The Monotype Challenge

[ddrox13]

Ultimate Grass Monotype Challenge
Diamond, FireRed, StormSilver (16/16), Emerald, Black 2 (2/8), Y

B2's name theme is... Japanese names or shortened forms (Kuru instead of Kurumiru [Sewaddle]). Also, StormSilver is an ass, making you go all the way through Fuchsia to get to Celadon.

StormSilver
Important Events:

Spoiler:

- Surge informs me to take the Rock Tunnel route to Celadon next, but the Rock Tunnel is on the opposite side of the region.. Which means we're going through Lavender Town.
- Using my sheer instincts (aka a map), I get through Rock Tunnel without Flash
- Lavender bores me, so lets head west to the underground path...
- WAIT THE UNDERGROUND PATH IS CLOSED? HOW THE HELL DO I GET TO CELADON?
- Saffron gate guard tells me to take the "Long way around," at which point I open my map and determine that he means going through Fuchsia and up Cycling Road. Meanies.
- Finally make it to Fuchsia, only to find that it has been taken over by a gang of Shellder and Cloyster. Just grand...
- Smack around a bunch of Cloyster at Janine's request (and catching their Shiny leader), and I am awarded a chance to fight her for a badge. Lovely.
- VS Janine: She leads with my team's worst nightmare, Ariados. Juniper outspeeds and sleeps it and Oak uses Stone Edge. Venomoth comes in next, so I see no reason to switch out a Stone Edging Oak... until it OHKOes me. ****. Elm gets off a Light Screen, and Venomoth still 2HKOes Basswood. Flora, however, does not approve and Shadow Balls it to hell. Pistachio takes out Weezing with relative ease, and a newly Revived Oak defeats Toxicroak. Flora nukes Qwilfish, leaving Janine with just Drapion. I learn from my previous mistakes and put up a Reflect before I send in Oak to commence the beatdown.
- Finally make my way to Celadon, and talk to the guy outside of the gym. All credit to Drayno for giving him his RBYGSCFRLG text rather than the anti-pervert text from HGSS
- VS Erika: Jumpluff comes in to U-Turn every time I KO something, but everyone it switches into (Meganium, Leafeon, Tangrowth, Victrebell) is OHKOed by Flora's Specs'd Sludge Bomb. Eventually, Jumpluff stays in long enough to set up Sun, which is also long enough to take a Sludge Bomb to the face. Knowing Chlorophyll is an ability, I let Basswood deal with Bellossom, which takes longer than it should due to confusehax and Flash spamming.
- Erika informs me that they will FINALLY let me into Saffron, so my next destination is set.
- First priority here is the Magnet Train Pass, so I do that annoying side-quest
- I realize that the more damaging members of my team (Basswood, Oak, Flora) are quickly becoming far overlevelled compared to the more specialized ones (Elm, Juniper, Pistachio), especially Flora, who's Shadow Ball will be a necessity in this gym.
- VS Sabrina: She opens with Gallade's CC, which Elm Reflects. He CCs again as I switch in Flora, and the Spec's Shadow Ball easily takes out a -2 SpDef Gallade. Oak Chrunches Mr Mime. Elm is outsped by Alakazam, who barely misses the KO before Light Screen goes up. Said Light Screen allows Flora to switch into Signal Beam and take a Psychic before OHKOing with Shadow Ball. Hypno and Medicham meet the same fate as Mr. Mime. Wobbufett survives Crunch and Counters, KOing Oak while Basswood shakes his head in disappointment, followed by executing a few nice X-Scissors to earn me the badge.
- Train for Blaine
- VS Blaine: Pista sweeps his first 5, but Magmortar looks to do the same to me until I get Light Screen up, meaning Oak can safely EQ for the win.
- VIRIDAN TIIIIMMMEEEEE
- VS Blue: His Nidoqueen's niche is Toxic Spikes and Roar. Luckily for me, Juniper likes being poisoned and Flora absorbs the Spikes, so I play around that and take out the lead. Gyarados' Bounce chunks Oak, but Elm's Reflect negates that issue and allows him to deal with the Flying type while Aromatherapying Pistachio, who got Poisoned by Nidoqueen. Said Reflect also allows Basswood to eat a Fire Punch and DynamicPunch while KOing Machamp. Oak WOOD HAMMERs Rhyperior, KOing himself in the process. Exeggutor causes lots of problems, KOing Elm and Pista compliments of crits, Sleep Powder, and Trick Room, but he finally misses a Powder on Basswood, allowing X-Scissor to KO. Blue's ace is Tyranitar, who annoys Basswood a bit, but that just pisses off the Eeveeloution, who Crits a Leaf Blade to earn me my last badge.
- Visit Oak to grab Rock Climb, and plan my assault on Mt. Silver
- Of course, said assault on Mt. Silver would require a lot of training. Since the game is so kind as to release tons of high-level legendaries into the wild, I feel no shame in pounding them to the ground for Oak's enjoyment.
- First we grab Heatran, who dies to an EQ. Then do a bunch of stuff and proceed to Mt. Mortar for the next two.
- I quickly raid the place and kill Regirock (EQ again), and am about to kill Jirachi when... Wait, It's offering me sweets rather than a battle? Yummy caaaaandy...
- Said sweets happen to be 100 Rare Candies, which is awesome and feels like hacking. It also removes the need to spend 8 years grinding, so I tell myself to use a "reasonable" number on each party member and get on with my life. I'll do that... later. For now, we go on a Bird hunt.
- Ofcourse, this in theory means defeating Ho-oh, Zapdos, Moltres, and Articuno. According to my handy cheat sheet, I blew the chance to fight Moltres by killing off Heatran, and Articuno and Zapdos are way too far from Fly spots to be of use. This leaves Ho-oh.
- Ho-oh takes more SRs than I expected, but most of them were because I tried to use Thief on it to grab it's Sacred Ash before sending it to hell. I succeed.
- Given how underlevelled I am, my Mt. Silver plot goes something like this: Train as much as we can on the way up, spam Rare Candies at the top. Simple, right?

