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The24thm July 11th, 2015 11:10 AM

Seems like an interesting challenge. Count me in!

Name: The24thm
Game Emerald

TravelerTrainer15 July 25th, 2015 2:44 PM

Is this still on?
Name: Hayden
Game: X

Progress:
Spoiler:

-Moved to Kalos
-Met friends
-Got a Careful-natured female Froakie named Alex
-Pwned Shauna
-Told my mom that I was going to go on a journey


Team:
Spoiler:

Alex (Lv 6 Female Froakie)
Careful
Pound/Growl/Bubble
No item

TravelerTrainer15 August 1st, 2015 6:05 AM

Ok, bad news.

I may have to cancel this challenge in X, since apart from that, I only have B/W2/HG, and none of those to my knowledge have Caterpie, Weedle, and Pidgey available early on for a Tri-Species. I'll move this one to White 2.

Name: Hayden
Game: W2

Sylvie18 August 10th, 2015 11:27 AM

Ooh! glad to see this is still going! I plan on continueing my challenge this week. Been in the middle of moving house and stuff so everything i own is in boxes. got settled into a temporary 2 week home atm so i might have to go rummaging for my soul silver on my day off tomorrow :D

Mewquazabsol August 16th, 2015 7:40 PM

I got a new computer! :D Also, I finished my Naturelocke. I might try finishing up a few more of my projects before writing this, but oh my god, I can tell you that I ended up with a killer final team. I had SO much fun with this challenge! I'm really glad that I made it, and that you people are enjoying it. Adding everyone!

Sylvie18 August 24th, 2015 9:42 AM

I'm almost there! Thought i'd do an update now that im on the boring training grind on the way to the pokemon league
Badges:http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/4/4a/Zephyr_Badge.png/50px-Zephyr_Badge.pnghttp://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/0/08/Hive_Badge.png/50px-Hive_Badge.pnghttp://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/a/a7/Plain_Badge.png/50px-Plain_Badge.pnghttp://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/4/48/Fog_Badge.png/50px-Fog_Badge.pnghttp://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/b/b9/Storm_Badge.png/50px-Storm_Badge.pnghttp://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/7/7b/Mineral_Badge.png/50px-Mineral_Badge.pnghttp://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/e/e6/Glacier_Badge.png/50px-Glacier_Badge.pnghttp://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/5/58/Rising_Badge.png/50px-Rising_Badge.png
Team:
http://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/heartgold-soulsilver/back-normal/feraligatr.pngNeon lvl 48
M|Gentle|Torrent|@Shell Bell
Slash|Crunch|Surf|Ice Fang
http://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/heartgold-soulsilver/back-normal/girafarig-f.pngDaisy lvl 41
F|Rash|Inner Focus|@Nothing
Zen Headbutt|Psychic|Stomp|Assurance
http://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/heartgold-soulsilver/back-normal/golem.pngRumble lvl 38
M|Hasty|Sturdy|@Nothing
Strength|Earthquake|Rock Throw|Rock polish
http://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/heartgold-soulsilver/back-normal/vulpix.pngNina lvl 38
F|Hardy|Flash Fire|@Nothing
Safeguard|Will-o-wisp|Payback|Flamethrower
http://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/heartgold-soulsilver/back-shiny/tauros.pngLucus lvl 33
M|Sassy|Anger Point|@Silk Scarf
Horn attack|Iron Tail|Payback|Zen Headbutt
http://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/heartgold-soulsilver/back-normal/tentacruel.pngSally lvl 32
F|Bashful|Liquid Ooze|@Nothing
BubbleBeam|Waterfall|Whirlpool|Acid
PC gang:
Spoiler:
E|Uknown|Brave|lvl 11
Faron|Zubat|Timid|lvl 5
Kripke|Ekans|Mild|lvl 7
Sue|Togepi|Timid|lvl 4
Valerie|Magikarp|Impish|lvl 10
Vale|Noctowl|Adamant|Lvl 7
Erin|Drowzee|Quirky|lvl 10
Zen|Yanma|Impish|lvl 12
King|Nidoran M|Lax|lvl 12
Sun|Sunkern|Hardy|lvl 10
Lee|Machop|Impish|lvl 14
Neal|Mareep|Bold|lvl 15
Etim|Magnemite|Quiet|Lvl 16
Lanna|Meowth|Naive|Lvl 16
Amy|Koffing|Relaxed|Lvl 14
Inchou|Chinchou|Mild|lvl 20
Shuckie|Shuckle|Relaxed|lvl 20
Kripke|Krabby|Adamant|lvl 24
Newt|Poliwag|Mild|lvl 20
Ellie|Delibird|Impish|lvl 22
Joey|Teddiursa|Naive|lvl 20
*Duncan|Magnemite|Quirky|lvl 16*
Iza|Seel|Rash|lvl 24
Ace|Lugia|Mild|lvl 45

