You did a Grass mono, did you not? how the hell did you beat Bugsy? On that note...
Ultimate Grass Monotype Challenge Diamond, FireRed, StormSilver (2/16), Emerald, White 2, Y (6/8)
Bolded is current, strikethrough is completed, numbers are badge numbers.
"My research will make me the authority on Bug Pokemon" - Bugsy
"And my 4K battles will make all my pokemon so I can beat you (Which is to say 11-14 levels higher than his ace)" - Me
StormSilver
Important Events:
I trained, Elm and Juniper evolved, and I beat Bugsy. There. Done. On to the easy stuff *checks next gyms*. CRAP ITS WHITNEY.
Team after 20 hours of special training:
Spoiler:
NOTE: My sprite resource lacks HGSS sprites for pokemon not native to Kanto or Johto. As such, the Platinum or DP sprites may be shown. Elm (Meganium) Lv35
Male | Timid (Spd>Atk) | Natural Cure
- Reflect
- Magical Leaf
- Nature Power
- Synthesis
Forum User Name: ShinyHoundoom
Pokémon Type: Grass (Will be trying to do every type in X. Grass is just the first type. There a plenty of Pokemon of each type to do this.)
Challenge Mode: Single
Game(s): X
Ultimate Grass Monotype Challenge Diamond, FireRed, StormSilver (6/16), Emerald, White 2, Y (6/8)
Bolded is current, strikethrough is completed, numbers are badge numbers.
Dun dun dun dunnnnn! OVERLEVELLED HAPPY FUN TIME!
StormSilver
Important Events:
Spoiler:
- Hit the road to Goldenrod and grab Oak the Turtwig once there
- Department store lets me grab some TMs and a Water Stone. I wonder where this is going herp derp (Pistachio evolves into Ludicolo)
- Juniper solos the gym trainers, being 10 levels up and all
- Oak evolves into Grotle
- VS Whitney: Everything gets OHKOed by Juniper, except the ones I let Oak deal with for fun and profit. NEXT!
- Eutreak City. Save a Kimono Girl and get an HM Surf. Pistachio like.
- Lets go to the... Crap the burned tower exists. Isnt there a Rival battle in there? Nah, can't be...
- VS Rival Silver: Hello? Is this Silver? yes? Basswood would like a word with your pokemon... THWACK!
- VS Morty: Basswood and Oak literally eat this gym up (bite). Previous Wil-o-Wisps allow Gengar to cause problems for us though, and takes out basically everything until Basswood sacrifices itself to Aromatherapy away Oak's burn, letting him take the kill. Good work!
- And as your reward, You gat to evolve into Torterra! Yaaaay!
- The lighthouse sucks
- The Whirl Islands are annoying and in the way
- Arrive at Cianwood and discover that I need to beat the Gym to proceed. Ugh.
- VS Chuck: I don't remember much about this tbh. I do remember almost losing and then Basswood bailing me out... Again...
- Fly back to Olivine, then back to Cianwood to beat some Team Rocket ass. Then back to Olivine. OH COME ON JASMINE LEMME FITE U.
- VS Jasmine: Skarmory hard counters my team rn, as it does all my OU teams ever. Oak removes Metang from existence, Juniper takes out Forry. Flora sacs to get Seeds off, and Elm straight outplays Skarm with Reflect and Synthesis. Juniper exiles Magneton, Oak takes out her last two. Earthquake OP.
- Find a shiny stone and give it to Flora ASAP.
- Make it all the way to the LoR before remembering that I need to overlevel again for Pryce. AT LEAST SOME OF HIS POKEMON DONT QUAD-RESIST GRASS *cough*bugsy*cough*
- Catch the Shiny G-Dos, ofc. Waterfall slave!
Team at the Lake of NOMNOMNOM:
Spoiler:
NOTE: My sprite resource lacks HGSS sprites for pokemon not native to Kanto or Johto. As such, the Platinum or DP sprites may be shown. Elm (Meganium) Lv39 @ Soothe Bell
Male | Timid (Spd>Atk) | Overgrow (Natural Cure was a typo in the previous update)
- Reflect
- Magical Leaf
- Nature Power
- Synthesis
Get Chespin. Name him Chestnut.
Beat Viola with Rollout.
Chestnut evolved to Quilladin
Beat Sycamore, get Bulbasaur, name him Root.
Root evolved to Ivysaur.
Get Skiddo, name him Aries.
Beat Snorlax and about ready to go onto Route 7
Hate the fact that the gap between Viola and Grant is big.
Team Flare gave me trouble in Glittering Cave because there are fire, flying, and poison types around.
Sleep Powder/Leech Seed was wonderful against Grant. All I had was Razor Leaf and Vine Whip. They are both physical moves trying to hit rock types. *sigh* Grant actually took two tries
Badges 2/8
Current Team:
Spoiler:
Aries the Skiddo
Level 24/Male/Serious/Sap Sipper
-Take Down
-Synthesis
-Razor Leaf
-Leech Seed
Root the Ivysaur Grant MVP
Level 25/Male/Sassy/Overgrow
-Take Down
-Sleep Powder
-Leech Seed
-Vine Whip
I've recently started getting bored with playing through Pokemon games and beating them easily. So I've been looking after different things I can do to make them harder and more fun to play. I've decided to try doing a monotype challenge of one of my favorite games: Soulsilver. My type will be ground.
So far I've gotten down to Azalea Town
My Badges - 0/16
My Team:
Geodude. Lvl 15
Onix. Lvl 14
Wooper. Lvl 9
Completed Challenges
Fire Monotype - X
Potterlocke - X
Nidoking Solo- Red
Ultimate Grass Monotype Challenge Diamond, FireRed, StormSilver (7/16), Emerald, White 2, Y (7/8)
Ice, Ice, Baby.
StormSilver
Important Events:
Spoiler:
- Everyone helps beat up the Rocket Base and all of it's inhabitants.
- GRINDY GRIND GRIND GRIND
- VS Pryce: Sigh. Juniper takes out Abomasnow and Glaile with ease. Frosslass takes out Oak, Basswood, and Elm, but not before Elm gets Light Screen up. Flora ends Frosslass with a Shadow Ball, and lets Petal Dance take out the three Water types. ez.
- Raid the Raid Tower, and get rekt by a Rocket admin and his 8 poison types. I NEED HEART SCALES.
Team at the Raaadio tower:
Spoiler:
NOTE: My sprite resource lacks HGSS sprites for pokemon not native to Kanto or Johto. As such, the Platinum or DP sprites may be shown. Elm (Meganium) Lv49 @ Soothe Bell
Male | Timid (Spd>Atk) | Overgrow
- Reflect
- Magical Leaf
- Light Screen
- Synthesis
Ft. Pikachu the Pikachu and DDDDD the Shiny Gyarados
Out of Rotation: Hawthorn the Bellsprout Fir the Skiploom Bonsai the Grovyle Hazelnut the Ivysaur
TL;DR: Why? Why must there be so many Poison and Flying and Ice and Bug types in this region?
Y
Important Events:
Spoiler:
- After a good amount of smashing the aristocracy in the Battle Chateau, Pine evolves and we challenge the Psychic gym
- VS Olympia: Pine's Blizzard into Sigilyph's Light Screen puts Sig in Ice Shard range. Wood Hammer overkills her half water (I forget which one). I make the fabulous decision to have Flora fight Meowstic, forgetting that I don't carry Shadow Ball in this game. Pecan could care less.
- Have Pistachio II harvest the life energy of a metric ton of Luvdisc to acquire a few Heart Scales, which we spend now.
- Walk into Lysandre Labs and... OH HEY IT'S YOU!
- VS Lysandre: Flora bops Mienfoo and Murkrow with Dazzling Gleam, Pista nukes Pyroar, and Flora and Pine take out G-Dos.
- Do the things in the labs.
- Geosenge here we... OH NOT YOU AGAIN....
- VS Lysandre: See above, just replace the names of all of Lysandre's pokemon that could evolve with their evolved forms
- Flora rampages through the Flare HQ
- Throw an M-Ball at Yveltal to maintain health for Lysandre part III
- VS Lysandre: Even easier tbh. Flora gets Mien, Pista deals with Pyroar, Pine eliminates Honchy, and Chestnut eliminates G-Dos.
- Run through the plotless boringness until Snowbelle
Ultimate Grass Monotype Challenge Diamond, FireRed, StormSilver (8/16), Emerald, White 2, Y (8/8)
*VS Team Rocket theme plays*
StormSilver
Important Events:
Spoiler:
- TM HUNT!
- Spend far longer than I should have at the Battle Frontier for a Toxic Orb, Zoom Lens, and a couple TMs
- ROCKETS MAY NOW ALL DIE IN HELL
- My god there are so many Poison types
- Pista, Oak, and Bass clean out the Rockets
- VS Silver: I hax out Honchkrow and then nothing else causes me problems.
- The middle two executives give me major problems, but nothing that isn't solved by a quick soft reset or 3000...
- Archer is the easiest of the executives, with the fewest Poison types
- Welp, imma just leave... WAIT WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?
- VS Giovanni: Ok, you exist. All pokemon with names beginning in Nido are dealt with by Oak/Bass, all others are Juniper's kills.
- Facerush the Ice Path, I can't stand Ice types
- VS Clair: Rawr. Dragons. Luckily for me, I went ahead and taught Pista Ice Beam, which picks off 4 with ease. Salamence is a *****, but eventually takes an I-Beam and dies. Kingdra causes more problems. Knowing from previous failures, I risk it having Swift Swim to set up Rain, reducing Blizzard's accuracy to 50%. Then Breloom goes ham.
- Do the Dragon's Den crap, as well as grabbing the M-Ball and beating up some Kimono Girls.
Team after 8 Gyms:
Spoiler:
NOTE: My sprite resource lacks HGSS sprites for pokemon not native to Kanto or Johto. As such, the Platinum or DP sprites may be shown. Elm (Meganium) Lv51 @ Soothe Bell
Male | Timid (Spd>Atk) | Overgrow
- Reflect
- Energy Ball
- Light Screen
- Synthesis
Job's done. Lucario turned into a bit of a body to throw at people while I healed Infernape/Gallade once he got underleveled around gym 8, but he was fun while he lasted.
Ultimate Grass Monotype Challenge Diamond, FireRed, StormSilver (8+E4/16), Emerald, White 2, Y (8/8)
DUN DUN DUNNNNN! DUAL-SCREENS OP!!!! CHOICE SCARF OP!!!!! SCARFED DUAL SCREEN USER OP!!!! ON TO KANTO AT LAST!
StormSilver
Important Events:
Spoiler:
- Do the Lugia thing, and catch it. Perfect HM slave.
- Hate Route 26/27
- Do Victory Road, but remember that there is actually a Rival battle this time...
- SR at least twice after losing to said rival, then...
- VS Rival Silver: So a word of note before we begin: Juniper is boxed for the HM slave Lugia atm. Honchkrow takes down Pistachio, but Flora bails him out as usual. Oak eats Alakazam. Typhlosion easily dispatches everyone except Elm, but I manage to revive Oak and EQ connects. Kingdra's Ice Beam is annoying as hell, but playing around Elm's Light Screens I manage to take it out. Electivire (Drayno honestly gave Silver most of Paul's Anime team) also runs Ice coverage and takes out Elm, but I manage to get Oak to full health, so he survives said Ice Punch with 10ish HP. Gengar is Silver's last poke. My last potion allows Oak one Crunch, which fails to get the KO. So I burn my last revive on Elm and hope for the best. 7 Screen/Synth turns later, I realize I'm faster than the damn thing and just Energy Ball it for the win. TLDR Typhlo kills everything that isn't Oak or Elm, who proceed to bop everyone else. With skill.
- OK, E4 time
- Get rekt by Will like 30000 times
- I don't really remember the E4 battles, I do remember the decision to get back to the Battle Frontier and buy myself another Scarf won me it. Scarfs on Elm and Flora. Band on Oak. CHOICES!
- I beat Lance on the back of some impressive Screens from Elm, Good overall movement from Pista, and a LOT of Oak Stone Edges. Co-MVPs of E4: Elm and Oak
Team after Champion:
Spoiler:
NOTE: My sprite resource lacks HGSS sprites for pokemon not native to Kanto or Johto. As such, the Platinum or DP sprites may be shown. Elm (Meganium) Lv54 @ Choice Scarf
Male | Timid (Spd>Atk) | Overgrow
- Reflect
- Energy Ball
- Light Screen
- Synthesis
Ultimate Bug Monotype Challenge! Fire red 2/8, Sacred Gold 0/16, Ruby 0/8, Platinum 0/8, Blaze Black 0/8, X 0/8!
Bold is current, and crossed out is completed.
Update numero siete!
Spoiler:
-Ran the gauntlet on the bridge destroyed the rocket grunt.
-Healed my Pokemon.
-Beat all the trainers up to Bill and talked to him. He walked in to the transporter and I turned the machine on... HEY WHERE DID THE POKEMON GO!?!?!?!?!?!?!
-I healed my Pokemon at the center and then did some grinding.
-Got bored with grinding and gave Spots, Bullet seed and destroyed Misty (Starmie no like Leach Life and Bullet Seed). Yay this badge makes Hornet, LISTEN to me!!!!
-Went and beat the rocket grunt with Spots, and Telefly.
-Healed my Pokemon.
Things to note of this update:
-I hate Team Flare's massive amount of poison, flying, and fire types.
-I defeated Ramos, Clemont, and Valerie
-Chestnut is now a Chesnaught
-Coconut is now an Exeggutor
Alright, so after defeating the E4 and the Champion, I trained for a while, then moved on to Kanto. The gym leaders there are always so... Not necessarily easy, especially with a mono Bug-team, but you get through them pretty fast. Heracross and Yanmega are seriousy proving themselves as the powerhouses of the team. Parasect is surprisingly useful, and Forretress is just impossible to take down. Except for anything with a Fire-type move. Beedrill so far mainly functions as a scout, thanks to U-Turn. Poison Jab isn't exactly vital in this gen. Ledian is proving itself time and time again to be useful. Maybe it's partly due to my exceptionally low expectations, but she hits harder than I expect her to almost every time. Still pretty easy to take down, though, but with a Sp. Attack stat of something in the 110s just above level 50, it's surprisingly close to being as high as possible with a good nature, max EVs and IVs and whatnot. So I'm guessing it has good IVs, because I haven't really EV trained.
Anyway, I'm standing just outside Mt. Silver now. I need to train for a while and update some movesets before challenging Red. Here's my team: Heracross, lv. 60 @ Destiny Knot
Female // Jolly // Swarm
- Rock Tomb
- Close Combat
- Megahorn
- Earthquake Yanmega, lv. 57 @ Choice Specs
Male // Timid // Tinted Lens
- Bug Buzz
- Shadow Ball
- Psychic
- Air Slash Beedrill, lv. 60 @ Amulet Coin
Male // Adamant // Swarm
- U-turn
- Toxic Spikes
- Thief
- Poison Jab Forretress, lv. 57 @ Leftovers
Female // Careful // Sturdy
- Bug Bite
- Dig
- Stealth Rock
- Rock Slide Ledian, lv. 57 @ Wide Lens
Female // Modest // Swarm
- Bug Buzz
- Focus Blast
- Reflect
- Roost Parasect, lv. 58 @ Miracle Seed
Male // Impish // Dry Skin
- Return
- Spore
- Giga Drain
- X-Scissor
Ultimate Grass Monotype Challenge Diamond, FireRed, StormSilver (9/16), Emerald, White 2, Y (8/8)
Aaw man, this game makes you take on the Kanto gyms in order? damn.
StormSilver
Important Events:
Spoiler:
- Kanto. Riiiiight.
- So I take the Ferry to Vermellion, only to learn that the GL is MIA, and I should go to Pewter City. So they added an order???? Cvap.
- Diglett's Den for training
- VS Brock: easy 6-0
- So I head out to Mt Moon and start to go through it until... WAIT WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE????
- VS Rival Silver: Basically my standard Rival strat - Sac 3/4 pokemon at the beginning then let Pista, Oak, and Elm sweep.
- Breloom is not exactly helping at this point, and I'm not using it for any of the next 6 gyms, so I drop Juniper for now. I'll leave it in the rotation for the time being, but Lugia has it's party slot.
- Reach Cerulean, and upon realizing that I needed to do the Power Plant crap, save and close.
Team in Cerulean:
Spoiler:
NOTE: My sprite resource lacks HGSS sprites for pokemon not native to Kanto or Johto. As such, the Platinum or DP sprites may be shown. Elm (Meganium) Lv61 @ Choice Scarf
Male | Timid (Spd>Atk) | Overgrow
- Reflect
- Energy Ball
- Light Screen
- Aromatherapy
Ultimate Grass Monotype Challenge Diamond, FireRed, StormSilver (11/16), Emerald, White 2, Y (8/8)
Sigh.
StormSilver
Important Events:
Spoiler:
- zzz Powerplant and Route 24 happen, GIMME A BADGE ALREADY
- I add Juniper back to the team, and it easily dispatches every last Gym Trainer except one annoying Pelliper despite being 7-8 levels underlevelled.
- Train Juni to a little under the rest of the team, and challenge Misty
- VS Misty: This would be the easiest battle of my run... Except for one little detail... Politoed's Drizzle sets up rain and an Ice Beam, only to get taken out by Juniper (who restored himeslf to full health in the process). Lapras is Spored, but it survives a Drain Punch and gets the 1-turn wake to ko Juniper with Ice Beam. Elm easily secures credit with Energy Ball, then sets up Light Screen, only to get frozen by Starmie's, wait for it, Ice Beam and forcing me to switch out. At this point, I realize that this isn't Gen 6 and Drizzle Rain lasts forever, a fact Pistachio could not be happier about. GIGA DRAIN SPAM! Starmie and Lanturn offer a Swift Swim empowered Pista little resistance, and Basswood secures credit for Vaporeon and Golduck with ease. Screw Ice Beam.
- Fly south to Vermellion, and do a thing there.
- VS Lt. Surge: The moral of this battle is that Electric types are fast and I need to use Elm more. Oak easily removes Magnezone from play, and then facetanks an Ice Punch to KO Electavire. I assume that Oak will outspeed and OHKO Ampharos as well, but that is not the case. Basswood puts up a Swords Dance and then bops Ampharos. Raichu does not hit Focus Miss, and Bass manages to survive a Jolteon Shadow Ball. Electrode defeats Basswood, but Juniper steps in to finish the job.
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Team after 11 Gyms:
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NOTE: My sprite resource lacks HGSS sprites for pokemon not native to Kanto or Johto. As such, the Platinum or DP sprites may be shown. Elm (Meganium) Lv63 @ Light Clay
Male | Timid (Spd>Atk) | Overgrow
- Reflect
- Energy Ball
- Light Screen
- Aromatherapy
This part was a bit rough. I get my last two party members Oak the Trevenant and Pineapple the Ludicolo. With Frost Cavern, the rival fight, and Olympia's Sigiliph the team took a beating. Not looking forward to the rest of the Team Flare stuff, Lysandre, and Wulfric.
Badges 7/8
Current team:
Spoiler:
Oak the Trevenant
Level 41/Male/Mild/Natural Cure
-Leech Seed
-Curse
-Will-O-Wisp
-Shadow Claw
Ultimate Grass Monotype Challenge Diamond, FireRed, StormSilver (11/16), Emerald, Black 2 (Replaces White 2, See bottom of post), Y
You know what is the best thing ever? Your 3DS dying during the Champion fight. And it's not even the Cynthia fight for once, because let's be honest, everyone's DS died fighting Cynthia. Everyone. I'll update this post with the final team once I beat Diantha and AZ.
UPDATE: Fin.
Y
Important Events:
Spoiler:
- Grindy Grind Grind
- Victory Road is hell. There is a rival fight, but that was the easiest battle on the entire route.
- Pokemon League time. still 7-8 levels under Diantha's ace, but who cares.
- VS Siebold: Walnut sets up 4 Bulk Ups and sweeps.
- VS Wikstrom: See Siebold. I do burn the last of my Earthquake uses (where has this happened before...), so rip my Max Elixir.
- VS Drasna: I try and do a lot of things, but she keeps taking out my stuff until I remember that Flora has Dazzling Gleam.
- VS Malva: Pistachio sets up Rain and sweeps.
- As I said above, my DS cuts out the power during the Diantha fight, but I saved before it. We resume tomorrow.
- Flora vs Hawlucha: Dazzling Gleam OHKOes 6-5
- Chestnut vs Aurorus: Hammer Arm OHKOes 6-4
- Walnut vs Goodra: Earthquake deals a little less than half, so I Bulk Up before the second cast. 6-3
- Walnut vs Tyrantrum: I see no reason to switch out a Bulked Up Gogoat, so I don't. Tyrantrum narrowly avoids being KOed by Earthquake and Head Smashes both himself and Walnut to the ground. 5-2
- PineNut vs Gourgeist: Gourgeist opens with Trick or Treat and Pine OHKOes with Blizzard 5-1
- PineNut vs Gardevoir: Pine takes a Shadow ball to the face and counterracts with her own STAB Shadow Ball (Compliments of Trick-Or-Treat). Ice Shard fails to KO, and Garde takes down Pine. 4-1
- Pecan vs Gardevoir: Curse into the obvious Full Restore, and Gyro Ball enters me into the Hall of Fame.
- AZ is easy
TANKY TANK TANK TANK TANK. I don't think Chesnaught fainted once after evolving, especially not once I set up my final moves. Leech Seed and Lefties with Spiky Shield is OP. Always came through when I needed her to. A huge asset to this team.
Walnut (Gogoat) Lv64 @ Earth Plate
Male | Lonley (Atk>Def) | Sap Sipper
- Horn Leech
- Bulk Up
- Earthquake
- Milk Drink
Oh my. Literally nothing the E4 has can beat this thing. So much fun to have around, just for big hits whenever I needed them.
Dazzling Gleam saved my a** more times than I can remember, and Grassy Terrain was nice for setting up. I've talked about Roserade plenty before, so I'll leave it be for now.
Pecan (Ferrothorn) Lv63 @ Amulet Coin
Male | Brave (Atk>Spd) | Iron Barbs
- Payback
- Power Whip
- Curse
- Gyro Ball
I used Pekin's set minus the helmet here, because it hits SO HARD. He often turned into a liability on routes due to his low Speed, but showed up in major battles, just like about every Steel type I have used.
Hits like a truck every time, and has the only Priority on this generally slow squad. Also, Ice coverage is awesome on Monograss.
Ft. JOHN CENA the Hawlucha, Pistachio II the Lombre, and Nuzleaf the Yveltal
Out of Rotation: Yulyana the Pansage (Banished for being a bad pokemon) Cashew the Exeggutor Hazelnut the Venusaur
IN OTHER NEWS I will be playing my hard copy of Black 2 rather than White 2, and it will run parallel to the remainder of the emulated games, StormSilver and Emerald. This change has been reflected in the header. I'd load it up right now, but needs moar Mario Tennis.