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AkiFromFT December 1st, 2018 11:23 PM

Went to Sootopolis after taking out team magma in the seafloor cavern then killed Groudon then struggled a bit with Wallace's team but finally beat him after a bit then went to train before going to take on the Elite Four not really struggling with them that much soooo yeah complete
Final Team
Bruce the Sharpedo level 80 Crunch, Slash, Surf, and Agility
Scuttle the Pelipper level 80 Surf, Aerial Ace, Shock Wave and Fly
Myric the Tentacruel level 80 Surf, Dive, Cut, and wrap
Buddy the Swampert level 80 Strength, Rock Tomb, Earthquake, and Surf
Chub the Walrein level 80 Strength, Surf, Body Slam, and Aurora Beam
Patricc the Starmie level 80 Thunderbolt, Recover, Surf, and Swift

Lith97 December 3rd, 2018 1:31 PM

Forum User Name: Lith97
Game(s): Emerald
Pokémon Type: Normal
Single/Ultimate/Free Mode?: Single

CasualToxicStall December 16th, 2018 9:40 PM

So I had an ultimate run going in the last thread but my pc with all my saves on it bricked. Time to start a new one! Now on a laptop that's just about as powerful as a toaster I actually have to dust off my old physical copies for most of these.

Forum User Name: Casual Toxic Stall
Game(s): Fire Red, Crystal, Emerald, Platinum, Black 2, Y, Ultra Moon
Pokémon Type: Ground
Single/Ultimate/Free Mode?: Ultimate

DarkVee77 December 17th, 2018 4:00 AM

Forum User Name: DarkVee77
Game(s): Fire Red
Pokémon Type: Flying
Single/Ultimate/Free Mode?: Single

kitarei December 18th, 2018 2:43 PM

Hi there - could my previous challenge from the old thread be carried across?

Forum User Name: kitarei
Game(s): Leaf Green, Heart Gold, Emerald, Pearl, White, Y, Sun
Pokémon Type: Fire
Single/Ultimate/Free Mode?: Ultimate

Ahri December 18th, 2018 8:41 PM

Hey, do Let's GO games count since, although they have different mechanics, they are still yellow remakes? If not, that's ok I guess

Username: Ahri
Type: Normal
Games: Red, Silver/Soul Silver, ORAS(need to check which one is free, I got both), Platinum, White 2, XY(need to see which one is free), SM(same as with ORAS and XY)

Janp December 19th, 2018 10:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ahri (Post 9958422)
Hey, do Let's GO games count since, although they have different mechanics, they are still yellow remakes? If not, that's ok I guess

Both me and Spirit Shackle see LGPE as spin-offs, but in the end it's up to the every challenge's owner to decide what is best for their challenge (as with every game). Like I can see doing Monotype on LGPE, but not Nuzlocke. I should probably do some kind of announcement, but who'll actually read it?

Ahri December 20th, 2018 2:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Janp (Post 9958611)
Both me and Spirit Shackle see LGPE as spin-offs, but in the end it's up to the every challenge's owner to decide what is best for their challenge (as with every game). Like I can see doing Monotype on LGPE, but not Nuzlocke. I should probably do some kind of announcement, but who'll actually read it?

I suppose you're right. As far as I'm concerned, I'm allowing it in Time Warp but something like Nuzlocke would be hard to do. The only way I could picture Nuzlocke working would be just stepping on a patch of grass, closing my eyes and counting the first pokemon to touch me as the team member. But I guess it's too tedious.

jdthebud December 31st, 2018 5:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KingSwing (Post 9914131)
Hello!

Hey there, I'm going to be continuing my monotype challenges from a few years ago! As of this thread (link) I had completed all types (except fairy, obviously) through Gen V.

My first continuation will be on Pokemon Y with Poison type.

jdthebud January 2nd, 2019 10:57 PM

Alright, here goes!

Update on Ultimate Poison Monotype Challenge:

Update #1 on Y.

Name: Toxi
Starter: Chespin
  • After getting my starter, I caught Buzz the Weedle in Santalune Forest who will mainly be used for the first gym.
  • She was a pain to train up with only Poison Sting to start, but I eventually got her to evolve into Kakuna and then Beedrill.
  • Had to do a bit of grinding to get Buzz to L13 for Focus Energy, then it was time to challenge Viola.
  • Focus Energy really came in handy, helping Fury Attack to crit a lot of attacks to win me the badge.
  • Finally able to get to Route 4, I caught Thorn the Budew.
  • Started training him up on Route 4 and eventually got to Lumiose City, where I talked to the Professor about Mega Evolution.
  • Went through Route 5 and Camphrier Town to visit Parfum Palace.
  • After going through 4 Soothing Bags, Thorn evolved into Roselia!
  • Caught the sleeping Snorlax, then moved through the rest of Route 7 and defeated Trevor and Tierno alongside Calem.
  • Caught Phibia the Croagunk in the grass outside Connecting Cave, and then Countess the Zubat inside Connecting Cave.
  • Went through Route 8 to Ambrette Town and then rode the Rhyhorn to Glittering Cave.
  • Defeated Team Flare and found the Scientist, who gave me the Jaw Fossil.
  • Made my way to Cyllage City, where I got the Bike, and along the way, Countess evolved into Golbat!
  • After a bit more training, we took on the gym.
  • Grant wasn't too difficult. Amara needed a team effort to defeat, but Thorn OHKO'd Tyrunt with Giga Drain to win.
  • I am now saved on Route 10.
Screens:


