Monotype Challenge (Ver. 2.0)

[Pokémon Ranger ✩ Moriarty]

GAME Pokémon HeartGold
TYPE Normal
TIME 6:45

→ ARRIVAL IN GOLDENROD!
What the title says. Went straight to the Radio Tower and got my Radio Card, sending Whitney back to her Gym. Then headed North to do a spot of training. Then came back through and picked up TM52: Focus Blast from the Goldenrod Department Store to teach it to Mossa.

→ VS. WHITAPRICORN!
• Kord vs. Clefairy: Used Yawn to send her to sleep, suffering only a Metronome-Double Hit on the way. Got her HP down with Extrasensory, then Whitney used a Super Potion. Clefairy wakes up and uses Double-Slap, which takes about 2hp off per hit, oh no. She then uses Gravity via Metronome...and then Sacred Fire. Togepi is burned, and I don't have a Burn Heal! Ffff. Anyway, Clefairy is down and out by this point.
• Mossa vs. Miltank: Mossa used Focus Blast, which pulled Miltank down to half HP. Not wanting to rely on the 70% Accuracy I then used Headbutt, but Whitney countered with a Super Potion. Tried Focus Blast again and it missed. Miltank used Milk Drink to get back to maximum HP. Focus Blast misses for a third, fourth and fifth time. Mistake! Know what else is super-duper? I forgot to pick up any Super Potions at the Mart! Mossa uses Headbutt twice, which causes two Flinches. Mossa is then taken down by Stomp.
• Kord vs. Miltank: He's at 18/56 HP and Burned. Miltank uses Attract. Kord falls in love. Kord is immobilised. And hurt by the burn. And taken down by Stomp!
• Totodile is with me and is sent out, but I order him to Leer so no damage is taken by Miltank. He is OHKO'd by Stomp.

tl;dr First loss to Whitney thanks to my lack of insight with buying medicine.

→ VS. WHITAPRICORN. ONE MOAR TIME!
To Goldenrod Department Store! I buy 5 Super Potions, which takes all of my money. However, it should be enough.
• Kord vs. Clefairy: Use Yawn, then Metronome, which turns into Cut. Clefairy uses Mimic, then falls asleep. Kord becomes infatuated. Regardless, he uses Extrasensory twice to get her HP down to around 10, before Whitapricorn uses a Super Potion. Clefairy wakes up and uses DoubleSlap. Kord uses Metronome-Thunder, which misses. Clefairy uses Metronome-...something, which hits. Kord uses Metronome-Softboiled, which saves me a Potion. Clefairy uses DoubleSlap. Kord is immobilized. Clefairy uses Yawn. Kord uses Yawn. I switch Kord out.
• Mossa vs. Clefairy: Clefairy uses Metronome-Moonlight, which brings her HP right back up. Mossa uses Headbutt twice and KO's Clefairy.
• Mossa vs. Miltank: I use an X Accuracy on Mossa. Miltank uses Stomp. Mossa uses Focus Blast and misses. The second Focus Blast hits. Mossa is down to 4HP by this time, but I restore her with a Super Potion. Miltank starts her Rollout. Mossa's Focus Blast hits again. Miltank is down and out!

tl;dr X Accuracies rock; Mossa is cute; Whitapricorn cries a lot; Togepi ran off with Clefairy for a short-lived affair.

→ OTHER STUFF THAT MATTERS, SORT OF.
Beneath Goldenrod: So many collectors, so many Poison types...so many Exp. Points for Kord. =] He also gets a Haircut (no, I don't know how either) from the Younger Hairdresser Brother. Oh, and Ethan gives me a Fashion Case. I use it to store extra Apricorns in, idk.
National Park: Grinding, grinding, la la la. ...*twitch* WHY DOES EVERYBODY ELSE HAVE SNUBBULLS? DO WANT. ;~;
Achy-Breaky Tree: Welp, it was broken by the time Mossa was done with it.

Aaaand I finally remembered to dig out my camera. TEAM PHOTO!

Spoiler:

Yep, using my Phat DS. I love him. <3

Ngh...Route 38 is still sooo far away, and it contains the rest of my team. ;~; Snubbull, Miltank, Tauros, I WILL CATCH YOU ALL EVENTUALLY nah hah harrr.

 

[amberfunk]

Congratulations Sleet!

