Ultimate Monotype Challenge Thread

[coolmansam123]

Beat Chuck Thunder Wave on his Poliwrath, then slammed it till it fainted.
Lost to Jasmine. Steelix knocked out 2 of my pokemon. Then Magnimites finished off Dragonair.
Obtained two new pokemon, Trapinch, and Swalblu.
This time I beat Jasmine cause i used the two new ones to weaken her.
Got to Lake of Rage killed Gyrados.
Defeated Team Rocket
Right now I'm training my team at lake of rage.

Current team: Dragonair (Lv 39) Gabite (Lv 38) Shelgon (Lv 38) Vibrava (Lv 35) Altaria (lv 35)

 

[fatalxfearz]

I've been gone for a long time due to not having a computer, so now i'm starting over all my challenges, which in this case is my fighting umc. I'm playing on Fire Red, planned team is:
Primape
Machamp
Hitmonchan
Hopefully I can finish this up before today is over, if not I'll probably finish it tomorrow.

 

[Porygon Z]

Hi, I've never updated on my Fire UMC, 'cause of Christmas holidays and other stuff.
Oh yeah, I finished both Blue and Silver's challenge legs.

Moving on Hoenn next time!

Blue Final Team

Lv. 56
Fly
Flamethrower
Fissure
Slash

Lv. 55
Flamethrower
Toxic
Dig
Confuse Ray

Lv. 55
Flamethrower
Stomp
Agility
Horn Drill

Lv. 56
Fire Punch
Flamethrower
Strength
Psychic

Lv. 54
Flamethrower
Bite
Quick Attack
Hyper Beam

Lv. 55
Fly
Agility
Fire Blast
Sky Attack

Gold Final Team

Lv. 74
Earthquake
Thunderpunch
Flamethrower
Strength

Lv. 72
Shadow Ball
Flamethrower
Bite
Quick Attack

Lv. 72
Thunderpunch
Iron Tail
Toxic
Fire Blast

Lv. 73
Rock Slide
Flamethrower
Body Slam
Mud Slap

Lv. 73
Flamethrower
Extremespeed
Toxic
Agility

Lv. 74
Fire Blast
Stomp
Swagger
Dig​

 

[Cardwell74]

Pearl Update #4.

Cardwell, I am doing the same monotype as you lol. Why didn't you teach Staraptor Return? 102 base power with STAB, dude!

Anyway, here's my update. It's been a long time coming, I haven't played this for a while (Dec 16, holy cow).
Started in Iron Island.

I win the long time contest, i was gone since Nov 17 lol.

I'm a big user of the bitter medicine, its cheap, and the revival herb is essentially a max revive, so return doesn't work for me.

Anyways

I beat Bertha, despite the annoyance.
Flint was... heck, Flint is never hard.
I'm praying Lucian will be easy for ONCE
got 2 critical hits with Attack order, one on mr. mime, the other on alakazam. Staraptor OHKO'd gallade with fly. Sadly, espeon got a critical hit with psychic on Vespiquen. 2 flys took Espeon down. i HATE Bronzong. i took it down though. He was easier than usual. Which is nice, he's usually harder than cynthia.
anyways, cynthia tomorrow

Edit: i couldnt resist so i beat her tonight.
EXPLOSION FOR THE WIN!!!it took out milotic, garchomp and togekiss all in one shot.
Lucario got earthquaked in one shot. Spiritomb was a pain, but it always is. I like Gliscor go down against roserade so i could healed staraptor for the ko with fly

Final Team:

Staraptor (lvl 53) well rounded. beat the rock gym on his own
-Fly
-Close Combat
-Aerial Ace
-Steel Wing

Vespiquen (lvl 51) was difficult to use, but when needed she got the job done, an amazing wall
@Quick Claw
-Heal Order
-Defend Order
-Attack Order
-Power Gem

Drifblim (lvl 51) MVP on final battle
@Spell Tag
-EXPLOSION (win)
-Shadow Ball
-Baton Pass
-Thunderbolt

Gliscor (lvl 55) overall MVP, esential for last 3 gyms, and most of the E4
@Earth Plate
-Earthquake
-Ice Fang
-Fire Fang
-Swords Dance

anyways, onto... whatever the gen 5 region is called, granted i can get a emulator and rom for it. I might do water on their first, since i still have to finish that one.

