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Wuzzy July 19th, 2020 10:04 PM

Flying Monotype Challenge - Emerald Kaizo Edition - Update #4

Spoiler:
  • Received Surf and backtracked to explore new areas (north of Route 115, New Mauville, etc.)
  • Went through the routes to Fortree City and cleared out the Weather Institute from Team Aqua and beat my rival afterwards
  • Made it to Fortree City, which meant that I'll get a new team member being Dodrio (which was a big pain to catch), to replace Pidgeot since Dodrio is a lot faster and stronger but squishier.
  • Got the Devon Scope and cleared out the trainers in the routes going to Lilycove City before facing Winona
  • Winona surprisingly wasn't too difficult since she has Zapdos (which I don't have answers too) and it's a double battle. In the end, I managed to come out on top and received the Feather Badge
    - Dodrio and Salamence used Double Edge and Draco Meteor to take down Zapdos, Dodrio goes down to Thunderbolt in the process
    - Pelipper's Hydro Pump OHKOs Aerodactyl
    - Winona's Crobat goes down to Ice Beam + Surf from Pelipper
    - Articuno goes down to 2 Fire Punches from Charizard
    - Salamence OHKOs Flygon with Draco Meteor
    - Moltres is able to finish off Salamence and Pelipper with Sky Attack, but gets taken down by Crobat and Charizard eventually
  • Made it to Lilycove City (sorta, Aqua Grunts are blocking the way but you're still able to use Fly to prematurely enter the city)
  • Beat the rival for the last time to gain access to the Department Store
  • Cleared out Mt. Pyre of Team Aqua grunts and received the Magma Emblem to infiltrate the Magma hideout
  • Went through the entire hideout which was very difficult due to the influx of Chlorophyll users (fast Sleep Powder is obnoxious) and Explosion leads.
  • Maxie was surprisingly pretty easy overall, I thought his Entei and Tyranitar would body my team but that wasn't the case (I realized I had a chance once I discovered I had the Iron Tail TM)
    - 2 Iron Tails from Salamence takes out Tyranitar due to the Defense drop
    - Pelipper tanks Draco Meteor and Flygon goes down to Ice Beam
    - Salamence chips Entei with Draco Meteor before going down, Gyarados gets taken down due to an unfortunate burn causing Bounce + Double Edge to not finish Entei off. Dodrio cleans up with Quick Attack
    - Exeggutor gets taken out by 2 Drill Pecks from Dodrio who is still faster despite Chlorophyll
    - Dodrio takes Arcanine's Intimidate before going down, Charizard 2HKOs with Overheat
    - Lastly, Gengar goes down to Crobat's 2 Shadow Balls
  • Backtracked all the way back to Lilycove City to infiltrate the Aqua Hideout
  • Made it to the end relatively easy (not having permanent weather certainly helps) and Matt was sort of a pushover

Team
Spoiler:
https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/169.png
Lvl 68 | Inner Focus | Gentle
- Poison Fang
- Air Slash
- Shadow Ball
- Confuse Ray

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/279.png
Lvl 67 | Swift Swim | Bold
- Surf
- Sky Attack
- Ice Beam
- Hydro Pump

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/130.png
Lvl 67 | Intimidate | Jolly
- Bounce
- Body Slam
- Double-Edge
- Waterfall

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/85.png
Lvl 67 | Run Away | Hasty
- Body Slam
- Drill Peck
- Double-Edge
- Quick Attack

https://pkmn.net/sprites/frlg/6.png
Lvl 67 | Blaze | Modest
- Flamethrower
- Overheat
- Quick Attack
- Fly

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/373.png
Lvl 67 | Intimidate | Lonely
- Air Slash
- Draco Meteor
- Iron Tail
- Strength

Box
Spoiler:
https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/267.png
Lvl 30 | Swarm | Timid
- Psychic
- Signal Beam
- Giga Drain
- Thief

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/83.png
Lvl 38 | Inner Focus | Serious
- Slash
- Aerial Ace
- Quick Attack
- Cut

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/334.png
Lvl 42 | Natural Cure | Quirky
- Dragon Claw
- Air Slash
- Sky Attack
- Earthquake

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/357.png
Lvl 50| Chlorophyll | Quiet
- Giga Drain
- Air Slash
- Earthquake
- Synthesis

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/18.png
Lvl 54 | Keen Eye | Relaxed
- Air Slash
- Double-Edge
- Heat Wave
- Quick Attack


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Flying Monotype Challenge - Emerald Kaizo Edition - Update #5

to avoid triple posting, I've edited this post with the 5th update ^^

Spoiler:
  • Made it to Mossdeep City after clearing out the Aqua Hideout
  • Challenged Liza & Tate at the Mossdeep Gym and after a short grinding session plus a few attempts, I received the Mind Badge
    - Salamence and Crobat take down Latios with Draco Meteor and Shadow Ball
    - Latias goes down to the same Draco Meteor + Shadow Ball combo from Salamence and Crobat
    - Crobat goes down to Medicham's Shadow Ball, Medicham gets OHKOed by Salamence's Air Slash
    - Starmie takes down Salamence with Ice Beam, Dodrio takes it out with 2 Double-Edges
    - Jirachi gets OHKOed by Charizard's Overheat
    - Overheat + Double-Edge from Charizard and Dodrio takes down Gardevoir
  • Went to the Mossdeep Space Station to clear the place of Team Magma Grunts, and also beat Maxie/Tabitha in the multi-battle with Steven. I chose Pelipper/Dodrio/Salamence, while Steven had an Aerodactyl/Starmie/Metagross
    - Gengar takes down Pelipper with Thunderbolt, but gets 2HKOed by Salamence's Air Slash
    - Salamence and Aerodactyl take out the opposing Charizard with Air Slash and Fly
    - The opposing Salamence easily goes down to my Salamence's Draco Meteor and Aerodactyl's Fly
    - Tauros eventually goes down to Air Slash and Fly spam from Salamence and Aerodactyl after spamming Earthquake for most of the battle
    - Flygon goes down to Fly and Draco Meteor
    - Metagross takes out Steven's Aerodactyl with Meteor Mash, eventually goes down to Air Slash and Dive spam from Salamence and Starmie
  • Received the HM for Dive and went on a few detours for hidden items underwater and to go to Pacifidlog Town plus Sootopolis City
  • Made it to the Seafloor Cavern and cleared the place of Team Aqua Grunts, which was very hard due to the permanent rain and how my team struggles against Water-types (especially since all of the have Ice Beam as coverage)
  • Made it to the bottom and challenged Archie in a surprise double battle, the first try I was close but lost to Qwilfish's Destiny Bond spam and not having any Pokeballs to waste turns on, 2nd try was successful in the end
    - Raikou gets taken down by 2 of Salamence's Earthquakes while taking down Crobat and Dodrio with Thunder
    - Crobat and Dodrio chip Suicune low enough where another Earthquake finishes it off
    - Dragonite barely survives the Draco Meteor and is able to take out Pelipper with Thunder, it goes down to Salamence's Air Slash the next turn.
    - Metagross gets weakened by Charizard's Overheat, Salamence's Earthquake finishes it off
    - Qwilfish finishes off Charizard with Gunk Shot and also goes down to Salamence's Earthquake
    - Kingdra takes out Salamence with Draco Meteor, but eventually goes down to Gyarados's Bounce and Double-Edge along with Draco Meteor's recoil
  • Emerged from the cavern and made my way towards Sootopolis City

Team
Spoiler:
https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/169.png
Lvl 76 | Inner Focus | Gentle
- Poison Fang
- Air Slash
- Shadow Ball
- Confuse Ray

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/279.png
Lvl 78 | Swift Swim | Bold
- Surf
- Ice Beam
- Hydro Pump
- Fly

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/130.png
Lvl 75 | Intimidate | Jolly
- Bounce
- Body Slam
- Double-Edge
- Waterfall

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/85.png
Lvl 76 | Run Away | Hasty
- Return
- Drill Peck
- Double-Edge
- Quick Attack

https://pkmn.net/sprites/frlg/6.png
Lvl 75 | Blaze | Modest
- Flamethrower
- Overheat
- Quick Attack
- Rock Smash

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/373.png
Lvl 77 | Intimidate | Lonely
- Air Slash
- Draco Meteor
- Earthquake
- Iron Tail

Box
Spoiler:
https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/267.png
Lvl 30 | Swarm | Timid
- Psychic
- Signal Beam
- Giga Drain
- Thief

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/83.png
Lvl 38 | Inner Focus | Serious
- Slash
- Aerial Ace
- Quick Attack
- Cut

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/334.png
Lvl 42 | Natural Cure | Quirky
- Dragon Claw
- Air Slash
- Sky Attack
- Earthquake

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/357.png
Lvl 50| Chlorophyll | Quiet
- Giga Drain
- Air Slash
- Earthquake
- Synthesis

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/18.png
Lvl 54 | Keen Eye | Relaxed
- Air Slash
- Double-Edge
- Heat Wave
- Quick Attack

Arubetsu July 23rd, 2020 1:21 AM

Pokémon Ultimate Flying Monotype - Fire Red Chapter 2

Spoiler:
Misty was difficult because Starmie did it well resisting my attacks and lost the first try, but in the second try Fearow beated both Staryu and Starmie with ease. After buying some superpotions, I have caught a Spearow and defeat all trainers of Route 5, headed to Vermilion City, one of my favorites cities and traded this Spearow to a Farfetch'd (Farfie), I don't know if his nature is random but got Adamant Nature so good for him.

In S.S. Anne I tried to level all my team with all the trainers and battled Blue: First Pidgeotto vs. Farfie, thanks to his Stick he defeated him with two criticals of Peck, leading Farfie with half of life but good fight, then Raticate vs Mordisquitos the Zubat, Raticate used 2 tail whips so I decided to change to Cefiro the Pidgeotto after confusing him, after some quick attacks Raticate was fainted, then Blue sent Kadabra and I kept Pidgeotto that with the foe's low defense was fainted easily. The last and best Pokémon was Wartortle, I decided to use Tramuntana the Fearow and after a stalling fight we finally won Blue. After getting HM01 Cut we went to the most challenging Gym, as I have nothing to counter Lt. Surge.

Remember that I cannot use Charmeleon in important fights because of my extra rule, so Magnemite will be really hard!

1. Zubat VS Voltorb--> Winner Voltorb almost 1HKOed
2. Fearow VS Voltorb--> Winner Fearow with lowering its defense and fury attack
3. Pidgeotto VS Pikachu--> Winner Pidgeotto with quick attacks
4. Pidgeotto VS Raichu--> Winner Raichu being faster
5. Farfetch'd VS Raichu--> I had to sacrifice him to heal Fearow
6. Fearow VS Raichu--> Winner Raichu ( I would have won if fury attack hit more than 2 times...)

https://i.imgur.com/kwFmEgA.png

Second Try: I see that Zubat cannot do anything here, so this time I will start with Farfetch'd and keep Fearow and Pidgeotto against Raichu

1. Farfetch'd VS Voltorb--> Winner Farfetch'd, I was lucky that he didn't use any electric attack
2. Farfetch'd VS Pikachu--> Winner Farfetch'd with a Cut, now Lt. Surge has two Pikachu
3. Zubat VS Raichu--> Winner Raichu, my intention was to confuse him but whatever...
4. Pidgeotto VS Raichu--> Winner Raichu, nice try
5. Fearow VS Raichu--> Winner Raichu, using 3 Double Team and defeated the rest...

Third Try... But before, I realized that Zubat evolves at 22, I thought it was way later so I hope Golbat can help this time!

1. Golbat VS Voltorb--> Winner Golbat with Bite and being faster
2. Golbat VS. Pikachu--> Winner Golbat, but got paralized
3. Farfetch'd VS Raichu--> Winner Raichu with a critical
4. Pidgeotto VS Raichu--> Winner Raichu, Double team again...
5. Fearow VS Raichu--> Winner Raichu with 1 PS

Fourth try:

1. Farfetch'd VS Voltorb--> Winner Farfetch'd with Critical Cut
2. Pidgeotto VS Pikachu--> Winner Pidgeotto with Quick Attack ( paralized)
3. Golbat VS Raichu--> Winner Raichu, I tried to confuse, but got double team three times, and when I finally confused LT. Surge used Full Heal
4. Fearow VS Raichu--> Finally! Wiht two Fury Attacks we won!

https://imgur.com/1374a4ab-08fe-465f-9ce5-bb435d10144d





[To be continued]

My Team so far:
Spoiler:

https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/9/96/Spr_3f_005.png
Max the Charmeleon: lvl. 20 At. 29/Df.32/At.Esp.38/Def.Esp.34/Sp.39
Male
Blaze ability
Calm Nature
-Ember
-Smoke Screen
-Scratch
-Metal Claw

https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/e/e5/Spr_3f_017.png
Cefiro the Pidgeotto: lvl. 24 At. 41/Df.32/At.Esp.36/Def.Esp.30/Sp.44
Male
Keen Eye ability
Hardy Nature
-Tackle
-Sand Attack
-Tornado
-Quick Attack

https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/66/Spr_3f_022.png
Tramuntana the Fearow: lvl. 25 At. 52/Df.43/At.Esp.41/Def.Esp.44/Sp.54
Male
Keen Eye ability
Sassy Nature
-Peck
-Pursuit
-Leer
-Fury Attack

https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/a/aa/Spr_3f_042.png
Mordisquitos the Golbat: lvl. 23 At.52/Df.44/At.Esp.32/Def.Esp.44/Sp.55
Male
Inner Focus ability
Adamant Nature
-Wing Attack
-Impress
-Supersonic
-Bite

https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/0/09/Spr_3f_083.png
Farfie the Farfetch'd: lvl. 23 At.45/Df.35/At.Esp.31/Def.Esp.38/Sp.38
Male
Keen Eye ability
Adamant Nature
-Peck
-Disarm
-Cut
-Fury Attack


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Wuzzy July 25th, 2020 6:35 PM

Flying Monotype Challenge - Emerald Kaizo Edition - Update #6

almost near the finish line!
Spoiler:
  • Flew back to Sootopolis City to watch Groudon and Kyogre battle it out
  • Went inside the Cave of Origin to find Wallace, also caught a new team member that will replace Crobat being Aerodactyl (later on after the gym) inside
  • Made my way to the Sky Pillar near Pacifidlog Town to awaken Rayquaza
  • Rayquaza stops Groudon and Kyogre, peace returns to the world and I receive the HM for Waterfall
  • Before challenging the Sootopolis Gym, I decided to catch 2 temporary party members being Togetic (Lilycove City) and Mantine (Sootopolis City) to use against Juan. Togetic has Follow Me and Mantine has much better special bulk than Pelipper (which got 2 shot by Surf or Hydro Pump under than rain in the Seafloor Cavern)
  • Challenged the Sootopolis Gym and I decided to swap out Charizard for Aerodactyl temporarily. Before we can face Juan I had to battle Wallace, which took a couple of tries due to his Milotic being hard to take down and having Swift Swim
    - Salamence lives Kingdra's Ice Beam and OHKOs with Draco Meteor before going down to recoil
    - Ludicolo goes down to 2 Poison Fangs from Crobat after missing Grasswhistle twice
    - Dodrio weakens Castform with Double-Edge before going down to Thunder, Aerodactyl finishes with Ancient Power
    - Aerodactyl chips Lapras with Rock Slide but goes down to Surf, Crobat finishes with 2 Poison Fangs after surviving Ice Beam
    - Gyarados chips Milotic with Double-Edges but misses the finishing Bounce, Pelipper finishes with Surf
    - Swampert goes down to Pelipper's Hydro Pump and Surf with a lucky 2nd turn wake up from Yawn
  • Swapped out Dodrio and Pelipper for Togetic and Mantine before challenging Juan, who took only 1 extra try before I won the Rain Badge.
    - With Togetic's Follow Me support, Kingdra OHKOs Togetic with Ice beam, then Salamence takes down Kingdra with Draco Meteor
    - Castform takes down Salamence with Ice Beam but, prior damage from Salamence's Air Slash allows Gyarados to pick up the KO with Body Slam
    - Ludicolo lands a Thunder Punch on Mantine before going down to Air Slash by Crobat and Mantine
    - Lapras takes down Mantine with Thunder but, ends up geting flinched by Rock Slide and Air Slash from Aerodactyl and Crobat before going down to a final Rock Slide
    - Aerodactyl somehow survives Thunder from Lanturn and Lanturn eventually goes down to the same Rock Slide and prior damage from Crobat's Poison Fang
    - Aerodactyl outspeeds Vaporeon and chips it with Air Slash before going down, Crobat finishes with Poison Fangs after barely surviving Hydro Pump and dodging Sing
  • After the gym battle, I officially benched Crobat for Aerodactyl, who has been a massive MVP during this run (honestly it is just behind Salamence in terms of viability and usefulness). Aerodactyl just hits harder and gives me a way to deal with Ice-types.
  • Took a detour to visit Meteor Falls to catch a Dragonair in the "Bagon Room" to replace Gyarados (who I used mainly as a way to deal with Water-types, but Dragonite having Thick Fat and a neutrality to Electric was a better option). While Dragonair is pretty common (40% chance) it was the biggest pain to catch due to Whirlwind, Double-Edge, Shed Skin, low catch rate, and how obnoxious fishing is in RSE. It legit took me an hour with speed up to catch a Dragonair that evolved into a Dragonite with Thick Fat (Dragonite can get either Shed Skin or Thick Fat as potential abilities)
  • Finally made it to Ever Grande City and before tackling the Victory Road, I grinded everyone up to Level 85
  • Beat Wally for the last time, as well as Vito and Red (reoccurring trainer in Emerald Kaizo) before making it to the Pokemon League

Team
Spoiler:
https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/142.png
Lvl 87 | Rock Head | Docile
- Air Slash
- Ancient Power
- Rock Slide
- Earth Power

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/279.png
Lvl 87 | Swift Swim | Bold
- Surf
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam
- Sky Attack

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/149.png
Lvl 87 | Thick Fat | Naive
- Dragon Claw
- Fly
- Rock Slide
- Extremespeed

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/85.png
Lvl 87 | Run Away | Hasty
- Return
- Drill Peck
- Double-Edge
- Quick Attack

https://pkmn.net/sprites/frlg/6.png
Lvl 88 | Blaze | Modest
- Flamethrower
- Overheat
- Dragon Claw
- Quick Attack

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/373.png
Lvl 88 | Intimidate | Lonely
- Air Slash
- Draco Meteor
- Iron Tail
- Earthquake

Box
Spoiler:
https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/267.png
Lvl 30 | Swarm | Timid
- Psychic
- Signal Beam
- Giga Drain
- Thief

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/83.png
Lvl 38 | Inner Focus | Serious
- Slash
- Aerial Ace
- Quick Attack
- Cut

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/334.png
Lvl 42 | Natural Cure | Quirky
- Dragon Claw
- Air Slash
- Sky Attack
- Earthquake

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/357.png
Lvl 50| Chlorophyll | Quiet
- Giga Drain
- Air Slash
- Earthquake
- Synthesis

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/18.png
Lvl 54 | Keen Eye | Relaxed
- Air Slash
- Double-Edge
- Heat Wave
- Quick Attack

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/176.png
Lvl 55 | Serene Grace | Serious
- Follow Me
- Wish
- Safeguard
- Extremespeed

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/226.png
Lvl 75 | Water Veil | Brave
- Surf
- Air Slash
- Ice Beam
- Confuse Ray

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/130.png
Lvl 78 | Intimidate | Jolly
- Bounce
- Double-Edge
- Surf
- Waterfall

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/169.png
Lvl 80 | Inner Focus | Gentle
- Poison Fang
- Air Slash
- Shadow Ball
- Confuse Ray

Wuzzy July 26th, 2020 2:52 PM

Flying Monotype Challenge - Emerald Kaizo Edition - Update #7 Finale

Spoiler:
  • Used the 1 Pokedollar Rare Candies to level everyone up to Level 100 before challenging the Elite 4
  • As for the team I chose... Aerodactyl and Dodrio were chosen for speed control mainly, Aerodactyl has very high base speed and Dodrio has Silk Scarf boosted Quick Attack for squishier targets. Pelipper had specific jobs which was to deal with Drake's Salamence, Steven's Aerodactyl, and most importantly, Glacia's Swift Swim Swampert. Salamence is a general powerhouse who was the MVP of the Elite 4 run. Charizard was mainly brought in for Steven, while Dragonite was mainly brought in for Glacia (specifically her Swift Swim Dewgong)
  • Sidney wasn't too bad, had to reset once because I underestimated how much Sableye was buffed in Emerald Kaizo. Once Sableye went down, the rest of the match was pretty easy
    - Salamence takes down Sableye with 3 Air Slashes
    - Chairzard weakens Machamp with Flamethrower and goes down to Rock Slide, Dodrio finishes with Quick Attack
    - 2 Ancient Powers from Aerodactyl takes down Alakazam
    - Aerodactyl loses the speed tie (I assume) with Jolteon and goes down to Thunderbolt, Dragonite takes down Jolteon with Dragon Claws and an Extremespeed
    - Dragonite takes Tauros's Intimidate and chips with Extremespeed before going down to Double-Edge, Dodrio revenges with Double-Edge
    - Dodrio chips Houndoom with Double-Edge before going down to Heat Wave, Pelipper tanks Crunch and KOs with Surf
  • Next up was Phoebe who surprisingly didn't give me much trouble. Her biggest 2 problems are Sableye and Dusclops who are not only incredibly bulky but, they have access to Double Team. Due to a lot of luck, I was successful on my first try
    - Aerodactyl takes out Gengar with 2 Ancient Powers, using it's Chesto Berry to wake up from Hypnosis
    - Ludicolo gets OHKOed by Salamence's Air Slash
    - Crobat goes down to Aerodactyl's Ancient Powers
    - Aerodactyl chips Gardevoir with Ancient Power before going down to Thunderbolt, Dodrio finishes with Double-Edge
    - Salamence is able to land 3 Air Slashes to knock out Dusclop despite the Double Teams
    - Charizard was not so lucky with Sableye and goes down to Shadow Ball due to missing Overheats, Salamence is able to finish it off with lucky flinches with Air Slash despite Double Team
  • Glacia was very hard, I honestly don't remember how many times I reset but just know the number is pretty high. With some lucky hax, I managed to narrowly come out on top
    - Glalie goes down to Rock Slide and Ancient Power from Aerodactyl due to a lucky flinch
    - Charizard is able to land an Overheat on Regice before falling to Thunder, Aerodactyl revenges with Ancient Power
    - Dragonite weakens Dewgong with Rock Slide and Extremespeed before going down to Ice Beam, Dodrio finishes it with Quick Attack
    - Swampert gets 2HKOed by Pelipper's Hydro Pumps
    - Pelipper chips Lapras with Hydro Pump before going down, misclicked Air Slash with Aerodactyl so it goes down to Hydro Pump, Dodrio finishes with Double-Edge
    - Dodrio attacks with Double-Edge before going down to Wailord's Hyper Voice, Salamence finishes with Air Slash and Earthquake since Wailord decided to use Water Spout instead of Ice Beam
  • Drake was pretty difficult (not as much as Glacia). My main issue was his Tyranitar who had Intimidate and Latios which has a Soul Dew equipped to boost its SpDef and SpA. Eventually on my 3rd attempt, the hax gods smiled down upon me and I beat him
    - Charizard lands a critical hit Dragon Claw on Latios and barely survives the Draco Meteor, Charizard finishes Latios with Quick Attack the turn after
    - Dragonite gets OHKOed by Salamence's Draco Meteor
    - Pelipper tanks the opposing Salamence's Draco Meteor and finishes it with Ice Beam
    - Salamence lands an Iron Tail on Tyranitar before going down to Ancient Power, Aerodactyl couldn't finish with Earth Power so I sacked Charizard and Dodrio cleans up with Quick Attack
    - Dragonite survives Draco Meteor and takes down Kingdra with Dragon Claw and Extremespeed
    - Dragonite chips Latias with a critical hit Extremespeed before going down to Dragon Claw, Aerodactyl ends the battle with Ancient Power
  • Last but not least, we have the Champion Steven (who replaces Wallace). I beat him on the 3rd try but, it was mainly due to some bad luck on his Aerodactyl getting the Ancient Power boost and Pelipper consistently missing Hydro Pump. Overall, Steven was honestly pretty easy compared to the Elite 4 just because his team is pretty squishy compared to Phoebe, Glacia, and Drake.
    - Charizard OHKOs Metagross with Overheat
    - Jirachi goes down to 2 Earthquakes from Salamence
    - Dodrio nearly takes out Starmie with Double-Edge and goes down to Ice Beam, Dragonite finishes it with Extremespeed
    - Pelipper tanks the opposing Aerodactyl's Ancient Power and retaliates with Hydro Pump
    - Metwo eventually gets taken down by Dragonite's Extremespeeds
    - Deoxys easily goes down to a critical hit Extremespeed from Dragonite
  • Anyways, I made it to the Hall of Fame and officially beat Emerald Kaizo with only Flying-type mons!!!!!!
    https://i.imgur.com/WmOYFOe.png https://i.imgur.com/y4cJymf.png

Closing Thoughts
I definitely overestimated mono-Flying in Emerald Kaizo quite a bit. I think because Flying has powerhouses like Salamence, Dragonite, and Gyarados, I assumed that the run would've been a cake walk. However, I definitely struggled in the mid game portion, especially against Team Aqua since I had no reliable Water answers besides Gyarados and maybe Pelipper (Tropius gets bopped by Ice Beam which is on every Water-type), which got even worse in Seafloor Cavern, Sootopolis Gym, Glacia's Room which had perma rain and Swift Swim abusers ready. Emerald Kaizo was a weird experience though, the amount of random outspeeds which I don't understand (see Crobat getting outsped by an Aggron, and that same Aggron got outsped by Pelipper and Tropius) and just how the additional stuff feels like it's there to waste your time (like why do we give incredibly rare mons a low catch rate and Whirlwind/Self-Destruct/Roar/Memento). Idk if I would play Emerald Kaizo again but, monotype runs were pretty fun ig.

Team
Spoiler:
https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/142.png
Lvl 100 | Rock Head | Docile
- Air Slash
- Ancient Power
- Rock Slide
- Earth Power

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/279.png
Lvl 100 | Swift Swim | Bold
- Surf
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam
- Sky Attack

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/149.png
Lvl 100 | Thick Fat | Naive
- Dragon Claw
- Fly
- Rock Slide
- Extremespeed

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/85.png
Lvl 100 | Run Away | Hasty
- Return
- Drill Peck
- Double-Edge
- Quick Attack

https://pkmn.net/sprites/frlg/6.png
Lvl 100 | Blaze | Modest
- Flamethrower
- Overheat
- Dragon Claw
- Quick Attack

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/373.png
Lvl 100 | Intimidate | Lonely
- Air Slash
- Draco Meteor
- Iron Tail
- Earthquake

Box
Spoiler:
https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/267.png
Lvl 30 | Swarm | Timid
- Psychic
- Signal Beam
- Giga Drain
- Thief

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/83.png
Lvl 38 | Inner Focus | Serious
- Slash
- Aerial Ace
- Quick Attack
- Cut

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/334.png
Lvl 42 | Natural Cure | Quirky
- Dragon Claw
- Air Slash
- Sky Attack
- Earthquake

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/357.png
Lvl 50| Chlorophyll | Quiet
- Giga Drain
- Air Slash
- Earthquake
- Synthesis

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/18.png
Lvl 54 | Keen Eye | Relaxed
- Air Slash
- Double-Edge
- Heat Wave
- Quick Attack

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/176.png
Lvl 55 | Serene Grace | Serious
- Follow Me
- Wish
- Safeguard
- Extremespeed

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/226.png
Lvl 75 | Water Veil | Brave
- Surf
- Air Slash
- Ice Beam
- Confuse Ray

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/130.png
Lvl 78 | Intimidate | Jolly
- Bounce
- Double-Edge
- Surf
- Waterfall

https://pkmn.net/sprites/rs/big/169.png
Lvl 80 | Inner Focus | Gentle
- Poison Fang
- Air Slash
- Shadow Ball
- Confuse Ray

Imperator161 July 31st, 2020 11:21 PM

FireRed Water Monotype Update #4:

It’s been several months since I last updated, and I haven’t played too much, but I have made a bit of progress since my last update. My team is headed for Fuschia City and gym badge #5. Horsea (now Seadra) has also joined the ranks, and is well on its way to catching up to the other team members.

The team:
Blastoise
Gyarados
Vaporeon
Seadra

Mostly in the 40s.

Smotemotem August 3rd, 2020 4:41 PM

Forum User Name: Smotemotem
Game(s): Sword
Pokémon Type: Ground
Single/Ultimate: Ultimate:Optional.

I completed the ultimate run back in a previous iteration of the thread, during Gen 7. Gotta get caught back up and lock in this game as a Ground Champ.

Thank you!

Edit: My Ult-Ground run started here: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=388312&page=9

Smotemotem August 5th, 2020 8:36 PM

Sword - Part 1
Slow start, but it should snowball from here. I tried to do this earlier this year, but I was burnt out from my normal playthrough. I'm already farther than I made it on that attempt.

Spoiler:
I didn't remember if Hop took the stronger starter or the weaker starter, but I figured by taking the fire-type off the table, I could guarantee he took something that was strong against my team, for the extra challenge. The first hour or so of the game is mostly plot & tutorial, which I won't be spoiling here. I just ran around avoiding battles as best I could, and fortunately, a solo Scorbunny was enough to get me to the Wild Area without any trouble. My true starter (my first ground-type for the run) was a Diglett caught in a raid den. My brother has gotten me interested in keeping bread starters & using them to bake all kinds of things, so my name scheme is going to be baked goods. Since Diglett will turn into Dugtrio, which kind of looks like three fingers (or hot dogs) sticking up from the ground, and since my Diglett is female, I named her "ladyfingers." We ran around for about three more hours, taking breaks and picking back up a few hours later, after checking weather conditions in two key biomes. I knew I would need Swinub to deal with Milo, so I didn't let myself proceed until I had one.

