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Roughsponge July 17th, 2010 11:57 AM

Update:
-Battled all the trainers to the right of Fushia City
-Flew back to Saffron, went updwards to Cerulean city.
-Went to the powerplant and battled the trainers on the way.
-Flew back to Cerulean and found the team rocket guy sneaking about.
-Battled him and easily won so I went back to the gym and found the missing thingy.
-Brought the machine part thing back to the people in the powerplant & so power was restored :D
-Flew back to Saffron, walked to the right to Lavander town and battled all the trainers.
-Got the music card to use to wake up the big flabby snorlaxs.
-Got rid of the snorlax blocking the diglett cave and so I move on to Pewter City..

Update edit:
-Got to pewter city, defeated all the gym trainers (while getting annoyed at the constant roaring by one Golem..)
-Defeated Brock quite easily and won myself the boulder badge.

Update edit #2:
-Went south to the Viridian forest and fought my way through it.
-Passed Viridian city
-Went further south to Pallet town and said hello to Professor oak
-Continued south on the sea and battled all the trainers down to Cinibar island (or what is left of it)
-Spoke to Blue
-healed up and went east to the cinibar gym
-Beat all the gym trainers with power gem.
-Easily defeated blaine with the use of power gem aswell & got myself the Volcano badge. :)

Update edit #3:
-Flew back to Cerulean city and fought all the nugget bridge people
-Snuck up on Misty and caught her on her date so she returned to the gym
-Battled all the gym trainers
-Beat misty easily
-Flew back to Cinibar island to get blue back to the gym
-Flew back to viridian city and beat all the gym trainers.
-Faced blue and won fairly easily & won myself the plain badge.
-Flew back to pewter city & headed East to Mt Moon to face Luke
-Battled Luke and 1HKO'd all his pokemon, well except for magneton who took two power gems. :)

Final update:
-Flew back to the pokemon league, healed myself & bought more healing stuff.
-Faced all the elite four, who were a tad harder this time around..
-Battled Lance, who was actually easier strangely, I thought his Garchomp would be a problem but it wasnt too bad, the worst one was Altaria.
-After I beat the league for the second time I flew back to the Indigo Plateau bit and walked West to Mt Silver.
-Made my way through it and eventually reached the almighty red himself.
-I cant stress enough how angry I was getting at this match :(
-His Lapras, Pikachu, Snorlax and Blastoise weren't that much bother to be fair.
-Charizard was alright but his flare blitz was really sore..
-Don't even get me started on Venusaur.. this was torture I'm telling you! It kept using Sludge bomb which meant poisoning, and if I healed that it used Sleep power.. I don't think I've ever been as angry at a pokemon game in my life.. I'm even angry thinking of it xD
-Finally beat him in the end :D that's the first time I've ever faced Red, I normally just end HG/SS after the 16 badges.

Zeus/Ampharos:
http://www.smogon.com/media/smog/ampharos_hgss.pmg.png
Level 89
Moves: Thunder / Power gem / Discharge / Signal beam
(Johto badges: 8 / Kanto badges: 8)

Challenge completed!

Ian Watkins July 19th, 2010 9:34 AM

Sorry to change AGAIN, but I am definatley doing this with Butterfree.

I have beaten Whitney, and Richard the Butterfree is level 28 with the moves Supersonic, Sleep Powder, Psybeam and Gust.

Sceptile0111 July 20th, 2010 3:16 PM

Jirachi Update:
Headed south after beating Jirachi, stopping only to grab Rock Smash before I left Violet. Defeated all of the trainers on the route, Jirachi nearly ran out of PP but I made it to the Pokemon Center in time. Union Cave was interesting; Confusion got a workout from all of the rock types there, and Jirachi (unfortunately) hit level 20 while inside, meaning that he would now refuse to obey me again. Oh well. Anyway, after using up my Repel to avoid those annoying Zubats, I got to Azalea Town, where I saw a Rocket member beating up an elderly man. That Team Rocket deserves a beatdown for that, and that's exactly what I did after healing Jirachi. Slowpoke Well was easy up until Proton, where Jirachi adamantly REFUSED to use Confusion against his Koffings. Swift managed to do the trick eventually, but not without suffering a few annoying Tackles from the Koffings. After magically teleporting out of the well, I gave Kurt a few Black Apricorns and healed up for the battle with Bugsy.

BUGSY
Bugsy's Gym puzzle was just as annoying as the first time I played it. His Scyther was equally annoying, considering that Jirachi seemed to enjoy 'loafing around' while getting slashed to ribbons by a gigantic bug/ninja thing. Eventually, Jirachi managed to KO the Scyther (and the Metapod) with Confusion, leveling up and deigning to listen to me again until level 30. Hivebadge=MINE!

Another healing session later, Pingas showed up to challenge me to a battle. He actually got Jirachi into the red with a pair of Embers from that darn Quilava (It survived one Confusion and my second one missed...) With him down, I could now enter Ilex. Farfetch'd is now officially the most annoying Pokemon in existence. Grr. I also managed to catch a Paras at full health with a Pokeball for an HM slave; I taught it both Rock Smash and Cut, using the latter to move onward through the forest. Saw a Kimono Girl, but not much to add except that I made it to Goldenrod after running the gauntlet of trainers with Jirachi still only at level 27, but with a new move, Psychic! Knowing that Miltank and its Milk Drink were ahead of me, I decided to level up on the Trainers to the north. By the time I got through the National Park, Jirachi was dangerously close to level 31, so I stopped for the time being. (Ran into a random Drowzee in the tall grass that survived a Swift, so I caught it and deposited it, just for the lulz. May need it as an HM slave later, I dunno yet. Togepi also hatched, which I deposited, and I got the free Spearow from the random guard to use as a Fly slave later on. After a brief stopover at the Radio Tower, I was ready for Whitney!

Whitney
These Gym battles are turning out to be harder than anticipated with a Steel/Psychic Legendary. I had neglected to remember the Gym trainers and their Pokemon, so naturally Jirachi leveled up during that time and so refused to listen during the battle with the Leader. Clefairy got Selfdestruct with Metronome...I lol'd, since Jirachi is a Steel type. Next up was Miltank, and I found myself actually using a Super Potion at one point to heal. Not much else to say, except that it took no less than ten turns to get Jirachi to use Psychic. After Whitney (when to my dismay I discovered that the Plainbadge does NOT raise the level cap for obedience), I saved for next time.

JIRACHI'S STATS:
Nature: Lax
Ability: Serene Grace
Level: 31
HP: 112

ATK: 74
DEF: 84
SP. ATK: 75
SP. DEF: 64
SPD: 75
Moves: Wish, Psychic, Swift, Draco Meteor


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Maraala July 21st, 2010 7:54 PM

I shall enter!

I will being using Soulsilver and a Hacked Glaceon (only cause i can't find my copy of platinum or Diamond and my friend won't let me borrow theirs :( )

trevman727 July 21st, 2010 9:07 PM

I started a solo run with Nidoran male today, and I played until I beat Cianwood's gym, so I'll post what I remember :P

I picked Totodile for a starter, naming him HM Slave, for that was all he was destined to be, but this story is not about him. It is about the epicness of Nidoking, who I nicknamed after Barney, the purple pedophile.
By Bellsprout Tower, Barney was at level 10, growing quickly with wild Pokemon. After I dealt with the bald monks, Barney was level 14, about to evolve into Nidorino. Using him, the Bird Master Falkner was defeated, and a Nidorino followed behind me at level 16. At the Bug gym, Bugsy was no match for Nidorino, and I left at level 23. My "rival" fell to my knees, and I walked into Ilex Forest. I helped some random dude get his Farfetch'd back and I gained the HM Cut which was learned by HM Slave. Beat Whitney, cleared Sudowoodo, gained another HM Slave (Togepi for Flash), beat Morty with everything being OHKO'd with exactly 15 Shadow Claws. Taught Surf to Toto, beat the trainers on the way to Olivine, and went to Jasmine. She told me about Amphy, and I decided to go get the Secret Potion to heal her. In Cianwood, Eusine was defeated after ranting about Suicune, and I went to the gym. Using a combination of Double Kick and Peck, they fell before me. When I left, the leader's wife gave me the HM for Fly. Thanks lady, I'll try to make good use of it eventually. This is where I saved and quit. Party as of now:

Barney/Nidoking Lv. 40
Peck
Poison Sting
Double Kick
Shadow Claw

HM Slave/ Totodile Lv. 9
Cut
Surf
Leer
Water Gun

HM Slave/ Togepi Lv. 4
Extrasensory
idk
idk
idk

One of Togepi's slots will be used for Flash eventually but for now, nothing :P Next I need to pick up a flyer.

twinsandvikes777 July 21st, 2010 9:18 PM

Ok I started today about my Growlithe/Arcanine solo run and picked out a Totodile, promptly named HM Slave and soon to be saddled with those oh-so-weak, ever so useless HM's we all hate. After doing the whole Mr. Pokemon sidequest, I caught myself a HootHoot and traded him for a mysterious egg. After running for what seemed like thirty two years (but was actually only about fifteen minutes, my egg hatched into.. a Growlithe? Promptly named SargeWoofs and a little bit of grinding (Flamethrower, Bite, and Dig as egg moves FTW) I had him up to snuff and, long story short, beatdown up to Whitney, where I used the ever so magical Fire Stone to evolve SargeWoofs into an Arcanine!!! (Why so early? I was fine with his moveset) and I killed everyone past CianWood, where I saved after taking out Chuck.

SargeWoofs/Arcanine lvl 33
Flamethrower
Dig
Bite
Roar

HM Slave/Totodile
Cut
Surf
Leer
Rage

TM Slave/Togepi
Extrasensory
Flash
???
???

Zurmi July 23rd, 2010 8:29 AM

Hey all.

Doing a Solo Run on Soul Silver using a Mankey. No nickname. Probably gonna make it evolve though.

I got it off of a trade with my cousin. He traded me the egg, and I hatched.

Currently it's level 17 and we're at the entrance of the cave towards Azalea.

One badge so far. You would think that it would've been difficult defeating Pidgeotto with a fighting type, but two Karate Chops did the trick. %D

Currently it knows Scratch, Karate Chop, Seismic Toss, and Low Kick.

Anyways, keep ya posted!

Sceptile0111 July 25th, 2010 7:46 AM

Jirachi Update:
After a quick stop in the Pokemon Center, I headed north with an extremely disobedient Jirachi in tow. I defeated the few trainers that I hadn't beaten last time, and woke up the Sudowoodo with the SquirtBottle. Somehow, my Swift attack didn't quite kill it, so I took the opportunity to capture it (hey, why not?) He then became destined as an HM Slave. Before going to Ecruteak, I stopped over in Violet and went south to New Bark Town to show Elm the Togepi, and he gave me an Everstone that I probably won't use. Oh well. After returning to Violet, I took the western path and got to Ecruteak. I healed, said hi to Bill, and entered the Burnt Tower, where Morty and Eusine were attempting to capture Suicune by...standing in one place doing nothing? Lol. Pingas then jumped me, but despite Jirachi's laziness, I still managed to beat him. I descended the stairs and woke the legendary gerbils, after which time Morty's Gym opened for business and I headed there after healing.