Team Toxi:
http://www.pkparaiso.com/imagenes/xy/sprites/animados/beedrill.gif
Buzz the Hardy Beedrill, ♀ - L20 @ Amulet Coin
Ability: Swarm
Moves: Poison Sting, Thief, Twineedle, False Swipe
http://www.pkparaiso.com/imagenes/xy/sprites/animados/golbat.gif
Cuountess the Serious Golbat, ♀ - L24 @ Poison Barb
Ability: Inner Focus
Moves: Bite, Wing Attack, Venoshock, Confuse Ray

http://www.pkparaiso.com/imagenes/xy/sprites/animados/croagunk.gif
Phibia the Lonely Croagunk, ♀ - L24 @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Feint Attack, Bulldoze, Venoshock, Revenge

http://www.pkparaiso.com/imagenes/xy/sprites/animados/roselia.gif
Thorn the Modest Roselia, ♂ - L26 @ Miracle Seed
Ability: Natural Cure
Moves: Venoshock, Growth, Giga Drain, Stun Spore

HM Slaves:
http://www.pkparaiso.com/imagenes/xy/sprites/animados/bunnelby.gif
Bunnelby - Cut, Strength
http://www.pkparaiso.com/imagenes/xy/sprites/animados/abra.gif
Abra - Teleport


Count January 3rd, 2019 8:44 AM

I just started a grass run in UM, which I'll be continuing alongside the one in X. :)

Current team in UM:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-sm/icon/722.png Diogenes | Lv.19
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-sm/icon/001.png Sinope | Lv.18
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-sm/icon/548.png Myra | Lv.12

MachoPony January 3rd, 2019 12:30 PM

Oh man this brings back memories. i was a psychic champ in gen 5 and a bug champ in gen 6. last i recall i was in the middle of a fire ultimate but i've since given up on that. what can i say, grinding monferno and ponyta to the mid 30s just to beat fantina was NOT fun.

but hell yeah i'll give it another shot. which type to go for though. there's intresting ones like Dragon and Steel, ones with plenty of options like water or grass, or with tricky strategies like Poison. its difficult to know.

yknow what, since it contains some of my favourite pokemon. Lets Shake things up!

Name: MachoPony
Type: Ground
Games: Red,HeartGold,Emerald,Platinum,White,X,Ultra Moon
Single/Ultimate: Ultimate

ddrox13 January 3rd, 2019 1:50 PM

Alright, about time I actually did a challenge run again.

Forum User Name : Spirit Shackle
Game : Renegade Platinum
Pokémon Type : Ice
Mode : Single

Ren Plat is the newest of Dray's enhancement hacks, as it serves as a "493" hack (as in, makes 493 Pokemon available within the game without trading/events) of Platinum with a few other changes.

Most notably for this run, the game hands you an Eevee and an Ice Stone prior to gym 1, meaning I have access to an Ice-type prior to the first gym, and Route 116 is accessible prior to Gardenia, meaning I will have a full team by gym 2. Downside: I have to solo a Rock-type gym of 6 Pokemon with a Glaceon. Worst case scenario, uh, I get Earth Power at 37?

This could be a mistake.

MachoPony January 3rd, 2019 5:09 PM

Alright my first update

Macho Shakes it up in Kanto! Part 1

Spoiler:

So i started red, named myself Macho, picked bulbasaur. used bulbasaur for about 5 seconds getting oak's parcel and catching my first team member Barney the NidoranM next to viridian. Barney stomped his way through the forest and the gym trainer, brock was a bit too tough rn though so grinding time! after getting Barney to level 18 and evolving at 16. i felt i was ready.

VS Brock
So after numerous failed attempts realising that gen 1 mechanics suck (kept randomly missing forever, brock had infinite full heals and used them every time his pokemon got poisoned without taking up a turn. because logic) i decided to say screw the poison and horn attack them to death, had a near miss with onix using Bide late on but Barney lived with 2HP and horn attacked the rock snake down.

After barney crushed everyone on the next route because overlevelled lol, i got Rocky the geodude in Mt Moon. Rocky trained against the zubats to a decent level then advanced through and took out the rocket grunts and the nerd at the end, took the helix fossil i'll never use and got to cerulean, Rocky stomped Blue with a bit of help then i helped out bill, got my SS ticket and challenged the gym, barney cleaned house.

VS Misty
Barney took out staryu with a crit horn attack then after a crit on starmie, 2 more horn attacks took it out, ate a couple of attacks in the process but was otherwise fine.
Side Note: in my first attempt starmie critted and killed barney leaving Rocky to get one shotted by it and blackout lol.

AFTER the gym i used my moon stone to evolve Barney into big daddy NidoKing.



Team:
Spoiler:

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/geodude.png
Rocky: LV 22 Geodude
Rock Throw
Tackle
Defense Curl
Selfdestruct

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/nidoking.png
Barney: LV25 Nidoking
Horn Attack
Poison Sting
Water Gun
Leer


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jdthebud January 3rd, 2019 7:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spirit Shackle (Post 9964117)
I have to solo a Rock-type gym of 6 Pokemon with a Glaceon. Worst case scenario, uh, I get Earth Power at 37?

Oof. I guess it's meant to be a challenge, eh?

That being said I am totally excited to play that game too...though I'm gonna have to wait until I have time for it, hah.

MachoPony January 4th, 2019 1:58 PM

Macho Shakes it up in Kanto! Part 2

Spoiler:

After easily getting to vermillion i went to the SS anne, overlevelled graveler and nidoking took out most things. got cut, caught a random oddish cutslave. (i suppose i couldve been thematically correct and caught diglett but bleh) went into diglett's cave to find a diglett, first encounter. lv29 Dugtrio. Yoink!

VS Lt Surge
Pathetic, he couldnt do diddly to Rocky who just tanked everything and rock throwed everything to death. couldve brought in Ed Boyz with dig if i really needed to but i didnt.

Taught thunderbolt to Barney and went on through the rock tunnel catching Snek the Onix who got trained a bit outside on the spearow. bind is OP in gen 1, not as OP as wrap but up there. he did most of the work through the tunnel, got to celadon and went to the gym. Snek did most of the work with bind Barney stepped in later. blessing that Poison resists grass despite the secondary ground typing. but he wasnt strong enough to OHKO everything with horn attack and sleep powder was EVERYWHERE

VS Erika
Tougher but manageable.Barney hit hard, got sleeped then got razor leafed to death, enter Rocky to dodge a sleep powder and hit rock throw, then get razor leafed. Ed Boyz finished with dig, Snek came in on tangela screeching it, taking like 3 damage from a wrap and binding it to death. Ed boyz hit a dig on vileplume, took a mega drain, then hit a dig critical hit to finish it off.

Side Note: Ground is SE on poison despite the grass typing, gen 1 mechanics are a blessing and a curse.


Team:
Spoiler:

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/graveler.png
Rocky: LV 32 Graveler
Rock Throw
Tackle
Defense Curl
Selfdestruct

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/nidoking.png
Barney: LV32 Nidoking
Horn Attack
Thunderbolt
Water Gun
Leer

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/onix.png
Snek: LV27 Onix
Rock Throw
Screech
Bind
Tackle

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/dugtrio.png
Ed Boyz LV30 Dugtrio
Dig
Scratch
Growl
Sand Attack


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MachoPony January 6th, 2019 6:18 PM

Macho Shakes it up in Kanto! Part 3

Spoiler:

Clearing out the rocket base in celadon was easy, an abundance of poison types is easy pickings for a ground team. Giovanni's kangaskhan was a bit tougher but nothing i couldnt handle. got the silph scope and returned to the pokemon tower. caught Wakko the Cubone and levelled him a bit while rescuing mr fuji, got the pokeflute and went both routes to fuschia for training rocky evolving in the process (thanks universal randomizer). went back to saffron with my new Rhyhorn Thicc and trained him against the grunts in silph co.
Giovanni rematch was tougher but i handled it. Barney took out everything with a combination of surf and thunderbolt. cleared out the fighting dojo with Ed Boyz. took on the gym. dashed through and fought sabrina.

VS Sabrina:
Difficult indeed. kadabra one shot Barney Ed Boyz took it out with dig, Rocky came in to fight off Mr Mime with earthquake and took out venomoth with rock throw too. leaving alakazam to finish it off. Ed Boyz came back in, hit a dig, he reflected, dug again while he recovered, he took it and psychiced me down to low health, recovered again as i dug. a critical hit finished the fight.


Team:
Spoiler:

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/golem.png
Rocky: LV 38 Golem
Rock Throw
Strength
Defense Curl
Earthquake

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/nidoking.png
Barney: LV40 Nidoking
Horn Attack
Thunderbolt
Surf
Leer

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/onix.png
Snek: LV35 Onix
Rock Throw
Screech
Bind
Rage

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/dugtrio.png
Ed Boyz LV38 Dugtrio
Dig
Slash
Growl
Sand Attack

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/marowak.png
Wakko LV37 Marowak
Earthquake
Strength
Leer
Growl

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/rhyhorn.png
Thicc LV36 Rhyhorn
Horn Attack
Stomp
Tail Whip


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MachoPony January 7th, 2019 1:46 PM

Macho Shakes it up in Kanto! The Finale!