 

[Adâm1]

Tell me, tell me, tell me...

Would it be acceptable for me to undertake the Psychic, Dark or Ghost challenge despite the fact I can't get Black or White? (No Japanese lingo skills, you see ^^)

The games I'd use would be;
Leafgreen
Soulsilver
Emerald
Platinum

I hope this is acceptable, and am awaiting confirmation.

 

[Zhinc]

I win the long time contest, i was gone since Nov 17 lol.

Actually, I do; last time I posted before yesterday was October, I'm pretty sure. (:

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Alright! I finally made my way through Victory Road, which was some pretty good training, I must say. I then proceeded to spend over 160k Pokedollars on healing supplies; withdrew all the ethers and rare candies I had been storing away in the box all game; and began to take on the Elite Four.
OHMYGODTHEICETYPES. Lori was a pain; I had to use both of my max revives on Ms. Nido over the course of the battle in order to defeat her. Bruno proved to be almost no challenge to me; I think his Hitmonchan did the most amount of damage, which was still very little. AGATHA IS NO LONGER ALLOWED TO USE CONFUSE RAY OR DOUBLE TEAM. After her Gengars and Haunter were taken care of, I had very little trouble with the remaining two Pokemon. Lance managed to make my Pokemon faint a couple of times, but it was too easy to faint all of his Pokemon.
And then, of course, I find out that my rival is already League Champion. I use a bunch of ethers and heal my team to full health before entering the next room to take him down. I had issues with Gyrados and Charizard, but everyone else was really easy to take care of. In fact, Charizard was such a pain that I eventually just kept reviving someone and switching them out to revive someone else until it ran out of Fire Blast and was forced to use Aerial Ace, Fire Spin, and Slash against Geo, all of which were pretty useless. Oh, and Geo knows Rock Slide.
And so, with that, I am now League Champion and can move on to Crystal Version!
(will update with final team later)

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So, I have finally begun my journey to Victory on Crystal version (with the name Zhinc). I chose a Cyndaquil (a female!) as my starter so that my rival would have a Pokemon type at least part of my team would be weak to (in retrospect, I should have chosen Totodile, because I'm pretty sure I'll be using a Quagsire in this game). I proceeded to beat up everything that came at me along the way to and from Mr. Pokemon's house. By the time I reached the poor Professor Elm again to describe my encounter with the red-haired thief (I named him Chris for some reason), my Cyndaquil was already at level nine, pushing level ten. I then went and caught a couple of Pokemon, including a Geodude, who would become the first member of my team.
She's a female and I named her Gina. I then proceeded to grind her up to level eight or nine before heading north towards Violet City. Deciding that I really want to get a second member of my team very soon (and feeling wary of the Bellsprout in the Sprout Tower), and thrashed around some birds at the gym, where Gina grew to level 11 and learned Rock Throw. OH HAPPY DAY. I deposited all the Pokemon I had caught along the way (and my pretty little Cyndaquil) and challenged Faulkner, who is no longer allowed to use Mud Slap, by the way. After missing several times, I eventually took down both his Pokemon and got my badge. I then headed south and am waiting in a patch of grass for nightfall, so that I may catch a Wooper to add to my team.

 

[Emperte]

I'm gonna do a Steel challenge in HG. Would trading in an egg go with the rules? Seeing as Steel is the 14th most common type...out of 17

Update

• Traded in then hatched my Piplup egg.
• Trained Piplup to level 10 in the grassy routes before Violet City
• Entered Violet City and healed up
• Entered Sprout Tower

Current Team

Empy the Mild Piplup

• Pound
• Growl
• Bubble

 

[Cardwell74]

For some reason i'm in the challenger list for a Fighting Ultimate... Never remembered signing up for it, but hey, might as well go for it.

Started Yellow on an emulator today. Rather than type it all out, i'll post some screen shots to show my progress

I also got through rock tunnel, ran over to the department store, went to saffron, and beat the dojo guys to get hitmonchan!

