I'd like to get that Ultimate Ice Mono done ^-^
I beat Blue yesterday on Rom. It only took a day to finish so I waited until now.
Start- Hacked in Jynx because I can't trade and the rules say I can hack in my Jynx. I caught it at lv 3. I nicknamed my Jynx Hips after it's Pokedex entry. Charmander was my "official" starter so that my Rival would have Squirtle. Blastoise was the most neutral to my final team, although, Thunderbolt made quick work of it.
Brock- I learned how this game was designed by training my Jynx. Hacked Pokemon seriously have a disadvantage here @-@ At lv 16 when I challenged him, my Jynx was still stuck with Pound and Lovely Kiss. I pounded the crud out of both Geodude and Onix. Thank you speed up button and a lot of potions!
Misty- So Hips finally starting learning moves. Lick at 18 and Doubleslap at 23. Still no power against them pesky rocks! So I taught it Water Gun. Thank goodness @-@ I didn't even know that Water Gun was a TM back then! I cruised through every possible trainer I could for exp from Mt. Moon to Route 25. Then I continued pounding the crud out of Misty :P I never liked Doubleslap and Lick seemed ineffective, although in retrospect, it might have been helpful for Starmie.
Surge- Hips learned the beloved Ice Punch at lv 31. Cleaned out water types with Pound and everything else with Ice Punch. Surge was easy! Everything fell to my fearsome Ice Punch!
Erika- After coming out of Rock Tunnel, my Jynx was already Lv 47 @-@ I needed more Ice types so I sped through some of the events needed to get my Ice army. I finished the Game Corner and Pokemon Tower ASAP! Afterwards I went to get my Super Rod so I could pick up a Lv 15 Shellder. Shellder's nickname was Kanon. Less basic than Cannon, but it still gets the job done ;3 I already had the Ice Beam TM so I evolved my Shellder right away and taught it Ice Beam and Swift. I also taught Hips Bubblebeam after deciding to just teach everyone else Surf. Erika was my newly added Pokemon's lunch. Salads are good for your health, I guess ^-^
Koga- I continued training my Cloyster by going down Cycling Road. I got it to about Lv 38. Now I needed to get a solid water move and Surf was perfect. The special HM was obtained and so were the Gold Teeth! which I exchanged for Strength. I also caught a Spearow for Fly and obtained that HM as well. Cut was obtained a long time ago of course and Charmander became my HM Slave. Now I wanted to add one more Pokemon so I sped through Silph Co just to get Lapras. No training was done here and I saved Giovanni for later. Lapras was trained at the remaining routes that Kanon wasn't trained at and was nicknamed Prima. I taught Prima Thunderbolt and Surf using TMs and HMs. I beat Koga by spamming Surf with Prima.
Sabrina- Another detour made. I traveled to the Seafoam Islands to pick up my last Pokemon, Shivers the Seel. I trained Shivers at Silph Co. where it quickly evolved into Dewgong. I just love how Dewgong looks <3 (An irrelevant sidenote). Dewgong quickly joined the ranks of my Ice Army and Sabrina was taken down by a mix of my Ice type prowess. I wanted as even training as I could get. I trained about 2 Lvs at a time and they were about Lv 42-44ish.
Blaine- I sped through this one. I was getting antsy and just wanted to finish so I could feel accomplished. After beating the surrounding routes and going through the mansion, I creamed him easily.
Giovanni- Was too easy. Same as above... except without that route part. The remaining journey was smooth sailing and even the E4 didn't put up that much of a fight...
Elite 4: I handled them with mostly type matching to be honest.
Lorelei: Lapras ruled here. Everything except Jynx was taken out with Thunderbolt. It was a shame to destroy such a fine trainer :/
Bruno: Water rules here in general. I believe I finished him off mostly with Dewgong. Jynx took care of the fighters.
Agatha: Jynx bait. I used Jynx on just about everything. There were a couple switch outs made when Jynx got hit by Confuse Ray.
Lance: Pshaw. Chump. Lapras led to take care of Gyrados and everything after fell to IceBeam.
Rival: Also pretty easy. Pidgeot finished with Ice Punch. Alakzam Body Slammed to death. Rhydon and Arcanine Surfed on. Egg boy was Ice Punched and Blastoise was electrocuted with Thunderbolt.
Final Team:
