Combined Pokemon Solo Challenge Thread

[Ataraxia]

I think I may be one of the people who haven't updated in around 2 months but just in case, I'm putting this challenge on hold again, mostly due to lack of motivation but I got my options choices 'n' stuff coming up soon...
Real world sucks... xD

[Daeva Okami-Luca]

I've just gotten the Cut HM, and I've backed up my save to start another solo run, this time with Carvanha (Kibania). I'm NOT looking forward to the grass gym.

[wingman11]

I'm back! Out of boredom, I'm going to sign up for another Pokémon Black version solo run. And the Pokémon I'm going to use will be the awesome Scolipede line. (I.E. Venipede/Futsude - Whirlipede/Hoiiga - Scolipede/Pendoraa) The reason: I've been finding myself being attracted to Bug types recently, especially the ones in the fifth generation. The main ones being Scolipede, Galvantula, Escavalier, Accelgor, and Durant. Outside of gen V, I really like Scyther, Pinser, Heracross, and Armaldo. I'm considering doing an Ultimate with one of them, but later.

Anyway, on to the challenge at hand.

-Started the game and went through the boring intro stuff
-Caught a Venipede and nicknamed it Venom (Yeah, I know what you're thinking. "Real creative, there." Well, you try nicknaming it a creative name with only five characters. No, seriously, try. New nicks are welcome.)
-Trained her (yes, her) up to level 13 and took on N
-Beat N with Rollout
-Got the Running Shoes
-FINALLY FIXED NO$GBA'S CONSTANT CRASHES WOO
-Trained to level 17 (? Can't quite recall)
-Beat Belle with no problems (Rollout worked wonders through every other battle, too)
-Entered Sanyouu City and went to the Trainer School
-Beat Cheren (again, Rollout)
-Entered the Gym
-Battle with Dento (Chose Oshawott for Surf purposes later)
-Rollout blasted through both Lillipup and Pansage (only took one hit for Pansage, even with the resistance)
-Got the Trio Badge
-Went to the Dream Ruins
-Saved Munna
-Grinded endlessly to level 22, when Venom evolved into a Whirlipede
-Got the C-Gear
-Heading towards the next Gym now

[jdthebud]

Okay, so I finally picked up my ultimate solo #2 with Palin the Girafarig, on Emerald.

Name: Gerry
Rival: May (blah)
Starter: Treeko

Hacked in Girafarig on Rt. 103, and we were off!

Screens:

Spoiler:

Right now I am going to Fallarbor town.

Fallarbor Town/Meteor Falls/Mt. Chimney is next.

Team Gerry:

Palin the Sassy Girafarig, ♂ - L36
Ability: Early Bird
Moves: Confusion, Shock Wave, Stomp, Agility

HM Slaves:
Grovyle (Cut, Flash, Rock Smash)

Zigzagoon (Pickup)

[Daithi]

I'll Give this a go I think! I'll try Pokemon Yellow with Hitmonchan.

[Star Girl]

I am going to sign up with a Fearow on Pokemon Yellow. May do the ultimate later but for now I am going old school and attempting to do what I first tried to do during my first time playing Pokemon.

[jdthebud]

Update #2 on Emerald.

- Went through Fallarbor Town to Meteor Falls, then went through Rustboro Tunnel. Taught Strength to Grovyle.
- Went up Mt. Chimney and beat Maxie and got the Meteorite.
- Went back to Fallarbor and traded the Meteorite for TM27, Return. Taught it to Palin.
- Made my way back to Mt. Chiney and hopped down to Lavaridge Town, where I beat Flannery and got the Go-Go Goggles.
- Explored the desert a bit, then caught a lift back to Petalburg City.
- Beat Norman and got Surf, which I taught to Zigzagoon.
- Surfed to Slateport City, then made my way to Mauville.
- Did the New Mauville quest and got Thunderbolt, which I taught to Palin in place of Shock Wave.
- Surfed east to get on the route to Fortree City.
- Beat the Weather Institute, and beat May. Taught Fly to a Wingull I caught.
- Got the Devon Scope past Fortree, then beat Winona.
- Went down to Lilycove City and beat May.
- Went to Mt. Pyre, catching a Tentacool on the way.
- Climbed up and down and up Mt. Pyre, getting the Magma Emblem.
- Flew to Lavaridge and found the Hideout halfway up the Jagged Pass.
- Found Groudon and beat Maxie again. Groudon flew off.
- Flew to Slateport, where Team Aqua stole a sub.
- Beat the Aqua Hideout outside Lilycove, then surfed to Mossdeep City.
- Beat Tate and Liza, then beat Maxie in the Space Center with Steven's help.
- Got Dive and taught it to Tentacool. Boxed Zigzagoon.
- Dove after the sub into the Seafloor Cavern, where I beat Archie. Kyogre flew off this time.
- Came out, then surfed to Pacifidlog Town. Then surfed to Sootopolis City.
- Talked to Wallace then I helped Rayquaza calm Kyogre and Groudon down.
- After the cutscene, I beat Juan easily with Thunderbolt/Return.
- Saved at Mossdeep City.

