Monotype Challenge

[Emlam]

Sure, but my point is you can beat the gyms directly before and after Misty with pretty weak Pokemon; Starmie seems disproportionately strong. :P

 

[myrrhman]

It is, but that's because
a) Brock has no Rock type moves. And any intelligent player can get around Onix's Bide with growl or tail whip or something. This makes Pokemon like Butterfree usable (because if Onix knew Rock Throw it would be ridiculous).
b) as you said, Lt. Surge is a joke if you have a Ground type Pokemon. The most commonly used is either Geodude or Diglett. If you have a Geodude, only normal type attacks hit, and are not very effective. If you have a Diglett, you take more damage, but are faster. His signature move is Thunderbolt, which doesn't effect either of those Pokemon.
c) Once again on Lt. Surge, you are required to get the move Dig before you fight him. In Red/Blue, Dig is overpowered (100 Power, 100 Acc.). Many Pokemon can learn this move, including your starter unless you chose Bulbasaur (which you don't have because we're talking about how hard Misty is without a proper Grass type), so there is a good chance that at least one of your Pokemon can get near a OHKO on all of his Pokemon. But with Misty, there's just no way around her signiture attack, Bubblebeam, which has a base 97.5 base power (65 + STAB bonus). The only Pokemon that can resist this move that early in the game are Squirtle/Wartortle, Paras, or like Magikarp (which I doubt you will try to use unless you evolve it by then, which again, I doubt).

Edit: I changed the rule about no Ghost, Ice, or Dragons. Some of you guys (me included) are doing the Ultimate Monotype Challenge in various types, and I want the rules here to match the rules there. So, if you are using one of those types, hack it in at the beginning. Otherwise, no hacking. And with that, I am starting my Ghost Challenge!

 

[TehYoshiNinja]

Ah, sweet. However... due to my tendency to forget to save, and the suckiness of my laptop...

Riiiight as I finished up in the SS Anne, I kinda got a Blue Screen of Death -.-

Typing this on my friend's computer. Until it gets fixed, there'll be no updates, unless I start yet ANOTHER Monotype.

 

[Itz Spadezz]

Sign Up:

Name: Itz Spadezz
Type: Fighting

I'm actually hoping to have an update by today

 

[myrrhman]

well, i have a bit of time to play before dinner.

Part 1: The spooky beginning

Today was a big day. I turned 10 and got my first Pokemon. Professor Oak had three choices for me and his grandson, Spam. I got to choose between a Bulbasaur, a Charmander, and a Squirtle. I picked Bulbasaur, because I liked the vines that it could use. Stupid Spam chose the Charmander, I think just because it was strong against me. We battled afterwards, and I won. I went to the nearby city to buy some Pokeballs so I could start my adventure. But, the store clerk made me go take Oak a Package. When I got back, I got a Pokedex in exchange. Then, I made it to the city a second time. I bought a couple of Pokeballs and went to the nearby route, to catch some Pokemon. All of a sudden it got all cold. I could see a ghost up ahead, and it was looking at me. I sent out Bulbasaur for protection. Bulbasaur spit seeds at the ghost from on its back, and somehow they hit the ghost. It gave Bulbasaur a big lick on the face. How weird. Then, I could see the seeds sprouting all over the Ghost's body. Life force seemed to suck itself out of the ghost and into bulbasaur, which made it feel better. Bulbasaur couldn't hit it with tackle, so he had to just growl at it. Eventually, when enough life force had drained from it, I decided to throw a Pokeball. One wiggle. Two wiggles. Three wiggles. The ghost was mine. I decided to name it Reaper. Reaper and I started training. I realized he could lick opponents, confuse them, and use some weird attack that turned the air dark and hurt them. I decided to name the attack Night Shade.