Team @ Mt. Silver:

Spoiler:

NOTE: My sprite resource lacks HGSS sprites for pokemon not native to Kanto or Johto. As such, the Platinum or DP sprites may be shown.

Elm (Meganium) Lv67 @ Light Clay
Male | Timid (Spd>Atk) | Overgrow
- Reflect
- Energy Ball
- Light Screen
- Aromatherapy

Basswood (Leafeon) Lv67 @ Scope Lens
Male | Sassy (SpDef>Spd) | Chlorophyll
- X-Scissor
- Leaf Blade
- Psycho Cut
- Swords Dance

Pistachio (Ludicolo) Lv68 @ Amulet Coin
Female | Naughty (Atk>SpDef) | Swift Swim
- Rain Dance
- Surf
- Giga Drain
- Ice Beam

Flora (Roserade) Lv67 @ Choice Specs
Female | Calm (SpDef>Atk) | Natural Cure
- Sludge Bomb
- Giga Drain
- Petal Dance
- Shadow Ball

Juniper (Breloom) Lv67 @ Toxic Orb
Male | Lonley (Atk>Def) | Poison Heal
- Spore
- Drain Punch
- Seed Bomb
- Mach Punch

Oak (Torterra) Lv66 @ Choice Band
Male | Naughty (Atk>SpDef) | Shell Armor
- Stone Edge
- Razor Leaf
- Earthquake
- Crunch

Ft. Pikachu the Pikachu, Wigglituff the Lugia, and DDDDD the Shiny Gyarados

Out of Rotation:
Hawthorn the Bellsprout
Fir the Skiploom
Bonsai the Grovyle
Hazelnut the Ivysaur

Black 2
Important Events:

Spoiler:

- Do the prologue crap, get a Snivy
- Catch Kuru the Sewaddle
- Train
- Catch Kim the Sunkern
- Train
- VS Rival Hugh: Kim's Grasswhistle hits, so Tsut can take Tepig out easily.
- Train
- VS Cheren: Kuru lands 5 Bug Bites
- Train
- Abandon the idea of training Kim
- Train
- Tsutarja evolves into Servine
- Train
- Realize I can find shaking grass, and therefore Audino
- Train
- Evolve Kuru into Swadloon, and then, upon noticing it's Happiness, into Levanny
- Train
- VS Roxie: A couple of Tust's Leaf Tornadoes take out Koffing, then Leech Seed shenanigans and Silk Scarf Tackle spam eliminate Whirlipede.
- Screw around @ Pokestar Studios for the better portion of an hour, do the PLAAAAAAAAASMA crap, then exit stage right. The Team Plasma battle theme is still ****ing amazing, and Leavanny still has a 103 base attack before the 3rd gym :)
- Staaart spreadin' the news... I'm lea.. ah forget it, that song is old as hell.

Team after 2 Gyms:

Spoiler:

Tsutarja (Servine) Lv22 @ Silk Scarf
Female | Naive (Spd>SpDef) | Overgrow
- Tackle
- Growth
- Leaf Tornado
- Leech Seed

Tsutarja (Leavanny) Lv22
Female | Lonley (Atk>Def) | Swarm
- Tackle
- String Shot
- Bug Bite
- Razor Leaf

Out of Rotation:
Kim the Sunkern

 

[RefinedHornet]

Ultimate Ground Monotype X Update:
-Vibrava evolved into Flygon
-Gabite evolved into Garchomp
-defeated Wulfric
-defeated Serena on Victory Road
-defeated the Elite Four, Diantha, and AZ

Final Team:

Spoiler:

Krookodile
Lv. 66
Ability: Moxie
Nature: Hasty
HP: 211
Attack: 183
Defense: 121
Sp. Attack: 117
Sp. Defense: 105
Speed: 168
Moves: Outrage/Low Sweep/Earthquake/Crunch

Hippowdon
Lv. 65
Ability: Sand Stream
Nature: Calm
HP: 241
Attack: 176
Defense: 188
Sp. Attack: 122
Sp. Defense: 127
Speed: 85
Moves: Stone Edge/Earthquake/Crunch/Yawn

Thumper
Lv. 65
Ability: Rock Head
Nature: Impish
HP: 190
Attack: 138
Defense: 317
Sp. Attack: 74
Sp. Defense: 107
Speed: 68
Moves: Stone Edge/Earthquake/Double-Edge/Iron Tail

Flygon
Lv. 65
Ability: Levitate
Nature: Lax
HP: 201
Attack: 175
Defense: 132
Sp. Attack: 133
Sp. Defense: 112
Speed: 155
Moves: Crunch/Dragon Claw/Earthquake/Stone Edge

