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The Nuzlocke Challenge Thread
~The Nuzlocke Challenge Thread~ Hello and welcome to the Nuzlocke Challenge Thread. Here you can post about your Nuzlocke adventures and experience another new and exciting way to play your Pokemon games. The Nuzlocke Challenge can have many different rule sets to make the challenge harder or easier on oneself, but the main idea of the Nuzlocke challenge is that if your Pokemon faints, they are "dead" and you must release them or just box them away and not use them for the rest of the challenge. Really, you're goal should be to make things as hard as you honestly think you can handle and see how it goes. This thread's main ruleset will be based on my own modified rules but you can change them in any way you'd like in the spirit of the challenge. ~Rules
~Challengers Post saying which game you're doing the challenge on if you'd like to be on this list. ~Diamond SooperTrooper mondays suck Comokanu
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Since I don't really know how to continue on Gold in this moment, I'll start a simultaneous Nuzlocke run on Pearl version, it's just addicting...
Let's see how many Bidoofs I'll get... I already have generated some nicknames (5 each for m, f and neutral, that should be enough at first), and most are awful (as you will see later). This is going to be fun. |
Wow I love the Faint = Death thing....really makes me think of my Pokémons as a pet than a weapon! I'll do Platinum for the choice then!
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I'm going to try this on Platinum alongside my regular play through of SS, it sounds fun!
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Before I started yesterday evening, I rolled a dice to determine my starter, and ended up with Piplup, my least favorite one. Up to now, it seems that it's my least favorite for a reason, it has been pathetic. So, I focussed on the Shinx I caught on the route north of Sandgem Town instead and it gained levels quickly. North of Jubilife, I failed to catch a Budew, which I would have needed because of a crit, but I did manage to catch a Magikarp and a Zubat. After I caught Zubat, I was about to go back to Jubilfe, and out of the grass came a Bidoof and attacked me. At some point, my Shinx had 7 HP left and Bidoof was almost dead. Tackle missed, and Bidoof attacked with Tackle, that had done 3 damage in each hit before, critted and my Shinx was dead. I was like WTF just happened? Zubat managed to kill off that damn Bidoof, but the damage it had done to my team was irreversible, my best Pokemon had just died, together with my hopes to get Magikarp and Zubat up quickly. Only two steps later, a girl I had skipped without knowing it when I headed to the cave, saw and attacked me. With a level 7 Bidoof, while I had a dead level 10 Shinx, a level 7 Piplup at half HP, a level 7 Magikarp with only Splash, and a level 4 Zubat with a red HP bar. Fortunately, it growled most of the time, and so did I. Always when my attack was down quite a lot so it might think about attacking, I switched to Magikarp and then switched back. Despite Piplup doing almost no damage even without lowered attack, I somehow managed to beat the Bidoof. What a fight, hard as a gym battle.
So, back at Jubilife, I knew I had to grind a lot, my remaining team after Shinx' way too early sudden and totally unexpected death wasn't good for anything (except being awesome by containing a Magikarp). I decided I'd rather use Zubat its nature isn't even that bad when considering that this is a Nuzlocke run) as my new main Pokemon (until I can get Gyarados) than Piplup, so I started grinding. And grinded. And grinded. And when I went to bed, it had only reached level 8, battles take horribly long with only Leech Life and Supersonic and no offensively viable teammembers. At least, towards the end of yesterday's grinding period, Leech Life has started to do more damage than Supersonic against level 2 Bidoofs, so there is hope. And as soon as I get Bite, which shouldn't take too long anymore (hopefully), I can finally advance some more in the storyline. Spoiler:
Current Team: http://pokemon.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/393.gifm Chimo - Lv.8 - Pound, Growl, Bubble - Bold, Torrent - Lake Verity http://pokemon.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/129.gifm Rian - Lv.7 - Splash - Quirky, Swift Swim - Route 219 http://pokemon.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/041.giff Sharifa - Lv.8 - Leech Life, Supersonic - Relaxed, Inner Focus - Ravaged Path Dead: http://pokemon.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/403.gifm Zamthustra - Lv.10 - Tackle, Leer, Charge - Naive, Rivalry - Route 202 - Bidoof Failed to catch Pokemon at: Route 201, Route 204 Well, I could also see my bad current situation positively: It can only get better. Or at least I hope so. |
Yeah, diffidently grind karp up to Gyarados before you go doing too much farther. He's a real help to any nuzlocker. Golbat is also surprisingly good.
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So, after hours of grinding (I hate DPPt's speed, esp. when on DS...), my Zubat finally learned Bite at level 13 or 14 and I could beat my rival in Jubilife and advance further towards Oreburgh.
