2nd Gen GSC Word-Themed Team Challenge

[mondays suck]

While searching for some original challenges, me and Blues003 came up with the idea of the Pokemon Word-Themed Team Challenge! The idea felt as refreshing as original to us, and so we decided to create this topic in order to allow you to have some fun as well.


Rules:
1. In this challenge, you will be assigned a random word from this site, this word will be your team's theme. You can choose between a noun and an adjective, or both.
2. You may generate more words if the first ones you get are totally impossible for you to think a team out of.
3. You have to justify your Pokemon choices.
4. You have to obtain your first Pokemon before you challenge Whitney.
5. You can use your starter until you get your first Pokemon.
6. The challenge ends when you beat Red.
7. HM Slaves are allowed, and they don't have to fit your theme.
8. The use of legendaries is not allowed.
9. Trading is only allowed for evolving purposes or in-game trades.
10. Have Fun.




Challengers:
- mondays suck - "intent" (adjective)
- Luigi-San - "mind"
- entrancer - "beach"
- minchan - "window"
- Hayley Williams - "recognized"
- yuki3056 - "exclusive"
- 560cool - "power"
- syphilis - "diabolical"
- Team Rocket's Raichu - "infallable"
- 11wildy "exploding"
- Kbengal - "wind"
- LoneStarAkira - "stickiest"
- Brendino - "rival"
- bustin - "dire"
- gold1222 - "gust"
- seal - "ocean"
- Allstarbarto - "ditch"
- myrrhman - "acknowledged"
- Editman - "malicious"
- hobuso - "distorted"
- ~Hot n' Cold~ - "arbitrary"



Hall Of Fame:
- Blues003 - "physical"
- Skweetis - "metalled"
- syphilis - "inch"
- Skweetis - "offensive"
- gold1222 - "spring"
- 11wildy "weight"

 

[Skweetis]

Interesting challenge, I'll give it a try. My word is 'Metalled'.


Adjective
- (of any object) Made of metal or having metal fittings or plating.

So I'll be using only steel types (Self-explanatory) for my team. I'll be using Forretress, Scizor, Skarmory, Steelix and Magneton.

 

[mondays suck]

When I first looked up my word "intent" in an online dictionary, I found multiple translations, and the one I liked best is like "observing". So, I was already planning a team of Pokemon like Sentret, Noctowl and Xatu, but when I looked it up on Wiktionary, I didn't find this definition of the word at all, so I have to change my plans. Instead, I will use Pokemon that are focussed on a certain thing, because:

Adjective

intent (comparative more intent, superlative most intent)

1. Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.

This should be enough, and I don't really understand the 2 other descriptions very well anyways.



Time for my first Update: I started on Silver with Cyndaquil, did all the early stuff while skipping as many non-gym trainers as possible. The only thing I had some real problems with was my rival's Croconaw. Looked for Drowzee (to trade for Machop) or Abra, found Abra first and caught the first one with a Great Ball. Named it Somnus. Bought the Elemental Punch TMs for Somnus. Deposited my level 20 Quilava.
Next: Getting Machop, beating the skipped trainers, challenging Whitney.

Team:

Somnus / Abra f Lv.10 @ /
- Teleport
- Ice Punch
- Thunder Punch
- Fire Punch
I chose Abra because Kadabra and Alakazam are very focussed on building their telekinetic powers

Update:I got pretty far, now I have 7 badges and just beat the last Team Rocket Admin with the Houndoom.

Team:

Somnus / Alakazam f Lv.33 @ /
- Psybeam
- Ice Punch
- Thunder Punch
- Fire Punch
I'm trying to keep this as underleveled as possible, Alakazam is overpowered. And the nickname doesn't fit anymore, but I'll keep it anyways.

Muscle / Machamp f Lv.38 @ /
- Karate Chop
- Leer
- Focus Energy
- Headbutt
I chose the Machop line because they are solely concentrated on building up muscles.
Horrible, horrible moveset. I have to work on that. And yes, this Machamp is female.

Simularbre / Sudowoodo m Lv.37 @ /
- Rock Slide
- Dig
- Flail
- Low Kick
Focussed on disguising, that's what it does all day.
Surprisingly good, only the slow speed hurts.

Rampage / Tauros f Lv.38 @ /
- Strength
- Tail Whip
- Iron Fail
- Hidden Power Bug
"once they've started a rampage they will not stop until they hit something" I guess that counts.

 

[Blues003]

Word: Physical.

The word is pretty self-explanatory. I could give it various meanings, such as 'something that has matter', but that would be just excluding the ghosts, wouldn't it? I decided to use its meaning as in 'They went physical'. Basically, I chose pokemon which I believed, would 'get at it', which I could imagine wrestling. Not necessarily pokemon with higher Attack than Sp Attak, but pokemon which I could picture literally fighting.


So, in any case, picked up Totodile as a starter. Named it 'Yo Dawg!' but later disliked the name, and renamed it to 'Jaws'. I could see any of the members of the Totodile line getting some punches on some other poke >_>'

I proceeded till Falkner, skipping the Bellsprout tower. Then skipped some more trainers, and got Sandshrew, whom I named Sandwich. Then fought the skipped trainers, and the Bellsprout tower.

Kept goin till Bugsy, which was a bit of a pain. Even with 6 Defense Curls, his/hers Scyther could Fury Cutter me to doom. Eventually, once I got both Sandshrew and Croconaw to level 20, I beat her. The rival fell easily, afterwards.

At Goldenrod, I soft-resetted until I got a Tyrogue egg, and trained it until it was a sweet Hitmonlee. Name? Norris. Whitney deserves no reference, as she was literally swept by a Defense Curl + Rollout Combo by Sandwich.

Morty, on the other hand, was swept by Dig. By Sandwich as well. >_> Gengar did Hypnosis him, but one Awakening was used, and he was good to go.

By this time I had noticed Grass and Water types were giving me trouble. I had Grass types covered thanks to Ice Punch, but really did not have anyone who could learn Tpunch. I decided to get Teddiursa. Went to the Dark Cave, but also decided to surf a bit... and went into the 2nd part of the cave. I found not a level 2 Teddiursa, but a freaking level 30 Ursaring. Works for me. Got it, taught it TPunch. Name: Winnie.

Chuck was easy enough: Jaws totally raped him. Jasmine was almost swept by Dig, but her Steelix barely survived the last one, and killed Sandwich. I brought in Norris, who Hi Jump Kicked him to oblivion.

Pryce deserves no mention. Hi Jump Sweep is all I have to say.

I dealt with Team Rocket with barely any trouble. Defeated Suicune too.

Claire was easy as well. Sandwich died to the first Dragonair's surf, so I Ice Punch'd with Jaws the 3 Dragonairs. Jaws died to the last one, so now it was Norris + Winnie vs Kingdra. Norris landed one hi jump kick, and survived a HB. He took around 45% of health, so I thought he was pretty much a goner. Next turn, Norris would Hi Jump Kick, Kingdra would recharge, then Claire would heal. Too bad for her, my Hi Jump Kick got a crit, and so Winnie didn't even get any action.

Got a Dratini, named it 'Zeus'. I don't see Dratini nor Dragonair as 'Physical', so I won't be using them. I will, however, keep them in my party with an Exp. Share, until they become a Dragonite. A Dragonite certainly fits the description of 'Physical'.

And that's it for now. Check my team out.


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Jaws @ Mystic Water, Level 40
- Surf
- Ice Punch
- Slash
- Bite
To be honest, the biggest disappointment. He can hardly help my team, except when I need to deal with Grass types. Of course, he does run from his lower offensive stat, but I can't have a whole team revolving around Attack...


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Sandwich @ Amulet Coin, Level 38
- Slash
- Dig
- Rollout
- Defense Curl
A pretty nasty boy. I like his Defense Curl + Rollout Combo. And he can hit hard AND fast. I had never used a Sandslash before, so definetly a good surprise.


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Norris, level 37
- Strenght
- Headbut
- Hi Jump Kick
- Mind Reader
His moveset is pretty bad, but he can still hit some stuff pretty hard. I might give him Dynamic Punch, but he's kinda frail, so I'll have to rethink on that. Any ideas for what I should give him instead of Headbut or Strenght? (probably going to be replaced with Return?)


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Weenie, level 37
- Slash
- Thunder Punch
- Faint Attack
- Hidden Power Ghost
Average Moveset. Slash as his main means of offense, HP Ghost for SE-ing Psychics. Tpunch gives me much-needed coverage against waters. Faint Attack is going, sooner or later. I want one more physical-based move.


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Zeus @ Exp Share , level 21
The Extremespeed Dratini. Doesn't really count as a member of my team, since I'll only use it once he evolves into Dragonite (only by then will I consider him 'Physical').

 

[syphilis]

i'll try this out. got the word "inch", so i went this this definition:

to move by inches or small degrees

that means i'll be going with a team of slow pokemon, and in order to gauge that, they'll all be as slow or slower than caterpie (cuz it's like an inchworm...)

will start in a little bit.

 

[Blues003]

UPDATE TIME!

Word: Physical.



Trained everyone until level 44 (except for Zeus, who was level 46 but that doesn't matter anyway, it wasn't used). After that, challenged the E4.

Will wasn't too hard. Winnie could take care of the Xatus with Slash, Jaws Bited Slowbro and Ice Punched Exeguttor. It also helped me with Jynx, who is so fast it really REALLY annoyed me. Norris then Strenght'd it for the kill.

Koga was ridiculous. Sandwich just EQ'd and Rollout'd stuff and it was done.

Bruno wasn't hard either. Winnie's Slashes, Sandwiches' EQs and Norris' Hi Jump Kicks quickly disposed of them.

Norris was also MVP against Karen. Pretty much an Hi Jump Kick sweep, except for Gengar, who went down in two Hidden Power Ghosts by Winnie, and Murkrow, who got Tpunched by the same Winnie.

Lance was way too easy. Winnie TPunched Gyara, then Jaws Ice punched the three Dragonites. After that, all I had were a weakened Winnie, Norris, and Sandwich. I knew Aerodactyl would be faster than me, so I lured an Hyper Beam of his with Winnie, thus bringing Sandwich safely (recharge turns = lol) and Rollouting him to death. Once Charizard came, he hardly had any time to blink. Quad weakness owned him.

While getting the badges, Zeus finally evolved, and I got my 6th member! In the Celadon game corner, I saw Larvitar. 'What the hell?', I thought. I had no idea I could get one of those there. Well, I did. I got a Larvitar, named it Khaos, and swapped the Exp. Share from Zeus to him. Zeus went to the box (no need to train him more, he was 7 levels ahead of all the others), and I kept sweeping gyms. Gary was the toughest, but even still, nothing worth mentioning.

Beat the E4 one more time, so that Khaos would evolve into his final form.

Red's battle was the only thing remaining. Here's my team for the battle.

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Sandwich, the level 50 Sandslash @ Amulet Coin

~ Slash
~ Earthquake
~ Rollout
~ Hidden Power [Flying]

Lost a bit of its magic, but still useful in general. Physically quite bulky, and capable of consistent damage. Not my biggest asset, but still, pretty decent. Improved drastically with EQ. HP Flying didn't really come to play.



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Jaws, the level 50 Feraligtr @ Mystic Water

~ Surf
~ Ice Punch
~ Slash
~ Iron Tail

Mediocre at best. He really played a very minor role on this playthrough. His Ice Punch was very appreciated against Lance, and part of his special bulkyness was useful as well against Red, as you will see later. However, on the wider perspective, he wasn't that great.



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Winnie, the level 50 Ursaring @ Bitter Berry

~ Return
~ Thunderpunch
~ Dynamicpunch
~ Hidden Power [Ghost]

Quite useful. His Return was VERY powerful, and Hidden Power Ghost was a blessing against those pesky psychics. Specially the Alakazams. Thunderpunch provided some very needed coverage against water types, and also helped dealing with some fliers. All in all, a very reliable member of my team. Though he couldn't take hits all day, he was a very good revenge killer.