Garchomp
Lv. 65
Ability: Sand Veil
Nature: Jolly
HP: 225
Attack: 208
Defense: 154
Sp. Attack: 108
Sp. Defense: 131
Speed: 181
Moves: Shadow Claw/Earthquake/Aerial Ace/Dragon Claw

Mamoswine
Lv. 65
Ability: Oblivious
Nature: Naive
HP: 239
Attack: 210
Defense: 132
Sp. Attack: 120
Sp. Defense: 96
Speed: 127
Moves: Ice Fang/Strength/Earthquake/Rock Smash

 

[Lrachelr5]

I'm getting Y today so I'm gonna make a new sign up
Username: LRachelR5
Type: Fairy
Challenge: Single
Game: Y

X Water Monotype Update

Spoiler:

Chose Froakie as my starter and named him Draco
Got to Santalune City and collected my Rotom Wash, Milotic, Mudkip, Carvana and Horsea from my PC.
Switched Horsea for Hermione the Azurill
Swept Viola's Gym with Rotom Wash
Got the EXP Share
Made my way to Lumiose City

Team

Spoiler:

Rotom Wash
Level: 18
Nature: Modest
Ability: Levitate
Moveset: Hydro Pump, Thunder Wave, Thunder Shock, Confuse Ray

Milotic
Level: 8
Nature: Adamant
Ability: Competitive
Moveset: Splash

Mudkip
Level: 1
Nature: Adamant
Ability: Torrent
Moveset: Tackle, Growl

Draco
Level: 9
Nature: Quiet
Ability: Torrent
Moveset: Pound, Growl, Bubble, Quick Attack

Carvana
Level: 13
Nature: Lax
Ability: Speed Boost
Moveset: Focus Energy, Aqua Jet, Hydro Pump, Destiny Bond

Hermione:
Level: 5
Nature: Hardy
Ability: Thick Fat
Moveset: Splash, Water Gun, Tail Whip, Water Sport

 

[ddrox13]

X Water Monotype Update
Got to Santalune City and collected my Rotom Wash, Milotic, Mudkip, Carvana and Horsea from my PC.

I thought you were only supposed to hack/trade if you couldn't catch a Water type before the 2nd gym (which you can, it's a starter type).

Ultimate Grass Monotype Challenge
Diamond, FireRed, StormSilver, Emerald, Black 2 (3/8), Y

I DID IT GUYS! I REALLY ****ING DID IT!

REMIND ME NEVER TO PLAY A JOHTO GAME EVER AGAIN.

StormSilver (Complete!)
Important Events:

Spoiler:

- I
- Despise
- This
- Freaking
- Mountain.
- Reach the top, after a lot of training and yummy candies, and challenge Red.
VS RED:
- Oak vs Pikachu – ****, I'm 8 levels under. Grass Knot hurts to hell, but so does Banded Earthquake. 6-5
- Pistachio/Basswood vs Charizard – Pistachio takes an Air Slash with 8 HP left, and gets up Rain. Passho Berry weakens Surf, and C-Zard finishes. Basswood accepts the punishment and pushes Max Revive, and Pista does it's job. 5-4
- Elm/Flora/Juniper vs Blastoise – Elm finds a giant turtle a great target for setting up screens on… except that it knows Blizzard. Luckily, Elm is faster and takes less than half from Blizzard due to Light Screen, and Blast misses the next two without Hail to back it up. Rindo Berry is annoying, so I switch in Flora, who's SpDef isn't as good as Elm's. Elm just barely misses the KO with Energy Ball, and Signal Beam crits him to death. Obvious Full Restore is obvious, so Juni sleeps him and commences the beatdown from the top. He succeeds. 3-3
- Oak/Pistachio/Elm/Basswood vs Espeon – Oak is 2HKOed after a max potion, so Pista comes in to play the Revive game. Espeon sets up a Reflect, but anything it can do Elm can do better. More Revives, more Hyper Potions, and Espeon finally crits just as Light Screen wears off. Reflect allows Espeon to KO Oak again, allowing Basswood to pick up KO credit. 3-2
- Juniper vs Snorlax – I go for the Spore, which proves stupid when he wakes in 0 turns. Luckily, Juni crits the Drain Punch to make up for it. I knew there was a reason to leave this guy on the roster. 3-1
- Juniper/Flora vs Venusaur: And last but not least, my opposite number. Venu opens with SWORDS DANCE to Juni's Spore, at which point I panic. Then I switch to Flora, and a pair of well-aimed Sludge Bombs finishes the run. 3-0. Aaaaaand my game crashes after the credits. I LOVE MY LIFE. **** JOHTO.

Juniper is MVP of the Red battle. Kanto MVP is Flora. Overall run MVP is ****ing everyone.

FINAL TEAM:
NOTE: My sprite resource lacks HGSS sprites for pokemon not native to Kanto or Johto. As such, the Platinum or DP sprites may be shown.

Elm (Meganium) Lv85 @ Light Clay
Male | Timid (Spd>Atk) | Overgrow
- Reflect
- Energy Ball
- Light Screen
- Aromatherapy

Oh my god I love this thing now. Dual Screens are broken as hell, the +Speed nature made him the fastest mon on the team, and he still did the damages when it counted. Would not have survived this run without him.

Basswood (Leafeon) Lv84 @ Scope Lens
Male | Sassy (SpDef>Spd) | Chlorophyll
- X-Scissor
- Leaf Blade
- Psycho Cut
- Swords Dance

Basswood never did anything SUPER special, but consistently did exactly what I needed him too. Giving him X-Scissor was one of the best decisions I made this entire run.

