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Started by Ivysaur June 1st, 2010 1:14 PM
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Do you feel more people should get into Nuzlockes?

Dr_Ukato

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Seen May 30th, 2017
Posted February 5th, 2017
15 posts
7.1 Years
Let me tell you all the story of my first Pokémon X wedlocke.
It started off good with Frank the Froakie quickly finding love in the form of Beatrice the Bunnelby.
Soon after Peter the Pansear joined the team seeking to find a lover of his own.
Alas it would not be as Peter fell victim to a Weedle's Poison Sting and was helpless as a Bunnelby savagely tore it's hitpoints to zero.
After that it was up to Billy the Bidoof to find love in his place proceeding to travel to Route 4 with his comrades in tow.
It was there he saw her! A female Farfetch'd with feathers in all the right places!
He bravely faced her in combat hoping to prove himself a worthy partner to this missus!
Alas he was swiftly torn to very smal pieces by a Fury Attack.
It was then up to Frank and Beatrice to defeat this deadly vixen! The battle was long and epic...
Until the f**cking Farfetch'd broke every single Pokéball I had and slaughtered both Frank and Beatrice ending my Wedlocke in less than an hour...
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Seen August 4th, 2016
Posted August 4th, 2016
2 posts
6.8 Years
Hello. I have an idea for a Nuzlocke variation and I'm not sure if it's actually good. I'd love to hear feedback as well as your ideas in the replies. This is designed more for X and Y but I can make an ORAS version as well. Anyway, here it is

1. Starter is chosen at random
2. You must catch one Pokemon per route, you have multiple tries, and you must wonder trade it right after
3. You can only go to each city once, except for Lumiose, and when the game requires it.
4. Lumiose is the only Pokemon Center you can heal at, but you can go to the Pokemart and use the PC
5. No Mystery Gift Pokemon
6. No reloading the game
7. Blacking out equals game over
8. No trading except for Wonder Trade
9. Even after catching the one Pokemon on the route you are on, you must fight any wild Pokemon you encounter, you can avoid trainer battles though, but it isn't suggested
10. No mega evolving
11. No TMs or HMs
12. No Everstones
13. No Pokemon variations, even the Premier ball. (Wonder trade is the only exception, as you can't control what ball the pokemon will be in.
14. Legendaries aren't aloud. Sorry
15. All Pokemon you have can faint twice, but when it faints a third time it is dead
16. Dead Pokemon must be released and can't be stored in the PC to prevent the urge to cheat
17. The only exception is your starter, if it faints, you can't use it until you beat the next gym, it can't die unless all your other pokemon die before you beat the next gym to "revive it" or all your pokemon are dead when your starter is killed
18. Once you beat the Elite Four, the "Blastlocke" is what I'll call it, is over.

Thanks for reading and make sure to leave what you think in your replies.

BlissyMKW

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I'm gonna give my opinion one at a time. I'm not trying to sound rude, but that's just how my opinions sound. Criticism helps people learn.

1. Starter is chosen at random
This one is pretty alright. I don't have anything to say about this one.

2. You must catch one Pokemon per route, you have multiple tries, and you must wonder trade it right after
Although, this one just straight up primarily takes one of the main Nuzlocke rules and throws it out the window. You only get one chance at your first encounter in a nuzlocke. Fail to catch it and you get nothing for that route. That rule just allows you to get free encounters you shouldn't be having because you failed to get your first encounter.

3. You can only go to each city once, except for Lumiose, and when the game requires it.

4. Lumiose is the only Pokemon Center you can heal at, but you can go to the Pokemart and use the PC
This, alongside rule 4, just feels...bothersome. Why can you only use Lumiose's Pokemon Center? Why would I want to waste my time trekking all the way back to that city just to get my PP back? Rule 4 overall just feels unnecessary and is just there for artificial difficulty increasing.

11. No TMs or HMs
This one either requires clarity or removal entirely. Surf is required to beat the game. So what do you do? Teach the mon Surf, then when you don't need it, Fly to the move deleter and delete Surf, or fail your challenge instantly because you can't Surf? Scald is still a better move, anyway. As for no TMs, like with rule 4, it feels like an artificial difficulty spike through a handicap, and that should be an optional rule.

12. No Everstones
This one shouldn't even be here. Who uses Everstones in the first place except for breeding in Gen 6?

15. All Pokemon you have can faint twice, but when it faints a third time it is dead
This is another shining example of killing a main Nuzlocke rule. Any Pokemon that faints once is considered dead. By allowing this, you may as well just remove the nuzlocke variant concept overall because it's doubtful someone will get the same mon killed three times.


