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Eh, why not?

Username: LuluRina
Bingo Type: 5x5(No Kalos/Alola)

This sounds amazing

Username: Kimborelli
Bingo Type: 7x4 (None as unusual sightings please)

Yay, new folks!

LuluRina said:

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Eh, why not?

Username: LuluRina
Bingo Type: 5x5(No Kalos/Alola)

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Welcome to the forum! Here's your Bingo:

Kanto
The Culinary Challenge
Rainbow Road
Monocolour
Signature Move
Love at First Sight

Johto
Pick-A-Route
Your (User)Name Challenge
Stone Alone
The In-Order Challenge
Type Link

Hoenn
Highest Stat SP DEF
Elite Mash Up
The Champion Challenge
Gift Challenge
Unusual Sighting (take Solo Run if you can't randomize your game)

Sinnoh
Elite Mash Up
Trio-Species Challenge
Highest Stat ATK
Space Nerds Challenge
Type Link

Unova
Scramble
Blood Transfusions
Monoletter
Stone Alone
Duo-Species Challenge

Kimborelli said:

This sounds amazing

Username: Kimborelli
Bingo Type: 7x4 (None as unusual sightings please)

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Here you go! Enjoy completing the whole thing:

Kanto
Gift Challenge
NFE Team
What's Your Sign?
Rocket Challenge

Johto
The Character Challenge
Your (User)Name Challenge
Retrograde
Monocolour

Hoenn
Monocolour
NFE Team
Rainbow Road
Signature Move

Sinnoh
Trio-Species Challenge
Monoletter
The Culinary Challenge
Hit the Gym

Unova
The In-Order Challenge
Hit the Gym
Solo Run
Stone Alone

Kalos
Highest Stat SPD
Pick-A-Route
Hit the Gym
Signature Move

Alola
Rainbow Road
The Wonder Trade Challenge
Solo Run
Duo-Species Challenge

Janp said:

Here you go! Enjoy completing the whole thing:

Kanto
Gift Challenge
NFE Team
What's Your Sign?
Rocket Challenge

Johto
The Character Challenge
Your (User)Name Challenge
Retrograde
Monocolour

Hoenn
Monocolour
NFE Team
Rainbow Road
Signature Move

Sinnoh
Trio-Species Challenge
Monoletter
The Culinary Challenge
Hit the Gym

Unova
The In-Order Challenge
Hit the Gym
Solo Run
Stone Alone

Kalos
Highest Stat SPD
Pick-A-Route
Hit the Gym
Signature Move

Alola
Rainbow Road
The Wonder Trade Challenge
Solo Run
Duo-Species Challenge

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Can I just ask for a reroll on either the Solo and duo species runs, just wanna use as many pokemon in Alola as possible.

Kimborelli said:

Can I just ask for a reroll on either the Solo and duo species runs, just wanna use as many pokemon in Alola as possible.

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I did that for you:

Rerolled to Elite Mash-Up, you choose which one to replace :)

SorveteQuente said:

I did that for you:

Rerolled to Elite Mash-Up, you choose which one to replace :)

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Confirming the BINGO challenge detailed in the attached image.

Okay, let's continue. I caught Skorupi and decided to train it. But Route 14 is one of the worst Routes to grind Bug/Poison Pokémon. So I got only few levels on Skorupi, but luckily it learned Toxic Spikes, which proved to be essential in beating Valerie. Her Gym was kinda hard, because my main weapon Skorupi was underleveled and my other Pokémon were Dark-Types. Valerie herself wasn't that hard, because she has Mawile and Mr. Mime. Both are weak against my Houndoom, so I didn't had to use Skorupi for them. But I set Toxic Spikes at the start of the battle so I can beat her Sylveon later. And it was right strategy as I stalled with Gyarados and Skorupi until her Sylveon fainted.

Next part was okay. I was slowly leveling my team by beating Team Flare and finally got to Anistar City and next Gym. With 3 Dark-Types. Yeah, it was easy.

Finally, I got to Lysandre labs where I barely beat Lysandre. His Mienfoo had advantage against most of my team and his Gyarados had better movepool that mine. This run is starting to be interesting...

And here comes the last update for Flare of Flair. After beating Lysandre I had no problems beating rest of the Team Flair, but it took longer that I tough because I had exactly same Pokémon as them. And finally, it was time to catch another team member - Xerneas. Yeah, it's overpowered legendary, but it's also new experience for me. And it's another step in my goal of using every single Pokémon. Coverage for my whole team is also nice. It proved itself right in the next battle with Lysandre. I had advantage at least. Lysandre had no chance even with Mega Gyarados. But I'll only use Xerneas if necessary.

