[Challenge] The Monotype Challenge v8, Tera Edition

[StenirRPG]

Wanna say congrats EoT on mod, and congrats to Kostucha, StenirRPG, and Raven Valt on the completed runs! Finally, welcome Sakura_H to the thread and gl on the run
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Small update, no new badges, some story stuff. Just got the Poke Flute from Parfum Palace, Snorlax got the Leech Seed/Yawn combo, easy. Trained my team to around lvl 20 with some much needed evolutions and got a white Flabebe :D. Never realized how many Fairy types are stone/friendship evos a bit annoying early game, at least my Azumarill carries. Togetic doesn't get Air Cutter in gen 6 sigh, and I swear 90% of these mons just don´t get good fairy moves via level up besides dang Fairy Wind

Welcome to the fun that is Fairy in Gen 6. It felt like there was a weird overlap between Grass and Fairy in Gens 6 and 7. Azumarill does get Play Rough eventually, especially if it has Huge Power to boost attack. Sylveon and Florges do get Moonblast, at least. I did feel like a good portion of my team moves were filler moves.

As for evolutions, by Gym 2, you can actually have a team of Mawile, Azumarill, Sylveon (though it would either be highly leveled due to needing a Fairy move or you'd need to breed it to get Baby-Doll Eyes at 9), and Granbull that are final evolutions. Floette is also nice to have there as well.

Leech Seed is so nice, especially paired with Poison/Sleep tactics.

 

[GhostMadison7]

Welcome to the fun that is Fairy in Gen 6. It felt like there was a weird overlap between Grass and Fairy in Gens 6 and 7. Azumarill does get Play Rough eventually, especially if it has Huge Power to boost attack. Sylveon and Florges do get Moonblast, at least. I did feel like a good portion of my team moves were filler moves.

As for evolutions, by Gym 2, you can actually have a team of Mawile, Azumarill, Sylveon (though it would either be highly leveled due to needing a Fairy move or you'd need to breed it to get Baby-Doll Eyes at 9), and Granbull that are final evolutions. Floette is also nice to have there as well.

Leech Seed is so nice, especially paired with Poison/Sleep tactics.

Yeah a good few fairies do just learn grass moves lol, Play Rough and Moonblast will be lifesavers.

I plan on getting Mawile especially with it's mega, and this rom hack gives wild Solrock/Lunatone Sun and Moon stones 100% of the time in Glittering Cave. So by Gym 2 yeah thankfully I'll be set, Granbull is also Fairy/Fighting and Florges gets Earth Power <3

 

[StenirRPG]

Ah romhack. Forgot. I gotta play those at some point when I get a chance.

 

[GhostMadison7]

Ah romhack. Forgot. I gotta play those at some point when I get a chance.

I highly suggest Drayano's if you're ok with a little extra difficulty, his hacks are also Pokedex hacks meaning every Pokemon up to that gen is available in game which I why I play them for teambuilding! Really good, and this XY hack is by Buffel Saft who was inspired by Dray, their hacks are also all Pokemon available in game, they've done Emerald, and USUM too.
They (Buffel) also provide options if you don't want type/stat changes and such

Other honorable mentions include Radical Red, SmithPlays: Crystal Legacy and Yellow Legacy :D

 

[Sakura_H]

Pokemon Radical Red (Standard)
Mono-Grass: 2nd Update (Pewter City: Brock - Route 25: Bugsy)

The journey continues. The game became more challenging now. I must say Johto Gym leader is not friendly to Grass type as they are often the weakness of grass type. I often need to find some other method to face these Gym leader.

BTW I will not post the current party starting as I found that I need to change the party a lot to face different leaders/boss. I don't really have a 'current party' but a 'current box'. It will be messy if I mention over 20 pokemon each time, and some are even multiple as they got different evolution. But I will still mention about what's using for the match.

Spoiler: Main Progress

- back to Pewter City and challenge Brock
It's not a too difficult battle compared to that to Falkner. He now used Geodude Alola, Onix, Archen and Varoom (luckily not Vulpix anymore). The first two was not problem for grass type. Archen needs some water or ice attack and Varoom probably needs ground attack. But Varoom got air ballon as item so I probably need to break the balloon first. Anyway, I got 6 pokémon while Brock only got 4, so it will be fine.
My team: Sprigatito, Lombre(with aurora beam and bubbles), Toedscool, Capaskid, Oddish, Exeggcute

- go Mt. Moon and beat the Rockets and save the fossil
I got Shroomerish at Route 3. It seems no useful grass pokemon appears at Mt Moon so I just skip it. The Rockets (Archer appears here) and the fossil guy are weak compared to Falkner and Brock. But the fossil guy was the first double battle for mini-boss. As a double battle boss, he use protect and fake out like people in double battle online. The battle was fine anyway. After battles with Archer, the level cap rises from lv22 to lv27.
PS. I got Tinkatink too at Mt. Moon. It's not grass type but I really like it and its evolution. I will just keep her at my box.

