[ROM Hack] Pokemon Storm Silver - 0 EXP Run

- Began my adventure
- Chose Totodile as my starter
- Headed off to see Mr. Pokemon
- Got stopped by the tour guide at Cherrygrove city, obtained the Old Rod from him after finishing the tour
- Cynthia hands me an Eevee outside of Mr. Pokemon's house, received the mystery egg from Mr. Pokemon and headed back to New Bark Town
- Got stopped by Silver on the way back and owned him, handed off the egg and headed towards Violet City
- Caught Shinx and Houndour on Route 46, and then Slugma within Dark Cave to help beat the trainers on the way to Violet City
- Deposited everyone but Slugma and caught Magnemite and Ekans on Route 32, Unown within the Ruins of Alph and then Glameow, Gastly, and Spinda while ascending Sprout Tower
- Swapped in Spinda and deposited Slugma before challenging Elder Li
- After beating Elder Li, he deems us worthy to challenge Falkner and I head to the Violet City gym
- The team I chose for Falkner are more or less the Pokemon I used in Sprout Tower. Reasonings shown below...

• Spinda: Has been buffed to have base 80 stats, and has access to a very solid STAB Uproar this early on
• Unown: Similarly to Spinda, Unown has had its base stats buffed across the board (base 92 Attack and Special Attack are the noteworthy ones). The Unown I caught conveniently enough has Hidden Power [Electric]
• Magnemite: 4x resistant to Flying and has pretty solid base Special Attack with Thundershock
• Ekans: Access to Intimidate, which is handy against Falkner's Pidgeotto and Murkrow
• Glameow: Emergency priority user with Fake Out and is more reliable compared to Hustle Rattata's Quick Attack
• Gastly: Switch in against Falkner's Chatot which does like to use Uproar. Hindsight, Drifloon would've been a better pick since it has Gust and the Aftermath ability

- Beat Falkner and received the Zephyr Badge. The battle overall wasn't too difficult as Spinda pretty much did most of the work and it also helped that the Pokemon I can catch are around a the same level as his team
- Received the egg from Elm's assistant and hatched it into the Togepi that I'll never ever use

- Took a detour to Route 36 to pick up HM06 Rock Smash and to the Ruins of Alph to catch a Remoraid
- Deposited Gastly and Glameow before taking on Route 32
- Caught a Psyduck on my way towards the Union Cave. I caught Remoraid and Psyduck to help out with the trainers within Union Cave
- Made it through the Union Cave and ended up in Azalea Town
- Went to the PC to store Ekans, Remoraid, and Psyduck and then poked my head into Ilex Forest to catch a Pikachu, Beedrill, and Butterfree
- Evolved Pikachu into Raichu with the Thunderstone I received from Elder Li (normally you would use the evolutionary stone on the Eevee Cynthia gives you) and taught it Shock Wave with TM34
- Entered Kurt's house to alert him about Team Rocket, headed inside Slowpoke Well
- Saved the Slowpoke after rolling Team Rocket and Proton
- Caught a Gible and Onix within the Union Cave and a higher-leveled Ekans on Route 37, then stored Magnemite, Unown and Spinda into the PC. Reasonings for the team I chose shown below...

• Butterfree: Now has 100 base Special Attack and 80 base Speed in addition to valuable Flying STAB through Air Cutter. Ideally, I would've had one with Compoundeyes to make Sleep Powder + Air Cutter significantly more reliable but, it just meant I had to reset more if things didn't land
• Beedrill: Has also been buffed like Butterfree, having 100 base Attack and 95 base Speed. Beedrill also has access to a variety of solid moves, the notable ones being Aerial Ace and Cross Poison
• Raichu: The hardest hitting Electric-type at this point, also has Quick Attack and Thunder Wave for nice utility
• Onix: Resistant to Bug and Flying while having high base Defense. Screech can potentially be useful (though I used it only a few times during my multiple trials against Bugsy)
• Gible: Rough Skin chip damage and has access to Dragon Rage for some guaranteed solid damage (barely used Gible honestly)
• Aron: 4x resistant to both Bug and Flying and has solid base Defense

- Once I finished preparing, I headed towards the Azalea City gym to to challenge Bugsy
- After many, many tries later... I receive the Hive Badge from Bugsy
- The battle honestly is legitimately the most absurd thing I've ever had to go through. That Scyther is literally the worst possible thing to ever face this early on (Technician + Swords Dance + U-Turn + Quick Attack) and most of my team had to be catered to stop it, and then the U-Turn spam was incredibly obnoxious. I did get lucky with the critical hit on Scyther but, if the critical hit didn't happen I would've just hoped the 2nd Rock Tomb landed and then Raichu would've finished it off with Shock Wave when it came back in

