[Event] Burning Souls - Halloween Event 2020

[Janp]

Spoiler:

Not a lot of stuff went on inbetween the Fighting and Grass Gym. I used Mega Lucario to my full power. Snorlax finally retired after reaching 35. He was such a powerhouse early on in the game.

I will give my 'bane' when people least expect it >:D or rather when I see something juicy to curse. Also the Forest's Curse I may or may have not broken that rule with seviper during the last segment due to me not knowing it was a continuos effect, but I don't remember using Seviper anything other than maybe if I needed it to take a hit or so in the fighting gym. If you want to give me a penalty for having the seviper during the last segment I would be honored to take it rather than restart the whole challenge due to a misunderstanding on my part.

Lucario swept the whole grass gym while Exeggcute dealt with Azure Bay until his level limit was hit.

Fourth badge aquired! Level Limits reduced by 10 more levels!

Current Team:.

Spoiler:

Eleanor • Blaze Black 2 • Badge #8

This part started off with a bang, as I had to go and catch 3 team members specifically for the fight that comes right after Drayden... the team Plasma sage in Opelucid. Spoiler alert, only two proved useful, whereas the third, that I had so much hopes for, kind of let me down. I eventually was able to progress further than that, though, and reached Humilau without too much trouble. I levelled up some new team members as well and swapped out those who were close to the level cap so... all good, right?
That was until I hit the Gym, which you're supposed to fight as soon as you get there but that, even after all the training, was a literal nightmare to go through! It felt like the game was lagging on purpose right as I was fighting those trainers, too, as they proceeded to knock me out multiple times with all the coverage moves. Guess that's something to be prepared for when you're underleveled...
I came back to fight Marlon only after a bit more training, but... still not as much as you'd think, given the levels. Once again though, difficult but doable. My Pokémon outdid themselves for this one, netting me the last badge and the last rule of the run! Now though... now things get real!

My team right now is...

Spoiler:

TEAM (with caught, current and limited levels):
• Gothitelle, lv. 24 → 55 → 59
• Accelgor, lv. 44 → 56 → 59
• Gardevoir, lv. 45 → 53 → 60
• Pelipper, lv. 50 → 51 → 60
• Tangrowth, lv. 44 → 51 → 59
• Bellossom, lv. 49 → 52 → 64

guitarist al | ruby | badges: 6

🔮20 level limit, 10 level limit after 4 badges
🔮ghosts +5 levels
🔮odds +5, evens -5 (at time of 2nd badge)
🔮-5 unless ghost move (at time of 3rd badge)
🔮-5 if pokemon gets status condition
🔮flying +5 levels
🔮no items in battle except held (personal rule)

SharpLives lv. 31 (max: 35) @ silk scarf
immunity / naughty
slash / quick attack / swords dance / crush claw

IDontLoveU lv. 35 (max: 44) @ mystic water
clear body / modest
surf / bubblebeam / wrap / acid

SING lv. 31 (max: 35) @ amulet coin
cute charm / sassy
strength / disable / rollout / shock wave

Party Psn lv. 31 (max: 36) @ quick claw
levitate / rash
poison gas / sludge / tackle / smokescreen

Skylines lv. 29 (max: 31) @ king's rock
lightningrod / hasty
howl / quick attack / spark / odor sleuth

Demolition lv. 29 (max: 37) @ exp share
pressure / quirky
quick attack / bite / razor wind / swords dance

so not long into this segment, i basically lost my solrock and newly caught manectric. solrock lost 5 levels from paralysis and it was already at 32 and its new max is 33...i just. boxed it at that point. manectric lost 5 from the same thing and went from 36 to 31 when it was at 29. i boxed it while i trecked up route 117 to conserve any level gains for the flying gym bc i knew i'd need it there. over all though, aside from those hang ups, this segment wasn't bad. caught a couple more pokemon and i've got a few more i plan on grabbing at mt. pyre and in the safari zone. can't wait to see what i'm plagued with next lol. once i'm out on the ocean though, i won't have to worry so much about the status thing unless i run into a trainer or w/e. also i'm tired of getting sprites for the boxed mons so i'm just gonna list them now lol

box:
shroomish, zigzagoon, dustox, taillow, makuhita, aron, minun, roselia, azumarill, numel, machamp, solrock, sandshrew, castform

out:
marshtomp
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Well I only had one Pokemon in my team and it wasn't fire, so that's unfortunate.

Gym 7 Defeated

I can't believe I got away with how underleveled my Pokemon were for this fight. The gym had all lvl 64's. I replayed it a bunch and eventually just built up a decent strategy, but ultimately it was Toxic Spikes that won me the fight.

Team:

Spoiler:

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Lvl 42 -> 49
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Lvl 43 -> 50
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Lvl 44 -> 51
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Lvl 47 -> 52
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Ruleset Update!

💀 Yuna / Badge 4:
Skinny demons - You can only use Pokémon that weigh less than 60.0 kg (132.3 lbs.) for this segment.

💀 Eleanor / Badge 8:
The ghosts are coming - For the next segment, you can only catch the first Pokémon you find in each new area, and you can't catch any Pokémon in areas you've already explored.

💀 Sydian / Badge 6:
Return from the grave - Pick one Pokémon, who is boxed because of level limit. Put it on your team with a new level limit of 15.

💀 Wschimidth / Badge 7:
Underwater mysteries - Water, Dragon and Dark-type Pokémon currently on your team lose 10 levels from the level limit. (Pokémon who have 2 of these types at the same time, such as Crawdaunt, still lose 10 levels).

 

[Eleanor]

snip!

Well. That last rule came right at the best possible moment, but I still can do something about it...
I will gladly take the Light's End curse from Aeternum if that means giving them this rule, "The ghosts are coming"... it should work much better for someone who still has lots and lots of things to see! (As for me, Fire and Electric types are not a thing anymore...) :rowlhmph:

 

[Phye]

Alright, it was time to check weights... and... both Lapras and Onix had to take the boot from the team. Luckily Lucario was still within the weight limit so I used him for the most part of this segment as his level limit was coming close. Thank you for your contribution Mega Lucario! I wouldn't want to use Lapras anyway vs the electric gym that was coming up.
However I had to break my own imposed nuzlocke rules during this segment or I would have like no team to use. Luckily this Challenge is not a Nuzlocke so it was no biggie.

Caught myself a Slugma, Gible and Trapinch in this segment which are all useful vs the Electric Gym or rather... I just needed one little Trapinch because X/Y likes to throw you single pokémon trainers at you constantly.

The most trouble I had was vs the Magneton because his Flash Cannon did plenty of dmg on my low sp.def Trapinch. Other than that it was smooth sailing in the gym.

Fifth badge aquired!

Current Team:.

Spoiler:

 

[Sydian]

💀 Sydian / Badge 6:
Return from the grave - Pick one Pokémon, who is boxed because of level limit. Put it on your team with a new level limit of 15.

do they have to have actually hit their level limit or can it just be a pokemon that was like rly close to hitting level limit?

 

[budube]

Burning Souls - Radical Red: Part 1

Part of the things I like about this hack is that it buffed many underlooked Pokémon with it. Which is why this challenge makes me a bit sad bc I pretty much won't be able to use Ledian at all.

The hack is pretty much Fire Red, but hard. Which means it has level cap, which means I have to play with this game's level cap and the challenge's level cap. So I probably won't get past Surge.

Anyways, first things first: My starter was Bulbasaur as always, and called him Lettuce... as always. It pretty much stayed in the team until after the first gym since the first gym level cap is 15 but I beat it at 13.

First Pokémon I caught was a level 3 Lillipup I called Dog. Which didn't make it to the first gym because he made it to lvl 13 before I got there.

I also caught a level 3 Wooloo and a level 3 Mankey. Wooloo is at level 12 now, Mankey already hit the limit.

The other 2 Pokémon I have are Panpour (caught at level 4, lvl 13 now) and Ledyba (caught at level 5, lvl 13 as well)

The other Pokémon I got is Wonder Egg that won't do shit bc it's hatching level is 1 and Misty's level cap is 27 lmao

Current team: Wooloo, Ledyba, Panpour, Egg.

P.S: Sorry for the delay and sloppy CSS lol

 

[Pok3pals]

🔮 Name: Pok3pals
🔮 Trainer Class: Ranger
🔮 Your favourite horror monster: Bienfu
🔮 Game: Soul Silver
This seems interesting.

 

[Sydian]

guitarist al | ruby | badges: 7

🔮20 level limit, 10 level limit after 4 badges
🔮ghosts +5 levels
🔮odds +5, evens -5 (at time of 2nd badge)
🔮-5 unless ghost move (at time of 3rd badge)
🔮-5 if pokemon gets status condition
🔮flying +5 levels
🔮no items in battle except held (personal rule)
🔮bring 1 pokemon back, +15

IDontLoveU lv. 37 (max: 44) @ amulet coin
clear body / modest
surf / bubblebeam / wrap / acid

Demolition lv. 34 (max: 22) @ king's rock - OUT
pressure / quirky
quick attack / bite / double team / swords dance

Summertime lv. 35 (max: 41) @ quick claw
chlorophyll / serious
poisonpowder / magical leaf / moonlight / acid

Dead! lv. 34 (max: 40) @ blackglasses
color change / lonely
screech / faint attack / psybeam / slash

GhostOfYou lv. 35 (max: 45) @ exp share
levitate / naughty
curse / astonish / confuse ray / pursuit

Drowning lv. 32 (max: 37) @ lax incense
thick fat / naive
surf / aurora beam / body slam / hail

training for this gym lol i should have done mt pyre and the route below for extra levels but i got cocky and went for tate and liza...i still won thanks to tentacruel and their sunny day fading at just the right moment, but in the process, absol went into the fucking negative on level limit. got put to sleep and it lost 5, putting level limit at 35...it was at 34 but hey whatever this is the gym i needed it for we can make it work. got put to sleep AGAIN, which knocks it out. okay...i have no one i can switch to so its just gotta stay in...wakes up. put to sleep AGAIN. negative level limit ahoy... so it's going in the box after this, but i'm listing it here since this is the party i went to the gym with. also i grabbed spheal that i was hoping i could hang on to for a while, but it got poisoned and lost 5 levels so it caps at 37...meh. probably going to ditch it after this, i only brought it for backup.

regarding my last rule, i was planning on using solrock, but i wasn't sure if this applied to just any pokemon i boxed coming up on level limit or if they had to have hit the limit, but if it's the latter, i plan on using it again w that rule. and it's saturday so. i need something to do so obv i went on to the next gym. shrug. if this bars me from using solrock, then let me know. tbh i probably won't need it anymore, but it would be good back up at the very least.

box:
shroomish, zigzagoon, dustox, taillow, makuhita, aron, minun, roselia, azumarill, numel, machamp, solrock, sandshrew, castform, xatu, wigglytuff, zangoose, koffing

out:
marshtomp, absol
​

 

[Phye]

I want to use my False Messiah on Sydian's Tentacruel! Spoooky! >:D

 

[Sydian]

oh........ bro. what do you have against me. lmfao well fuck.

 

[Kostucha]

~Final Update~

Heh, I expected (and kinda wanted :P) the last rule to completely mess with me but what I got is ok too. It allowed me to use that one Excadrill a little longer and it was very useful against Colress and Ghetsis. Sadly it reached its new level limit soon after so I had to box it again.

The rest of the game went rather smooth. I had a lot of E4 viable pokemon to choose from so it wasn't too hard to complete a team that would satisfy me. Mienshao was a true MVP during this whole end game segment, I would have probably soloed most of the League with it if I hadn't had to worry about the level limit.

Overall the challenge was really fun, I love how the rules forced me to constantly change my plans. Thanks Janp and Eleanor for organising this event :)

Team:

Spoiler:

Gus, Careful, Inner Focus, lv. 62 (63)
-Hi Jump Kick
-Drain Punch
-Dig
-Acrobatics

Leon, Mild, Cloud Nine, lv. 63 (65)
-Surf
-Ice Beam
-Psychic
-Waterfall

Buff, Naive, Reckless, lv. 62 (66)
-Head Charge
-Megahorn
-Wild Charge
-Swords Dance

Ace, Lonely, Sheer Force, lv. 59 (62)
-Fly
-Crush Claw
-Shadow Claw
-Rock Smash

Lurk, Serious, Iron Fist, lv. 58 (60)
-Earthquake
-Shadow Punch
-Fly
-Heavy Slam

Thrill, Modest, Water Absorb, lv. 58 (60)
-Energy Ball
-Shadow Ball
-Surf
-Ice Beam

Hall of Fame:

Spoiler:

 

[Phye]

oh........ bro. what do you have against me. lmfao well fuck.

Sorry I just wanted to use it on someone before everyone else clears the challenge xD

 

[Sonata]

I'll use my guardian angel on Sydian's Tentacruel :P

 

[Wschmidth]

💀 Wschimidth / Badge 7:
Underwater mysteries - Water, Dragon and Dark-type Pokémon currently on your team lose 10 levels from the level limit. (Pokémon who have 2 of these types at the same time, such as Crawdaunt, still lose 10 levels).
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I need to ask because I've gotten a few rules written like this now. When you say "currently on your team" do you mean specifically at the time of receiving the rule (if so I feel it should be placed in the one-off rules section) or just all Water/Dragon/Dark type Pokemon I catch?

 

[Janp]

do they have to have actually hit their level limit or can it just be a pokemon that was like rly close to hitting level limit?

Yeah, they have to be boxed because they hit their level limit.

I need to ask because I've gotten a few rules written like this now. When you say "currently on your team" do you mean specifically at the time of receiving the rule (if so I feel it should be placed in the one-off rules section) or just all Water/Dragon/Dark type Pokemon I catch?

It applies to all Water, Dragon and Dark-types you catch.

Spoiler:

Alright, it was time to check weights... and... both Lapras and Onix had to take the boot from the team. Luckily Lucario was still within the weight limit so I used him for the most part of this segment as his level limit was coming close. Thank you for your contribution Mega Lucario! I wouldn't want to use Lapras anyway vs the electric gym that was coming up.
However I had to break my own imposed nuzlocke rules during this segment or I would have like no team to use. Luckily this Challenge is not a Nuzlocke so it was no biggie.

Caught myself a Slugma, Gible and Trapinch in this segment which are all useful vs the Electric Gym or rather... I just needed one little Trapinch because X/Y likes to throw you single pokémon trainers at you constantly.

The most trouble I had was vs the Magneton because his Flash Cannon did plenty of dmg on my low sp.def Trapinch. Other than that it was smooth sailing in the gym.

Fifth badge aquired!

Current Team:.

Spoiler:

Burning Souls - Radical Red: Part 1

Part of the things I like about this hack is that it buffed many underlooked Pokémon with it. Which is why this challenge makes me a bit sad bc I pretty much won't be able to use Ledian at all.

The hack is pretty much Fire Red, but hard. Which means it has level cap, which means I have to play with this game's level cap and the challenge's level cap. So I probably won't get past Surge.

Anyways, first things first: My starter was Bulbasaur as always, and called him Lettuce... as always. It pretty much stayed in the team until after the first gym since the first gym level cap is 15 but I beat it at 13.

First Pokémon I caught was a level 3 Lillipup I called Dog. Which didn't make it to the first gym because he made it to lvl 13 before I got there.

I also caught a level 3 Wooloo and a level 3 Mankey. Wooloo is at level 12 now, Mankey already hit the limit.

The other 2 Pokémon I have are Panpour (caught at level 4, lvl 13 now) and Ledyba (caught at level 5, lvl 13 as well)

The other Pokémon I got is Wonder Egg that won't do shit bc it's hatching level is 1 and Misty's level cap is 27 lmao

Current team: Wooloo, Ledyba, Panpour, Egg.

P.S: Sorry for the delay and sloppy CSS lol

guitarist al | ruby | badges: 7

🔮20 level limit, 10 level limit after 4 badges
🔮ghosts +5 levels
🔮odds +5, evens -5 (at time of 2nd badge)
🔮-5 unless ghost move (at time of 3rd badge)
🔮-5 if pokemon gets status condition
🔮flying +5 levels
🔮no items in battle except held (personal rule)
🔮bring 1 pokemon back, +15

IDontLoveU lv. 37 (max: 44) @ amulet coin
clear body / modest
surf / bubblebeam / wrap / acid

Demolition lv. 34 (max: 22) @ king's rock - OUT
pressure / quirky
quick attack / bite / double team / swords dance

Summertime lv. 35 (max: 41) @ quick claw
chlorophyll / serious
poisonpowder / magical leaf / moonlight / acid

Dead! lv. 34 (max: 40) @ blackglasses
color change / lonely
screech / faint attack / psybeam / slash

GhostOfYou lv. 35 (max: 45) @ exp share
levitate / naughty
curse / astonish / confuse ray / pursuit

Drowning lv. 32 (max: 37) @ lax incense
thick fat / naive
surf / aurora beam / body slam / hail

training for this gym lol i should have done mt pyre and the route below for extra levels but i got cocky and went for tate and liza...i still won thanks to tentacruel and their sunny day fading at just the right moment, but in the process, absol went into the fucking negative on level limit. got put to sleep and it lost 5, putting level limit at 35...it was at 34 but hey whatever this is the gym i needed it for we can make it work. got put to sleep AGAIN, which knocks it out. okay...i have no one i can switch to so its just gotta stay in...wakes up. put to sleep AGAIN. negative level limit ahoy... so it's going in the box after this, but i'm listing it here since this is the party i went to the gym with. also i grabbed spheal that i was hoping i could hang on to for a while, but it got poisoned and lost 5 levels so it caps at 37...meh. probably going to ditch it after this, i only brought it for backup.

regarding my last rule, i was planning on using solrock, but i wasn't sure if this applied to just any pokemon i boxed coming up on level limit or if they had to have hit the limit, but if it's the latter, i plan on using it again w that rule. and it's saturday so. i need something to do so obv i went on to the next gym. shrug. if this bars me from using solrock, then let me know. tbh i probably won't need it anymore, but it would be good back up at the very least.

box:
shroomish, zigzagoon, dustox, taillow, makuhita, aron, minun, roselia, azumarill, numel, machamp, solrock, sandshrew, castform, xatu, wigglytuff, zangoose, koffing

out:
marshtomp, absol
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Ruleset Update!

💀 Cubism / Badge 1:
The Gray area - Pokémon listed as Gray in Pokédex gain 10 more levels for their level limit.
BTW, I'm not sure if I missed something, but level limit is: caught level + 20 levels for first 4 badges.

💀 Sydian / Badge 7:
Hexed Hands - Held items can no longer be used.

💀 Phye / Badge 5:
Straight Jacket - Pokémon caught in Premier Balls get 5 more levels for their level limit. This rule can apply to a max of 5 Pokémon.

 

[Sonata]

With my new rules I set out to find my first new pokemon. I beat up Team Aqua, and then immediately searched for a new Pokemon because Wingull is just not getting the job done. Encountered an Elektrike (lvl 13) on route 110 and captured it. Sidelined Wingull as it hit level 23 so I can save it for later either to use in a gym or as a fly user. The grind for Elektrike and Abra to become useful was long and tedious as both of their movesets at the current stage are awful. I did teach Abra thief, but that ultimately wasn't that useful outside of the first couple of routes that I had to backtrack to for feasible training. By the time the two of them were able to defeat May and get the rest of the way to Watson, Elektrike had evolved into Manectric and Abra into Kadabra. Had to fight Watson twice, but ultimately Kadabra was just too strong for this point and one shot most of his mons with psybeam.

Kadabra lvl 28
Manectric lvl 27
Wingull lvl 23

 

[Sydian]

I'll use my guardian angel on Sydian's Tentacruel :P

you are an angel thank u

Yeah, they have to be boxed because they hit their level limit.

lol rip...that's okay tho. the only one i had that was like OUT out at the time was marshtomp and he wouldn't have even been able to evolve w the new level limit so it would just be a waste. i don't get to take advantage of that one then. rippp. also looool not my held items........man. the grind without exp share is going to suck.

edit: am i allowed to use rest or does this count as a status affliction (even tho it's me doing it) meaning i'd lose 5 levels from my limit? then again lol no held items means that might not be a good idea anyway but figured i'd ask.

 

[Sydian]

guitarist al | ruby | badges: 8

🔮20 level limit, 10 level limit after 4 badges
🔮ghosts +5 levels
🔮odds +5, evens -5 (at time of 2nd badge)
🔮-5 unless ghost move (at time of 3rd badge)
🔮-5 if pokemon gets status condition
🔮flying +5 levels
🔮bring 1 pokemon back, +15 (at time of 6th badge)
🔮false messiah on tentacruel (out)
🔮guardian angel on tentacruel (in)
🔮no held items
🔮no items in battle except held (personal rule)

IDontLoveU lv. 38 (max: 39)
clear body / modest
surf / bubblebeam / barrier / acid

Summertime lv. 38 (max: 41)
chlorophyll / serious
poisonpowder / magical leaf / moonlight / acid

Dead! lv. 34 (max: 40)
color change / lonely
screech / faint attack / psybeam / slash

GhostOfYou lv. 39 (max: 45)
levitate / naughty
curse / astonish / confuse ray / pursuit

Drowning lv. 34 (max: 37)
thick fat / naive
surf / aurora beam / strength / dive

GO! lv. 34 (max: 35)
volt absorb / docile
surf / dive / spark / confuse ray

they're trying to kill me lmfao. i lost a lot of levels in this segment due to my own negligence, two of which were new party members. stupid of me but it's okay, shit happens. i went through the trouble of getting the deepseascale for a clamperl so i have gorebyss too, but i set it back in the pc for now lol esp after i was being stupid while grinding and it got paralyzed so it maxes out at 40 now. anyway, the wallace fight was great until milotic which i'm very grateful i was given my tentacruel back bc it tanking hits was what won me that fight, along with dusclops' curse. otherwise youch. however, tentacruel's reign truly ends here. it got frozen at one point, losing 5 levels to its limit and it's just one away from the new limit. a tragic end to a very fine fellow...i'll probably hold on to him until he for sure hits that limit just as a safety net bc i'm gonna have to get a new team for the most part lol. plus idk what my last rule is going to do to me. but i've long since given up on praying in this challenge so. let's go.

box:
shroomish, zigzagoon, dustox, taillow, makuhita, aron, minun, roselia, azumarill, numel, machamp, sandshrew, castform, xatu, wigglytuff, zangoose, koffing, gorebyss

out:
marshtomp, absol, solrock
​

 

[Phye]

Got my first real boon! Wooh! Well since the route with Goomy was coming up I decided to go capture it inside of a premier ball. (Luckily in X/Y you can actually buy premier balls directly because this sucker wanted to eat so many premier balls before being caught.) I didn't want to use it for this gym but will probably use it afterwards.
Decided to capture a karrablast in one since it could be useful for the two upcoming gyms which is fairy and psychic. Also captured myself a shelmet while I was at it. Both got good natures on the first try! Traded over one of them to X to do the special trade required both so I could get both to evolve.
Decided to capture a quagsire in a premier as he may be useful as a general special defense wall to the upcoming psychic gym, didn't have much else thought in it. Saving the two last premier ball boons for greener pasture.
The fairy gym went over fairly quickly. Actually got to use Slugma in this one. She crit the mawile and then toxic stalled the Mr mime. However the Sylveon almost ripped my team a new one with its charm+dazzling gleam spam. It kept one shotting my accelgor but finally got toxic off so it didn't matter much. Escavalier finished it off eventually together with Toxic dmg and -6 attack poison jabs.

Sixth Badge acquired!

Current Team:.

Spoiler:

 

[Eleanor]

Spoiler:

With my new rules I set out to find my first new pokemon. I beat up Team Aqua, and then immediately searched for a new Pokemon because Wingull is just not getting the job done. Encountered an Elektrike (lvl 13) on route 110 and captured it. Sidelined Wingull as it hit level 23 so I can save it for later either to use in a gym or as a fly user. The grind for Elektrike and Abra to become useful was long and tedious as both of their movesets at the current stage are awful. I did teach Abra thief, but that ultimately wasn't that useful outside of the first couple of routes that I had to backtrack to for feasible training. By the time the two of them were able to defeat May and get the rest of the way to Watson, Elektrike had evolved into Manectric and Abra into Kadabra. Had to fight Watson twice, but ultimately Kadabra was just too strong for this point and one shot most of his mons with psybeam.

Kadabra lvl 28
Manectric lvl 27
Wingull lvl 23

guitarist al | ruby | badges: 8

🔮20 level limit, 10 level limit after 4 badges
🔮ghosts +5 levels
🔮odds +5, evens -5 (at time of 2nd badge)
🔮-5 unless ghost move (at time of 3rd badge)
🔮-5 if pokemon gets status condition
🔮flying +5 levels
🔮bring 1 pokemon back, +15 (at time of 6th badge)
🔮false messiah on tentacruel (out)
🔮guardian angel on tentacruel (in)
🔮no held items
🔮no items in battle except held (personal rule)

IDontLoveU lv. 38 (max: 39)
clear body / modest
surf / bubblebeam / barrier / acid

Summertime lv. 38 (max: 41)
chlorophyll / serious
poisonpowder / magical leaf / moonlight / acid

Dead! lv. 34 (max: 40)
color change / lonely
screech / faint attack / psybeam / slash

GhostOfYou lv. 39 (max: 45)
levitate / naughty
curse / astonish / confuse ray / pursuit

Drowning lv. 34 (max: 37)
thick fat / naive
surf / aurora beam / strength / dive

GO! lv. 34 (max: 35)
volt absorb / docile
surf / dive / spark / confuse ray

they're trying to kill me lmfao. i lost a lot of levels in this segment due to my own negligence, two of which were new party members. stupid of me but it's okay, shit happens. i went through the trouble of getting the deepseascale for a clamperl so i have gorebyss too, but i set it back in the pc for now lol esp after i was being stupid while grinding and it got paralyzed so it maxes out at 40 now. anyway, the wallace fight was great until milotic which i'm very grateful i was given my tentacruel back bc it tanking hits was what won me that fight, along with dusclops' curse. otherwise youch. however, tentacruel's reign truly ends here. it got frozen at one point, losing 5 levels to its limit and it's just one away from the new limit. a tragic end to a very fine fellow...i'll probably hold on to him until he for sure hits that limit just as a safety net bc i'm gonna have to get a new team for the most part lol. plus idk what my last rule is going to do to me. but i've long since given up on praying in this challenge so. let's go.

box:
shroomish, zigzagoon, dustox, taillow, makuhita, aron, minun, roselia, azumarill, numel, machamp, sandshrew, castform, xatu, wigglytuff, zangoose, koffing, gorebyss

out:
marshtomp, absol, solrock
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Got my first real boon! Wooh! Well since the route with Goomy was coming up I decided to go capture it inside of a premier ball. (Luckily in X/Y you can actually buy premier balls directly because this sucker wanted to eat so many premier balls before being caught.) I didn't want to use it for this gym but will probably use it afterwards.
Decided to capture a karrablast in one since it could be useful for the two upcoming gyms which is fairy and psychic. Also captured myself a shelmet while I was at it. Both got good natures on the first try! Traded over one of them to X to do the special trade required both so I could get both to evolve.
Decided to capture a quagsire in a premier as he may be useful as a general special defense wall to the upcoming psychic gym, didn't have much else thought in it. Saving the two last premier ball boons for greener pasture.
The fairy gym went over fairly quickly. Actually got to use Slugma in this one. She crit the mawile and then toxic stalled the Mr mime. However the Sylveon almost ripped my team a new one with its charm+dazzling gleam spam. It kept one shotting my accelgor but finally got toxic off so it didn't matter much. Escavalier finished it off eventually together with Toxic dmg and -6 attack poison jabs.

Sixth Badge acquired!

Current Team:.

Spoiler:

Ruleset Update!

💀 Aeternum / Badge 3:
Ranger Database - From now on, you may only catch one of each Pokémon species / evolution family.

💀 Sydian / Badge 8:
Malevolent grass - All Grass-type Pokémon gain 5 more levels for their level limit.

💀 Phye / Badge 6:
Soul Vessel - All Pokémon that evolve by stone or by holding a certain item while being traded gain 5 more levels for their limit. This also includes their evolved counterparts, but not their pre-evolutions (For example, Roselia and Roserade will gain levels, since Roselia evolves by Shiny Stone, but Budew will not).

 

[Sonata]

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I need my new rule :(