The team going into the first gym was Diglett (Ladyfingers), Drilbur (Bagel), Mudbray (Brownie), Tympole (Popover), Bunnelby (Biscuit), and Swinub (Muffin). Ladyfingers led the charge, and got off a couple of Sucker Punches against Gossifleur. Unfortunately, her defenses are still low, so she went down after two rounds of Magical Leaf. Bagel followed up with a quick Metal Claw revenge kill. Eldegoss did exactly what I expected a grass-type with Dynamax to do: it OHKO'd four Pokemon in a row. Fortunately, two of them got in a quick hit before fainting. Milo went easy on me, when I was down to just Brownie. He wasted a few crucial turns on Round attacks, which let Brownie chip Eldegoss down a bit with Stomp & Payback. It also gave me a chance to revive Muffin. When Brownie finally went down, Muffin swapped in at about half health. Eldegoss was hurting badly, and Muffin was able to land the kill shot with a well-placed Ice Shard.


Current Team:
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/diglett.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/swinub.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/bunnelby.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/drilbur.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/mudbray.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/tympole.png

Smotemotem August 7th, 2020 7:02 PM

Sword - Part 2

Spoiler:
I had forgotten (or I never knew in the first place) that the surprise encounters can have a different level than the Pokemon wandering in the overworld grass. I could have had Golett, from day one. I went back and picked up one of those, and named it Donut. Nessa's gym scared me. It got really frightening when Arrokuda showed up and started outspeeding my team. But this gym was actually much easier than I expected. Ladyfingers was able to bulldoze its way through Goldeen. Biscuit & Bagel were each able to land a quick hit on Arrokuda, and worked as a team to take it down. Bagel was also able to get in one hit on Gigantamax Dreadnaw, which helped set up Popover to come in and get the knockout.

And if Nessa was a pushover, you know Kabu was no challenge at all. By this point, half of my team had evolved. Ground typing also gave me resistance against all of his monsters. Popover had extra resistance, from her secondary water type. In hindsight, I probably could have swept with just one Pokemon.

Swinub (M) - "Muffin"
Lv. 30
Snow Cloak - Bashful
Ice Shard / Dig / Icy Wind / Flail

Excadrill (F) - "Bagel"
Lv. 31
Sand Rush - Serious
Drill Run / Crush Claw / Metal Claw / Rock Slide

Dugtrio (F) - "Ladyfingers"
Lv. 31
Sand Veil - Naughty
Beat Up / Slash / Sucker Punch / Dig

Diggersby (F) - "Biscuit"
Lv. 31
Cheek Pouch - Mild
Payback / Double Kick / Quick Attack / Dig

Palpitoad (F) - "Popover"
Lv. 31
Hydration - Rash
Scald / Mud Shot / Acid / Uproar

Golett - "Donut"
Lv. 31
Iron Fist - Careful
Stomping Tantrum / Defense Curl / Pound / Shadow Punch


Current Team:
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/dugtrio.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/swinub.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/diggersby.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/excadrill.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/golett.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/palpitoad.png

Smotemotem August 23rd, 2020 2:41 AM

Sword - Part 3

Spoiler:
I fought Bea and Ballonlea couple of weeks ago, then I took a break to play a different challenge and to finish up the storyline of "God of War", but I'm back, now. I didn't keep good notes on either of these fights. If I recall correctly, the Bea fight was carried by Donut & Popover, and Machamp was the only real threat. I can't remember much about the Ballonlea fight either, but Bagel must have swept (or near-swept) that battle. I just finished up the fight with Gordie, and that fight was all Popover.

I'm not having a lot of fun playing this challenge, in this particular generation. I can see what people meant about the game being too easy. On my first playthrough, I was doing a (mostly) blind Nuzlocke, and that could be scary. But I don't know if anything has threatened a full-party wipe in this game. I feel like the balance is off really bad, with Dynamax being a key feature. There is a three-turn threat window in every gym battle. I'm not seeing the gym leaders do any of the complicated setups that gym leaders in previous games would perform, in previous gens. There's also no threat of a z-move lurking in the back, like we saw in SuMo. The whole game, my strategy is just saving a meat shield to stick in front of the Dynamax aces. And in some cases, as with Gordie's Coalossal, I can create a Dynamax mon in that window that can perform 4x damage attacks, outspeed, and create favorable weather/field conditions in one turn.

The selection of new Ground-types (brand new, or new forms) is very disappointing in this game, as well. Only one ground-type gets a Gigantamax form, and the abilities on the new guys are mostly useless. And looking at Sandaconda, Runerigus, and Stunfisk - there are better ground, ground/ghost, and ground/steel types which also happen to be catchable earlier in the game.

Anyway, that's my rant for the day. Hoping to finish this up this week and then give VGC another try.

Mamoswine (M) - "Muffin"
Lv. 43
Snow Cloak - Bashful
Ice Shard / Dig / Ice Fang / Rock Blast

Excadrill (F) - "Bagel"
Lv. 43
Sand Rush - Serious
Drill Run / Brick Break / Smart Strike / Rock Slide

Dugtrio (F) - "Ladyfingers"
Lv. 42
Sand Veil - Naughty
Rock Tomb / Slash / Night Slash / Dig

Diggersby (F) - "Biscuit"
Lv. 42
Cheek Pouch - Mild
Bounce / Brick Break / U-turn / Dig

Seismitoad (F) - "Popover"
Lv. 44
Poison Touch - Rash
Scald / Dig / Drain Punch / Venoshock

Golurk - "Donut"
Lv. 43
Iron Fist - Careful
Stomping Tantrum / Mega Punch / Brick Break / Shadow Punch


Current Team:
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/dugtrio.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/mamoswine.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/diggersby.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/excadrill.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/golurk.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/seismitoad.png

MaskXP August 25th, 2020 3:24 PM

Forum User Name: MaskXP
Game(s): SoulSilver
Pokémon Type: Normal
Single/Ultimate: Single

FollowTheCreed August 27th, 2020 11:46 PM

Forum User Name: FollowTheCreed
Game(s): Emerald
Pokémon Type: Fire
Single/Ultimate: Single (for now)


Chapter 1: Rock
Story
Spoiler:
I started my journey as a boy named Connor. After getting caught trying to steal May's pokeball out of her room, I left town and ran into Professor Birch getting attacked.
I took a Torchic from his bag and saved him. I made my way through Oldale town and went to challenge May, where I almost lost due to a critical hit. I then went back to Little
Root Town, got my pokedex and headed for Roxanne. On my way I saw my dad and he made me watch some kid catch a ralts, was glanced over as a potenially talented trainer, burned
some worms, and saved a guy getting attacked by a very weak pirate, killed some more bugs and made it to Rustboro City. I went to the gym and Nugget evolved into Combusken
after taking down all of Roxanne's lackies. With my newly found advantage over rock types I easily destroyed Roxanne's entire team, securing myself a stone badge!


My Team
Spoiler:
Nugget
https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/black-white/normal/combusken-f.png
Lvl 17 | Blaze | Quiet
quickclaw
-Ember
-Peck
-Focus Energy
-Double Kick




Chapter 2: Fighting
Story
Spoiler:

After leaving the Rustboro gym I saw that weird dude from the forest getting chased by another pirate. I followed and he asked me to follow the pirate! I eventually tracked
him down in a creepy cave. When confronted, the pirte attacked me, but I swiftly ended his career and saved an old man's Wingull. When I returned to the weird dude he took me
in a big building and gave me a cell phone! I ran into May, exchanged numbers with her and then we battled! I got really excited (and jealous) when I found out she had a
Toarkoal! I easily defeated her once again, and she told me to go see the old dude I helped earlier. I got taught how to teach Pokemon how to cut down trees and I went to go
find the old man. I found him in a shack by the shore chasing his Wingull around a table. He brought me to Dewford Town as a reward for saving Peeko. I headed straight for
the gym, which I came to find out was pitch black. After running into many walls I found the gym leader Brawly. Nugget easily took down his entire team, with a bit of a fight
from Makuhita. Two badges down, six to go!

My Team
Spoiler:
Nugget
https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/black-white/normal/combusken-f.png
Lvl 22 | Blaze | Quiet
quickclaw
-Ember
-Sand Attack
-Bulk Up
-Double Kick



Chapter 3: Electric
Story
Spoiler:

After obtaining my second badge, I went inside a cave on the north of the island. After getting lost in the cave I found a guy named Steven, who just so happened to be who a
letter given to me by Devon President was addressed. He told me I could become champion one day, what a nice guy! After returning to town I met up with Mr Briney and he offered
to take me to Slateport City! After relaxing on the beach and checking out the market I found a whole group of those pirates called Team Aqua outside the museum. I went inside
shortly after they did, and I found the captain of a ship. Right on cue the pirates showed up to steal parts from Stern, but Nugget got rid of them quickly! Their leader
showed up, spewed some nonsense and then they ran away. As I left the museum the guy who told me I didn't have talent as a trainer came up to me changing his mind. He gave me
his number before running off. Next I set off for the next gym. I went north to Route 110, where Professor Birch showed up in person to give me his phone number. I told him
he could have just asked my mom for my number. Down the road I found a house where a voice told me I was being watched. I looked underneath the table in the center of the room
and found a man scrunched up underneath. He told me to solve his puzzle in a room at the back of his house. I solved his extremely simple puzzle and he gave me some special
candy, which I gladly accepted. I continued my journey to become the best, and ran into May again on the way. She challenged me to a battle, where Nugget easily defeated her
Lombre. Next she sends out Marshtomp, who put up a serious fight, but can't stand up to Nugget, the all powerful fire-chicken. Lastly she sends out a Slugma; which I admire so; and
it also is defeated by Nugget. She gave me a gift for my hardwork and ran off. I continued on and made it to Mauville city. I went to check out the local bike shop, where I was
given a free, brand new bike! Next I headed for the third gym, where that kid my dad made me help was blocking the entrance. After challenging me to a battle to prove he is
strong enough to face the gym leader, Nugget defeated his Pokemon in one blow, practically destroying his dream of becoming a Pokemon trainer. I fought my way through the gym
and I made it to Watson! The battle doesn't last long, as Nugget easily defeats every Pokemon Watson throws at him.

My Team
Spoiler:
Nugget
https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/black-white/normal/combusken-f.png
Lvl 28 | Blaze | Quiet
quickclaw
-Ember
-Sand Attack
-Bulk Up
-Double Kick




Chapter 4: Fire
Story
Spoiler:


After defeating Watson I decided to head straight for the next gym! Unfortunately there were rocks blocking the path there. After getting a tip, I went an met the Rock Smash
Guy, who taught me how to teach my Pokemon to smash rocks! With the rocks out of my way I moved on to route 112, where I found a wild numel behind a giant rock! I just had to
catch it, so Volcamel officially joins the team! I moved forward and came upon a cave called the Fiery Path, where I captured a Slugma and a Torkoal, which I named Escargot and
Kilauea respectively. After some initial training for my new Pokemon, reuniting two lost lovers in a cave, getting threatened by an old woman and finding some weirdos with
horned robes talking about metorites, I decided to head for my next gym badge. After sleeping in an old woman's hut, and collecting soot as currency I made it to Fallarbor
Town. With not much to do, I moved on and through Route 114 into Metoer Falls. It was a beautiful cave with a waterfall in it, but I ran into both the creeps who wore horned
robes and the pirates! The pirates warned me to keep an eye on Team Magma and I left the cave and headed back to Mt Chimney to help the pirates take on Team Magma. Kilauea and
Volcamel performed as well as expected, taking down Team Magma's leader's Pokemon. Until he sent out his Camerupt anyways. He defeated both Volcamel and Kilauea, but was just
barely defeated by Escargot. Shortly after I finally arrived at Lavaridge Town, and headed straight for the gym! The first fight with Flannery was her Numel against mine. Hers
was somehow quicker and got a magnitude 8, knocking Volcamel right out. I sent out Kilauea and body slammed her Numel twice, knocking it out with a critical hit! Next she sent
out a Slugma, which I contested with my own Escargot. Escargot easily defeated his oponent. Flannery decided to get serious and send out her Camerupt, which I brought Kilauea
back on the field. Luckily I was able to paralyze it with a body slam, and just repeatedly body slamming until Camerupt was defeated. Lastly she sent out her own Torkoal to take
on mine. Having used curse a couple of times during the battle before, Kilauea had a slight edge over Flannery's, which secured my fourth badge!



My Team
Spoiler:

Nugget
https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/black-white/normal/combusken-f.png
Lvl 32 | Blaze | Quiet
quickclaw
-Ember
-Bulk Up
-Double Kick
-Quick Attack

Volcamel
https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/black-white/normal/numel.png
Lvl 27 | Oblivious | Bold
soft sand
-Magnitude
-Ember
-Tackle
-Growl

Kilauea
https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/black-white/normal/torkoal.png
Lvl 28 | White Smoke | Quiet
macho brace
-Body Slam
-Ember
-Curse
-Smog

Escargot
https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/black-white/normal/slugma.png
Lvl 27 | Magma Armor | Docile
-Ember
-Rock Throw
-Yawn
-Harden


Smotemotem August 28th, 2020 5:59 AM

Sword - Part 4 - Finale - MAJOR SPOILERS

All done! So that's a monotype ground run done, in all 8 main-game regions. May I please have ultimate ground champ credit?

Spoiler:
Final Gyms
Okay, so I did this part last weekend, and it was in-between a very full day of family visits, so I didn't keep great notes. Suffice to say, these weren't a real challenge.

Marnie Fight
Bagel led. KO'd Liepard with Drill Run. Scrafty came in. Bagel dynamaxed and KO'd Scrafty with Max Knuckle + Max Steelspike, but she was confused at the end. Morpeko swapped in. Bagel knocked herself out from confusion. Popover swapped in and hit with Drain Punch, but Morpeko held on at one percent and KO'd her with Bullet Seeed. Ladyfingers came in and cleaned up. Grimmsnarl came in and gigantamaxed. Ladyfingers hit once with Earthquake, then fainted. Biscuit swapped in. She used Bounce, to stall for a turn. She hit, paralyzed Grimmsnarl, and survived his attack. She finished the fight with Earthquake.

Hop Fight
Bagel led. Hop tried to heal through Brick Break, but it was too much for Dubwool. Snorlax swapped in. Donut swapped in. Two Brick Breaks brought him down. Corviknight swapped in. Shadow Punch, Shadow Punch, Hyper Potion, Shadow Punch, and we get the KO. Pincurchin swapped in. One Stomping Tantrum was enough to KO her. Rillaboom swapped in. Muffin swapped in. Both mons dynamaxed. Muffin came out hard with Max Hailstorm, which took Rillaboom to the red. The hail was enough to pick up the win.

Oleana Fight
I don't normally record "team admin" or "team boss" battles, but used dynamax on Muffin here, so I guess I'll do a quick summary. Muffin came in first, and took turns trading out with Bagel against the stuff I thought they were safe to fight. Muffin probably could have done it all alone, but she got burned on the first turn.

Bede Fight
Muffin led. Mawile went down after one Earthquake. Gardevoir came in, and Bagel came in to meet her. One Smart Strike was enough for a KO. Rapidash came in. I went ahead and Dynamaxed, then hit with Max Steelspike. Hatterene came in, but Mas Steelspike was too much for her, as well.

Nessa Fight
Muffin led. Golisopod came out first. Rock Slide didn't trigger Emergency Exit on the first hit, and it was enough to get a KO on the second hit. Very lucky. Barraskewda was up next, so I swapped in Popover. None of Popover's moves were great, here, but combined with Rocky Helmet and poison touch, I kinda just let Nessa's monster beat itself to death against mine. Seaking was next. This was a good opportunity to feed Popover some potions. Dig & Venoshock eventually got the KO. Pelliper came in, and Ladyfingers came in to meet him. I'm still underestimating her squishiness. She got one good hit with Rock Slide, but Peliper KO'd her on the same turn. Bagel swapped in to clean up with another Rock Slide. Drednaw was up last. Both Pokemon dynamaxed, and Bagel lashed out with Max Quake. I really thought it would be enough, but Drednaw hung on. She KO'd Bagel with Max Stonesurge. At this point, I realized that I never farmed up enough Dynamax Candies for my whole team. D'oh! Muffin came in to end the fight with another Earthquake, though.

Bea Fight
Muffin led. Hawlucha came out first, and outsped us. However, High Jump Kick missed, and we countered with Ice Fang for the KO. Falinks swapped in. Donut Swapped in. Falinks set up like crazy, but I guess the only move it could hit with was Rock Tomb, which just wasn't good enough. Sirfecth'd came in and KO'd Donut with Leaf Blade. Donut was able to get in one Shadow Punch before fainting, which allowed Muffin to come back in and KO with Earthquake. Grapploct came in and wasted its turn with Octoblock. Muffin fired off two more Earthquakes, to get the KO. Machamp came in last. I opted not to Dynamax on this turn. Muffin hit once with Earthquake before fainting. I swapped in Ladyfingers, Dynamaxed, and used Max Quake. To my surprise, this wasn't enough. Fortunately, Ladyfingers survived, and picked up the KO on the next turn.

Raihan Fight
Muffin led. She KO'd Torkoal immediately, with Earthquake. Turtonator came in, and Popover swapped in. A couple of Digs were enough to get the KO. Flygon swapped in, so I swapped Muffin. Ice Fang was lethal. Goodra didn't hold up against Ice Fang, either. Duralodon was up last, and I swapped in Bagel to meet him.
Max Quake spam eventually got me the win.

Rose Fight
Muffin led. Two Earthquakes, and Escavalier was down. Ferrothorn came in, and I swapped in Donut. Hammer Arm put a dent in him, but Power Whip KO'd Donut. Biscuit came in (for the first time in a long time) and KO'd Ferrothorn with Earthquake. Perrserker was up next. A couple more Earthquakes finished him up. Klinkklang came out, and outsped us with Gear Grind. Biscuit fainted. Popover used Drain Punch to beat it. Copperajah came out last, and we both dynamaxed. We took turns trading Max Quake, but of course, Popover won.

Leon Fight
Donut led. Aegislash knocked him out with Shadow Ball, immediately. Bagel came out and traded blows with Aegislash, but the Earthquake game was strong. Haxorus came out, and Muffin swapped in. Ice Fang, followed by Ice Shard, secured the KO. Dragapult was up next, and I swapped in Popover to soak some damage while I healed Muffin. Popover fainted, and I brought Muffin back in. Ice Ice combo again, to KO Dragapult. Inteleon swapped in, and I used a Max Revive to bring back Popover. Popover used Drain Punch until Inteleon was poisoned, and I tried to finish with Venoshock, but Inteleon hit hard with Snipe Shot. I swapped in Bagel. Snipe Shot KO'd Bagel, but the poison took out Inteleon. I swapped in Biscuit, and Leon brought in Mr Rime. I thought my best bet was to Max Revive Bagel, at this point. Mr Rime started with Teeter Dance. Fair enough, I Max Revived Popover, as well. Biscuit went down, so I brought in Bagel. I dynamaxed, and KO'd Mr Rime with Max Steelspike. Charizard came out, and I was banking on Bagel being faster than him. She wasn't. Ladyfingers got outsped, as well. At this point, I knew Charizard was faster than my whole team, so I just used a Max Revive to bring up Donut again. I used this time to bring back Popover & Bagel with Max Revive, while Charizard was charging & firing Solar Beam. Donut went down, so I brought in Popover. Popover used Scald, and Charizard readied his beam again. I swapped in Muffin to take the hit, and she survived. Too bad Fire Blast hit her before she could hit with Rock Slide. I was down to my last Pokemon, but bad AI is bad, so Charizard attempted Solar Beam again. Scald again, and the game is won.

My takeaway from this challenge:
I'm excited to play some more Sword. I will probably buy the DLC and play it, or start working on a semi-competitive team, soon. It's a relief to be a monotype champ again, on the latest gen. It's something I'm trying to do for every main series game. Pokemon is always fun, but the balance in this game feels all wrong. Dynamax/Gigantamax really throws off the flow of combat in an awkward way, and the final battles (Eternatus & Leon) have about a 10-level bump from the fights immediately before them. That's fine, if the game had given me any indication that I was supposed to go grind before fighting him. I also feel like Ground-type was done dirty in this gen. I'd like to see some better Ground-types brought in, on the next DLC, but that doesn't help with a monotype run at all. Seismitoad, Excadrill, and Mamoswine all felt very strong in this game, and each had a moment to shine. Golurk was okay, but its speed limited its ability to get in and fight. Diggersby & Dugtrio were just too fragile to be of much use, and my other monsters were roughly matched with them in speed & type coverage.

Mamoswine (M) - "Muffin"
Lv. 56
Snow Cloak - Bashful
Ice Shard / Earthquake / Ice Fang / Rock Slide

Excadrill (F) - "Bagel"
Lv. 58
Sand Rush - Serious
Earthquake / Brick Break / Smart Strike / Rock Slide

Dugtrio (F) - "Ladyfingers"
Lv. 56
Sand Veil - Naughty
Rock Slide / Slash / Night Slash / Earthquake

Diggersby (F) - "Biscuit"
Lv. 56
Cheek Pouch - Mild
Bounce / Brick Break / U-turn / Earthquake

Seismitoad (F) - "Popover"
Lv. 57
Poison Touch - Rash
Scald / Dig / Drain Punch / Venoshock

Golurk - "Donut"
Lv. 55
Iron Fist - Careful
Stomping Tantrum / Mega Punch / Hammer Arm / Shadow Punch


Final Team:
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/dugtrio.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/mamoswine.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/diggersby.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/excadrill.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/golurk.pnghttps://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/seismitoad.png

Wuzzy August 31st, 2020 11:24 PM

a lot of my current playthroughs are wrapping up soon, so I'm starting a new one for the future ^^

Forum User Name: Wuzzy
Game(s): Blaze Black 2
Pokémon Type: Poison
Single/Ultimate: Single

Wuzzy September 3rd, 2020 7:14 PM

https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-rs/type/poison.gif Monotype Challenge - Pokemon Blaze Black 2 Edition - Update #1

Some rules I will be following during this playthrough...
  • I'm allowed to use the same amount of healing items the opposing trainer uses. Which means that if a trainer has access to 2 healing items, then I'll be able to use 2 healing items in battle. This means that because no other trainer uses Revives, Revives are banned from being used within a battle
  • Game will be played in Challenge Mode
  • The run will end when I beat Iris and enter the Hall of Fame for the first time

Spoiler:
  • Went through all the prologue stuff and went to the outlook point to meet up with Bianca
  • Before that, I changed the difficulty to challenge mode with the help of the key master NPC (new addition in BB2VW2) and chose Snivy as my starter to bench later on
  • Moved onward to Route 19, allowing me to catch a Wurmple and Weedle. Beedrill and Dustox are the only Poison-types available until I beat Cheren, and both of them are blessed with better stats and an improved movepool (moreso with Beedrill) so they'll be fantastic mons early in the game
  • Decided to evolve Weedle and Wurmple into Kakuna and Cascoon before moving on. Getting a Cascoon took a bit since I've always been lucky getting Silcoon, so it took evolving 3 Wurmples before I got the Cascoon I needed
  • Got ambushed by Alder on my way to Flocessy Town and proceeded on to meet up with Hugh on Route 20
  • Trained Kakuna and Cascoon to Level 10 so they would evolve into Beedrill and Dustox before entering Flocessy Ranch
  • Hugh challenges us to a battle, and thanks to the rain in the Spring season, the battle was incredibly easy
    - Dustox takes a Quick Attack, and is able to OHKO Tailow with a rain-boosted Electroweb
    - Beedrill is able to shrug off Tepig's Ember with the rain and 2HKOs with Cross Poison
  • Handed Hugh his Town Map and we help the owners of the ranch find their missing Herdier
  • Successfully located the missing Herdier and scared off the Team Plasma grunt
  • Went back to Flocessy Town to meet up with Alder who forces us into the Trainer's School, and after that, I went back to Aspertia City to challenge the gym
  • Before challenging Cheren, this romhack actually allows you to challenge the Hoenn Gym Leaders as well. So I went ahead and challenged Roxanne first, which was pretty difficult since my team is all Bug-types
    - Roxanne leads with Anorith and I set up Iron Defense with Dustox, allowing it to tank Aerial Ace and Rock Tomb very well. Eventually Anorith goes down to Bug Bites
    - Lileep was an easy 3HKO with Bug Bite, due to Lileep consuming its Berry Juice
    - Even with 2 Potions, Dustox eventually gets taken down by Nosepass' Volt Switch spam but, it is able to get Roxanne to use a Potion and have Nosepass consume its Berry Juice. Beedrill comes in and is able to finish off Nosepass with 2 critical hits from Cross Poison
  • Next up, it is time to challenge Cheren who is pretty scary due to his team having access to Work Up and an assortment of random physical/special coverage moves. However, the battle went well overall
    - First up is Minccino, which Beedrill is able to OHKO with a critical hit from Cross Poison
    - Dustox dodges Pidove's Air Cutter and 3HKOs it with Electroweb because of its Berry Juice and Pidove greedily boosting with Work Up
    - Cheren's new ace Munchlax is up next and I send in Beedrill. Annoyingly enough, Munchlax gets Reflect through Metronome, allowing it to avoid the 2HKO from Beedrill's Cross Poison and letting Cheren heal it up. Eventually, a couple more Cross Poisons takes in out but, Beedrill gets hit with a hard-hitting Rock Tomb in the process
    - Dustox eats Lillipup's Oran Berry with Bug Bite while it sets up Work Up, Dustox is able to tank multiple Thunder Fangs and eventually Lillipup goes down to Confusion spam
    - Dustox attacks Buneary and eats its Chople Berry with Bug Bite before being forced out with Circle Throw, Beedrill finishes it with Cross Poison
    - Lastly, Teddiursa attempts to boost with Work Up but, misses the Metronome Rollout and gets 3HKOed by Dustox's Bug Bite
  • With that I received the Basic Badge and I can move on to Virbank City!

Team
Spoiler:
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/beedrill.gif
Janne
Lvl 14 | Sniper | Impish
- Cross Poison
- Bug Bite
- Fury Attack
- Harden

https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/dustox-f.gif
Mephilia
Lvl 15 | Compoundeyes | Lax
- Bug Bite
- Confusion
- Electroweb
- Iron Defense

Box
Spoiler:
nothing~

Wuzzy September 7th, 2020 3:21 PM

https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-rs/type/poison.gif Monotype Challenge - Pokemon Blaze Black 2 Edition - Update #2

Spoiler:
  • Went all the way back to Route 20 and made it to Virbank City.
  • Before I proceed, I actually found out that Dustox is supposed to learn Psybeam at Level 10 but it learned Confusion instead. Did some research and Drayano said that he added the wrong hex code (or narc) in Dustox's level-up movepool. From what I've seen, there are similar problems like Tyrogue not learning Rock Smash and Hypno not learning Dream Eater, despite the documentation stating that they do. Since that's the case, I did use a save editor to give Dustox Psybeam like it was meant to. Going back to revise the level-up sets seems tedious to do since hex editing is kind of annoying so, I don't blame Dray for keeping it the same since it isn't that game breaking
  • Anyways, the double grass patch that was previously inaccessible until I beat Cheren had Venonat and Venipede. Both of these Pokemon I ignored since Dustox and Beedrill are like better early game versions of them. Scolipede not having access to Speed Boost (just learned that they changed its hidden ability in Gen 6, previously it was Quick Feet) makes it a mediocre choice for the long run, while Venonat just isn't great since its movepool isn't good (learns Quiver Dance late too) and it evolves much later
  • I arrive at Virbank City and decided to explore the Virbank Complex to catch 2 new party members, those being Nidoran-F and Ekans. Nidoqueen I chose because it's bulky and can abuse Sheer Force and Ekans evolves into Arbok pretty early and has utility through Glare and Intimidate.
  • The other Poison-types available here such as Qwilfish (Cheren gives you the Super Rod on your way to Virbank City), Croagunk and Nidoran-M I ended deciding against. Croagunk doesn't really provide a lot in a Poison monotype (Sucker Punch is nice but, it comes late) and it Croagunk evolves pretty late to boot. As for Nidoran-M, I just feel that Nidoqueen's extra bulk will be a lot more useful against gym leaders like Elesa to sponge any random coverage moves. Lastly, Qwilfish just doesn't have a great movepool early on despite its buffed base stats. Koffing is available here but, I will be catching it later since I don't need it now and I can get a slightly higher leveled one down the road.
  • During my exploration of Virbank Complex, Nidoran evolves into a Nidorina
  • Decided to clear out the gym trainers before challenging Brawly near the docks, which went pretty well overall.
    - Ekans uses Screech twice and tanks some of Machop's Rock Slides in the process, due to the defense drops, Machop is 2HKOed by Frustration
    - Beedrill gets OHKOed by Meditite's Psycho Cut but weakens it with Cross Poison. Brawly heals up Meditite but even then, Dustox is able to 2HKO with Silver Wind
    - Dustox sets up an Iron Defense, allowing it to take Makuhita's Fire and Ice Punch. Eventually, Makuhita goes down to a few Psybeams due to it consuming its Berry Juice
    - Scraggy is pretty intimidating because of Bulk Up + Eviolite, making it very bulky. However, the Iron Defense boost allows Dustox to take on Scraggy's Sucker Punch and Revenge and it eventually goes down to Silver Winds and Electrowebs
  • Before facing Roxie, I decided to grind my team to Level 20 since I was a bit behind on levels
  • Onto the battle with Roxie, who can give you trouble with her Toxic Spikes + Venoshock combo. However, since I'm doing a Poison monotype, her strategy doesn't really work against this team. Overall, the battle was pretty difficult and took a few tries
    - Trubbish unknowingly sets up Toxic Spikes but, it gets 2HKOed by Dustox's Psybeam
    - Koffing comes up next and Ekans uses Glare + Screech combo while being able to tank its Flamethrowers and Thunderbolt. Eventually, Koffing goes down to Ekan's Bite spam with the help of some full paralysis hax and flinches
    - Seviper attacks with Sucker Punch but, it goes down to 2 Psybeams from Dustox
    - Golbat is easily the toughest Pokemon on the team due to its speed and access to Nasty Plot, which gave me a lot of trouble in earlier attempts. Golbat sets up Nasty Plot and Dustox gets a lucky confuse with Psybeam. Unfortunately, Golbat breaks through and takes down Dustox with Air Slash. On the following turn, Beedrill narrowly avoids the KO with Return, and luckily enough Golbat hits itself and goes down
    - I heal up Ekans with a Super Potion as Roxie sends in her Whirlipede. Ekans is able to land a Glare before going down to a few Paybacks and I send in Beedrill. Beedrill sets up Harden (allowing it to tank Rollout pretty well) and attacks with multiple Returns before Whirlipede falls
    - Beedrill is able to tank a Normal-Gem boosted Fake Out and Vaccuum Wave from Croagunk before taking it down with 2 Returns
  • After beating Roxie, she gives us the Toxic Badge and then I'm forced to head to the Pokestar Studios
  • I watch Roxie's dad's horrible movie, which is enough to convince him to continue being a captain. At the docks, we face more Team Plasma grunts and then proceed to chase after them in Route 20
  • With that out of the way, I made it to Castelia City which is coincidentally home to a lot of Poison-types.
  • Went to the gym and found out Burgh has stepped out, Iris then appears and helps me find where Team Plasma may be hiding
  • Inside the Castelia Sewers, I went straight to where the Plasma Grunts were located and took them out. Burgh shows up and returns to the gym
  • Before leaving the sewers, I explored the garden area of Castelia CIty and Relic Passage. In the garden area, I find a Moon Stone which I immediately used on Nidorina to evolve it into a Nidoqueen.
  • The garden area is home to most of the Grass/Poison Pokemon such as Budew, Bellsprout, and Oddish. In addition, I'm also able to get a Bulbasaur from a harlequin during the Summer season. Of the Grass/Poison options, I decided to go with Budew mainly because I just really like Roserade.
  • The sewers also houses a lot of Poison-types, but the ones I'm going for are Koffing and Gastly. Koffing gives me a nice bulky mon that has a Ground-immunity, while Gastly is just going to be a very strong offensive presence. I decided against Spinarak since Beedrill is stronger than Ariados (Beedrill is faster and has better STAB options), Gulpin/Trubbish have poor movepools and don't have many advantages over Koffing, while Zubat is a mon I would've used, I have used Zubat so many times before so it was time for a break from it.
  • Now with that out of the way, I've officially decided to bench Dustox who has been a very strong Pokemon so far but, there are other mons I just would rather use honestly. I intended it to just be "another mon" on the team as backup since I thought Beedrill would do most of the work but, Dustox has proven to be a very good mon on its own.
  • Explored the rest of Castelia City and the available parts of Route 4. Did some grinding to allow Ekans, Budew and Gastly to evolve into Arbok, Roselia, and Haunter.
  • Before challenging Burgh, I challenged Wattson who is just chilling inside the bar within the alleyway. The battle was pretty difficult overall due to a lot of unlucky full paralysis in earlier attempts.
    - Beedrill sets up a layer of Toxic Spikes before Voltorb uses Volt Switch. Beedrill is able to tank the incoming Manectric's Flamethrower and attack with Cross Poison. Wattson heals up Manectric but, Manectric ends up falling to a critical hit from Cross Poison and paralyzes Beedrill with Static
    - Voltorb comes in again and takes an Ominous Wind (misclicked) from Haunter and switches out with Volt Switch. In comes Magneton which I sack Beedrill to the Thunderbolt to get a safe switch into Nidoqueen. Nidoqueen sponges a Flash Cannon and is able to take down Magneton with 2 Double Kicks due to a critical hit.
    - Nidoqueen chips Plusle with Venoshock before going down to Grass Knots (Plusle is unaffected by Toxic Spikes due to the Air Balloon). Plusle uses Volt Switch on Roselia and Wattson sends in Voltorb, who gets finished off with Giga Drain.
    - Plusle comes in again and uses Volt Switch on Roselia for Minun to take the Giga Drain, which ends up popping its Air Balloon. Roselia tanks multiple Electro Balls and Minun eventually goes down to Giga Drain.
    - Koffing comes in and is able to tank Plusle's Volt Switches before taking it down with Venoshock.
  • Headed to the Castelia Gym to prepare to take on Burgh in the next update!