Spoiler:

So after returning to fuschia i took on Koga with my team sufficiently levelled. the gym was tough because of the abundance of hypno (you have a TON of poison types, and you choose hypno? sure gym, sure) but i got to Koga

VS Koga
Ed Boyz swept by himself, one shot koffing, one shot next koffing crit Muk, hit weezing hard, get toxiced, dig down again, and up for the KO.

took random spearow out of box taught fly and went back to pallet because if you think i'm doing that long ass water route and seafoam islands with a ground team you're kidding yourself. took the much shorter route down to cinnabar, cleaned out the mansion, took on the gym trainers easily by this point Rhyhorn had evolved.

VS Blaine
This was another win for Ed Boyz, after Thicc took out the growlithe and ponyta, Ed Boyz came in and critted arcanine and rapidash for the double KO.

back to viridian, beat the gym trainers easily.

VS Giovanni
Ed Boyz going for the triple, and with multiple crit digs and tanking weak hits and dodging status moves all the while he did it soundly. Dig, dig and more Dig. bye nidoking, by ryhorn, bye enemy dugtrio, bye nidoqueen and goodbye Rhydon with a dig, a tail whip and a dig critical hit.

On to victory road. one last rival battle in the meantime was no problem. Barney took out most of his team with Snek picking up the KO on charizard. Victory road was no cakewalk but nothing too bad. on the other side my levels were far too low, so i did a little grinding, got everyone to 45-47 and went on with a bag full of full restores and revives.

VS Lorelei
i expected this to be difficult. it wasnt as bad as i thought. Dewgong ate a thunderbolt, rested, then ate 3 more for the KO. cloyster ate one, hit aurora beam and then a 2nd KOed it. slowbro took one, used withdraw, took a 2nd, used amnesia and a 3rd finished it. Thicc took an ice punch from jynx, missed rock slide, switched out for barney who got KOd, sacced Ed Boyz healing Thicc, thicc took an ice punch and hit rock slide for the KO. swapped in Snek to heal up Thicc and got a blizzard for my troubles. Thicc dodged a blizzard and hit a Crit rock slide for an OHKO.

VS Bruno
Clean sweep for Barney, surf took down Onix, a couple more took out hitmonlee, and hitmonchan, another took down onix, and a surf crit followed by a horn attack took out Machamp eating a submission in the process.

VS Agatha
Ed Boyz took down gengar with a crit dig, Barney thunderbolted golbat, and after some confusion shenanigans finished it with a 2nd. Ed Boyz took down arbok with a pair of dig, getting a glare in the process. sacced a weakened barney to full restore Ed Boyz, who crit digged Gengar for the KO.

VS Lance
Barney Outsped, and critted gyarados for an OHKO with thunderbolt. well there goes my biggest worry, both dragonairs got decimated then aerodactyl hit a hyper beam crit to finish barney's valliant effort. Thicc took it down with rock slide then after running out of rock slides on dragonite a fierce battle of the Hyper Beams went down with Thicc eventually landing the killer Critical Hit to take down the Chonky Boi.

VS Blue:
Barney took down pidgeotto with a few thunderbolts. outsped, critted and KOd gyarados (deja vu) then fell to exeggcutor after some sleep shenanigans, Wakko got some damage in but fell too. leaving Thicc to end it with a horn attack. up next was Alakazam Ed Boyz took it out with a crit dig. followed by Rhydon taking a dig and finishing with fury attack. score is 3-1, Snek comes in, rock throw barely does half, and he got fire blast critted. Thicc came in, and got fire blast critted. leaving Rocky the sole survivor, to tank a fire blast, and hit one final rock throw to finish charizard and end the game.


Team:
Spoiler:

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/golem.png
Rocky: LV 47 Golem
Rock/Ground
Rock Throw
Strength
Toxic
Earthquake

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/nidoking.png
Barney: LV51 Nidoking
Ground/Poison
Horn Attack
Thunderbolt
Surf
Blizzard

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/onix.png
Snek: LV45 Onix
Rock/Ground
Rock Throw
Screech
Bind
Rage

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/dugtrio.png
Ed Boyz LV46 Dugtrio
Ground
Dig
Slash
Fissure
Sand Attack

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/marowak.png
Wakko LV 46 Marowak
Ground
Earthquake
Strength
Fire Blast
Ice Beam

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/red-blue/gray/rhydon.png
Thicc LV48 Rhydon
Rock/Ground
Horn Attack
Hyper Beam
Rock Slide
Submission



Thoughts: this was tougher than i expected, true it went by faster than frlg would have (or god forbid Let's Go!) but the lack of variety in movesets hurt me a lot, Rhydon didnt know anything but normal moves till i taught it Rock Slide and Submission from TMs. and he was still one of only 2 pokemon on my team without a Ground move. yknow, the type this is supposed to be a mono run of. Onix learned diddly squat too but at least Bind was semi useful for awhile. none of the trainers were as tough as i thought, i was expecting lorelei to be a nightmare. and after almost being swept by Blue's gyarados in previous fights it was a relief to see Nidoking KO Lance's AND Blue's with a crit thunderbolt each in one shot.

