The Nuzlocke Challenge Thread [R/S/E]

Started by RaveSage April 30th, 2010 8:59 PM
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~The Nuzlocke Challenge Thread~

Hello and welcome to the Nuzlocke Challenge Thread. Here you can post about your Nuzlocke adventures and experience another new and exciting way to play your Pokemon games. The Nuzlocke Challenge can have many different rule sets to make the challenge harder or easier on oneself, but the main idea of the Nuzlocke challenge is that if your Pokemon faints, they are "dead" and you must release them or just box them away and not use them for the rest of the challenge. Really, you're goal should be to make things as hard as you honestly think you can handle and see how it goes. This thread's main ruleset will be based on my own modified rules but you can change them in any way you'd like in the spirit of the challenge.

~Rules
  1. If a Pokemon in your party faints, you must release it ASAP. You cannot use Revives.
  2. When you reach a new Route/Cave/Town/Ect. you can only catch the first Pokemon you see in that Area. You are allowed to have Pokemon in your PC box as "backup" for when you need new members to replace fainted ones.
  3. If you fail to catch the first Pokemon you see for ANY reason then you've missed out on your chance to get a Pokemon from that area. Because of this rule, you cannot catch any Pokemon on Route 1, ect. if you saw one there.
  4. You may only buy up to 10 Pokeballs from each Pokemart.
  5. You are not allowed to use Legendary Pokemon.
  6. If a town contains Gift Pokemon, you may treat these as your captured Pokemon for said area. For example, the Eevee you obtain from Bill in Goldenrod.
  7. Nickname all of your Pokemon so you have an attachment to them. "Each Pokemon is a best friend to you, to see them die is heartbreaking." (Not really a required rule, but makes things fun.)
  8. If you black out (all party Pokemon faint) and you have no backups in your PC, it's Game Over.
  9. You are not allowed to use any healing items outside of battle.
  10. You are not allowed to switch out before the trainer sends in his next Pokemon. (Change that setting in the Options Menu)
  11. No trading between games, hacking pokemon, ect. You know, stay in the spirit of the challenge...

~Challengers Post saying which game you're doing the challenge on if you'd like to be on this list.

~FireRed

~LeafGreen

Cephix

~Ruby

FinalMaster
minchan

~Sapphire

Doctor Who

~Emerald

RaveSage
hack1

~Other Rules You can add these to make your hell more special. Post if you have a suggestion for this list.

  • You may only heal at a town's Pokemon Center's once.
  • You may not buy any pokeballs.
  • You may not buy any healing items.
  • You may not use any healing items.

~Sig Add-ons

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Age 31
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Talked with someone and I've decided to change this to a general Nuzlocke thread. If anyone's interested in the challenge feel free to post. :)

Also, I'll be adding more areas to the OP talking about ways to share your Nuzlocking adventures.
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Yeah, I just need to get one for the D/P/Pt board and I'll have em all. Hoping this gets as popular as the other challenge threads. :)

As for my run of Emerald, I've got 7 more episodes up for your viewing pleasure.

Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 PaRT 14

FinalMaster

dededededededededededede

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14.7 Years
Mmmkay. I'm already up to Rustboro City, and I have already restarted once and in this file lost a Wurmple named JiggIt. Just caught a Zigzagoon on the way to Rusturf Tunnel, even though I haven't beaten Roxxane yet. Going to grind 'till itls safe to face her with my retardedly rock-weak team. Don't blame me if several 'mon die.

Current Team:
Ninjaido (Torchic)
GigaGullet (Taillow)
Rippo (Zigzagoon)
Currently doing nothing.
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A quick question, can we soft reset?

I mean, if I want a better Pokemon on a said route/cave/town, I'd reset.
Yeah, as I said, it's good to stay in the spirit of the challenge. Some people do SR but that's not really fair game.

FinalMaster, if you want to be on the list, I at least need to know which game your using.
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I'm gonna try this out. I'll be using Ruby. I might not update a lot but I'll do my best to do so.

EDIT: Here's a copy-paste from the text file I'm keeping track of this challenge with:

POKEMON RUBY NUZLOCKE CHALLENGE

LAST UPDATED ON: MONDAY, MAY 3RD, 2010

IN GAME NAME: BOBERTO

POKEMON LIST:

LOCATION MET-SPECIES-NICKNAME-KILLED BY

ROUTE 101-MUDKIP-NORBERT-N/A
ROUTE 102-POOCHYENA-IRYNA-N/A

FAILED AND COMPLETED LOCATIONS:

ROUTE 101
ROUTE 102
ROUTE 103

POKEMARTS USED:

OLDALE TOWN
EDIT2: By the way, I came up with "BOBERTO" on my own, but the Pokemon nicknames are all generated with this random name generator. Just thought I'd include that tidbit of information.

I'll try to update again as soon as I complete more of the game.
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Just because I'm curious, minchan, which language will you be using?
English. Why does it matter? And why would I not use English? It's the only language I can speak and understand fluently...

Phye

The Eternal Night :.

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Hey, are you allowed to use Fire Red or Leaf Green in this challenge? I didn't find a specific thread for those games. If so I would like to do the challenge on leaf green.

EDIT: I've started the challenge, but if I'm not allowed to do it on Leaf Green for this topic I will do it for myself since it sounds like fun.
.:Currently Working On:.
Pokémon ACE - The Game of Life
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I'm taking Emerald. First update coming soon.

Update 1

-Told stupid professor that I'm a boy
-Named myself xD for no logical reason
-I'm on a moving truck for some reason
-Jumped out, saw my Mom
-Setted clock in my room
-Went out
-Saw a Pokeball on my neigbour's room
-Tried to stole it
-A random girl stopped me :(
-Went to route 101
-Idiot professor was attacked by Zigzagoon
-Saved him with a Mudkip
-Stoled Mudkip, named it Yay!
-Went to route 101 again
-Killed few wild Pokemons and grinded Yay! to lv. 6
-Saw a Pokemon on route 103 :(
-Tossed May, and Yay! grew to level 7 :)
-Got Pokeballs and Dex from Birch
-Got runnung shoes
-Entered to route 102... What pokemon will I get...?
-A Lotad! It's better than a Zigzagoon :)
-Grinded them...

End of update 1

EDIT: I'm on rustrobo now. I captured Poochyena, Wurmple and Nincada but Poochyena and Nincada died :(
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Hey, are you allowed to use Fire Red or Leaf Green in this challenge? I didn't find a specific thread for those games. If so I would like to do the challenge on leaf green.

EDIT: I've started the challenge, but if I'm not allowed to do it on Leaf Green for this topic I will do it for myself since it sounds like fun.
I somehow forgot about FR and LG when making this thread. I'll add it in the OP and get a mod to edit it in later.

Adding in new challengers and here's a few updates from me as well.

~

Check out my Playlist to catch up on my Nuzlocke run of Moemon Emerald!

Episode 20: TIME WARP
Due to technical difficulties and me not learning my lesson, you get to miss out on some mostly unexciting trainer battles and skip on to Meteor Falls. One pokemon caught off screen during the broken recording and we finally advance the plot some. Onward to Mt. Chimney!

Episode 21: Aaxie and Mrchie
You'll understand the title (maybe) as you watch the segment. We head up to Mt.Chimney and beat the snot out of some pirates and occult members. Then we get some DELICIOUS cookies. Soon we'll get to the next town and fight Flannery The Flamer.

Team Pre and Post Episodes 20-21
Spoiler:


Those who have died
AKA - MS Rival's Torchic
AKA - Tailow or Super Tailow Brawly's Makuhita

grey†fish

not black or white… or gray :]

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13.2 Years
nice! just when i was getting bored of monotypes, there suddenly is this awesome concept! :D
i'll start on ruby! x)

so far i've:

threw a die and picked torchic (this is the first time i ever use torchic so it'll be interesting)
and yeah… more to come :P

EDIT: I got up to Roxanne and whited out… T_T

anyways, I started with a Mudkip this time (so hopefully that'll help :\)
and upon reaching route 102 the first Pokémon I ran into was Ralts!!! (which made me jolt and hit my head on the roof from my bunk), I caught it, and two Zigzagoons after that I ran into a Surskit!!! (… I don't know about you guys, but this is only second time I ever run into one this early, and it's freaking cool!)… so I caught it, and as of now it is sitting in a box in my PC which I named PURGATRY (purgatory… ¬¬)… and I was wondering if it was cool if I used it? :]

I'll leave it in PURGATRY until I hear from you, just keep in mind that it isn't a nice place to be in!… it's not bad, but it's not good either :| :P

QUESTIONS:

1.) May I use Surskit as an exception even though I caught it in the same route after Ralts?
2.) Can we catch Pokémon in the 'area' of route 104 after the Petalburg Woods? (I haven't gotten the items behind the Flower Shop just because I don't know if I can catch them or not :\)

Ultimate Monotype Challenge: 50%


Yellow - Complete! ( )
Gold - Complete! ( )

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To greyfish: Q2: Personnely I wouldn't because it is the same route but that my opinion

Also I have started a Nuzlocke on Fire Red.

I am at cerulean I think but I might still be In mt.moon.

My team is around 15-17 And I have a Watotle named avenger \, a Pidgey named slicer, a Geodude named Roller, and a Mankey(forgot Nickname)

Ihaveonly had one death which was arattata named cruncher who died from a crit.

I also have 2 backups.
Weedle and Spearow

Current Challenges

Kanto-Johto-Hoenn-Sinnoh-Unova

Kanto-Johto-Hoenn-Sinnoh-Unova

Completed Challenges

Platinum Bronzong(Belte)
Solo Challenge

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13.9 Years
Brawly killed my team... Can I start on Fire Red?
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nice! just when i was getting bored of monotypes, there suddenly is this awesome concept! :D
i'll start on ruby! x)

so far i've:

threw a die and picked torchic (this is the first time i ever use torchic so it'll be interesting)
and yeah… more to come :P

EDIT: I got up to Roxanne and whited out… T_T

anyways, I started with a Mudkip this time (so hopefully that'll help :\)
and upon reaching route 102 the first Pokémon I ran into was Ralts!!! (which made me jolt and hit my head on the roof from my bunk), I caught it, and two Zigzagoons after that I ran into a Surskit!!! (… I don't know about you guys, but this is only second time I ever run into one this early, and it's freaking cool!)… so I caught it, and as of now it is sitting in a box in my PC which I named PURGATRY (purgatory… ¬¬)… and I was wondering if it was cool if I used it? :]

I'll leave it in PURGATRY until I hear from you, just keep in mind that it isn't a nice place to be in!… it's not bad, but it's not good either :| :P

QUESTIONS:

1.) May I use Surskit as an exception even though I caught it in the same route after Ralts?
2.) Can we catch Pokémon in the 'area' of route 104 after the Petalburg Woods? (I haven't gotten the items behind the Flower Shop just because I don't know if I can catch them or not :\)

Nope, rules state you can only catch the first one you find. Since you already caught it you can just keep it there if you want and just not use it.

No, different areas of the same route are still the same route. This extends even to the desert area of Route 111, diffrent floors in caves, all that jazz.

Will edit in new challengers after I'm off work. Also, I found a Super Hard set of Nuzlocke rules made by Dracoyoshi8 of Smogon. I'll quote it in the OP later as well. Once I finish with Moemon Emerald I'll be doing Draco's Nuzlocke (I call it Dracolocke.) in some other pokemon hack. Most likely one that's been competed here on PC so any suggestions for which one I should use would be good (other than Quartz!). :)

Also, is anyone interested in making add-ons? We could really use some.
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Update 1:
Spoiler:





Adventure begins.




Let's go away from this town.



Oh, really? I have that giant ? thing, you know.



Let's stole this then...



...And give it a nice nickname.



Oh, cops.

:t001: VS :t004:



I know, I know.



This is not good.



I have potionz.



:t001: Wins
End of update 1.



Update 2:

Spoiler:





Hopefully I won't run into wild Pokemons.



On last patch of grass :(







Let's head to Route 22.