Reaper and I trained and trained, all over the place. We beat Spam again and I realized how good Reaper was. Pretty soon after that, I found myself fighting a Gym Leader, Brock. But if this battle proved to be like any of the others, Reaper would once again be untouchable. He was. I went into a cave after battling a few trainers.
Gave up on writing a story.
Beat Spam, and realized that Ghost doesn't effect Psychic in this generation. WTF?
Evolved Reaper on the slowpoke trainer.
Got to Bill and got the ticket.
Beat Spam.
Got Cut and got the Bike Vocher.
Went to fight Lt. Surge to try and get another move.
Opened the doors on my first attempt (although the first switch was in the last can that I checked). This is a first.
Got out of the Rock Tunnel paralyzed with 4 HP left. Phew.
Beat Erika after getting psychic and one hitting the entire fighting dojo without healing. This completed my moveset of Psychic, Mega Drain, Thunderbolt, and Hypnosis.
Beat Koga and Blaine easily.
Sabrina gave me problems, but I beat her.
Giovanni was easy, as was Spam.
Got through Victory Road.
Loreli was easy. Thunderbolt didn't kill dewgong, so while it rested i used mega drain and then another thunderbolt. Cloyster and slowbro fell to one thunderbolt each. Jynx and lapras took two each.
Bruno took 5 hits. 3 were psychic and 2 were mega drain.
Agatha was the toughest, and all of her ghosts took multiple hits. The other two did not.
Lance couldn't touch me (I think, the battle went by so quickly)
Had to use an elixer.
Rival lost to thunderbolt, hypnosis thunderbolt thunderbolt, mega drain, hypnosis and a few psychics, thunderbolt, thunderbolt thunderbolt.

And I won! 4/15 done.

 

[TehYoshiNinja]

Well... that was quick XD

Nice run. What level was Reaper by the end? Must have been pretty high.

 

[moon]

Argh, I'll try this again.

I'll use pokémon Blue and go with Psychic type. To feel like a superhero, blasting everything away with Kadabra~

EDIT:

Kay update. I picked Bulbasaur, just to beat the first gyms quickly before I can get my hands on Abra and Drowzee. Though, I'll need to use Bulbasaur a bit more, since Abra doesn't learn any attacking move before evolving, right? :/ unless I'll get Drowzee before that... anywhoo.

Beat Rival, got pokédex, got through Viridian, beat Brock on first try.

 

[myrrhman]

Well... that was quick XD

Nice run. What level was Reaper by the end? Must have been pretty high.

Just checked. He was at level 63. So yeah, pretty high. I'm doing the ultimate monotype challenge in every type, so now i'm trying to determine if i want to do all the gen 1 games first, or do it by type.

Argh, I'll try this again.

I'll use pokémon Blue and go with Psychic type. To feel like a superhero, blasting everything away with Kadabra~

EDIT:

Kay update. I picked Bulbasaur, just to beat the first gyms quickly before I can get my hands on Abra and Drowzee. Though, I'll need to use Bulbasaur a bit more, since Abra doesn't learn any attacking move before evolving, right? :/ unless I'll get Drowzee before that... anywhoo.

Beat Rival, got pokédex, got through Viridian, beat Brock on first try.

Lol, I remember my psychic run. It was so easy. I thought I would be using Kadabra for most everything, but as soon as I beat Misty and the Pokemon Tower, I went all the way to Fuchsia and got a Starmie, then went back and completely destroyed everyone with it. But yeah, you can use your Bulbasaur to help train Abra, that's what I did.

 

[Emlam]

Kay update. I picked Bulbasaur, just to beat the first gyms quickly before I can get my hands on Abra and Drowzee. Though, I'll need to use Bulbasaur a bit more, since Abra doesn't learn any attacking move before evolving, right? :/ unless I'll get Drowzee before that... anywhoo.

Beat Rival, got pokédex, got through Viridian, beat Brock on first try.

Well, you can always teach it some stupid little TM like Mega Punch if you really want it to be able to attack. :P

 

[moon]

Well, you can always teach it some stupid little TM like Mega Punch if you really want it to be able to attack. :P

It hasn't got that big ATK stat though, right? So it wouldn't be that great :p but yeah, I guess.

 

[Emlam]

Oh no, its Attack is pathetic. :P I always taught it Mega Punch because it seemed slightly less useless that way, though. XD And that way if something big KOed my main attacker but had only a few HP left, I could at least use Abra's speed to swoop in and finish it for a big exp. bonus.
Not that that happens very often in practice unless you try to.