16. Dead Pokemon must be released and can't be stored in the PC to prevent the urge to cheat
This ties into the whole "Surf is required" thing. So what if all your Surf users are dead? Catch a slave or give up the locke? You should be allowed to permabox mons, because you're doubtfully going to use them aside from HMs when you have absolutely nothing you can use.


17. The only exception is your starter, if it faints, you can't use it until you beat the next gym, it can't die unless all your other pokemon die before you beat the next gym to "revive it" or all your pokemon are dead when your starter is killed
I'm not gonna beat a dead horse here. Please see my Rule 15 opinion.


One other thing. This isn't exactly the right section for a post like this. You'd get better reception from the Challenges section, more specifically, the Challenge Ideas and Discussions thread. I'll leave a link down below for you to take a gander at. Anyway, I hope you take a look and consider my opinions, and have a good day.

http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=220776
Seen August 8th, 2016
Posted August 4th, 2016
3 posts
6.8 Years
Nuzlocke rules but also once you a beat a gym you must retire (perma box) your highest level Pokemon used in the gym battle.
Other rules:
1) can only have one of each species of Pokemon alive or dead
2) no legendaries
3) cannot buy revives but can use found revives to bring back dead or retired Pokemon. This is the only way to bring Pokemon back.
4) no item during battles
5) cannot reuse starters when replaying.

I've played this rules all throughout my childhood. Now trying to get back into Pokemon. Have fun.
Tip: always be switch training someone. Think multiple gyms ahead. Don't over level any of your Pokemon

Sydian

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Seen May 22nd, 2022
Posted November 29th, 2021
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Moving this to Challenges to merge with the Challenge Idea and Discussion thread. You're more likely to get advice there than here.
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I don't know if anybody else thought of this yet, but early game pokemon challenge. You can only use your starter and the pokemon you catch on the early routes, such as rattata and pidgey. There would be a certain point where you can no longer catch any pokemon, like in rby would be cerulean city, in gsc it would be goldenrod city. What do you think?
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Posted April 5th, 2017
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6.9 Years
Bug Catcher challenge: The only Pokemon allowed for you in battle is a bug type. You have to catch any kind of bug type Pokemon as soon as possible, and from that point only bug type Pokemons are allowed in battle. You have to catch every single wild bug type encounter, and if you run from/faint a wild bug type, you have to release one of your bug types. If you do not have any more bug types left, you lose the challenge and you have to restart the game. Catching other Pokemons is allowed, but not for battling purposes. If you lose in a battle (left with no Pokemons at all, of all types) you have to release two bug types. If all bug type Pokemons on your party faint and you are left only with non-bug type pokemons, use them to continue the battle. Then heal your bug tpyes as soon as possible when finished. (Again; if you lose, you have to release two bug types.) Using repels in foreset is not allowed.
I hope you like this challenge. I tried making it as much bug type related, balanced and not impossible.

Emogo | Drakomence | Bluesprint
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Seen July 27th, 2022
Posted December 13th, 2018
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I don't know if anybody else thought of this yet, but early game pokemon challenge. You can only use your starter and the pokemon you catch on the early routes, such as rattata and pidgey. There would be a certain point where you can no longer catch any pokemon, like in rby would be cerulean city, in gsc it would be goldenrod city. What do you think?

Something very similar was on the forums like, 3 years ago. I have no idea how I remembered it off the top of my head, I didn't even finish the dang thing.
Seen September 4th, 2021
Posted February 22nd, 2021
8 posts
7.2 Years
So,I'm thinking on doing a challenge(my first one,at that!) one somewhat unique.

I'm gonna try to beat Pokemon X,first town with a Pokecenter all the way to Diantha...with a team composed of six Dittos!

I used Power Saves only to clone my level 13 Ditto on Alpha Sapphire,to ensure all six Dittos have the exact same level and stats on the start. Their ability will be Imposter,to Transform immediatly as the battle begins.

Now,here are the rules I'm imposing to myself:

All main story battles must be fought by the Dittos,including the Gym Leaders and Diantha.

Healing items and equipment items are allowed,though no Pokeball may be on the inventory unless they are needed.

The only instance a Pokemon is allowed to be caught is before parts that demand an HM(As obviously Ditto can't learn any),and even so,the sixth Ditto must return to the party as soon as possible.

Legends and gift Pokemon are allowed to be caught,however,but they must be transfered via Pokebank to Alpha Sapphire as soon as they are caught to keep the run Ditto only even on post game battles. Only Pokemon allowed to stay on X's boxes are HM slaves that are needed to proceed.