Current Team:

Primeape (Lvl 39)
-Mega Punch
-Dig
-Low Kick
-Karate Chop

Hitmonchan (lvl 30)
-Comet Punch
-Agility

HM Slaves:
Charmander: Cut
Wigglytuff (evolved to have 10 in the pokedex to get flash): Flash
Pidgey: Fly

 

[blue]

Adventure Log #2​

Vs. Misty​

New team member! - Summer (Butterfree)
Entered Ceruelan Gym
Swimmer wants to fight, Swimmer sent out Horsea - defeated
Swimmer sent out Shelder - Defeated
Ash defeated Swimmer!
JR. Trainer (F) wants to fight, JR. Trainer (F) sent out Goldeen - Defeated
Ash defeated JR. Trainer (F)
Healed my Pokémon and now it's time to battle Misty!
Re-entered the Gym and talked to Misty
Misty wants to fight! - Misty sent out Staryu - one Sleep Power and three Confusions and beat staryu, Summer (Butterfree) grew to Level 22!
Misty sent out Starmie - Several Sleep Powders & Supersonics & Confusions almost did it but Summer fainted, with hardly Starmie having hardly any HP left I sent out Flutter (Pidgeotto) and used Quick Attack and it finished her off!​

Ash defeated Gym Leader Misty. Obtained the Cascade Badge and TM11 (Bubblebeam) .. Onto Vermillion City!

Badge Case

Current Team​

Flutter/Pidgeotto Lv. 23​

~ Quick Attack
~ Gust
~ Sand Attack
~ Whirlwind​

Tails/Fearow Lv. 23​

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~ Peck
~ Fury Attack
~ Leer
~ Growl​

Summer/Butterfree Lv. 22​

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~ Stun Spore
~ Confusion
~ Sleep Powder
~ Supersonic​

 

[Emperte]

Not much progress but here's my update~

UPDATE

• Cleared Bellsprout Tower
• Caught and traded a Bellsprout for Onix
• Cleared Violet Gym

Current Team

Empy, the Mild Pochama

• Pound
• Peck
• Bubble
• Water Sport

Rocky, the Hasty Iwark

• Tackle
• Harden
• Bind
• Screech

 

[KnightKGR]

I'll give it a try, starting from fire red then Ruby then Soul Silver.

I'll use fire types on Fire Red. Supposing it's okay, I'll start now. I'll update as soon as I defeat Brock.


@Update:

-Started the game with a girl, called her BLUE.
-Defeated rival "GREEN" when got "CHARSUKE" the charmander.
-Got pokedex and pokeballs
-Defeated most trainers on viridian forest, went to challenge brock.

Challenged brock with my charmander LV 14.

Me:So you're the gym leader? Too bad, my pokémon knows metal claw.
Brock:I'll prove that I can still win.

Geodude KO'd by 2 metal claws.

Me:What were you saying?
Brock: Don't get arrogant, I still have ONIX.

Onix KO'd by 3 Metal Claws.

Me:I guess that gives me the badge.
Brock: o.o how could you defeat onix so easily? Anyway, yep, you won the badge.

@Update 2:

This will be brief.
-Defeated rockets at Mt. Moon.
-Learned both mega punch and mega kick.
-Defeated everyone on the gym but misty.
-Defeated everyone on the way to Bill.
-Got SS Ticket.
-Fought misty, OHKO'd her Staryu, made her starmie's hp go to 1, while she made charmeleon's HM go to 2, with 2 hits from each. She used super potion making her Starmie's HP go green, then I Mega Punch'd her on a suicidal try but it turned out as a critical, which KO'd Starmie.

All hits when fighting misty were Mega Punch.

Stats after misty:

Charmeleon LV 30
Mega Kick
Mega Punch
Ember
Metal Claw

 

[tomreaper]

First Normal UMC hoenn update!

Started on ruby(thank you tony for pointing that out to me) and chose treeko as my starter to make it more difficult. Caught a zigzagoon and named him Ziggy. got him to level 7 and got to pedalburg. had wally get a ralts went pedalburg forest. saved the executive and traveled to rustboro. caught a whismur and a skitty(remind me of pokemon adventure..) and named them Amp and Kit-Kat. Got all three of them to level 15, with the help of picked up rare candies, and challenged the gym. I new i was going to have trouble with Roxanne. It took all three of my pokes to take her out. Ziggy used sand attacks and tail whips to weaken her geodude, then i had Amp use uproar after Ziggy fell and he killed geodude, after she used her 2 potions. Then her nosepass came up. I tried to use some howls to increase the attack, but it wasnt doing much. So i just had him use uproar until he fainted and force me to use Kit-Kat. I used doubleslap to the already weakened nosepass and super potions that i bought and found whenever her HP fell. This was the easiest time i've ever fought roxanne..

I walked out and saw a magma grunt run by, with the same executive that i saved chasing him. I healed, then got to the grunt, defeating him and saving the wingull and taking the goods. I got the package i need to give to steven and i hopped on a boat and traveled to Dewford. I went to the cave, navigated blind, and got the package to steven. I evloved Ziggy, and i end this update with that.


My Current Team...

Amp/Whismur

Level 15

-Pound
-Uproar
-Astonish
-Howl

Kit-Kat/Skitty

Level 15

-Tackle
-Sing
-Doubleslap
-Attract

Ziggy/Linoone

Level 20

-Tackle
-Sand-Attack
-Odor Sleuth
-Headbutt

 

[Cardwell74]

I made a bit of progress

I beat Erika, got the poke flute (skipped the rocket base), caught a poliwag, which i evolved twice. taught my team members some cool tm moves. gettign ready to go through the Fuchsia Gym

Current Team:

Primeape (Lvl 40)
-Rock Slide
-Thunderbolt
-Low Kick
-Strength

Hitmonchan (lvl 39)
-Comet Punch
-Agility
-Fire Punch
-Ice Punch

Poliwrath (lvl 26)
-Surf
-Ice Beam
-Psychic
-Hypnosis

HM Slaves:
Charmander: Cut
Wigglytuff: Flash
Pidgey: Fly

 

[captainkapow]

HeartGold Ult. Mono-Ground Run

Just finished my Mono-Ground run of Heartgold.

Didn't really do any updates on it as my DS just never seemed to be nearby when I'd think to post.

Going to start Emerald now!

Final team:

:t207: L.85 Grape the Hardy Gliscor
X-Scissor
Wing Attack
Earthquake
Sword Dance (Sandstorm for Red)

Synopsis:
Very powerful poke. Huge attack, speed and defense. Only two weaknesses although one is a huge 4x weakness to ice. It's only real downside is the anguish of getting enough BP in the Battle Frontier to get the item needed to evolve it from Gligar. Used to sweep Red and his obnoxiously leveled pokemon.

:t034: L.66 Mango the Sassy Nidoking
Dragon Pulse
Sludge Bomb
Megahorn
Earth Power

Synopsis:
Should be on every ground team in every series he's available. Has a solid special attack stat and moveset pool when most ground types aren't as flexible.

:t195: L.61 Kumquat the Serious Quagsire
Waterfall
Earthquake
Yawn
Amnesia

Synopsis:
It's stats aren't great but it is the only ground type I could get that wasn't weak to water. In fact it can even absorb water making it a great anti-water poke for a team whose bane is water types.

:t028: L.57 Cherry the Brave Sandslash
Shadow Claw
Rock Climb
Stealth Rock
Dig

Synopsis:
Sandslash has a great attack move pool that is sadly hindered in HeartGold by most of those TM's being only available in the fairly annoying Battle Frontier. Was useful early on but by the end he just became an early Stealth Rock sacrifice.

:t208: L.59 Pineapple the Naughty Steelix
Crunch
Ice Fang
Stone Edge
Curse

Synopsis:
Excellant physical wall and great against flying types. Useful against Dragon types that don't have a fire move.

:t221: L.60 Lime the Hardy Mamoswine
Ice Shard
Earthquake
Avalance
Hail

Synopsis:
Strong final evolution but earlier evolutions are painfully hard to level up. Solid performer if you keep it away from Fire and Fighting moves. Comes late in the game but just in time for Claire.

Honourable Mention: Geodude
Dropped him after defeating Morty but Geodude was instrumental in defeating the first 3 gyms. It is the first Ground type you can access and is extremely useful for the early game, but is quickly overshadowed by other ground types later on.

 

[Elric of Grans]

If no one minds, I would like to ask a couple of questions about this challenge.

I have always thought about playing monotype, but never actually tried it before. I have played Red, Yellow and Platinum, and am currently playing SoulSilver (but getting a little frustrated with having lots of Pokemon I do not like, and very few I do). An Emerald cartridge has just fallen into my hand today, so I was thinking about starting a game of it and playing monotype.

My first question is should I play monotype on a first play-through of a game (ie Emerald), or would I be strongly advised to play normally once and then go back, or perhaps use a different game altogether (eg Platinum/SoulSilver have more features/options and therefore superior)? Since I have plenty of experience in other games, I *think* I should be fine, but would like some feedback from others before trying.

My second question is to type. Since I played Red, I have liked the idea of playing an all Psychic team, and my favourite Pokemon is Ralts/Kirlia/Gardevoir. My concern is that Psychic Pokemon do not fall out of the sky early on, so the first few gyms may be painful; I think Abra was the only option prior to the first Gym in Platinum and there were none in Red/Yellow or SoulSilver. Would a Psychic monotype be fine for a first attempt, or should I try something easier (eg Water) or otherwise more numerous (eg Normal)?

 

[KnightKGR]

Elric, I may not be very experienced on monotyping myself, but I think you should first play water, fire or flying. They are easy to find/get, especially fire/water as you start with one. Flying are also pretty easy to get, and can reward well. Anyways, no updates for now but going to continue my game now.

@Update: Another brief update.

-Defeated Lt. Surge after getting CUT on Ship.
-Defeated rival on Ship as well as all other trainers there were.
-CHARSUKE evolved to Charizard.
Current team:

"CHARSUKE" level 38 Charizard
Mega Kick
Mega Punch
Flamethrower
Wing Attack

@Update

This update is a bit bigger.

-Went through rock tunnel to celadon
-Beat Team Rocket on Celadon
-Beat Erika
-Got an Eevee, Evolved to flareon with fire stone, named him RONO.

So my team is as follows:

CHARSUKE LV 48 Charizard
Brick Break
Slash
Flamethrower
Aerial Ace

RONO LV 25 Flareon
Helping Hand
Sand Attack
Growl
Quick Attack

HM MASTER LV 21 Gloom (Evolved it so I could get the 10 caught requirement for Flash, to have 2 HM's with it)
Absorb
Sweet Scent
Flash
Cut


Screenshot:

Update:

-Defeated team rocket at the ghost tower.
-Defeated Snorlax at bridge for better access.
-Defeated Koga, Screen below:

Update:
-Defeated Team Rocket at Silph Co.
-Defeated Sabrina

Team after Sabrina:

CHARSUKE LV 64 Charizard
Brick Break
Slash
Flamethrower
Aerial Ace

RONO LV 26 Flareon
Helping Hand
Sand Attack
Growl
Quick Attack

HM Master LV 22 Gloom
Absorb
Sweet Scent
Flash
Cut

LV 25 Gyarados(Another HM slave, without a name)
Thrash
Thunder Wave
Dragon Rage
Surf


@Update:
-Got Key to Blaine's GYM
-Defeated Blaine

Update:
-Went with bill to One Island, defeated some bikers.
-Defeated Giovanni as 8th GYM Leader

@Update:

-Beat all elite 4 members.
-Lance's dragonairs proved useless and dragonite only made me use one full restore. His aerodactyl killed Charizard once though.
-Bruno wasn't tough but made me use some full restores.
-Beat my rival, the champion. His Blastoise was tough. I luckily only used one Max Revive because I did a critical hit with EARTHQUAKE. So yeah, lucky of not needing to use my other revive.

