THE OFFICIAL NUZLOCKE CHALLENGE THREAD

[Vamaar]

Hmm, update number 2! Again, the video can be found by following the link in my signature, but the brief rundown is as follows:

Caught a Caterpie in Viridian Forest. Named it Vallint.
Got to Pewter
Grinded Caterpie to Butterfree.
Beat up Green.

Current Team:
Vallint Lvl 10
Verto Lvl 10
Violata Lvl 10

 

[MiniM00se]

I'm gonna start a nuzlocke on Emerald.

I'm playing it right now ^^

 

[Spinosaurus]

I already started my game yesterday, but I've been griniding alot. O_o

Spoiler:

I finally reached my house, and my mom is being a pain in the ass as usual. I set the clock, went to my friend's house (not really my friend.) and recieved my very first pokemon, Little Green.

After that, Prof Birch told me to fight May. So I went to her praying my Treecko would survive, and luckily that Torchic wasnt that much. Birch then gave me a pokedex and pokeballs, which then I have met Nitwit

, Nincompoop

and Moronic

Nitwit has evolved to

and then to

I have met my dad after kicking some other trainers' ass, boy was it great to see him...until that rule breaking guy with a green hair named Wally ruined my happy moment and made me watch him catch a pokemon, and boy was he slow...
I have then met Peeko

and Todd

, and you cant imagine how awesome they were. Then this pirate dude came to steal some papers that I dont even know the hell about and fought me. It was an easy win...
But...the fun didnt last long...

RIP Todd...I have avenged you, and you will always be with us.
I went to the gym and beat the gymleader. She wasnt tough at all, Little Green took care of her easily.

Team:

Spoiler:

Lil Green the Namekian
Lv.15

Nitwit the Beautiful Fly
Lv.12

Nincompoop the HM slave
Lv.2

Moronic the dawg
Lv.12

Peeko the Wing Seagull
Lv.14

R.I.P:

Spoiler:

Todd the Heroic Mushroom...
Lv.13

 

[vaporeon7]

Went through Ilex Forest and beat Whitney (I hate her Miltank's Attract and Milk Drink it took me ages but I defeated her with critical hits).

My Team:

Spoiler:

Chompy, (Crocanaw), New Bark Town, Lv24.
Happy, (Quagsire), Route 32, Lv20.
Ruffles, (Gloom), Ilex Forest, Lv21.

In Box:

Spoiler:

Sonic, (Zubat), Union Cave, Lv5.
Romeo, (Nidoran male), Route 35, Lv12.
Flax, (Bellsprout), Route 31, Lv20.
Eggshell, (Togepi), Azalea Town, Lv19.

In Memorial:

Spoiler:

Nutty, (Rattata), Sprout Tower, Lv3.

 

[indinrio]

As you can see none of these have a complete advantage over gengar, I think I just used crunch. Jordan died in the Karen fight, but it was because I was stupid and used Hydro Cannon when Surf would have killed Houndoom. Vance died as well but he completely tore apart Lance for Leona to destroy. Also, I HIGHLY RECCOMEND A XATU.
Use Lucky Chant at the beginning of the battle to avoid crits, then Psychic, if your fighting Koga or Bruno, or U-turn if your not.

Yeah, I was just planning to use Feraligatr's Crunch on it too. Thing is, I just got destroyed by the Kimono Girls - they killed my Feraligatr, my Slowbro, my Jolteon, and my Swinub, which were the four Pokemon I had actually been training. I've spent a good 22 hours on this game so I really don't want to restart. Let's see: what else learns a good Dark-type move that won't get completely raped by Focus Blast?

 

[Sammuthegreat]

Yeah, I was just planning to use Feraligatr's Crunch on it too. Thing is, I just got destroyed by the Kimono Girls - they killed my Feraligatr, my Slowbro, my Jolteon, and my Swinub, which were the four Pokemon I had actually been training. I've spent a good 22 hours on this game so I really don't want to restart. Let's see: what else learns a good Dark-type move that won't get completely raped by Focus Blast?

Honchkrow's a good bet if you can get hold of one... It's a bit risky hoping to catch a certain Pokemon on Nuzlocke though, after all you can only catch the first one in each area so if you don't get your Murkrow in Ilex Forest, you're screwed...

 

[GFA]

Whats to stop you from saving and keep on re-trying? Or, is that against the rules?