Morty
I. Hate. CURSE!!!! That move will forever be the bane of all solo runners. It took me three tries to beat the very first trainer with the five Gastly, mainly because Jirachi never could manage to use Psychic on all five of them before at least one managed to get off a Curse, which then proceeded to kill Jirachi three turns later. This will be so much easier once I have that badge and Jirachi listens to me again. Anyway, I finally managed to beat the first trainer, and the second went down leaving Jirachi at 1/4 health. So I healed before moving on, at which point I had to face the next trainer no less than four times. Ironically, Morty was actually the easiest Trainer in the Gym, mainly because either his Pokemon don't know Curse or they just couldn't be bothered to use it; only his Gengar ever Cursed me and since it was his last Pokemon, Jirachi KO'ed it before Curse had taken much of a toll. Finally, Jirachi would obey me again, all the way until level 50! :D

Moving on, I next entered the Dance Hall and Psychiced the heck out of the Rocket's single Koffing. For this, I got the Surf HM...but I don't have any Water Pokemon slaves. So I went east to Mt. Mortar, hoping to find a Marill, but I didn't (although I did get Strength for my trouble, which I gave to Sudowoodo). A quick fishing trip later, I grabbed a Goldeen with a single Net Ball. Next, I went west and made it to Olivine (and started growing Oran Berries to give to Miltank.) Entered the lighthouse and beat the trainers; they're such a pushover now that Jirachi's obedient. After that, there wasn't really much left to do except head to Cianwood, which would be a bit of a gauntlet since all of Jirachi's moves have (relatively) low PP, and earlier I had made the mistake of replacing Swift for Double-Edge, meaning that Jirachi'd take damage if it used it. Thanks to a strategic use of Wish to heal after enough Double-Edges, I made it to the island and got Jasmine's medicine before going north and smashing Eusine to pieces. Next up, the gym!

Chuck
Psychic. That's all that needed to be said. All ten Psychics were enough to defeat all of the trainers' and Chuck's Pokemon. I didn't have to restore PP once, and afterward I got Fly. This gym was a nice breather from Morty's!

JIRACHI'S STATS:
Nature: Lax
Ability: Serene Grace
Level: 46
HP: 166
ATK: 113
DEF: 126
SP. ATK: 114
SP. DEF: 97
SPD: 116
Moves: Wish, Psychic, Gravity, Draco Meteor


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PaxAmericana July 26th, 2010 9:46 AM

Gonna do it on HG, with a pidgey to a pidgeot to see how strong it is!


Well i started with Totodile then caught a pidgey on route 29, grinded it to level 9


team:

Pidgey lvl 9
Totodile (HM slave) lvl 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reshiram Man (Post 6005521)
Gonna do it on HG, with a pidgey to a pidgeot to see how strong it is!


Well i started with Totodile then caught a pidgey on route 29, grinded it to level 9


team:

Pidgey lvl 9
Totodile (HM slave) lvl 8

I have decided not to do this challenge

Shadowposion5 July 27th, 2010 7:57 AM

Solo Run HG
 
Ill do this!!!!

Trapi/Trapinch/Evolving/HG



Looking forward to doing this
First Update

Got Totodile named surfsi
got pokegear
went to cherrygrove got the running boots went to see mr pokemon Got the mystery egg
Professor oak gave me the pokedex
Got a call from professor Elm he sounds worried
Back to cherrygrove


Rival Battle One

This battle was easy he sent out his Chikorita I used water gun a couple of times and he was out

Went back to New Bark town
At proffessor Elms lab a police officer is talking to pro elm
i named my rival wake
caught a sentret
went to cherrygrove and got my Trapinch egg
Hatch the egg
saved

My Solo Runner
Trapi Lv 1
Moves Bite



Shadowposion

Sceptile0111 July 27th, 2010 7:29 PM

Jirachi Update:
Jasmine
I decided to forego Fly in favor of Surfing back to Olivine, taking out the rest of the trainers that I had missed on the way in. Luckily, I made it to Jasmine before Jirachi had hit too high of a level, and so the Gym gave me little trouble without disobedience getting in my way. Steelix surprised me though, it took two Psychics to KO it. After getting my Badge, I Flew back to Ecruteak, headed east to Mahogany.