This was almost a solo run, since my team is:

All of these were around level 20, except for the LV 74 Charizard. The Gyarados was a HM slave with Strength, Surf and Rock Smash.
Gloom HM slave with Flash and Cut

Fearow with Fly.

CHARSUKE LV 74 Charizard
Earthquake
Slash
Flamethrower
Aerial Ace


That's it.

 

[Zhinc]

Quick update: I gave up getting a Wooper. I'll just do this with the same team as last time. Maybe add a Dugtrio or something cool like Gligar. Beat the Sprout Tower and made it all the way to Azelea Town. About to go talk to Kurt about this Rocket problem.

 

[Cardwell74]

If no one minds, I would like to ask a couple of questions about this challenge.

I have always thought about playing monotype, but never actually tried it before. I have played Red, Yellow and Platinum, and am currently playing SoulSilver (but getting a little frustrated with having lots of Pokemon I do not like, and very few I do). An Emerald cartridge has just fallen into my hand today, so I was thinking about starting a game of it and playing monotype.

My first question is should I play monotype on a first play-through of a game (ie Emerald), or would I be strongly advised to play normally once and then go back, or perhaps use a different game altogether (eg Platinum/SoulSilver have more features/options and therefore superior)? Since I have plenty of experience in other games, I *think* I should be fine, but would like some feedback from others before trying.

My second question is to type. Since I played Red, I have liked the idea of playing an all Psychic team, and my favourite Pokemon is Ralts/Kirlia/Gardevoir. My concern is that Psychic Pokemon do not fall out of the sky early on, so the first few gyms may be painful; I think Abra was the only option prior to the first Gym in Platinum and there were none in Red/Yellow or SoulSilver. Would a Psychic monotype be fine for a first attempt, or should I try something easier (eg Water) or otherwise more numerous (eg Normal)?

First, i don't think it matters whether its your first play through of a game, it might make it easier if it is not, but my first play through of black of white is going to be a water monotype.

Second, type is really up to you, you have 17 to pick from. Psychic would be fine, and you can catch ralts before the first gym in emerald, and abra not far after. (although since neither can learn any none psychic moves until later, dark types might give you problems, and i know some random trainers have nuzleafs) The type you use is really up to you, i've done all the first 4 generations each with water, ground and flying, all of which were very enjoyable. It's completely up to you. try for a type that has pokemon capable of learning many different move types.

 

[kaorusquee]

Just signed up today, so hello all! ^^ I've decided to do this challenge because I've been playing the games since Yellow came out, so I have at least one of every gen. So, I'm gonna play Yellow, Crystal, Emerald, Pearl, and either Black or White (will decide once they come out). I've decided to go at it using all electric types.

 

[Cathar]

Hello everyone! My name is Peter, and I joined the PC just to do some Challenges.

I have been playing Pokémon games ever since Red&Blue came out here in Austria (Europe, a little country next to Germany). I also played Yellow, Gold, Silver and Crystal, Ruby and Pearl, Diamond and Platinum.

So you could say I am not a newbie to the Pokémon games. I love the idea of monotyping through all games in a row, so I decided to join this challenge.

I already monotyped through Diamond with the Fighting type, once, but most of my team there was cheated in so it didn't conform with the rules here. The team also raped whatever enemy I put in front of it so it was even more boring than not monotyping ^^

So now I will do a UMC Ground on the following games:

1. Leafgreen (On GBA)
2. Soulsilver (On NDS)
3. Emerald (Emulator, Can't find my Ruby cartridge)
4. Diamond
5. Black (Once it comes out in german)

I decided to go with the newer games for the first two Generations because I just can't stand the sight of the older games anymore. I loved them at the time, and played them to death, but I just prefer the newer versions.

Please also note that I'm playing all these games in the german versions. I'll try to search for the english Pokémon and attack names most of the time, sometimes I might be lazy and translate them myself or just leave the german term. If you havea any questions or corrections for me, I'm always happy to learn!

I already started on Leafgreen and I'll give you all an update this week, time permitting (I'm a student and January is the busiest month of the semester, with exams all over the place).

I'm really looking forward to this,
Cheers,
Peter