Nuzlocke. You must be joking. I have to beat the Elite Four with a team that just dies to Will and reach the Elite Four with no deaths or else I'm likely screwed. Also if Crueltenta dies we're probably doomed. Sounds like a textbook recipe for disaster.

Episode 8 - Escaping the Cemetery

Final Curses

Fridge Horror - No Fire move or Ice resist = No STAB moves. No longer a problem.
Ghostly Adventure - Haunter is bad outside of rentals in Stadium if it can't evolve into Gengar.
Cursed Ground - No Ground, Rock, or Fighting types.
Too scared to move - Only 3 attacking moves.
Making Frankenstein - Primary types for team members must be different.
Zombieland - So irrelevant, it doesn't even matter anyway because Elite Four.
Starter-lock Hex - Now irrelevant due to Rectangular Force
Rectangular Force - Any non Ghost, Dark, or Poison types are banned.
Curse of Curses - Curse is now locked in
Elm Street Neighbors - A slashing move or Dream Eater is required to be put on. Level 38 on Stalker is needed.
Frozen Curse - Frozen Pokemon are permaboxed, but this is Gen 2, so this is pretty much irrelevant.
Final Destination - Get Destiny Bond. It must be used at least once a gym battle, but by the time I get it, the game will be over.
Locke Clause - Rule 1 of a Nuzlocke Challenge.

So I have no idea how the hell I can win now. Because of nuzlocke, Will basically kills me alone. To offset this, I went back, grabbed Hex again, abused the speedup button in Goldenrod to run up and down a ton until he reached the next happiness stage and I finally evolved him into Umbreon. It also required me to change the time on my PC so it would be night in game. Now I don't just lose to Will and Hex has a lot of Special Defense going for him. As long as Crueltenta doesn't die, I have a plan for Lance. Now that we're out of Normal type, I can teach him Headbutt for a good Normal type move and something that isn't Mud-Slap. Anyway, the road to Victory Road started off a bit rocky with some paralysis shenanigans in the first two battles, but I was able to retake control of things once the Venusaur girl and the Magneton guy were dealt with. After clearing out all the trainers, I decided to do some grinding since there's a free heal spot right near some grass.

I got everyone to Level 40 while Stalker hit 41 and got Dream Eater at Level 39, so we finally have more options. I also ditched Hidden Power for Thief since Hidden Power Ghost sucked because Ghost is physical this gen. After a nice, casual stroll through Victory Road, the only remaining challenge was Stizh...and he got completely obliterated. We did have some paralysis shenanigans where Hex was fully paralyzed for 4 turns in a row against his Feraligatr, but overall, it was easy. I did do a bit more grinding afterward to get the whole team to Level 43, though. And now...after buying more Hyper Potions and Full Heals, it's time for hell. The Elite Four.

So up first is Will, but I have Hex, so I pretty much autowin this battle. Things only got a bit dicey towards the end with his Jynx putting Hex to sleep turn 1 and then doing lots of damage with Ice Punch, but we got through with minimal issue. Next up is Koga, probably the worst one of the pack next to Bruno. My own Koga had his time to shine, but in true Koga fashion, I had to deal with the annoyance that is evasion spam. I missed a lot of attacks, and it really sucked. We still managed to pull off a win, though, with a few close calls because of missing hits. Bruno is probably the scariest next to Lance himself. His Machamp has Rock Slide...and it killed Koga in one hit all because I missed a Sleep Powder. Now we're in a bad spot. He also crit me and instakilled Crueltenta. Now my Lance option is dead. It took Stalker to put down the Machamp. Great, now I have to do Karen with just an Umbreon and a Haunter. This is fantastic. With a combination of hax, healing items, and lot of Mud-Slap and Dream Eating the Vileplume, I made it past Karen. So, now, I'm going to fight Lance in the most uncerimonious way possible, and that is using X items. I also used my Ethers to restore Hex's PP before the fight...is what I would say, but I forgot to, so I had to use them while stalling the Gyarados.

Do I feel shame for using X items on Lance? No. I got nuzlocke at the end of the game, combined with the cruel mix of Fridge Horror, Cursed Ground, Making Frankenstein, and worst of all, Rectangular Force. This was only fair considering if I didn't use X items, winning was absolutely impossible with this team, even if I could freely heal spam. It would've only been a matter of time before I ran out of items and my whole team died. Although, I didn't, so here we are, at the end. Anyway...

And so, we survived the various curses the cemetery threw our way. My sanity is surprisingly still in tact...for now. Rectangular Force can actually go burn in the fires of Almia's Volcano Cave.

You probably want to know my curses right?

So my new rule is Cursed bag, which bans using items except TMs outside of battle, which isn't that bad, since I usually don't use items outside the battle aside from TMs. I'm that type of hoarder gamer, who picks every single item and then never use them.