On the way there, I ran into Suicune and Eusine again, but no battles happened this time. I beat a few easy trainers, bought the RageCandyBar, and went up to the Lake of Rage to investigate some strange rumors. There, I battled the Red Gyarados, and when a Psychic from Jirachi left it at red health, I shrugged and caught it in a single Great Ball. I promptly taught it Surf and Strength and deposited Goldeen and Sudowoodo, using the Red Gyarados as a much better HM Slave. Lance then returned to Mahogany and busted open the shop owner's secret passageway leading me to Team Rocket's hideout. I decided to forego deactivating the statues in favor of the extra cash and experience, and headed back to the surface once to replenish PP. The biggest challenge in the hideout was PP conservation, but thanks to Lance and a Double-Edge/Wish combo, I managed to avoid returning to the surface any more times. Ariana(?) was hilariously easy, especially with Lance destroying the random grunt easily. When the Electrode were down, I healed and prepared for Pryce's Gym.

Pryce
This Gym, thanks to Jirachi obeying me for once, was more challenging in terms of the puzzle than the actual battles. By the time I got to Pryce himself, I was extremely frustrated, and what better way to deal with frustration than taking it out on a Gym Leader? So a few Psychics later, Jirachi had earned me a new badge.

I was all set to head on to Blackthorn when Professor Elm called me, saying something about the radio tower. He sounded panicky, so I flew to Goldenrod to see what all the trouble was about. The first thing I noticed was a large number of Rocket Grunts patrolling the city...that can't be good! I healed Jirachi, went into the Underground to find a disguise, and infiltrated the Radio Tower. Pingas was there, and blew my disguise for me, so thanks for nothing, Pingas! (Although it was pretty fun going around terrorizing citizens...mwahahaha). He didn't challenge me, though, so I just had a few easy Grunts to deal with. Jirachi learned Cosmic Power while in the Tower, and I replaced Double-Edge for it...probably not the smartest move looking back, but oh well. I had to heal once before facing Petrel, whose Poison-type team died pathetically easily to my Psychics, and healed again before entering the Underground, passing a Kimono Girl on the way. The entire Rocket ordeal was an extreme test of PP conservation, but I managed to make it to the real Director without leaving to heal. One more healing session later, I was able to reach the observation deck and defeat Team Rocket once and for all! ...I hope...

Well, with that out of the way, nothing more is left but the eighth badge, so eastward I go! I decided to use the spare Repels I had been picking up in my travels to navigate the Ice Path, which made it easier to focus on the puzzles. The Strength puzzle was easy, but the ice puzzles were harder...luckily, I made it through and helped out a Kimono Girl in the process. They do seem to be cropping up everywhere lately. I also took the opportunity to teach Whirlpool and Waterfall to Gyarados, finishing up all of the HM's. Once in Blackthorn, I healed and prepared to face Clair.

Clair
Draco Meteor was a lot of fun in this Gym. Every Trainer and the Gym Leader got the same treatment: Psychic on all but their last Pokemon, which was finished off with Draco Meteor (due to the Sp. Atk drop.) For once, Kingdra didn't give me any trouble, as one Draco Meteor easily knocked it out. When that was finished, Clair refused to give me the badge unless I entered the Dragon's Den...ah well, a Trainer's work is never done. So I healed and entered the Den, fought a few easy trainers, and made it to the Shrine. The test was easy and I took the opportunity to grab the Dragon Fang and the Extremespeed Dratini before leaving Blackthorn for the south.

Professor Elm gave me another call, asking me to stop by. Since New Bark was on the way, I figured, why not? The route gave me some additional Trainer experience, and upon arriving, I grabbed the Master Ball and flew to Ecruteak. Time to find out what the Kimono Girls want...Aha! It seems they're after Ho-Oh, and want me to battle them. Most of them were easy, except...UMBREON. The only thing I had that affected it was Draco Meteor, and it managed to survive three of those, hitting me with Confuse Ray and a few Faint Attacks before dying. Man, I hate Dark-types. Once the others had been defeated as well, I healed and ascended the Tin Tower after stocking up on Ultra Balls and Max Repels. It took me a few tries, but thanks to Draco Meteor's stat drop and a Wish/Cosmic Power stall combo, I managed to snag the phoenix in an Ultra Ball, because who doesn't like to Fly in style? I deposited Spearow after returning to the city, and taught Ho-Oh Fly just because...well, it's HO-OH. With that out of the way, it was time to take on the big challenge...VICTORY ROAD!

This marks the first time I have ever intentionally shut off the Running Shoes in HG/SS. After passing through Tohjo Falls and fighting the first few Trainers, I realized that I wouldn't have enough PP to get me to the rest stop, and I really, REALLY didn't want to go all the way back home. So I decided to stealth my way around the remaining Trainers and through the tall grass, only running into one wild Ponyta which I ran from, before making it to the rest house, healing, and returning to take on the trainers I had passed. A few rest house stops later, I prepared to take on Victory Road...and was all out of Repels, so this should get interesting. The Road was straightforward, although by the time I got to the exit I had only four Psychics and a Draco Meteor left. Who should turn up but Pingas? First out was, annoyingly enough, a Sneasel, and I had no choice but to Meteor it to death, taking the drop in Sp. Atk. This made it much harder to KO his next few Pokemon, and I got stuck on Magneton for a while, paralyzed constantly, before defeating it with my last Psychic. Golbat was annoying, as I was desperately trying to use up my Cosmics and Wishes to gain Struggle, but its Confuse Ray just wasted turns for me. Eventually, I ran myself out of PP and Struggled Golbat to death. I had just enough health to defeat his last Pokemon as well (don't remember what it was though) and barely make it out of Victory Road with low health and no PP. Next up...the Elite Four.

Will
Will was easily my second-toughest challenge here, considering that all of his Pokemon resisted Psychic. Jynx was the only one that gave me real trouble, though, after getting a Freeze off and forcing me to use a Hyper Potion. During this battle, Jirachi hit Level 70 and learned Doom Desire, which would help in later battles immensely.
Koga
Psychic. Enough said. I took the opportunity to try out Doom Desire on Forretress, where it worked swimmingly. I used an Ether to replenish PP right after the battle.
Bruno
Psychic killed everything here.
Karen
I HATE DARK-TYPE POKEMON! Sorry, just had to say it. I used the same combo of Doom Desire, Wish, Cosmic Power, repeat to defeat Umbreon in two cycles and Murkrow in one, and of course the Poison-types died easily. The only annoying thing was Houndoom, whose Flamethrower actually managed to KO Jirachi before Wish could take effect. Luckily, I just used one of my death fodder HM Slaves to die while I used a Max Revive. Jirachi ended up with red health, but managed to kill Houndoom and net me the victory, allowing me to feed it a much-needed Hyper Potion and Elixir before facing the Champion.
Lance
If anything, Dragonites are more annoying than Dark-types, especially those with Fire Blast and/or T-wave. I swear, I used more items in this battle than I have in the entire run-through. Luckily, Psychic worked on the Dragons, and despite a few Full Restores from Lance, I finally managed the win. Time to roll the credits! Next stop, Kanto!

JIRACHI'S STATS, POST-E4:
Nature: Lax
Ability: Serene Grace

Level: 72
HP: 255
ATK: 176
DEF: 196
SP. ATK: 177
SP. DEF: 152
SPD: 181
Moves: Wish, Psychic, Cosmic Power, Doom Desire

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Ian Watkins July 28th, 2010 2:15 AM

Okay, I completed this challenge. My Butterfree is level 80, with the moves Bug Buzz, Psychic, Shadow Ball an Sleep Piwder.


I am now doin this with Staraptor. (and I promise I'll update more :p)

RedJoker25 August 1st, 2010 8:27 PM

Guess this'll be my last update:

Clair/Lance was difficult. Then again, when is a basic Fire-type going up against a evolved Water-type easy? Anyways, the battle took many tries. The same strategy I use against all tough trainers of Double Team/BrightPowder won out, although Kyle helped take out some of the opponents. Ice Fang knocked Clair's team down while I built up a defense against Lance. For the first time ever, I used X items...

Next came the E4 redux. I used the same strategy as above to take three of them out, with Bruno taking a Choice Specs beating and Koga being easy enough that I could use Amulet Coin. Lance was a toughie, with me using more X items to increase my Defenses. Even then, a few lucky critical hits and one Perish Song made me reset over and over. He ended with Charizard, which seems to be a theme in this game.

Climbed up Mt. Silver once, collecting items, catching Moltres, and trying out Red. Pikachu knocked Cyndaquil out with one Volt Tackle. Therefore, I decided to fly back down to National Park, where I competed in several Bug Catching Contests and Pokeathlon events (opened up the final room and increased various scores). Also picked up several Apricorns and Apricorn Pokeballs.

Finally, I decided it was time for the final battle. I flew back to Mt. Silver and trekked up the mountain again. This time, Red was my goal, and I wasn't going to leave without defeating him. Again, the BrightPowder/Double Team/X-defenses strategy pulled it off, albeit after many tries.

First up, Pikachu. The two were about the same speed, so I depended on luck to get through. I started with an X-Defend to soften Volt Tackle, due to the fact that it was Pika's only move that could OHKO Cynda. Hail occasionally caused Thunderbolt to do the same, but not often enough to matter. After that, I kept healing Cynda until BrightPowder caused Pika to miss, when I used an X-Sp.Def. Once that was in place, I got in some Double Teams and more X-items, which pretty much took me through Pika's Full Restore and him Volt Tackling himself to death.

Blastoise came out next, but by then I had set up enough defenses to guard against his attacks well enough. This was more of an annoyance battle, since Flamethrower/Eruption could only do so much damage. There were a couple of battles where he got lucky shots in, but compared to the number of times I reset, they were few and far between.

The two times I came across Lapras were like my battle with Pryce's Dewgong, except I remembered that it was part Ice. A few Flamethrowers together with healing and my defenses took care of him.

Snorlax was only a threat because of the Full Restore used on him. The first time I saw him he got in a critical hit, causing me to restart. The second time, he didn't so it was only a matter of healing and Flamethrowers.

Venusaur was a Pokemon I only saw once. He shot a Sludge Bomb that poisoned Cynda, but was quickly taken care of with a Full Restore. Two Flamethrowers took him out quite nicely.

My last encounter for this challenge was Red's Charizard (see what I mean about a theme?). The whole time I fought him, I was hoping for no critical hits, which thankfully happened so I could win. Flamethrower again could only do so much, and with Hail taking a little extra off each turn, the battle turned into damage to red zone, Full Restore, damage to red zone, Full Restore, battle to the finish. The worst part of beating him was that I couldn't do it myself because he decided to have a working Flare Blitz knock off the last bit of his points. Oh well. At least I beat him. Cyndaquil gained his last level of the challenge here, level 96.

And so ends Bryan and Cyndaquil's journey to become the best in Johto and Kanto, having defeated all 16 gyms, prematurely ended Team Rocket's rebirth, called on the legendary Ho-oh, beat the E4 twice, and bested the lone-wolf true champion, Red.