Pistachio (Ludicolo) Lv84 @ Amulet Coin
Female | Naughty (Atk>SpDef) | Swift Swim
- Rain Dance
- Surf
- Giga Drain
- Ice Beam

RAIN RAIN PLEASE STAY KTHX. Pistachio was basically the anti-Fire patrol, and did that incredibly well.

Flora (Roserade) Lv85 @ Choice Specs
Female | Calm (SpDef>Atk) | Natural Cure
- Sludge Bomb
- Giga Drain
- Petal Dance
- Shadow Ball

Flora was a ****ing nuke in this game. Nothing that doesn't resist is surviving a Specs Petal Dance, those that do get Sludge Bombed. Fun to use as always.

Juniper (Breloom) Lv84 @ Toxic Orb
Male | Lonley (Atk>Def) | Poison Heal
- Spore
- Drain Punch
- Seed Bomb
- Mach Punch

Remember that time where I kicked Juni off the team? I REGRET IT I'M SORRY JUNI... Easily the MVP of the Red fight.

Oak (Torterra) Lv85 @ Choice Band
Male | Naughty (Atk>SpDef) | Shell Armor
- Stone Edge
- Rock Climb
- Earthquake
- Crunch

Banded Torterra. This is a set I use competitively from time to time, and it works just as well ingame. Hits like a truck, and SE is gr8 for pesky birds.

Ft. Pikachu the Pikachu, Wigglituff the Lugia, and DDDDD the Shiny Gyarados

Out of Rotation:
Hawthorn the Bellsprout
Fir the Skiploom
Bonsai the Grovyle
Hazelnut the Ivysaur
Pine the Abomasnow


Black 2
Important Events:

Spoiler:

- Do the plasma crap in Lumiose. Oops, I mean Castelia.
- Train
- Catch Erufuun the Whimsicott (something something Shaking Grass abuse)
- Beat the **** out of Burgh, Erufuun basically swept the entire gym with Gust.
- Head to Nimbasa
- Visit Lostlorn Forest
- Catch Flora the Roselia for the 4th game (I might not use one in Hoenn...)

Team after 3ish Gyms:

Spoiler:

Tsutarja (Servine) Lv26 @ Eviolite
Female | Naive (Spd>SpDef) | Overgrow
- Tackle
- Mega Drain
- Leaf Tornado
- Leech Seed

Kuru (Leavanny) Lv26
Female | Lonley (Atk>Def) | Swarm
- Tackle
- String Shot
- Bug Bite
- Razor Leaf

Erufuun (Whimsicott) Lv25
Male | Mild (SpAtk>Def) | Infiltrator
- Leech Seed
- Mega Drain
- Cotton Spore
- Gust

Flora (Roselia) Lv23
Female | Lax (Def>SpDef) | Natural Cure
- Mega Drain
- Leech Seed
- Magical Leaf
- GrassWhistle

Out of Rotation:
Kim the Sunkern

 

[TheCrystalFlaaffy]

X Water Monotype Update

Got to Santalune City and collected my Rotom Wash, Milotic, Mudkip, Carvana and Horsea from my PC.

ddrox13 is correct, you cannot hack or trade in any Pokemon barring version exclusives unless a Pokemon of your type is unavailable before the 2nd gym. There are plenty of water types you can get before then. So you're going to need to box those Pokemon permanently or forfeit your chance at being on the champion list.

You can choose to change your challenge to freeplay mode if you wish to use those Pokemon. You still won't get on the champion list either way though.

Hope this helps clear things up :]

 

[Lrachelr5]

Okay fine I will. I was just trying to use different pokemon that I haven't used before

Anyways

Update for fairy monotype in Y

Spoiler:

Picked Fennikin as my starter
Got to Route 3 caught Alice the Azurill
Beat Viola and boxed Fennikin
Caught Romeo the Ralts and Roseali the Flabebe on route four
Grinded to level 10 to take on Sycamore

Decided to switch my water type run on X to a bug type monorun. Cause I never use bugs.

Update on Y

Spoiler:

Nothing much happened bar adding Spritzee to my team

Update on X

Spoiler:

Picked Froakie as my starter
Caught Riker the Scatterbug making him my technical starter
Caught Rocky the Weedle and Ross the Caterpie in Santalune Forest
Caught Ellington the Burmy on Route 3
Grinded team to level 11 to take on Viola and failed first time, did more grinding and beat her second time
Caught Mr.Bug the Ledyba (yes I made a pun on Ladybug) on Route 4
Currently looking for a female Combee

TEAM

Spoiler:

Vivillon (Riker)
Level: 12
Nature: Lax
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moveset: Struggle Bug, Infestation, Stun Spore, Protect

Butterfree (Ross)
Level: 11
Nature: Impish
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moveset: Tackle, String Shot, Infestation, Confusion

Beedrill (Rocky)
Level: 11
Nature: Quiet
Ability: Swarm
Moveset: Poison Sting, String Shot, Infestation, Fury Attack

Burmy (Ellington)
Level: 11
Nature: Naughty
Ability: Shed Skin
Moveset: Protect, Tackle

Ledyba (Mr. Bug)
Level: 6
Nature: Hardy
Ability: Swarm
Moveset: Tackle, Supersonic

 

[Pekin]

Ultimate Bug Monotype Challenge
Game: Black 2
Badges: 2

Status:
Blue, SoulSilver, Emerald, Platinum, Black 2 (2/8), X/Y?

