Ultimate Monotype Challenge Thread

+++ battle versus Blue, hard fight but Spitfire solved it
+++ training for Red in the new E4...geez...
+++ with my Pokemon in the 70s i decided to fight Red

+++ Pikachu outsped Volcana and landed a Crit Volt Tackle...Fang
defeated Pikachu and Red sent in
Blastoise, one of my most feared foes in this Battle.
+++ All my fears crumbled to dust, because Blastoise just used Focus Blast
+++ Spitfire used two Thunderbolts and Blastoise was history
+++ Now Lapras...Brine KOed Spitfire and i sacrificed Nightmare to revive
Spitfire. A few Full Restores and Thunderbolts later Spirfire Defeated
Lapras
+++ Snorlax was the next foe and gave me time to heal my Party. Snorlax
After I used all of Fangs Flamethrowers.
+++ Venusaur was another glorious Victory for Volcana
+++ Charizard was Rock Slided by Spitfire.
+++ That´s it. I´m a HeartGold Fire Champion.

My Final Team :

+++ no progress at the moment

The Glorious Ghosts and their Slave:

So, I woke up one morning, a Saturday I believe, and watched "Let's Ask Prof. Rowan!" I've been watching it for a while, and it's pretty good. Well, after it had finished, Ike burst into my room, rambling on about the show. And he thought up a brilliant idea, we could go ask him for a starter Pokémon! He rambled on for a little longer, and we headed outside.

I talked to mum for a while, and then headed on out, but not before warning me about the tall grass, oops… Anyhow, I headed on up to Route 201, but was told by someone that he was at his house, so I checked there. He ran into me as I opened the door, and was about to leave when he forgot something. I headed in with him, and turned out he'd forgotten everything. Then he yelled about fining me £10 million or something. Finally I and Ike were on Route 201, and now I owe him £10 million, it'll be a while before I can pay him back.

We were about to hop across the grass to Sandgem Town, but guess who stopped us? Prof. Rowan! He seemed a little annoyed that we tried to cross the grass without Pokémon, but he started to mumble amongst himself, and then asked if we truly loved Pokémon. Indeed we did, and we convinced him so. Soon we met his assistant, Dawn, but that's not important. So guess what? He gave us Pokémon!

He had three with him; a Turtwig, a Chimchar, and a Piplup. Ike instantly chose a Turtwig, and I fell in love with Piplup. And we were instantly thrown into a Pokémon battle.

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Piplup vs. Turtwig

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Piplup started with a Growl, in an attempt to weaken the Turtwig's strength. Luckily it was faster, so it hit first, but Ike countered with Withdraw. Piplup followed up with a pound, but the Turtwig tackled too. I pounded again, but was weakened by Withdraw. The attacks went on, with not much interesting happening. That is until Piplup delivered the final blow, woot!

Result – Win​

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We headed home, and explained the story to our parents. Mum was a little worried at first, but soon realised that this was a once in a life time chance. So I headed to thank the Prof. for the Pokémon, I'm going to miss Twinleaf, but there's so much more to see in the world. I ran into Ike on the way up, and he proposed catching a legendary Pokémon. I thought it was a little too hasty; we'd only just gotten our first Pokémon. But I humoured him and headed up to Lake ---, where we saw this weird guy, going on about time and space, we managed to work out his name was Cyrus, but that was about it. Soon after he left, we heard a strange cry from a Pokémon. It was coming from the island in the centre, but it was impossible to get to without swimming, so we left it to another time. And we didn't have any Pokéballs, which would have made catching it much more difficult…

He left, and I headed on up to Sandgem to thank the Prof. I ran into a couple of Pokémon, who were easily dealt with by Piplup. Soon I ran into Dawn again, and we walked up to the laboratory, and we ran into Ike again, who had just been to see the Prof. Us three chatted for a while, and Prof. recommend that I try and find every Pokémon in Sinnoh. I fell in love with the Idea, but then he mentioned Nicknaming my Piplup. I like the idea of making him feel more personal, but I declined. Next, he gave me a Pokedex for recording Pokémon. Finally, Dawn gave me a run through of useful buildings like the Pokémon centre and the Pokemart. I spent some money on Pokéballs, because I wanted to build up a team.

I checked Route 201 for a Pokémon, and I ran across a Bidoof. Which after a short battle, I caught. I taught it the Return TM, because it receives a STAB bonus, and I plan to use it often and gain its trust. I headed home to tell mum of my plans, training along the way. Everything was sorted with my parents, but Ike hadn't said anything to his, but his parents gave me a parcel for him that I had to deliver. It was fairly small, and fit in my backpack with ease.

Back in Sandgem, Dawn taught me some Pokémon catching tricks, which could help a lot in further fights. After that I trained a little, then made my way to Jubilife, at which point I met up with Dawn again, and then we met a man called Looker, who was a Police Officer or something. Once Dawn and Looker had left, I headed to the Trainer School to check up on some battle information, at which point I ran into Ike. I gave him the parcel, which contained two maps, and Ike gave me one to help with my travels.

Afterwards, I won a Poketch, and trained some more against trainers and Pokémon. I check the map, and it said that Oreburgh was the location of the next gym, so I headed there. But on the way, I ran into Ike again, and we battled.

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Piplup vs. Starly

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This fight was won easily. A bubble or two managed to lower Starly's speed, and was soon followed up by a Pound, which knocked it out. And with Piplup taking minimal damage.

Piplup vs. Turtwig

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Piplup struck with Pound, in an attempt to weaken it. Unfortunately, Turtwig managed to strike back with an immensely powerful tackle, weakening Piplup. I took a final strike with Pound, but was taken down swiftly by another tackle.

Bidoof vs. Turtwig

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This is where Bidoof really shone. Due to no reason at all, Return came off ridiculously powerful, despite Turtwig's attempt to dampen the power with Withdraw.

Result – Win​

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Afterwards, I headed on to Oreburgh once more, fighting the odd trainer and the occasional level up. I entered Oreburgh gate, only to greeted by a Hiker, who kindly gave me the RockSmash HM. I was grateful, but not as much as when I ran into the third member of my team, a Psyduck. Piplup was first up, and weakened it with Pound, but due to its currently low HP, it was finished with a Scratch. Bidoof was up next, and used Tackle, which lowered the foe to a fraction of its health. Psyduck used WaterSport (Useless at this point), and I threw a Pokéball, which worked!

Rory –

Current Team

Spoiler:

Piplup Lv11
Pound, Growl, Bubble, WaterSport

Bidoof Lv7
Tackle, Return, Growl

Psyduck Lv5
WaterSport, Scratch, TailWhip

After Beating Brock in my last update, I headed toward Mt. Moon, battling the trainers along the way. Somewhere in there, Rattata learned Hyper Fang, which so far has been domination and ownage. When I finally got into Mt. Moon, battling several trainers along the way, I found *Drumroll* a Team Rocket Grunt!!!!!! His hacked level 16 Raticate (Rattata doesn't evolve until level 20!) owned my Rattata, and after being sent back into the pokemon center, I headed back into Mt. Moon to train, and caught a Clefairy!!!! And caught it, of course. I would've evolved it immediately with a moon stone I found in Mt. Moon, but after looking up it's moveset, I decided to wait until after level 31, when it learns Metronome. Otherwise, I would have to relearn Metronome. While training it, I found other great items, like Watergun TM, Mega Punch TM (both of which I taught to clefairy), and an HP up. There were some others too, like potion, but obviously weren't as useful. So anyway, after beating all the Rocket Grunts, Pidgey evolving along the way, I found some Fossils. Unfortunately, some dude wanted them and battled me for them. After he got owned, he let me have one fossil. That's okay, because if I was playing through the game regularly, I would've only wanted one fossil anyway.
After getting through Mt. Moon, I healed up and battled Misty, also, Rattata evolved in the gym. Anyway, I lost to misty, I took out her Staryu, but her Starmie destroyed me. So, I go to grind, getting the whole team up to level 20, then I owned Misty. I got bubble beam TM, taught it to Clefairy over water gun, and that's the end of this section!

