Combined Pokemon Solo Challenge Thread

So I decided to become the Champion using only my Glaceon and not bringing any HM slaves to revive off of. Let's see how much I regret my decisions. Here we goooooooooo….

Aaron:
Nymph the Glaceon Lv. 67 Razor Claw
Blizzard
Water Pulse
Shadow Ball
Ice Beam

Here's to hoping we get a crit on Scizor with Water Pulse… I'm not looking forward to Flint. I stocked up on a bunch of battle items, so let's hope everything goes well.
Right from the beginning, I used an X Special. Aaron U-turned into Scizor. Great. Wanted to use a Dire Hit before it came out too… Noooooo, his Scizor didn't die to one Water Pulse :( We both healed, and I managed to take him out the second time, yay! Yay for out-speeding it. Up next is Heracross. We Ice Beam him, and it goes down in one shot. Perfect. Was hoping it wouldn't have Brick Break or something. Vespiquen's out next, and it has Pressure. Good thing I have some extra Blizzard TMs. Here's to hoping Blizzard hits. YAY! It did, and Vespiquen is down and out without even touching me. Good, good. Yanmega comes out again, and I go for an Ice Beam. Bye, Yanmega. Crit hit to rub salt into the wound, LOL. Last one out is Drapion. Let's go. Drapion's faster and gets in a Cross Poison, but the Blizzard luck is with me again and he falls to one Blizzard. Yay! There goes Aaron.

Bertha:
Nymph the Glaceon Lv. 68 Wide Lens Deaths: 0
Blizzard
Water Pulse
Shadow Ball
Ice Beam

I'm kind of concerned about Bertha in a way because if I'm outsped they could do some serious damage on me… I think I'd be able to take it because Nymph's defense is pretty good, but still. Let's just hope we can land Blizzard on Whiscash and take it down one turn. (Fruitless hope, I know.) I'm tempted to use an X Defend on it, hmm… So I used an X Defend and she freaking uses Sandstorm. Well okay but ugh lol. Blizzard hit second round, and I'm apparently faster. Whiscash is down in one hit and I took neglible damage. Good. Up next is Golem. Water Pulse, byeeeee. I'm actually glad that I'm level 68, lol. I remember playing Pearl and being like level 58 going into the E4. Maybe Flint will actually be easier? Anyway, out comes Rhyperior. Spam Water Pulse all dayyyyyy! Man this thing is tanky, look how slow that bar goes down LOL. It still went down in one hit, though. NEXT. Gliscor. Ice Beam, whee! Bye, Gliscor. Lol, I might get out here without taking any damage from Bertha except for Sandstorm. I leveled up to 69 here and Hippowdon is sent out. You might want to stop eating the sand, I think that's bad for you. Another Water Pulse later, and Hippowdown is still here, crap. Good thing I used that X Defend, that took out like half my health, LOL. Naturally, we both heal. I use Water Pulse again and I get the confusion on Hippowdon, yay. I swear this thing has like 10 HP left, just die already. I use a Shadow Ball to finish it off. There goes Bertha!

Flint:
Nymph the Glaceon Lv. 69 Razor Claw Deaths: 0
Hail
Water Pulse
Shadow Ball
Ice Beam

If I'm going to die, this is probably the battle that I'll die on. I just hope we can get rid of his Infernape quickly. Hope I outspeed everyone and one-shot everything. Should I risk using an X Sp. Def the first round? :( I decide to go for Hail and hope that Infernape can't hit me, lol. Kind of hoping the increased evasion in a hailstorm will work out for me here. Oh, it's hit Houndoor first. Crap. X Sp. Def first and hope it can't one-shot, lol. The Sunny Day proc, oh boy. Am I faster so I can proc Hail? Yes, yes I am. Good. HIS FLAMETHROWER MISSED, HA! Anyway, I use Water Pulse and Houndoom is gone. I should be good to go for the rest of the battle if I manage to keep Hail on the field. Out next is his Flareon. Water Pulse all day, every day. That Flareon didn't die, but it missed its Overheat, so all's good here. I'm just waiting for him to proc Sunny Day again, tbh lol. He uses a Full Restore, I use another Water Pulse. Still not dead. I go for a Shadow Ball to finish the thing off. Bye bye, Flareon. Have a crit to rub salt in the wound. My hail stopped and out comes Rapidash, oh boy. I decide to use Water Pulse on it because it one-shots and I expected him to use Sunny Day. Here's Infernape, sending out an X Defend for this guy. Maybe he'll proc Sunny Day here so I can follow up with Hail. He uses Flare Blitz and takes out like 60 HP, meh. This Infernape is faster than me, oh crap. I one-shot the guy with Water Pulse, but now I'm down to 75 HP and out comes Magmortar. I heal up first. This guy uses Flamethrower and takes out like 90 HP, oh boy. Please don't kill me while I set up Hail, please. I'm faster than this, thank god lol. And oh crap this guy is going for a Solar Beam. Quick, kill it lol. Didn't get a one-shot, oh boyyyyy. Good thing we had Hail because he missed. Glad I decided to bring Hail in here, it has helped me ten-fold. Anyway, Magmortar eats another Water Pulse and faints. Yippie, I didn't die on Flint like 8 times! I also leveled to level 70 :D ..I have like 6 PP left on Water Pulse, LOL.

Lucian
Nymph the Glaceon Lv. 70 ? Deaths: 0
Hail
Water Pulse
Shadow Ball
Ice Beam

I'm unsure of what I want to do here. I can't decide if I'm going to use my previous strategy of Hail evasion, or if I'm going to bring in Wide Lens and Blizzard. Hmm. Let's try my previous strategy first. I have a feeling this guy is going to put up a Light Screen. Maybe I'll be faster than everything and one-shot lol. Mr. Mime is out first. Let's see what Shadow Ball can do. I would use an X Sp. Def, but I'm worried he'll use Light Screen. Shadow Ball completely wrecked Mr. Mime, lol. Here's Bronzong, so I better set up some Hail because this guy is tanky. Oh god, Calm Mind, NO! Why do I have a feeling we're going to have to Hail stall this guy, dear god. I use an X Special. He Calm Mind's again. I'll go ahead and use a Dire Hit and maybe we'll score a few crits. I completely forgot that Calm Mind increases Sp. Atk too oh boy, he only did 70 HP with Psychic though. Please die, lol. I use Shadow Ball. DANG one shot with that +1 Sp. Atk crit xD All according to plan. Shadow Ball spam time. Bye, Gallade. Yet another crit, too. My hail stopped for Alakazam to be sent out. Oh god it's faster, noooooooooo. OH MY GOD MY SP. DEF fell and I'm at 36 HP LOL. Bye, Alakazam. Please don't let your Espeon destroy me, I'll cry. I go for the Full Restore and pray that this thing doesn't have something good up its sleeves. It used Signal Beam, so good. 40 HP down. It's faster and got a Psychic off, but I hold on with 81 HP and Espeon is vanquished with a Shadow Ball. Bye bye, Lucian! Now all that's left is Cynthia. With any luck, we'll be able to beat the game without a single death and only using 1 Pokemon throughout the entire E4 battle.

Champion Cynthia:

Final stats:
Nymph the Glaceon Lv. 71 Wide Lens Total Deaths: 3
Blizzard
Water Pulse
Shadow Ball
Ice Beam

Attempt 1:
If I didn't have to worry about her Lucario, I would go right ahead and just switch Water Pulse for Blizzard. I was going to switch out Hail for Blizzard, but I walked into the room and I was thrown into Battle. Great. Hope I get some misses out of Hail, then. This Spiritomb hits hard, geez. I heal up with a Full Restore and she uses Shadow Ball again. Thought she would have healed, but no. There goes Spiritomb and my PP on Shadow Ball is low. CRAP here comes her Lucario, I was hoping to have an X Defend up before it. Uggghhh. It'll know Swords Dance, won't it. (It didn't, lol) Double uggghhh. I'm faster and manage to get a Water Pulse in, but naturally it doesn't one shot. Holy crap though Aura Sphere does a ton. Ugh what do I doooooooooooooooo…… He does well over 100 dmg with Aura Sphere. Does this game have AI PP? Ugh it has 20 PP, I didn't come prepared for this. I'm going to lose to this Lucario, god dang it. Pray Ice Beam kills it? Lol NO it did down to like 2 HP, are you kidding me. Rip Nymph.

Attempt 2:
Well, take two. Now that I actually have Blizzard, let's see if I can manage to take out Lucario, lol. What irritates me about that battle is that I could have gotten out of here with no deaths if it didn't automatically throw me into battle. (Me from future: Nope, you still would've died.) Good thing I saved after Lucian. NOW… let's try this again. First we're going to use an X Sp. Def and pray that Spiritomb won't decrease it. I decide to use 2 of them, lol. Now Spiritomb is hitting worth nothing, so good. Ugh, it decreased my Sp. Def once, gotta use another one, lol.. I go ahead and heal up before taking it out with a second Shadow Ball. NEXT. Out comes Lucario again. THIS TIME I'M PREPARED FOR YOU, BUDDY. Maybe not, he used Stone Edge instead. LOL. I pray that Blizzard will take him out. I can't decide whether or I should PP stall out Stone Edge or pray Blizzard takes him out….. I'll try to PP stall. Please don't get a crit. He uses Stone Edge again, but it does only like 65 HP, huh. I use Blizzard and Lucario is down. I also reach level 71. Time to use some X Defends. Togekiss goes for an Aura Sphere. I heal up again and go for another X Defend afterward. OH MY GOD SHE GOT A CRIT AND ONE-HIT KO'ed me, NO! That is so garbage, are you kidding me. I guess I have to like increase all of my defenses to max on her Spiritomb then, smh. Seriously.

Attempt 3:
TAKE 3. Third time's the charm, right? God lol. I'll even use a Dire Hit too just for good measure. Knew I shouldn't have trusted that Togekiss, but dang, lol. I can't imagine where I'd be without these battle items. I normally never use them, but jeez. I used 6 X Defends, and 6 x Sp. Def, but I got 1 Sp. Def reduction so I used one more. I hit Spiritomb with one Shadow Ball, heal up, then take it out. BYE. Now that I maxed out my Defenses, let's see if I can actually win, god. Hi again, Lucario. Water Pulse confuses it but it still gets in a Stone Edge. It did like 40 HP, lol. I tried to Blizzard, but it missed and he goes for an Aura Sphere. Didn't do much because of my defenses. I go for another Blizzard and he actually falls this time. Level 71. Out comes that stupid Togekiss that ruined my day earlier. *primal growl* I'm gon' get you, you lil' bugger. I use Ice Beam right off the bat this time like a smart person, and it dies in one hit. Bye, Felicia!~ Here's Garchomp. Watch it get a crit and somehow 1-hit KO me even with maxed out Defense, LOL. I go for a Blizzard, it goes for a Dragon Rush that does like 10 damage. XD Blizzard hits and Garchomp is down in one hit. She has 2 pokemon left now, and out comes Milotic. Shadow Ball. Oh my god what is this thing's defense and it Mirror Coats me, which kills me. Are you kidding me. -_- If I would've known that it would use that, I'd wheedle it down with Water Pulse >:( Ugggggggggh here we go again. Wish I had Disable. Out of all things, I did not expect that Milotic to use Mirror Coat. Now I kind of wish that I still had Hail. Too late, though.

Attempt 4:
This time, I decide to max out my Sp. Atk too. Maybe I'll be able to one-shot Milotic that way? So I have max defenses, attack, and an increased crit ratio. Let's go. I'm scared of Milotic because if I don't one-shot it and it uses Mirror Coat, I'm screwed. I hope that I can trick it into not using it. How did Garchomp outspeed me this time? I guess we tie in speed then. Whatever, it used Earthquake, did like 20 HP, and I one-shotted with Ice Beam. Here is the bane of my existence. I healed, it tried to use Mirror Coat and failed. Here goes Blizzard. Hope it works. Please die or don't use Mirror Coat. OH THANK GOD it one-shot. YES. Victory is so close I can't even. All she has is Roserade now. A nice Blizzard from me and victory is finally mine. YAY! Take that Cynthia, god!

We became the champion, and by miracle, our play time came to exactly 10 hours. Weird.

Gen 4, specifically the Sinnoh games, have always been my favorite because of many reasons. The story, the music, debatably one of the best villain leaders in the franchise, debatably the best Pokemon designs, my favorite Pokemon was introduced in these games (I wonder what it is ;) ), by far the hardest Champion, and the main character designs don't look like they have a white sack on their heads (-cough- Brendan). Barry is also my second-favorite rival, second only to the lovable goof Brendan in ORAS. I had never played Platinum before, having only played Pearl, which was also my first Pokemon game. I decided to go for it, as I heard good things about it expanding upon Diamond and Pearl considerably, and good god, they were right. I felt like Cyrus's character was much more fleshed-out and well-developed in this game compared to the previous, and I was wanting more.