- go to Cerulean City and go to Route 24 and 25 first
You have two options here, battle with Misty first or go to find Bill first. As i have a lot of pokémon under the level cap right now, I decide to go for Bill first and Bugsy are all there outside of Bill's house. Green was still there on the Route 24 bridge, but, um, he was no problem. The 5 guys on the bridge was a main problem as they all used a team with special techniques and 3 of them are doubles. At this moment I don't really got good moves for doubles (due to low level), I can just use all my 6 pokemon to facing them. Luckily, all of them got less pokemon than me.

- Battle Bugsgy at the end of Route 25
I must say this battle was a pain to me. He used Lokix, Ledian, Scyther and Scizor. I got no fire attack in my whole team against Scizor, and my whole team is afraid of bug and fly. Luckily, route 25 was a permanent rain area which means my Lombre can speed up here. And I even got the Water Stone somewhere (I think I pick it up at Route 25) and I can evolve Lombre to Ludicolo. I also got Jumpluff evolved at lv27 with hidden ability Aerilate (yes, RR changed its hidden ability to make buff up Jumpluff a lot). I must say I can't live without Ludicolo and Jumpluff against Bugsgy.
My team: Floragato, Ludicolo, Jumpluff, Breloom, Cottonee (Prankster), Toedscool

- Change Bill back to human
Yes, it's just a normal scene. And I will face Misty next time.

 

[Sakura_H]

Other honorable mentions include Radical Red, SmithPlays: Crystal Legacy and Yellow Legacy :D

Radical Red can be a pain for monotype challenge (that's what I'm facing).

If you guys may want some difficulty hack but not too difficult, I may suggest inflamed red. It's similar to radical red but less difficult (but more difficult than the original mainline games).

 

[GhostMadison7]

Radical Red can be a pain for monotype challenge (that's what I'm facing).

If you guys may want some difficulty hack but not too difficult, I may suggest inflamed red. It's similar to radical red but less difficult (but more difficult than the original mainline games).

Ah I guess it is on the more difficult side ahaha, didn't know about Inflamed Red though, neat!

 

[StenirRPG]

Once I get all the Gens/types done in mainline games, I'll probably come back and say "okay, someone pick something" lol...just know the most I'll really look up is where to find Pokemon.

I'm assuming the Red variants are FireRed variants?

 

[GhostMadison7]

Ah that's fair ahaha, I really like that Dray and Buffel provide documentation on locations and changes and such! And yeah both are FireRed hacks

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Update, this time for my Volt White Bug run! Not much just finally got my official start, picked Snivy, and after a close N fight since he's buffed, there's a lot of early evolving bugs on Route 2 thankfully and many more to come, gen 5 has my fave bug mons! And since this hack boosts many useless mons, Ledian is actually useful and Masquerain is a vital Bug/Water. However, I am now worried for the upcoming first gym because I picked Snivy forgetting I would be fighting a buffed Chili sooooo we'll see how that goes...

Team:

Spoiler: Party

• Mothza
  • Female Dustox, Bug/Poison
  • Lvl 10
  • Shield Dust
  • Moves:
    • Struggle Bug
    • Clear Smog
    • Confusion
    • Tackle
• Deviled Eggler
  • Female Beedrill, Bug/Poison
  • Lvl 10
  • Poison Touch
  • Moves:
    • Bug Bite
    • Cross Poison
    • Rage
    • String Shot
• Flutterjam
  • Female Butterfree, Bug/Flying
  • Lvl 10
  • Tinted Lens
  • Moves:
    • Struggle Bug
    • Air Cutter
    • Confusion
    • String Shot
• Banopper
  • Male Kricketune, Bug
  • Lvl 10
  • Technician
  • Moves:
    • Bug Bite
    • Fury Cutter
    • Struggle Bug
    • Bide

Spoiler: PC

• Minimaki, Snivy

Notes: Another run, another naming theme. Care to guess hehee?

 

[Explorer of Time]

Notes: Another run, another naming theme. Care to guess hehee?

Bugsnax?

 

[MachoPony]

Pokemon Heartgold Mono Ground: Finale
This is a long one folks.
The Kanto Journey

Spoiler:

Before I went to kanto i spent some time at the battle factory accumulating enough BP to get a Razor fang letting me finally add gliscor to my team.
Rhydon solod through the SS Aqua and the Vermillion gym
VS Lt Surge
Rhydon took out Raichu, took a mirror shot and took out Magneton, took out Electrode then fell to Electabuzz, Quagsire took it out along with the 2nd Electrode.

North to Saffron. Trainers weren't a big problem aside from a single slowbro. I really should have used Nidoking lol.

VS Sabrina
This is the part where i forgot Kanto leaders levels are all over the place and her level 53 Espeon set up a single calm mind, 2 shot steelix and 1 shot everything else.