On the first place I visited, the first thing I found was Abra, which I of course did not succeed to catch. Then, in the 3 areas surrounding Oreburgh, I met 2 Geodudes and another Zubat. I decided to take the better Geodude and my Zubat as my team and deposited all the rest into the PC. Yes, that includes Magikarp, because I am not going to grind it up before Eterna Forest, it would take way to long otherwhere. So, currently I'm grinding my awfully nicknamed Geodude (I should change the random name generator, the one I use for Gold is way better...) until it learns Magnitude, which should be enough to beat Roark. I think I should maybe look up his movesets before challenging him though, just to be sure. Update: Beat Roark by spamming Magnitude. Got to Floaroma town and caught a Shellos (accidentally didn't nickname it) and an Aipom (Argwwgwgh (I'll probably replace it by something more intelligent later), in all caps because it ate up 15 Pokeballs (I can only hope that it was worth it...) and almost killed my Zubat. I'll be trying to get my Pokemon to level 22 (Golbat!) before advancing any further, I know from experience that Mars' Purugly can be a pest. Next: Grinding, Mars and Eterna Forest (which basically means more grinding, since I'll start to get my Magikarp up there) Current Team: http://pokemon.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/041.giff Sharifa - Lv.20 - Leech Life, Wing Attack, Astonish, Bite - Relaxed, Inner Focus - Ravaged Path http://static.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/074.gifm Merlin - Lv.18 - Tackle, Magnitude, Rock Throw, Rock Polish - Jolly, Rock Head - Route 207 http://static.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/190.gifm Argaagagh Lv.9 - Scratch, Tail Whip, Sand Attack, Astonish - Bashful, Run Away - Floaroma Meadow Box: Spoiler:
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Failed to catch Pokemon at: Route 201, 203, 204 |
Two Nuzlocke challenges would be awesome. :D
Yeah, I'll go for it in counterpart with my Silver Nuzlocke. Alright, I'll be using Diamond Version. :] |
Just started on Pearl. I chose Charmander named it CHIMCHAWE. Bought 5 pokeballs in sandgem town. CHIMCHAWE became lv.8. Caught Bidoof on route 202. Named him BIDAWE. Entered Jubilife City. Caught a Shinx called him LUXAWE on route 204.
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I'll do diamond too! :D
Will start later somtime. |
After only a few levels of Aipom grinding, I decided that I was strong enough to challenge Mars, and so did I. Zubat went down easily by Sharifa's Wing Attack, but Purugly severely harmed Sharifa with a crit Faint Attack, so I had to switch. I went to Merlin because Argahg(etc) was still rather underleveled at that point and it did a good job, Magnitude spam was enough to defeat the cat.
Then, it was time for eterna Forest. Nothing major happened here. I caught a Buneary named "Not Budew" (guess Pokemon what I wanted there) and Sharifa evolved, but I didn't do any grinding despite what I had planned because I was not in the mood for it. I probably will regret it. Arrived at Eterna, and there I caught myself a Meditie with a bad nature and another Zubat. Then, I challenged Gardenia's gym and Sharifa defeated everything without even losing one HP. Considering that Wing Attack OHKOd everything and Sharifa is faster than most grass types (even faster than Roserade, despite its -Spe nature), that's not much of a surprise. Then, I headed back to Eterna Forest in order to catch a Gastly in that creepy house (I taught the Cut HM to Piplup because I didn't catch any Bidoofs yet), but that didn't quite work. First, my Aipom used Astonish and got it down to the red HP area where I wanted it, but then Gastly used Curse and there went my awesome special sweeper. So, my team remains a pure physical team up to now... Current Team: http://static.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/042.giff Sharifa - Lv.24 - Leech Life, Wing Attack, Confuse Ray, Bite - Relaxed, Inner Focus - Ravaged Path http://static.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/074.gifm Merlin - Lv.21 - Tackle, Magnitude, Rock Throw, Rock Polish - Jolly, Rock Head - Route 207 http://static.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/190.gifm Argaagagh Lv.20 - Scratch, Tickle, Sand Attack, Astonish - Bashful, Run Away - Floaroma Meadow Box: Spoiler:
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Failed to catch Pokemon at: Route 201, 203, 204, Old Chateau |
Eh, I'm going to withdraw from this challenge.
I'll probably do it later, but for now, I quit. |
Due to being sick yesterday, I played quite a lot on the DS. Here is what happened, in no particular order:
Current Team: http://static.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/169.giff Sharifa - Lv.27 - Leech Life, Wing Attack, Confuse Ray, Bite - Relaxed, Inner Focus - Ravaged Path http://static.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/190.gifm Arghaagagh - Lv.25 - Scratch, Tickle, Sand Attack, Astonish - Bashful, Run Away - Floaroma Meadow http://static.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/436.gifSth. Weird - Lv.25 - Extrasensory, Hypnosis, Imprison, Confuse Ray - Naive, Levitate - Route 206 http://static.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/339.giff RandomFish - Lv.25 - Water Pulse, Amnesia, Water Gun, Mud Bomb - Mild, Anticipation - Eterna City http://pokemon.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/393.gifm Chimo - Lv.8 - Pound, Growl, Bubble, Cut - Bold, Torrent - Lake Verity http://static.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/440.gifEgg - Hearthome City Box: Spoiler:
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Failed to catch Pokemon at: Route 201, 203, 204, 208, Old Chateau While I'm stagnating on Gold because that grinding is taking so damn long, I am getting surprisingly far in Pearl, here's my newest update: After having saved at Hearthome, the only way I could go was Route 209, which lead to Solaceon Town. And, of course, the Lost Tower, which is somewhere on the way. I had been wondering for quite some time whether I am finally going to get a Gastly there, or if I will get another Zubat or fail to catch a Gastly. Surprisinly, none of these scenarios happened, and I met a Misdreavus instead. At first, I didn't like this, knowing from before that Midreavus is pretty damn hard to catch, and I had already lost a lot of Pokeballs trying to catch Aipom. But, thanks to Sth. Weird's awesome Pokemon catching skills, it only took me 2 Pokeballs. I named Misdreavus Banshee and looked at its stats as soon as I got to the PC. And I saw that it was Modest. I don't think I need to mention I instantly added it to my team (by throwing my HM slave out until Happiny hatched), right? It didn't have any other attacking moves than Astonish (which is physical), but after using the Hidden Power TM I had been saving so long for a special attacker, getting Banshee up to the rest of my team's levels was a piece of cake. Hidden Power happens to be Water by the way, which is awesome (even though I was hoping for Fighting). Getting to Veilstone wasn't really hard, and I caught a Bonsly (called Spy because it is one) Spoiler:
and a Geodude called Dude 3 because it's already the third Geodude I found. I was hoping for Ponyta, but apparently I attract Rock types more. Well, at least it wasn't another Abra. So, I arrived at Veilstone, failed to catch a Kricketune south of it because it killed itself in its confusion and challenged Maylene's gym. The four gym trainers were not too hard, except when a random Machoke brought down Sth. Weird to 3 HP with a critical Low Kick at some point. Then, it was time for the leader. I lead with Banshee and she took out the Meditite and Machoke easily with Psybeam. The only thing that happened was that she got Foresighted. Not a very hard battle up to now. But then, Lucario was sent out. So, because she has no super-effective moves against the thing, I decided to let Banshee use Confuse Ray. Of course, things didn't work as planned and Lucario did not hit itself in its confusion and instead brought down Banshee from full HP to something like 1/3 with just one Force Palm. I hate that thing, it's not only overpopular, it's also overpowered. I switched to Sth. Weird, and tried to Hypnosis the anthromorphous dog, but of course Hypnosis always betrays its user in a critical situation and I soon had to switch. RandomFish seemed to be the best thing to switch to, but somehow Lucario got it down to 1 HP wiuth only 2 hits, and one of them was a not very effective Metal Claw... RandomFish managed to use Magnitude on it, and with a power of 8, it did some very nice damage. So, I had to switch again, and with only Sharifa and Aipom left, I decided to use Sharifa and hope the thing doesn't have any Rock-type moves. Fortunately, it didn't have any, and Sharifa took lol damage from what was thrown at her. Maylene had a Hyper Potion, but after spamming Wing Attack while getting lucky with confusion this time, Lucario was dead. Finally. What a battle, I really would have been screwed if it wouldn't be for Sharifa. Next: Whatever is in the story line after Veilstone. I think it must be Crasher Wake... That will be the point where I will hate the game for not letting me catch any Budew... Luckily, Banshee has Shóck Wave, and if that don't work... use Sharifa. Current Team: http://static.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/169.giff Sharifa - Lv.29 - Leech Life, Wing Attack, Confuse Ray, Bite - Relaxed, Inner Focus - Ravaged Path http://static.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/190.gifm Arghaagagh - Lv.28 - Scratch, Tickle, Sand Attack, Astonish - Bashful, Run Away - Floaroma Meadow http://static.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/436.gifSth. Weird - Lv.29 - Extrasensory, Hypnosis, Iron Defense, Confuse Ray - Naive, Levitate - Route 206 http://static.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/339.giff RandomFish - Lv.28 - Water Pulse, Amnesia, Magnitude, Mud Bomb - Mild, Anticipation - Eterna City *Misdreavus*f Banshee - Lv.29 – Shock Wave, Psybeam, Confuse Ray, HP Water – Modest, Levitate – Lost Tower http://pokemon.marriland.com/images/dp/icons/393.gifm Chimo - Lv.8 - Pound, Growl, Bubble, Cut - Bold, Torrent - Lake Verity Box: Spoiler:
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Failed to catch Pokemon at: Route 201, 203, 204, 208, 214, Old Chateau |
Doing this in Platinuuuum~ n_n
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Added in new challengers. :)
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I kinda got game oveer twice before I got to... Roark's place. .____.
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ima do this on platinum
team so far chimchar-lvl 7 Burner starly-lvl 3 forgot to nickname will give it a name once i can gonna train both pokes to 10 without them dieing hopefully |
Pearl for me! I'ma attempt at these little story things.....
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update 2 : went to the route after sandegm town and found me a bidoof caught him named him slave but i really wanted a shinx stupid rng good thing is i checked ivs of my pokemon i may have a couple 31"s which is good ill have another update in a bit heres my team so far
chimchar-lvl-9-burner starly-lvl4 bidoof-lvl4-slave oh how u put the lil pokemon sprites on a post |
I think I'll join in on this. Sign me up for Pearl! ;D
Happenings:
Team as of now: http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/e/e1/Ani387MS.png Soup lvl 10 - Overgrow - Tackle|Withdraw|Absorb http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/c/c2/Ani396MS.png Wasabi lvl 10 - Keen Eye - Quick Attack|Wing Attack|Tackle|Growl http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/2/22/Ani399MS.pngGolly lvl 9 - Unaware - Tackle|Growl|Defence Curl http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/c/c5/Ani129MS.png Eric lvl 4 - Swift Swim - Splash. In box: None. Dead: None yet! :) |
So, shortly after my last update, I caught a Floatzel (named unfitting, because glass cannons aren't really fitting for Nuzlocke runs) and a Roselia (named Finally, I had been waiting for a grass type for ages). I dropped my HM Slave from my team and added Finally instead. Unfortunately, after just 3 levels of grinding, Finally got killed at almost full HP by the first physical attack it ever had to take: a 2 levels higher Bibarel's Hyper Fang, not even critical. This death looks very similar to that of Zamthustra, here are all similarities:
I'll make a proper update later, when I get Spy (who I have decided to train instead, but it's not doing very well up to now, maybe I'll change that decision again) up to the rest of my team and then progress in story. |
I'll start this in Platinum. Should be interesting. Am I required to catch a pokemon from EVERY route, or can I skip catching some?
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You can skip some, but I wouldn't recommend that since you might always come into a situation where you're short of Pokemon. I would only skip Pokemon when I'm really short of Pokeballs.
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K thanks for the info. I was only planning on skipping stuff like the first route, since Bidoof and Satrly don't really interest me (if I was using Diamond, then I would definitley get a Starly).
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It appears that I spend my time getting nothing but the pokes that I do not want.
After having beaten my rival with close to no damage taken in the process, I proceeded to demolish both route 203 and the Oreburgh Gate with Golly and Soup. Since Wasabi most likely won't be of much use for now, I didn't grind him like I did with Golly (I thought Bidoof learned Water Gun by level ._.) and Soup. As a result, Golly and Soup had reached lvl 14 and 16 respectively from training in the Oreburgh Mine before I challenged Roark. The Gym battle was fairly easy in the beginning, since I decided to lead with Soup, it swiftly OHKO'd Roark's Geodude with Razor Leaf, and proceeded to OHKO Onix as well - however, not before it managed to land a Screech on it :< As a result, Cranidos took away like 4/5 of Soup's HP with ONE Headbutt - luckily Razor Leaf didn't miss, leaving me with a lvl 17 Turtwig and a shining new badge! Random happenings (in not necessarily chronological order):
Currently at Flomaroma Town, grinding a little before I'll challenge Mars. Team: http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/e/e1/Ani387MS.pngSoup lvl 17 - Absorb|Razor Leaf|Tackle|Curse http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/f/f6/Ani397MS.pngWasabi lvl 15 - Wing Attack|Quick Attack|Double Team|Growl http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/0/04/Ani400MS.pngGolly lvl 15 - Tackle|Defense Curl|Rollout|Water Gun http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/c/c5/Ani129MS.pngEric lvl 6 - Splash http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/b/b4/Ani074MS.pngMarley lvl 6 - Tackle|Defense Curl|Mud Sport|Rock Smash In box: Thomas the Zubat lvl 4 - Bad day the Bidoof lvl 4 - Poland the Geodude lvl 7. Dead: None. YET. I have this feeling Mars WILL kill off half of my party... |
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