RIP:
Spoiler:
Yasmin, Impish Rattata > Slain by a crit hit from a Sentret's tackle.
Rufus, Impish Pidgeotto > Ice punch from Hitmonchan inside Cianwood Gym
Krem, Adamant Weepinbell > Battled to the death against a koffing
Xena, Gentle Beedrill > Petrel's Koffing Selfdestructed
Dave, Hardy Raticate > Petrel's Koffing Selfdestructed
Orben, Adamant Voltorb > Training fatality

Diary Entries:
Spoiler:
Dear Diary - Well that escalated quickly
Spoiler:
Orben passed away during training, it just wasnt a good match, since she knew whirlpool i had Sally take his place. We had a very long training session in weaker places, as i was growing scared of how many friends i had been losing lately.

We got a little bored of training and decided it couldn't hurt to charge in guns blazing with Neon...was challenged by mike during my rescue of the director. defeated him with Neon, Nina and Daisy, no casualties on our side either :)
--
Well that escalated quickly, rescued the director only for him to tell me the entire pokemon world is in danger if rocket controls the transmitter, guess i have no choice but to remove them if i want to keep my friends safe. We fought carefully through the executives again, training Sally while taking advantage of the teams attack diversity and type strengths...although Rumble was only any use against Raticates as the rest of team rockets pokemon were either dark or poison. Still, ...being able to easily resist a hyper fang was very handy too!

Dear Diary -Legendary Trolls
Spoiler:
With team rocket disbanded, and some kind of silver feather wing in hand. It was time to return to our training, i hear the next gym is full of dragon types, so i shall focus on those who can learn ice type attacks (pretty much just neon then, maybe sally if i beg her enough?) probably wont give Rumble as much training as i should since i know he will refuse to fight.
We caught Newt the poliwag when we passed back through Ecruteak and decided to fish there, i always forget there are pokemon to find inside towns too!

Damn you entei! He appeared as our first encounter on route 44, this is the second time legendaries have thwarted me...oh well.

After a bit of grinding with Sally we eventually got back on route and headed through Ice cave where we met Ellie the Delibird, we also found the HM wasterfall and a frozen kimono girl whom we helped out. Oh! and Sally finally evolved into a tentacruel, the team is becoming a powerhouse once more! ..Now if i can just find a fire stone....

After making it to blackthorn city, finally, we rested up and went straight down to route 35 for...you guessed it, more training, there we caught Joey the teddiursa to add to the PC bench warmers and we plan on hanging out and around the route (even if we have to go to the bottom and fly back up a few times) just to make sure we get all the trainers. This should also allow time for rematches too. i'll write again when we try to challenge the gym leader!

Dear Diary - Neon is awesome
Spoiler:
We challenged the dragon gym, charging through all the grunts using only Neon, hopefully we can keep this up with Clair herself...

=She began with a gyarados, which was typical i suppose, since it more like an honorary dragon than an actual one, Neon still managed to make short work of it with a crunch, ice fang and a slash, reaching lvl 45 for his troubles
=Gyarados was followed by dragonaire, and this was where our ice fang move could really do some damage, we took it down in two shots, though the thunderwave clair pulled off was cruel ( luckily we were only paralyzed for one turn)
= With another dragonaire in the line-up i decided to keep on blazing through and after using my one and only full restore we were ready to go. Annoyingly this dragonaire used the same trick but we werent affected at all because Neon is so pro! It was knocked out immediately.
=For her final pokemon kingdra i decided to risk it and stick with the reigning champ, taking the first turn to remove paralyses, though it turns out kingdra is a really hard hitter, the second turn had to be used on a hyper potion...Orben would be really handy to have right now. Kingdra started spamming smokescreen which became worrying, i was tempted to switch out, but slash seemed to be hitting well, and as long as we healed every turn or two Neon was managing.

After some patience Neon finally defeated kingdra officially soloing the eigth gym of Johto!

Dear Diary.- Dragon troubles
Spoiler:
Despite losing to us, Claire refuses to give us a gym badge, which naturally infuriated Neon and myself, afterall, we (most importantly he) had worked so hard to get here! But now she wants us to take some sort of...dragon challenge int heir sacred cave? Well fine we have no choice if we want our badge but i sincerly hope there is someone inside who i can give a piece of my mind to!

Turns out the challenge was just a few quiz questions from an elderly man. and i passed with flying colours, he made sure Claie gave me the Rising badge, on the way out i encountered a dratini among a sea of magikarp, but i couldnt capture it, it was too stubborn and i ended up knoking it out jut before i ran out of pokeballs...such a shame :( . Oh but it looks like elm has something for me, so we're going to head by his office next!

Dear diary - kimono girls battle
Spoiler:
Turns out Elm wanted to gift me a master ball, then informed me all 5 kimono girls were waiting for me in ecruteak dance theatre, on arrival Mike appeared looking angry he lost, but admitted he thought i was going to win (he didnt look happy about that either!) So i allowed Neon to take the lead and we challenged all 5 in a row, thanks to neon's shell bell and move variety it wasnt too difficult. The only exception was when we faced Jolteon, i allowed Rumble to take stage for that one.

After defeating all five i was given a Tidal bell, then informed that a Lugia shaped shadow was spotted over whirl islands. Guess i'm heading there next

Dear diary - lucky encounters
Spoiler:
Amazing! i just encountered my second shiny, a magnemite, heading down to ecruteak, managed to capture it in an ultra ball and named it Duncan. http://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/heartgold-soulsilver/shiny/magnemite.png I've gone from never seeing a shiny ever, to finding two in the same year! *ahem* anyway, we made our way to whirl islands.

Caught Iza the seel in whirl islands, also turned out we were in the wrong cave, ran around till we found the right one (hih took a while, we didnt have anyone who could sue flash with us.

We met and caught Lugia and named it Ace, went to go and show prof.elm and he suggested i challenge the elite 4, so we headed over the border into kanto to trek to victory road, will hang around this little cottage training, the person there doesnt mind giving us bed and board

Mewquazabsol August 26th, 2015 3:10 PM

Updating! I'm glad you're sticking with this challenge! You're doing so well!

Sylvie18 October 1st, 2015 1:31 PM

Finally have internet again, been picking at this challenge here and there since grinding is a bit meh, but had a minor setback, my vulpix was killed so ive had to starter training a low level... also refuse to face the elite 4 without most of my team lvl 45 minimum. This will be fun :)

Mewquazabsol November 23rd, 2015 4:17 PM

Eep! Sorry I've been inactive. I'm brainstorming for my Storylocke of this! Stay strong, Sylvie.

Mewquazabsol March 22nd, 2016 3:30 PM

Ok, I was kinda nervous about reviving this, but Necrum has given me the all-clear! I'm sorry again for not being active. On the bright side, a changelog! I've been doing a few things to the front page recently. Some involve the rules, and some are just aesthetic changes. Anyway, here's what's changed:

• The text color that used to take up the entirety of the nature description got pretty obnoxious. Now, check out those pretty little bullet points on each side! They keep the color coding without being an eyesore.
• A few rules are now optional. These rules are in green.
• Timid 'mons are no longer afraid of Poison-types, but Bug-types have replaced them.
• Bold and Brave Pokemon have a new rule! If they are sent out against a Pokemon with a type advantage, they will stay in and fight. Idea credit to Arrow-Jolteon of Pokemon Crossroads.
• Quirky Pokemon will soon have a list of possible quirks. This is currently a WIP, but once it's up, you will use an RNG to determine which quirk your Quirky 'mon has upon catching them. Thanks again, Arrow-Jolteon!
• A few clarifications on the front page, plus a few exceptions to the rules to make the challenge fair.

Any feedback? Should I fancy up the front page with a color scheme or spoiler the huge rule list? If you have anything to say, I'd love to hear it!

In other news, I'm beginning to work on my Storylocke. It will be called Back at the Start, and I'll post a link to it here once I finally get it up on ZetaBoards!

DyingWillFlareon April 22nd, 2016 7:37 PM

1 I think the board and rules and such look ok ^^

2 I would LOVE to read your storylocke ^^

3 Username: DyingWillFlareon Game: White 2 :3

QUESTION I just caught a Brave Minccino and Id like to understand the Brave rules better, do you mean "cant heal at pokecenters at all" or "cant heal at pokecenters and cant heal unless at red hp" or "can heal at pokecenters unless at red hp then use potions"?.....

