Challenge The Solo Challenge Page 6

Started by TheCrystalFlaaffy February 14th, 2017 1:04 PM
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AoTora

Age 28
Female
In Pallet town ~
Seen November 29th, 2020
Posted November 29th, 2020
839 posts
10.4 Years
Haven't been active here for a while now xD Decided to start with a surprisingly easy solo run - Clefairy solo run on Yellow, this mon learns a ton of tms so it's really easy, you can easily sweep past everything besides Brock xD

Click here for video since yt video doesn't work
I don't care about EV's or IV's - I play for fun not competitive.
I don't own consoles - I play on emulators on my computer.

Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. All else is a waste of energy and time ~ Nisargadatta.

Love is the only power that can change an enemy into a friend. ~ Martin Luther King.

I am a fan of Criminal Minds, Crossing Jordan and some other series. I am also Harry Potter fan and Disney fan (I love Frozen!) - I also like other animes beside Pokemon.
Age 25
Male
Seen June 20th, 2020
Posted May 5th, 2020
3 posts
3 Years
I'm trying a pretty dumb challenge for myself after watching a youtuber complete said challenge. I've done a couple of solo runs in the past but today I have started what is going to be the most insane thing I've done. I want to beat each Pokemon League with only a single Rattata. I plan to go through all regions other than the one from Sword and Shield seeing as I do not have a Switch. Will this run be impossible? Perhaps. Will I try anyway this summer? Absolutely.
I've already managed to defeat Misty with my trusty rodent and so I'm gonna go ahead and sign up here to keep track of my wins.

Username: johnnythe3rd
Partner Pokemon: Rattata
Challenge: Ultimate
Game(s): Blue (8/8) Crystal (8/16) Omega Ruby (0/8) Platinum (0/8) Black (0/8) Y (1/8) Ultra Moon (1/8)
Previous Progress: Nope

Current Progress:
Blue
Spoiler:
Completed in 14:42!
Brock took one attempt at level 14. Misty took three attempts at level 22 and 28. Surge took one attempt (sweep with no damage) at level 35. Erika took two attempts at level 46. Sabrina took one attempt at level 58. Koga took one attempt (sweep with no damage) at level 61. Blaine took one attempt (sweep with no damage) at level 65. Giovanni took one attempt (sweep with no damage) at level 67. I was able to defeat the elite four after a couple attempts at level 72, but my rival forced me to train to level 86 and even use PP Ups. I did not use any X-Battle items.

Level 86
HP 198
Attack 152
Defense 130
Speed 178
Special 92

Thunderbolt
Dig
Blizzard
Skull Bash


Crystal
Spoiler:
Falkner took one attempt at level 13. Bugsy took one attempt at level 20. Whitney took one attempt at level 25. Morty took four attempts at level 34. Pryce took five attempts at level 43. Chuck took one attempt (sweep no damage) at level 46. Jasmine took around six attempts at level 48 because there is no reason for a purple rat to beat up a giant steel snake and I had to resort to lucky misses. Clair took five attempts at level 56 because I forgot that dragonairs are not flying type and so dig will hit them hard.

Level 56
HP 124
Attack 102
Defense 70
Sp Attack 62
Sp Defense 73
Speed 113

Dig
Icy Wind
Rock Smash
Shadow Ball


Y Version
Spoiler:
Viola took two attempts at level 13.

I bred for this Rattata in Omega Ruby and put it in the Pokemon Bank in order to get him in this game as quickly as possible. The egg moves were accidental but appreciated.

Level 14
HP 34
Attack 24
Defense 17
Sp Attack 17
Sp Defense 16
Speed 26

Bite
Quick Attack
Last Resort
Reversal


Ultra Moon
Spoiler:
Totem Raticate took one attempt at level 17. After so many long and arduous attempts my Rattata beat Hala's Grand Trial at level 23 and no, Rattata would not stop disobeying me which is why we lost so many times. I was so proud on that last attempt when he stayed strong so that I wouldn't be sad. What a trooper!

I got this Rattata by transferring her in through Pokemon Blue virtual console at level 3.

Level 23
HP 54
Attack 34
Defense 22
Sp Attack 18
Sp Defense 25
Speed 51
Ability: Hustle

Tackle
Assurance
Hyper Fang
Crunch

Wish me luck! (I'll just update my progress on this post if that's alright.)
Age 25
Male
Seen June 20th, 2020
Posted May 5th, 2020
3 posts
3 Years
So as I complete the Johto side of my Rattata solo run I've come to the realization that I have no solid way to get a regular rattata egg into Pokemon Y, Omega Ruby, nor Ultra Moon. So what I'm doing as a side project is to reach that goal with a secondary solo challenge. This one just a single run through Omega Ruby with the Treeko line. I'm gonna catch a ton of pokemon throughout it but only Treeko-Grovyle-Sceptile will be used in combat. My goal is to complete this game so that wild Rattata will appear in Hoenn so I can catch a couple and breed them, transfer three eggs into Pokemon bank (as well as all the extra pokemon I catch) and then restart Omega Ruby as well as Ultra Moon and start Y with a Rattata egg.

Here is my sign up for my Omega Ruby Run:

Username: johnnythe3rd
Partner Pokemon: Treeko -> Sceptile
Challenge: Single
Game: Omega Ruby
Previous Progress: No

Completed in 16:47
I beat Roxanne, Brawly, and Wattson with one attempt. Flannery took seven tries, I had to give up leveling Grovyle to 43 to get Fury Cutter coz Sceptile's Sp. Defense was the only way to beat that Flamin' Tortoise. Not ten minutes later I beat Norman in one attempt. Winona also only took one attempt. Liza+Tate and Wallace only took one attempt as well.

Sceptile
Level 67
HP 197
Attack 157
Defense 119
Sp. Attack 164
Sp. Defense 130
Speed 198

False Swipe
Rock Tomb
Giga Drain
Leaf Blade
Seen August 12th, 2020
Posted August 11th, 2020
4 posts
4 Years
Going to do a Latios only challenge in Emerald... Yes, EMERALD. I think I will need to be level 20 to defeat Youngster freaking Calvin....

Edit... Just beat May with 5 HP remaining...

2nd Edit... took 2:37 of in game time to get Latios to level 10... Yep 2 HOURS and 37 MINUTES... And I still have 10 levels until I get Dragonbreath the first move Latios can use to cause damage to Dark types like Poochyena.

Hann

What's all the Buzz about...

Seen October 8th, 2020
Posted August 30th, 2020
352 posts
11.2 Years
It's been years since I've been on here, but I got into doing solo runs again so I figured why not post here as well. According to my own files and lists I completed about 53 solo runs before I stopped/lost interest. I don't have any video footage of those though, so I'm not gonna count them. I just finished a run and I did one 2 years ago (I'm posting it cause I'm making it count in my own 'keeping-track-of' list, but let me know if you don't want to put it up). I'll use the sign-up block to get the info in here, but like I said both of these are completed.

Username: Hann
Partner Pokemon: Cacturne
Challenge: Single
Game: Leaf Green
Previous Progress: No (did this one 2 years ago)


Saguaro the Lax Cacturne (M) @ Lv.89
Ability: Sand Veil
Return
Seismic Toss
Needle Arm
Faint Attack

Don't remember much about it aside from the fact that I did it in one sitting one evening, probably just cause I felt like playing some Pokémon and I just happened to record it.
Spoiler:

Username: Hann
Partner Pokemon: Pyroar
Challenge: Single
Game: Y
Previous Progress: No (just finished this one)


Ozai the Hasty Pyroar (M) @ Lv.100
Ability: Unnerve
Item: Leftovers
Crunch
Hyper Voice
Solar Beam
Flamethrower

I was surprised by how much stuff I still remembered. I had a bit of an issue with Grant's gym, until I realised I could avoid the trainer with the Relicanth completely and I only needed a few more levels for Ozai to evolve. Once I got to Korrina my level was already high enough to avoid any further issues, the biggest 'problem' overall was maybe Lysandre's Gyarados but even that was taken care of in 2 hits or so. I thought Siebold would give me some trouble, but I went a little overzealous with the Lucky Egg and apparently having a level 100 Pyroar makes everything pretty easy, who knew... Anyway I did enjoy this one a lot.
Spoiler:

Because I know myself I'm not gonna post any actual sign-ups or in-progress runs, just like the ones above I'll just post once when I complete a run. I figure that's better than having a ton of my in-progress runs up there and I change my mind like the weather, so who knows which one I'll finish next.
Seen October 3rd, 2020
Posted September 30th, 2020
2 posts
6 Years
First Update (Ruby - 2/8)
Athena the Ralts - Level 16
- Confusion
- Double Team
- Growl
Spoiler:

I unloaded myself from a truck, set the clock in my room, withdrew my potion from the computer, and met my new neighbour May. I then heard the cries of a man and investigated finding the Proffessor attacked by a Poochyena, I search through his bag and grabbed my first ever pokémon, Slave the Mudkip. After defeating the Poochyena, I was ready to go meet May again. After defeating May and receiving a parting gift of shoes from my mum, I was ready to take on an adventure.

Firstly I headed straight to Route 102, where I would catch my new partner in crime Ralts. After over 50 random encounters I finally came upon who would be my new best friend, the Female Ralts whom I named Athena. After some quick grinding swapping from Athena to Slave, Athena reached level 6 and learnt Confusion and was now ready to be used as my main pokémon. I went and saw my father at his new job and was introduced to Wally who totally copied me and caught his own Ralts. After heading on I travelled through the forest and arrived at Rustboro City where I quickly healed up, bought some potion and went to challenge Roxxane for my first badge.

Her two grunts were of no issue, Athena quickly took them down and reached level 12, I healed again, ready to take on Roxanne but luck was not on my side. Her Geodude out sped my Athena and quickly one shot KO'd her with a Rock Slide critical attack. It was disheartening. I decided to not give up and headed north to Route 116 where I grinded on the trainers and wild pokémon to reach level 14. I headed back to town to challenge Roxanne again. This time I was fortunate and my strategy worked. I used Double Team till I was nearly unhittable, with Geodude only hitting me once. Then came her infamous Nosepass, I was an unhittable machine, using Growl neutralised the Nosepass even more and I quickly made work of him, using Confusion 7 times untouched.

I had earned my Stone Badge and had learnt the power of Double Team in defeating hard opponents.

I headed north and helped both the Devon Co employee and Mr Brinley in defeating the Team Magma grunt, this being the final time I would have to use Slave to battle. I then took a ride on Mr Brinleys yatcht and travelled to Dewford Town where my first stop was the local Gym.
This gym was quite easy, only using Confusion on all the trainers then using Double Team once and sweeping with Confusion against Brawly.
Here I received my Knuckle Badge and ended the first stretch of my adventure
Age 22
He Him
Seen December 26th, 2020
Posted October 3rd, 2020
3 posts
2.6 Years
Started the run and chose Mudkip as my start, so May had Treecko just for a bit extra challenge. I rushed through the beginning section beat May and got pokeballs so I could get my Wingull naming him Kull, no clue why just first thing I thought of. Trained him a bit before taking on my first trainer. I continued taking on every trainer I could ending up being level 16 before taking on Roxanne she was pretty easy since I got a crit on Nosepass. I helped out Devon and got the letter for Steven and headed for Dewford. I destroyed the gym, Brawly was no challenge at all, before giving Steven his letter and heading for Slateport to help out Capitan Stern and saved my progress for the moment.

Kull the Wingull is Level 23 with Water Gun, Wing Attack, Steel Wing and Mist
Ongoing Challenges
Emerald Pelipper Solo Run
Emerald Trainer Personality Test(waiting on response)

AoTora

Age 28
Female
In Pallet town ~
Seen November 29th, 2020
Posted November 29th, 2020
839 posts
10.4 Years


I finally managed to complete Glameow solo run through Platinum xD I hate this cat with passion because it's so bad >_<

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=653N_jdacwM&feature=youtu.be
I don't care about EV's or IV's - I play for fun not competitive.
I don't own consoles - I play on emulators on my computer.

Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. All else is a waste of energy and time ~ Nisargadatta.

Love is the only power that can change an enemy into a friend. ~ Martin Luther King.

I am a fan of Criminal Minds, Crossing Jordan and some other series. I am also Harry Potter fan and Disney fan (I love Frozen!) - I also like other animes beside Pokemon.
Seen 2 Days Ago
Posted July 31st, 2021
13 posts
4.9 Years
Username: Transwiththeplans
Partner Pokemon: Aerodactyl
Challenge: Single
Game(s): X
Previous Progress: Yes

As of today, Aerodactyl has solo'd Viola, Grant and Korrina.

...but not without some embarrassing losses to a Dwebble, a Lunatone, and a bunch of crits. Grant also took a while, had to do some grinding up to level 30. I also got screwed with the lack of a good defense boosting nature, so that's fun. ;_;

I'm glad the rest of the region loses to Aerodactyl
Age 31
Male
France
Seen March 21st, 2022
Posted December 24th, 2020
14 posts
10.1 Years
I've decided to resume my solo Dratini run... with an update!

Koga and its army of Jugglers have just been defeated by my Dragonair. Routes 12 to 15, Silph Co. and Saffron Gym are next.

Spoiler:


Dragonair Lv.53
164 HP / 129 Attack / 105 Defense / 111 Speed / 114 Special
- Body Slam
- BubbleBeam
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam

Duck

🦆 quack quack

he, they
Seen February 23rd, 2023
Posted February 22nd, 2023
5,750 posts
2.4 Years
Since actually playing games in the 3DS is ... slow and I'm not close to my gaming PC let's try something faster in the mean time. Here's an Ultimate-ish, since I'm not comitting to the potentially impossible challenges of the 3DS only games (and I don't have a Switch / can emulate it, so if Galar is needed it wouldn't be an Ultimate anyways)

Username: von Sternen
Partner Pokemon: Porygon
Challenge: Ultimate-ish (four Singles for the purposes of the list)
Game(s): Red, Crystal, Sapphire, Platinum
Previous Progress: No

Edit: Kanto done.
Spoiler:

- Started the game with Virus the Porygon.

- Beating Brock was a bit annoying since I only have normal moves, but Conversion made Porygon become Rock type so it couldn't really do a lot back either. After a long war of attrition, I won.
Badges: 1/8

- At level 23 - just as soon as we reach Cerulean - we get our first special move, Psybeam. It's far from ideal but it means we can start using our humoungus Special stat. Misty's Starmie was tricky but nothing Virus couldn't handle.
Badges: 2/8

- Blue on the other hand, was trivial. Both times. So was Lt. Surge. And to make things even better, Surge gives us Thunderbolt, which will be very useful.
Badges: 3/8

- Gen I's policy of making almost every grass type Grass / Poison made Erika fall down rather easily. And with Celadon we basically won the game since we get Psychic and Ice Beam. We've also reached our low 40s so we learned Tri-Attack which finalizes our moveset.
Badges: 4/8

- Both Giovanni and Lavender Tower Rival were pretty easy to deal with.

- Koga's trainers were harder to deal with than Koga itself - they had Psychic Pokémon with high special.
Badges: 5/8

- Sabrina went down to a string of tri-attacks, although Alakazam does outspeed which might be problematic for the E4 later on.
Badges: 6/8

- Blaine and Giovanni were very easy. I didn't even heal or use a potion between them.
Badges: 8/8

- Lorelei and Bruno were trivial, but Agatha was troublesome since Gengar outsped and did some damage. Almost killed me. Lance was pretty easy.

As for Champion Blue, it was a bit more complicated than I expected - Alakazam and Arcanine outsped me and Venusaur could tank an Ice Beam. I managed to kill everybody without using an item but it could have gone south if the AI was a bit better.



And this shows the power of turbo, about 2 real-life hours became 13 in-game hours.
Either way, this was peak Porygon - offense and defense were the same thing, the TMs were very easy to get, and so on. Let's see how things go in the next generations.


Edit: Johto done
Spoiler:

- Started the game with Malware the Porygon.

- Silver was pretty easy.

- Since we get Psybeam a lot earlier this time around, Falkner, Bugsy, Whitney and Morty went down pretty quick.
Badges: 4/16

- The only reason Chuck wasn't a breeze was because of Hypnosis and Conhax :c
Badges: 5/16

- Instead of going straight to Jasmine, we go to Pryce because in this gen Steel resists Psychic moves. After the whole Rocket base thingy, Pryce died relatively quickly. Piloswine survived but a lucky Tri-Attack burn handled that.
Badges: 6/16

- I only won Jasmine because Iron Tail missed a lot, lol. In hindsight, I should have given Porygon a paralyze cure Berry - or just caved in and healed the paralysis - but it all worked out in the end. Thank Pryce for his TM.
Badges: 7/16

- Funnily enough, two five years old in the Dragon Den were more annoying to deal with than Claire - they managed to freeze me and almost killed me.
Badges: 8/16

- Rival the last but was pretty easy but like always, Magnetons give me problems.

- For the first time in quite a while the Elite Four actually was difficult.

Will was pretty easy, but Koga could sometimes poison and just stall until I died. If Bruno survived a Psybeam, he'd just destroy me and Karen did cheap tricks like Sand Attack and Curse. Still, losing again and again got me enough levels to push through.

Lance was as easy as always though. Icy Wind (with NeverMeltIce) was enough to kill 2/3 of his team and Tri Attack killed the other 1/3

- A small sidequest later, I get to Vermillion and just Psybeam Surge to death.
Badges: 9/16

- After that we hop over to Saffron, get Psychic and beat Sabrina.
Badges: 10/16

- And to wrap up this session, we just Icy Wind Erika to death.
Badges: 11/16

- One jaunt down the Rock Tunnel later, we get to Cerulean and Misty is relatively easy.
Badges: 12/16

- While Koga was a bit troublesome, Janine went down easy. A lot of levels and Psychic made sure of that.
Badges: 13/16

- Brock went down to an Icy Wind barrage.
Badges: 14/16

- Some lesser souls might have qualms about beating a homeless' old man last Pokémon. Not I. Blaine was destroyed.
Badges: 15/16


- And it was on the last battle of the run that my lack of Thunderbolt actually bit me in the ass. Without Thunderbolt, Gyarados survives and Pidgeot is a range. And since a lot of Blue's Pokémon actually can outspeed me, things can get complicated.
Luckily the AI goofed on my second attempt and I won.
Badges: 16/16 - Game end.



I thought the lack of the BoltBeam core was going to hurt but it was actually pretty OK? Apparently the 35 extra BP on Ice Beam were just overkill. To be fair, if I ever got truly desperate I could get Thunder pretty easily, if slowly. It just felt like such a waste of time.

So here we go, onwards to Hoenn.

Duck

🦆 quack quack

he, they
Seen February 23rd, 2023
Posted February 22nd, 2023
5,750 posts
2.4 Years
Making a post for Hoenn's first update because Trojan deserves it. The moral of the story here is that if you want to do a Porygon / Porygon2 solo run, go for ORAS and get Download.

Spoiler:

- Started the game with Trojan, the Porygon.

- Like always, Psybeam came in clutch for Gyms 1 and 2.
Badges: 2/8

- I was a bit worried about May, since I gave her Torchic. But it turns out I just speed and OHKO Combusken, so there's that. Let's see if this will happen again with Blaziken.

- When we reach Mauville, we could just say gg. If I'm willing to spend a lot of time playing the roulette, which has almost guaranteed payout in the long run, I could get Thunderbolt, Psychic and Ice Beam. But given Malware's performance back in Johto and the fact we can get pretty much all of these TMs later on, let's see how things go.

- Wattson's Magnemite and Magneton actually needed a little bit of strategy! Having Trojan hold a Cherri berry we can get rid of the first Thunder Wave, and after that we need to use Recover to last in battle.

It still wasn't working - I was resetting so I didn't just keep getting free experience. In the end, it was for naught, I needed to leave and battle the trainers in the cicling road before coming back and having a chance.

It's still not enough. Which means we have to grind it out, and cave in and use items.
This will be the hardest gym in the game, possibly the hardest trainer. While Steel types are a pain, Magnemite and Magneton in particular are even more so and Steven doesn't use them.

Badges: 3/8

- Flannery took two tries but wasn't anything particularly special.
Badges: 4/8

- Remember when I said Wattson was going to be the hardest enemy? I was wrong. You see, the only ability Porygon has in Gen III is Trace. Norman leads with Slaking.

But wait, it gets worse. After Porygon kills the first Slaking, Norman sends the second. Thing is, Porygon is loafing around that turn since it just attacked. His Slaking, is not.

Which means Porygon needs to take an uncontested Focus Punch to the face.

After some calcing it turns out I need to use Sharpen to get Porygon to Att+6, while wearing the Silk Scarf to both survive a Focus Punch from full and be able to OHKO Slaking, since we can't PP Stall for 20 turns. All of that using items.

And as it turns out, Vigoroth was speed tied to my Porygon so an extra item was needed.

Conclusion: Slaking without Truant is already bad, Slaking with Truant on your Truant turn is even worse.

I sincerely doubt Steven will be worse than this. On the good side, we get Surf, which means Ice Beam!
Badges: 5/8

Trojan the naive Porygon, Lvl. 46
- Tri-Attack
- Sharpen
- Recover
- Psybeam


Edit: Hoenn finale.
Spoiler:

- After collecting Ice Beam and Thunderbolt things proceed at a very fast pace. I did forget Psybeam so I was slightly afraid of May but it turns out Ice Beam could OHKO Combusken so, welp. Winona was destroyed.
Badges: 6/8

- I used a Magikarp to battle Tate and Liza, it was pretty easy. The Pokemon were 2HKO each.
Badges: 7/8

- Kyogre was a 2HKO, lol. Wasted his one turn using Calm Mind.

- Wallace wasn't very problematic given Thunderbolt. Now to the Victory Road and getting our hands on Psychic.
Badges: 8/8

- Victory Road was only notable in that I ran out of PP, and needed to use an Elixer :c

- Sidney was pretty easy to get past. Phoebe was a bit annoying because of Pressure, but thankfully I had a handful of Leppa berries. Glacia's only issue was that I needed to stall things so she didn't send Walrein when Hail was out. Drake was pretty straightforward, lots of Ice quadweaknesses there.

- Steven was complicated. I was forced to use items, I also made a couple of misplays but in the end, I had a bit of luck by my side and managed to win by the skin of my teeth.

Trojan the naive Porygon, Lvl. 66
- Psychic
- Ice Beam
- Thunderbolt
- Recover


Janp

Age 26
They/Them
Czech Republic
Seen 12 Hours Ago
Posted 1 Day Ago
5,328 posts
10.1 Years
I kinda forgot about signing-up and updating one solo run I did back in August. After I finish my Professor Oak Challenge in Fire Red, Mew was the only Kanto Pokémon I've never used in any challenge, so I decided to do a quick Mew solo run.

Username: Janp
Partner Pokemon: Mew
Challenge: Single
Game(s): Fire Red

And I finished it in about 2 days, since there was nothing that could stop Mew. Well, Brock did try, but in the end, the mythical powers were too much for him to handle. I experimented with few movesets and in the end settled with Psychic, Shadow Ball, Ice Beam (for Lance) and Calm Mind. E4 fights were all about setting it up and sweeping the floor with anything they could sent against me.

Here's Hall of Fame:


Also look at my good boy:
God of Conquest
Seen January 25th, 2023
Posted November 2nd, 2022
57 posts
4.8 Years
So I have a question. I have two runs that are completed, but I never signed up for. Is it possible to count those as completions for the sake of completion?
Current Challenges:

Monotype
Normal - Fire Red, Heart Gold, Emerald, Platinum, Black, X, Moo

Lottery
Emerald

Random
Platinum

Monocolor
Red - Firered, Gold, Emerald, Platinum, Black, X, Ultra Moon, Shield

Randomized Nuzlocke
Platinum

Janp

Age 26
They/Them
Czech Republic
Seen 12 Hours Ago
Posted 1 Day Ago
5,328 posts
10.1 Years
So I have a question. I have two runs that are completed, but I never signed up for. Is it possible to count those as completions for the sake of completion?
I think so. If you look at my post above, you can see that I've done exactly that.
God of Conquest
Seen January 25th, 2023
Posted November 2nd, 2022
57 posts
4.8 Years
Yea, kind of figured. I was doing things like asking people on my discord for challenges, and they were telling me what to play. I guess I'll write it down and see what anyone says.

Pluckles
Game: Gold
Pokemon: Pichu


Pluckles
Game: Brilliant Pearl
Pokemon: Wooper
Current Challenges:

Monotype
Normal - Fire Red, Heart Gold, Emerald, Platinum, Black, X, Moo

Lottery
Emerald

Random
Platinum

Monocolor
Red - Firered, Gold, Emerald, Platinum, Black, X, Ultra Moon, Shield

Randomized Nuzlocke
Platinum
Age 22
He/Him
Australia
Seen 4 Days Ago
Posted 5 Days Ago
94 posts
1 Years
Username: Panda280
Partner Pokemon: Swampert
Challenge: Single
Game(s): Emerald
Previous Progress: No

I know it's an easy solo challenge, but I love Swampert! Beware of Steven's Cradilly and that female trainer at the bottom of mt chimney. I missed rock tomb. That shroomish leech seeded me, and since it took two attack to faint it, I had to to rely on dire hit to make sure I didn't lose the battle.

Swampert in Sapphire
https://imgur.com/52zEJdJ
My image didn't come up.


Muddy, Torrent, Calm, lv. 61 @Mystic Water
-Surf
-Earthquake
-Ice Beam
-Rock Tomb

BlissyMKW

Rawr

Age 28
The Shadow Realm
Seen 3 Days Ago
Posted 4 Weeks Ago
1,151 posts
12.7 Years
On today's episode of "I love doing runs with mons that get no moves..."

Username: BlissyMKW
Partner Pokemon: Dunsparce
Challenge: Single
Game(s): Gold

Starting with only Rage as an offensive move was a double edged sword because if you got careless, you'd run out of PP, which did happen to me. Once I beat Falkner, Mud-Slap became an addition to the set for a while, but I had already planned on using Dig long term. Miltank almost ripped pour Dunsparce to shreds and I lost to the Elite Four once because Karen's Gengar used Curse, then Destiny Bond on my Dig and killed my Dunspace. With an X Speed, I could outspeed the Gengar, but I also ended up deleting Screech for Thief.

I also had an encounter with a shiny Nidoran F...but because I was abusing the speedup button, I didn't realize it until after I ran from it and encountered a regular one.

Overall, Dunsparce was, as expected, pretty awful. He struggled to kill certain things like during Blue and Red and the lack of moves means Glare + Headbutt was the best strategy I had, alongside some X Item use to make up for poor stats.


Segments (Dunsparce) Lv. 80 @ Leftovers
Moves: Headbutt, Dig, Glare, Thief

Magcargo might be the next one on the list. Another slow mon with poor stats, but unlike Dunsparce, gets completely owned by Misty and Ground types.

EDIT: I did Magcargo. It wasn't fun, and I actually did have to rely on X Items and Sunny Day to get past Water types in the lategame. I also had to make use of Amnesia. It is pretty nice that Magcargo learns Flamethrower by level up, which did help quite a bit.


Escargoon (Magcargo) Lv. 81 @ Quick Claw
Moves: Sunny Day, Flamethrower, Rock Slide, Amnesia