The Ones That Got Away Challenge

[Sammuthegreat]

Got any Pokemon stuck in your PC, waiting for the day they're finally given the chance to shine? Maybe you couldn't catch them before you beat the Elite Four. Maybe you had to choose a different Pokemon because they'd make completing the game easier. Maybe there were just too many awesome Pokemon to choose from, and seeing as you can only have a team of 6, some cool Pokemon that you always wanted to raise just slipped through the net...

Well, here's your chance to finally give them their turn to shine! Everyone must have a stack of Pokemon stashed away somewhere that they never got the chance to use on a team, even if you really wanted to originally. Catch them as normal, trade (at as low a level as possible, preferably as eggs) or hack them to a new game, and complete a playthrough with team members you've never used before!

To sign up, use the following form:

Name:
Game:
List of Pokemon that got away:
Number required:
Any specific requirements: (E.g. certain types for HM purposes. Please try to avoid asking for one specific Pokemon)

This challenge is open to all Generations, and Ultimate and Monotype Challenges are also possible if you'd like. So, make your list of Pokemon you always wanted to raise but never got round to it, and let the person below you choose which ones will make up your team! HM Slaves are allowed. The Challenge is completed when you beat the E4 at their highest levels - so if there's an option to rematch the E4 at higher levels, the Challenge doesn't end until you do so. Red, if he's available, is an optional extra.

Optional Rule (thanks to Cathar for the inspiration):

Spoiler:

Now I'm a bit of a budding story-writer. I love to come up with storylines, characters and plot twists, and whenever I do any run of a Pokemon game, each of my Pokemon end up assuming some sort of personality - it's just a natural by-product of how my mind works, and how each Pokemon's performances add to their overall "feel." That's really what this Challenge is about - finding new Pokemon whose "feel" you like.

So, the optional rule. If you want a bit more challenge in your run, and you want to give each of your Pokemon a bit more personality, then come up with a few traits for each Pokemon when you first start to use them. This could be anything, positive or negative - you might decide that your Metapod is a reckless, vicious monster, or you might decide your Salamence is a gentle giant who's scared of bugs, or you might decide that your Persian doesn't like to get her claws dirty. It's really up to you - use the Pokemon's nature or your own imagination, and come up with a personality for each Pokemon.

After that, it's up to you to figure out how the Pokemon's personality will affect gameplay. Using the above three examples, you may decide that your hot-headed Metapod must always be the lead Pokemon in trainer battles, or that your scaredy-cat Salamence cannot fight against Bug-types, or that prissy Persian cannot use claw-based attacks. I want to leave this completely open to Challengers, because I think it'll be interesting to see the sort of storylines people come up with, and it'll be great to see how people view different Pokemon in different lights.

So, if you want optional rules, just wait till you're assigned a team, come up with a personality for each team member, and put your extra rules in your first team-impressions post!

Challengers:

Spoiler:

RBY: TrilbyMenetti, KoboraX, myrrhman, Itz Spadezz, Arnold, The Slice of Cheese, TheFinalBrandon

GSC: KoboraX, Hybrid Trainer, Snow Phoenix, The Sceptile King, pkfire0, WeightyWillBill, Chartreusk, JettenD, GolurkIsDaBomb

RSE: Ragnia, PsychoJigglypuff, agumon, dragonomega, Jayster23, SeventySeven, -Cygnus-, MythologicalHAX, Zeffy, Rizzy, thenickel09, Aww Shucks, kitred123, Arceus8888, TurkishDelight, pokepokemo, Sydian, Rafael p, мσятε gғx™, waters_echo

FRLG: ger345, Ces soirees-la, NeroTH, Wi-fi Battler, crazyEevee, Slash Arena, Skitty1, pokedude123456, Chirp, Patch93

DPPt: torcoal, adhdguitar, brodioh, Clairissa, Cathar, Loppy, KoboraX, GolurkIsDaBomb, Kimbo, Pringle, Omn

HGSS: Shiny Politoed, Mistyblu, nojokes, TheUltimateFail, Gearuvagen, Hacki101, Sammuthegreat, youfail1, SuperSaiyanII, Tyranit, Lo~li~Pop, スティブ, FatCat147, jdthebud, 14Henderson7, Chartreusk, King!

BW: baladamy, tachikaze316, Reader_Maniac, ahungryhamster, KoboraX, jacktheninjadude

ULTIMATE CHALLENGERS:
Seeds Horizon: Kanto - Johto - Hoenn - Sinnoh - Unova
tachikaze316: Kanto - Johto - Hoenn - Sinnoh - Unova
DVK: Kanto - Johto - Hoenn - Sinnoh - Unova
Kimbo: Kanto - Johto - Hoenn - Sinnoh - Unova
Lance394: Kanto - Johto - Hoenn - Sinnoh - Unova
~Hot n' Cold~: Kanto - Johto - Hoenn - Sinnoh - Unova
pokedude123456: Kanto - Johto - Hoenn - Sinnoh - Unova
GolurkIsDaBomb: Kanto - Johto - Hoenn - Sinnoh - Unova
TheFinalBrandon: Kanto - Johto - Hoenn - Sinnoh - Unova

Champions:

Spoiler:

RBY:
Vaporeon7
InfernoRogue

GSC:
jujuju
WeightyWillBill
Porygon Z
tachikaze316
Kimbo

RSE:
-Cygnus-
tachikaze316
Magikarplvl.98
GolurkIsDaBomb
Kimbo

FRLG:
DVK
Kimbo
tachikaze316
GolurkIsDaBomb
XxHarryxX

DPPt:
boomerjp
jdthebud
tachikaze316

HGSS:
Sammuthegreat
Seeds Horizon

BW:

Userbars: (Thanks to jdthebud!)

Spoiler:

When you finish the Challenge, do a quick review of each of your team members - impressions and team awards would be great. As this Challenge is all about finding out the strengths of Pokemon you didn't previously know, it'd be cool to hear your impressions of your newly raised Pokemon!

Some example team awards:

Spoiler:

The One Most/Least Valuable Pokemon (M/LVP)
The One with the Best/Worst Moveset
The One Trick Pony
The One that Needed the Most Revives
The One that Under/Overachieved
The One that was an Unstoppable Force
The One that Beat the Odds (a Pokemon that repeatedly beat types it's weak against, or defied its low stats with a towering performance)
The One I'll Use Again
The One I Wish I'd Never Used
The One with the Most Awesome Typing
The One Gym Destroyer
The One Elite Four Destroyer
The One that Wouldn't Stay Down
The One that Wouldn't Stay Up
The One that Levelled Up the Quickest
The One that Always Lagged Behind
The One that Annoyed the Most Opponents
The One your Rival Feared
The One that I Wish I'd Raised Differently

Please feel free to suggest your own Awards

[tachikaze316]

You can use Dragonite, Toxicroak, Pinsir, Girafarig, Mismagius and Omastar

Name: Tachikaze
Game: Pearl
Pokemon that got away:

Spoiler:

Rotom
Mismagius
Drifblim
Gliscor
Weavile
Gallade
Froslass
Leafeon
Abomasnow
Drapion
Toxicroak
Carnivine
Hippowdon
Skuntank
Ambipom
Floatzel
Pachirisu
Arbok
Venomoth
Armaldo
Victreebel
Ariados
Hitmontop
Octillery
Armaldo
Qwilfish
Cradily
Kangaskhan
Hitmonchan
Rampardos
Mantine
Kabutops

Number required: 6
Specific requirements: N/A

[jujuju]

You can use Floatzel, Qwilfish, Victreebel, Venomoth, Kangaskhan and Gallade

Game: Gold
Pokemon that got away: (In no particular order)

Spoiler:

Hitmontop
Stantler
Mantine
Gligar
Forretress
Aipom
Azumarill
Xatu
Ariados
Furret
Lapras
Tangela
Weezing
Lickitung
Hypno
Cloyster
Dewgong
Rapidash
Tentacruel
Golduck
Arbok
Fearow

# of pokemon: 6

[Suicune™]

Originally Posted by jujuju

You can use Floatzel, Qwilfish, Victreebel, Venomoth, Kangaskhan and Gallade

Game: Gold
Pokemon that got away: (In no particular order)

Spoiler:

Hitmontop
Stantler
Mantine
Gligar
Forretress
Aipom
Azumarill
Xatu
Ariados
Furret
Lapras
Tangela
Weezing
Lickitung
Hypno
Cloyster
Dewgong
Rapidash
Tentacruel
Golduck
Arbok
Fearow

# of pokemon: 6

Still need to check through my PC Pokémon, but Jujuju, you get

Cloyster
Hypno
Golduck
Ariados
Aipom
Weezing

[jujuju]

Thanks suicune, I'll get on that right away.

[tachikaze316]

Originally Posted by jujuju

You can use Floatzel, Qwilfish, Victreebel, Venomoth, Kangaskhan and Gallade

Game: Gold
Pokemon that got away: (In no particular order)

Spoiler:

Hitmontop
Stantler
Mantine
Gligar
Forretress
Aipom
Azumarill
Xatu
Ariados
Furret
Lapras
Tangela
Weezing
Lickitung
Hypno
Cloyster
Dewgong
Rapidash
Tentacruel
Golduck
Arbok
Fearow

# of pokemon: 6

Thanks, I'll get started soon.

[Sydian]

Just a quick question, as I'm considering entering this so I have something to do in spare time, but we can enter this even if we've beaten the Elite Four, right? You implied it, but I just wanted to double check. Thanks in advance.

[Sammuthegreat]

Originally Posted by Sydian

Just a quick question, as I'm considering entering this so I have something to do in spare time, but we can enter this even if we've beaten the Elite Four, right? You implied it, but I just wanted to double check. Thanks in advance.

Erm... Well, I had intended it to be a playthrough challenge, so probably not, unless you mean on GSC/HGSS to raise a team to beat Red. Otherwise it's not really a challenge at all, you'd just be raising Pokemon with no real goal. The aim was to make you use Pokemon you'd never got around to using before on a team; I don't really see where the beginning or end of the "challenge" would be if you'd already beaten the E4.

[tachikaze316]

So, in that case...it's just a playthrough only catching our designated team members, right? If so, can I cheat for the 5 team members I can't catch pre-national dex?

[Sydian]

Erm... Well, I had intended it to be a playthrough challenge, so probably not, unless you mean on GSC/HGSS to raise a team to beat Red. Otherwise it's not really a challenge at all, you'd just be raising Pokemon with no real goal. The aim was to make you use Pokemon you'd never got around to using before on a team; I don't really see where the beginning or end of the "challenge" would be if you'd already beaten the E4.

Hm, I just kinda got the vibe that this team is crafted from Pokemon that are just sitting in your PC, not having to start over. I was thinking you'd raise a team to use against the E4, and it'd be harder for some games since the E4 gets stronger after you beat them a certain number of times. But that answers that then.

[Sammuthegreat]

Originally Posted by tachikaze316

So, in that case...it's just a playthrough only catching our designated team members, right? If so, can I cheat for the 5 team members I can't catch pre-national dex?

Of course.

Originally Posted by Sydian

Hm, I just kinda got the vibe that this team is crafted from Pokemon that are just sitting in your PC, not having to start over. I was thinking you'd raise a team to use against the E4, and it'd be harder for some games since the E4 gets stronger after you beat them a certain number of times. But that answers that then.

It's essentially a variation on the Random Pokemon Challenge, but using Pokemon you actually always wanted to raise but never did.

[jujuju]

Could I actually replace Cloyster with something. I forgot that you cant get a water stone in gold until late in the game. Unless i would be able to hack in water stone.

[Sammuthegreat]

Originally Posted by jujuju

Could I actually replace Cloyster with something. I forgot that you cant get a water stone in gold until late in the game. Unless i would be able to hack in water stone.

To be honest, I don't really mind hacking, as this challenge is all about getting to use Pokemon you never have before; who would I be to deny you the opportunity to use a Cloyster just because you can't get a Water Stone till after the E4 in Gold.

If for whatever reason you can't get the Stone, take Xatu!

[jujuju]

Originally Posted by Sammuthegreat

To be honest, I don't really mind hacking, as this challenge is all about getting to use Pokemon you never have before; who would I be to deny you the opportunity to use a Cloyster just because you can't get a Water Stone till after the E4 in Gold.

k thanks, i'll stick with cloyster

First Update:

Spoiler:

Started by taking a Totodile and catching a Spinarak after going through all of the beginning stuff. Grinded Spinarak until he was able to take on Falkner;

Forgot to take a picture in the battle, but basically I got lucky with some poison hax. Continued along by defeating the Rockets and taking on Bugsy. Spinarak evolved along the way;

Got through Ilex and caught a Drowzee. Grinded it up a bit and it evolved into a Hypno. Whitney was pretty easy after this;

Caught a Koffing in Ecruteak. Hypno still took down Morty's entire gym

Current Team:

Lv. 32
Headbutt
Fire Punch
Confusion
Hypnosis


Lv. 31
Sludge
Tackle
Smog
Rollout


Lv. 30
Poison Sting
Leech Life
Night Shade
Constrict

[tachikaze316]

Started my challenge, first update:

-Chose the male trainer, named myself Tachi and my rival Gav.
-Chose the grass type starter...Bellsprout!
-Was attacked by a wild Starly, Bellsprout whipped it. Whipped it good.
-Erm, apparently something screwed up and Gav got himself a Turtwig...which is wierd because the Turtwig ball had my Bellsprout in it.
-Headed to Rowan's lab, nicknamed Bellsprout Devo and got my pokedex.
-Beat some trainers on Route 202, entered Jubilife City
-Delivered Gav's Parcel, got a town map.
-Beat a couple of kids, got tm10.
-Taught Devo Hidden Power, decided to test it on a couple of wild pokemon, doesn't affect Starly, hits Shinx for neutral damage = Ghost, I believe
-Got my Poketch, decided to grind to lv13
-Rival battle was pathetically easy, but I had a level advantage and sleep powder, so that's to be expected...
-Battled all the trainers on the way to Oreburgh City.
-Told Roark to get back to the gym.
-Proceeded to show him what Devo does when a problem comes along.

Team:
Devo/Bellsprout Lv.16
-Vine Whip
-Growth
-Sleep Powder
-Hidden Power (Ghost)

[jujuju]

Update #2 Beat the Elite 4!:

Spoiler:

After catching a Shellder, Psyduck and Aipom, I went on to defeat Chuck easily

Jasmine was just as easy with Ariados taking down both of her Magnemite

After defeating the rockets in Mahogany, Pryce was the next one down

Clair was by far the hardest one to beat. Her thunderbolt dragonair destroyed my Golduck and my Shellder making it very difficult to take he down. On my second try though, Hypno pulled through

I realized that there was no way that my team would get through the Elite 4, so I got every pokemon to level 50
I forgot to take a picture of Will, but it resulted in Aipom Shadow Balling his Slowbro for the win
Koga was pretty easy as Hypno was able to take everythyng down with either Fire Punch or Psychic

Bruno went down basically exactly the same way

It seems that most of my wins were because of Hypno...
Anyway, Karen went down after Cloyster took down her Houndoom

And finally, Lance. Lance was by far and away the easiest Elite 4 member as Golduck simply soloed the entire thing and barely lost any HP

Next Time Kanto

Current Team:

Lv. 54
Strength
Ice Punch
Surf
Waterfall


Lv. 52
Fire Punch
Headbutt
Hypnosis
Psychic


Lv. 51
Rollout
Sludge Bomb
Destiny Bond
Haze


Lv. 50
Poison Sting
Dig
Fury Swipes
Flash


Lv. 51
Headbutt
Shadow Ball
Thunderpunch
Cut


Lv. 51
Ice Beam
Surf
Whirlpool
Swift

[WeightyWillBill]

Name: WeightyWillBill
Game: Gold
List of Pokemon that got away:

Spoiler:

Togepi*
Venonat*
Drowzee*
Hoothoot*
Oddish*
Eevee
Ledyba*
Furret
Geodude*
Poliwhirl*
Aipom
Gyarados
Vaporeon
Tangela
Cubone*
Slowpoke*
Pidgey*
Rhydon
Ninetales
Flareon
Houndour*
Piloswine*
Vileplume
Heracross
Xatu
Dugtrio
Machoke
Hitmonchan
Hitmonlee
Pikachu*
Jolteon
Golbat*
Weezing
*Please note that some of these Pokemon involve their evo's/pre-evo's (:

Number required: 4 sounds good
Any specific requirements: One of them could surf? =D

[tachikaze316]

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to give you your team or if you're meant to wait for someone else to sign up but if I am supposed to...you can have a Gyarados, Vileplume, Jolteon and Aipom.
____________________________

Update #2

-Headed back to Jubilife City
-Caught a Bidoof and Starly for slaving purposes
-Helped Dawn beat up the Galactic grunts
-Headed to Floaroma Town
-Caught Miles the Buizel, figured he was probably strong enough to take on the grunt outside the windworks.
-Took on the grunt outside the windworks, Miles would've KOd it, but got crit'd with scratch on what should've been the last turn... finished him off with Devo.
-Miles beat up the grunts in the Meadow, got the works key
-Headed back to the windworks, beat up Mars.
-Battled my way to the Eterna Forest, met Cheryl, decided this'd be the closest thing to a logical place to find a Venonat in Sinnoh
-Caught Mothra the Venonat
-Fought through the forest, Devo evolved
-Entered Eterna, got Hm01, taught it to Bidoof
-Headed to the gym, beat all the trainers (You're standing in a corner facing a tree...that is not hiding, honestly, do they think I'm looking down from the sky or something?)
-Mothra swept through Gardenia's team. Poison Powder/Leech Life for Cherubi and Turtwig and Confusion for Roserade

Team:
Devo/Weepinbell Lv.21
-Vine Whip
-Growth
-Sleep Powder
-Hidden Power (Ghost)
Mothra/Venonat Lv.18
-Leech Life
-Confusion
-Disable
-Poison Powder
Miles/Buizel Lv.16
-Quick Attack
-Water Gun
-Pursuit
-Swift

[WeightyWillBill]

Originally Posted by tachikaze316

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to give you your team or if you're meant to wait for someone else to sign up but if I am supposed to...you can have a Gyarados, Vileplume, Jolteon and Aipom.

Awesome, BUT I'd have to cheat for 2 (rather than 1) of those stones if I want to have fully evolved Pokemon, is that okay?

[Sammuthegreat]

Originally Posted by WeightyWillBill

Awesome, BUT I'd have to cheat for 2 (rather than 1) of those stones if I want to have fully evolved Pokemon, is that okay?

That's fine.

Sorry I've been away for a few days as our phone line broke, but I'll add you to the challengers list! Have fun.

[WeightyWillBill]

Update:
(So I hacked in Aipom because me=lazy and I didn't want to headbutt trees for hours). So here in picture form is my progress.

Spoiler:

(It took me way too long to find an Oddish in Ilex Forest. So much for being common..)



