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Bringerofpie March 27th, 2010 2:24 PM

The Nuzlocke Challenge
 
This is a new challenge that some of you might of heard of before, but I just wanted to make a thread for it

Main rules
1. Whenever a Pokemon is knocked out it is considered dead and must be released.
2. You may ONLY catch the first Pokemon in each new route.
3. No healing items outside of battle

Optional rules
3. No switching between opponents pokemon
4. Poison down to 1hp = Faint
5. No buying pokeballs
6. Make your own rule if you want

Just started mine something like this

Picked Chikorita (named Orita)
Found and caught Sentret (route 29 named Fodder)
Found and fainted first wild Ratatta with crit! (route 46)
Found and caught Weedle (route 30 named Beedle)
Lost Beedle to a critting Pidgey (D:

Sudeki March 27th, 2010 2:30 PM

Seems like a really hard challenge, would do it, but im not restarting, maybe on another game or rom.

Yusshin March 27th, 2010 2:33 PM

I think it's abused a bit... There are only so many Pokeballs you can find. Next thing you know, you have to release your starter Pokemon.

Meh, I guess people just love almost impossible challenges.

Theodore Bruno March 27th, 2010 2:34 PM

This just now got here? Man, I love those comics.

I started it couple days ago. Not too far into it. Haven't lost anything yet, but then again, I just made it to the forest in Emerald.

Sudeki March 27th, 2010 2:39 PM

So what if you get whited out, do you just have to start over? xD Could you imagine having like 3 pokemon at decent levels, and you get whomped by someone and bam, game over? lol

Bringerofpie March 27th, 2010 2:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sudeki (Post 5657783)
So what if you get whited out, do you just have to start over? xD Could you imagine having like 3 pokemon at decent levels, and you get whomped by someone and bam, game over? lol

Yea your supposed to but im not sure if i'd have the guts to do that.

Theodore Bruno March 27th, 2010 2:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sudeki (Post 5657783)
So what if you get whited out, do you just have to start over? xD Could you imagine having like 3 pokemon at decent levels, and you get whomped by someone and bam, game over? lol

From what I understand if you white out you either start over or better hope you have more Pokemon in your box.
EDIT: Also, it's funner if you nickname your Pokemon. You get more attached to them.

Sudeki March 27th, 2010 2:45 PM

Almost the best strategy for this would to just massivly level one pokemon lol, like pick your starter and only use it, odds are your not going to die as you will be massivly higher over everyone.

Bringerofpie March 27th, 2010 2:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sudeki (Post 5657796)
Almost the best strategy for this would to just massivly level one pokemon lol, like pick your starter and only use it, odds are your not going to die as you will be massivly higher over everyone.

That might work but I believe it would cause difficulties later in the game such as gym leaders its weak against and explosion

Sudeki March 27th, 2010 2:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bringerofpie (Post 5657804)
That might work but I believe it would cause difficulties later in the game such as gym leaders its weak against and explosion

As long as you tought it moves to cover its weakness's, the fact that your level would probably double or more then everyone else would compinsate.

Bringerofpie March 27th, 2010 2:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Theodore Bruno (Post 5657772)
This just now got here? Man, I love those comics.

Speaking of that where can you find those?

Theodore Bruno March 27th, 2010 3:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bringerofpie (Post 5657843)
Speaking of that where can you find those?

I saved the 12 out so far. I'd post them, but the language is a bit...mature for PC's rules unfortunately, meaning I'd probably end up getting in trouble.

bobandbill March 27th, 2010 3:09 PM

This seems an interesting and difficult challenge, heh. But I'll remind you to talk about the challenge only instead of these comics, please. =P

MadaraUchiha. March 27th, 2010 3:31 PM

Well to get good pokemon with this all you have to do is buy a ton of repels and find entei and raikou and capture them, also kinda annoying if you fail in the Elite 4 and your done for good...

Sudeki March 27th, 2010 3:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadaraUchiha. (Post 5657994)
Well to get good pokemon with this all you have to do is buy a ton of repels and find entei and raikou and capture them, also kinda annoying if you fail in the Elite 4 and your done for good...

You could do that along with raise just your starter, so by the time your at e4 your team would be like
Starter - lvl 50-60
Entei - lvl 40-45
Raiku - Lvl 40-45
Ho-ho/Lugia lvl 45-50

MadaraUchiha. March 27th, 2010 9:02 PM

You would have to have them all around 50-60 so none die and you cant lose them.