Team
Spoiler:
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/beedrill.gif
Janne @ Scope Lens
Lvl 25 | Sniper | Impish
- X-Scissor
- Cross Poison
- Return
- Toxic Spikes

https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/nidoqueen.gif
Artemia @ Amulet Coin
Lvl 25 | Sheer Force | Gentle
- Venoshock
- Double Kick
- Strength
- Lovely Kiss

https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/arbok.gif
Fiore @ Leftovers
Lvl 25 | Intimidate | Jolly
- Poison Tail
- Crunch
- Glare
- Screech

https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/roselia.gif
Praline @ Miracle Seed
Lvl 26 | Natural Cure | Gentle
- Giga Drain
- Extrasensory
- Stun Spore
- Sleep Powder

https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/haunter.gif
Bella
Lvl 25 | Levitate | Modest
- Ominous Wind
- Venoshock
- Clear Smog
- Confuse Ray

https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/koffing.gif
Qada @ Eviolite
Lvl 25 | Levitate | Relaxed
- Venoshock
- Assurance
- Incinerate
- Smokescreen

Box
Spoiler:
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/dustox-f.gif
Mephilia
Lvl 21 | Compoundeyes | Lax
- Silver Wind
- Venoshock
- Psybeam
- Iron Defense

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https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-rs/type/poison.gif Monotype Challenge - Pokemon Blaze Black 2 Edition - Update #3

to prevent flooding, I edited the 3rd update to this post
Spoiler:
  • Did a little bit of grinding before challenging Burgh. Overall, the battle was pretty difficult because I underestimated his team, since I didn't take into account how big of a threat Escavalier would be for my team
    - Beedrill sets up Toxic Spikes while Accelgor sets up a Rain Dance. Beedrill sponges a Focus Blast and attacks with X-Scissor. On the next turn, Accelgor U-Turns out and sends in Escavalier who tanks the incoming X-Scissor.
    - I switched out to Koffing who goes down to Drill Peck and Iron Heads from Escavalier. I send in Arbok to weaken it with Glare and a few Screeches before it falls to Drill Runs. Lastly, Nidoqueen finishes off Escavalier with a Double Kick since it was pretty low from Koffing's Incinerates
    - Haunter gets taken out by Masquerain's Icy Wind + Scald combo but, it is able to weaken it with Venoshock and force Burgh to use a Hyper Potion. Roselia then revenges it with Giga Drain
    - Nidoqueen takes 2 of Scyther's Aerial Ace and 2HKOs with Strength (changed to a Rock-type move in this game)
    - Leavanny nearly gets taken down by Cross Poison and sets up Swords Dance. Beedrill takes it down with X-Scissor on the following turn
    - Nidoqueen nearly takes down Vespiquen with Strength and goes down to a Flying Gem-boosted Acrobatics. Beedrill finishes it off with Return
    - Lastly, Accelgor comes in again to fire off a weak Focus Blast before falling to Beedrill's X-Scissor
  • With that, I receive the Insect Badge and headed to Route 4
  • Met up with Colress in Route 4 who helps us get the Crustle to stop blocking the path. Afterwards, he challenges me to a battle. Colress can be a very difficult battle (moreso his Rotom and Porygon2 are the problems) but, it went well since I got lucky with hax
    - Magnemite uses Volt Switch on Koffing and switches out to Metang who takes the incoming Incinerate. Koffing barely survives Metang's Psyshock and fires off another Incinerate before going down. Haunter finishes Metang off with Ominous Wind the turn after
    - Rotom-Fan tanks Nidoqueen's Strength pretty well and fires off multiple Air Slashes. With a lucky high roll Strength and Nidoqueen avoiding Air Slash's flinches, Rotom-Fan goes down
    - Arbok weakens Porygon2 with Glare and 3 Screeches before going down to Psyshocks. Due to paralysis, Nidoqueen is able to take Porygon2 down with 2 Double Kicks
    - Magnemite comes in again and Nidoqueen chips it with Double Kick before going down to Flash Cannon. Haunter cleans up with Ominous Wind
    - Klink comes in and Haunter uses Confuse Ray, preventing it from attacking. Haunter chips Klink with Ominous Wind and it hits and KOs itself
  • Before heading to Nimbassa City, I took a detour to explore the Desert Resort and to catch a Skorupi for future use
  • Skorupi is a Pokemon I do plan on using but, I can get a higher leveled one later on (also Skorupi will be dead weight since it evolves late and doesn't have great moves early on). This Skorupi is going to be traded for a Togepi from a girl on Route 4, mainly for the Covenant Ore item Togepi is holding that will be used to evolve Haunter into Gengar
  • Explored Relic Castle and the Desert Resort before making my way to Nimbassa City
  • Challenged Ingo & Emmet to a tag battle with Rosa in front of the Battle Subway. Battle went pretty well despite their illegal Lvl 32 Chandelure and Eelektross (not mention high BP moves like Thunderbolt and Flamethrower at this point in the game)
  • Explored Route 5, Route 16 and Lostlorn Forest before challenging the gym. Only 2 new Poison-types are available at this point, being Stunky and Foongus which I will be ignoring. Foongus is bulky but has weak offenses (plus I already have Roselia), Stunky on the other hand isn't a mon I particularly need at this point. Psychic-immunity is nice but, I haven't encountered any battle against a Psychic-type that I struggled with since Nidoqueen/Roselia are able to take the super-effective hits and Gengar/Beedrill outspeed and can KO them pretty easily too
  • Went to the seating area of the Big Stadium to challenge Flannery. The battle was pretty hard mainly because I lacked a Water-type and all her Pokemon have Overheat + White Herb combo to deal a lot of damage, also not to mention her team is pretty bulky
    - Magcargo sets up Shell Smash and cures the defense drops with a White Herb but regardless of that, Nidoqueen still OHKOs it with Dig
    - Roselia puts Camerupt to sleep with Sleep Powder and sets up Toxic Spikes. Unfortunately, Camerupt gets the first turn wake up and KOs Roselia with Overheat and consumes the White Herb. Gengar barely survives an Overheat and 2HKOs Camerupt with Shadow Ball
    - Gengar nearly takes out Torkoal with Venoshock and goes down to Stone Edge. However, the poison damage from Toxic Spikes is enough to finish off Torkoal
    - Nidoqueen dodges Magmar's Will-O-Wisp and takes it down with Dig
    - Koffing drops to Houndoom's Overheat and Beedrill cleans up with a critical hit Cross Poison
  • After beating Flannery, I went to Elesa's old gym to "find" her and got access to her brand new gym
  • Elesa was difficult as expected. Her strategy of just spamming Volt Switch was quite overwhelming, especially since none of my team members were faster than Zebstrika so it was able to just pivot in and out for free. This battle took a few attempts before I finally came out on top by adjusting my main strategy
    - Gengar gets a lucky SpDef drop on Emolga as it tries to paralyze Gengar with Thunder Wave (which doesn't work due to Gengar's Cheri Berry). Elesa heals up Emolga but, it gets OHKOed by Shadow Ball
    - Arbok and Luxray trade Intimidates, Arbok lands a Glare and Luxray uses Volt Switch to send in Zebstrika. Zebstrika uses the Bounce + Power Herb combo and Arbok paralyzes it with Glare. Arbok chips Zebstrika with Poison Tail before going down to Volt Switch
    - Lanturn comes in on the switch and confuses Roselia with Confuse Ray as it sets up Toxic Spikes. Lanturn then paralyzes Roselia with Thunder Wave and spams Hydro Pump. Eventually, Roselia breaks through confusion and paralysis and 2HKOs Lanturn with Giga Drain
    - Zebstrika comes in again and tanks Gengar's Shadow Ball before leaving with Volt Switch. Luxray comes back in to take the Shadow Ball. Due to paralysis, Luxray is unable to attack and goes down to a second Shadow Ball
    - Zebstrika comes in for the last time and finished off by Beedrill's X-Scissor
    - Ampharos tanks Gengar's Venoshock and paralyzes it with Thunder Wave. I switch out to Nidoqueen as Ampharos uses Confuse Ray (I expected a Volt Switch here). Nidoqueen kept on hitting itself as Ampharos fires off Focus Blasts, eventually the poison damage ends up taking out Ampharos
    - Lastly, Galvantula tanks Beedrill's Cross Poison and uses Thunder Wave. Beedrill sponges Volt Switch and takes Galvantula down with another Cross Poison
  • With that, I received the Bolt Badge from Elesa and headed towards Driftveil City

Team
Spoiler:
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/beedrill.gif
Janne @ Scope Lens
Lvl 36 | Sniper | Impish
- X-Scissor
- Cross Poison
- Cut
- Toxic Spikes

https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/nidoqueen.gif
Artemia @ Soft Sand
Lvl 35 | Sheer Force | Gentle
- Venoshock
- Dig
- Strength
- Body Slam

https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/arbok.gif
Fiore @ Leftovers
Lvl 34 | Intimidate | Jolly
- Poison Tail
- Crunch
- Glare
- Screech

https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/roselia.gif
Praline @ Miracle Seed
Lvl 35 | Natural Cure | Gentle
- Giga Drain
- Extrasensory
- Sleep Powder
- Toxic Spikes

https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/gengar.gif
Bella @ Amulet Coin
Lvl 36 | Levitate | Modest
- Shadow Ball
- Venoshock
- Clear Smog
- Confuse Ray

https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/koffing.gif
Qada @ Eviolite
Lvl 33 | Levitate | Relaxed
- Venoshock
- Gyro Ball
- Incinerate
- Smokescreen

Box
Spoiler:
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/dustox-f.gif
Mephilia
Lvl 21 | Compoundeyes | Lax
- Silver Wind
- Venoshock
- Psybeam
- Iron Defense

pkmin3033 October 1st, 2020 8:52 AM

Ultimate Monotype Challenge - Fire Red
Part #4 - Yeah, I'm still doing this

So I picked this up again for lack of anything else to do...here I was, thinking I would be done with this within a month. I'll be lucky to finish it at the end of the year this rate.

SO. I have decided to drop Golbat and Pidgeotto (sorry guys, maybe in HeartGold) and focus on Charizard and Dragonair...I'll fill my team out with Articuno when I get to it. Realistically I don't need anything else to finish the game, and those two need around 180,000 EXP each to get to Level 55 (rough endgame level target, might go for 60 if I feel like it) and I just don't have the time or energy to needlessly grind. So this is a minimalist run!

Blasted through Erika's Gym as expected...Charmeleon evolved. Team Rocket's Hideout wasn't too difficult either, but Lavender Tower...ugh, I should not have tried to use that place to train my Dratini, which had a weaksauce Shock Wave and Dragon Rage. Gastly are the absolute WORST things to grind off, did you know? If it's not Confuse Ray, it's Lick. Paralysis, Confusion, Spite on my Dragon Rage, Night Shade to reduce my HP by a fairly hefty amount all things considered, and...ugh. Why do they never use Curse when I want them to?! That was...not fun. Not fun at all.

Next stop is Fuschia City for Strength and Surf for Charizard and Dragonair respectively - Strength isn't THAT bad really as an attack move - and then it'll be back to clear Team Rocket out of Saffron City probably. By which point I will hopefully be able to destroy Erika and Sabrina's Gyms without too much difficulty. Hopefully before the end of this month, but I make no promises...

Stats:

Trainer Name: Dawn
Playtime: 9:21

Current Team
Three times faster than the average Charizard - Level 37
Putting on Dragonairs - Level 33

Badges: 4/8

Game(s): Fire Red, HeartGold, Emerald/Alpha Sapphire (depends on my mood), Platinum, White 2, X, Ultra Moon, Shield
Pokémon Type: Flying
Single/Ultimate: Ultimate

pkmin3033 October 2nd, 2020 7:53 AM

Ultimate Monotype Challenge - Fire Red
Part #5 - The in-between bits

Whoah boy. When did this become FUN again?

So dropping everything except for Charizard and Dragonair was a fantastic idea - it turns out the game is MUCH less grindy and tedious when you only have 2 Pokemon to worry about, and those 2 Pokemon are 10+ levels above everything else. This afternoon I blasted down the cycling route, out of Fuscia City, and cleared out Silph Co. Both my Pokemon went up by over 10 levels apiece. Muahahaha.

Still, this has been an eye-opening experience on just how relaxed the grind in modern Pokemon games has become - in 3 hours in XY I probably could have done this for six Pokemon. In 3 hours in Shield I could have a full team of level 100. I'm surprised I didn't notice it...but then, it HAS been quite a few years since I dived into a Gen III title. My interest in replaying usually begins at Gen IV...stops at Gen IV too.

So yeah. I demolished Koga with little difficulty too...although Hypno are surprisingly resistant to Flamethrower. That was somewhat vexing. Turns out I'd somehow amassed 140k in money again from all these trainer battles, so I've bought 20 Ultra Balls and I'm going to try my hand at catching Zapdos, because why not. Then it'll be off to Seamfoam Islands for Articuno. Using two Legendary Birds is probably cheating in some rulebook somewhere, but not this rulebook here, and honestly they're more for variety than anything else - between the two of them, Charizard and Dragonair have pretty great coverage, and when Dragonair involves it'll probably be able to clear the E4 all by itself, especially if I level it up to 61 for Outrage. Which I might. It'll depend on how the levelling goes, since it'll probably be all I use between now and the Pokemon League...it has Shock Wave and Surf. I've got Blaine, Giovanni, and a lot of swimmers to take care of. Hoo boy.

Stats:

Trainer Name: Dawn
Playtime: 12:31

Current Team
Big Orange Dragon Thing - Level 51
Long Slimy(?) Blue Dragon Thing - Level 47

Badges: 5/8

Game(s): Fire Red, HeartGold, Emerald/Alpha Sapphire (depends on my mood), Platinum, White 2, X, Ultra Moon, Shield
Pokémon Type: Flying
Single/Ultimate: Ultimate

Razzu117 October 4th, 2020 8:29 PM

Forum User Name: Razzu117
Game(s): Fire Red, Soul Silver, Emerald, Pearl, Black, Y, Moon, Sword
Pokémon Type: Flying
Single/Ultimate: Ultimate

Just started Fire Red. I didn't choose the Flying type on my own. I used a spin wheel to help randomize it for me to give even MORE of a challenge. This is my first time doing a Monotype challenge. Excited to see how it goes!

Oct. 05/20 UPDATE: Took some time, but I got lucky and beat Brock with Butterfree. And by lucky I mean, he didn't use Rock Tomb!

Pluckles October 26th, 2020 7:45 AM

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It's been a long time since I've last posted, but mono Normal run on Emerald complete!

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https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/ruby-sapphire/normal/wigglytuff.png
Poof - lv 57
Thunder/Fire Blast/Blizzard/Disable

https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/ruby-sapphire/normal/girafarig.png
George - lv 55
Psybeam/Confusion/Stomp/Agility

https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/ruby-sapphire/normal/linoone.png
Jiggy - lv 55
Headbutt/Rock Smash/Slash/Surf

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Birdo - lv55
Wing Attack/Aerial Ace/Fly/Steel Wing

https://img.pokemondb.net/sprites/ruby-sapphire/normal/slaking.png
Snoozy - lv56
Slash/Counter/Swagger/Cut

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SHHH - lv55
Stomp/Strength/Earthquake/Overheat

I'll start on my next mono normal run soon, not sure which game yet.

Simply Dunsparce October 31st, 2020 5:29 PM

Forum User Name: Simply Dunsparce
Game(s): Emerald
Pokémon Type: Dark
Single/Ultimate: Single

Figment November 1st, 2020 11:06 PM

Forum User Name: Figment
Game(s): Sword
Pokémon Type: Electric
Single/Ultimate: Single

xemnahort November 2nd, 2020 8:45 PM

Ok so I think I might hate myself because instead of doing the sensible thing of doing white 2 like I said I would I decided “Screw you white, you can’t beat me!” So I started up white 2, beat the first gym leader, caught a male and a female venipede, brought them to the daycare and bred them to get a new fresh one for white, restarted white and beat progressed far enough to trade, traded random patrat for venipede names puera, also traded in my ducklett and patrat from previous run to serve as hm slaves and pignite to laugh at my suffering, grind a lot, beat 2nd gym with Pokémon occasionally listening but strong enough not to hinder me too much catch a lillipup for pick ups because I think I’ll need some luck for this, am now in pinwheel forest trying to progress without overlvling for fear of disobedience and try to beat gym so I can get a Pokémon that will listen every time.

Puera (Whirlipede) lvl 24

Hm slaves
Patrat
Ducklett

I’ve also started a bunch of single runs for fun though I’m pretty far in most so not sure if I should even count them, I know I’m way too far to recount most of my adventures in nearly any of them; yellow psychic, emerald ground, omega ruby normal. All are at least past 4th gym or later.

xemnahort November 3rd, 2020 12:29 AM

Managed to finish forest and reach the gym without lvling too much and fought burgh.
Surprisingly easy compared to last time since I had rollout and I even buffed it with defense curl in order to ensure maximum damage and I one shorted his whole team.
After crying over how much time I lost from deleting rollout last run I recovered and proceeded to leave and fought Bianca and easily defeated her to finally evolve into scolipede.
Now trying to rush forward to finally get a second Pokémon.

I’m going to try updating more regularly after each gym but I may forget.

Puera (Scolipede) lvl 30

Hm slaves
Patrat (slowly lvling it for evolution for extra hms)
Ducklett

Pickup
Lillipup

Moral support/Debbie downer
Pignite

limeemil November 5th, 2020 1:55 PM

Been a while since I posted here, but I've recently resumed my mono dragon run. I'm currently preparing to take on the fourth gym in Y.

Current team:
Spoiler:

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/shelgon.gif
Teostra, the Careful Shelgon Lv. 34 @ Eviolite
Rock Head
- Headbutt
- Bite
- Shadow Claw
- Dragon Breath

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/tyrunt.gif
Torsten, the Rash Tyrunt Lv. 35 @ Rocky Helmet
Strong Jaw
- Rock Tomb
- Dragon Tail
- Crunch
- Dig

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/axew.gif
Hector, the Rash Axew Lv. 35 @ Amulet Coin
Mold Breaker
- Dragon Claw
- Dragon Dance
- Poison Jab
- Dig

xemnahort November 7th, 2020 12:16 AM

Ok I went to route 4 and defeated Cheren.
Reached nimbasa city and immediately moved past it to reach route 16 and started hunting for my second Pokémon.
Found a decent Trubbish and named him Quis.
Spent some time trolling around a lot of trainers I saved for this grind.
Finally went back to nimbasa and surprisingly struggled against N.
After a quite a few failed attempts I found a solid strategy and managed to beat him.
Challenged the gym and didn’t have too much trouble beating it.
Proceeded to route 5 and beat cheren... again.
Reached and passed thru Driftveil.
Reached route 6 and started hunting for my last mon.
Found a decent foongus and named her Amanita.
Am now grinding out Amanita with some trainers I saved for this.

Puera (scolipede) lvl 32
Quis (trubish) lvl 31
Amanita (foongus) lvl 23

Hm slaves are unchanged as is the pickup dog though I have dropped pignite due to lack of room.

The run is progressing well and much better than last time. I also am no longer reaching the disobedience threshold as easily as before so that’s no issue either.

limeemil November 8th, 2020 4:22 PM

Dragon run update

Current progress:
Spoiler:

- Beat the Coumarine city gym. Not much to say here, hector pretty much swept Ramos's team after a couple of Dragon Dances.
- Went back to Cyllage city and caught Morgana the Skrelp.
- Progressed to Route 13 and caught Urbosa the Gible, who evolved into Gabite shortly afterwards.
- Beat Team Flare at the power plant.
- Traveled to Lumiose city to challenge the gym.
- Battled Clemont. He didn't put up much of a fight, Urbosa and Torsten were able to take down his team pretty easily.
- Caught Gummi the Goomy on my way towards the next gym.
- Hector evolved into Fraxure, giving him a hefty power boost.

- Challenged the Laverre city gym leader, Valerie. Unlike the last two gyms, this one was actually tough since she uses fairy-types and most of my team is weak to that.
On my first attempt her Mawile managed to pull of three Iron defences, rendering my physical moves next to useless. Her two Hyper potions didn't help matters.
I managed to beat it eventually, but Mr. Mime was too much. Psychic took down Morgana in one shot and the rest fell to Dazzling Gleam.

My second attempt went better with Urbosa taking down Mawile before it got too tanky. Mr. Mime managed to take down Urbosa and Gummi, but not before becoming paralysed by Gummi's Body Slam.
This dropped his speed low enough that Hector could revenge kill it with Poison Jab. Last up was Sylveon. Hector managed to knock her down to half health and poison her with Poison Jab before going down to Dazzling Gleam.
This allowed Morgana to come in and take down Sylveon with a powered up Venoshock.


Current team:
Spoiler:

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/gabite-f.gif
Urbosa the Docile Gabite Lv. 37 @ Soft Sand
Sand Veil
- Dragon Claw
- Bulldoze
- Shadow Claw
- Slash

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/goomy.gif
Gummi the Gentle Goomy Lv. 35 @ Eviolite
Sap Sipper
- Dragon Breath
- Rain Dance
- Thunderbolt
- Body Slam

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/skrelp.gif
Morgana the Naughty Skrelp Lv. 38 @ Poison Barb
Poison Point
- Surf
- Toxic
- Sludge Bomb (Replaced Venoshock during the fight against Valerie)
- Thunderbolt

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/shelgon.gif
Teostra the Careful Shelgon Lv. 38 @ Leftovers
Rock Head
- Headbutt
- Bite
- Shadow Claw
- Zen Headbutt

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/fraxure.gif
Hector the Rash Fraxure Lv. 39 @ King's Rock
Mold Breaker
- Dragon Claw
- Dragon Dance
- Poison Jab
- Dig

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/tyrunt.gif
Torsten the Rash Tyrunt Lv. 40 @ Rocky Helmet
Strong Jaw
- Rock Tomb
- Dragon Claw
- Crunch
- Bulldoze

limeemil November 11th, 2020 6:29 PM

Dragon run update

Current progress:
Spoiler:

Cleared Pokémon Y today! It's been a while since I started this leg of the journey. Here's a brief rundown:

- Olympia was pretty easy since most of my team had at least one ghost or dark type move.
- Wulfric took a couple of attempts due to Avalugg getting too tanky with Curse the first time.
- Team Flare was pretty easy overall, but Lysandre's Gyarados required a bit of shuffling with Teostra's Intimidate.
- It was during the journey to the Pokémon League that I realised just how much behind I was in levels.
At worst I was almost 10 levels behind, but I persevered.
- The Elite Four was pretty tough with each fight seeing two of my Pokémon fainting on average.
- On the other hand Diantha was a lot easier than I thought she would be.
Most of her team was a one-shot sweep with Hector after two Dragon Dances.

That's all for Kalos. Next up, Hoenn.


Final Team:
Spoiler:

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/haxorus.gif
Hector the Rash Haxorus Lv. 61 @ Lucky Egg
Mold Breaker
- Dragon Claw
- Dragon Dance
- Poison Jab
- Earthquake

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/goodra.gif
Gummi the Gentle Goodra Lv. 59 @ Leftovers
Sap Sipper
- Dragon Pulse
- Power Whip
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/tyrantrum.gif
Torsten the Rash Tyrantrum Lv. 59 @ Rocky Helmet
Strong Jaw
- Rock Slide
- Dragon Claw
- Crunch
- Earthquake

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/salamence.gif
Teostra the Careful Salamence Lv. 59 @ King's Rock
Intimidate
- Fly
- Crunch
- Zen Headbutt
- Flamethrower

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/garchomp-f.gif
Urbosa the Docile Garchomp Lv. 59 @ Amulet Coin
Sand Veil
- Dragon Claw
- Earthquake
- Crunch
- Strength

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/dragalge.gif
Morgana the Naughty Dragalge Lv. 60 @ Poison Barb
Poison Point
- Dragon Pulse
- Sludge Bomb
- Surf
- Toxic

xemnahort November 11th, 2020 11:46 PM

Hey question for gen 2 is it legal to trade in a larvitar at some point because it’s so late in the game you can’t really use it.

limeemil November 12th, 2020 10:55 AM

Quote:

Hey question for gen 2 is it legal to trade in a larvitar at some point because it’s so late in the game you can’t really use it.
Which type are you using?

xemnahort November 12th, 2020 12:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by limeemil (Post 10230045)
Which type are you using?

In this case rock but larvitar is basically a huge pain to get in nearly every generation.

limeemil November 12th, 2020 12:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xemnahort (Post 10230076)
In this case rock but larvitar is basically a huge pain to get in nearly every generation.

In that case I'm not sure since Geodude and Onix are both available before Bugsy, thus making rule #3 inapplicable.
Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing Larvitar used in this case, but I'm not the one to make the final call on that.

If it had been a Dark type run then you would have been allowed to trade in Larvitar under rule #3.

Volga November 12th, 2020 2:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xemnahort (Post 10230076)
In this case rock but larvitar is basically a huge pain to get in nearly every generation.

Quote:

Originally Posted by limeemil (Post 10230081)
In that case I'm not sure since Geodude and Onix are both available before Bugsy, thus making rule #3 inapplicable.
Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing Larvitar used in this case, but I'm not the one to make the final call on that.

If it had been a Dark type run then you would have been allowed to trade in Larvitar under rule #3.

This note under the rules was applied from when I ran the challenge, and the OP just hasn't updated it to say rule #6 instead of #3 (it was rule #3 on my thread).

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Undisputed Era (Post 10025048)
6. Trading is permitted for evolution, and obtaining version exclusive Pokémon in your region's Pokédex that cannot be obtained otherwise, as long as its level does not exceed the highest level on your team. No HA/Perfect IVs for this trade in, Egg moves are allowed as they provide much needed type coverage in harder runs. You may hack Pokemon to evolve if they evolve by trading if you are incapable of doing so. If the Pokemon requires an item, you must wait until you have the item before hacking the evolution. Using a trade evolution patch on a ROM is also acceptable.
*Note: Trading in Nectars for Oricorio is allowed, as it's a simple form change that doesn't change base stats, this also allows anyone using a specific Oricorio to be used from the first island.
**Note2: Island Scan Pokemon are allowed as well, because although they are not in the Pokedex, they are obtainable within the limits of the game/challenge.

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Undisputed Era (Post 10025048)
Rule #3 applies to any Pokemon only available in the post-game or not at all, but are still in the Regional Dex, which are: (also incluing all of evo line).
- G/S/C: Anything only available in Kanto/Mt. Silver (i.e. Houndour, Misdreavus, etc.) Same applies to HG/SS, but much more limited due to Safari Zone.
- R/S/E/OR/AS: Beldum
- B2/W2: Archen, Tirtouga, Tympole, Munna, Durant, Heatmor, Cyrogonal, Stunfisk, Larvitar, Croagunk, Carnivine, Tropius, Yanma, Lickitung, Igglybuff, Slakoth, Corphish
- S/M: Porygon, Scyther, Emolga, Riolu, Sewaddle, Togepi, Timburr, Tynamo
USUM: Porygon, Scyther, Heracross, Litleo, Druddigon, Lickitung, Dratini, Emolga, Riolu, Sewaddle, Aron, Rotom, Tynamo

So assuming OP intends for it to work like when I made it, you CAN trade in a Larvitar in GSC, as long as it fits into the general trading rules (No IV breeding and such)
Though this wouldn't apply to HGSS, as you can get Larvitar in the Safari Zone in the mid-game.

xemnahort November 12th, 2020 5:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Volga (Post 10230101)
This note under the rules was applied from when I ran the challenge, and the OP just hasn't updated it to say rule #6 instead of #3 (it was rule #3 on my thread).




So assuming OP intends for it to work like when I made it, you CAN trade in a Larvitar in GSC, as long as it fits into the general trading rules (No IV breeding and such)
Though this wouldn't apply to HGSS, as you can get Larvitar in the Safari Zone in the mid-game.

Ah I just read the part after the rules in this thread and it does say that so it would be perfectly valid for me to trade in 2 larvitars in order to breed in a fresh one for rock, nice. Having a pseudo legend with trade exp boost might be a bit too powerful. Welp time to go catch em for that run.

limeemil November 18th, 2020 8:31 AM

Dragon run update

Current progress:
Spoiler:

Started my Alpha Sapphire run recently. Since there are no dragon types available until after Watson, I decided to trade in a dragon egg.
This egg contained a Bagon, who I named Eldes. So far I've beaten two gyms and here's how they went:

Roxanne
A bit harder than I was expecting. Although Eldes knew Dragon Breath at this point, he still took quite a beating from Roxanne's rock pokémon.
However, with a bit of paralysis luck, I narrowly managed to secure a victory.

Brawly
Much easier than Roxanne was. It was pretty much a sweep with Dragon Breath.

Next I'll head to Slateport City and towards the next gym.


Current team:
Spoiler:

https://projectpokemon.org/images/normal-sprite/bagon.gif
Eldes, the Quiet Bagon Lv. 16
Rock Head
- Bite
- Ember
- Dragon Breath
- Rock Tomb

323k13L November 23rd, 2020 7:42 PM

I would like to sign in
Username:323k13L
Game:Pokemon Black
Type:MonoGrass
SINGLE CHALLENGE

Trainer CH November 24th, 2020 6:11 AM

Forum User Name: Trainer CH
Game(s): Pokemon White
Pokémon Type: Grass
Single/Ultimate: Single

Eleanor November 24th, 2020 7:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 323k13L (Post 10234223)
I would like to sign in
Username:323k13L
Game:Pokemon Black
Type:MonoGrass
ULTIMATE CHALLENGE

Sorry to interrupt here, but if you're playing just one game, then the challenge is Single! For the challenge to be an "ultimate" challenge you need to play at least one game for every region released so far (that is Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos and Alola)! Galar is still considered to be an exception, at least by the Challenge host, but you could go for it as well if you want to!
The same should apply for your sign-up in the Apocalocke (Revised) challenge!

Janp November 29th, 2020 11:00 AM

I said I would finish this Challenge before Christmas. And I did it!

Let's dive right into Alola. I started the game with Popplio just so I can get through first Trial quickly. There were no problems and my overleveled Popplio easily beat Totem Raticate. Then I was finally able to get first Dragon-type - Noibat. And the endless grind started. Those small dragons are so squishy and weak. So it took me a while to get it to better level and while I was at it, I also got Bagon after about 15 minutes of searching for it.

Battle with Hala was pretty okay. I leveled up Noibat to level 16 prior the battle to get Wing Attack and it was enough to take care of Machop with just one hit and Makuhita with two. I then switched to Bagon to lure our Crabrawler's Z-Move and heal Noibat. All-Out Pummeling beat Bagon, so I could switch Noibat in safely. My Z-Move later and I finished first island.

Akala Island welcomes me with Pokémon Trainer Sina and her Ice-types. Ewww. Not gonna lie, this battle took me more attempts that I'm willing to admit. So let's just say five.

Lana's Trial was also pretty annoying. Noibat had type advantage over Totem Araquanid, but it was so squishy that Araquanid beat it with just two Bubbles. Luckily, I had some Revives, so I could just send out Bagon and revive and heal Noibat. Took me few Revives, but I was able to Totem Pokémon and finish the Trial.

With that I got Fishing Rod and was able to catch another Pokémon on my team - Horsea. And just in time for Kiawe's Trial. Horsea did a lot of damage with its Water-type Z-Move, but since it's also extremally squisky, Totem Marowak beat it with that bone attack I forgot the name of. But I could finally use Bagon effectively. It resisted Marowak's attack and beat it with Bite.

Nothing interesting happened until Olivia. I was able to beat Mallow's Trial with similar strategy as previous Trials. Noibat used Z-Move, then I switched to Bagon, revive/heal and finish it with Noibat again. After that I found out there is Goomy in Lush Jungle, but it's only available between 5-6am, so I decided to skip it. I couldn't even get Tyrunt in this version. Olivia fight was also pretty easy, I once again used Bagon as shield, while Horsea's Bubble Beam. Bagon was such a great shield that it evolved into Shelgon after this battle.

Ula'ula Island started well. Horsea evolved into Seadra and I was this close to Kingdra. Sophocles' Trial was painful. I was once again forced to use Shelgon, since Noibat and Seadra would have type disadvantage. I taught it Brick Break just in case, but it was still pretty hard battle. Especially because of paralyze. No matter what, Totem Togedemaru inflicted this annoying status with each attack. Took me two tries to beat it, since Shelgon was unable to attack all the time. And Dedenne appeared as SOS Pokémon on my first try.

I was really afraid of Acerola's Trial. Not only is Mimikyu immune to Dragon-type attacks, it's also immune to the first attack in battle. I started with Noibat and used Supersonic, then pop Disguise with Wing Attack. After that I beat it with combined strength of Seadra and Shelgon. After that I was able to get more Pokémon in Haina Desert - Trapinch and Gabite. And I finally got Goomy on Route 17. After some more grinding I had strong team of mid-evolution or even fully evolved dragons. Nothing could stop me. I stomped on Nanu, Team Skull, Aether and everyone between.

I was also able to get Dragon Scale for Seadra around the time I got to Poni Island. And there I also got the very first Alola Dragon-type - Alolan Exeggutor. Dragon Trial was pretty easy. Noivern and Kingdra were once again mvps of that battle.

After that I got another Alola Dragon-type - Jangmo-o. Since I wanted to use as many different Dragon-types as I could, I picked up Poipole. I looked through this thread and couldn't find anything about Ultra Beasts. I evolved it as fast as possible.

This update is already getting long, so let's quickly look at the rest of the game. At this point I had strong fully evolved dragons, so there were no problems. Mina's Trial was surprisingly easy. Naganadel helped a lot with Mina herself and Totem Ribombee, Kommo-o helped with Ilma and Nanu, Goodra and Kingdra with Lana, Garchomp with Kiawe. So that went well. Hapu went down to Kingdra.

Even E4 couldn't stop me. But before facing E4, I caught Drampa. At this point I didn't want to waste time grinding, so I just put it in front of my team and level it on my way to E4.

You can see my team for E4 below, so let's just quickly summarize the fights. There were no fights. At this point majority of my Pokémon were on higher level than Hau's starter. Kahili did fight back a little bit, but it was still nothing.

Overall I would say this was great Challenge. I know it took me how long? A year and a half? Yeah, I should have probably finish it earlier, but there were other challenges I focused on. A lot of time dragons were really weak in early game and laughably overpowered in the end game. I think I'll do another type soon. Maybe Poison or one of the elemental types.

Team

http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/xyani/exeggutor-alola.gif
Palmak, Adamant Male Exeggutor
lvl 61, Frisk @Rose Incense
- Dragon Hammer
- Leaf Storm
- Psyshock
- Sludge Bomb

http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/xyani/kommoo.gif
Bumbum, Lax Male Kommo-o
lvl 62, Bulletproof @Fightinium Z
- Clanging Scales
- Drain Punch
- Thunder Punch
- Ice Punch

http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/xyani/kingdra.gif
Konak, Timid Female Kingdra
lvl 64, Sniper @Splash Plate
- Dragon Pulse
- Scald
- Focus Energy
- Ice Beam

http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/xyani/noivern.gif
Kridlak, Rash Male Noivern
lvl 65, Infiltrator @Sharp Beak
- Air Slash
- Tailwind
- Dragon Pulse
- Boomburst

http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/xyani/drampa.gif
Deda, Lonely Male Drampa
lvl 58, Sap Sipper @Firium Z
- Hyper Voice
- Dragon Pulse
- Ice Beam
- Flamethrower

http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/xyani/naganadel.gif
Vosa, Docile - Naganadel
lvl 60, Beast Boost @ Draco Plate
- Dragon Pulse
- Sludge Wave
- Dark Pulse
- Heat Wave

The Undisputed Era December 14th, 2020 4:03 AM

It's been awhile since I last updated the OP. Apologies for that, will look to get an update out soonish. Until then happy monotyping :)

joeygmurf December 21st, 2020 4:21 PM

Forum User Name: joeygmurf
Game(s): Platinum
Pokémon Type: Dark
Single/Ultimate: Single

TheHumanCleric December 22nd, 2020 4:08 AM

Forum User Name: TheHumanCleric
Game(s): Shield
Pokémon Type: Ice
Single/Ultimate: Single, Ice is basically not viable in any other game.

Technically I've already started this, but I thought I'd share my progress somewhere.

Duck December 22nd, 2020 5:37 PM

Since it's been a while since I last did a Monotype, and as far as I can gather, "All mon available" / Difficulty hacks don't count for Ultimates, let's start with an easy-ish type:

Forum User Name: von Sternen
Game(s): Fire Red, Crystal, Alpha Sapphire, Platinum, Black 2, X, Sun
Pokémon Type: Water
Single/Ultimate: Ultimate

Edit: FireRed - Update #1
Spoiler:

FireRed
- Started game. Named myself as Sternen and the rival as Blau
- Got the free Potion
- Was subtly shamed by my mother to just move out and let her have a warm bed for a change
- As I started to leave that podunk town, I was stopped by Oak who gave me a going away gift: Squirtle

Pepsi the female Squirtle
Nature: Quiet (+ SpA, - Spe)
Ability: Torrent

Torrent isn't exactly a surprise, but it's still a solid ability, if situational.
While the speed loss isn't nothing, it's also far from a bad tradeoff, so I'm happy with the nature.

- Beat Blau into the ground. The first in many battles to demonstrate the Water type superiority.
- Did the fetch quest for Oak, collecting every free sample I could along the way.
- Got the Town Map since Daisy clearly likes me more than Blau
- Cleaned up the Viridan Forest Trainers using the magic of Special attacks
- Then I turned back and beat Blau a second time. I was a bit afraid because I thought Bulbasaur would already have a Grass move, but either he didn't have one, or the AI just chose not to use it. Weird.

- Cleaned up the Pewter Gym Trainers using the magic of STAB Super Effective Moves™ and even managed to get Pepsi to evolve.
All around winning.

Badges: 1/8

- Bought the Magikarp at Rt. 4

Coca-Cola the male Magikarp
Nature: Bashful (Neutral)
Ability: Swift Swim

Neutral natures aren't bad, so I'll happily accept that.
As for abilities, not like it ever mattered for Magikarp.

- So I was switch grinding on the trainers in Mt. Moon to get Coca-Cola up to speed, and while there was a few close calls with some scientists, we managed to get through without a lot of troubles.

The main troubles were that one hiker with Onix that managed to bind Magikarp, and that final scientist that managed to poison both Magikarp and Squirtle. Oh well, the hazards of switch grinding in the Set battle mode.

- I chose the Helix fossil because praise Helix, not that I think I'll use it since it's only revived at like Cinnabar at a very low level. Not sure I'll have the patience to raise it.

- Misty went down really easily, just spammed Bite with Pepsi. And with that I managed to get Coca-Cola all the way to level 15, and be able to grind by itself, so neat. Well, for some Pokemon.

Badges: 2/8

- After a long grinding session - including using a Rare Candy to get through that last level - Coca-Cola evolves into a mighty Gyarados.
Which promptly proved its worth by neatly dealing with Bulbasaur - even if it got Sleep Powdered, the fact it's not weak to Grass was worth enough in my eyes.

Now if only it actually got a Flying move ...

Team:
Pepsi the Wartortle
- Bite
- Tail Whip
- Water Gun
- Withdraw

Coca-Cola the Gyarados
- Bite
- Water Pulse
- Tackle
- Splash

Duck December 23rd, 2020 11:10 AM

Second and final update of FireRed. Onwards to Johto! And to spice things up, I think I'll retire every line that get to champion status as we go.

Spoiler:

- Went through the Nugget Bridge and helped Bill.
- Played hero and since the police decided to be useless, got Dig out of it which should be important to deal with Lt. Surge
- Cleaned up the S.S. Anne and defeated Blau once again
- Lt. Surge was a bit of a complicated fight, since Evasion hax was a thing and Raichu hit like a truck. But with a strategic sacrifice of Coca-Cola so I could heal Pepsi (who had Dig), we managed to get the win.

And that's with us in the 29-30 level range, about 6 levels higher than its ace. Yikes.

Badges: 3/8

- Got the bike
- Went down Rock Tunnel
- Got some Tea from a nice Old Lady
- Got Sprite the Eevee from the teacher in the Celadon Mansion, which immediately evolved.

Sprite the male Vaporeon
Nature: Gentle (+ SpDef, - Def)
Ability: Water Absorb

The nature isn't great, but since this gen all our weaknesses are special it's not the worst either.
Unfortunately, Vaporeon suffers from stone evolution syndrome - it has a terrible moveset. Thankfully, the Game Corner and the Department Store are here to help us deal with that.

- After that, Sprite just killed everything in the Game Corner and the Gym. Including Erika. Turns out she can't handle a Vaporeon with Ice Beam.

Badges: 4/8

- Started to climb the Lavender Tower and beat Blau. He even managed to make Pepsi evolve again, because he's just such a nice and supportive friend <3

- After that, I made a beeline for Silph Co., got lost there and beat Blau again. Then I got Dr. Pepper the Lapras

Dr. Pepper the female Lapras
Nature: Mild (+ Spa, - Def)
Ability: Shell Armor

Pretty ok, but like most things in Gen I, the only thing saving it is the Game Corner.

- After a lot of grinding, I decide to just get going and finish with Giovanni. I'll get Lapras up to par by paving the way to Fuchsia.

- And that I did. After hiking down the Safari Zone I got Surf (yay) and Strength (meh).

- Dr. Pepper just killed Koga with Psychic. lol.

Badges: 5/8

- After a quick trip back to Saffron, Gyarados just murderized Sabrina with Return. Venomoth actually took the hit too, so I am somewhat impressed.

Badges: 6/8

- Unsurprisingly, neither the Pokemon Mansion nor Blaine were complicated. All of Blaine's mon died to Surf.

Badges: 7/8

- One uneventful Sevii Islands sidequest later, we make our way back to Viridian and destroy Giovanni one and for all.

Badges: 8/8

- Since I have four Pokémon now, I'm more or less riding the level curve. (Which is rather novel, I usually use less Pokémon, so I have a tendency to be overleveled). While I'll probably need to grind a bit before the Elite Four, Blau was pretty easy to deal.

- Victory Road was done, the usual items were bought and while I was going to grind, I didn't really feel like putting in the time, so let's see if I can do it without the level advantage.

I'm entering with a team at level 53-54 which is par with Lorelei but about 10 levels under Blau's ace.

vs. Lolerei
- Dr. Pepper enters, I use two X Specials and an X Speed and let Tbolt sweep the way for me

vs. Bruno
- Pepsi enters and manages to deal with most of the opponents, waste Bruno's items but falls down to Machamp
- Coca-Cola tried to set-up but wasn't enough, Sprite came in and cleaned up

vs. Agatha
- Dr. Pepper enters, I use two X Specials and an X Speed and just swept. Psychic dealt with the ghosts and Arbok, while Ice Beam destroyed the Golbats.

vs. Lance
- Dr. Pepper enters and just exploits weaknesses to destroy most Pokemon. Gyarados went down to Tbolt, the Dragonairs to Ice Beam and Aerodactyl to Surf. Sadly, Aerodactly managed to weaken Lapras and let Dragonite kill Dr. Pepper before it could fire that delicious quad weak Ice Beam
- So Sprite did it for her. Lance kept dragging it out with his Full Restores but he kept getting at low health, in the end he sent a Hyper Beam to kill Sprite.
- Which left it wide open for Pepsi's Ice Beam. I love the Ice Beam TM, it's been one of the run's MVPs.

vs. Champion Blau
- Dr. Pepper kills Pidgeotto with an Ice Beam, and Blau switches Rhydon in
- I try to set up a lot with Coca-Cola and when I'm ready to start sweeping, Blau get's a crit :T
- Dr. Pepper comes back in, and kills it but Venusaur drops by and start being ... annoying. It keeps spamming Solarbeam, but thankfully it never used Sunny Day. It kills almost everybody, so I'm forced to use a Revive in-battle (I was trying to avoid that)
- At the end Dr. Pepper manages to kill it, and I just alternate between healing it and killing stuff. At the end of the day I managed to beat Blau, using 1 Revive in-battle and being about 8 levels under its ace. I'm fine with that. Not to mention that if it weren't for a stupid crit, I probably wouldn't have even needed that Revive.

Either way, Kanto is done.
https://i.imgur.com/ViywBcA.png

Final Team Analysis:

Dr. Pepper the Lapras (MVP)
- It's a beast. With the deliciously OP moveset of Thunderbolt / Ice Beam / Psychic / Surf and its great defenses it was dealing massive chunks of damage to most Pokemon. It actively made me wish there was a fifth moveslot to put Calm Mind in there, but to be honest, I only really felt the need to get the boosts in the Elite Four battles.

I almost didn't use it, but I'm glad I did because it came in clutch when my strategy just kinda flunked.

Coca-Cola the Gyarados (Most Underwhelming)
- I know it's nowhere near its true potential in Gen III but ergggh, it started out great and just kinda leveled out in the end. It was still useful and more on less on par with the rest of the team but it really needed that level advantage to shine.

I tried using a fancy strategy with Dragon Dance but a lot of Scary Faces and a crit nipped that in the bud. Oh well.

Sprite the Vaporeon (Most Average)
- It was just ... average. It essentially wanted to be Dr. Pepper but couldn't quite match it. It wasn't bad it just ... kinda paled in comparison to Dr. Pepper I guess.

Pepsi the Blastoise (Most forgotten)
- By the end I kinda forgot it was there to be honest. It didn't have any interesting types to help, it had a pretty meh movepool, or even a good niche in general. The more Pokemon I got, the less useful it became, I guess.


Edit: Johto came and went, let's try ... Platinum this time around
Spoiler:

- Got Gin, the male Totodile.

- Did the fetch quest and beat up my rival - Silber.

- Did Bellsprout Tower and killed Falkner pretty quickly
Badges: 1/8

- Gin evolved!

- Went through the Union Cave, and got Vodka, the male Slowpoke.

- So, fun fact, Vodka came in with Curse and Tackle. Bugsy starts the battle with a cocoon.
So, to answer your question a Atk, Def +6 Slowpoke isn't enough to kill Scyther, but it was nice effort anyways.
Gin cleaned up after Vodka and we got the Hive Badge.
Badges: 2/8

- Beat Silber.

- As it turns out, setting up on Clefairy means the murdercow isn't an issue at all.
Badges: 3/8

- Beat the Kimono girls and got HM Surf.

- A combination of Confusions and Bite nabbed me Morty's badge.
Badges: 4/8

- Got Whiskey, the female Corsola.

- Beat Chuck, got a lucky freeze out of Ice Punch and Poliwrath was no more, lol.
Badges: 5/8

- Jasmine was ... brutal. Iron Tail Steelix hits like bricks and the Magnemites were super effective.
Managed to get the win at the end anyways.
Badges: 6/8

- Cleared out the Rocket base in Mahogany without many issues.

- Pryce was annoying because of his Rest tactics, so Vodka set up and just Shadow Balled them to bits.
Also, it evolved, so yay!
Badges: 7/8

- Beat Silver once more and cleaned up the Rocket plot. I could get Suicune, but what's the point?

- Beat Claire and dealt with her whining. Dragonairs hit surprisingly hard, but nothing an Ice Punch to the face won't fix.
Badges: 8/8

- After dealing with the Victory Road we finally get to the Elite Four. This time we're at level 45 which is about Bruno's average level and only 5 levels lower than Lance's ace.

vs. Will
- Gin kills everything until his last Xatu appears. By now Gin is the red zone and while I think it could outspeed and kill with Ice Punch, switching to Vodka and letting it clean up is preferrable.
- Vodka just spams Shadow Balls and tanks Xatu's hits like a boss.

vs. Koga
- Whisky comes in and kills Ariados and Foretress, but gets bogged down by Muk's evasion tactics.
- Vodka came in and cleaned up with Confusion (and yes, I am sighing that Confusion is the best Psychic move available to me at the Elite Four)

vs. Bruno
- Vodka came in, cursed a lot and confused everybody. Until Onix came, then it surfed.

vs. Karen
- I let Whisky go in and bait all the Sand Attacks and Confusions from Umbreons, which is more or less did.
- Gin came in and killed a weakened Umbreon, and then just proceeded to kill everything else.

vs. Champion Lance
- I started off with the wrong foot because I forgot to switch Whisky and Gin's positions - oops.
- After that I let Gin get a couple of X Attacks, X Specials and X Speeds, after that it just killed everything in sight. Ironically enough Gyarados was the hardest Pokemon because everything it resisted almost everything I had.

I forgot to take the screenshots but yeah, Johto's over.

All in all this time around I felt everybody was OK. Corsola was lagging but I kinda expected that from it to be honest, and it was a very good wall / softening agent.

I might have to ban X-Items in Elite Four matches (or at least limit them to like one per battle) since setting up in front of Lance was ridiculously easy.

Duck December 24th, 2020 2:01 PM

Platinum's first update.

Spoiler:

- Started the game. I'm Sternen and my rival is Barry.
I actually really like that name, would definitely be in the list for any future kids if I lived in an English speaking country.

- Got Durian, the male Piplup.

Durian, the male Piplup
Nature: Naughty (+ Att, - SpD)
Ability: Torrent

Less than ideal nature, but it's not the worst. Will probably come in hadny at some point or another anyways.

- Beat the rival. Got to Jublife and then I beat the rival again.

- Durian evolved, and I beat Roark. I will say that getting Screeched by Onix made the Cranidos be a very tense battle.
Badges: 1/8

- Beat the execs at the Valley Windworks.

- So, as it turns out Gardenia needed some strategy.

vs. Gardenia
- Durian started by serving a Growls, getting an X Attack, X Defend and X Special Def.
Even with all that and chugging Super Potions pretty much every other turn I almost died.
And Prinplup was about 5 levels over Gardenia's ace.
Lovely.

Badges: 2/8

- The other admin was actually surprisingly easy. Skuntank took a lot of Bubblebeams but beating it was relatively straightforwards.
Perks of being overleveled, I suppose.

- Fantina was actually complicated. While Brine made dealing with Mismagius very easily, Haunter made me use a Super Potion to not die.
So far Platinum has been a pleasant challenge.
Badges: 3/8

- And then there was Barry. If it weren't for the AI switching Staravia into Grotle, I might have had a very bad time.
As it turn outs, I managed to scrape by.

- The good side is that we got the Good Rod, so now we can backtrack to Eterna and finally get a Barboach.

Rhubarb the male Barboach
Nature: Serious (Neutral)
Ability: Anticipation

Now to get it up to par with Durian.

Team:
- Durian the male Prinplup (Lvl. 35)
- Rhubarb the male Barboach (Lvl. 17)
Badges: 3/8


Edit: Platinum's second and final update
Spoiler:

- Rhubard and Durian both evolved.

- Nothing particularly exciting happened until Maylene. Which happened to die pretty quickly.
Badges: 4/8

- Beat Barry in Pastoria. This time things went a lot more smoothly.

- Beat Waker. While I didn't have anything that hit him for decent damage, he also didn't so it mostly came down to attrition.
Badges: 5/8

- Did a bunch of plot stuff and finally got Surf, which means we get to get our last party member!

Blackberry the male Tentacruel
Nature:
Ability: Liquid Ooze

- After grinding - which was pleasantly less than expected - beat Barry in Canavale. As it turns out Rhubarb is faster than Torterra and can OHKO it with Ice Beam. So that's nice to know.

- Byron was very easy - Surf and EQ made short work of pretty much everyone.
Badges: 6/8

- Beat the two lake execs.

- Candice was so easy I had actually forgotten to place her on my notes. Oops.
Apparently Flash Cannon aka Byron's TM is just too OP for her
Badges: 7/8

- I could futz around Mt. Coronet to get a Feebas but frankly, I don't want to deal with having the grinding and baking necessary to evolve it.

- Distortion World is an interesting enough place, so on one hand I wish we had more stuff like that, but on the other hand these maze sections can be kinda ehhh. Specially since wiping to Cyrus means you have to do it all over again.

vs. Cyrus
- The trick was setting up Barrier a lot on Houndoom before getting to Gyarados. And even then I only survived my third attempt without items because the AI was stupid.

- Giratina (and I just now realized this was the first mandatory legend I faced in this string of games) was a lot easier. Falling down quickly to the power of Ice Beam. Even if it did get an Ominous Wind boost that made it take three attacks instead of two.

- Can we take a minute to appreciate Volkner's gym design? Pretty cool. Falkner went down to EQ in a string of OHKOs, but I gotta appreciate the man's sense of style.
Badges: 8/8

- One quick Victory Road later, we have our final battle with Barry. And it was actually pretty tense.
Snorlax killed our momentum and after that we more or less scrape by, I only barely won without using any items.

- Now onto the main event:

vs. Aaron
- Pretty standard. Pokemon A kills until killed, then other guy comes in and continues the killing.

vs. Bertha
- Rhubarb dealt with half her team, and then Blackberry cleaned up.

vs. Flint
- Rhubarb came in and killed pretty much everything except Infernape.
- Blackberry tried to deal with it, but Infernape managed to survive with a sliver of health and KOd it
- So Durian came in and surived a final Flare Blitz that self-KOd the monke.

vs. Lucian
- I wipe. For the first time in this run, I don't have something with Bite or Crunch to deal with those pesky dark types.
Which means, it's time for items.

- E4 v2

After a short repeat of the Aaron, Bertha and Flint battles we come back to Lucian:
- I use a couple of X Speeds to make sure I'll outspeed some troublesome Pokémon like Alakazam and ... I get three critical hits laughing in the face of the Reflect, Mr. Mime set up lol. Levitate Bronzong was a bit complicated but I managed to whittle it down until only Espeon was left.
- Durian took care of it quite handily.

vs. Champion Cynthia
- So from the start I thought of using items here because Garchomp is a very complicated beast and I am underleveled for this battle - I entered the E4 at level 59 the first time and 60 the second.
- So Blackberry came in, got one X Speed and one X Special Attack - and was killed by a Spiritomb crit.
- And then Durian came in, Cynthia sent Garchomp. It used an EQ, Durian lived and counter-killed with an Ice Beam.
- She sent Roserade, so I was forced to use a Revive on Durian to prevent the defeat, and it was still for nothing as it managed to KO me with a crit Energy Ball in the end.

The good thing though, is that we learned things.

- Third time's the charm - E4 v3

vs. Champion Cynthia
- This time, I managed to set up properly and just destroy most of Cynthia's team, except for Lucario.
- Durian managed to soften up Lucario but it was Rhubarb that deal the final blow and made us Sinnoh Champion.

https://i.imgur.com/dwAmcIn.png

Team Analysis:
- They were all pretty cool. Empoleon started to lag behind in the end but they all played a big part in the end.
I can definitely see why people say Platinum is a hard game - the Elite Four was kinda brutal.

transwiththeplans December 26th, 2020 10:00 AM

Forum User Name: Transwiththeplans
Game(s): Sword + Expansion Pass
Pokémon Type: Ice
Single/Ultimate: Single

A week or so ago, I saw a video on the WORST types to use for each region, monotype wise. To my shock, I saw that Rock was the worst type. Now...I submit THIS as evidence of Ice being the most challenging Monotype.

Under the game of “Sword”, using Ice types starts at being fun and exciting, but then you realize you have to deal with Nessa, Kabu, Bea, Gordy, Chairman Rose and Leon. Oh, and Nessa and Bea again toward endgame. On paper, this sounds hard. That’s because it is. And I love a good challenge. Here’s the rules I must adhere too;

>Limited use of grinding
>Limited use of items in game
>Careful strategy
>Choose Grookey so rival has Sobble and Leon has Scorbunny

Team Options:

At the front of my team will always the Hail setter. There’s a few, with Abomasnow, Vanilluxe and Alolan Ninetales. For the start of the game, I’ll have to use Abomasnow (or transfer in an egg of a HA Vulpix). Abomasnow sounds like a good edition, but then you remember it’s 4x weakness to Fire. Ninetales sounds a little bit better, but then you remember the 4x weakness to Steel. That’s going to be a large problem throughout my run, so, I’ll have to persevere somehow. I decided to go with Alolan Ninetales in the final team because it's fast and it can easily be obtained by doing the Diglett Finding challenge on the Isle of Armor.

Alolan Sandshrew poses an interesting ability- Slush Rush. I could use it as an early game fast Pokemon before I possibly replace it with a HA Arctozolt from the Crown Tundra dens, but I think I'll stick with Sandshrew for now.

There are two new Ice variants available; one is Darmanitan, a surprising but not welcome addition. He has a strong ability in “Gorilla Tactics”, which is a Choice Band ability. It does have a fast speed tier as well. If I really wanted to make an effort, I could try to find the HA Darumaka so I could have Ice / Fire stab, but I digress. The second shocking addition is Mr. Mime’s regional evolution, Mr. Rime. Mr. Rime has…abilities, I guess. 80/75/100 bulk is pretty bad, though. I suppose I could always slap an Evolite on the prevolution, but the loss of HP does not seem worth it. Pooling 252 EVs into defense will yield me…around 127 at Level 50. Mr. Rime will also answer my problems with Bea, but then again, we have other, faster Pokemon that could help “cheese” some results.

