The Painfully Slow Challenge Page 3

Started by deoxys121 August 12th, 2011 7:00 PM
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deoxys121

White Kyurem Cometh

Age 31
Male
Flat Rock, MI, United States
Seen September 25th, 2016
Posted May 27th, 2012
1,254 posts
12.4 Years
I made an update to the rules regarding specific moves that are not allowed. Please see the rules for more details.

Update 3 on Black:
- Beat Cheren west of Nimbasa, then beat all the trainers on that route.
- Crossed the bridge, healed, then cleared out the Cold Storage of Team Plasma.
- Beat the Driftveil Gym relatively easily.
- Beat Bianca, then proceeded along the route to Chargestone Cave, fighting trainers.
- Went through Chargestone Cave, fighting trainers, then beat N.
- Healed, then went along the route to Celestial Tower to meet Skyla. On the way, Munna reached Lv37 and learned Psychic. I then evolved Munna. Tirtouga also evolved at Lv37.
- Went through Celestial Tower, beat all the trainers, met Skyla, then went back to Mistralton City.
- I then took on the gym. This was the easiest gym yet. It went "Iron Head, Iron Head, Iron Head, Charge Beam, I win."
Team is now:
Spoiler:
Age 31
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Posted May 27th, 2014
129 posts
12.7 Years
Update #3 time. Theres a lot of stuff this time around
  • Before the 3rd gym I did some grinding, durring that time wooper evolved
  • Beat whitney thanks to cheap usage of selfdestruct XD
  • Beat sudowoodo, did not catch it
  • After reaching Ecruteak I got a sunkern in the national park and skipped ahead to olivine to get a corsola
  • Evolved Sunkern and togepi
  • Beat the rival in the burned tower and released the legends inside
  • Beat morty despite the fact that hypnosis NEVER MISSED. I'm not even exagerating, it litteraly hit every time >_<
  • Did the lighthouse mission, crossed the sea to get the secretpotion
  • Beat eusine and chuck, getting the fith badge.
  • Returned to Olivine and beat jasmine
  • Did some grinding on the safari zone route
  • Went to Mahogany town, and to the lake of rage. Got the red gyra for the lols.
  • Beat team rocket out of their hideout
  • Beat pryce and got the seventh badge
team as of now (yes I know im underleveled): [email protected] lv 29, [email protected] lv 30, [email protected] lv 30, [email protected] lv 29, [email protected] lv 29.
I really tried to get alot done this afternoon, as this dramatic leap in progress should indicate XD.
3ds friend code: 4828 5060 0534
In game name: Sam

On the matter of my argument with Idankingo I admit to being too fast to anger and assuming the worst too quickly, and apologize for any unpleasentness caused because of it.

Squirrel

Age 28
Male
Seen 4 Days Ago
Posted July 10th, 2021
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11.7 Years
Am now back from holiday, in which I made a lot of progress but can't really remember most of the steps! Included beating Byron, Candice and Volkner (mainly Graveller), stopping team Galactic at the lakes and spear pillar, some grinding, err... I don't really remember what else... But am now on the way to the elite for to beat them and finish the challenge. Boy, this one's been pretty tough at points.

