charizard thanks to May's Thunder. Espeon went down nice and easy thanks to Shredder. Snorlax also fell victim to PuhiPuhi's Earthquake. He brought out Blastoise, which got so lucky on Surf. Hit 4 Crits in a row. I had to restart and got back to the same spot. Decided to just go with Dewgong against him this time (May has 12 Health left thanks to Double Flamethrower from Charizard) which turned out very nice. Headbutt'd twice, then went into Rest and Sleep Talk. Sleep Talk surprised me, did Headbutts and an occasional Ice Beam, until I was near death and it got Rest which I enjoyed. With Blastoise down it was just Venasaur, which did end up sweeping most of my team with Giga Drain. I got an Earthquake off with PuhiPuhi, and then with Tap Deck's last chance (And mine as that's all I had left) it got an Ice Beam off and killed it.
I was not expecting that many of his pokemon to give me a rough time. I could have used some FUll Restores and made this fight one sided after Charizard, but using No Items was the only way to make this feel like the challenge was still going. Good game Red.