Decided to try one more time before resorting to level grinding.

Attempt 2
So i led Steelix this time and she didn't go for Calm Mind, went straight for psychic which did a chunk but crunch bit off half Espeon's health
2nd psychic, 2nd crunch. Steelix wins. Gliscor hit Alakazam low, she used reflect and healed, went for Swords Dance
on the healing turn since she had reflect up. barely took a psychic and went for quick attack for the KO....she healed again
so Alakazam finishes gliscor and game over.....except Donphan lives an Energy ball and one shots with Earthquake without
reflect. Then Mr Mime sets light screen as rhydon one shots it with Earthquake.

West to Celadon, trained a little. challenged Erika. wasn't confident.
VS Erika
Did better than i thought. Donphan rollout knocked out jumpluff, then did some heavy damage to tangela before it fell.
Gliscor set up swords dance and finished tangela after a wring out. did some major damage to Victrebell before fainting.
Steelix took out victrebell and did some massive damage to bellossom but a solarbeam finished Steelix and unfortunately
it also had giga drain so Rhydon goes down. my last mon was a 30ish Sandslash because surprise! you need freaking cut to even
get into the gym so yeah. fail.

Went east to Lavender town then south to Fuschia for training. Got through the gym no sweat.
VS Janine
A little easier, though i did try to use Quagsire mostly for training, it took down her crobat and Weezing but toxic + a bad damage roll and a full restore meant
toxic damage finished it. Steelix cleaned up the rest with curse and crunch/dig.

Flew back to Celadon
VS Erika Round 2
So the jumpluff goes for freaking u-turn first, swapping to tangela who wring out + giga drain kills Donphan while it rolls out.
Gliscor was able to set up 2 Swords Dance however and +4 x scissor one shot tangela. dig one shot victrebell
x scissor one shot bellossom and another x scissor one shot Jumpluff.

Went on to Cerulean, did the power plant quest and took on Misty
VS Misty round 1
so, much, HAX!
So quagsire comfortably 2 shots Golduck with earthquake taking a hit and dodging a disable in the process but then.
in comes Lapras. so i swap out to Rhydon to see if i can shenanigans it with stone edge but nope, outspeeds
and one shot water pulse. I bring in Donphan, get put to sleep with sing and faint to 2 ice beams.
Steelix comes in and she outspeeds and hits sing to put me to sleep. I wake up and iron tail her
so she loses -1 def and swaps out to Quagsire immediately. So i miss 2 iron tails, and bring in my own Quagsire to take it
out with several earthquakes after yawning it to sleep. Lapras then hits sing AGAIN on Marowak who wakes up in one turn to hit bonemerang
Quagsire got hit by sing YET AGAIN (55 accuracy mind you) but this time i matched her full restore because hey
if they can use items so can i. Still lost quagsire to 2 ice beams after blowing through 2 full restores on her side
Gliscor finished it but Starmie outsped and ice beam finished off Gliscor and the match.

VS Misty round 2
this was kinda nuts. so again Quagsire cleanly 2 shots Golduck. but this time Lapras hits Donphan with ice beam, earthquake
does about half, body slam donphan survives with 1 HP and earthquake KOs. Quagsire takes out her Quagsire
and then yawns Starmie. Marowak gets it low, sitrus berry, gets it to the yellow before being knocked out. I send
rhydon to bait the water pulse to heal Quagsire, then Quagsire finishes it with an Earthquake.

Through Diglett's Cave to Pewter. Straight on to brock
VS Brock
Quagsire one shot Graveller. brings in Kabutops. was not expecting giga Drain but i took it and hit back with earthquake
swapped for Gliscor as he healed, got up swords dance and +2 dig one shot kabutops, omastar, onix and rhyhorn.

Went south to Viridian, then Pallet town, past blue on to the Seafoam Islands to face Blaine
VS Blaine
Surf, Magcargo down. Confuse ray, Earthquake, Magmar down. Overheat, Earthquake, Full Restore, Earthquake. Rapidash Down
Derp fish wins.

Back up to Viridian
VS Blue
Leaf Storm one shot Steelix, then after swords dance a crit one shot Gliscor. my other 4 mons had no chance so i reset before they got swept.

Round 2:
Egg took X-scissor from Gliscor and one shot with Leaf Storm, then steelix eventually took it down after both sides healed.
Quagsire took out Arcanine and Rhydon taking 2 hits from Arcanine but ultimately machamp was just too bulky
and slammed Donphan with a dynamic punch, then a crit for the KO and i had nothing else that could withstand that power.

Round 3:
Gliscor survives leaf storm, hits low with x-scissor, he heals, hit low again. then he fking switches for Gyarados.
So it takes out Gliscor, Steelix after a few curses takes it out with a couple of crunches. Quagsire takes down Arcanine
and Exeggcutor sweeps the rest of my team....again....yay.