 

[AnjinMiura_PL]

Okay, last update before E4 ;)

Spoiler:

I really enjoy my bug team, as bugs are my favourite Pokemons ;) But I know, that without good levels, I'll fail with Elite Four. I've had 8 Rare Candies - it was helpful, but later. First Fairy and Nightmare, as they've Psybeam&Solarbeam / Psybeam&Psychic. I've trained both in Victory Road to 60th levels. Sounds great ;) But there are still 3 Pokemons. They was raised in Pokemon Mansion, where Angus and Sabreman reached 58 lvls, Harry 57lvl. Two RC for Angus and Sabreman, three for Harry. Sounds great ;) Now, with all-60's I've good team for Elite Four, I believe. I'm still thinking about grinding for Fairy and Nightmare to 63-65 lvl, 'cause it's possible to do in Victory Road. But I would like to face Elite Mafia, soo...hmm. Hmmm...hmmm...

See you in last update ;)

EDIT:

Okay, I started a epic battle with Elite Four ;) I tried to record it with GBA, but something went wrong and I've recorded only battle with Lorelei, in size 160x144 also :/ Anyway, if somebody wants I can upload it somewhere ;)

I didn't do any screens, because I thought that I'm still recording that. Damn :/ Only Hall Of Fame screenshots, to prove my victory ;) And short description also (WARNING: It's so long xD)

Spoiler:

Lorelei:
Oui, she was so tough. When Lapras fainted Fairy, and I've had only Harry and Nightmare, I was scared a little. But Harry managed to knock Lapras down, and I was still in the game. Also Lorelei was tough for me, because you know, she has Ice pokemons.

Bruno:
Nightmare was a real nightmare for Bruno ;) Psychics, Psychics, Psychics, at least Machamp was down after Fairy Psybeams ;) Bruno just had bad luck, 'cause I had Fairy and Nightmare, not he :D

Agatha:
Old Dark Lady wanted to stop me...not this time. Yeah, with problems, but at last, Gengar vs Nightmare and uberpowerfull Psychics = Agatha drowned. Harry was fainted, but he knocked out first Gengar and seriously damaged Golbat. Now to Lance

Lance:
Lance was strong, but not as hard as Lorelei for me. Sabreman defeated Gyarados and one Dragonair, second Dragonair was punched by Angus, Aerodactyl was tough, but Fairy's Psybeams took him down, and last battle Dragonite vs. Nightmare - Sleep Powder, Psychics, I wo...Hyper Potion. >.< But Dragonite wasn't wake up, and lost some Special during attacks too - last was Psybeam and it made my way to Roman ;)

Roman:
Tough, si. Maybe a little harder than Lance. Pidgeot blacked out by 2 Sabreman critical Slashes (he always have criticals, Slash FTW ;D). Alakazam was harshly damaged by Harry. Harry was defeated with Psybeams, but Sabreman managed to defeat Master Of Spoons. Next Rhydon - and Solarbeam KOd Rhydon here. But against Gyarados it wasn't so good. Anyway, Fairy used Sleep Powder, then Solarbeams, Solarbeams, and only Charizard in the Roman's party. As always, I used Nightmare. As always, Nightmare destroyed his rival and made me Pokemon League Champion, and helped me to finish the challenge ;)

Sth about my team now (Really big update) :D. I love my team ;)

Sabreman[Scyther] - a lot of criticals with Slash attacks - and I really like his "critical" style ;) I'm really happy 2 have Sabreman in team, but if he could have one cool bug attack - I would be even more happier than now. Much more happier, because he will be ultimate killer ;DD

Angus[Parasect] - He's really big and scary ;D I like his Spore'n'Slash style, it's kinda other than Scyther. If you can't avoid massive Spore attack - you will die soon man ;) I feel a lot of defensiveness here, but it's important for team too ;)

Harry[Beedrill] - Harry's offensive contains two phases. First phase is focusing of energy. Then, unleash it with Twineedle! That's how Harry does. He was fainted at League Battles twice, but...it isn't change nothin'. Still H.A.R.R.Y, if you know what I mean ;) I really like his long HP bar ;D If Harry survive something, rival won't :D

Fairy[Butterfree] - from the beginning, Fairy was opposite to Nightmare (as we see, Fairytale =/ Nightmare). I guess that I've should name him Fairytale ;) It would sounds even greater :D Confusion from 12th level is really cool, we know, but only Solarbeam&Psybeam made me Champion ;) Pokemon based on beams, that's what I want :D I always imagine Butterfree as "Master Of Fairness", you know what I mean. And it's complete opposite to my last Pokemon, my hero, my favourite Pokemon all-time, and that is...

Nightmare[Venomoth] - Nightmare, of course. He is "Master Of Darkness" for me. You will die soon, if you meet Nightmare somewhere. I love everything in Venomoth, except...sprite in 1st generation ;( In next gens it's a lot of better with this :D I guess Venomoth is my favourite Pokemon, I've him in almost every teams, and that's also why I decided to pick bug Pokemons. Venomoth is just the best, and you must agree with it. Psybeam&Psychic = ...eee...equals nothing, because there will be nothing left from you ;)


And now I can tell that my bug challenge is over! :D But I would really like to do this in other generations too. With the same Pokemons? Why not, I love my Bugs ^^'


Yeah, I can say that's the end ;D Save will be hidden somewhere, maybe I'll play sometimes. Now, I must complete another challenges ;)

See you around ;)
Ober

 

[peopleperson]

Just defeated Erica, going to head onto the whole rocket thing now.

here is my current team after defeating erica.

Spoiler:

 

[moon]

Second update. Went to and through Mount Moon and reached Cerulean. Battled Rival PAMPERS.
It was reeeeally tough with just Ivysaur. Lost once. I want to get my hands on Kadabra!

 

[pleryt16]

I'd like to do Normal type in Pokemon Blue

Name: pleryt16
Game: Blue
Type: Normal

Chose Squirtle (to teach Surf)
Beat DJ (rival)
Got Pokedex
Caught Rattata, Pidgey, and Spearow
Trained them all to level 10
Beat DJ again
Trained Rattata and Spearow to level 13
Trained Pidgey to level 16
Beat Brock

Team:
Rattata level 13
Tackle
Tail Whip
Quick Attack

Spearow level 13
Peck
Growl
Leer

Pidgey level 16
Gust
Sand Attack
Quick Attack

 

[moon]

*Third update*

Fought some trainers around Cerulean, but saved some for later.
Went to Bill's.
Found an Abra north of Cerulean! Kept using Ivysaur to train it though.
Beat the gym and Misty, leveling up Abra a bit.
Went to Vermilion and caught Drowzee!

Drowzee is low level and Abra can't fight... am I allowed to use Ivysaur to level them up at least against wild pokémon? I'd figure not, since it wouldn't really be in the spirit of the challenge... :p

Team:

Abra
Lv 12

Drowzee
Lv 12

Ivysaur
Slave/training

 

[pleryt16]

Well, I caught a jigglypuff and taught it bide and water gun
I evolved jigglypuff to wigglytuff after it learned pound
Got through Mt. Moon
Trained team to 20
Met Bill
Beat Misty
Caught Meowth and in progress of training


Team:
Meowth level 18
Scratch
Growl
Bite
Pay Day

Pidgeotto level 22
Gust
Sand-Attack
Quick Attack
Whirlwind

Fearow level 22
Peck
Growl
Leer
Fury Attack

Raticate level 22
Tackle
Growl
Quick Attack
Hyper Fang

Wigglytuff level 23
Sing
Water Gun
Bide
Pound

Should I have Snorlax for last member or not?

 

[Emlam]

Snorlax is a slow grower, but it's tough ... and you can teach it Surf if you want. :P

I've always preferred Tauros because slow Pokemon bug me, but Snorlax is easier to catch without cheating.

 

[pleryt16]

Where do you catch Tauros?

 

[Emlam]

Area 3 of the Safari Zone (or any right-side shoreline after visiting it) in Red/Blue, Area 1 of the Safari Zone in Yellow.