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3rd Gen Hoenn Solo Run Challenge

Destinyfate

Destinyfate

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    this is my final update.. for emerald

    *beat juan and and got the the rain badge
    *i beat the elite four no problem
    *then i went back and caught rayquaza and all the other legendarys!!!!!

    im done my hoenn solo run challenge !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    next,

    firey/torchic/evolving/ruby.
     

    DarkShuyin

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    Im in......For this challenge!

    Zigs/Zigzagoon / Evolving / Emerald

    Progress:Caught Zigs
     
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    mondays suck

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    Player: mondays suck
    Pokemon: Smoochum --> Jynx
    Badges:     6
    Game: Ruby
    Location: Route 120

    Thought I forgot about this? No, actually I didn't, I just delayed it, and continued today.
    I had last saved at Mauville, after beating Norman, getting Surf and buying TMs. Surfed east and fought my way to the weather institute. Caught a Tropius there and beat Team Magma. Got to Fortress and beat Winona. Now somewhere on the route between Fortree and Lilycove, which is according to the map called Route 120.
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    Hel / Jynx f Lv.55 @ /
    Modest Nature / Oblivious
    - Psychic
    - Thief
    - Sweet Kiss
    - Ice Beam
    Renamed after the goddess of the correspondent underworld (which is unlike Hell a cold place) in norse mythology (which I am currently a fan of). I think it fits, first because of the aforementioned reason that it's a cold place, and because Hel is not exactly a beauty, and neither is Jynx.
     

    Skweetis

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    Got lots of free time, so I'll join.


    Snorlax / Snorlax / Doesn't Evolve / Emerald
     

    rizyq

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    I'll join too!


    Shazna / Slakoth / Evolving / Emerald


    *Started, choose boy, named Rizyq
    *Went out, met MAY etc.
    *Choose Mudkip, helped BIRCH
    *Nicknamed Mudkip "Skipper"
    *Beat MAY
    *Got to Petalburg
    *Helped WALLY
    *Got to the Forest
    *Found a Slakoth Quickly
    *Nicknamed her Shazna
    *Saved, exited


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    Shazna ♀ Lv. 5

    - Scratch
    - Yawn
     

    Muffin™

    Knows your age
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    OH OH!! I would like to join!

    Chad - Dark Shadow/Gastly/Evolving/Ruby (I'm trading my Gastly from FireRed to Ruby)

    LOL, I beat S/E/FR/LG but not this @_@
     

    560cool.

    An old timer?
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    A 3gen challenge ? Let us have a look at the Pokemon Ruby my friend gave me on my birthday .

    *pulls it out ...*

    It has dust !! o_0 .

    Alright I am in !

    Torchic / Flame / Evolving / Ruby !

    Alright , i will start now , an update tomorrow !
     

    Skweetis

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    UPDATE:
    - Beat my rival for the 1st time
    - Helped Wally catch Ralts
    - Got to Rustboro and beat the first gym
    - Rescued Peeko
    - Crunched a lot. (He went from level 5 to 33 in hours.)

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    Snorlax Lv. 33 @ Leftovers
    Brave Nature
    - Body Slam
    - Earthquake
    - Rest
    - Snore

    I have a habit of overleveling my Pokemon.
     
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    560cool.

    An old timer?
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    1st Update !

    I am in Dewford , beat Brawly . I am on my way to Steven !

    Pokemon :

    FLAME - Combusken

    Moves :

    Ember
    Double Kick
    Rock Tomb
    Peck (lifesaver against Brawly !)
     

    mondays suck

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    Player: mondays suck
    Pokemon: Smoochum --> Jynx
    Badges:     8
    Game: Ruby
    Location: Littleroot

    As you can probably guess from above, I'm finish now.
    After doing all the Team Magma stuff, things went fast. I beat the Twins with no effort (2 of my Zigzagoons leveled both from level 5 to level 9 here, I hope it doesn't matter), beat Maxie after rushing through his cave, OHKOd Groudon and beat Wallace, here the Milotic was the first Pokemon since a long time that caused me some minor troubles. After rushing through Victory Road in maybe 10 minutes, I was already standing at the gates of the Elite 4.

