I started off the game as normal, with the name 'Happy' which I'm going to be using for all of my characters in this challenge. after all, togetic is a joyful little guy.
following this, I named my rival 'Sad' as the obvious opposite to 'Happy', even though his pokemon may not be that sad.
once professor oak had finished his little introduction, I went out of the house and into the grass, for him to then re-appear and drag me into his lab, with my rival also there.
I chose the bulbasaur and named it 'GuineaPig1' as that shall be what I'm going to name all my HM slaves, although this one I'll be using to help togepi a little bit to start off.
it lost in the battle against my rival. ah well. it's just a guinea pig after all.
so, after this, I went out of the lab and went on a trip to viridian city, heading through route 1 with the two most common and repetitive pokemon in this game. eventually, I arrived and couldn't access the forest to get to pewter, so I went to the pokemart to do a favour for professor oak, and return to him the parcel which he so dearly wanted.
in return, I got a pokdex. not to shabby, even though we won't be using it much seen as we're only going to be obtaining data from a couple more pokemon. (including the guinea pigs)
I also received come of these, which would be a great help to catch the togepi we're going to be training up and evolving.
following this, I left the lab and returned back to route 1. now was the time, although you can't get togepi anywhere in kanto, so I relied on my good friend gameshark to hack it in. :D
there it was. it's so cute!
I used my guinea pig to help weaken it down to a reasonable health, and then I threw the poke ball.
yay! and it only took one attempt. :D
here it is, the basic information of our togepi. it's a shame it got THAT ability, seen as for the next few gyms we're going to be relying on metronome...
speaking of metronome, togepi doesn't even know it yet. matter of fact, it didn't know any damage dealing attacks, which is where our guinea pig came to help.
it took a few attempts, but at that point, togepi was ready to fight for itself. unfortunately, it wasn't that good at it.
I passed through viridian forest with togepi at the stage where it was, and training it up was difficult. thanks to hustle, any attacking move which togepi would metronome would miss most of the time. that is, if the attack was actually an attack which dealt direct damage! seriously, I got swallow, snore, dream eater and spit up a few times, was so annoying. -.-
however, togepi did get better as more pokemon were defeated and more bug catchers in the forest were sent away with fainted pokemon, but it was tough, what with all the weedles poisoning togepi.
during our journey through the forest, we obtained this beaut. this makes dealing damage a touch easier, if metronome would bring up ridiculous moves which wouldn't deal damage or cause any effect.
eventually, we arrived at the other side of the forest, and with that, pewter city. still needing some more training, we then healed up and headed back through the forest and to viridian, and then went west to encounter our dearest rival once again.
this time, him and his new pidgey didn't get lucky. it was also cool to metronome transform and turn into charmander right before we finished him off, too!
now that we had taken out pretty much every trainer available in this part of the game except brock, we still needed some more training if we wanted to beat him. so, I trained on various wild pokemon just south of pewter city until togepi reached level 12, which wasn't too bad.
now that we were ready, we headed over to brock, and things were going great. while geodude was out, togepi metronomed ingrain, so it restored a little bit of HP every turn. I wasn't too bothered about switching out at that point anyways. we beat his geodude and togepi levelled up...
...and learnt this! while it can't deal damage, it certainly helped towards dealing with onix, which was also really difficult.
sadly, metronome only has 10 PP, so it ran out shortly after onix switched in and the moves it used were useless. and because ingrain was in effect, togepi couldn't switch out. therefore, there was only one thing to do, burn away all of togepi's other moves' PP, while also making sure onix wouldn't take it down.
the strategy was to use yawn, and then sweet kiss, and charm while it was asleep. hustle made the last two moves even more inaccurate though, which was a real pain. however, thanks to charm being used three times, onix's tackle and bind hardly proved much of a problem, especially considering that ingrain restored the health of the attack straight afterwards.
eventually, togepi's move had no more PP and it struggled away, which worked! we beat brock, and obtained the rock tomb TM!