Combined Pokemon Solo Challenge Thread

[Zhinc]

Quick update: sped through the rest of the Kanto badges. Now, I'm going back to battle any trainers I missed so I have the most amount of experience possible before...you know, I don't know if I'm going to tackle the higher-leveled Elite Four or head straight to Red. We'll see.

[wingman11]

Another update on the Zangoose Challenge!
-Arrived and passed through Solaceon Town
-Traveled up to Veilstone City
-Took a LONG detour by traveling all the way to Pastoria and grabbing TM40 to teach Aerial Ace to Katana
-Took on Maylene and beat her easily with said achieved Aerial Ace
-Helped Dawn get her PokéDex back and got HM02
-Went back to Pastoria
-Found out this interesting fact: When you enter Pastoria City for the first time, and if, before doing anything else, before even talking to anyone, you walk up behind the Croagunk billboard, a cut scene activates where a Croagunk walks up to the side of the poster, looks towards you, laughs, and then enters the marsh. I found this fairly humorous.
-Moving on: Took on Crasher Wake and demolished him
-Chased the Galactic freak to the lake and beat him
-Got the SecretPotion from Cynthia
-Removed the Psyducks and got the Old Charm
-Traveled to Celestic Town and beat the grunt there, then beat Cyrus with ease
-Got HM03
-Did some exploring with Surf, finding extra stuff and clearing the route that leads to the Pal Park
-Surfed to Canalave
-Beat Barry with no trouble
-Sailed to Iron Island and got HM04
-Cleared Iron Island with the epic combo of Zangoose and Lucario
-Returned to Canalave and took on Byron, winning with Brick Break
-Went to the library and felt the tremor
-Flew to Lake Valor and defeated Saturn
-Flew to Lake Verity and beat up Mars
-Am currently heading towards Snowpoint City

I plan to be finished for my next update, which I think will be my 100th, so it's extra special! :D

[jdthebud]

Crystal Update #5.

Finished Crystal! Went through Kanto in one shot lol.

Spoiler:

Stupid Sandstorm (Rydon survived an Earthquake).

- After teaching Palin Psychic and getting him to L91 on the Elite Four, Red was up.


Espeon, Snorlax and Charizard were the only non-OHKOs. Espeon took two Crunches (used Reflect), Snorlax took a few Psychics (used Body Slam and Rest), and Charizard a Return and Cruch (used Flamethrower). Pikachu fell to Earthquake, Blastoise to a crit Return, and Venusaur to a Psychic. Palin grew to L92 during the battle.

Final Stats:


The USC #2 is halfway done. Hoenn region up next on Emerald.

Team Gerry (Final):

Palin the Girafarig, ♂ - L92 @ Pink Bow
Moves: Return, Psychic, Crunch, Earthquake

Totodile, ♂ - L7
Slave Moves: Cut

Hoothoot, ♂ - L4
Slave Moves: Flash, Fly

Geodude, ♀ - L6
Slave Moves: Rock Smash, Dig, Strength

Golduck, ♂ - L22
Slave Moves: Surf, Whirlpool, Waterfall

[wingman11]

USC #3 is finished! Katana the Zangoose powered through the rest of the game with ease.
-Arrived in Snowpoint
-Took on Candice and won easily with Brick Break and Aerial Ace (for Froslass and Abomasnow)
-Climbed up to Lake Acuity and saw Jupiter leaving
-Flew to Veilstone and infiltrated the Galactic HQ
-Took every grunt down and got the key
-Entered the front and found Cyrus
-Battled Cyrus and won handily
-Beat Saturn again and freed the lake Pokémon
-Flew to Mt. Coronet and climbed to the top
-Witnessed the awesome cut scene and entered the Distortion World
-Navigated the mazes and puzzles until I met Cyrus again
-Defeated Cyrus quickly and took down Giratina
-Exited the Distortion World and headed to Sunyshore
-Arrived in Sunyshore and met Flint
-Went to the lighthouse and found Volkner, who returned to the gym
-Followed Volkner to the Gym and beat him with no problems (I got lucky and Static didn't take effect during his battle; it did everywhere else in the gym, though. >.<)
-Got HM07
-Surfed to the entrance to Victory Road
-Navigated through Victory Road (I've played this so many times it's like the map is burnt into my head)
-Arrived at the Pokémon League
-Beat Barry one last time and started the final challenge
-Aaron: Bug types are not good at withstanding Aerial Ace
-Bertha: Required a Swords Dance and a few Brick Breaks/Slashes (depending on typing)
-Flint: Swords Dance + Slash spam
-Lucian: See Flint (Bronzong is the exception; it needed a Brick Break instead)
-Cynthia: Swords Dance, then Aerial Ace for Spiritomb and Roserade, Brick Break for Lucario, and Slash for everything else

