Monotype Challenge (Ver. 2.0)

[DreJ1212]

Got another badge, and did some other stuff.

-Proceeded to surf down route 40. Lots of trainers here, and the wild pokemon are at a pretty decent level, so I got some really good exp.
-Route 40 merged into route 41 and I battled more trainers and pokemon. Gained a few levels.
-Arrived in Cianwood City.
-Went north and spotted Suicune! It ran away, and this wierd man named Eusine came out of nowhere. I guess he was pissed that I found suicune first because he battled me. Pretty easy battle.
-Went inside the gym and battled the trainers. Confronted Chuck

Gym Battle
-Primeape was simply demolished by a Wing attack by Crobat.
-Poliwrath was really annoying. It took 4 pokemon to take him down. Not even joking. I had to switch a lot due to hypnosis. After a while I took him down and got good exp for all 4 of those pokemon.

-Recieved the badge from chuck.
-Went outside and was confronted by Chuck's wife, who gave me the Fly HM.
-Pidgeot learned fly and I flew back to Olivine and gave Jasmine the secret potion. Jasmine returns to her gym.
-Exited the lighthouse to get a call from Baoba, the Safari Zone was open, I flew back to Cianwood and headed to route 47/48.
-Lots of good trainers here, good exp, headed to the safari zone.
-Baoba challenged me to catch a geodude in the safari zone, easy job.
-No more challanges, so I went to route 48 and started to train a bit in the grass. Jasmine awaits!

Current Party


Pidgeotto Lvl 30
-Twister
-Sand Attack
-Fly
-Quick Attack


Crobat Lvl 30
-Wing Attack
-Confuse Ray
-Astonish
-Bite


Gyarados Lvl 30
-Splash(lol...)
-Twister
-Bite
-Dragon Rage


Dratini Lvl 29
-Slam
-Thunder Wave
-Twister
-Dragon Rage


Yanma lvl 29
-Shadow Ball
-SuperSonic
-Quick Attack
-SonicBoom

Croconaw
Hm Slave

 

[Little Brother]

I think EJ allows save file modification of a dragon egg. You better ask him though.

I hope so, but how would I get it? D:

 

[EJ]

^Via cheating.

I'll sign the newest bug challenger up. Personally I love Beedrill, so I would have him on my bug team (if I were to pick Bug)

 

[Little Brother]

So that's a no huh? Damn...lemme consider the types then before i make a final choice

 

[Athprim]

Okay, since the first version didn't post, I guess I'll give the short version.

-Beat Whitney
-Training for Morty.
-Catching Magnemites to harvest 2 Metal Coats
-Added Scyther (Eddy) and Magnemite (Neutron) to party.

 

[EJ]

I'll only allow cheating to get a type not available to you on an emulator.

i.e. Ice, fighting, dragon.

 

[emoxy]

So that's a no huh? Damn...lemme consider the types then before i make a final choice

I think using Pokesav is allowed for creation of the egg. (As mentioned above)

Anyway, here's update: I'm trying to finish this asap, but it seems like I'll have some problems.

Update #9:

Spoiler:

- Currently in the process of heavily grinding Rocker.
- Grinded it till Level 47 (without evolving.. Need the Rock Blast at Level 49)
- Went through the E4 once again for levels; Lance is now a breeze as Rock Blast breaks through all Dragonites and Charizards.

- Celadon Gym! Generally easy, not much problem :)
- Erika: "I shall not lose."
- Razor, X-Scissor!
- Bug attacks really work here.
- Giga Drain! Don't think I need the TM, though.
- That old man looking at girls is still here -.-

- And now Saffron Gym! A gym I should sweep due to bug attacks.. I think.
- Trainers were pawned by Rocker's high attack.
- Sabrina is a bit of a problem; Espeon OHKOed my Pipp after a CM.
- Mr. Mime set up a Light Screen and got BugBited to death.
- Guess Fortress is the best bet here; Steel is a good type.

- Helped Copycat retrieve her lost Clefairy doll, and hey.. it's STEVEN!
- He said that everyone he battled had the same looks. WHAT AN INSULT.
- Oh! Latias!
- So it left Hoenn to come here.
- And he left. WHAT?

- Fine. I don't care about Latias anyway.. Time for Nugget Bridge..
- Psychic owns.
- I wonder why No. 5 and 6 have lower levels than the previous ones. And non-fully evolved Pokemon? Gosh.
- Oh! There's a SUPER NERD. Which left my Pipp with 1HP with Ice Beam. Phew.
- And.. there's Misty!

- Wow, she switched Pokemon at least 5 times in this battle - the most I've seen for any trainer. Seems like she attempts to counter my attacks.. Luckily I have some diversity. Most of her Pokemon had Ice Beam, which totally pawned me.

- Brock was a noob. Random special attacks owned.

- Janine got thrashed by Pipp.

- Blaine is a pain. As most of my Pokemon are slower, an Overheat will most probably OHKO me (except Armaldo, but I'm too lazy to go back to heal).
- Ok, time to heal (I fail.)
- Now Rock Blast breaks through everything.
- Somehow, Rapidash decided to use Bounce on my Razor (I switched wrongly). Left me with 3HP, and I slept it and Returned it to death. :)

- Time for BLUE.
- WTF is with the Fire Blast/Surf Tauros? It brought my Fortress to red. 4x weakness is seriously irritating me..
- AND THE SLOWKING, HAS FLAMETHROWER. WTF?
- OK, Blue time. NOT!
- Need the first gen Elite Four for easy experience. Ninjask, here we go!

- EV Grinded like crazy to get some Attack.
- Went through E4 again for Lightning (name for my Ninjask) to level up.
- Fought through Route 3, and I.. saw Redhair at Mt. Moon!!
- He can't help but challenge me!! He seems more composed now. Lol.
- Standard fare.
- What's with his Golbat? Haven't evolved.
- He actually took me some reloads, as the matchups sucked (I'm switching out Lightning to train it).
- Oh, he's going to Dragon's Den.

- Grind, grind, grind.
- Finally got my (almost) complete moveset!
- Had quite some problems with Blue - but I'll rest for now.

Pipp
Level 61 Docile Butterfree
159/74/90/148/110/131
Compoundeyes
- Bug Buzz
- Sleep Powder
- Shadow Ball
- Psychic

Fortress
Level 60 Lonely Forretress
176/161/172/94/92/63
Sturdy
- Bug Bite
- Payback
- Giga Drain
- Gyro Ball

Razor
Level 61 Relaxed Parasect
166/172/128/94/123/48
Dry Skin
- Return
- Giga Drain
- X-Scissor
- Spore

Rocker
Level 63 Impish Armaldo
226/207/162/91/119/70
Battle Armor
- Headbutt
- Protect
- Rock Blast
- Metal Claw

Lightning
Level 50 Hardy Ninjask
132/129/65/56/58/199
- Slash
- Protect
- Baton Pass
- Swords Dance

Can someone suggest me moves for Rocker? :)

 

[Little Brother]

I'll only allow cheating to get a type not available to you on an emulator.

i.e. Ice, fighting, dragon.

AWESOME. Lol that's good. Put me up for Dragon then. ;D

Trainer Name: Kinn
Type: Dragon
Version: SS

 

[Nohr]

Okay, so it's been a while since I've updated because I've been busy with work, and well, playing.

MY Ice-Challenge is going well, to say the least.

I destroyed Morty, without much trouble. Lapras handled him almost entirely by itself.

I then went over to olivine, tore through the lighthouse with relative ease, and grabbed a good rod in Olivine. I surfed over to Cianwood for the cure, and on my way there, I spent half an hour fishing for A shellder. I caught the first one I found, at level 20. I then proceeded to beat Chuck, fairly easily with Jynx's Psychic, despite ice's weakness to fighting. After getting fly, and sticking it to my HM slave of a hoot-hoot, I went back to goldenrod, to breed a shellder egg (since I'm very nitpicky about raising my pokemon from a very low level, or egg) When that finally hatched, I went back to Olivine, to cure Amphy and take on the Steel Gym. I was really worried about this one, but again, my Lapras managed to take the sonicbooms from the magnemite's, and then demolished Steelix with Surf.

I then went to Mahogany Town, and the lake of rage. After realizing I needed to deal with Team rocket, I did so, clearing them out using mostly my Glaceon and Jynx, all the while using my newly acquired Exp. Share to raise my Shellder. Then came Pryce, my first REAL challenge in a gym. Again, though, it was lapras to the rescue, with a combination of surf, confuse ray, and body slam. I then received the phone call regarding team rocket's take-over of the radio tower, and flew over there to dispatch them, with relative ease, until Archer's Houndoom. He almost demolished my entire team, but a Lucky critical hit from icicle spear from shellder saved the day.

Now I'm about to start my trek toward Blackthorn, and through the ice path, where I plan to catch a Delibird and a Swinub to round out my team. Though I'm unsure of how useful Delibird will be, and am wondering if I should just grab a Seel instead.

Anyway, that's my update, and here's my Current team:

Lapras, level 34

Jynx, Level 34

Glaceon, level 30

Shellder, level 25

 

[emoxy]

Grinding time.. I'll take my time.. The new E4 is seriously, hard.

 

[EJ]

@nohr: Seel was my "starter" ^.^

Dewgong can be beneficial to you but you already have your bases covered with Lapras (water/ice)

 

[Kurumi]

.EJ I completed everything but Red,stuck with team of 4x-6x lvl pokemon @_@ And Pikachu just roflvolts my pokemon @___@ Should I get Omastar instead of Corsola? I love Cereal so much,it helped me so many times @_@
OHWAIT I DON'T NEED TO BEAT RED? @_@ Do I need to rematch the E4,or just completing it once,and completing every leader once counts?

 

[emoxy]

.EJ I completed everything but Red,stuck with team of 4x-6x lvl pokemon @_@ And Pikachu just roflvolts my pokemon @___@ Should I get Omastar instead of Corsola? I love Cereal so much,it helped me so many times @_@
OHWAIT I DON'T NEED TO BEAT RED? @_@ Do I need to rematch the E4,or just completing it once,and completing every leader once counts?

I'm at the same phase as you -.- I think Omaster would be cool. Corsola is hard to use.

I am getting pawned by E4 remix so Red is completely out of the question for me. Grinding @ Mt. Silver.. Haha.

 

[EJ]

Nah you guys are done.

The rules were placed by the guy before me...I just enforce them nowadays. He set it up so that we finish our challenge once we beat Blue.

 

[emoxy]

Haha yay. I'll upload my pokemon stats later. Dotaing soon :D

And that was tough. Bug is seriously, not exactly a very good type to use. ><

 

[EJ]

We have a tradition and that is to immortalize a line from the champion.

What do you want to say man?

 

[Kurumi]

So mine will be:
Read the rules carefully and look deep into Your Pokemon,sometimes they'll be able to defeat their weaknesses and be victorious.
Should I post my team?

 

[emoxy]

Pipp
Level 64 Docile Butterfree
166/77/94/155/115/138
Compoundeyes
Amulet Coin
- Bug Buzz
- Sleep Powder
- Shadow Ball
- Psychic

My main partner. She thrashed through almost everything with Sleep Powder, and coupled with decent special moves that it can learn (especially Bug Buzz), it could do some serious damage. If opponent wakes up, rinse and repeat. She was especially helpful in the Dragon gym and against Gyarados, one of the Pokemon that I have a LOT of problem against.

Fortress
Level 62 Lonely Forretress
181/166/179/97/95/65
Sturdy
Iron Ball
- Bug Bite
- Payback
- Giga Drain
- Gyro Ball (PP Up twice)

The defensive poke; I chose not to wait for Power Trick, and I think it wasn't too bad. Special mention to Payback, which helped me thrash through Psychic Pokemons with ease, and acts as a powerful Physical attack (since with Iron Ball, Fortress always goes last).

Razor
Level 61 Relaxed Parasect
166/172/128/94/123/48
Dry Skin
Miracle Seed
- Return
- Giga Drain
- X-Scissor
- Spore

My second Pokemon, which did not perform up to my expectation through my journey, I must say; 4x weakness to Flying and Fire (+ Dry Skin!) aside, it didn't have enough HP to tank through other attacks (60/80/80 at the defenses). That being said, it has MASSIVE attack and X-Scissor/Return ensures a 2HKO on almost anything that doesn't resist it. Too bad the type coverage is very little..

