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Started by Necrum July 16th, 2014 7:14 PM
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9.1 Years
I literally had the worst team to level up...

In my Monotype I had to raise Budew and freaking Burmy with its Protect and Tackle as its only attack.

Then in my Gym Leader challenge, I had to level up the freakin' cancers of wild encounters aka Tentacool and Zubat.

Then in my Other gym leader challenge, I had to level up Abra, which is not so bad but still tedious to get some experience on it.

Probably one of the toughest team I had to raise for challenges until now xD
If you think that is bad never do a mono-colour red in 4th gen>:( . You are forced to raise a krickatot to lvl 16 with just bide to get bug bite to beat Roark.
Completed:

FR 8/8 / G 16/16 / S 8/8 / Plt 8/8 / W2 8/8
Solo Challenge:
  • Nidoking (Fire Red and Heart Gold)
  • Gengar (Yellow)
  • Togepi (Platinum)
  • Delibird (X)

Pendraflare

Age 32
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Posted March 29th, 2021
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9.8 Years
Yeah, not looking forward to that when I do my Ultimate. jd said it's not too bad, though...

Speaking of Red Mono-Colors, y u no finish yours? :P You're over-leveled in White 2 last I saw, so i'm sure you could get through a bit more of the game.
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Captain Gizmo

Monkey King

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If you think that is bad never do a mono-colour red in 4th gen>:( . You are forced to raise a krickatot to lvl 16 with just bide to get bug bite to beat Roark.
I remember I had to use a Nuzleaf to beat Brawly once, it was soooo horrible :(
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Pendraflare

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As far as unfavorable match-ups go, the worst i've been thrown was having to use a team of Grass-types with only three (Servine, Sunkern and Leavanny) in White 2 against Roxie on Challenge Mode. I kept failing against her first Pokémon, so I had no choice but to evolve my Sewaddle into Leavanny to win the fight. And even so, I still barely won. Burgh right after that was balls as well.
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My worst was recently when I was doing my Random team run through Ruby . Got to Wattson with only Golbat, Swellow and Gyarados as I was trying to catch as I went. after 7+ attempts I got to Magneton and somehow with double team and crits got it to 1/4 heath before a super potion ruined it. Ended up restarting and hacking my complete team in to train up. Even then he was one of the hardest battles, minus Steven's Metagross. Made me think back to using Charmander starting in Red.

Captain Gizmo

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As far as unfavorable match-ups go, the worst i've been thrown was having to use a team of Grass-types with only three (Servine, Sunkern and Leavanny) in White 2 against Roxie on Challenge Mode. I kept failing against her first Pokémon, so I had no choice but to evolve my Sewaddle into Leavanny to win the fight. And even so, I still barely won. Burgh right after that was balls as well.
Reminds me of the time I had to face Wattson with my team of Tentacool and Zubat xD
iirc, I had to evolve my Zubat into Golbat and use Confuse Ray on Magneton and it kept hitting itself while I just kept using Bite and I finally defeated him xD
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I was also only able to beat him on my normal run with headbutts and sand attack. It was worse when his Voltorb would Self Destruct on his first turn taking your best hope with it. I think that if you battled Steven through the game as your rival he would easily be the most annoying challenge to face.

Tek

Age 33
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Posted May 1st, 2020
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9.6 Years
DCC has become a horror story thread.


Speaking of which, taking on Emerald's E4 with a NFE team (Clefairy, Krabby, Swablu, Pikachu, Trapinch, Dratini) is an absolute nightmare.

Pendraflare

Age 32
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Noticed he hasn't been on all day, hope he isn't busy becoming eviler D: I just want to hear his verdict on XY's Exp. Share since the poll is tied!

On one hand, I want the Exp. Share to be unbanned, because training in the game i've found to be a headache on occasion without it (not as bad as Johto/RSE, but still unpleasant). On the other, if it doesn't, I won't be too upset, if only because I often go in against Gym Leaders and the Elite Four behind even their lowest. In my Normal Monotype on Y I went in at Level 59 and still beat the four without too much concerns, even with Set mode and no bag items in battle. I went in on my Red Mono-Color at the same level, and Siebold was the hardest of them by far, but Diantha was very edgy as well (quite a bit of luck, came down to my Scolipede against Mega Gardevoir, and OHKO'ed her with a critical hit Poison Jab, that may or may not have mattered since I had the Poison Barb).
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Necrum

I AM THE REAL SONIC

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Portland, OR
Seen August 20th, 2019
Posted July 13th, 2017
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10.9 Years
So, the Stadium Arcadium Event is over, right? I keep waiting for Necrum to post a final tally or something.
Sorry about that, I was out camping. I wasn't really sure what the situation was out there or else I would have made myself do it outright yesterday morning. I'll have it all done tomorrow.

jdthebud

Engineering Solutions

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Washington, USA
Seen January 13th, 2022
Posted July 11th, 2021
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12.6 Years
Sorry about that, I was out camping. I wasn't really sure what the situation was out there or else I would have made myself do it outright yesterday morning. I'll have it all done tomorrow.
Cool beans. Hope you had fun.

Enigma

The Flame Pokémon

Age 25
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California
Seen August 25th, 2016
Posted July 12th, 2016
1,221 posts
15.2 Years
Hey guys, I hope a few of you at least remember me. I've come back to PC recently after a little hiatus, but I'm ready to start back up where I was before in terms of challenges. I'm sad that I missed Stadium Arcadium, but oh well.

Also, for any of you that remember both me and my 151 Solo goal, I think I'm going to resume that immediately, but I wanna put a new twist on it: I want the people to decide what my next solo is gonna be. it'll help because i'm really undecisive

I'm also not going to sign up for anymore challenges until my name change goes through, which (hopefully) shouldn't be too long.

It tosses its enemies around with agility. It uses all its limbs to fight in its own unique style.

Enigma

The Flame Pokémon

Age 25
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Posted July 12th, 2016
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Garsp! It's InfernoRogue! Glad to see you back! I personally can't stand solo challenges, but to each their own.
Solo challenges aren't my favorite either, unless it's with a Pokemon I really enjoy. When I started out on my 151 goal, I really wanted to do something different, something that no one has done before. I just...never finished it, heheh. I'm not kidding when I say I'm indecisive!

It tosses its enemies around with agility. It uses all its limbs to fight in its own unique style.

jdthebud

Engineering Solutions

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Washington, USA
Seen January 13th, 2022
Posted July 11th, 2021
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Hey guys, I hope a few of you at least remember me. I've come back to PC recently after a little hiatus, but I'm ready to start back up where I was before in terms of challenges. I'm sad that I missed Stadium Arcadium, but oh well.

Also, for any of you that remember both me and my 151 Solo goal, I think I'm going to resume that immediately, but I wanna put a new twist on it: I want the people to decide what my next solo is gonna be. it'll help because i'm really undecisive

I'm also not going to sign up for anymore challenges until my name change goes through, which (hopefully) shouldn't be too long.
Cool, InfernoRogue, glad to see you're back. What's your new name gonna be?

And count me in for your Kanto war council.

Enigma

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Age 25
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Posted July 12th, 2016
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Cool, InfernoRogue, glad to see you're back. What's your new name gonna be?

And count me in for your Kanto war council.
I'm Enigma now :) My name change already went through, awesome.

It tosses its enemies around with agility. It uses all its limbs to fight in its own unique style.

jdthebud

Engineering Solutions

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Seen January 13th, 2022
Posted July 11th, 2021
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I'm Enigma now :) My name change already went through, awesome.
Cool, nice choice. Makes me wonder what other tricks you have up your sleeve. ;)

Enigma

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Cool, nice choice. Makes me wonder what other tricks you have up your sleeve. ;)
Thanks, heheh. On a another note, now that X and Y have been out for a while, I'm kinda bummed that I can't really do a complete Ultimate challenge anymore, since I don't have a 3DS or either game. I'm hoping some challenges still count an Ultimate as through gen 5.

It tosses its enemies around with agility. It uses all its limbs to fight in its own unique style.

Pendraflare

Age 32
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Thanks, heheh. On a another note, now that X and Y have been out for a while, I'm kinda bummed that I can't really do a complete Ultimate challenge anymore, since I don't have a 3DS or either game. I'm hoping some challenges still count an Ultimate as through gen 5.
I think he said his Mono-Color does, at least for the time being given I'm the only documented XY Mono-Color clear as far as I recall. :P You could try that!
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Enigma

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I think he said his Mono-Color does, at least for the time being given I'm the only documented XY Mono-Color clear as far as I recall. :P You could try that!
That would be fun, I wanted to do all Mono-Color Ultimates at some point, so I guess that means I still can. I think I need to go through everything step-by-step first; I should probably finish my 151 solos just to get them over with.

It tosses its enemies around with agility. It uses all its limbs to fight in its own unique style.

Pendraflare

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That would be fun, I wanted to do all Mono-Color Ultimates at some point, so I guess that means I still can. I think I need to go through everything step-by-step first; I should probably finish my 151 solos just to get them over with.
Ha, that'd sure be a time-consuming task! Unless you were playing on emulators with super-speed access, it'd get pretty tedious i'd imagine, especially if you're talking about all the Pokémon, including their un-evolved forms and not just their final forms.

I've only done two challenges here on emulators and those were Ruby and Leaf Green for my Ground Ultimate, and that was while I still had my Dell computer. On a MacBook I can't really find any good emulators, so I had to use my physical versions of Ruby and Fire Red for my Red Ultimate.
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Enigma

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Ha, that'd sure be a time-consuming task! Unless you were playing on emulators with super-speed access, it'd get pretty tedious i'd imagine, especially if you're talking about all the Pokémon, including their un-evolved forms and not just their final forms.

I've only done two challenges here on emulators and those were Ruby and Leaf Green for my Ground Ultimate, and that was while I still had my Dell computer. On a MacBook I can't really find any good emulators, so I had to use my physical versions of Ruby and Fire Red for my Red Ultimate.
Time consuming, very tedious, but it'll be amazing once it's over with. It'll be something memorable for sure.

On that note, anyone have any suggestions for the next Pokemon to do?

It tosses its enemies around with agility. It uses all its limbs to fight in its own unique style.

Gulpin

poisonous

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Seen January 16th, 2017
Posted November 25th, 2016
3,270 posts
16.7 Years
Time consuming, very tedious, but it'll be amazing once it's over with. It'll be something memorable for sure.

On that note, anyone have any suggestions for the next Pokemon to do?
Welcome back!
As for your next Pokemon, you should use Weepinbell. Kinda random, but for some reason the Bellsprout line popped up in my head, and why not use the awkward middle evolution? It shouldn't be too difficult, because Wrap is so OP in RBY.
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