Froslass is a Pokemon I have long admired. I used one in my Omega Ruby run, and I believe it yielded some good results. I can’t remember. A speed tier of 110 is nothing to scoff at, meaning it could either run a very supportive set, or just troll opponents. Snow Cloak is also a fantastic ability to use w/ Hail on the field. If I were to give this Pokemon a “concrete” moveset at the moment, I’d choose something along the lines of Destiny Bond, an Ice Stab move, Double Team and a good support move to either help defend the team more, or just attack.

There’s also three new ice types within the ranks; Arctozolt, Eiscue and Frosmoth. Arctozolt seems like a good Pokemon. 90/90/80 defenses sound pretty good to me, especially one with 100/90 offenses. However, the speed is what really holds it back…yet gives it a niche over a Pokemon like Rotom. Rotom is delegated to one low PP move, Blizzard, whereas Arctozolt gets moves like Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, Bolt Beak, Icicle Crash, Freeze Dry and Wild Charge. However, it doesn’t have Levitate, but instead Static or Volt Absorb or Slush Rush, which is available in the Crown Tundra. There aren’t many Electric types in the region, sadly, so how often I’ll utilize this is unknown.

Frosmoth is another fun newcomer; Snom might just be my mascot for this run, just because it’s sooooo damn cute. Anyways, Frosmoth is a unique Ice / Bug type, with a large special side, but low Speed, but that can be fixed by Quiver Dance. A concrete moveset at the moment would be Quiver Dance, Ice Beam, Bug Buzz and Giga Drain. At the the time of writing this, I have one on my team, thanks to the recent Raid event.

Now, for the possible gamebreaker; Eiscue. I can’t lie, Eiscue is…pretty ugly looking. But, we can look past that; he’s an ice Mimikyu with a free restore under Hail, but only under physical attacks. While that sounds bad…it’s actually pretty good. Eiscue gets Belly Drum, Liquidation, Icicle Crash, Dive…while he may not get STAB, you have to realize something else; once that stupid Ice Head is broken, his speed goes from 50 to 130. That’s one of the fastest speeds in the main game, and Pingu over here could kill you fucking dead with a Liquidation at 6+, Gigantamax Charizard. If he does somehow manage to do so, I will never live it down.

There has been one ice type Gigantamax confirmed; Lapras. While I do not know if you can obtain a Gigantamax Lapras in the main game (and not post), I will be pleasantly shocked if that is the case. If that is the case, I will dedicate time searching for this thing. Lapras has always been a more quiet favorite, and it’s G-Max move of setting an Aurora Veil and attacking does sound appealing. It is currently in the Max Raid events, so I could possibly pick that up as an answer for Kabu and Gordie.

I just beat Milo, with a combo between Slush Rush Sandshrew and Snow Warning Vulpix.

It is honestly all down hill from here.

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ShyRayq December 26th, 2020 1:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by transwiththeplans (Post 10251169)
There has been one ice type Gigantamax confirmed; Lapras. While I do not know if you can obtain a Gigantamax Lapras in the main game (and not post), I will be pleasantly shocked if that is the case. If that is the case, I will dedicate time searching for this thing. Lapras has always been a more quiet favorite, and it’s G-Max move of setting an Aurora Veil and attacking does sound appealing. It is currently in the Max Raid events, so I could possibly pick that up as an answer for Kabu and Gordie.

G-Lapras only appears in normal raids in Pokemon Shield, and only in 5-star raids, so pretty late in the game. However, if you have the DLC, you can feed a Max Soup to a Lapras to get a G-Max Lapras.

transwiththeplans December 27th, 2020 9:43 AM

Incorrect- in the Wild Area updates, you can catch a Lapras w/ G-Maxing capabilities- at One Star.

...sadly I'm not lucky enough for that,,,

Duck December 27th, 2020 1:11 PM

Black2's first and final update - this one definitely felt like a slog.

Spoiler:

- Started the game. As usual I named myself Sternen and picked the water starter. I'd forgotten this game did text speech at the top of the screen which is kinda gross.

Hydrogen the male Oshawott
Nature: Docile (Neutral)
Ability: Torrent

I can work with that.

- Beat the rival battle in Floccesy. The AI is really bad, when I got to red health it just started spamming Leers. I mean, I knew he was dumb because of his dialogue, just didn't know he was bad battler as well.

- After the Great Herdier Overreaction of 2020, we made our way to Cheren. Gotta say, his design for this game is pretty cute. Still pretty easy to beat.
Badges: 1/8

- Hydrogen evolved.

- A dumb crit made Roxie take two tries, but she was otherwise unremarkable.
Badges: 2/8

- Why does this game have this eternal cutscenes? Also, screw Pokestar Studios.

- Since the only water types I can get so far are Azurill and Psyduck (one of which I want to save for a later gen and the other is just kinda meh) I'm kinda soloing Burgh. which is troublesome because of Swadloon and Leavanny. And as it turns out, Leavanny can OHKO me with Razor Leaf. And even if Razor Leaf misses, Return is a 3HKO at best.

After EV training / grinding on the desert, we evolve Hydrogen and are ready to face Burgh once more. While it wasn't close, he still managed to get me to yellow health. I really don't want to think about how Elesa is going to be.
Badges: 3/8

- The answer was ... tense but OK, apparently. Static is very annoying and if I got fully paralyzed at any point, I most likely would have lost or needed to use an item, but luckily I wasn't so it was just straightforward use of Return.
Badges: 4/8

So grind we go.

- Happily enough, Ducklett was easy enough to find on Driftveil bridge. Grinding it to Samurott's level, was not.

Oxygen the female Swanna
Nature: Modest (+ SpA, - Att)
Ability: Keen Eye

Very good ability / combination for Swanna. I have high hopes for this baby.

- Clay was exactly as easy as you'd assume it to be.
Badges: 5/8

- Shortly after we got Surf and our last team member, which we promptly gave a grinding session to get it up to par with the others.

Fluorine the male Jellicent
Nature: Adamant (+ Att, - SpA)
Ability: Cursed Body

This is ... a less ideal ability, but still a pretty cool Pokémon.

- The level curve is starting to catch up to us, which is nice. Skyla managed to KO one of my Pokémon but was otherwise unremarkable.
Badges: 6/8

- Plot stuff which is still boring. According to Bianca, Drayden wrestles with his Pokémon which is quite the image.

- Since Ice Beam is locked away in the Giant Chasm, this battle was annoying but manageable.
Badges: 7/8

- Ironically enough, Zinzolin was pretty tough. Ice and Water types have been consistently a pain in the ass in these runs and Zinzolin only use Ice types.

- Marlon is a himbo and I'm living for it. He was also relatively easy - thank God for Air Slash flinch hax. Would have been even easier if I'd remember to put Fluorine up front.
Badges: 8/8

- Once again Zinzolin was annoying. I was hurt from the rest of the frigate so it managed to kill me. I destroyed him on the second try.

- Colress even more so, forcing me to use an item since he had a lot of bulky electric types. Shout out for Fluorine since he tanked a lot of SE moves.

- Also, I love the new aesthetic Ghetsis has going on. Very cantankerous goth chic. The cane is a very nice touch too, if a bit anime.

- The way past Kyurem-Black was basically playing "pass the revive" to PP stall out Fusion Bolt. Shout out to Fluorine that actually managed to survive a Fusion Bolt from full health.

- Thank god my team was fully healed before Ghetsis or things would have gotten ... desperate. I managed to scrape all the way to Drapion and lost because of a critical hit :c

- The second time around I barely won, but I did win and that's all that matters.

- Annoying details: You can't fly from the Giant Chasm cave even though you just saw N fly away. The most logical conclusion is that Zekrom just phased through the roof.

- Victory Road was annoying and started to show how Samurott is kinda meh. So was last Hugh, but nothing unmanageable.

vs. Shauntal
- A combination of Expert Belt Shadow Ball with Fluorine and Mystic Water Surf with Oxygen were enough to seal the deal.

vs. Marshal
- This time Oxygen held the Expert Belt and Fluorine held the Mystic Water.

vs. Caitlin
- She managed to take out Fluorine earlier on the battle, but Oxygen did more than enough damage for Hydrogen to mop up the lone survivor.

vs. Grimsley
- I managed to set up Swords Dance and Focus Energy on Liepard and soloed the rest with the help of a few Full Restores.
That Focus Energy was for nothing since I didn't get a single crit but whatever, he's done for.

vs. Champion Iris
- Oxygen started in strong by 2HKOing Hydreigon, then Iris sent in Thunderbolt Lapras which was solidly walled - admittedly with the help of items - by Fluorine.
- Hydrogen served as a nice sacrifice as I healed them both against Druddigon, so he wasn't completely useless, I guess.
- Archeops, Aggron and Haxorus were easily dispatched by Oxygen.

https://i.imgur.com/Y4rGHxC.png
https://i.imgur.com/YVZ8hZF.png
https://i.imgur.com/Dg1DmpX.png

I really don't like Unova, I guess. This was a more difficult run than I expected, but it didn't feel like fun hard - the game restricted most of my options for huge swathes of it. I will say that I did enjoy using most of these Pokémon though.

Oxygen was a great sweeper and Fluorine was a great wall - one that actually managed to stare down Kyurem and sometimes not die.
Hydrogen was kinda trash though, it had terrible coverage.

Anyways, with that out of the way we're past the halfway point and done with all the 2D games - here's to hoping the 3DS will be gentler than Unova!

transwiththeplans December 27th, 2020 2:16 PM

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Update- successfully beat Kabu.

Let's review- caught a Lapras w/ the Gigantamax Factor, dug up a few Ice and Dawn stones from the digging bros, caught an Amaura and named it after a Scottish Doctor...and Kabu took three tries.

Fuckin hate critical hits. I will also NOT be using Eiscue- too few...things to work with. Icicle Crash is also an egg move, so...fun. Now, onto Bea. I think I have a strategy for that...

Duck December 27th, 2020 5:31 PM

Pokémon X - First update:
Spoiler:

- Started the game, this time my name was Étoiles - for that ~ french flair ~

- Got Earth, the Froakie.

Earth, the male Froakie
Nature: Naught (+ Att, - SpD.)
Ability: Torrent

Unfortunately we can't get that deliciously broken ability of Protean, but it's an OK ability I guess.

- I beat Shauna - and felt bad doing so, she's cute and nice :c - and did that annoying early game plot stuff.

- I have to say, I love the little artwork of different trainers that are shown before battle.

- I don't particularly grind, but I do battle most trainers which means that Viola was pretty easy. Defeating her not only nabbed me a badge but also an evolution, so nice.
Badges: 1/8

- After a short trek down Parterre way we get to Lumiose City and get our second partner: Squirtle. Now, I didn't want to use Pokémon I already used before but this would be Mega Blastoise and Blastoise was kinda meh in Generation I.

Jupiter, the male Squirtle
Nature: Hardy (Neutral)
Ability: Torrent

Could be better, could be worse. We can make it work.
And since this is an actual 3DS - which means no turbo - this seems like a sensible place to stop, for now.

Team:
- Earth, the male Frogadier (Lvl. 18)
- Jupiter, the Squirtle (Lvl. 10)

TheHumanCleric December 31st, 2020 5:49 AM

Pokemon Shield, Ice Type Monorun, Update 1

Progress
Spoiler:
Alright, update number one, I think I'll post an update whenever I complete two gyms and since I just beat Nessa, that'll be now!
I started by naming my trainer Nicholas, since Saint Nick and Christmas stuff. It made sense at the time I suppose. Picked up a Scorbunny and spedrun the opening segment of the game until I caught my first real team member - a Snover. The eventual Abomasnow should be helpful with setting up hail at the start of every fight and grass type moves will be a godsend in the early game. I also swiftly caught a Snover, a female one so I'm aiming for a Froslass. I also caught a Shellder which is great at the moment as it doesn't have the ice type until it evolves, meaning I can counter fire, fighting and steel moves really easily.

The first two gyms haven't been challenging, Milo was simple thanks to Snover and Shellder while nearly every one of Nessa's mons were one-shot by my dynamaxed Snover. I'm not too looking forward to Kabu, although hopefully Shellder can do enough to beat it.


Spoiler:

TEAM
Snover, Level 23, Snow Warning, Powder Snow, Seed Bomb, Ice Shard, Leer
Snorunt, Level 23, Ice Body, Powder Snow, Crunch, Ice Shard, Double Team
Shellder, Level 22, Skill Link, Tri Attack, Whirlpool, Rock Blast, Supersonic

CelloX January 2nd, 2021 3:29 PM

Is it ok if I list my bug shield monotype I already completed?

Duck January 5th, 2021 5:45 AM

Water monotype - X's second update

I reset the game, got Froakie and Azurill first gym and then as it turns out, Huge Power (Azu)marill is way too strong for most gym leaders.

Iris the female Frogadier
Level 34
- Aerial Ace
- Rock Tomb
- Water Pulse
- Quick Attack

Jupiter the male Azumarill
Level 38
- Aqua Tail
- Dig
- Return
- Rollout

Badges: 3/8

Valroxen January 19th, 2021 1:08 PM

Forum User Name: Valroxen
Game(s): Fire Red, Heart Gold, Emerald, Platinum*, White, White 2*, X, Ultra Moon, Shield
Pokémon Type: Flying
Single/Ultimate: Ultimate :3

Really excited to take on the challenge tbh, I tried to Monotype Moon w/ Dragons a while back but the Totem Lurantis completely stopped my Bagon and Dratini and I threw in the towel. I considered different types (basically between Bug or Flying) but in the end I decided Flying would be interesting but not completely over the top for each region, might take on Bug for a harder challenge after if this is a success.

*1: This might changed to the D/P remakes if they're announced and depending on how long it takes for me to get around to it.
*2: Not sure if this is required for the challenge but I'll probably do it anyway because I want to xD

Silksong January 19th, 2021 3:06 PM

Forum User Name: Silksong
Game: Storm Silver
Pokemon Type: Ground
Single/Ultimate: Single

I've been going for Nuzlockes lately, so I think it'll be nice to get back to a good ol' fashioned monotype. I usually like to pick a type that isn't used by a gym leader/E4 member, and in Gen 2 and their remakes the only such type is Ground! Plus, I've been wanting an excuse to try out Storm Silver. :)

Valroxen January 19th, 2021 3:12 PM

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Well my journey has finally begun :3
So naturally I did the basics when starting: Welcomed by Oak, girl character, name Alyssa, rival name Blue because I couldn't think of anything smart etc etc.

So we arrive at the first choice: The starter!
Luckily this was a pretty easy decision for me because Charmander will become a big boi Charizard some day, making him my first member of the team. I named him 'Icarus' as a sort of reverse reference as he's fire and gains wings instead of burning them up xD.
After this Blue challenged me to a battle where I swiftly kicked his ass, then did the basic collection stuff like the Town Map, Pokedex and my first set of Pokeballs.

The good thing about this Flying Type run is that I get a lot of Pokemon very early on, so I moved to Route 1 and caught my second team member: Sarah the Pidgey. After a little bit of training we added yet another member on Route 22, adding Kira the Spearow onto the team aswell. Finally the team was rounded out for the early game by catching a Jules the Caterpie in Viridian forest, where after some team grinding evolved into Metapod.

On the way we also fought Blue again on Route 22, where Icarus faced his Pidgey and unfortunately fell, where Kira then had to clean up from and then also took out his Squirtle as well.

From here Viridian Forest was a breeze, with Sarah, Kira and Icarus equally Pecking, Gusting and Embering everything in sight. Even Jules got in on the action and gained EXP from the Metapod's that knew nothing but Hardening, which ended up helping him fully evolve into Butterfree right at the end of the forest.

Unfortunately that was my stopping point arriving in Pewter city, so next time we'll really be up against it with our first proper difficult fight against Gym Leader Brock.

Team:

Jules - Level 10 Butterfree - Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion
Icarus - Level 10 Charmander - Scratch, Growl, Ember
Kira - Level 11 Spearow - Peck, Growl, Leer
Sarah - Level 10 Pidgey - Tackle, Sand Attack, Gust

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Valroxen January 20th, 2021 2:30 PM

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So picking up right where things left off, after arriving in Pewter City I took a look at the gym, beating the first training before quickly realising I'd be swiftly under levelled for Brock. To prepare I decided 13 was where I'd go to and so I did some grinding in Viridian Forest where Jules learnt Poison Powder and Icarus learned Metal Claw, moves that would prove pivotal in the battle itself.

Gym 1: Brock
To begin the fight Brock led with Geodude, which I went with Jules as I wanted to save Icarus for the main event. I went for Confusion which luckily for me did both half HP and managed to confuse it, which didn't really matter because it broke through but then used Defence Curl instead, allowing me to finish the job with another Confusion.

Next up was the big show, Onix. I was genuinely terrified by this thing considering its power and strength, so I knew I had to be smart with my approach. First I decided to stay in with Jules as I knew I could out speed and go for Poisonpowder, so I could stall it out if I needed too and because of Butterfree having Compound Eyes as its ability this was no issue landing it either. It landed and Jules was swiftly deleted from the battlefield with a OHKO Rock Tomb which was expected. Next up I sent in Icarus and decided because I'd still need to live a Rock Tomb the best course of action would be to Growl first and go from there, to my surprise Onix opted for Tackle instead of Rock Tomb which did pitiful damage, I then growled it another 3 times all of which he replied with Tackle. From there it was smooth sailing as he was severely weakened from the Poison and Icarus finished him off with a Crit Metal Claw.

Boulder Badge obtained! (1/8)

After that I tried to leave Pewter City before being interrupted by the greatest gift: THE RUNNING SHOES!!!
With my new found speed I powered on through the next route, with Jules adding Stun Spore to its arsenal but I quickly reached Mt Moon. I then picked up two new members for my team: inside the Pokemon Centre I spent $500 on Magikarp which I named Tornado (named after one of my favourite Twister ads/Vinesauce clips) and then catching a Zubat in the cave that I named Rhaidan and just like that I had a full team of six!

Plowing through Mt Moon was pretty easy, I trained up Rhaidan a little bit but mainly focused on the old team. Despite the rock Pokemon we managed quite well, mainly thanks to Icarus evolving into Charmeleon and then Jules adding Sleep Powder for yet another status move to use (this was my plan for Jules from the start because Poison/Sleep will be vital for dealing with roadblocks). We also fought our first batch of Team Rocket grunts, as well as snagging a Helix fossil and not before long we were already at Cerulean City.

I dealt with Cerulean pretty much the same way as I did Pewter City, I went into the gym, fought some of the gym trainers before quickly realising how under levelled I was and then going to train. Heading up north, I ran into Blue again which caused me no problems really and blasted quickly through his team and the moved onto Nugget Bridge. While these trainers caused me no trouble, it did end up leading to Sarah evolving into Pidgeotto and upping the strength on my team even further. From there it was easy going, beat the Nugget Bridge, slapped the Rocket grunt, struggled to level up Rhaidan, got the SS ticket from Bill and suddenly we were ready for Misty!

Gym 2: Misty
This fight was.... a little bit more shakey than the last. To begin I lead with Sarah to deal some heavy damge to hopefully remove the Staryu before it did much damage, unfortunately Quick Attack was a 3HKO and on the second Water Pulse I ended up confused and low health, so I opted to sack Rhaidan so I could heal up Sarah and maybe confuse it with Supersonic. Misty then used a Super Potion as well as Harden, and while Supersonic missed the main thing was the Super Potion so it was all okay, I opted for Jules after due to the Harden weakening the power of Sarah's attacks where Staryu swiftly went down thanks to the Sleep Powder and Confusion combo attack.

Next up, Starmie. In typical me fashion I kept Jules in and used Poisonpowder to start whittling it down, Water Pulse did quite a lot of damage and I knew Jules couldn't do much else with Psybeam so I swapped her out into Tornado, so that the Poison could chip its health down more and this worked a treat. After Tornado went down, I went into Kira to try and finish the job in one Secret Power, and while it didn't kill, the Poison damage was enough to knock out and get us the win.

Cascade Badge obtained! (2/8)

Finishing the session off, I battled another Rocket Grunt, got the TM for Dig and fought a few more trainers before rushing myself to our next location and our toughest challenge yet...

Vermilion City, home of the Electric Gym.

The Team
Jules - Level 19 Butterfree - Confusion, Poisonpowder, Sleep Powder, Stun Spore
Kira - Level 19 Spearow - Secret Power, Peck, Pursuit, Leer
Icarus - Level 20 Charmeleon - Ember, Metal Claw, Smokescreen, Dig
Sarah - Level 19 Pidgeotto - Gust, Quick Attack, Sand-Attack, Tackle
Rhaidan - Level 15 Zubat - Leech Life, Astonish, Supersonic
Tornado - Level 8 Magikarp - Splash

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Silksong January 20th, 2021 8:10 PM

SS Ground Run Part 1: Beginnerings

Progress under the thing.

Spoiler:

Alright, booted up my totally legitimate copy of Storm Silver to start the run! Chose to play as a boy, named him Fritz, and started my journey!

I ended up picking Cyndaquil from Prof. Elm. I figure I'll keep the whole super-effective thing with my rival's starter, and Feraligatr is much more fitting in my eyes than Meganium. After finishing up our trip to Mr. Pokemon's house, I stopped up north at Route 46 to hunt for my first few team members! Storm Silver has some fantastic encounter variety, and it includes a couple of Ground-types in addition to the vanilla Geodude on this route.
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Pokemon Get! x3 Combo!
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Phanpy. Codename: Dumbo.
Geodude. Codename: Dooder.
Numel. Codename: Maui.
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After starting off my team, I boxed my Cyndaquil (and the gift Eevee you get very early on in SG/SS) in Cherrygrove, then headed up north to make my way to Violet City. Had some trouble against an Idol with three Cute Charming female Pokemon against my all-male team, but other than that it was smooth sailing. Then, after reaching Violet City, we hung a left down to Route 32 to pick up another member of our team. Our first girl! She's pretty cute, I think, plus she came with Water Absorb, which is exactly what I needed to deal with all those pesky water-types coming up after the Gym Battle.
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Pokemon Get!
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Wooper. Codename: Noni.
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Then came Sprout Tower. Ho boy. Numel's Ember was actually able to handle the grass types, but every Hoothoot hit every Hypnosis, which was super frustrating. Luckily, with Geodude's resistance to Air Cutter (which also crit a fair bit) and some strategic potion use, we made our way through the tower, triumphantly defeating the elderly Elder Li. After such a harrowing journey pre-gym trial, I was a bit nervous for what was about to come. For those of you who don't know, Drayano's hacks introduce a level of difficulty that the games we know and love could never hope to touch, save trainers like Cynthia and Steven Stone. Falkner would have a full team of six, with some type coverage and a particularly nasty Fighting/Flying Farfetch'd that could decimate my Geodude if I wasn't careful.

So I used Phanpy, and he absolutely annihilated Falkner thanks to my 3000 IQ Defense Curl/Rollout strat.

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Badge Get!
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Zephyr Badge! S-Tier Strats!
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Winning Team:
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Dumbo, Lv. 18 :: Dooder, Lv. 15 :: Maui, Lv. 15 :: Noni, Lv. 15
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And that's where I ended for the day. Tune in next time to find out if I can steamroll Bugsy just like Falkner. I think we can do it boys.

Valroxen January 23rd, 2021 2:16 PM

Pokemon Fire Red Flying Monotype Update 3

Now that I had arrived in Vermilion City, there was still much to do before the Gym battle itself. For starters I explored the City, starting by picking up the Vs Seeker from the Pokemon Centre, something that would greatly help any grinding I'd need to do, then found a girl that was trading a Farfetch'd for a Spearow and while I do want a Farfetch'd, I hadn't caught another Spearow and I wanted to keep Kira and finally I listened to the Fan Club President witter on about his Ponyta so I could get a Bike Voucher.

My next stop was Route 11, for some grinding because I have two important fights coming up: Blue on the SS Anne and Lt Surge in the Gym (that latter of which terrifies me). After battling all the trainers on the Route the team had grown quite a bit: Rhaidan had finally learnt a good attacking move with Bite (unfortunately its Special in this Gen so its still pretty weak) and also Kira began evolving!..... of which I swiftly stopped. Following the training I then took a trip back to Cerulean City, first catching myself a second Spearow called Fodder and trading my Bike Voucher in. Next I took Fodder to the trainer (which funnily enough was called Elyssa) and got another Flying type to the adventure, the awfully nicknamed: CH'DING the Farfetch'd (seriously why is there only ONE Farfetch'd in the whole game lol). Finally it was time to prepare the team for the Blue fight fully, and by that I mean just leveling up Tornado and that I did, putting the VS Seeker to good use on Route 6, taking on the same Pidgeotto's until young Tornado evolved into Gyarados, also learning Bite to give him an actually decent attacking move along side the Water Pulse TM.

Once aboard the SS Anne I swept all of the decks taking each trainer and grabbing items along the way, Rhaidan also managed to evolve into Golbat and learn Wing Attack and the squad was finally taking shape into being something real strong. So now it was time for the duel of the century, a battle so long, tough and strategic it would shake history forever. Alyssa vs Blue, who would come out on top? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I swept him with no effort. Well then. After that it was smooth sailing, grabbing HM Cut from the Captain and then teaching it to CH'DING so I could get into the gym, replacing Tornado because what's worse in an Electric gym with a Flying Squad, a Water/Flying type. The gym trainers were low effort and the puzzle I nailed first try, so all that stood left was the Lieutenant himself, a fight that terrified me.

Gym 3: Lt. Surge

Voltorb was up first, and we started with luck on our side. I lead with Kira because I wanted to save Jules and Icarus for the Raichu, the Voltorb out sped but opted for Screech instead of attacking, working in my favour as I managed to Paralyze it with Secret Powder, allowing me to go first and finish it off.

Pikachu up next, its low level meant it was nothing special, so I just blew it away with another Secret Power from Kira.

Finally the sole reason I was scared of this fight: Raichu. I opted for the Jules poison strategy again, which would have worked had I not misclicked and gone for Confusion in my quick panic. I was then Paralyzed with Thunder Wave, as suddenly my good luck against Voltorb came back to bite me, with Jules getting fully Paralyzed all three time before the Raichu finished her off with Shock Wave. Next up I tried doing some chip damage with Sarah using Quick Attack, and while it damaged it, it was basically nothing and Raichu drew blood again with Shock Wave. For whatever reason I figured maybe Kira could outspeed the Raichu and go for Secret Power again, despite the fact I still was yet to evolve Kira and took another unnecessary blow in the battle. Finally I decided to grow a brain and sent out Icarus, praying for Shock Wave to do less than half which to my surprise it actually did, to where in one quick Dig we managed to take it out and win a very tension filled fight.

Thunder Badge obtained! (3/8)

Since we still needed CH'DING in my party to use Cut for a bit, I decided to make the most out of it and head through Diglett's Tunnel to get some stuff from Viridian and Pewter City to help me. I collected the Old Amber from the Pewter museum for another flying option later in the game, met with one of Oak's aides for the Flash HM and while looking for other things stumbled across the Move Tutor for Dream Eater, now I checked just of curiosity who could learn it and low and behold a new strategy emerged: Jules could learn it! So I replaced Psybeam with it, as it would combo well with the almost perfect accuracy Sleep Powder thanks to Compound Eyes.

After finished up I headed all the way back to Cerulean City and onto Route 9 and 10, where Rock Tunnel quickly approached. Changes once again happened quickly to the team, with Kira finally reaching Level 25 and learnt Aerial Ace, meaning I could finally allow her to evolve into Fearow. Along side that I also replaced Stun Spore with Flash on Jules as someone had to make the sacrifice, as well as Tornado re-joining the party for CH'DING whilst we took on Rock Tunnel. This however was also a breeze, with Tornado ripping through hoards of Geodude, Graveler and Onix with Water Pulse and catching up to the squad fast, with Icarus also learning Rock Slide from the move tutor inside.

By the end of the session I had arrived in Lavender Town, given Blue another beatdown alongside all the Trainers inside Pokemon Tower and after the stress of Lt Surge, it was nice to know our next Gym Battle would be the easiest one of the run.

The Team
Jules - Level 24 Butterfree - Dream Eater, Poisonpowder, Sleep Powder, Flash
Kira - Level 25 Fearow - Secret Power, Aerial Ace, Pursuit, Leer
Icarus - Level 24 Charmeleon - Ember, Metal Claw, Rock Slide, Dig
Sarah - Level 24 Pidgeotto - Gust, Quick Attack, Sand-Attack, Whirlwind
Rhaidan - Level 24 Golbat- Wing Attack, Bite, Supersonic, Astonish
Tornado - Level 26 Gyarados - Water Pulse, Bite, Dragon Rage, Tackle

Box
CH'DING - Level 12 Farfetch'd - Peck, Sand Attack, Leer, Cut

(I forgot to take a SS of the Team before I kept playing some more so am sowwy :( )

Lordecoxinha January 26th, 2021 6:30 PM

Forum User Name: Lordecoxinha
Game(s): Black
Pokémon Type: Dark
Single/Ultimate: Single

Lordecoxinha January 27th, 2021 9:43 AM

Update 1:
Spoiler:
Started the game, chose the name "Lordec" and picked Oshawott so I won't have to catch a Water-type to use as a HM slave later on.
Caught Purrloin on route 2 after several tries and resets for a good nature.
Purrloin beat Cilan.
Purrloin evolved into Liepard and beat Lenora. Sand-Attack is definitely Liepard's best move.
Arrived in Castelia and went straight to route 4 to catch Sandile and Scraggy.
Caught Scraggy. After some tries, got a careful one, which is good enough for a tank.
Caught Sandile after A MILLION tries. Was looking for an adamant one, but settled for jolly.
Beat Burgh. Sandile beat Whirlipede and Dwebble, Scraggy beat Leavanny without much effort thanks to his Eviolite.
Stomped both Bianca and Cheren.
Stomped N as well, moxie is almost too good.
Sandile evolved into Krokorok and soloed Elesa.
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Team:
Spoiler:
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Charles, ♂, Lv. 29
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Limber
- Pursuit
- Fake Out
- Fury Swipes
- Sand-Attack
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Pockets, ♂, Lv. 29
Nature: Careful
Ability: Shed Skin
- Brick Break
- Chip Away
- Payback
- Feint Attack
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Nilles, ♂, Lv. 30
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Moxie
- Crunch
- Dig
- Retaliate
- Sand-Attack


Bay January 27th, 2021 10:10 PM

So I'm trying this out! Dont know how many updates I'll do and such but I'm excited to do my first monotype challenge!