When I first read the book in the Canalave library about the Pokemon that will strip you of emotions within three days of coming into contact with it, I kind of thought that that was what happened to Cyrus. I realized later that it wasn't that he didn't have emotions, he just hated having them. *shrugs* Would've been cool if that's what happened in his childhood, like he befriends Mesprit and loses his emotions and thus wants everyone else to feel the nothingness like him. Darn.

Current Team:

Evander (Eevee) ♂ Lv. 48 (Everstone)
Take Down, Headbutt, Bite, Hidden Power (Psychic)


HM Slaves: Totodile (Surf, Cut), Hoothoot (Fly, Flash), Corsola (Strength, Whirlpool)

Current Team:

Evander (Eevee) ♂ Lv. 65 (Pink Bow)
Take Down, Shadow Ball, Iron Tail, Hidden Power (Psychic)


HM Slaves: Totodile (Surf, Cut), Hoothoot (Fly, Flash), Corsola (Strength, Whirlpool), Poliwhirl (Surf, Strength, Whirlpool, Waterfall)

-Sailed to Kanto
-Beat Lt. Surge

-Beat Sabrina

-Returned machine part
-Beat Misty

-Beat Erika

-Beat Janine

-Beat Brock

-Beat Silver

-Beat Blaine

-Beat Blue

-Beat Red

Plant (Bellsprout) Lv. 15 (HM Slave)
Vine Whip
Cut
Wrap
Poisonpowder


Chouji (Snorlax) Lv. 31 (HM Slave)
Strength
Amnesia
Rest
Surf

My personal goal was to defeat Mewtwo, so Pussay the Pidgey would officially be the strongest Pokémon of Kanto.

But first the Pokémon League.


I entered the League with only Pussay so it would be fair. Back then Pussay had Sand-Attack instead of Swift, which actually saved my life. In my battle with the rival (named GaryMFO) I eventually just spammed Sand-Attack until his Pokémon couldn't hit me anymore. At least he had Venusaur.

I don't remember how I defeated the Elite Four (with great difficulty), but I know Lorelei was especially difficult. When I was up against her Lapras, I decided to stall until she used up all her Blizzards, before realizing there was no PP limit to the Blizzards. I was pretty screwed and only survived the entire ordeal because I mass-bought Full Restores (no reviving since I only had Pussay).

After many tries I finally got through it and became the champion! Only thing left was Mewtwo.

Mewtwo was kind of a hassle. Even though Pussay was 12 levels higher, Mewtwo's stats were obviously way higher so it kept fainting Pussay. Even though Chouji the Snorlax could use Surf too, I took Derp the Lapras with me so I would only rely on Pussay. Eventually Mewtwo was defeated and Pussay was officially the strongest in all of Kanto. The goal had been reached.

I could always rematch the Elite Four, but I honestly don't have enough money to survive it a second time. I have plans to trade Pussay up to my Silver game, so that the Pidgey will be preserved. That's the least it deserves for its excellent service.

Highlight of the challenge: Whenever a Zubat used Leech Life and the textbox would read "Sucked health from Pussay!". The first time that happened my reaction was priceless; this was completely unintentional.

1. I picked Totodile as a starter and went through the tutorial stuff.
2. I traded in a Starly egg from Platinum
3. I hatched the egg and named the Starly: Star
4. After a bit of grinding, Star evolved!
5. Challenged Falkner and defeated him with just 2 quick attacks.

Star (Staravia) @Nothing for now
Tackle
Roost
Wing Attack
Quick Attack

I made it to the Goldenrod City Gym, and Star OHKO'd all of the gym trainers with Return. But Whitney was much harder. MUCH harder. Suffice to say, Attract is a pain in the butt. After about four tries, I eventually had to use some X Speeds and an X Attack during the Clefairy fight, then Star could OHKO them both.
After that, I just had to win an easy Rival battle, and then an easy Gym Battle where I OHKO'd all of Morty's Pokémon.

Star lvl. 34
Male
Brave Nature
Intimidate
Return
Roost
Close Combat
Aerial Ace