Monotype Challenge (Ver. 2.0)

[emoxy]

Pokemon HGSS Monotype Challenge V2!
Update #14 - Smooth Sailing

More updates @ Kanto. :)
Challenged Sabrina. Overall easy battle, Crunch/Shadow Ball made short work of her.

Met Morty at Ecruteak City, when sidetracking. (I haven't gotten the Rainbow Wing though).

I'm a pest! :D

Misty was relatively easy too. Stealth Rock is fun :D And Energy Ball made short work of her.

I love Sinnoh leaders :D
Erika was finally defeated! My main problem was with Leaf Storm (Victreebell) which threatened to OHKO my Pokemon. Since the level increase it became a 2HKO and my Miltank managed to stall it to decrease its special attack by 6 stages lol =P
Bellossom was a problem too due to its high powered Sunnybeam, but Rollout devastated it. XD

Brock was a joke. Seriously.. He has trainers having Rhydon and Golem, and he's using a Rhyhorn and a Graveler.

Since Mt. Moon is nearby, I decided to pay my friend a visit. I'm glad my team covers a huge array of types. I think the only important types I don't have are Fire and Flying attacks.

PKMN Trainer Artix
Badges: 14 (I'm left with Blaine and Blue, whom I won't be fighting for a long time as I most probably will be grinding @ E4 for some experience. I don't want to get thrashed by Ash..

Dino - LV55 Kangaskhan
Docile/Scrappy
Leftovers
- Return (crazy damage)
- Aqua Tail
- Crunch
- Outrage

Dolfy - LV54 Stantler
Serious/Intimidate
Light Clay (ftw)
- Me First (Cool move!)
- Confuse Ray
- Reflect
- Earthquake

Geeraff - LV54 Girafarig
Quiet/Inner Focus
Choice Scarf
- Shadow Ball
- Psychic
- Energy Ball
- Thunder

MooMoo - LV55 Miltank
Careful/Thick Fat
Hard Stone
- Rollout
- Stealth Rock (Like it!)
- Body Slam
- Milk Drink

Left at Daycare:

Furry - LV43 Furret
Hasty/Run Away
Silk Scarf
- Headbutt
- Sucker Punch
- Focus Blast
- Assist

 

[Polizard]

Im sick at home So im already playing

ohh had to change my name to Sora again because polizard is one to many letters
So i started my game named my self sora
I picked Totodile and Named him Waterblast
I did the errand for professor oak
Beat my rival
Named him riku
Headed to violet city
Arrived went straight into sprout tower
Saved the game right before the elder

 

[Sleet]

. I don't want to get thrashed by Ash..

If Ash is anything like he was in Crystal i'll have to Grind for days :D

 

[Myzou]

Emoxy: Now you know why I'm grinding now.

Red's pokemon are higher now. Pikachu is at like, level 88.

 

[emoxy]

If Ash is anything like he was in Crystal i'll have to Grind for days :D

I thought that he's harder now. Except Snorlax/Espeon in GSC everything else was a joke.

Emoxy: Now you know why I'm grinding now.

Red's pokemon are higher now. Pikachu is at like, level 88.

Haha.. I would rather grind later =P Onto Blaine!

 

[Myzou]

He is extremely hard... I had a friend lend me their competitive UBERs team, and he whooped them O_o (On my main one, I mean :P)

I ended up winning by using another friends Registeel, using Curse over and over and over, then Amnesia over and over and over. (Keeping him healed with full restores), then just going to town with Iron Head/Ice Punch.

I'm considering doing another round of the Ultimate Monotype Challenge with Normal Types after I'm done here... XD But Generation 4 has a very bad choice of normal types. I like Lopunny and Purugly, but they're pretty much the only pure normal types. XD

I may redo this with normal too, follow in emoxy's steps. :P

 

[Corruptodile]

He is extremely hard... I had a friend lend me their competitive UBERs team, and he whooped them O_o (On my main one, I mean :P)

I ended up winning by using another friends Registeel, using Curse over and over and over, then Amnesia over and over and over. (Keeping him healed with full restores), then just going to town with Iron Head/Ice Punch.

Haha same really :D. I used a Magnezone and spent ages using Hyper Potions and X Items until I had +6 Speed, Spec Attack, Spec Def and Def. And Charizard still did a beastly half with Flare Blitz :O Ridiculous I tell you.

 

[emoxy]

He is extremely hard... I had a friend lend me their competitive UBERs team, and he whooped them O_o (On my main one, I mean :P)

I ended up winning by using another friends Registeel, using Curse over and over and over, then Amnesia over and over and over. (Keeping him healed with full restores), then just going to town with Iron Head/Ice Punch.

I'm considering doing another round of the Ultimate Monotype Challenge with Normal Types after I'm done here... XD But Generation 4 has a very bad choice of normal types. I like Lopunny and Purugly, but they're pretty much the only pure normal types. XD

I may redo this with normal too, follow in emoxy's steps. :P

Haha, I guess competitive teams sometimes just wouldn't work here. I don't think people even bother to set up 3 layers of spikes against the E4.

I haven't really defeated Ash a single time yet (I didn't do it in my Bug challenge, it wasn't needed that time), but I know I'm gonna need real high levels. Just killed Blaine, and am gonna grind @ old E4 before killing Blue and 'upgrading' them =P

I might do a Flying type after this, but I think I'll revisit Platinum a bit probably.

Haha same really :D. I used a Magnezone and spent ages using Hyper Potions and X Items until I had +6 Speed, Spec Attack, Spec Def and Def. And Charizard still did a beastly half with Flare Blitz :O Ridiculous I tell you.

Haha, I love Flare Blitz. My Rapidash in Diamond (I think) with Flare Blitz is pwnage.

BTW, I realised Outrage is now my least used attack on Kangaskhan. Sigh..

 

[amberfunk]

Here is a little of an update. I beat whitney, fainted sudoowoodo, went to ectureak and battled my rival. I released the dogs and saved the kimono girl. I beat Morty on my first try after using about 10 full heals on Nyx:) I saved my game after leveling up Steel, Yin and Nyx. I'll post their movesets on my next update:)

 

[emoxy]

The double battle against Clair/Lance was NOT FUN AT ALL.

 

[Sleet]

I thought that he's harder now. Except Snorlax/Espeon in GSC everything else was a joke.

You're probably right. I probably found it hard in Crystal cause' I must have been about 7 years old or something and at that time I didn't believe in capturing other Pokemon I pretty much Solo-runned it with a Feraligatr or Typhlosion xD

 

[Myzou]

BIIIIIG Update. XD Elite 4 pics are in spoiler tags. :)

Anyway, after being done in New Bark Town, I was told some people were looking for me...

After shamelessly killing the Legendary Pokemon Ho-Oh (Bug Types Don't Like Fire, Silly Kimono Girls!), it was off to journey to the Pokemon League... As I made my way to Victory Road, I enjoyed the scenery. Then, upon arriving at the exit to Victory Road, I was greeted to something I've grown to expect.

Anyway, after that was done too, it was time to challenge the league. I didn't know how my bugs would do, but only time would tell...

Spoiler:

First Up Was Will, the Master of the Psychic Types... the Perfect Prey for my Bugs.

Needless to say, he fell quite easy thanks to Shadow Sneak, X-Scissor, Bug Bite, etc.

Next up was Koga, master of the poison type.

Other than *cough* copying my team *cough*, the battle was quite smooth, thanks to Strobe's immunity to poison, as well as Charlotte and Spore's Psychic attacks.

Next up was Bruno, the fighting master...

Who, just like the previous two, fell quite easily thanks to Aerial Ace and Psychic.

The final Elite 4 member was next, Karen, master of the Dark...

Unfortunately for her, Dark Types are weak to Bug AND Fighting Type moves, which are readily available on my team. XD

Finally, I was down to my last fight... Lance, the Dragon Master, my worst enemy...

Gyarados gave me the most issues. Nothing I had could really hurt him, I actually ended up resorting to stalling with Strobe, and fighting back with Payback. Charizard was Guillotined, because to be honest, nothing I had could fight against him. Aerodactyl fell fast to Strobe's Gyro Ball, due to his lack of speed and Aerodactyl's actual speed.

Finally, his Dragonites. I had contemplated using Guillotine, but in the end, I decided that I might as well stick to trying to take them on regularly, as I was capable of taking out Clair's dragons. Surprisingly, they were all taken out in one hit by Spore's Signal Beam. (I used it over Sludge Bomb for the confuse chance, as I didn't think I'd be capable of taking them out in one shot. Tinted Lenses = <3 <3 <3)

And just to clarify: I healed after each battle with my medicines, xD If the fact their health is back confuses anyone. And if someone was hurt, I'd often swap them out when the next pokemon was sent in. That's why most the pokemon have full health in the screenies of each of the Elite 4's pokemon. Some don't such as Strobe in the Lance shot, as I didn't have time to heal up after Guillotining Charizard. I went through about 15 Full Restores and about 5 Revives in Total.

