[Challenge] Mono-Color Challenge

Here's the link to the imgur album; it has descriptions now, instead of me being lazy with the HeartGold ones, so have at it!

https://imgur.com/a/S8UOZ8Z

Here's the imgur link to the album; the images are all cluttered, but a few notes are that I managed to catch a Magmar holding a Magmarizer, as well as a Bronzor that held a Metal Coat for Scyther. Secondly, I used the Up-grade from Galactic HQ and the Dubious disc from the other Veilstone HQ. I did have to do a workaround for trade evolutions, but I only did them as soon as the evolution inducing items were first made available.

https://imgur.com/a/0o3ZRo8

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZxWwEdz5eA

I named myself Violet and picked Froakie as my starter, whom I had to use quite a bit in the beginning due to the lack of purple Pokémon available. Once I beat Viola, I skipped as many trainers as I could and went to Route 7 as quickly as possible to catch an Illumise. She was a temporary team member until I could get an Old Amber in Glittering Cave, which I later revived into Aether the Aerodactyl, my first official team member. Soon after, I swiftly made my way to Route 10 to catch a Snubbull before entering the second gym. Once Methis the Snubbull was caught, I backtracked to face all those trainers I had previously skipped to earn some Exp. Points for my new team members. Afterwards, I challenged Grant, which I wasn't too confident about. Methis' Intimidate helped against Tyrunt, and Aether faced off against Amaura - not an easy task due to its Refrigerate ability, but we pulled it off.

Next, I continued to Geosenge Town, where I faced off against Korrina. Thank goodness her Lucario don't carry damaging Steel-type moves, or else I would have been screwed. Once defeated, she let me pass to Route 11, where I caught two new team members: Thanatos the Stunky and Atlas the Nidoran (M). As with Aether and Methis, I trained these new members up on trainers I had previously skipped, and going through Glittering Cave also provided some nice leveling up. My first order of business in Shalour City was to go to the Tower of Mastery, facing off against and defeating Calem in the process. With that over, I challenged the gym and defeated Korrina pretty easily since none of my team members are weak against Fighting-types, although some of my victory definitely came from Atlas and Methis resisting her moves. Otherwise, Power-Up Punch would have hurt a lot. With the third badge in my hands I returned to the Tower of Mastery and partook in a mirror match against Korrina, winning and equipping the Aerodactylite onto Aether afterwards.

Moving on, I continued to Coumarine to challenge Ramos. Before that, however, Calem wanted to battle me. I beat him fairly easily – surprisingly, the rival battles have been easier this time around than I remember them, although it's probably due to my team members having just the right typings to resist or just take neutral hits from his Pokémon. Anyway, I had just evolved Atlas into Nidoking and given it Poison Jab prior to the battle, and I pretty much counted on it to do most of the work. Jumpluff went down in one hit, but then Gogoat's Bulldoze forced Aether to finish up the job. After that, I flew back to Route 8 to fish up Nerites the Shellder. Just finished cleansing out the Flare-infected Power Plant, and I will backtrack a bit to level Nerites up before facing the fifth gym. Not that I'll use him, but still…

♂ Aether the Aerodactyl, Lv 38
Item: Aerodactylite
Moves: Crunch, Scary Face, Ancient Power, Fly

♀ Methis the Granbull, Lv 42
Item: None
Moves: Charm, Bite, Lick, Headbutt

Atlas the Nidoking, Lv 38
Item: None
Moves: Poison Jab, Peck, Helping Hand, Power-Up Punch

♂ Thanatos the Skuntank, Lv 37
Item: None
Moves: Flamethrower, Slash, Poison Jab, Toxic

♂ Nerites the Shellder, Lv 28
Item: None
Moves: Icicle Spear, Protect, Ice Shard, Surf

Playtime as of completing the E4
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Naturally, I counted on Atlas to solo Clemont, which he did. Despite not having a Ground-type attack, Poison Jab took care of Emolga without any major hassle, and Power-Up Punch was super-effective against both of his remaining Pokémon. Continuing on to Route 14, I faced off against Calem and then searched for and caught my final team member, Hestia the Goomy. I tried levelling her up a bit on the remaining trainers on the route, but without much success. As for the Laverre gym, I originally thought I would struggle a bit, but it was actually a lot easier than I anticipated. Luckily, Thanatos carries Flamethrower - this ensured a fairly simple KO on Mawile, and Mr. Mime didn't stand a chance against Thanatos' typing and moves. Though somewhat bulky, Sylveon also easily went down to two Poison Jabs. Six badges earned!

Before I could continue to Anistar, I had to do a quick raid inside the Poké Ball Factory to get rid of Team Flare. With that over, I made my way to Anistar City to obtain my next badge. Aether, having mega-evolved, used Crunch to easily defeat Meowstic and Sigilyph, and Thanatos battled Slowking for another victory. Next up commenced all of the Team Flare stuff, which was veeeery straightforward. I usually struggle a little bit with some battles, especially against Lysandre, but that wasn't the case this time. So, in short, I saved Kalos.

This finally allowed me to go after my final gym badge in Snowbelle, with a quick stop in Couriway Town along the way. Ice isn't the best defensive typing, but I also didn't have a lot to counter with - in fact, half of my team is weak against the Ice-type. Because of this, Nerites actually found itself very useful, being able to take hits fairly well (bar Freeze-Dry) and fire off Water-type moves for some solid damage. Aether had also recently learned Iron Head, which was also very useful. Regarding Wulfric, Thanatos faced off against Abomasnow, eventually defeating it (can you believe neither Flamethrower nor Poison Jab were enough to OHKO?) and paving the way for rather easy KO's on Cryogonal and Avalugg.