Round 4:
Sent out Marowak to take the leaf storm, Gliscor with the help of a couple of potions got up 2 swords dance and one shot with x-scissor
then +3 night slash did a lot to Gyarados who set up dragon dance and finshes gliscor. another dragon dance and Quagsire's new Rock Slide
finished Gyarados. Surf one shot Rhydon, Donphan took a dynamic punch, earthquake for over half, took a 2nd, broke out of confusion and earthquake for the KO
Quagsire 2 shot Arcanine with surf and finally Pidgeot tried to mirror move Rhydon, didn't work and Stone Edge was a clean
one shot.


Got rock climb, went back to Mt Mortar for a Protector, evolved Rhydon to Rhyperior. Did a lot of training to level 65 (one above Karen's rematch ace, still 10 below Lance's rematch ace)
and took on the Elite 4 for a rematch.

VS Will 2
Rhyperior went first against Bronzong, this seems silly i know but for some reason his bronzong has heatproof so uh, Earthquake one shot. Steelix dodged a lovely kiss and one shot with iron tail
Donphan hit 2 earthquakes to bring gardevoir low and then low again after a potion but a +1 psychic crit took it out, steelix dodged a focus blast and crunched her
crunch 2 shot Grumpig and megahorn from Rhyperior almost one shot slowbro, a strength finished it. finally after a psychic, stone edge one shot Xatu for the win.

VS Koga 2
Steelix led vs Skuntank, it outsped and went for dig so when i dug, it went first and misses and i hit it, twice for the KO. Gliscor set up a swords dance and took a gunk shot from Toxicroak
before a +2 dig one shot it. +2 dig almost one shot venomoth who set up 4 double teams in my face and passed to swalot, thankfully i landed 2 night slashes (first one crit) to take it out
then after a psychic, a night slash finished venomoth. crobat flew up to dodge rhyperior's stone edge but a 2nd finished it. Earthquake finished muk.

VS Bruno 2
Gliscor set up 3 Swords Dance as Hitmontop tried to counter. +6 dig one shot 5/6 mons, machamp hit stone edge even underground cause no guard. hitmonchan was being annoying with substitute
but a +6 x scissor took him down from half, hariyama set up bulk up and a +6 dig vs a +1 def didn't KO and payback finally took out gliscor, so quagsire took a +1 low kick and surf finished the match.

VS Karen 2
So Steelix took a low kick from weavile and one shot with iron tail. quagsire one shot houndoom with earthquake as it used nasty plot. Gliscor set up 2 swords dance and got cursed, taking down spiritomb from half with night slash
donphan took drill peck and used rollout on honchkrow, then again, then a third for the KO. then a 4th after umbreon sets up curse and because umbreon slowed itself down, a 5th rollout gets the KO
finally Rhyperior one shots Absol with megahorn.

VS Lance 2
led Marowak. took a dragon claw, hit a crit double edge, then took another, hit another double edge before going down. Rhyperior took a dragon claw and finished salamence with stone edge
Quagsire put Gyarados to sleep with yawn. Steelix swapped in, got a crunch def drop and then quagsire came back in for a crit rock slide one shot.
In came the big threat, Garchomp. but i had a plan. Quagsire took an outrage and yawned it, steelix took the hit easily and it went to sleep. it slept for 2 turns, got iron tailed to half and then KOd with earthquake
Donphan takes an outrage and earthquakes it low. since he's locked i fodder donphan to bring in Rhyperior which takes a hit and finishes with earthquake.
I plan to fodder Quagsire healing Rhyperior but his dragonite goes for fire blast so quagsire survives, then he misses fire blast so i hit yawn. third fire blast takes it out.
Rhyperior has a free 2 turns to 2 shot with stone edge, altaria annoys with double team but a stone edge on turn 2 KOd it and after a strong flamethrower one final stone edge finished Charizard.

One more trial. climbed mt silver. couldn't beat Red no matter what i tried so i went away to train.

VS Red
This, was annoying. Marowak took an iron tail and one shot back with bonemerang. Lapras was the first problem. Quagsire took a blizzard, yawned, then foddered marowak to get a free switch to rhyperior
earthquake and stone edge knocked out lapras. Steelix took a giga drain from venusaur, slowed it down with rock tomb then healed quagsire and fainted.
Gliscor outspeeds now and swords dance plus aerial ace almost takes it out but giga drain finishes gliscor, Rhyperior finishes with Earthquake.
in comes problem number 2. Blastoise. Quagsire took a blizzard, yawned it and then healed to tank another hit and sleep. switch in rhyperior. 2 earthquakes plus the hail chip finished blastoise.
Snorlax was next and i put it to sleep too, took it very low with earthquakes. He healed, another earthquake plus hail chip almost did half, a final earthquake finished Snorlax
after a dragon pulse Rhyperior one shot Charizard with stone edge. good lord....

