Challenge The Nuzlocke Challenge Page 26

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Pokemon Platinum Nuzlocke First Update

Recieved My starter Pokemon


Got a Bidoof as my Route 201 Encounter


Got a Starly at Lake Verity


Got a Shinx at Route 202


Got a Budew at Route 204


Got a Zubat in Ravaged Path


Defeated Barry on Route 203


Here is the Team after the first Update


Next Time, i will be continuing on getting more encounters and make my way to Oreburg and prepare for the first Gym
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Here is my next update for my Pokemon Platinum Nuzlocke

So my Adventure continued as i made my way through Route 104 Battling Trainers and getting experience for the team

I made my way into Oreburg Gate where i encountered a Psyduck and caught it


As i arrived in Oreburg, i headed up north where i encountered a Machop and Caught it


I then made my way to Oreburg Mine to look for Roark and encountered a Geodude and caught it


After getting Roark back to the Gym i decided to start training for the Gym. Also i really needed Chimchar to evolve before i think about going in.

After a while of Training Chimchar has Evolved, i also taught him Mach Punch which he would also need


Also Starly had evolved while training the team, though it probably was not gonna see any use in a Rock Gym


And when i finally felt good that my levels where good enough, i headed to my first Gym battling the few Gym Trainers.

And then it was time. My battle with Roark began


The battle had ended in my Victory.


Next up i am headed off back to Jubilife to make my way further North

Here is the team after this update


Death Count remains 0 after this update which is good.
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Posted November 2nd, 2022
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Here's an update to my Gold Nuzlocke. I'll try to update like this after every gym, when I have time to make this.


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Time for another Platinum Nuzlocke Update!

So i made my way back to Jubilife and ran into a problem of Team Galactic trying to steal Professor Rowans research
and me and Dawn had to fight them off


I also grabbed Geodude from the Pc that i caught in Oreburg mines and taught it Rock Smash to get past Ravaged path and to the other side of Route 204

I then arrived in Floaroma town and had to deal with Team Galactic again and get the Key to the windworks to stop them.


I then encountered a Shellos at Valley windworks and caught it


Then during training for my fight with Mars, which is known to be a very tough fight, Shinx has evolved


But it turned out to not be as bad as it seemed. Made it through with no Losses and the team is okay.


Also put Psyduck away for my new Shellos since it's a better Water Type than Psyduck


And now it's off to Eterna Forest on Route 205. Where i encountered a Buizel and caught it


Made it through the Eterna Forest with the Company of Cheryl who helped in the double battles throughout the forest and kept me nice and healed


The Team so far


Death Count: 0

Hopefully next update i will be battling the Eterna City Gym.
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Posted November 2nd, 2022
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Oh boy, was the Jasmine rough....

After getting the Cianwood badge from Chuck by leveling up and soloing with the Machop I found long ago, I went straight to Jasmine right afterwards. She seemed fine at first, one shotting both of the Magnemites. But as soon as her Steelix came out, it was trouble. I got her to use a hyper potion and got her down low, but with a crit on iron tail killed my Machoke, I started to lose composure. I threw in Koffing, thinking I can just explode and do damage, but I never got the chance. Then, I (for some stupid reason), decided to go Togepi and that just got one shotted.

I was finally able to clear with Gyarados (Flushed) by using surf twice, and her missing a crucial rock throw. After the gym, I end up with only three members left.

The picture will only have the three that completed the gym, but as replacements for the fallen ones, I put in Lloyd the Tentacool (Cianwood City waters), Milkshake the Miltank (Route 38), and Fludd the Spearow (Route 42, headbutt)






(click the pic, I couldn't get it to resize for some reason)
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Time for another Platinum Nuzlocke Update!

So to start things off, i decided to switch Budew to the front and battle some of the fisherman on the outside of the forest and gave it the Soothe bell i recieved to hopefully get more progress to it's evolution to Roelia


Then i pick up Zubat from the Pc for the upcoming Grass Gym, it's 4x Grass resistance will be insanely useful


I encounter a Chingling on Route 211 and catch it. Meh, probably won't use this


Then it was time, i headed into the Gym for my 2nd Badge. Bring it on Gardenia!


And needless to say it was easy! Monfernos Taunt shutting down her status Moves and stuff. There is a reason i keep taunt around :)
and Staravia did the rest really


Then i went ahead and picked up the Explorer kit in cause why not, may as well since i think it's required to pick up before i can leave Eterna


Then with Cut, i visited the Old Chateau to grab a great encounter in Rotom(This was really risky but worth it since it will be a great Pokemon later on
to change form to quite a few types i might need)it used up all my Pokeballs and nearly risked some of the team, but thank Arceus it went okay :)


and while battling in the Galactic Eterna Building. I lost my little Budew, she got killed cause i forgot that it was part Poison :( Stupid Kadabra was strong(Almost killed Staravia too, lived a wing attack but i finished it off with Quick attack) Kadabra does so much damage, even if i had switched someone would have been at risk.


Farewell Budew, I am going to defeat Team Galactic in your honor for revenge



Yeah, REVENGE for what one of your stupid henchman did to my Budew!

That was for Budew!


Also recieved an Egg from Cynthia and a Bike from the cycle shop.

And that will just about do it for this Update.

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Deaths
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Decided to keep going and fought both Pryce and Claire.

Pryce... was a pushover. I was able to mostly handle it with Ampharos, and then just finish it off with Gyarados. As for Claire, I had to grind up quite a bit to make sure her Kingdra didn't kill me, so I caught a Swinub in Frost Cavern, and leveled him up to 40 along with Ampharos, and just leveled everyone else only a little bit and attempted the battle. Gyarados was able to take out the first Dragonair with Dragon Rage, as this one had Surf. Then, switched in Piloswine to beat the next two Dragonairs.

For the Kingdra, I had to bring out Ampharos to paralyze it, and then move to Gyarados to Dragon Rage it, almost dying in the process from a Hyper Beam. But alas, we were able to make it out alive, and now to move on to the Elite Four!


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I cleared the Elite Four with only one casualty. I ended up losing my Milkeshake the Miltank to a crit Hyper Beam by Lance's strongest Dragonite. Other than that, it was smooth sailing.

After the Elite Four, I replaced the dead Miltank with a Rhyhorn I found in Victory Road.

The gyms in Kanto were smooth sailing, until I got to Blue, and had difficulty with his Exeggutor. I tried to switch in my Gyarados to tank a hit, but with Sunny Day up, he did some rapid fire Solarbeams and killed him in two shots. I was able to make it through afterwards but had to fill the void by bringing in the Snorlax (Big Boi) from Vermilion.

As of now, this is my current setup just as I am at Mt. Silver. I want to level up a bit more, but may do my attempt soon.
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Raj

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Thought about Creating a new thread for this due to having to create a custom Rule and this being several months old, but thought I'd rather not deal with that and figured there would be more traffic here honestly.

I'm going to be doing a Nuzlocke run of a Fan Game called Pokemon Infinite Fusions, where the main gimmick is that every Pokemon is fusable with each other. Unlike Pokemon Fusion Generations another fan game with a similar idea, this one seemingly has no Fusions in the wild, although trainers make extensive use of it. More importantly though, is the balance set. In Pokemon Fusion Generation, Fusing was always the correct decision as base stats were added to each other, making Fused Pokemon stronger.

In this Fan game, it instead uses averages although it weights it differently depending on what's the head and what's the body. Meaning fusions can easily end up weaker than the original, with the biggest advantage of fusions being a far more diverse move pool, early on without a reliance on TM's.

My original thoughts was to complicated honestly, as I first leaned towards catching the first Pokemon per route, but if a Fused Pokemon were to die, I would unfuse them and roll to see which one died and which survived, thankfully by the time I changed my rule set at Mt Moon. I hadn't lost a single Pokemon.

After talking to other veterans who played this game and even Nuzlocked it several times, a far more satisfying rule is simply catching the first two Pokemon per route, and not being allowed to use any Unfused Pokemon in any fights. If you do it counts as a wipe, except for the beginning of the game. This functionally gives you the same amount of Pokemon as a normal run.

An optional Rule I considered was not being allowed to Unfuse Pokemon, and it being mandatory to fuse the Pokemon you catch in each route rather than choosing who they fused to. But I prefer the options and strategies that come from mixing up your Fusions more to be honest, plus it gives the added question of if you want to weight your team by putting your two most useful Pokemon together or not, as if they die the blow will be all the more harsh.

Just in case anyone wants to skip my intro, TLDR my rulesets are

1. Any Pokémon that faints is considered dead, and must be Boxed.
2. Only the first TWO encounters on each route can be caught, no second chances.
2.A. Eventually Fused Pokemon can be found in the wild, if one is encountered it burns that route. If it is the first encounter it can be caught, if it is second then the Fused Pokemon must be killed, and it'll count as a failed encounter.
3. All Pokemon used must be Fused if any moves are to be performed.
4. I must nickname all Pokemon I use
5. Changed the game to "Set"
6. If a duplicate Pokemon is found, I have the option of not counting it as one of the two encounters, or I can catch it, and if I have each half of a fusion it's similarly not counted.
7. I may catch Pokemon solely for Puzzles and quests, but they may never be used in Battle, and must be released after Puzzle as they are an extra Pokemon.


Decided to ditch the rule for No megas as it doesn't matter at all, it's appearance only and only matters in getting rid of types for some starters who are now treated as mono typing. That said I'd rather not lose the novelty of fusion.

Ended up trading a lot in game from various trainers who offer various deals of you trading Pokemon to get others in return, which is fun and cool since it's mostly balanced in game with itself.

I also tried a single wonder trade out of curiosity with one of my Rattata which gave me a LV6 Golurk/Smeargle fusion. Unlikely I'll use it, but good to keep these things honest and keep in mind.
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I started my first fight with my Rival after choosing Squirtle after some thought. Charmander is the one I like more, but having a fire type in a Nuzlocke that starts you off in Kanto strikes me as a poor idea.

Of course our Rival being Blue, the best cheating mother ****er around promptly claims both of the remaining starter and fuses them before fighting me.

I ended up wiping on the first fight with my rival, due to greed really. I had a potion but I had 4HP left and he had consistently done 3 damage before, so I choose to risk it.

Sadly my risk while calculated ended up backfiring.

So I restarted the game, which now had an option to skip the opening. I did so and choose normal for all options, and then moved on to grab Squirtle again, this time I choose to restart until I had an alright nature and settled with Modest.

With that I fought my Rival once more and won this time even without using a Potion despite him getting a lucky Crit off early on.

Of course the excitement wasn't done yet.

With that I healed by Mom and went out to the grass to see what I'd be fighting on my way to give the parcel, first encounter of course was a Rattata LV5 vs my Squirtle LV6. Sadly with Stab and a nature that weakens Physical attacks, I pretty quickly had to run away or be wiped.

After healing from Mom, I then attempted the same thing again with once again getting a LV5 Rattata who started off critting me, then when I tried to run he put me into the red. Thankfully the third attempt to run worked, otherwise I would have wiped for the second time before even collecting my Pokeballs.

At this point I was considering if the LV curves were Dynamic in which case my best hope would be to rush their as quickly as possible while running, and collect the Pokeballs so that I could at least have two Pokemon.

Thankfully it turns out that is not the case, and I just had awful luck. Thankfully my third encounter of a LV5 Hoothoot turned out better when it wasted turns on Foresight. And I earned my second victory.

Shortly after I encountered LV3's and realized I just had bad starting luck.

After the craziness that was my first several battles, when I first found a trainer in the first route before I even delivered my Parcel I was nervous, thankfully it turned out it was just to show off a fusion LV4, and was an easier battle than the tall grass earlier.

I then delivered Oak's Parcel and got my Pokeballs before going back to Route 1 for my first capture which gave me Rattata nicknamed Fodder.

It is not until later on when I backtracked to catch my second Pokemon due to changing the rules, which I'll mention when I do so.

I then went to the Pokemart where I was gifted Pyukumuku and I ran to route 2 where I caught a Hoothoot.

I then created my first fusion where I merged Pyukumuku and Hoothoot into Indra's Scorned, because as a Water/Flying he is quad weak to Electric.



Deciding that with at least one fusion I should focus on catching another Pokemon to fuse with Squirtle I went to route 22 where I caught a Mankey that I then fused with Squirtle.



I then named it Bubbles Taijutsu and proceeded to grind up Indra's Scorned until he was LV7 and Bubbles Taijutsu to LV9. I then decided that I could match my Rivals two Pokemon with my two Fusions, what could go wrong really?

As I was confident I remembered his LV's right and indeed he started with a LV7 Pidgey against Indra.

Unfortunately, he started with a Sand attack and I then proceeded to miss 3 attack in a row leaving me in red. Horrified I swapped to Bubbles Taijutsu despite being weak against Flying and reminded myself that Pidgey wouldn't have Gust yet.

Thankfully I assumed correctly and Bubbles swiftly Low Kicked Pidgey a few times until it was down due to even Low Kick at it's weakest being equal to the 20 base power of Bubble.

I then entered his starter Charsaur, who promptly Leech Seeded me causing me to wonder if I could even win this fight at all. It was better than his Razor Leaf admittedly which would have wiped me, using a Potion on Indra's Scorned, I then swapped him instead and hit him a few times before swapping when Leech Seeded.

I repeated this tactic 3 times, until finally Charsaur went down and it was my victory.

Granted I had to spend 900 Poke in the form of 3 Potions for that victory and got 198 Poke back, so it was a net loss in money. But hey at least I got the moral victory of once more beating Blue at least.

I then proceeded forward to Viridian Forest where I caught a Ledyba which I fused with Fodder to create Fodder Squared. Soon after however after beating one of the trainers I was offered a trade for a Caterpie/Zubat or Weedle/Zubat Fusion for any Bug type.

Greedy that I would get an extra Pokemon for the cost of a base component, I decided spending another 300 Poke unfusing Fodder Squared would be worth it. I then traded Ledyba away for the Caterpie/Zubat fusion which I named Nycteribiidae, a type of bat flies which I thought fit fairly well.

He has since become a Butterbat and has served me well.


Thankfully since he's a traded Pokemon he also levels 1.5 times faster, although I'm wary to keep him from growing to far, as he disobeyed me once before I got my first badge when he was LV13.

I then moved on out of Viridian Forest although before I did, I found someone offering to rematch me, which let me grind a little EXP against them. Sadly you do not get any money from Rematches, so after a handful I then moved on to heal at the Pewter Pokemon Center.

This is where I learned another trade offer for Tyrouge existed if I gave up my Mankey. I swiftly knew that Tyrouge was the superior Pokemon, however I hesitated because if I traded him and then fused Tyrouge into Squritle, I would have no option to unfuse them until the Johto Post game.

This is because you cannot unfuse any Pokemon with a traded Component until then.

I swiftly decided to delay it until later and moved on.

I then went to route 3 and found to my joy that there was no actual block in this game from simply leaving Brock seemingly, with that I caught my Claffa in route 3 that I simply nicknamed, Moony and moved on. I swiftly found another trainer offering to trade.

This time offering a Ekans/Weedle Fusion, a Caterpie/Ekans or a Caterpie/Rattata for the cost of any Pokemon LV10.

I then decided getting another half of a Pokemon for a component was worth it and grinded Rattata up to LV10 by going to the rematch trainer and simply swapping him out each battle to another to feed it EXP.

At 10 I then swapped it for Ekans/Weedle which I named Aesculapian


Granted the image is of how he looks now after I made him into a Beedrill/Ekans.


I then proceeded to do some side quests in the Motel which ranged from finding a hidden item, to repeatedly collecting mushrooms in the forest, selling them and using the motel to skip forward a day to repatedly do this until I had the 3 tiny mushrooms for the quest.

That done I then went to face Brock with the following team.


In retrospect I should have grinded one more level because I would have gotten Water Gun. One of the rules is that you can only use the same amount of Pokemon as the Gym Leader, so I swiftly selected both Bubbles Taijutsu as well as Indra's Scorned, than named Curse of the Wingull, thankfully renaming is something that can be done in the menu at any time in this fan game.

The fight started poorly with Brock throwing out a Geodude/Pidgey Fusion which meant we were both Super Effective against each other. I won the slug off but at half HP, when Brock threw out his Onix I was honestly quite worried.

Thankfully he fused it to a Diglett and so it was still quad weak to water, and my Bubble even Crit to boot. Unsurprisingly it went down in a single shot and without Sturdy it didn't even survive that hit.

I had obtained my first badge without anybody getting knocked out.

Swiftly I decided that Bubbles Taijutsu had been nothing but disappointing to me since I had created him, and so I decided to unfuse him and fuse Bubbles to Claffa instead and trade Mankey away for the Tyrouge.

Unfortunately their was a cost to my hubris, as in the process of unfusing Squirtle kept his old Moveset that he had at LV9 and lost Water Gun, in return for being turned to a LV15.

Although inquiry told me that their was a move relearner I wouldn't have access to it until Vermillion at which point it would be a simple 2K per move.

Pictured here is Sweet Bubbles, my Clefable/Warturtle fusion


Moving on to the Pokemon Centre at Mt Moon, I bought Magikarp and fused him and Tyrouge together temporarily. Very shortly after that I regretted it as I caught a Geodude as my first catch at Mt Moon. Deciding to bite the bullet and spend 600 Poke, I unfused the temp fusion, and instead fused Geodue/Tyrouge into Armored Core



This is when I decided that I should change my Nuzlocke rules and swap it to 2 Pokemon caught per route, and simply box Fusions when they die.

With that decided I started to backtrack and first caught a Pidgey in Viridian forest named Little Bird who was then Boxed. Unfortunately for me, the next encounter their was Pichu, with a muffled curse, I killed it and moved on.

The next catch on my backtrack was a Tangala in route 1, thanks to the fact that despite it's appearance rate of 5%, I had already caught the Pidgey and Rattata which were the other two encounters, it was quite the frustrating encounter.

As Tangala started with Ingrain after I poisoned it, which was my only way to weaken it, so I had to catch it at near full health while Poisoned which put my odds at 10%, even at LV2, mainly due to how hard Tangala are to catch.

Even if I had brought it to red and poisoned, a Pokeball still only would have a 25% chance of catching it.

I decided to gamble with my last 10 Pokeballs, thankfully this paid off after 5 attempts, and I had my Tangala, a grass type that would be quite useful for the next gym.

Swiftly I decided that Tangala and Pidgey would make a good fusion as the last of my 6 Pokemon.


With that I moved back to Route 22 where I caught a Nidoran Male named Little Prince and Boxed.

Route 2 then gave me Weedle who I already had in a Fusion form, but I'd never caught his first form, and the only other choice was a Sentret that had a 5% marked to pop up only in the day. Weedle was fine to be settling with.

Moving on to Route 3 I caught a Meowth, which I was excited to name Payday. Sadly a little research revealed that in every game subsequent Firered he learns the move at LV30 instead of LV18.

A time which is not worth it, as I know a money trick one can use to quickly become rich starting after you get Surf in this game anyways.

Disappointed he was swiftly boxed once more.

Before I decided to leave Pewter City for good, I decided to go back and finish the last of the side quests which had bugged me. Show a fully evolved Bug type Pokemon off, I could show my fused Butterfree/Zubat, but since it was not fully evolved it would not count for the quest, and I had no way of unfusing a trade.

Now I had a spare Weedle that I could LV with the switch trick and claim my reward before I forgot. I then showed the Bug Catcher a Beedrill after which he gave me a free Pineco that was boxed.

Finally I had made it back to Mt Moon once more, the place I had once backtracked from where I caught a Sandshrew and decided a Grass/Ground would be more useful than a Grass/Flying when I already have two more flying types in the team.



Sadly in the process Vine Whip was once more Lost, here's hoping I can regain it in time for the Water gym, where now I will only be neutral.
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Raj

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Made it through Mt Moon with nobody dying at all, interestingly enough as part of my encounter with Team Rocket.

Random Fusion encounters was turned on, I have since updated my rules to account for them.

2.A. Eventually Fused Pokemon can be found in the wild, if one is encountered it burns that route. If it is the first encounter it can be caught, if it is second then the Fused Pokemon must be killed, and it'll count as a failed encounter.

Immediately my first encounter on route 4 was a Rattata/Hoppit Fusion, where it looks like I will get quite a few Rattata in my Box huh. Really getting around that Dupe clause game.

I then unfused him when I found out about the Wonder Trade and sent the Rattata away to see what I'd get since I can do it once per badge. I got a LV6 Golurk/Smeargle out of it, and from talking to the lady I know I get better wonder trades the stronger the Pokemon I send away. Makes me wonder about algorithm of that.

Found a guy who was willing to teach Water Pledge to Sweet Bubble for only 500 Poke, way better than spending 2K to get back Water Gun, now if only he was willing to teach Grass Pledge to Grounded Vines. Sadly only starters are eligible.

Also in that Pokemon Center I was given EXP Share for having Fused more than 5 times, and found a trainer willing to give me a Charmander for any Water type.

I first considered Pyukmuku who will never learn a water move, and is fused with Hoothoot, but I'm rooting for Indra's Scorned and would like to keep him.

Next up is Magikarp who I likely won't use, so I ended up deciding to sacrifice him for my Charmander.

Although I had to think carefully what I want to fuse him with since it'll be a permanent one until Johto Post game, and decided I would put it off until tomorrow and boxed him for now.

I then fulfilled the mini quest of showing off a Johto Pokemon with my Hoppit, it unfortunately only worked with Pokemon who were unfused, good thing I had my Hoppit as Tyrogue doesn't count fused and cannot not be unfused due to being a trade Pokemon.

I also received a mini quest to find somebody in one of the routes near Cerulean and deliver a letter and finally I can't even accept the last mini quest as I need at least an old rod apparently.

I also found a part of team rockets password which will likely in the full thing be allowed to turn the random fusion chance back off if I desire in Mt Moon.

...kia's Pu...

The bike being a measly 100K instead of a million made me laugh, technically possible after all. After I eventually exploit the money trick at the 5th gym I might even be able to try it. Until then I need to hoard my money and have not even a fraction of that amount.

Spent all of my money on 10 more Pokeballs and another 5 Fusion Items for 300 each, at which point with my 9 Poke decided I'd sell my HP Up so I had some cash reserves. At which point I bought another 10 Pokeballs and was left with 2.9K

Still far from the 20K I'll eventually need, but at least I have the essentials of Pokeballs covered, and some more fusion items.

Tomorrow it's the Rival fight at Nugget Bridge, Nugget Bridge itself and then the Gym. Here's hoping that I continue my no death Streak.

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Ahri

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10.4 Years
Username: Ahri
Game: Platinum
Challenge type: Single
Optional Rules:
-Must nickname all pokemon
-Pinwheel forest clause applies only if the encounters are signifficantly different(basically separate routes clause with some limitations)
-Dupes clause(can't catch any pokemon that I caught once before, including their evolutions. If first encounter on a route is something I caught before, the encounter doesn't count so I can try again for something I don't have already.)
-A blackout means game over and the challenge is considered failed and I have to start over.


Update 1:

Picked Chimchar as my starter and named it Goob, did all the beginning bits, obtained pokeballs and backtracked to Lake Verity and caught a Starly that I named Bun.

On Route 202 I caught a female Kricketot and named her Miss Woop. Trained my pokemon up, battled the trainers and went to Jubilife. Did the stuff in the city, got my Poketch & whatnot. Before going to Route 203, I caught a Shinx on Route 204.

I went to Route 203, battled my Rival whose name I left as Barry, went for my encounter and got an Abra that teleported away so I basically missed out on 1 encounter. Made my way to Oreburgh gate, caught Cherry the female Zubat. Reached Oreburgh, found out the gym leader's in the mines so I went up to route 207 hoping for a Machop for my upcoming gym challenge. The encounter was a Geodude I named Bruh.

I trained up my pokemon to level 16, stored Miss Woop the now level 10 Kricketune in my PC and proceeded to the mines. Didn't catch anything in the mines as all the encounters were Geodude and Zubat and the one Onix I found I accidentally fainted. Made the gym leader go back, defeated him using Goob and Bruh and got my first badge.

Went back to Jubilife, fought the Team Galactic grunts, made a visit to the TV station and then left for Floaroma town.

Reached Floaroma, picked some berries, planted some berries then went towards Valley Windworks where a little girl asked me to save her dad.

I caught Float the Buizel in the grass patch at Valley Windworks and decided to train up my team as the upcoming battle is a potential run ender. Bruh the Geodude got massacred by a wild Shellos with a crit Water Pulse making him the 1st victim. Float the Buizel also got murdered by a Shellos in the same place only 1 level after it was caught.

Anyways, I battled the Team Plasma Grunt, went back to Floaroma to beat the guys in the Meadow and get the key then went back to Valley Windworks and chased Team Plasma away.

After all that was done I went up to Route 205 and caught Jelly the female Shellos. Made my way to Eterna Forest and took advantage of Cheryl to train the newer team members.

Caught myself Dew the male Budew in Eterna Forest and, as I was training my team and battling trainers, Cherry fell in battle 1 level before evolving. Dew also met his end only 1 level after I caught it.

Made it to Eterna City, got a Draco Plate from behind the statue, sent all the fainted team members to my Valhalla Box and went to take on the Gym. I then beat up the Galactic folks in their Eterna HQ then got a bike from the bike shop and an egg from Cynthia. Hatched the egg into Benedict the male Togepi and went back to the Fishermen on Route 205(East) to level Togepi up.

After some Underground spelunking I set off to greater things and went to play in the Old Chateau where I caught Rick the male Gastly. I then went down the Cycling road side if Route 206, battling trainers. I fainted the Machop encounter in the grass then made my way into the hidden part of Wayward cave where I caught Nom the female Gible. It is there that Benedict lost its life to a wild Geodude's Self Destruct as I made my way to retrieve the Earthquake TM. RIP!

I used the other entrance to Wayward cave where I fought all the trainers and trained my team some more. Afterwards, I did more Underground digging and got myself an Armor Fossil. I then made my way to Route 207 and back to Oreburgh where I revived Wall the Shieldon from its fossil form. Battled my way through Route 7 then entered Mt Coronet where I caught Guru the Meditite.

Came out on Route 208 where Doofen the male Bidoof joined the team. Battled more trainers then went to Hearthome City where I entered Bun in a Cool contest and won a ribbon. I then took on the Gym and obtained Caramel the female Eevee from Bebe.

Doofen, Guru, Rick and Wall are currently living in my PC Box 1.

I went out to Route 209 where I battled Barry and then went to catch another pokemon and I ran into a Ralts that I accidentally fainted... again... guess I'm not meant to have a Gallade this game... I decided to train my team up a bit more to bring everyone to the same level as my Luxray and Monferno and that is when Jelly the Gastrodon got 1 shot by a critical hit Magical Leaf from a Roselia. And I stopped to write this as I deposited Jelly into Valhalla...


Active team:

GOOB
(Monferno)
Male|Level 31|Blaze|Hasty @Fist Plate
Cut|Flame Wheel|Rock Smash|Mach Punch

EDGE
(Luxray)
Male|Level 31|Intimidate|Impish
Tackle|Bite|Charge|Spark

BUN
(Staravia)
Male|Level 29|Intimidate|Quirky
Thief|Double Team|Aerial Ace|Wing Attack

NOM
(Gabite)
Female|Level 27|Sand Veil|Quiet @Draco Plate
Dragon Rage|Sandstorm|Earthquake|Rock Tomb

CARAMEL
(Eevee)
Female|Level 25|Run Away|Bold
Tackle|Quick Attack|Sand-Attack|Growl

Backups:

MISS WOOP(Level 11 Female Kricketune)
RICK(Level 15 Male Gastly)
DOOFEN(Level 18 Male Bidoof)
GURU(Level 20 Male Meditite)
WALL(Level 24 Male Shieldon)

In Valhalla(RIP):
BRUH(Level 5-Level 16 Male Geodude)
FLOAT(Level10-Level 11 Male Buizel)
CHERRY(Level 7-Level 21 Female Zubat)
DEW(Level 10-Level 11 Male Budew)
BENEDICT(Level 1-Level 19 Male Togepi)
JELLY(Level 11-Level 30 Female Gastrodon)


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Finally time to take on my Rival on Nugget Bridge, made a proper Nuzlocke Card at last, granted still need to figure out how to play with the badges.


Starting off and I'm surprised Blue hasn't already fused his Pidgeoto, well it makes it easy to decide that Sweet Bubbles will just Rock Tomb him.

It might be faster but it does very little damage, and Rock Tomb takes out roughly half it's HP and slows it down, and even baits my Rival to waste his Super Potion.

Unfortunately luck turned against me then as I missed Rock Tomb and got Sand Attacked. Whirlwind thankfully brought out Indra's Scorned who set up a reflect and then took out Pidgeoto.

Blue then sends out his first fused Pokemon, a Fighting/Normal combo of Rattata/Mankey against a Water/Flying Pokemon.

Hey if the AI wants to hand me this victory, who am I to say no.

I then get to see his starter, but Indra's Scorned is admittedly still low on HP after the last two, even if he is super effective against a Grass/Fire.

Sadly all my other Pokemon with the exception of Grounded Vines my baby are in a weird mix of being Super Effective against one time and weak to the other.

So I'll use a Fresh Water and see what he does, a missed Sleep Powder means I have the opportunity to Mud Slap a few times to set up a knock out.

Sadly a Razor Leaf soon hits as does a sleep powder and with no Awakening's owned, I take the risk to swap into Aesculapian where I plan to use Venoshock and hope for the best and Glare is an option.

It starts off with a hit bite that lowers me, but next turn I go first and my Venoshock takes quite a bit out and misses with Ember. Unfortunately next turn it goes first and ember hits bringing me to low HP, and I go next and bring him to red.

It seems to be a gamble if I want to risk who goes first, I've lowered his accuracy twice as well, but it's a question on who goes first.

Sweet Bubble has two more speed, and there should be zero reason to open with a Grass move against a Bug/Poison type. I'll risk swapping and seeing how that helps.

A missed sleep powder and I go first with Water Pledge to finish him off, finally Abra is up and apparently Teleport got modded to be a two turn attack here? Still it's no match against Sweet Bubbles who hands me the win.

A full clear with no deaths against Blue, wonder how long I can keep this up.

Of course Blue is also Cheap and gives me 300 Poke, considering the Fresh Water I used, I made a profit of 100 off him

Now for Nugget Bridge which should be less worrying and I clear it with little difficulty, occasionally running back to the Pokemon Center rather than rotating as much.

I soon get a quest to show a researcher an Abra and to my surprise and luck, I find a Kakauna/Abra encounter as my one and only encounter for the route and soon catch it after it hardens twice. I wasn't entirely sure if Teleport still allowed one to escape outside of trainer battles, so I decided to start off with a Pokeball, the mud slap scared me when it brought it to red, as rather than Bug/Psychic like I guessed it was a Poison/Psychic, and a base power 40 with a LV20 vs a LV8 almost ended up killing that encounter.

Thankfully the next side quest only requires me to encounter every Wild Pokemon on the route rather than catch anything, so I set to work on that next,

Do so, and there is a new quest to find the special encounter on the route Bunnary and catch it, as I still want to do this despite this being a Nuzlocke, I've decided to add a new Rule, I can catch Pokemon for Quests but they cannot be used in Battle ever and must be released immediately after being used, as they are an extra Pokemon.

I then proceed to hunt down and catch Bunnary using the Poke Radar show it to the Quest Giver and then promptly release it.

Did enough quests to earn Amulet Coin which I promptly gave to Nycteribiidae to help earn me money until I can get to the easiest way to earn money in this game. I might even be able to buy some actual Awakenings and other status items in the future, although first I need another buffer of 10K.

Oh my God, I wasn't expecting to see Joey just outside of Cerulean and he even fused a Raticate into Rattata and made the Rattata the dominant one. That's an amazing joke, got me to chuckle.


Finished clearing most of the rest of Route 24 and ran into someone offering a Balbausar/Rattata fusion for any LV20. When I have an extra LV20 I catch on one of my routes I'll trade it over, as it is, I won't be able to break that fusion until Johto post Game, but hey having all the starters as choices is great.

I also finally made the decision to fuse Charmander and the Abra I caught for one powerful glass canon, Fire/Psychic has no quad weaknesses and I'll put my faith in them. I nicknamed the new fusion Agni, for he shall burn all who oppose him, and vanish before they can attack back. Saying goodbye to Aesculapian for now, but if someone dies he'll likely come back out.

Time to go see Bill and see what that results in this fusion.

Bill tests the fusion process with a Human head and Pokemon Body, with a Rhydon this time I see. Wonder if it'll keep Human's immunity to Pokeballs, assuming you keep your full intellect that'd be one power move. Then again Pokemon may not live as long.

Route 25 sadly has no grass, rocks to break or even something to surf on. No Pokemon from that route besides the plethora of trade options.

Cerulean Cape meanwhile has no grass, but can be come back to later so that I can surf on it and catch some Pokemon. Route 25 also has something to come back to when I have cut, there's an TM there. What's worst is that someone is blocking it and if I had run back more steps when he first challenged me, I could have collected it early.

I would go take on Misty now, but I'd rather first go to Vermillion City and relearn Vine Whip which got mentioned to me earlier, I could also grind to LV23 and maybe get Mega Drain for Grounded Vines which would be a better move than Vine Whip, but I'm not sure I want to be that much stronger than Misty. Well we'll see what I learn on the route to Vermillion.

Strength for a TM on Route 24

I then proceeded down to Route 5 towards Vermilion CIty, delivered a love Letter to one of the girls there and was given a Pokemon Egg in return, I then proceeded to hatch it to find a Teddiursa/Togepi fusion that I dumped in the PC and moved on.

Some running back forth soon found me an Oddish that I caught, and I tried to teleport back to see if it worked in this fan game since I had multiple statuses on various Pokemon. Apparently Teleport requires a Badge in this game? Was not expecting that. Back down to catch my next Route 5 Pokemon.

After looking for a bit, I checked the pastebin to see if I'd caught everyone here. Nope both Bellsprout and Jigglypuff hadn't been, so I settled in for a grind to find them, thankfully the Poke Radar makes finding rare Pokemon a lot easier, also appears they can only be found when using it.

Unfortunately for me, it looks like a Guard won't let me pass, likely not until I get the Cerulean Badge, which leaves me with either the option of fighting Misty without a Super effective move or grinding, as this is a Nuzlocke, time to go grind Grounded Vines to LV23 which should give me Mega Drain.

Before Misty updated team


I know Grounded Vine can do this with Sandstorm to increase Evasion and then Mega Drain repeatedly. Let's do this.

Once again only allowed two Pokemon and I choose Grounded Vines and Sweet Bubbles, honestly I'd forgotten that fact.

Man this fight went horribly wrong. Managed the first one easily, but a Water/Grass fusion where an Oddish/Starmie takes away my Grass advantage and they resist ground to boot.

Water Pulse did a ton and confused me to boot, after which I hurt myself rather than attacking.

I used a fresh water to heal myself, but when I tried to attack the following turn the Water Pulse crit and I've had my first Death in Grounded Vines.



Time for Sweet Bubbles, unfortunately from realizing that Oddish is the Head, it means that it's the primary typing meaning that this thing is a Grass/Psychic. Absolutely not something I was ready for. Here's hoping Sweet Bubbles can pull this off.

Decided to then attempt a Mud-Slap fight, as Sweet Bubbles was tanky, even Mega Drain couldn't easily kill it. A couple of Mud-Slaps and Fresh Water was my only hope to salvage this.

Thankfully it's stupid enough to use Water Pulse several times, helping to prolong this fight. Unfortunately though even with 3 Mud-Slaps it hasn't missed once

4th and 5th moves were finally misses, although 6th hit and I used my first Super Potion to fully heal and it's time to go on the offensive.

Her 6th attack missed and I was fully healed and prepared to Drain Kiss my way to victory.

I attacked with a drain kiss which put her in the red, and she hit me doing a chunk of damage that was partially healed. She super potioned, but I crit and put her back at red with full HP, to add insult to her she even missed.

Another Drain Kiss and it's my Victory, although with it I mourn my first loss.

And of course I've lost my Ground Type right before the third Gym

At least Armoured Core knows Ground Moves, even as a Rock/Fighting
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I lost Armored Core to a Rematch Claffa/Butterfree on Route 6, Gust took a 1/3 of his HP vs the half he took as he was Super Effective and it was Neutral with Gust. Sadly I forgot that Gust was Special so I underestimated it and it promptly crit and killed him on round 2. Used Aesculapian to get my revenge and finish him off, but they were both super effective against each other since Gust hurts Bug, even if Poison hurts fairy.

Honestly scared to rematch them again despite the plentiful EXP due to the possibilities of other Crits, honestly surprised Agni did so well in winning the first time, even if he ended up in red and any crits would have killed him.



Guess it's time to move on, and I lost my Rock and Fighting coverage and desperately need that Ground type coverage. Well lets see what I can catch on Route 6, and then Diglett cave before I decide what to fuse and add to the team.

Finally made it to Vermilion where I traded a Meowth for a Slowpoke which I shelved, more to take off the encounter list and to have more options when fusing and considering my team comp.

Surprisingly it even came with a hidden ability Regenerator, sadly not quite as useful in Set Mode, but healing a 1/3 of my HP when I swap it out is still great. Wish it counted for switching in as well.

I then wonder traded Kakuna away, safe knowing that all of this had already been determined and I was trading a computer so I wouldn't break anything, and that I'd get a Pokemon the same LV back. Got a Poliwag/Bonsly Fusion.

Then explored the city, I found the Move Remember who I heard so much about who only charges 1K a steal for sure, sadly the members who needed it are now dead.

Also found somebody who was willing to give me 15K for a Balm Mushroom a quest reward I got early on for collecting Mushrooms, yay for finally being loaded. I'll absolutely have enough for the money exploit in the 5th Gym if I ever need it now. As I have enough Pokeballs, Fusion Items and I can backtrack to Mt Moon as there are no barriers for the Fresh Water.

Also got a sidequest to go back to Vermillion and Pewter for Planks and Bricks, I think I'll do that after I get Cut. It'll make backtracking more easier through Diglett Cave.

Although first to go check out the Hotel sidequests for here and then backtrack to Cerulean to claim the one I couldn't before with my Fishing rod. I can also fish in towns and such for my Nuzlocke experience as well now.

Found the Pikachu I wanted to find in route 6, unfortunately for me Venoshock crit it, at which point it died at full HP. So I botched encounter one. Here's hoping try two works out better for me. Thankfully I haven't seen a fusion in the wild for a bit, as that would botch this whole route.

Found a second Pikachu, this time after Paralizing it, I decided to just try a love ball at full HP which sadly failed, I then swapped to Nycteribiidae despite being weak to confuse him, when he eventually hurt himself I tried another love ball which worked and burned out the route.

First fishing in Vermillion got me a Magikarp which I caught since I traded my last one away, I then continued to try to fish to see if I could get the old boots that a fisher man had lost, at which point I found and caught Shelder as well. Thankfully I pulled out my LV6 Rumba Golurk/Smeargle wonder trade so that I could weaken the LV5's after I paralized them for easy catches.

Also collected the Old Boots after some more fishing which I traded in back at Cerulean and I got a Wooper boxed as well.

Then ran back to Mt Moon and stocked up on 45 Fresh Water.

All of this didn't matter though as I fought a trainer with a Eggecute/Digglett fusion, since I was 3 Levels higher and a tank I tried attacking it with Water Pledge, sadly Bullet Seed hit 5 times and Crit to boot. Truly Sweet Bubbles was to good for this world.


Caught a Sparrow route 11 and promptly traded it for a Farfetched and then went back to Route 11.

After quite a bit of thought I decided to fuse my Slowpoke/Pikachu together and add them to my team as Makara, I'll grind him up with EXP Share and he'll be needed for Diglett Cave. I can only hope he does great work together with the rest of my team.

Say hi to everybody.



I had high hopes for him, unfortunately for him after I grinded him with EXP share to LV17, I started throwing him against rematch Fire type trainer. He was doing well two shotting them consistently. Unfortunately though he put a Growlithe/Nidoran into less than 10% which made the Reversal attack hit very hard and take out over 70% of his HP taking him down. It didn't help that it was 3 levels higher than his 19.



Truly I hadn't expected to introduce a Pokemon and kill it off in the same update like this. Welp back to the drawing board for a good Water type for Diglett Cave, currently exploring the St.Anne and with the amount of fire types here, a good Water type would be great as well.

Annoyed I went back to the PC to fuse a new Water type, after scrolling through my options carefully and thinking about it a NidoranM/Magikarp fusion will work well and it's not like I'll throw him out before he's an actual Gyrados.

Say hi to Drakolimni


Man do I hate the occasional Water time I stumble into, I just don't have a good answer to them anymore, I generally swap away from Agni into Indra's Scorned to eat a hit and then settle for a long battle where I usually use up a fresh water to heal him and win that way.

Going to call it a night here in the St. Anne, hopefully next Session I'll have a Gyrados/Nidoking, as I plan to go buy that moon stone and grind him up to LV20

Team as I'm closing
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Agni continues to be my MVP and sweeps enemy trainers with ease, his Confusion wiping out his foes. I'd switch but I worry about losing someone else. I think I may keep him up front until I get Magikarp to 20.

Yea I send Nycteribiidae out against a Poliwhirl/Machop fusion, I'm super effective and using wing attack and I can't even take out half it's HP and it's Seismim toss's meant after two strikes I had to swap to Indra's Fury who then had body slap take 45% of it's HP. I then tried to finish it off with Peck and was left paralyzed at 4HP, thankfully Peck landed anyway, but man is everyone else disappointments compared to Agni who casually oneshots them.

Huh maybe I underestimated how hard it could hit, this rematch has it body slam and do over 60% damage to Nycteribiidae, back to Indra's Scorned for the finisher.

Yea, I had to to use two fresh waters to win the next rematch, I should just grind in the Grass for a bit with those two, and Aesculapian, and consider possible replacements for them honestly.

Time to move on to other opponents, like this guy giving me the other fossil. Agni even took a Critical Bite which was super effective and lived, granted it was an Omanyte LV20 to his 26, but still proud of him.

Found someone who wanted to trade a Drowzee for a Seal, I did so as I've found trades usually have hidden natures, and having more Water Coverage in case the worst happens is more important than having Psychic coverage.

Found another somebody who wanted to trade a Growleth for a Shelder, after some thought I agreed as if there's ever water in a town I can fish up a replacement, I also have no fire backup in my PC but several water, and there's that quest asking me to show a Fire/Water type as well. Although a little regret at it having it's hidden ability as Growlith's Intimidate would have been far better than Justified.

Decided to fuse the combo into Rex the Growlith/Seel fusion and add him to the team


He starts off Water/Fire, but when he evolves into Dewgong he'll become Ice/Fire, and be a good counter to Dragon types, just so long as they don't have Rock moves.

Then decided to backtrack to Cerulean and fight a couple of earlier trainer rematches for easier Grinding and evolved 3 of my earlier Pokemon, took off the EXP share to make it easier and dumped it back onto Magikarp.

I'd just evolved Indra's Scorn not to long ago but unfortunately his evolution did not last long.


I had a brain fart and swapped away from seeing a Water type in an Seel/Pikachu fusion, forgetting for a second that it was also Electric Type and thus quad effective on Indra's Scorned. At last the Lightning hit him, and the Electro Ball one shot him from a Pokemon 2 levels higher than him.

They refused to go out alone though, and with Innards out took them from full HP to 0 in an instance.



Man has St. Anne changed my Pokemon with the Evolutions and Deaths, here's my updated team.


Rival fight time, I forgot he attacked right before you talk to the captain. Or I remembered he was a St Anne fight I just thought it was a bit further.

Drakolimi soloed it even lower LV than my rival, just needed to give him one Perism berry for his trash, he used his Oran Berry and I used a Super Potion. I'll give him a Perism berry to hold next time.

Finally went to Diglett Cave, and apparently the NPC's there weren't trainers so I worried for nothing, welp onward to catching two Diglett's, having a backup in case it dies won't be bad considering how few Ground Types I have.

I then fused it with a Oddish and named it Quake, time to now go back to Pewter and get that Lumber and wood and then explore my way back forward, also can stop and turn my Fossils to Pokemon.



New team heading back, and once again I have 6 members
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Nice I certainly wasn't expecting one of the side quests to just be Cut an Old Man's tree's and have it be over 20 of them. Your first reward is lemonade but if you talk to him again he gives you Sheer's which can cut trees, at which point I ditched Cut for Rock Smash again for Agni.

Thankfully HM's are just something you can freely forget in this Fan Game, although you theoretically could get stuck as a result.

I claimed the Plank and Bricks and fought two easy Pokemon Battles for them.

The next side quest was back in Viridian Forest now that I had Cut, which had me dealing with a swarm of Beedrill, I threw down Nycteribiidae up front and proceeded to take on the swarm.

I wasn't expecting it to be a double battle, but Drakolimi easily backed him up and won, but man are Double Battles glitchy in this game. Thankfully no crashes and my save file wasn't corrupted, but it did things like skip my enemies turns after I knocked them out, and was rather glitchy when I was learning a new move.

Thankfully Vermillion is easy to go to if I think I missed a worthwhile one.

Oddish evolved into Gloom for my Quake as well.


I look forward to seeing it become Dugtrio, I've seen it's Vileplume/Dugtrio combo, but I'm saving the Gloom/Dugtrio combo as a surprise to me.

Found a Blackjack mini game that Cost 2K to play, thankfully it doesn't force me to save when I lose, so I'll just keep resetting until I win, abusing the power to reset the world to my advantage.

Lost 1 time and then won the second round and got a Nugget, so 2K for a 5K item which can only be done once. Overall I'd say that went well, even if in reality it would have cost 4K for a 5K item if I hadn't save scummed.

Apparently each of the gambler offers the blackjack mini game upon losing, which looks like it'll help make a decent chunk of money, help make for the amount I blow on move tutors and such as well which is nice.

Finally strong enough to repeatably fight the Clefairy/Butterfree Trainer with Drakolimi and win with Trash easily, so I grinded Quake up to LV26 with EXP share.

Evolved Quake into Dugtrio/Gloom and it's time to go take on Surge


Time to fight Surge with this team


Can only bring 3 Pokemon so I'll bring Quake, Agni and Aesculapian for this Gym Battle

Quake started by almost killing the Krabby/Voltorb fusion which sure let it do some damage but Surge then wasted his Super potion while I healed the damage with Mega drain, finished that flawlessly.

Unfortunately his next Pokemon was more of a worry, as he ran a Pidgeotto/Pikachu Combo, and I had neglected to teach any Rock moves to Quake like Rock Tomb which would have solved this issue.

Instead I paralized it while it wasted it's turn lowering my accuracy, now the question who is smarter to throw out? Aesculapian or Agni? Aesculapian is weak to flying, but he's also less valuable than Agni who is also relatively fragile. So it's who I'll throw out.

Thankfully it choose Quick Attack, and didn't hurt Aesculapian much, who's rocky helmet hurt it the same. A crunch, brought it to half, unfortunately it's static paralyzed me and it's Gust soon did similar to me leaving me at 60%. It wasted a Super Potion as Crunch mostly brought it back to 60% rather than 40%, was worried paralized would kick in.

With both of us paralized it's very RNG now on who will win

Crunch brought it to red, and me to yellow with a gust. Time to use my own "Super Potion", go Fresh Water!

It crit taking 40HP, unless it crits again I should be good to take it down now.

Curse you RNG, Paralized while it gust to put me at 12HP, looks like it's second Fresh Water time, funnily enough we are now at the same items used.

Electro Ball Crit sadly brought me back to 31, what's with him critting so often, RNG stop favoring him so obviously!

Another Electro Ball leaves me at 16HP, and I finish it off with Crunch, just in time for Shed Skin to kick in and heal me, right when I'm about to switch.

His last Pokemon is Pure Electric, Raichu/Electabuzz, so back to Quake.

Quick Attack isn't to bad, but I start with a low Magnitude of 5, and then it double team, I hope RNG doesn't favor it again.

Magnitude 6 killed it even with another Quick Attack and it's my win over Surge without anyone dying.

With that I was given Teleport HM which apparently replaces fly, I guess that's why Agni's Teleport said don't have Badge as I can teleport anywhere I've been now.

Then Wonder Traded an extra Beedrill away and got a Starmie/Snubbull Fusion, after which I threw Golurk/Smeargle and my Bonsly/Poliwag into the daycare if I ever need to use them they'll be a bit higher level.
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After depositing my Pokemon I was then given two more eggs, one for free, and the other after I did a fetch quest where I ran and bought a 1,000 Poke worth of Pretty wings for the baby Pokemon to play with.

I was then offered a choice between a Pink, Yellow, and Blue egg, a quick google search tells me it is Azurill, Pichu, and Cleffa. I was already leaning towards Yellow due to having zero electric types, but it being a Pichu is disappointing. Still my prior one died quickly, hopefully this Pichu will have better results.

I then gave a Heart Scale and got another egg this time one turning into Bonsly, Mime Jr., and Mantyke, so I choose a Mime Jr of the three of them as I have several water types and outright have a fused Bonsly.

Next Egg Quest required me to get Honey which is obtained by using Thief on any Bellsprout or Oddish to steal some.

Got some by teaching Nycteribiidae Thief by overwriting Drain Kiss, and then taught it back after I got some.

Next set of eggs were Elekid, Smoochum, and Magby, the best set of Eggs by far, I choose Yellow again, and I may even add him into the team proper after some thought on who I'd fuse him with.

After some thought I then fused my Togepi and Elekid into what I hope will one day be a beast of a Fairy/Electric Type, Oberon.



In order to fit him on the team I am benching Nycteribiidae, who will come back if someone dies. It's nice to finally have at least one combat ready Pokemon in reserve after all this time.

Advanced into Route 9 the first new route in quite some time which means some catching soon, but first some battles with trainers.

Found somebody willing to trade a Charmander/Psyduck or Growlith/Slowpoke LV21 fusion for any fairy, I noticed a temporary bug where the traded LV21 may say 21 and require that EXP, but it's stats will be the same LV as a trade. Very noticeable when I traded my LV1 Cleffa. Thankfully this fixes itself upon LVing up which I tested by Rare Candy and then resetting and LVing it with an EXP Share. Dropped into the Box as a good backup Pokemon.

Caught a Raticate as my first trade who will be Wonder Traded away, and got a Nidoqueen/Hitmontop fusion which may get used in the future, LV20 of course. Certainly wasn't expecting that beast and it's stats may also drastically change with a LV up which I'll test.

Tried to catch a Persian despite having a Meowth as a type of Wonder Trade fodder due to having decent BST, sadly I failed and he died due to fury swiping Aesculapian Rocky Helmet.

What was worse is in a different patch of Grass that is still part of Route 2 they had Magnemite and Voltorb, which would have been great fusion possibilities.

Caught 5 Voltorb and sacrificed them to the quest

Evolved Oberon to Togetic at LV15 and Electabuzz at LV20, so he's now Electabuzz/Togetic combo which I wasn't expecting, looks good and he's strong enough to now take on trainers weak to Electric, and I'll give EXP share back to Rex.



Got a Lantern that replaces Fly as my Reward for helping enough people.

Then tried using my Old rod on Route 10 to catch some new water Pokemon.

I caught a Poliwag and Magikarp I'll likely Wonder Trade away and see what I get after some more gym badges.

Power Plant can be gotten to without Surf, so time to catch some Pokemon in their.

Caught a Voltorb here to own as my own, and I probably should have hunted the Voltorb for the quest here, especially since there are Pokeball Voltorbs here.

I then caught a Magnemite and had the game crash, so I'll catch one again and then store it.

I then entered Rock Tunnel and prepared to catch 2 more Pokemon.

Caught a Machop and encountered a Cubone/Zubat which burned the rest of the cave.

Found a secret area where I rock smashed in and was given a Honedge with the line It's Dangerous to go Alone.

I'll likely fuse it with something as Aegislash is one of my favorite Pokemon.

Quake NOO!!!

He died one of the least preventable deaths, I rock smashed and a LV31 Graveler popped up, I tried Mega Drain but he survived with Sturdy and used Self Destruct, Quake was at full HP. Maybe if he had been higher level he might have been able to survive.

Certainly his death felt the most cheap of them all and least preventable.



And of course there's grass outside of the cave as Route 10 and I burned my catches on fishing with the old rod.

Finally with that I was out of Rocky Tunnel and made it to Lavendar town although there were a couple of other close calls, I deposited Quake into dead and withdrew Nycteribiidae, now to debate if I wanted to rematch a Laura who would actually give me a reward of a Hyper Potion if I beat her, but she'll use her full team and may be higher level than me.

Now at Lavender town with the following team, already have a full team dead which is sad. Nycteribiidae is the oldest member and the only one who was part of my original team.
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Decided to swap up my team and do some fusions to give new coverage, and because of coolness.

Aegislash is one of my favorite Pokemon and had a lot of amazing fusions, decided to go for Machop in the end as I only had so many options.


I also added Happiny/Rhyhorn because there statline ends up being ridiculous when fully evolved, one of the few Pokemon that end up stronger for fusion.

So after I evolved Agni to his third form as a Charizard/Kadabra I decided he had enough bulk to swap into and clean up if need be, but I found to my surprise that Oberon and Drakolimi were enough to help out quite a bit although I did have to swap to Agni, and give Oberon the EXP share to catch him up to LV24 so he was the same level as his foes

But then after that, Oberon and Drakolimi alone were enough to repeatedly solo Laura who even gave me Hyper Potions and money for repeatedly crushing her.

You saw the before, after beating Laura 25 times I was satisfied that the others had indeed caught up and I could safely explore the graveyard of Lavender Town, with higher levels, more cash and extra Hyper Potions.


I'd honestly forgotten about the Lavender Rival fight, I feel a little bad for Blue, I may have overgrinded.

Yea Drakolimi was 5 levels higher and took out 4/5 of his Pokemon before hurting himself out of confusion and getting Paralyzed to boot, so I ended up swapping to Aesculapian to finish off Execute and win the fight.

Although as always, Blue remains extremely cheap on how little money he gives out when I beat him, even with the Amulet Coin.

It was cool too see Blue actually reacting to seeing Fuji be taken, although you think they'd be more high energy about it. Still off to Celadon I suppose to take down Team Rocket and get my 4th badge.

First though I explored Route 8 and caught a Vulpix and then after a few minutes checked to see if there were any other possibilities. To my delight I saw I had caught all of them before which meant it was time to use the Poke Radar. After 20 minutes of looking I give up.

Got given another egg by a rando, and I'll call that my extra encounter here.

For Route 7 the two Pokemon I caught were a Psyduck and Murkrow although he was quite the challenge.

Almost killed Aesculapian though even though it was a LV17. It's wing attack takes roughly 35% of HP and Glare missed at first, so I used a fresh water and it was stupid and used astonish, I then Paralyzed it and proceeded to lower it to red.

I then swapped out at 17HP, unfortunately it apparently knew Pursuit and tried to use it to kill me, thankfully its Paralyze kicked in and saved me. I hate it when enemies are smart and save their use of pursuit for near the end making me doubt they have it.

And of course to add insult after I catch it the game crashes, thankfully I saved recently so the only thing I lost was Murkrow, so I just need to hunt another one and catch it, keep in mind the potential pursuit this time just to make sure that I don't need to rely on RNG that favors me next time.

Thankfully I found Murkrow on first encounter after opening the game back up, as I really want a dark type I was prepared to search for it.

This time I swapped to Sakura First and attempted to use Charms to completely destroy it's attack unfortunately it knew Haze which could have that strategy, thankfully it was stupid and left the two charms on after only using Haze once when it was faster than Sakura so I swapped back to Aesculapian and proceeded to Glare and False Swipe it into submission all the while nervous about a Wing Attack Crit. Thankfully with the charms wing attack only did 10/70 Damage, and he didn't even spam it.

At which point I threw another Pokeball at it, thankfully this time without even a crash.

Unfortunately soon after I encountered a Houndoor which would have been a lot cooler, oh well, hopefully he'll be in other routes as well.

What was the point of swapping Fly to Teleport if you can't teleport indoors?!

I then teleported to Cerulean City since I never got any Pokemon on Route 25 so I hatched my next two Eggs that I was given there.

They hatched into Caterpie/Slowpoke and Wynaut, I'll likely throw them both into Wonder Trade later.

I wasn't expecting one of them to be a trade admittedly, considering releasing one to fit the Nuzlocke spirit or Wonder Trading it away and keeping it as a fusion.
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I then proceeded to think long and hard on who to fuse Murkrow to, the three main candidates were Bellsprout, Cubone, and Pineco.

Cubone was eliminated pretty quickly having much lower base stats as Murkrow than his competitors and only really providing a Ground Stab.

Bellsprout as Victrebell was the most easily achieved being I was in Celedon and made a Dark/Poison type that only had a single weakness to ground and had a more average speed in return for less defense.

Pineco as Fortress at LV31 took a little longer but gave me far more resistances as Dark/Steel, and higher defenses in return for triple the weaknesses and a quad weakness to fighting.

Still sturdy and the fact that I'd rather save Victrebell convinced me to side with Pineco, and thus my newest team member was formed.


One of the uglier ones admittedly, I'll have to request a spritework update once I get him to Murkrow/Fortress or if I find that dusk stone Honchcrow/Fortress, named it Potch after a guy who helped me brainstorm which one.

Taught it Thief as well and it'll eventually be used to Steal items from Wild Pokemon or trainers if they have good ones.

Found a man willing to teach me Ice Punch, Fire Punch or Thunder Punch for 5K a pop, kind of wish he offered a TM but still a good deal.

Most of my Pokemon can learn them, but only interested in the physical attackers, so Drakolimi, Sasuke and Sakura.

After some thoughts I decided on giving Thunder Punch and Ice Punch to Drakolimi, and I'll replace the Thunder Punch with Aqua Tail when he hits LV35 and then I also gave Ice Punch to Sasuke.

Went into a building and rummaged through Garbage and found to my surprise to be in an encounter with a Paras/Koffing fusion which I swapped to Sakura to Stomp which barely avoided killing it at which point I caught it.

Also fun point, found the game creator and he's apparently supposed to surprise you by using your real name by looking at your Windows Username. I of course use my real name for both, so I didn't even notice until someone told me how upstairs. :D

Found a mini quest where I can have Eevee follow me around, I kind of wish this could just always be a thing, maybe I won't hand in the completion of this quest and it can be an eternal mascot. :)

Bought Dig for 20K, so I can use it to exit caves if I ever need it. Could have just bought a bunch of escape ropes for cheaper with how rarely I use it, but I didn't even think about it. Sometimes I may be a bit reckless with money in this game.

Still I have another 150K so it shouldn't be a problem.

Shoot although Celadon shop sells Ice Stones, Moon Stones and Dusk Stones are not an option here.

I know I can grind Moon Stone by Thiefing Cleffa and Clefable, but I wonder where Dusk Stones are.

Sadly Eevee got tired quickly, and I keep getting notifications about it, I don't want to fail the quest either so time to return it.

Hmm if I want an Umbreon I could go work on getting one if I go Moon Stone Hunting now that I was given an Eevee for walking it.

Sadly it no longer walks next to you after being caught.

I then found out that Dusk Stones weren't being given out until after the 7th Gym

So ran to the move remember for moves and then evolved Eevee to Umbreon with a moon stone and fused it with a Koffing because it's evolution is rad as hell.



Sadly I'll have to wait for him to reach that status and so he fused into this for now.


Which thankfully is also rad as hell

Unfortunately for me, I soon realizing Koffings Nature was the worst possible being lowering Special Attack for Physical Attack. When Weezing literally never learns a good Poison Move that's Physical, and Umbreon's best physical dark move is Bite.

At least there are nature changers in the post game if he survives to make it there.

Then got a quest that needed to see an Umbreon immediately after fusing him away, unfused and were given a consumable that lets you decide which nature to take when fusing rather than automatically taking it from the body.

Cheerfully I decided I could fix Charon to have a nature with no pluses or minuses like Eevee, than found to my shock it was Bold now.

Apparently when unfusing after it evolved it decided to just generate it from scratch, so it went from a LV20 Eevee to a LV13 Umbreon and a new nature was formed.

I then decided to save scum this until it had a decent nature like Bold which decreases Attack and Increases Defense.

Updated team


I then went to breed two Pokemon for a side quest where I hand in the eggs and found to my surprise that my Pokemon in the daycare had hit LV33 and were stronger than some of my team. Ignoring that I boxed them and choose two Pokemon compatible like Far Fetched and Murkrow, since my Far Fetched was traded.

Found a Rocket shop selling Pokemon, with Daily Specials, there's even a chance a Legendary can be found in their! Granted it'll be fused with something awful, that you can only unfuse from in the Post game.

Sadly I think I'll disallow it for my Nuzlocke, but something to consider if I ever play it normally, especially since I did catch that Paras/Koffing fusion in a garbage bin, it is admittedly a different part of a city with it's own unique log.

Celadon Gambling place also sells more expected things like a Dratini, but I think I'll skip out of those as well, since if I'm disallowing buying Pokemon from one place it doesn't seem fair to take it from the other.

i found a Coin Case and spent the majority of my money buying Thunderbolt only to learn that Alakazam couldn't learn it like I remembered, I was thinking of Energy Ball, and Shadow Ball.

Other than Oberon who would have learned it in 14 more levels all 3/4 of my Physical Attackers could learn it. Truly that felt like an insult.

Oh well, Oberon will make good use of it, all the same. And Ice Beam also wouldn't have been learnable by Alakazam either and he'll get Flamethrower and Psychic through Level up.

Now to go through the Sewers the replacement to the Rocket Game Corner, who knows I may catch something new their, or at least if there's ever another Gift Egg I could hatch it in their.

Man random wild Rattata knowing Ice Fang down here are wild even if I've already caught everything I've seen so far.

Caught a Grimer and sadly never ran into another new Pokemon, so I guess this will be half a zone.

Time to face Giovani, I plan on setting up a Sweep with Sasuke, since the last trainer before him was a LV35.

Not much of a change in team besides catching up Charon


Wait Eraka outright fought him? I'm not surprised she lost but shouldn't she recognize the boss of team rocket as the Viridian Gym? Also loving this music remix of the Rocket base as I approach Giovani.

Giovani started with a LV34 Steelix/Arbox who's higher level then Sasuke, but that didn't matter because all it knew was Rock Slide and Slam for lowering me, I got off three Automize and Three Sword Dance before even needing to heal up with a single Fresh Water.

That's all I need because Sasuke is going to sweep you Giovani. Let's go, and cut him down to size!

I even made him waste his Max Potion on it, just in case any of his other Pokemon have Sturdy, and have higher attack.

Finally send out a Powerful Haunter/Kangaskhan clearly his ace, I wasn't entirely sure it'd be Normal/Ghost or Normal/Poison but it'll at best be neutral so I'll go with an Ice Punch with 6 stages raised. Ha, it doesn't matter if your 4 levels higher. Sasuke with the oneshot.

Victory, shame I only leveled to LV34, it would have been cool to evolve to Doublade from Sasuke completely sweeping Giovani by himself

Also found another part of the password

...'s Pure Power

Combing it with what we have

...kia's Pu...

At a guess it might be Palkia's Pure Power? Might have to go back to Mt. Moon and test that theory, if I'm right I can turn off wild fusions.

First it's time to take on the 4th Gym, and in the process of fighting Erika's minions, Sasuke evolved into a Douchoke. Not going to lie the name combined with how he looked makes me break out into laughter.


So it's time to face Erika now and the question is if I should do it with Sasuke and once again set up for a sweep or if I should simply use Agni.

After some thought I decided Sasuke as he's the one that needs a set up vs Agni who can simply be thrown in whenever and he's more replaceable.

Here's hoping they don't throw Grass special moves or god forbid some super effective special moves on the first Pokemon.

Team I'm going in with, I can only use 3 of them, so I'll go with Sasuke, Agni and Drakolimi's who's Ice Punch should compensate.



Psyduck she's starting off with a Graveler/Tangela LV33, thankfully he looks to be Rock/Grass over Ground/Grass, which removes Stab at least and means I have a chance for setup, he's not special at least.

It only used Constrict and Smack down so it did nearly nothing even after 3 of each, considered going with only 1 Automotize, but when I saw it's pitiful damage I went all the way, I was a little nervous at growth but decided to top off and get rid of the 20 damage, and it choose to Ingrain. So going into the other two fights full HP and fully set up, and I know it's moveset was garbage.

It had Sturdy so I baited out her Hyper Potion to boot and I'm still untouched since it choose to Growth again.

I find it funny that while Giovani used a Max Potion and Erika is going with Hyper, I'm matching there one item use with a Fresh Water.

Easy win, good thing I didn't use Agni though, his Fire wouldn't have been useful against either the Rapidash/Bellossom fusion or the Golduck/Victreebel. He could have thrown out neutral attacks but that's it.

At least Sasuke's Ice was useful for the first fight, and he was fully set up for the other two so a Brick Break casually handled it.

I then collected the Egg the Farfetched and my Murkrow made and gave it to Omelet girl for her quest, and she told me she could teach Softboiled to any of my Pokemon. Pass, and time to take those two out of the daycare and then put Nycteribiidae to get some more growth and a Diglett LV16 that I'd allow to get to LV20 so I could trade it for a bulbasaur/Rattata fusion.

I then went to Mt. Moon to try out the password, I guessed wrong, Palkia's Pure Power is not correct.

Next onto Wonder Trading as my last segment for today.

Traded my Caterpie for a Diglett/Whimsicott combo and I'll trade the extra Magikarp I caught later on.
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It is now time to explore the Lavender Tower, in there I caught a Haunter, along with changing Sasuke and Sakura's names to Agis and Abath at my brother's suggestions.

Unfortunately it looks like I'll need to catch a new Pokemon to replace Charon, as the Boss Haunter/Marowak killed it. It was LV40 to his LV34 but he brought it to Red at least before his death, before Drakolimi finished the Job



What sucks the most is the sheer amount of time and EXP that went into catching him up with the EXP share, and the fact that one more level would have meant he was an evolved into Weezing where he might have had the Bulk to Survive

Only times he was really in battle was Lavender Tower.

Left the tower to throw Charon into the box of Dead and then came back and caught a Misdrevus who might be useful later.

Wondertraded away Magikarp for a Murkrow/Cleffa combo, and then went to fight Snorlax with the intent to catch him, here's hoping I don't lose anyone in the attempt.

First had to clear the route 12 of trainers who I'd forgotten about, and was surprised they were LV22.

Then set up Abath with Thunder Wave, so I then proceeded to Paralyze and give Abath 6 X Defenses, after which I stomped Snorlax to low HP, and started throwing Ultraballs.

Although the fact that it had a leftovers made this far worse, thankfully at least Stomp kept making it flinch thanks to Serene Grace.

It only got off one attack, as it kept using things like Snore and Rest while at full HP and then when I started attacking it either flinched or was paralyzed for over 7 turns before I caught it.

Now glad it had Leftovers because I now have one myself.

I'll give Leftovers to Abath as the one with the most HP in the team.

I then spent an hour going forwards and battling trainers, I didn't find anything new on Route 14 and so I decided to skip it for now and simply fought most of the trainers in Route 15 without trying for wild grass.

More importantly an Aid gave me an EXP All to put in my Key Items, which seems to turn on the more modern EXP system if I do turn it on. Currently I'm just about par with trainer's Pokemon, with their aces being stronger than mine. Might be good to put it on to make it easier to be at a Gym Leader's level. Something to think about.

Finally arrived at Fushia city and calling it here.

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Decided after some though to turn the EXP share on and fuse together a Murkrow/Pineco together to form my newest Partner Boeing.



Who fused together into a LV17.

At LV40 Agni also evolved into his final form, a Charizard/Alakazam fusion.



At reaching LV40, Agis proceeded to also Evolved and changed to a Machamp/Doublade combination.



Decided to check out the Trainer House it mentioned a LV25 Challenge and is similar to the Battle Tower.

It does have a quest for me to beat 10 of them, but simpler to do that after I beat the Game, as then I don't have to worry about losing Pokemon as I'll have finished everything, and won't be Nuzlocking.

Went through the Fusha Gym easily enough, with the EXP Share helping to catch up my Pokemon quite a bit.



Time to face Koga and see if he falls to a sweep as easily as Erika with me only needing a Single Fresh Water,

Decided to bring Agis, Agni, and Abath as my primary three for this round, let's go Team A.

Although Koga has 4 so I ended up adding Drakolimi as well to the team at the very back.

His first Pokemon's starting damage was pitiful but then it used Destiny Bond while I was setting up, Sword Dance.

A quick Google Search told me that I should be fine if I just run it out of the Destiny Bond PP, by using some extra Automotize's and so I did it a couple more times until it stopped destiny bonding for two turns and then attacked.

Ice Punch Sweep Once more, although annoyingly his next Pokemon was a Water/Poison meaning it resisted both Ice and Fighting. Thankfully it's counter attack wasn't that strong.

Even wasted his Hyper Potion on it.

Effect Spore put Agis to sleep, but thankfully it was his final battle.

Even kind of made it funnier honestly. That after Agis won he felt tired so he went to sleep.

Went and healed and then apparently Blue wants to fight me next, lets see if the Agis sweep strat works just as well on Blue, he does lead with a more offensive Pokemon in Pidgeoto generally so lets see.

It fused with Cubone and made the Choice to just Trash which did very little and let me set up 3 Sword's Dance, after which it was confused so I even used 2 Automotize while it hurt itself twice.

Kind of just a laugh at how bad the AI was their, happily started the Sweep Once more, swapping between Ice Punch and Brick Break. Agis happily gave each of Blue's Pokemon a hand.

Blue tried to lower me by starting off with a Gyrados/Electabuzz Intimidate and then Tauros, but 4 Stages was still way beyond him.

Even at the end with an Alakazam/Starmie being Water/Psychic, not very Effective still one shot.

As a reward for beating him, Blue offered one of the Johto starters. After some thought I went with Totodial as Feraligator would fuse well with Snoralx if I ever lost Drakolimi.

Boeing even evolved, although boy does he look Ugly, his autogeneration did not go well.



I then took the time to explore the Safari Zone where I failed to catch a Pincir and did succeed at catching an Exeggcute.

I considered catching Pokemon from the Other Safairi Zone's with how big it is and how it has areas, but decided not to bother as I have most a box filled and satisfied myself with the first two.

Got the Surf TM and then started to head back to Celadon taking the other route from Fushua, after which I'll take on Safron.

Caught a Duduo in Route 18 followed by a Tentacool and then it was on to Cycling Road.

Cleared it pretty easily and didn't find any new Pokemon on Route 17 or 16 so I'll skip them for now.

Went back to Route 15 and explored it more and with Surf was able to go into the Water where I first fought a Stunfisk

Then went inside a Creepy Cave which had it's own area underground with Ghosts, Caught a Lampwit and Shuppet.

That done I prepared to go to Saffron city, and called it a day after having played a few hours.

Team going in, EXP Share really let me surpass my Enemies, as before I was equal level to random trainers I now outlevel them by around 10 Levels with Agni who can now potentially one-shot his foes with non-super effective moves.

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Opening with working together with Lance to fight a TR grunt was fun, although the implication that he just waited until we arrived to even fight the grunt is kind of hilarious.

With that I entered Saffron City, and unlike in the original games the entire city was taken over, with the closest freedom people have being the Pokemon Center, although it had a Rocket selling Slowpoke Tails, and Rage Candy Bars which decrease LV's which was interesting and may be a quest item at some point, so I bought one and moved on.

Amused to see that the Fighting Dojo is unaffected by the city lockdown and just running normally, they aren't going to be helping with storming Sliph Co I see.

Also not quite as overleveled as I thought, as while I'm solidly above Grunts, the Fighting Champion had three LV45's. Yes my Ace Agni was 5 levels higher, but most of my team was only 2 levels higher, with my weakest being 3 levels lower.

Still EXP Share may eventually push me up, we'll see how it goes. If I ever get 15LV higher than anyone important I'll know it needs to get turned off.

I choose Hitmonchan as my Pokemon for winning the fighting dojo and moved on.

Hilarious to see that there is a police station here, but they can't do anything because Team Rocket technically isn't doing anything illegal here due to following the rules of Pokemon Battling, that's one perspective.

Also has a song about Donuts, and tedious paperwork on the Radio, I see the creator of this hack certainly wants to point out some stereotypes.

I then proceeded to beat up a Team Rocket Grunt and their friend who actually succeeded in doing a fair bit of damage due to it being a double battle and stole their Rocket Identity.

Bought a couple of Mankey's Paws, as I knew that later on there would be an old Lady who would buy them for slightly more than they were worth.

Also bought a Rocket Ball which is just a Pokeball painted black, might be cool to run around with it if I catch something with it though, I only bought the one.

More importantly though it's perfect for No Guard, as it half's accuracy in return for Guaranteed Critical Hits.

We are going with the Pokemon Manga's plot where they've captured the three Legendary Birds and are fusing them. I wonder if this will actually have a threeway fusion, or if it will just leave one of the Birds out to dry, or if there will just be extra Birds and they'll have each possibility fused.

Man I'm already 15 LV's above the Grunts with Agni, I wonder if I was supposed to go to the fighting Dojo after this?

Also I wasn't expecting there to actually be Slyph Co Members that you outright rescue, generally it's just Scientist Trainers and a Nurse Joy that heals you.

Wonder if that'll be a side-quest. Something to look into later.

In the process of crushing all team rocket members, I evolved Oberon, Electabuzz half into an Electavire, which was a bad autogen, thankfully I just need to buy a Shiny Stone and then he'll look great after I beat Sabrina.



Annoyingly enough right before the floor with heals, I retreated back to the Pokemon Center to restore Agni's PP, and then came back and saw it. Still glad it's there, makes restoring myself far faster, glad I got the keycard so early on, really lets me completely ignore the whole teleport puzzles. I used it a grand total of once to get past a mandatory Teleport point which gave me the Keycard.

Although now having cleared all 10 floors, to get to Floor 11 I'm going to need to start looking at all the teleporters now.

I regret leading down from the top, as the correct teleport point was back on Floor 3 after testing them all one by one.

Wasted 7 minutes or so.

Time to likely face Blue again followed by Giovani, although since I fought Blue at Fusha maybe, it'll just be Giovani.

Team going in.


I'll lead with Agis as I generally do for Boss Fights.

OK so looks like it is Giovani and it is indeed a triple fusion, it really does look like it came straight out of the manga.

I'm even the same LV as it



it's Tri Attack does roughly 40% of my HP and I'm already faster after one Sword's Dance, I use a second and have been Paralized. Time to break out a Full Restore and then try killing this thing, hopefully an Ice Punch will be enough to take this thing down, as it's certainly a Flying type at least so Cross Chop's Stab likely won't help.

Of course, this time the Tri Strike burns me, I'll have to use another Full Restore, here's hoping it's not guarenteed to cause one of the three status effects.

It Paralized me again so it might be, welp time to risk an Ice Punch!

First time I was using Monkey Claw, and it fails to Crit, only doing a third of it's HP?!

This thing might have an ability that prevents Crit.

Alright it's clear Agis ain't great here. Time to swap to Abath and hope this goes better.

I absolutely wasn't expecting one Beast of a Pokemon like this, I should have given her Toxic and ditched the Ground Move or her Rock Move.

Yea one turn of Rock Blast going 3 times, and it does as well as Double Sword Dance Ice Punch.

Also switched to using Flying Moves against Abath despite it resisting it and Sky Attack, could it be out of Tri-Attacks already?

Strangely Giovani didn't even use a Full Restore, so Abath smoothly handled the entire thing with ease, and Agis just embaressed himself and used two Full Restores for nothing.

Got the last part of the Password to turning off Wild Fusions, and I absolutely would have never guessed it.

"Smearkia" really?

Combining it with the other two parts, the full password is Smearkia's Pure Power.

I believe it's randomized for every play-through, but man is that a rough one.

No deaths since Lavender Tower.

If that's the last one of this play-through somehow, I'll laugh so hard.

Blue came in literally as Team Rocket was leaving, and his first thought is his presence scared them off. Never Change Blue.

Also gave me a free Lapras which is nice, I have a lot of Water Types now, maybe I should have taken the Chikorita he offered me instead. Oh well.

Time to explore a Free Saffron City after IRL Lunch.

Back, and exploring already paid off. An NPC gifted me a Shiny Stone, so I can evolve into a Togekiss now rather than after I beat Sabrina.

Oberon's final form has been achieved.


Found a Bar that you can buy Beer and Tequila at which was fun, along with a Copycat Dancer that you have to copy.

Unfortunately the game glitched out after I drank while copying Copycat's Dance Move's and I moved a step away and got stuck, already reported in the Bug Section, thankfully my habit of saving meant I only lost 5 minutes of progress.

Time to try again, copied it all perfectly and was given a Smeargle in return, could be used to make some Whacky fusion possibilities sometime in the future.

Off to seeing the rest of Safron.

Swapped Signal Beam for Dragon Pulse on Agni after some thought, the 150 Power of a Super Effective Signal Beam ain't that far from the 135 Stab Psychic, or the 142.5 Stab Flamethrower.

At least the 180 Super effective Dragon Pulse feels like it'll be a bigger difference on those rare use cases.

Got the GS Ball for helping so many people/doing side quests, which sounds like it might eventually lead to Celebi. Could be cool.

Went to Mt. Moon and turned off Wild Fusions for more choice.

Learned about Crimson City, so Flew to Cereluian and started Surfing on the Cape, no new Pokemon Encountered,

Route 23 also had no new Pokemon, although a Trainer commenting a Pokemon Trainer must have balls, only having two Pokemon and then giving me some Pokeballs, Great and Ultra's after I won to show off his balls got me to laugh.

Another trainer asking me if her Pokemon looked like the face of Mercy and sending out Mr. Cruel also got me to smile, some good jokes this route.

Ditched Drill Run for Toxic in case of another Boss Fight and to help catch Pokemon as no-one can learn False Swipe and I'm way to high leveled otherwise.

Arrived at Crimson City and it doesn't even a Pokemon Center, thankfully it registers to Fly so I left and came back, found the Old lady who you can sell Mankey Paw's to for more than there worth at a progressively better deal inside the Hotel itself which surprised me. Pretty trivially easy to then sell it all which made me over 10K Poke in Profits in around 2 minutes of work. It'd rapidly get better if I kept at it, but I don't need the money.

Still good to have the option.

Have a Girl who wants me to fight her High level Bellsprout, why does a part of me worry it's a LV100 one. Welp let's give it a shot.

Nope just a LV77 Bellsprout, and a Shyther/Beedrill Mix at LV45, thankfully Agni handled it Fine even if he was only LV56.

Caught a Goldeen in Crimson City itself, thanks to there being Water in the area.

Unfortunately I'm not sure how I'd go about progressing further north due to there being a Bug where trying to Surf makes the city Surfable and not the barrier going forward. Thankfully fly fixes it.

Ditched Surf HM back for the TM Brick Break and entered the Saffron Gym.

Leading with Agni for the Fight with Sabrina and I'll temporarily forget Energy Ball for Calm mind, I would have preferred Psychic but I already spent a PP Max on it, so not losing that.

Facing Sabrina with Agni, Boeing, Abath and Oberon.

Current Team.


I won, but at LV57 Agni was 12 levels higher than Sabrina's strongest Pokemon, at least they are starting to give them Competitive moves like Nasty Plot and Baton pass. Still wasn't enough and won without any casualties.

Also got confirmation that Mankey's Paw doesn't work on No Guard without further testing so I took it off Agis, and gave him a Shell Bell.

My final stop for this session is to stop and evolve two Pokemon who need Dusk Stone since I now have beaten Sabrina and can buy them at Celadon.

Final form of Boeing


Final form of Agis


Next time I'll experiment with Stance Change and see how it works for me, after that if it doesn't work well I'll unfuse it and refuse with the ability No Guard instead.

After that I'll surf to Cinnabar, and use the ticket Blue gave me to go to the Islands.
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Been a couple of days since I played, picked up Persona 4 Golden recently and been spending most of my time on this. But with FGO's event taking up so much of my time and using so little brainpower, I find I can play Pokemon while doing it at the same time.

Spent two Super Fusions, Unfusing and refusing Agis, to give him back No Guard instead of Stance Change. Stance Change is a lot more interesting but I know it's buggy so better to take No Guard back.

Thankfully dropping by the Move Remember and Celedon quickly got me all my moves back as well, and it was now time to explore the water route from Fushua to Cinnabar.

Failed to see anything but Tentacool on Route 19, so I'll mark it down for later, and for Route 20 all I saw were Seadra of which I already have one, and Seel.

I did find an area that I could dive into in the future which could be interesting, and I have another move slot available thanks to ditching Surf back for Brick Break as soon as I got my Surfboard.

I'm still debating turning off the EXP share, it's very convenient but at this point my weakest part member is more than 10 levels above the average trainer, and my strongest is nearly 20 levels above.

I soon made it to Cinnabar city, where I got the Super Rod, registered for all the side quests at the hotel, and generally went around talking to everyone before I went to the gym.
The Pokemon Mansion popped up as a Side Quest area, where I'll need to find a Burglar and kill several Ditto's with Thief until I get Metal Powder.

The Pokemon Mansion popped up as a Side Quest area, where I'll need to find a Burglar and kill several Ditto's with Thief until I get Metal Powder.

I absolutely wasn't expecting to encounter a random Absol that turned into an encounter, since it's in a city I can catch it even in a Nuzlocke. Thankfully I just taught Boeing thief, so I have a weaker move, although the fact that it starts with Sword Dances, makes me quite nervous.

Thankfully even with two sword's dance, his Razor Wind did pretty much nothing to Boeing, and three Thief's put him in the red.

After that it was just the slow process of throwing Pokeball after Pokeball at it until it submitted, or rather that's what I assumed, but a single Pokeball caught it.

The NPC mentioned that Absol's are a bad omen hoping nothing will happen to the island, and another NPC mentioned the Volcano before dismissing it saying they don't have to worry. It makes me wonder if we'll actually see the famous eruption that happened in the time skip between Red and Gold.

Interesting to note that I can go straight to the Sevii Islands, I'll try to explore Pokemon Mansion and then the 7th gym if I can first though.

Also learned about someone offering a Skarmory for Dodrio, so I decided to take Agni off the team and leave Dodio to evolve so I could trade him. Not sure I'll ever use Skarmory, but better to have him as fusion material lest I forget. Agni was getting ahead of the rest due to being a trade anyways.

Also got a sidequest to protect Zapdos from team Rocket which should be interesting.

I then proceeded to revive my Fossils, both Aerodactyl and Cranidos, who might be interesting fusion material for the future.

Proceeded to enter Pokemon Mansion, and the first random trainer to fight me really made me grateful I'm higher level, as it easily could have been a ruinous battle.

Because man, getting hit by Self Destruct twice because I'm not strong enough to one shot sucks, and it took Drakolimi hard even if the fact that they were 10 levels lower and a first form blunted the worst of it.

Time to swap to Abath who at least resists Self-Destruct and has a lot more HP, even if it's paired with a smaller defense.

Yea last one was a fully evolved form who used Explosion and even Crit with it. It's a good think I swapped to Abath my tankiest Pokemon who took it, otherwise I'd have likely lost someone to this self-destruction maniac. As it is I think I'll retreat and heal at the Pokemon Center.

It does remind me of how having a Ghost at times like this can be useful, even if I generally prefer the dark type.

Holy muk, wow I knew Abath was tanky but that could have so easily gone wrong.

Hit a Poliwhirl/Electrode with Drakolimi's Aqua Tail, not expecting that it'd have water absorb. After that it Belly Drum and I swaped to Abath, where it proceeded to self-destruct.

Thankfully Abath took it like a champ and was fine, but that could easily have been a disaster. It's starting to ramp up I see, really glad I got those 10 extra levels now.

Before long fighting the Pokemon Mansion trainers caused Dudao to evolve into Dodrio, at which point I traded him for Skarmory who I then boxed and retrieved Agni for.

The trainers in the Mansion took a big level boost as I get deeper in it, and are only a few levels behind me now, and they even equal Boeing my lowest level at 51. Oberon who is currently leading the team is only 3 levels higher himself.

I have to admit I wasn't expecting the first Pokemon I'd encounter in this mansion to be a Ditto, if only because every other encounter I had was one I already captured or got through a trade.

Unfortunately I got annoyed at the slow progress of Thief and tried a rock smash which was quad effective and instantly killed it. That was stupid of me and it consumed 1 of my two encounters already. Granted I'm not really sure how Ditto would have worked after being fused.

Never did use transform as Mew, so not sure how the stats would have worked out.

Encountered a Ditto again as my second encounter and this time caught it, so I guess I can satisfy my curiocity later if I want.

With that I found Blane and he went back to his gym so I can now challenge him.

Going in with the following team, wish me luck.
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I thought about it and Dragon Pulse just can't measure up to Calm Mind even if it is a Move Tutor move, so I went back and relearned it. I'll Calm Mind Spam with Agni at the start of the Blane fight and see if he has any hard hitting physical moves.

Team I'll leave out are Agis and Boeing who are both Steel, which leaves me four of my 6, which is the amount I'll be allowed to use.

Blaine opens up by using Sunny Day which benefits me as well or so I think, but for some weird and inexplicable reason, Sunny Day hurts Agni every turn as well as if it was a Sandstorm.

This is despite him being a Fire/Psychic type as well, his Solar Beam and Flamethrower don't do a lot, but combined with his Flamethrower Criting and three turns of Sunny Day causing Damage causes Agni to faint possibly costing me the fight.

Not a lot of good options now, Abath is weak to Grass, Drakolimi is hindered by Sunlight and Grass resists Oberon

Thankfully Oberon deals with the Gloom/Rapidash Combo, and Sunlight fades. Water Pulse triggering confusion and it hurting itself helped a fair bit.

Rhydon/Magmar unfortunately kills Oberon but not before he weakens him quite a bit.

Blaine uses a Full Restore, but that doesn't stop Drakolimi from one-shotting him, sadly it did result in him being burned.

I'll use a Dragon Dances and then use a Full restore, as a Charizard/Aerodactyl shouldn't have Earthquake or anything.

Crunch takes, away roughly 30% leaving me with just about 55% from the burn hitting me two turns.

Not going to risk it so I'll use my Full restore now.

The correct decision as I then finish it off and face Blane's last Pokemon an Arcanine/Ninetails fusion.

Aqua Tail misses, but thankfully for some reason it's Thunder fang also misses, as that could have caused a wipe potentially.

The next Aqua Tail hits and with that I've claimed my 7th badge.

I'm still not sure just what was with Blaine's weird Sunny day and maintain that the strategy was a good one that would have worked if not for it.

Well time to go bury two of my oldest team members.





I'll have to look through my boxes and carefully consider who to replace them with.
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Welp, after talking it out with one of the others, I'd forgotten about Agni's Solar Power which is what killed him really.

I should have healed him earlier and started attacking with him earlier considering Solar Power was boosting him as well.

That was my mistake and on me, biggest reason I lost him and Oberon after all.

After a lot of thought I added Rex back to the team, as he'll evolve into an Ice/Fire type, which will cover what Oberon's main job of dealing with Lance.

He'll also cover Agni's general job, and after a lot of thought I fused Litwick/Magnemite into a new power duo, who'll be a Ghost/Electric. He'll also be my general sweeper when fully evolved similar to Agni thanks to having very high attack. Although his lower speed means it might not be as safe.



New team assembled, it was time to go check out the Sevii Islands, here's hoping the two new members have long lives and contribute greatly to the team in the future.

Following Oberon's the protagonist's death I updated the other 4's surviving members profiles, as seeing his death made them all reevaluate themselves and their lives.

For Drakolimi
Grieving the loss of his main student, his newly formed calm has been lost, and he's reverted to crushing his enemies.

For Abath
Constantly checking the team's health, and is much more aware of the teams mortality after witnessing Agni and Oberon's deaths.

For Agis
Focused on becoming faster and more powerful, his strikes instantly crush his foes, he now stands apart from his team.

For Boeing
A glutton constantly looking for his next fix, he never the less is always ready to help protect the team however he can.

Also took the time to add Badges to Pokemon who were chosen to be brought to each of the respective gyms they helped me do. Even if they didn't actively participate in battle, they earned the badge if they were one of the limited members chosen.

Agni earned the most at 4/7 badges, before his death.

Here's hoping Drakolimi and Abath can at least catch up to him.



Took the time to surf up to Pallet first to beat some more trainers and catch my team up in level a bit more.

After that I went back to the Mansion to beat up Ditto's with Thief for a chance of Metal Powder which a Ditto only has a 5% chance of holding vs the 50% chance of Quick Powder.

In the process of doing that Rex evolved into his awkward middle stage



But before I gave him a Fire Stone and evolved him to his true form, I wanted him to learn Flare Blitz at LV45

Then I went to go do the Zapdos side Quest before I forgot.

In the process of exploring the Power Plant I found several TM's but more importantly had two more evolutions.

Bunsen evolved into an awkward middle stage as well, even if it's not as bad as Rex



But more importantly Abath evolved into it's final form, sadly as an Autogen it's nowhere near as good as some of these custom images, which is a bit sad considering it finally evolves as LV55 the same LV as Dragonite.



Went through most of team rocket quickly enough and quickly decided to just leave Abath paralized as it made things easier and kept them from constantly readding it.

When I went up against the executive, Abath just got mean, two Crits in a Rock Blast that went up to 4 times. The poor Muk even with Acid Armor stood no chance.

Abath just kept stomping the rest as well, and another Muk fusion this time with Jynx was weak to Rock, and the only thing that saved it from dying turn 1 with acid armor was Abath deciding to only hit it three times with Rock Blast.

Articuno/Moltres being quad weak to Rock, only survived two Rock Blast. To add insult to injury, I entered this fight at 260 HP and only ended up healing quite a bit thanks to Leftovers, truly an easy boss fight this time round.

I then proceeded to KO the wild Zapdos as this is a Nuzlocke after all and I already caught a Voltorb and Magnemite in the Power Plant a long time ago.

Maybe I should have chosen Moltres or Articuno, as I have most of the Pokemon in their areas and haven't explored it. Oh well.

More importantly I can finally replace Rock Blast with Stone Edge's as a result of killing Zapdos, a fitting Trade in my opinion.

Went back to Cinnabar where I found a Super Robot that only allowed you to fight with one Pokemon.

It choose a LV100 Blissey/Ditto Fusion, and tried Toxic/Soft Boil/Cosmic Powering me.

Problem for it was I had Abath who also had Toxic and the power of Antitode's on my side.

We both Toxic to start, but I just kept using antitode on mine every other turn, where as it at best could use Softboil but that didn't help it as Toxic kept getting worse.

Easy win for me, if I knew Refresh I could have won without Item useage, but good thing it didn't know Refresh or this would have been a far longer battle, as I'd need to exhaust it's PP.

Got an Infinite Splicer in return which should save me some money, especially if it works like a Super Splicer

I then proceeded over to Knot Island where I learned they use Heart Scales as Currency.

Procceded to Surf through Treasure Island and picked up quite a few Goodies, sadly no new Pokemon in the area so I marked it down and went back to knot Island and surfed East instead.

In Kindle Road I found no new Pokemon in the road, but in the grass for my first encounter I found and caught a Ferrow. I was curious what the second encounter would be, but found to my surprise a stationary Flygon who I fought and soon caputred.

I now have a solid Ground type to fuse into something in the future, and he'll be a good backup at LV45.

Proceeded to Mt Ember where I learned I needed a gas mask and was sent back, decided to go back to Knot Island with the key Item Item I picked up on the way here.

As a Reward I could choose any of the Shinoh starters, after somet thought I went with Turtwig, as having another Solid Grass and potential Ground could be useful.

I did consider Chimchar for Fire, as I only have Vulpix and a traded Psyduck/Charmander, but I'm not a big fan of his design, and I have a ton of Water Types.

Piplup was considered only for his later Steel type coverage, but Grass was better I decided.

I then proceeded back to Cinnabar where I was given a Train Pass for helping to rescue Zapdos.

I considered trying to take Giovani on first, but decided exploring Johto for awhile would help catch my Pokemon up. I even had a goal of making it to Cherrywood where I can turn OST's back into mine and that way I can unfuse most of the Pokemon in my Traded section to have better options in the future.

With my Train Ticket taking me to Goldenrod I started exploring it, the strangest thing was finding Eusine offering me to trade a Mewtwo for Drakolime, I was tempted for a second before deciding to decline.

It does make me wonder though, does he offer that for any Pokemon?

Time to test it out.

He does indeed offer it for anything so I went back to my PC and took out my Wonder Traded Facebook in case LV and it being fused matters.

Got a Meowth/Ditto Fusion instead, guess I should have wondered since he did mention not being a fraud when I declined the offer, but since it was Eugine I let it slide.

Oh well no real loss was had at all.

I soon found another person who gives starter Pokemon this time to anyone who fused up to 40 Pokemon, confident I managed that with the unfusing and refusing I did, I hit accept but it turns out I've only fused 23 times annoyingly enough.

Not a problem that would cost me anything though with my Infinite Fusion that I earned from beating the RED Robot, so I took two LV1 Pokemon in my PC, Whynaut and Lileep that I got from an Egg and Fossil respectively and repeatedly fused and unfused them with the the Infinite Fusion item.

Spent 20 minutes unfusing and refusing but it got me to 41 fusions and then I picked Cyndaquil for another fire type.

Then continued to explore Goldenrod

Bought a Diamond for 40K and then went back to Knot Island to make the Diamond Necklace for a Sidequest, cost another 25K and 3 Pearls and an escape Rope. So toatal roughly 80K all in all if my mental math is right.

Lets go see what the reward for that much money is

Only got 35K back and a Helix Fossil, so I functionally spent 45K for an Omanyte, not sure it was worth it but hey a side quest is a side quest.

Took the time to quickly do the Goldenrod Hotel Side Quests which just had me show a Hoenn Pokemon and some Safari Zone Souvenir's both of which I had.

Also flew back to Saffron and showed the Shinnoh Pokemon it wanted me to show earlier.
I then worked my way through the Goldenrod store, which was still being worked on and had sevral trainer fight every floor except for the first floor as they fought to keep me from entering a construction zone.

Sadly for them I needed to use the elevator to get to the bottom to get to team Rocket so I crushed them all easily. I was 20 Levels above them after all, which made me consider throwing in either Rex or Bunsen but better not to risk it.

In the process of beating up construction worker's Rex made it to LV45 and learned Flare Blitz which meant it was time for him to evolve, surprisingly I also got Dive as an option which after some thought I skipped.

But it being an option may be something I come back to as there were some areas to explore with Dive, I likely don't have the badge for it yet though.

Rex has now achieved his final form



The power of Stomp and Serene Grace remains Disgustingly good, as anything Abath doesn't kill she just makes Flinch, her only weakness to that is her relatively slow speed, but her tankiness more than makes up for it.

Bunsen also evolved soon after, the joys of the EXP share being what it is.

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I then descended down the Elevator to go beat up Team Rocket Goons.

Superfang ended up being Abath's big annoyance here as they managed to repeatedly get her low even with her healing it Ocassionally. Thankfully never outright became a threat as even at relatively low I had confident in her tankiness. That said swapped her after the fight was over and continued onward.

I somewhat regretted this as I didn't expect to run into Giovani and Archer in the next door, would have gone and healed first if I knew the boss fight was this soon.

Thankfully Agis was more than up to the task of soloing Archer, as while he did get hit by a Cross Chop due to Primeape/Weezing being faster, he took it and Dynamic Punched his way to Victory against it and the other Pokemon.

Apparently I was supposed to come to Johto and Giovani is now available for the 8th badge.

Think I'll continue to Cherrygrove first for fusion options and then I'll go back.

Went through Route 35 and through quite a number of trainers, my higher levels allowed me to sweep them with ease, swapping more for PP than anything else as first Agis, then Drakolimi sweeped them with ease.

Found a Hypno on Route 35 and caught it, and proceeded to Route 36 which had a well with Spirtomb which I soon caught as well.

Abath had awful luck with a Tangrowth/Yanmega fusion, missing 3 of the 4 Stone Edge's she shot, thankfully the AI didn't spam Giga Drain and only used it once. Also as unneeded revenge when Abath did hit, she crit with a super effective Stone Edge while being 15 levels higher. The results were obvious but still fun to imagine.

Started exploring the national park and was given a rare Fairy egg from Hoenn, likely a Ralts which consumes one of my two encounters for the area but was worth it.

After some thought I used one of my PP Maxs on Agis Dynamic Punch to push it to 8PP, which will let him get more use before needing to go back.

Here's hoping it's not wasted due to his future death.

Quickly took the time to hatch Ralts which with Speed Up and Racing Bike took very little time at all, after that I realized that Sudowoodo was in my way, and the lady that normally gives you the Wailmer Pail at the flower shop no longer gave you anything.

Guess I'm backtracking through the forest after all.

Proceeded downwards to Route 34 in an attempt to backtrack my way to get around Sudowoodo, encountered a Granbull as my first encounter but after I caught it the game immediately crashed.

Oh well, no real loss as I boot up the game again. If I encounter another one I'll catch it and if I don't I'll just count it as 1 of my 2 encounters.

Caught up to where I was by killing all the trainers I had previously fought and set off to find another Granbull and saved again.

Sadly it crashed a second time, this time freezing on the Pokeball.

For round three, I tried catching him with a Primier Ball, which finally worked. Clearly he just didn't like a Pokeball.

I then found out that to get the Rock Smash Item you need a bad bone, and there are some in Rock Tunnel.

I flew to Lavender Town and then went up where I found 5 Rocks by the entrance and started farming them.

30 Rocks laters I had 5 Heart Scales, but 0 Bad Bones.

More weirdly I encountered two shiny Geodudes.


Specifically I threw a Primier ball at the first for fun and then killed it, and was shocked to see another one soona after, which I threw another Primier Ball at and caught and then threw into a Shiny Box never to see the light of day again.

I strangely have an affinity for Shiny Geodude's, as I have now caught one in several games now.

Shockingly I even encountered a third soon after? Is their something wrong with this spot specifically?

I kept doing it and soon encountered another 3, clearly there is something with this area specifically.

Apparently the reason why is because those are hidden abilities Pokemon and there are times where Pokemon have high chances of encountering Hidden Ability.

Released the Geodude I had in the Shiny Box since it's just hidden ability.

Decided to finally do Trainer House with my Backup Pokemon who I don't care if they die.

Taught Aesculapian Double Team and Sludge Wave and entered with three Pokemon.

Cleared 5 Trainer Battles in over 30 minutes with a lot of Double team and some fresh water.

Was very irritating so I decided I needed a Sword's Dance User.

So I swapped out my Main for an Absol/Fearow fusion that I named Durandall to handle this and not be sad if he died.



Yea Sword's Dance makes this so much faster, didn't even need to heal for the first fight.

Although for the forth I almost died when I encountered a Rock Type

Thankfully the fifth was safer and I soon finished that quest for timer balls.

Moving on to the next quest I slept at a Hotel and passed the 777 mark and thus unlocked the Jirachi encounter in a special dreamscape.

He took the place of Oak, and rejected my choices for a Pokemon and challenged me to a Pokemon Battle one on one.

Since I wasn't sure if I was supposed to catch it, I threw in my highest Defense lowest Attack Pokemon in Boeing and started the fight.

I soon saw that I was a LV59 and was fighting a LV20 Jirachi that was called Wild, so I tried throwing out a Pokeball but apparently it's impossible to catch, and my stats got drastically changed, just not my LV.



So I took 20 damage, and needed to heal with Fresh Water, but sadly it just repeatedly swift.

Considered if I wanted to Fresh Water repeatedly until it ran out of PP, but unsure if this is a scripted loss.

Decided to risk it and repeatedly Fresh Watered 6 times, before it decided to use Psychic which I am immune to, as a Dark/Steel.

Then I started attacking with Payback and was somehow faster, 4 hits later and two crits, and I won, as it only used one more swift, and otherwise used Psychic and Helping Hand.

Flawless victory which I was not expecting after the awful beginning, thank God he had Sturdy otherwise Swift would have taken him out.

Truly Boeing was the perfect Pokemon for this, not that I knew.

After my Dream I talked to Leaf who gave me Balbausaur for being an accomplished Pokemon Trainer, it is Raj's House so I'll accept the additional Pokemon.

Now to go to my PC to check if Jirachi made it.

Shockingly he was actually in my party and Boeing was in the PC, I was actually wondering if he got erased.

Proud I actually got a Legendary, might end up fusing it sometime for now. I'm good with my current team.

Unlocked a Hidden Tomb with Eviolite by waiting until exactly 3:15AM, caught a Duskull in it and kept exploring to catch anything else, but it looks like it's Duskull only. I can always use it to hatch an Egg if I want.

After that went back to Fuscha to try to find the Chansey's lost trainer to also get a Lucky Egg, after which I will have completed all but two Side Quests until the Post game.

Gave Lucky Egg to Rex and decided to try briefly for the Invisible Pokemon in Saffron City Sidequest as I looked around but failed to find anything.

Well I'll call it here. Onto Giovani next session since I'm stumped on the Rare Bones and Invisible Pokemon Quest.
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