Well, at this point my team is almost complete and I have most of the types covered. And Wulfric is next. I was confident about the battle and won without any problems with Houndoom and Scrafty beating his Ice-Types. And so I was almost ready for the Elite Four.

But first I had to get through the most boring location in every Pokémon game - Victory Road. But it's also where my last Pokémon is located. It took me a while to catch Druddigon, mostly because I forgot to buy Ultra or Dusk Balls and had only Pokéballs and some other useless balls. But caught it in one of the last Pokéballs. I spent some time in here leveling and end up with little bit overleveled Scrafty.

It's time for E4! I started with Malva and my ace for this battle Gyarados barely beat Pyroar and then instantly lost against Torkoal. That's a good start! Also for some reason I though I will be overleveled, but Kalos' E4 is stronger that I though. Malva fight was harder that I expected.

Siebold, my favourite member of the E4 is next. This time, I'm going all in! I'll use Xerneas. Thanks god for Horn Leech. After setting up one Geomancy and getting rid of confusion form Clawitzer's Water Pulse, I was able to sweep Siebold's whole team. Yep, that was overkill. Back to using my regular team.

Wikstrom! I start with Houndoom and my plan of setting up Nasty Plot and sweep surprisingly worked.

I know I said I won't use Xerneas if not necessary, but I think Drasna is worth it. And... Xerneas lost against Dragalge, which wasn't really surprising. No revives, I'll beat her even without Fairy-Type Pokémon. Druddigon beat Dragalge, but ended up in the yellow HP zone, so I switched to Scrafty for Altaria. Rock Smash was powerful, but Altaria survived with about 1 HP, only to beat Scrafty with Moonblast. I realized that Gyarados has Ice Fang, so I switched to it and finished Altaria and beat Noivern and then fainted against Druddigon. I finished the battle with Drapion.

And now, for a Champion battle! I had to heal before that though. Good old Hawlucha is 1st! And it poisoned my Gyarados with her 1st hit. Her fossil Pokémon is next. Aurorus is down after 1 Brick Break from Scrafty. Then battle of Dragons - Goodra vs Druddigon. It did not went well, but Houndoom finished the job. Second fossil Pokémon is coming and so is my fossil killer Scrafty. No chance of losing here. Gourgeist is next and so is my Houndoom. And with that, I have 5 Pokémon ready to fight Mega Gardevoir. And it went really well. Houndoom left her in red HP zone, but Diantha used Full Restore. I sent out Drapion next and barely tanked Moonblast, but still managed to beat her.

Final battle with AZ was quite easy, there really isn't much to say about it.

And with that, I beat E4. Here's Hall of Fame:


So, with this Challenge completed, I should probably pick another one from my Bingo. I'm not sure which one to do now. I would like to start doing Sinnoh ones, but none of them really appeals to me right now. I have a team planned for In-Order Challenge and move picked for Signature Move, but I'm not sure if I want to do any of them right now. Well, I'll see...

Okay, so I finally started working on my Sinnoh column. I wanted to do Signature Move with interesting not-so-common move and still had balanced team. Originally I wanted to do Counter or Mirror Coat, but I don't feel like using any of these two now. So I spent about an hour browsing list of moves and picked several, only to find out that most Pokémon, that could learn them are available only through Poké Radar.

In the end, I decided to go with Curse, as it's only ???-Type +it works differently when used by Ghost-Type Pokémon than any other Type and that enough is interesting for me to build a team around it. Then I spent some time thinking about naming theme. But it was much faster that picking up the move. I found few famous curses and decided to name my Pokémon after them.

Now, let's start the game! I picked Turtwig as my starter, as it learns Curse at level 17. I named him Kennedy, after Kennedy Curse - which is a term for a series of deaths and calamities involving members of the American Kennedy family. I could catch Bidoof, but I used it recently, so I only caught it as HM Slave. I continued up to the Oreburgh City and Oreburgh Mine, where I caught Onix. It learns Curse at level 38, so it will take a while. His name is Gillette, after Gillette Curse - given the mishaps that happen to sports stars which are associated with the brand, most notably Tiger Woods, Thierry Henry and David Beckham.

Oreburgh Gym was easy. There were no problems and I swept Roark's team with Turtwig.