Current Team
Piplup (Level 54, Has tried to evolve many times but has always been stopped)
Graveller (Level 55, Evolved from Geodude caught in Oreburgh Mines)
Vespiquen (Level 54, Evolved from Combee caught in honey tree west of Valley Windworks)
Bibreal (Level 18, HM Slave)
Age 31
Male
Seen June 5th, 2014
Posted May 27th, 2014
129 posts
12.7 Years
Ok, update #4 time
  • Did the Goldenrod team rocket event, including defeating the rival (who ive named idk btw)
  • Traveled through the ice path, reached Blackthorn and went south to train
  • Defeated Clair, did the dragons den quest.
  • Went to Ecruteak, beat the Kimino girls. Caught Ho-oh as well.
  • Headed to the pokemon leauge. Beat idk for the last time in the kanto half of the game.
  • Trained some extra in victory road
  • Beat Will despite trouble with sleep and confusion
  • Beat koga (stupid double teaming crobat >_<)
  • Beat Bruno thanks in part to quagsire getting stronger via swagger.
  • Beat Karen. Took a few tries because of nasty plot sweeping.
  • Beat Lance in the most ungraceful manner possible (in other words, item spamming)
  • Got the ss ticket
Lv 42 quagsire, lv 42 togetic, lv 42 Forretress, lv 41 corsola, lv 40 sunflora.
Yeah, the elite four was quite difficult. Of course, I didn't grind for levels for very long so I guess it's to be expected. Oh well, next update will be starting up with the kanto half of the game.
3ds friend code: 4828 5060 0534
In game name: Sam

On the matter of my argument with Idankingo I admit to being too fast to anger and assuming the worst too quickly, and apologize for any unpleasentness caused because of it.

deoxys121

White Kyurem Cometh

Age 31
Male
Flat Rock, MI, United States
Seen September 25th, 2016
Posted May 27th, 2012
1,254 posts
12.4 Years
Update #4 for Black:
- I realized that Escavalier's ability didn't change when I hack-evolved him. I fixed that through hacking. Please make sure to change abilities accordingly if hack-evolving.
- Proceeded along the route to Twist Mountain, got Surf for Oshawott. Caught a Woobat for Fly and Flash.
- Went through Mistralton Cave and beat Cobalion.
- Beat Virizion in Pinwheel Forest.
- Fought all trainers on newly accessible water routes, got Waterfall for Oshawott.
- Continued through Twist Mountain, fighting trainers.
- Beat the Icirrus Gym; Escavalier soloed Brycen with Iron Head.
- Went to Dragonspiral Tower, beat all the trainers and talked to N.
- Went to Relic Castle and beat Team Plasma.
- Got the Light Stone, then went on the route to Opelucid City, fighting trainers.
- Beat the Opelucid Gym somewhat easily.
Team is now:
Spoiler:

Squirrel

Age 28
Male
Seen 4 Days Ago
Posted July 10th, 2021
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11.7 Years
Final update from Platinum: Did some final grinding, went through the league beating Aaron fairly easily, Bertha was pretty hard but got through okay with some heals, Flint was very easy other than his Drifblim as Graveller had fainted against his 4th and Lucian was very easy with the help of Vespiquen, although Bonzong was slightly more difficult. Cynthia was a complete pain, although I loved her team! The two water types (Gastrodon and Milotic) and then Garchomp were all difficult but eventually got through after losing once and loading the save again. Some more grinding would've been helpful but ah well, finally finished! Still undecided about moving on to next game...

Final Team
Piplup (Level 64, Has tried to evolve many times but has always been stopped)
Graveller (Level 65, Evolved from Geodude caught in Oreburgh Mines)
Vespiquen (Level 63, Evolved from Combee caught in honey tree west of Valley Windworks)

deoxys121

White Kyurem Cometh

Age 31
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Flat Rock, MI, United States
Seen September 25th, 2016
Posted May 27th, 2012
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12.4 Years
Update #5 for Black:
- Proceeded along the route to Victory Road, fighting and defeating trainers, including Cheren.
- Upon having seen 115 Pokemon, I flew to Nuvema Town to get Hidden Power for Musharna.
- Proceeded through Victory Road, fighting every trainer there was.
- Then, it was time for the Elite Four! Bought a bunch of healing items and proceeded.
- Shauntal was kinda tough. Cohagrigus fell to Musharna's Shadow Ball a few times. Chandelure got Aqua Tail'd by Carracosta. Then came Jellicent, who took quite a beating before going down. Golurk got taken down by Aqua Tail.
- With Grimsley, Scrafty took a couple Aerial Aces, Krookodile went down with an Aqua Tail, Liepard got Megahorn'd, and since Carracosta had taken a beating, Escavalier took care of the underleveled Bisharp, as well.
- Marshal was easy. Every one of his Pokemon fell to Psychic, and I only used one Hyper Potion.
- Caitlin was also easy. All but Sigilyph fell to Megahorn, then Sigilyph fell to Rock Slide.
- Then, story, story, story, blah, blah, blah....
- Healed, then went up to N.
- Caught Reshiram, chose not to add (remember, you are required for this challenge to NOT add Reshiram/Zekrom after catching it).
- N... meh. Zekrom put up quite a fight against Musharna, especially with his Light Screen. I finished him with a lucky critical hit from Musharna's Ice-type Hidden Power. The rest of his Pokemon weren't too bad, but I did have to spam items.
- Ghetsis was even worse with spamming items. I did well against Cohagrigus (two Shadow Balls), and got lucky with Hydreigon's Fire Blast missing Escavalier, who then took him out with Megahorn. Everyone else... bleh! I won, though.
Team is now:
Spoiler:

Squirrel

Age 28
Male
Seen 4 Days Ago
Posted July 10th, 2021
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11.7 Years
First HG update: Did all the boring starting stuff, chose Chikorita, got up to Mr Pokemon's house, beat rival, caught Spinirak, kept Chikoria as a slave (will be cutting, strength, rock smash, etc), caught Geodude, grinded a little, beat sprout tower and falkner, caught wooper, grinded some more, made it through union cave and caught a sandshrew and grinded one final time to get him up to the level of the others, beat slowpoke well and bugsy, made it through the stupid farfetch event in the forest, got headbutt for potentially getting a pineco later, evolved spinirak and wooper, now about to face Whitney. (:

Current Team
Sandshrew (level 23)
Ariados (level 23)
Quagsire (level 22)
Geodude (level 22)
Chikorita (level 10, HM slave)

Nakuzami

Age 24
Female
The Forgotten Crossroads
Seen October 17th, 2022
Posted December 31st, 2020
6,896 posts
12.7 Years
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Challenge type: Ultimate; Extreme
Game(s): Blue[Emulator] | Crystal[Emulator] | Emerald | Pearl | Black

Planned Team[Pearl]:
074 Geodude - 40/80/100/30/30/20
173 Cleffa - 50/25/28/45/55/15
204 Pineco - 50/65/90/35/35/15(National Dex only, so nevermind.)
436 Bronzor - 57/24/86/24/86/23
438 Bonsly - 50/80/95/10/45/10
446 Munchlax - 135/85/40/40/85/5
I wrote out their base stats to help me choose which Pokemon that I was going to use. I figured that I'd leave them there.

Also, I'll be doing this at the same time as I do the Unevolved Challenge, making it that much more challenging :D
I'll be starting out with Pearl. I'll probably do either Black/Emerald after that, and then whichever one I didn't use then I'll use after that.
Then I'll have to go and download the Emulator.


UPDATE #1:
-Me and Wat? were attacked by Starly; I got Turtwig.
-Prof. Rowan gave me his lecture, and a Pokedex.
-Mother gave me a Journal; I rushed through Route 202
-Went to Route 204 (South) to get a Pineco... realized I could only get him once I had the National Dex, so I went a little further north and caught a Lv5 Male Geodude, "Geo," in the Ravaged Path.
-Went back to Jubilife and got a Town Map and Poketch, ditched Turtwig and trained Geo a little.
-Defeated Wat? and continued through Route 203 to Oreburgh.
-Challenged Roark, Geo swept his team with his newly acquired move: Magnitude.


