Challenge The Monotype Challenge Returns Page 8

Started by KingSwing August 14th, 2018 10:24 PM
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Posted April 21st, 2019
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4.2 Years
Pokemon Blue Ground Monotype Day 3- Badges 6-End. Challenge Complete!

After getting my fifth badge and last team member, I went off to the Power Plant for some grinding and cleared the place easily, as expected. Then I made my way to Saffron and challenged the Fighting Dojo. I decided to be friendly and left without taking my prize pokemon. I quickly liberated Silph Co., nobody putting up much of a fight at this point.

Saffron Gym was my next target. I was worried, thinking Sabrina was going to be a challenge. The fight was a little difficult, but I made it through without any casualties.

With my sixth badge, I decided to skip Seafoam Island all together and flew to Pallet Town instead. I surfed down to Cinnabar Island and wasted no time in getting access to the Gym and challenging Blaine. His fire was no match for my ground element. This was probably the second easiest gym after Surge.

With the seventh badge in hand, I flew straight for Viridian and my final showdown with Giovanni. While going through his gym, Stonehorse evolved into Rhydon, the final evolution for my team. Giovanni put up more of a challenge than past interactions, but I prevailed in the end.

I decided to try and finish off the challenge that same day. Making my way through Victory Road, I reached the Pokemon League pretty fast. I was under-leveled, but decided to see how much of a fight I could put up.

Lorelai was the first and hardest member, expectedly with her water typing. I was able to pull through with only a few KOs. After healing up, I took on Bruno, who was a lot easier. Took him down with Surf and Dig. Agatha was even easier, Dig making easy work of everything but Golbat, who I Ice Beamed to death.

I figured Lance would be the real test. I was disappointed. Thunderbolt crit 1 hit Gyrados. One Dragonair froze with the first Ice Beam, so he went down easy. The second Only used Agility, so Ice Beam won again. Stonehorse surfed Aerodactyl down while resisting most of his attacks. Then came the mighty Dragonite. Who...only used Agility? the whole time while I ice Beamed him to death in three hits...

Then it was time for the final battle, my rival A! Thunderbolt took care of Pidgeot and Gyarados. Surf took down Rhydon and Ice Beam for Exeguttor. Surf made quick work of Charizard. I was most worried about Alakazam as I had no type advantage. All I'll say is Dig is a great move, especially when it crits.

After the final battle, the team was:

"Boy" Nidoking lvl. 52
"Girl" Nidoqueen lvl. 48
"Whack-A" Dugtrio lvl. 45
"Bonesaw" Marrowak lvl. 43
"Sandy" Sandslash lvl. 45
"Stonehorse" Rhydon lvl. 44

Overall, I didn't realize how fast Dugtrio was, that SLash always crits, that Ground/Rock typing is awesome, and that I would barely use Marrowak.

On to the next challenge! I was planning to do Heart Gold next, but can't find my cart, so will start Platinum instead.

Pics: https://imgur.com/a/50WIAM0
Current challenge(s):

Challenge type: Ultimate
Pokémon type: Ghost
Game(s): Blue, Heart Gold, Omega Ruby, Platinum, White 2, Y, Moon
Current progress: Blue 0/8, Heart Gold 0/16, Omega Ruby 0/8, Platinum 0/8, White 2 0/8, Y 8/8, Moon 0/8

Completed Challenges:

Ground Monotype: Blue 8/8, Platinum 8/8
Seen March 7th, 2023
Posted July 5th, 2022
65 posts
9.3 Years
Pokémon Platinum Dragon Monotype Ultimate Challenge

My progress:
Spoiler:

- Entered Wayward Cave in order to get TM26 Earthquake, which was taught to Diablos.
- Headed westward from Oreburgh City towards Hearthome City.
- Entered the Super Contest Hall where I talked with mother.
- Challenged the gym.
- Beat Fantina and got the Relic Badge.
- Faced of against my rival.
- Headed to Solaceon Town.
- Trekked through Solaceon Ruins and found HM05 Defog.
- Continued on towards Veilstone City.
- Entered the gym.
- Faced of against Maylene. The fight was pretty easy since none of her pokémon liked Earthquake very much.
- Beat Maylene and got the Cobble Badge.
- Faced off against Team Galactic and got HM02 Fly.

Next I'll be heading towards Pastoria City for my fifth badge. After that I'll finally be able to get my second party member.


Current team:
Spoiler:


Diablos the Jolly Gabite Lv. 41 @Amulet Coin
Sand Veil
- Dragon Claw
- Earthquake
- Return
- Rock Tomb

HM slaves:

Turtwig

Starly
Current challenge(s):

Challenge type: Ultimate
Pokémon type: Dragon
Game(s): Fire Red, Soul Silver, Alpha Sapphire, Platinum, White, Y, Ultra Moon
Current progress: Fire Red 8/8, Soul Silver 16/16, Alpha Sapphire 7/8, Platinum 8/8, White 8/8, Y 8/8, Ultra Moon 0/4
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Australia
Seen November 16th, 2020
Posted March 23rd, 2019
81 posts
12.4 Years
PLG-E Poison Monotype

Had an impromptu catching session get up to 39 Diglett before calling it quits. Was struggling a bit with opponents (having to heal after nearly every battle), so got my main battlers up to scratch.