I defeated Brock and now I'm on my way to defeat Blaine. Blaine might be a bit of an issue considering steel is weak to fire:( I'm definitely going to train before I get there though. After reading some of the posts on here I realized that I completely forgot to go to MT Moon! So I'll have to go there and then to Dragon's Den and then I'm going back to the E4 after I defeat Blue to train my pokemon up some more before going to defeat Red.

My team:

Steel lv60
Thunder fang
Earthquake
Fire fang
Ice fang

Nyx lv61
Steel Wing
Peck
Spikes
Night Slash

Yin lv60
Vacuum Wave
X-scissor
Slash
Bullet Punch

 

[Sora247_2009]

Ok, I started:

-Got Totodile, named him Aqua
-Grinded to lv7 before proceeding to Mr Pokemon's house
-Beat Rival, named him Paul (reference to anime since he treats his pokemon badly)
-Went through Sprout Tower easily
-Beat falkner. OHKO'd Pidgey with Bite, and 2HKO'd Pidgeotto with Bite
-FINALLY got my Old Rod
-Caught a Wooper (Terra), Tentacool (Ruby) and 2 Magikarps, decided to only use Wooper and Tentacool

Thats it for now. Next up, grinding Wooper and tentacool.

Team:

Aqua lv16
Bashful Nature
Bite
Water Gun
Leer
Scratch

Ruby lv10
Hardy Nature
Poison Sting
Supersonic
Constrict

Terra lv6
Hardy Nature
Water Gun
Mud Sport
Growl? I know it's some random Normal move.

 

[Corruptodile]

Gah, I've missed a lot and I'm way, WAY overdue for an update, sorry guys :( This comes from a DS having a mind of it's own and spending numerous days trying to fix it while saving to get a DSi :@ It's not cool at all.

First off, big shout outs and congratulations to Emoxy, Myzou, Sleet and Ian Watkins for completing their challenges :) Nice one girls and guys :D

With that out of the way, the next entry into my Grass Monotype challenge!

Ze Zeyphr Badge...or not

I'm actually scared over how I'm going to beat this gym with just Grass pokemon...sigh. Take the win Hoppip and Chikorita!

Where to begin?

-Grinded Hoppip to level 10, so it was battle ready with the best move in the games, no argument, Tackle.
-Decided against talking to that man in a green outfit in the Pokemart. Yes, the Jirachi event is here :P quick reminded for you all :D
-Took on the towering Sprout Tower with Hoppip and Chikorita, crying as I defeat the Grass-typed Bellsprouts, laughing manically as I slaughter the irrelevant typed Hoothoots.
-Saw my rival Cyclone, getting bashed by the Eldar. Humourous, as he's a jerk. A big fat jerk.
-Who must have heard me, as I started on him, though he quickly escape when I reminded him of his defeat at MY HANDS!
-So I took on the Eldar and naturally, I won. Suck it. ****.
-I got TM70 Flash. Great, just great. I can
-Now I'm going to grind until both Chikorita and Hoppip have evolved before taking on Violet City Gym. Then Falkner can eat it.

CURRENT TEAM:

Redemption the Mild Chikorita

Level 13

-Razor Leaf
-Tackle
-Synthesis
-Poison Powder

Ehh, may use this guy. May not. We'll see. Probably not. This guy is as useful as a glass hammer. All he does is get paralyzed and then die.

Fairie the Jolly Hoppip

Level 15

-Tackle
-Poison powder
-Synthesis
-Sleep Powder

Finally this girl is coming around, it's proven to be very effective against Bellsprouts. Admittedly, they only know Vine Whip.




Sorry this is such a short update, you'd expect more from the amount of time I've been gone. :( I'll make this up with some other update, I promise, or if I get round to beat this Gym later today. :)

 

[Sleet]

Congratulations Sleet!

First off, big shout outs and congratulations to Emoxy, Myzou, Sleet and Ian Watkins for completing their challenges :) Nice one girls and guys :D

Thanks :D

Good luck with Blaine Amberfunk :)
Good luck with Falkner Corruptodile :)

Ehh, may use this guy. May not. We'll see. Probably not. This guy is as useful as a glass hammer. All he does is get paralyzed and then die.