After Healing up from my Cerulean Gym Battle, I headed up to Nugget Bridge. On my way, Bruno shows up (He's my Rival, if you don't already know)and challenges me to a battle, I own him, again, since my team is a few levels higher than his, thanks to grinding. So then I challenge the Nugget Bridge, get my Nugget, beat the Team Rocket Grunt, and got the SS Ticket from Bill.
Next I healed up in Cerulean, and headed south, through the underground path, and ended up in Vermillion. Got on the SS Aqua, didn't battle any trainers, except for my Rival, which I owned, again. Then I got HM01 Cut after curing the captain, and left the SS aqua.
Then I got my level 6 (from travelling back and forth from Pallet to Viridian) and taught it cut, then went into the gym. After battling the trainers and solving the puzzle, I went on to fight Lt. Surge, the Lightning American.
He was owned by Raticate's Hyper Fang, simple as that. I don't think Raticate even took a hit.

Raticate

Fang
level 26?
Tackle
Tail Whip
Quick Attack
Hyper Fang
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Pidgeotto

Wingblade
level 25?
Gust
Sand Attack
Quick Attack
Whirlwind
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Clefairy

Mage
level 25?
Mega Punch
Thunderbolt
Sing
BubbleBeam
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The levels may not be exactly right, but don't worry, I'll definitely have em' right next update!
One more thing, my Cut Slave, Charmander.

Once I'd caught myself I shiny new Psyduck, I did some mild training, even though I wouldn't really need it since the next gym was a Rock-type one, but I got my team up to about Lv10. Anyway, I passed through Oreburgh Gate, and battled two trainers, who posed little threat to my team. Once I'd entered Oreburgh City, a kid showed me around, but we were stopped by Ike, who said the Gym leader wasn't here. I was a little disappointed, but that's just something I'll have to deal with, but then he said I could talk to him at the mines. They're open to the public, so I thought "Why not?"

After some battling against some Miners (Bidoof took a beating here), I finally found the Gym Leader, who was called Roark. He seemed like a nice guy, and we headed back to the Gym for an official Gym battle. Here's how it went!

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Rory vs. Roark​

Psyduck vs. Geodude

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My first important battle with Psyduck, and it was a cake walk. One WaterGun brought it down, nice and easy.

Psyduck vs. Onix

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This battle was just as easy, but my team didn't fare quite as well. Psyduck went for another WaterGun, but Onix beat him to it with a StealthRock. Although WaterGun still OHKO'd Onix.

Piplup vs. Cranidos

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I swapped out Psyduck for Piplup, to ease the flow of EXP, but it didn't go as well as I'd hoped. Cranidos hit first with Headbutt and hit about ¾ of its health. Piplup's Bubble did minute damage, but lowered the foes speed, and I managed to hit it with another Bubble, which once again, lowered Cranidos's speed. But another Headbutt knocked out Piplup.

Bidoof vs. Cranidos

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None of Bidoof's moves will do much to Cranidos, so I overused Growl. Bidoof was faster due to the Bubble after effect. Each Growl lowered Cranidos's attack, but he was eventually beaten by another Headbutt.

Psyduck vs. Cranidos

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This was the final fight. With Cranidos having weakened Speed and Crippled attack, a couple of WaterGun's beat it.

Result – Win​

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I had won the CoalBadge, my first in a long line of badges. Roark also gave me the StealthRock TM as a parting gift. I planned on returning to Twinleaf to tell my family the good news, but I ran into Ike again, who said that there was another Gym in Eterna City, which was just a stone's throw away from here. I had to head back to Jubilife to reach it though, so I headed there, but on the way I found a lone Geodude (HM slave) who I caught, then I healed my team, and then headed north.

What I found was a little scary. There stood Prof. Rowan and Dawn, being confronted by some strange people. It seemed like they wanted the Professors research, but me and Dawn weren't going to let that happen. So we fought them with our Pokémon!

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Rory/Dawn vs. Grunt/Grunt​

Bidoof/Chimchar vs. Stunky/Glameow

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This was my first double battle, and it was great. Glameow went first, using Growl, but then Chimchar followed up with an Ember, severely damaging Glameow. Stunky attempted to poison Bidoof, but the attack missed. Then Bidoof hit Glameow with Return, knocking it out.

Bidoof/Chimchar vs. Stunky

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This seemed like an easy fight, and it was. Chimchar used Ember again, and damaged Stunky by about half. The Skunk-Pokémon poisoned Chimchar with PoisonGas, and Bidoof followed up with another Return. Stunky still stood, but just. And the fire monkey hit Stunky with Scratch, knocking it out.

Result – Win​

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The grunts ran crying, and Rowan congratulated us on the win, and on my first badge, then the two headed back the Sandgem, and I went north, to Floroma. This was a convenient stop between Eterna and Jubilife. I fought some more, then entered a cave of some sort, but was blocked by a variety of rocks. Lucky I caught the Geodude, as it smashed through the rocks with ease. Soon I was in Floroma town, and took in the wonderful smell of flowers, and the great views.
Unfortunately, for a trainer, there is little of interest in Floroma. So I headed east to Eterna, but met a young girl, who was worrying about her father who was trapped in the Valley Windworks. I headed up there, but it was guarded by a man dressed the same as the ones who had stopped Dawn and the Prof. I talked to him, and asked to pass, but he pushed me back and threw out a Pokémon. It was easily beaten, another Glameow I believe. But he ran back into the Windworks and locked it!

However, he mentioned something about another key owned by someone in Floroma Meadow. I headed there, but I ran into a Sea slug Pokémon, Shellos. I thought its Ground/Water-Type could help with Electric-Types. So it soon joined my team! After a little training I found another person being held up by these men. This time they wanted Honey to attract Pokémon, but the saw me, and I once again battled. Shellos shone here, talking on three Pokémon by itself, but it wasn't a particularly interesting fight. Once they'd left, the man who I'd saved (Use the term loosely) gave me some honey, but I don't think I've used it…

Anyway, I found the key and unlocked the door, causing the grunt to run. After beating a few Grunts (And teaching Bidoof Rollout) I saw someone else. She called herself Mars, and seemed to be an important member of this group. She was with another who also seemed to be important, but she still bossed him around. Soon I confronted them, and she made me an offer. If I can beat her, she'll leave.

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Rory vs. Mars​

Bidoof vs. Zubat

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I swear I heard her laugh at this, but I ignored it. First I used DefenseCurl to power up Rollout, but she beat me to it and made Bidoof flinch with Bite. I tried it again, and was successful. Then Bidoof used Rollout, which lowered it to half health. The next turn Zubat was down by a powered up Rollout.

Bidoof vs. Purugly

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Bidoof's Rollout was still going strong, so I let it run, lowering it to half health. But after that Bidoof went down, but he did well on such a powerful Pokémon.

Shellos vs. Purugly

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Purugly hit first with Scratch, weakening Shellos to about half health, but Shellos fought back with Mudbomb, which blinded it, making its moves miss. Another Mudbomb had the same effect, but Purugly's FaintAttack knocked it out.

Piplup vs. Purugly

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Purugly was on low health and was half blind, so you can see where this is going. A Bubble or two later knocked out the Tiger thing, and I had won

Result – Win​

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As promised, she left. Along with the rest of her minions, and the girl ran up to the Windworks and burst in. I talked to her father who was being held prisoner, and he said about a Pokémon that appears on Fridays. But it was a Saturday, so I left it, then healed up and headed north to Eterna.

Current Team

Spoiler:

Piplup Lv14
Pound, Growl, Bubble, WaterSport

Bidoof Lv13
Rollout, Return, Growl, DefenseCurl

Psyduck Lv14
WaterSport, Scratch, Disable, WaterGun

Shellos Lv12
MudBomb, MudSport, Harden, WaterPulse