okay so in the past night I have grinded out a Venusaur solo challenge, and I plan on doing a lot more of the Kanto ones
Venusaur was surprisingly easy, and aside from the stupid moves i've made where i accidentally deleted razor leaf because of my emulator's speedups and other similar things that were my own fault
Here's the final pokemon
Venusaur
Level 74
- Mega Drain
- Body Slam
- Solarbeam
- Sleep Powder
as for my proof, here's the imgur album of screenshots
Venusaur Proof
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Surprise, I finished Charizard! speedups on an emulator are really a godsend! This one was pretty easy and some battles I thought would be hard ended up being really easy, like Brock and Misty.
Here's the final Charizard
Charizard
Level 75
- Slash
- Flamethrower
- Earthquake
- Double Team
I never once used double team, and Slash was the move of choice for me.
Here's the proof in an imgur album again
Charizard Proof
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Guess what? I finished Blastoise as well!
Blastoise was about the same as Charizard and once you follow the formula and route I kind of have set it feels pretty easy to beat the game quick and easily. I am interested to see how it works with Butterfree and Beedrill which are the next two pokemon I will be soloing. It should most definitely be harder to do those, but I'm not convinced it will be too much of a challenge with speedups.
Anyways here's the final Blastoise
Blastoise
Level 77
- Surf
- Body Slam
- Earthquake
- Blizzard
As for the proof
Blastoise Proof
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Man this thread is kinda dead, I wonder what happened to the Solo challenge, it used to be one of the most popular? Anyways, I am back with more Solo's completed, this time it's Butterfree!
Butterfree was a lot more easy than I anticipated, but was still more of a challenge than I imagined. I had to grind to a Butterfree before I could even enter Viridian Forest, and after that it was still really frail. It didn't have any issues offensively for the first part of the challenge (barring psychic types) but it did die a lot, and made me restart a few dungeons that I didn't feel like starting over. Once it got Double Edge in the Rocket Hideout it was smooth sailing, I didn't face any challenges really. I do tend to overlevel my pokemon a little bit and Psychic was kind of overpowered in Gen 1. Anyways, enough rambling, here's how it turned out.
Butterfree
Level 76
- Psychic
- Mega Drain
- Double-Edge
- Sleep Powder
Mega drain is also a pretty underrated move and people should give it more credit, especially in gen 1.
Here's the Usual Imgur Album
Butterfree Proof
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Okay, what a surprise, I have no life and have completed 5 solo challenges in the course of 24 hours, and that has included things like eating, sleeping and the time I have spent away from the game doing other things. I skipped Beedrill because I determined that it was impossible because of his horrible moveset, stats, and typing. Beedrill has been named the worst pokemon in all of Generation 1. Pidgeot on the other hand I have completed the Solo Challenge for. Pidgeot was harder than I anticipated. It's lack of moves outside of STAB was very frustrating at times, and completely crippled me against rock types to the point where I had to just brute force through them. Outside of the Rock types, Pidgeot was meh at best. He was by far the worst pokemon I have completed so far, but I envision that he won't be the worst one I have to deal with in my quest to do a lot of Kanto Solos.
Pidgeot
Level 75
- Quick Attack
- Fly
- Sand-Attack
- Mirror Move
and as always, here is the proof
Pidgeot Proof
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Okay! Raticate done! Raticate was a lot easier than I thought because of his movepool diversity. I think that's what makes these challenges easy or hard is their ability to take on every pokemon at once. Rats shooting out bubbles or lightning bolts is pretty funny to think about actually. Anyways, I've rambled enough in all of these little synopsises so here we go
Raticate
Level 77
- Body Slam
- Thunderbolt
- Bubblebeam
- Blizzard (was dig until the Lance fight)
As per usual here's the
Imgur Album of Raticate Proof