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(multi-gen) The Ludolocke
Ludonarrative dissonance: "...the conflict between a video game's narrative told through the story and the narrative told through the gameplay."
I planned to wait a while before I posted anything about challenges I want to do but everyone in the past gens subforum is making logs and lets plays, so I'll just jump right in. The Ludolocke Currently active players: Ethmya, as Honest Zemanahrad, as Jonathan Disturb Not the Harmony, as Artin Lrachelr, as Lucy James and Eevee, as James. Brewmaster, as Crystal Rivals: Honest and Crystal Jonathan and Artin Lucy and James The Ludolocke is an attempt to resolve narrative discrepancies I, and others, experience when playing through the PKMN games. For example, we hear of all these terrible things Team Rocket does in Kanto. Beating a Marowak to death, stealing Pokemon from trainers, desecrating the graves of Pokemon, but we never see it. Whenever we encounter Team Rocket, they're a bunch of goofy, bumbling idiots that just barely function enough to be called a team. This challenge intends to build a narrative out of the player's experiences, and real, fleshed out characters out of the player's trainers. General Nuzlocke Rules
These rules are just par for the course. Now we get into the rules specific for this challenge. Ludolocke Rules
The Actual Narrative. That's all the rules for the game, but there are a few more narrative requirements I would like you to complete if you'd like to join! I'm going to be writing (and probably drawing some key scenes!) a narrative detailing the experiences of the players, so your trainer will become a character in the story, and you filling this out will help me write them well, realistically, and most importantly, compellingly.
If you decide to enroll, I will randomly choose a starter PKMN (with only PKMN that do not know attacking moves on start, such as Abra, Magikarp, and Ditto being excluded) and write you a character sheet that includes an analysis of your team core, suggested moves, suggested teammates, and a list of important match ups. Of course, these are all only suggestions and you may follow or discard them as you wish. I've attached an attachment which is a word doc showing what your character sheet would look like, but if you, understandably, don't want to download a file from a random stranger on the Internet, the next post will show you what your sheet would look like, although it will lose some of its formatting. I'm currently no longer accepting characters for RB, but you may send me a PM if you wish to start at a later game. I can't wait to see how this goes! ~Ethmya |
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This is what your character sheet will look like:
Honest: Trainer name: Honest Trainer age: 16 Trainer nature: Calm Backstory: Honest doesn’t want to be the very best, nor does he really wish to be a Pokemon trainer. He just has a hole in his heart he doesn’t know how to fill. Personality: Calm, cold, distant, aloof. Rational but occasionally abrasive. Has depressive episodes and angry outbursts, but generally good-natured. Wants to fill a hole. Doesn’t know what shape it is. Starter: • Caterpie Butterfree should be taught: • Confusion • Stun Spore • Sleep Powder • Supersonic • Psybeam • Psychic Butterfree should have these Pokemon as support: One of these: (Water types to eat rock and fire moves) • Golduck • Poliwrath • Slowbro • Dewgong • Starmie • Gyarados • Lapras • Vaporeon • Kabutops One of these: (physical wall since her def is awful) • Sandslash • Golem • Slowbro • Marowak • Rhydon • Lapras • Snorlax • Arty • Molty One of these: (psychic type since she can’t touch the god psychics) • Zam • Slowbro • Hypno • Eggy • Star • Mime • Jynx Slowbro is the best core partner for Butterfree. These other mons are coverage mons intended to patch their weaknesses. Any of them may be caught in any order. • Raichu. Resists flying. Resists Electric. Neutral to rock. Redundant with Magneton/Jolteon • Jolteon. Resists Flying. Resists Electric. Neutral to Rock. Redundant with Magneton/Raichu. • Dugtrio. Resists Rock. Immune to Electric. Neutral to Flying. Redundant with the Nidos. • Nidoking. Resists Rock. Immune to Electric. Neutral to Flying. Redundant with Dugtrio/Nidoqueen. • Nidoqueen. Resists Rock. Immune to Electric. Neutral to Flying. Redundant with Dugtrio/Nidoking • Marowak. Resists Rock. Immune to Electric. Neutral to flying. Redundant with the other mons in its class. • Sandslash. Resists Rock. Immune to Electric. Neutral to flying. Redundant with the other mons in its class. • Golem. Resists flying. Resists normal. Resists Rock. Resists Poison. Immune to Electric. A Golem coverage core means there is no decent move in gen 1 that can SE this team. Golem/Butterfree/Slowbro can literally kill this game by themselves, although it would be very tough. • Rhydon. Same as Golem. Harder to catch. Ideal team core: • Butterfree/Slowbro/Golem or Rhydon. • Butterfree/Slowbro/Raichu or Jolteon/Dugtrio or Nidoking or Nidoqueen or Marowak or Sandslash. Important match ups: 1. Oaks Lab Rival: Caterpie is the starter and only has Tackle. Nothing really to do about that besides hope she doesn’t die. Luckily, everyone gets unlimited resets before Poke balls. 