(Grinded a whole bunch before moving on to Whitney)


Team Stats (Just moves this time)





We are now training up the road towards Ecruteak =D

[jujuju]

I finished the challenge! I really hate updating throughout Kanto so I will just post the final battle

Pokemon Before Red



If you're interested in how it all went down here is the battle log

Spoiler:

Red Battle:
Ariados vs. Pikachu
Pikachu used Thunder
Ariados dug a hole
Pikachu used Thunder (Missed)
Ariados used Dig
Pikachu Fainted

Ariados vs. Snorlax
Ariados used Giga Drain
Snorlax used Body Slam
Ariados Fainted

Weezing vs. Snorlax
Weezing used Sludge Bomb
Snorlax used Body Slam
Weezing used Sludge Bomb
Snorlax used Body Slam
Weezing used Destiny Bond
Snorlax used Body Slam
Weezing Fainted
Snorlax Fainted

Aipom vs. Espeon
Espeon used Psychic
Aipom Fainted

Hypno vs. Espeon
Espeon used Reflect
Hyno used Hypnosis
Espeon fell asleep
Hypno used Headbutt
Hypno used Fire Punch
Hypno used Psychic
Hypno used Psychic
Hypno used Psychic
Espeon Fainted

Golduck vs. Charizard
Charizard used Fire Spin (Missed)
Golduck used Surf
Charizard used Flamethrower (Critical Hit)
Golduck used Surf
Charizard Fainted

Hypno vs. Venusaur
Venusaur used Sunny Day
Hypno used Psychic
Venusaur used Solarbeam
Hypno used Psychic
Venusaur Fainted

Hypno vs. Blastoise
Blastoise used Rain Dance
Hypno used Psychic
Blastoise used Surf
Hypno used Psychic
Blastoise used Surf
Hypno Fainted

Cloyster vs. Blastoise
Blastoise used Whirlpool (Missed)
Cloyster used Ice Beam
Blastoise used Surf (Critical Hit)
Cloyster Fainted

Golduck vs. Blastoise
Golduck used Strength (Critical Hit)
Blastoise Fainted

End Result


Great Challenge, I enjoyed it.

[Shiny Politoed]

This sounds fun :D I'm serchign my diamond PC now and these are pokemon i'd love to try raising



Name: Lucas :D

Game: Heart gold

List of Pokemon that got away:
*=I wanna try

Drifloon*
gastly
shuppet
Eevee (surprising i know)
Bagon
Trapinch
gastly
mime JR
spoink
Scyther
yanma*really wanna try this one
mantyke
aron
larvaitar
carvanha
wailmer
remoraid
smoochum
aipom*
Number required:
6Any specific requirements:
flying and water for sure
and these are all coming from eggs

[Sammuthegreat]

Originally Posted by Shiny Politoed

This sounds fun :D I'm serchign my diamond PC now and these are pokemon i'd love to try raising



[B][I]Name: Lucas :D

Game: Heart gold

List of Pokemon that got away:
Number required:
6Any specific requirements:
flying and water for sure
and these are all coming from eggs

Ok... I'll give you Aipom, Yanma, Drifloon, Spoink, Carvanha and Eevee. I assume you'll be evolving them though! Added you to the Challengers list.

P.S. Congratulations to our first Champion, jujuju!

P.P.S. In case anyone's wondering, I will be doing this Challenge asap but I'm currently working on a HeartGold playthrough so I can catch a Misdreavus to breed and trade across to my Challenge game... One of the very few Pokemon I don't actually have yet!

[560cool.]

Um, yes, I've talked to sammu about implementing a separate challenge in which we train our boxed Pokemon from finished games.
Basically, we put up a list of the Pokemon which we caught for Pokedex during our playthroughs and never got to train them. Now, we don't want to restart the game, we just want to train those little guys. But the sea of junk (no pun intended) is so vast we have no idea if we'll pick a Ratatta or a Sentret. See ? This is where it helps.
When sammu updates the thread, I'll post my junk list and have someone select six Pokemon. And, golly, it's a long one... (considering my count of 399 in Pokedex in HG).

I've made a thread for it, after all. I'll make a link to this challenge in case some people want to make a full playthrough with unused Pokemon.