The 719 Challenge

[Matzeho1996]

Congrats Arlo and have fun with your next journey

My progress:

Spoiler:

Picked Magby as starter, Rival took Elekid
Noticed a huge problem: Electabuzz was pushed in Fire Red Omega, and half of my future team is part water type...
Did all the tutoring stuff
Caught a Staryu at Pallet Town (Old Rod)
Defeated Rival again (Magby and Elekid are real rivals, I think I will let them 2 face in every battle for now on)
Went through Viridian Forest (Magby and Staryu are amazing)
Lost against Brock (he has 6 Pokemon in Fire Red Omega and they are higher leveld than mine, also I can't hit Omanyte and Kabuto with a super effective hit (except Karate Chop from Magby) and they can 2HKO my Pokemon with Rock Tomb)
Obtained Treecko as a help for the gym
Defeated Brock now with ease
Defeated all the trainers on the next routes
Obtained Magikarp
Saved at Mt.Moon

 

[CelticsPhan]

Finished the last remaining Challenge for Gen 1!

Spoiler:

-Traded my old pal /vp/ the Vaporeon from a previous Crystal save; from the Persona Challenge to be exact. It defeated Brock, though difficult to obey me.

-Traded for ESPEON (a joke obviously) the Jolteon from my Blue Baton Pass Challenge, which I taught Thunderbolt to easily crush Misty.

-Traded for /out/ the Tauros, oddly enough on the same save file as Vaporeon. It Thrashed Lt. Surge.

-The in-game Eevee became a Flareon, which I nicknamed NO MOVES because of its terrible movepool. However it had Ember, which was all I needed to beat Erika.

-I taught Earthquake to Tauros who now obeys me due to the Rainbowbadge. It EQ'd all of them for an easy win.

-Used Vaporeon to knock out Blaine with Surf.

-Sabrina was defeated with Porygon, the only action it saw all game. It's only Lv.60 because I traded for it.

-Vaporeon finished Giovanni with Surf and Toxic, making it one of the best tanks I could possibly have. Tauros did some fighting as well, but I taught it Fissure at the battle's conclusion to clear up the Elite Four.

-Defeated the Rival easily, which goes to show how simple this playthrough was.

-Jolteon took care of Lorelei with Thunderbolt and Toxic. As Toxic is one of my favorite strategies to win, I duplicated it with the Missingno Glitch. Don't be alarmed! No Rare Candies were duplicated.

-Bruno: I gave Tauros an X Accuracy and it plowed through him with Fissure.

-Agatha: Tauros Earthquaked the Gengars after an X Speed. Silly me, forgetting to grab Ethers in the game. Oh, and Thrash to Golbat.

-Lance: Jolteon TBolted Gyarados, then I swapped to Vaporeon to ToxicStall and Ice Beam everything else.

CHAMPION RIVAL
I've made my update brief because I know people aren't fans of walls of text, wanted to get to the point. Back to the update:

Jolteon > Pidgeot, Gyarados, Blastoise
Flareon > Exeggutor
Tauros > Alakazam
Vaporeon > Rhydon, Arcanine.

That's a wrap!

SCREENSHOT OF TEAM (excuse the nicknames)

Spoiler:

Let me just say that I'm excited to go into Johto's Dex.

Username: GucciMeme
Game: Silver
Team: Mew (know Mew Glitch, can trade it back), Furret, Noctowl, Ariados, Crobat, Lanturn
Skipped: Ledian (I can only stand so many Bugs)
Not bad for the beginning of the Dex.

 

[Lusus]

I beaten Viridian Gym(Giovanni) so i will probably finish soon.

i'm not gonna type updates on my tablet because typing can get really frustrating at times

 

[Feraligatr13]

Hello again! Sorry, but I have no progress, hope to get more done this weekend when my good computer gets fixed. While I'm waiting, I'll sign up for the next thing.

Username: Feraligatr13
Game: Crystal
Pokemon: Ledian, Raichu, Clefable, Wigglytuff, Togetic, Xatu

DEAR LORD SO MANY NORMALS

 

[Matzeho1996]

Hello again! Sorry, but I have no progress, hope to get more done this weekend when my good computer gets fixed. While I'm waiting, I'll sign up for the next thing.

Username: Feraligatr13
Game: Crystal
Pokemon: Ledian, Raichu, Clefable, Wigglytuff, Togetic, Xatu

DEAR LORD SO MANY NORMALS

Oh I haven't seen this coming:
Pichu, Cleffa,... are not fuly evolved in their generation, so their evolution do not count (f.e. Golbat is in Gen 1 fully evolved, Pichu can evolve in Gen 2, so it does not count for Gen 2)

 

[Feraligatr13]

Oh I haven't seen this coming:
Pichu, Cleffa,... are not fuly evolved in their generation, so their evolution do not count (f.e. Golbat is in Gen 1 fully evolved, Pichu can evolve in Gen 2, so it does not count for Gen 2)

So I have to use the babies!? Or do I not have to use them at all?

 

[Matzeho1996]

So I have to use the babies!? Or do I not have to use them at all?

Spoiler:

Nono you skip the not fully evolved ones

 

[Arlo]

An update:

Spoiler:

Haven't gotten as much time to play lately as I'd prefer, but...

Picked Chikorita as my starter so Silver got Cyndaquil to match his hair.

Did the early running around, then caught two lvl 4 Caterpies on Route 31. Hacked one into a Cyndquil and the other into a Totodile, and on we went. Got the egg and cloned it and hacked the clone into a Munchlax, so I had two eggs. Kept the original in the party to hatch and put the Munchlax in the PC for the time being.

Got to Azalea Town and caught a lvl 8 Slowpoke and hacked it into a Mewtwo. Hatched the egg and took it back to show it to Professor Elm, then picked up the Munchlax egg from the PC and went back to Azalea Town. Debated a bit and parked the Togepi in the PC and hacked in a lvl 1 Mew to serve as HM slave instead.

Munchlax hatched just short of Goldenrod, so my party was complete.

Currently saved just south of Ecruteak - took out the Sudowoodo, but haven't gone up the route yet.

Current party:

Bayleef, lvl 21
Croconaw, lvl 20
Quilava, lvl 22
Mewtwo, lvl 15
Munchlax, lvl 11
Mew, HM slave, lvl 1

 

[BuizelBushwhacks]

I'll try this!

Username: BuizelBushwhacks
Game: Crystal
Pokemons: (I'm assuming) Ampharos, Bellossom, Azumarill, Sudowoodo, Politoed, Aipom (skip Jumpluff)

Did I get it right? I'm still confused...

 

[Matzeho1996]

So, because of some unclear rules (sorry...) I made the teams for Ferialgatr13 and BuizelBushhawks

Ferialgatr13: Ledian, Togetic, Xatu, Ampharos,Bellossom, Azumarill
Buizel: Sudowoodo, Politoed, Jumpluff, Aipom, Sunflora, Yanma

 

[BuizelBushwhacks]

Buizel: Sudowoodo, Politoed, Jumpluff, Aipom, Sunflora, Yanma

Oh. OK! I'm cool with this. Can I still skip a Pokemon?

I'm sorry. I'm dumb...

 

[AzureSparkz]

Finished the last remaining Challenge for Gen 1!

Umm you are wrong the last remaining challenge for gen 1 is with me and I am going to finish it but I keep getting swampt with projects and tests from school and that has priority over pokemon... so I guess I need to make an update. I not making walls of text anymore because I don't have the time so just screenies of boss/rival battles from now on. One question since I'm playing Heart Gold do I have to finish Kanto to?

Boss/Rival Battles:

Spoiler:

 

[Matzeho1996]

Buizel yes you can skip 1

HeatedFennekin, yes you have to do Kanto too

I did not have time for my challenge the last days, I hope I can go on the next days

 

[BuizelBushwhacks]

Buizel yes you can skip 1

Oh. Cool. I'll skip Jumpluff then. And I'm guessing I'm getting a Quagsire.

 

[CelticsPhan]

FINISHED the first (if I'm not mistaken) Johto Dex 719 Challenge on Silver!

Spoiler:

-Caught my Sentret right off the bat
-Traded for Spinarak from Crystal, as I learned that Silver does not have Spinarak.
-Got my Mew from Red, though it makes sense because it was fresh from the Mew Glitch at Lv.7.

-Grinded Sentret all the way to Furret before fighting Falkner, which was a great decision.

FALKNER
Furret just Tackled for the win. Easy!

BUGSY
Ditto with Sentret. Spinarak evolved into Ariados!

WHITNEY
Ariados got a Poison on Clefairy and her terrible Miltank, which made things much easier. Rollout would've decimated my team, but it missed four times in a row!

MORTY
Furret knew Mud Slap, and his Gohost wouldn't stop suiciding with Curse. Not a problem!

CHUCK
I had left Hoothoot/Noctowl alone for the most part until this Gym battle, where Confusion and Peck stomped his Primeape and Poliwrath.

JASMINE
I stupidly got rid of Mud Slap on Furret, so I had to use Mew. Not a bad alternative because it knew Bubblebeam.

PRYCE
At this point, I traded for Lanturn and Crobat, each in the Lv.40 range. Lanturn was perfect for this Gym; Sparking the Ice/Waters and Surfing on Piloswine.

CLAIR
Mew knew Ice Beam which allowed me to tear her apart. Kingdra was tough, but I got some lucky criticals there.

On to the E4...

WILL
A combo of Furret (with Shadow Ball) and Mew (Ice Beam/TBolt)

KOGA
Oddly enough, my Ariados went well with this fight. I was without any Fire moves the entire game, so I relied on Ariados to Night Shade the Steel and other tricky types. Without Night Shade, Ariados would be without any reason to use in a playthrough.

BRUNO
Mew and Lanturn took control this fight. Mew learned Psychic, and if you know anything about Pokemon, this hits pretty hard.

KAREN
Ariados with Night Shade and... Leech Life! Umbreon was poisoned from Poison Sting, and I was amped. After Umbreon, she was nothing special.

LANCE
Cue overrated theme...okay. Even though I had Mew, the rest of my team was considerably strong. I don't want to spoil the ending, but this team beat Red while at Lv.60 because it worked so well with certain strategies.

Back to the battle. Gyarados went down after a single Spark from Lanturn.
The Dragonites fell after a single Ice Beam each by Mew. Good thing I picked up the Nevermeltice.
Aerodactyl was tough because of its Speed, but after a couple Revives, the entire team defeated it. Charizard was Charizard; only a Surf from Laturn was needed.

Cue the based credits!!! Time for gorgeous Kanto music!

SURGE
Mew's versatility got me through the game pretty easily. Earthquake dropped all of his Pokes in a single hit.

SABRINA
I went with Furret, who knew Amnesia (OK?) and Shadow Ball, which were perfect. I didn't really need any others.

ERIKA
Noctowl shined in this fight, Confusion and Fly did the job.

JANINE
I used Mew, but Crobat saw its first real action of the game.

MISTY
A few Lanturn Sparks and Mew Thunderbolts and Misty was bye-bye-a-go-go.

BROCK
Lanturn and Mew again, but Brock was so easy that I didn't need anyone else.

BLAINE
One of the easiest Leaders in all of Pokemon, even in GSC. Surfing with Lanturn.

BLUE
An uphill battle due to being underleveled, but I won thanks to Full Restores and Revives.
I was thankful for being allowed to use Mew here.

RED
Almost time for the end!
Mew Earthquaked Pikachu once after a lucky Charm missed.
Espeon was equally as lucky, Earthquake critical'd and my favorite Pokemon fell in two hits.

Out comes Snorlax. My solution was the classic ToxicStall tactic, hoping Red didn't Full Restore or have it use Rest.

Red didn't heal ONCE this whole fight. It could not have gone better. After Snorlax, I Toxicstalled Blastoise then Charizard. Venusaur was a but tougher due to an immunity to Toxic, but I had Mew and Crobat.

Crobat stalled like heck with Bite and Confuse Ray, and to my surprise, Venusaur was dead. GG Red! I like Cynthia better!

SCREENSHOT OF FINAL TEAM:

Spoiler:

I was glad I didn't have to use ****mons for this Challenge, and that was why I finished pretty quickly. I love Gen 2 even more than Gen 1, and having finished that game many times since joining these Forums, I get it done.

I slept on Furret, having moves like Amnesia and Shadow Ball made it surprisingly useful. Ariados is great because of Night Shade, and Noctowl has decent bulk for such an easily accessible Pokemon. Mew needs no explanation, that movepool and those 100-100-100-100-100-100 base stats make it able to do anything and learn any move.