2. Butterfree will straight up murder Route 22 Rival’s team. 3. Butter Solos Brock. If they had Rock moves it would be a different story. 4. Butter solos Cerulean City Rival. 5. Butter will be walled by Starmie, so hopefully Pikachu is caught. If not, you have two options: a. Sleep power and spam confusion b. Sleep powder and supersonic+confusion c. Sleep powder and switch to Graveller. This will be a hard fight and is one of the places you are likely to wipe. 6. Butter solos the SS Anne Rival. 7. Butter has no business being in Lt. Surge’s gym. Let her sit the whole thing out. Graveller or Raichu can fill the void. 8. Butter Solos Erika. 9. Graveller will take the lead for Rocket Hideout’s Giovanni, although Butter can solo Rhyhorn. She should not fight Kanga or Onix alone. This fight is easily wipable if you don’t pay attention. 10. Butter has no business fighting Lavender Tower Rival’s Eggy or Gyarados. Otherwise she is fine. 11. Butter has no business near anything that can blow up. Keep her out of Koga’s gym. Keep Graveller in. 12. Butter can Solo the Fighting Dojo. You should have Slowbro by this time. 13. Butter should stay away from Silph Rival’s Zam/Eggy/Gyarados. 14. Butter should be a high enough level to solo Silph’s Giovanni, although Kanga can still psyduck her up with a crit. 15. Butter has no business in Sabrina’s gym but neither does anyone besides Slowbro. 16. No Bugs allowed in Blaine’s gym. This is Slowbro’s paradise. 17. Butter should be able to solo Giovanni’s gym. 18. Butter should stay away from anything involving Blue at this point, his team is simply too strong for her. 19. Butter should stay away from Lorelei, this battle is for Raichu and Slowbro. 20. Butter can actually solo Bruno. 21. Butter can solo Agatha. 22. Butter should 100% stay away from Lance. The whole team besides her will have to come together to face him. 23. Same with the Champion battle. It’s a shame the starter cant really participate in the final main story battle, but gambling with her life this close to the end would be irresponsible. 24. Butter absolutely should stay away from Mewtwo. She shouldn’t even be in the cave, let alone in his room. Her career pretty much ends at Agatha. |
This looks really interesting. I think I'll be playing Leaf Green for Kanto.
Trainer name: Jonathan Trainer age: 21 Trainer nature: Sassy Backstory: Jonathan is magician from Laverre City. After encountering real ghosts(?) on Route 14, he decided to investigate paranormal anomalies all over the world. He decided to go to the Kanto region's Lavender Town to meet with local Psychics and Channelers. Personality: Jonathan is smart, but overconfident person. He's always trying to act cool and cocky, even when he's on the edge of the defeat. He loves to go against the odds, sometimes chasing impossible goals. He's also enjoying attention of other people when he's performing magic tricks. Is this okay? |
All right, I'll sign up.
Trainer Name: Artin Trainer Age: 17 Trainer Nature: Brave Personality: Rash, aggressive Backstory: A young man from a dysfunctional background, he has a permanent chip on his shoulder and places faith only in his own strength. Wants to be "the very best" to prove those in his past wrong. Personality: Cocky, angry, bold. Prepared to barrel through anything. Relatively mentally quick, but may have poor attention to detail. I figure this personality will make it easy to explain any, er, misclicks. Edit: If it matters, I'll be playing Pokemon Blue. |
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You got Ratatta as a starter. I'll get your trainer sheet written up right now. See you soon, youngster Joey. |
