[Challenge] The Monotype Challenge v8, Tera Edition

[MachoPony]

Been a while huh?
Pokemon X Ground Monotype run Part 1

Spoiler:

Started game, picked Fennekin so Calem would take Froakie for more of a challenge. Caught Bnnuy the Bunnelby and Sandy the Burmy. Neither are ground type yet but they will be.

After struggling mightily with Viola i levelled Bunnelby and Burmy to 12 (Viola's Ace, again i know, not the rules but self imposed)

VS Viola
So Burmy tackled Surskit a ton down to the red, she healed, and Burmy knocked it down again before finally falling, Bunnelby quick attacked for the KO. Levelling up to 13

Bunnelby then took a tackle and leered Vivillon, harden, leer, tackle, leer, quick attack, tackle. I'm at 1 HP and since she used a potion i feel no guilt in doing the same.
Then after another tackle, quick attack, tackle, quick attack, tackle. one final quick attack finished the fight. If she used infestation at any point i was a goner.

and Would you believe those are my only 2 pokemon till Coastal Kalos?

Made it to Lumiose, straight to the Pokemon Center then to Sycamore's Lab

VS Prof Sycamore
Burmy got immediately leech seeded so i swapped to Bunnelby, it's new Return move i got as a TM did about half to bulbasaur, another knocked it low and a third finished it taking a tackle and a leech seed.
Burmy came in on Squirtle to remove leech seed and tackled it low before falling, Bunnelby finished Squirtle. Return did just under half to charmander who knocked Bunnelby low. Welp this is it, match over need to train more....except critical hit Return KOd charmander.

Got a charmander from Sycamore and boxed it forever before moving on.

After the Parfum Palace events, Snorlax knocked out bunnelby and almost knocked out burmy before i fled. Turns out this makes it go away so i didn't have to beat it.

On the next route.
VS Trever and Tierno

So they double teamed Calem's Fletchling but eventually Frogadier and burmy took out corphish then 2v1d pikachu and flabebe to win.

After struggling with trainers, I did some training and evolved Burmy in Connecting Cave to Sandy Wormadam.


Through some trainer battles i learned Wormadam's new Hidden Power is actually Bug. damn.

At level 20 Bunnelby finally evolved into Diggersby, that's 2 ground types.

Made it to Ambrette down, on route 9 i caught Gloria the hippopotas and snappy the sandile, in reflecting cave i caught Big Mama the Rhyhorn and Snek the Onix

After meeting grant, doing some grinding and clearing the gym, diggersby and wormadam were at 25 while everything else was at least 20

VS Grant
So Amaura missed a take down and Hippopotas yawned it, refrigirate boosted take down one shot hippopotas. Onix then took out Amaura with a couple of rock tomb.
It went back and forth with tyrunt, slowing it considerably before falling. double kick didn't do much from Diggersby after a hyper potion so mud shot took over half off tyrunt.
A second one missed but a third hit for the KO, taking a couple of rock tombs in the process.

the new Rock Tomb TM meant i could give some coverage to Hippopotas and Sandile as well as give Rhyhorn an actual rock STAB move since at this point it only had normal moves.

Just before Geosenge town i caught Punchy the Golett. I like Diggersby really i do but without huge power its just not enough. I considered swapping out Wormadam
but i need at least one special attacker.


Exiting Geosenge town Korrina wanted to battle with her 2 lucario....neither of which could touch Golett so after a lot of shadow punches they both went down.

On route 11 i caught Charlie the Nidorino. After a tough fight in Reflecting cave i went back to Geosenge town to heal and maybe train a little. But i stopped for now.

Current Team

Spoiler:

Punchy (Golett) LV 24
Shadow Punch
Mud Slap
Rollout
Iron Defense

Snek(Onix) LV25
Rock Tomb
Stealth Rock
Gyro Ball
Nature Power

Gloria(Hippopotas) LV25
Dig
Rock Tomb
Yawn
Bite

Sandy(Wormadam) LV28
Hidden Power(Bug)
Rock Blast
Protect
Confusion

Big Mama(Rhyhorn) LV25
Stomp
Rock Tomb
Scary Face
Leer

Snappy(Sandile) LV25
Torment
Sand Tomb
Rock Tomb
Assurance

 

[Mochorro]

The Ultimate Monotype Challenge! (Fighting)

Yellow, HeartGold, Sigma Σmerald, Platinum, White 2, X, Ultra Sun, Sword, Violet.

Additional Rules: - No items on important battles (rival, leaders, etc.)
- Set mode for important battles.

4. Move relearner changed the team a lot!

Move relearner improved a lot some of my Pokémon, you can see the new moves below! As for the important fights, I actually faced both Fairy and Psychic leaders, which could be tough for my Fighting-types... or not...

- Valerie was the sixth leader, Fairy-type gym. Hawlucha could not do much against the Mawile, as she used Iron Defense, but Toxicroak with Mud Bomb easily beat it, and then outsped and destroyed both Mr. Mime and Sylveon with Poison Jab.

- Before the 7th gym, you fight again against Serena. Pangoro easily beat Meowstic and Delphox, but the former's Shadow Ball lowered my Sp. Def, so Delphox did a lot of damage with Flamethrower. I switched into Chesnaught, who dealt with both Jolteon (her 3 Discharges didn't paralyze, some luck...) and Absol.

- 7th gym was next, and I didn't remember it being so tedious, so much pointless walking across paths. In the end I got to the leader, Olympia. Due to Reflect, Medicham was about to fall to Sigilyph, not doing enough and taking a massive hit from Air Slash, but I got a crit with Ice Punch and beat her first Pokémon. After that, Meowstic was very easy for Pangoro (she tried setting up Calm Minds) and so was Slowking, now with no Reflect active.

- I also fought Lysandre twice. For the first fight, Lucario dealt with Mienfoo, but died to Pyroar... Hawlucha outsped it and destroyed it with High Jump Kick, and then also beat the Murkrow. I sent Toxicroak against Gyarados to absorb Aqua Tail, but he defeated my Pokémon thanks to Earthquake. He was severely weakened, so Hawlucha came back and finished the fight with Acrobatics. Second fight he has better Pokémon, a mysterious level 47 Mienshao, who left my Toxicroak with 4 HP with Acrobatics, and fell to a single Revenge. Toxicroak fell to Gyarados again, and this time Medicham with the elemental punches and High Jump Kick easily beat the rest of his team (Gyarados, Honchkrow and Pyroar).

So I stopped playing right before the final Lysandre fight. Let's get the Xerneas!

Spoiler: Current team

@ Rocky Helmet. Lv 50 (M). Overgrow.
Hardy Nature. Spiky Shield, Hammer Arm, Seed Bomb, Rock Tomb.

@ Fist Plate. Lv 50 (M). Steadfast.
Timid Nature. Aura Sphere, Bone Rush, Return, Calm Mind.

@ Black Belt. Lv 50 (F). Iron Fist.
Serious Nature. Strength, Hammer Arm, Crunch, Surf.

@ Black Sludge. Lv 50 (M). Dry Skin.
Hardy Nature. Revenge, Mud Bomb, Poison Jab, Sucker Punch.

@ Expert Belt. Lv 51 (F). Pure Power.
Careful Nature. Thunder Punch, Zen Headbutt, High Jump Kick, Ice Punch.

@ Nothing. Lv 50 (F). Limber.
Naive Nature. Fly, Roost, Acrobatics, High Jump Kick.

Number of Gym Badges: 7.

Current Location: Team Flare Secret HQ.

Number of losses: 0.

 

[StenirRPG]

Ultimate Dark Run
Black / Second Entry / Is This A Dark Run Cause I'm Flying

In this post (i.e., TL;DR)

Spoiler:

-- Gym 4
-- Gym 5
-- Gym 6

The full read:

Spoiler:

Gym 4:
Yay for Sandile getting some love. Even when paralyzed, Sand Tomb and Mud-Slap are amazing here. When the trainers use Emolga, I generally switch to Scraggy and hit them hard before swapping back.

Gym 5:
I just let Scraggy spam Brick Break and High Jump Kick. It's powerful enough that it can take anything out in a hit or two. It's also very nice for when Excadrill shows up.

Gym 6:
I spent some time in the tower training before coming back...not because I wanted the levels, but because I wanted the evolutions. Sandile is now Krokorok and Scraggy is now Scrafty, so I hit even harder. What sort of sucked about this gym is that I'm worried about is Flying moves being used against Scrafty...which ended up being a real fear as Skyla took out my Liepard and Krokorok at the end of the battle, so I had Scrafty out as my last option. Thankfully, it was faster and took the win.

Team Stats:

Spoiler:

 

[StenirRPG]

Ultimate Dark Run
Black / Final Entry / Purrfect Conclusion

In this post (i.e., TL;DR)

Spoiler:

-- Gym 7
-- Gym 8
-- Elite Four
-- N and Ghetsis

The full read:

Spoiler:

-- Gym 7
It's ice. Take Scrafty and just Brick Break or Hi Jump Kick everything. And yes, I know the chart down below says "High", but I'm a little lazy on adjusting the naming lol

The run up Dragonspiral Tower was actually not that bad. I do wish I had more than just the three I've had for a while, because I could tell at this point that I wasn't going to be using the other three that much, other than maybe as stalls.

-- Gym 8
Dragons. Something in the back of my head says I should do a Dragon Ultimate either next run or the run after. Might be Ghost next. Not sure yet.

After having used Scrafty a lot, I wanted to at least get the potential for one of the remaining mons. So, I picked up Pawniard after the bridge, and then immediately went just north onto the final Route of the game to pick up Vullaby. Of course, both of these don't even evolve until the 50s...and my main three are only just getting there.

Future Stenir says "And yeup, they never evolved". I did put the Exp Share on Pawniard, hoping it would get a nice bit of leveling, but not really. Dragons were just use Dark moves, sometimes Dig, or Bulldoze, or whatever. It was a letdown of a battle, because I quickly got through Fraxure and Druddigon, and was expecting Haxorus to be a pain...but it just used Dragon Dance a few times and never hit me. I wish I could explain the AI thought behind that one. I'll take a free badge, I guess.

-- Elite Four
Super simple. Take out Ghost and Psychic first, because I have strong Dark moves. For Grimsley's Dark type battle, I just use Brick Break to push through. Simple enough. Marshal was a concern since his team was Fighting, so this was one of those brute force it battles. More fighting moves or Bulldoze/Dig to get me through.