Lol. Chikorita gets some pretty good HP when it fully evolves into Meganium mind you ;)

 

[Corruptodile]

Good luck with Falkner Corruptodile :)



Lol. Chikorita gets some pretty good HP when it fully evolves into Meganium mind you ;)

Thanks :)

I may consider Meganium, it's a toss up between him and a Tangrowth. I'm leaning more towards a Tangrowth, so...

 

[emoxy]

Thanks Corruptodile!
(You might want to level Chikorita up a bit to get Reflect, though that'll be too much level grinding =P)
Tangrowth gets killed by any special attack. XD

Oh ya, to all the people who're at Kanto (or those who want some extra challenge even after beating Red), you might want to try the double battle @ Dragon's Den:

1. Thrash rival @ Mt. Moon.
2. Wait till Tue/Thurs/Sat.
3. Go Dragon's Den.
4. Find Rival training.
5. Talk to him, attract Lance/Clair to come.
6. Fight hard battle.

 

[amberfunk]

Thanks Sleet! Turns out I didn't need any luck going against Blaine. With a few hyper potions and revives I defeated him. Here's how the battle went because this was the most exciting out of all of the gym battles.

Nyx vs. Magcargo
Steel wing
Magcargo used overheat
Nyx fainted
Go Steel
Steel used earthquake first with the help of quick claw
Magcargo fainted

Steel vs Magmar
Magmar used overheat
Steel fainted
Go Yin
Revived Steel
Magmar used overheat
Yin fainted
Go Steel
Steel used earthquake with the help of quick claw
Magmar fainted 1 hit ko

Steel vs Rapidash
Rapidash used overheat
Steel fainted
Go Quilava
Revived Steel
Rapidash used quick attack
Quilava fainted
Go Steel
Rapidash used overheat
Steel fainted
Go Vaporeon
Revived Steel
Rapidash used quick attack
Vaporeon fainted
Go Steel
Used hyper potion on Steel
Rapidash used overheat
Used hyper potion on Steel
Rapidash used overheat
Steel used earthquake
Rapidash fainted 1 hit ko

Now I'm stuck at dragon's den. I tried to do the double battle against Clair and Lance and they kept fainting my pokemon. I got so frustrated that I just turned it off. I'll try again tomorrow. Anyway now my team is at lv 65 and they all still have the same movesets.

 

[Dragonsfreak]

Well i was a bit impatient and took on Red earlier as planned, but first i ran to dragons den for the double battle. rivals pokemon fainted one after another. Delia had to fight alone, but in the end she was the single winner.

Here´s the Story of the last battle in my fighting challenge:

Spoiler:

Red send in Pikachu, i Chops. Pikachu used Volt Tackle. Chops survived with 19 HP left and used Earthquake. Pikachu fainted.

Red sent in Charizard...damn I was afraid cause i thought this will be the hardest. Charizard used Flare Blitz, while i used a Full Restore. I had to use another Full Restore and Charizard tried an Air Slash but misses. Charizard attacked again with Air Slash. I didn´t know what was happening, but Charizard missed again and Chops used its chance and used Rock Slide.OHKO

Then Red used Lapras. I switched to Bobby. Bobby used Thunder Punch for 35% and Lapras used Psychic for 65%. Bobby tried a Sky Uppercut but missed. Lapras used Blizzard and Bobby fainted. I switched to Chops. Lapras used Blizzard, Chops survived and used Cross Chop. Lapras somehow survived with a few HP left. Red used a Full Restore and Chops another Cross Chop for 70%. i used A Fullrestore and Lapras attcked with Brine for 30% and Blizzard for the Rest. Chops fainted. I switched to Julie and used Megahorn. Lapras fainted.

Red sent out BLastoise. I switched to Delia. Blastoise used Focus Blast all the time and Hits. I used Fulrestores and Rock Climb. Blastoise was at 30-40& Hp left wen the Hail made Delia faint. Stiched to Julie and a critical Megahorn finished Blastoise of.

Red sent out Snorlax. I decided for Chad Lee and revived Chops (Max Revive). snorlax used Shadow Ball for 25 % damage. Chad lee used Sky Uppercut and brought Snorlax down to half HP. Snorlax used Shadowball once more and Chad LEe used Sky Uppercut to make Snorlax faint.