Final stats:
Location: New Bark Town
Time : 73:18
Pokédex: 123
Pokemon:
Cyndaquil Lvl. 96 w/ BrightPowder (Entire battle with Red took place at Lvl. 95)
HP /Atk/Def/Sp. Atk/Sp. Def/Speed
226/134/130/151/114/190
Swift/Flamethrower/Double Team/Eruption

Pidgeotto: Fly
Furret: Surf/Whirlpool
Sandshrew: Rock Smash/Strength/Cut/Rock Climb
Dratini: Waterfall

Real-life Length of Challenge: May 2, 2010 to August 1, 2010

Maraala August 3rd, 2010 12:52 PM

Started a New Game-Named my character Sammy-Named rival Mr.Meanie-Chose starter at random and got Totadile-Hacked for Glaceon-Visited Mr.Pokemon-Gott the 'Dex from Oak-Ran into Mr.Meanie and he got beat-Traverse to Violet City-Sprout Tower was a breeze-Falkner was a breeze(no pun intended)-Got through Union Cave-Thwarted Team Rocket from using Slowpoke Tail for finanicial gain

Glaceon-Level 18
Tackle
Icy Wind
Helping Hand
Sand-Attack

Sceptile0111 August 3rd, 2010 3:49 PM

Jirachi Update:
It was time for Jirachi and I to get our sea legs and board the S.S. Aqua. Luckily, someone had been kind enough to reserve us a room with a bed to heal in, because my PP conservation was going to be once again tested here. I battled the random trainers in the cabins before going downstairs; Doom Desire was required to kill the x4 Psy-resistant Bronzong, but other than that, no problems at all. Battled a lazy sailor and found an annoying little girl, who apparently has the ability to teleport me back to her father...eh, whatever. I finally disembarked in Vermilion City, where after a quick Center stop, I immediately went to the closest Gym, Lt. Surge's Electric Gym!

Lt. Surge
Well, aside from a double battle with two gym trainers in which my random Eevee gained about twenty levels and evolved into Espeon, nothing else of note happened. The puzzle was extremely annoying, just like in EVERY. SINGLE. GENERATION. EVER. Surge himself wasn't so bad, I got paralyzed but even that didn't stop me for long, as a few Psychics made short work of his Electric-types.

Surge told me upon his defeat that the next gym was in Saffron City, to the north. So, naturally, I healed and headed straight there. Before the Gym, I explored the city a little, and got a free TM, found a very weird girl who apparently enjoys crossdressing as a boy, and saw an abandoned dojo with some interesting phrases scrawled on scrolls. Anyway, after those shenanigans, it was time to face Sabrina!

Sabrina
Yet another VERY ANNOYING puzzle. I ended up fighting all of the trainers at least once, and had to leave to replenish PP before taking on the Leader herself. Alakazam died easily to a Doom Desire/stall combo, as did her next poke, but the (apparently female? O_o) Mr. Mime gave me a bit of trouble. Somehow my first Doom Desire missed, allowing it to set up a bunch of walls that let it survive another Doom Desire. It took three Psychics in addition to this to finally down it; luckily, with x4 resistance to Psychic, Jirachi didn't take much damage. With Sabrina defeated and the Marshbadge in hand, I now had a choice of three directions, two of which contained Gyms.

After much Delibird-ating, I decided on Celadon City, barely a Route away to the west. Once there, I did some more exploring. I encountered two familiar faces from Sinnoh, listened to a man's failure at telling a ghost story, broke the fourth wall by meeting the game programmers, and got hung up playing Voltorb Flip for an hour. Finally, I was ready for the Gym.

Erika
Since it is apparently a law that almost every Grass-type in this gym must also be part Poison, Psychic just dominated here. The only thing that marginally gave me any trouble was a random trainer's Exeggutor due to its resistance and Leech Seed, but even that died with no trouble. I made it out of the Gym with my spoils and one PP remaining on Psychic! Next stop was the quick and easy Cycling Road, and after that, my next Gym challenge:

Janine
Ah, I had forgotten just how many of Kanto's Gyms have extremely annoying puzzles. Other than that, Psychic just got another workout as it completely destroyed everything in this Gym. My next stop would be Lavender Town by way of the eastern route!

JIRACHI'S STATS:
Nature: Lax
Ability: Serene Grace
Level: 81
HP: 286
ATK: 197
DEF: 221
SP. ATK: 199
SP. DEF: 171
SPD: 203
Moves: Wish, Psychic, Cosmic Power, Doom Desire


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