Forum User Name: Bay
Game(s): Black 2
Pokémon Type: Fire
Single/Ultimate: Single

Valroxen January 28th, 2021 6:36 PM

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Spoiler:
So after arriving in Lavender Town I immediately left down to Route 12, picking up the TM for Return to use later. We then took on Pokemon Tower and swiftly beat down Blue again, really no effort required and then what felt like 19,000 Bites later the whole tower was clear (bar mrs spooky ghost mon). Next up we continued our journey to the next gym, taking on the next routes trainers where Sarah learned Wing Attack and I taught her the Return TM for some actually good STAB normal damage. One tunnel and a whole lot of easy battles later we had arrived.

After some basic inventory management and collecting of things like an Eevee I can't use, some nice hot tea and the HM for Fly to teach to Kira, I headed for the Game Corner because it was time to gamble baby! (and by gamble I mean abuse the power of save states and speed up because I've only got so many years to live not wasting it there xD). After a long and boring coin grind we had enough to buy two helpful additions: Shadow Ball TM which I taught to Rhaidan and obtaining a brand new Pokemon to add to the potentials list of Precious the Dratini. But now was the time to do what we came for: Erika. So we swapped out Tornado for CH'DING so we can use Cut, and headed for the Gym.

The trainers themselves were a complete push over and Erika was surely going to be no different.... right? Oh and also Rhaidan began to evolve! But since I don't have the national dex yet we cannot get a Crobat yet, so we'll have to cancel animations every time he levels up now.

Gym 4: Erika

Starting with Victreebel, we lead with Jules and once again combo'd Sleep Powder and Dream Eater (a tactic I have now dubbed Dream Powder) and successfully 2HKO'd the leading Pokemon. Next up was Tangela, who I opted for Sarah to take it on which she swiftly ripped to shreds, 2HKOing with Wing Attack. Finally Vileplume came out, I swapped back into Jules for our trust Dream Powder combo and while she did use a Full Heal it was also 2HKO'd and our battle was over!

Rainbow Badge obtained! (4/8)

Next on the agenda was a whooooole lot of story and a whooooole lot of grindy trainer battles. We went back to the Game Corner and found the 'secret' Team Rocket hideout, which was a pretty easy cake walk until we met with Giovanni. Oh wait never mind Tornado decided to send his team to the Twister Zone using Water Pulse and we get the Silph Scope, there we fought the Marowak, clapped up some more Rocket Grunts and got the Pokeflute from Mr Fuji and flew our way back to Celadon. After giving the guard some tea I had arrived in Saffron City but couldn't do anything thanks to all the Team Rocket stuff, but I wasn't ready for the Rival Battle or the Giovanni fight so I decided to go on a training tangent.

After defeating the Snorlax and the Bikers of Cycling Road, we were very quickly in Fuchsia City where we had access to the great Safari Zone for a.... very annoying journey. I did the usual things you'd do, first visiting the Move Deleter so I could replace Flash with Giga Drain on Jules, obtained the HMs for Surf and Strength both of which went onto Tornado. Next up it was time for a catching spree! First off was Olsen the Doduo which was a very nice easy catch, followed by yet another easy catch or well that's what I would have said but after 15 rencounters of a low percentage appearance we had Binyot the Scyther!

Now it was team management time, Olsen joined the team in replacement for Sarah who is quickly evolved into Dodrio. She also gets an overhaul of moves, learning the Aerial Ace, Double Team and Hyper Beam TMs alongside Tri Attack as well as Kira being taught the Steel Wing TM. After some more battling of the nearby Routes we rounded off the development with Icarus learning Flamethrower and finally evolving into Charizard!

We made it back to Saffron City after clearing the lower Kanto routes, now we're ready to take on the Team Rocket invasion of the Silph Co building. This is where I realised just how slow the Dream Powder combo makes the regular fights really slow, but anyway we powered on and fought through the building. This is the part of the game where I remember just how much of a drag the journey between Gyms 4 and 5 is, but we ended up at the next Blue fight, where we once again pretty easily wiped the floor with his team. Finally we faced Giovanni, perhaps this time we will truely be up against it with his.... aaaaaaaand Tornado has swept his team again. We're rewarded with the Master Ball (which I do have plans for how I'm using it) and Team Rocket is no more, for now anyway so its back to the Gyms!

Beating the Fighting Dojo was literally the easiest thing in the game so far, so there was nothing else to do except fight Sabrina! I didn't fight most of the Gym Trainers mainly because I accidentally stumbled across Sabrina very easily and didn't want to spend years trying to find my way back so let the fight begin!

Gym 5: Sabrina

Despite being weak to Psychic, I opted to lead with Rhaidan with Shadow Ball due to it being Physical in this game. It worked out well as he out sped and then OHKO'd both Kadabra and Mr. Mime. Next up was Venomoth, which again was OHKO'd as Icarus burnt it to a crisp with Flamethrower.

Finally it was time for Alakazam, and oh boy this was quite the hassle, I swapped out into Jules to get it Poisoned, which after some messing around with Synchronise let to Jules going down but Alakazam being whittled down. I sent out Olsen in response with Hyper Beam to take it out but she missed and Alakazam 2HKO'd with Psychic, so old reliable Tornado is sent it and finishes the job with Strength.

Marsh Badge obtained! (5/8)

Next up we had lots of progress to do for the next Gym, wait no never mind time for Koga!

Gym 6: Koga

There no reason to beat around the bush here, literally all that happened was that Jules spammed the Dream Powder combo and OHKO'd everything except the Muk. Damn some of these fights are just too easy sometimes.

Soul Badge obtained! (6/8)

Finally the end the session off I took the newly acquired Toxic TM and taught it to Jules, literally just better Poisonpowder. This post was written over small burst sessions because idk I had some motivation issues/was busy with other shizzle so (its also 2am rn so tired me is writing this lol).


The Team
Spoiler:
Jules - Level 38 Butterfree - Sleep Powder, Dream Eater, Giga Drain, Toxic
Kira - Level 37 Fearow - Secret Powder, Aerial Ace, Fly, Steel Wing
Rhaidan - Level 39 Golbat - Wing Attack, Shadow Ball, Confuse Ray, Bite
Icarus - Level 38 Charizard - Flamethrower, Rock Slide, Dig, Brick Break
Olsen - Level 38 Dodrio - Tri Attack, Aerial Ace, Hyper Beam, Double Team
Tornado - Level 39 Gyarados - Surf, Strength, Bite, Thunder Wave

The Box
Precious - Level 18 Dratini - Wrap, Leer, Thunder Wave, Twister
CH'DING - Level 12 Farfetch'd - Peck, Sand-Attack, Leer, Cut
Sarah - Level 30 Pidgeotto - Wing Attack, Return, Quick Attack, Sand-Attack
Binyot - Level 23 Scyther - Focus Energy, Pursuit, False Swipe, Agility

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Lordecoxinha January 28th, 2021 7:40 PM

Update 1:
Spoiler:
Started the game, chose the name "Lordec" and picked Oshawott so I won't have to catch a Water-type to use as a HM slave later on.
Caught Purrloin on route 2 after several tries and resets for a good nature.
Purrloin beat Cilan.
Purrloin evolved into Liepard and beat Lenora. Sand-Attack is definitely Liepard's best move.
Arrived in Castelia and went straight to route 4 to catch Sandile and Scraggy.
Caught Scraggy. After some tries, got a careful one, which is good enough for a tank.
Caught Sandile after A MILLION tries. Was looking for an adamant one, but settled for jolly.
Beat Burgh. Sandile beat Whirlipede and Dwebble, Scraggy beat Leavanny without much effort thanks to his Eviolite.
Stomped both Bianca and Cheren.
Stomped N as well, moxie is almost too good.
Sandile evolved into Krokorok and soloed Elesa.
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Update 2:
Spoiler:
Beating Clay went nothing like planned. I thought I'd mostly rely on Scraggy, but after Liepard got beaten by his Krokorok, my own Krokorok got revenge and swept with moxie, proving once more worthy of being part of my favorite Pokémon family.
Scraggy evolved inside Celestial Tower.
Scrafty started off the fight against Skyla by beating Swoobat. Liepard then killed Unfezant and Swanna.
Krokorok evolved inside Twist Mountain. I HAVE KROOKODILE NOW.
Also, Scrafty completely annihilated Brycen. Ice needs a buff.
Caught a Pawniard in route 9, but because Bisharp's moveset sucks, I traded in a Kadabra with Psycho Cut.
Bred a serious Pawniard.
Trained Pawniard using all the trainers I managed to avoid when going from Twist Mountain to route 9.
Beat Drayden. Liepard killed Fraxure, Krookodile killed Druddigon and Pawniard debut by killing Haxorus.
Now on to route 10, time to catch my last 2 team members.
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Team:
Spoiler:

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Nilles, ♂, Lv. 47
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Moxie
- Crunch
- Dig
- Dragon Tail
- Bulldoze
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Charles, ♂, Lv. 44
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Limber
- Night Slash
- Aerial Ace
- Slash
- Shadow Claw
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Pockets, ♂, Lv. 45
Nature: Careful
Ability: Shed Skin
- Brick Break
- Crunch
- High Jump Kick
- Facade
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Barb, ♀, Lv. 46
Nature: Serious
Ability: Defiant
- Metal Claw
- Feint Attack
- Psycho Cut (EGG)
- X-Scissor


Valroxen January 29th, 2021 6:29 PM

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Pokemon Fire Red Flying Monotype Update 5

Spoiler:
After our walkover fight with Koga, its time to up the ante as we approach the end game. My first stop was making use of our new badge by surfing down to the Power Plant and taking on the first of the Legendary Birds, Tornado was ironically the best member in the fight because Zapdos doesn't actually have an attacking electric moves, only Drill Peck so I could spam swap Intimidate and it was easy catching from there. Due to it being level 50 however, its home for now would be the box but still welcome Skrrt the Zapdos (I couldn't think of a nickname so I bullied one of my friends for one).

Next up after taking on some trainers south of Pallet Town on my way to Cinnabar Island, I briefly made it to the island but there was more work to be done so the team easily swept through all of Route 20, 21 and the Seafoam Islands. During this, Kira learned Drill Peck and we also caught the second of the Legendary Birds, Snowgull the Articuno and while I will be trying to catch all of the Legendary Birds but I will only actually be using one on my final team for the sake of balancing. Following this I headed back to Cinnabar, managed to revive my Old Amber into Preston the Aerodactyl and then breezed passed the Pokemon Mansion and Cinnabar Gym Trainers, where Blaine then awaited me for our next fight.

Gym 7: Blaine
We opened with an annoying start, choosing to lead with Icarus to Rock Slide the Growlithe, but it lives thanks to its Intimidate where it responds with a pitiful Take Down. One heal from Blaine and two more Rock Slides later we had our first knockout. From there it was smooth sailing as everything was either taken out in one or two Surfs from Tornado and yet another Gym Leader goes down without a fight.

Volcano Badge obtained! (7/8)

Following our victory against Blaine we were greeted by an old friend, Bill was asking for our help in the Sevii Islands so I gladly obliged. It was pretty eventful journey with a lot done, starting on One Island where we were assigned the task of bringing a meteorite to someone on Two Island. We then picked up the HM for Rock Smash and made our way to Two Island, we spoke to the man who asked for our help finding Lostelle on Three Island. After arriving there I kicked the asses of a couple of clueless bikers and beat up a rather.... suspicious Hypno to save Lostelle and bring her back. After giving the meteorite and returning to Bill we ended up back on Cinnabar Island, but I still had some stuff to do on One Island. After arriving back, I brought Preston into the party for Kira so I could use Rock Smash, letting me make my way up Mt Ember so I could catch the easiest bird for me, so I could save the Master Ball for Mewtw- aaaaaaaand I accidentally used it on a Ponyta.... oh well at least I can still catch Moltr- aaaaaaaand I knocked it out....

Anyway after that calamity I flew back to Celadon City to gamble some more for a Thunderbolt TM, this was because now was finally the time to bring Skrrt onto the squad, meaning that Kira would have to sit in the box for the rest of the adventure. With that addition its time for the next and final gym battle, the big bad boss of Team Rocket Giovanni!

Gym 8: Giovanni
Tornado did was Tornado does best, OHKOing everything with Surf except the Nidoking which took two. Yup. Very hard fight there. Tornado is just too OP.

Earth Badge obtained! (8/8)

With our badge case completed it was time to head off to the Indigo Plateau for the Pokemon League! First Tornado got even stronger thanks to Giovanni's Earthquake TM, which was perfect for our next rival fight! Blue this time was actually pretty scary for once, but we still came out on top with most of their team pulling their weight. Next time we progress through Victory Road and hopefully finish off the game! (with the post game to come too).


The Team
Spoiler:

Skrrt - Level 50 Zapdos - Thunderbolt, Drill Peck, Thunder Wave, Fly
Jules - Level 45 Butterfree - Sleep Powder, Dream Eater, Giga Drain, Toxic
Rhaidan - Level 43 Golbat - Wing Attack, Shadow Ball, Confuse Ray, Bite
Olsen - Level 44 Dodrio - Tri Attack, Aerial Ace, Hyper Beam, Double Team
Icarus - Level 44 Charizard - Flamethrower, Rock Slide, Dig, Brick Break
Tornado - Level 46 Gyarados - Surf, Strength, Earthquake, Thunder Wave

The Box
Precious - Level 18 Dratini - Wrap, Leer, Thunder Wave, Twister
CH'DING - Level 12 Farfetch'd - Peck, Sand-Attack, Leer, Cut
Sarah - Level 30 Pidgeotto - Wing Attack, Return, Quick Attack, Sand-Attack
Binyot - Level 23 Scyther - Focus Energy, Pursuit, False Swipe, Agility
Kira - Level 42 Fearow - Secret Powder, Drill Peck, Fly, Steel Wing
Preston - Level 5 Aerodactyl - Wing Attack, Rock Smash, Fly
Snowgull - Level 50 Articuno - Mist, Agility, Mind Reader, Ice Beam

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Bay January 29th, 2021 7:03 PM

Black 2 Fire Monotype Update 1

Spoiler:
-So I picked Tepig as my starter and named him Augustus. For this monotype run I'll be having the Pokemon be named after Roman Emperors because why not.
-At one point I needed to give Hugh his townmap. At first I thought he was somewhere on Route 20. I was about to go downstairs but the hiker dude was like, "You need to get your first badge first before passing through this point." I went to Floccesy Ranch and I didn't find Hugh. I went back to my hometown to see the school is still not opened yet.
-I went back to Floccesy Ranch and oh, actually I didn't go further that spot and there's Hugh. Augustus was like half-health at the point and I was like dang it. Had to use a potion incase Hugh's Oshawott lands a crit, but luckily I won the match
-I grinded Augustus until he evolved into Pignite so that I can have him get Arm Thrust. Fire/Fighting best starter typing, am I right? I went against Cheren and easily won.
-Went to Virbank City and caught my second Pokemon, Tiberius the Growlithe. I already used Growlithe in my first Black 2 run, but I felt he would be better than Magby/Magmar. Grinded Tiberius hard, but it was slow going because of freaking Patrat with Bide urgh.
-Eventually went against Roxy and she was also slightly easy. Oh my gosh so I forgot that her and her band have voice clips. She's voiced and Piers isn't...
-Hugh and I go to Castelia City and toured around the city for a bit. Got both Exp Share and Amulet Coin to make things easier! I was about to check out Burgh's gym but then Iris comes to tell me that he's probably in the sewers to deal with Team Plasma and that's where I'll stop my update for now.

Augustus, Pignite, Lv 23, Careful nature
Tiberius, Growlithe, Lv 22, Naive nature

Makaan January 30th, 2021 9:51 AM

I did something similar to this challenge with Dark in X, Bug in Ultra Moon, and three runs of Ice, Poison and Steel in Sword. Interestingly, that final Steel run was likely the toughest, as I gave Hop the Scorbunny, and did not have great Fire-counters. In one rival battle, that Cinderace took down half of my team.
In every generation with character customisation, I have one game dedicated to a type specialisation. I set some extra rules for it:
1. The type cannot be used by an active Gym Leader, Elite 4 member or Champion in that game
2. The final team must have at least 3 Pokémon or forms introduced in that generation
3. No 'Box legendaries'
4. The final team must be viably strong.

I do these runs on a 2nd game, so in previous generations I bred some eggs of that type from my other game of that generation and traded them to the new game for 6 Route 1 Pokémon, thus letting me hatch them all in the new game. I only have the one Switch, but thankfully in Generation VIII this became even easier, as I could just transfer the parents with a Ditto through Home and breed them in the Wild Area. I think I will end this practice however, as it has been rather easy - instead, I will breed and hatch one using that method to be my starter, and then restrict myself to using ones of that type I catch within the game over the course of my playthrough. Since I played by different rules, I do not expect to qualify for any commendations from this thread - I was just happy to see something similar to my self-imposed challenge here, and wanted to share.

These were my final teams each time:

X:

I usually used Mega Absol, making up the 3 for the aforementioned rule. After X, once I completed the game I would breed one of my team as a Shiny.

Ultra Moon:

I did originally do Steel on Sun, but swapped when the Ultra games came out and Molayne became an Elite 4 member.
Generation VIII was problematic. At first I went with Ice, since Melony was Shield-exclusive, but I became dissatisfied with that, so after beating the game I restarted with Poison. I won with that, but then when Crown Tundra came out, Klara became an official Gym Leader. After weighing my options for quite a while, I decided to try Steel again, as Peony and Rose did not break my rules. I even designed my character as a relative of theirs, and justified Rose not recognising them by the fact that he managed to forget the name of someone who was supposedly like an adopted son to him.

Sword:

Yes, I did draw that last one myself.

Valroxen January 30th, 2021 1:57 PM

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Pokemon Fire Red Flying Monotype Update 6

Spoiler:
So at the end of the last update we had defeated both the 8th Gym Leader and our Rival, ready to start heading up to Victory Road. We passed through the badge gates, walked and surfed through the route and made it to the toughest challenge. Victory Road. For the most part it was actually pretty easy to make my way through, aside from the repels but I wasn't entirely confident considering some wild Pokemon were appearing even with the repels on. I did find the TM for Dragon Claw and taught it to Icarus, as Dragon is Special in this game so it'll be very useful for taking on Lance with.

I eventually found the exit and the team had arrived at the final frontier, the Pokemon League! I knew my team were very much under levelled for the fights but I decided to have one attempt at it first, just to see how much preparation I'd actually need to do to win without much cheesing required (even if that meant having my first whiteout of the challenge). So with Icarus, Jules, Olsen, Tornado, Rhaidan and Skrrt it was time for our first crack at the League!

Elite Four 1: Lorelei

While I knew her Ice Types could cause quite the problem, I was feeling pretty confident we could at least stand a chance at beating her on the first attempt. I decided to lead with Skrrt for her Dewgong as most of her Pokemon are also water types. Skrrt delivered and one shot it with Thunderbolt, giving us a good lead already.

Next up was Slowbro, while yet another water type, I didn't want this to be Zapdos sweeps everything because that's not fun so Rhaidan came in instead. This had.... mixed results, I used Shadow Ball for some super effective damage but I did pretty weak damage, to which Slowbro decided to become even more bulky with Amnesia. I swapped out to Jules to try and stall it out with Toxic, which while I managed to get it off, Jules was taken out pretty quickly with Ice Beam to which my astral sized brain decided to bring Olsen in to try and finish it off and was met with a OHKO from Ice Beam. The whole thing proved meaningless as Lorelei Full Restored and undid all my work, leaving it to Tornado to finally knock it out with a few Strengths.

The rest of the fight was a complete walk over, deciding to take no prisoners, OHKOing her Cloyster and 2HKOing her Lapras with Thunderbolt. Finishing off the fight with Icarus by taking the Jynx out with a couple of Flamethrowers, after a brief scare from Attract.

Elite Four 2: Bruno

Bruno was certainly going to be the biggest walk over of the Elite Four, Fighting being completely dominated by my team and the ever present threat of Tornado for washing away the Rock Types. I started off by leading with Jules, where Onix got the Sleep Powder treatment and took it out with Giga Drain.

The next two were slightly more awkward, as Hitmonchan came out I swapped into Rhaidan and while Wing Attack did do over half, thanks to the speed drop from Rock Tomb Rhaidan was taken out. Olsen came in and finished it off with Aerial Ace, where Bruno responded with Machamp that while Olsen did some damage with Aerial Ace she wasn't strong enough to take a Cross Chop and so Skrrt had to come in an Drill Peck to finish it off.

It was smooth sailing from here, with Hitmonlee coming in and after missing a Mega Kick was Dream Powdered to death by Jules. Finally it was yet another Onix but this team the honour went to Tornado who OHKO once again with Surf.

Elite Four 3: Agatha

I didn't know what to expect going into Agatha, I felt like I had more weaknesses than I actually did so I was certain this was where I'd go out. Anyway she led with her first Gengar and I opened with Rhaidan to Shadow Ball it, she used Confuse Ray and while first turn Rhaidan hit himself in confusion, he quickly snapped out and 2HKO the Gengar, surviving the hits on very low HP.

Next up was Haunter, I sent out Jules to take it out with Dream Powder as I felt Haunter would be the weakest and easiest to kill on her team. Aside from it waking up and missing Hypnosis it really put up no fight and was swiftly defeated. Next up was Golbat, where I swapped into Icarus to take it out with Rock Slide, she spammed Poison Fang and managed to get a Crit and take him out before I could take it out. Skrrt came out and put the Golbat in its place.

Out came Arbok next, Tornado had to get into the action somewhere so he came out and we exchanged intimidates. From there Earthquake was an easy 2HKO, though Sludge Bomb did managed to poison and do a good amount of damage. Finally it was the stronger Gengar to round out her team and I went back to Jules for it, the Gengar tried to get its own sleep off but missed the Hypnosis and allowed for Dream Powder to work its magic and end the fight.

After the match I figured it was smart to teach someone the Blizzard TM strictly because of Lance's Dragonite, so Tornado gets it over Thunder Wave (which I don't ever think I actually used apart from the Legendary Bird).

Elite Four 4: Lance

As the Elite Four progressed it became more and more clear just how under levelled I was for the battles at the end, this was no exception and I was absolutely certain this would be the end of the line for me.

Lance opened with his own Gyarados, a Pokemon I knew can do huge damage. This wouldn't be the case however as Skrrt quickly sent it to the grave with Thunderbolt. Next up was Aerodactyl and while Ancient Power did a lot of damage, Thunderbolt was still too much for his prehistoric bones.

Dragonair came out next and it was time to put that Dragon Claw TM to use, Icarus came out and did about half before it responded with Outrage. I thought that'd be the end but he tanked it pretty well and finished it off with a second. With the second Dragonair coming out I went for the same tactic, dealing half with Dragon Claw until it blasted me away with a Hyper Beam but that left Olsen all the time she needed to finish it off with her own Hyper Beam.

Now it was the big boi, Dragonite. I was terrified of this thing running riot so I went into Tornado, lowering its attack and also because I had Blizzard. I landed my first Blizzard and my second would have killed if not for the Sitrus Berry and so it could attack back with Hyper Beam which didn't do enough to kill. One Full Restore and a couple more lucky Blizzard hits later and we had done it. We were the league champion! Well we would be if Blue hadn't of made it there first.

This was the point where I realised this run is actually pretty serious and even though I'd probably be too under levelled for the fight, I decided to go for it and uses all the Rare Candies I had stored up, with this Olsen picked up Drill Peck and Jules learned Silver Wind. Anyway CHAMPION TIME BABY!

Champion Blue

Once again leading out with Skrrt to deal with his Pidgeot, it managed to out speed me but doing pitiful damage allowing Skrrt to clap back with Thunderbolt which only just about didn't kill, this worked in my favour however as Blue wasted a Full Restore early and Skrrt finished it off with another two Thunderbolts (out speeding this time thanks to a Paralysis) and we were 1-0 against the final fight!

Next up was Rhydon and from our history with Giovanni there is only one member for the job, Tornado completely washing away his Rhydon and further increasing my lead to 2-0!

Here's the turning point in the match, where it suddenly became a lot harder. Alakazam was by far the scariest Pokemon on his team for me, if Rhaidan could get a Shadow Ball off he'd be able to take it out but Alakazam is rapid and also at least 10 levels higher. I opted to try and exploit its weak defences, swapping into Jules to put it to sleep, with her surviving on incredibly low HP and putting it to sleep. From there I swapped into Olsen planning on Hyper Beaming it out of existence, however I was once again cursed with the one turn sleep and Olsen was one shot from full. I knew that I needed to try and put it back to sleep so I swapped into Rhaidan to heal back Butterfree but on my way to use a hyper potion I miss clicked and accidentally used an X Attack. For some reason the RNG gods were shinning on me and Alakazam used Future Sight, which it continued to do allowing me to blow it back with a Shadow Ball. 3-1 the score.

Exeggutor was next, which I was actually quite confident I could take out with Rhaidan. Shadow Ball however only managed to do about 40% of its health, where then the Future Sight struck, which Exeggutor followed up by with an Egg Bomb that luckily missed. One 40% Wing Attack later and he actually landed an Egg Bomb and that was the end of Rhaidan. Icarus was my next alternative, where Blue healed Exeggutor back with another Full Restore but that didn't matter to Icarus who almost killed and the burned, where Blue used another Full Restore, and finally Exeggutor had gone down. 4-2 the score approaching the end.

Just like the start of our journey, he tried to send Blastoise in against Icarus. Of course I swapped out into Jules instead but still, anyway yeah Jules out speeds and I Toxic him to whittle it down. Blastoise opts to set up the rain, then next turn blowing Jules away with Hydro Pump. Skrrt comes in to hopefully try and pick up an easy kill, but I'm not confident in killing it so I use Fly instead with my plan being to waste the PP of Hydro Pump, get more Toxic damage out and try and get rid of the rain. All of this worked and the fly didn't do a whole lot, but then Blastoise comes out with a lucky Crit and takes out Skrrt. I sent Icarus back out so I can Max Revive Skrrt and finish this big turtle off, where at first I was confused why he went for Bite but realised that Hydro Pump had run out of PP. The Toxic damage taken can't finish Blastoise off and when I go to finish it off he used another Full Restore (seriously how many of these things does he have?!), but I did do 25% thanks to a Crit Dragon Claw. Skrrt finally comes back out and I can safely take it out with a Thunderbolt. The score is 5-2 and all that stood in my way was his Arcanine, which I'm sure would be easy.

I swap into Tornado and exchange intimidates, since the rain was still up from the Blastoise I was absolutely certain Tornado would one shot and clench us the title of Champion. Unfortunately it got lucky and managed to flinch with Bite, the rain also disappearing at the end of the turn but I was still confident I could kill it. The Arcanine did out speed but surely it couldn't do much damage to me- aaaaaaaand Crit Flamethrower... the score at 5-3. I swapped back into Skrrt, figuring its high power could be enough to take it out all I had to do was survive a Flamethro- aaaaaaaand it got another Crit (the RNG on this Arcanine is actually scary). With the score at 5-4, thing were looking very scary for me, so I used my final Max Revive to bring back Tornado as the Arcanine finished off Icarus with Extreme Speed. From there thankfully there was no more bad luck and Tornado finished Arcanine in two hits. 6-4 the final score and after a tense final few turns, we had successfully clinched victory!

I'm genuinely amazed I managed to beat the E4 the first time round, I thought I'd have to grind till at least 55 all round to even make a dent in the later battles. The team pulled through it was incredible, though I will admit most of the heavy lifting was done by Skrrt and Tornado. So just like that Skrrt, Tornado, Icarus, Rhaidan, Jules and Olsen were registered into the Hall of Fame. Now this is where the session ended but I've still got the Post Game/E4 Rematches to take on still, so I won't be rounding off my opinions in this post.

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The Team
Spoiler:

Skrrt - Level 53 Zapdos - Thunderbolt, Drill Peck, Thunder Wave, Fly
Olsen - Level 48 Dodrio - Tri Attack, Drill Peck, Hyper Beam, Double Team
Rhaidan - Level 48 Golbat - Wing Attack, Shadow Ball, Confuse Ray, Bite
Jules - Level 48 Butterfree - Sleep Powder, Dream Eater, Silver Wind, Toxic
Tornado - Level 48 Gyarados - Surf, Strength, Earthquake, Blizzard
Icarus - Level 46 Charizard - Flamethrower, Rock Slide, Dragon Claw, Brick Break

The Box
Precious - Level 18 Dratini - Wrap, Leer, Thunder Wave, Twister
CH'DING - Level 12 Farfetch'd - Peck, Sand-Attack, Leer, Cut
Sarah - Level 30 Pidgeotto - Wing Attack, Return, Quick Attack, Sand-Attack
Binyot - Level 23 Scyther - Focus Energy, Pursuit, False Swipe, Agility
Kira - Level 42 Fearow - Secret Power, Drill Peck, Fly, Steel Wing
Preston - Level 5 Aerodactyl - Wing Attack, Rock Smash, Fly
Snowgull - Level 50 Articuno - Mist, Agility, Mind Reader, Ice Beam

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Lordecoxinha January 31st, 2021 12:36 PM


I won!