Screens:

Spoiler:

On my way to Ever Grande City for Victory Road and the Pokemon League.

Team Gerry:

Palin the Sassy Girafarig, ♂ - L75 @ Magnet
Ability: Early Bird
Moves: Return, Thunderbolt, Crunch, Psybeam

HM Slaves:
Grovyle - L33 (Cut, Flash, Rock Smash)

Tentacool - L22 (Surf, Dive, Waterfall)

Wingull - L25 (Fly)

[Zhinc]

I haven't updated in a while. =/ Anyway, Blaziken and I have finally defeated the Elite Four. Our worst struggle was with Wallce. His Milotic used Toxic and kept using recover, and his Gyrados used several Dragon Dances that increased the power of his Earthquake, so I just had to keep reviving and using Full Restores until Earthquake was out of PP before taking him down. Now, I'm going to figure out where Steven is...I have yet to defeat him, afterall.

[jdthebud]

Update #3 on Emerald.

- Surfed to Ever Grande City, then made my way through Victory Road. Taught Palin Psychic in there.
- Then I beat the Elite Four and Wallace! Lots of OHKOs.
- Saved the game on the S.S. Tidal after I teleported back home.

Screens:

Spoiler:

OHKOs all except for Magneton, who walls Palin's moveset.

- Time for the Elite Four!


Thunderbolt for Mightyena and Crawdaunt, Return for Shiftry, Cacturne and Absol.


Crunch for everyone except Sableye, who survived Thunderbolt to Faint Attack Palin.


Forgot to heal, but it didn't matter. Thunderbolt for both Sealeo and Walrein, Return for both Glalie.


Return for Shelgon, Psychic for both Flygon, 2 Psychics each for Salamence, Altaria, and Kingdra.


Thunderbolt for Wailord, Psychic for Tentacruel, 2 Psychics for Whiscash, Return for Ludicolo, Thunderbolt for Gyarados, and 2 Thunderbolts for Milotic.


Yay! Steven, you're next!

I am on the way to the Battle Frontier, and I will eventually fight Steven in Meteor Falls.

Team Gerry:

Palin the Sassy Girafarig, ♂ - L81 @ Magnet
Ability: Early Bird
Moves: Return, Thunderbolt, Crunch, Psychic

HM Slaves:

Grovyle - L34 (Cut, Flash, Rock Smash, Strength)

Tentacool - L22 (Surf, Dive, Waterfall)

Wingull - L25 (Fly)

[rockshock28]

Haven't played Pokemon in a long while, but this ought to be fun.

Name: Rock
Game: Emerald
Pokemon: Poochyena

[jdthebud]

Final Update (#4) on Emerald.

- So I beat the trainers on the SS Tidal, then I flew to Pacifidlog Town and battled all the trainers along the sea currents. I had totally forgotten they were there lol.
- While surfing along, Latias came up! I captured it with the Master Ball.



- After defeating all the trainers I could find, I went to Meteor Falls. Defeated a couple trainers in there as well, and Palin was at L85.
- Also taught Palin Earthquake, replacing Crunch, and gave him the Soft Sand I had been lugging around since Slateport lol.
- Found Steven!

Spoiler:

So here's a play by play, as well as I can remember:
Palin VS Skarmory: Thunderbolt, Spikes, Fell Restore (Skarmory) Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt, Skarmory fainted!
VS Armaldo: Psychic, AncientPower, Psychic, Armaldo fainted!
VS Claydol: Return, Earthquake, Return, Claydol fainted!
VS Aggron: Earthquake, (took in sunlight!), Earthquake, Aggron fainted!
VS Cradily: Psychic, AncientPower, Psychic, Ingrain, Full Restore (Cradily), Psychic, Full Restore (Palin), AncientPower, Psychic, AncientPower, Psychic, Cradily fainted!
Palin grew to L86!
VS Metagross: Earthquake (critical hit!), Metagross fainted!

Final Stats:


Well, I have to say that Emerald ended up being a lot of fun. Gonna play on Diamond or Platinum for Sinnoh.

Team Gerry (Final):

Palin the Sassy Girafarig, ♂ - L86 @ Soft Sand
Ability: Early Bird
Moves: Return, Thunderbolt, Earthquake, Psychic

HM Slaves:

Grovyle - L35 (Cut, Flash, Rock Smash, Strength)

Tentacool - L22 (Surf, Dive, Waterfall)

Wingull - L25 (Fly)

[k137an]

ok im interested i'll use a dratini on soulsilver. starting now ( im gonna trade in as soon as i can at LV 5)

[HiipFire]

Im gonna join in with KOFFING! in crystal.

Got the 1st badge.
Hacked Koffing in the game.
I F***ING HATE MUD-SLAP!
And Koffing is LVL 13!

[jdthebud]

Started on Platinum.

Name: Gerry
Rival: Gack
Starter: Turtwig

- After I got pokeballs, I hacked in Girafarig on Rt 202.
- Beat Gack, then Roark (easily).
- Went to Florama, and Mars' Purugly was hard cause of Faint Attack. Finally won with the help of an Oran Berry.
- Got through Eterna Forest, and destroyed Gardenia with Psybeam.

Screens:

Spoiler:

Arg, late screenshot. Palin was at L16. Confusion ruled the match.


Psybeam was 2HKO on Turtwig and Cherrim, and OHKO on Roserade.

I'm in the Eterna Galactic Building now.

Team Gerry:

Palin the Girafarig, ♂ - L30 @ Soothe Bell
Ability: Early Bird
Moves: Psybeam, Stomp, Return, Assurance

HM Slaves:

Turtwig - L6 (Rock Smash, Flash, Cut)

[k137an]

UPDATE

I started my journey named k137an
chose a totodile as my starter, i left my house and began to travel towards cherrygrove town on the way totodile got to level 6 and when i arrived at mr.pokemons house with my new running shoes totodile was level 7, professor oak gave me a pokedex and mr.pokemon gave me the pokemon egg and i left the house. as i came out the door i got a phone call from prof elm, he told me that a chikorita had been stolen from the lab, which i dont understand because he stands right at the back of the lab facing the door so how did my rival get past him???

any way i left the route with mr pokemons house on it and arrived back in cherrygrove, i used the pokemon centre and left cherrygrove, well i tried but a boy with red haired boy ran up to me told me that the pokemon was wasted on me which technically is true because i was going to trade him for a dratini as soon as i finished the really long opening to this game. i defeated the red haired trainer and he told me i was a waste of space again and then he ran but i stole his trainer card ( am i some kind of ninja) unfortunately he noticed and took it back.

when i arrived back in new bark town i spoke to professor elm and the police officer thought i was the thief! convieniently timed as always lyra ran in and told the officer about a red haired boy looking into the building, i said i battled a boy like that and i knew his name (not mentioning that i stole his trainer card) and for some reason i called my rival :0

[InfernoRogue]

Alright, Hoenn time.

Spoiler:

*Mudkip is starter, then I get Seel at Route 103.
*Went to Petalburg, helped Wally get Ralts.
*Traveled through the Petalburg Woods, save the guy from a Magma Grunt.

[wingman11]

OK! I made quite a bit of distance since my last update, and I'm all the way to Sekka City or whatever it's called now. Here's how it went down (spoilers for those who don't wanna know)

Spoiler:

-Stopped Team Plasma in a cave
-Arrived in Shippou City
-Grinded Venom more until she evolved into a Scolipede
-Took on the Gym Leader Aloe and won easily
-Stopped Team Plasma in the forest and retrieved the dragon's skull
-Traveled to Hiun/Castelia City
-Explored, then took on Gym Leader Arty and won with Rollout
-Rescued Belle's stolen Munna from Team Plasma
-Battled and beat both Belle and Cheren
-Arrived in Raimon City
-Took on N again and won
-Entered the Gym and beat her
-Traveled to Hodome City and kicked Team Plasma out of the Freezer Container
-Took on the Gym Leader Yakon and won
-Went into Thunder Stone Cave and found N
-Traveled through the cave, battled N, and won with no problems
-Arrived in Fukiyose City
-Went to the Tower of Heavens and found the Leader there
-Returned to take on her Gym, winning with Rock Tomb
-Beat Cheren again, got surf, and did some exploring to get the TM for Rock Slide, Poison Jab, and X-Scissor and taught them to Venom
-Venom's Final Moveset (Before First E4 Challenge): Poison Jab, X-Scissor, Rock Slide, and Level Ground
-Traveled to Sekka City through Mt. Neji
-Took on the Gym Leader there and won using Rock Slide

And that brings us to where I am now. Another update coming soon!

[Zhinc]

Hooray, I beat Steven. /late I wandered around Meteor Falls for a bit until I finally found him. Ugh, I hate that most of his Pokemon know Earthquake; it was really getting annoying. But, I somehow managed to beat him with a bunch of revives and the sheer force of my awesome Blaziken. (:

BLAZIKEN
Level 76
Sassy Natured
239/223/134/191/157/152
Slash, Earthquake, Sky Uppercut, Flamethrower

[heLLkitsune]

Hello Combined Pokemon Solo Challenge Thread, this is heLLkitsune with his first post in this thread. I'm doing the Ultimate Solo Challenge with my all time favorite pokemon, all hail the great

Spoiler:

I got attached to this pokemon when I was way younger, when pokemon cards were cool (sry all Pokemon TCGamers, but I don't like the new cards).I was the champion in my city with the help of this card and that's how it got into my heart.

yeah that's right, I started the challenge with the awesome bee and I have decided that I'm going to play the games in this order: Leaf Green , Soul Silver/Heart Gold , Emerald , Platinum and I'm not sure if I can beat the 5th gen because I don't own a copy of Black nor White.

Although I beat Leaf Green already, I'm not going to post the whole journey right away.

Stay tunned..

[MythologicalHAX]

I shall be doing a runthrough of Firered with Venonat/Venomoth :D

[InfernoRogue]

Alright, I'll try to put more effort into this update. xP

Spoiler:

* Trained Arctic until he got to level 17, when he learned Icy Wind. I then took on the gym, defeating all the Geodudes easily and ko'ing Roxanne's Nosepass. That's one badge under my belt.
* I defeat the Magma Grunt, and get Peeko back to Mr. Briney. I then head to Dewford.
*I deliver Steven's Letter, and recieve Steel Wing. I train a bit more in order to learn Aurora Beam. I then defeat Brawly.
* Slateport City is the next destination. Team Magma is defeated there, once again. Defeating Brendan and several other trainers along the way, I go to Mauville. Wally and his Ralts are defeated as well.
*I train a whole ton with both trainers and wild Pokemon to evolve Arctic into a Dewgong. I take on Wattson, and he is defeated.

* I quickly progress to Fallabor Town, and then Meteor Falls, where I see both Team Magma and Aqua. They all run off to Mt. Chimney, so I go there as well. I take the way back that I came, and head up using the Cable Car. Team Magma ends up in defeat, so I take the Meteorite and head to Lavaridge Town, where I save inside the gym.

Arctic (Dewgong) Lv. 38
Naive
Icy Wind, Rest, Headbutt, Aurora Beam

[heLLkitsune]

heLLkitsune, KANTO, 1st entry:

- erased the old save file which contained a NFE run (had 3 pokemon on 42 level and 3 pokemon on 24 level before the 4th gym, I was overtraining them a bit) and started a new game
- told Prof. Oak that I'm a boy.. wait a second *checks himself in the mirror*.. Yes, I'm a boy
- called my fictional character heLL15
- and my journey began
- prof. Oak stopped me from going into the tall grass and called me to his lab
- he let me choose a Pokemon from the 3 pokeballs he had on the table
- I wanted to take Squirtle because Blastoise is awesome, but then I remembered my goal: "To be the greatest Beedrill trainer in the world"
- so for making my journey more of a challange I chose Bulbasaur as my starter
- Gary (my rival) chose quite the opposite, he took Charmander a fire type, who evolves into Charizard, a Fire/Flying type Pokemon who has 2 STABs super effective against Beedrill
- we had a battle with our new Pokemon, and sadly for me, Bulbasaur died from a critical hit (first death)
- went to Viridian City and got into the shop, ran the errand for prof. Oak and got myself a pokedex and 5 Pokeballs
- went into Viridian Forest to catch my Powerhouse
- I caught the first Weedle that came across, named it Anger and it turned out to be a hell of a Weedle (yay for Adamant nature)
- began Anger's training, first with babysitting with my Bulbasaur, then training Anger on it's own
- soon enough, Anger evolved into a Kakuna and eventually into Beedrill
- went west from Viridian and had a little battle with Gary and of course I won
- got to Pewter city and challenged the 1st Gym leader Brock
- beat him with a tactic that I was using with Butterfree in an another game, the tactic was like this: Harden six times when the Geodude hardens too, and then poison it with Poison powder, although Anger didn't have Poison powder, it took me some PP of Poison Sting to poison him and kill him, and then poison Onix and potion stall it until it dies
- got my first badge and got running shoes
- made my way through Mt. Moon beating every wild pokemon that appeared and every trainer that I came across
- after some time, I got out of Mt. Moon and got to Cerulean City
- beat Misty easily because Anger was in the mid 20 levels and it knew Twineedle
- met Gary at the begining of the Nugget Bridge and Anger died for the first time, because it missed three times with Fury Attack and Pidgeotto didn't have a hard time killing it with Gust
- I healed up at the Pokecentre and was going to get revenge
- and soon enough I tasted the sweet taste of revenge
- went to Bill and helped him turn back into a human (cmon man, what were you thinking?? )

my team at this state of the game (I don't remember the exact level of my Beedrill and I didn't write it down, how rude of me):