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    Despite having a major type advantage, especially with Sharpedo which none of Jynx's moves could hit for normal damage, he was easy. 1 CM and 1 Ice Beam per Pokemon did the job.
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    Pain, major pain. Stupid Curse...
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    Glalie=set up fodder
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    Jynx used Ice Beam. It's super effective.
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    I had some luck here. While I CM'd on Skarm, a Toxic missed and Jynx barely survived a Steel Wing. After setting up some more on Claydol because I wanted the Light Screen it set up when I healed to go down again, I swept him.

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    I want all three of Loki's children, and the next shall be the Fenriswolf.



    mondays suck - Poochyena / Fenrir / Evolving / Sapphire

    Changed my mind, I will do Poochyena in Fire Red instead, with what resembles the Midgard Serpent most: Gyarados. That it's prevo is my favorite Pokemon is pure coincidence.

    mondays suck - Magikarp / Jörmungand / Evolving / Ruby

    Since Gyarados has a horrible physical movepool in this generation that gets completely walled by levitating ghosts, I will probably use a mixed set like Return, EQ, DD, Surf. Pure physical could only work with extreme Hidden Power luck, and pure Special would utterly suck.
     
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    Skweetis

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    BIG UPDATE:
    - Got to Dewford/Beat Brawly/Delivered the letter
    - Beat Team Aqua in Slateport
    - Beat Watson
    - Beat Team Magma at the volcano
    - Beat Flannery
    - Beat Dad/Norman
    - Beat Winona

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    Snorlax Lv. 72 @ Leftovers
    Brave Nature
    - Body Slam
    - Earthquake
    - Rest
    - Sleep Talk
     

    rizyq

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    Hmmm...

    I decided to quit the Slakoth run, the every other turn thing bugged me, a lot.

    I started a new one.

    Snubbull/Snubbull/Evolving/Emerald

    I used an action replay to get a level 3 snubbull at the beginning, if that's okay.
     

    Lt. Silver

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    Goosey/Zangoose/Can't evolve/Emerald. I would like to use A-Starter to change Zangoose to be a starter.
     

    mondays suck

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    Player: mondays suck
    Pokemon: Magikarp -> Gyarados
    Badges:     1
    Game: Ruby
    Location: Dewford

    Finally managed to trade Jynx to another file. Restarted Ruby. Chose Mudkip, did early stuff. Caught Magikarp in Dewford. Saved.

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    Jormungand / Magikarp m Lv.10 @ /
    Quirky Nature / Swift Swim
    - Splash
    - /
    - /
    - /
    No Ö and extremely random nature, but at least already in level 10.
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    Marshtomb / Marshtomb m Lv.17 @ /
    Lax Nature / Torrent
    - Mud Shot
    - Growl
    - Mud Slap
    - Water Gun
    Failed to skip an awful lot of trainers, they always turn around in the wrong moment....




    Update: Evolved Magikarp (:'(). Sailed back to Dewford. Look what I met in the cave:
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    Saved.
    I'll post my team later, when I finish the Dewford stuff.
     
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    rizyq

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    Update!

    Snubbull/Snubbull/Evolving/Emerald

    *Started, Named boy character Rizyq
    *Choose Treecko
    *Did beginning stuff
    *Got Pokeballs
    *Put in AR
    *Turned on code to only see snubbulls
    *Caught a level 3 snubbull
    *Saved and removed AR
    *Fought most of the trainer's through to help Wally
    *Helped Wally
    *Got to Rustburro etc.
    *Ground/Grinded till Snubbull got bite.
    *Beat the Gym with a bit of trouble (Nosepass spammed Harden D: )
    *I think Snubbull was about level 15...
    *Got Peeko
    *Went to Dewford
    *Grinded/Ground in the cave untill Snubbull Evolved into Granbull
    *Attempted to fight brawly. Failed at the Makuhita
    *Bought potions, failed like 5 more times because of random crits, missing when Metitite used Focus Punch, and Bulk Up spam from Makuhita.
    *Leveled up one more time
    *Fought the Gym, at level 24, No problems at all.
    *Went to Slateport
    *Fought a few people.

    *Saved and Exited


    Wow, that was a lot.

    Oh, and somewhere along the way, I looked up the IV's of Granbull, it has a 31 in HP! and like 27 in Attack. But Horrible speed (like 7, and it is pretty slow), and decent other stats.