- Got stopped by Silver as I was headed into Ilex Forest, proceeded to beat him before moving on
- Helped the charcoal maker's apprentice rescue the runaway Farfetch'd and received HM01 Cut as a reward
- Escorted one of the Kimono Girls out of the forest, ran into Cynthia at the gate to Route 34 and received the Odd Keystone
- Arrived at Goldenrod City
- Deposited Gible, Aron, Beedrill, and Onix and went north of Goldenrod City to catch more Pokemon
- Caught a Heracross at National Park and then Vulpix, Nidorina, and Minun on Route 36. Promptly evolved Nidorina into Nidoqueen with the Moon Stone I found
- I head into the underground area and got stopped by Lyra who challenges us to a battle
- After beating Lyra and finished exploring the underground, I ended up backtracking all the way back to Azalea Town to throw the Odd Keystone into Slowpoke Weel to catch myself a Spiritomb
- Headed back to Goldenrod City to find Whitney at the Radio Tower, obtained the Radio Card and unlocked access to the gym
- Did some preparation before facing Whitney. Revived an Armor Fossil at the Archeology Center (previously the Bike Shop, you can obtain 1 of each fossil in here too) to get Shieldon, went and burned Heracross via wild Vulpix on Route 36, deposited Butterfree, Raichu and Minun and finally withdrew Onix
- Reasonings for my current team shown below, after the preparations I headed back to the gym to challenge Whitney

• Heracross: Access to Guts + Brick Break with high base Attack
• Vulpix: Never actually used it but, the intent was Vulpix could live Lickitung's Body Slam and then burn it with Will-O-Wisp allowing it to be used as setup fodder (mainly for Heracross with Bulk Up if I was struggling too much). Hindsight, I could've replaced Vulpix with something else
• Nidoqueen: Used over Nidoking mainly because it's female to ignore Attract and benefits from the damage boost from Rivalry, also has access to Dig for solid STAB
• Onix: Brought it for the same reason I brought it for Bugsy, high base Defense, good resistances, and also access to Screech
• Shieldon: 4x resistant to Normal and other assorted coverage moves (Ice Beam, Psychic, Rollout, etc.), access to Metal Sound (not useful here since most of my team is physical but, could've been if I replaced Vulpix) and Taunt
• Spiritomb: Solid Normal immunity, access to Hypnosis and completely walls Stantler and Lopunny

- Received the Plain Badge from Whitney after she stopped crying
- Battle was overall pretty easy with Heracross and Spiritomb. Miltank was the only main issue since it outsped Heracross and could take it out with Body Slam, so I had a strategy set aside for that which ended up working out in the end
- Received the SquirtBottle from the Flower Shop owner

- Stored Vulpix and Shieldon and withdrew Butterfree from the PC before heading out
- Awakened and caught Sudowoodo and moved onward to Route 37
- Arrived at Ecruteak City
- Battled the unruly Team Rocket Grunt at the theater, received HM03 Surf
- Went back to Route 37 to catch Ledian, Ariados and Noctowl and deposited Nidoqueen and Onix
- Received the Dowsing Machine and headed into the Burned Tower
- Met Eusine, Morty and Silver within the Burned Tower, Silver promptly challenges me and loses before storming off (fight was very annoying due to the amount of Rock Slide flinches)
- Entered the basement which caused the beast trio to scatter, caught a Rattata on the floor and then evolved it into a Raticate via Rare Candy before leaving. There are wild Raticates but, none of them learn Sucker Punch or Crunch since the moves are replaced by the 3 elemental fangs
- Had to change up my strategy for Morty a bit, so all my preparations included storing Ledian and Heracross, burning Raticate and catching a Seviper on Route 37. Reasonings shown below...

• Raticate: Main attacker, has access to Guts-boosted Crunch and Sucker Punch with decent Speed
• Sudowoodo: Used to break through Sableye once Seviper gets off a minimum of 2 Screeches
• Ariados: Shadow Sneak chip damage against Gengar, has a Cheri Berry to cure Thunderbolt paralysis
• Noctowl: Sets up Reflect so Seviper can come in on Sableye to use Screech
• Seviper: Screech utility against Sableye, so another party member can take it out quickly before it spams Recover
• Spiritomb: Same thing as Ariados, Shadow Sneak chip damage against Gengar and has a Cheri Berry for Thunderbolt paralysis

- Received the Fog Badge from Morty
- Battle was pretty easy once I came up with a better strategy against Gengar, Raticate could sweep through his team and Sableye was easy to break through with enough Defense drops from Screech

- Stored Spiritomb, Ariados, and Seviper into the PC and withdrew Ledian
- Steven tells us all about the legendary Plates at the Route 38 gate before leaving
- Caught a Luxio and then Electabuzz plus Dodrio with the Meridian Sound on Route 38
- Encountered Baoba right before entering Route 39 who tells us about the upcoming Safari Zone
- Ran into Silver once I've arrived at Olivine City, promptly tells us off before leaving
- Stored Ledian, Raticate, and Noctowl into the PC
- Received the Good Rod at the café
- Caught a Staryu and Tentacruel on Route 40 before tackling the Olivine Lighthouse, evolved Staryu into Starmie with a Water Stone purchased from the Department Store
- Reached the top and agreed to help Jasmine cure Amphy before going back down
- Backtracked to areas previously blocked off by water to explore (Union Cave, Ruins of Alph, etc.). Also caught a Slowbro via surfing in Slowpoke Well and Sableye in the depths of Union Cave
- Resumed the story and arrived at Cianwood City after crossing Route 40 and 41
- Withdrew Sableye and stored Electabuzz, headed north to find Suicune
- Suicune runs away and Eusine shows up to battle us for Suicune's approval. Obviously, Eusine loses and then leaves
- Headed into the gym to challenge Chuck. Besides swapping around a few items, I'll be using the same team against Chuck that I used against Eusine. As always, explanations will be shown below...

• Slowbro: The main powerhouse of the team, normally it has Zen Headbutt but I decided to use my one and only Psychic TM until Kanto since Slowbro will be sticking around for awhile. It's also physically bulky, resists Fighting and hits hard with Psychic
• Tentacruel: Sort of a filler mon, it's kind of there as a safe switch-in and it also hits decently hard with Surf
• Starmie: Secondary sweeper if Slowbro goes down due to STAB Psybeam and it's also fast
• Sableye: Safe switch-in due to immunity to Fighting, has 2 forms of emergency priority if necessary
• Luxio: Intimidate bot
• Dodrio: Another filler mon, it can deal with Chuck's Breloom and it can also work as a revenge killer if needed due to its Speed

- Received the Storm Badge from Chuck
- Obtained HM02 Fly from Chuck's wife once I left the gym
- Headed into the Cianwood pharmacy to get the SecretPotion for Amphy

- Flew back to Olivine City to deliver the SecretPotion to Jasmine
- Amphy is now cured and the lighthouse is now functional again, Jasmine then heads back to the gym
- As soon as I leave the lighthouse, Baboa calls and tells us that the Safari Zone at Cianwood City is now open... before Team Rocket attacks him during the call
- Flew back to Cianwood City to stop the Team Rocket's Safari Zone invasion (the Olivine City gym will be blocked off by a Rocket Grunt unless you do this romhack event)
- Battled my way through the Safari Zone entrance and ended up on Route 47
- Helped Mira and Buck battle some Rocket Grunts in 2 multi battles. After defeating and forcing them to retreat, the mysterious boulder blocking the entrance to the Cliff Cave magically crumbles
- Decided to update my team by storing Dodrio and catching a Steelix and Golbat within the Cliff Cave
- Rocket Executive Petrel blocks the exit of the Cliff Cave, so we have to challenge him in order to get him to move
- I get into 2 more multi- battles against the Rocket Grunts once I left the Cliff Cave, partnered up with Cheryl and Marley this time before moving on to Route 48
- Withdrew Golbat and stored Luxio, headed back to the Safari Zone and Rocket Executive Ariana blocks the way to Route 48
- After beating Ariana, I'm able to head into the Safari Zone Gate
- As I go to heal in my team up at the Pokemon Center, the Nurse Joy turned out to be a Rocket Grunt posing as her and then Archer shows up to challenge us as recompence for ruining his plans
- Luckily for me, Riley shows up to stop the 2v1 and Archer tells us to meet him at the entrance to the Safari Zone building
- Before facing off Archer, I decided to store Sableye and catch a Farfetch'd (which has buffed base stats and is now Flying/Fighting) to replace it
- I head to the Safari Zone building to challenge Archer and his lackey to a multi-battle alongside Riley
- After Archer has been defeated, Team Rocket retreats from the Safari Zone
- Riley lets us know that the Battle Frontier is now open and all the NPCs return to their rightful places