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Trainer name: Artin Trainer age: 17 Trainer nature: Brave Backstory: A young man from a dysfunctional background, he has a permanent chip on his shoulder and places faith only in his own strength. Wants to be "the very best" to prove those in his past wrong. Personality: Cocky, angry, bold. Prepared to barrel through anything. Relatively mentally quick, but may have poor attention to detail. Personality: Rash, aggressive, impetuous. Starter: Rattata Raticate should be taught: • Hyper Fang • Super Fang (delay until 34. If evolve to Raticate, learns at 41) • Hbeam • Bslam • Take Down • Dedge • Blizz • Tbolt Raticate should have these Pokemon as support: One of these: (psychic type to eat fighting attacks) • Slowbro • Hypno • Eggy • Star One of these: (Special wall since his special is awful) • Slowbro • Golduck • Hypno • Seadra • Dewgong • Victree • Ninetales • Star • Zam • Chansey • Vaporeon • Hypno • Eggy • All the birds One of these: (physical wall since his def is awful) • Sandslash • Golem • Slowbro • Marowak • Rhydon • Lapras • Snorlax • Eggy • Arty • Molty Slowbro, Hypno, Eggy, and Arty are all good partners for Raticate. Ideal Team Core: Raticate/Slowbro or Hypno/Eggy or Golduck or Seadra or Vaporeon (tanky in general) Raticate/Star/Sandslash or one of the birds. (Sacs some bulcc for speedy Kos.) Coverage mons In team one (if not using eggy) you are super weak to grass, so you need a mon that resists grass. Good choices: • Eggy, of course. • Victree • Vileplume, if you’re desperate. You also have a glaring weakness to Electric. Obvious choices are: • Jolteon • Raichu • Golem/Rhydon • Sandslash/Nidoking/Nidoqueen/Marowak After introducing these mons to your team you’ll have a weakness to ground. You could catch a flying type or something that resists ground (or just rely on your/another physical wall) Good choices are: • Snorlax • Dodrio • Fearow • All the legendary birds but esp Zapdos. A team similar to Raticate/Slowbro/Vaporeon/Victree/Golem/Fearow will be pretty much untouchable in game and will render it impossible to get SEs on this team. Important Matchups • All you can do in Oak’s Lab is Tackle. Do it. • Route 22 Rival will fall to Hyper Fang. • Rattata with Hyper Fang solos Brock. • (Assuming you have Raticate by now) Raticate will Solo Cerulean City Rival, even without Water Gun. • You can’t outspeed Misty’s Star but Hyper Fang is so good early game it shouldn’t matter unless you get blasted by a crit. • Raticate Solos the SS ANNE Rival. • Unless, for some reason, you’re using Dig on Raticate, keep him out of Surge’s gym. • Lavender Tower Rival should be alright unless you’re not using Tbolt and he has Gyarados. • If you used BBeam on Raticate he’ll murder Rocket Hideout Giovanni. The only thing that stands a chance is Kanga, only because Comet Punch. A 5hit crit Comet Punch will kill Raticate. Its up to you if you wish to shoulder that risk. • If you teach IB to Raticate then he will do fine in Erika’s gym but why would you waste that TM on Raticate? Let someone else take the spotlight. • Keep Raticate out of Koga’s gym, don’t want a Weezing to blow up on you. • Why would you even put Raticate in the Fighting Dojo. • Unless Raticate has Hbeam and you’re a walking gen 1 damage calc, don’t throw Raticate in the Silph Co Rival fight. • Silph Co Giovanni has a better team and a better moveset so Raticate should sit this one out. • No self-respecting trainer will bring a Raticate to Sabrina’s gym unless they want him to die. • Blaine’s gym will tear Raticate apart. A burn will render him completely useless. • Raticate, funnily enough, can actually do well in Giovanni’s gym but a crit bslam will kill him so just don’t. • Route 22 Rival will tear Raticate apart. • Raticate should stay away from Lorelei. • Please don’t. • Unless you have Dig Agatha will murder your Raticate. • There are too many Hbeams flying around in Lance’s fight. Don’t. • Gambling with Raticate’s life just for a cool story against the Champion is irresponsible. • Raticate is probably old and dying by the time you get to Mewtwo. Let him retire. |
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Your starter is Diglett. I will be back in a few hours and I'll write your sheet up then. |
Trainer Name: Lucy
Trainer Age: 21 Trainer Nature: Timid Backstory: Lucy is very interested in archaeology and mythology from growing up in the Sinnoh Region so she has travelled to Kanto for exploration and learning. She wants to try and understand why Team Rocket would want to meddle in the creation of pokemon for personal gain and will stop them at all costs. Personality: Lucy can be rather timid because of being more interested in her work than social interactions. However, she is fiercely loyal to her pokemon and will do whatever it takes to protect the once closest to her. |
Jonathan's character sheet was so easy as Dugtrio is a really simple PKMN with a really shallow, but effective, at least in the midgame, movepool. Here it is!
