The Grinding Challenge Page 2

Started by Eliminator Jr. October 10th, 2011 2:54 AM
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Male
Seen December 29th, 2011
Posted December 24th, 2011
1 posts
11.4 Years
Hey, this challenge sounds really hard. And I
like hard. So I decided I want to take part in this challenge. I'll be playing the Black version. I'll keep you guys updated on my progress.
:)

Day 1:
Started new game.
Chose Tepig as my starter.
Got Pokeballs from Prof.
Caught Lillipup and Patrat.
Grinded Tepig to Lvl 12, followed by Lillipup, then Patrat.
Went onwards to Accumula town.
Brought some essentials.
Began grinding Tepig. He got to 19.
Caught Purrloin. Grinded to 12
Began grinding Lillipup. He got to 15.
Saved and Stopped.

heLLkitsune

There's nothing for me here...

Male
Croatia
Seen September 25th, 2016
Posted February 23rd, 2012
153 posts
13.9 Years
I'll join on my FireRed, I need something I can chill with and listen to music.
Name: heLL15
Game: FireRed
Insane Mode

Cya till my next update

EDIT: As I was grinding I had been thinking
Insane Mode. You must capture every unique Pokémon you come across and train them to the required level before entering each town.
What if we buy repels and don't come across any new pokemon? :) it isn't against the rules. What do you think?

Charky-101

The Unlucky One

In my Room
Seen January 8th, 2014
Posted February 27th, 2013
73 posts
14.4 Years
-Started the game and chose Turtwig as my starter.
-Grinded to lvl 10 before entering Sandgem town, nicknamed Turtwig Twizzler
-Bought Pokeballs and headed back to route 1
-Caught Bidoof (Chubbs), Kricketot (Melody) and Starly (Tempest)
-Grinded the mentioned above to lvl 10, Melody evolved
-Headed to route 2, caught Shinx (Pride) and after a lot of grinding (8 hours 50 minutes) got my team to lvl 15 (Bidoofs are monsters to lvl up)
-Finally entered Jubilife City

Team:

Twizzler (Turtwig), Lvl 15, Adamant Nature
Tempest (Staravia), Lvl 15, Relaxed Nature
Chubbs (Bibarel), Lvl 15, Quirky Nature
Melody (Kricketune), Lvl 15, Careful Nature
Pride (Luxio), Lvl 15, Hardy Nature

Additional Rules I'm Using:
-No Running From Battles
-Healing Items may only be used against Rival/Galactic Admins(Mars/Jupiter/Saturn)/Cyrus/Gym Leaders/E4
-No Repels

~Hot n' Cold~

is too good for a title.

Age 26
Female
Michigan
Seen November 4th, 2016
Posted February 20th, 2012
329 posts
14.6 Years
Player: ~Hot n' Cold~
Team:
Badges: 1
Generation: 1 [FireRed]
Location: Pewter City
Play Time (Take into consideration the speed option in VBA): 13:21

Damn. This challenge is really hard and takes a huge amount of time. Mankey was a ***** to grind. Pidgeotto, Wartortle, Spearow and Rattata were all okay but Mankey and Caterpie took FOREVER. I just Karate Chopped both of Brock's Pokemon for the win. On to Cerulean!

Also, while grinding, I ran into a shiny Weedle. I have a feeling that since I will be battling so many wild Pokemon, I might see a few more shinies.


Mankey LV19 @ N/A
- Karate Chop
- Scratch
- Rock Tomb
- Leer


Butterfree LV19 @ N/A
- Tackle
- Confusion
- String Shot
- Poisonpowder


Rattata LV19 @ N/A
- Hyper Fang
- Tackle
- Tail Whip
- Quick Attack


Spearow LV19 @ N/A
- Peck
- Pursuit
- Leer
- Fury Attack


Wartortle LV19 @ N/A
- Water Gun
- Tackle
- Bite
- Bubble


Pidgeotto LV19 @ N/A
- Gust
- Tackle
- Sand-Attack
- Quick Attack

Player: ~Hot n' Cold~
Team:
Badges: 2
Generation: 1 [FireRed]
Location: SS Anne
Play Time (Take into consideration the speed option in VBA): 27:20

This is taking forever! Oh my gosh. I had to grind for about 13 hours to get from Cerulean to Vermilion. That was so evil. The only good thing that has come out of this is that the battles are extremely easy and there is not a chance in the world that you could lose. I just beat Gary with my LV33 Pidgeotto. Lt. Surge is up next!


Pidgeotto LV33 @ N/A
- Wing Attack
- Tackle-
- Gust
- Quick Attack


Primeape LV34 @ N/A
- Karate Chop
- Mega Punch
- Mega Kick
- Brick Break


Fearow LV34 @ N/A
- Peck
- Pursuit
- Attract
- Fury Attack


Butterfree LV34 @ N/A
- Gust
- Whirlwind
- Psybeam
- Confusion


Wartortle LV33 @ N/A
- Water Gun
- Tackle
- Bite
- Water Pulse


Raticate LV33 @ N/A
- Hyper Fang
- Pursuit
- Dig
- Quick Attack

~Hot n' Cold~

is too good for a title.

Age 26
Female
Michigan
Seen November 4th, 2016
Posted February 20th, 2012
329 posts
14.6 Years
Player: ~Hot n' Cold~
Team:
Badges: 4
Generation: 1 [FireRed]
Location: Celadon City
Play Time (Take into consideration the speed option in VBA): 65:55

So freaking difficult. I played for SO LONG! Grinding in Mt. Moon was absolutely terrible. I am very sad. Nothing really exciting has happened so far. I would usually quit challenges like this, but because I am so involved already I might as well stay. This is a very tough challenge.


Fearow LV47 @ N/A
- Peck
- Pursuit
- Drill Peck
- Fury Attack


Raticate LV47 @ N/A
- Hyper Fang
- Cut
- Dig
- Quick Attack


Pidgeot LV48 @ N/A
- Wing Attack
- Tackle
- Gust
- Quick Attack


Blastoise LV47 @ N/A
- Water Gun
- Tackle
- Bite
- Water Pulse


Primeape LV47 @ N/A
- Cross Chop
- Rock Slide
- Mega Kick
- Brick Break


Butterfree LV47 @ N/A
- Silver Wind
- Flash
- Psybeam
- Giga Drain

psyanic

pop a wheelie on a zeitgeist

Age 26
Male
USA
Seen April 10th, 2023
Posted June 30th, 2018
1,284 posts
12 Years
I'm all up for this. I've been getting bored not doing anything. I'll do insane mode on Ruby. Hopefully, I'll update every town or so!

EDIT: Huh, no one replied to this thread so far. Anyway I started Saturday and chose Mudkip as a starter blah blah blah boring parts, then I grinded like crazy. It took forever to grind, I'm telling you. And I'm on insane... I've been catching everything and all so I got to Slateport with about 35 hours clocked in. I caught all the residential Pokemon so now I'm grinding them to 35, since everything else is. Almost halfway there!

Retro Gamer'93

Pokemon Master of Kanto

Age 29
Male
Alabama
Seen June 8th, 2013
Posted July 16th, 2012
74 posts
11.6 Years
I honestly don't think anyone's even maintaining this thread anymore so I'm quieting my challenge, to anyone actually still doing it, good luck lol.
-Current Games: Too many to count XD
-I will be extremely inactive since I got my new job, I work nights now so I probably won't be on much at all.
and usually on Saturdays and Sundays I'm on at around 11 AM or whenever I decide to actually log on lol.
-My Xbox Live User is Andrew1420, but I haven't been on my Xbox in months so....
-Current Challengs: None

Flame999

Male
Lavaridge Town
Seen September 16th, 2020
Posted May 7th, 2017
103 posts
14.5 Years
Update 1
Started new game.
Chose Snivy as my starter.
Defeat both of my Rivals Starters.
Got Pokeballs from Prof.
Caught Lillipup, Pidgey, Zigzagoon, Starly and Sentret.
Grinded Snivy to Lvl 12, followed by Lillipup, Pidgey, Zigzagoon, Starly and Sentret.
Went onwards to Accumula town.
Beat N 3 pokemon.
Began grinding Snivy. She got to 14.
Caught Caught both Caterpie and Weedle. Grinded to 7 both evolve into Kakuna and Metapot respective and then grind some more to evolve them into Butterfree and Beedrill and grind to level 12.
i also caught a wurmple. Grinded to 7 evolve into silcoon and then grind some more to evolve her into Beautifly and grind to level 12.
Began grinding Zigzagoon and Starly. They got to 13.
Saved and Stopped.

Current Team
Pupz lvl 12 - Lillipup

Butterfree lvl 12

Beedrill lvl 12

ZigZag lvl 13 - Zigzagoon

Airazor lvl 13 - Starly

Wildleaf lvl 14 - Snivy

saved and stopped

Flame999

Male
Lavaridge Town
Seen September 16th, 2020
Posted May 7th, 2017
103 posts
14.5 Years
Update 2
Grinded Pupz, Zigzag, Airazor, Wildleaf, Butterfree & Beedrill to level 19.
Airazor evolved to Staravia
Wildleaf evolved to Servine
Pupz evolved to Herdier
Battled Bianca and defeated her newly caught Meowth and her starter
Arrived at Striaton City.
battled Cheren defeated his newly caught Starly and his starter and obtained hm 1.
Grinded ZigZag to lvl 20 and he evolved into Linoone
Caught a Ralts.
enter the Striaton Gym and battled Chili and easily defeated him (the grinding made him too easy and only Beedrill defeat all 6 of his pokemon with Cross Poison) and got the Trio badge and tm 83 Work up.
got to the Dreamyard and recived an PanPour and named him Ugly (I'm not using him I never use the elemental Monkeys).
defeated 2 Plazma Grunts.
left Bianca as she went to catch her new Pokemon.
did some pointless stuff with fennel.
switched Zigzag for Ralts.
grinded her to level 19.
went to Route 3 battled many trainers.
Ralts evolved into Kirlia
battled Cheren and defeated his newly evolved Staravia and his 2 new pokemon (a Roggenrola and a Pansage) and his starter
Caught a Shinx named her Lightning
switch Beedrill for Lightning
saved and stopped.
I'll update when i get my next badge

Current Team
Pupz lvl 20 - Herdier

Butterfree lvl 20

Lightning lvl 13 - Shinx (just added her to my team)

Kirlia lvl 20

Airazor lvl 20 - Staravia

Wildleaf lvl 20 - Servine

I'd just noticed that 5 out 6 of my pokemon are Female

Flame999

Male
Lavaridge Town
Seen September 16th, 2020
Posted May 7th, 2017
103 posts
14.5 Years
Update 3
Grinded everone to 26 (if you don't know who is on my team look at my last update to see my team) Lightning evolve into Luxio
entered Nacrene City
deposit Butterfree
Caught a Machop and named her Ms. Kick & Caught a Timburr and added him to my team and i Named him Mr.Kick grinded him to 26.
Caught a Cyndaquil & a Charmander.
Battled N and defeated him.
Battled the Gym and defeated the Gym leader Lenora.
Grinded my team to 30
Lightning and Kirlia evolved into Luxray and Gardevoir Respectively
Defeated Team Plasma in Pinwheel Forest
grind Pupz to 33 and he evolve into Scoutland

Current Team
Pupz lvl 33 - Scoutland

Mr. Kick lvl 31 - Gurdurr

Lightning lvl 30 - Luxray

Gardevoir lvl 31

Airazor lvl 31 - Staravia

Wildleaf lvl 31 - Servine

I'd just noticed that 4 out 6 of my pokemon are Female
only Pupz and Mr. Kick are male

Flame999

Male
Lavaridge Town
Seen September 16th, 2020
Posted May 7th, 2017
103 posts
14.5 Years
Update 4
Caught Bulbasaur and named him Ivy.
Deposit WildLeaf.
Grind Ivy to 31.
Ivy evolve to Ivysaur.
grind all but Pupz to 33.
arrived to Castelia City.
Grinded in the Battle Company Building and Airazor evolve to Staraptor
I went to the renamed guy and changed my Gardevoir name to Zelda
Trained at Liberty Garden and trained all my team but Mr. Kick to 35 but Mr. Kick grinded to 36.
Mr.Kick evolved into Conkeldurr.
Challenge Burgh Gym and defeated Burgh and got the gym badge and got Tm U-Turn.
defeated both Cheren and Bianca
grinded my team to 40
Ivy evolved to Venusaur
Caught a Skarmory and named him StarScream
Caught 2 Eevee and named them Leaf and Icy and i Evolve Leaf into Leafeon.
Caught a Bagon (Finally) and named her SkyLord and grind her 40
Skylord evolve to Shelgon.
Caught a Zangoose and named her Claw
Caught a Braviary and named him High Flash
defeated Elesa and got the gym badge and got Tm Wild Charge.
went to Route 5 and defeated Cheren and defeat 2 trainers with Cheren as my partners
Grind my team to 47
arrived to Driftveil City
Grind Skylord to 50
Skylord evolved to Salamence.
saved and stopped.

Current Team
Zelda Lvl 48 - Gardevoir

Ivy Lvl 47 - Venusaur

Lightning Lvl 47 - Luxray

Pupz Lvl 47 -Stoutland


Mr. Kick - Conkeldurr


SkyLord Lvl 50 - Salamence

Former Team
Pidgey Sky Pirate lvl 6 - 12
Sentret - Scout lvl 5 - 12
Linooon - ZigZag lvl 4 - 20
Beedrill lvl 7 - 20
Butterfree lvl 7 - 26
Servine (Starter Pokemon) - WildLeaf lvl 5 -31
Staraptor -Airazor lvl 6 - 40
Zorua - Sneaky lvl 28 - 29

extra Pokemon in pc
Ugly - Panpour (recieved i hate the elemental monkeys)
Kit - Misdreavus
Cynder - Cyndaquil
Slasher - Charmander
Sneaky - Zorua ( the event one)
StarScream - Skarmory
Leaf - Leafeon
Icy - Eevee
Destro - Accelgor
Blaster - Escavalier
Claw - Zangoose
High Flash - Braviary
Male
New Jersey
Seen August 16th, 2012
Posted August 13th, 2012
66 posts
11.3 Years
I'll sign up for Emerald please.
Name: TheronElite (Zappa in-game)
Game:Emerald



Let's see how I do, before I lose my mind!
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Kieran

That guy that you think you remember

Male
Seen December 26th, 2015
Posted December 26th, 2015
140 posts
10.8 Years
I'm gonna take this on HeartGold. The ownr of this thread isn't active though... I might ask mods if I can remake the thread. I'll send you my rules in an edit.

Edit : Taking Easy Mode. Catching every pokemon I see, but only each evolution line ONCE. Playing Heartgold. In Kanto, using new team, apart from one VERY badass pokemon from Johto. Will update when I save.

Edit: Started game. Spoke to Oak. Chose a boy named Chaotic. Read Lyra's mail. Talked to Mom. Recieved a bag, trainer vard, options and save. Walked outside. Saw Lyra's Marill. Spoke to Elm. Chose Totodile. Recieved Totodile and the pokemn option. Spoke to Aide. Recieved five potions. Spoke to Lyra. Spoke to Mom. Recieved pokegear. Saved. Recieved phone number from Elm. Walked onto Route 29. Ground Totodile to level twelve.Walked into Cherrygrove City. Spoke to the Guide Gent. Followed Guide Gent. Recieved the Running Shoes. Went to the Pokemon Center. Healed my pokemon. Went to Route 30. Spoke to the Guide Gent. Recieved Map Card for the Pokegear. Picked up a Potion. Spoke to the Apricorn Guy. Recieved the Apricorn Box. Picked a Green Apricorn. Picked up an Andidote. Walked to Mr. Pokemon's house. Found a Pink Apricorn. Went into Mr. Pokemon's house. Spoke to Mr. Pokemon. Recieved the Mystery Egg. Spoke to Prof. Oak. Recieved the Pokedex. Spoke to Prof. Elm on the PokeGear. Went to Cherrygrove City. Went to Route 29. Saw Passerby Boy. Battled Passerby Boy. Defeated Passerboy Boy. Went to New Bark Town. Went to Elm's Lab. Spoke to Policeman. Spoke to Lyra. Named Rival Lapras. Spoke to Prof. Elm. Gave Prof. Elm the Mystery Egg. Talked to Mom. Mom saved money. Went to Route 29. Talked to Lyra. Watched Lyra catch Rattata. Recieved five PokeBalls. Caught Hootgoot level three. Ground Hoothoot to level twelve. Went to Cherrygrove City. Saved and stopped.

Play Time : Two Hours, Fifty-One Minutes
Team : Totodile Level Twelve
Scratch
Leer
Water Gun
Rage
Hoothoot Level Twelve
Peck
Growl
Foresight
Hypnosis
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Ice Car

Banned

Age 27
Female
Oahu, Hawaii
Seen November 12th, 2012
Posted November 12th, 2012
515 posts
13.2 Years
I don't mean to sound like an ass, but this seems a lot more tedious than it is fun or challenging. In my normal runs when I grind, I absolutely despise it and just want to move on. If your Pokes are overleveled the game will be too easy, if you spend hours killing the same pokemon, this becomes extremely tedious and boring.

Maybe there's something I'm not understanding here. The challenge is ridiculous not because of the difficulty, but because of how tedious it is to do it, from what I understand?

Kieran

That guy that you think you remember

Male
Seen December 26th, 2015
Posted December 26th, 2015
140 posts
10.8 Years
Ummm, yeah, it IS tedious, but it kills time.

Update Something

Ground Hoothoot and Totodile to Level Nineteen. Totodile evolved into Croconaw. Beat Sprout Tower. Ground Hoothoot to Level Twenty. Beat Violet City Gym. Ground Croconaw to Level Twenty. Spoke to Elm over PokeGear. Recieved Mystery egg. Spoke to Kimono Girl. Saved.

Team: Hoothoot Level Twenty, Croconaw Level Twenty, Egg.
Total Play Time : 9 Hours, 30 Minutes
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Male
Seen August 23rd, 2012
Posted August 22nd, 2012
1 posts
10.7 Years
Name: Axryn
Game: Yellow
Mode: INSANE

Some may not agree with this, but due to the fact that it actually increases the challenge I don't see a problem with it. But I used a hack to get master balls so that I can catch the base pokemon of every evolutionary chain without fault. I had actually already started this challenge on my own before I ever found this so I'm currently in Vermillion at level 25, working on getting my Squirtle and those caught on route 5 to that level. I will be reaching the appropriate level for this challenge before moving on to the next area.
So basically I have caught every wild pokemon possible up to Vermillion including fishing for Magikarp. Most are at level 25 and the rest will be soon and before going on to Lavender town I will have every pokemon caught so far plus those on the way to Lavender and even a Digglett from Digglett's cave to level 40. I would restart the game in order to do the challenge properly but I've already put in about 25 fast forwarded hours and I'm not redoing all that.
And just fyi I am playing this on phone and the ONLY hack I used was one to make master balls $0 in the mart in order to have more pokemon to complete this challenge with.
Age 24
Male
Adelaide, Australia
Seen August 22nd, 2012
Posted August 22nd, 2012
24 posts
13.2 Years
Playing insane mode on Red

Im currently in Varidian Forrest Levelling My Pokemon and trying to catch a Weedle

Team: Nidoran Female - level 12
Pikachu - Level 7
Charmander - Level 12
Pidgey - Level 14
Rattata - Level 14
Spearow - Level 12

Box: Nidoran Mele - Level 12
Caterpie - Level 3
Female
Seen July 4th, 2013
Posted August 24th, 2012
3 posts
10.7 Years
A challenge that describes my standard playstyle? What? Lol, that's awesome, I shall restart Liquid Crystal (luckily I didn't get too far into it) and sign up.

User: BlueRaith
Game: Liquid Crystal
Level: Insanity
Additional Rules: Capture every pokemon known to reside in the route/town/area when able. Breed to get all possible evolutions such as the eevolutions and baby pokemon. Nickname every Pokemon I obtain. Whoo, this is going to take forever lol.

Day 1:

Spoiler:
Named character Kris and obtained Cyndaquil from Elm. Named her Nacho.
Nacho and I went out into the rain and PWNed wild pokemon until lvl 12.
Got the Map Card from the Old Man in Cherrygrove, then went and got the Mystery Egg from Mr. Pokemon.
Facerolled over my Rival, now referred to as Silver, and delivered Egg to Elm. Got Pokeballs.
Told Mom I was going on an adventure, she gave me running shoes.
Caught lvl 4 Pidgey and named her Dusti outside of New Bark Town.

End Day 1

Team:

Spoiler:
Nacho
Level 12 Cyndaquil
Sex: Female
Moves: Tackle
Ember
Smokescreen
Leer

Dusti
Level 4 Pidgey
Sex: Female
Moves: Tackle