Updates:
Spoiler:
Spoiler: Cheren
Ally started her Unova part 2 adventure and chose Oshawott because its clearly the best Unova starter. :b Named him Pillow and continued on to catch Sly the Purrloin and was gunna name him Isiah but my friend suggested Sly instead, next Route caught Ruth the Patrat and went to battle Sean/Hugh/Rival. .....for all his talk about losing Pokemon.... RIP Sly. In the Ranch we caught Isiah the Lillipup. Training for Cheren's Gym but we will fight him in the morning hopefully and Ill tell how it goes. EDIT: Trained everyone up and barely beat him with my team. So terrifying, if he had a crit he wouldve killed Pillow... QwQ

Spoiler: Roxie
Trained in Virbank Complex and caught Mary the Pidove. Went to fight Roxie once everyone leveled up, with Pillow and Isiah(meant for it to be Isaiah but ok) evolved. Mary is Timid so I couldnt let her fight Roxie's Whirlipede, but everyone else did ok. Going on to PokeStar Studios and such now, gunna finish everything up and move on to the next town. Sheesh a Flying type afraid of Bugs.... QwQ yay

Spoiler: Burgh
We continued on and went to Castelia City, before finding a Plasma grunt and my rival/friend Sean had to run to the sewers and fite. For my Sewer catch I got a Zubat named Valentina, although....She's Serious. I have no Flyers for Burgh. :'D After beating Team Plasma grunts and seeing Colress which only took forever bc I kept getting lost I tried to get another catch in Relic Passage and lost a Roggenrola then in the place with Eevee a Skitty used my last 3 Great Balls... Afterward we went to the desert to train, although we caught a Brave Minccino and then went back to Virbank Conplex to train on Audino... QwQ Thanks to the training Burgh was a lot easier than I thought he'd be and we beat him easily without deaths or other trouble. Also got Dowsing Machine, did the Harlequin Hunt, Exp Share, Mystic Water(2 actually), Scope Lens ah yeah, and the Trash Master Medal. :'3 Also some evos!~

Spoiler: Elesa
Im gunna cry. First time in a while I picked up the game and went to the Gym, but Elesa killed half my team. They did their best, RIP Paul, Mary, and Valentina... I couldve save dthem if I tried harder... Q-Q After boxing them I retrieved the other three out of the Box for a full team, gunna be grindinng them up.


Spoiler: Current Teammates
Pillow the Rash Dewott Level 31 Male-Mystic Water
Torrent Revenge/Fury Cutter/Water Pulse/Razor Shell
Ruth the Lax Watchog Level 25 Female-Silk Scarf
Keen Eye Tackle/Confuse Ray/Crunch/Detect
Biskit the Brave Minccino Level 29 Female-Scope Lens
Cute Charm Charm/Tickle/Swift/Encore((working on moves with leel up/tms rn))
Ezekiel the Careful Liepard Level 22 Male
Unburden Fury Swipes/Pursuit/Torment/Fake Out
Peter the Impish Solosis Leel 21 Male
Overcoat Snatch/Hidden Power(unknown type)/Light Screen/Charm
Seer the Bashful Roselia Level 23 Female-Black Sludge
Poison Point Mega Drain/Leech Seed/Magical Leaf/GrassWhistle


Spoiler: RIP Q-Q
Sly the Lonely Purrloin Level 4-8 Male. Killed by Rival Sean's Snivy's crit Tackle.
Isiah the Jolly Herdier Level 4-25 Male. I believe he was killed training.
Paul the Lax Yamask Level 18-30 Male. Killed by Elesa.
Mary the Timid Tranquill Level 10-30 Female. Killed by Elesa.
Valentina the Serious Crobat Level 17-30 Female. Killed by Elesa.

Mewquazabsol May 6th, 2016 7:50 PM

Adding! Also, sorry for being so vague about the Brave rules. Pokémon Centers are usable regardless of health. However, if you're, say, in the middle of a battle, they can only be healed if they're in the red. Does that clear things up?

DyingWillFlareon May 12th, 2016 2:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mewquazabsol (Post 9230006)
Adding! Also, sorry for being so vague about the Brave rules. Pokémon Centers are usable regardless of health. However, if you're, say, in the middle of a battle, they can only be healed if they're in the red. Does that clear things up?

Yes it does, thank you! ^^


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