Monotype Challenge

[ConnorV]

Okay I now have 14 badges... didn't write down what I did step by step but here are some highlights:

- Beat pokemon league with Magmar and Typhlosion
- Bred a ponyta only to decide not to use him :(
- Caught Houndour
- Caught Ho-Oh

Current Pokemon:

{Houndoom} Flare lvl 45 (EXP SHARE)
Faint Attack
Ember
Bite
Flamethrower

{Typhlosion} Torch lvl 56 (Charcoal)
Ember
Strength
Flame Wheel
Earthquake

{Magmar} Furnace lvl 56 (Amulet Coin)
Flamethrower
Thunder Punch
Physic
Fire Punch

{Vulpix} Coal lvl 14 (Dragon Fang)
Ember
Roar
Quick Attack
Tail Whip

{Ho-Oh!} Candle lvl 70 (Sacred Ash)
Recover
Fire Blast
Fly
Swift

{Lanturn} Lanturn lvl 12 (Nevermeltice)
Waterfall
Whirlpool
Surf
Flash

Just caught Ho-Oh!, so next step is to go back and finish off the pokemon gyms then beat red.

 

[Sacr3d Fire]

ConnorV, i hope you know you can't use Ho-oh.It said in the rule:6.No legendaries.

 

[ConnorV]

Yeah I just caught him for FLY, I'm sure I can use him as an HM slave? If not then I'll go catch a pidgey or something as its a real pain in the ass.

Oh and as another note, I want to do Rock next, so I was wondering if the pokemon that hatch from fossils are legendarys.

 

[hack1]

Yeah I just caught him for FLY, I'm sure I can use him as an HM slave? If not then I'll go catch a pidgey or something as its a real pain in the ass.

Oh and as another note, I want to do Rock next, so I was wondering if the pokemon that hatch from fossils are legendarys.

No, they are just normal Pokemon.
I'm going to do this on Flying, but I need to finish R/S/E Monotype first.

 

[myrrhman]

You can use Ho-oh for a HM Slave. Also, Hack is right, the legendaries are
Zapdos, Articuno, Moltres, Mewtwo, Mew, Entei, Raikou, Suicune, Lugia, Ho-oh, Celebi, Regice, Regirock, Registeel, Groudon, Kyogre, Deoxys, Jirachi, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Regigigas, Cresselia, Mesprit, Uxie, Azelf, Shaymin, Darkrai, Arceus, Manaphy, Phione (i think).

And now for an update!

Now that I had a Gengar, I bought Ice, Thunder, and Fire Punch from the Dept. Store in Goldenrod. Whitney was easy as balls. Both of her Pokemon took two Thunderpunches.
I then started trying to get my second Gengar. This proved much harder than the first, as once again, I was limited to Lick as my only damaging move, and these Pokemon were stronger. I decided to enter the Ecruteak Gym after dispatching Sudowoodo. This way, I could switch out and kill them with Alpha.
Finally evolved in the Burned tower against ???
Went back and Defeated Morty. Got Shadow Ball. Now we're talking.

Important Team:
Alpha the level 31 Gengar
Thunder Punch, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Lick

Omega the level 27 Gengar
Shadow Ball, Rock Smash, Hypnosis, Curse

Not important team:
Totodile (Cut, Surf), Hoot-Hoot (Flash)

 

[ConnorV]

Final Update

I beat Blaine, then went and crushed Blue. Finally Mt. Silver was open! Then I went and caught 2 slugma's and bred them, and got my baby slugma. After doing that, I decided I wanted Ninetales so I wasted a bunch of time and effort obtaining a fire stone from the guy who lives in Bill's Kanto house.

Then i spent about 3 hours training my pokemon and came up with this team:

{Typhlosion} Torch Lvl 66 /w Charcoal
Flamethrower
Strength
Flame Wheel
Earthquake

{Magcargo} Magma lvl 48 /w Charcoal
Smog
Ember
Roch Throw
Flamethrower

{Magmar} Furnace lvl 67 /w Magnet
Flamethrower
Thunderpunch
Psychic
Fire Punch

{Houndoom} Flare lvl 60 /w Charcoal
Faint Attack
Sludge Bomb
Crunch
Flamethrower

{Ninetales} Coal lvl 31 /w --
Ember
Confuse Ray
Quick Attack
Flamethrower

{Lanturn} Lanturn lvl 12 /w Nevermeltice
Flash
Surf
Waterfall
Whirlpool

Battle Recap /w Red

Torch wipes out Pikachu with one earthquake
Flare wipes out Espeon with one crunch (critical hit)
Furnace fights Blastoise and faints. Coal is sacraficed to revive him and he finishes Blastoise off.
Torch, Flare and Magma all go down fighting Snorlax. Finally after wasting all of his PP and many hyper and full restores, Furnace is able to take him out.
Furnace takes out Charizard with 3 thunderpunches (I also use max elixer)
Furnace takes out Venasaur with 2 flamethrowers.

i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll102/TWPiaf/New%20Quickbar/PkmSilverafterWinMonoFire2.png

^^ Link to picture of me beating red. I can't post images yet so that's the best I can do.