    Team:

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    Granbull ♀ Lv. 25

    - Tackle
    - Lick
    - Bite
    - Scary Face




    Other Pokémon:


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    Treecko ♂ Lv. 7

    - Pound
    - Leer
    - Absorb
    - Flash
     

    Guybrush Threepwood

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    So this thread is about going trough the Hoenn region with only 1 Pokémon?
    Ha! Jokes on me, I came here because I read the title to this topic as :

    The Han Solo Rum Challenge

    I'm kind of disappointed
     
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    mondays suck

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    Something like that would be plain awesome, sadly you can't drink rum on the internet...


    Player: mondays suck
    Pokemon: Magikarp -> Gyarados
    Badges:     3
    Game: Ruby
    Location: Mauville


    Anyways, I beat Wattson without beating the region around or doing any grinding before. How? I taught Gyarados Flamethrower with the money from Nuggets that my Pickup slaves generate.
    Just took me 3 attempts to get the one flinch (King's Rock can make Dragon Rage cause flinches, how awesome is that?)    I needed to beat Magneton. Actually I was just hoping for it using T-Wave or Supersonic which it had used on the attempt before, and I only lost because of really bad luck (parahax) and some Super Potions(Flamethrower did like 95%)

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    Jormungand / Gyarados m Lv.28 @ King's Rock
    Quirky Nature / Intimidate
    - Tackle
    - Flamethrower
    - Bite
    - Dragon Rage
    Special Gyara is useless? Not as much as I was thinking before, I can't wait for the Return TM though...

    Marshtomb is level 20, the 4 Zigzagoons I caught in the meantime are all level 6.



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    Player: mondays suck
    Pokemon: Magikarp -> Gyarados
    Badges:     5
    Game: Ruby
    Location: Route 119

    Well, after Wattson most stuff was easy up to now. I beat Flannery and Norman, got the Return TM and am now somewhere between Mauville and the Weather institute.

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    Jormungand / Gyarados m Lv.41 @ King's Rock
    Quirky Nature / Intimidate
    - Raturn
    - Flamethrower
    - Bite
    - Surf
    Well, I'm not quite sure... Should I use Return, EQ, DD, Surf or is DD useless because I am and will be overleveled and thus use Flamethrower or Ice Beam instead?

    Player: mondays suck
    Pokemon: Magikarp -> Gyarados
    Badges:     7
    Game: Ruby
    Location: Mossdeep

    I just lost against Maxie in the Underwater cave, but I saved it anyways because I haven't been saving for hours. I had a on of bad luck agaisnt him, first Mightyena swaggered me and I somehow defeated it while losing many HP, then against Camerupt Gyara hurts itself once again, Camerupt uses Crit Rockslide, KO.
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    Jormungand / Gyarados m Lv.53 @ King's Rock
    Quirky Nature / Intimidate
    - Return
    - Earthquake
    - Ice Beam
    - Surf
    I don't critisize Gyara for the loss, it was just bad luck, that happens...


    More Update: I'm standing at the gates of the Elite 4, but I just can't beat Phoebe, stupid Curse... Maybe I should just use my 20 Zigzagooned Rare Candys I have in my bag, but beating the Elite 4 at almost level 80 is not as awesome as around level 60... But it seems like there's no other way...

    Final Update:

    Damn, I never had that much trouble with the Elite 4 before in a Solo Run.
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    This guy was never too much trouble, his Mightyena's Intimidate was annoying though
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    [insert random swearing here]
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    That Walrein was a pain, stupid Sheer Cold or Blizzard crits killed me 4 or 5 times...
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    Even from such a low Special Attack stat, Ice Beam raped his entire team.
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    Like Glacia, he always lucked me to death. 3 or 4 times in a row, I easily handled Skarm and Claydol, had some trouble with Armaldo and Cradily, OHKOd the Aggron and got killed by a crit (well, not always, only 2 of 3 or 3 of 4 times, the other time I forgot to heal and got killed by Hyper Beam) something from Metagross. When I finally won, I had more HP than usually and he got no crit.


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    Final Team:
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    Jormungand / Gyarados m Lv.62 @ King's Rock
    Quirky Nature / Intimidate
    - Return
    - Earthquake
    - Ice Beam
    - Surf
    Don't know what to say here right now
     
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