The Pair Challenge! Page 2

Started by Puddle March 14th, 2014 8:17 AM
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Tek

Age 33
Male
Kansas City
Seen May 28th, 2020
Posted May 1st, 2020
939 posts
9.6 Years
Second update:

Battled all the trainers on the way to Nacrene (which wasn't very many). The Normal-type trainers at the Gym weren't too tough, but Lenora was another story. Her Herdier KO'd Mischief in a close fight, and Grace finished out the battle in an equally close fight.

So it was up through Pinwheel Forest and on to Castelia. I battled all trainers aside from the ones at the Battle House or whatever it is. Burgh's gym and Burgh himself were tough to beat for the simple fact that Leavanny and its earlier forms resist both Mischief's Thundershock and Grace's Magical Leaf. I managed to get by with judicious use of Sweet Kiss and Nasty plot. Learned something new here: Leech Seed doesn't work on Grass types. Ugh.

I skipped over the Desert Resort area on my way to Nimbasa. After rescuing the Daycare Man, battling N once more, and purchasing the Return TM, I challenged Elesa's Gym. With Mischief's new Normal-type move and Grace's type resistance, it was a piece of cake. I think Mischief's Return is a bit stronger than it normally would have been because of the Luxury Ball. I didn't mean for that to happen... poor planning on my part.

Clearing out the Cold Storage, I foiled Plasma's plans once again, and gained entry to Clay's gym. Since I'm trying to keep Grace at a lower level (and because Grace actually grows faster than Mischief), I took the most direct path to Clay. Not an easy thing to do for someone who has a policy of not skipping trainers in a gym. Needless to say, this was an easy victory, and even Excadrill's Steel-typing didn't save it from Leech Seed/Growth/Magical Leaf.

I am now in the Chargestone Cave.


Current Team:

Mischief the Pichu @ Eviolite
Naïve Female Lv 43
Return/Sweet Kiss/ThunderShock/Nasty Plot

Grace the Shaymin @ Big Root
Bashful, Lv 32
Growth/Magical Leaf/Leech Seed/Flash

Abu the Pansage
Mild Male Lv 11
Cut/Leer/Lick/Rock Smash

Rocky the Roggenrola
Bashful Female Lv 11
Strength/Harden/Sand-Attack/Headbutt

CelticsPhan

Get Poke'd

Age 25
Male
Massachusetts, USA
Seen July 20th, 2020
Posted June 3rd, 2017
468 posts
9.7 Years
Username: GucciMeme
Game: Diamond
Mode: Normal
Pair: Electivire and Magmortar

I will start with Elekid/Magby, wait for them to evolve to Electabuzz and Magmar through Friendship and then use PokeGen to evolve them to their final forms. I will not alter anything besides their evolutions.

EDIT: Finished this Challenge, but didn't want to Double Post!

Spoiler:

-Started out with Elekid/Magby for authenticity.

ROARK
Elekid knew Low Kick, which allowed me to win after multiple attempts.

GARDENIA
Magby knows Ember, so no problems.

MAYLENE
I actually got Electabuzz at this point in the game, which made for an easier time. Magby took out Lucario.

*Different Gym order from Platinum throwing me off*
WAKE
I got Electivire and Magmortar in time for this Gym, and it sure paid off. ThunderPunch was too strong.

FANTINA
Magmortar knew Faint Attack, which handled her Ghosts.

BYRON
Electivire's Low Kick and Magmortar's Flamethrower won me this.

CANDICE
Magmortar + Fire Blast = No explanation needed.

VOLKNER
Combined effort, but with Magmortar blowing his Pokemon away with Flamethrower.

Off to the E4!

AARON
Magmorta and stuff.

BERTHA
Near impossible because of Ground types, but a few lucky criticals helped a whole lot.

FLINT
Electivire was just fast enough to TBolt everything.

LUCIAN
Magmortar's Faint Attack and fire Blast for that pesky Bronzong.

CYNTHIA
Already? Okay. This battle wss why I needed both of these guys to win. TBolt to Spiritomb, A few thousand Swifts to Gastrodon, TBolt to Milotic.

Moment of silence for that Lv.66 Garchomp. The harder Garchomp was actually why I chose Diamond over Platinum, plus the difficulty in Plat was too much for my patience. I got the luckiest crit ever on a Fire Blast from Magmortar that even burned the Smogonchomp, causing it to die from Burn damage.

Roserade? Lol, taste Flamethrower. AND YOU TOO, LUCARIO!


Posted rather quickly just as my run went. I guess I know Sinnoh better than I thought!
SCREENSHOT:
Spoiler:
Go play Pokemon Theta Emerald EX!

Tek

Age 33
Male
Kansas City
Seen May 28th, 2020
Posted May 1st, 2020
939 posts
9.6 Years
i've got a 3DS and Y version coming in the mail (very excite!), so I blazed through the second half of this challenge... need to get my Pokétransporting on. Here's the highlights:


Final Update

Mischief stomped all the faces at Skyla's Gym.

Used the crap out of Repels on my way to Iccirus.

Went straight to the gym, where Mischief did most of the work. Grace had to help out a bit, and apparently takes Ice Beams like a champ.

After getting through Dragonspiral Tower and the Desert Resort, I was able to get the Hidden Power TM from the Professor Juniper. Grace has Psychic and Mischief has Ice. I would've preferred one to be Fire or Dragon, but meh. Still pretty good.

Mischief outran and overpowered nearly everything in Iris' Gym with Nasty Plot and Hidden Power. Iris' Fraxure gave me a hard time, though. I used seven Revives on Mischief while fighting it >.<

I Super Repelled my way through Victory Road. I experimented with switching Mischief's Eviolite with a Lucky Egg, which just got Mishcief KO'd a dozen times over.

With Mischief at Lv 68 and Grace at Lv 48, I challenged the E4 to see how far I would get before losing, so I'd know how much grinding to do. To my surprise, I won out.

In each battle, I would put Mischief out first, and lead with Volt Switch, keeping my adorable glass cannon out of harm's way. The rest of the battle then consisted of rationing out Grace's Flash and Leech Seed, switching back to Mischief when the opponent's Pokémon fainted, rinsing, and repeating.

Halfway through, when I was starting to realize I might win, I gave Grace the Eviolite and have Mischief a Scope Lens. It was completely on a whim, but worked out quite nicely. I used quite a few healing items, and got really worried against the Chandelure, but the dynamic cuteness duo pulled through.

In N's Castle, I soft reset a few times before remembering that Zekrom can't be shiny. In preparation for the final battles, I replaced Mischief's Return with Thunder and used a PP Max. Unfortunately, I lost rather quickly.

I decided I'd give it one more shot before heading back to Victory Road for grindage. And I completely forgot about teaching Thunder to Mischief. Yet despite the slip-up, I beat both N and Ghetsis. The hardest part of it all was having to switch Zekrom out of battle right away; nearly cost me the win. Shaymin was an effective tank with Eviolite. Leech Seed was surprisingly helpful as well.

I assumed there would be some sort of screen featuring the amazing tiny pair, but there isn't, so ya'll get this instead:




The Pair

Mischief the Pichu @ Scope Lens
Naive Female Lv 71
Return/Hidden Power/Volt Switch/Nasty Plot

Grace the Shaymin @ Eviolite
Bashful Lv 54
Hidden Power/Magical Leaf/Leech Seed/Flash
Age 29
Male
That weird place between the areas around me. 0.0...
Seen October 21st, 2014
Posted October 19th, 2014
60 posts
11.4 Years
Name: Yendor
Game: Fire Red
(Normal/Hard/Insane?): Insane
It's been about two and a half years since I been on here soooooo... Heres to a fresh start lol.

Pokemon X FC : 3969-5896-7402
Water Safari : Panpour, Gyarados, Frogadier


Current Challenges:

Random 4 Pokemon: Ruby: Gligar, Chansey, Tangela, Rhydon

The Ones That Got Away: Silver: Dodrio, Politoed, Hitmonlee, Houndoom, Donphan