I started my first fight with my Rival after choosing Squirtle after some thought. Charmander is the one I like more, but having a fire type in a Nuzlocke that starts you off in Kanto strikes me as a poor idea.
Of course our Rival being Blue, the best cheating mother ****er around promptly claims both of the remaining starter and fuses them before fighting me.
I ended up wiping on the first fight with my rival, due to greed really. I had a potion but I had 4HP left and he had consistently done 3 damage before, so I choose to risk it.
Sadly my risk while calculated ended up backfiring.
So I restarted the game, which now had an option to skip the opening. I did so and choose normal for all options, and then moved on to grab Squirtle again, this time I choose to restart until I had an alright nature and settled with Modest.
With that I fought my Rival once more and won this time even without using a Potion despite him getting a lucky Crit off early on.
Of course the excitement wasn't done yet.
With that I healed by Mom and went out to the grass to see what I'd be fighting on my way to give the parcel, first encounter of course was a Rattata LV5 vs my Squirtle LV6. Sadly with Stab and a nature that weakens Physical attacks, I pretty quickly had to run away or be wiped.
After healing from Mom, I then attempted the same thing again with once again getting a LV5 Rattata who started off critting me, then when I tried to run he put me into the red. Thankfully the third attempt to run worked, otherwise I would have wiped for the second time before even collecting my Pokeballs.
At this point I was considering if the LV curves were Dynamic in which case my best hope would be to rush their as quickly as possible while running, and collect the Pokeballs so that I could at least have two Pokemon.
Thankfully it turns out that is not the case, and I just had awful luck. Thankfully my third encounter of a LV5 Hoothoot turned out better when it wasted turns on Foresight. And I earned my second victory.
Shortly after I encountered LV3's and realized I just had bad starting luck.
After the craziness that was my first several battles, when I first found a trainer in the first route before I even delivered my Parcel I was nervous, thankfully it turned out it was just to show off a fusion LV4, and was an easier battle than the tall grass earlier.
I then delivered Oak's Parcel and got my Pokeballs before going back to Route 1 for my first capture which gave me Rattata nicknamed Fodder.
It is not until later on when I backtracked to catch my second Pokemon due to changing the rules, which I'll mention when I do so.
I then went to the Pokemart where I was gifted Pyukumuku and I ran to route 2 where I caught a Hoothoot.
I then created my first fusion where I merged Pyukumuku and Hoothoot into Indra's Scorned, because as a Water/Flying he is quad weak to Electric.
Deciding that with at least one fusion I should focus on catching another Pokemon to fuse with Squirtle I went to route 22 where I caught a Mankey that I then fused with Squirtle.
I then named it Bubbles Taijutsu and proceeded to grind up Indra's Scorned until he was LV7 and Bubbles Taijutsu to LV9. I then decided that I could match my Rivals two Pokemon with my two Fusions, what could go wrong really?
As I was confident I remembered his LV's right and indeed he started with a LV7 Pidgey against Indra.
Unfortunately, he started with a Sand attack and I then proceeded to miss 3 attack in a row leaving me in red. Horrified I swapped to Bubbles Taijutsu despite being weak against Flying and reminded myself that Pidgey wouldn't have Gust yet.
Thankfully I assumed correctly and Bubbles swiftly Low Kicked Pidgey a few times until it was down due to even Low Kick at it's weakest being equal to the 20 base power of Bubble.
I then entered his starter Charsaur, who promptly Leech Seeded me causing me to wonder if I could even win this fight at all. It was better than his Razor Leaf admittedly which would have wiped me, using a Potion on Indra's Scorned, I then swapped him instead and hit him a few times before swapping when Leech Seeded.
I repeated this tactic 3 times, until finally Charsaur went down and it was my victory.
Granted I had to spend 900 Poke in the form of 3 Potions for that victory and got 198 Poke back, so it was a net loss in money. But hey at least I got the moral victory of once more beating Blue at least.
I then proceeded forward to Viridian Forest where I caught a Ledyba which I fused with Fodder to create Fodder Squared. Soon after however after beating one of the trainers I was offered a trade for a Caterpie/Zubat or Weedle/Zubat Fusion for any Bug type.
Greedy that I would get an extra Pokemon for the cost of a base component, I decided spending another 300 Poke unfusing Fodder Squared would be worth it. I then traded Ledyba away for the Caterpie/Zubat fusion which I named Nycteribiidae, a type of bat flies which I thought fit fairly well.
He has since become a Butterbat and has served me well.
Thankfully since he's a traded Pokemon he also levels 1.5 times faster, although I'm wary to keep him from growing to far, as he disobeyed me once before I got my first badge when he was LV13.
I then moved on out of Viridian Forest although before I did, I found someone offering to rematch me, which let me grind a little EXP against them. Sadly you do not get any money from Rematches, so after a handful I then moved on to heal at the Pewter Pokemon Center.
This is where I learned another trade offer for Tyrouge existed if I gave up my Mankey. I swiftly knew that Tyrouge was the superior Pokemon, however I hesitated because if I traded him and then fused Tyrouge into Squritle, I would have no option to unfuse them until the Johto Post game.
This is because you cannot unfuse any Pokemon with a traded Component until then.
