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Old November 18th, 2009 (1:46 PM).
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Sorry for the absence, I kinda got a little bored with the challenge but no I'm interested in it again so here are more updates.

+Beat Iron Island
+Defeated Byron, a lot easier than I expected despite how long it took me to beat the trainers...
+Made it through Mt. Coronet and inot the snow route
+Despite me being anal about fight every trainer, I skipped most of the trainers on this route due to me just hating it so much.
+Defeated Candace
+Beat the Galactic HQ
+Currently making my way to Spear Pillar

Don't expect any more updates, I probably won't update until I get to the Elite Four, but I may go earlier
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Old November 20th, 2009 (8:12 AM). Edited November 22nd, 2009 by mondays suck.
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I beat Wake on first attempt, but i got a bit lucky.
First i got a Rollout crit on Gyara and OHKOd it. Then Quagsire took the next Rollout like nothing, but Tail Whipped instead of attacking. Wasted turn, good for me. Then i got another crit, which KOd Quagsire. Then Floatzel outspeeded Dude (which was still at full HP), used Brine and Dude barely lived with 5 HP left. Rollout KOd. Level is 54 now, moves didn't change, but either Piplup or Starly learned Defog.
Next: Going to Celestic, then: Fantina

Update: Beat Fantina, and she was surprisingly hard. Drifblim died to the first Rollout, but heavily damaged Dude with its Aftermath ability. Mismagius outspeeded and severely dented Dude with Shadow Ball before dying, leaving it at something like 37 HP. Gengar outspeeded Dude as well, confused it, but not Confusion prevented me from KOing it, instead Rollout missed (stupid 99%acc). The next turn, Gengar used Shadow Claw, which did nothing, but Dude hurt itself, and was at 7 HP. Then, Gengar used something that failed (Spite i think), Rollout hit but didn't KO. Next turn, Gengar used Poison Jab, which did 3 damage (4HP left), but poisoned Dude. Luckily, it snapped out of confusion and finally KOd Gengar. And since this is the 4th gen, the poison faded away after some steps. Whew...
After Fantina, there was that rival battle, it was easy. Then, i did the Iron Island sidequest and leveled Dude a bit before fighting the Galatic Grunts.
Next: The unimportant routes below Sandgem where the Pal Park is located, then: Byron.


Rockstar / Geodude m Lv. 65 @ Wide Lens
141 HP, 137 Atk, 168 Def, 66 SpA, 61 SpD, 73 Spe
Naughty Nature / Rock Head
~ Rollout
~ Earthquake
~ Double Edge
~ Brick Break

Still the same moveset, but i'm planning to replace Rollout by Rock Slide. Too bad the Rock Slide TM is at Mount Coronet...


Lv.7 (Strength, D. Curl, Mud Sport, Rock Smash)
Lv.9 (Pound, Defog, Surf, Cut)
Lv.16 (Fly, Quick Attack, Wing Attack, Double Team)
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Old November 23rd, 2009 (1:28 PM).
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So anyways, I'm gonna stop with the challenge for now. I kinda got bored with so me other games and stuff...
But I made it to The Elite Four so I guess that's pretty good right?
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Old November 24th, 2009 (2:08 PM).
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Maybe I will be able to finish this challenge, but no promises since I lose motivation so easily. I'll try it with one of my favourite Pokemon, trading an egg of a Ralts over.

Name: HallwayKid
Pokemon: Ralts
Evolving: into a Kirlia
Game: Platinum

I will start the challenge sometime tomorrow.
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Old November 25th, 2009 (7:35 AM). Edited November 26th, 2009 by mondays suck.
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I beat Byron, Jupiter and Mars. Only Mars was hard, the Golbat badly poisoned Dude (now in the low 70s)and Bronzor survived a hit.
Now i'm on the way to Snowpoint, these routes are probably one of the hardest parts of the game, Hail does A LOT of damage when you've only one Pokemon.

Fun Fact: Geodude defeated a Lv.28 Goldeen, got 666 Exp and leveled to lv.66
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Old November 26th, 2009 (3:47 AM).
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Old November 26th, 2009 (6:40 AM).
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All these snowy routes were in fact pretty hard, but manageable. Candice's gym was easy, not even the puzzle caused me any problems. Candice herself: Rollout OHKOd Snover, Abomasnow and Sneasel, Medicham detected, but EQ OHKOd. Currently at the beginning of this huge Galactic HQ. Geodude is level 74, same moveset as before.
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Old December 5th, 2009 (7:11 AM). Edited December 5th, 2009 by Pachireecko.
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I have a question: Does it matter what level the pokemon is at when it's traded over?

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Old December 6th, 2009 (1:05 AM).
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I think you should trade eggs, but if you want to trade your Aron as an Aron and not as an egg, i think it should be under level 10.

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Seeing this thread is not dead, i continued on my Geodude run and cleared the Galactic HQ. Guess what is huge, time-consuming, annoying, full of inevitable double battles and comes next?
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Old December 6th, 2009 (8:29 AM).
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Old December 10th, 2009 (7:57 AM).
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I would like to participate!
I'll be buying pokemon diamond sometime in the future.
I'm going to use a budew, and I will evolve it.
More to come! ^_^
Uhm... Yeah, sorry, I haven't followed through my plan. O///O;
However, I AM going to this time, but I will use a Duskull, which I will evolve.

Again, my apologies; I kind of forgot about this.... lol

Oh, and I will be using my Platinum instead. Trading all by *good* pokemon to my brother's game for safekeeping.
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Old December 10th, 2009 (8:09 AM).
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I beat Cyrus on Mt. Coronet now, i even managed not to level up any of the HM Slaves. First i let all of them faint against a random wild Machoke or whatever it was, then all worked more or less well on my way to Spear Pillar, except for Geodude getting badly poisoning by a Golbat which made me having to sacrifice an Antidote.
Arrived at Spear Pillar, the last grunts told me i should go away because i only have one Pokemon, so i had to use a Revive on my slave Geodude, but instantly killed it with an EQ to prevent it from getting Exp.
Mars, Jupiter and Cyrus were all pretty easy, but most of Cyrus' Pokemon outspeeded Geodude, so it didn't have too many HP at the end.
And now i've to fight Palkia, which can easily outspeed and OHKO Geodude with Water Pulse, but can take an EQ (barely, on my first try, i just sent out Starly after Geodude had fainted, which got revived by my rival after Mars/Jupiter, used Quick Attack, and it killed Palkia. But i decided not to save it since it would have ruined the fact that this is a one Pokemon run. I will try again to beat Palkia later on, if it uses Ancient Power twice without getting a boost on the first one, or one Ancient Power and one Dragon Claw, i should be able to beat it. Maybe Geodude (at ~60 HP) can even survive 2 Dragon Claws, but i'm not sure about that...
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Old December 12th, 2009 (2:06 AM).
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Old December 12th, 2009 (4:07 AM). Edited December 13th, 2009 by mondays suck.
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Defeated Palkia after some more attempts, Geodude had 7 HP left after 2 Dragon Claws, whew... Luckily, no Golbat spawned on my way back.
Volkner was quite easy, the only thing that caused me some trouble in his gym was a Bibarel, that could hit first because Geodude was paralyzed, used Water Pulse, confused Geodude and left it with maybe 30 HP, but I got lucky and Geodude could use Brick Break to defeat it. Now I'm somewhere on that water route between Sunnyshore and Victory Road, Geodude is level 81, same moveset as always.
This isn't really the best place for Geodude, some of the higher Tentacruels can outspeed me, all I have seen being used by them up to now was Poison Jab, but I'm pretty sure they also have Water attacks. And I'm also pretty sure some of the trainers have a Gyarados, which is probably the Pokemon that causes me more trouble than anything else, because of Intimidate of course.

Update: Ok, i managed to pass the water route without too much problems, but now, in Victory Road, i'm having huge problems with PP. All 5 steps, something spawns, and running is a waste of time, so i fight the stuff, but that means i don't get really far, at least not fast. I think i'll first grind to the high 80s (now 84), and then go through Victory Road with repels. Otherwise wild the Floatzels and maybe also the Medichams will screw me up.
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Old December 13th, 2009 (5:31 AM). Edited December 13th, 2009 by blendaz.
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Old December 13th, 2009 (6:34 AM).
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Old December 13th, 2009 (6:43 AM).
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I have gotten bored after beating the first challenge with Skunktank,so I have decided to do another challenge, this time with Gible.

Pokemon Pearl
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So far I have traded over Gible,I tried to trade an egg,but it hatched before I could get to the Pokemon Center...

Gible is now Level 3...
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Old December 13th, 2009 (4:54 PM).
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Hmm I might do this with a Platinum Rom, my thoughts would be

Growlithe
Flamer 4.0/ Will Evolve/ Platinum

Oh, and it will be Flamer 4.0 because ever since Pokemon Red I have caught a Growlithe and called him Flamer.
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Old December 19th, 2009 (8:44 PM).
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just wondering, has anyone ever tired with a ditto? or is that just pointless?
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Old December 20th, 2009 (7:00 AM).
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Youtube says yes, there are people with Ditto only runs there.
IN FRLG someone got pretty far and already has 8 badges, but didn't defeat the Elite 4 yet. In DPPt the only Ditto only run I found ends after Roark.
So, Apparently it isn't impossible to beat the game only using a Ditto, so you could try it.
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Old December 20th, 2009 (11:50 AM).
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Picked Piplup for a starter, then traded for Gible. Caught Starly and Bidoof for HM slaves. Made my way to Oreburg City and beat Roark.
Taught Rock Smash to Bidoof.

Defeated Team Galactic at Valley Windworks. Got through Eterna Forest and Gible evolved to Gabite. Beat the Gym,though I had a little trouble with Gabite not obeying...
Got to Hearthome,recived the stuff you get at the Contest Hall. Saved Here.


-Cool Offtopic fact- Captured a Chingling somewhere, traded to Platinum,and Completed to Pokedex LEGALLY!!!! :classic:
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Old December 25th, 2009 (6:24 AM).
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I'm still in Victory Road, leveling my Geodude.
That's why I don't really like 4th generation, everything is taking eternally...
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Old December 26th, 2009 (11:21 AM).
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I'll be posting back in this thread after I beat my Platinum file.

I'll restart and hopefully someone can trade either Charmander, Dragonite, or Absol to me cause those will be on one my choices for the solo-runner.
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Old December 27th, 2009 (1:27 PM).
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Old December 27th, 2009 (1:45 PM).
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Hmm I'll do this!
Skorupi/Is Evolving/Diamond
I did one a bit ago using a Chinchou, that was very fun :D now its time for a changee.
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