So, this part was interesting. I caught Kaito, a serious Gastly. Really a needed partner for Cyanide. After a little bit of training, he evolved in Haunter and I was ready to take on Team Rocket HQ and Celadon Gym. Which went well thanks to both of my Pokémon being part Poison-type. Kaito is a more squishy that I remember Haunter being though. Well, my strategy for Erika was pretty straightforward - Put her Pokémon asleep, confuse and/or poison them if I can, use Curse and Shadow Punch/Razor Leaf them down. I'm glad I can heal during battles, otherwise this wouldn't be possible.

Next is SIilph Co with the hardest battle against Santa so far. I'm not looking forward this battle. Also, here's Erika screen:

BlissyMKW said:

Nuzlocke. You must be joking. I have to beat the Elite Four with a team that just dies to Will and reach the Elite Four with no deaths or else I'm likely screwed. Also if Crueltenta dies we're probably doomed. Sounds like a textbook recipe for disaster.

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Only permadeath nearing the end of your run? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. That's still nothing, bucko. I mean, look at me. I went literal Nuzlocke (first encounter + permadeath) since the 5th gym. 🤣 🤣 🤣

As soon as Aile got out from Mossdeep Gym, she found out that Team Magma had invaded the Space Center there. She easily drove them out by tag-teaming with Steven of all people. As thanks, he gave her HM Dive which was immediately taught to Singularity. Aile then continued her chase of Team Aqua folks all the way to the Seafloor Cavern where she witnessed their leader, Archie, awakening Kyogre only for it to fled and caused the weather to be a total mess (throw hail and sandstorm in and it would be a weather apocalypse). Steven (who came later) then took Aile to Sootopolis City where Groudon and Kyogre battled and messed with Hoenn's weather.

The girl was then taken to the Cave of Origin where she got Tiferet the Sableye and met Wallace, the former gym leader at Sootopolis. He immediately took her to the Sky Pillar and unlocked it so that she could meet Rayquaza. And when she did, Rayquaza immediately flew off as if it knew what's going on. Aile and Flyburg had to chase it all the way to Sootopolis and arrived just in time to witness it stopping Groudon and Kyogre like it's no big deal (I'd say this kinda reminds me of one of Arcaea's joke song, Red and Blue and Green).

Now that the crisis had been averted, it's time for Aile's final gym battle. The gym leader here turned out to be Wallace's mentor, Juan. Trappola zapped his Luvdisc like it's nothing, Ether Strike literally OHKO-ed his Whiscash, Purgatorium also zapped both his Crawdaunt and Sealeo big time, and Red and Blue managed to take his Kingdra out (mainly) thanks to her being resistant to both its Water Pulse and Ice Beam.



Might as well snag my last red berry (just one is enough) and go to room 29.

PS: I had to hack Toxic and Thunderbolt TMs in because I've already used the first Toxic TM for Quon and Purgatorium's Shock Wave just wasn't enough.

saniachan said:

PS: I had to hack Toxic and Thunderbolt TMs in because I've already used the first Toxic TM for Quon and Purgatorium's Shock Wave just wasn't enough.

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You know you can buy Thunderbolt at the Game Corner, right? There was no reason to hack it in...

jdthebud said:

You know you can buy Thunderbolt at the Game Corner, right? There was no reason to hack it in...

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Oops, my bad. I didn't know back then. Even if I did, I'm just too lazy to grind for game coins. 😅

Sorry for the lack of map update yesterday, but I'm currently away and without stable internet connection. Next map update will be on Monday.

Current Curses:
👉Light's End
👉Dracula's Apprentice

Janp said:

ping

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Question about Plaguespreader; my current team is:

• Roserade
• Krokorok
• Liepard (permanent - Spooky Ball)
• Yamask (permanent - Ghostly Adventure)
• Grimer (permanent - The Thing)

Roserade and Grimer both already know Poison-type moves, does this mean my entire team is saved from the plague? Or should I remove Krokorok, who can't learn any Poison-type moves at the moment, and isn't a permanent member of the team?

Here's part 3 (and also part 2)

Part 2:


Things were going so well until this next update ;-;

Trick or Treat Challenge Part 3

New rules:
Eternal Nightmare - Pokémon that fall asleep must be boxed for the rest of the run
No Slot Hex - Max party size is reduced by one

Things were going smoothly, Zag mopped up my rival in Azalea Town and I helped the apprentice get his Farfetch'd back in Ilex Forest. I went through the forest and up Route 34, made it to Goldenrod. I got the radio card for my Pokégear. Then I decided to go north and level up more by battling the trainers!

And that's when things went downhill...

