The Nuzlocke Challenge

In Mt. Moon I got a Zubat (i wanted a geodude, man)

Then I bought the Magikarp (man I hate to train this one)

In Mt. Moon my Charmander and my Nidoran m evolved


Gary never was difficult

My team after defeating the Nugget Bridge


Team Ranking:
1. Charmeleon
2. Nidorino
3. Rattata
4. Spearow
5. Zubat
6. Magikarp

All images: http://imgur.com/a/GSTMG

At Route 24 I caught a Caterpie

And after some training he evolved into Butterfree

At Route 25 I got a Weedle, so I had to kill it.
After visiting Bill I trained my team for the battle against Misty

Misty was very easy, her Staryu got easily defeated by my Butterfree and Poisonpowder. Starmie got paralysed (Butterfree survived a Water Pulse with 8 HP) and Ratticate 2HKO Starmie with Hyper Fang.
(I forgot to make a screenshot, sry)
Later I battled a Rocket Grunt. He critted my Spearow with Karate Chop

After this battle I put Zubat back to my team


All images: http://imgur.com/a/GSTMG

Team ranking:
1. Ratticate
2. Charmeleon
3. Butterfree
4. Nidorino
5. Zubat
6. Magikarp

Dead:Beedrill Lv4-10, Spearow Lv5-18

- Nidorina easily soloed Whitney with Double Kick.
- Caught the Sudowoodo in Route 36. Boxed him.
- Failed to catch a Hoothoot in Route 37.
- Travelled to Ecruteak, beat the Kimono girls, got Surf.
- Faced the Gym, forgetting what type it was. Damn ghosts. The only move I had that could hit them was Nidorina's Poison Sting. Needless to say, Nidorina and Skiploom died during the first trainer battle.
- Unboxed Sudowoodo, my only Pokémon.
- Went and caught a level 14 Machop in Mount Mortar. Boxed him (Not like he can hit Ghost-types -_-)
- Trained for ages until Sudowoodo reached level 30.
- Sudowoodo able to solo the Ecruteak Gym with Rock Slide and Rock Throw.
- Unboxed Machop. Trained him to level 25.
- Failed to catch a Pokémon in Route 38 (Machop OHKOed Tauros.)
- Machop beat all trainers in Routes 38 + 39.
- Failed to catch a Pokémon in Route 39 (Machop OHKOed Meowth.)
- Travelled to the top of the Olivine Lighthouse.
- Travelled back to Goldenrod and visited Bill to obtain an Eevee.
- Caught a level 6 Slowpoke in Slowpoke Well for a HM Slave (Surf) (Hooray for Sudowoodo learning Faint Attack)
- Caught a level 20 Tentacruel in Route 40.
- Taught Tentacruel Surf, and released the Slowpoke.
- Eevee and Machop both died from poison on my way to Cianwood.
- Got the SecretPotion from Cianwood, face Chuck, anddefeated him with my level 40 Sudowoodo.
- Surfed back to Olivine, and started training Tentacruel in preparation for the next Gym.

Current Party:
Sudowoodo level 41.
Tentacruel level 24.

- Chose Totodile as my starter.
- Met Pokémon in Routes 29 and 30 before obtaining Pokéballs.
- Trained Totodile to level 9.
- Easily defeated my rival.
- Caught a level 4 Poliwag in Route 31.
- Caught a level 4 Rattata in Sprout Tower.
- Trained all 3 of my Pokémon to level 12.
- Easily defeated Falkner with Totodile.

Current Party:
Totodile level 13.
Poliwag level 12.
Rattata level 12.