Few Routes later, I stop at Eterna Forest, caught Gastly, this time Female, so I picked name Pele for her. Pele's curse is tied to Hawaii, but I don't think I'll use any Alola Pokémon in Sinnoh, so I just went with 1st Female for it. With the advantage of ultimate healing I grinded few levels and finally went to challenge Gardenia. I was quite confident in beating her, but I had pretty bad RNG, resulting in my Pokémon being paralyzed too often and her Pokémon always hitting mine when confused. I almost beat her. Her Roserade was on red HP and it could be over, if only she hit herself. But she was able to use Magical Leaf and take down Gastly, resulting in my lost.

So I immediately went back, this time using strategy! I set Stealth Rock with Onix, let it faint against her Turtwig and then used my Grotle. And set my +6 to Attack and Defense via Curse! Yay! Extremely slow, but hitting hard, I was able to beat Gardenia.

Username: OverlordGMSC
Bingo Type: 7x7
This seems really cool and gives me a bit to do :3

OverlordGMSC said:

Username: OverlordGMSC
Bingo Type: 7x7
This seems really cool and gives me a bit to do :3

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Here you go. If there are any problems, let me know:

Nick: OverlordGMSC

Kanto
The In-Order Challenge
The Culinary Challenge
Trio-Species Challenge
Scramble
NFE Team
Love at First Sight
Rocket Challenge

Johto
Monoletter
Retrograde
Unusual Sighting (take The Character Challenge if you can't randomize)
Type Link
The In-Order Challenge
Pick-A-Route
Stone Alone

Hoenn
NFE Team
Pick-A-Route
Scramble
Love at First Sight
Solo Run
Elite Mash Up
Rainbow Road

Sinnoh
Your (User)Name Challenge
Stone Alone
Duo-Species Challenge
Gift Challenge
Solo Run
Highest Stat DEF
Unusual Sighting (take Space Nerds Challenge if you can't randomize)

Unova
The In-Order Challenge
Monocolour
Signature Move
Monoletter
Elite Mash Up
Your (User)Name Challenge
Retrograde

Kalos
Stone Alone
Flair of Flare Challenge
Gift Challenge
Monotype
The Champion Challenge
Monocolour
The Wonder Trade Challenge

Alola
Type Link
Unusual Sighting (take Hit the Gym if you can't randomize)
What's Your Sign?
Z-moves Challenge
Rainbow Road
NFE Team
Your (User)Name Challenge

Well, it's time to update. It has been a while since the last update, mostly because I spent eternity in Solaceon Town. Why? I'll get to that later.

So I had to beat Fantina first. If I remember the fight correctly, steamrolled Duskull and then set up +6 Curse on Grotle. Mismagius was rather easy with this boost. And so was Barry's fight right after this. I think I've used the same strategy and even Gastly's own Curse to beat Barry's Monferno quickly.

And after that I finally got to Solaceon Town. I was looking for this town for one reason: Day Care. There aren't many Pokémon that can learn Curse naturally in Platinum, so I have to breed some. And luckily I have right Pokémon to do so. I quickly went to Route 215 to catch Lickitung, then realized I don't have Pokéballs, so had to make another round to Solaceon Town and back to Route 215. After a while I finally got female Lickitung and started breeding. My 1st ever breeding in Gen IV. And the result is Braganzas. Named after the Curse of the Braganzas. Now, for another member of my team - Chimecho. This was a little bit harder. First I had to find both male and female Chingling in Mt. Coronet, raise them to Chimecho, then breed the male one with Pele to get male Gastly, level it up to level 17 so it can learn Curse and then breed it with female Chimecho to finally get Loathly. Named after Loathly Lady. That's all the breeding for now.

And so I grinded on the way to Veilstone City. Few of my Pokémon evolved and I challenged local Gym. Loathly was my ace against Maylene and I beat her with little help from Kennedy. I continued to Pastoria City and was sure I can beat Crasher Wake just with Kennedy, but then I almost wiped on Gyrarados and its Waterfall flinches. Crasher Wake sent Floatzel as his 2nd Pokémon and I was prepared to beat him. But his Floatzel used Ice Fang and took down Kennedy in 1 hit. It took me another 3 attempts and a lot of luck to beat Gyarados before it can tear my team apart and then put Floatzel to sleep just for enough turns for Kennedy to beat it. Quagsire was just a pushover. And with this win I saved the game.