MY TEAM SO FAR:

"Sure, there're probably infinite dimensions, but I'm with you in this one, so why would I try to find them?"
~Neil Hilborn


Squirrel

Age 28
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Posted July 10th, 2021
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11.7 Years
Next HG update: Beat Whitney, did more of the story stuff, beat Sudowoodo, did more story stuff, eventually got up to and beat Morty, did some Pokeathlon for a while, evolved geodude, went up the lighthouse, got amphy's medicine and beat Chuck (I think that's his name?), beat Jasmine, now on the way to Mahogany town.

Current Team
Sandshrew (level 38)
Ariados (level 35)
Quagsire (level 36)
Graveller (level 32)
Age 31
Male
Seen June 5th, 2014
Posted May 27th, 2014
129 posts
12.7 Years
Ok, time for my first Kanto update
  • Beat all the trainers on the Ship headed for vermilion and did the quest for the metal coat.
  • Challenged lt surge, won mostly thanks to quagsire.
  • Skipped Saffron for the moment, got my second kanto badge from Erika in Celedon.
  • Went to cerulean, beat all the trainers near the nugget bridge, did the power plant quest, beat misty for my third Kanto badge.
  • Went to Lavender to get the new radio card, went to the west to grind before the next gym.
  • Beat Sabrina. Its a good thing I had Forretress.
  • Lv grinded on the two paths leading to Fuchsia.
Team as of now: Togetic, quagsire, forretress, corsola and sunflora all at level 50.
3ds friend code: 4828 5060 0534
In game name: Sam

On the matter of my argument with Idankingo I admit to being too fast to anger and assuming the worst too quickly, and apologize for any unpleasentness caused because of it.

deoxys121

White Kyurem Cometh

Age 31
Male
Flat Rock, MI, United States
Seen September 25th, 2016
Posted May 27th, 2012
1,254 posts
12.4 Years
Update #6 for Black:
- Gonna be kind of vague here: I fought every trainer on every newly accessible area, and got some better TMs to teach my Pokemon some better moves, including Energy Ball for Musharna, and Stone Edge and Earthquake for Carracosta. I also fought and beat Cynthia.

After grinding a little bit to bring Escavalier to Lv75, the Elite Four is going DOWN!
Team is now:
Spoiler:

Squirrel

Age 28
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Posted July 10th, 2021
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11.7 Years
Next HG update: Beat the the Gyrados, Rockets and Pryce (whom was eaaassssyyyy!), cleared the rockets out of goldenrod, made my way over to Blackthorn whilst catching a Swinub in ice path (since they're sooo cute! shan't be used though D:), beat Claire, did the annoying dragon's den quest (waste of a slot for waterfall...), got master ball, cleared victory road and beat Gerard (Rival) with ease, bought a poo load of full restores after selling loads of stuff, then tackled the elite four. Will was a piece of cake mainly due to Ariados and Graveller. Koga was slightly harder due to his annoying stat/status moves, but eventually was defeated without too much trouble due to the three ground types. Bruno was fairly hard, had no real advantages over him but pulled through and beat him with a few heals. Karen was very easy thanks to Ariados and Graveller killing 5/6 pokemon whilst Sandshrew did the Spiritomb. Finally beat Lance after trying twice, he was hard! Relied mainly on rock attacks and luck, but eventually made it through and became Johto champion! Now time for Kanto... Have already beat Surge very easily (hooray for ground types!) and will next be challenging Sabrina.

Current Team
Sandshrew (level 55)
Ariados (level 55)
Quagsire (level 56)
Graveller (level 54)

bwburke94

Forever Aspertia's Aspie

Age 28
Male
Belchertown, Massachusetts
Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted July 13th, 2022
756 posts
13.1 Years
The rules have been updated again with my suggestions. Trick Room is now banned.