Anger the Beedrill, ♀ @ -
Level 25-30
Bug.png/Poison.png
Ability: Swarm
Moves:

- Bug.png Twineedle
- Poison.png Poison Sting
- Normal.png Fury Attack
- Normal.png Focus Energy

HM slaves:


- Normal.png Cut

[MythologicalHAX]

i couldn't get into my venonat run so i will be doing an ultimate solo run with heracross
firered crystal ruby and pearl

[emperorsenshi]

I did one on Blue just now.

My goal: end the game as fast as possible and buy a Porygon at the Game Corner at the end.

I ended with:

Jessica the Blastoise lv 88
Moves:
Surf
Rest
Ice Beam
Body Slam

Stats:
Attack: 215
Defense: 235
Speed: 197
Special: 232

My slaves were: Sandshrew (strength), Bellsprout (cut), Drowzee (flash), Farfetch'd (Fly).

I counted 19 Pokemon center trips, 2 rests during Silph Co. Mission and one Pallet Town rest.

Game Time: 46:00
Real Time: 2:20 or so
Money (after Porygon purchase): 246,948
Pokedex: Seen 129, Own 12

I want to do a 150 Pokedex challenge using combined Red/Blue games and emulator trading but today was my first day off in a while, lol.

[InfernoRogue]

Completed Ruby, will move on to Platinum or Pearl soon.

New Update:

Spoiler:

- I go ahead and defeat Flannery quite easily.

- I head on over to Petalburg once again, taking the route I used to get to Lavaridge back. The Rusturf Tunnel comes in handy.
- Defeating all of of the trainers in the gym, and head back out to heal up, and take on Norman.

- I receive the badge from Norman, and head outside to the house next door to obtain Surf. I teach it to Arctic ASAP. Then, I Surf through the route north of Oldale Town, and go to Mauville. I take this way to get to Fortree, grinding and gaining several levels on the way there.
- I defeat Magma at the institute, as well as Brendan. Both are easy matters. I run off to see Steven, and now I can access the gym.

- Winona is defeated. Aurora Beam wrecks her team. Next gym! :D
- I walk over to the rainy route. I defeat the trainers there, and advance. Soon, Team Magma is spotted heading to Mt. Pyre. I heal up in Lilycove, then I backtrack and go after the villains. They are defeated, and I fly to Slateport to see what is going on. They steal the submarine explorer, so I head to their base.
- The base is cleared out, but they escape to Seafloor Cavern. Oh well, on to Mossdeep.

(took the screenshot too late, xD)
- Liza and Tate are taken out quite easily, thanks to Surf. Although, Sunny Day still made it a bit drawn out. Now we travel to the Seafloor Cavern.
- I defeat Maxie and the other Magmas, and the agitated Groudon goes on a rampage. I head to Sootopolis to see what's up.
- Steven and Wallace tell me to go into the Cave of Origin, so I go in, and capture Groudon, just for the heck of it.
-I now am able to battle Wallace.

-I now have my eight badges, so it's off to Ever Grande. Ugh...Victory Road.
- I manage to make it through Victory Road pretty easily, thanks to all the Max Repels I bought earlier. I take this time to train to at least level 70, so that sweeping the E4 would be quite simple. Arctic's PP totals are pretty low, getting a total of 40 when added all together, so I figured that having such a high level would be necessary. Plus, there were no PP restoring items that I had. (I never picked any berries)
- Finally, I'm ready for the league. Glacia is a bit of a pain, because I had to Headbutt by way to victory against her Sealeos and her Walrein. I manage to make it, and totally wreck Drake's team with Ice Beam. At last, the final battle begins.
- By this time, I am extremely low on PP, so I didn't know if I would make it alright. But I did. :D I just had to replace Headbutt (which had no PP left, thanks to Glacia) with Waterfall.

Arctic defeats the Champion, completing this portion of the ultimate solo run.

Final Stats:

Arctic (Dewgong) Lv. 76
Naive
Ice Beam, Surf, Waterfall, Aurora Beam