First, I lost Gale, my best friend ghost when she fell asleep! Not long after, Zag was hit with Hypnosis (from the Psychic's Kadabra on Route 36 I believe). Two team members went down, I was so sad :(

This left me with only two Pokémon (Sai and Leaf), so I decided to add a Nidoran (either gender) to my team on Route 35. Well, Nikki the Nidoran (M) was hit by a wild Hoothoot's Hypnosis shortly after getting caught. So I caught Minnie the Nidoran (F) instead and managed to level her up a couple of levels... and then the same thing happened when I couldn't run from a wild Hoothoot! So I caught another Nidoran (M) named Nemo. And after leveling up Nemo and avoiding wild Hoothoot, I finally took on Whitney and defeated her on the second try! (Thank goodness Nemo knew Double Kick)

Current Team:


Leaf ♂ Lv. 18
- Vine Whip
- PoisonPowder
- Stun Spore
- Sleep Powder


Sai ♂ Lv. 18
- Poison Sting
- Leech Life
- Scary Face
- Night Shade


Nemo ♂ Lv. 21
- Poison Sting
- Fury Attack
- Focus Energy
- Double Kick

I will enter the staircase and grab a red berry!

Miau said:

Question about Plaguespreader; my current team is:

• Roserade
• Krokorok
• Liepard (permanent - Spooky Ball)
• Yamask (permanent - Ghostly Adventure)
• Grimer (permanent - The Thing)

Roserade and Grimer both already know Poison-type moves, does this mean my entire team is saved from the plague? Or should I remove Krokorok, who can't learn any Poison-type moves at the moment, and isn't a permanent member of the team?

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Yeah, your team is safe.

Are you kidding me Janp

Noooo

now I can't even use Poison types or any of my current team what am I going to do

(eh I'll figure this out somehow...)

Minor update: Aile got Green the (second) Sharpedo at Pacifidlog Town and trained her until she caught up with everyone else (I kinda thought of having Red and Blue as some sort of Green's mentor at this point). Once everything's done, Aile fought Wally for the second time and managed to get through the Victory Road with no casualties somehow. And now she's planning for the Elite 4 and Champion battles. Assuming Green's movesets are similar to Red and Blue's from my last update, here's a little rundown for it:

Sorry if my handwriting is a total mess btw. And as a reminder about my team:

• Trappola is a Banette
• Flyburg is a Crobat
• Red and Blue and Green are both Sharpedo
• Purgatorium is a Gardevoir
• Ether Strike is a Cacturne

Also, when I'm done with my final battles, should I edit them in here? Or should I make a separate entry? Never mind, I'll make do with my next post.

Well, I'm definitely not going to get this done by the end of the event (darn school, getting in the way of everything! lol) but I plan on finishing anyway with whatever curses I've got at the end of the event

I pick a green berry and move to room 19

Curses:


Gym 3:


Team:

Defeated Morty and traded over some Pokémon from Platinum/Diamond! Update soon.

I'll take the mysterious black/white berry and interact with the uppermost urn (if that's how this works, wasn't sure)

Quick update, because I played again!

After quite some ruling issues I figured out how to continue. Caught Meowth and evolved it to Demonic Overlord Persian. Then in the Ice gym, both Nightmare and Overlord got frozen, but Ghost easily beat Pryce on its own.

Ruling issues:
Evolved Gastly to have a wizard
Will catch a Poison type and teach it Sludge Bomb instead of Toxic.
Destiny Bond is impossible as Haunter is already past that level.
Plaguespreader also is not possible so I'm ignoring it

I will pick all the berries before going down the stairs!

Rules:
No-slot hex: Max team size of 5
The curse of eternal youth: No evolutions
Zombie Dinner: Must have a biting move
A quiet place: No sound based moves
BIRDS!!!!!: Hoothoot
Nightmare fuel: Hoothoot with Nightmare and Sunny Day
Dracula's apprentice: Teach all HP draining moves
Frozen curse: Any frozen pokemon must be boxed (why does this happen 3 times already O.O)
Embargo: No items in battle
Fridge horror: A pokemon that does not resist Ice and does not have a Fire move cannot use any STAB moves
The thing: added Ditto
You're a wizard, Harry: Gastly evolved to Haunter
Demonic Overlords: Added Persian
Toxic avenger: Teach Toxic to a caught Poison Pokemon. I will teach Sludge Bomb instead because Toxic is not available!
Plaguespreader: Teach a poison move to all pokemon (Only possibility is the Sludge Bomb TM)
Too scared to move: 3 damaging moves at most


Global rules:
Add a Dark type to my team (Sneasel)
No type overlapping
Revived Poliwag, can only use physical moves and never battle along with other team members
All Pokemon except Ghost and Dark types are banned


Team:

Ghost the Haunter
-Thunder
-Dream Eater
-Hypnosis
-Curse

Nightmare the Hoothoot (frozen)
-Confusion
-Hypnosis
-Nightmare
-Thief

Overlord the Persian (frozen)
-Iron Tail
-Shadow Ball
-Bite
-Detect


The Thing the Ditto
-Transform

Major update: Aile's fight against Hoenn's Elite Four went just as planned, though with a little struggle (and a lot of close calls) with Glacia's squad (especially her Walrein). That wasn't what took Trappola's and Flyburg's lives, though. Champion Wallace's Gyarados did it instead via Earthquake and Hyper Beam, respectively. Its winning streak then got cut short by Purgatorium's Thunderbolt, thus avenging his friends and leading to Aile's new Champion status.



Now that this is the end, I thank everyone for the fun. For next time's event like this, the host might want to consider all possible conflicts while making personal rules. That's all, and thank you. 😊

I wish I had updated this morning so I could sneak into Janp's last update. But here goes anyway. I will definitely be continuing this challenge, so I would appreciate a list of rules for sure.

Update #4 on Renegade Platinum.

Current Curses:

Spoiler:

Fridge Horror: If your Pokémon cannot resist the cold (i.e. is not taught any Fire-type moves or does not resist Ice through typing or ability), it can no longer use STAB moves in battle.
Making Frankenstein (GLOBAL): Your team must be composed with Pokémon with different primary types.
Zombieland (GLOBAL): All of your forcefully boxed Pokémon are revived as zombies.
Hexed Hands: Held items can no longer be used.
Rectangular Force (GLOBAL): Only Dark, Ghost, or Poison Pokemon (or pre-evolutions) can be used.
Toxic Avenger: Catch a Poison-Type and teach it Toxic. It must stay on your team for the rest of the run.
The Thing: Catch a Ditto, Grimer, Muk, or any of the Goomey line and permanently put it on your team. Plus one Pokémon of your choice is assimilated and must be perma-boxed.

• I won't be able to catch a Grimer (or even a Ditto) until after Veilstone Gym, but I boxed my poor Shadow for future assimilation.
• Continued on from Hearthome City and defeated rival Dread, then we got a couple policeman shouting about the Pokémon Mansion.
• Went to Route 213 North to check it out, and grabbed a Sunny Day TM, so Rex can finally use STAB attacks.
• Apparently it had been taken over by Team Galactic, so I cleared them out and defeated Saturn and Mr. Backlot in the end.
• My prize was a Manaphy egg, but into the box it goes.
• Now I had access to Route 209, so I headed through there to Solaceon Town.
• Checked out the ruins and scaled Lost Tower, where I caught Mistry the Misdreavus, who is part Fairy-type!
• Fought my way through Route 210 and 215 to Veilstone City, then used a Dusk Stone on Mistry to evolved him into Mismagius!
• Took on the gym, and while the trainers were easy to take care of, Maylene was another matter.
• It took a few tries and a heavy switching strategy between my Dark and Ghost-types, but I eventually prevailed with a team effort.

Screens:

Spoiler:

Team Spook:

Mistry the Mild Mismagius, ♂ - L39
Ability: Levitate
Moves: Draining Kiss, Moonblast, Shadow Ball, Will-O-Wisp

Rex the Careful Nidoking, ♂ - L39
Ability: Poison Point
Moves: Poison Jab, Thrash, Sunny Day, Earthquake

Pirate the Adamant Crawdaunt, ♀ - L39
Ability: Adaptability
Moves: Aqua Jet, Knock Off, Crabhammer, Rock Slide

Brimstone the Serious Houndoom, ♀ - L38
Ability: Intimidate
Moves: Flamethrower, Fire Fang, Dark Pulse, Thunder Fang

Kimono the Relaxed Froslass, ♀ - L39
Ability: Levitate
Moves: Shadow Ball, Psychic, Ice Beam, Confuse Ray

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Notable changes to these Pokemon in Renegade Platinum:

Spoiler:

Overall changes: Fairy type has been added to the game, as well as some moves from later gens. Also, all Pokemon have had their movepools updated to US/UM sets as much as possible. Any other notable additions will be highlighted below.

Houndour/Houndoom: Replaces ability Early Bird with Intimidate.
Corphish/Crawdaunt: Replaces ability Shell Armor with Adaptability.
Froslass: Gains Levitate as second ability. BST changes: Atk 80 -> 70, SAtk 80 -> 110.
Nidoking: BST changes: Atk 92 -> 102 (to match Gen VI on)
Misdreavus/Mismagius: Gains Fairy as secondary type, gains access to new moves Draining Kiss and Moonblast.​

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I will take a red, green, and blue berry, then continue up to room 24.