Katie_Q March 27th, 2010 9:06 PM

Seems tough. You'd have to grind majorly on weaker pokemon. and have tonnes of healing items for in battle. I might try it one day, but at the moment I'm trying to fill my diamond pokedex while I wait for heartgold to arrive in the mail. And when I get that, I'm going to be doing an eevee run (eevee's evolutions)

KhaosMonsterEnergy March 27th, 2010 9:38 PM

Man if i wasnt already so far in my game I would try this. Since i already got SS if i get HG I will try it.

Jesh March 28th, 2010 1:25 AM

So... it's like Fire Emblem with Pokemon? :D

So doing this after my first playthrough.

CrashSmAshley March 28th, 2010 1:31 AM

Ooh challenging. This should be an interesting one!

Shinn_Asuka March 29th, 2010 6:05 AM

Actually, the no healing items outside of battle is also an optional rule, even if it's used by most people.

It really hurts losing your starter, let me tell you that.

Panfisha March 29th, 2010 7:26 AM

Here's the original rule-image, with John Locke-style pokemon included!
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j270/Vaati-Minish/nuzlockeRules.png

Nikorasu April 1st, 2010 7:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bringerofpie (Post 5657804)
That might work but I believe it would cause difficulties later in the game such as gym leaders its weak against and explosion

Also the fact that if it dies you are SCREWED

Panique April 1st, 2010 9:03 AM

Since when is 'no buying Pokeballs' a rule? :O

Also it's not really a HGSS challenge. It's an any-game challenge. ;P

rizyq April 1st, 2010 9:29 AM

Do you have to release the Pokémon? Is it okay to just put them in some PC Box called "Dead" or something? It kinda makes me sad releasing them :P

I may try this on my HG some time... After I catch Lugia and a Snubbul on my SS :P

Gamefreaked April 1st, 2010 10:03 AM

Seems interesting, I think I'll try this with an emulator later, after I'm done with my actual game. Seems kind of risky, especially with battle's like whitney's and her miltank or the elite four themselves.
I expect to lose a good amount of pokemon through this, haha.

11wildy April 7th, 2010 9:28 PM

I did once already on Diamond, also mono water. At one time I had: gastrodon, Floatzel, Bibarel and Empoleon, but i ended beating up the E4 with Empoleon only, who was horribly overleveled.

patrick_20052005 June 5th, 2010 4:23 PM

there's also a rule that states you can't teach TMs to your pokemon, nor can you use items outside of battle, you also are only allowed to capture the first pokemon you meet in the first new route, and you must nickname your pokemon because as stated in some reference sites "that it makes your BOND closer." :/ Really challenging if you ask me, if i get my hands on a new cart ill try to do this one.

Gregora June 14th, 2010 6:09 PM

I started my Nuzlocke Challenge two days ago and this is what has happened

-Got Cyndaquil from Elm. It is a Mild Natured male which I nicknamed 'Cyn'.
-Beat Rival
-Attempted to catch a pokemon on Route 46, found a Lv3 female Rattata and accidentally killed her.
-Went to Route 31 and the first pokemon I saw was a female Lv3 Bellsprout. Caught her, nicknamed her "Belle" and found that she has a Gentle nature.
-Entered Dark Cave and caught a Lv2 Male Zubat with a Careful nature. Named him "Dart"
-Dart nearly died vs Bug Catcher Wade. I accidentally pressed the A button, causing it to say "Dart has no moves left!" It had 3 HP left and Caterpie was confused with barely any HP left and managed to knock itself out before Dart could do a suicide attack.
-Went to Route 32 and looked around. I found nothing but Bellsprout but since I'm using the optional rule of only catching the first pokemon I see and haven't caught yet, I keep looking. I finally find a Lv4 female Rattata with a Calm nature. I nicknamed her "Cheska".
-Entered Sprout Tower at night. Found a Lv4 female Mild natured Gastly, which I caught and named "Pan".
-Cyn evolved after beating the Elder.
-Beat Falkner with only Cheska since she was powerful enough on her own.
-Got Egg and hatched it in Cherrygrove. Named the Serious natured Male Togepi "Benedict".

Current Team:

"Benedict" Lv6 Male Togepi
"Pan" Lv11 Female Gastly
"Belle" Lv11 Female Bellsprout
"Dart" Lv11 Male Zubat
"Cheska" Lv12 Female Rattata
"Cyn" Lv14 Male Quilava

chaos11011 June 15th, 2010 3:24 PM

Just because no one is joining,I will do this once im done with my Soul Silver Mono-Type Run and my Platinum Nuzlocke Run.

Chaos11011
Soul Silver

Sydian June 15th, 2010 3:36 PM

Whoa dude. :( Don't revive old threads, please. I wish the HGSS mods had caught this before I did, haha. For those of you that still wanna do it, feel free to make a new thread for it. :)

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