Jonathan Trainer name: Jonathan Trainer age: 21 Trainer nature: Sassy Backstory: Jonathan is a magician from Laverre City. After encountering ghosts on Route 14, he decided to investigate paranormal anomalies all over the world. He decided to go to the Kanto region's Lavender Town to meet with local Psychics and Channelers. Personality: Jonathan is a smart, but overconfident person. He's always trying to act cool and cocky, even when he's on the edge of defeat. He loves to go against the odds and sometimes chases impossible goals. He also enjoys the attention of other people when he is performing magic tricks. Starter: Diglett Dugtrio should be taught: • Dig • Slash • Earthquake • Rock Slide (these are subpar options) • Sub • Sand Attack Dugtrio should be supported by: One of these: (Flying type for grass coverage) • Fearow • Dodrio • Gyarados • Zapdos • Arty One of these: (Electric types to cover Dugtrio’s main weakness, water.) • Jolteon • Zapdos • Raichu • Magneton • Electabuzz One of these: (physical wall since his def is awful, like literally paper thin) • Slowbro • Lapras • Snorlax • Eggy • Arty • Molty • Cloyster • Kanga One of these: (special wall since his special is awful as well lmao) • Zam • Hypno • Gengar • Chansey • Slowbro • Golduck • Seadra • Dewgong • Ninetales • Star • Vaporeon • Pretty much all the birds. Ideal Team Core: Dugtrio/Dodrio/Jolteon or Raichu/Slowbro or Snorlax/Alakazam This team is perfect. With this team (which would be quite easy to get, barring Pikachu/Jolteon) nothing in game can SE this team. Coverage mons This team needs no additional coverage. Important Matchups • All you can do in Oak’s Lab is Scratch. • Diglett can solo the Route 22 Rival but his defenses are garbage so you need to grind him up pretty high. • Diglett can solo Brock. • Diglett has really low defense so this first Rival battle, he should sit out. • Diglett/Dugtrio will get mopped in Misty’s gym. • A crit anywhere in SS Anne Rival will kill Diglett so pls don’t. • Here he starts to pick up steam as he should be evolved. Dugtrio will 100% murder Surge’s gym. • Lavender Tower Rival should mostly be alright, only since the Rival’s mons are straight garbage. Of course, avoid Gyarados, if he has it. • Dugtrio murders Rocket Hideout Giovanni, except Kanga. A crit Comet Punch will kill. If he hits more than 3 times, once, you are in big trouble. • There is no reason to bring Dugtrio into Erika’s gym. • You may think about using Dugtrio in Koga’s gym, but unless you’re a higher level than the gym PKMN, Weezing will almost always take a Dig and blow up on you, which will kill. • Dugtrio can solo the Fighting Dojo. • Silph Co Rival has several PKMN that will give Dugtrio a hard time. Venusaur, Gyarados, and Blastoise. • Dugtrio should finally be strong enough to solo Silph Co Giovanni. • Dugtrio speed ties with Alakazam in Sabrina's gym so will have to outspeed in order to win. If he eats a Psychic, he is going to either die or be really hurt. Otherwise, barring really unlucky crits, Dugtrio should be fine. • Dugtrio will always win in Blaine’s gym unless first burnt. • Dugtrio will solo Giovanni’s gym. • Route 22 Rival is the same as last. Avoid Gyarados, Venusaur, and Blastoise. Otherwise, he is alright. • Please stay away from Lorelei. • Machamp is dangerous and if he uses Submission it can kill. • Dugtrio should be able to kill Agatha. • Dugtrio is so frail and will be murdered by pretty much any strong move from any PKMN whose name isn’t Dragonair. • It’s the exact same but worse this time. • No. |
After a quick PM, Rachel and I decided to make her character narrative-wise a girl.
Your starter is Spearow. |
This seems like some wacky good fun
Trainer Name: James Trainer Age: 17, almost 18 Trainer Nature: Brave Backstory: James ran away from his home in Johto a few years ago because his parents wouldn't allow him to become a Pokemon Trainer. He heard Professor Oak was giving away starter pokemon and today he woke up in Viridian City in the Pokemon Center. Guess it's time to start a journey. Personality: Before battles will take time to plan for the fight, but sometimes forgets the plan in the heat of the moment. Somewhat funny(sometimes, be prepared for bad puns) and always tries to protect his friends, even if it gets homself hurt in the process. I'll be playing FR or LG if that matters EDIT: I also have no idea how to change the starters, so help with that would be nice XD |
This sheet was actually very hard! I realised I actually have never used Spearow in competitive nor in a challenge run in gen 1, so this is all theorycraft and speculation.
Lucy Trainer name: Lucy Trainer age: 21 Trainer nature: Timid Backstory: Lucy is very interested in archaeology and mythology from growing up in the Sinnoh Region so she has traveled to Kanto for exploration and learning. She wants to try and understand why Team Rocket would want to meddle in the creation of Pokemon for personal gain and will stop them at all costs. Personality: Lucy can be rather timid because of being more interested in her work than social interactions. However, she is fiercely loyal to her pokemon and will do whatever it takes to protect the ones closest to her. Starter: Spearow Fearow should be taught: Fearow has a terrible, terrible movepool thats just barely effective enough to drag him above “Beedrill tier” • Drill Peck • Double-Edge • Hyper Beam • Double Team (these are subpar options) • Sub? • Fly? Spearow is weird. He has no movepool, a garbage typing, and no stats, but opposing PKMN tend to be biased towards Special, not Defense. He's better than Pidgeot but worse than Dodrio. Fearow should be supported by: One of these: (A Ground type to take Electric attacks) Golem Rhydon Sandslash Marowak Nidoking Nidoqueen One of these: (A Water type to eat Ice attacks) Golduck Slowbro Seadra Dewgong Star Vaporeon One of these: (A physical wall. Most good physical walls in gen 1 are Ground type.) Golem Rhydon Sandslash Snorlax (in general while running with a Normal/Flying, you should be avoid normal types but Snorlax is just that good. One of these: (A special wall.) Zam Eggy Gengar Hypno Chansey (same thing that applies to Snorlax applies to Chansey) Slowbro Ideal Team core: Fearow/Golem or Rhydon/Slowbro or Vaporeon/Snorlax/Zam or Hypno or Gengar Important Matchups • You have Peck in Oak's lab so you should be alright. If you manipulate the starter to have Bulbasaur you'll have an easier time later. • Route 22 Rival will be a piece of cake as long as you level to his level. • Spearow can solo Brock. • Spearow's defenses are just barely high enough for the Cerulean City Rival. • If evolved into Fearow, you can take on Misty's gym but if Starmie crits you are in big trouble. If Spearow isn't evolved yet, just keep him out this gym. • Fearow has the stats to take on the SS Anne Rival. • Fearow will get murdered by Surge's Raichu. gg no re. • Pretty much always should be avoiding Gyarados from here in the Lavender Tower until the end of the game. Otherwise, you should be alright. • Rocket Hideout Giovanni will really, really hurt Fearow. • Fearow will murder Erika's gym. • Koga's Weezing will murk Fearow if he blows up. • Fearow can solo the Fighting Dojo. • Silph Co Rival should be alright unless he has Gyarados. • Fearow will get killed by Silph Giovanni. • Fearow will get killed in Sabrina's gym. • Unless you know exactly which PKMN have Fire Blast and which don't, Fearow doesn't belong in Blaine's gym. • Fearow has big problems in Giovanni's gym. • Fearow has been rendered obsolete by Route 22's Rival's team. • Like everything in Lorelei's gym will 1hko Fearow. • Bruno actually have PKMN with Rock moves, thats dangerous, stay away. • As long as Fearow isn't sleeping, he should be alright against Agatha. • Fearow has no place staring down Dragons. • You really shouldn't. • Even an Hbeam from a level 100 Fearow won't kill Mewtwo unless it crits. |
All ONLY ONE PKMN in Red/Blue
Pallet Town Bulbasaur Pallet Town Charmander Pallet Town Squrtile ---> None of these are applicable in RB as we are not using these starters at all. Route 2 Trade Mr. Mime (Not Claimed) Mt. Moon Omanyte (Not claimed) Mt. Moon Kabuto (Not claimed) ---> The fossils these mons come from must be obtained to progress, but only those who claim these will be permitted to use them. Route 4 Magikarp (DEAD) Cerulean City Trade Jynx (Not claimed) Saffron Hitmonlee (Not Claimed) Saffron Hitmonchan (Not Claimed) Vermilion Trade Farfetch'd (Not claimed) Celadon City Eevee (CAPTURED by Crystal.) (If you acquire this PKMN you may not obtain any of the Celadon Game Corner PKMN.) Western Snorlax (CAPTURED by Honest) Eastern Snorlax (CLAIMED by Lucy) Route 18 Trade Lickitung (Not claimed) Old Amber Aerodactyl (Not claimed) Silph Co Lapras (CLAIMED by James) Power Plant Zapdos (Not Claimed) Seafoam Articuno (Not claimed) Victory Road Moltres (Not claimed) Cerulean Cave Mewtwo. (Not claimed) Underground Path Nidoran (Not claimed) lmao i forgot about this one Pretty sure thats all of them. Feel free to let me know if I missed anyone! How do I claim PKMN? Simply reply in this thread and say which only one PKMN you wish to claim. What does it mean to claim a PKMN? If you are the only one who claims a PKMN when you reach them, then they are yours. What happens if more than one person claims an only one? A dispute occurs. What is a dispute? A dispute is when more than one person claims a only one PKMN. If a dispute occurs, both trainers wait until they have access to the only one PKMN and battle for it. Of course, no faints are considered as deaths here. This can be done on Showdown very easily. When do we start? You can start now! <3 |
Okay, first progress update.
EDIT: WHOOPS. Sorry, I was writing the update and didn't see the latest post. For what it's worth, I am deliberately not claiming any "only ones", so I shouldn't be interfering with anyone else's roster. Update 1: From Pallet to Rock Tunnel Spoiler:
Team Plans: Spoiler:
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James, your starter is Nidoran. Lucky you, you get to pick which one! |
I just noticed that my team construction thingy only gave me five slots, is that meant to happen or should I have been given the options about my 6th team member
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You can fill the sixth, I just had no recommendation for that slot so I left it empty. A lot of times in nuzlockes you want to run teams of 4-5 instead of 6 anyway.
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This seems too fun, am I too late? :( This always happens lmao.
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Not at all! Theres five of us already but only one of us has started. Feel free to submit your character! <3
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Will be using Nidoran Male if you need to know that, I also will have an update up later
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Update One
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Just some news real quick before I post my first update:
Unfortunately, I dropped my laptop and broke the monitor. This isn't a big deal as I have a desktop, but I may get things out slower until it is fixed in about 3-4 days. I also won't have any of my footage, which is a shame, because I had some fun gifs and images, but I'll edit them in later. Note, this is not the narrative, merely the exact things that happened to me in game. The First Update: Spoiler:
The Team: Spoiler:
The Graveyard: Spoiler:
The Plan: Spoiler:
FFR, 'fodder' mon is the mon I'm most willing to sacrifice for a free switch as a last resort. I will never fodder my team core, which is Butterfree/Golem/Slowbro, which makes Magi/Gyara the fodder mon by default. |
Thank you for letting me participate.
Trainer name - Crystal Trainer age - 17 Trainer nature - Naive Backstory (Short, 2 sentences-1 paragraph. Where has your character been, where are they going, and why are they going there?) Crystal isn't really excited about being a pokemon trainer. Her parents believe shes quite vain and would like her to lose that quality. She believes becoming a pokemon trainer is beneath her. But will give it her all(in an attempt to prove her parents wrong) for a little bit at least. Maybe she'll find something she enjoys about pokemon later.(pokemon contests/coordinator) Personality (Short, 2 sentences-1 paragraph. A concise, crash course detailing your character's personality. A list of adjectives is acceptable. Vain, self adsorbed, Naive, Dense, Obtuse, believes shes perfect in every way. |
Alright, I've got my monitor fixed.
Brew, your starter is Vulpix. I'll have James' and Brew's sheets done tonight! |
Hello everyone!
You may have noticed that in the initial post, there is a new section detailing the rivalries between the characters. Here is what that means, exactly. Rivalries are kind of competitions within the challenge. You should strive to outperform your rival. These performance feats are what are tracked:
There may be events where you get to compete directly against your Rival! There may be rewards if you participate in these... For the purposes of the narrative, your characters will meet early in the story and form a relationship. It does not necessarily have to be a competitive/negative one, but they will be linked very early on. It will be up to you to choose how the relationship with your rival forms. This is all intended to increase interactivity with the challenge and the overarching narrative. I hope you enjoy this new layer of participation! |
James:
Trainer name: James Trainer age: 17 Trainer nature: Brave Backstory: James ran away from his home in Johto a few years ago because his parents wouldn't allow him to become a Pokemon Trainer. He heard Professor Oak was giving away starter pokemon and today he woke up in Viridian City in the Pokemon Center. Guess it's time to start a journey. Personality: Before battles will take time to plan for the fight, but sometimes forgets the plan in the heat of the moment. He is moderately funny, is a lover of bad puns, and always tries to protect his friends, even if it gets himself hurt in the process. Starter: Nidoran Male. Nidoking should be taught: • Horn Attack • Ice Beam • Thunderbolt • Earthquake • Body Slam • Thrash, although this is a subpar option. Nidoking should have these Pokemon as support: One of these: (A birb or grass type to dodge ground attacks) • Fearow • Dodrio • Any of the legendary birds. • Vileplume • Victreebell • Eggy • Scyther • Gyarados • Aero • Dnite One of these: (A good water type to soak those Surfs up) • Slowbro • Star • Golduck • Seadra • Lapras • Gyarados • Vaporeon • Chansey (just because shes so good in general at eating special attacks) One of these: (A good psychic type to eat those Psychics, assuming you aren’t using Slowbro/Star) • Slowbro, ofc • Zam • Hypno • Chansey, for reasons stated above • Eggy • Star Ideal teams: Nidoking/Dodrio or Fearow/Golduck or Seadra/Zam or Hypno Nidoking/Dodrio/Slowbro or Starmie This team needs no further coverage. Important match ups: 1. Oaks Lab Rival: You got nothing but your starting attacking move and Leer. Compensate with Leer when Blue reduces your stats, and just wail away. 2. If you level to Horn Attack you should have no issue with the Route 22 Rival. 3. Spam Leer to -3, Horn Attack. Don’t attack during Bides. 4. Nidorino and the King will be just fine with everything that isn’t Hyper Fang. 5. Nido is 1hko’d by BBeam. 6. Nidoking can sweep the SS Anne Rival, not including Kadabra. 7. You should not worry about Surge’s gym, only thing you fear is Sonicboom. 8) Gyarados has Hydro Pump now. Kadabra and Gyara are off limits. 9) Rocket Hideout Gio should pose no problem. 10) Avoid Erkia’s gym unless you know exactly who does and doesn’t have Razor Leaf. 11) Nidoking should be able to tank an Explosion from Weezing, although depending on your level, this is not 100% sure. Be careful. 12) Nidoking solos the Fighting Dojo. 13) More of the same as before for the Silph Co Rival. 14) More of the same as before for Silph Co Giovanni. 15) Nidoking has no business in Sabrina’s gym. 16) Nido is mostly fine in this gym but unless you know exactly what has Fire Blast you should be very careful, it really hurts Nido and he is going to seriously struggle if burnt. 17) Nido should sweep Gio’s gym. 18) Rival’s team on Route 22 is pretty strong and has poor type matchups for the King. 19) Why would you bring King to fight Lorelei? 20) King solos Bruno. 21) Unless asleep, King solos Agatha. If he is put to sleep, you should immediately switch. 22) Lance’s Gyarados should be avoided due to lil Pump, Aero due to his insane crit ratio. 23) The Champion Battle is the same, just more of it. 24) No. |
Wow, so, first update, almost already lost, but we still kicking bois.
Story: Spoiler:
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So yeah, finally finished part one. Cya next time :) |
Crystal:
Trainer name: Crystal Trainer age: 17 Trainer nature: Naive Backstory: Crystal isn't really excited about being a pokemon trainer. Her parents believe shes quite vain and would like her to lose that quality. She believes becoming a pokemon trainer is beneath her. But, to prove her parents wrong, will give it her all, to start, at least. Maybe she'll find something she enjoys about pokemon later. Personality: Vain, self adsorbed, Naive, Dense, Obtuse, believes shes perfect in every way. Starter: Vulpix Ninetales should be taught:
Ninetales should have these Pokemon as Support: One of these: (A pure Ground type to eat Rock attacks) • Marowak • Sandslash • Dugtrio One of these: (A phat water type to eat surfs) • Slowbro • Star • Golduck • Seadra • Lapras • Vaporeon • Chansey is also an option here. Ideal Team Core: Ninetales/Marowak or Sandslash/Golduck or Seadra or Vaporeon Ninetales/Marowak or Sandslash/Slowbro or Star Coverage Mons: With a pure Fire, pure Water, and pure Ground on your team, your only weakness is Ground. You can use a flying type, such as
Important match ups:
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I guess it's time to post an update.
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My team Spoiler:
I don't really have a plan yet. We'll see what happens. |
Update: I have made a mistake. This is why you read the rules people. I did not realize their was a rule against using items in battle, so I have reset to before fighting Brock to fight him again. I did not lose any mons this time, but, as payment for my messup, I have decided to forfeit the mons who originally died. Let this be a warning to you all.
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Quick update, after lots of rumination, Master Ball is now banned.
If you’ve somehow already used it, that is fine, but from now on, it is banned. |
Posting this for Brew exactly as it was written as their account still needs messages approved by a mod before posting.
Day 0. Today started off just splendid... I got in a fight with my mother again about the same old stuff. She wants me to become a pokemon trainer... She knows I don't really have an interest in becoming a pokemon trainer. So much traveling, and walking around chasing random creatures that you're not even guaranteed to catch... Oh and that pokedex.... Can't the old 'pokemon researcher' research his own pokemon? Why does he have to nag young people like myself to do it. Day 1. I left the house today because I was tired of fighting. If my mother likes pokemon so much, she should become the pokemon trainer. Why is it my job.... BUT FINE. I went to the old geezers lab and recieved a pokemon. It's a Vulpix, I thought that name was kind of boring, plus why would I want to get used to calling it Vulpix only for it to evolve later? The old fool told me my Vulpix was a girl. How he knows I don't want to know... I renamed her Vulliby. Surprisingly she seemed to like the name. This other trainer was there as well. He wanted to battle, what a moron. His only pokemon was a grass type.... Yeah the battle was quick. I told him to leave me alone and walked out with his money. Day 4. I made it to Pewter city. First thing I did is go straight to the gym to challenge the leader. This guy had his shift off, what is wrong with people. We battled, Vulliby took out his first pokemon. He sent out this weird rock-snake thing. I told him to give up but he attacked Vulliby. Made me a little upset he'd risk hurting her. I sent out Nidorino, and completely ruined his rock-snake. Apparently it's called an Onix.. Who cares. He gave me my badge and I walked out of his gym. Had no interest in further conversation with someone who thinks he's all that. P.S. I'm actually starting to like Vulliby. Shes grown on me a little bit. At night when I'm forced to sleep NOT IN A BED. She curls up next to me in my sleepingbag and we both stay warm. I won't dare try that with Nidorino, not only is he fat and ugly. But he has horns that are very pokey... |
Zemanahrad is now considered inactive. Feel free to continue if you were waiting.