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Now I'm either going to do Psychic on Gold or Poison on Silver.

**EDIT**

I've decided to try Poison, but I don't know how to evolve haunter since im using the KiGB emulator, so I was wondering if I could simply either a) gameshark a lvl 25 gengar when haunter hits lvl 25 or b) simply change haunter into a genger with gameshark. Or I guess I could leave him as a haunter.

And I'll be updating this one a lot better then I did for my fire type challenge.

 

[myrrhman]

Congratulations on joining the Champions! Also, if I were you, I would download DualGBA or something like that. It's the only way I know of trading.

 

[ConnorV]

I have a mac though, so I can only use KiGB for these games, and what am I allowed to do about the Gengar problem?

 

[myrrhman]

Ah, that is a problem. Yeah, get a Haunter to level 25 and then hack in a Gengar. You can teach it the same moves with hacking too.

 

[AnjinMiura_PL]

if I were you, I would download DualGBA

TGBDual :) Good emulator to make trades in 1st and 2nd gen games ;)
But now to action, first update:

Spoiler:

Grass Pokemons now...but lack of stones is really dissapointing. It would be fine to buy stones in Johto, f.e after battle with some strong trainer, or in some hidden place for high price. I can get it in other ways ofc, but...it's annoying. But I haven't any other idea, so go!

Chikorita (Chuck) as a starter. Trained it to lvl 12 near N.B.Town. As it's grass team, I've Bellsprout...again. It's really boring X_x. I named him Yawn, great grinding plan has started. I've left Sprout Tower for next Pkmns, and headed to Azalea. Chuck and Yawn had 19th levels, when I reached Azalea. But now...it's day x_X I must wait for the night and catch three Oddishes. Why three? Waiting for the night...

...Okay, sun is down, we're going to Ilex. Why I need three Oddishes, as for most people it's just useless to have one of them? First (Solaris) will be turned into Bellosom, after receiving the Sun Stone. Second (Villeix) will be turned into Vileplume, when I reach Kanto and get Leaf Stone. Bill's grandpa will give me Leaf Stone only, if I show them...Oddish. So third (Stonelol) is just for that - 'cause I need Leaf Stone. Stonelol was sent to PC, Solaris and Villeix started grind-party in Union Cave. Both evolved into Gloom at 21st level, so I went to Sprout Tower (Yawn advanced to 21st lvl, evolved into Weepinbell). Chuck grinded to 21st too, after battle with Dede (my rival) 22nd. In Azalea's Gym Solaris&Villeix knocked all "small trainers", Chuck defeated Bugsy (23rd now), and that's how the story goes.

I must win Bug Catching Contest now to get first Sun Stone. Second will be for Sunkern->Sunflora, but I'll catch it only, if I'll have 2nd Sun Stone.

EDIT:
Update number two ;)

Spoiler:

So, I've Sun Stone :D Before Saturday, I've beaten Whitney, Morty, rival, and some minor trainers. At Saturday midnight (:D) I've joined Bug Contest. And what is important now - Pinsir. If you have Pinsir, you just can't lose. Before it I've had Scyther, but memories from other games was priceless. I've found Pinsir, won the contest, and got a Sun Stone. I'd like to evolve Solaris now, but Gloom still has Moonlight&Petal Dance to learn, so...I'll surely wait until Moonlight, but not longer, because I wanna have Bellossom in my team, now ;D

I've also had a funny story at grinding. Raikou visited me...so early ;) But I've used Sleep Powder, then some Growths, then attack. I do not need Raikou in this game. A lot of experience is more important now.

And also, battles...Whitney wasn't problem, Dede too. Morty was tough for me, I must point that. Anyway he couldn't defeat me, so four badges are in ;)

 

[myrrhman]

Finished up the Johto Gyms. Nothing too hard, because I don't remember any of them from yesterday. On to the elite four.

Spoiler:

Will:

OHKO everyone but Slowbro w/ Omega's Shadow Ball. Slowbro took two and almost one hit me with psychic.

