Journal Entry 1
The game runs as fire red normally does, but with every pokemon encounter randomized, things can get whacky. The starters I was offered were basically Exploud and Feraligatr. Since Normal is one of the types I can use, I decided to just go ahead and stick with it.
I named the Exploud, Loudmouth!
As we began the journey the first pokemon I encountered that I could capture (I’m fast forwarding through the Viridian Pokemart chapter) was a Stakataka! Whom I accidentally knocked out! 🙃
So I start off with a final evolution Pokemon at level 5, so its stats are higher and immediately run into an Ultra Beast, but with my allotted type? Sweet. Too bad I knocked it out.
It is because of this event, I decided to write a short story that chronicles the journey of this trainer in a Post Apocalyptic (Or “P.A.” For short) named Brandon and his Exploud named Loudmouth. His team in that short story will mirror the team in this run through, and I will update a link to the first post at a later time once I upload it to the correct area.
Anywho! Now that I’ve accidentally beat up a potential banger of a first catch, I make my way to Viridian Forest! In the route just before it I run into a Houndour! It was a girl so I decided to name it Hecate after the Greek Goddess of Dogs! Thankfully didn’t KO this one too! As soon as I enter Viridian Forest I run into an Incineroar! It’s literally as if when the randomizer started randomizing the encounters on the maps it went “Hmm, the player is doing a type restriction type of challenge. We better throw him a bone early before he gets royally screwed!” Because honestly…. I can feel it coming!
So, after naming Incineroar “Ares” (had to stay on theme) I began to take on the gauntlet of bug trainers in this location. To my surprise, almost every single one had a Tapu Bulu…. No exaggeration. A Tapu Bulu and Galarian Slowbro. So a strong grass type and a strong psychic/poison type. Luckily, I had fire and ghost type attacks and I breezed through it, but SHEESH! I can imagine a non-randomized run of this hack would be a bit tough for a starter.
After clearing through the forest and its trainers, I stopped in the patch of grass right before Pewter City. A Pidgey popped up. I was disappointed by this. However… it has a Normal typing so I added it to my team. You can never be too safe! After I did that, I went to challenge Brock!
His camper was really weak, and had a horsea and a mankey for whatever reason, but what’s worse is that Brock wasn’t much more of a threat! Brock starts with a horsea, and then throws a Ditto at me! He’s a breeder understandably but c’mon! The only thing that made it interesting was that I was able to Dynamax Exploud, and he Dynamaxed his Ditto. So there was that!
That is all for todays entry! The teams Pokemon Info is down below!