Yay! Let's train it.




Later...



Let's capture something from route 2.










Dang.

End of update 2.

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Update!
You can watch the challenge here if you like as well =P

I've beaten Brock and I'm on my way to Misty atm.

Pokémon Successfully Caught:.
Pallet Town - Charmander :: Chizu ::
Route 22 - Mankey :: Primea ::
Mt. Moon - Geodude :: Gloria ::
Viridan Forest - Kakuna :: Beebe ::
Route 03 - Mankey :: Pia ::

Pokémon I failed to Catch:.
Route 01 - Pidgey
Route 02 - Pidgey
.:Currently Working On:.
Pokémon ACE - The Game of Life

560cool.

An old timer?

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I just beat Steven on Ruby, so I'll migrate some Pokemon over to HeartGold and restart !
QUESTION : Can I catch some legenddaries then box them and never use them ? I want to migrate Groudon and Regis to my HeartGold. So can I ??

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
UPDATE 1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

-Hi Prof. Bitchrch !
-I am a boy !
-My name is ... ummm, yeah, I kinda forgot ...
-Yes ! It's DINELUS ! Who was so stupid to name me like this !
-I'll get a Pokemon ? COOL !
-Wait, why am I draining away ?
-NOOOOOOO !!!
-Oh ... a truck ?
-It stopped !
-Where am I ? Hell ?
-Oh, hi mum ! Are we dead ?
-NO ! Go to your room and set the clock !
-*sets clock, sees dad on TV, met May, saves the b***h from a Poochyena*
Spoiler:


Coward ...

-Woah ! This Torchic was quite good !
-It's mine ? Yes, a nickname ...
-Hmmm ....
Spoiler:


lol

-No Pokemon on Rt. 101 ?? I must be lucky !
-Odd town ! *heals, moves on*
-On ...
-And on ...
-Encounters Wingull ! *no POKEBALLS !!*
-Fuuu........
-Whoa ! May !
Spoiler:

-Phew !!
-Gets PokeBalls and PokeDex !
-It seems I can run only with these shoes ... ?
-Catches *DRUMROLL* .... On route 101
Spoiler:

-Catches (see above) on Route 104.
-Nickes BOIJDERIH (I stopped RNGing).
-Boxed BOIJDERIH.
_End of Update 1.

Party :
:t255: OLEKARULA Lv. 6 ; Scratch, Growl -> Littleroot Town
:t265: BIJEFKRAB Lv. 3 ; Tackle, String Shot -> Rt. 101

Boxed :

:t265: BOIJDERIH Lv. 3 ; Tackle, String Shot -> Rt. 102

Dead :

NONE

Failed to catch Pokemon : Rt. 103

Normal text and bottom pictures updates from now on.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
UPDATE 2
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Well, quite a lot happened in a little time ...
I grinded Bijefkrab (f***ing nickname) and ...
Spoiler:

I battled trainers, grinded, Wallyed ...
Spoiler:


No certain losses. But...
On my Rt. 104 and Petalburg Woods Encounters I got ...
Spoiler:

And
Spoiler:

And killed them for XP. >.<
Stocked up on PokeBalls ...
Spoiler:

I once got into trouble with a wild Wurmple (I am a bug magnet) which poisoned me with Poison Sting. I was in Petalburg Woods with Bijefkrab poisoned and no Antidotes. Then, he used Shed Skin and saved himself ...
THAT WAS CLOSE !! xD
Now I saved in Petalburg. Next update coming soon !

Team :

:t255:OLEKARULA Lv. 8 ; Scratch, Growl, Focus Energy -> Littleroot Town
:t266:BIJEFKRAB Lv. 7 : Tackle, String Shot, Poison Sting, Harden -> Rt. 101

Boxed :

:t265: BOIJDERIH Lv. 3 : Tackle, String Shot -> Rt. 102

Dead :

NONE

Failed to catch Pokemon :
Rt. 103, Rt. 104, Petalburg Woods.

++++++++++++++++++++++++
UPDATE 3
++++++++++++++++++++++++

Doom happens.
For pictures, see lower part ! Also have DSi change to contain text.
Okay. So things were OK. No particular horrors, criticals, misses.
The worst thing was when the youngster on the beach lowered Bijefkrab to 5 HP with Bide and Olekarula to 1 HP with his Taillow. I managed to heal, but ...
BIJEFKRAB DIED !!!
Against the rich boy's Zigzagoon. Critical Tackle with Tail Whip was enough to get him down.
Okay, I had Boijderih as backup and grinded. Still haven't done Petalburg.


Team :

:t255:OLEKARULA Lv. 10 ; Scratch, Growl, Focus Energy, Ember -> Littleroot Town
:t266:BOIJDERIH Lv. 7 : Tackle, String Shot, Poison Sting, Harden -> Rt. 101

Boxed :

-None- I'm in trouble down here ...

DEAD : (boxed away in Box 14) :


:t266:BIJEFKRAB Lv. 7 : Tackle, String Shot, Poison Sting, Harden -> Rt. 101 <- Zigzagoon

+++++++++
BIG UPDATE
+++++++++

No photos this time ! :(
Okay, so I rese, fell and rose again ...
I've done Petalburg Woods and beat anything in my way. BOIJDERIH even evolved into Beautifly and learned Absorb for PWNing Roxanne. I found a Nincada I killed on Rt. 116 and, thus, missed my chance. I got a Whismur in Rusturf Tunnel and deposited it. I named it HATE U because it almot killed OLEKARULA with a critical Uproar.
I was confident that, befor attempting Roxanne, I should grind carefully to make Olekarula evolve into Combusken and Boijderih to learn Absorb. And so I did. And I challenged the gym ...

BOSS BATTLE vs. ROXANNE - Rock type Gym Leader !

Spoiler:
I began the fight with Boijderih attempting to use Absorb on her Geodude. He remained with 1/5 of its HP, then used Rock Tomb which landed critical and killed darlinng Boijderih ... :( :(
Of course Olekarula then beat Roxanne ruthlessly... at least to avenge Boijderih ...

BOSS BATTLE - WON !!
Losses : Boijderih the Beautifly...


Out of desperation, I took the backup Whismur and it died in the 1st battle !;_;. And so, I kept going to beat Team Magma in Rusturf Tunnel, then headed for Dewford. I caught a Magikarp with an Old Rod in Dewford itself, and accidentaly forgot to nickname it. It lulls around in my box for now !
On Rt. 106 I caaught a Tentacool which poisoned my Olekarula. NO big DMG, I was close to the PC anyways. Decided to use it, nicknamed PSN DUDE. (she's a girl, I'll rename her PSN LASS !).
In Granite Cave, I caught the diseaseous, annoying, and always-present ... ZUBAT ! Also forgot to give a nickname (lol, I should be more patient) and grew PSN DUDE from Lv. 8 to ... Lv.9.
Grinding to be continued, then to attemtp Brawly !

-------------------------------------------------------------------

"""""""""
TEAM
"""""""""

:t256: OLEKARULA Lv.17; f; @Quick Claw; Ember, Double Kick, Cut, Peck, Littleroot Town

:t072: PSN DUDE Lv. 8; f; Poison Sting, Supersonic; Rt. 116

"""""""""
BACKUP
"""""""""

aka Backup Box :

:t129: MAGIKARP Lv. 8; f; Splash; Dewford Town
:t041: ZUBAT; Lv.7; f; Leech Life, Supersonic; Granite Cave

""""""
DEAD
""""""

aka RIP Box

:t266:BIJEFKRAB Lv. 7 : Tackle, String Shot, Poison Sting, Harden -> Rt. 101 <- Zigzagoon

:t293: HATE U Lv.5 : Uproar, Pound; Granite Cave; Whismur

:t267: BOIJDERIH Lv. 13; f; Gust, Absorb, Poison Sting, String Shot; Rt. 102; Geodude.

Also, I'm noticing this is quite dead... I'll inform RaveSage right away ! :)
Thanks, 560cool !
Well, okay. I'm here just to chat with people. Don't really care about signatures and stuff.