Koga: One hit Aridos, Venomoth, and Foretress w/ Fire Punch. Muk took 3 Fire Punches. Crobat was annoying because I kept missing with TPunch, so he took about 4 and almost killed me.

Bruno:

All of his pokemon but onix took multiple shots but couldn't kill Alpha.

Karen:

Froze Umbreon on the first Ice Punch and then killdt it. Murkrow and Vileplume went down with a single ice punch. Gengar and I licked like two children in a lollipop store in the middle of the summer. And Houndoom, who I was fearing, was being a dumba** and used Roar 5 times in a row. Moving on.

Final Battle Lance:

Easiest (other than Will). Gyarados OHKO w/ T Punch. Dragonites all OHKO w/ Ice Punch. Aerodactyl too. Charizard took like 2 shadow balls or something, don't know, don't care.

Figured that the hard part was done, so I might as well finish up.

Rescued the little girl and arrived in Vermilion.
Went to Saffron and got Psychic.
Went to Celadon, beat Erika, and got Giga Drain (which completed my final moveset).
Went to the Power Plant, to Cerulean, to Nugget Bridge, to Cerulean, and back to Power Plant to solve their crisis.
Beat Misty with either Thunderpunch or Giga Drain.
Beat Lt. Surge with lots of Fire Punches (hardest battle so far).
Sabrina was Shadow Ball bait.
Realized I didn't have the Radio Card or Bike, so I helped the Copycat in order to get back easily via train.
Got the Expansion Card and took out Snorlax.
Beat Brock with 5 Quad Super Effective Miracle Seed Powered Giga Drains
Blaine took 2 hits for all of his Pokemon, and even though he hit me with Flamethrower and Sunny Day powered Fire Blast, I still didn't lose a Pokemon.
Blue would have forced me to heal, but Arcanine, like Houndoom, used Roar almost exclusively.
Onward to Red!

Ok. Vs. Red

Pikachu was easy enough, lowered my attack while I killed it.
Snorlax... rest, rest, rest, rest, rest, rest, rest... Had to just switch back and forth until he ran out of them. I am now dangerously low on attacks for only having killed his second Pokemon.
Espeon outsped the Gengar with Shadow Ball, but not the other one. I proceeded to Fire Punch, faint, send out slave and revive, repeat, until I killed it.
Venusaur: I didn't know what to expect, so I healed the dead Gengar. It charged up a Solar Beam. I healed, and Solar Beam crit'd and almost one hit me. I healed it off again while Venusaur charged. Fire Punch, Solar beam, heal while Venusaur used Sunny Day, and then Fire Punch killed it.
Charizard: I hit him with a TPunch, but he killed Alpha. Omega put him to sleep, revived Alpha, and managed to kill him with Shadow Ball.
Blastoise: Alpha hit him with TPunch that Paralyzed, but he killed me with Surf. I then revive switched back and forth at least 10 times before he was fully paralyzed. Then one more sacrificial TPunch, and finish it off with Shadow Ball. GG Red.

 

[jujuju]

Alright, so I will begin this challenge now using the electric type on Pokemon Crystal.

Btw, if I am not able in any way to obtain a thunderstone for my eevee, can I still use it against the Elite 4 despite it not being an electric type. I can wait to train it after the Elite 4 and get the stone from that guy in Cerulean, however, this would be much easier.

Update #1:

Spoiler:

Since there are no electric Pokemon early in Pokemon Crystal I decided to take Cyndaquil until I was able to receive my first Pokemon from the Odd Egg. I chose Cyndaquil to try and get there as soon as possible while avoiding as many trainer battles as I could along the way.

The first two gym battles went down easily as Cyndaquil was too powerful for each of them. Fortunately, the first Pokemon I received from the egg was an Elekid(didn't take screenshot, but hopefully this will suffice).

I proceeded to train Elekid until level 30 where he evolved into Electabuzz and then trained Electabuzz until level 33. As you can see, I am very worried about Whitney's rollout. I taught both Fire Punch and Ice Punch to Electabuzz. Electabuzz one-hit everything on the gym until up came the Miltank.

There will always be a reason to hate this thing.

Anyway, it was holding on for dear life and I knew I had her. One quick swift was all it took and the battle went by much faster than I had first expected. Next time, I plan on searching for a Chinchou and pick up an Eevee that I plan on evolving into a Jolteon.

Current Team:

 

[myrrhman]

Yeah, you can go ahead and train your Eevee. I just don't want people doing a Flying Monotype Challenge beating Red with like a Magikarp because a) that makes no sense and you cheated, and b) their team wasn't eventually all flying types.

 

[ConnorV]

Posts merged to prevent double posting.

Update #1 (june 14th 6:30pm est)

Spoiler:

Just doing a quick update:

-Chose Totodile as starter pokemon (poision is good vs grass :D)
- Caught a zubat named Todd
- Caught a bellsprout named Victoria
- Caught a gastly named Desmond
- Trained Todd until he learned Bite so I could be falkner
- Grinded all my pokemon and beat azelea town (gym and rival)
- Just recieved Cut

Current Pokemon:
{Zubat} Todd lvl 18
{Gastly} Desmond lvl 19
{Bellsprout} Victoria lvl 18

Update #2 (june 15th 11:45pm est)

Spoiler:

- Went and avoided as many different trainers as possible while going to catch Nidoran Boy
- Caught Nidoran Boy and called him Carson
- Carson spanked Whitney with double kick after evolving into Nidorino
- evolved Todd into Golbat
- Victoria evolved to Weepinbell
- grinded Desmond to lvl 25, then evolved him to gengar
- Desmond used his amazing lick and hypnosis powers to overcome morty
- went back to new bark town, then to the waterfall cave for the moon stone
- evolved Carson to Nidoking
- caught two tentacools and bred them to get Nathan the baby tentacool
- during breeding and hatching process, I ran over and over and over again to increase Todd's happiness
- Todd evolves at lvl 29 into Crobat (didn't take to long thanks to speed...still took like an hour tho :D)
- got all my pokemon to lvl 30 at least
- bought fire/ice/thunderpunch... taught fire to Carson and ice/thunder to desmond
- beat Chuck with Todd
- Nathan and Carson combined to take down Jasmine
- killed red gyrados, just going to the rocket base now

Current pokemon
{Gengar} Desmond lvl 31
{Crobat} Todd lvl 31
{Tentacruel} Nathan lvl 30
{Nidoking} Carson lvl 30
{Weepingbell} Victoria lvl 30

After I beat the E4, I will be a proper pokemon update, but atm I don't feel like it so the crappy version above with have to suffice. Also I plan on catching Lugia asap for the good HM slave. (all water + fly)

 

[moon]

Well, I've gone through the Ilex forest and beaten Whitney.

Team is:

Paras lvl 17
Oddish lvl 18
Bayleef lvl 23
Weepinbell lvl 22
Hmslave Oddish, Cut

 

[jujuju]

I'm sorry. I thought that I could get this done before going away for the summer, but I was only able to get to the Mahogany Gym, so I will be forced to drop out of this one at least for the next two months.

 

[AnjinMiura_PL]

Third update ;)

Spoiler:

Sorry, I don't have so much time. First was grinding and going with story, 2nd was defeating the E4 ;)

That was my team before E4. Grinded to 53th, then 2 Rare Candies to Solaris = Solarbeam. Time to defeat Elite Four. IIRC Charizard was the biggest problem, but somehow I managed to beat elite trainers. Now I'm in Kanto, next update before battle with Red ;)

 

[ConnorV]

Final Update

Caught Lugia as a HM slave. Also converted weepinbel to an HM slave. After that I kind of just tore through everything until I got to red... he spanked me first try so I grinded, then revive *****d and beat him.

Pikachu - fell to an Earthquake
Espeon - tanked Todd, Carson and Desmond. Nathan managed to kill him with a surf as he survived the physic.
Snorlax - used Weepinbell to revive Desmond. Then revived and healed everybody as he couldn't touch me. He basically just used rest over and over, so what I did was when he woke up, I switched Carson in on that turn because he would go back to sleep. Then I killed him with a critical hit double kick.
Blastoise - Desmond tried to kill him but died, Nathan finished him off.
Venesaur - Todd OHKO him with a Wing Attack
Charizard - Fell to Nathan.

And thats it! Second GSC Mono challenge complete.

Pictures:

^^ forgot to SS the win until after I won :S

 

[Sacr3d Fire]

Hey guys sorry since no update.I had my exams session so i had to study.

Badge:8

~Update~
-Beat the Radio tower and get the rainbow wing.
-Went to the ice path.
-Then i went to the dragon gym.Dragon Pokemon=Thunderwave/dragon rage.After beating Clair and found the dragon fang i earned:

So right im raising my team and making my way to the elite 4.

 

[ChrisTom]

Alright, I'd like to sign up for the Rock Type. But could I please cheat in a Larvitar as a starter? Please let me know!