-- N and Ghetsis
N took a few attempts because I wasn't paying attention (who could at 11:30 at night lol). On the winning run, Bulldoze on Zekrom, then Dig takes it out. Vanilluxe comes out, and I swap to Scrafty for Hi Jump Kick. This gives me a boost because of Moxie, so I can one shot Zoroark and Klinklang. I'm not fast enough to take our Archeops, so I use just click whatever. Acrobatics takes out Scrafty, and I swap Krookodile in. A couple of strong hits takes our Archeops, and then Carracosta takes out Krookodile...so I just let Liepard finish it up.

Ghetsis took one attempt, and I was trying not to laugh. Cofagrigus down to Crunch, Hydreigon is next so I use a couple Hi Jump Kick to take it out, which then lets me one shot Bouffalant with Brick Break, one shot Bisharp with Brick Break, one shot Seismitoad with Hi Jump Kick, and then two shot Eelektross with Brick Break...so...that happened. Scrafty is just a little overpowered.

But, who am I to argue?

I don't know if I would say that Dark is overpowered, but the combinations are really good. It feels odd that some runs in other types can take around the 30 hour average...and then Dark be like "hold my Ether" and fire off a 18 hour time. Granted, I think it does have a lot to do with the fact that I ran through 2 gyms with 1 mon, than the following 5 with 3. It would be interesting to see what would have happened if I would have started with one of the end-game mons. Or to play a run where you start with all of the mons for your type available at the beginning of the game (though, then I'd might suggest saying you get to pick six and that's it, but that's a different challenge in a way).

Team Stats:

Spoiler:

Unova by Type:

Spoiler:

Time to get on another plane, this time to Kalos!

 

[MachoPony]

Pokemon X Ground Mono Complete (Inc. Looker Bureau Sidequest)

Spoiler:

Made it through Reflecting cave to Shalour City, in the cave Sandile evolved to Krokorok

After getting the Eviolite for Rhyhorn i headed to the Tower of Mastery and faced Calem.

VS Calem
Rhyhorn took a couple of psybeams and slowed Meowstic but still fell. Golett took a psybeam and finished with Shadow Punch.
Wormadam took a quick attack from Absol, hit back with Hidden Power to almost one shot it, then a slash crit followed by a 2nd Hidden Power did it.
Hippopotas yawned Frogadier after a quick attack, then it used quick attack again and went to sleep before eating a soft sand boosted Dig. sadly it woke up next turn and finally used Water pulse to knock out hippopotas.
Water pulse also one shot Onix, but then it went for quick attack on Krokorok so Crunch ended the match.

I'd like to know who designed the shalour gym to literally have almost 0 pokemon that can do any sort of damage to ghost types. Golett took out every single trainer all on its own without taking a single hit.

VS Korrina
See above. her Machoke has rock tomb and that's IT NOTHING else on her team can touch Golett. i set up iron defenses just in case. a couple of magnitudes took out Mienfoo. then Machoke leered a couple of times before falling.
after missing a couple of rollout chains, i knocked Hawlucha low, she healed, 4th hit knocked it to the red again, she healed, 5th rollout finished it off. Not, a, single, hit.

After her Lucario one shot mine with a crit power up punch. I said no to taking it, but then it guilt tripped me so fine, i took Lucario......and boxed it forever more. You ain't my type bro.

Knowing the next gym is Grass i took Nidorino out of the box, checked his level up set and saw he learns nothing interesting so i immediately used a moon stone to make Nidoking.

In coumarine city i showed a woman Wormadam, she's very happy so the woman gave me a Lucky Egg which should help with training.

At the gym...
VS Calem
So this wasn't too difficult thankfully. Krokorok took a fake out and a disarming voice from Meowstic, hit back with crunch, then took another hit and finished it.
I had no answer for Frogadier but Hippopotas took a quick attack, yawned it then water pulse KOd. Nidoking came in for some exp before Krokorok switched in, rock tombed to lower speed. It still outsped but stayed asleep long enough for Krokorok to dig down, then dodge a quick attack and dig up for the KO.
Wormadam took a quick attack and a crit bite before 2 shotting Absol with hidden power.

After training Nidoking in the gym i faced the gym leader

VS Ramos
so Nidoking immediately got leech seeded, hit venoshock then took an acrobatics and finished off Jumpluff.
Wormadam went back and forth with Gogoat through a hyper potion but it missed its last take down and Hidden Power finished Gogoat off
Nidoking then almost one shot weepinbell with a crit venoshock, he healed as i hit chip away then another venoshock finished the fight.

On route 13 i caught Buzzy the Trapinch and Num Nums the Gible. I wasn't planning to catch Dugtrio but one ran into me so. I guess i have Molez the Dugtrio now.


In the power plant Gible evolved to Gabite, and I trained gabite on most of the team flare grunts

VS Team Flare Admin
Gabite took a fire fang, hit a crit sand tomb, then he went for odour sleuth for some reason and a dragon claw KOd it

VS Team Flare Aliana
So how come she gets a name? anyway Gabite baited the intimidate off mightyena, swapped to Nidoking and got swaggered, hit a double kick then she used scary face, i hit myself and she roared me out...what was the point of the swagger and scary face?
Anyway hippopotas took an assurance and finished with dig.

With the power back on i could explore the rest of Lumiose city
While training at Restaurant Le Yeah. Hippopotas evolved into Hippowdon.

Bought the Bulldoze TM from a mart in Lumiose

In the gym Gabite handled most of the trainers.

VS Clemont
So gabite took an aerial ace and hit rock tomb for about half, missed a 2nd and took another hit before finishing with a third rock tomb. then magneton survived with sturdy and finished off gabite.
Rhyhorn broke sturdy with rock tomb after he healed and bulldoze finished Magneton, before heliolisk one shot with grass knot and Nidoking took a quick attack and one shot with bulldoze.

Out on route 14 I have to face Calem again
VS Calem
why does he STILL only have 3 mons?
So gabite took a fake out, slowed down meowstic with bulldoze taking a psychic but the SpD drop made me switch to krokorok....except he used disarming voice and got a crit to about half before Krokorok outsped with crunch for the KO.
Hippowdon got flinched by absol, hit a dig, missed a rock tomb and hit a final rock tomb to take it out while being taken to Red health by a crit bite.
Lastly was Greninja and my answer for this thing....is on this route....and the game wouldn't let me go grab one yet. So Nidoking took a 4 hit water shuriken with a crit (barely) and hit for over half with thunderbolt. Then he quick attacked as i healed Gabite and i survived before a 2nd one finished nidoking.
free switch into Gabite who could easily take a water shuriken and finish with Dragon Claw.

On route 14 I caught Derp the Quagsire. finally a solid answer to Water type pokemon. Water Absorb baby wooo!

Sometimes i really question this game's AI. A trainer's poliwhirl tried to use Mud shot, on hippowdon, who was already slower than it instead of the super effective bubble beam so Quagsire couldn't heal and took more damage on the switch. THEN their fraxure used dragon dance and spammed.....false swipe. a move that literally cannot KO anything.

Had a close call in the Laverre gym when AN AZUMARILL USED DOUBLE EDGE ON MY DAMN NIDOKING INSTEAD OF SUPER EFFECTIVE RAIN BOOSTED AQUA TAIL SO QUAGSIRE ALMOST FAINTED. WHY IS THE AI SO GODDAMN STUPID IN THIS GAME!?

VS Valerie
So she's fully prepared for Poison types. Nidoking still 2 shot her Mawile with Bulldoze while Golett hit a hard shadow punch after Mr Mime set light screen, she healed and a crit shadow punch knocked it out.
Nidoking then took down sylveon with 3 bulldoze, taking a swift and a dazzling gleam in the process.

Since the AI just picks random moves with no rhyme or reason, I boxed Derp and brought Krokorok back out. I like Quagsire but it doesn't have the stats of my other pokemon and its ability is useless if the AI has a 75% chance to not click the water type move.

Krokorok hit level 40 and evolved into Krookodile in the Pokeball factory

VS Team Flare Admin
She just had a scraggy and a houndoom. 2 bulldoze from Rhyhorn, then another 1 and its over.

VS Celosia and Bryony
Again why does the Admin get no name but random scientists get names? They double teamed Calem's Meowstic but Rhyhorn hit a hard bulldoze doing over half to Manectric.
Calem brought in Absol who slashed Liepard, they both hit Absol and then a bulldoze hurt absol and KOd Manectric and Liepard.

At level 42 Rhyhorn FINALLY evolved into Rhydon

At Level 43 Golett FINALLY evolved into Golurk

It was at this point exploring route 16 i realized....I need waterfall to get the Protector. Why does every game lock Rhyperior from you until literally the very last point of the game?

Through the frost Cavern.
VS Team Flare Mabel

What is these dorks obsession with mightyena and houndoom? One single houndoom vs Gabite = dig OHKO

On my way out i caught Momo the Piloswine

In Anistar City Calem wanted another battle.

VS Calem
Ok he added a 4th pokemon but he's still just as stupid. So after a fake out, crunch from Krookodile one shot Meowstic, dig dodged a lava plume from flareon....who then tried to quick attack me while Krook was underground. One shot.
Now at +2 from Moxie, absol hit a quick attack....and then tried to do it again while i was underground. one shot. then greninja hit....dark pulse, on a dark type, and again tried to use quick attack while i was underground....so +3 dig one shot it.

What is with this terrible AI?

Golurk handled the gym.

VS Olympia
Step 1. Send out Krookodile
Step 2. Press Crunch 3 times
Step 3. You win

After returning to Lumiose i beat some trainers and entered Lysandre's Lab

VS Lysandre
So his Mienfoo boosted its atk and one shot Gabite. I wasn't really paying attention, my fault for playing in the early morning. But after that Nidoking finished it off.
Nidoking then one shot Gyarados with thunderbolt, took a fire blast from pyroar and one shot back with earth power, then one shot murkrow with thunderbolt for the win.

After a battle Gabite finally evolved into Garchomp.

VS Team Flare Aliana
Even after intimidate Rhydon's hammer arm one shot Mightyena then Hippowdon took a surf from druddigon and 2 shot with Earthquake.

VS Team Flare Celosia
Rhydon's new Drill Run one shot Manectric then almost one shot Drapion before a rock tomb finished it off taking a flamethrower and 2 night slashes.

VS Team Flare Bryony
After a fake out and a sucker punch Rhydon's hammer arm one shot Liepard, it was very low so i swapped to Hippowdon who took an iron head from Bisharp and one shot with Earthquake.

VS Team Flare Mable
After a Flamethrower Hippowdon one shot Houndoom with Earthquake. then took 2 ice shards from Weavile, 2 shotting with rock tomb.

VS Team Flare Xerosic
His stupid crobat made Nidoking flinch three times in a row. So i healed and thunderbolt did a big chunk and paralyzed it, a 2nd Thunderbolt finished it.
Malamar took an Earth Power and finished off Nidoking with psycho cut leaving Krookodile to come in and finish with crunch.

Over in Geosenge town i took out a grunt and went into the secret lab

VS Lysandre
Nidoking 2 shot Mienshao with venoshock as he used swords dance....then i accidentally hit Surf instead of Thunderbolt so Gyarados one shot Nidoking with Aqua Tail.
Garchomp hit it with Rock Tomb....but it knows outrage and one shot with a crit (NOW the AI decides to not be stupid!?)
Krookodile then knocked it out with rock tomb and outsped and one shot Pyroar with a +1 dig, and honchkrow with a +2 rock tomb.

After a bunch of grunts and Nidoking 2 shotting Xerneas with Venoshock...

VS Lysandre
Hippowdon took an acrobatics, hit with Earthquake, took another and finished Mienshao with a 2nd earthquake.
Pyroar outsped and hit garchomp with hyper voice before dig one shot it
Rhydon took a steel wing from honchkrow then rock tomb was a clean one shot
Nidoking hit thunderbolt on Mega Gyarados, got one shot by aqua tail, the same Krookodile and dig, before garchomp finished it with a final Dig.

In Couriway town...Professor Sycamore wants to battle!?

VS Sycamore
Oh **** wasn't expecting that. I need to play Gen 6 more often.
So Venusaur uses petal blizzard which Hippowdon easily takes and yawns, a worry seed followed by earthquake and Venusaur is asleep. a 2nd Earthquake takes it out.
Nidoking 2 shot Blastoise with Thunderbolt as it used Iron Defense then the same to Charizard taking a slash in the process.

From Couriway town i headed south, across a bridge...

VS Shauna
She finally wants a battle again and she brings....3 pokemon. this is baby's first pokemon alright.
Garchomp smashed Delcatty hard with Dragon Claw but it used Charm, it finished her with dragon claw.
Wasnt sure if -2 Dragon Claw would KO Goodra so i brought in Golurk who hit power up punch, took a dragon pulse then finished with earthquake.
So she took the last starter pokemon. But chesnaught was an easy one shot for a +1 fly from Golurk

VS Tierno
Garchomp took an acrobatics from Talonflame and one shot with rock tomb
it then hit roserade very low got poisoned and survived a petal dance, a 2nd dragon claw finished it.
Crawdaunt survived a thunderbolt from Nidoking and kod back with Crabhammer while Garchomp finished it.

VS Trevor
Garchomp one shot Raichu with dig, but got paralyzed. (WHY can Ground types, who are IMMUNE TO ELECTRIC be PARALYZED?)
Rhydon got one shot by Florges unexpected energy ball so nidoking came in and venoshock barely dented it. It used confide a few times as i brought in Golurk who surprise! is a physical attacker so Shadow Punch finished it.
Aerodactyl missed supersonic as shadow punch did over half, hit a 2nd one but Golurk broke through and shadow punched it for the win.


Through the winding woods near Snowbelle, met Wulfric. I really hate Nidoking's Rivalry ability now. It's doing a ton less damage to female pokemon. I swear it used to only reduce atk not SpA

VS Wulfric
So nidoking one shot Abomasnow with an expert belt Fire Blast.
Cryogonal took a hit and confused Nidoking, then it hit itself and ice beam finished it. Krookodile took it out with rock tomb.
The problem is all my other mons are physical and his Avalugg is a huge tank. it used Curse and one shot Krook with avalanche, Rhydon missed a stone edge that would have killed so it cursed again.
at +2 a stone edge didn't kill so he KOd with Avalanche and healed. I brought in Hippowdon to yawn it, but I just couldn't knock it out and Avalugg cleared my team.

Attempt 2
This time i brought in Rhydon as soon as Abomasnow was down and broke through confusion to one shot Cryogonal with Stone Edge. from there an expert belt boosted Fire Blast from Nidoking took out Avalugg.

It was at this point i realized. I'm an idiot. I thought I needed Waterfall to get to the other part of the Lost Hotel. nope just Strength. fml

Protector in hand i could finally get the evolution i should have got 2 gyms ago....Rhyperior.

After a semi annoying strength puzzle on route 22 i got the TM for Earthquake.

Through Victory road there was one last fight.
VS Calem
I forgot this was here, i thought it was further in. Lucky for me i had Krookodile in the lead spot anyway. Fake out chipped it but crunch KOd Meowstic in one hit.
Greninja's Ice Beam hurt but a +1 Earthquake took it out, +2 rock tomb one shot Altaria, +3 Earthquake annihilated Flareon and +4 Earthquake one shot Absol.

After training Hippowdon to near the rest of my party (had to bring Quagsire to victory road) stealing a bunch of heart scales from Wild luvdisc I deleted some HM moves from my party and taught some better moves through the reminder and TMs.
Also picked up the Stone Edge and Flamethrower TMs

Finally time for the league
VS Elite 4 Malva
Garchomp one shot Pyroar with earthquake. then took a brave bird from Talonflame, missed a stone edge, took another and hit the 2nd one, then One earthquake each KOd Torkoal and Chandelure.

VS Elite 4 Wikstrom
Klefki used Spikes and golurk KOd with Earthquake. power up punch on scizor as it used night slash then earthquake KO, Aegislash stalled with King's shield for a turn but a +1 Earthquake KOd it after that.
And finally i knew probopass had sturdy to power up punch knocked it low, it hit flash cannon, he healed and 2 Shadow Punch knocked out Probopass

VS Elite 4 Siebold
This was the fight that worried me. So even an Expert Belt boosted Thunderbolt from Nidoking didn't KO Clawitzer and a crit Water Pulse KOd Nidoking back. Garchomp took it low after it healed, he healed again and 2 more Dragon Claw finished it.
Hippowdon yawned Gyarados as it set up Dragon Dances....which didn't even matter because Sandstorm chip, crit stone edge then sandstorm again finished it off.
Krookodile took a surf from Starmie and finished with Crunch, last was Barbaracle and a +1 Earthquake one shot it.

VS Elite 4 Drasna
So Nidoking failed to even 2 shot Dragalgae's incredible special bulk with Earth Power and fained to 2 surfs.
She healed and a pair of Crunch from Krookodile finished it, followed by Outrage KOing Altaria, Druddigon then after a dragon pulse one shotting Noivern for the win.

VS Champion Diantha
So Nidoking finally did something useful and after swords dance it one shot Hawlucha with thunderbolt
Golurk hit Power up Punch on Aurorus who set reflect, she healed so 2 more finished it. +3 fly under reflect (dodging a phantom force) almost KOd gourgeist. But here's where I made a mistake, i forgot she could heal so i used fly again, so it outsped with phantom force.
I survived and KOd with shadow punch but if i had used shadow punch first i could have dodged the phantom force. Golurk fell to Goodra
Krookodile one shot Goodra with a crit earthquake then +1 Earthquake finished Tyrantrum and +2 one shot Gardevoir for the victory.

VS AZ
This was basically a victory lap. Nidoking one shot Torkoal with Earth Power and Krookodile one shot sigilyph and golurk with a crunch each.


Credits roll and I win a couple of battles at the Maison before taking on Calem

VS Calem
After Krookodile takes out Meowstic and Nidoking takes out Clefable...His Greninja just annihilates my entire team with hydro pump.

At this point I decided to go to Restaurant Le Wow to train, his Greninja is 70 and my highest mon is Krookodilw at 68 while some of them are in the low 60s

VS Calem Round 2
This time I had a plan.
Once again Krookodile took a fake out and one shot meowstic, and nidoking 2 shot clefable.
But this time i gave Hippowdon a passho berry to take a hydro pump and yawn Greninja....except he missed, and then followed up with Ice Beam which Hippowdon easily took and hit back with earthquake. a 2nd while he was asleep KOd greninja.
Krookodile came back in and one shot Flareon with Earthquake, Altaria with Stone Edge and Mega Absol with +2 Earthquake.

After meeting Sycamore at the Sundial in Anistar i headed to Lumiose again.

The looker sidequests weren't difficult. Rhyperior solod all of them (Except this one where a kid's Leavanny one shot it with a crit leaf storm but Nidoking cleaned it up)

Right at the end
VS Essentia
Garchomp one shot Jellicent with Earthquake and volcarona with Stone Edge
Round 2
Garchomp hit stone edge after a tailwind, took a moonblast and finished Whimsicott with an earthquake. One shot mawile with Earthquake and then Nidoking took out Granbull with sludge bomb.
Round 3
Garchomp one shot Persian with Earthquake
Round 4
Crobat hit Poison fang then took a stone edge, mean look and dragon claw ends it. Malamar took an earthquake, hit hard with Superpower then a 2nd Earthquake ended the match for good.

And that's the end of the game...for real this time.

Final Team

Spoiler:

Num Nums (Garchomp) LV71
Earthquake
Dragon Claw
Stone Edge
Fire Blast

Charlie (Nidoking) LV70
Earth Power
Sludge Bomb
Blizzard
Thunderbolt

Punchy (Golurk) LV71
Shadow Punch
Earthquake
Power-up Punch
Fly

Snappy (Krookodile) LV71
Crunch
Earthquake
Stone Edge
Outrage

Gloria (Hippowdon) LV69
Earthquake
Crunch
Stone Edge
Yawn

Big Mama (Rhyperior) LV69
Earthquake
Stone Edge
Megahorn
Hammer Arm

MVP: Krookodile
Might as well have a big sign on him saying "In case of Emergency, release the Croc." This thing saved me so many times. Sandile and Krokorok were ok but once it reached its final form it was soloing and sweeping teams left and right with Moxie and a good moveset. I could have let it do a lot more if i wanted but I chose to balance my team instead of just letting the croc run wild.

LVP: Nidoking
Back in Gen 1, that bulk, those offensive stats and that typing were amazing, so was its fantastic movepool which it still has. But it just doesn't hit hard enough anymore. Even with the Expert Belt on it missed OHKOs so many times, and it wasnt as bulky as i'd like. it really needs its hidden ability to keep up these days. on the flip side It did help immensely against fairy types though there wasn't a lot of those surprisingly despite it being the new toy.

 

[sirKlett]

May I sign up for two monotype runs in one post? I will be doing and updating them both at the same time and at the same post as well. I'm sorry in advance for the infrequent updates. I'm only doing this when I need a little break from shiny hunting.

User: sirKlett
Type: Fairy
Game(s): X
Challenge Type: Single
Standard Mode / Free Mode: Standard

User: sirKlett
Type: Dark
Game(s): Y
Challenge Type: Single
Standard Mode / Free Mode: Standard

(Not really important) Notes:

• Will be done in the style of Professor Oak challenge but limited to the type chosen
• Updates will be posted every after one gym badge obtained
• I will trade for version exclusives and trade evolutions, will be following the trading rules for standard

 

[Explorer of Time]

May I sign up for two monotype runs in one post?

Absolutely! You're all signed up.

 

[Explorer of Time]

Pokemon Platinum QOL (Standard Mode)
Mono-Steel - PI Justin
Update 9 (Postgame)

I've finally gotten around to completing my postgame. I elected not to fight the E4 rematches in this game since all they have is boosted levels and a couple moveset changes on Cynthia, and I'd rather move on than grind for that. Instead, I completed the Victory Road and Route 224 sidequest, then moved on to the Battle Zone, beating the Team Galactic commanders at Stark Mountain, and finally challenged everyone at the Battleground.

The initial Multi Battle with Flint and Volkner was really hard; the two of them ganged up on me because of my weaknesses and my rival did most of the work; I would've whited out had I not used a Revive at the last minute while my Rival beat Volkner's last Pokemon. After that, I went to Route 228 during a Swarm and caught a Beldum, evolving it into a Metagross and replacing Steelix. I gave it Iron Defense and the Leftovers to make it a physical tank, and Zen Headbutt, Earthquake, and Ice Punch for offensive coverage. Apart from Metagross, my only other changes were to give my second Quick Claw to Scizor, and Signal Beam to Magnezone via the Survival Area move tutor.

Most of the Battleground battles weren't that difficult. Volkner was the only one where I had to use an item, and even then only because of bad Paralysis RNG at the last minute. Gardenia, Maylene, Candice, Cheryl, and Buck were all pushovers, however. Roark, Wake, Fantina, Byron, Mira, Riley, and Marley all managed to KO two or three of my Pokemon, but weren't tough enough to do more than that.

Battle Logs:

Spoiler:

Spoiler: Flint & Volkner Multi Battle

Turn 1: Houndoom 1HKOs Bronzong with Flamethrower. [5/6 J 6/6 B]
Staraptor uses Close Combat to nearly 1HKO Houndoom.
Luxray misses an attack.
I switch to Steelix.

Turn 2: Houndoom 1HKOs Steelix with Flamethrower. [4/6 J 6/6 B]
Staraptor KOs Houndoom with Aerial Ace. [2/3 F 3/3 V]
Luxray 1HKOs Staraptor with Thunder Fang. [4/6 J 5/6 B]
I switch to Empoleon.
Barry switches to Torterra.
Flint switches to Magmortar.

Turn 3: Magmortar nearly KOs Torterra with Flamethrower.
Empoleon does 55% damage to Luxray and Magmortar (after Sitrus Berry) with Surf.
Torterra faints to Surf. [4/6 J 4/6 B]
Luxray does 35% damage to Empoleon with Thunder Fang.
Rival switches to Snorlax.

Turn 4: Magmortar KOs Empoleon with Thunderbolt. [3/6 J 4/6 B]
Snorlax KOs Luxray with Body Slam. [2/3 F 2/3 V]
I switch to Lucario.
Volkner switches to Jolteon.

Turn 5: Lucario nearly KOs Magmortar with ExtremeSpeed.
Jolteon hits Snorlax with something that does 30% damage.
Snorlax KOs Magmortar and brings Lucario and Jolteon to 1/3rd HP with Earthquake. [1/3 F 2/3 V]
Flint switches to Flareon.

Turn 6: Lucario KOs Jolteon with ExtremeSpeed. [1/3 F 1/3 V]
Flareon KOs Lucario with Overheat. [2/6 J 4/6 B]
Snorlax does 45% damage to Flareon with Crunch.
I swith to Scizor.
Volkner switches to Electivire.

Turn 7: Electivire 1HKOs Scizor with Fire Punch. [1/6 J 4/6 B]
Flareon hits Snorlax with Overheat for minimal damage.
Snorlak KOs Flareon with Body Slam. [0/3 F 1/3 V]
I switch to Magnezone.

Turn 8: Magnezone uses Magnet Rise.
Electivire KOs Snorlax with Brick Break. [1/6 J 3/6 B]
Barry switches to Heracross.

Turn 9: Electivire uses Fire Punch to bring Heracross to 1/3rd HP.
Heracross uses Close Combat on Electivire.
Magnezone hits Electivire with Tri Attack, bringing it to 25% HP.

Turn 10: I use a Revive to avoid whiting out before my team wins. [2/6 J 3/6 B]
Electivire KOs Magnezone. [1/6 J 3/6 B]
Heracross KOs Electivire with Night Slash. [Win]

Spoiler: Mars (Stark Mountain)

Turn 1: Lucario sets Swords Dance.
Bronzong sets Light Screen.

Turn 2: Lucario brings Bronzong to 5% HP with Brick Break.
Bronzong uses Confuse Ray on Lucario.

Turn 3: Lucario hurts himself in his confusion.
Bronzong hits Lucario with Extrasensory. (42/167)

Turn 4: Lucario KOs Bronzong with Brick Break. [2/3]
Mars sends out Purugly.

Turn 5: Purugly puts Lucario to sleep with Hypnosis.
Lucario is asleep.

Turn 6: Purugly uses Aerial Ace on Lucario. (12/167)
Lucario wakes up, 1HKOs Purugly with Brick Break, and levels up. [1/3]
Mars sends out Golbat.

Turn 7: Lucario nearly KOs Golbat with ExtremeSpeed.
Golbat KOs Lucario with Air Cutter. [5/6]
I switch to Scizor.

Turn 8: Scizor KOs Golbat with Bullet Punch. [Win]

Jupiter (Stark Mountain): My Scizor maximized his attack with Swords Dance, then 1HKOed her whole team.

Spoiler: Rival (Survival Area)

Turn 1: Staraptor uses Close Combat on Bronzong. (98/164)
Bronzong sets Reflect.

Turn 2: Staraptor uses U-turn (79/164)
Rival switches to Rapidash
Bronzong sets Light Screen

Turn 3: Rapidash hits Bronzong with Fire Blast. (19/164)
Bronzong hits Rapidash with Earthquake (~55% HP)

Turn 4: Rapidash KOs Bronzong with Fire Blast. [5/6]
I switch to Empoleon.

Turn 5: Rapidash sets Sunny Day.
Empoleon KOs Rapidash with Surf. [5/6]
Rival switches to Torterra.

Turn 6: I switch to Scizor.
Torterra uses Earthquake on Scizor. (119/167)

Turn 7: Scizor sets Swords Dance.
Torterra uses Earthquake on Scizor. (71/167)

Turn 8: Scizor sets Swords Dance again.
Torterra hits Scizor with Earthquake. (21/167)
Reflect wears off.

Turn 9: Scizor 1HKOs Torterra with Aerial Ace. [4/6]
Light Screen wears off.
Rival sends out Snorlax.

Turn 10: Scizor 1HKOs Snorlax with Brick Break. [3/6]
Rival switched Staraptor back in.
Intimidate reduces Scizor's attack to +3.

Turn 11: Scizor 1HKOs Staraptor with Bullet Punch. [2/6]
Scizor levels up.
Rival sends out Heracross.

Turn 12: Scizor 1HKOs Heracross with Bullet Punch. [1/6]
Rival switches to Floatzel.

Turn 13: Floatzel KOs Scizor with Aqua Jet. [4/6]
I switch to Magnezone.

Turn 14: Floatzel hits Magnezone with Brick Break. (115/179)
Magnezone 1HKOs Floatzel. [Win]

Spoiler: Roark (Rematch)

Turn 1: Aerodactyl crits and 1HKOs Empoleon with Earthquake. [5/6]
I switch to Magnezone.

Turn 2: Aerodactyl nearly KOs Magnezone with Earthquake. (15/179)
Magnezone 1HKOs Aerodactyl with Thunderbolt. [4/5]
Roark switches to Golem.

Turn 3: Magnezone 1HKOs Golem with Flash Cannon, and levels up. [3/5]
Roark switches to Rampardos.

Turn 4: Magnezone 1HKOs Rampardos with Flash Cannon. [2/5]
Roark switches to Tyranitar, starting a Sandstorm and raising his team's Sp. Def.

Turn 5: Magnezone hits Tyranitar with Flash Cannon, lowering its Sp. Def. (~66%)
Tyranitar KOs Magnezone with Fire Fang. [4/6]

Turn 6: Lucario KOs Tyranitar with a critical Brick Break. [1/5]
Roark switches to Probopass.

Turn 7: Lucario 1HKOs Probopass with Brick Break. [Win]

Gardenia (Rematch): Choice Specs Empoleon 1HKOed Jumpluff and Torterra with Ice Beam after getting hit by a Bounce. Empoleon then 2HKOed Bellossom with Ice Beam, as it wasted its move on Ingrain. Roserade 2HKOed Empoleon with Leaf Storm, but got put in the yellow by an Ice Beam.

I sent out Scizor, which easily survived a Hyper Beam, and KOed Roserade with Aerial Ace. Gardenia sent out Cherrim last, which SunnyBeamed Scizor once and got 2HKOed by Aerial Ace.

Spoiler: Fantina (Rematch)

Turn 1: Quick Claw activates and Magnezone nearly 1HKOs Banette.
Banette uses Shadow Claw. (161/182)

Turn 2: Fantina used a Full Restore.
Magnezone used Thunderbolt again.

Turn 3: Magnezone KOs Banette with a second Thunderbolt and levels up. [4/5]
Fantina sends out Gengar.

Turn 4: Gengar nearly KOs Magnezone with Focus Blast. (18/185)
Magnezone hits Gengar with Thunderbolt, triggering its Sitrus Berry. (~65%)

Turn 5: Quick Claw activates and Magnezone KOs Gengar with Thunderbolt. [3/5]
Fantina sends out Mismagius.

Turn 6: Mismagius KOs Magnezone with Thunderbolt. [5/6]
I send out Lucario.

Turns 7/8: Mismagius nearly 2HKOs Lucario with Thunderbolt. (18/175)
Lucario 2HKOs Mismagius with Shadow Claw. [2/5]
Fantina sends out Drifblim.

Turn 9: Lucario hits Drifblim with a Shadow Claw. (~35%)
Drifblim crits and KOs Lucario with an Ominous Wind. [4/6]
I switch to Empoleon.

Turn 10: Empoleon KOs Drifblim with Surf. [1/5]
Fantina switches to Dusknoir.

Turn 11: Empoleon crits with Surf and 1HKOs Dusknoir. [Win]

Maylene: Metagross set 3x Iron Defense, then 1HKOed or 2HKOed her whole team.

Spoiler: Crasher Wake (Rematch)

Turn 1: Sharpedo hits Empoleon with Night Slash.
Empoleon 1HKOs Sharpedo with Grass Knot. [4/5]
Rough Skin deals damage to Empoleon. (140/190)
Wake sends out Quagsire.

Turn 2: Empoleon 1HKOs Quagsire with a critical Grass Knot. [3/5]
Wake sends out Ludicolo.

Turn 3: Ludicolo nearly KOs Empoleon with a Focus Blast. (36/190)
Empoleon hits Ludicolo with a Grass Knot. (~70% HP)

Turn 4: Ludicolo finishes off Empoleon with an Energy Ball. [5/6]
I send out Bronzong.

Turn 5: Ludicolo hits Bronzong with Surf. (104/164)
Bronzong sets Light Screen.

Turns 6-8: I use two Psychics and an Earthquake to bait Wake into using his Full Restore.
Bronzong nearly faints to three Surfs. (17/164)

Turn 9: Wake heals Ludicolo, as expected.
Bronzong sets Reflect.

Turn 10: Wake finally 5HKOs Bronzong with Surf. [4/6]
I switch to Scizor.

Turns 11-12: Ludicolo hits Scizor with two Surfs. (101/175)
Scizor 2HKOs Ludicolo with Aerial Ace. [2/5]
Light Screen expires.

Turn 12: Floatzel hits Scizor with Brine. (44/175)
Scizor hits Floatzel with Aerial Ace. (~45%)

Turn 13: Scizor hits with Bullet Punch. (~10%)
Floatzel KOs Scizor with Brine. [3/6]
I switch to Magnezone.

Turn 14: Wake uses a Full Restore on Floatzel.
Magnezone 1HKOs Floatzel with a Thunderbolt anyway. [1/5]
Wake sends out Gyarados.

Turn 15: Gyarados hits Magnezone with Aqua Tail. (148/182)
Magnezone 1HKOs Gyarados with Thunderbolt. [Win]

Spoiler: Byron (Rematch)

Turn 1: Empoleon nearly 1HKOs Skarmory with Surf.
Skarmory hits Empoleon with Drill Peck. (164/190)

Turns 2-3: Byron heals Skarmory with a Full Restore.
Empoleon 2HKOs Skarmory with Surf. [4/5]

Turn 4: Empoleon hits Magnezone with Surf. (~25% HP)
Magnezone confuses Empoleon with Supersonic.

Turn 5: Empoleon hurts herself in her confusion.
Magnezone paralyzes Empoleon with Thunder Wave.

Turn 6: Magnezone nearly KOs Empoleon with Thunderbolt.
Empoleon KOs herself in her confusion. [5/6]

Turn 7: Lucario KOs Magnezone with Brick Break.
Byron sends out Aggron. [3/5]

Turn 8: Lucario hits Aggron with Brick Break, triggering its Sitrus Berry. (~49% HP)
Aggron nearly KOs Lucario with Earthquake. (35/175)

Turn 9: Lucario 2HKOs Aggron with Brick Break. [2/5]
Byron sends out Steelix.

Turn 10: Lucario hits Steelix with Brick Break (~55% HP)
Steelix fails to KO Lucario with Gyro Ball.

Turn 11: Lucario nearly KOs Steelix with Brick Break. (~10% HP)
Steelix KOs Lucario with Gyro Ball. [4/6]
I send out Scizor.

Turn 12: Byron uses his other Full Restore.
Scizor hits Steelix with Brick Break (~70% HP)

Turns 13-15: Scizor maxes its attack with Swords Dance.
Steelix ineffectively hits with Gyro Ball twice and sets Sandstorm. (145/175)

Turn 16: Scizor KOs Steelix with a Brick Break. [1/5]
Byron sends out Bastiodon.

Turn 17: Scizor 1HKOs Bastiodon. [Win]

Candice (Rematch): Scizor set up two Swords Dances against Weavile, took a little damage from two Faint Attacks, then got Taunted before setting up the third. He then 1HKOed Candice's entire team with Bullet Punch.

Spoiler: Volkner (Rematch)

Turn 1: Jolteon uses Charge Beam on Lucario. (117/175)
Lucario sets Swords Dance.

Turn 2: Jolteon criticals with Charge Beam, KOing Lucario. [5/6]
I switch to Metagross.

Turn 3: Jolteun uses Charge Beam on Metagross. (124/178)
Metagross 1HKOs Jolteon with Earthquake. [4/5]
Leftovers restores Metagross's HP. (135/178)
Volkner sends out Luxray.

Turn 4: Metagross uses Iron Defense.
Luxray uses Fire Fang.
Leftovers restores Metagross's HP. (118/178)

Turn 5: Metagross uses Iron Defense.
Luxray criticals with Fire Fang. (2/178)
Leftovers restores Metagross's HP. (13/178)

Turn 6: Metagross nearly KOs Luxray with Earthquake.
Luxray hits Metagross with Crunch. (1/178)
Leftovers restores Metagross's HP. (12/178)

Turn 7: Volkner wastes a Full Restore on Luxray.
Metagross 1HKOs Luxray with Earthquake. [3/5]
Leftovers restores Metagross's HP. (23/178)
Volkner sends out Electivire.

Turn 8: Electivire KOs Metagross with Fire Punch. [4/6]
I switch to Bronzong.

Turn 9: Electivire hits Bronzong with Fire Punch. (74/164)
Bronzong sets Reflect.

Turn 10: Electivire hits Bronzong with Fire Punch. (34/164)
Bronzong sets Light Screen.

Turn 11: Electivire KOs Bronzong with Brick Break. [3/6]
I switch to Empoleon.

Turn 12: Electivire 1HKOs Empoleon with ThunderPunch. [2/6]
I switch to Magnezone.

Turn 13: Electivire hits Magnezone with Brick Break. (101/185)
Magnezone hits Electivire with a critical Signal Beam, triggering Sitrus Berry. (65% HP)

Turn 14: Electivire hits Magnezone with Brick Break. (101/185)
Magnezone hits Electivire with a Signal Beam. (25% HP)

Turn 15: Quick Claw activates and Magnezone KOs Electivire with Signal Beam. [2/5]
Volkner sends out Raichu.

Turn 16: Raichu KOs Magnezone with Brick Break. [1/6]
I switch to Scizor.

Turn 17: Raichu sets Light Screen.
Scizor sets Swords Dance.

Turn 18: Quick Claw activates and Scizor 1HKOs Raichu with Brick Break. [1/5]
Static paralyzes Scizor.
Volkner sends out Lanturn.

Turn 19: Lanturn hits Scizor with Surf. (106/175)
Scizor uses Brick Break on Lanturn. (45% HP)

Turn 20: Scizor is paralyzed.
Lanturn hits Scizor with Surf. (34/175)

Turn 21: I use a Full Restore on Scizor.
Lanturn hits Scizor with Surf. (103/175)

Turn 22: Lanturn hits Scizor with Surf.
Scizor KOs Lanturn with Brick Break. [Win]

Cheryl: Lucario maximized his attack against Wobbuffet, then 1HKOed her whole team.

Spoiler: Mira

Turn 1: Porygon-Z hits my Magnezone with Tri-Attack. (131/185)
My Magnezone hits Porygon-Z with Thunderbolt. (~35% HP)

Turn 2: Quick Claw activates and my Magnezone KOs Porygon-Z with Thunderbolt. [4/5]
Mira switches to Alakazam.

Turn 3: Alakazam misses a Focus Blast.
My Magnezone hits Alakazam with Signal Beam, triggering Sitrus Berry. (~60% HP)

Turn 4: Alakazam KOs my Magnezone with Focus Blast. [5/6]
I switch to Empoleon.

Turn 5: Alakazam nearly KOs Empoleon with Focus Blast. (25/193)
Empoleon KOs Alakazam with Surf and levels up. [3/5]
Mira switches to her own Magnezone.

Turn 6: Empoleon outspeeds and 1HKOs Mira's Magnezone with Surf. [2/5]
Mira switches to Togekiss.

Turn 7: Togekiss KOs Empoleon with Air Slash. [4/6]
I switch to Metagross.

Turn 8: Togekiss hits Metagross with an Aura Sphere.
Metagross hits Togekiss with an Ice Punch. (~50% HP)

Turn 9: Togekiss hits Metagross with an Aura Sphere. (66/178)
Metagross hits Togekiss with an Ice Punch, freezing and nearly KOing it. (~1% HP)

Turn 10: Mira uses a Full Restore on Togekiss.
Metagross hits Togekiss with an Ice Punch. (~45% HP)
Leftovers heals Metagross. (77/178)

Turn 11: Togekiss hits Metagross with an Aura Sphere.
Metagross KOs Togekiss with an Ice Punch and levels up. [1/5]
Metagross is healed by Leftovers. (27/181)

Turn 12: Gengar KOs Metagross with... Energy Ball?! [3/6]
I switch to Lucario.

Turn 13: Gengar hits Lucario with Psychic. (94/175)
Lucario hits Gengar with Shadow Claw. (~20% HP)

Turn 14: Gengar hits Lucario with Psychic. (18/175)
Lucario KOs Gengar with Shadow Claw. [Win]

Spoiler: Riley

Turns 1-3: My Metagross and Riley's Absol get into a Iron Defense vs. Swords Dance standoff.

Turn 4: Absol crits with Night Slash and KOs Metagross. [5/6]
I switch to Lucario.

Turn 5: My Lucario 1HKOs Absol with Brick Break. [4/5]
Riley switches to his own Lucario.

Turn 6: My Lucario outspeeds and 1HKOs Riley's Lucario with a critical Brick Break. [3/5]
Riley switches to his own Metagross.

Turns 7-8: My Lucario hits Riley's Metagross with two Brick Breaks. (~40% HP)
Riley's Metagross 2HKOs my Lucario with Hammer Arm, reducing its speed twice. [4/6]
I switch to Bronzong.

Turn 9: Bronzong sets Reflect.
Riley's Metagross hits Bronzong with Hammer Arm. (140/164)

Turn 10: Bronzong KOs Riley's Metagross with Earthquake. [2/5]
Riley sends out Salamence and Intimidates Bronzong.

Turn 11: I switch to Empoleon.
Salamence hits Empoleon with a Fire Fang. (162/184)

Turn 12: Salamence hits Empoleon with a Thunder Fang. (120/184)
Empoleon 1HKOs Salamence with Ice Beam and levels up. [1/5]
Riley switches to Ursaring.

Turns 13-14: Ursaring hits Empoleon with two Slashes (92/187)
Empoleon puts Ursaring in the red with two Ice Beams.

Turns 15-16: Riley heals Ursaring with a Full Restore.
Empoleon 2HKOs Ursaring with Ice Beam. [Win]

Spoiler: Marley

Turns 1/2: Lucario and Ninjask both set Swords Dance

Turn 3: Lucario maxes its Attack with Swords Dance.
Ninjask puts Lucario at 9% HP with an Aerial Ace.

Turn 4: Lucario 1HKOs Ninjask with ExtremeSpeed. [4/5]
Marley sends out Arcanine and Intimidates him.

Turn 5: Lucario nearly KOs Arcanine with ExtremeSpeed, but fails due to Intimidate.
Arcanine hits back with ExtremeSpeed and KOs Lucario, and eats its Sitrus Berry. [5/6]
I send out Empoleon.

Turn 6: Arcanine hits Empoleon with Flare Blitz, burning her. (71/184)
Empoleon KOs Arcanine with Surf.
Marley switches to Electrode.

Turn 7: Electrode KOs Empoleon with Thunder. [4/6]
I switch to Metagross.

Turn 8: Electrode sets Double Team.
Metagross 1HKOs Electrode with a critical Earthquake. [2/5]
Marley switches to Crobat.

Turn 9: Crobat uses Double Team.
Metagross nearly KOs Crobat with Zen Headbutt.

Turn 10: Marley uses a Full Restore.
Metagross hits Crobat with an Ice Punch, bringing it to slightly below half HP.

Turn 11: Crobat uses Confuse Ray on Metagross.
Metagross KOs Crobat with an Ice Punch. [1/5]
Candice switches to Weavile.

Turn 12/13: Weavile hits Metagross with Night Slash.
Metagross hurts itself in confusion and heals itself with Leftovers.

Turn 13: Weavile KOs Metagross with Night Slash. [3/6]
I switch to Scizor.

Turn 14: Weavile hits Scizor with Aerial Ace. (135/173)
Scizor 1HKOs Weavile with Brick Break.

Buck: Lucario maximized his attack against Shuckle, and 1HKOed his whole team.

Team

Spoiler:

Empoleon (♀) | Water/Steel | Level 63
Moves: Surf, Ice Beam, Grass Knot, Hidden Power (Fire 70 BP)
Stats: 193 HP / 137 Atk / 150 Def / 157 SpA / 156 SpD / 119 Spe
Ability: Torrent | Nature: Careful | Item: Choice Specs

Bronzong | Steel/Psychic | Level 62
Moves: Psychic, Earthquake, Reflect, Light Screen
Stats: 164 HP / 129 Atk / 174 Def / 130 SpA / 164 SpD / 62 Spe
Ability: Levitate | Nature: Modest | Item: Light Clay

Scizor (♂) | Bug/Steel | Level 63
Moves: Bullet Punch, Aerial Ace, Brick Break, Swords Dance
Stats: 175 HP / 202 Atk / 146 Def / 90 SpA / 125 SpD / 115 Spe
Ability: Technician | Nature: Docile | Item: Quick Claw

Magnezone | Electric/Steel | Level 61
Moves: Thunderbolt, Flash Cannon, Signal Beam, Magnet Rise
Stats: 185 HP / 99 Atk / 175 Def / 206 SpA / 133 SpD / 105 Spe
Ability: Magnet Pull | Nature: Modest | Item: Quick Claw

Lucario (♂) | Fighting/Steel | Level 64
Moves: Brick Break, Shadow Claw, ExtremeSpeed, Swords Dance
Stats: 184 HP / 184 Atk / 122 Def / 173 SpA / 105 SpD / 157 Spe
Ability: Inner Focus | Nature: Naughty | Item: King's Rock

Metagross | Steel/Psychic | Level 62
Moves: Zen Headbutt, Earthquake, Ice Punch, Iron Defense
Stats: 181 HP / 199 Atk / 190 Def / 141 SpA / 113 SpD / 111 Spe
Ability: Clear Body | Nature: Lax | Item: Leftovers

 

[sirKlett]

Pokemon X: Fairy // Pokemon Y: Dark ∙ Monotype Challenge (Standard) ∙ Badge 1 Update
I want to go through these monotype challenges with a little twist. For X and Y, I decided to do something like a Professor Oak's challenge as an additional challenge, but of course limited to the type that I am doing. I would also take advantage of the two heart affection EXP boost. This would mean I will be overleveled most of the time, which I hope wouldn't be breaking any of the standard rules. I would also be Hyper/EV training them as preparation for a possible Battle Maison battling in the endgame.


Pokemon X: Fairy
The earliest Fairy-type I can get in this game is Azurill in Route 3 (Ouvert Way) so with a little help from Fennekin, I went through the early routes, avoiding any optional trainer battles then went ahead and caught a level 5 Azurill (and a random shiny Bunnelby). As it is a friendship evolution, I decided to evolve it to Marill at level 10 so it can learn Rollout, a good physical move. I went back to all the trainers I skipped earlier and did some wild battles until Marill evolved to Azumarill at level 18. As you would expect, a level 18 Azumarill with a good rock type move will bulldoze the bug type gym. Bug Badge obtained at In-game time of 4:17

Spoiler: The Team

Azumarill | Lv. 19
Nature: Brave
Ability: Huge Power
Moves: Bubble, Bubble Beam, Charm, Rollout

Spoiler: Pokemon Box

Spoiler: Ineligible but I still love them

Pokemon Y: Dark
In this run, I can actually use a starter with Froakie eventually evolving into Greninja who is a Water/Dark-type. This section is tedious but straightforward. Just grind EXP until level 36 then beat the gym with ease. Bug Badge obtained at In-game time of 7:34​

Spoiler: The Team

Greninja | Lv. 36
Nature: Timid
Ability: Torrent
Moves: Pound, Water Pulse, Bubble, Quick Attack

Spoiler: Pokemon Box

Spoiler: Ineligible but I still love them

 

[Explorer of Time]

I would also take advantage of the two heart affection EXP boost. This would mean I will be overleveled most of the time, which I hope wouldn't be breaking any of the standard rules.

It's fine. Although two hearts is the maximum you can get in Pokemon Amie under Standard Mode rules, since three or more gives you unfair in-battle bonuses. Don't go over that on your own team unless you want to convert your run to Free Mode.

 

[Mochorro]

The Ultimate Monotype Challenge! (Fighting)

Yellow, HeartGold, Sigma Σmerald, Platinum, White 2, X, Ultra Sun, Sword, Violet.

Additional Rules: - No items on important battles (rival, leaders, etc.)
- Set mode for important battles.

5. I got all badges!

Ok, so I left off just before fighting Xerneas, who I easily caught. After that, it was Lysandre, take 3! Zen Headbutt from Medicham missing meant his Mienshao beat 2 of my Pokémon, but Hawlucha almost swept his whole team. Mega Gyarados survived the High Jump Kick from my bird, but Chesnaught easily finished the fight.

Next up were the rivals, but to be honest they were really easy, with lower levels than some trainers of that route. Highlight was surviving Talonflame's Acrobatics with 8 HP with Chesnaught, then koing the bird with Rock Tomb.

And then we have Wulfric, last leader, but Ice types are very easy for me, and even if his Cryogonal beat my Toxicroak, Lucario easily destroyed his 2 remaining Pokémon with Close Combat and Aura Sphere.

After this gym I will explore the world a bit with Waterfall, and then aim for the Elite 4!

Spoiler: Current team

@ Leftovers. Lv 56 (M). Overgrow.
Hardy Nature. Spiky Shield, Hammer Arm, Seed Bomb, Earthquake.

@ Fist Plate. Lv 56 (M). Steadfast.
Timid Nature. Aura Sphere, Close Combat, Shadow Ball, Calm Mind.

@ Black Belt. Lv 56 (F). Iron Fist.
Serious Nature. Strength, Hammer Arm, Crunch, Surf.

@ Toxic Plate. Lv 56 (M). Dry Skin.
Hardy Nature. Brick Break, Sludge Bomb, Poison Jab, Sucker Punch.

@ Expert Belt. Lv 56 (F). Pure Power.
Careful Nature. Thunder Punch, Zen Headbutt, High Jump Kick, Ice Punch.

@ Nothing. Lv 56 (F). Limber.
Naive Nature. Fly, Roost, Acrobatics, High Jump Kick.

Number of Gym Badges: 8.

Current Location: Route 21.

 

[StenirRPG]

Ultimate Dark Run
X / Only Entry / Fairy Schmairy

In this post (i.e., TL;DR)

Spoiler:

-- Planning Ahead
-- Gym 1
-- Gym 2
-- Gym 3
-- Gym 4
-- Gym 5
-- Gym 6
-- Gym 7
-- Gym 8
-- The League

The full read:

Spoiler:

-- Planing Ahead
Well, I decided to look ahead and pick a few. I ended up deciding on a team that would end with Greninja, Pangoro, Malamar, Krookodile, Houndoom, and Drapion. In hindsight, I probably should have picked up Skuntank over Drapion, simply because Skuntank feels like the tank version of Drapion's more offensive side, not to mention you get it earlier. Drapion being useful came a little too late for me to really do anything with it. But, at least I had it as a backup at times...but, let's get to the rundown of my Kalos trek with Dark.

-- Gym 1
Although the chart shows it as Frogadier, it was really Froakie that completed the gym. I'm going to start a new table here, saying what moves I was focusing on during the battle. I've noticed that there's a bit of randomness as to how the leaders would go after me, so I started making a list and saying "this Pokemon should use X against Y". Fun charts ahead.

Easy to read them - They go in order of how I use them, and if the teammate name is in italics, it means I didn't end up needing them in the fight.

Team Move Selection	Surskit	Vivillon
Froakie	Quick Attack	Water Pulse

-- Gym 2
I picked up Pancham just outside Lumiose, Inkay just after getting my Pokedex upgraded, Sandile before my first Team Flare fight, and Houndour by heading slightly north before taking on Grant. Houndour is not going to be fighting in this one. My main goal here is focus on Pancham and Frogadier, with Inkay and Sandile as backups as needed.

Team Move Selection	Amaura	Tyrunt
Frogadier	Water Pulse	Water Pulse
Pancham	Karate Chop / Arm Thrust	Karate Chop / Arm Thrust
Inkay	Psywave	Psywave
Sandile	Mud-Slap > Sand Tomb	Mud-Slap > Sand Tomb
Hondour	keep out of the fight	keep out of the fight

-- Gym 3
My team has grown a little by this point, but it's still a very dangerous gym because my team is weak to the Fighting types. However, there's a specific order that I choose to go through my team on just to increase my survivability. Frogadier is not yet Dark, and Inkay has some Psybeam it would like to introduce to everybody. As before, I basically go down the list in this order, where as one is KO'd, I move onto the next one. Psybeam was decent, but I can't wait to swap it out when it evolves to Malamar, because it just hits better with Attack...but for now, this works. I did manage to make it through after Frogadier.

Team Move Selection	Mienfoo	Machoke	Hawlucha
Inkay	Reflect to Start, then Psybeam	Psybeam	Psybeam
Frogadier (not yet /Dark)	Water Pulse	Water Pulse	Water Pulse
Pancham (not yet /Dark)	Karate Chop	Karate Chop	Karate Chop
Krokorok	Mud-Slap	Mud-Slap	Mud-Slap
Houndoom	Bite	Bite	Bite

-- Gym 4
Grass gym is hilariously easy. Houndoom + Fire Fang = easy win. Which felt odd to me, because I honestly remembered that Houndoom is a special attacker, so I wasn't expecting it to be so awesome with just Fire Fang.

Team Move Selection	Jumpluff	Weepinbell	Gogoat
Houndoom	Fire Fang	Fire Fang	Fire Fang
Inkay	Psybeam	Psybeam (definitely)	Psybeam
Pangoro	Karate Chop	Karate Chop	Karate Chop
Krokorok	Crunch	Dig	Crunch
Greninja	keep out of the fight	keep out of the fight	keep out of the fight

-- Gym 5
I won't really focus on the chart here - Krokorok/Krookodile just uses Sand Tomb and then swaps to Dig. 'Nuff said.

-- Gym 6
I wish Skorupi was higher leveled, but I didn't want to waste time. Even though I'm weak, I just spam things like Psycho Cut with Malamar and Surf with Greninja. I didn't have as much trouble as I was expecting in this gym.

-- Gym 7
I wanted Houndoom to gain more levels since it was lagging behind, so I just let it use Beat Up on everything. My wife and daughter laughed with me when we saw that I only lost 27 HP the entire gym. It's like Psychics can't touch my Dark 'mons or something.

I will say that I need to keep in mind to restock at this point for the Team Flare hideout sequence. I only had a few revives, and I really should have had more. I had over 30 Hyper Potions, but those don't help if Pokemon are KO'd. I did restock before going into the final section of it, which was good. At this point, I was mostly just "whoever is lowest, you go first" to start battles - get some of that good trainer XP.

-- Gym 8
Uh...Flamethrower. Repeatedly.

-- Pokemon League
There will only be one chart here, and that's for the Water E4 trainer. Malva goes down to Greninja and Krookodile. Drasna goes down to a mixture of Krokodile's Outrage and Greninja's Ice Beam. Wikstrom was a mix of Krookodile and Houndoom.

So, for Siebold:

Team Move Selection	Clawitzer	Starmie	Gyarados	Barbaracle
Malamar	Thunderbolt	Night Slash	Thunderbolt	Thunderbolt
Pangoro	Sky Uppercut	Crunch	Sky Uppercut	Sky Uppercut
Greninja	Surf	Surf	Smack Down	Surf
Krookodile	Crunch	Crunch	Crunch	Crunch
Houndoom	Crunch	Crunch	Crunch	Crunch
Drapion	Night Slash	Night Slash	Night Slash	Night Slash

Diantha was a pushover compared to Siebold. Here's the six step process to win:
-- Hawlucha down to Psycho Cut (Malamar)
-- Aurorus down to Sky Uppercut (Pangoro)
-- Tyrantrum down to Sky Uppercut (Pangoro)
-- Goodra down to Ice Beam (Greninja)
-- Gourgeist down to Flamethrower (Houndoom)
-- Gardevoir down to Beat Up x2 (Houndoom)

Oh, and then I fight AZ. Meh. Oh, look, his pokemon's still alive after 3000 years (always makes me wonder what being so close to the Big Bad Weapon actually does to you if you still live that long...)

And then there was one left in the Dark Ultimate. My daughter has given me a new idea for naming convention on this one: types of donuts. Now I'm hungry. I'll have to ask Hau if they have a donut flavored Malasada once I get to Alola...

And I already know what my next type is going to be: Ghost! Can't wait for the Gengar army to descend, once I determine how to go about solving the "need-to-evolve" mechanic for that.

Team Stats:

Spoiler:

Kalos by Type:

Spoiler:

Zooming to Alola!

 

[StenirRPG]

Ultimate Dark Run - Complete
Moon / Only Entry / The End of the Night Runs

In this post (i.e., TL;DR)

Spoiler:

-- Planning Ahead
-- The First Island
-- The Second Island
-- The Third Island
-- Aether Paradise
-- The Final Island
-- The League

The full read:

Spoiler:

-- Planning Ahead
I've definitely been trying to get into the habit of picking Pokemon ahead of time. The mindset here is that the experience is best divided when it's split amongst those I'm actually going to use. Normally, this would mean that I would have my starter and only the other (at most) five I pick up. However, here, I needed a little extra backup to start, mostly as insurance. I broke it down based on secondary type of each, and I got this as my result:

Sub-Type	Pokemon
Dark only	Alolan Meowth/Persian, Eevee/Umbreon, Absol
Fire	Litten/Torracat/Incineroar
Ghost	Sableye
Fighting	Pancham/Pangoro
Ground	Sandile/Krokorok/Krookodile
Flying	Vullaby/Mandibuzz
Poison	Alolan Grimer/Muk
Normal	Alolan Rattata/Ratice

My first thought is that I want to avoid /Normal and Dark only, which basically got me the result I wanted, and the one I ended up with. This means my final team with be Incineroar, Sableye, Pangoro, Krookodile, Mandibuzz, and Alolan Muk. This takes care of my weaknesses: Bug (Incineroar's Fire and Mandibuzz's Flying), Fighting (Mandibuzz's Flying), and Fairy (Alolan Muk's Poison).

-- The First Island
I wasn't too certain about the first trial. I'm not certain why, I just didn't feel the best about just having Grimer and Litten, so I got some insurance by picking up Rattata and Meowth as well. I didn't feel as bad coming out of the trial, at least. Lots of using Bite lol

By the time I get to Hala, I've picked up Vullaby. Vullaby is a weird Pokemon to me, because I really wanted to like it. It just takes forever to evolve (Level 54). But anyways, I break through Hala by starting out using Nasty Plot to boost my special attack, and then spamming Gust. I would have just used Pluck (as all of my team are physical attackers), but my first attempt using it just didn't do enough damage. A set of boosted Gusts are enough to do the job.

After that, I run down to Ten Carat Hill and pick up a Sableye. Took me a few minutes to figure out why I was not seeing them - it's a Carbink SOS. Got it, and moving on.

-- The Second Island
This island always feels like the longest. I finished Hala just under 4 hours in, and finished Olivia just about 6 1/2 hours later. By the time I beat Olivia, I'm halfway through my run. And I've still got two islands and the entire Aether Paradise plot to get through. I don't get any more mons until the third island, so let's run down the trials.

Obviously, Water Trial is an "avoid using Torracat". Poison Fang starts to show its usefulness at this point. It's a good thing that I'll be looking to continue using when I get to Poison runs, because of the capability to inflict Bad Poison. And at this point, it's 50% likely to inflict the status (Gen 6 on, for those who want to know, previously 30%). I can't argue with what's basically Toxic+Damage all in one attack. Sableye is a little rough to use when having the ability Stall. I debated farming for an Ability Capsule, and I might have if I wasn't going to have a full team. For the moment, I have Shadow Sneak.

I try to do a little bit of farming for Power Bracer and Power Weight. Granted, that takes quite a while, but I was spamming Protect at first to see if that got me extra BP for surviving. But, of course, no, it doesn't. I did spend the time to get one of each, which took 32 battles of losing repeatedly. Each battle took a few minutes to get through, which definitely made the island feel longer. But hey, I can't argue with having Power Items. For the rest of the game, I'm steadily increasing the stats of my team. Attack and HP, anybody?

Fire Trial? Bite, Brick Break, Pluck...about all I can do. I don't really have any other options. It's one of those just "make it happen" battles.

Grass Trial? You bet I used Flame Charge/Fire Fang with Torracat and Pluck with Vullaby. Easy to get through.

Rock Trial absolutely sucked. Torracat is weak. Vullaby is weak. Grimer can't do much, and both it and Sableye have relatively meh defense. So, a little bit of grinding. Everyone has to get an extra 4 levels since beating the Grass Trial to actually succeed. And it still wasn't pretty. If I had been trying to play to what feels relaxed, I probably would have wanted level 30.

Nothing big to report about the first trip to Aether...that won't happen the second time.

-- The Third Island
Before heading up to the Observatory, I pick up a Pancham.

Steel type battle before the Observatory is easy with Torracat. Because Electric type battle is also /Bug, also easy with Torracat and Vullaby (yes, still).

I tried to go into the desert to get a Sandile, but you have to complete the Ghost trial first. So, I go and do that. Sableye is all over that spamming Shadow Claw, and it's not like the rest of the team isn't able to help out if needed. Everyone has a Dark type move ready to go (other than Pancham, but as a newbie to my team, not worried about it). If Sableye had gone down, I would have swapped over to Grimer first and used Poison Fang again, but I didn't have to.

After finishing the Ghost trial, I got and pick up my Sandile.

The push through Po Town goes super quick. Good thing I've memorized the correct answers, which I'd better at this point, right? I do want to report that I started having issues against Guzma...that certainly won't come back to bite me.

Nanu goes down to Pangoro. Like...just is completely wiped out by Pangoro.

-- Aether Paradise
Normally, I would just leave this as part of the Third Island discussion. This is because it's not normally a problem. But Guzma serves as a pain point. I fought him once, realized I was not strong enough, went back to Route 17, and just sat there SOS training to power level as much as possible. Yes, still using Power Bracer and Power Weight, almost done with them at this point. One look at my levels can say it all when it comes to completing Aether Paradise.

The second time I go after Guzma, it wasn't pretty at all. My wife might tell you, if asked, about how frustrated I was getting. I ended up with half my team KO'd, the other half near half health. There's a point where you are relieved after frustration. Big sigh moment. Anyways, I also didn't have enough revives to keep going. I did save and let the game progress to the Lusamine battle just on the hope of a free heal, and thankfully, there's an auto heal before that battle. Lusamine was stupid easy - the Clefable that has always been a wall went down to one Gunk Shot from Alolan Muk. Bewear turned into the new wall, though.

-- The Final Island
Welcome to the Final Grind Island. Hapu was an okay battle, I guess. Wasn't as bad as the latest Guzma fight, but "okay" about fits it. Muk and Incineroar are weak, Vullaby is technically immune except to certain things. I never found a good reason to swap out Nasty Plot, so it just sat there. I did accidentally try boosting myself to use Punishment...only to realize it's based on the target Pokemon. Oh, guess where is that useful? That's right, the square hole Mudsdale. Let it boost it's Defense to max, and then use Punishment. It was the only thing really doing consistent damage. Mudsdale is a big downside to having only physical attackers.

As for Vast Poni Canyon, lots of fights, lots of levels...and then me reaching the end with Vullaby at level 51. So, I go back to town, heal up, fly back, and spend about 20 minutes grind the last three levels to finally get Vullaby to evolve. With that, my team is finally complete. The Uber-Lusamine fight is just a rehash of the fight at the bottom of Aether Paradise. No big deal. Bewear still is a wall, Clefable is still a Gunk Shot to OHKO.

-- The League
As usual, let's get the easy ones out of the way. Ghost - easy. Flying - easy. Rock - a little bit of a challenge, but only because Relicanth keeps using Yawn. I've got Earthquake on Krookodile, and Sky Uppercut on Pangoro. If needed, Sableye still has Brick Break.

Fighting was a rough one. Pluck, Pluck, Pluck. Muk helps out, because partially resistant to Fighting (well, 1x). Zen Headbutt is also nice, not just because it's super effective but also being on Sableye means some of Hala's options are taken away.

Finally, we arrive at Kukui's battle. Lycanroc down to Sky Uppercut. Primarina is next and Gunk Shot takes it out. Then comes Ninetales, who goes down to Flare Blitz. Snorlax is next, and Sky Uppercut gets the job done. Braviary keeps using Whirlwind to mess with me, and I decide to do the same, switching it out for Magnezone. Flare Blitz ends that, and the battle is over at this point. Just spam the best attacks and, there it is, a KO on Braviary and the end of the Dark Ultimate Monotype.

Dark was an interesting type to run. In some games, it's a wall. In some games, it's a powerhouse. In other games, it has great type coverage for its weaknesses. This is one of those types where I highly would suggest people trying one of them. It was actually fun. Did I just say that out loud? And now I'm planning on going the other route with Ghost? That's the one I want to finish the first half of the types with? Oh boy.

Team Stats:

Spoiler:

Alola by Type:

Spoiler:

The Updated All Gen Breakdown
(keep in mind Gen 4 in this is BDSP)

Spoiler:

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User: StenirRPG
Type: Ghost
Game(s): Red, Gold, Sapphire, Shining Pearl, Black, X, Moon
Challenge Type: Ultimate
Standard Mode / Free Mode: Standard Mode

 

[Explorer of Time]

Red

Just so you know, Mono-Ghost Red is optional for both the Game Mastery challenge and the Ultimate Challenge for Ghost since there's only one line of Ghost-type Pokemon in Kanto's regional dex. If you do pick it, you'll have to use at least two Haunter/Gengar since you aren't allowed to make it a solo run.

 

[StenirRPG]

Just so you know, Mono-Ghost Red is optional for both the Game Mastery challenge and the Ultimate Challenge for Ghost since there's only one line of Ghost-type Pokemon in Kanto's regional dex. If you do pick it, you'll have to use at least two Haunter/Gengar since you aren't allowed to make it a solo run.

Yep, my wife and I were discussing naming conventions ahead of time. As a starting joke, since I'd been running with a Geng-ar-my, I decided to run with three of them and name them after Casper's Uncles (Fatso, Stretch, and Stinkie). I'll be using the UPR so that it lets me evolve to Gengar, but other than that, I'm actually raring to go. Other than that I start with Lick.

 

[Explorer of Time]

Yep, my wife and I were discussing naming conventions ahead of time. As a starting joke, since I'd been running with a Geng-ar-my, I decided to run with three of them and name them after Casper's Uncles (Fatso, Stretch, and Stinkie). I'll be using the UPR so that it lets me evolve to Gengar, but other than that, I'm actually raring to go. Other than that I start with Lick.

Having played a Gen 1 solo-Gengar run before, I'd recommend relying on Night Shade early on. That move plus Confuse Ray will do more damage than Lick will so you only really use Lick for its paralysis chance, if anything.

 

[StenirRPG]

No kidding! I only just realized when starting up the game I had Night Shade. That'll definitely help.

 

[StenirRPG]

Ultimate Ghost Run
Red / Only Entry / Release the Geng-ar-my

In this post (i.e., TL;DR)

Spoiler:

It's Gen 1 - there's not much to it

The full read:

Spoiler:

Welcome to the start of the Ultimate Ghost Run. Super quick run here through Kanto. I decided to end up with three Gengar, so I could name them after the Ghostly Trio (Casper's Uncles). Say hi to Fatso, Stinkie, and Stretch. The key to this is being very careful about how I use the few TMs I can use. Everyone ends up getting Dream Eater/Hypnosis, because that's a broken combo.

Since it's Gen 1, let's simplify a little. One Gengar ended up getting Rage, which works hilariously well during some battles, because of the majority of teams that only use either Normal/Fighting moves or moves that aren't really that effective. The line has really good Special, since it functions as both attack and defense in Gen 1. I gave the first one Thunderbolt from Surge and Psychic as soon as I could (because I needed extra power to ensure I got through the Rocket Hideout before I could get the Silph Scope to catch the remaining two Gastly). I gave the second one Mega Drain, and that's basically where I had to leave it. I could have went and got Thunder, but I didn't really need it.

For Brock, I only have Fatso. Night Shade cuts through Brock very easily.

For Misty, it's the same thing.

For Surge, it's Hypnosis and Night Shade.

For "Grass-but-Poison" gym, I went into Saffron and got Psychic, replacing Lick. Lick was helpful to this point (if non-Normal type, you can use Lick, otherwise use Night Shade). Psychic trivializes this gym, although you have to heal up a few times due to PP limitations.

I get the other two, and start training them up. It's slow going, and I decided to skip the bicycle, so I went down the eastern route. It helps with Mega Drain because many of the mons on teams there are Water type, at least on the bridges.

Koga is Hypnosis/Night Shade as much as possible. I tried to avoid using Fatso as much as possible, unless I lost Stinkie and Stretch. Happened a few times because Koga is really the Psychic trainer, right...which is the one thing that just tears my team apart.

Let's speed up the rest of it: If it's not strong against Psychic, I use Hypnosis/Dream Eater. If it is, I use Hypnosis/Night Shade. If a team can't hit me, I use Rage.

To end the run, let's look at the Elite Four.

- Lorelei: Lots of Thunderbolts. No need to use Hypnosis. Fatso reigns supreme.
- We Don't Talk About Him: Hypnosis/Dream Eater, or Mega Drain for Onix. Stinkie takes charge.
- Agatha: Hypnosis/Dream Eater because it's OP Psychic. I let Stretch have some fun.
- Lance: Thunderbolts and Hypnosis/Dream Eater. Back to Fatso.

- Champion:
----Thunderbolt on Pidgeot
----Hypnosis/Night Shade on Alakazam
----Mega Drain on Rhydon
----Hypnosis/Night Shade on Arcanine
----Thunderbolt on Gyarados
----Psychic on Venusaur

And...done. I can see why that would be super fun with just a single Gengar. I might try that as a solo run. Makes me wonder whether Hypnosis/Dream Eater is better than Psychic, even if it's two spots. Add to that Thunderbolt and Mega Drain, might do quite well. A super healer attacker? Hmm.

Looking forward to adding Misdreavus in Johto!

Team Stats:

Spoiler:

Kanto by Type:

Spoiler:

Looking forward to not needing the Geng-ar-my!

 

[Explorer of Time]

And...done. I can see why that would be super fun with just a single Gengar. I might try that as a solo run. Makes me wonder whether Hypnosis/Dream Eater is better than Psychic, even if it's two spots. Add to that Thunderbolt and Mega Drain, might do quite well. A super healer attacker? Hmm.

To be honest, I played that run for a spotlighted challenge and not much else; it was the easiest, and by extension the dullest, run I've ever played in a Pokemon game. The only time I was ever seriously threatened was against Blue's Spearow in his second battle, and everything after learning Psychic was just a constant stream of 1HKOs.

 

[StenirRPG]

Jeez. I think the only solo run I ever remember doing was a gen-1 Flareon run. That was also kinda boring, but yeah, if you are OHKOing everything, that's super boring.