The Nuzlocke Challenge Page 14

Started by vaporeon7 July 13th, 2012 4:26 PM
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Tackle

Pancham

Age 23
Male
Forest
Seen June 7th, 2013
Posted May 17th, 2013
140 posts
10.4 Years
I managed to Slateport, I battled May but she killed me and game over. =<




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Paired with [SUPPORTER]ForeverDash[/SUPPORTER], [supportER]MidnightShine[/SUPPORTEr], Shadowraze, Daniel Evans and Hoenn.

Also known as Clown of Hearts.

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Female
Seen July 20th, 2016
Posted July 10th, 2015
1,467 posts
16 Years
First Update!
  • Began Journey
  • Named myself CRYSTAL
  • Picked Chikorita, her name is MEGUMI <3
  • Did beginning stuff...
  • Named Rival SILVER


Adorbs right? :3

Second Update!
  • Met up with a lv 2 Sentret, her name is now COCOA
  • Found a lv 3 Pidgey, now named STRAWBERRY
  • Arrived in Violet City
  • Challenged Gym and won
  • First casualty ;_;
  • Received "mystery egg"

Current Party:
Spoiler:
Chikorita/MEGUMI lv 13
Sentret/COCOA lv 10


;_________; </3
Spoiler:
Pidgey/STRAWBERRY lv3-9... was a valiant one, she took a critical hit (gust) from Falkner's Pidgeotto and survived, but fell to a follow-up gust afterwards.
Age 31
Male
Italy
Seen April 6th, 2020
Posted December 8th, 2014
140 posts
12.9 Years
First update on my Storm Silver run.
Spoiler:


Chose the female avatar and named her Artemis.
Named the annoying rival Kaname.
Completed the Mr.Pokemon's errand and found my first pokemon, a Starly, on route 29! Unfortunately I kill it with a critical tackle. :(
Found a Jigglypuff on route 46, named her Killer, then boxed Chikorita. Farewell!
Obtained an old rod in the next town. Sweet. Caught a Magikarp in newbark town, but unfortunately it dies to a wild pokemon soon after... :(
I then catch a Krabby in cherrygrove city, Krawler!
Caught a cute Surskit on route 30, his name is Syrup.
I battle all the trainers without much effort, but then Killer dies to a critical. :(
Caught a Cascoon on route 31, evolved it soon after into a Dustox. Welcome to the party Trancer!
I go for a quick trip inside the dark cave, and find a Teddiursa. I had to waste all my pokeballs, but atleast I managed to catch him. His name is Crescent.
Reached violet city, rushed quickly to the mart to get new pokeballs.
Caught a Mareep on route 32, named him Pharaoh.
Caught a Staryu in Violet city with the old rod, named 'her' Almalexia.
I then train my party a bit and go for the sprout tower. There, I catch a Rattata, but it dies soon after. :(
Cleared the sprout tower, Pharaoh evolves, he is now a Flaaffy!

Now all I've got to do in this city is defeat the gym leader, Falkner. I heal my pokemon and prepare to face him.

His first pokemon is a Doduo, no big deal. I one hit it with a thundershock! He then sends out one of his biggest threats, Pidgeotto, and while it manages to damage my Pharaoh seriously, I kill it.
Next is Swablu; I send in Krawler the Krabby, just to get a solarbeam in the face! That was a surprise. My Krawler is one shotted...

I send in Almalexia and she kills the Swablu in one hit with water gun. Falkner then sends in Farfetch'd! This pokemon got a BIG overhaul in this hack, and is now very strong.
Well, or so he should have been, since he died with one thundershock. Pharaoh is dominating! Chatot is next! Double kill!!
Falkner now only has one pokemon left, Murkrow. Pharaoh endures one hit with only 6 hp left, and paralyzes it. I send in Almalexia and win the battle with a critical.
I am very proud of my Pharaoh, he made this seemingly nasty battle quite easy!

My team and deceased as of now:
Female
Seen July 20th, 2016
Posted July 10th, 2015
1,467 posts
16 Years
Third Update!
  • Along the way, MEGUMI and COCOA evolved!
  • Met up with new Pokemon! Welcome REWREW, MACAROON, and YORI! (lv. 6, 7, and 7)
  • My widdle egg hatched! His name is PII. (lv.5)
  • Cleared the Slowpoke Well incident
  • Trained them up a bit and challanged the Azalea gym
  • No casualties! whew!
  • Got a Fastball from Kurt
  • Rival match gave me a few scares, that darn Quilava! (It is too cute! :I)
  • Now I am heading to the forest

<333

;_________; </3

Spoiler:
Pidgey/STRAWBERRY lv3-9... was a valiant one, she took a critical hit (gust) from Falkner's Pidgeotto and survived, but fell to a follow-up gust afterwards.



Fourth Update!

Did a bunch of stuff!
  • Recieved "Odd Egg" from the Daycare
  • Challenged the Goldenrod Gym, pretty easy o.o
  • Participated in Bug Catching Contest, Caught PINSY my Pinsir
  • Trained so much, MEGUMI and MACAROON evolved!
  • ELEE the Elekid hatched from the egg!
  • Made it to Ecruteak City
  • Went back to Goldenrod for my new team member, VEEVEE the Eevee <3
  • MEGUMI beat all of the Kimono Girls alone!
  • Through all the training from earlier, my Pokemon were affected by Pokerus!! (This has been like the luckiest game!)
  • Challenged the Ecruteak Gym and won!
  • Arrived in Olivine City
  • Caught a Mantine, now named MANTINI on my way to Cianwood
  • Got "secret potion"
  • Battled Eusine...haha no match at all
  • Jasmine's Amphy is all better now! c:
  • Challenged her gym, COCOA did not make it...
  • After some leveling, PII evolved! He loves me! <3
  • Went back to Cianwood to challenge Chuck
  • Made it to Mahogany Town
  • Caught SILVER my shiny Gyarados. I will have two shinies in my team! ^_^
  • Named him SILVER aswell since he reminded me of my rival SILVER
  • Used him to take all the Rockets out in Mahogany, he needed revenge!
  • About to challenge the trainers in Pryce's gym



;_________; </3

Spoiler:
  • Pidgey/STRAWBERRY lv3-9... was a valiant one, she took a critical hit (gust) from Falkner's Pidgeotto and survived, but fell to a follow-up gust afterwards.
  • Furret/COCOA lv2-28...fell to Jasmine's Magnamite via thunderbolt

BugBoyTroy

Professor in-training

Age 28
Male
Johto
Seen June 17th, 2018
Posted November 5th, 2017
84 posts
10.2 Years
Username: trotz59
Game: FireRed

Optional rules:
Nickname all pokemon


I'm also making a Let's Play of my challenge. My Youtube account is the same as my username.
Current Challenges
Ultimate Bug Monotype Challenge

Completed Challenges
Electric monotype - leafgreen 2014

Info
YouTube: BugBoyTroy
Twitter: trotz59
Tumblr: trotz59 (barely use)
Deviantart: ka-ting (very old, barely updated)
Serebii and Bulbagarden forum accounts: trotz59
Male
United States
Seen January 15th, 2014
Posted March 22nd, 2013
3 posts
10.2 Years

Update:

Wow, I actually got pretty into this last night and played much more than I had planned.

Name: Name (I know, I know..)

Rival's Name: ??? (again, don't judge too bad)


My team is as follows though:

- "Rawrr" the Magikarp Lv.10
~Splash (that's obviously it... lolz)

- "Venom" the Beedrill Lv.15
~Poison Sting
~String Shot
~Fury Attack

- "Pest" the Rattata Lv.17
~Tackle
~Tail Whip
~Quick Attack
~Hyper Fang

- "Hippie" the Ivysaur Lv.18
~Tackle
~Growl
~Leech Seed
~Vine Whip

- "Icarus" the Pidgey LV.15
~Gust
~Sand-Attack
~Quick Attack

Badges: 1

Deaths: 0

Yeah, pretty standard stuff so far. I haven't really had any problems, yet.. I am now in Cerulean City. Hyper Fang is really helpful at this point. I'll try to make the update more periodically I suppose. I didn't mean to play so much last night, really. I'm getting ready to play some more right now though, so we will see. :cheeky:

Arcturus.

Chews nails and spits napalm

Male
The star known as Sol (Virginia)
Seen August 24th, 2014
Posted July 18th, 2014
605 posts
10.8 Years
Update 4

I finally stopped being lazy and continued this challenge. Since I made most of this progress MONTHS ago, I'll be giving the condensed version. I taught Gloom Cut and proceded to defeat Volkner. With Graveler, victory was pretty easy. After that, I took my second Pidgey out of the PC, so that way my roster would be filled up. I killed an Ekans on Route 9, since I already had one. Then King was killed by a Spearow. Meh. I soon caught a Spearow on Route 10. I was hoping for a Onix in Rock Tunnel, but sadly, I encountered and Geodude a defeated it. I left Rock Tunnel without further incident, and I arrived in Lavender Town.

Team
Spoiler:

Nidorino(m) Lv26
Vine the Ivysaur(m) Lv29
Pidgey(f) Lv17
Weed the Gloom(m) Lv28
Graveler(m) Lv27
Spearow(f) Lv16

Boxed
Spoiler:

Caterpie(f) Lv7

Deceased
Spoiler:

King the Ekans(m) Lv14-15
Aero the Pidgeotto(f) Lv16-22
Mouse the Rattata(f) Lv2-2

Locked Out Areas

Spoiler:
Route 1
Route 2

Route 3

Route 4
Route 5
Route 6
Route 9
Route 10
Route 11
Route 22
Route 24
Route 25
Viridian Forest
Mt. Moon

Diglett's Cave
Rock Tunnel
"War.
War never
changes."
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AppleMan

Master Drawer

Age 30
Male
Bradford, U.K
Seen April 29th, 2013
Posted April 29th, 2013
15 posts
10.1 Years
Username:AppleMan
Game:Pokemon Ruby


.I Get A Bulbasaur And Nicknamed Him Marijuana Cause I Felt Like It.
.Do That Parcel Crap And Capture A Rattatta On Route 1 And Nickname Him Bucky.
.Level Up Marijuana And Bucky To Lvl 12 So I Can Slaughter Kazi.
.I Watch A Crappy Tutorial On How To Catch A Pokémon.
.I Get A Weedle In Viridian Forest And Nickname Him WiseGuy.
.And Then After Grinding A Little I Kill Brock's Geodude And Onix With Marijuana.

I Have A Badge
Male
Australia
Seen June 24th, 2020
Posted June 10th, 2013
305 posts
13.7 Years
Username: Lord_Storm
Game: Will be doing all Gens, so FireRed->Crystal->Emerald->Diamond->White 2

EDIT: As I'm racing my friend in this, he got a headstart, but we got confused as to whether the whole cave counts as the area, or if each floor counts as an area each.

Update 1:

Me and my friend decided to catch our first Pokemon on the other floors of Mt. Moon, but have refrained from using them until we work out whether we should use them or not.

So far, my run has been pretty easy, with only two deaths, although both of them were some of the main members of my team. Fortunately, I found replacements soon enough for the team to remain complete.

Spoiler:

I forgot to take screenshots of my first two rival battles, but they were easy wins because I had my four Pokemon at level 10 for the second battle.

This battle was easily soloed by Mankey because on Karate Chop 2HKOing Geodude despite some decent damage, followed by a OHKO on Onix by Low Kick.

I nearly lost my Charmeleon in this battle from a Critical hit by Pidgeotto, but a return critical by my Spearow's Peck, allowing my Mankey to finish the battle by taking out Rattata and Squirtle.

Probably my easiest battle yet because of Oddish'd combination of Sleep Powder and Absorb allowing me to crush the Staryu easily and the Starmie just as easily.

With my newly evolved Nidoking and my Dugtrio luckily just caught in Diglett's Cave, allowing me to crush my rival under their might.


The Team so far:
Spoiler:


Pierce hasn't really been all that great so far, but since the evolution just before fighting my rival, his power has grown significantly, meaning I expect a lot more from him in the upcoming gym battle with Lt. Surge.

Coco has been effective at times, which is to be expected after the 15 minutes of training I did with it on Route 1, being most useful in wild battles, but not all that effective in battles with gym leaders and rival battles.

Triad has only taken part in two battles, one against a trainer on Route 11 with two Magnemites and a Magneton, soloing him and the battle with my rival on SS. Anne, OHKOing Kadabra and Raticate. I expect a lot against Lt. Surge.

As you can probably tell from the name, FletcherII isn't the first Pidgey I've used, being my second one this run. Despite its usefulness, I'm still expecting it to die at some point as I never have any luck with the Pidgey line in nuzlockes, which annoys me due to it being my second favourite of the basic birds behind Swellow.

Ah, Blaze. I've never decided as to whether I prefer Venusaur or Charizard, but I can definitely see why someone would prefer using the Charmander line prior to Gen IV. If I've ever got in trouble, this guy has jumped in and knocked out anything in my path.

This guy has been a dominating addition to my team since I first caught it. The speed at which it levels coupled with its Sleep Powder and Absorb combination has a phenomenal effect.

Geo

The Desert Master

Age 25
Male
Seen September 3rd, 2022
Posted April 5th, 2013
4 posts
10.1 Years
Username: Geo
Game: Pokemon FireRed
Rules:
-Any Pokémon that faints is considered dead, and must be released (or boxed, never to see the light of day again).
-You may only catch the first Pokémon encountered in each area, and none else. If the first Pokémon encountered faints or flees, there are no second chances. (Can be adjusted to ban duplicate captures.)
-Trading is disallowed, but the reasons following this clause are allowed. Egg trading is okay, same thing with Pokemon that can't have eggs.

Additional Rules:
-You must nickname all of your Pokemon. (highly recommended)
-A black out/white is a "game over," even if there are Pokémon left in the PC.
-You must change the battle style to SET.
-You may not use/catch legendary Pokémon.
X Make comics of your challenge and have fun! (strongly recommended) ((Sorry, I can't draw .-.))
The Desert Master
Male
Seen July 21st, 2014
Posted July 17th, 2013
412 posts
10.9 Years
Username: Seraphimon-sama
Game: Sol Platinum, Blaze Black 2

Optional Rules: Nickname all Pokémon, Switch battle style to SET
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Male
Seen July 21st, 2014
Posted July 17th, 2013
412 posts
10.9 Years
Time to dive back into Sol Platinum!

With the team looking good, I tread onwards to the next city, while trying to decide who to use the Return TM on. I eventually decided to teach it to Minazuki. Waiting for me at the entrance was Skirts. She saw I caught some Pokémon and congratulated me, but I honestly didn't hear a word because I just kept staring at her thighs. I'm pretty sure she said something about the Trainer's School (OMG they actually have school in Pokémon), but I ended up following her for a minute.
All of a sudden, we noticed some weird-looking guy who, for some unknown reason, looked a lot like Doctor Who (Tenth). He spouted some seemingly random nonsense about thieves and about being a member of the International Police, then gave me a Vs. Recorder.
I figured I'd see if I could learn anything at the Trainer's School. Inside, I found Kisuke licking the blackboard and eating chalk. Some of the people in the class looked at us and I just backed away slowly and pretended I didn't know who he was. What else is there to do here?
I left the trainer school and a guy asked me to come over to him. With nothing better to do, I did what he asked. He said he'd give me a shiny new watch if I looked around Jubilife and touched 3 clowns.
Let me say that again, he said he'd give me a new watch if I went around and TOUCHED. THREE. CLOWNS.
I asked him what kind of creepy promotional offer this was supposed to be, but he just glared back at me and said, "TOUCH. MY. CLOWNS."
After inspecting my new watch and taking a shower full of regret and plenty of shame, I decided to check out the grass north of Jubilife. I saw a powerful-looking male Nidoran, caught him, and named him Konjiki.
From there, I headed into the cave known only as Ravaged Path, and caught myself a female Growlithe, that earned the name Tobiume.
With another two Pokémon added to the party, I decided to head East to Oreburgh and the first gym. Kisuke was right at the entrance to the route, eating grass. I tried to tiptoe past him for fear of sparking a conversation. I almost made it too, but I stepped on a Bidoof and its squeal made Kisuke break his concentration and look straight at me.
Oh boy.
Kisuke threw out a Taillow, so I assumed he wanted to battle. I didn't have a choice in the matter, so I sent out Tobiume and started the fight.
Tobiume bit down on Taillow's wing, which caused the bird to immediately faint. Must have been a Critical Hit.
With one poke down, Kisuke threw his Piplup onto the field. I called Tobiume back and sent out RyujinJaka. RyujinJaka stretched her tiny body out, then scratched the hell out of Piplup's face with more intensity than what Scratch would do, causing me to realise that she had learned Fury Swipes.
Kisuke looked at me with a sad frown on his face, I guess he doesn't take losing well. I swallowed my disgust for him and patted him on the head and said, "You'll get me next time." which must have made him happy because he wrapped his arms around me and drooled all over my new shoes. Freaking wussbag retard.
Thankfully, I was forced to look away from Kisuke, due to seeing RyujinJaka glowing out of the corner of my eye. When the glow died down, in RyujinJaka's place stood Monferno, punching the air in quick succession (Mach Punch). I turned back to Kisuke, but he had already vanished. I shrugged, and decided to rest there for a while.

Current team:

Douglas/Starly (M, Lv.12)
Tackle, Growl, Quick Attack, Wing Attack

Minazuki/Ralts (F, Lv.12)
Confusion, Confuse Ray, Return, Double Team

Konjiki/Nidoran (M, Lv.12)
Leer, Peck, Focus Energy, Double Kick

RyujinJaka/Monferno (F, Lv.14)
Fury Swipes, Leer, Ember, Mach Punch

Tobiume/Growlithe (F, Lv.15)
Ember, Howl, Bite, Leer

RIP:

None so far (Yay!)
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T!M

Four Category MoTY (VG) Winner

Age 31
Male
Georgia, United States
Seen May 20th, 2016
Posted April 25th, 2014
1,422 posts
14.4 Years
Username: Trainer Timothy
Game: HeartGold
Rules: 1 PokéCentre visit per town visit, No Healing Items, no held items, No legend catching, this is my first Nuzlocke challenge so I'm going to keep my starter.
Male
Seen July 21st, 2014
Posted July 17th, 2013
412 posts
10.9 Years
Update time dattebayo!

-Caught Gonryomaru/Shinx (M, Lv.6, Route 203)
-Trained for a while
-Camped out near the entrance to Oreburgh Gate

Current Team is unchanged except for Gonryomaru, who is now Lv.13
Tackle, Leer, Charge, Spark

EDIT: Another update!

Finally made it to Oreburgh, after catching a female Zubat, which I named Kazeshini and was about to enter the gym, but I spied an all too familiar blonde child licking the windows outside the gym. I groaned as I knew I'd have to wait for Kisuke to satiate his window hunger, which could take hours. Since it'd take a while, I decided to scope out the city and do a bit of levelling.
Decided to check out the mine and see if I could find anyone new to add to the team, and ended up catching an Aron, who received the nickname Hozukimaru.
I trekked through the mine and found a guy at the end who was picking up rocks and caressing them softly and whispering to them. I must've startled him, because he looked up at me with fright and chucked the rock to the ground, shattering it to pieces. I looked blankly at him and he told me to forget what I had seen. In exchange, he said he'd let me into his gym for a battle. I agreed to his conditions. It's a good thing I didn't bring Hozukimaru with me. After leaving the mine, I decided to rest in the Pokémon Center for a while.

Team is unchanged from earlier.
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orangeralts21

Newfound Respect for Wobbuffet

Male
Route 102
Seen March 10th, 2022
Posted August 26th, 2014
130 posts
10.2 Years
SO IN!!
username: orangeralts21
game: silver
Rules:same basic rules except I used a a starter. (My totodile, Charles, is smashing!)

TEAM SO FAR: spoilered if you don't care,

Spoiler:
Charles : Totodile lvl 14
Scratch
Water Gun
Rage
Leer

Pipee : Jigglypuff lvl 14 (route 46 ftw!lucky as heck)
Pound
Sing
Defense Curl
Disable

Scree: Beedrill lvl 11
Fury Attack
Poison Sting
String Shot
Harden
Male
Seen July 21st, 2014
Posted July 17th, 2013
412 posts
10.9 Years
Time to update!

Decided to level up just a bit more inside the Mine and RyujinJaka Mach Punched a trainer's Slugma, knocking it out. After defeating it, Konjiki and Douglas started to glow. I looked at them with anticipation as I knew what was coming. They slowly grew bigger and bigger as the light continued to flash, until suddenly one last bright flash filled the mine and standing before me were Nidorino and Staravia. Not too long after they evolved, Gonryomaru and Minazuki went through the same process and became Luxio and Kirlia.

Current team:

Minazuki/Kirlia (F, Lv.20)
Confusion, Confuse Ray, Return, Double Team

Konjiki/Nidorino (M, Lv.20)
Acid, Peck, Focus Energy, Double Kick

Gonryomaru/Luxio (M, Lv.16)
Tackle, Leer, Charge, Spark

RyujinJaka/Monferno (F, Lv.17)
Fury Swipes, Leer, Ember, Triple Kick

Tobiume/Growlithe (F, Lv.15)
Ember, Howl, Bite, Leer

Douglas/Staravia (M, Lv.15)
Tackle, Growl, Quick Attack, Wing Attack
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Male
Australia
Seen June 24th, 2020
Posted June 10th, 2013
305 posts
13.7 Years
Having lost yet another flying type and losing a few of my screenshots, like the one of Erika, I decided to call it a day.

Update 2:
Spoiler:

Today, my play was filled with bad decisions resulting in the loss of quite a few flying types, and therefore I won't do a long update due to me being annoyed with myself.
I managed to defeat Lt. Surge, Erika and the first battle with Giovanni, as well as defeating my rival in the Pokemon Tower. After that, I headed south to Fuchsia City, where I entered the gym took some damage from the Hypno's. Why, Game Freak, did you put psychic types in a poison type gym? Anyway, I decided to do a bit of training before saving my progress after losing another Pokemon. Here's the images I managed to keep.


My Team:
Spoiler:

Lil/Meowth Lv.24
-Pay Day
-Growl
-Bite
-Scratch

Oddium/Vileplume Lv.32
-Absorb
-Sleep Powder
-Acid
-Cut

Pierce/Nidoking Lv.32
-Thrash
-Double Kick
-Poison Sting
-Peck

Blaze/Charmeleon Lv.33
-Ember
-Metal Claw
-Mega Kick
-Growl

Coco/Butterfree Lv.33
-Confusion
-Gust
-Sleep Powder
-Poisonpowder


Boxed:
Spoiler:

Oddium II/Oddish Lv.15
Spartan/Spearow Lv.15
Fang/Rattata Lv.14
Fear/Spearow Lv.13
Macho/Machop Lv.16
Gnasher/Rattata Lv.20
Rower/Spearow Lv.20
Safa/Nidoran M Lv.24
Oddien/Oddish Lv.26


Deceased:
Spoiler:

Fletcher/Pidgey Lv4-14
Rage/Mankey Lv2-16
FletcherII/Pidgeotto Lv15-27
Triad/Dugtrio Lv29-30
Jolt/Eevee Lv25-27
Munch/Snorlax Lv30-30
Spear/Fearow Lv10-32
Pecks/Fearow Lv18-21


As you can see, I'm not having much luck with flying types, although I do still have a load of Spearows left in my box, which I'll probably burn through quite quick.