And that brings to a close my third Ultimate Solo Challenge. Looking back, I was skeptical of using a Normal type, since I never have before. But Zangoose surprised me. Definitely have a respect for Normal types now, for their versatility (and lack of weaknesses). Swords Dance has also earned a place on my roster of useful moves. I never used stat boosting moves before, but after using Swords Dance, Zangoose was always unstoppable.

Also, 100th post dance! And right on my last update for this challenge. Very fitting, if I do say so myself.

[Zhinc]

Thought I'd send in another quick update...I'm still clearing routes of all trainers. All that remains are the two routes surrounding the Seafoam Islands and, of course, anyone in the Seafoam. I feel like there are two or three people in there...but I'll probably just ignore them for now. I don't need to catch Articuno or anything. (:

Champ the Feraligatr is currently at level 88.
He has a Hardy nature, loves to eat, and holds a Shell Bell.
His stats are 289/230/210/164/164/194.
He slaughters all opposition with Waterfall, Crunch, Ice Fang, and Earthquake.
This is a beast. And I love him to death.

[killerpenguin]

Its going well, im fighting Whitney right now ><
Her darn Hax miltank is cheating D:, Fenrir either flinches or is imobolized by love.
He is in lvl 26 though, and I have been beating everyone rather quickly, exept for this one > : O

[samusus]

Starting solo with ghastly, in in FRLG haven't been active lately but restarting now :3 Wont be able to post pics this run but il try and get 15 by the end so i can post him in the hall of fame

[Lord_Storm]

Part 2 of my Ultimate Hack Solo is completed, which marks the end of the Hoenn parts. Next up is FireRed386, but first, my final update of Sapphire386 (Just pictures):

Progress:

Spoiler:

Alakazam:

Spoiler:

I may update later today, or this weekend, but after that, my updates will be limited due to a new year of school D:

EDIT:

Update 1 of Fire Red 386, without pictures of Kadabra and the image of the first battle, which was lost due to Abra having a total of 3 attack:

Progress:

Spoiler:

[Suicune™]

Putting my challenge on hold, I'll resume with the same Pokémon ect.

[jdthebud]

Originally Posted by wingman11

USC #3 is finished! Katana the Zangoose powered through the rest of the game with ease.
-Arrived in Snowpoint
-Took on Candice and won easily with Brick Break and Aerial Ace (for Froslass and Abomasnow)
-Climbed up to Lake Acuity and saw Jupiter leaving
-Flew to Veilstone and infiltrated the Galactic HQ
-Took every grunt down and got the key
-Entered the front and found Cyrus
-Battled Cyrus and won handily
-Beat Saturn again and freed the lake Pokémon
-Flew to Mt. Coronet and climbed to the top
-Witnessed the awesome cut scene and entered the Distortion World
-Navigated the mazes and puzzles until I met Cyrus again
-Defeated Cyrus quickly and took down Giratina
-Exited the Distortion World and headed to Sunyshore
-Arrived in Sunyshore and met Flint
-Went to the lighthouse and found Volkner, who returned to the gym
-Followed Volkner to the Gym and beat him with no problems (I got lucky and Static didn't take effect during his battle; it did everywhere else in the gym, though. >.<)
-Got HM07
-Surfed to the entrance to Victory Road
-Navigated through Victory Road (I've played this so many times it's like the map is burnt into my head)
-Arrived at the Pokémon League
-Beat Barry one last time and started the final challenge
-Aaron: Bug types are not good at withstanding Aerial Ace
-Bertha: Required a Swords Dance and a few Brick Breaks/Slashes (depending on typing)
-Flint: Swords Dance + Slash spam
-Lucian: See Flint (Bronzong is the exception; it needed a Brick Break instead)
-Cynthia: Swords Dance, then Aerial Ace for Spiritomb and Roserade, Brick Break for Lucario, and Slash for everything else

And that brings to a close my third Ultimate Solo Challenge. Looking back, I was skeptical of using a Normal type, since I never have before. But Zangoose surprised me. Definitely have a respect for Normal types now, for their versatility (and lack of weaknesses). Swords Dance has also earned a place on my roster of useful moves. I never used stat boosting moves before, but after using Swords Dance, Zangoose was always unstoppable.