Having trekked through Victory Road, I found myself about to challenge the Pokémon League. I decided to start off against Wikstrom. Atlas did a fantastic job here, sweeping his entire team with a majestic combination of Power-Up Punch and Earthquake. Very smooth battle!

Next up, Drasna. Nerites' Ice Beam took down Dragalge to the yellow HP zone, and I somehow managed to survive a Thunderbolt from it. With Druddigon having been sent out, Methis had to take over. Return and Play Rough nabbed a KO for me, and I also healed up Nerites so he could sweep the rest of her team using Ice Beam.

Aether Mega Evolved to take out Malva's first Pokémon Pyroar with a Rock Slide. I wanted to attempt a Shell Smash sweep with Nerites, but felt that Pyroar could foil my plans the easiest. So once it was out of the picture, I sent in Nerites and set up on Torkoal, then proceeding to use Surf for OHKOs on the rest of Malva's team.

I relied on Hestia to defeat Siebold because of her nice super-effective coverage in Thunderbolt and Power Whip, but I had a bit of a rocky start. Clawitzer's Mega Launcher-boosted Dragon Pulse hurt quite a bit, and Hestia didn't manage OHKOing it. Luckily, I outsped it, so it eventually went down. Thanatos had to come in for Starmie because I was afraid of Ice Beam. Night Slash didn't land a crit so it became a 2HKO, but Starmie was fairly close to KOing Thanatos as well - it used Surf twice, leaving me in the red HP zone once it was defeated. The rest, however, was a cake walk. Thunderbolt OHKO'd Gyarados (didn't expect outspeeding it though), and Power Whip OHKO'd Barbaracle.

I knew Nerites would be a good choice against Hawlucha, because of its high Defense and ability to hit super effectively with Ice moves. Flying Press didn't even bring me down to half, and then a critical hit Ice Beam took it down in one shot. Next up was Tyrantrum, and I sent in Methis to get an Attack drop on it thanks to Intimidate, and then Play Rough and Earthquake sufficed for a 2HKO. I let Thanatos come in against Aurorus, mostly because it was one of two members who wouldn't be weak against its Ice-type moves. Toxic was very helpful here, since none of my moves dealt very much damage (it had just set up Reflect). Luckily, Blizzard missed a lot, so it didn't inflict very much damage on me either. Naturally I wanted to try a mirror match against Goodra, and despite being 2 levels lower, Hestia outsped and dealt more damage to the opposing Goodra. Two Dragon Pulses brought it down. Ideally, for Gourgeist, I'd send in Thanatos because of the superior typing. However, I wanted to give Atlas some love. I knew its moveset wouldn't result in any OHKOs, but I figured Poison Jab could maybe deal some damage. Trick-or-Treat was indeed tricky, making me weak to both Phantom Force and Shadow Sneak. The pattern in which Gourgeist used these moves was fairly predictable though, so Atlas could snag a KO after some hits and some healing. Of course I had to save Aether for Gardevoir to get a Mega showdown. It was short-lived though - one Iron Head was enough to OHKO Gardevoir, making me the Champion of the Kalos region.

Lastly, I also faced AZ and won easily with a Shell Smash sweep.

♂ Aether the Aerodactyl, Lv 64
Item: Aerodactylite
Moves: Crunch, Iron Head, Rock Slide, Fly

♀ Methis the Granbull, Lv 65
Item: Aguav Berry
Moves: Play Rough, Fire Fang, Return, Earthquake

Atlas the Nidoking, Lv 66
Item: Black Belt
Moves: Poison Jab, Megahorn, Earthquake, Power-Up Punch

♂ Thanatos the Skuntank, Lv 66
Item: King's Rock
Moves: Flamethrower, Night Slash, Poison Jab, Toxic

♂ Nerites the Cloyster, Lv 65
Item: Iapapa Berry
Moves: Ice Beam, Shell Smash, Ice Shard, Surf

♀ Hestia the Goodra, Lv 64
Item: Zap Plate
Moves: Aqua Tail, Dragon Pulse, Power Whip, Thunderbolt

Saved right after Olivia.

Nothing major to report, things have been going pretty smoothly. For a lot of the first island I probably had too many ghost types, but that evened out over time. I've got 5/6 members of my planned final team, with Haunter the last one that's going to be swapped out.

The reason I'm doing a play-through on Moon at the moment is to prep myself to complete a Living Dex, so I'm catching a lot more dudes as I go than I normally would, so my levels are a bit higher than usual, forgive me.

I mention this every time I get to use it, but Acrobatics is way too good of a move. I had two STAB users of it at one point (Crobat and Drifloon). Insane.

Team:

Wedge the Crobat, Lv. 30
Inner Focus
-Acrobatics
-Confuse Ray
-Leech Life
-Cross Poison

Bittenbinder the Haunter, Lv. 31
Levitate
-Hypnosis
-Sucker Punch
-Night Shade
-Venoshock

MegaAmpharos the Misdreavus, Lv. 31 @ Eviolite
Levitate
-Confuse Ray
-Hex
-Charge Beam
-Psybeam

The Hunger the Sableye, Lv.30
Keen Eye
-Brick Break
-Night Shade
-Shadow Claw
-Knock Off

Bouncee the Tsareena, Lv. 32 @ Bright Powder
Leaf Guard
-Light Screen
-Teeter Dance
-Stomp
-Trop Kick

HAL the Starmie, Lv. 30
Illuminate
-Reflect
-Scald
-Thunder Wave
-Swift

Former Members: