Ultimate Solo Challenge

(not pictured: rival getting beaten twice)

Cut Slave get.

Please, kill whoever thought of this crap. With Fire. Or, better: Stomp.

Nevermind, actually it took me only 2 tries. The irony, because I wanted to screenshot all failed attempts and then rage =D

I hate Static and Poison Point.

Later...

Boxed Diglett.

This is going to be fun. Tons of Rock types who resist everything but Astonish, but can Selfdestruct.

As I said, nothing that beats Rocks. They're worse than Magnemites for me in this run.

...with only one Pokemon center visit (because of PP, not HP) and no Selfdestructs. I love Sleep and Flinch now.

*best move in the game (for my purposes) get*

Fought Dojo first. What could possibly have gone wrong?

YEEEAAAHHH

That lost HP was actually from some random Rattatas and Raticates using QA.
So, it'll be Pokemon Tower time soon (I already beat my rival there by the way, but forgot to screenshot it again), but first...

Flawless victory, Return sweeped the entire gym without healing once.

Some major improvements here. Only 1 move missing for the final moveset.

(excluding the dojo of course since I did that before)

Oh yeah, I also did the Lavender stuff, didn't take long.

This DID take long though. Most of it was easy, but...

...this situation was quite uncomfortable. Because I made the mistake to throw something towards a Magneton that wasn't Return, Stantler got confused and then proceeded to hurt himself quite a lot. Magneton died, but then that Koffing proceeded to troll me with Poison by Sludge and Smokescreen hax.

This wasn't exactly easy as well. Pidgeot went down like nothing and so did Gyara (but it did reduce my Atk), but then 'zard took a T-Bolt and did over half to Stantler with Flamethrower. Then, Stantler failed to OHKO Exeggcute because of Gyara's Intimidate and got paralyzed. Alakazam didn't cause too much problems though, it only used Calm Mind.

Because most of Gio's Pokemon were pretty damn sturdy, Stantler had to take quite a few hits, but it wasn't too hard in the end.

Easiest thing of all that's in Saffron. Nothing could take a Return.
No moveset or item changes, all that changed is that Stantler is now level 56 instead of 47.

Nuzlocke's law doesn't apply to Snorlax, apparently. So the rival and my HM Slaves aren't the only exclusion to it. So, there was no way I could lose on Brown since I had a Snorlax...

Somewhere between the fishing route and the cycling road, I figured I need a Surf and Strength slave.

.,.and here I get said HMs.

Stantler used Psychic. It's super effective.

Tons of water routes ahead.

Dammit.
Not in the mood for Cinnabar mansion right now, maybe later...or tomorrow.


No real changes except for the level and that I got that one PP Up from the labyrinth route.

Pretty easy, but Cinnabar Mansion was a pain. At least I got quite a few levels there.

Ugh, Sevii...

Ohai Moltres

Obai Moltres

Pointless side quest finished.

Finally back at Kanto.

This was a lot easier than expected.

The first 5 Pokemon were all easy, but Charizard survived a T-Bolt and then caused quite some damage. Might have been a problem in a different situation.

Yeah, I accumulated quite a lot of money up to this point.
After applying the Rare Candies, Stantler was at level 85, this should suffice by far.

Let's do it.

Lorelei:

That Lapras was a major pain with Confuse Ray. The rest was easy though, not even Slowbro could take a T-Bolt.

Obligatory.

Bruno:

Machamp did actually survive a hit, but all it did was Scary Face, about which I didn't care.

Agatha:

Easiest one so far.

Lance:

Gyara's Intimidate made 'Nite annoying. But just annoying, not dangerous.


Some last preparations...

Whether I was needing that crit or not, it was nice. Better than getting Sand-Attacked or Featherdanced.

No problem at all.

Survived, damn. Well, 2 Full Restores later it died anyways.

As seen here.

Come on, that's like 1 HP left.

Against Bruno, this didn't bother me, but this time it was frightening.

But, at least Rhydon died without doing any further damage.

I hate being slow.

Should have brought some X-Speed or something... Or better: X-Attack...

This is it. The final battle that will decide everything. There can be only one, and will it be Stantler or Charizard?

Nice start for me, but knowing that it can both outspeed me and use Fire Blast is unpleasant.

Not unexpected at all. The next 2 rounds both went like this.

Oh shi-...

Seriously, I was expecting ANYTHING, but not this. Not surviving with 1 HP.

This was seriously the closest thing ever, especially when considering Nuzlocke's rule would have applied to Stantler and I would have lost this entire challenge otherwise.




...Bulbasaur? Does Oak suffer from Alzheimer's disease?

The obligatory Hall of Fame screenshot


Seriously, something is wrong with Oak...


Oh well, since the 2nd Elite 4 isn't necessary (and I would probably lose anyways), here's my final Stantler.

On to Johto. I'm not sure yet if I'll go with Gold as planned or try Heart Gold, we shall see later.

Settings

...but they said this was "Cyndaquil the Fire Pokemon"...

So very fitting for a female Pokemon, that name is.

Cake of piece

What has been seen cannot be unseen.

I think I'm going to die...

...or not. That 2 HP were lost in a wild Pokemon battle before this by the way.

Hell no, I don't want my money spent on dolls.

Close call. After a missed Tackle (that would have finished Pidgeotto off) and the subsequent Gust, Stantler only had 2 HP left. But, the next Tackle hit so I won.

An Egg?

No, thanks, I'm not in need.


Nothing really special up to this point.