At Route 5 I finally got a Pidgey (sry Zubat, you're out again)

Then I got at Route 6 again a Pidgey, so no new catch for me
After that Route Pidgey evolved

Then I caught a Diglett and Ekans at the two following routes


After Nidorino lernt Horn Attack I evolved it (thanks to my Moon Stone)

After beating all trainers in the SS Anne and on Route 11 I fought Lt. Surge
Diglett 1HKOed everyone, but Pikachu critted me with Quick Attack, so I had to switch Diglett out when Raichu came
After Nidoking missed with Brick Break twice I decided to use my Ratticate just 4 fun and he even defeated Raichu

My team after the gym


all images: http://imgur.com/a/GSTMG

Team Ranking:
1. Nidoking
2. Raticate
3. Diglett
4. Charmeleon
5. Butterfree
6. Pidgeotto

Dead: Beedrill Lv4-10, Spearow Lv5-18

Legend:

Caught
Team Member
Killed
Dead/Traded Away
Gift
Involved in Trade

Nuvema Town: Jacques the Snivy, Lv.5
Route 1: Margaery the Patrat, Lv. 2
Route 2: Wilfred the Lillipup, Lv. 5
Dreamyard: Strombo the Panpour, Lv. 10
Route 3: Donner the Blitzle, Lv. 10
Wellspring Cave: Betty the Roggenrolla, Lv.13
Pinwheel Forest (Outer): Toronto the Pidove, Lv. 12
Pinwheel Forest (Inner): Lenny the Sewaddle, Lv. 14
Route 4: Orlando the Sandile, Lv. 16
Desert Resort: Melisandre the Darumaka, Lv. 19
Route 16: Jerry the Minccino, Lv. 19
Route 5: Spore the Solosis, Lv. 19
Driftveil City: Blueeye the Basculin, Lv. 25
Route 6: Carrie the Karrablast, Lv. 22
Cold Storage: Timburr, Lv. 22
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Chargestone Cave: Rolex the Klink, Lv. 27
Route 7: Bateman the Foongus, Lv. 29
Celestial Tower: Bow the Litwick, Lv. 27
Twist Mountain- Johnny the Drilbiur, Lv. 29
Icirrus City - Jaime the Shelmet, Lv. 32

Jacques the Snivy Lv. 5-8 - Died on Route 2 to a super unlucky -1 Def Tackle crit from Youngster Roland's Lillipup
Betty the Roggenrolla, Lv. 13 - Died on Route 3 from a Charged-up Shock Wave from School Kid Al's Blitzle
Donner the Blitzle, Lv. 10-11 - Died on Route 3 from a Confusion crit from School Kid Marsha's Woobat
Strombo the Panpour, Lv. 10-15 - Died outside Pinwheel Forest to a 4-hit Rock Blast at the hands of Preschooler Homer's Roggenrolla
Toronto the Pidove, Lv. 12-14 - Died outside Pinwheel Forest whilst trying to escape a wild Timburr's Bide. She failed twice before perishing.
Orlando the Sandile, Lv. 16-24 - Died on Route 4 to a Headbutt crit from Backpacker Keane's Darumaka (who was at, like, negative 1 HP at the time, the little so-and-so)
Lenny the Swadloon Lv. 14-27 - Died on Route 6 to a Take Down crit from Pokemon Ranger Shanti's Deerling
Spore the Solosis, Lv. 19-25 - Died on Route 6 to a Pursuit (on the switch, nonetheless) from Pokemon Ranger Richard's Emolga
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-Bateman the Foongus, Lv. 29-33 AND Melisandre the Darmanitan, Lv.19-36 - Both died in Twist Mountain to Battle Girl Sharon's Lv. 36 Throh. I was an idiot with Bateman and used Ingrain so I couldn't switch out. Then Throh WRECKED Melisandre with Revenge. Gah.
-Blueeye the Basculin Lv. 25-38 - In Twist Mountain, this time to Black Belt Teppei's Sawk, who got a bad damage range on Brick Break which shouldn't have killed me.
Johnny the Excadrill, Lv. 29-34- AGAIN in Twist Mountain, to Worker Rich's Gurrdur

-Started off by heading back to the Space Centre to go after Team Magma. Again.
-Got to Maxie and decided to use Pelly, Infernus and Duncan to face off against Maxie and Tabitha, with my main plan just to use Surf to stop most of their Pokemon.

-As you can see from the image, things went very well and all I had to do was use a Hyper Potion around the middle of the battle because of Pelly getting confused and being on about 1/4 HP.
-I went and got Dive from Steven, but then realised I had made the same mistake I did in Crystal and nothing can learn it, just like Whirlpool and Waterfall in the previous game. As a result, I decided to grab Tentacool from the PC as Pelly's replacement until I had visited Sootopolis and gone to the Seafloor Cavern.
-Got to the room with Archie and finally got TM26 Earthquake, which was given to Infernus to replace Bulk Up, due to it being rarely used, and then headed over to finally crush the evil man in blue.
-Things went pretty bad to be honest, I had to use 3 Hyper Potions on Grumpig who couldn't seem to survive any more than 2 Wing Attacks, and then another on Hariyama when he got confused from Swagger.

-I was finally able to add Pelly back to my team due to no longer needing Dive, and with that, I headed to Sootopolis to see Wallace.
-I headed towards Pacifidlog to go to Sky Pillar, grabbing Cruel the Tentacool on the way and getting some training in. Once I arrived at the town, I healed up and then headed over to the Tower ready to visit Rayquaza.
-I entered the tower and nabbed Brenda the Golbat on the 3rd floor and just continued on towards the top. I woke Rayquaza before flying over to Sootopolis to see the battle go down.
-I sent Maxie and Archie packing before grabbing Waterfall and entering the gym. I knew I was in need of some training, so I intentionally fell through the ice in the 3rd section and took out all the trainers.
-I headed back to Juan after healing up and prepared myself to lead with Hariyama due to its advantage with Fake Out. It was all going well until I saw the name Kingdra come up. I began to worry, but realised my best chance was to go with Rusty and boost him up with Howl. Of course, it wouldn't be that simple with Rusty getting confused then Kingdra began with Double Team. Eventually, after 6 Howls and a lot of missing, I got the hit and knocked out Kingdra. I then sent out Infernus to finish off Juan by Double Kicking Crawdaunt.

-Flew over to Mossdeep and readied myself for Victory Road, while also thinking who should leave the team permanently because I need Waterfall not only for Victory Road, but also to get to Steven so I ought to train someone new to take up the job.
-Eventually I made the tough choice to remove Hariyama from my team due to having another fighting type in the form of Blaziken, who I believe is far superior as a team member. In his place came Taka the Tentacool, just due to Cruel having an Adamant nature, ruining water moves for him, as well as Taka having better stats despite being two levels lower.
-On the way to the waterfall to Victory Road, Tentacool levelled up, and then evolved into Tentacruel, adding to the power she possesses.
-I decided to do some grinding, but before that, I spent the rest of my cash on lots of EV-Boosting items, giving Tentacruel and Grumpig a massive boost in Sp.Atk, aswell as Blaziken in Atk.
-I headed a little further in, before being challenged by Wally, who fell like a sack of bricks.

-I continued on, battling my way through the trainers, pushing towards the exit. Finally, I saw the light and followed the brick path all the way up to the Pokemon League. Unfortunately, I still needed a bit of training before even considering the challenge.
-With the entire team at level 50, I decided there's no time like the present and stocked up on some more potions and headed through the doors.

Elite Four:
-I started out against Sidney with Pelipper to take out Mightyena with its Intimidate before switching to Blaziken and easily crushing all of his Pokemon.

-Phoebe wasn't much of a struggle easily due to Rusty having Shadow Ball to take out most of her Pokemon before getting slowed down by Grudge.

-Glacia was wrecked by Grumpig due to Walrein repeatedly try Sheer Cold and failing due to Double Team with Calm Mind then powering him up to take out the rest of her Pokemon.

-Drake was pretty easy with the exception of Kingdra, who once again required a Double Team and Calm Mind combination.

-After the way the last few matches went, I decided that the best strategy was to take advantage of Grumpig and took out Wallace so easily it wasn't even fun.

-I flew over to the Pokemon League to restock before heading over to Fallarbor to go to Meteor Falls ready to face Steven.
-I started the battle and by the time I had taken out Skarmory and Claydol, I had used about 20 Hyper Potions, and half my Pokemon were below half HP. In the battle with Armaldo, I realised that I had to sacrifice Exploud in order to let Tentacruel one hit Armaldo with Surf. After losing both Beautifly and Duncan, I finally got a break when Metagross missed with Meteor Mash allowing Blaziken to open up with a critical Flamethrower finishing my run.

Bugs/Beautifly

Bugs started off bad, became good then gradually got worse and worse until the 7th gym at which point she became pretty useless. All in all, I regret using her over Hariyama late in the game.
Caught at level 6 in Petalburg Woods, died against Steven at level 50.
RATING: 2/10

Rusty/Exploud

Similar to Bugs, started off bad, became good and gradually worsened. Fortunately for me, he never really got to the same level of uselessness that Bugs got to by far, but struggled after the 8th gym due to his lack of defense.
Caught at level 6 in Rusturf Tunnel, died against Steven at level 50.
RATING: 4.5/10

Taka/Tentacruel

Taka was pretty fantastic the moment she evolved but was only on my team following the 8th gym meaning she didn't get the time the top 3 did, but had she, she would've easily made it into the top 3.
Caught at level 30 on Route 124, survived at level 51.
RATING: 8/10

Pelly/Pelipper

Pelly was a great team member all through my run, but lacked the skill of Taka, yet made it into the top 3 due to helping me all the way through my run. I'd still recommend Swellow over Pelipper.
Caught at level 4 on Route 104, survived at level 52.
RATING: 8.2/10

Duncan/Grumpig

Duncan would have topped this list had he been as useful prior to the 8th gym as he was for Juan, the Elite Four and Steven. Unfortunately, he wasn't and therefore doesn't take the top spot and settles for a close second.
Caught at level 22 on Jagged Pass, died against Steven at level 53.
RATING: 9.7/10

Infernus/Blaziken

Infernus was there from the start all the way to the end and didn't even die throughout the entire nuzlocke, and never got even close to it. The reason I defeated at least half of the gym leaders and the primary reason I defeated Steven, because nothing else I had stood a chance against his Metagross. Continues on as my favourite Pokemon.
Caught at level 5 on Route 101, survived at leve 51.
RATING: 10/10

PC:


Deceased:

Man, this part starts very nicely
On the way to Rock Tunnel my Diglett died to a Geodude's Magnitude 9 (I got Magnitude 6)

On Route 10 I wanted to catch a Voltorb, who even appeared
BUT I FORGOT TO BUY POKEBALLS!
So I had just 1 Pokeball left and guess what, he broke out
So I decided to train my Magikarp a bit up, because Gyarados will be very helpful against all these rock types.

I failed catching a Mankey, but Gyarados could level up to the teams level(Water Pulse was very good, thanks Misty). After the tunnel I caught a Growlithe at Route 8

At Celadon City I got an Eevee and evolved it to Jolteon (taught Shock Wave)

Then I bought some Dig and Brick Break for my Pokes
Normally I do the Rocket HQ first, but I wanted to do the gym
Pidgeotto and Charmeleon were really good and they even defeated Erika easily.

My team after Erika


All images: http://imgur.com/a/GSTMG

Dead: Beedrill Lv4-10, Spearow Lv5-18, Diglett Lv21-24

Team ranking:
1. Nidoking
2. Raticate
3. Jolteon
4. Pidgeotto
5. Gyarados
6. Charmeleon

The Rocket HQ was no big problem

Also Gary got defeated easily again and I caught a Gastly

After that I fought Marowak and got the Poke Flute.
Then I caught a Snorlax

I decided to take the Bicycle Road first
Muks are extremly annoying, especially when they use Minimize and Acid Armor
You see how much HP Muk has left???
Just because Quick Attack missed (thx to Minimize)
After that accident I put Snorlax into my team.

These are my caughts (Safari Zone and the Routes on the East of Fuchsia)



After doing all the training routes and stuff like that I went to the Fighting Gym
Pidgeotto was at Level 35 when it battled the Leader
I used Fly on the last Pokemon, Hitmonchan. After this fight Pidgeotto would evolve.
But Hitmonchan knows SKY UPPERCUT!!!
So Pidgeotto died. Man he was so close to his evolution.

After the battle I picked Hitmonlee and decided to train him to Level 33.
STAB Brick Break is very powerful. (especially against all the rock pokes in Rock Tunnel)

Before entering Silph Scope I saved my game.
This is my team:


Dead: Beedrill Lv4-10, Spearow Lv5-18, Diglett Lv21-24, Raticate Lv4-32, Pidgeotto Lv 16-35

All images: http://imgur.com/a/GSTMG

Team Ranking:
1. Jolteon
2. Charmeleon (it learned Flamethrower)
3. Nidoking
4. Hitmonlee
5. Snorlax
6. Gyarados

After beating some Rocket Grunts in Silph Scope my Charmeleon finally evolved

Giovanni and Gary are again no problem:

Then I fought Koga and his gym
His Muk really went on my nerves, because it used again Minimize and Acid Armor
So Jolteon and his Shock Wave was my only option, but a Sludge did quiete a lot(a bit under half), so it was a very long battle
All his other pokemon were defeated by Charizard

Sabrina was really easy. Snorlax OHKOed Alakazam and Kadabra and 2HKOed Mr.Mime, Charizard OHKOed Venomoth

My team after I got my 6th badge

Ah, I forgot to say that I got a Lapras in Silph Scope


All images: http://imgur.com/a/GSTMG

Dead: Beedrill Lv4-10, Spearow Lv5-18, Diglett Lv21-24, Raticate Lv4-32, Pidgeotto Lv 16-35

Team ranking:
1. Charizard
2. Snorlax
3. Hitmonlee
4. Jolteon
5. Nidoking
6. Gyarados

Because I can surf now I want to challenge the legendary birds
But first I caught a Voltorb in the Power Plant

Nidoking was a bit underleveld, but Rock Tomb Crit and Poison Point finished Zapdos

Then I went to Arcticune (first encounter Zubat :-( )
Charizard was lucky, because Articuno just used Ice Beam once.

My new Pokes:



The battle against Blaine was harder than I thought.
Nidoking got burned by a Fire Blast from Rapidash and Gyarados got critted by Arcanine's BodyCheck, But Surf was a solid 2HKO and I got my 7th badge.

My team at the end of the gym:


Team ranking:
1. Charizard
2. Snorlax
3. Nidoking
4. Jolteon
5. Gyarados
6. Hitmonlee

Dead: Beedrill Lv4-10, Spearow Lv5-18, Diglett Lv21-24, Raticate Lv4-32, Pidgeotto Lv 16-35

All images: http://imgur.com/a/GSTMG

Ok, I thought that someday Hitmonlee and High Jump Kick will kill himself, but it really happened after he got poisoned after defeating a Nidorino AND Hitmonlee got critted by a Sandslash's Swift (same trainer)

I caught a Geodude

And killed Moltres (sry for the pic)

AFter finishing the missions on the islands I could finally go to my PC and burial Hitmonlee.
Here are my caughts: (the rest of the wild pokes were Spearows and so)


Because Hitmonlee fainted I decided to train Exeggcute, which evolved to an Exeggcutor

My team before I enter the last gym


Team ranking:
1. Charizard
2. Nidoking
3. Jolteon
4. Exeggcutor
5. Snorlax
6. Gyarados

Dead: Beedrill Lv4-10, Spearow Lv5-18, Diglett Lv21-24, Raticate Lv4-32, Pidgeotto Lv 16-35, Hitmonlee Lv25-41

All images: http://imgur.com/a/GSTMG

Current Team:
All dead

Dead Pokemon:Worker (Patrat) died to CHeren's Lillipup
Percy (Oshawott) died to Cheren's Lillipup
Misty (Purrloin) died to CHeren's Lillipup