I will not be able to attempt this challenge until I get a Supercard, as I don't want to resort to emulators given my history with them. Once I get a Supercard, I will begin an Ultimate.
3DS FC: 0645-5804-7602

Squirrel

Age 28
Male
Seen 4 Days Ago
Posted July 10th, 2021
9,551 posts
11.7 Years
Further HG update: Have been playing this far too much today... Beat Sabrina, did the power plant event, beat Erika, beat Janine (veryyyy easy), beat brock, beat Gerard (rival) in Mt Moon, did the Suicune event, beat Misty (that girl was hard!), beat blaine (and this dude was the easiest yet!), talked to Blue and beat him with a slight amount of trouble, beat loooaaaadddsss of trainers around Kanto. Now time for the elite four again then onto Red! But that'll wait till tomorrow.

Current Team
Sandshrew (level 65)
Ariados (level 64)
Quagsire (level 66)
Graveller (level 54; abandoned training for now but stays on team)
Age 31
Male
Seen June 5th, 2014
Posted May 27th, 2014
129 posts
12.7 Years
This is most likely going to be my second to last update. The end is very close now.
  • Challenged the Fuchsia gym. Poison and confusion made it hard, but I pulled through.
  • Backtracked to Vermilion to get snorlax and go to Pewter City.
  • Challenged brock. Easiest gym battle EVAR.
  • Went to mount moon, beat rival IDK again.
  • Went all the way to pallet town, beating all trainers along the way.
  • Went to seafoam to battle blane.
  • Level grinded on the sea route.
  • Caught articuno (it was majorly annoying)
  • Went to the elite four again to get some levels.
  • Beat blue, getting the last badge of the game
  • Fought Clair and Lance in the dragons den back in johto.
Quagsire @lv 58, Corsola @lv 59, sunflora @lv 58, togetic @lv 58, Forretress @lv 57.

Seeing as nobody has posted since the last time I did, I'll just edit my last post for my final update of heart gold.

-Beat my rival for the last time at the entrance to the pokemon leauge.
-Did the second round of the elite four. It was suprisingly easy really.
-Navigated through Mount Silver.
-Took on Red. I was REALLY underleveled, and I had to item spam some. Still, in the end I was able to win. Forretress' many resistances really helped out, as did Corsola being able to deal a ton of damage with mirror coat.

My final team: Corsola @lv 61 w/surf, mirror coat, refresh, rock blast
Quagsire @lv 62 w/ earthquake, blizzard, yawn, waterfall
Sunflora @lv 60 w/ leaf storm, sunny day, giga drain, leach seed
Forretress @lv 60 w/ payback, gyro ball, explosion, bug bite
togetic @lv 60 w/ fly, shock wave, psychic, fire blast
Oh, and my sunflora was a solar power one btw. I didnt try to cheat using his other ability. I just wanted to clarify that, it did take me awhile to find a useable sunkern with solar power after all.
So yeah, thats that. I might come back for a second round of this challenge some time in the future but I'm not sure about that atm.
3ds friend code: 4828 5060 0534
In game name: Sam

On the matter of my argument with Idankingo I admit to being too fast to anger and assuming the worst too quickly, and apologize for any unpleasentness caused because of it.

deoxys121

White Kyurem Cometh

Age 31
Male
Flat Rock, MI, United States
Seen September 25th, 2016
Posted May 27th, 2012
1,254 posts
12.4 Years
Final update for Black:
- Fought newly available trainers at the Big Stadium and Small Court.
- Did a little more grinding, then used 6 Rare Candies to bring my team to Lv79, then I flew to the Pokemon League.
- Shauntal wasn't hard. For the most part it was Shadow Ball, Stone Edge, and Aqua Tail. I countered Cohagrigus's Will-O-Wisp with a Rawst Berry. :P
- Grimsley was also easy. Megahorn, Earthquake, and Aerial Ace took care of him.
- Marshal got soloed by Musharna with Psychic. I only had to use 2 Full Restores.
- Even the Metagross-owning Caitlin was easy. Musharna's Hypnosis was countered with a Chesto Berry. Crunch, Shadow Ball, Stone Edge, Earthquake, and a Swords Dance/Megahorn combo. With that combo, Bronzong didn't stand a chance.
- Then, there was Alder. He wasn't too tough either. His Druddigon was a bit of a pain to take down, though. My battle with Alder can be viewed here.
Final team:
Spoiler:

Squirrel

Age 28
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11.7 Years
Congrats to Deoxys, well done!

