The 719 Challenge

[Lusus]

My progress

Spoiler:

Got through Viridian Forest.
Level up Nobody(Sandshrew) to level 14, then checked Bulbapedia and saw it can't learn any fighting moves by leveling up.
Saw on Bulbapedia that NidoranF can learn a fighting move at level 9, but it was for Generation 6.
Trained Susan(NidoranF) to level 11 then gave up cause it didn't learn a fighting move.
During fight with Brock Susan leveled up and learned Double Kick, which allowed me to beat Brock.
Went through Mt. Moon.
In Mt. Moon, Susan evolved to Nidorina and Stinger evolved twice, to Kakuna and to Beedril.
Beaten Douche(Rival) and got the stolen TM Dig (which pretty much makes me the thief because the game doesn't allow it to give it back).
Gave Snake(Ekans) to Daycare man while leveling up my other Pokemon.
Beaten Misty by only using Madara(Pikachu).
Got Snake back, who only grew by 2 levels despite making 10 laps around the Daycare.
Saved

 

[Matzeho1996]

My progress:

Spoiler:

Went through Rock Tunnel
Defeated every trainer there and on the following routes
Gambled for Ice Beam for Wartotle and Shadow Ball for Ratticate
Defeated Team Rocket
Defeated Erika, thanks to Pidgeotto and Charmeleon

 

[Lusus]

Forgot to mention, evolved Susan(Nidorina) with Moon Stone i found in Mt. Moon.

Spoiler:

Beaten Rival on S.S. Anne
Got Cut
Was the last person to see S.S. Anne ever again
Beaten Lt. Surge
Got through Rock Tunnel
4th Hokage(Spearow) evolved into Fearow
Nobody(Sandshrew) evolved into Sandslash
Passed through Lavender Town
Bought Thunderstone in Celeadon City
Evolved Madara(Pikachu) into Raichu
Defeated Erika
Saved
Currently have 5/6 fully evolved Pokemon, the only one remaining is Snake(Ekans) who is the weakest on my team atm.

Gonna go away for a while, but hopefully it won't be long

 

[CelticsPhan]

FINISHED with Pokemon Blue!

Spoiler:

-Started off with Nidoran Male after a good hour of searching for it (5% encounter rate outside Pokemon League).

BROCK (Badge #1)
As Nidoran struggles and needs training, I switching Nido with Squirtle to take down the Rock types, then used Nidoran for the rest of the game.

-At Mt. Moon I found the core of my team: Paras, Zubat, Clefairy.

I used Moon Stones to evolve to Nidoking and Clefable, which helped me big time in the early part of the game.
-Crushed my Rival with Nidoking and Clefable.
-Hacked in Oddish (silly me forgetting that Oddish isn't in Blue!)
-Defeated every Trainer at and around Nugget Bridge.

To ease the situation and use the most of my team as possible, I did the Mew Glitch to grab my only HM Slave. This worked out because Vulpix didn't come until the fourth Gym.

MISTY (Badge #2)
I used Oddish, Paras and Nidoking to take her down. Status-inflicting moves are very underrated in my opinion.

-Moving on..
-Crush Rival @ SS Anne

SURGE (Badge #3)
Paras knew Dig, so I used Paras for Surge's Voltorb before it fanted.
Nidoking Thrashed the Pikachu and Raichu for a victory.

Landed in Lavender, then grabbed my Vulpix, who I later evolved along with Gloom to complete my team.

ERIKA (Badge #4)
I used Golbat, Nidoking, and my Parasect to defeat Erika, and they were untouchable. The fact that I could get Ice Beam from Celadon Department Store really helped. Also, I bought TM07 Horn Drill!

KOGA (Badge #5)
After grabbing the Earthquake TM from Silph Co., I was able to defeat Koga with Nidoking alone.

Now that I could Surf, I went down to Cinnabar to challenge Blaine.

BLAINE (Badge #6)
For reference this is not in order; I find it easier to fight Blaine rather than Sabrina because Surf and Earthquake are available at this point in the game.

It was like a rerun of the last Gym, where Nidoking Earthquaked to victory.

*Back to Saffron to finish Sliph Co. and Sabrina*

SABRINA (Badge #7)
I gave the job to Parasect, whose Spore and Mega Drain tactics kept her Abra line from dismantling my team up with Psybeam. Despite being the slowest Pokemon in the game (up to Gen 6), Parasect held its own with the fast Kadabra and Alakazam.

GIOVANNI (Badge #8)
This was an effort by Nidokng only, whose Ice Beam, Earthquake and Horn Drill worked to perfection.

-Beat my Rival just before Victory Road.

LORELEI
Thunderbolt is a good move and all, but it doesn't quite kill Lorelei's bulky Ice/Water Pokemon. Therefore, I gave Nidoking an X Accuracy and Horn Drilled her team away.

BRUNO
Clefable and Golbat won this battle for me. Clefable knew Bubblebeam to defeat the Onixs and Golbat Toxic'd and Wing Attacked. It was a great relief that the Machamp does not have the Guts Ability (because this is Gen 1!).

AGATHA
I still believe Agatha is the second hardest Elite Four member because a whole lot can go wrong against her. I gave Nidoking an X Speed to attack the Gengars first without Confuse Ray or Hypnosis ruining my plans. Because Nido outsped her team now, I could Earthquake the Ghosts and Arbok, then Ice Beam Golbat.

LANCE
The versatility of Nidoking was important in this battle as well. It requires 2 X Speeds to get past Lance's Aerodactyl, and I was not willing to roll the dice to see if his Gyarados' Hydro Pump would hit and kill Nidoking. So one TBolt for the Gyarados, Horn Drill to the Dragonairs and... Nidoking fainted!

Well, it's a good thing I'm running a full team. I swapped in Clefable for a classic ToxicStall and Ice Beam to soften the Fossil Dragon up. Next came Dragonite, who took as many as three Ice Beams from Clefable after Lance healed his signature Pokemon. It used Agility and Barrier instead of blowing my Clefable away with Hyper Beam, which seemed silly. Game,set, and match.

CHAMPION BLUE
Here we go. I might add that my team besides Nidoking is at an underleved 50, while Nidoking is a good 56. X Speed and Accuracy for Nidoking because I knew his Pidgeot was only going to spam Agility for the fist two turns.

I made a mistake to not use an Ether to replenish Horn Drill, so the rest of my team would have to help in the event where Nido died again.

Horn Drill to Pidgeot.
TBolt to his Gyarados (TY Critical Hits!).
Earthquake for Alakazam... and it did not kill for reasons unknown.

Ok then, Alakazam, chew on Clefable! ToxicStall and a Tri Attack brought the Magician down. I rembered to bring Revives thankfully, so I brought Nidoking back to finish Blue. One X Accuracy was used, then EQ to Arcanine, and Horn Drill to Rhydon and Venusaur for the win!

WE DID IT!

Screenshot of the team:

Spoiler:

 

[HeroesAndCons]

Username: HeroesAndCons
Chosen game: Yellow
Pokemon: Machamp, Golem, Rapidash, Slowbro, Magneton, Farfetch'd
Skipped: none

Someone else will have to take this team instead, I have to withdraw from the challenge unfortunately. =/

 

[AzureSparkz]

Update 2:

Spoiler:

~ Went to Sprout Tower and burned it down
~ Went to the Violet City gym and let StoneHeart play with the little birdies
~ Picked up the "mystery" egg at pokemart and boxed it
~ Got HM 06 Rock Smash
~ Ruins of Alph did escape and kabuto puzzles
~ Beat trainers on Route 32
~ Went to Route 32 Pokemon Center to get the "Old Rod"
~ Backtracked to Violet City
~ Spammed the "Old Rod" to find a Poliwag
~ Caught a Poliwag and named him Fist Pump
~ Back to Route 32 spammed "old rod" to find a Tentacool
~ I named Tentacool ACoolTent (chuggaaconroy reference)
~ Time to grind everything to lvl 15

Gym Badges:

Spoiler:

Current Team:

Spoiler:

Username: HeroesAndCons
Chosen game: Yellow
Pokemon: Machamp, Golem, Rapidash, Slowbro, Magneton, Farfetch'd
Skipped: none

Someone else will have to take this team instead, I have to withdraw from the challenge unfortunately. =/

Well since I goofed up and I only wrote down 5 pokemon I will pull the Golem into my team if that is okay.