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Norris, the level 50 Hitmonlee @ Quick Claw

~ Strength
~ Mega Kick
~ Hi Jump Kick
~ Endure

Never got to use Endure, because I never got Reversal. That moveset, while not providing great coverage, made Hitmonlee a beast. It gave him enough power to pretty much 2HKO everything (sans Red's pokes), if not OHKO. Definetly my main source of fast damage, and a nice special wall sometimes too. While is HP isn't anything spectacular, his Special defense was very appreciated at times.




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Zeus, the level 56 Dragonite @ MysteryBerry

~ Wing Attack
~ Extremespeed
~ Curse
~ Rest

Yes, the Cursespeed set. Curse up for massive attack boosts, then Extremespeed. Went for Wing Attack instead of Surf because of STAB mainly. And I already had a STAB'd Surf on my team.
Barely used him, to be honest: only on Gary's and Red's fight. Before that, he was mainly a Dragonair, so...
He also added my team some VERY significant resistances to Grass and Water moves.



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Khaos, the level 55 Tyranitar @ Nevermeltice

~ Ice Beam
~ Thunderbolt
~ Crunch
~ Rock Slide

Yes, a special-based Tyranitar. I needed the BoltBeam, and thought originally of giving it to Zeus. However, he already had the Cursespeed set. So I decided to give it to Tyranitar.

Belive it or not, adding Tyranitar and Dragonite to my team made it more of a challenge. They were only truly used on Red's fight, so until then, all they did was suck on my team member's Experience. Nevertheless, let's proceed. It's time for Red.


Red's fight started of well. Sandwich vs Pikachu. Pikachu would Charm, I EQ'd, he Full Restored, I EQ'd, he Full Resotred, I EQ'd again, he Quick Attacked, and I EQ'd for the kill. One Pikachu and 2 Full Restores down.

Next, it was Venusaur. My ONLY way of beating this thing was with Dragonite. Seriously, I was like 30 levels lower than him. So I Wing Attacked until he was dead. So far, so good.

The main pain in the butt would come now. Blastoise. In the rain, that thing could Surf OHKO EVERYTHING on my team, except Gater and Dragonite (which he could OHKO with Blizzard). So I brought in Sandwich, thinking he'd be faster, but he wasn't. I brought in Winnie for Tpunch, then he fainted. Brought in Norris for a little bit more damage, but he fainted right away too. THEN brought Jaws, as he could resist the Surfs quite well. THANK YOU JAWS, FOR ACTUALLY BEING USEFUL ASIDE FROM YOUR ICE PUNCHING! By the time Jaws was defeated, Blastoise had around 20% HP. Right in the range for...

Zeus to come in and Extremespeed him. Dead Blastoise. Yay!

Espeon came, and got so walled by Khaos it wasn't even funny. From them on, I just Crunched Espeon, and Rock Slided Snorlax and Charizard for my victory on this final match.

And so, Red was defeated by a team which you could call Physical, and around 30 levels lower too! :)

 

[syphilis]

started my "inch" challenge (base speed less than or equal to 45)

-picked totodile, ran through the beginning to get some poke balls.
-found out i couldn't catch a jigglypuff on route 46 :(
-caught a dunsparce (mascara) instead
-trained it bunches and ripped though falkner.
-realized i set the time for morning, so i was unable to catch a wooper.
-sped through everything to get into slowpoke well to catch a slowpoke (gordon)
-beat bugsy after a couple tries
-went though ilex forest and caught a snubbull (nub) along the route after

My Obnoxiously Slow Team:

mascara lvl 21
Speed - 32 (Base Speed - 45)
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Headbutt
Defense Curl
Glare
Mud-Slap

gordon lvl 22
Speed - 19 (Base Speed - 15)
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Water Gun
Curse
Confusion
Tackle

nub lvl 21
Speed - 25 (Base Speed - 30)
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Tackle
Lick
Tail Whip
Charm

 

[Skweetis]

Update

Word: Metalled

- Defeated Falkner
- Caught Onix
- Defeated Bugsy
- Caught Pineco
- Evolved Pinceo -> Forretress
- Defeated Whitney
- Bred Onix with Sudowoodo to get an Onix with Rock Slide
- Evolved Onix -> Steelix
- Caught Scyther in the Bug Catching Contest
- Evolved Scyther -> Scizor
- Caught Magnemite
- Evolved Magneite -> Magneton
- Defeated Morty

I'm on my way to Cianwood to beat Chuck and get the medicine etc.

Forretress Lv. 49
- Protect
- Strength
- Explosion
- Spikes

Steelix Lv. 45
- Rock Slide
- Iron Tail
- Earthquake
- Sandstorm

Scizor Lv. 42
- Slash
- Fury Cutter
- Steel Wing
- Swords Dance

Magneton Lv. 42
- Thunderbolt
- Thunder Wave
- Substitute
- Tri-Attack

 

[mondays suck]

My School has been cancelled today because of heavy snowfall, so I might as well continue.

@ Blues: Wow, that was fast, seems like you continued more than just a bit yesterday evening

@ Skweetis: You had some bad luck here, it wasn't planned that this results in monotypes. Wait, you just beat Morty and are already that high? That team could probably already beat the Elite 4.

@ syphilis: I think you could also use Pokemon that just look slow, but have more than 45 Base Speed, like Muk. Although this is probably a bad example since Grimer is obtained so late....

 

[Skweetis]

@ Skweetis: You had some bad luck here, it wasn't planned that this results in monotypes. Wait, you just beat Morty and are already that high? That team could probably already beat the Elite 4

Yeah, that's the good thing about the lack of levitate, I just used earthquake a lot. The good thing is at least I still get some diversity, because there aren't any pure steel types in Gen 2.

I also grind lots, but at least VB makes that somewhat easier.

 

[mondays suck]

Update Time. I have no Flying Slave, so getting from Goldenrod to Blackthorn took me a while. Especially because I picked up the Exp.Share on the way. After beating Claire's Gym trainers, it was time to challenge herself to get my final Johto badge.
Unlike most of the other gym battles, this one was actually interesting.
I was planning to just sweep her Dragonairs with my Alakazam, but it could barely not OHKO them because it was so underleveled. So, first Alakazam got paralyzed, but it still did a decent job, it KOd the first Dragonair and put the second one into KO range for Tauros. Tauros also defeated the lastDragonair, but it got paralyzed, so all it could do was Leering Kingdra once and then it died to Kingdra's Surf spam. Machamp came next, and killed Kingdra with 2 Karate Chops.
On the way to Victory Road, I first let Alakazam catch up to the rest of my team, so it would not disappoint me against the Elite 4 again. My rival was pretty easy, only the Feraligatr could live a hit, but Tauros still overpowered it.

So, here is the team that's going to challenge the Elite 4:

Somnus / Alakazam f Lv.39 @ Nevermeltice
- Psychic
- Ice Punch
- Thunder Punch
- Fire Punch
Still a slight bit underleveled, but that is not going to matter, or at least I hope so.

Muscle / Machamp f Lv.41 @ /
- Karate Chop
- Leer
- Earthquake
- Headbutt
This levels up insanely fast, since it's traded. I decided to give Earthquake to this and not Tauros or Sudowoodo because it needed a good move pretty badly while the other 2 do already have more or less decent movesets.

Simularbre / Sudowoodo m Lv.41 @ /
- Rock Slide
- Dig
- Flail
- Low Kick
Probably the weakest thing in my team. It has nice physical bulk and RS its is devastaing, but it's so slow that it can't really make use of that because things always also seem to have special attacks...

Rampage / Tauros f Lv.42 @ /
- Strength
- Tail Whip
- Iron Tail
- Hidden Power Bug
Slower and weaker than Alakazam, weaker than Machamp and less bulky than Sudo... But still the best member of my team, its balanced stats make it useful in almost every situation.

 

[Skweetis]

Update

- Defeated Chuck
- Defeated Red Gyarados/Team Rocket
- Defeated Pryce
- Defeated Jasmine
- Defeated Team Rocket again at the Radio Tower
- Gotten through Ice Path

I'm looking for a Skarmory at the moment.

Forretress Lv. 66
- Strength
- Protect
- Spikes
- Double-Edge

Steelix Lv. 65
- Rock Slide
- Sandstorm
- Iron Tail
- Earthquake

Scizor Lv. 68
- Slash
- Steel Wing
- Fury Cutter
- Swords Dance

Magneton Lv. 65
- Thunderbolt
- Tri-attack
- Thunder Wave
- Substitute

 

[Blues003]

@ Blues: Wow, that was fast, seems like you continued more than just a bit yesterday evening

Yeah, I did. I'm thinking of doing another one of these, they are pretty fun. However, not today nor tomorrow, as I'll be having an exam on Friday. Soon enough, though :)

 

[syphilis]

@ syphilis: I think you could also use Pokemon that just look slow, but have more than 45 Base Speed, like Muk. Although this is probably a bad example since Grimer is obtained so late....

hm, i could, but i'd probably end up using the same pokemon anyway, and curse works much better when they're already slow :D

 

[Skweetis]

Update:

- Caught Skarmory
- Bred Skarmory/Dodrio for Drill Peck
- Defeated Clair
- Defeated the Elite Four
- Arrived in Vermilion

Forretress Lv. 81
- Strength
- Protect
- Spikes
- Double-Edge

Steelix Lv. 81
- Rock Slide
- Iron Tail
- Sandstorm
- Earthquake

Scizor Lv. 81
- Slash
- Steel Wing
- Fury Cutter
- Swords Dance

Magneton lv. 80
- Thunderbolt
- Thunder Wave
- Tri-Attack
- Substitute

Skarmory Lv. 80
- Drill Peck
- Whirlwind
- Steel Wing
- Double Team

 

[11wildy]

I got the word repeating. I guess I'll take pokemon that have letters repeaeting in their name. I will start someitme when I got more time.

 

[Skweetis]

Update:

- Defeated all Kanto gym leaders
- Defeated Red

Forretress Lv. 90
- Strength
- Protect
- Spikes
- Double-Edge

Steelix Lv. 92
- Rock Slide
- Iron tail
- Sandstorm
- Earthquake

Scizor Lv. 93
- Slash
- Steel Wing
- Fury Cutter
- Swords Dance

Magneton Lv. 90
- Thunderbolt
- Thunder Wave
- Tri-Attack
- Substitute

Skarmory Lv. 90
- Drill Peck
- Whirlwind
- Steel Wing
- Double Team

Seeing that I have lots of free time, I figured I'd take another go at this if that's all right. My new word is 'Offensive' so I'll be using Pokemon who specialize in offensive stats.

 

[11wildy]

that's just too many too choose off, I'll take another word if you don't mind. I tried again and got Weight. So I guess I'll take the 5 pokemon with the highest weight. I prefer not to have more pokemon. (can't trade so no Steelix)

Will start tomorrow.

Team:
Snorlax
Golem
Gyarados
Mantine
Onix

 

[syphilis]

@Skweetis: those levels are impressive. seriously.

update:
-bought a cubone (bones)
-beat up whitney with a cursed slowpoke
-accidentally killed the sudowoodo...so that's one less team member.
-nub licked some ghosts, though i don't understand how it...hurt them...
-chuck got defeated by an uncursed slowpoke.
-jasmine got beat by bones.
-chased team rocket out of mahogany and beat pryce with nub.

Team:

gordon lvl 37
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Confusion
Curse
Surf
Headbutt

nub lvl 39
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Strength
Shadow Ball
Tail Whip
Charm

bones lvl 33
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Bone Club
Bonemerang
Headbutt
Focus Energy

 

[minchan]

I'd like to try this challenge, but who assigns the word?