Rocker
Level 65 Impish Armaldo
233/213/167/94/122/72
Battle Armor
Muscle Band
- Headbutt
- Earthquake
- Rock Blast
- Metal Claw

I got it after National Dex; and it quickly became a monster. Despite being slow, it tanks through everything and has a higher attack than Razor to begin with. I would say Razor got outclassed by it in a lot of ways (save the 4x ground resistance Razor has). Rock Blast helped me through Lance's dragons a LOT.

Lightning
Level 65 Hardy Ninjask
169/166/83/71/73/257
Speed Boost
- X-Scissor
- Protect
- Baton Pass
- Swords Dance

My last Pokemon, trained primarily to set up Swords Dance + Speed Boosts to Rocker to sweep. :) Definitely a fun moveset I've used.

Hmm..
"Type coverage is very important; choose your moves wisely and don't hesitate to use TMs."

BTW, that was a fun experience. Definitely a huge challenge for me, and thanks EJ for hosting this. I might consider another type in the future. :)

I would love to see your team Kurumi but of course it's up to you :)

 

[Athprim]

Okay...few updates and a suggestion.

I absolutely love this team I'm putting together. I am however, gonna breed them with a Ditto, hope to get some Good IVs, Good Natures, etc. and EV train them.

In other news, I have beat Morty and in putting together final movesets, I'm struggling to come up with a few.

Empoleon
---------
Surf
Ice Beam
Flash Cannon
???

Lucario (SP. ATK is slightly higher than ATK)
-------
Aura Sphere
Dragon Pulse
Shadow Ball
Psychic

Steelix
-------
Earthquake
Screech (ATK is not extremely high, so i figured this might help)
Stone Edge
Crunch

Scizor
------
X-Scissor
Iron Head
False Swipe
???

Magnezone
-----------
Thunderbolt
Thunder Wave
Signal Beam
???

Edit: Forgot my suggestion! Seeing as how people are playing to beat Red anyways, Why don't we add that to the challenge?

 

[Kurumi]

Naughty Tyranitar "Sweepstake"

/w Sand Stream
Level 63
Moveset:
Dark Pulse
Stone Edge
Thunderbolt
Earthquake
Leveling Sweepstake was horrible. EV'd it a bit,but it was really hard... but once it evolved it was just killer.

Adamant Corsola "Cereal"
/w Hustle
Level 62
Moveset:
Surf
Powder Gem
Blizzard
Stealth Rock
Cereal helped me a lot on my journey. I caught it in Olivine,altough it was meant to me Special Sweeper,I didn't care so much. Till Surf HM it was decent,but still worth using. With Surf and Blizzard it was EXCELLENT Pokemon. Powder Gem was amazing vs Ice or Flying. Stealth Rock was added somewhere about Kanto,really useful!

Lonely Aerodactyl "Aerock"
/w Rock Head
Level 40
Moveset:
Fly
Wing Attack
Ancientpower
Agility
Excellent Speed and Attack,LOVE IT! Wasn't used in serious battles,because I bred it and leveled from level 1,but with amazing stats it could get enemies 20 lvls higher,but they needed to be weak against it. Not proud of moveset...

Naive Magcargo "Volcano"
/w Flame Body
Level 38
Moveset:
Amnesia
Recover
Lava Plume
Ancientpower
Moveset is not amazing again. I was raising it for Red,but I thought it would be really nice addition to my team,so here's Volcano!

Rash Lunatone "Moonray"
/w Levitate
Level 41
Moveset:
Dream Eater
Hypnosis
Cosmic Power
Psychic
I love this Pokemon and I dreamed about it from the very beginning. Though I needed to wait for it till mid-Kanto. I was planning to replace Cosmic Power with Calm Mind,making it GREAT sweeper.

So that's it ^^ My end-game team :) The sixth slot was meant for Rhydon,but I need a HM slave in my team.
I REALLY ENJOYED THE CHALLENGE! I think I'll start the Ghost one ^^
I'd like to say thanks to Graveler,Onix,Sudoowodo and Shuckle for hanging with me for a while,You ROCKED guys! Get it? ROCKED!
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