 

[Sammuthegreat]

Whats to stop you from saving and keep on re-trying? Or, is that against the rules?

Er... yes. If you were allowed to do that, then no-one would ever lose any Pokemon. That's the entire point of this challenge - it's meant to be a risk, from start to finish.

 

[Helvetica]

The Nuzlocke challenge is one of the funnest, emotional, and most rewarding ways to play a Pokemon game.

Here are the all-important RULES:

1. If a Pokemon Faints, its dead, release it.
2. No Healing Outside of battle
3. You can only catch/recieve one Pokemon in each Area. A town is one area, a route is one area, a cave is one area, etc. If you fail to catch a Pokemon for any reason (other than game corruption) than too bad.
4. You must nickname all of your Pokemon
5. No catching legendaries. (Its funner if you act like Nuzlocke and kill all the legendaries).
6. Trading sort of ruins the purpose. Egg trading is okay, same thing with Pokemon that can't have eggs.
7. Change the battle style to SET.
8. Make Comics whenever something amazing happens.
Have Fun and take on the Nuzlocke Challenge!

OK. There is some misconception here. There aren't that many rules that are part of a basic challenge. The only rules that are integral to the challenge here would be 1, 3 and 4. Thing is all other rules are to add challenge. For instance most people ban trades but a handful have used trades in their teams. And as for 8? Many can't draw, so they use other mathods to say their stories. 7 is used by quite a few but others don't at all. And for rule 2, many heal both outside and inside battle, but others restrict either or both.

It is a problem to the challenge that there are only a handful of "fixed" rules. And the fact that this argument here is a bit of a rant doesn't help either. It's just I looked at it and thought "Woah, too many rules are written here." Hence this post. I apologise for any insult.

 

[Kanto_Johto]

I've decided I'll present my Red challenge with screenshots, just for a change.

1st Update

Spoiler:

Yeah, I went for the cliche name.

Taking full advantage of Oak's alzheimer's.

Truth be told, neither Douche nor Oak are cool enough to have a Squirtle, so naturally I chose him.

lulz i ar so originalz

I actually did consider taking Bulbasaur, but I'd rather choose my favourite starter than have Douche chose my least favourite.

Anyways, the first battle was a very, very close call.

That would have been an extremely embarassing game over.

So after that I had to run the Oaks parcel errand, and on the way I met a Pidgey. No Pokeballs yet though, so Route 1 is a lost cause.

Having returned the parcel to Oak, he gave me the Pokedex, and Douche spat out an instant classic:

Unintentional, yet still inappropriately hilarious.

After that I pretty much headed straight for the Mart to get some Pokeballs.

I'm going to run out sooner than I should, I know it.

Next stop, Route 22!

YES! Probably the best Pokemon in the area.

Squirtle's first Tackle took it down to almost half. I wasn't sure whether or not I would kill it with one more, so I decided not to risk it and attempt to catch it. It escaped two Pokeballs. So then I had to make a decision between attacking it or just throwing (and thus wasting) Pokeballs. I chose to Tackle it one more time:

Phew. I bet myself the game would derp me and Squirt would land a critical hit and kill it, but luckily that didn't happen. Nidoking is one of my favourite Kanto Pokemon, so I'm happy. Well, not entirely. It took me 3 Pokeballs to catch that. Since I can only buy 10 Pokeballs from each Mart, 3 is slightly too many for me to lose.

Anyway, after grinding a little I saved the game. I'll probably resume later tonight or tomorrow.

Team

Spoiler:

I forgot to nickname Nidoran, so that's a priority when I get to Lavender Town. Horn Attack is a brilliant attack on this game. I've landed many a critical hit with it.

Dead

Spoiler:

None! yet.....

 

[Akito Wanijima]

I'm going to do this challenge on Emerald as WELL as the gold one, I'll just be updating the Gold one less often.
Also, AceDragonite, if you're reading this and adding me to the Participants for Emerald, as you're doing it could you correct my name's spelling on the Gold one?

 

[Planetes.]

Yeah, I was just planning to use Feraligatr's Crunch on it too. Thing is, I just got destroyed by the Kimono Girls - they killed my Feraligatr, my Slowbro, my Jolteon, and my Swinub, which were the four Pokemon I had actually been training. I've spent a good 22 hours on this game so I really don't want to restart. Let's see: what else learns a good Dark-type move that won't get completely raped by Focus Blast?