What do you guys think of this? ^_^ Any suggestions or oppinions? ^_^
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Posted August 8th, 2022
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13.9 Years
Is there any challenge that involve multiplayer? Like a group of people do a challenge, and after every gym they could battle each other for some reward? Like for pinks, or like for a Nuzlocke a revival etc?
I think this would be pretty difficult to set up, because people might get discouraged or lack time to play, but it is insanely fun. It's something I sometimes do with irl friends, we do a speedrun, then battle at the end. So not only do we need to go through the game fast, but we also need a decent team in the meanwhile :P. If we have a way to battle reliable, I'd love to join this though. Or we could just do it with both of us, if nobody else is interested.
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Seen September 26th, 2016
Posted August 19th, 2016
13 posts
6.8 Years
Well I have a very exclusive challenge, of sorts. Remember how in Gen 4 there were blue and red towns/cities? What if you can only use the pokécenters in blue towns (once per visit, and no medicines allowed), and flying are disallowed. You also cannot turn go back to places the same way you got to where you were if possible. Sorry if this goes over something already said, but 200+ pages is a little much x_x
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Seen September 25th, 2017
Posted July 14th, 2017
238 posts
7.5 Years
No Capture Challenge

1: You cannot use Pokemon you capture in the wild in battle.
2: You cannot use Pokemon transferred from another game in battle.
3: You can use event Pokemon, as long as you received them in that game or the demo.
4: You can use Pokemon that join you from Isle Abeens.
5: Soft resetting to get the natures you want is allowed.

Anyone interested in trying this challenge for their Sun & Moon play-through?

Sydian

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Seen May 22nd, 2022
Posted November 29th, 2021
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So basically a gift challenge? That's not exclusive to Sun/Moon, actually. It's able to be done in pretty much every main game, though it's harder in some as compared to others, like RSE where there aren't many gift Pokemon. But yeah, feel free to post it if you'd like. There doesn't seem to be an active thread for it at the moment.
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Sydian

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I normally wouldn't discuss this publicly, but since you've already mentioned forgetting something and I just reviewed it, did you forget to add your sign up?
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Posted October 24th, 2016
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I normally wouldn't discuss this publicly, but since you've already mentioned forgetting something and I just reviewed it, did you forget to add your sign up?
Yeah, that was an error on my part. I was going to add that after it gets added.

Honestly, I don't mind that challenge not being added, since my newest one is the one I put 2 hours into by typing and re-typing and re-typing it up. I will be participating in the new challenge I made, once it gets posted, I'll probably be the 1st comment on it.

If there is a problem, I will add myself to the PARTICIPANTS list in the main challenge post and re-send it back in. To be honest, I completely forgot abot the other challenge I made before my Gender oriented one.

[RE-UPDATED my newest challenge to include a video, better picture examples, and a few grammatical fixes]
(Sorry for re-sending it in again...)
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Sydian

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That's fine, but in the future, please try to proofread your challenge before submitting so that you don't send it so many times. Also keep in mind that I do have a full-time job, so if you submit it and a few hours later are already asking me about it, I probably haven't gotten home to see it. Challenges are usually approved in at least 24 hours so I ask for patience during that time and if 24 hours pass without it being approved or hearing from me, then you're free to ask me about it. Thanks!
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NohBuddy2016

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That's fine, but in the future, please try to proofread your challenge before submitting so that you don't send it so many times. Also keep in mind that I do have a full-time job, so if you submit it and a few hours later are already asking me about it, I probably haven't gotten home to see it. Challenges are usually approved in at least 24 hours so I ask for patience during that time and if 24 hours pass without it being approved or hearing from me, then you're free to ask me about it. Thanks!
Sure thing boss, sorry for messing up a bunch.
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Sydian

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It's okay, I see you only just joined this month, haha. I did plenty of sillier stuff when I first got on forums years ago. You're doing miles better than me. ;)

So, anyone else playing the Halloween event?
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It's okay, I see you only just joined this month, haha. I did plenty of sillier stuff when I first got on forums years ago. You're doing miles better than me. ;)

So, anyone else playing the Halloween event?
I am, momma birdie, but there's a chit chat section for this kinda stuff xD I always though this was strictly for discussing challenge ideas xD


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Sydian

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To tell you the truth, I'm axing that one soon. I thought having this and that one was redundant, so it's going bye bye. This is challenge ideas and discussion, after all. lol
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Ahri

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Fair enough, fair enough :D That being said, Imma go finish some of those challenges @[email protected]


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