 

[Matzeho1996]

So the next participants starts with Rapidash (but has to use Machamp too)

Wow Gucci, you are very fast
Congrats: You are the first champion in this challenge

My progress:

Spoiler:

Defeated Gary
Defeated every trainer on the routes to Fuchsia City and the Dojo
Ivysaur evolved
Defeated also Team Rocket in Silph.
Charmeleon, Wartortle and Pidgeotto evolved
Defeated Gary again and Giovanni
Defeated Koga with the help of Butterfree's Psychic
Defeated Sabrina, she was the strongest trainer yet
Got to Cinnabar
Defeated Blaine with the help of Blastoise

 

[CelticsPhan]

Someone else will have to take this team instead, I have to withdraw from the challenge unfortunately. =/

I'll do it for you! I haven't used the majority of your team in a playthrough before and I plan to.

Name: GucciMeme
Game: Red (did Blue the last time!)
Team: Machamp, Dodrio, Rapidash, Slowbro, Magneton, Farfetch'd

 

[AzureSparkz]

I'll do it for you! I haven't used the majority of your team in a playthrough before and I plan to.

Name: GucciMeme
Game: Red (did Blue the last time!)
Team: Machamp, Golem, Rapidash, Slowbro, Magneton, Farfetch'd

You can't use a Golem I already have one check my update and the owner of this tread(sorry I forgot your name) thread said I could use it. So you have to use a Dodrio.

 

[CelticsPhan]

You can't use a Golem I already have one check my update and the owner of this tread(sorry I forgot your name) thread said I could use it. So you have to use a Dodrio.

I wasted all that time evolving Geodude for this Ok, sounds good I guess. Dodrio is a pretty good Pokemon in Gen 1.

 

[Matzeho1996]

You can't use a Golem I already have one check my update and the owner of this tread(sorry I forgot your name) thread said I could use it. So you have to use a Dodrio.

Thanks buddy for forgetting my name :P (just kidding...)
Nice that you noticed the thing with Golem

My progress:

Spoiler:

Sevii Islands
Defeated Giovanni, thanks to Venu and Blast
Defeated Gary
on the way to Victory Road

I know my progress is a bit lame, but when I finish my journey I will post many pics

 

[CelticsPhan]

Done with Pokemon Red!

Spoiler:

We'll omit Brock for time's sake because it was done with my starter.

Right before Mount Moon I caught the Spearow I would later trade for Farfetch'd. (What kind of idiot trades a Farfetch'd, a Pokemon dumb in its own right, for the most common bird in and around Vermilion City?)

MISTY
I used the Farfetch'd I just traded for. It knew Swords Dance at this time, so it could knock her out quickly.

Since the location of the Machamp trader in Yellow is right after Misty, I felt that now was the time to trade my Machamp from Yellow to Red. Side note: While my game appears to look like Yellow, it is just the Gen 2/Color Hack of Pokemon Red created on this website!

SURGE
I taught my new Machamp Dig, which was all I needed to beat Surge. I could not use Farfetch'd because of its weakness.

ERIKA
Too much grinding led to my Farfetch'd and Machamp not being able to obey me. It was a freaking numbers game to get Swords Dance/Peck/Body Slam working the way it shoukd. When I finally won, I was able to complete my team.

I found a Slowpoke, Rapidash, Dodrio and everything else from previous save files in my emulator which were all around Lv.45. I waited until now to trade them because now they obey me for likely the rest of the game.

KOGA
I taught Machamp Earthquake, which made things a whole lot easier for this Gym and going forward. I had Machamp Rock Slide the Venomoth/Nats also.

BLAINE
A combo of Machamp and Slowbro for their Surf and Earthquake. Not hard at all! Also, I learned that Slowbro can learn Fire Blast. I just taught TM38 to Rapidash, who was severely lacking in the STAB department. I didn't get to use Rapidash much!

SABRINA
The best stopper for Sabrina's Alakazam that I had was Slowbro. Fantastic Special and Defense allowed it to wall her fast though frail Abra family. Once Zam stopped spamming Recover, I beat her swiftly.