Crobat is the king of messing with other Pokemon, using annoying moves such as Bite, Toxic and Confuse Ray to kill you. If the AI had human emotion, it would hate seeing Crobat, just as I hate seeing it in UU and in the Battle Frontier.

Oh, and Lanturn. Staple of my Base-Stat-Total Challenge in HeartGold because of a great typing (any familiar with Rotom-W???) and good bulk/Sp. Attack.

 

[Arlo]

Oog. You have to do Kanto too.

You know - no offense, but I REALLY hate challenges with arbitrary additional requirements on some gens. It just makes no sense at all that I play through eight gym leaders, the E4 and the Champion (or whoever's there at the end), then the credits roll and the game even ends up at a screen that says "The End," and... sometimes that's the end of the challenge and sometimes it's not.

Eh... whatever. I do vaguely remember reading that before I did my first challenge - I had just forgotten it by the time I picked up this one. So I guess this is just an update instead of completion.

Spoiler:

Nothing really eventful along the way to the E4.

Spent a while in the Game Corner (I sort of like Voltorb Flip - it's basically impossible to not win, so long as you're careful - it just takes a while) and got the Thunderbolt and Ice Beam TMs and put them both on Mewtwo, along with its natural Confusion and, after I won it, Shadow Ball. Bought Focus Blast at the Department Store for Typhlosion, and put Earthquake, when I finally got it, on Snorlax. Other than that, they had whatever natural moves were best at the time.

Did all the required stuff, including catching Ho-oh (I ended up deciding to play HG instead of SS). I didn't bother chasing the dogs, but threw Quick Balls at them whenever they showed up, and actually caught Raikou that way.

Spent some time grinding after getting to Indigo Plateau to catch everyone up to the highest level at the time, which was Feraligatr at 42, then we went in.

Will - Feraligatr took out the first Xatu and Jynx, then Meganium took out Slowbro. Then Typhlosion came in and crushed Exeggutor and beat the other Xatu.

Koga - Typhlosion one-shotted Ariados and Forretress, then Snorlax came in and Earthquaked Muk (took a while though, between Minimize misses, Black Sludge healing and a Full Restore from Koga). Left Snorlax in against Crobat and Body Slammed it into paralysis, then switched in Mewtwo to take it, then Venomoth, out.

Bruno - Mewtwo swept him. With Confusion.

Karen - Typhlosion took out Umbreon with a couple of Focus Blasts. Gengar came in and I switched to Feraligatr, who tanked its Focus Blasts and took it out with Crunch. Then Vileplume, which really sort of sucked, since I wanted to leave Feraligatr in there to face Houndoom. Switched back to Typhlosion who easily tanked Petal Dance and took out Vileplume, then hit Houndoom with a Focus Blast for about 2/3 of its HP, while losing about 2/3 of its own to Dark Pulse. I switched in Feraligatr while Karen Full Restored Houndoom. Feraligatr hung on with a sliver of red after another Dark Pulse and hit back with a 1HKO Waterfall. Then Snorlax came in and just Body Slammed Murkrow.

Lance - Mewtwo one-shotted Gyarados with a Thunderbolt. Aerodactyl came in next, who was faster than Mewtwo and hit hard with a Crunch and didn't quite go down to another Thunderbolt. I switched in Feraligatr while Lance restored Aerodactyl, then the race was on. Waterfall did just a bit more damage than anything Aerodactyl could do and I had more Full Restores, so we eventually won. Then he brought in Charizard. With my Feraligatr already sitting there. So we one-shotted it. Then it was the Dragonites. Feraligatr was low on HP and Mewtwo was still wounded from Aerodactyl's Crunch (and nobody else could do much of anything against them), so I switched in Snorlax and healed them while the first Dragonite chipped away at it, then the two of them just sort of tag-teamed their way through the Dragonites.

And that was that. Or so I thought.

Off to Kanto I guess...

 

[chidzz]

I wanna join. What is my team???

 

[Matzeho1996]

I wanna join. What is my team???

It's Jumpluff, Espeon, Umbreon, Murkrow, Slowking and Misdreavus

If you like you can also skip 1 Pokemon from above. Then you have to use Unown instead

 

[chidzz]

Oh, sorry, but there was just a death in the family. Maybe next time.

 

[Imperator161]

I'll give this a try, but based on the previous couple of posts, I'm a little confused about what my team should be/whether someone is using the previously mentioned team or not.