Update 1:
Spoiler:
Started the game, chose the name "Lordec" and picked Oshawott so I won't have to catch a Water-type to use as a HM slave later on.
Caught Purrloin on route 2 after several tries and resets for a good nature.
Purrloin beat Cilan.
Purrloin evolved into Liepard and beat Lenora. Sand-Attack is definitely Liepard's best move.
Arrived in Castelia and went straight to route 4 to catch Sandile and Scraggy.
Caught Scraggy. After some tries, got a careful one, which is good enough for a tank.
Caught Sandile after A MILLION tries. Was looking for an adamant one, but settled for jolly.
Beat Burgh. Sandile beat Whirlipede and Dwebble, Scraggy beat Leavanny without much effort thanks to his Eviolite.
Stomped both Bianca and Cheren.
Stomped N as well, moxie is almost too good.
Sandile evolved into Krokorok and soloed Elesa.
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Update 2:
Spoiler:
Beating Clay went nothing like planned. I thought I'd mostly rely on Scraggy, but after Liepard got beaten by his Krokorok, my own Krokorok got revenge and swept with moxie, proving once more worthy of being part of my favorite Pokémon family.
Scraggy evolved inside Celestial Tower.
Scrafty started off the fight against Skyla by beating Swoobat. Liepard then killed Unfezant and Swanna.
Krokorok evolved inside Twist Mountain. I HAVE KROOKODILE NOW.
Also, Scrafty completely annihilated Brycen. Ice needs a buff.
Caught a Pawniard in route 9, but because Bisharp's moveset sucks, I traded in a Kadabra with Psycho Cut.
Bred a serious Pawniard.
Trained Pawniard using all the trainers I managed to avoid when going from Twist Mountain to route 9.
Beat Drayden. Liepard killed Fraxure, Krookodile killed Druddigon and Pawniard debut by killing Haxorus.
Now on to route 10, time to catch my last 2 team members.
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Update 3:
Spoiler:
After beating Drayden, I caught Vullaby on route 10 and Deino in Victory Road.
Evolved them both to Mandibuzz and Zweilous, and now it's time to take on the Elite Four. I trained everyone up to level 55, which was a mistake because I thought they were going to be much stronger than they actually were. Level 50? Wulfric's Avalugg is 59!
Anyway, I started the whole thing with Marshal. Might as well tackle the hardest one first.
https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/31/VSMarshal.png
Mandibuzz killed Throh and Sawk killed itself on Mandibuzz' (Mandibuzz's?) rocky helmet.
Mandibuzz also killed Conkeldurr with relative ease, but Mienshao. MIENSHAO.
Mienshao flinched Mandibuzz some good 6 times with Rock Slide. Like, does it have Serene Grace or something?
Well, Mandibuzz killed it too.
Next I faced Grimsley, figured he might be the second hardest. Mostly because I'm playing mono Dark and the other two are Ghost and Psychic.
https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/c4/VSGrimsley.png
Grimsley's Scrafty killed itself on rocky helmet. Mandibuzz is a wall.
My own Scrafty High Jump Kick both his Krookodile and Liepard into oblivion, but Brick Break was more than enough to kill his Bisharp.
Might as well just skim through Shauntal and Caitlin:
https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/b/b7/VSShauntal.png&https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/0/09/VSCaitlin.png
Zweilous one-shot Shauntal's Cohagrigus with Crunch.
Krookodile ate the rest of Shauntal's team and Caitlin's entire team alone. Moxie.
Cool.
Time to face N and Ghetsis.
https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/c9/VSN.png
What is a Zekrom to a Krookodile?
NOTHING. Zekrom is NOTHING.
Krookodile switched in on Fusion Bolt and Earthquaked it to death.
Bisharp killed Vanilluxe with Metal Claw lmao
Scrafty dodged a Focus Blast from Klinklang and destroyed it. WOAH it was a Zoroark. The wonders of life.
Scrafty also destroyed the real Klinklang though.
Archeops was a tough one, it’s fast and I expected it to have something for my whole team, so I got Liepard to T-wave it and then Krookodile used Rock Slide for the first time ever.
At this point I was so disappointed in N that I let Zweilous fight Carracosta, which it beat so that’s that.
https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/1/12/VSGhetsis.png
Liepard killed Cohagrigus, but ended up badly poisoned. Why is that TM post-game though?
I was thinking of whether I should fight Hydreigon with Scrafty or Krookodile (for my self satisfaction lmao) but ended up going Scrafty. He landed Focus Blast and I missed High Jump Kick.
Ghetsis is actually hacking, not only does he have a level 54 Hydreigon, he landed EVERY Focus Blast and critted Mandibuzz with Surf.
After using every Revive I hadn’t used until now, Krookodile got his revenge.
Scrafty killed Seismitoad.
Guess what. After taking a Muddy Water, Scrafty actually missed a Brick Break to kill Bouffalant (which I deliberately used to avoid missing High Jump Kick) and got killed himself.
Krookodile was cleaning up left and right this battle, so he got a moxie boost and trampled on both Bisharp and Eelektross.

Okay, so I found the Elite Four too easy cuz I was kinda overleved, so I decided to rebattle them. This time I looked their levels up and decided to raise my team up to 75 (Alder’s Volcarona is 77).

Update 3.5:
Spoiler:
Okay, so first things first, I caught a Carvanha by fishing under Village Bridge and evolved it into Sharpedo.
Next I caught a Pupitar on route 15 and evolved it into Tyranitar because I know Alder's ace is Volcarona and that can easily wipe me out.
Finally, I trained everyone up to level 75.
Time to rebattle the E4, starting on Marshal again.
https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/31/VSMarshal.png
Mandibuzz demolished Breloom and killed Sawk.
However, Conkeldurr is too bulky to be one-shot by Mandibuzz, so Brave Bird didn't do the job and Mandibuzz died.
Krookodile came in for the revenge and he meant business.
Krookodile swept the rest of his team. Thank god I got moxie and not intimidate, which I originally wanted.
Just like last time, Grimsley was next.
https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/c4/VSGrimsley.png
My Scrafty swept him, except for his Krookodile and Drapion, which were killed by my Sharpedo and my Krookodile respectively.
Shauntal. Almost got a mon killed here.
https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/b/b7/VSShauntal.png
Tyranitar killed Cohagrigus and then lived a Hammer Arm from Golurk on 4 hp, killing it too. That was very close.
Jellicent died to sandstorm while fighting Hydreigon, it was very anticlimactic.
Tyranitar killed Froslass and Drifblim, but got critted and paralysed by Drifblim's Thunder. Poor Tyranitar, Shauntal does not like her.
Sharpedo killed Chandelure.
https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/0/09/VSCaitlin.png
Lmao.
Krookodile has moxie.
Enough said.
(Literally killed everything)
Finally, Alder. I'm honestly kinda scared.
https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/b/b5/VSAlder.png
Okay, so Mandibuzz killed Accelgor. Not much of a challenge here.
Vanilluxed used Light Screen and got killed by Scrafty.
I really needed Light Screen gone so Hydreigon could definitely take care of Escavalier.
Scrafty used Brick Break on Druddigon to break the screen, but almost got killed by Superpower.
I switched Hydreigon in and Alder actually used Outrage on the switch, but thanks to Druddigon's debuff, Hydreigon lived and killed Druddigon with Dragon Pulse.
Scrafty killed Bouffalant.
Hydreigon destroyed Escavalier with Flamethrower, as planned.
Finally, Volcarona.
I prayed for Alder not to start Quiver Dancing and switched Tyranitar in.
Volcarona is literally the reason I caught Tyranitar.
Volcarona got deleted from the game with Stone Edge LMAO.

That's it, I won.


Team:
Spoiler:

First E4:
Spoiler:
https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/6/69/553MS8.png
Nilles, ♂, Lv. 58
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Moxie
- Crunch
- Earthquake
- Dragon Claw
- Rock Slide
https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/a/ad/510MS8.png
Charles, ♂, Lv. 56
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Limber
- Night Slash
- Shadow Claw
- Slash
- Thunder Wave
https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/b/ba/560MS8.png
Pockets, ♂, Lv. 57
Nature: Careful
Ability: Shed Skin
- Brick Break
- Crunch
- High Jump Kick
- Poison Jab
https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/f/fb/625MS8.png
Barb, ♀, Lv. 56
Nature: Serious
Ability: Defiant
- Night Slash
- Metal Claw
- Psycho Cut (EGG)
- X-Scissor
https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/6/65/630MS8.png
Willow, ♀, Lv. 57
Nature: Relaxed
Ability: Big Pecks
- Dark Pulse
- Fly
- Aerial Ace
- Tailwind
https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/0/0a/634MS8.png
Nyx, ♀, Lv. 56
Nature: Lax
Ability: Hustle
- Crunch
- Strength
- Dragon Pulse
- Scary Face

E4 Rebattle:
Spoiler:
https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/6/69/553MS8.png
Nilles, ♂, Lv. 77
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Moxie
- Crunch
- Earthquake
- Outrage
- Rock Slide
https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/b/ba/560MS8.png
Pockets, ♂, Lv. 76
Nature: Careful
Ability: Shed Skin
- Brick Break
- Crunch
- High Jump Kick
- Poison Jab
https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/6/65/630MS8.png
Willow, ♀, Lv. 75
Nature: Relaxed
Ability: Big Pecks
- Dark Pulse
- Fly
- Brave Bird
- Toxic
https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/6/67/635MS8.png
Nyx, ♀, Lv. 75
Nature: Lax
Ability: Levitate
- Crunch
- Dragon Pulse
- Flamethrower
- Draco Meteor
https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/c/cc/319MS8.png
Squalo, ♂, Lv. 75
Nature: Bashful
Ability: Rough Skin
- Crunch
- Waterfall
- Aqua Jet
- Ice Fang
https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/5/5f/248SwShMS8.png
Zvezda, ♀, Lv. 75
Nature: Impish
Ability: Sand Stream
- Stone Edge
- Crunch
- Earthquake
- Thunder Wave


Bay February 1st, 2021 7:43 PM

Black 2 Fire Monotype Update 2


Spoiler:
-Okay, so Hugh and I went to the Castelia Sewers to go against Team Rocket and won. After that, I trained Tiberius a little bit before attempting Burgh's gym.
-Burgh's gym in Black 2 you have to go through the silk coccons to get to Burgh. It's been almost 10 years since I last played the game so it a bit until I found Burgh. Tiberius went against Swadloon and then Dwebble who managed to do a Smack Down critical hit on oof. I then switched to Augustus to have him go against Levanny and he immeditely KO it. Third badge get.
-Before leaving Castelia City, I went back to the sewers and go to the little park so I can get an Eevee. I think it took almost half an hour or so until I found one. Named him Caligula. After that, I trained Caligula until Lv 20 so that I can evolve him into Flareon once I get a Fire Stone.
-I have my first battle against Colress on Route 4 and he wasn't that tough. After going against several trainers I walked around the sands and found a Darumaka! Named her Claudius. Yes she's given a male name.
-Because I want to find the Fire Stone for Caligula, I went to the Desert Resort and used the DOW MACHINE to find it. While trying to find it, I had to deal with trainers and random encounters which was somewhat annoying. Oh, and the sandstorms bleh. It tok a while but I evnetually found it like at the very end of the left side of the desert. I then evolved Caligula into Flareon
-Went to Nimbasa City. Team tagged with Nate against the Subway Bosses. They both have Pokemon that are super effective against my Fire-types but tahnk goodness for Nate having a Servine lmao.
-At one point I battled against an NPC trainer in a business suit and he asked me to join in on the Ferris Wheel. It turns out he actually hates the Ferris Wheel but his company owns it. This is so disappointing compare to N when he invited you to join him lol
-After training my Pokemon for a bit, I went against Elesa. Oh my gosh I forgot how annoying Volt Switch was. I had Augustus defeated Emolga and Flaffy while Caligula defeated Elsa's ace, Zebstirka. Fourth badge get.
-Before leaving the city Hugh and I went up against Team Plasma and that's when he has his "I'm full of rage!" line. Well, next off to Driftveil City

Augustus Pignite, Lv 33, Careful nature
Tiberius, Growlithe, Lv 32, Naive nature
Caligula, Flareon, Lv 31, Timid nature
Claudius, Darumaka, Lv 33, Hasty nature

Lugiafan123 February 6th, 2021 9:37 AM

Forum User Name: Lugiafan123
Game(s): Firered, Soulsilver, Emerald, Diamond, White, Y, Ultra Moon
Pokémon Type: Poison
Single/Ultimate: Ultimate

Lugiafan123 February 6th, 2021 9:40 AM

Hi everyone got two questions about a run I'm about to start.
So my previous post was a signup for an ultimate poison type run and now I have 2 questions about what is and is not allowed.
Both concern pokemon Y. Is the EXP share banned for kalos and is super training banned?

Pumpkaboo92 February 6th, 2021 11:14 AM

Far as I can see, the rules do not disallow them, but they do disallow affection unless evolving, so if you wish to follow with that trend, then you can disallow the exp share and super training, but so far, they aren't not allowed.

Bay February 8th, 2021 7:33 PM

Black 2 Fire Monotype Update 3

Hefty update today!

Spoiler:
-After taking a bit of a break to take care real life stuff, got back to playing more of my fire monotype run. Right, so Hugh and I made it to Drifveil City and we met up with one of the former Team Plasma sages. The Old Plasma and New Plasma stuff has so much potential, wished there was more of that.
-After training for a bit I went ahead and go against Clay. Man oh man he was tougher than I thought because of FREAKING BULLDOZE lmao. I used up several revives and hyper potions but I managed to beat him. Now I'm worried for Marlon's gym...
-After defeating Clay, he wants me and Hugh to participate in the Pokemon World Tournament. Hugh's Dewott was a bit tricky as it managed to defeat Augustus, but then after using Caligula I managed. Cheren and Colress were then easy and I won the Driftveil tour of the tournament.
-Soooo I forgot how long Route 6 to Mistralton City was. After going against one of the trainers, Augustus evolved into Emboar!
-There is Chargestone Cave that I have to go through first, and at one point there was a trainer that wanted to do a Triple Battle and he had some Pokemon that are good against fire types. I also managed to find Tynamo and dang I was so tempted to try it out but I can't because fire monotype run.
-Once I reached Mistralton I healed my Pokemon and went back to Driftveil City so that I can go to the Relic Passage and get myself a Volcarona. Er, going through the Relic Passage was a bit rough due to half the trainers having Rock-type Pokemon. Once I reached the Relic Castle I went to the room where Volcarona was and battled him. I had Augustus used Assurance on Volcarona a couple of times before catching it with a Net Ball. Named him Nero.
-Next I went to Celestial Tower to get myself my final Pokemon, Litwick. Found one on the second floor but accidentally let it faint. Snagged the second one I saw and named her Otho.
-I wanted to train Otho a bit, so I went back to Nimbasa City to rewatch the athletes. I thought the Pokemon would be late 20s but I forgot their levels were raised after you defeat more gyms. Poor Litwick got hit bad by a tennis player's Zestrikra.
-After a bit of a grinding session, I went to challenge Skyla's gym. I forgot how annoying her gym puzzle in B2W2 was. After going through that, I went against Skyla. Saved for her Swanna her battle wasn't that tough. Heck, I thought she would have an Unfezant when her final Pokemon was a Skarmory instead and I was like "Heyyyy." Got sixth badge!
-So I reach Lentimas Town thanks to Skyla flying me, Professor Juniper, and Bianca there. I first went to the Strange House and ummm I got confused and took me a bit to figure out I have to keep finding the open rooms once the furniture moved. My Pokemon got a bit of a training session though and Otho evolved into Lampert.
-After playing around The Strange House I went to Reversal Mountain. Wow, so in Black 2 the volcano isn't active anymore while White 2 it's still active. I have Bianca tagged along but oh geez so many trainers. Eventually we made it to the exit and I said goodbye to Bianca. I made it to Undella Town and this update has gone long enough I'll stop here for now.


Augustus, Emboar, Lv 41, Careful nature
Tiberius, Growlithe, Lv 42, Naive nature
Caligula, Flareon, Lv 41, Timid nature
Claudius, Darumanitan, Lv 41, Hasty nature
Nero, Volcarona, Lv 41, Naive nature
Otho, Lampert, Lv 41, Quiet nature

The Undisputed Era February 9th, 2021 4:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lugiafan123 (Post 10276245)
Hi everyone got two questions about a run I'm about to start.
So my previous post was a signup for an ultimate poison type run and now I have 2 questions about what is and is not allowed.
Both concern pokemon Y. Is the EXP share banned for kalos and is super training banned?

While I'm not entirely sure what previous post owners had in mind for this kind of thing, I personally don't really mind people using EXP share or Super training, Ultimately it makes your run easier and if overleveling or overtraining your pokemon provides a more fun experience for you then that's entirely up to you, after all these challenges are also supposed to be fun aswell as a challenge.

OP update coming this weekend potentially, If not then definitely next. Life is mean right now and keeping me busy.

DyingWillFlareon February 13th, 2021 2:43 PM

Haven't finished one of these out of boredom, best time to start now! Time to prove the superiority of Fire typesbecause I'm a masochist apparently!

Forum User Name: DyingWillFlareon
Game(s): Leafgreen/Crystal/Ruby/Platinum/Black/Y/Moon(/Shield?) (I might have to change some of the last few depending on what I have available at that point)
Pokémon Type: Fire
Single/Ultimate: Ultimate

Only choosing Leaf Green because of Metal Claw hoo boy lol

AzureSparkz February 14th, 2021 12:09 PM

Forum User Name: AzureSparkz
Game(s): Leaf Green
Pokémon Type: Bug
Single/Ultimate: Single




Forum User Name: AzureSparkz
Game(s): Fire Red
Pokémon Type: Dragon
Single/Ultimate: Single
Spoiler: Screenshots



Bay February 17th, 2021 11:15 PM

Black 2 Fire Monotype Update 4

Meant to post this last night but forgot oops. Anyhow, here's update 4!

Spoiler:
-Last update I made it to Undella Town. There I have another battle with Hugh and oh geez his Samurott and Aqua Jet. Claudius's Hammer Arm is the only move to do a significant damage to him. But yeah, eventually defeat him.
-So next I had to go through Route 13 and I totally forgot you can meet Cobalion early there. I have Otho go against it and haha two of Cobalion's attacks, Sarced Sword and one other, aren't affected against Otho due to her being part-ghost. Cobalion got burned due to Otho's Flame Body and at first I was like yesss but then I forgot being burned chips away your health, leading to Cobalion to faint. I attempted like 3 more tries to catch it, but Otho's Flame Body keeps activating and decided to not catch it since I probably have a couple of those legendaries.
-Made it to Lacunosa Town and met with Hugh there. After we went against Team Plasma, I thought the Fire Stone is in the town but no it's at Lentimas Town and I forgot to grab it on my first visit there. Had to use a Tranquil that I had learned Fly to go back to Lentimas Town and grab it.
-I next visit Village Bridge and ahhhh it's actually one of my favorite locations in the gen 5 games. I don't know, I just like the aesthetic of it and the music so calming. I battled some trainers and after Tiberius reached lv 45 and learned Flare Blitz I used the Fire Stone to evolve him into Arcanine!
-Next up is Route 11 and that's where I meet Virizion. Like with Cobalion I battled Virizion once and that's it. I realized that both Cobalion and Virizion are weak to Fire sooooo if I want to catch them post-game that'll make things tricky haha.
-After I reached Opeluid City, I grinded for a bit and then challenge Drayden's gym. Oh my gosh so one of the trainers in the gym had a Druddegion with Rocky Helmet and Rough Skin. Tiberius has a tiny bit of health left, so when Druddegions health was also low I was like use Outrage and be done with it. Cue both Rocky Helmet and Rough Skin causing Tiberius to faint oops. When I get to battle Drayden I had Tiberius use Outrage on Drayden's first two Pokemon before he got confused. I switched out Tiberius for Claudius on Drayden's Haxrous. Haxtrous's Dragon Tail managed to KO Claudius, but then I brought Tiberius back and his Outrage finished the job.
-Yeah, so I kinda forgot how long this particular Team Plasma segment was, you know the one where they blasted half of Unova into ice. After dealing with Team Plasma and one of the Shadow Triad it's time to go to Humilau City.
-Did some grinding because I don't want to experience Clay 2.0 with Marlon. I went to rematch the athletes at Nimbasa City and after one of the battles Lmapert learned Shadow Ball and that's when I used the Dusk Stone to evolve her into Chandelure!
-I went and challenge Marlon's gym and he actually wasn't as hard as I thought. His Carracosta had Scald and while Tiberius fainted, I had Claudius take out Carracosta and Wailmer. I then had Otho take down his Jellicent. Final badge get!
-Okay so now it's time for the big final Team Plasma showdown. I had to switch Caligula for Marill who can use Surf and go to Seaside Cave where Team Plasma's ship was. I thought I would struggle a bit due to having 5 strong Pokemon but it wasn't actually bad. Augustus was able to take care the majority of the grunts's Pokemon due to them weak either by fighting.
-After Team Plasma showdown part 1 is done, it's time to go to Giant Chasm and that's where I'll stop. Next update should be Ghetsis and maybe Victory Road and the Elite 4!

Augustus, Emboar, Lv 55, Careful nature
Tiberius, Arcanine, Lv 54, Naive nature
Caligula, Flareon, Lv 53, Timid nature
Claudius, Darumanitan, Lv 55, Hasty nature
Nero, Volcarona, Lv 55, Naive nature
Otho, Chandelure, Lv 53, Quiet nature

Bay February 18th, 2021 7:06 PM

Black 2 Fire Monotype Update 5
Spoiler:
-So last update I made it to Giant Chasm. I had to go inside their ship once more and this time find hints to their password. There was one doctor inside the ship and man he's a godsend so that I can heal my Pokemon when needed.
-After defeating the grunts and getting the password I went against Colress. He's pretty easy thanks to the majority of his Pokemon weak to fire. Sturdy is an annoying ability though lol. Right after I went against the Shadow Triad.
-Next up is to meet up with Ghetsis and Kyruem. Heyyy N nice to see you back. So, Black Kyruem was actually very easy to defeat thanks to Claudius having Hammer Arm. After defeating Kyruem Ghetsis challenged me to a battle. His battle I had to switch around my Pokemon on ocassion but otherwise not too bad. And there, Team Plasma mostly gone (until postgame)
-Explored Route 23 for a while. Oh geez so that route has several obstocles and puzzles which needed Surf, Strength, and Cut. I had to put away a couple Pokemon and bring out Marill and Sweddle that has those HMs, so it took a bit until I got that boulder puzzle done.
-Before attempting Victory Road I researched a bit on what HMs I needed and yup it's Surf, Strenght, Cut, Surf, and Waterfall. I didn't want to store 2 Pokemon, so I checked which Pokemon can learn Cut, Surf, and Waterfall. There is one, Basculin and what do you know I can get one right at Route 23. And so I did that.
-One other thing I researched was which TMs I can teach Nero because yeah Gust isn't going to cut it. Oh, he can learned Psychic which would be perfect for Marshal. It's at Route 13 and it needed Surf. I did a quick detour and grabbed the TM.
-I stored Claigula and switched off for Basculin so that I can get through Victory Road. The majority of the trainers weren't hard as most of my Pokemon have some moves that can be supereffective towards certain types of Pokemon. There were a few hurdles, like that one double battle with a couple Veteran trainers and one of them has a Braivary that can use Rock Slide. Yup, very annoying haha.
-Before making to the Pokemon League, Hugh wants to battle one last time. He wasn't so tough, mainly his Samurott took a few turns. Replaying the game yeah I'm kinda mixed on Hugh as a rival.
-I think I'll stop this update here and have the Elite 4 be the next one. This is gonna be fun.

Augustus, Emboar, Lv 60, Careful nature
Tiberius, Arcanine, Lv 60, Naive nature
Caligula, Flareon, Lv 60, Timid nature
Claudius, Darumanitan, Lv 60, Hasty nature
Nero, Volcarona, Lv 60, Naive nature
Otho, Chandelure, Lv 60, Quiet nature

Bay February 22nd, 2021 10:30 PM

Black 2 Fire Monotype Update 6 - ELITE FOUR

Alright, so Elite Four time

Spoiler:
-The first Elite 4 I went against was Shauntal. Her Cofagrius and Driftblim were easy when I had Tiberius use Crunch, but then Golruk came with Earthquake. I had Agustus go against Shauntal's Chandelure and ack it has Psyhic. I then let Caligula take care of Chadelure.
-Next I went against Grimsley. So Grimsley's Krookodile has Earthquake too which yeah is bad, though Augustus took care of it. There's then his Bisharp which has Aerial Ace and is super effective against Augustus ahhhh. Luckily though not enough to faint it and I eventually defeated him.
-I had Otho go against Caitlin's Pokemon and lol she was the most smooth sailing as Otho's Shadow Ball pretty much KOed her team.
-For Marshal I first used Volcarona, who has Psyhic. It was going smoothly at first until his Sawk used Rock Slide. I think I had Tiberius finish off his ohter Pokmeon in the end

-Champion Iris battle time! Yeah so the biggest mistake I did was having Augustus used Heat Crash on her Aggron because I forgot Aggron is a very big guy and he's part steel/rock. If I had used Arm Thrust first I probably would've gotten rid of him already but nope.

The biggest hurdle though was her Haxorus. So I first had Arcanine use Outrage and when Haxorus was so close to fainting Iris used a Full Resore. Outrage again and once more Haxorus didn't faint and Arcanine got confused. Cue Haxorus using Earthquake. I first tried Caligula and then Otho to see if I can outspped Haxorus but lol nope. I revived Arcanine and used another Outrage to finish finish him off. When Iris had sent out her final Pokemon Archeops I was down with only Nero and Tiberius. I choose Nero and at first I was nervous because Archeops used Rock Slide and thought Nero wouldn't survive. Nero did survive and clutched the win with Psychic.

So yeah, I completed the main story portion of my fire monotype Black 2 run! I'm thinking of doing the post-game and probably attempt the Elite 4 again but not for a little while. I think I might do some updates on that, so I guess look forward to that!

Augustus, Emboar, Lv 62, Careful nature
Tiberius, Arcanine, Lv 61, Naive nature
Caligula, Flareon, Lv 60, Timid nature
Claudius, Darumanitan, Lv 60, Hasty nature
Nero, Volcarona, Lv 61, Naive nature
Otho, Chandelure, Lv 61, Quiet nature

FactoriesFarAway February 25th, 2021 2:06 AM

Forum User Name: FactoriesFarAway
Game(s): Red
Pokémon Type: Water
Single/Ultimate: Single

So I did loads of monotype challenges a while ago and I figured they were too easy (with the exception of gen 4 Bug, even WITH items that was a nightmare), so I'm going to shake it up a bit this time, and I'm going to do a Monolocke, with additional rules being banning X items as I think they're way too broken esp in gen 1 with badge boost glitch, and shift mode only.

So water monotype + standard nuzlocke rules with the exception that, if there's at least one water Pokemon on a route, I can catch the first one I see. If not, I skip the route entirely.

If i find this fun i may change this into an ultimate.

DyingWillFlareon February 25th, 2021 10:03 AM

Fire Monotype:
Spoiler:
I had planned to write down how each Gym and rival battle had gone, then after getting to Lavender Town I ended up getting busy and entirely forgetting about this ._.;;

So uh from what I remember:
I started off with Bumbo the Charmander absolutely demolishing my rival's Squirtle, then going on to grind til we got Ember, then using that to grind in the Forest for Metal Claw. My rival and Brock took little time but thankfully with combos of Ember, Scratch, and Metal Claw we got past both of them.

Going into Mt Moon Bumbo evolves into Charmeleon, and gets us through fairly easily with again Ember, Metal Claw, and running. Now that we technically don't have to grind for levels on wild POKEMON, we just go up to Nugget Bridge and beat all the trainers up to Bill's house. Misty and my rival were again a little challenging but nothing our peak level lizard couldn't handle.

Going on to Vermilion, everything gets much easier as we still only have Bumbo to worry about, and he easily wipes the floor with everyone in his path. Our rival on the SS Anne put up a little fight, but was demolished anyway. And Lt Surge was a joke, especially with Steel types. We also caught a Diglett named C for Cut, he's never used tho and is let to die whenever hes drug out to battle.

Jumbo evolves into a Charizard somewhere in that area, and we have nothing to worry about as we "breeze" through Rock Tunnel (actually had to look up a walkthrough dear goodness that took forever) spamming Flamethrower, Metal Claw, and run. Finally we got out, and rested for a while in Lavender Town.

Catching up, we finally get another Fire partner, Fluffy the Vulpix. Looking at the move pool for Vulpix and Nintales I decide to keep him from evolving for now, and get back to grinding once more. After beating all the trainers in the area he can sort of hold his own now so we continue on to Cerulean, my favorite city in the game.

Once there we immediately get the Eevee, who was named Skip and, upon reading it and Flareon's move pool we evolve him immediately. I was a little worried about him as we go into Team Rocket's base, but even with only Quick Attack he posed a serious threat to 95% of the grunts we fought there. I gave him the Blackglasses because Flareon are cool. B) Also because he was about to learn Bite. Fluffy finally learns Flamethrower and evolves down there, so with 3 fully grown Fire types we run on to face Giovanni. For the most part, while I try to use the other two, Bumbo has to take him out.

We go back to get some more healing items, some stuff we forgot along the way like Tea and the Bike, and beat the Fighting Dojo which was the first time we got close to losing in a long time. Letting Jumbo finish off the trainees and the other two take down the leader, we ignore the pokeballs and leave, getting ready to go from Lavender Town to Fuchsia.


Current Team:
Spoiler:
Bumbo the Charizard Lv 43
Fluffy the Ninetales Lv 31 Rawst Berry*
Skip the Flareon Lv 31 Blackglasses
C the Diglett (Cut HM helper)

*He was holding the berry when I caught him and havent gotten a good alternative yet so oh well

Captain Gizmo March 6th, 2021 1:44 PM

Forum User Name: Captain Gizmo
Game(s): Fire Red
Pokémon Type: Fire
Single/Ultimate: Single

StenirRPG March 7th, 2021 2:57 PM

RL Notes: After having misplaced my 3DS, then got a new job for my hobby (I moonlight as a composer/arranger/orchestrator, so got involved in a local group on that front that kept me from doing more for a while), and then finding my 3DS, I'm back to continue my Gen 4 run. Had to remember where I was...and then admit I didn't remember Gen 4's progression, so I'm using a walkthrough to point me from area to area.

Onto the update. Running around in circles up and down Cycling Road trying to remember where to go was...ahem..."bugging" me out. What I ended up doing was looking up that I was supposed to be going down to the southern part of Mt. Coronet and heading through to Hearthome City. I quickly did the stuff about the contests, because I can't move on otherwise.

The battle against Barry was...kinda weird.
- First out is Starly, and I had Cellular/Dustox to just spam Poison Sting. I was hoping to Poison it before I was Wing Attack'd to death. Interestingly, I managed to use Moonlight to stay alive through it dying from Poison. First try Poison on the first hit, which I about fell over laughing at. I know, though, if I don't win this time, it won't happen next.
- Second was Monferno...who did nothing the first few turns but Fury Swipes, Leer, and Mach Punch. Was expecting AI to go "Oh crap, let's burn this bug". I did eventually let Cellular/Dustox faint due to a single use of Flame Wheel...on the same turn (turn 6 against Monferno) using Poison Sting (and it getting poisoned).
- At this point, I swapped over to T-Mobile/Vespiquen. Power Gem time. That finishes off the Monferno.
- Out comes Buizel. I just use a couple Gusts to knock it out. In between the two Gusts, I got a Pursuit for my trouble. No biggie.
- Roselia ends the round, and I Gust my way to victory.

Like I said...the opening felt weird. I'm used to random AI, and I'm used to semi-smart AI.

Moving on to Route 209, and I attempt to avoid a spinner only for the trainer to notice me anyways. Yay. I wanted to get to the next town first, so I avoided everything except the Double Battle. It was sort of rough. I did fight a few things to figure out my Hidden Power on Sprint/Beautifly and Verizon/Wormadam. Verizon's HP was easy. Sprint’s took a bit to figure out.

Cricket (Kricketune)
L 23 / 76 HP / 48 Atk / 31 Def / 33 SAtk / 35 SDef / 39 Spd
Fury Cutter / Bide / Sing / Leech Life

T-Mobile (Vespiquen)
L 23 / 69 HP / 48 Atk / 51 Def / 44 SAtk / 57 SDef / 35 Spd
Gust / Sweet Scent / Power Gem

Sprint (Beautifly)
L 23 / 67 HP / 44 Atk / 38 Def / 45 SAtk / 32 SDef / 39 Spd
Harden / Hidden Power (Dragon) / Stun Spore / Morning Sun

Cellular (Dustox)
L 23 / 61 HP / 28 Atk / 44 Def / 31 SAtk / 46 SDef / 42 Spd
Tackle / Moonlight / Poison Sting / Protect

Verizon (Wormadam/Steel)
L 24 / HP 70 / 38 Atk / 55 Def / 36 SAtk / 53 SDef / 28 Spd
Protect / Tackle / Hidden Power (Ice) / Confusion

StenirRPG March 10th, 2021 1:52 PM

Don't want to double-post, but made some progress over the last two days.

Veilstone City:
Got here late Monday. Route 215 was kinda rough to get through. Spent much of the night and a few hours yesterday grinding coins at the Game Corner to get U-Turn, and gave it to my Vespiquen, but only after finishing the gym (totally didn't know it was there). It was going to make the best use of it.

I totally spaced on the gym being Fighting-type...my Bugs are squishy so they kept knocking my mons out. In the end, however, I'm happy Wormadam has Confusion and Vespiquen has Gust. Between the tw of them, that's how I got through the gym. Trainer by Trainer, one by one, healing as needed. It wasn't too bad, but after that, I spent some time going through and grinding all of my team up to 28 or 29. Also took the opportunity to earn some money and buy more Super Potions but also some vitamins to boost the main attacking stat of each of my team. I'm going to be continuing that. The gym was way too rough for my taste - I can tell that I totally did not restart for good stats...nor did I correctly EV train like I planned to.

Pastoria City:
The path south from Veilstone on the way to Pastroia was kinda interesting. Some battles were easy, and some were slogs. I skipped a number of them, figuring that since Crusher Wake was only a lowly Water type, I should be fine at level 30. Nope. He absolutely was wiping the floor with me (which was a shock to my system since all the trainers were relatively easy to knock to the side).

Gyarados took some doing to knock out. I got it down to about 20/25% HP with my Vespiquen using Power Gem over and over, then Vespiquen was out for the count. After that, my Beautifly and Dustox went down before Gyarados did. I was using HP/Dragon and Tackle, trying to hold on for using Kricketune and Wormadam against Quagsire and Floatzel. Floatzel was next, and I...hate...Brine. It took out my Wormadam, because I forgot it doubles its Base Power when my health is low. Kricketune took it out with X-Scissor. And then I just spammed X-Scissor against Quagsire, hoping to knock it out. Thankfully, I did.

At this point, I need to focus on trying to start a gym at the level of the highest Pokemon in the gym. Starting anywhere below that is a problem when I get to the gym leader. For me, that means I need to focus the rest of my training on EVs. Sure, I'm behind a little, but I need to do more in-depth study and not just pick up the game and go "let's do this!" I need to get some of those stat-reducing Berries.

For now, here's where I'm at:

Cricket (Kricketune)
L 31 / 99 HP / 64 Atk / 41 Def / 44 SAtk / 45 SDef / 52 Spd
Fury Cutter / Bide / Sing / X-Scissor

T-Mobile (Vespiquen)
L 31 / 90 HP / 65 Atk / 68 Def / 58 SAtk / 76 SDef / 46 Spd
U-turn / Slash / Power Gem / Heal Order

Sprint (Beautifly)
L 30 / 85 HP / 56 Atk / 49 Def / 59 SAtk / 40 SDef / 51 Spd
Mega Drain / Hidden Power (Dragon) / Stun Spore / Morning Sun

Cellular (Dustox)
L 30 / 77 HP / 35 Atk / 56 Def / 46 SAtk / 59 SDef / 55 Spd
Tackle / Moonlight / Psybeam / Protect

Verizon (Wormadam/Steel)
L 31 / HP 88 / 49 Atk / 70 Def / 48 SAtk / 67 SDef / 36 Spd
Metal Sound / Mirror Shot / Hidden Power (Ice) / Confusion

Captain Gizmo March 10th, 2021 10:38 PM

Well I'm done. Surpringsly, Flareon was my best member of the team ._.

My team at the end

https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/f/f1/Spr_3f_006.png
Timmy, the Charizard♂
Level 65
Blaze
Fly, Smokescreen, Flamethrower and Metal Claw


https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/cd/Spr_3f_136.png
Fluffy, the Flareon♂
Level 67
Flash Fire
Dig, Bite, Flamethrower and Return

StenirRPG March 24th, 2021 5:57 PM

Over the past two weeks, I did some research on my movesets and decided, based on base stats and move categories, that Kricketune and Vespiquen are solely Attack-based, while Dustox, Beautifly, and Wormadam are Special Attack-based. I didn't keep as good of track of my effort values. But I didn't want too close of calls again like I had with the last two gyms (especially the Water one, where I wasn't necessarily strong or weak to). I decided to go up a bunch of levels...

First, I when back to Route 214, where there are two very good trainers. One is all about Roselia (good for SpA) and one is all about Goldeen (good for Atk). Time to grind. Got Wormadam to 46...then got Beautifly to 44...then Dustox to 43....you can see I'm slowing down with bothering to level...I could maybe handle an hour or two a day...

Then I did the same on the other trainer to get Kricketune and Vespiquen to reach level 40.

Spent a bit of time at the game corner to get some coints as well.

At this point, I look like this:
Cricket (Kricketune)
L 40 / 126 HP / 94 Atk / 52 Def / 56 SAtk / 57 SDef / 66 Spd
Fury Cutter / Bide / Bug Buzz / X-Scissor
(Just one simple change. Yes, Bug Buzz is a special move, but it still has STAB.)

T-Mobile (Vespiquen)
L 40 / 114 HP / 96 Atk / 87 Def / 74 SAtk / 97 SDef / 58 Spd
Attack Order / Slash / Power Gem / Heal Order
(No real change - Attack Order is, in my opinion, better for a monotype run than U-Turn.)

Sprint (Beautifly)
L 44 / 129 HP / 83 Atk / 69 Def / 100 SAtk / 57 SDef / 73 Spd
Giga Drain / Hidden Power (Dragon) / Stun Spore / Morning Sun
(Upgraded Mega Drain to Giga Drain, Stun Spore to Psychic, and Morning Sun to Bug Buzz. Not too sure about HP Dragon, though I will keep it around for now.)

Cellular (Dustox)
L 43 / 115 HP / 49 Atk / 79 Def / 78 SAtk / 83 SDef / 76 Spd
Bug Buzz / Silver Wind / Psybeam / Light Screen
(I thought Light Screen would be better than Protect.)

Verizon (Wormadam/Steel)
L 46 / HP 126 / 70 Atk / 102 Def / 89 SAtk / 97 SDef / 52 Spd
Psybeam / Mirror Shot / Hidden Power (Ice) / Psychic
(Update on some moves. My uncertainty on Beautifly's HP is making me uncertain here...)

Burned out for now. I never realized how much just straight grinding can drain you.

Pumpkaboofan4life April 21st, 2021 12:32 AM

Forum User Name: Pumpkaboofan4life
Game(s):Red, Crystal, Alpha Sapphire, Pearl, Black, Black 2, X, Moon, Shield
Pokémon Type: Water!
Single/Ultimate: Ultimate!

Senoue April 24th, 2021 9:15 AM

Forum User Name: Senoue
Game(s): White
Pokémon Type: Psychic
Single/Ultimate: Single

Duck May 26th, 2021 4:54 AM

Good morning everybody.

Dropping by to say that I'll be helping with the updating the thread for the foreseeable future, and I think I got the OP updated all to deal with posts up to #389.

If I accidentally missed you or something like that, either post here or send me a message!

You might have also noticed that the OP looks a bit different. I condensed a bit of the text, added a few rulings that were in the spirit of the older rules, cleaned up house basically. Still, any runs you've already started (or committed to making, in the case of Ultimates) can still use the older rules if you feel like it.

Here are the rule changes and their justifications:
Spoiler:

- You can't use Legends, Mythicals or Ultra Beasts
Previously, only Battle Maison legal Pokémon were allowed, which left us with a number of available legendaries, but seeing as Gen 8 doesn't have any of those restrictions in the Battle and as far as I can tell, people usually don't use them anyways, banning them altogether seemed the more sensible choice instead of letting everyone in, or banning every Gen 8 legendary or having to manually pick out which Gen 8 legendaries were banned.

- You may hack a starter if you can't find a Pokémon of the type / evolves into the type before the first badge
Previously, this was before the second badge. I'm actually not quite sure why they picked the second badge instead of the first, but with that you're gonna miss the first big checkpoint, and in some games "Second Badge" is quite a while away (for instance, you can get to Vermillion or Mauville with only one badge) due to weird pacing or sequence breaks allowed by the story. Changing the rule allows for a little more variety, more fun for the player and less legwork to go and double check that a certain Pokémon is only accessible after badge 2.

- No Pokémon Camp / friendship raising berries
With Gen VIII's removal of affection, its OP effects were shoved into friendship and can only be obtained by using Pokémon Camp or those berries. We didn't want to allow these effects before, so locking away Pokémon Camp seems sensible enough.

Duck May 28th, 2021 6:55 PM


Ultimate Electric Monotype
Fire Red | Soul Silver | Omega Ruby | Platinum | Black 2 | X | Ultra Sun



Update #1 - Final
Spoiler:
- Started the game and picked Squirtle, so the rival's starter would resist my STAB.

- After the tutorial, I got a Pikachu at Viridian Forest, and subsequently realized just how bad my type pick was. 'Cuz you see, both of Brock's Pokémon are Rock / Ground, which means that the only way Pikachu could deal with them was via Quick Attack or Slam.

Which is resisted. And comes off Pikachu's Attack. And hits on Geodude / Onix's massive defense.

Eventually I decided to enter the battle with only 6 Double Team, and then Struggle my way through the Pokémon. It was as annoying and close a battle as you'd think it be.

Badges: 1 / 8

- Misty was as easy as you'd expect. Surge was somehow easier actually, since Starmie had better special bulk and could confuse hax me.

Badges: 3 / 8

- After getting to Celadon, I got an Eevee and two Thunder Stones, to round out my team. After using the TMs I collected, I actually had a respectable-ish moveset for both (although I kinda wish Jolteon got Thunderbolt naturally this generation).

- Erika, Koga, Sabrina and Blaine were fairly standard experiences. Only having two Pokémon means experience is concentrated so things go rather smoothly unless you meet that one type that can destroy you.

Badges: 7 / 8

- Giovanni's gym was annoying because Nidoqueen had Earthquake and resisted or was immune to everything I had. Eventually, I managed to get lucky and deal with it, but for the first time in forever, it was a tough battle.

Badges: 8 / 8

- The Elite Four was more or less consistently easy to beat, the main problem was Champion Video. His Rhydon knew Earthquake and could OHKO both my Pokémon.
I eventually managed to beat him by literally PP Stalling Earthquake with Revives - yes, that's how desperate I was.

But wait, there's more, because remember how he had the one starter that wasn't weak to Electricity? Well, not only was Venusaur tanking my hits, it was also setting up the Sun for Growth + Synthesis + Solar Beam combos.

I barely beat Blue in like, my third or fourth try. Still, it was fun. It was like, the first time in forever I actually had some challenge with the Kanto champion, so, I guess it was worth it in the end.

Game end


Team
Spoiler:
https://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites/gen8/home-thumb/026-f.png
A.M. the female Raichu - Lvl. 69
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Static
Nature: Modest
- Thunderbolt
- Double Team
- Brick Break
- Thunder Wave

https://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites/gen8/home-thumb/135.png
F.M. the male Jolteon - Lvl. 69
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Volt Absorb
Nature: Careful
- Shock Wave
- Double Kick
- Dig
- Secret Power


Johto's coming up next. I still need to figure out what team I'll use but hey, I'm bound to have more choices earlier on, at least.

I guess I'll probably be able to try and do bigger teams at least.

Duck June 2nd, 2021 10:46 AM


Ultimate Electric Monotype
Fire Red | Soul Silver | Omega Ruby | Platinum | Black 2 | X | Ultra Sun



Did I say Johto? Oops, we're in Kalos.

Update #1 - Viola, Grant
Spoiler:
- Started the game and picked Froakie so Selena would have Chespin.

- Got a Pikachu, and a Light Ball in Santalune Forest after some trial and error. Since one of the Pikachus was Modest, I kept that one. Called it QPSK for Quadriphase Shift Keying, which is a method used in digital telecomms services.

- Between only having one Pokemon so experience gets concentrated and having Light Ball, Viola went pretty smoothly.
Badges: 1 / 8

- I picked Squirtle in the Lumiose lab because I didn't remember if it mattered in anyway, but better safe than sorry, I guess.

- As it turns out, Electroball is always better than Thundershock, so nice for now. Specially since I'm pretty much always faster than everybody else.

- After a Furfrou segment that felt like it took forever, I managed to get a Helioptile, whom I named QAM for Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, another digital telecomm method.

After a quick trek back to the Battle Chateau, I had it up to speed (thank Masuda for changing the system clock to abuse the Chateau refresh)

- Team Flare was easy enough to deal with, and after that we got access to Cyllage City. Or, more importantly, we get the Bike and access to our third team member: FSK the Emolga, named after Frequency Shift Keying.

He won't come in handy for Grant, but he might be very helpful to deal with Korrina and Ramos.

It also does mean more grinding. Yay.

- I was dreading Grant because I still remember Brock, but while going through the actual gym I remembered that the problem wasn't the Rock typing. It was the Ground typing, which Grant doesn't have, at worst we'll get resisted STAB on Tyrunt.

Aurorus managed to Take Down QAM relatively quickly, although surprisingly enough FSK came in clutch to deal with Aurorus and soften up Tyrunt a bit.

Thunder Wave Electroball from QPSK cinched the battle for our victory though.

Badges: 2 / 8


Team
Spoiler:
https://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites/gen8/home-thumb/025.png
QPSK the male Pikachu - Lvl. 27
Item: Light Ball
Ability: Static
Nature: Modest
- Electroball
- Double Team
- Return
- Thunder Wave

https://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites/gen8/home-thumb/694.png
QAM the male Helioptile - Lvl. 26
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Dry Skin
Nature: Lax
- Parabolic Charge
- Charge
- Return
- Quick Attack

https://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites/gen8/home-thumb/587.png
FSK the male Emolga - Lvl. 26
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Static
Nature: Jolly
- Spark
- Return
- Pursuit
- Double Team


Korrina and Ramos should be easy enough given FSK, I think. The pace should also pick up from here on out which is nice.

Figment June 3rd, 2021 1:43 AM

User: Figment
Type: Water
Game(s): Let's Go Pikachu, SoulSilver, Omega Ruby, Platinum (Brilliant Diamond if it comes out and I get it before I finish), White 2, Y, Ultra Moon, Sword (Optional)
Single / Ultimate: Ultimate

Duck June 4th, 2021 5:32 PM


Ultimate Electric Monotype
Fire Red | Soul Silver | Omega Ruby | Platinum | Black 2 | X | Ultra Sun



I just noticed that when I did the last update, I forgot to remove the Leftovers from the team template I was using lol.
I hadn't any Leftovers then, nor do I have now. Although I think I probably could muster some in Lumiose, somewhere.

Update #2 - Korrina, Ramos, Clemont, Valerie, Olympia
Spoiler:
- Reflection Cave was as annoying as usual but this time things eventually went well enough. Emolga easily dealt with the Fighting types that walled me the last time around here.

- Selena was reasonably easy to beat. The one Pokémon that resisted my Electric moves was also 4x weak to Emolga's Acrobatics so ... yeah.

- Emolga's Acrobatics killed Mienfoo and Machoke in one hit, and Spark dealt with Hawlucha easily enough.
Badges: 3 / 8

- So, apparently if you don't Mega Evolve versus Korrina you're forced to battle again. You can lose though, so spamming status moves is a valid strategy since Lucario wasn't legal.

- After that though, I got a Sun Stone to evolve QAM! I also had a Thunder Stone ready but decided to ride out Light Ball Pikachu as far as I could take it.

- With access to Coumarine we managed to get our fourth and final team member: PAM the Chinchou, named after Pulse Amplitude Modulation. Not gonna be useful for Ramos but will probably come in handy later.

After some grinding, it evolves and fully get up to speed with the rest of the team.

- Selena was as easy as usual to beat. Ramos was even easier - everything he had was OHKOed by FSK.
Badges: 4 / 8

- I sincerely hope that whoever came up with the Badlands' design was fired. "Let's have a route where Repel doesn't work and most of the wild encounters have abilities that prevent switching / escaping. Oh, and let's make it so going in one direction is massively slowed down. That's gotta be fun, right?"

- After playing Odyssey I can safely say that boy, are some of these camera angles claustrophobic. I understand that there are many, many reasons for this but this weird compromise between top down and angle shots that show way too little of the map and we have no control over is just a bit weird for me now.

- You know, I liked the quiz thing better when Blaine did it. This way getting the puzzle right meant conserving your energy instead of having a forced battle anyways.

It was also so much faster when Blaine did it. Everything in Kalos seems unnecessarily slow, lol.

Clemont was rather easy - the one issue was Heliolisk who had Dry Skin, and as such couldn't be hit very hard with Surf. Still, nothing Signal Beam couldn't handle.

Badges: 5 / 8

- I'm genuinely wondering what the point of having Trevor around was? Like, he never even wins or galvanize the player on doing some looking around.

All he does is say "I lost, how frustrating" whenever we compare Pokedexes. Like, I actively tried to avoid seeing Mountain Pokedex Pokémon and he still lost.

- Why did the game force us to go to the scary house if there wasn't even a good pay off? Like, if you want to force me to go there, make it Lost Chateau or Pokémon Mansion, not a cutscene of a corny horror story.

- Valerie was mostly easy, although I do appreciate the design of her gym. It's one of the most creative designs made in the franchise up to the game's release.

Badges: 6 / 8

- After some segments of dubious importance, we get to Olympia, which is just ... meh all around.

QPSK got rid of Sigilyph before it could get Screens up, Slowking went down very easily, and PAM easily tanked Meowstic's hits while spamming Signal Beams back.

Badges: 7 / 8


Team
Spoiler:
https://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites/gen8/home-thumb/025.png
QPSK the male Pikachu - Lvl. 49
Item: Light Ball
Ability: Static
Nature: Modest
- Thunderbolt
- Double Team
- Grass Knot
- Dig

https://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites/gen8/home-thumb/695.png
QAM the male Heliolisk - Lvl. 49
Item: King's Rock
Ability: Dry Skin
Nature: Lax
- Dig
- Thunderbolt
- Return
- Surf

https://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites/gen8/home-thumb/587.png
FSK the male Emolga - Lvl. 49
Item:
Ability: Static
Nature: Jolly
- Volt Switch
- Return
- Acrobatics
- Double Team

https://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites/gen8/home-thumb/171.png
PAM the male Lanturn - Lvl. 49
Item:
Ability: Volt Absorb
Nature: Bashful
- Surf
- Dazzling Gleam
- Thunderbolt
- Signal Beam


Up next we finish up the plot, the league challenge and the game.




Update #3 - Plot, Wulfric, Elite 4 & Champion
Spoiler:
- Plot was boring, but we eventually dealt with it. Really, the only hard part of the whole affair was juggling who got first billing so the experience wouldn't get too lopsided.

A lot of people give the Exp Share flak, but really, it isn't its fault. It's actually doing its job pretty well - I'm consistently like 4 to 5 levels above important people's aces which is more or less where you'd like to be during a normal playthrough.

High enough to get an advantage, but not too high to remove the whole challenge. 5 levels is a common cap on Nuzlockes for a reason.

Which means they designed the level curve with the Exp Share in mind, the game's just ... easy, I guess. A lot of these trainers should have had more Pokémon.

- For some reason, Xerosic's illusion of choice sits right with me when most others in the game are just annoying. Maybe it's the fact that it's just full of spite and I can absolutely see a person doing that.

- Lysandre was ... a bit anticlimactic really. PAM took care of Pyroar and FSK took care of everything else. At least his ace was a 2HKO instead of a OHKO this time around.

- Couriway had a lot of goodies for us, so that was nice.

- Christ almighty, Wulfric had the most annoying puzzle I've ever seen. I wouldn't say Wulfric was hard. Abomasnow was hard, the rest were easy enough to deal with.

Badges: 8 / 8

- After one final grinding session, we're ready to face the Victory Road and the League. Since I had grinded to match Diantha, poor Selena didn't ever have a chance.

- Malva was very easy: just spam Scald. I'm surprised she didn't have a single Sun setter to be honest.

- Unsurprisingly, Siebold was just as easy. Once again, surprised he didn't have anyone running Rain but to be fair, that could be problematic for him since it'd open him up for Thunder.

- Wikstrom wasn't easy, but he was relatively straightforward. Thunderbolt and Dig paved the way.

- Drasna was mostly easy. Ice Beam 3/4 of her team to death and the only reason Druddigon wasn't a 2HKO was because of Dragon Tail shenanigans.

- As for Diantha, Hawlucha was OHKOed by Thunderbolt, Tyrantrum and Gourgeist were OHKOed by Ice Beam and Goodra was dealt with Ice Beams and Dazzling Gleam (consuming all her Full Restores in the process).

Aurorus was dealt with Thunderbolt spam and last, but not least, Gardevoir was dealt with by FSK pivoting in and out with U-Turn while letting the injured teammates take the Moonblasts.

With this we're officially the Kalos champions.

- AZ was pretty easy after Diantha, so, after this one quick battle, we've officially beaten the Kalos leg of the challenge.


Team
Spoiler:
https://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites/gen8/home-thumb/025.png
QPSK the male Pikachu - Lvl. 74
Item: Light Ball
Ability: Static
Nature: Modest
- Thunderbolt
- Double Team
- Grass Knot
- Dig

https://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites/gen8/home-thumb/695.png
QAM the male Heliolisk - Lvl. 74
Item: King's Rock
Ability: Dry Skin
Nature: Lax
- Dig
- Thunderbolt
- Return
- Surf

https://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites/gen8/home-thumb/587.png
FSK the male Emolga - Lvl. 74
Item:
Ability: Static
Nature: Jolly
- Thunderbolt
- U-Turn
- Acrobatics
- Double Team

https://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites/gen8/home-thumb/171.png
PAM the male Lanturn - Lvl. 74
Item: Mystic Water
Ability: Volt Absorb
Nature: Bashful
- Scald
- Dazzling Gleam
- Thunderbolt
- Dazzling Gleam


Up next, Hoenn. I wanna get rid of the 3DS games ASAP since they take up a lot more time than the other games.

Duck June 12th, 2021 4:07 PM


Ultimate Electric Monotype
Fire Red | Soul Silver | Omega Ruby | Platinum | Black 2 | X | Ultra Sun



In what's becoming a tradition, I get the game wrong. Again. Oops?

Update #1 - Final
Spoiler:
- Started the game. Picked up Totodile as my starter, so the rival would have a grass type.

- After the start of the game, I got Mary the Mareep.

- Sprout Tower was easy enough, and after a little bit of supplemental grinding, Mary evolved and I was ready for Falkner.

- Falkner went down to Thundershocks pretty easily. He didn't even roost when my first Thundershock sent him down to red health.
Badges: 1 / 8

- I'll admit I was dreading the U-Turn shenanigans of Scyther but just spamming Thundershock netted me the win easily enough.
Badges: 2 / 8

- Azalea Rival on the other hand was very annoying. Gastly and Zubat were very easy but Bayleef was a nightmare given Reflect, Synthesis and Poison Powder. I had to stall out all the Synthesises it had.

- Whitney's Miltank was as annoying as the Rival given Milk Drink and the flinch hax. Uggh, still, after managing to get paralysis and stick, I managed to reverse flinch hax her.
Badges: 3 / 8

- Burned Tower Rival was marginally better since I had better moves, but still annoying.

- Morty was easy, I just spammed Thunder Punch and he keeled over.
Badges: 4 / 8

- After that, we get to Olivine, just in time to get the Good Rod and catch Angler, the Chinchou which will be our final team member.

- After some grinding and backtracking to get Ice Beam at Goldenrod (at least it's Voltorb Flip instead of slots) we get back to the plot.

- Chuck was easy enough to beat. Just spam Discharge or Spark and go.
Badges: 5 / 8

- So was Jasmine. Discharged the Magnemite's away and just Surfed Steelix to bits.
Badges: 6 / 8

- Pryce was fairly easy too. The one Pokemon he had that wasn't also a Water type was weak to Angler's Surfs.
Badges: 7 / 8

- The only thing of note between Pryce and Blair was that Mom got me some Shuca Berries, which is very nice.

- Kingdra was marginally annoying since it resisted Ice Beam but eventually I wore it down and that was it.
Badges: 8 / 8

- I chucked the Masterball at Lugia and sentenced it to the box. Forever.

- Final Rival was easy enough to beat. Here we are at the home stretch!

- Will actually gave me some trouble at first, but that's because I was a bit of a dumb-dumb and forgot that Discharge was actually STAB and Super Effective against Xatu.

- Koga's evasion tactics were annoying, but we eventually pulled through.

- Bruno actually wasn't free for once. I needed to actually strategize against him. There's a first time for everything apparently.

- Karen was ... annoying at parts, but she could have been worse. I was genuinely surprised I didn't OHKO Houndoom with Surf, which could spell disaster since it got a Nasty Plot off. Thankfully, Thunder Wave saved the day.

- Instead of using his Full Restores on his Dragonites (which I had paralyzed in case Ice Beam didn't OHKO) ... Lance spends all his Full Restores on Charizard. In front of Lanturn.

Lace genwunner confirmed. Also, Lance lost, I'm champion. All hail electric types.


Team
Spoiler:
https://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites/gen8/home-thumb/181.png
Mary the female Ampharos - Lvl. 52
Item:
Ability: Static
Nature: Quirky
- Headbutt
- Discharge
- Signal Beam
- Thunder Wave

https://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites/gen8/home-thumb/171.png
Angler the male Lanturn - Lvl. 52
Item:
Ability: Volt Absorb
Nature: Serious
- Signal Beam
- Surf
- Ice Beam
- Discharge


Next time, it will be Hoenn. Or maybe Sinnoh, I guess. Depends on my mood to be honest, but I'm pretty sure it won't be Alola.

CelloX June 15th, 2021 3:29 PM

Can you put me down as a bug champion for shield? It was a while back that I did it.

Lugiafan123 June 20th, 2021 7:50 AM

Ultimate Poison Monotype
I'm back again after a long absence.
Just got done with pokemon Y so now it's onto probably the hardest game of the run in emerald.
Why I think emerald will be the hardest is I'm gonna be stuck with only a dustox for the first gym

As for the team that finished kalos it was mega Venusaur, Drapion, Tentacruel, Crobat, Nidoking and Swalot
I started out using a beedrill before swapping it out for the endgame. And it was on the team for quite a while.
hope its okay changing up the team mid run

Drapion and Crobat are gonna be mainstays on every team I can get them. I intend to save SoulSilver for last as that is not only my favorite pokemon game, but my favorite game overall.

Lugiafan123 June 24th, 2021 2:44 AM

Got a question about gen V. Is it possible to get or trade in a poison type before the first gym. Hacking is out of the question since I'm not using an emulator. If i cant get a poison type without hacking can someone tell me what types are available for Ultimate runs without hacking in pokemon?

Duck June 24th, 2021 4:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Lugiafan123 (Post 10374748)
Got a question about gen V. Is it possible to get or trade in a poison type before the first gym. Hacking is out of the question since I'm not using an emulator. If i cant get a poison type without hacking can someone tell me what types are available for Ultimate runs without hacking in pokemon?

For Black and White, I'm pretty sure you don't get any poison types before the first gym battle.

Not sure for Black 2 and White 2 out of the top of my head. That said, it's generally up to the person to do the research themselves. I'd recommend pulling up a website like Bulbapedia or Serebii who have the encounter tables for each route and check. Walkthroughs are even more convenient for this type of checking since they'll list every route in the order you'll go through.

As a rule, Grass, Fire and Water are always possible because of the starters, and Normal is always possible because of the derps.

Flying isn't possible in BW, but is possible in every other game.

Fairy is possible in the three mandatory games that it's in (XY, ORAS, SM/USUM) as well. Not sure about Sword and Shield though, but it probably is given the Wild Area.

Lugiafan123 June 24th, 2021 4:19 AM

User:Lugiafan123
Type: Bug
Game(s):Firered,SoulSilver,Emerald,Diamond,White 2,Y,Ultra moon
Single / Ultimate: ultimate

Putting my poison run on hold after the updated rules made my choice of type no longer viable for me. This run in particular has an additinal stipulation and that is that hacking in pokemon is not allowed.
Hence why I've picked the bug type for the ultimate run. Out of all the types available with the no hacking stipulation Bug seemed the most fun. Though it will be pretty difficult. Especially for Sinnoh and kanto.


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