Final Team:

Spoiler:

Dino(Rhyperior)
LV71
Earthquake
Stone Edge
Strength
Megahorn

Bro(Quagsire)
Lv70
Earthquake
Surf
Rock Slide
Yawn

Bones(Marowak)
LV71
Bonemerang
Rock Climb
Double Edge
Leer

Pinchy(Gliscor)
LV72
Swords Dance
Dig
Aerial Ace
Night Slash

Snek 2 (Steelix)
LV 70
Crunch
Dig
Iron Tail
Rock Tomb

Nelly(Donphan)
LV70
Earthquake
Assurance
Rollout
Take Down

Thoughts on the run: It was hard in places. especially when there was levitate (morty) water and grass types (Clair, misty, erika) and bulky mons (will, blue, red) ground doesn't have a lot of strategy beyond hit as hard as possible, maybe sandstorm.

MVP: This is tough. Quagsire for Johto 100% it was my answer to almost all water types, hit reasonably hard, had good bulk and water absorb was fantastic. but he got less use in Kanto where Rhydon and later Rhyperior was incredible with its ridiculous power. but overall considering the final fight with Red, i still say Quagsire.

LVP: Marowak. It's too frail, doesn't naturally learn earthquake unlike Gen 3 and it's moveset is entirely ground and normal without TMs so a simple gastly walls it.

 

[Sakura_H]

Pokemon Radical Red (Standard)
Mono-Grass: 3rd Update (Cerulean City: Misty - S.S. Anne)

I just found that I forgot to change the title last time. It looks buggy to say from Brock to Falkner, anyway, I just changed to Bugsy Route 25.

The journey continues from battling Misty.

Spoiler: Main progress

- back to Cerulean City and battle with Misty
Misty should not be a harsh battle using Mono-Grass team, with her pokémon Frogadlier, Floatzel, Starmie and Clodsire. The main concern was Clodsire being Posion/Ground type. The other three are all water types but with outstanding high speed (especially Starmie). I don't really have anything can bypass 115 speed at this moment, so Whimsicott with prankster and cotton spore is very important. Sadly there was no tailswind under the level cap lv27 right now.
My team: Floragato, Ludicolo, Jumpluff, Breloom, Cottonee (Prankster), Toedscool

- Head to Vermilion City and Route 11
The 3rd Johto Gym Leader Whitney was on Route 11. I was thinking to beat her first being or go to SS Anne first. Um…. I decided to head to SS Anne first and got all my Pokemon level up. There were a lot of grass pokemon across Route 6 and Route 11, such as Bounsweet, Gossifleur, Maractus, etc. Well, most of them are not too useful except Maractus, as the game changed her hidden ability to Grassy Surge.

- Aboard SS Anne
They added some interesting Doubles battle mini boss on SS Anne, making the game a little harder. TBH I enjoy double more than single with more strategy could be applied. And the game also changed the rival on SS Anne from Green to Brendan, with pokemon Loudred, Lunastone, Crawdaunt and Grovyle. His team was all Hoenn pokemon and … Well, it's not a hard battle using Mono-Grass team anyway. After beating him, Cut was obtained finally.

- Back to Cerulean City and get the bike first
As I often use 'Speed up' for my game, bike was not a very important item. Anyway I still need it for Bicycle Road and my main purpose is heading to Route 24 to find Audino for levelling up all my pokemon to battle Whitney and Lt Surge.

Something more, I would like to show my Trainer Card with Marnie. I should show it last time after I just changed my custom, but I forgot anyway…

Spoiler: My Trainer Card

 

[Explorer of Time]

Just a heads up, I redefined Paradox Pokemon as Legendary Pokemon in the reorganization of the Legendary rules, now that I dropped the "must be finite" definition because of the repeatably-catchable Legendaries in multiple romhacks that people are challenging.

Sakura_H, if you were already making plans that involved Brute Bonnet not being Legendary, I'm grandfathering your run in so that it's not counted towards your legendary limit.

Nobody else's run should be impacted unless Pluckles is in the middle of a Ground-type run, in which case I also permit them to use their version's Paradox Donphan alongside Ting-Lu. Since there's a boss in Area Zero that uses six Paradox Pokemon, there's functionally no impact on players of vanilla SV unless they want to use both Ting-Lu and either Paradox Donphan in mono-Ground prior to Area Zero, or both Okidogi and Great Tusk in mono-Fighting prior to Area Zero.

 

[Sakura_H]

Sakura_H, if you were already making plans that involved Brute Bonnet not being Legendary, I'm grandfathering your run in so that it's not counted towards your legendary limit.