GIOVANNI
There was no reason to use anything besides Slowbro, but I let Machamp get in the mix. Surf, Psychic and Earthquake were all I needed to win.

Elite Four time!

LORELEI
Magneton was a stud in this battle. Thunderbolt hit everything in one shot.

BRUNO
I used Slowbro to defeat the Onix (plural) and switched to Farfetch'd to drop the Fighting types with Swords Dance/Body Slam.
I also learned that Slash (which crits everytime with Pokemon that have base speed >64) does not factor in stat increases/decreases like Swords Dance in Gen 1. Farfetch'd is still a very underrated Pokemon to use.

AGATHA
I was saving Slowbro for this battle as well as Lance because of Psychic and Ice Beam. It was a little slow (I promise you no pun intended) and getting put to Sleep, so i brought in Machamp to Earthquake the Gengars and Arbok. Golbat and Haunter were taken down by Slowbro's Psychic.

LANCE
Magneton drilled Gyarados with a single TBolt, then Slowbro Ice Beam'd the rest. Good fight.

CHAMPION BLUE
I would have called him Red if I were playing Red, but he's Blue and I'm Red so all is right in canon.
Back to the 'mons: Magneton put Gyarados and Pidgeot in their places.
Alakazam was beaten by Farfetch'd after a Swords Dance boost.
Machamp covered Arcanine with Earthquake.
Slowbro Surfed all over Rhydon.
And finally, Rapidash took us home by Fire Blasting Venusaur. GG!

I liked switching up my usual team which has more often than not had a Nidoking on it. Machamp and Slowbro were my favorites to use because they knew plenty of helpful moves. If I defeated this Challenge quickly it's because I like Gen 1, know the region by heart along with all of its tricks, and I wanted to do this Challenge.

SCREENSHOT OF THE TEAM:

Spoiler:

Fun fact: my "Red" trainer wasn't the OT for any of these Pokemon. They all came from in-game trades, Yellow, and another Red file.

 

[Matzeho1996]

Done with Pokemon Red!

Spoiler:

We'll omit Brock for time's sake because it was done with my starter.

Right before Mount Moon I caught the Spearow I would later trade for Farfetch'd. (What kind of idiot trades a Farfetch'd, a Pokemon dumb in its own right, for the most common bird in and around Vermilion City?)

MISTY
I used the Farfetch'd I just traded for. It knew Swords Dance at this time, so it could knock her out quickly.

Since the location of the Machamp trader in Yellow is right after Misty, I felt that now was the time to trade my Machamp from Yellow to Red. Side note: While my game appears to look like Yellow, it is just the Gen 2/Color Hack of Pokemon Red created on this website!

SURGE
I taught my new Machamp Dig, which was all I needed to beat Surge. I could not use Farfetch'd because of its weakness.

ERIKA
Too much grinding led to my Farfetch'd and Machamp not being able to obey me. It was a freaking numbers game to get Swords Dance/Peck/Body Slam working the way it shoukd. When I finally won, I was able to complete my team.

I found a Slowpoke, Rapidash, Dodrio and everything else from previous save files in my emulator which were all around Lv.45. I waited until now to trade them because now they obey me for likely the rest of the game.

KOGA
I taught Machamp Earthquake, which made things a whole lot easier for this Gym and going forward. I had Machamp Rock Slide the Venomoth/Nats also.

BLAINE
A combo of Machamp and Slowbro for their Surf and Earthquake. Not hard at all! Also, I learned that Slowbro can learn Fire Blast. I just taught TM38 to Rapidash, who was severely lacking in the STAB department. I didn't get to use Rapidash much!

SABRINA
The best stopper for Sabrina's Alakazam that I had was Slowbro. Fantastic Special and Defense allowed it to wall her fast though frail Abra family. Once Zam stopped spamming Recover, I beat her swiftly.

GIOVANNI
There was no reason to use anything besides Slowbro, but I let Machamp get in the mix. Surf, Psychic and Earthquake were all I needed to win.

Elite Four time!

LORELEI
Magneton was a stud in this battle. Thunderbolt hit everything in one shot.

BRUNO
I used Slowbro to defeat the Onix (plural) and switched to Farfetch'd to drop the Fighting types with Swords Dance/Body Slam.
I also learned that Slash (which crits everytime with Pokemon that have base speed >64) does not factor in stat increases/decreases like Swords Dance in Gen 1. Farfetch'd is still a very underrated Pokemon to use.

AGATHA
I was saving Slowbro for this battle as well as Lance because of Psychic and Ice Beam. It was a little slow (I promise you no pun intended) and getting put to Sleep, so i brought in Machamp to Earthquake the Gengars and Arbok. Golbat and Haunter were taken down by Slowbro's Psychic.

LANCE
Magneton drilled Gyarados with a single TBolt, then Slowbro Ice Beam'd the rest. Good fight.

CHAMPION BLUE
I would have called him Red if I were playing Red, but he's Blue and I'm Red so all is right in canon.
Back to the 'mons: Magneton put Gyarados and Pidgeot in their places.
Alakazam was beaten by Farfetch'd after a Swords Dance boost.
Machamp covered Arcanine with Earthquake.
Slowbro Surfed all over Rhydon.
And finally, Rapidash took us home by Fire Blasting Venusaur. GG!

I liked switching up my usual team which has more often than not had a Nidoking on it. Machamp and Slowbro were my favorites to use because they knew plenty of helpful moves. If I defeated this Challenge quickly it's because I like Gen 1, know the region by heart along with all of its tricks, and I wanted to do this Challenge.

SCREENSHOT OF THE TEAM:

Spoiler:

Fun fact: my "Red" trainer wasn't the OT for any of these Pokemon. They all came from in-game trades, Yellow, and another Red file.

You already became the champion and now again? I am still playing Fire Red in my first run...
Congrats :D

 

[Bobadilla777]

This looks interesting, I'd like to join!

Name: Bobadilla777
Game: Red
Team: (Assuming I started at the right spot) Dewgong, Muk, Cloyster, Onix, Hypno, Kingler

Skipping Gengar because trading isn't an option, and my knowledge of hacking/cheating is slim to none. Someone else gets to have fun with him.

Tell me if I did anything wrong, I fix it ASAP.

 

[Bellum]

Name: SupernovaTyphlosion
Game: Fire red (Will use a randomizer to change starter to Gastly)
Team: Gengar, Electrode, Exeggutor, Marowak, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan/Lickitung(I'm confused about which I have to use :S)

 

[Matzeho1996]

Name: SupernovaTyphlosion
Game: Fire red (Will use a randomizer to change starter to Gastly)
Team: Gengar, Electrode, Exeggutor, Marowak, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan/Lickitung(I'm confused about which I have to use :S)

You can decide which Pokemon you would like to use. If you skip 1 Pokemon and use Lickitung (because it is next on the list) then the next player has to use the skipped pokemon. I hope I could help you :D

Bobadilla your team is totally alright :D

 

[Bellum]

You can decide which Pokemon you would like to use. If you skip 1 Pokemon and use Lickitung (because it is next on the list) then the next player has to use the skipped pokemon. I hope I could help you :D

Bobadilla your team is totally alright :D

Woo! XD Skipping Hitmonchan then (: Team will be Gengar, Electrode, Exeggutor, Marowak, Hitmonlee and Lickitung.

 

[Bobadilla777]

Alright, I've started up. I used a Randomizer to put Seel in as my starter. But the great thing is, Seel won't learn a move other than Headbutt until level 30. (And even then it's Growl xD) Can't wait for the Bubblebeam TM. But for updates, I beat my Rival and arrived in Pewter City.

 

[ThePokemonGuardian]

Username:ThePokemonGuardian

Game:FireRed

Team: (I'll take the Skipped Hitmonchan)Weezing,Rhydon,Chansey,Kangaskan,Seadra(Skipped Tangela cause i didn't know if that counted since Tangrowth isn't in this Gen)

 

[Matzeho1996]

Username:ThePokemonGuardian

Game:FireRed

Team: (I'll take the Skipped Hitmonchan)Weezing,Rhydon,Chansey,Kangaskan,Seadra(Skipped Tangela cause i didn't know if that counted since Tangrowth isn't in this Gen)

According to your question, Chansey, Seadra and Rhydon also wouldn't count
They all count, because they are fully evolved in their Generation (skipping Tangela is totally ok :D)