Elite 4 Champions:~

Charlotte the Ariados
Level 57
Psychic
Poison Jab
Sucker Punch
Shadow Sneak

Xena the Heracross
Level 56
Strength
Megahorn
Aerial Ace
Close Combat

Pinch the Pinsir
Level 57
Swords Dance
Guillotine
Superpower
X-Scissor

Spore the Venomoth
Level 57
Sludge Bomb
Signal Beam
Psychic
Roost

Strobe the Forretress
Level 56
Double-Edge
Gyro Ball
Payback
Bug Bite

Onto Kanto We Go!

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[emoxy]

I LOL at your matchup vs Koga.

And I think you meant Lance (Drake -> 4th Hoenn E4 member).

I used Gyro Ball to faint Aerodactyl too! :D And I think my Butterfree went through Lance's other 5 Pokes with Sleep Powder + Shadow Ball :D

Oh and I'm having a lot of fun with the old E4 now :D Me First is really a fun move to use. It goes like this:

Lance sent out Dragonite!
Go, Dolfy (Stantler)!
Dolfy uses Me First!
Dolfy uses Outrage!
It's super effective!
Dragonite fainted!
Lance sent out Dragonite!
Dolfy uses Outrage!
It's super effective!
Dragonite fainted!
Lance sent out Dragonite!
Dolfy uses Outrage!
It's super effective!
Dragonite fainted!

 

[Myzou]

I LOL at your matchup vs Koga.

And I think you meant Lance (Drake -> 4th Hoenn E4 member).

Ariados was accidental... then it just became to taunt him. (And to get good screenies) XD Forretress vs Forretress was lol. I sent him out, used Payback, next thing I know, "Forretress used Explosion!" XD

And I knew it was Lance, XD I'm getting tired :P I even named the image correctly, just typed it wrong up there, XD

And just FYI, my Playtime is so high cause sometimes I leave the emulator open and forget about it, lol. It didn't take me 20 extra hours to grind 20 levels, lol.

 

[emoxy]

Haha, I am already at 100 hours of playtime, considering that someone managed to play through Pokemon Red at 1:59 o.o

I am doing extreme sidetracking right now, just caught Articuno and Suicune, lol.

Explosion probably did 20-30 damage to you? o.o

 

[Polizard]

Ok
Defeated the elder with my totodile
Healed up at the poke center
Fought my way through the Violet gym
Won myself a Zephyr Badge
Waterblast evolved into croconaw
Continued my way down to the pokemon center on route 32 Got myself an old rod
Walked backed to Violet City fished and caught my self a magikarp nicknamed it rage and a poliwag nicknamed it Aqua
Headed yo union Cave saved it at the entrance
Waited till night and caught a wooper
saved the game
Going to start playing again now

Current team

Waterblast Lv 19

Scratch
Bite
Water Gun
Rage

Aqua Lv 11

Water Spout
Bubble
Hypnosis
Water gun

Rage Lv 11

Splash
(yeah be scared now)

Flipper Lv 7

Water gun
Tail whip
Mud Sport

 

[Sleet]

Going through the Radio tower at the moment should be at E4 in a couple of Hours :)

 

[emoxy]

Fighting E4 refreshed, and honestly it's a lot harder than I thought.

 

[Myzou]

Fighting E4 refreshed, and honestly it's a lot harder than I thought.

But you can only get the upgraded E4 by beating Red? O_o

Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying.

 

[emoxy]

But you can only get the upgraded E4 by beating Red? O_o

Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying.

Nope, it upgrades after you get the Earth Badge.

What came as a surprise was that you could catch Articuno before the Earth Badge.

EDIT: YES YES YES I BEAT KAREN!!!!!!
But I think I stand 0% chance against Lance. I'm depending on you, ROLLOUT. :D
(The Salamence likes to use Flamethrower. Seriously!?!!?!??!)

EDIT AGAIN: LOL I WIN HAHAHAHA ROLLOUT!
(Lance was significantly easier than Karen.)

Pokemon HGSS Monotype Challenge V2!
Update #15 - You know what? Not so smooth.

Sorry for the crazy update speed, I really have nothing to do these days. My friends are all back home and I'm the only one in my hostel.

Spoiler:

So.. after thrashing my rival at Mt. Moon, he screamed about going to Dragon's Den to train. We should head there too, but the official stuff shall be done first.
Continuing my adventure..

I think Blue's kinda cool, but he needs us to fight the red-hot Blaine first.

By the time I fought Blaine, my Aqua Tail had no PP -.- That's why I resorted to MooMoo's trusty Rollout.

YAY! :D But wait! It's time for Dragon's Den.
Look who's there!

This battle was crazily hard; took me >15 resets to get it right.
Meganium was really tanky; my turn 1 always started with Reflect (LightClay-ed) and he always used Light Screen.
That made Gyarados' Ice Fang deal 20% to my rival's Meganium =P Quite crazy.
Stealth Rock saved the day though; 50% damage to Charizard is pure awesomeness.
- Gengar's Sludge Bomb helped me deal a lot of damage too.
- Kangaskhan Outraged Kingdra to death and drained one of the Dragonites a lot.
- Obviously, Draco Meteor OHKOes anyone.
- I HATE Thunder Wave, which both Gyarados and Dragonair possess.
- This match ended up with Girafarig Psychic-ing Clair's Dragonite to death.

More sidetracking.. Yes I have this much time to catch those beasts.

And it's time for Ho-oh!

Easily captured :D Miltank with Thick Fat takes no sweat tanking his Sacred Fire.
Was seriously bored, so decided to just hit at Blue. =P

The last hit by Stantler was actually a Me First - Air Slash :D

"Oh, ****, E4 is upgraded. ZZZ"

(Did not take any pictures because I was seriously fed up with the amount of resets I had to do.)
Furthermore I went in with.. 8 revives and 18 Lemonades, 2 Max Potions and 1 Full Restore. :D

Will - Generally easy.
Bronzong - Earthquake.
Gardevoir - Crunch.
Jynx - Crunch.
Grumpig - Crunch.
Slowbro, Xatu - Thunder.

(No sweat.)

Koga - PP Wasting.
Skuntank - Earthquake.
The rest - 8 Psychics, I think (that leads to the next nightmare).

(I need PP Ups!)

Bruno - OMYGOSH.
It was certainly a fun battle.

Spoiler:

Hitmontop goes like this:
- Stantler used Reflect!
- Hitmontop used Close Combat!
(~65% damage)
- Stantler used Confuse Ray!
- Hitmontop hit itself due to confusion! (~10% damage)
- Stantler used Me First! Stantler used Close Combat (150% power)!
- Hitmontop fainted!

Stantler used Me First! Stantler used Close Combat (150% power)!
Hitmonlee fainted!

Hitmonchan thrashed my Stantler, and went down form a LOT of lucky Paralysis from Miltank. (the Full Restores were used here)
Hariyama was wasted by Psychic, but Miltank died in the process.
Only 1 Psychic left; sadly it didn't decimate Machamp, leaving him at 5% HP. (Girafarig was pawned thereafter)
Sent out my HM Slaves while reviving, and Kangaskhan finally got him down (somehow Bruno didn't use a Full Restore despite him not having used up all. Maybe he was thinking that he could kill me?)

Lucario left; and I knew I might be losing it because I only had Kangaskhan left.
Stalled him using my remaining Lemonades (Close Combat = ~65%, Lemonade = ~35%) until his defenses dropped, and BOOM! Return wasted him.

WIN!

KAREN - SHE IS A ***** OMG

Spoiler:

I thought my nightmare was over, then THAT GODDAMN WEAVILE HAD LOW KICK.

- Reflect, sent Miltank out (Low Kick with Reflect = ~20% to Miltank)
- Stealth Rock, ROLLOUT :D
- 3HKO Weavile, OHKO Absol and Houndoom (Rollout ends) (until here took me at least 15 resets)
- Honchkrow was surprisingly easy to take on, had my Kangaskhan 2HKO with Return, while being Thunder Waved and Drill Pecked.
- Umbreon is my NEMESIS.

My final tactic against Umbreon was to stall out its Payback (Cursed Payback is CRAZY.) and Sucker Punch, then had Girafarig Energy Ball it to death. (Physical attacks ~5% damage)

To my huge surprise, Lance wasn't too hard. (Only 2 resets!!!!!)
The Salamence (as mentioned above) likes to use Flamethrower;
- Reflect, sent out Miltank.
- Stealth Rock, ROLLOUT :D
- 3HKO Salamence, OHKO Dragonite, Gyarados.
- Kangaskhan Outraged Altaria to heaven, and to my surprise, heavily injured Garchomp (managed to hit it twice, its Outraged didn't OHKO me).
- Girafarig took care of Garchomp with an Energy Ball.
- Charizard came out, and Stealth Rock 50% damage XD
- Miltank proceeded to Rollout.

HALL OF FAME! :D

Dino - LV63 Kangaskhan
Docile/Scrappy
Leftovers
- Return
- Aqua Tail
- Crunch
- Outrage

Dolfy - LV61 Stantler
Serious/Intimidate
Light Clay
- Me First
- Confuse Ray
- Reflect
- Earthquake

Geeraff - LV63 Girafarig
Quiet/Inner Focus
Choice Scarf
- Shadow Ball
- Psychic
- Energy Ball
- Thunder

MooMoo - LV63 Miltank
Careful/Thick Fat
Hard Stone
- Rollout
- Stealth Rock
- Body Slam
- Milk Drink

I'm left with RED. More grinding!