Final HG update: basically just grinded a lot on the league/gym leaders (only a couple available though D:) and taught my team some better moves, then beat Red. Wasn't too hard, it mostly went okay other than Venasaur and Lapras. :3

Final Team
Sandshrew (level 83)
Ariados (level 82)
Quagsire (level 85)
Graveller (level 54; abandoned training for now but stays on team)

Decided to just got for the ultimate challenge now, doing LeafGreen next ^^

First update: Chose Bulbasuar... Hellyeah! All for now ;D

Squirrel

Age 28
Male
Seen 4 Days Ago
Posted July 10th, 2021
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11.7 Years
No one's posted in ages... So I'll update :p

First and final LG update: Well, this is the whole game in one post. Basically went through all the gyms, beat the rockets, beat the league, did the islands and re-beat the league. Way too much to update on singularly but didn't want to spam the thread since no one else had posted... But yeah. The league was somewhat tricky, not too hard though either time. The hardest person to beat was the final rival, he needed a couple heals. The islands were fun and easy and had some cool stuff on them. But yeah... So, finished LG, onto Sapphire next. ^^

Final Team
Lickitung - level 87
Sandshrew - level 86
Parasect - level 81
Slowbro - level 80

deoxys121

White Kyurem Cometh

Age 31
Male
Flat Rock, MI, United States
Seen September 25th, 2016
Posted May 27th, 2012
1,254 posts
12.4 Years
No one's posted in ages... So I'll update :p

First and final LG update: Well, this is the whole game in one post. Basically went through all the gyms, beat the rockets, beat the league, did the islands and re-beat the league. Way too much to update on singularly but didn't want to spam the thread since no one else had posted... But yeah. The league was somewhat tricky, not too hard though either time. The hardest person to beat was the final rival, he needed a couple heals. The islands were fun and easy and had some cool stuff on them. But yeah... So, finished LG, onto Sapphire next. ^^

Final Team
Lickitung - level 87
Sandshrew - level 86
Gloom - level 81
Slowbro - level 80
Whole game in one update? Never done that before, myself, but you're definitely going through fast! Especially with having to do the second round of the Elite Four.

Squirrel

Age 28
Male
Seen 4 Days Ago
Posted July 10th, 2021
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11.7 Years
Whole game in one update? Never done that before, myself, but you're definitely going through fast! Especially with having to do the second round of the Elite Four.
Well I've been playing LeafGreen for the past three days pretty much non-stop, but since no one's posted since my first update I didn't want to spam the forums with countless updates. :p Incidently, Sapphire's going to be waiting a while before starting.

ScubaDouch3

Ice-Type Lover

Age 29
Male
Ontario
Seen January 12th, 2023
Posted November 11th, 2017
130 posts
11.7 Years
All right, Round 2 complete! Now onto Heartgold, which I'll probably start tomorrow.
For anyone who cares, here's my finishing team:

LV:73 Parasect (Portabello) -
Slash
Aerial Ace
Spore
Solarbeam

LV:73 Graveler (Bedrock) -
Double-Edge
Brick Break
Earthquake
Rock Throw

LV:73 Porygon (Beta) -
Tri Attack
Psychic
Thunder
Ice Beam

LV:74 Snorlax (Darcy II) -
Shadow Ball
Earthquake
Brick Break
Body Slam

LV:73 Rhydon (Longhorn) -
Earthquake
Double-Edge
Brick Break
Rock Slide

LV:74 Slowbro (Hank) -
Surf
Flamethrower
Psychic
Blizzard

PS: How do you put a line through a word? I'd like to do that with Leafgreen since I'm finished with it.
Ultimate Mono-Challenges finished: