Raven Valt
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Do you really like a certain type? Do you want to live that gym leader fantasy? Want to show everybody that you don't need puny concepts like "type diversity" to be the very best, like no ever was? Well, then you've come to the right place!
The Rules
- You may only use Pokémon of your chosen type, or that evolve into your chosen type, in trainer battles.
- Two challenges don't stack, e.g.: only using Grass/Poison Pokémon won't count for both a Grass and Poison Monotype
- All Pokémon you use that aren't of your chosen type (e.g.: Charmander in a Flying run) must evolve into that type as soon as possible.
- You must use at least two Elite Four viable Pokémon in the final battle.
- Legendary Pokémon, Mythical Pokémon and Ultra Beasts may not be used.
- You may use any Pokémon for HMs, regardless of their type
- You may use Mega Evolutions, Z-Moves and Dynamax. That said, the Pokémon mega evolving must have the chosen type both before and after the Mega Evolution.
- You may only use Pokémon Amie / Pokémon Refresh to evolve Eevee into Sylveon, and in Gen VIII you may not use Pokémon Camp or friendship increasing berries.
- You may trade or hack in Pokémon for the sake of evolution (e.g.: Haunter into Gengar), provided you already have any necessary items.
- You may trade or hack in Nectars for Oricorio.
- All Pokémon traded or hacked in must have legal movesets (in the context of the game) as well as random IVs, natures and abilities. I.e.: Please don't trade / hack in your purebred 5 IVs perfect nature min-maxed Pokémon. They also need to be at or lower than the level of your strongest Pokémon.
- In rom hacks and fan games, the in game content decides what has a given type, so double check the game's documentation to make sure a Pokémon may be used. (E.g.: if a hack changed Charizard from Fire / Flying to Fire / Dragon, I wouldn't be able to use any Pokémon of that line for a Flying run in that hack)
The Ultimate Challenge
If one game's not enough for you, why not try seven? An Ultimate Challenge is accomplished by successfully completing a run of a given type in Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola.Due to the Switch's status as a console, and the subsequent price increase in the hardware and the games, we've chosen to have the Galar and Paldea games remain optional for Ultimate runs for now.
These runs may be done in any order and in any main series games that feature them.
Rom hacks which don't alter the maps or plot in significant ways (usually marketed as "difficulty hacks" and / or "all Pokémon available") may be used in place of its retail equivalent.
Due to being introduced later in the series, and a lack of Pokémon of those types in the games, Dark and Steel ultimate runs can be done without Kanto.
As for the Fairy type, only Hoenn, Kalos and Alola are obligatory for Fairy monotypes (seeing as the Galar games and the Sinnoh remakes are Switch games).
Endpoints
For the main series games, we consider the game beat when the credits start rolling for the first time.For rom hacks and fan games, it's up to you, but beating the Champion, Elite Four or seeing a credit roll is probably a good enough rule of thumb.
And if you want an extra challenge, you don't have to stop there! Here are some suggestions you might find interesting:
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