Cleared the St Anne, defeated Surge (evolved Rex into Nidoking and taught him Dig - easy as anything). Then had my catching session, which also helped to evolve some of the other Pokemon sitting in my box - Pokedex up to a nice, even 50. Saved just before Rock tunnel after Venonat evolved into Venomoth. Still gotta nickname that. Also, the game designers definitely accidentally switched Butterfree and Venomoth's designs way back. Makes way more sense for it to go Caterpie > Metapod > Venomoth and Venonat > Butterfree purely on artwork. Never used Venomoth before, but it's just so obvious!

Rex the Nidoking, L30
Dig/Double Kick/Toxic/Thrash

Manuka the Beedrill, L30
Pin Missile/Poison Jab/Rage/Headbutt

Venomoth L31
Psybeam/Leech Life/Gust/Sleep Powder

Keeping Persian in my party to ride around very fast. NOTE - only the above Pokemon are used in battles!
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alisaie

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Seen March 14th, 2023
Posted February 3rd, 2022
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14.8 Years
Water Monotype Challenge - Third Update
Black | Marko



Oof it's been a little while huh. Honestly between the fifth and seventh badges is my least favorite part of the game (other than Skyla) because I don't like the caves you have to go through during this part haha. But anyways I managed to make my way through Chargestone Cave, beat N, and then make it to Mistralton City. But of course I can't face Skyla yet because I have to go and fetch her from the top of that tower first. So up we go to do just that and then down we go so we can go and face here. Really, nothing of interest happened here. Also can't remember anything spectacular happening during the gym battle either. I think Cereal took mostly everything down with AncientPower with possible help from another Pokemon.

So Skyla is beaten and Jet Badge get! Things little slightly more interesting from here on because we started to head towards Twist Mountain and there was Cheren waiting for us to battle? Once we defeated Cheren Alder came out of nowhere and gave us the HM I have been waiting for: Surf. With Surf I was able to go back and fetch the last member of my team. But not before catching a fly slave because I didn't want to teach Oatmeal fly. Oh also around this time was when I finally decide to evolve Poptart into Simipour!

Said Fly slave was caught and we went to the Route 17 in order to catch our final member Waffles the Frillish! With our team complete I stuck the Lucky Egg on Waffles and battles all the trainers I could to level him and then flew back to Twist Mountain to make our way through. Waffles was in the lead for most of the Mountain too, and thanks to the luck egg by the time we got to the other side Waffles had evolved into a Jellicent!

The moment we got to Icirrus City we went to go and fight Brycen. Honestly this was the easiest battle so far as all it took was a Shell Smash and Cereal swept his whole team with AncientPower. Cereal is quickly becoming my MVP if not the very least my favorite but we'll see by the end of this run! After a quick heal we're going to be on our way to Dragonspiral Tower as we've been summoned there by Team Plasma. So see you guys next time!


Pancake (Samurott) ♂
Relaxed | Torrent | Level 41 @ Mystic Water
Revenge, Razor Shell, X-Scissor, Slash


Donut (Seismitoad) ♀
Serious | Poison Touch | Level 41 @ Amulet Coin
Grass Knot, Mud Shot, Acid, Surf


Poptart (Simipour) ♀
Hasty | Gluttony | Level 41
Acrobatics, Shadow Claw, Scald, Work Up


Cereal (Carracosta) ♀
Hardy | Solid Rock | Level 42
Shell Smash, AncientPower, Crunch, Waterfall


Oatmeal (Swanna) ♀
Hardy | Big Pecks | Level 40
Air Slash, Rain Dance, Surf, Roost


Waffles (Jellicent) ♂
Serious | Water Absorb | Level 40
Toxic, Recover, Surf, Ominous Wind

HM Slaves

Newfi Cheese

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Posted September 29th, 2019
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6.1 Years
Moon Monosteel Finale

This, this is where the game truly began. Hapu is a brutal fight, as I have almost no super effective moves, and Axel is forced to carry. Kommo-o is a joke, Klefki makes sure of it. Oh, I nearly forgot about Lusamine! For good reason, she doesn’t have too many bit threats, but her Bewear takes forever to kill. Hau was a fun, but difficult battle, showing me that my team desperately needed some training. After getting everyone to around level 56, I entered the League

Hala was easy as hell, nothing to note here. Same with Olivia. Acerola is when things started heading south. Palossand nearly swept my team, and I had to fight tooth and nail without Klefki. Flying lady was easy (I don't remember her name) Bastiodon tanked Bone Rush from Mandibuzz, and Magnezone swept the rest. Kukui was easier than expected Meteor Mash does a lot of damage! And now for X and Y.... I'm really not excited for the start of this one, you'll see why...
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Posted April 19th, 2019
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4.3 Years
Pokemon Sun: Mono Dragon Challenge

Overview

You know the drill. Only Dragon-type Pokemon. I chose Gen 7 for this challenge because you can actually get a full team of 6 different fully evolved Pokemon here. In fact, there are eight options on Pokemon Sun (Drampa is Moon exclusive): Salamence, Goodra, Turtonator, Flygon, Garchomp, Alolan Exeggutor, Kommo-o, and Dragonite. The first Pokemon I can obtain is Bagon on Route 3, which is after the first Trial but before the first Grand Trial – so speaking in normal Pokemon game terms, just after the first badge. Until then, I am allowed to use my starter. I chose Litten because it’s a Fire type and it’s slightly more Dragon-ish than Rowlet or Popplio.

Anyway, this challenge was a LOT harder than I anticipated. Well, the first half of the game anyway. There was a single Pokemon that cut the game in half, challenge-wise. But I’m not going to spoil anything yet.

I had underestimated how hard everything hits from the get-go in Gen 7, being used to a bunch of Tackles and Scratches in Gen 3 and 4, and to a lesser extent Gen 5, the games I usually run. I also had in mind that Gen 7 was super easy, which it really isn’t – only Gen 6 is so obscenely easy, they did a lot to balance things out in Gen 7, even with the Exp Share. I guess I hadn’t remembered that – this is only my second playthrough of the game ever.

Of course, Gen 7 does have other problems. I’ve seen the phrase ‘hand-holding’ on this forum at least a dozen times, but I wouldn’t even classify the ridiculousness in this game as ‘hand-holding’, it’s more like handcuffing. You can’t EVER explore the game on your own, and it’s infuriating to play a game that just feels like one big tutorial at times. Interestingly, this actually makes Monotype challenges harder. Normally, you would go out of your way to obtain the Pokemon you need as early as possible. In Alola, that’s impossible, because the game forces you to beat trial after trial before you can even explore the entire island, or catch Pokemon in certain areas.

Despite this one huge flaw in these games, I still had a ton of fun in this playthrough, both with the very tough early game and the pretty easy end game where I had an awesome team to work with.

Gameplay

After choosing Litten, I went through the early game tutorial battles. I soon learned that Sun and Moon really punish you for having only one Pokemon in your team, especially if you play with Exp Share on. Your opponents get pretty strong quickly, and I started losing battles as early as the Trainer School, before I even started the real challenge. The Smeargle guy also took me a couple of tries. The first Trial, however, went in my favor quickly as Litten had just evolved and learned Fire Fang, which made a lot of difference.

I progressed through Route 2 and moved on to Route 3, avoiding as many trainers as possible since I had to box Litten soon. Then the first big grind of the game started as I looked for Bagon. 1% encounter rate, that’s 100 encounters on average – but if you’re unlucky, it can take several hundreds. Thankfully, I found one after 106 encounters, which still took forever but is not nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

What is pretty bad is how weak Bagon is. It has a solid level-up movepool, but its stats are mediocre at best, and it doesn’t evolve until level 30. That means I had to clear the Water, Fire and Grass trials all with a single underevolved Pokemon. Or at least I thought that would be the case. One thing that really helped me is the fact that I somehow managed to find a second Bagon when I wasn’t even looking for one. Apparently, it can also be found near the waterside on the first island. I didn’t check if it’s also a 1% encounter rate there, but I’d think that it is, in which case I got pretty lucky. Since I had already discovered that this game is no joke challenge-wise, I decided to leave the Exp Share turned on, which helped the weaker of the two Bagon to keep up.

With my team of two Bagon, I still got destroyed whenever I tried a Trial without a ton of Potions and X items. In fact, I didn’t beat even one Trial first try on the second island. I can’t remember blacking out this often in a Pokemon game, like, ever. The hardest part wasn’t any Trial, though – it came right after finally beating Totem Lurantis.

I was stoked to finally add something to my team that wasn’t Bagon, since I knew Goomy could be found in Lush Jungle. It could only be found when called in a SOS battle, with a 10% spawn chance, but only if it’s raining. I figured that would still be better than a flat 1% rate, but I was mistaken. The first thing I had to do was sell a lot of good items so I could buy a TM for Rain Dance, which (thank God) Bagon can learn. Then I had to enter a battle in Lush Jungle, use Rain Dance, wait for the wild Pokemon (anything works) to call a Goomy, and capture it. Easy enough in theory, pretty terrible in practice. Most Pokemon refuse to call for any help, and if they do, half of the time nothing even appears. What’s worse, most Pokemon have the infuriating tendency to call for help right after the Rain stops falling. I found that Metapod (10% encounter rate) is the best Pokemon to try this against, since it can’t kill Bagon at least. However, I witnessed not one, not two, but three Metapod Struggle themselves to death before I ever managed to capture a Goomy.

It took me at least four hours to obtain a Goomy. Then I found out the next problem – Goomy has worse stats AND a worse movepool than Bagon, AND it doesn’t evolve for the first time until level 40. Yeah, I spent four hours hunting for a Pokemon that’s almost dead weight for about two-thirds of the game. I have never been this happy with the new Exp Share.

When I reached the third island, my stronger Bagon had evolved into Shelgon, which made things slightly better but still pretty difficult. I went to the observatory, actually beat the Steelium Z guy first try somehow, but then sadly got destroyed again versus Totem Vikavolt. After some more careful X Item calibration, I managed to beat it. Something similar happened with Guzma. After beating him, I finally gained access to Blush Mountain.

That’s where the game changed radically. Blush Mountain has Turtonator. I cannot stress how ridiculously awesome Turtonator is. It provided me with a solid, fully evolved Pokemon at a time where I was struggling in every battle with my underevolved stuff. Furthermore, it even helped me as the middle game slowly turned into the end game, as it learns the amazing Shell Smash at level 37. Shell Smash swept so many opponents that are difficult on paper that it’s almost not funny anymore. After losing about 20 battles until I found Turtonator, I did not lose even a single battle afterwards.

Pretty soon after finding Turtonator, I also had access to the desert, where I could find both Gabite and Trapinch. Gabite, however, had the same method of encountering as Goomy. The only difference is that I didn’t need to set Sandstorm manually, since it’s always sandy at night in the desert. All in all, though, it only took me about 20 minutes to… get sufficiently pissed off to settle for Trapinch (10% in the dark sand). Yeah, Goomy gave me nightmares.

Trapinch evolved quickly enough, before I even reached Po Town. I got Goomy to evolve into Sliggoo just after the battles in Po Town, which was right in time for the Aether Foundation (Eviolite helped it survive some attacks here and there). Whenever battles got too rough, I could always count on my MVP, sweet sweet Turtonator. Man that thing is a beast.

After clearing the Aether Foundation, which was pretty doable with my half-decent squad of Shelgon (x2), Sliggoo, Vibrava and Turtonator, I could finally go to Poni Island to complete my team. I captured the level 40 Exeggutor that harasses Lillie, but I found a level 43 Exeggcute soon after, so I replaced it and evolved it with a Leaf Stone. Exeggutor was sadly rather underwhelming – it’s defenses weren’t that great and its Speed was pretty terrible. The final team member would be Jangmo-o. I found one at level 44 pretty soon, which was rather lucky – its 5% encounter rate was better than Bagon, but worse than Turtonator. It put in some work even while underevolved, so much so that I decided to postpone evolution to milk the boosted Experience for a bit longer. I evolved it into Kommo-o just before the final Trial – Kommo-o versus Kommo-o!

It was on Poni Island that my team quickly transformed from pretty decent into absolutely bonkers. In a timeframe of less than two hours, Vibrava, Jangmo-o and finally Shelgon evolved into their final forms, and I was suddenly the captain of an amazing squad of blood-thirsty Dragons. Only Sliggoo didn’t evolve – apparently, Rain Dance doesn’t work if you want to evolve it, it needs actual natural Rain to evolve. Yeah, the bastard really made this run so much harder at every turn.

After DESTROYING Lusamine with my Dragons (man that felt so good) and capturing Solgaleo (I felt bad sending it to the Box after Lillie’s speech, but rules are rules), I made a quick detour to the rainy Exeggutor Island. In the pouring rain, Sliggoo finally decided it was time to stop bugging me and evolved into Goodra.

I didn’t even bother looking up where to find Dratini. My team was awesome and finally complete. Nobody could stop me.

The League was pretty anticlimactic. My team was strong enough that I won every battle without even needing to heal during battles. The only Pokemon I struggled with were Kukui’s Primarina and, weirdly, the Fighting guy’s Primeape, who was surprisingly quick and killed half of my team with Outrage. Otherwise it was smooth sailing. Normally I would have found an easy end game boring, but there was something deeply satisfying about it this time around. I struggled with the early game so much, with the weak Bagon and Goomy, and now they were part of this amazing unstoppable Dragon squad. I’m Draco, and I’m the Champion of Alola!

Final team

Turtonator lv 57 (Shell Smash, Flamethrower, Dragon Pulse, Flash Cannon)
Flygon lv 56 (Earthquake, Stone Edge, Dragon Claw, Feint)
Goodra lv 55 (Rain Dance, Aqua Tail, Ice Beam, Sludge Bomb)
Salamence lv 55 (Fly, Dragon Claw, Flamethrower, Crunch)
Kommo-o lv 54 (Poison Jab, Sky Uppercut, Clanging Scales, X-Scissor)
(Alolan) Exeggutor lv 54 (Grass Knot, Dragon Hammer, Psychic, Leaf Storm)

Order of usefulness:

1. Turtonator. By a landslide. It’s the earliest fully evolved Pokemon you can get, it provides amazing coverage on the defensive side, it has good Defense, and it learns Shell Smash. Very impressive.
2. Salamence. Yeah, despite the awful early game. Bagon was there from the start, and once it evolved into Shelgon it was a decent Pokemon to fall back on. It took a while to fully evolve, but once it did, it had the highest Attack stat in my team, which is pretty awesome.
3. Kommo-o. It was surprisingly decent from the get-go, and its only real downside is how late in the game you can get it.
4. Flygon. Its main selling point is Earthquake, but Vibrava really is a lot weaker than Hakamo-o and Shelgon, so it needs to be fully evolved in order to fully function.
5. Goodra. It was a nightmare to catch and a pain in the butt to evolve, but it has amazing stats, especially Special Defense. In the League it was a pretty awesome tank, somewhat redeeming its awful middle game.
6. Exeggutor. It was always mediocre. Its comes late enough that its Defenses don’t cut it, and its Speed is abysmal. It provides some useful type coverage in theory, but more often than not it doesn’t get to actually use its moves.
Seen September 29th, 2020
Posted October 7th, 2019
9 posts
5.5 Years
Ruby Fighting Monotype Update 1
3/8

Progress:
Spoiler:
Started out in a truck, fixed a broken clock that I was told had ran dry. Made good friends with my neighbour then saved her dad from a wild doggo. Chose Torchic as my Starter for some pretty obvious reasons and named her "Cardi". Then ran all pretty far and challenged my neighbour rival May to a battle and wiped her pokemon with ease and a potion. Then after returning to my home, I headed out on my Pokemon adventure. After battling some Trainers I entered Petalburg and helped my new friend Wally catch his first pokemon. I then entered the Petalburg Woods and immediately caught my second pokemon, a Shroomish named "Rico". Fought and killed some guy and his doggo. Left the Woods and entered Rustboro City. After beating two of her underlings, I challenged Roxanne my first gym leader. Sadly she didn't come prepared for Rico's nasty bullet seed which wiped the floor of her Geodude and Nosepass. After defeating her and saving a bird and killing my third doggo this game I rode on a boat to Dewford town and entered a dark cave. There I caught my third member, a Makuhita named "Maxo". I ran through the dark and delivered a letter. Now it was time to challenge my second gym leader, Brawly. To his misfortune, Cardi had just evolved and learnt to peck (even though she had already had a beak for 16 levels). Peck was unstoppable and killed both his Machop and Makuhita. I then road my boat towards Slateport and arrived on a lovely beach. After cleaning up the beach from terrible trainers, I delieved some parts to an engineer and fought more weird guys in red. Heading north I bumped into my neighbour/rival/friend May who sadly thought a water/ground pokemon would be useful in a game with grass pokemon. After May was shown her place I ran north and found my other Rival, Wally. Seriously Wally was a terrible character in this game. Ralts wasn't/isn't good so I won clearly. After Wally I entered the gym where Rico hit level 23 and evolved into Breloom. Facing Watson was pretty easy, Magnemite only took 2 Mach Punchs, Voltorb almost took down Cardi with a crit Charge that paralyzed her. Switching to Maxo was a mistake as Voltorb crit again and 1 shot him. Rico finished Voltorb with a Mach Punch. Magneton went down easily with only 2 more Mach Punchs. The end of the first part of my journey.


Current Team:
Spoiler:
Cardi - Combusken
Level 20 - Hardy
Scratch
Double Kick
Peck
Ember

Rico - Breloom
Level 24 - Rash
Mega Drain
Leech Seed
Headbutt
Mach Punch

Maxo - Makuhita
Level 19 - Quiet
Fake Out
Vital Throw
Sand-Attack
Arm Thrust

Newfi Cheese

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Seen October 26th, 2019
Posted September 29th, 2019
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6.1 Years
Y Monosteel Run Part 1

I was very worried about the start of this match since I thought that the only steel type I could get till Glittering Cave was going to be Burmy, which would have been just brutal. But 2 things made this not actually that bad. 1. You can actually nab a Riolu on Route 23, thank goodness, and 2. These games are easy. Like, really easy. Seriously, my pokemon are so overleveled it's absurd. Anyway, back to the game. Picking Bubbles the Froakie, I zoom to Route 23, completely ignoring poor Burmy, and picking up Goku the Riolu. After a bit of training, I fought through Viola, and headed through to Parfum Palace. You can actually grab a Honedge, so I caught Sephiroth the Honedge, and Goku evolved into Lucario! I tore through to Glittering Cave, where I can catch 2 new pokemon, but holy crap, these things took a long long time to catch, but I picked up Stabitha the Ferroseed and Clair the Mawile. These guys took a good bit to train up, but since I was using Exp Share (maybe a mistake) Goku ended up at level 31 and Sephiroth was level 30. I hadn't even challenged the second gym! I do manage to crush poor Grant, and I'm off to Geosenge city! I expect this game to be easy, but we'll see!

Daysonyx

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Seen November 17th, 2020
Posted April 2nd, 2019
27 posts
5.9 Years
So I know in the original post, that ROM hacks can't be considered for Ultimate challenges, but i wanted to know if an exception could be made for challenge/all mon hacks, since they naturally make the game harder (and the point of the monotype challenge (as I understand it, at least) is to make the game more challenging by limiting options, so a more difficult hack would naturally compliment that increased challenge. I ask because i want to attempt a few ultimate challenges, and would really prefer to play them using drayano60's rom hacks for platinum, HG/SS, and B2/W2 for the respective generations. In exchange to having access to more pokemon than in the base versions of the games in those hacks, i'd personally limit myself to pokemon introduced in that generation. For instance, in gen 2 i couldn't use any dark types (in a dark ultimate) from gens 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7.
((that rule only applying for the rom hacks))
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alisaie

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Seen March 14th, 2023
Posted February 3rd, 2022
13,598 posts
14.8 Years
So I know in the original post, that ROM hacks can't be considered for Ultimate challenges, but i wanted to know if an exception could be made for challenge/all mon hacks, since they naturally make the game harder (and the point of the monotype challenge (as I understand it, at least) is to make the game more challenging by limiting options, so a more difficult hack would naturally compliment that increased challenge. I ask because i want to attempt a few ultimate challenges, and would really prefer to play them using drayano60's rom hacks for platinum, HG/SS, and B2/W2 for the respective generations. In exchange to having access to more pokemon than in the base versions of the games in those hacks, i'd personally limit myself to pokemon introduced in that generation. For instance, in gen 2 i couldn't use any dark types (in a dark ultimate) from gens 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7.
((that rule only applying for the rom hacks))
I believe if it's just a hack of the region with just an update pokedex, increased difficulty, etc, then it's allowed. ddrox (spirit shackle) recently finished an ice monorun on renegade platinum and i've seen monoruns done on hacks like volt white. so if it's like those hacks you should be fine with playing them on those!

Daysonyx

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Seen November 17th, 2020
Posted April 2nd, 2019
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5.9 Years
I believe if it's just a hack of the region with just an update pokedex, increased difficulty, etc, then it's allowed. ddrox (spirit shackle) recently finished an ice monorun on renegade platinum and i've seen monoruns done on hacks like volt white. so if it's like those hacks you should be fine with playing them on those!
But aren't rom hacks banned from being used in ultimate challenges? That's why im asking lol ((cause i thought they were, but i may have misread/misundersttod))
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Posted June 20th, 2019
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10.3 Years
But aren't rom hacks banned from being used in ultimate challenges? That's why im asking lol ((cause i thought they were, but i may have misread/misundersttod))
The thread host hasn't been on for a while from reading through, but I think we've fan ruled it as allowed.
ONGOING CHALLENGES
RANDOM POKEMON CHALLENGE-Omega Ruby-4/8
MEGA MONOTYPE- Type 1: Bug 1: Fire Red- 8/8
BINGO Challenge-0/28 Challenges


COMPLETED CHALLENGES
RANDOM POKEMON CHALLENGE-Lets Go Eevee/UltraMoon

Daysonyx

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Seen November 17th, 2020
Posted April 2nd, 2019
27 posts
5.9 Years
oh, okay! tysm for the response(s)!

Uh gonna submit my challenge form now, then:

Name: Daysonyx
Game(s): Sacred Gold, Emerald, Renegade Platinum, Volt White, Wilting Y, Ultra Sun
Type: Dark
Challenge: Ultimate

My next post will be the mons i plan to use in sacred gold.
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Daysonyx

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Seen November 17th, 2020
Posted April 2nd, 2019
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discussion of planned team:

Spoiler:

So, I'm limiting myself to only using dark type pokemon that were available in the G/S/C in SG because it provides a higher element of challenge, since sneasel can't evolve into weavile, and because it retains a bit of the feel or fantasy of the general challenge. There were 5 dark type pokemon in G/S/C so they will be the members of my team. Those five are:






Larvitar, Eevee, and Houndour are available pretty early on in Sacred Gold (bless be to Drayano).
Houndour and Houndoom have a few level-up moveset changes (and houndoom has intimidate as an ability), Umbreon has a revamped move set and magic guard, Sneasel has better level up moves, and access to technician, Larvitar's evolution line have battle armor as an ability, and murkrow has two new attacks in the level up movepool (beat up and brave bird).

I'm choosing not to evolve Murkrow or Sneasel because there evolutions were not available in gen 2, and i think having them as NFE's will make up for the easier time acquiring the entire team as opposed to if I'd done the challenge in HG or the original G/S.

(also this way i can use Honchkrow, a pokemon i've never used before, and Weavile, on of my favorite pokemon ever when I do Renegade Platinum for gen 4 :D)

Will edit this post with updates as they arrive! I'm planning on doing updates in sets of 3 badges, to mostly save myself the effort of writing eight separate updates, although if I feel like too much happened in that time i'll just make more updates.

I'll also be going for the optional ending to these games, so this will also include Kanto, Red and the re-matched Elite Four, whenever i get to them



First Part:

Spoiler:


I'm going to be going for a music theme'd naming scheme here for my characters and pokemon, So I of course named the player character Abba.

Chose Cyndaquil as my starter so that the rival had Totodile, since a water type will be the hardest thing for the team to deal with overall, given my first three pokemon will be Larvitar, Umbreon, and Houndour.

Got Eevee from a certain someone outside Mr. Pokemon's house (look at me trying to not spoil things for people who haven't played this game lmao). I immediately boxed Cyndaquil, and grinded some levels for Eevee. Got the egg from Mr. Pokemon, and named the rival Beatle (no real reason beyond I felt like it). Caught Houndour from route 46, and Larvitar from Dark Cave. Named Houndour 'DancingQn' (damn character limit), and named Larvitar TAChance. Forgot to name Eevee because i'm really smart, so once I find the name rater, I'll rename him.

The bellsprout sage gave me an item that lets me evolve Eevee into Umbreon, so i chose that and immediately evolved Eevee (missed out on pursuit though, because Eevee was too high a level).

Beat Falkner with TAChance putting in the most work. His Chatot in this game has uproar which hits really FREAKING hard this early in this game (it practically one shot TAChance, and Umbreon only took two hits before fainting. DancingQn finished up his farfetch'd by getting a lucky burn on Ember. (was reaaaally lucky with that).

Did the slowpoke well event after going into the forest and catching a Murkrow. Said Murkrow then missed a KO on bugsy's heracross by 1 point, and then i whited out because of that. Not salty at all. Grinded Murkrow a level against wild pokemon, then got to Bugsy's Scyther, and then Murkrow, the legend that he is, got a critical hit. The salt has been washed away.

Did the Murkrow event in the forest, and caught a paras to be an HM slave for awhile. Arrived in goldenrod and after getting the radio card, challenged the Gym. Umbreon Learned tickle right before whitney and that move destroyed miltank (screw that cow!!!). And then miltank crited and steamrolled everyone else on the team :) Whited out two more times to her before finally beating her lmao.

Healed at the pokemon center and saved there.

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alisaie

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But aren't rom hacks banned from being used in ultimate challenges? That's why im asking lol ((cause i thought they were, but i may have misread/misundersttod))
that's the question i was just answering. I've seen them being used in monoruns and I've seen Volt White being used in an Ultimate before. Again you can always double check but again as long as it's the same game like hack ( Renegade Platinum, Volt White, Liquid Crystal i think is one? ) but with extras / full pokedex it should be alright.

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I think as long as the rom hack isn't changing of the fundamental storyline of the game it's fine, the every pokemon catcable hacks and difficulty increased ones are prime examples of this.

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Posted September 29th, 2019
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Y Monosteel part 2

A lot happened, but nothing really exciting. I won't be catching any new Pokemon for a long while, and my team is honestly really solid. Sephiroth evolved into Doublade, and Stabitha evolved into Ferrothorn. Korrina got swept by Sephiroth's Aerial Ace, and he basically couldn't be hit
Serena wants to battle every 30 seconds, but they're all weak to bug so Pin Missile sweeps pretty easily. Ramos, Clemont and Valerie were all jokes, honestly this game is way easier than I remembered, I'm just tearing through it, in ready for a challenge. I don't foresee anything putting up a fight, but we'll see.

Cubeth

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Boy, if I knew this was a thing I would've posted my all type monotype runs of Pokemon Gaia here
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Posted April 21st, 2019
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Platinum Ground Monotype pt.1 : Badges 1-6

For Platinum, I was able to start off with a ground type with Turtwig, eventually at least. Decided to name him Donatello after my favorite ninja turtle. I quickly added Boulder the geodude and Snakey the Onix to my team before the first badge. Donatello evolved during the battle with Roark, which was easy enough.

On the way to Gardenia, I added Sheldon the shellos, and picked up a bidoof for future slavery. The fight against Gardenia was a little tough with the weaknesses, until I realized Donatello had bite, which I used for the whole fight afterwards.

I got into some scuffles with the Rocket clones and met up with Cynthia. I also added Kite the gligar and Chompy the gible to the team and boxed Snakey. Took a while to find Chompy, but it was worth it, especially after I immediately fed him the earthquake TM. By the time I went after the third badge, Chompy and Boulder had also evolved. Once again, Donatello and bite owned the day.

I wasted no time getting to the fourth gym, but took a little detour south to get a razor fang and evolved Kite. The main fight for the fourth badge wasn't too bad, and I got lucky and 1 shot lucario with an earthquake.

Nothing changed team wise for the fifth badge. The move tutor's thunder fang for Kite allowed me to 2 shot gyarados, and razor leaf 1 shot quagsire. Floatzel was dangerous with ice fang, but I pulled through.

After the fifth badge, I grabbed a staravia for defog and fly, since Kite can't learn fly? I was also able to trade evolve Boulder. A quick stop at the Iron Islands added Solidsnake the steelix to the team, finally making it 6. Sheldon also evolved, leaving only Chompy's final evolution to go.

The battle for the sixth badge wasn't bad. Earthquake 1 shot magneton, surf 1 hit steelix, and earthquake 2 shot bastiodan. I did a few more miscellaneous things before deciding to take a little break. Plan to finish off this game in a day or two, and move onto the next.

Some pics: https://imgur.com/a/cVUNULc
Current challenge(s):

Challenge type: Ultimate
Pokémon type: Ghost
Game(s): Blue, Heart Gold, Omega Ruby, Platinum, White 2, Y, Moon
Current progress: Blue 0/8, Heart Gold 0/16, Omega Ruby 0/8, Platinum 0/8, White 2 0/8, Y 8/8, Moon 0/8

Completed Challenges:

Ground Monotype: Blue 8/8, Platinum 8/8

alisaie

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Water Monotype Challenge - First Update
Platinum | Peaches



Okay so I know there's my other two parts of this challenge I still need to finish but I had to start this one when I finally got my Shiny Piplup! I was hunting it even before I decided to do Water Monoruns on everything and since Piplup is water I figured it'd be perfect to use it for the challenge when I finally got it. So that said we begin Platinum! I did get further in Black but I'll be updating that one once I beat Cheren and his damn Serperior oof.

Anyways, we begin the journey with none other than Coba the Shiny Piplup from Professor Rowan! What a beauty he is! After we receive him and beat our rival (who isn't Polo in this run because of starting this file before the monorun but I can't... remember what I named him oops) we went to the lake, and... met this weird guy who was talking about weird things. Rival wanted to catch the legendary Pokemon there but no Pokeballs so to Professor Rowan's lab we went instead.

After all that initial stuff and telling our mother about our journey we set out on our way! During our trek to the first gym we caught Figy the Bidoof! We did a few thing in Jubilife City like meet with Looker and find some clown for our Poketch and then we made our way through Oreburgh! And of course, beating our rival a second time between Jubilife and Oreburgh.

When we got to Oreburgh we had to hunt down the gym so we went to some mines to do so. Once we got him into the gym we instantly went to go and face the gym which was, of course, stupid easy because we just had Coba use Bubble on everything. After beating Roark Coba evolved into a Prinplup! What a good start to this run so far haha.

We're going to train Figy up a bit so he can evolve and then probably by then be able to catch our third member. Then people a lot of grinding because our next gym isn't going to be so easy, being grass at all. We'll find out next time!


Coby (Prinplup) ♂
Lax | Torrent | Level 16
Pound, Metal Claw, Bubble, Peck


Figy (Bidoof) ♂
Bashful | Simple | Level 10
Tackle, Growl, Defense Curl

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starryAstrophysicist

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California
Seen October 22nd, 2020
Posted May 11th, 2019
9 posts
6.7 Years
Forum User Name: starryAstrophysicist
Game(s): FireRed, Silver, Emerald, Platinum, White, X, Moon
Pokémon Type: Electric
Single/Ultimate/Free Mode?: Ultimate

I've done a bunch of these individually but never posted about it in previous iterations of this forum. Hopefully, I can keep a regular update schedule this time.
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Posted April 21st, 2019
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4.2 Years
Platinum Monotype Part 2: Badges 7-Champion

After getting my sixth badge, I headed for Mt. Coronet to go north for the seventh. Inside Coronet, I found my first ever random encounter (no breeding/chaining) shiny in Nosepass. I was worried because I hadn't bought any pokeballs in game yet and wasn't sure what I had. Luckily, I was able to catch him!

I made my way to Snowpoint and quickly went to challenge the gym. The battle wasn't too bad. Rock Smash took care of sneasel and surf Mamoswine. The challenge was Abomasnow who started wrecking me. I was able to whittle away his HP and grabbed the win in the end.

With the path to the final badge blocked, I went off to take care of Team Galactic. I also added Wooly the Swinub to the party, replacing Boulder. I made quick work of the Rocket wannabes, and then climbed through Coronet to the top. I followed Cynthia into a strange portal...I would follow her anywhere...and caught Giratina because why not?

After that little side quest, I was finally able to grab the final badge and clear the way to the League. As you would expect, I wrecked the final gym, 1 hitting everything with earthquake. Luxray was a little dangerous with his various fang attacks, but my team survived them.

After a little swim and mountain climbing, I was ready for the final challenge, the Elite 4. My team was fully evolved and each member at lvl 50. I decided to see if I could triumph without more grinding.

The first member Aaron wasn't too bad, but his Vespiqueen was annoying AF. I couldn't 1 shot it, and then it kept healing itself. Eventually, I took it down, and the rest followed.

Bertha was easy, I pretty much just surfed everything dead.

Flint was even easier, where I earthquaked everything dead.

Lucian was hard. Those psychic's hit hard. I thought I wasn't going to make it a few times, but I pulled through with only a few deaths.

Cynthia was the toughest, but I got lucky a few times. Crunch took care of spiritomb. Next came garchomp. Wooly was able to survive the earthquake attack and responded with avalanche which 1 shot garchomp. Earthquake 2 hit lucario and 1 shot roserade. Milotic was surprisingly difficult. My electric and grass attacks didn't have a chance to go off, as milotic out sped me ice beamed my team dead. Sheldon had to whittle down milotic. Togekiss went down with some ice attacks pretty easily. In the end, I made it through with Chompy alive with only 8 HP!

Final Team:

Chompy the Garchomp lvl 52
Wooly the Mamoswine lvl 50
Sheldon the Gastrodon lvl 51
Donatello the Torterra lvl 50
Kite the Gliscor lvl 50
Solidsnake the Steelix lvl 50

The only one I would replace was Solidsnake, as I didn't really use him too much. I should have kept Boulder and boxed Solidsnake.

2 games down. I think I will start White 2 next.

some pics: https://imgur.com/a/X5BDCxD
Current challenge(s):

Challenge type: Ultimate
Pokémon type: Ghost
Game(s): Blue, Heart Gold, Omega Ruby, Platinum, White 2, Y, Moon
Current progress: Blue 0/8, Heart Gold 0/16, Omega Ruby 0/8, Platinum 0/8, White 2 0/8, Y 8/8, Moon 0/8

Completed Challenges:

Ground Monotype: Blue 8/8, Platinum 8/8

starryAstrophysicist

Gazing up at the sun, moon, and stars

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California
Seen October 22nd, 2020
Posted May 11th, 2019
9 posts
6.7 Years
Ultimate Electric Monotype Challenge - Alola

I took out my Pokemon Moon cartridge to start on this journey through the regions. I met Lillie and received John the Rowlett, who immediately got boxed after catching Noelle the Pichu and Nathaniel the Grubbin on Route 1. Then came the Trainer's School, which I was able to defeat handily, and caught Marielle the Magnemite in the schoolyard. Next, I headed to the Marina and teamed up with Cap. Illima to beat up Team Skull. Grubbin helped me out during Illima's trial with Bug Bite, which was able to defeat the Totem Raticate. While helping out Lillie and Nebby in Melemele Meadow, I caught Chantelle the Oricorio and used her to sweep away with Kahuna Hala's team with Air Cutter. Now, I'm headed to Akala Island, where more adventures await.

Team:
Noelle (Pichu) Lv. 19
  • Thunder Shock
  • Charm
  • Nasty Plot
  • Thunder Wave

Marielle (Magnemite) Lv. 17
  • Tackle
  • Thunder Wave
  • Thunder Shock
  • Magnet Bomb

Nathaniel (Grubbin) Lv. 18
  • Spark
  • Bug Bite
  • Mud-Slap
  • Bite

Chantelle (Oricorio) Lv. 16
  • Pound
  • Growl
  • Peck
  • Air Cutter