Also, 100th post dance! And right on my last update for this challenge. Very fitting, if I do say so myself.

What level did Zangoose finish at (in the other games, too, if you don't mind)? I'm curious because it only takes 600,000 exp points to get him to L100.

[deku]

Originally Posted by deku

I think I started one of these a while ago on Pearl with a Flygon and got to the seventh badge, but since that was so long ago I want to start a new run on Platinum with Spheal --> Sealeo --> Walrein. I've already prepared the egg and will be starting tomorrow, if not tonight.

I don't think I ever updated, but I did play through a lot of it before being caught up with Christmas then school starting back up. Anyways, today we had a snow day so I was able to pick it up again and now I'm deciding to update! So, here we go!

deku defeated:
with his Lv.18
with his Lv.31
with his Lv.39
with his Lv.46
with his Lv.52
with his Lv.60

[samusus]

Update on my gastly solo

Spoiler:

~picked male char
~got gastly named it shades
~Rival picked charmander
~beat Rival (green)
~had to start leveling in Veridian forest since Shades camt hit pidgey's or rattata
~got out of the forest at lvl 11 shades learnt spite
~lost against brock`s onyx got two hit >.> learnt curse
~beat brock learnt night shade, shades is not lvl 16

Well sadly something went wrong with my files and i can no longer trade from GBA 2 GBA so i will start another run >.> vulpix run,

[Imperator161]

Update on my Blastoise Platinum Run:

-Won my fourth gym badge in Veilstone City
-Got HM02 Fly
-Reached Pastoria City and defeated my rival
-Beat Crasher Wake for gym badge #5

The team:

BLASTER (Blastoise) lvl. 51
-Water Pulse
-Aqua Tail
-Protect
-Bite

Grotle lvl. 18 (yay double battles)
Togepi lvl. 1

[11wildy]

Still waiting for the update.

[Folkedahl]

I'm gonna start a solo with a Dratini if I'm able to get into the flippin' dragons den so I can catch one, then raise the egg, then trade it over to my friends game to have her trade it back to me, then restart my game, walk 10k steps, and THEN finally start up the game. And this is all on my actual gameboy, so I won't be able to get any screenshots . Silver beeteedubs. Me and my friend lily are facing off in real life to see who's fastest and strongest. It's gonna be a blast.

[TheMightyMrPlow]

*Sniff* Well guys I'm back, after the excitement of getting a new computer came the quick realization that I had none of my previous saves, on any of my previous games.

I'm gonna go ahead and start over, let's make it a Magmar run this time. Leaf Green, then I'll consider the rest.

[Imperator161]

Update on my Blastoise Platinum Run:

-Removed the Psyduck, reached Celestic Town, and got Surf
-Got HM04 at Iron Island
-Won gym badge #6
-Dealt with Team Galactic at Lake Valor
-Won gym badge #7 in Snowpoint City
-Finished Team Galactic events at Lake Acuity and the Veilstone Building
-Cleared the Distortion World
-Won gym badge #8 in Sunyshore City

The team:

BLASTER (Blastoise) lvl. 70
-Surf
-Water Pulse
-Ice Beam
-Bite

Grotle lvl. 19
Togepi lvl. 1
Hoothoot lvl. 20

[TheMightyMrPlow]

First Update:

After telling the Prof my name and my rivals name, I went on to choose my pokemon. I chose Squirtle for two reasons, the first being that I would need to surf later, the second is that my rival chose Bulbasaur. Meaning Magmar would dominate him.

After getting my Squirtle and running back with his package and skipping all that dialog, I encountered a wild Magby. it took four of my five pokeballs to catch this guy, at 1 hp too! His nature was Mild which is perfect.

[The reason I caught a Magby is because I thought it would be fun to have him evolve into Magmar during this, Magby can still evolve into Magmar even though he's hacked in right?]

Blew threw the Varidian forest and came out level 12. Went to fight Brock. Took down his little buddy blocking the way, barely. Leveled to 13.

Brocks Geodude went down, and then his Onyx rocked my world. But I still got some good experience. I kept going back and dying because that Geodude was the only way to get decent exp at this point. After hitting level 15 I went back for a truely epic battle.

Magby leads with Ember, not very effective.
Onyx uses Rock Tomb (the move he kept OHKOing me with)
Magby hung on with 3 hp and burned Onyx in the process. Used potion.
Onyx used tackle.
Magby used Ember.
Onyx used bind.
Magby used potion.

That went on for a while until the burn finally wore him down. It was pretty tough believe me.


Magby lvl 16

Ember
Leer
Smog


Squirtle lvl 7
Tackle
Tail whip
Bubble

[Imperator161]

Blastoise Platinum Solo Run Update:

-Made it to the Elite Four
-Defeated my rival

Pre-Elite Four Stats:

BLASTER (Blastoise) lvl. 75
-Surf
-Water Pulse
-Ice Beam
-Hidden Power

HM slaves and other non-participants:

-Grotle lvl. 19 (Cut, Rock Smash, Rock Climb, Strength)
-Togepi lvl. 1 (not HM slave, but too lazy to put it in my PC)
-Hoothoot lvl. 20 (Defog, Fly)
-Tentacruel lvl. 33 (Waterfall)


The Elite Four:

Aaron: Ice Beam for Yanmega and Vespiquen, Surf for Heracross, Scizor, and Drapion
Bertha: Surf or Water Pulse for all
Flint: Water easily douses the fire
Lucian: Mix of attacks (Surf, HP Dark, Water Pulse)
Cynthia: Mix of all attacks

Final stats:

BLASTER (Blastoise) lvl. 78
-Surf
-Water Pulse
-Ice Beam
-HP Dark

Game time: 16:30


Done with my Ultimate Blastoise Solo Challenge (Red-->Gold-->Ruby-->Platinum)!

This last leg was fun, albeit a bit long. I suppose it would have been faster using Diamond, but I only have that in cartridge form, which wouldn't have helped too much. Overall, I've enjoyed the challenge. While it hasn't been particularly challenging, I've enjoyed getting to use my favorite Pokemon to play the games, particularly the ones where Blastoise normally has to be traded in.

Perhaps I'll do another one of these solo runs at some point, but I doubt I'll have time soon.

Best of luck to everyone with runs! By the way, to the above poster about the Magmar run, I'm not sure that Magby will be able to evolve in that game until you get the National Dex, which could be a problem. Not sure about that, though.

[Lopnis]

Hey I'm going to try to get back into this I'm doing an Ultimate Challenge I've already beat Kanto and am in Johto I'm doing Duskull to Dusknoir in games avalible I hope my challenge is still valid it's been a long while since my last update but here's my Current Team Progress and Location
Boojangle Lvl. 30
Mules
Totodile
Onix
Togepi future fly mule
Badges:3
Location:Goldenrod City
Can I still do this or do I have to start over from Kanto?

[Folkedahl]

Hatching.. dratini.. egg... 10k steps.. DIE.

[Meduza]

Game: Diamond
Pokemon: Piplup
I won't be evolving it.

[cazzler]

This sounds cool, I'm going to use feraligatr for firered/Gold/Ruby!

[DefiningTheDecade]

Ultimate?

Yeah


With who?



Charizard.. Hands down




Starting where?



Fire Red




Other places?

2oulSilver

3:Emerald

4:Diamond




Starting when?




Now..




Combine the challenge?




Let's make it a nuzlocke combo!!


Begin!

Nuzlocke combo meaning I can only use pokecenters no healing in battle

Catching pokemon I don't have to worry about

I must nickname my pokemon (Hothead in respect of my actual nuzlocke)


And if he faints he's dead.. and since this is a solo it also means I fail and must start again..

Hothead is already Lv 18 haven't learned about catching pokemon yet though.. thanks to my master grinding skills..

[Folkedahl]

I apologize about my failure to update.
After spending an hour of walking around town, I finally hatched my Dratini. Then, spent 3 days grinding on level 4 pokemon because Santos (My dratini) refused to learn any other moves than wrap, leer, and thunder wave, causing huge ammounts of suck. However, once he learned twister things took off completely. I'm currently level 25 with 3 gyms wiped out no sweat.