[Challenge] Restarting the Random Challenge

[EccentricEncylopedia]

Of course! That'll be a plusle if that's alright with you.

 

[Allosawyou]

I'm looking for a reason to play Ultra Sun one more time before Sword/Shield come out.

There dosen't seem to be anyone needing me to roll for them, so...

Forum Username: Allosawyou
Game Version: Ultra Sun
Number of Pokemon: 6
Exclude NFEs: Yes; with exception of Trade Evos [Bar Clampearl]
National Dex: No
Restrictions: Not so much a restriction, more I don't want to do an extended solo run because those just end up as you overlerveling and smashing everything, so if it rolls that way, feel free to do a couple of extra rolls for 'placeholder' teammates for me to use until lategame ones show up. Just make the placeholders clear. I'd say use placeholders if I'm below 2 members at the end of Melemele; 4 at end of Akala and 5 at the end of Ula'Ula.

Also I'm fine using NFE's for Trade Evos; such as Kadabra; Haunter; Machoke; with the exception of Clampearl because Clampearl is basically unusable.

 

[MiKyu22]

@EccentricEncylopedia
Of course! That'll be a plusle if that's alright with you.

That's perfect. I didn't used any of those pokemon in emerald as far i can remember, so this will be a fun run. Thank you for rolling for me!

@Allosawyou
Forum Username: Allosawyou
Game Version: Ultra Sun
Number of Pokemon: 6
Exclude NFEs: Yes; with exception of Trade Evos [Bar Clampearl]
National Dex: No
Restrictions: Not so much a restriction, more I don't want to do an extended solo run because those just end up as you overlerveling and smashing everything, so if it rolls that way, feel free to do a couple of extra rolls for 'placeholder' teammates for me to use until lategame ones show up. Just make the placeholders clear. I'd say use placeholders if I'm below 2 members at the end of Melemele; 4 at end of Akala and 5 at the end of Ula'Ula.

Since i don't own neither US nor UM, a quick look in the pokedex reveled that this roll was good one:
Weavile
Magnezone
Wishiwashi (SCHOOL form)
Forrestress
Gumshoos
Cradily
So, if you want do re-roll, feel free to do so.

Now, let's start the fun:
LOG #1 --- From Littleroot to Petalburg Woods.

Spoiler:

Well, hello everybody. This is my first log and my first official challenge since a long time ago, this log will just be a introductory one, so i will just talk about the most important: that is, i going from the truck until Petalburg Woods, where lives the first pokemon of my team. Thankering again @EccentricEncylopedia for rolling for me.

FROM LITTLEROOT TO PETALBURG WOODS.

Started exiting the truck and entering home, where i adjust the wall's clock and get a potion in my PC. After that, i briefly see a documentary about Norman and then we're invited to talk to May.

The rest goes like every start in Ruby/Shappire/Emerald: We talk to the rival, save his/her father from a pokemon using one of the starters and he then let us keep it. I choose torchic since i would be running only a normal type for about 3 or 4 gym's and fighting a combusken would not be nice.

After that, the Professor ask if we want to see his child and to progress in the game we go there, however, we need to stop by a important place first:

OLDALE TOWN.

Why would this be a important place? Because FREE POTION! Yes, i'll need them a LOT. Since we can't bypass the man blocking the road to Petalburg, we are forced to fight our's rival (This mean hitting SCRATCH/POUND/TACKLE 'till someone faints). After that, finally the Professor gives us a Pokedex and some Pokeballs to catch something.

Note that i going to skip the 2nd rival's meeting/catching tutorial/parent's meeting since it is just a introduction and we still need to go there to conquer the 5th BAGDE anyway. Other important thing is that i am skipping all the optional battles along the way, since SLAKOTH can be caught the moment i step in PETALBURG WOODS.

No sooner said than done, once i get in PETALBURG WOODS, i go to the grass in right and start searching for SLAKOTH until i find a female one at level 6. A bit damage, a pokeball and...

DONE! I have caught the first pokemon of my future team: a female SLAKOTH called WHITE!

No more to be said in that somewhat lenghty entry: i went back to PETALBURG, boxed Torchic and started training WHITE against the trainers i sneaked by. One thing to be noted is that i didn't know that the SLAKOTH's family unique ability: Truant would be such a PAIN to deal with.

"But, it just skip one turn."

Yes. Not so problematic when you have various team members, but alone it JUST loses ONE TURN! Basically a free hit turn to the opponent. Geez, no wonder any other pokemon, except some other obscure ones, have it.​

 

[Eolith]

Forum Username: Eolith
Game Version: Platinum
Number of Pokemon: 4
Exclude NFEs: Yes
National Dex: No
Restrictions: One Pokemon obtainable before 1st gym (non-starter), others all after first gym. No two Pokemon with exact same typing, but one type can be shared if multitype.

 

[Superjolt]

Forum Username: Eolith
Game Version: Platinum
Number of Pokemon: 4
Exclude NFEs: Yes
National Dex: No
Restrictions: One Pokemon obtainable before 1st gym (non-starter), others all after first gym. No two Pokemon with exact same typing, but one type can be shared if multitype.

Hello! Your team is:

Rotom
Bibarel
Kricketune
Gallade

 

[Eolith]

Hello! Your team is:

Rotom
Bibarel
Kricketune
Gallade

Heya, thanks for the response! Only problem is that I can get two of these before the first gym, I probably should have been more specific in my description on the ruling with that. To elaborate, I was hoping to have only one of my Pokemon be attainable before the primary gym battle.

 

[Superjolt]

Heya, thanks for the response! Only problem is that I can get two of these before the first gym, I probably should have been more specific in my description on the ruling with that. To elaborate, I was hoping to have only one of my Pokemon be attainable before the primary gym battle.

Ohhhh okay, in that case Bibarel or Kricketune can be Skuntank instead! :)

 

[MudkipMafia]

Can someone re-roll my Dragonite and Ambipom for Ultra Moon? I believe they are postgame only

 

[MiKyu22]

@MudkipMafia
Can someone re-roll my Dragonite and Ambipom for Ultra Moon? I believe they are postgame only

There you go:
Sharpedo
Menectric

That was not the first roll, but the other ones seemed kinda common or late-game, if you wanna Arcanine, Lycanroc and Palossand were one of the other rolls.

 

[Allosawyou]

@MiKyu22

I completely forgot that the fossil pokemon are completely asinine to obtain in USUM. You have to have a Rank 3 Isle Aphun [Requireing 60 pokemon minimum in your boxes]; and then it's a Very Rare outcome for a mission which takes 24 hours. And that very rare slot is shared with every single fossil+Golden Bottlecaps. Basically it's like Munchlax on honey trees level of stupid. If I was in Ultra Moon it would be alright; since it's an option from Olivia. But in Ultra Sun you get the Claw Fossil instead and have to Pokepelago for Root.

Sneasel isn't available until literally right before the E4, but I plan to do postgame so I'll keep that one.

I'd like a re-roll on Craydily however. It's just too time-consuming to obtain. Sword/Shield could actually be out by the time I get a Root Fossil.

Or just swap it out for Armaldo; which is basically the version counterpart.

 

[MiKyu22]

@Allosawyou

Oh, i didn't now Cradily would be such a hassle to get. You can use Armaldo without problem.

 

[MudkipMafia]

There you go:
Sharpedo
Menectric

That was not the first roll, but the other ones seemed kinda common or late-game, if you wanna Arcanine, Lycanroc and Palossand were one of the other rolls.

Confirming team of Primarina, Hariyama, Masquerain, Sharpedo, Manectric, and Metagross. Funny that 5/6 are Hoenn mons, should be fun!

 

[Allosawyou]

Right; so it seems I post the progress of my Challenge here; so here goes:

Random Pokemon Given:

Gumshoos
Magnezone
Wishiwashi
Armaldo
Foretress
Weavile

Immediately I can see where my first major challenge is going to be! The team has worked out surprisingly balanced, even with two Bug-types and two Steel-types, also, this list of pokemon, besides Magnezone, are all pokemon I've never actually used in an in-game playthrough.

I push through all the intro. God Gen 7 why do you stop me every 5 steps? I chose Rowlet for this part because Popplio should be easy to handle with Magnemite.

Then I realise that what I think is the first problem isn't the first problem. The first problem is Hau 2. Yungoos is a physical attacker; and Pichu has Charm. So Yungoos needs to be strong enough to deal with both Pichu and Popplio; despite Growls and Charms.

I catch Yungoos; it's Naughty Nature with Strong Jaw, so that's good. I grind on Route 1 to Lv8; which takes quite a long time. The difficulty of this battle entirely depends on what Pichu does. Chomper immediately takes Pichu to red... and it uses Charm. Worst-case scenario. Although no Static. Since I'm -2 Attack I give Popplio a Leer, but even after that Popplio Growls and Tackle is a 4~5HKO. Popplio's Water Gun is a 3HKO. Also; Hau's Popplio is Female. Despite trainer's pokemon usually having genders lining up with their own; and Popplio having a 12.5% female ratio [despite it's obviously feminine design in later forms...]

Luckily; Popplio keeps Growling mostly; and I only take a 2nd Water Gun from outside Torrent Range. If Popplio Water Guned once more I'd have lost [Well; I'd have been forced to just spam Growls with Rowlet until I was KO'ed; since I can't box Rowlet yet.]

I catch a Magnemite; but it has Magnet Pull. Frankly; to have any shot against Hala; I need Sturdy; so, I go catch more. And yes; Hala is obviously going to be an absolute nightmare with nothing but a Normal-type and a Steel-type. Machop's Revenge is strong enough to usually OHKO even neutrals and Crabrawler has All-Out Pummelling.

I get a Sturdy Magnemite on my 2nd Magnemite. It took about 10 mins to find this 2nd Magnemite.

 

[sunshinesonia]

i might drop the white run. i forgot how slow and agonizing fifth gen is, though i still love the games, its just very exhausting. i could do another run in Omega Ruby since its a lot more fast paced. we'll see.

 

[MiKyu22]

LOG #2 --- A Hard Day.

Spoiler:

A Hard Day

Howdy! Between the logs i made some training fighting against the trainers i had ignore and backtracking my steps until where i found WHITE: Petalburg Woods, now that she is well trained we can pass through it without problems (except if i run out of POTIONS and end going all the way to Petalburg because TRUANT).

Apart from rescuing the Devon employee and defeating a team aqua's member (although this is not the last time we'll see him), nothing really happened in the woods. The route between it and Petalburg was not interesting, either. A boy(?) right the exit gave me the Bullet Seed TM, oh man, if only WHITE could learn it. Sigh...
The flowershop's women gave me BERRIES and a Waterpot which i thought it would be usefull, but i didn't need it really. The rest is about me fighting against the other trainers.

Let me note how stressful is fighting against a SHROOMISH with the EFFECT SPORE ability: i attacked it once with WHITE and it paralyzed her, after that whenever her could attack, paralyze would take over. Just... no, never again.

After reaching Petalburg, i paid a visit in the Woodcutter's house to get CUT and used it in WHITE to "better" STAB, in the Trainer's School to get QUICK CLAW and in the pokemart to resplanish my POTION suplies and get some ATTACK X. Then i went to the route after the city(which goes to the caves) and grinded in there like there is no tomorrow.

In the beginning i thought that no heavy grinding would be needed, however after fighting against ONE geodude and almost beign out with CUT's PP and almost beign killed, it was clear that i would need to grind a LOT. Again, sigh...
On the other side, once WHITE evolved into VIGOROTH and i could attack in every turn... What a relief, i must say.

Now that i had VIGOROTH, Roxanne would not be pose much a problem:

VS. ROXANNE

I must say, i glad i grinded WHITE, because she would not have defeated Roxanne the other way. He started with a geodude whose level was way higher than the others. It was not a problem to WHITE, then i used both ATTACK X and won against the 2 geodude with cut. It was time to Roxanne send Nosepass in. Boy, i glad SLAKOTH learns SLACK OFF, it saved her a lot of times and in the end, nosepass went down and it earned me my FIRST BADGE.
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[sunshinesonia]

white run update #7!!!

Spoiler:

HEY GUESS WHO DIDNT DECIDE TO DROP THE RUN anyways. i did the whole desert quest thingy, got the dark stone and beat iris into the ground. afterwards, i realised that munna apparently evolves with moon stone. so i have a musharna now. fought cheren, went through victory road. my team is nearly on par with the general of the elite four's, ill just have to train a bit more!

CURRENT TEAM

Lassie the Hardy Stoutland, LVL 44
- Strength
- Work Up
- Leer
- Crunch

Boots the Lonely Panpour, LVL 46
- Crunch
- Acrobatics
- Scald
- Surf

Fillyjonk the Jolly Musharna, LVL 44
- Psychic
- Dream Eater
- Calm Mind
- Hypnosis

Tinkers the Jolly Lilligant, LVL 44
- Energy Ball
- Leech Seed
- Sleep Powder
- Giga Drain

Astrid the Rash Fraxure, LVL 46
- Dragon Dance
- Slash
- Dragon Pulse
- Dragon Claw

Alph the Quirky Golett, LVL 42
- Iron Defense
- Curse
- Dynamic Punch
- Magnitude

 

[sunshinesonia]

WHITE RUN FINAL UPDATE!

Spoiler:

HOWDY!! so i pretty much annihilated the elite four. grimsley was kinda annoying since i didn't really have anything effective against dark, but whatever. i caught zekrom really easily? in like my third ball so? cool! N was pretty easy actually. i DID white out at Ghetsis but i came back and sent the stinky man to the moon. i have so much love for gen 5. even though i prefer bw2 i still adore the first iterations. this was a fun challenge! id like to discuss my team a little

Lassie was at his most useful early-mid game. he kinda fell out later but he was still a good dog.
Boots was more useful mid-late game. did burn Ghetsis's Bisharp so that was lit.
Fillyjonk was fairly useful throughout the entire game. im kinda stupid for not realising Munna evolved with Moon Stone. i just sat there wondering why it took so long for Munna to evolve.
Tinkers was pretty useful with her status moves. Leech Seed + Sleep Powder is a super good combo!
Astrid didn't do much until late game. honestly, she mostly sat in the back. but she pretty much tore through most things when she needed too.
Alph did more than Astrid, but still not super much. he was the mvp in the elite four!

i dont think i will do another run in white. its a super slow game, and id rather do them in black 2 or later games.

FINAL TEAM ITERATION!

Lassie the Hardy Stoutland, LVL 52
- Strength
- Work Up
- Leer
- Crunch

Boots the Lonely Simipour, LVL 48
- Crunch
- Acrobatics
- Scald
- Surf

Fillyjonk the Jolly Musharna, LVL 48
- Psychic
- Dream Eater
- Calm Mind
- Hypnosis

Tinkers the Jolly Lilligant, LVL 49
- Energy Ball
- Leech Seed
- Sleep Powder
- Petal Dance

Astrid the Rash Haxorus, LVL 53
- Dragon Dance
- Brick Break
- Swords Dance
- Dragon Claw

Alph the Quirky Golurk, LVL 51
- Fly
- Brick Break
- Earthquake
- Shadow Punch

 

[viper8890]

After some time, I'm back here and would like to take up this challenge once again. First, I haven't done my previous run on HeartGold and won't be doing it. So here's my new signup

Forum Username: viper8890
Game Version: Ultra Moon
Number of Pokemon: 6
Exclude NFEs: Yes
National Dex: No
Restrictions: All Pokemon should be obtainable in game. Please see that there is minimum type overlapping and the team is balanced and atleast 4-5 Pokemon till midgame.

 

[Pebblycone]

After some time, I'm back here and would like to take up this challenge once again. First, I haven't done my previous run on HeartGold and won't be doing it. So here's my new signup

Forum Username: viper8890
Game Version: Ultra Moon
Number of Pokemon: 6
Exclude NFEs: Yes
National Dex: No
Restrictions: All Pokemon should be obtainable in game. Please see that there is minimum type overlapping and the team is balanced and atleast 4-5 Pokemon till midgame.

Hopefully I have done this right! I haven't played either of the Ultra games, but I did check Pokemon locations on Bulbapedia so I hope this is okay for you:
1. Parasect
2. Magmortar
3. Beheeyem.
4. Sylveon
5. Crabominable
6. Furfrou

Let me know if you need any re-rolls :)

**I will post an entry soon

 

[Pebblycone]

I'm so close to finishing my monotype run (I've been busy again with a move), but I'm keen to start this challenge next! I'm hoping to have a bunch of Pokemon I haven't used before.

Forum Username: Pebblycone
Game Version: FireRed
Number of Pokemon: 6
Exclude NFEs: No
National Dex: No
Restrictions: I cannot hack or trade, so FireRed Pokemon only. Can I please have 1-2 NFE Pokemon. And also can I please have at least 1 Pokemon who can learn Surf. *Also can I please have at least 1 Pokemon available before Brock.