Just started Black 2 a few days ago, and I just now beat Roxy.
I started with Snivy, dumped his ass as soon as I caught Sewaddle, spammed Bug Bite to win my Basic Badge, and then I caught a Venipede. Then I moved on to Virbank, where the ghost of Whitney's Miltank possessed my Venipede as it Rollout'ed through the entire gym. Now I'm off to get the captain back to work.

Current team:

Sewaddle, lv. 16 @ Silk Scarf
Male // Jolly // Swarm
- Return
- String Shot
- Bug Bite
- Razor Leaf

Venipede, lv. 17
Female // Adamant // Swarm
- Defense Curl
- Rollout
- Poison Sting
- Pursuit

 

[Lrachelr5]

UPDATE Y

Spoiler:

Did the Glittering Cave stuff
Headed to Cyllage City
Alice evolved into Azumarill
Roseali evolved into Floette
Headed straight to Route 10 and caught Tauney the Snubble and Carlisle the Eevee
Evolved Carlisle into a Sylveon
Beat Grant with Alice
Tauney evolved into Granbull
Romeo evolved into Kirlia
Beat Team Flare on Route 10 and arrived in Geosenge Town

TEAM

Spoiler:

Alice
Level: 28
Nature: Modest
Ability: Thick Fat
Moveset: Bubble Beam, Slam, Return, Protect

Romeo
Level: 22
Nature: Modest
Ability: Trace
Moveset: Protect, Confusion, Magical Leaf, Teleport

Roseali
Level: 24
Nature: Modest
Ability: Flower Veil
Moveset: Tackle, Protect, Fairy Wind, Razor Leaf

Jacob (Spritzee)
Level: 23
Nature: Impish
Ability: Healer
Moveset: Fairy Wind, Draining Kiss, Calm Mind, Echoed Vocie

Carlisle
Level: 24
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Cute Charm
Moveset: Draining Kiss, Swift, Return, Refresh

Tauney
Level: 24
Nature: Hardy
Ability: Quick Feet
Moveset: Charm, Bite, Lick, Headbutt

 

[Xander729]

Xander's Pokemon Challenges

Update #4

Pokemon X Bug Monotype Challenge

My Badges: 1/8

My Team:

Butterfree Lv. 19
Combee Lv. 19
Vivillon Lv. 18
Burmy Lv. 16

Completed Challenges

None

 

[RefinedHornet]

Ultimate Ground Monotype Black 2 Update:
-chose Oshawott
-hacked in a Sandile
-defeated rival in Aspertia City
-defeated rival in Floccesy Ranch
-defeated Cheren
-defeated Roxie

Team:

Spoiler:

Sandile
Lv. 20
Ability: Moxie
Nature: Naughty
HP: 56
Attack: 40
Defense: 23
Sp. Attack: 24
Sp. Defense: 18
Speed: 33
Moves: Leer/Sand Tomb/Bite/Sand-Attack

 

[LilyGardy]

Name: CharmedGardy
Pokemon Type: Grass
Challenge Type: Ultimate
Games:Red, Heart Gold, Alpha Sapphire, Pearl, Black, Y.
Previous Progress: Red Monotype complete, Heart Gold 16/16 badges and just Red to defeat. (Teams coming in a future post)

Y Progress - IGN Victoria.

Spoiler:

-Chose Marshall the Chespin as Starter.
-Caught Parsley the Pansage in Santalune Forest
-Caught Danielle the Burmy
- Marshall rolled through Viola's Gym winning the Bug Badge.
- Given Saul the Bulbasaur by Sycamore.
-Caught Tina the Skiddo.
-Caught Bridget the Modest Oddish
- Caught Mary the Roselia.
- Bridget defeated both of Korrina's Lucario
- Defeated Grant in a tough battle earning the second Badge.

Current Team and thoughts

Spoiler:

Marshall the Lax Quilladin - Level 33
- A very reliable member of the team. Evolved at Level 32 after learning Seed Bomb.

Saul the Ivysaur - Level 21
- Whilst having the Bulbasaur line is welcome, having two Starters in my team feels a little like cheating hence his low level.

Parsley the Simisage - Level 27
- Learnt Seed Bomb before evolving. Not the dead weight I'd thought he would be, Seed Bomb is a useful move at this stage and he has speed my team generally lacks.

Mary the Roselia - Level 21
- Needs training up but has served me well when called on so far.

Tina the Skiddo - Level 16
- Gets fainted a lot at the moment but will be a mainstay on my team when she evolves.

Bridget the Modest Oddish - Level 36
-Still an Oddish so she can learn moves far earlier. Came up big in the Battle vs Korrina's Lucario and the perhaps slightly surprising Leader of my team. :)

Out of rotation

Danielle the Plant Cloak Wormadam - A Bug/Grass Types gives variety but well Bug is my least favourite type.

Next up - Gym 3 and Korrina.

 

[Xander729]

Xander's Pokemon Challenges

Update #5

Pokemon X Bug Monotype

Notes: OMG Grant's gym is freaking impossible. X4 strength against bug pokemon. I'm 0/2 against the first trainer. Will require massive training.

My Badges: 1/8

My Team:

Butterfree Lv. 22
Combee Lv. 22
Vivillon Lv. 21
Wormadom Lv. 20

Completed Challenges:

None Yet

 

[Lrachelr5]

UPDATE Y

Spoiler:

Swapped Tauney for Rocky the Carbink which was caught with Mimic the Mr Mime in Reflection Cave and Jacob for Sparky the Dedenne
Did the Mega Evolution stuff and beat Calem
Took on Korrina mainly with Carlisle against her Mienfoo and her Machoke before switching in Rocky on the Hawlucha to slow it down with Rock Tomb, once slowing down Carlisle was brought back in to finish it up.
Did the rest of the Mega Evolution stuff and headed to Coumarine City

TEAM

Spoiler:

Alice@Soothe Bell
Level: 35
Moveset: Surf, Aqua Ring, Return, Protect

Romeo@Mind Plate
Level: 28
Moveset: Protect, Confusion, Magical Leaf, Teleport

Roseali@Eveolite
Level: 31
Moveset: Magical Leaf, Protect, Fairy Wind, Razor Leaf

Carlisle
Level: 35
Moveset: Draining Kiss, Swift, Cut, Refresh

Sparky (Dedenne)
Level: 28
Nature: Bashful
Ability: Pick Up
Moveset: Volt Switch, Charm, Parabolic Charge, Nuzzle

Rocky (Carbink)
Level: 28
Nature: Relaxed
Ability: Clear Body
Moveset: Rock Tomb, Smack Down, Reflect, Stealth Rock

 

[Xander729]

Xander's Pokemon Challenges

Pokemon Soulsilver Ground Monotype

My Badges: 4/16

My Team:

Quagsire Lv. 28
Onix Lv. 28
Nidorino Lv. 28
Graveler Lv. 27
Nidorina Lv. 19

Completed Challenges:

None Yet

 

[LilyGardy]

Y Grass Monotype Update

Progress

Spoiler:

-Marshall evolved into Chesnaught
- Ran through Korrina's Gym with Bridget the Oddish and Marshall the Chesnaught
- Caught Lori the Exeggcute
- Defeated Ramos with Bridget the Oddish and Parsley the Simisage in a surprisingly tough battle.
- Grinded party extensively in the Badlands.
- Bridget evolved into Gloom at Level 43
- Bridget evolved into Vileplume by Leaf Stone.
- Defeated everything Team Flare could throw at me with Parsley the Simisage.
- Ran through the Electric Gym Trainers with Roselia the Roselia.
- Defeated Clemont's Electric Team with Simisage.
- Mary evolved into Roserade by Shiny Stone at Level 43.
- Caught Sarah the Weepinbell at Level 32
- Defeated Valerie and her Furisode Girls with Bridget earning my sixth Badge.

Team and thoughts

Spoiler:

Marshall the Lax Chesnaught - Level 38

Not as used as I thought he would be so far but his secondary Fighting Type will help later on. A Tank when called on.

Bridget the Vileplume - Level 50

Was an Oddish until she learnt Petal Dance. A very useful move that destroys everything that doesn't resist it. Grassy Terrain is useful too and I need to find the Sludge Bomb TM soon. Acid lacks power.

Parsley the Simisage - Level 48

Move diversity has really helped him here. My Team Flare killer. His speed combined with Rock Tomb helped eradicate the potentially troublesome Team Flare Houndoom and Golbat as well as Clemont's Emolga.

Mary the Roserade - Level 48

My second Petal Dancer. Carries Toxic and whilst she does a similar job to Bridget, two Petal Dancers are always welcome.

Tina the Skiddo - Level 29

Still needs training up but could be a big hitter once she evolves.

Sarah the Weepinbell - Level 32

Likely holding a place until something else comes along.

In the PC

Saul the Ivysaur - As using two Starters in one team feels unfair.

Danielle the Plant Cloak Wormadam -Bug/Grass has too many weaknesses

Lori the Exeggcute- May get use later on but out of rotation for now.

Next up - Badge Number 7

 

[ddrox13]

Ultimate Grass Monotype Challenge
Diamond, FireRed, StormSilver, Emerald (1/8), Black 2 (4/8), Y

So B2 has progress (as indicated by the badge number), but my DS died and I'm loaning my charger to someone. So for now, Emerald! Is it bad that I have more move variety after 1 Emerald gym than I have after 4 B2 gyms?

Emerald
Important Events:

Spoiler:

- Pick Bonsai the Treecko
- Do Tutorial
- Realize I rushed and accidentally named Treecko Inigo rather than Bonsai (don't ask).
- Catch Pistachio the Lotad
- Catch Juniper the Shroomish
- VS Roxanne: Lol, Rock gyms.
- Do more things
- Reach Dewford
- Lose terribly to Brawly, so time to train in that silly cave
- Inigo/Bonsai and Pistachio evolve
- After a good bit of training, I decide to just go deal with the letter now, so I do.
- I then realize that I can just blow off the Dewford gym for now, so Slateport Ho!
- Catch Rafflesia the Oddish
- Train Juni and Raffa
- Beat the crap out of Team Aqua
- Use TMs

Team @ Slateport:

Spoiler:

Pictures will be added later, too lazy to find them now

Inigo (Grovyle) Lv18
Male | Lonley | Overgrow
- Pursuit
- Fury Cutter
- Rock Tomb
- Quick Attack

Pistachio (Lombre) Lv17
Female | Quiet | Swift Swim
- Astonish
- Thief
- Absorb
- Nature Power

Juniper (Shroomish) Lv17
Male | Impish | Effect Spore
- Mega Drain
- Tackle
- Stun Spore
- Leech Seed

Rafflesia (Oddish) Lv18
Female | Quiet | Chlorophyll
- Absorb
- Sleep Powder
- PoisonPowder
- Stun Spore

 

[Pekin]

Ultimate Bug Monotype Challenge
Game: Black 2
Badges: 3

Status:
Blue, SoulSilver, Emerald, Platinum, Black 2 (3/8), X/Y?

Okay, so after making my debut on the silver screen and getting the captain back to work, I made it to Castelia City, but not before a bit of training, during which Sewaddle evolved. In Castelia City, Team Plasma v2.0 led me on a hunt through the sewers, where I got some more training - and both Swadloon and Venipede evolved! Finally, I was able to take on Burgh. And I swear, once more did the ghost of Whitney's Miltank come to my aid. Whirlipede Rollout'ed his entire team, no biggie. I don't remember exactly how it happened, but in the end, Whirlipede was left with 1 HP. I then made it to the Desert Resort, where I caught a Dwebble, which I'm off to train now.

My current team:

Leavanny, lv. 28 @ Miracle Seed
Male // Jolly // Swarm
- Razor Leaf
- Protect
- Bug Bite
- Return

Whirlipede, lv. 27 @ Leftovers
Female // Adamant // Swarm
- Bug Bite
- Rollout
- Poison Tail
- Iron Defense

Dwebble, lv. 21
Male // Jolly // Sturdy
- Sand-Attack
- Faint Attack
- Smack Down
- Rock Polish

 

[mjb8910]

Forum User Name: mjb8910
Pokémon Type: water
Challenge Mode: Ultimate
Games: Leaf Green, Crystal, Omega Ruby, Diamond, White, X

Started challenge with Leaf Green
- Chose Squirtle and named him Leo
- Beat rival both times
- went through Viridian Forest easily. Caught a Pikachu so I can use it for Flash
- Evolved Leo into Wartortle
- Beat Brock easily

Team Currently
Wartortle Level 16 Bold
Tackle, Tail Whip, Water Gun, Withdraw

HM Slave:
Pikachu

 

[ddrox13]

Ultimate Grass Monotype Challenge
Diamond, FireRed, StormSilver, Emerald (Complete!), Black 2 (4/8), Y

Yaaaaawn. Fire types are annoying. Oh, and Emerald's name theme is Guardians of the Galaxy. Because Grass types. I dunno. Also this team is stacked.

EDIT: RIP HOENN, WE OUTTA HERE BOIS!

Emerald
Important Events:

Spoiler:

- Train up!
- There may be a Rival battle somewhere in here, but it was uneventful.
- Everybody evolves!
- VS Wattson: Easy game, Easy life. I'm on-level with his ace, so the resistance helps
- I decide to beat up Brawly for fun and profit
- VS Brawly: Machop provides much more resistance than I expected, but I win pretty easily. Something about overlevelled.
- NORTHWARD HO!
- Bla bla bla Team Magma, bla bla bla Mt. Chimney, JUST SKIP TO THE MAXIE FIGHT ALREADY
- VS Maxie: Ok, so this brat is tough. I decide Mightyena will be fun to set up some Bulk Ups with Juniper, but it knows Roar :(. Eventually I just switch back in and brute force it to death. Camerupt is annoying asf and knocks basically everyone out, but Bonsai/Inigo unleashes his inner PMD2 Grovyle and spams Dig to great success. Rock Tomb brings down Golbat.
- VS Flannery: YAY, MORE FIRE TYPES! So any use of Overheat is an instant OHKO, as I determine in a failed attempt. How do I get around this? Again, why don't you ask PMD2 Dusknoir what happened (Hint: Dig Spam). Inigo OHKOes Numel and Slugma. Camerupt is far more challenging, but the legendary Sleep Powder and Leech Seed combo gives Bonsai time to take his third victim. and then... Torkoal. I forget exactly how it happened, but there was hax involved and I won. Lots of hax :)
- "Unlike you, Inigo, your dad looks like he really is tough. See you around!" Fuck off Brendan.
- BEFORE WE GO FITE DAD NORMAN, we make a couple pit stops in the Mirage tower and Rustboro to pick up Groot the Lileep, who I may or may not use.
- Now then... Petalburg!
- So after getting rekt by the first gym trainer, I decide to go another route and ignore the Swellow-weilding brat
- VS Dad Norman: This goes a lot like Whitney's gym did in SS. Sleep the Spinda, let Juniper boost to +4, clean house with Mach Punch. Counter does kill Juni in the end, but Groot is Groot, and therefore does not care.
- Ok, 5 down, 3 to go. BUT FIRST, WE TRAIN! And by train I mean abuse the Daycare. So we dump Raffa (a female) and Juni (a male) into the Daycare and go be productive with Inigo and Pista.
- Everything that could go wrong here does. I forget to bring Poke Balls to Route 118, Pista gets rekt hard by the Electric types underground, and I get an Oddish egg.
- I do eventually catch Gamora the Tropius, and replace my Zigzagoon HM slave with Rocket the Linoone.
- Gamora is going to turn into something I generally only use in Hoenn (usually Sharpedo) - a battle-ready HM "slave". I'll be running Strength and Fly on it at minimum.
- Do the Power Plant sidequest.
- Trainy train train
- Do the Weather Institute crap, and name the gifted Castform Star Lord. Transfer Mystic Water to Pista and box.
- Grab a Leaf Stone and surf down to Dewford to get a TM Sludge Bomb. You know where I'm going with this :)
- VILE... PLUUUUUUUUUUUUME!!!!! So fucking cute.
- Do the Abandoned Ship crap, then train, save, and quit