Thank you

But currently I got no plan to involve Brute Bonnet yet
Probably I will catch it but put it in my box first

(I planned to use Ogerpon as my legendary)

 

[StenirRPG]

Ultimate Grass Run
Sapphire / FIRST AND FINAL / Flower Power

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

Spoiler:

1.) Planning Ahead
2.) Gym 1
3.) Gym 2
4.) Gym 3
5.) Gym 4
6.) Gym 5
7.) Gym 6
8.) Gym 7
9.) Gym 8
10.) Endgame

The full read:

Spoiler:

-- Planning Ahead --
Something that worked well with my Grass Gold run is picking my team ahead of time. I think the benefit here is that you get more experience on the ones you want to end up with, and don't spend any time training ones you don't want to train. The ones I chose for this run were Treecko/Sceptile, Lotad/Ludicolo, Shroomish/Breloom, Oddish/Vileplume, Lileep/Cradily, Cacnea/Cacturne. Other options I had were Roselia and Tropius, but Grass/Flying felt like a bad idea with Glacia in the E4 when Cradily serves better there with its Rock typing. As far as Roselia is concerned, Vileplume just has better stats. Now, if Roserade had been here, might have been a different discussion. But anyways…on with the quick rundown.

-- Gym 1 --
It's Rock type, and I've got a grass team consisting of Treecko, Lotad, and Shroomish. I did try to keep their levels about the same, though probably didn't really need to.

-- Gym 2 --
I get stuck with this gym because I just don't have anything really strong enough to get me through without much of a problem. I spent three hours grinding and trying repeatedly, but eventually break through after an extra 5 levels on average. I think I was relatively lucky on it, relying on Stun Spore and hoping for paralysis to stick. I did move forward to collect Oddish, and also leveled it up. Was trying to decide between Poison Powder and Stun Spore for which might do better, but I ended up sticking with Stun Spore to get me through. 18 was a "it's possible" level, so it's was probably closer to 20 or 23 to be more certain of a win.

(I only like saying levels that end in 0, 3, 5, and 8 due to the way the math rounds your level in damage calculations, since those are the better levels comparatively. 21 or 22 might be also doable in this case.)

-- Gym 3 --
Shroomish has reached enough of a level that it's now Breloom, which means it also has Mach Punch…which just takes me through the entire gym with no problems.

-- Gym 4 --
This one took what I felt was way too much leveling in order to pass, because it's the ever popular Fire gym. By the end of the gym, everyone is level 30, so how'd I do it? Stun Spore. Again. Oh, and a little bit of Astonish flinching luck. It wasn't pretty, but I felt like I was on more solid ground than Dewford.

-- Gym 5 --
Just like Gym 3, it's a normal type gym so having my Breloom was nice.

-- Gym 6 --
Oh, look, another horrible gym typing for Grass. The secret to win? Evolve Lileep to Cradily, finally teach it Rock Tomb (cause Lileep couldn't learn it), and then spam it. But look at how long it took to win - an extra 8 levels on average, 4 evolutions, and almost 12 hours of extra game time just from the previous gym. And if you are wondering how Rock Tomb does against the Altaria? Well, it crit. I honestly just hoped it would do enough that my other mons would clean up the rest…but a crit OHKO works.

-- Gym 7 –
Well, this gave me a little bit of trouble given the fact that Vileplume and Breloom are weak to Psychic. Cacturne was sort of my best option here, but Sceptile also has Pursuit, so it was a mix of Pursuit/Faint Attack and then spamming Surf. At least they only had one each, so once either Solrock or Lunatone went down, my odds of surviving went way up.

-- Gym 8 –
A nice easy Water gym. Train on everybody, and then go from there to gnab the eighth badge. Nothing really to see here.

-- Endgame –
Another 10 hours, mostly just of training. I remember the best thing to do is get to level 50 with my mons (and also apparently to forget to go get the Water Stone evolve into Ludicolo). So, I do that, and then there was a nice clean run of the Elite Four. And this is honestly silly based on how much of a pain some of the gyms were…

Breloom is fast enough to take out all of Sidney's Dark mons. Phoebe's Ghost types just need to go down with Pursuit and Faint Attack again. Rock Tomb and Ancient Power are the best for Glacia, and Drake's Dragons are the only real toss up here. There's no real way to get through these other than just trying to deal with any secondary types they might have. I lost half my team, but at least I usually go in with like 25 Revives and the rest of my money in Hyper Potions, so no big.

Steven Stone…super easy. Stun Spore, then Bulk Up 6x on Skarmory. Then Sky Uppercut your way to winning. Well, that was easy.

Onto Unova next. I'll come back to Sinnoh later. But time for a new region with only new mons.

Team Stats:

Spoiler:

 

[GhostMadison7]

Congrats MachoPony and StenirRPG on the completed runs!

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Uggghhhhh after spending 3 irl days hatching 20 Flabébé eggs (no egg charm is awful) to try and get a decent nature (I just settled with Calm because of course I get another Calm mon), I finally got to move on to Ambrette Town and Glittering Cave giving me a new Mawile and tons of evolutions which was very much needed! Did some training at the Nah Cafe double battle thingy which was actually really good cause they use Audinos here. Onto Cyllage city and a Granbull :D

Team:

Spoiler: Party

• Beignet
  • Male Whimsicott, Grass/Fairy
  • Lvl 30
  • Infiltrator
  • Moves:
    • Mega Drain
    • Disarming Voice
    • Leech Seed
    • Tailwind
• Éclair
  • Male Mawile, Steel/Fairy
  • Lvl 27
  • Intimidate
  • Moves:
    • Feint Attack
    • Vice Grip
    • Swords Dance
    • Sweet Scent
• Chouquette
  • Female Azumarill, Water/Fairy
  • Lvl 30
  • Huge Power
  • Moves:
    • Aqua Jet
    • Aqua Tail
    • Play Rough
    • Bulldoze
• Madeleine
  • Female Lilligant, Grass/Fairy
  • Lvl 30
  • Own Tempo
  • Moves:
    • Giga Drain
    • Draining Kiss
    • Quiver Dance
    • Aromatherapy
• Dacquoise
  • Male Kirlia, Psychic/Fairy
  • Lvl 26
  • Synchronize
  • Moves:
    • Confusion
    • Draining Kiss
    • Disarming Voice
    • Calm Mind
• Tarte Tatin
  • Female Florges, Fairy
  • Lvl 25
  • Natural Cure
  • Moves:
    • Fairy Wind
    • Magical Leaf
    • Nature Power
    • Wish

Spoiler: PC

• Brioche, Fennekin
• Croissant, Skitty ✨
• Incubator, Magby
• Macaron, Togekiss
• Profiterole, Wigglytuff

Notes: Overleved Macaron when breeding whoops, and his moveset is awful now, really would like the move relearner asap for these stone evos in general. 4 of my mons are Calm, the rest are neutral natures except Madeleine who got lucky with Modest, all I want is ONE Bold nature pls, even Timid lol. Also Amulet Coin in the Battle Chateau is free money.

 

[Sakura_H]

Pokemon Radical Red (Standard)
Mono-Grass: 4th Update (Route 11: Whitney - )

Today I got more free time so I went through the journey a little bit more. The battles were more challenging now and the weakness of mono-grass team is more visible. One difficulty was my pokemon was not 'full equipped' with suitable items and moves due to low levels and mid-progress in story. Some weakness was very difficult to overcome such as flying and poison.

Spoiler: Main Progress

- Battle with Whitney in Route 11
Her pokemon was Tinkton, Farigiriaf, Drampa, Dudansparce and Miltank. Yes, miltank again. Even in game she introduced herself as 'famous for using miltank'. It looked like a devil if you play GS / HGSS. Well, luckily, her miltank was easy too beat compared to others. And, TBH, her battle was actually not difficult.The main concern was Tinkton which is resistant to grass attack, so I bring Scovillain to give her a flame.
My team: Floragato, Toedscruel, Lilligant-Hisui, Ludicolo, Whimscott, Scovillain

- Battle Lt. Surge
This was not a difficult battle either, with his team Pincurchin, Vikavolt, Bellibolt, Pawot and Manetric (with Mega). Electric was not effective against grass but Lt. Surge got some ice, fire and bug attack. The main problem was Mega Manectric with a high speed 135 and I have nothing higher than him. What I did was using cotton spore with Prankster from Whimscott to minimise his speed. (He doesn't change his pokemon, luckily.)
My team: same as above

- head back to Route 9 and 10 and go to Rock Tunnel
The journey here was successful without too much difficulty. One interesting battle was a mini-boss against a picnicker here, where she used a smeargle with some harsh attack, and three other pokemon with assist. One of them is Liepard with Prankster and focus sash. It's not a difficult battle but an interesting battle against a lot of assist. Although I think they can make it harder if they put some nonsense moves for smeragle.

- Go to Lavender Town to meet Morty and …
Morty was in Lavender Town. You may battle with him first before heading to Celadon City. Well…
IT'S THE MOST DIFFICULT BATTLE UP TO NOW!!
I have completely nothing to battle against his Ceruledge and Mega Gengar. Ceruledge got Bitter Blade and nothing remained. I tried a few times and the battle lost. Well…

- Go to Celadon City and buy some evolution stone first
I decided to go to Celadon City first and, at least, I can buy enough evolution stones for my pokemon to evolve first. I need to check what's suitable against Morty. The Rocket amusement centre and prize station was locked before battle against Erika. I may battle Erika first for unlocking the prize station to get some useful moves against Morty. But I really want to battle the Johto leaders first before the Kanto (if possible). I need some time here…

 

[Smotemotem]

I need to hop back in and do the Scarlet run, to tag onto my ultimate challenge.
Here's a new signup for the current thread.

User: Smotemotem
Type: Ground
Game(s): Scarlet
Challenge Type: Ultimate
Standard Mode: Standard

 

[Explorer of Time]

Pokemon Platinum QOL (Standard Mode)
Mono-Steel - PI Justin
Update 2 (Ravaged Path -> Eterna Gym)

It's been a couple weeks since my last update, since I got sidetracked on other games, but I'm finally back! This time, I managed to catch a full team. First, I got a Burmy in Floaroma Meadow, and did some grinding until I could get it to evolve into Trash Cloak Wormadam against the Team Galactic Grunt in the Valley Windworks. Then, once I reached Eterna, I caught the other half of my team, getting a Shieldon through the Underground and a Bronzong and Nosepass in Mt. Coronet, and I evolved the latter pretty much immediately. Prinplup also got some better attacking moves and coverage, and Onix learned Return via TM and then Rock Smash via HM. I'm 75% sure the romhack I play allows deleting HM moves, so I can actually use Rock Smash in the early game where it's actually useful, and if it doesn't I can just save edit it out so I don't need to train a replacement Onix/Steelix before Canalave.

Mars was a little difficult, since Onix got hit by Toxic early on, but he still 2HKOed Zubat and used Screech on Purugly to reduce its defense before fainting. Then it was just a matter of Prinplup using a bunch of Metal Claws to take Purugly down. Gardenia was a pushover thanks to Trash Cloak Wormadam quadruple-resisting all of Gardenia's Grass-type moves. She 1HKOed Turtwig with a critical Bug Bite, 2HKOed Cherrim, then 3HKOed Roserade with the same move. She did get paralyzed by Roserade's Stun Spore, but since the best Roserade could do after that was throw a few Magical Leaves at my very light Bug/Steel type, that didn't matter much.

I was hoping to get a Metal Coat before the gym battle, but sadly I didn't even after catching several Bronzor. I got the Thief TM right after the gym battle, so I taught that to Wormadam and I hope to get one and evolve Onix into Steelix before the Galactic Eterna Building. (I'll also need to Thief a second Metal Coat to evolve Scyther into Scizor, who will replace Shieldon, but that won't be needed until after the third gym.)

Team

Spoiler:

Prinplup (♀) | Water | Level 21
Moves: Bubble Beam, Metal Claw, Pluck, Grass Knot
Stats: 53 HP / 31 Atk / 35 Def / 35 SpA / 37 SpD / 28 Spe
Ability: Torrent | Nature: Careful | Item: Hard Stone

Onix (♂) | Rock/Ground | Level 20
Moves: Rock Throw, Return (62 BP), Screech, Rock Smash
Stats: 25 HP / 15 Atk / 34 Def / 10 SpA / 13 SpD / 19 Spe
Ability: Rock Head | Nature: Quirky | Item: (None)

Wormadam (♀) | Bug/Steel | Level 22
Moves: Bug Bite, Hidden Power (Water 54 BP), Return (59 BP), Thief
Stats: 63 HP / 35 Atk / 49 Def / 37 SpA / 55 SpD / 28 Spe
Ability: Anticipation | Nature: Calm | Item: Quick Claw

Shieldon (♂) | Rock/Steel | Level 20
Moves: Take Down, Rock Tomb, Taunt, Iron Defense
Stats: 45 HP / 23 Atk / 59 Def / 25 SpA / 39 SpD / 22 Spe
Ability: Sturdy | Nature: Lax | Item: (None)

Bronzor | Steel/Psychic | Level 16
Moves: Confusion, Rock Tomb, Grass Knot, Confuse Ray
Stats: 45 HP / 13 Atk / 34 Def / 15 SpA / 35 SpD / 12 Spe
Ability: Levitate | Nature: Modest | Item: Hard Stone

Probopass (♂) | Rock/Steel | Level 16
Moves: Rock Throw, Return (35 BP), Rock Smash, Harden
Stats: 49 HP / 26 Atk / 48 Def / 36 SpA / 56 SpD / 21 Spe
Ability: Sturdy | Nature: Mild | Item: (None)

 

[Sakura_H]

Before I forgot, I would like to sign up for a new challenge for Mega Moemon FireRed Game Mastery. (Actually I started a little bit today already. )
My Radical Red Mono-Grass was alright up to now and updates will be posted later. But…. Well, sadly, it's a little bit stressed for continue playing a difficult hack rom. I may need to play something causal. Anyway, I will take both of the challenges at the same time.
(I don't know whether it is allowed to sign up more than one challenges. I hope it's OK.)

User: SAKURA_H
Type: Flying, Fire, Psychic, Ground, Poison, Fighting, Rock, Ice, Ghost, Fairy, Dragon, Grass, Electric, Bug, Dark, Normal, Water, Steel
Game(s): Mega Moemon FireRed
Challenge Type: Game Mastery
Standard Mode / Free Mode: Standard

The type order was randomised already, so I would follow this order to complete.
A few rules were added to my game for making the causal game a little bit harder, such as no items, battle rule set, etc. Details will be listed later in my first updates.

Thank you for your help, Explorer of Time.