I restarted on Heart gold after half my team got raped. I actually made it through the Kimono's with no Casualties. I think I just used the power of type advantage. Anyway you can get a Murkrow from the Pokewalker or just trade one over, because both of those are legal and get a dusk stone from PBR. (lol loopholes)

OK. There is some misconception here. There aren't that many rules that are part of a basic challenge. The only rules that are integral to the challenge here would be 1, 3 and 4. Thing is all other rules are to add challenge. For instance most people ban trades but a handful have used trades in their teams. And as for 8? Many can't draw, so they use other mathods to say their stories. 7 is used by quite a few but others don't at all. And for rule 2, many heal both outside and inside battle, but others restrict either or both.

It is a problem to the challenge that there are only a handful of "fixed" rules. And the fact that this argument here is a bit of a rant doesn't help either. It's just I looked at it and thought "Woah, too many rules are written here." Hence this post. I apologise for any insult.

You must have no brain if you think the sacred rules of Nuzlocke are tl;dr
and you only have 1 post...

 

[Sammuthegreat]

You must have no brain if you think the sacred rules of Nuzlocke are tl;dr
and you only have 1 post...

He does have a point, the only "true" rules of Nuzlocke are:

1. If a Pokemon faints, release it, and
2. You can only catch one Pokemon in each area; if you fail/kill it, you've lost your chance.

Any other rules are additional. Helvetica didn't necessarily need to rant about it given that everyone's getting by just fine with your current rule set, but still. He had a point.

Also, is there any chance we'll get user bars for this challenge? I'm not far from completing mine and it'd be nice to stick a bar in my signature.

 

[Kazbat028]

I'm starting my nuzlocke challenge. I'm going to do it with Pearl. Here. We. GO.

 

[mondays suck]

Weird, when I said pretty much the same thing (just in a less direct way, since I was just answering a question) maybe 3 or 4 pages ago, there was nothing like "you must have no brain, etc". Because I have 1000-something posts and not just one? Does that really change the fact that I'm a complete moron who can't even speak proper English? Probably not.
Seriously, a low postcount no reason to try to pick on someone. Completely stupid statements (produced by both imcompetent users and incompetent trolls) are, but I don't see any in Helvetica's post. So what's your problem, AceDragonite?
Because, the thing is, Nuzlocke DOES only have those two basic rules, and the nickname one that kinda established itself because the Pokemon having some kind of personality is a major part of the whole thing. How else would this have become so popular?
Also, this whole discussion is a pretty ironic thing overall. Afterall, the title says "The OFFICIAL Nuzlocke Challenge Thread". And contains 8 of the 2 official rules. Kinda reminds me of Gary's 10 of 8 Kanto badges

Tl;dr: I wrote wall of text with probably just as many typos as words when one sentence could have done the same thing. Also, no update for today again. I'm still too frustrated from my attempt to use the game corner to get free stuff.

 

[Kazbat028]

Guys, relax. It's up to the challengee how challenging they want to make their game. It's not anyone else's place to say, "well, mine's more challenging, you suck," because then we all sound like football players who stand around in changerooms looking at each other's junk and trying to figure out who's biggest. It doesn't matter, actually, who's doing a more challenging game. Be nice.

 

[Planetes.]

I actually based my rules off Ravesage's rules to make it challenging, as well as fair. The challenger can change whatever the hell they want, its not bad or anything, the rules were just to set a guidline.

 

[Akito Wanijima]

Aids' Hoenn Nuzlocke challenge

Spoiler:

Taking a break from my Johto Nuzlocke.
Pokeball in my neighbours room? >:D
Oh darn, she turned up :/
May? What a bad name......Although without the work of the pesky Nhs in this region, Aids should prevail =D
Oh, I guy being mauled...Hey look, free stuff!
Chose Torchic, since I've never used one before, named Ghonneria.
No, I don't wanna go meet your kid.
No, I don't wanna go meet your kid.
No, I don't wanna go meet your kid.
No, I don't wanna go meet your kid.
No, I don't wanna go meet your kid.
No, I don't wanna go meet your kid.
No.....>.<.....Fine
Managed to get through the first route without encountering any pokemon =D
Got some more free stuff =D Realised one potion wouldn't be enough....bought another two.....You see, that's where they get ya!
Had a close encounter with what would've been a VERY embarrassing end, and wild wingull got me to 1HP!!!! with two water guns, at 1hp, I tried to run CAN'T ESCAPE!!!!!!! When I read "Foe Wingull used Growl" I was so happy :,D Luckily I "Got away safely next try ;D
Battled May's Mudkip and WON =D Went straight from level Five to seven =DD
Did some grinding in the route you find May in, all the way to level 10 ;P
Ghonneria learned Ember =D
Since some crazy guy studying his OWN trail of footprints was blocking the way, I figured I might as well go see May's dad like she said I should, besides she sort of hinted at free stuff =D
Ohohoohoh Free stuff indeed, got myself some pokeballs and a Pokedex :]
More free stuff , shoes? That make me faster? OMGGGGGGG alert the world.
Went into the first route and what do I find?
A female Zigzagoon level 3? NO why would I find that???? I found a level 3 female Wurmple 8]
Easiest catch EVER, one scratch got to the slightest red Hp (Must've been 1Hp) and one pokeball...JOB DONE.
Named my new worm...WORMS!!
First encounter on the next route??? A level 4 LOTAD!!!!
MY MUST HAVE!!
He Growl spamm'ed Worms so I Tackle spamm'ed him, and soon enough he was in red.....POKEBALL WRECK HIS S"""T
Oh yes.....Malaria joined the team =D
Defeated all the trainers on that route and reached the next town =D
Worms evolved into Cascoon >.>
A wild Zizagoon scored TWO critical hits in a ROW against Worms, putting her straight to 3HP! I managed to Jet away in time though =D
That's two close encounters, and both times luck has been in my favour ;D
In grinding Worms poisoned a wild Ralts, what? Synchronize? Dx
I run like Bullseye, I mean, the wind! And again luck in my favour, Worms survived =D
...Back to grinding xD
Finally finished grinding with the team at level 10 (Cascoon lagging two levels >.>)
Went to see my Dad, he'll probably have free stuff =D
BUT NO...no free stuff, just stuff to do >.>
I guess this Wally kid couldn't find the Weedle guy >.>
The little kid stole my perfect first encounter D: A level 5 synchronize Ralts! D:
Whatever, I'm in challenge kid, do what you want with him Dx
HAHA x1 Pokeball??? YOU UTTER DOOB!
Met some random guy wearing a tye-dye shirt? Nevermind, onto my next route, and next team mate!
First encounter a level 4 wingull =D
GODDAMMIT, I wasted two pokeballs on it and then an unexpected critical killed it Dx
First encounter in Petalburg woods? A level 4 Poochyena =D Only one pokeball remaining D:
Lets do this!!! GOTCHA!!! =D
Named Polio =D
Grinded Polio to level 8.
Met a Team aqua grunt in the forest D:
Defeated his level 9 Poochyena with my Level 8 Polio....HA
Got out of the Forest, got all the berry crap and...FIRST ENCOUNTER....another Poochyena...D:
What? Worms is evolving. BOOOYAKKKASHAAAAA
Worms learnt confusion >:D
Got to Rustobro.
First encounter on the route leading to the Whismur cave thingy, was a level 6 Tailow =D
Caught and named Birddflu.
Then my VBA closed, the last time I saved was recently, but it was just before I caught Birddflu D:
Anyways, cba to play again now.

Current Team:

Ghonneria/Torchic Lv.12
-Scratch
-Ember
-Growl
-Focus Energy

Malaria/Lotad Lv.12
-Astonish
-Absorb
-Growl

Polio/Poocheyna Lv.10
-Tackle
-Howl
-Sand Attack

Worms/Dustox Lv.11
-Tackle
-Confusion
-Poison sting
-Harden

 

[Helvetica]

I'm sorry, Ace. It was just I read no mention of it being a guideline. Hence the post's existence. And also, I only post in trivia, which would explain the low post count. Also, I'm doing a fire red, if you're interested.

 

[Kanto_Johto]

I actually based my rules off Ravesage's rules to make it challenging, as well as fair. The challenger can change whatever the hell they want, its not bad or anything, the rules were just to set a guidline.

Dude, just edit the rules and state that some of them are optional. And don't be a dick about it.

The nicknaming Pokemon aspect is not a required rule, it just makes it more fun.

The comic thing is not a required rule. People who think it is might be put off and decide not to take the challenge since they can't draw, or don't have MS paint. And to be quite honest, those Nuzlocke comics (from the website you posted) aren't funny.

Will update my Red challenge tomorrow.