Red Send out Venusaur. Surprisingly Venusaur gave me the hardest battle. his Sludge Bomb is incredibly strong and the fight goes like: Venusaur:Sludge Bomb; I used Full Restore and Revives. The Hail did the Damage on Venusaur and at then Chad lee was able to kick Venusaur (now at 45% Hp left) with a Flare Blitz out.

That´s it, I´m a Champion.
My line: "This was so much more intense than the normal game experience. You´ll learn to love Pokemon you never looked at before."

Here´s my final Team:

Spoiler:

Delia the Poliwrath
lv. 71 / Quirky

Dig
Blizzard
Surf
Rock Climb

Delia is an unexpected Hero for me. Poliwraths can take an unbelievable amount of Damage and are faster than you would expect. Delia won the double battle in Dragon´s den almost alone.Absolutely recommended

Bobby the Hitmonchan
lv. 71/ Serious

Mega Punch
Thunder Punch
Sky Uppercut
Ice Punch

The Move-fixer. Bobby brought in the elemental moves to deal with nasty Birds. It was a wise decision to replace Hitmonlee with Hitmonchan.

Julie the Heracross
lv. 69 / Timid

Brick Break
Mega Horn
Shadow Claw
Aerial Ace

Julie saved me several times, especially when i fought Psychic Pokemon. I would use it again in future challenges.



Chops the Machamp
lv. 70 / Bashful

Rock Slide
Earthquake
Cross Chop
Strength

This is one physical Powerhouse, highest attack stat of my team. with the right Moveset, Machamp is capable dealing with any other foe.

Chad Lee the Blaziken
lv. 68 / Sassy

FlameThrower
Sky Uppercut
Shadow Claw
Flare Blitz

Some sort of an allrounder. Blazikens Moves let it be a dangerous opponent for many other pokemon, but i have to admit that i didn´t used it often. Either way, it did a great job killing bugs and poison-plants.

well then. I´m signing up for the grass Challenge.
Update´s coming soon.

 

[emoxy]

Now I'm stuck at dragon's den. I tried to do the double battle against Clair and Lance and they kept fainting my pokemon. I got so frustrated that I just turned it off. I'll try again tomorrow. Anyway now my team is at lv 65 and they all still have the same movesets.

Haha tough right... ><

That´s it, I´m a Champion.
My line: "This was so much more intense than the normal game experience. You´ll learn to love Pokemon you never looked at before."

Congratulations Dragonsfreak! Hope you had fun :D

 

[Myzou]

Hmm, I might actually do a Psychic Challenge...

With Xatu, Girafarig, Jynx, Exeggutor, and Slowbro. (Since I can't get slowking without trading, and to my knowledge, you can't do that on an emulator ._.)

My only issue is WHEN to evolve Exeggcute, due to the fact he learns different moves as Exeggutor/Cute. o_o

Also the fact that you can't get a psychic type until after you beat the Slowpoke Well, unless I'm mistaken... Natu MIGHT be accessible before, not sure.

EDIT: Nope... Xatu isn't available until after you're like, 6th badge o_o *sigh* I don't really want to fight Falkner with Unown, XD At least I can get Slowpoke to fight Bugsy... but god. XD Anyone know when Girafarig is available? Exeggcute is available in trees after headbutt... Jynx is in Ice Path, and Slowpoke in Slowpoke Well. Xatu is afteryou get surf and go through Union Cave... but not sure bout Girafarig.

 

[Dr. Faustus]

You can get Girafarig in Routes 43 and 48, and in the Safari Zone (I think).

Edit:
Very quick update.


-Went back to Azalea Town and asked Kurt to make some.. . balls. Hehe.
-Went inside the gym. This should be easy. Gojira has Rock Slide, Scarface has Peck and Garmr has Ember.
-Beat his pathetic trainers.
-Battlin' Bugsy!

NOT GOOD
The website I use to crop the white part of my paint images out is not accepting PNG files, even if the error messages say they only accept a few file types, INCLUDING PNG. What f****ts.

-Bugsy sent out Metapod after his Scyther U-Turned. Lol noob. Who uses Metapod? Scarface 2HKO'd him with Peck, and then learned Wing Attack. Sweet!
-Bugsy sent out Scyther again, I sent out Gojira. Scyther uses Focus Energy, and Gojira uses Rock Slide. 1HKO!
-I send out Garmr, Bugsy sends out... KAKUNA? Can't he evolve his two cocoon Pokemon?! Garm 1HKOs with Crit Ember.
Gg no re kthxbye
Notes about the gym leader: I always thought Bugsy would look better as a girl.

My current team:

Slowpoke is awesome.

I changed my overworld sprite to Lucas by using an AR code. Type
'SoulSilver Player Modifier AR Code' or something like that in Google.
I like Lucas because of his kangol hat.


-Rival rumble!

Silver'd look good as a girl, too.

-Garmr 2HKO'd Gastly with Ember.
-Gojira 1HKO'd Zubat with Rock Slide after a DD.
-Scarface 3HKO'd Bayleef with Wing Attack. Stupid Reflect.
-Won the battle! Naoya's still as full of pride as ever, though.

 

[emoxy]

Hmm, I might actually do a Psychic Challenge...

With Xatu, Girafarig, Jynx, Exeggutor, and Slowbro. (Since I can't get slowking without trading, and to my knowledge, you can't do that on an emulator ._.)

My only issue is WHEN to evolve Exeggcute, due to the fact he learns different moves as Exeggutor/Cute. o_o

Also the fact that you can't get a psychic type until after you beat the Slowpoke Well, unless I'm mistaken... Natu MIGHT be accessible before, not sure.

EDIT: Nope... Xatu isn't available until after you're like, 6th badge o_o *sigh* I don't really want to fight Falkner with Unown, XD At least I can get Slowpoke to fight Bugsy... but god. XD Anyone know when Girafarig is available? Exeggcute is available in trees after headbutt... Jynx is in Ice Path, and Slowpoke in Slowpoke Well. Xatu is afteryou get surf and go through Union Cave... but not sure bout Girafarig.

EJ allows pseudo-trading via save file editing, I asked before, it's up to you whether you wanna do it. :D (I asked for Gengar when I was deciding the other time)

Natu is available after Surf iirc, not sure if Strength is required.

Can evolve Exeggcute at Level 47 (Psychic), get Leaf Storm via Exeggutor. Wood Hammer (Level 37) runs off lousier Attack stat.

Girafarig is available after 3rd gym, go through Mt. Mortar to Mahogany town and go up. (I used it :D)

 

[Dragonsfreak]

Congratulations Dragonsfreak! Hope you had fun :D

Thanks, it was aa great experience and a lot of fun, that´s why i´m doing a Grass challenge.

to make it official

Name: Dragonsfreak
Type: Grass
Version: HeartGold

Update

Well, my names Flowers. Why? I dunno...
My journey startet as i switched off the wii and went downstairs. I just entered the room as my mother shouted at me, because i forgot my bag and other stuff in the living room. She told me that Elm wanted to see me...sigh...I went outside and bumped into that stupid girl Lyra...geez...don´t listen to her and got to Elm. Elm talks as much as Lyra. Shortly before i got my Pokemon he got a call from a Mr. Pokemon...stupid name. And if it´s not enough, Elm sent me lookin for Mr. Pokemon´s dicovery. At least i got my Pokemon. I choose Chikorita, cause I somehow felt a connection, and named her Bloom.
Frustrated by my task, I smasched many wild Pokemon on my way to Mr. Pokemon. There arrived, i got crashed again by a wave of words, but hey...i got a Pokedex. I went back to Elm, but stopped in Cherrygrove cause a wannabe-bigshot stood in my way. I finished him off in a few seconds and went back to Elm. There i was arrested cause that dumb officer thought I had stolen one of Elm´s Pokes. The situation cleared up, I handed over the egg and endured the talk. Finally i can start my Journey. I went to violet and caught a Bellsprout. I named her Jil. I trained Jil so it became lv. 11, then I entered the Sprout Tower. It was a peace of cake. Afterards I trained Bloom til evolution and challenged that Falkner guy. Synthesis is a great move. Falkner annoyed me with Roost but Bloom poisoned his Pidgeotto. It was only a matter of time til my victory. I got a call from Elm. He wants me to hatch the egg. As If i have the time for Babysitting. But i´m a kind person and took the egg from that Nerd. Then, when i thought i could move on a weird girl starts to talk with me...Why is everyone talking so much...

Bloom
lv. 16

Tackle
Razor Leaf
Poison Powder
Synthesis

Jil
lv. 13

Vine Whip
Growth
Wrap

 

[Dr. Faustus]

Any tips on how to defeat Whitney? Is it alright for me to switch my Pokemons' genders so Miltank will just shut up?
Whitney's Miltank is being a Nazi now.

Edit: Let me try setting up Dragon Dance while Clefairy is alive. That worked for me with DDDos while fighting Blissey.
EDIT # 2: Screw this, I'm going to train.

 

[Myzou]

EJ allows pseudo-trading via save file editing, I asked before, it's up to you whether you wanna do it. :D (I asked for Gengar when I was deciding the other time)

Natu is available after Surf iirc, not sure if Strength is required.

Can evolve Exeggcute at Level 47 (Psychic), get Leaf Storm via Exeggutor. Wood Hammer (Level 37) runs off lousier Attack stat.

Girafarig is available after 3rd gym, go through Mt. Mortar to Mahogany town and go up. (I used it :D)

Thanks.

XD I have no idea how to do the save file editing, would you mind explaining? XD (In PM, obviously, :P) As I'd much prefer Slowking over Slowbro, Just due to movepool (nasty Plot, XD), ASAP. AKA, when I beat Whitney. XD (The Pokeathlon has King's Rocks, which most people don't notice, X)

 

[Dr. Faustus]

Thanks.

XD I have no idea how to do the save file editing, would you mind explaining? XD (In PM, obviously, :P) As I'd much prefer Slowking over Slowbro, Just due to movepool (nasty Plot, XD), ASAP. AKA, when I beat Whitney. XD (The Pokeathlon has King's Rocks, which most people don't notice, X)

Use PokeSav to edit your Slowpoke into Slowking if you're using a ROM.
Use https://www.shunyweb.info/convert.php to convert your normal savefile into a 512k one.

 

[Myzou]

Use PokeSav to edit your Slowpoke into Slowking if you're using a ROM.
Use https://www.shunyweb.info/convert.php to convert your normal savefile into a 512k one.

Unfortunately, that really doesn't help, lol. XD My knowledge of ROMs is extremely limited. :P

Obviously, the game hasn't been started yet, just for future use, I'd like to know how o_o

Anyway:

Name: Myzou
Game: HeartGold
Type: Psychic

I will be going as Fyn in the game though. Thought I'd change it up a bit and go by my name in my actual SoulSilver game, :P Plus, Lyra's hair is starting to bug me. >_>

Not starting yet, but can't hurt to be put on the list. :P

 

[Dr. Faustus]

-Training for Whitney. Her Clefable's fine, but her Miltank is a freaking demon.
-Bought a LOT of stuff. I have no more Pokedollars left.

Too lazy to crop the white stuff out.
Pokemon needs more loli gym leaders like Candice and Maylene :3

-Setting up Dragon Dance with Gojira on Clefairy... a bit. A Dragon Danced Clefairy is fierce with her Metronome, though. Clefairy dies to a Rock Smash!
-A fierce +6 Attack FALCOWN PAWN- I meant Rock Smash easily took out Miltank!
-THE ROCK SMASH HAS VANQUISHED THE HORRIBLE COW

Shut up and stop crying, Whitney, your cow was the one that made my Pokemon cry.

-Going to try and find a Dusk Stone in the Pokeathlon Dome!
-Augh! The Pokeathlon makes my arms hurt and makes my emulator lag. I'll just have to try more for that Stone!

 

[emoxy]

Thanks.

XD I have no idea how to do the save file editing, would you mind explaining? XD (In PM, obviously, :P) As I'd much prefer Slowking over Slowbro, Just due to movepool (nasty Plot, XD), ASAP. AKA, when I beat Whitney. XD (The Pokeathlon has King's Rocks, which most people don't notice, X)

iirc as Pokeathlon games progress the emulator slows down to like, 20%?

Will send you a PM now.

Use PokeSav to edit your Slowpoke into Slowking if you're using a ROM.
Use https://www.shunyweb.info/convert.php to convert your normal savefile into a 512k one.

If you edit no$gba.ini, and change this line:
SAV/SNA File Format == Raw
The word "Raw" without "" must be exact casing, R is upper-case.
This will make no$gba save in 512kb, and saves the need for converting.

Pokemon needs more loli gym leaders like Candice and Maylene :3

I think Whitney's pretty, too. :)