I stopped recording events here. I picked up again at the E4. Point of importance is I trained Groot for the E4

- VS Sidney: Juniper Sky Uppercuts his way through this gym. I let Inigo deal with Crawdaunt for lulz
- VS Pheobe: I honestly got nothing on Ghosts. Raffa sleeps Dusclops long enough for Pista to take it and Banette out. Inigo 2HKOes Sableye, and Pista crits the second Dusclops. Banette v2.0 KOes the weakened Inigo and Pista, BUT GROOT COMES IN FOR THE SAVE AND DOES SOMETHING. Decent showing for her first ever battle.
- VS Glacia: Juni OHKOes Sealeo and Sealeo before getting murdered by Walrein. Inigo gets off a Leaf Blade before getting crit, and Raffa is forced to murder the overgrown walrus. Glalie proceeds to get consecutive crits on Groot and Pista. Luckily, the latter survives and crits back. Glalie II KOes Pista before Raffa sleeps him. Gamora gets some good damage off, but falls upon waking up, making it 1-1. Raffa doesn't seem to care though, and Sludge Bomb finishes the job.
- VS Drake: Juni defeats Shelgon, but takes massive damage. Pista removes Flygon from existence, but just misses the OHKO on Altaria, resulting in her death. Groot finishes Altaria and chunks Kingdra before falling. Inigo finishes Kingdra. Raffa tanks a Flamethrower and sleeps Mence, who sleeps the 4 turns necessary for me to revive Pista and KO mence.
- WALLACE, DIE. NOW.
- Juniper/Inigo vs Wailord: Wailord evades Juni's Leech Seed, despite being a huge whale, but misses Blizzard so it's k. Both attacks connect the next turn, and Juniper goes down. Inigo couldn't care less. 5-5
- Inigo/Rafflesia vs Milotic: Wallace sends in his ace second. Milo and Inigo exchange blows, with Milotic winning the trade. Rafflesia finishes with Petal Dance. 4-4
- Gamora/Pistachio/Groot vs Tentacruel: Oh, I have EQ, this should be… FUCK MUST EVERY DAMN WATER TYPE IN THE GAME GET ICE BEAM? (Yes, I checked). Luckily, Gamora tanks it. I sac Pista for some unknown reason and then Groot decides to play the hero. 3-3
- Rafflesia/Groot/Inigo vs Ludicolo: Ludicolo spams Double Team, so Raffa sleeps it and spams healing items. 5 hp Groot takes a Surf, so Inigo can get in for free and hit a couple Aerial Aces. Screw Evasion. 5-2
- Inigo vs Wiscash: Heh, funny. 5-1
- Rafflesia/Gamora vs Gyarados: Sleep Powder is a broken move. Gamora does die for Raffa's sins tho. 4-0 Emerald Complete.

FINAL TEAM:

Inigo (Sceptile) Lv51 @ Miracle Seed
Male | Lonley | Overgrow
- Leaf Blade
- Aerial Ace
- Dragon Claw
- Dig

Sceptile excelled at doing what the others could not. For most of the game this was running coverage moves, at the end it was just doing straight Grass typed damage. I have never liked Sceptile before, but I now am ok with the thing :)

Pistachio (Ludicolo) Lv51 @ Mystic Water
Female | Quiet | Swift Swim
- Fake Out
- Dive
- Waterfall
- Ice Beam

Do I need to explain Pista for the 4th game? no? Good.

Juniper (Breloom) Lv51 @ Silk Scarf
Male | Impish | Effect Spore
- Iron Tail
- Sky Uppercut
- Return
- Leech Seed

Much like in StormSilver, Juniper fell off a bit in the late game, but came up huge when it mattered.

Rafflesia (Vileplume) Lv52 @ Quick Claw
Female | Quiet | Chlorophyll
- Sludge Bomb
- Sleep Powder
- Moonlight
- Petal Dance

Vileplume is so cute. Sleep Powder is still broken as fuck, and the Quick Claw trigger saved me once or twice. Provided great status until I gave it coverage moves, then became a nuke.

Gamora (Tropius) Lv51 @ Soft Sand
Female | Adamant | Chlorophyll
- Fly
- Magical Leaf
- Strength
- Earthquake

Oh my. I had a total of 0 expectation for Tropius going into this, but she ended up saving my rear end more times than I can count. Wasn't as huge in the big battles, but all those little ones add up. Would use again!

Groot (Craidly) Lv50
Female | Bold | Suction Cups
- Spit Up
- Swallow
- Stockpile
- Ancientpower

Came in just for the E4 and did everything right. I intended just to sac it for healing, but she ended up with 3 KOes in the 3 battles where she got an attack off. Had a knack for just barely surviving attacks.

Ft. Rocket the Linoone

All in all, Emerald was really fun. Now just 4 Unova gyms and 1 League stand between me and victory.

 

[LordGrizz]

Forum User Name: LordGrizz
Pokémon Type: Ground
Challenge Mode: Ultimate
Game(s): Fire Red, Heart Gold, Emerald, Platinum, Black, X