I swiftly decided to delay it until later and moved on.
I then went to route 3 and found to my joy that there was no actual block in this game from simply leaving Brock seemingly, with that I caught my Claffa in route 3 that I simply nicknamed, Moony and moved on. I swiftly found another trainer offering to trade.
This time offering a Ekans/Weedle Fusion, a Caterpie/Ekans or a Caterpie/Rattata for the cost of any Pokemon LV10.
I then decided getting another half of a Pokemon for a component was worth it and grinded Rattata up to LV10 by going to the rematch trainer and simply swapping him out each battle to another to feed it EXP.
At 10 I then swapped it for Ekans/Weedle which I named Aesculapian
Granted the image is of how he looks now after I made him into a Beedrill/Ekans.
I then proceeded to do some side quests in the Motel which ranged from finding a hidden item, to repeatedly collecting mushrooms in the forest, selling them and using the motel to skip forward a day to repatedly do this until I had the 3 tiny mushrooms for the quest.
That done I then went to face Brock with the following team.
In retrospect I should have grinded one more level because I would have gotten Water Gun. One of the rules is that you can only use the same amount of Pokemon as the Gym Leader, so I swiftly selected both Bubbles Taijutsu as well as Indra's Scorned, than named Curse of the Wingull, thankfully renaming is something that can be done in the menu at any time in this fan game.
The fight started poorly with Brock throwing out a Geodude/Pidgey Fusion which meant we were both Super Effective against each other. I won the slug off but at half HP, when Brock threw out his Onix I was honestly quite worried.
Thankfully he fused it to a Diglett and so it was still quad weak to water, and my Bubble even Crit to boot. Unsurprisingly it went down in a single shot and without Sturdy it didn't even survive that hit.
I had obtained my first badge without anybody getting knocked out.
Swiftly I decided that Bubbles Taijutsu had been nothing but disappointing to me since I had created him, and so I decided to unfuse him and fuse Bubbles to Claffa instead and trade Mankey away for the Tyrouge.
Unfortunately their was a cost to my hubris, as in the process of unfusing Squirtle kept his old Moveset that he had at LV9 and lost Water Gun, in return for being turned to a LV15.
Although inquiry told me that their was a move relearner I wouldn't have access to it until Vermillion at which point it would be a simple 2K per move.
Pictured here is Sweet Bubbles, my Clefable/Warturtle fusion
Moving on to the Pokemon Centre at Mt Moon, I bought Magikarp and fused him and Tyrouge together temporarily. Very shortly after that I regretted it as I caught a Geodude as my first catch at Mt Moon. Deciding to bite the bullet and spend 600 Poke, I unfused the temp fusion, and instead fused Geodue/Tyrouge into Armored Core
This is when I decided that I should change my Nuzlocke rules and swap it to 2 Pokemon caught per route, and simply box Fusions when they die.
With that decided I started to backtrack and first caught a Pidgey in Viridian forest named Little Bird who was then Boxed. Unfortunately for me, the next encounter their was Pichu, with a muffled curse, I killed it and moved on.
The next catch on my backtrack was a Tangala in route 1, thanks to the fact that despite it's appearance rate of 5%, I had already caught the Pidgey and Rattata which were the other two encounters, it was quite the frustrating encounter.
As Tangala started with Ingrain after I poisoned it, which was my only way to weaken it, so I had to catch it at near full health while Poisoned which put my odds at 10%, even at LV2, mainly due to how hard Tangala are to catch.
Even if I had brought it to red and poisoned, a Pokeball still only would have a 25% chance of catching it.
I decided to gamble with my last 10 Pokeballs, thankfully this paid off after 5 attempts, and I had my Tangala, a grass type that would be quite useful for the next gym.
Swiftly I decided that Tangala and Pidgey would make a good fusion as the last of my 6 Pokemon.
With that I moved back to Route 22 where I caught a Nidoran Male named Little Prince and Boxed.
Route 2 then gave me Weedle who I already had in a Fusion form, but I'd never caught his first form, and the only other choice was a Sentret that had a 5% marked to pop up only in the day. Weedle was fine to be settling with.
Moving on to Route 3 I caught a Meowth, which I was excited to name Payday. Sadly a little research revealed that in every game subsequent Firered he learns the move at LV30 instead of LV18.
A time which is not worth it, as I know a money trick one can use to quickly become rich starting after you get Surf in this game anyways.
Disappointed he was swiftly boxed once more.
Before I decided to leave Pewter City for good, I decided to go back and finish the last of the side quests which had bugged me. Show a fully evolved Bug type Pokemon off, I could show my fused Butterfree/Zubat, but since it was not fully evolved it would not count for the quest, and I had no way of unfusing a trade.
Now I had a spare Weedle that I could LV with the switch trick and claim my reward before I forgot. I then showed the Bug Catcher a Beedrill after which he gave me a free Pineco that was boxed.
Finally I had made it back to Mt Moon once more, the place I had once backtracked from where I caught a Sandshrew and decided a Grass/Ground would be more useful than a Grass/Flying when I already have two more flying types in the team.
Sadly in the process Vine Whip was once more Lost, here's hoping I can regain it in time for the Water gym, where now I will only be neutral.