MVP: Nidoking
Early it didnt do much but it learned horn attack as a good move early. but once it evolved to Nidoking and learned a nice variety of moves like thunderbolt and surf, suddenly it was a force to be reckoned with. its main advantage was unrivaled coverage.

LVP: Onix
I loved having the chance to use Onix for once (shame this is the last time since from gen 2 onward i have his superior evolution at my disposal) but he was pretty awful, Screech and Bind off a respectable speed stat for a ground type in gen 1 was nice but it was still too weak, not as strong as the OPness of Wrap and his attack stat was pathetic. when a 4x effective STAB move does barely half to a pokemon, there's something wrong. plus it learned diddly through the game, sticking to Screech, Rock Throw, Bind and Rage. i could have taught it slam but it wouldntve done much and was innacurate anyway.

Imma take a small break then maybe start on HeartGold sometime later.

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ddrox13 January 7th, 2019 8:37 PM

Turns out 130 base SpA is stronger than I thought. Who knew?

Ice Waves
ddrox13's Monotype Challenge of Renegade Platinum with the Ice type.

Badges: 1/8

Right, let the suicide run begin. Oh this is also going to be mono-gender - Only female Pokemon.

- I started by picking my starter. And by "picking my starter" I mean letting the RNG decide Rabinov's starter. Conveniently, my favorite d20 rolled me Piplup, meaning Rabi took the 4x weak to ice Torterra. I lost the first fight with him because Withdraw is busted.
- Real starter - Fjorm the Eevee. We did a little grinding, and then headed for Jubilife.
- Turns out Rival 2 is hard with just a non-Adaptability Eevee. We won anyway. On the 4th try.
- Ice Stone get means Fjorm evolved into Glaceon
- GYM 1: Took 4 tries, but finally got some good RNG. 2HKOing everything helped. Badges: 1
- Nothing of consequence until the Windworks
- Mars was easy.
- Nothing of consequence until Eterna EXCEPT...
- In the forest, I found a Shiny Murkrow! NOT FALCO will now be the prettiest pink fly slave.
- Gardenia's absence forces us to go to route 116, which I wanted to go to anyway. Because, you know, the rest of my team is there.
- Snow! Yay!
- Enter: Gjoll the Snorunt, Sylgr the Swinub, Hrid the Snover, and Leiptr the Sneasel.
- Slapping Brick Break on Leiptr allows me to FINALLY stop using Fjorm for a while, which is good, since she's nearly DOUBLE the level of everyone else (35 vs 18-19)
- Grinded to 22ish on the whole party
- Began the trek back to Eterna

The Team

I'll also be including some tidbits about important changes in Renegade Platinum for these Pokémon
Spoiler:


Fjorm (Glaceon) (F) @ Metronome
Ability: Snow Cloak
Level: 35
Hasty Nature
- Extrasensory
- Ice Shard
- Ice Beam
- Bite

Notable changes: Availability increased dramatically. Evolution changed to using an Ice Stone. Level-up movepool increased. Speed (formerly base 65) and Special Defense (formerly base 95) swapped. Gets Earth Power. Later.

Gjoll (Snorunt) (F) @ Never-Melt Ice
Ability: Inner Focus
Level: 22
Rash Nature
- Ice Shard
- Icy Wind
- Bite
- Ice Fang

Notable changes: Evolution to Glalie happens 10 levels earlier (32). Both evolutions gain Levitate. Glalie gains 30 Attack and Defense (now 110 each) at the cost of losing 20 SpAtk and SpDef (now 60 each). Froslass gains 30 SpAtk (now 110) at the cost of losing 10 Atk (now 70). Both result in a 20 point increase to BST (480 -> 500).

Sylgr (Swinub) (F)
Ability: Thick Fat
Level: 22
Gentle Nature
- Powder Snow
- Ice Shard
- Bulldoze
- Mud Bomb

Notable changes: Gains Thick Fat over Oblivious. Movepool buffs. Bulldoze is in the game now, so it gets that too which is cool.

Hrid (Snover) (F)
Ability: Snow Warning
Level: 22
Bashful Nature
- Icy Wind
- Ice Shard
- Leech Seed
- Bullet Seed

Notable changes: Gains Soundproof as an alternate Ability. Learns Icicle Crash by level-up.

Leiptr (Sneasel) (F)
Ability: Technician
Level: 28
Adamant Nature
- Metal Claw
- Ice Shard
- Feint Attack
- Brick Break

Notable changes: Gains Technician as an Ability. Movepool buffs, including getting Crunch which I don't know why it didn't have before and Icicle Crash. Did I mention TECHNICIAN though?

Featuring guest appearances by:
ICEBOARD the Piplup as: The Starter
Totodile the Totodile as: The 2nd Pokemon for a mandatory double battle
NOT FALCO the Murkrow as: The trophy shiny and Fly slave

CasualToxicStall January 11th, 2019 6:27 PM

Forum User Name: Casual Toxic Stall
Game(s): Fire Red(4/8), Crystal, Emerald, Platinum, Black 2, Y, Ultra Moon
Pokémon Type: Ground
Single/Ultimate/Free Mode?: Ultimate

Update #1
Spoiler:
FIRE RED PART ONE
Cabbages the bulbasaur carried me until I could catch Giga and Terra. Had to over-level like crazy to deal with Misty and her water types. Surge was a pushover and Erika was a cake walk as well.
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Current Team:
https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/sun-moon/icon/nidoking.png Giga Lvl 34 Horn Attack|Dig|Thrash|Brick Break
https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/sun-moon/icon/dugtrio.png Monty Lvl 33 Magnitude|Aerial Ace|Dig|Cut
https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/sun-moon/icon/graveler.png Terra Lvl 33 Rollout|Magnitude|Mud Sport|Selfdestruct

CasualToxicStall January 19th, 2019 10:17 PM

Forum User Name: Casual Toxic Stall
Game(s): Fire Red, Crystal, Emerald, Platinum, Black 2, Y, Ultra Moon
Pokémon Type: Ground
Single/Ultimate/Free Mode?: Ultimate

Fire Red
Update #1
Spoiler:
Cabbages the bulbasaur carried me until I could catch Giga and Terra. Had to over-level like crazy to deal with Misty and her water types. Surge was a pushover and Erika was a cake walk as well.
https://i.imgur.com/N3CGzCO.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/hcNbdrL.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/UAadc73.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/wqiSY4k.png

Update #2

Final Team
Spoiler:
https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/sun-moon/icon/nidoking.png Giga Lvl 67 Brick Break|Surf|Megahorn|Dig
https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/sun-moon/icon/dugtrio.png Monty Lvl 66 Earthquake|Slash|Fissure|Cut
https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/sun-moon/icon/golem.png Terra Lvl 66 Rock Blast|Earthquake|Mud Sport|Explosion
https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/sun-moon/icon/rhydon.png Spike Lvl 66 Strength|Earthquake|Rock Blast|Horn Drill
https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/sun-moon/icon/marowak.pngAnnie Lvl 65 Headbutt|Leer|Thrash|Bonemerang

MachoPony January 25th, 2019 4:27 PM

Macho quakes his way through Johto Part 1

Spoiler:

Started, named self Macho. picked chikorita, did the starting stuff. chikorita beat silver. got pokeballs and caught Rocky 2 my first team member.

Rocky 2 levelled up a bit and progressed on through the rattatas and pidgeys of route 30 before hitting Violet City.

Sprout tower was nowhere near as tough as i expected. guess being overlevelled helps heh. Rocky 2 smashed the elder's bellsprout with a rock throw after missing and taking a vine whip. then got hypnosised by hoothoot, took a couple of tackles then woke up and rock throw OHKO.

On to the gym. cleaned house.
VS Falkner
pidgey annoyed me with a pair of sand attacks, but after 3 tries i hit rock throw for an OHKO. pidgeotto was next and i took a few gusts and missed some rock throws, finally hitting it down to low health, it roosted and a 2nd rock throw finished it.


Current Team:
Spoiler:

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/heartgold-soulsilver/frame2/geodude.png
Rocky 2 LV 16 Geodude
Rock Throw
Tackle
Rock Polish
Magnitude


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Aleimon Thimble January 31st, 2019 4:35 AM

I always like monotype runs :) They're not incredibly hard, but fun nevertheless. Monotype runs I've completed over the years include:

- Leaf Green: Mono Normal (Pidgeot, Raticate, Persian, Clefable, Snorlax, ?? - maybe Tauros)
- Platinum: Mono Water (Empoleon, Tentacruel, Golduck, Gyarados, Gastrodon?, ?? - maybe Vaporeon)
- Platinum: Mono Poison (Crobat, Gengar, Drapion, Tentacruel, Roserade, Toxicroak)
- Black 2: Mono Bug (Heracross, Leavanny, Crustle, Galvantula, Volcarona, Yanmega)

I should do one on Emerald or Soul Silver.

ddrox13 February 6th, 2019 9:04 PM

Ice Waves
ddrox13's Monotype Challenge of Renegade Platinum with the Ice type.
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Ice is a really weird type early game. Because Ice-types are generally late game mons, they aren't really balanced around the early game. There's basically only two early level Ice moves - Icy Wind and Ice Shard - and then basically no intermediate moves before Ice Beam. On one hand, this means literally my whole team had Priority until I dropped it on Fjorm for Shadow Ball after Fantina. These two moves were essentially mandatory on everyone - leaving little room for the few coverage options I had. They also tend to have REALLY late evolutions - Lv40 for Snover, 42 for Snorunt (in the vanilla game), 33 for Swinub, rare item for Sneasel, location locked to the 7th gym for Eevee (again, vanilla), and so on. Those would be okay levels for the final bit of a 3-stage line, but those are all evolving from the base form, meaning they will almost always have subpar stats until the late game. Thankfully Renegade Plat also makes the "late game" levels start at around gym 5, which means we can start hitting those evo triggers earlier. After 3 gyms, my whole team has evolved once, bar Sneasel who can carry his own weight even without evolving and Snover who is... bad.

Also because of how garbage Ice is defensively, Speed is debatably my most important stat so far. Thankfully with a base 95 in Fjorm (Glaceon), a base 110 in Gjoll (Froslass), and a base 115 (soon to be 125) in Leiptr (Sneasel), we're fairly stocked in that department. On the other hand, thanks to aforementioned slow evolutions and just being, you know, slow, Hrid (Snover) and Sylgr (Piloswine) have been a bit of a liability thus far. I've faith in Sylgr - she's my Fire "resist", after all - but I worry for Hrid, as his typing makes it mostly impossible to just tank a hit and then nuke back, which leans towards him being a bit of a hail bot (which is pretty much how Abomasnow ended up the last time I did a Sinnoh Monotype).

Oh, and Thief is just really good in games where enemies have broken items super early like this one. So far, Leiptr has nabbed a Life Orb, some Leftovers, Light Clay for Sylgr to use, and some other junk. Technician also means I'll be keeping Thief for basically the whole run. Oh yeah, that's why Sneasel is so good before evolving - he literally has his final moveset already.

---

Anywho, on to what happened. I start this update with Gardenia. You'd expect her to be easy, but she has a Breloom (Technician Mach Punch), Belossom (BST 490), and Roserade (BST 515) among her ranks, and at this point I'm using Snorunt (BST 300) and Swinub (BST 250) among my main party members. Also I was trying not to use Fjorm to balance levels (she was still ~14 levels ahead from soloing the first quarter of the game), but Breloom I just didn't feel like dancing around Mach Punch, so Fjorm blew it up. Other than that, with a shot of Priority and a pinch of slow tf down wind, the other four members of my party managed to take out everyone else. And by that I mean I tried to use Hrid, Sylgr, and Gjoll as much as possible then just had Leiptr clean house.

Most of the Galactic Eterna Building was training for the three underlevelled party members (Hrid, Sylgr, Gjoll), but Fjorm and Leiptr again had to do most of the work during the Jupiter fight. The bike shop owner, in lieu of a bike (we already had one), granted me a Dawn Stone, which meant that Gjoll evolved into Froslass.

The Mira sidequest is mandatory in this game, so to wayward we go. I decided to use the opportunity to have my party healed after every battle to grind some more, and got everyone up to 32ish, or 33 in the case of Sylgr because I wanted to just have Sylgr evolve into Piloswine ASAP. Also Mira gives you a Dazzling Gleam TM. So that's a thing.

Now on-level with Fantina's party, it's time for... OH RIGHT THE AARON FIGHT. Yeah so Aaron of the Elite Four challenges you to an unofficial match as you're about to hit Hearthome, and even though the story progresses on a loss I kinda wanted to win, so after a few resets I was able to beat his Scizor with a crit Ice Beam from Fjorm, and therefore him. I am NOT looking forward to fighting that Scizor again.

The Fantina fight was really easy. Gjoll, now wielding Shadow Ball, tore through Drifblim and Dusclops. Leiptr took out Banette, while Fjorm handled Gengar and Spiritomb (ty Dazzling Gleam). Mismagius would have OHKOed my party, if not for Sylgr's Light Screen setup allowing Gjoll to eat a Shadow Ball and retaliate with a close-enough-to-lethal one of her own.

The Team
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Spoiler:
I'll also be including some tidbits about important changes in Renegade Platinum for these Pokémon

https://www.serebii.net/pokearth/sprites/pt/471.png
Fjorm (Glaceon) (F) @ Metronome
Ability: Snow Cloak
Level: 36
Hasty Nature
- Ice Beam
- Dazzling Gleam
- Extrasensory
- Shadow Ball

Notable changes: Availability increased dramatically. Evolution changed to using an Ice Stone. Level-up movepool increased. Speed (formerly base 65) and Special Defense (formerly base 95) swapped. Gets Earth Power. Later.

https://www.serebii.net/pokearth/sprites/pt/478.png
Gjoll (Froslass) (F) @ Never-Melt Ice
Ability: Levitate
Level: 34
Rash Nature
- Shadow Ball
- Thunder Wave
- Ice Beam
- Ice Shard

Notable changes: Evolution to Glalie happens 10 levels earlier (32). Both evolutions gain Levitate. Glalie gains 30 Attack and Defense (now 110 each) at the cost of losing 20 SpAtk and SpDef (now 60 each). Froslass gains 30 SpAtk (now 110) at the cost of losing 10 Atk (now 70). Both result in a 20 point increase to BST (480 -> 500).

https://www.serebii.net/platinum/pokemon/221-f.png
Sylgr (Piloswine) (F) @ Light Clay
Ability: Thick Fat
Level: 33
Gentle Nature
- Bulldoze
- Avalanche
- Ice Shard
- Light Screen

Notable changes: Gains Thick Fat over Oblivious. Movepool buffs. Bulldoze is in the game now, so it gets that too which is cool.

https://www.serebii.net/platinum/pokemon/459-f.png
Hrid (Snover) (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Snow Warning
Level: 34
Bashful Nature
- Wood Hammer
- Avalanche
- Ice Shard
- Leech Seed

Notable changes: Gains Soundproof as an alternate Ability. Learns Icicle Crash by level-up.

https://www.serebii.net/platinum/pokemon/215-f.png
Leiptr (Sneasel) (F) @ Life Orb
Ability: Technician
Level: 34
Adamant Nature
- Thief
- Ice Shard
- Swords Dance
- Brick Break

Notable changes: Gains Technician as an Ability. Movepool buffs, including getting Crunch which I don't know why it didn't have before and Icicle Crash. Did I mention TECHNICIAN though?

Featuring guest appearances by:
ICEBOARD the Piplup as: The Starter
Totodile the Totodile as: The 2nd Pokemon for a mandatory double battle
NOT FALCO the Murkrow as: The trophy shiny and Fly slave

MachoPony February 11th, 2019 5:21 AM

Macho's Johto Journey: Ground Edition Part 2

Spoiler:

When we last left our hero, he just defeated the Sprout Tower elder and gym leader falkner with only a Geodude.

So i went further on to azalea town. caught Derp the wooper south of violet. couldve added onix or sanshrew to my team in union cave but decided to wait till i had a metal coat to get onix and skip sandshrew due to better ground types being available. (rip sandslash, maybe in gen 3) got through fine and hit Azalea town

VS Proton
Wooper took out zubat but was badly beaten up. so Rocky 2 came in to finish off koffing fairly easily. a few rock throws did it.

Hit up the gym, trained Derp through it.

VS Bugsy
Derp took a u-turn and struck incoming kakuna with mud shot. another pair took it down. Rocky 2 came in on scyther who kept dodging rock throws but also never used u-turn using focus energy, leer and quick attack instead eventually rock throw hit and knocked it out. metapod was a quick rock throw defeat.

and just outside the gym:
VS Silver
Derp took down gastly, Rocky 2 beat up zubat and after a few annoying misses thanks to smokescreen finally took down quilava with a rock throw.

Through ilex forest and towards goldenrod, nothing too troubling. Derp gained plenty of exp, dashed north of goldenrod and skipped most of the trainers to catch Barney the nidoranM trained him and derp in the underground, derp evolved there, barney evolved in the gym.

VS Whitney
Not as troublesome as you would think. Barney after some attract shenanigans beat up clefairy with a pair of double kicks. managed a leer on miltank before being stomped out. rocky was barely taking ANY damage from miltank, but it was being annoying with attract, hit a Magnitude 7 and then a few turns (and a super potion) later, finally hit a 2nd Magnitude also 7 to finish the job. kept using stomp and never used any other moves i swear it had milk drink and rollout in gsc. maybe they changed it for hgss.

Went further, hit up pokeathlon for awhile, got a metal coat on friday, then a moon stone the following monday. beat up sudowoodo. went back to union cave and after a ton of pokeballs (that's one stubborn Onix) i finally caught Snek. gave her the Metal coat and steelix is mine.


Current Team:
Spoiler:

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/heartgold-soulsilver/frame2/geodude.png
Rocky 2 LV23 Geodude
Rock/Ground
Rock Throw
Rock Polish
Magnitude
Rollout

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/heartgold-soulsilver/frame2/nidorino.png
Barney LV20 Nidorino
Poison(/ground)
Poison Sting
Double Kick
Peck
Leer

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/heartgold-soulsilver/quagsire.png
Derp LV20 Quagsire
Water/Ground
Water Gun
Mud Shot
Mud Bomb
Tail Whip

http://www.pokestadium.com/sprites/heartgold-soulsilver/steelix-female.png
SnekLV7 Steelix
Steel/Ground
Tackle
Bind
Screech
Harden


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