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My computer has crashed. Thankfully I backed up my save file, but it will be a bit before I am able to write a full update or play more.
So, slight update is I have finished up Mt. Moon with 0 new deaths. See ya next time folks |
Prolly should update #2 again I guess?
Two gyms down, nearly wiped on the lv 20 slowpoke before bill due to rng confusion and forgetting that mon doesn't know/use water attacks. But here it goes. (I'm actually further than this update says as I'm on my way to Rock tunnel) Spoiler:
My Team Spoiler:
Graveyard Spoiler:
I'm actually a bit further than this update write up says. I just beat Erika and I'm now waiting for the contest of the Eevee with James and Eevee. However that works. But that'll prolly be taken care of by the time my post gets approved so.... Edit - Oh no more post approval. yay? |
Well, I tried to send this, but my computer was offline lol. So let's try this again, Enter Part 2
Story: Spoiler:
The Team: Spoiler:
Graveyard: Spoiler:
Also, I rescind my claim on the Celadon City Eevee, so Crystal can continue her journey, and claim the Silph Co. Lapras instead. That's all for now, see ya later |
My mans James making it through Misty with no deaths, I see you. <3
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I'm not used to nice people online. I won't claim Eevee in future versions to allow others to play with the mon. |
I'm expecting Lt. Surge to be similar, because Nidoking XD
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Aww, I was looking forward to that battle, lmao.
Claims have been updated. |
Since all active players have made an update post, I am no longer accepting joins for RB, check in later after we finish for another chance to join up for future games!
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Tfw you forgot that Gyarados gets Hydro Pump so you put Surf on him and can't delete it.
rip |
The Second Update:
Spoiler:
The Team: Spoiler:
The Graveyard: Spoiler:
The Plan: Spoiler:
I am not claiming any more mons, at least not until the post game. One last thing, I doubt any of you have finished the E4, but when you do, please stop or take screenshots/pictures of your team's stat cards after you do, I will need them if you decide to inherit any Pokemon. |
Uh, so I have a very weird problem. I have a full team of six, just finished the S.S.Anne(spoilers XD) and a big fat whopping 0 of my mons can learn Cut. So...I have no idea what to do. Pls help
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You have to release one, rip.
If you want to game the system, you could leave one in the day care center, but thats more of a bandaid solution than a real one. |
Also just so people rate aware I want to claim one of the two Snorlax for my team
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Eastern Snorlax is claimed by Rachel.
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Guess we're gonna have another 'Death' then RIP. And I thought there wouldn't be any this leg.
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UPDATE Two
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TEAM Spoiler:
I am now waiting for my last two team mates who I am aiming to be Slowbro and Snorlax |
Disturb not the Harmony is now considered inactive as they haven’t been online at all in 7 days.
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#3?
Might be a little long, apologies. Spoiler:
Team Spoiler:
Graveyard Spoiler:
I've actually beat Sabrina with no losses.(prolly would've lost Golem if psybeam crit, but thankfully it didn't and I switched out to Vap) I just had a really long day and am too tired to update any further. Feel my writing is suffering from being tired. Will include that in the next update. Brew ~ |
New Update, Yays! Might have a little less detail tho, cause I'm in a bit of a rush, but here goes. Also, I realized that I can't catch a mon from every route like I've been doing lol.
Story: Spoiler:
Party: Spoiler:
Graveyard(RIP): Spoiler:
I felt in a color mood, so yeah. Anyways, that's all for now, see y'all later |
Question: Am I allowed to put the Cut Slave in the PC/release it whenever I want to, since it's technically not here anyway?
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I'm still playing, I hope everyone else is as well.
But I'm having a rough time going off memory on route 19. Think it would be cheating using a map on google... So. |
This seems really cool! Think I could join the party?
Game : Prob HeartGold (If that's still an option) Trainer name : Byakuya Trainer age : 18 Trainer nature : Relaxed Backstory : A rather pampered childhood, but was bullied in school. While she has gotten over whatever trauma she suffered due to said bullying, there are times when her past comes back to haunt her. Personality : Tries to act laid-back and like she doesn't care, but is a hard worker and a kind, thoughtful person at heart. Optimistic, friendly, with an appreciation for dark humor. Introvert. Is this all you need? |
Due to having awful luck with flying pokemon and not wanting legendaries.
I'm claiming Aerodactyl |
Sorry I haven't updated in a few days, I've had a few family issues. Don't worry though, I should have an update up sometime tomorrow.
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Sorry for the lack of an update I’m back at Uni and classes have started I’ll aim to update soon
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update #4 is ready.
But I don't believe this challenge exists anymore. I'll save it in my folders for if people ever return. I've completed Red though. |
It's a shame, but Ethmya wasn't here since 23rd of September.
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