The Monotype Challenge

[JJ Styles]

Alright, I decided to finally, FINALLY Settle my score against FireRed and Kanto in our grass monotype before I go on to finish the Hoenn challenge. I wasn't able to make an appropriate update post regarding my Kanto grassmono run because of real life duties but I'll be as honest as I can regarding how I went through the process.

Basically, Two Island was my last grinding spot for all of my mons who needed leveling. I eventually got my Parasect Yoonie, Victreebel LittleJenny, and the rest to appropriate levels through endlessly fighting Two Island's Fearows, Golducks, Slowbros, and Persians, who all gave good amounts of EXP when KO'd. Also, the cape island tutor for Venusaur Maplestreet's Frenzy Plant proved to be the best plan of action to settle the challenge once and for all.

And MY GOD, I FINALLY, FINALLY DID IT!

Kanto Grass monotype Finale: VS Elite Four and Champion

To sum up, FireRed Throwback (Modded version of Pokemon FireRed, Game used for our Kanto Grass monotype run) have their Elite Four and Champion at higher levels than regular FRLG.

Vs

Lorelei:

Spoiler:

- MapleStreet (Venusaur) vs Dewgong = I remember in my first attempts at battling Lorelei, none of her Pokemon would fall to one Razor Leaf to our strongest member, so that Frenzy Plant move from the cape island tutor was invaluable at making sure that we could quickly smash Lorelei's team. One Frenzy Plant was needed for Dewgong.

- VS Slowbro - He was sent out next. Rather than deal with the Frenzy Plant recharge penalty, Maplestreet was withdrewn. LittleJenny, our Victrebel was sent out next. Slowbro has amazing Physical def so Victrebel's razor leafs were needed to take him down. Slowbro fought well with whatever he threw, but he didn't try using Ice Beam for some reason. Eventually, he was taken down with more Razor Leafs.

- Lapras was sent out next. Maplestreet came back with a Frenzy Plant ready to take her out with one good shot. Maplestreet's level was high enough to do so. Once again, Maplestreet was withdrawn to not suffer the penalty to what came out next.

- VS Jynx. Dear lord, Lorelei's Jynx was the most annoying in her team. She kept using Lovely Kiss with near perfect accuracy to screw up our team. I called in Yoonie, our Parasect with her own SleepHax to deal with this thing but Jynx was too fast. Despite my efforts to wake up Yoonie with the PokeFlute, Jynx kept using Lovely kiss and Ice Punch. Yoonie managed to land a few hits in the turns were Jynx didn't use her Kiss but to no avail. Ice Punch on STAB is too stronk.

- VS Jynx Part2: Jynx wounded in her bout against Yoonie still kept going with her lovely kisses on our Victrebell and managed to take her down effortlessly. Sleep Clause does not exist.

- VS Jynx Part3: MapleStreet, our strongest member had to comeback. As I didn't want to waste any Frenzy Plant's PP, Maplestreet fought with Earthquakes and Razor Leafs. And at the lucky moment, Jynx missed her Lovely kiss and fell to the last Earthquake coming from Maplestreet.
- VS Cloyster: The last mon on Lorelei's team but sadly not having the moves to revenge kill anyone. One Razor Leaf was needed to take it down.

After the bout with Lorelei, I had to use my revives on who got KO'd - Yoonie and LittleJenny.

VS

Bruno
After the hell i went through against Lorelei, we were ready for Bruno, who is a far easier challenge against Lorelei with our team.

Spoiler:

- VS First Onix - Victreebel was needed. One Razor leaf to take it down. Maybe i should have used our Vileplume instead.
- VS Hitmonchan: This is where the fun came. Yoonie, our Parasect and her hax Spore, was needed for this guy. I made sure to sleep him first since Bruno's FireRed Throwback's Hitmonchan is a lot smarter than the original FRLG games. Mainly, if he isn't KO'd by a super-effective physical attack, he'll comeback with COUNTER, which i didn't want to happen. Used Spore and some Aerial Aces and Slashes to take him down.

- VS Machamp: Bruno sent him out a little too Early, but for some reason, he actually fought back hard. After using more of Yoonie's Spore to great effect, suddenly he ate his Sitrus berry to recover the health he lost, woke up, then used Rock Tomb on Yoonie, which reduced her already slow speed. It also hit Yoonie hard enough to suffer into critical health. After surviving the Rock Tomb, i tried to use Spore once again, but Machamp already outspeed Yoonie and Cross Chopped her head off. It came to my knowledge that upon being put to sleep, Machamp's passive abililty Guts activated, which gave him a huge damage boost that gave him the power to KO Yoonie despite the type resistance to fighting.

- VS MachampPart2: I tried sending out Victreebell to put some sleep powder on him, since i felt lucky that my Sleep Powder's would hit but nope. Rock Tomb KO'd her the moment it hit. She didn't have enough health to take the hit.

- VS MachampPart3: I decided that i wanted to finish this now, so MileyDyrus, the naughty exegguctor was called. One Psychic for the revenge kill.
- VS Hitmonlee: More psychic. Just one was needed though. MileyDyrus is too strong her him.

- VS Second Onix: Bruno's last mon would be his second rock worm, which for some reason i just wanted to make fun of him by sending out our UNDERLEVELED Tangela to dance with him. The Onix resulted to spamming Double Edge to take advantage of his Rock Head Passive. Eventually, 3 Mega Drains was needed for our level40 Tangela to take down this lvl56Onix

After bruno, once again, revives and healing potions where used on our fall gals, Yoonie and Victreebel.

VS Agatha

Spoiler:

- VS Gengar1: Agatha's FRLG Gengar is well known for being SUPER annoying with Double Team Toxic Stall tricks. I put Yoonie in the lead to deal with this thing since she had Aerial Ace. The first gengar fell after 2 Aerial Aces (which the last one crit). Yoonie was withdrawn to make way for MapleStreet.

- VS Arbok: I decided to not waste any of MileyDyrus's Psychic PP as it was needed for the other Gengar. MapleStreet was there to quake Arbok. It Crit'd.

- VS Golbat: BAAATTTSSS!!! Ok, unlike Crobats Golbat has weaker stats, and MileyDyrus and his Psychic was needed to nuke it down. He did use Bite first, which didn't hit our tree for that much damage.

- VS Gengar2: Agatha's second gengar is at level 60, quite terrifying. I felt confident that MileyDyrus could take him down but nope. He kept using Hypnosis. he was also using Shadow Ball and Sludge Bomb, which unlike in today's generation, are physical moves, and Gengar's inferior attack had to make whatever use of them. Lucky for us I guess. Eventually, one Psychic was needed to finally beat him.

- VS Haunter: I decided to have fun with this guy, who is known for using Mean Look, Curse, Hypnosis, and Dream Eater. Basically he has no readily available moves to deal damage. I sent Yoonie in to Aerial Ace him down. He used Curse to reduce his own HP to half. yoonie used Aerial Ace and struck with a critical hit.

VS

Lance

- OH DEAR GOD!

I remember getting our ass kicked by him in our initial try. Our team wasn't that level'd the first time facing him. And the creator of FireRed Throwback decided to make him even tougher especially against a team without any Ice Moves. +2 levels over the original FRLG Elite Four is not a joke.

Spoiler:

- VS Gyarados. I lead out with Victreebel once again to try stalling him a bit. Lance's Gyarados doesn't have the best moves so he wasn't a threat. Sleep Powder Worked well. He was able to take one hit of Razor Leaf quite nicely as he didn't suffer heavy damage. BUT SUDDENLY Lance withdrew him!

- VS DRAGONITE: HOLY HELL. Why in the world!? Easily he could sweep our entire team while taking NO DAMAGE at all against anyone, but since Lance withdrew his fish to get him out, I had the turn, and I was ready with sleep powder, which actually hit him. With Victrebell's Acids, we used as much acid as we can to chip down Dragonite's HP with whatever damage we could deal, and the last one actually reduced his defense. But as he woke up after taking too many turns, he used Wing Attack and KO'd Victrebell.

- VS Dragonite Part2: Our strategy was ready. MileyDyrus, our pokemon with Reflect and EXPLOSION was sent out to deal with Dragonite. Fortunately, thanks to Exeggcutor's quick claw, he was able to get Reflect as I predicted the Wing Attack. I predicted Wrong as he started using outrage. Knowing that i wouldn't have enough of this beast, i had to do what i had to do. Explosion! Dragonite's defense was reduced earlier so MileyDyrus' took him down with him!

- VS Aerodactyl: Our suffering would continue as Aerodactyl was out. Fortunately Reflect was still up. I had Yoonie to face him since I had no other options left, and I needed to save Maplestreet for the Dragonairs. I needed to find a way to chip down this Aerodactyl. He used wing attack which did not OHKO Yoonie thanks to Reflect being up. Yoonie used Spore to put him to sleep. I decided to sent maplestreet at him and used Frenzy Plant to crush him in one blow.

- VS Dragonair 1: The last of Lance's monsters are two Dragonair's with slightly different movesets. (one has Dragon Rage, the other has Thunder Wave). I had Yoonie fight this first Dragonnaire but i forgot to heal her. This Dragonair was faster than Yoonie and started with Dragon Rage. I fought back with Slash for that crit. (and thanks to Yoonie having the Scope Lens, crits came often). Still Alive, the Dragonair used outrage.

- VS Dragonair 1 part2: Yoonie being down meant that I had to take our Quake Venusaur to fight him. Dragonair continued the Outrage but Maplestreet took it like a man. The dragon was confused and i hit as many earthquakes as I can.

- VS Second Dragonair: Pretty much like the fight with the first dragonair as it also used outrage. i feared that he might KO Maplestreet so i had to heal him with a hyper pot. Eventually, Maplestreet took him down with Earthquake crits.

- VS Gyarados Part2: I remember him being asleep. Maplestreet still had fight in him left, and with Gyarados asleep, Maplestreet was free to use his Frenzy Plant to take him down.

Fighting the FRLG Elite Four who in this version of FireRed, who all have pokemon being two levels higher than the original FRLG E4 meant that a +2 level difference meant a lot of stats. What was mortifying was that the champion, much like the Elite Four in this game, also have pokemon 2 levels higher than the original FRLG!

It all came down with the wire. I had to use every revive, full potion, and ether and elixirs to settle our score with Kirito, whose Charizard gave us so much hell. I also forgot to mention, his Pidgeot has also been a problem against our Kanto Grass team, as well as his Alakazam. The fact that he has 3 pokemon to solidly wreck our team was the reason why i had to train a lot in One, Two, and Three Island.

VS Champion Kirito

I'm running out of stuff to say but dear lord, i was breathless after the battle with Kirito.

VS Pidgeot

Spoiler:

- This bird has been a problem against our Kanto Grass team for a while. I had our Parasect to face it.
- it used Featherdance which greatly crippled Yoonie's attack. I fought back with Spore.
- Slashes were used for the off chance that a crit would come. No avail. But i held on and kept slashing and slashing.
- Pidgeot Woke up and used Aerial Ace which dealt great damage to Yoonie. It left her with very little health left.
- Switched to Exeggcutor to use Psychic against Pidgeot. After Yoonie's efforts in chipping him down, it worked.

VS Alakazam

Spoiler:

My option for Alakazam was to use Yoonie after I healed her with a Full Restore. He Smartly used his speed to get Reflect Up
- Yoonie used Slash, no crit. The damage was greatly reduced.
- Alakazam used Psychic and dealt tons of damage. Yoonie survived with little health. Fought back with another slash
- Yoonie was too slow to keep up with Alakazam. I had to withdraw her for Maplestreet.
- Maplestreet took Psychic like a man. Fought back with Frenzy Plant to OHKO Alakazam with it.

VS Charizard = Hell on earth!

Spoiler:

- I only had one choice for this beast. Pray that Exeggcutor's Quick Claw worked and instantly vaporize him with Explosion as what happened before Kirito's rise to be the champion, or sacrifice whatever mon i have who will not take down the last three after him. I went with option 2.
- Vileplume was sent out first as a sacrificial lamb for Charizard's Fire blast
- Victrebell came in next. Unfortunately, Charizard still used more Fire Blast
- It came down to the wire with the last sacrificial lamb before Exeggcutor, our underleveled Tangela.
- Charizard for some reason, rather than use Aerial Ace or even a Slash, played around with Fire Spin, IT MISSED! Tangela used Sleep Powder
- Switched to MileyDyrus. Charizard is sleeping, Kirito doesn't bother using any Full Heals. EXPLOSION!

VS Gyarados

Spoiler:

- I sent out Yoonie to deal with him. I used a full restore since she was wounded after fighting Alakazam
- Gyarados used Thrash. It was dealing a lot of damage against Yoonie thanks to the fish's huge base attack. Spored him
- I chipped his health down with Slashes and Aerial Ace. He was surprisingly bulky as well.
- I switched in to MapleStreet to knock Gyarados out with a Frenzy Plant. It worked.

VS Exeggcutor

Spoiler:

- Kirito was running out of options. Exeggcutor didn't have the best moves on his roster. He was busy stalling with Sleep Powder and hitting Maplestreet with Eggs. I switched out Maplestreet with Yoonie since Earthquakes weren't dealing any damage to him
- Yoonie still took those eggs like a man but she has Aerial Ace to for some super effective damage.

VS Rhydon

Spoiler:

- Oh, he's back from the Lighting monotype challenge? Nope. Spored by Yoonie
-

-My Lightning Monotype challenge of the past week ended with Rhydon almost giving us hell, our Kanto Grass monotype challenge ended with him knowing the inevitable. Victory was OURS!

With Kirito finally defeated, in style, we celebrated our final moments with the Kanto grass team.

Let me introduce Mega XinZhao's Kanto Grass monotype champions! Maplestreet, Yoonie, Keekfl, HideinBush, LittleJenny and MileyDyrus!!​

Final Movesets, levels, and thoughts

Spoiler:

Maplestreet, the Male Quiet Venusaur: Level 66
Overgrow
held item: Miracle Seed
Razor Leaf, Earthquake, Growth, Frenzy Plant
= Easily our team's highest leveled Pokemon. He was needed to get as fat as possible to carry the whole team on his back. Miracle Seed enabled his Frenzy Plant to deal enough increased damage to one-shot the likes of Gyarados and Aerodactyl, who's part flying type made Grass type moves neutral damage.

Yoonie, the Female Relaxed Parasect; Level 61
Spore Effect
held item: Scope Lens
Slash, Aerial Ace, Leech Life (lol), Spore
= She could have been our team's second best pokemon as the physical brawler, a type of damage our team desperately needed, with sleephax Spore. But her horrible Nature made Parasect's already low base speed even lower. Spore was the move that made her a valuable asset against the most threatening of monsters (especially Pidgeot).

MileyDyrus, the Naughty male Exeggcutor, level 57
Chlorophyll
held item: Quick Claw
Psychic, Sleep Powder, Reflect, Explosion
= He was obviously the late game MVP for a couple of reasons: He was the poison slayer with Psychic, he has the move to hit most other pokemon that are not Psychic resistant or immune the hardest, and his Reflect saved the likes of Yoonie and the rest. His highlight was Explosion, a move that i never thought was useful until I realized that Explosion deals so much base power that it can remove threats as soon as possible. Dragonite and Charizard, two of our most challenging opponents were victims of MileyDyrus' antics.

ALittleJenny, the Careful female Victreebel, level 54
held item: None
Acid, Razor Leaf, Sleep powder, Toxic
= She was our team's secondary damage dealer and support. She found her calling after a few levels and was able to go toe to toe with some monsters from the Elite Four. I also liked how she has a lot of damage with poison on STAB and her unusually high base attack helped. If the Sludge Bomb TM would be obtainable earlier before the Elite Four, she would have been a beast that shined and tore through ranks. I was happy working with her. I'm also a big fan of the Bellsprout pokemon family and Victreebel happens to be one of my favorite grass types.

Keefkl, the Docile female Vileplume, level 44
held item: none
Acid, Sleep Powder, Poison Powder, Petal Dance
= To be honest, if i had the time to make her the team's battery for Sunny Day (and activate the passives), she would have been a great support. But I lost the patience to raise her, knowing that I've had enough of playing FireRed and Kanto. She was there in the times she was needed to tackle weaker threats and her sacrificial baits to some big threats such as Charizard was needed to complete the run.

HideinBush, the BRAVE Tangela, level 40
Growth, Sleep Powder, Secret Power, Mega Drain
= BRAVE IS RIGHT. Along with the best ever nickname that could be given to a pokemon, he was the 6th hour ranger who once again helped defeat a big threat. While his use may have been short, he was still there to offer help. I call him one of the Lucky Rangers (along with Goldenboy, the lucky Electrode from our Lighting monotype run)

All in all, my grass monotype run could have been better have i gotten Pokemon with better natures. I was inhibited from completely owning our foes for that. Natures that hinder a pokemon's speed is already a bad choice in most scenarios, especially to those pokemon that are slow to begin with, Parasect for example. The reason why I was some how annoyed with playing this team was that all of them didn't have the natures that i wanted. Breeding may have helped but that's not even accessible before the E4 and champion in FRLG.

With Kanto officially conqured, our Tri-Regional Grass monotype run with Hoenn (Emerald) will be continued and Johto (Crystal) can now officially begin!

 

[Hann]

Update #2: Bug - Fire Red
This Bug Monotype isn't too difficult, probably because my team only consists of three Pokémon (right now) and they're a bit higher leveled than the opposing Pokémon. Though I'm still not looking forward to that Charizard.

Screens:

Spoiler:

Team:

Bugsy the Quirky Butterfree (M) @ Lv.33
Ability: Compoundeyes
Tackle, Aerial Ace, Stun Spore, Confusion

Buzz Buzz the Relaxed Beedrill (F) @ Lv.32
Ability: Swarm
Poison Sting, Twineedle, Pursuit, Fury Attack

Goomba the Adamant Parasect (M) @ Lv.33
Ability: Effect Spore
Scratch, Thief, Dig, Leech Life

 

[FeralSlaaneshi]

Update #3: Poison team - Pokemon X

Spoiler:

*Caught Gulpin (Nickname: Lamia) on Route 5
*Beat Tierno on Route 5
*Entered Camipher Town
*Monkshood hits level 16 and evolves into Ivysaur
*Caught Venipede (Nickname: Oomukade) on Route 6
*Caught Oddish (Nickname: Belladonna) on Route 6
*Received the Pokeflute from Parfum Palace
*Caught Snorlax on Route 7
*Caught Croagunk (Nickname: Heqet) on Route 7
*Caught Zubat (Nickname: Camazotz) in Connecting Cave
*Put Philokleon in the box in exchange for Heqet
*Found Leaf Stone on route 8. May use on Belladonna at a later date.
*Entered Ambrette Town
*Obtained Jaw Fossil at Glittering Cave
*Obtained Dowsing Machine off... Some woman. o_O
*Entered Cyllage City

Current team:

Lv. 18 Oddish (Belladonna)
Female
Nature: Relaxed
Ability: Chlorophyll
Absorb, Sweet Scent, Acid, Poison Powder

Lv. 21 Ivysaur (Monkshood)
Female
Nature: Quiet
Ability: Overgrow
Sleep Powder, Growl, Leech Seed, Razor Leaf

Lv. 23 Budew (Hemlock)
Female
Nature: Bashful
Ability: Natural Cure
Mega Drain, Growth, Water Sport, Stun Spore

Lv. 23 Gulpin (Lamia)
Female
Nature: Calm
Ability: Liquid Ooze
Amnesia, Yawn, Poison Gas, Sludge

Lv. 16 Croagunk (Heqet)
Female
Nature: Naive
Ability: Dry Skin
Astonish, Mud-Slap, Poison Sting, Pursuit

Lv. 19 Venipede (Oomukade)
Male
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Poison Point
Protect, Rollout, Poison Tail, Screech

~~~~Update #4: Edited in to avoid double posting~~~~
This one is much longer than the 3rd update as I've started doing brief summaries of important battles such as battles against gym leaders, rivals, or against important Team Flare characters such as the leader or admins.

Spoiler:

*Went back to get Tyrunt
*Bred Chespin with freshly caught Bunnelby in order to trade for Skrelp (Unavailable on X)
*Belladonna hits level 21 and evolves into Gloom!
*Enter Cyllage City gym.
*Oomukade hits level 22 and evolves into Whirlipede!
*Feral vs Gym Leader Grant!
>Belladonna sent out first vs Amaura
>Amaura OHKOs Belladonna with a super effective move. Damn that ability I forgot about. Belladonna did manage to land Poison Powder first, though.
>Amaura OHKOs Heqet.
>Amaura faints against Lamia due to Belladonna's poison.
>Don't switch vs Tyrunt
>Tyrunt KOs Lamia.
>After some back and forth (mostly flinching due to bite) Tyrunt KOs Monkshood.
>Hemlock KOs Tyrunt.
>Grant = beaten!
*Received the Cliff Badge! =D
*Swap out Belladonna for Camazotz
*Found the massage lady in Cyllage City to boost Budew's happiness.
*After grinding a little on Route 10 Lamia hits level 26 and evolves into Swalot!
*After a little extra grinding on Route 10 Camazotz hits level 22 and evolves into Golbat!
*Entered Geosenge Town
*Battle Korrina in Geosenge Town:
>Camazotz sent out first vs Lucario
>Lucario KOs Camazotz.
>Send out Heqet. Mud-Slap does basically nothing and Lucario does some damage to Hequet.
>Regret life choices and swap out for Lamia.
>Lamia KOs Lucario
>Heqet gets enough EXP. to hit level 22 and learns first Fighting move: Revenge
>Don't switch vs 2nd Lucario
>Put Lucario to sleep woth Yawn. Heal Heqet with Super Potion.
>Swap to Heqet
>Heqet KOs Lucario
>Korrina = beaten!
*Received Flash from Tierno in Reflecting Cave
*Entered Shalour City
*Battle Serena in Tower of Mastery
>Camazotz sent out first vs Meowstic
>Camazotz KOd by Meowstic
>Meowstic KOd by Lamia
>Don't switch out vs Braxien
>Braxien KOd by Lamia
>Don't switch out vs Absol
>Lamia KOd by Absol
>Heqet KOd by Absol
>Absol KOd by Oomukade
>Serena = beaten

Current team:

Lv. 24 Golbat (Camazotz)
Male
Nature: Hardy
Ability: Inner Focus
Confuse Ray, Astonish, Bite, Wing Attack

Lv. 30 Swalot (Lamia)
Female
Nature: Calm
Ability: Liquid Ooze
Amnesia, Yawn, Toxic, Sludge

Lv. 29 Budew (Hemlock)
Female
Nature: Bashful
Ability: Natural Cure
Mega Drain, Growth, Water Sport, Stun Spore

Lv. 26 Whirlipede (Oomukade)
Male
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Poison Point
Bug Bite, Rollout, Poison Tail, Iron Defense

Lv. 27 Ivysaur
Female
Nature: Quiet
Ability: Overgrow
Sleep Powder, Growl, Leech Seed, Razor Leaf

Lv. 24 Croagunk (Heqet)
Female
Nature: Naive
Ability: Dry Skin
Feint Attack, Mud-Slap, Poison Sting, Revenge

 

[JJ Styles]

Johto Grass monotype update - Fresh start, back to basics!
Hoenn's Leafa is still busy training hard for the eventual battle against the Hoenn Elite and Wallace.

We're taking a trip down memory lane were we go back to the simpler and less mathematically concerned times: classic Gen 2. No EVs and No natures to worry about, just simple knock out monsters for Stat EXP (which is old school EVs) so I do not have to worry about which monsters I have to take out.

Our game will be played under Pokemon Crystal: Emu Edition by LocksmithArmy = Basically a pokemon crystal game meant to be played for Emulators along with other modifications for more convenient gameplay:

Spoiler:

ALL trade evolution Pokemon have been modified to evolve in a different way, all of the wild Pokemon from GS are placed in their normal area, the starters from gen 1 and 2 have locations around the 2 regions, the Celebi event from the Japanese crystal has been repaired to work as normal, and lastly the safari zone has been semi restored… giving homes to some Pokemon… - from the source

Kanto's Leafa has happily retired as a Grass monotrainer from her glorious victory over FireRed Throwback, but her distant cousin, also named Leafa has now started her own pokemon journey in Johto.

The story so far: Since i'm going so fast, might as well make this post up to Bugsy.

Spoiler:

- Obviously we picked Chikorita as our starter. Named CHELEENE. Such a manly name for a rather feminine looking pokemon
- Smashed through Routes and Cherry Grove routes to quickly get our STAB move - Razor Leaf
- Met Mr. POKEMON and Prof. Oak for the Mystery Egg.
- Met our Rival, and since he's a huge @$$hole, we'll be calling him SOICHIRO (the Antagonist of the GGO Arc of Sword Art Online)
- Lvl10 Chikorita vs lvl5 Cyndaquil = tackled him to the ground. That's probably the only time he'll be an easy threat.
- Told our Mom she can save our money, she'll probably need all the money she needs to entertain herself because of Leafa's deadbeat dad, so she definitely needs the money for her PERSONAL entertainment (if you know what i mean)
- Told Mr. Dude to can it with the tutorial. Kanto Leafa already gave enough advice for Johto Leafa about catching pokemans.
- Caught our second ally, a Bellsprout. Named it MOOPZ
- Arrived at Violet City and Ruins of Alph. Poor Unowns are getting hammered all day for their exp.
- Defeated Falkner at Violet City Gym, as well as Sprout Tower Leader for the Flash HM
- CHELEENE evolved after Falkner's battle. Quite a dramatic way to win a badge.
- Got our Miracle Seed from the NPC that blocks the way
- Went through Union Cave to get another HM Slave, Geodude - PUSH
- Arrived at Azalea town and saved the Slowpokes from Team Rocket
- Went for a stroll at Ilex Forest, hoping to catch more mons, but oh wait, Rival had to stop by
- Got a lvl5 Oddish from Ilex Forest, and quickly solved the annoying farfetch'd puzzle
- Stopped by Bugsy's gym
- Defeated Bugsy to get the cut HM working
- MOOPZ Evolved after the battle with Bugsy, once again another great ending to a gym battle

Falkner:

Spoiler:

- Chikorita learning Reflect quite early after her STAB attack is a blessing. That skill, along with the huge level advantage we got from farming Unowns greatly helped against Falkner. His Action Replay Pidgeotto was no match for Reflect, Poison Powder, and our rather ridiculous level advantage over him, though it could have gone either way.

Second Rival Battle:

Spoiler:

- this time he's a lot more serious. Ghastly, Evolved Starter (Quilava), and Zubat. All 3 capable of countering Grass types
- Ghastly wasn't too smart. He did lick MOOPZ for Paralysis but fell to sleep powder and eventually chipped him down with Boosted Vine Whips
- Bayleef vs Quilava: A rare and weird occurence happened with Quilava spamming status moves that all failed until his 3rd turn landed the smoke screen. Luckily before his smoke landed, I tagged him with Poison Powder. He used Ember and for all shits and giggles he burnt CHELEENE. DoT for DoT but luckily, i landed more hits through Tackles and we survived the embers and the burn DOT
- vs Zubat: Pests! Bats are the bane of our existence in a grass monorun. I had our Bellsprout MOOPZ Sleep him with powder, and chocked it unconscious with Wrap.

Bugsy:

Spoiler:

-Fighting Bugsy required us to have one good strategy else we get swept. Simply put, we had to stop Scyther from scoring a clean hit with his first fury cutter. I won't mention his two cocoons much since they didn't do anything, but that Kakuna could have poisoned a key member of our team.
- Our first try didn't went so well with Scyther. Basically i had CHELEENE take him on hoping that I get Reflect on him. Scyther being itself, was faster than a Bayleef that outlevels it. He scored a crit with his first Fury Cutter Hit, which unfortunately chucked too much health. Even after getting reflect up, Scyther's Fury Cutter was too much, i had to reset knowing that him having 5 stacks of Fury Cutter was enough to sweep our entire team, including our HM Slaves.

- Second try: The smart thing for me to do was to put MOOPS our Bellsprout out to powder that Scyther to sleep. While it still got the first move, his Fury Cutter didn't do that much damage thanks to Bellsprouts being already part Poison. While asleep, we chipped down his health with Wrap and after a few turns, CHELEENE stepped in to put Reflect up while Scyther is asleep. Finally, Reflect favored us at it saved CHELEENE from being torn apart. Finally after a few Tackles with Reflect up, Scyther was down.

Team:

CHELEENE, M Bayleef, lvl20 - Tackle, Poison Powder, Razor Leaf, Reflect

= Already he has 2 useful moves to help survive our adventure. Razor Leaf has his primary STAB and Reflect to protect ourselves from Physical damage. That protection will be heavily needed against Falkner. I removed growl in exchange for Poison powder because we already have reflect, a far better choice for damage mitigation as it benefits the team, and Poison Powder is an amazing move for DoT Damage.

MOOPZ, M Bellsprout, lvl19 - Vine Whip, Growth, Wrap, Sleep Powder
= I'll be a little more utility friendly with Bellsprout this time since I don't want to stick with just attacking with moves. Grass pokemon are known for their utility and we should stick with such. Sleep Powder is chosen to help stall down threats.

PUTPUN F Oddish, lvl8 - Absorb, Sweet Scent

Part of our team is a lvl4 Pidgey to provide flight later on, and a Geodude for Strengh and Rock Smash.
The Togepi we got from Mr Pokemon hatched. Unforunately, we can't use him so we call him NO

Johto Badges: 2/8
Total Badges: 2/16

 

[Feraligatr13]

Hello all, I'm back from a break from PC with some updates to my Poison challenges. I've finished Black 2, restarted Soul Silver (for probably the fifth time), and lost my X data in a horrible accident. I'm not in a position where I can post stats, but I certainly will when I'm able to, which will actually be in about an hour.

 

[FeralSlaaneshi]

Update #5: Poison team - Pokemon X

Spoiler:

*After worrying about what to do about Korrina's Lucario, head back to Route 11 to look for a Nidoran
*Caught Stunky (Nickname: Rafflesia) on Route 11
*Swapped out Monkshood for Rafflesia
*Caught Nidorina (Nickname: Boudicca) on Route 11
*Return to Shalour City
*Enter Shalour City gym
*Swap Rafflesia out for Monskhood
*Feral vs Gym Leader Korrina!
>Monkshood sent out first vs Mienfoo
>Monkshood uses Sleep Powder and swaps out for Camazotz
>Camazotz KOs Mienfoo
>Swap Camazotz out for Lamia vs Machoke
>Lamia KOs Machoke
>Don't swap out vs Hawlucha
>Swap Lamia out for Camazotz after landing Toxic
>Camazotz KOs Hawlucha
>Korrina = beaten!
*Camazotz hits level 28 and evolves into Crobat (I don't even know, Hemlock hasn't even evolved yet and I've had her since level 8)!
*Received the Rumble Badge! =D
*Received Mega Ring in the Tower of Mastery
*Feral vs Successor Korrina
>Feral's Lucario vs Korrina's Lucario
>Both Mega Evolve
>Feral's Lucario KO's Korrina's after 2 turns
>Korrina = beaten! Again!
*Sent Monkshood over to the PC to receive Lucario
*Put Lucario in box
*Received Lapras off... Some guy on Route 12.
*Caught Tentacool (Nickname: Thetis) on Route 12
*Swapped out Lapras and Lamia for Thetis and Rafflesia
*Found Shiny Stone on Route 12 with intent to use on Hemlock
*Hemlock hits level 33 and evolves into Roselia!
*Entered Coumarine City
*Feral vs Serena
>Camazotz gets sent out first vs Meowstic
>Camazotz KOs Meowstic
>Switch out into Rafflesia vs Braixen
>Braixen KOs Rafflesia. Rafflesia lands Toxic first.
>Switch into Thetis
>Thetis KOs Braixen
>Don't switch out vs Absol
>Absol KOs Thetis
>Switch into Heqet
>Heqet OHKOs Absol
>Serena = beaten!

Current team:

Lv. 33 Crobat (Camazotz)
Male
Nature: Hardy
Ability: Inner Focus
Confuse Ray, Acrobatics, Bite, Fly

Lv. 34 Roselia (Hemlock)
Female
Nature: Bashful
Ability: Natural Cure
Mega Drain, Ingrain, Water Sport, Stun Spore

Lv. 28 Stunky (Rafflesia)
Male
Nature: Naughty
Ability: Aftermath
Smokescreen, Toxic, Screech, Slash

Lv. 30 Croagunk (Heqet)
Female
Nature: Naive
Ability: Dry Skin
Feint Attack, Mud Bomb, Poison Sting, Revenge

Lv. 29 Nidorina (Boudicca)
Female
Nature: Adamant
Ability: Rivalry
Tail Whip, Double Kick, Bite, Fury Swipes

Lv. 27 Tentacool (Thetis)
Female
Nature: Impish
Ability: Clear Body
Acid Spray, Toxic Spikes, Bubble Beam, Surf

 

[JJ Styles]

Hoenn Grass monotype final update

So there we have it. Finally, finally, finally after a few off days, we finally settled our score with our most favorite monotype challenge yet.

What went on:
- Grinded all of our pokemon till they got their respective effort ribbons.
- Bought some consumables to aid in the final battle
- Gave the Earthquake TM to Inca, our Cradily.
- Basically that was it. Training at Victory Road provided a safe amount of EXP for everyone.

VS Hoenn Elite Four:
I put the battle on SET to make our challenge with the Elite Four and Champion Wallace a lot more challenging, as it increased the tension of what can happen.

VS

Sidney
- Even though he was the lowest level'd of the E4, he was quite a challenging opponent compared to what would most people do to him.

Spoiler:

- I led out with Jrooce, our lowest level'd mon to take on Sidney, hoping that he can score some exp
- Mightyena surprisingly used Double Edge rather than Sand Attack first. He was also faster than Jrooce, but the recoil was harming him.
- Used Hidden Power Fighting, but because it wasn't on STAB and Jrooce was rather weak, it didn't do that much damage to the dog.
- KO'd Mightyena after he suffered too much recoil from Double Edge as he kept using it rather than Sand Attack.
- VS Absol: No choice but to try stand up to him, I used Synthesis to try recovering HP, but nope, Aerial Aced. Jrooce was too wounded.
- VS Absol part2: Jippangyi, our powerhouse, came in to revenge KO Absol out of the sky with a Sky Uppercut.
- VS Shiftry, Cacturne, Crawdaunt = pretty much the same old story. Sky Uppercutted all of them out of the sky. Swept

= Used revive on Jrooce and a potion since he got KO'd by Absol. Seeing that this is STILL ON SET, I put Doreimo, our Ludicolo, on the lead this time.

VS

Phoebe

Spoiler:

- Phoebe, since RB, is famous for one thing, and that's wasting your PP with her Protect spamming lead, Dusclops 1
- VS Dusclops 1: WILL ALWAYS use Protect as its first action. Good thing with Jippangyi, we scouted with Absorb. We proceeded to KO him with Surfs
- VS Banette 1: With Doreimo's awesome STAB on Surf, we basically drowned him. It helped that he carried the Mystic Water from the Castform we got weeks ago.
- VS Sableye: Phoebe's Double Team Spammer, but its base stat total is too low for it to be a significant threat. Surf'd it to the ground before it could go on its Double Team Spam.
- VS Banette2: Phoebe's stronger Banette. After it survived the first Surf, it fought back with a CRIT SHADOW BALL that dealt a truckload of damage, but fortunately we survived the hit. We hit our Second surf to KO it, but dear lord Gen 3 Shadow Ball running on Physical attack is so broken especially on a Banette (Ghost type with a rather high ATK stat)
- VS Dusclops2: Phoebe's real ace, and a pretty strong one with varied moves. I used a hyper pot on Doreimo because dear lord that CRIT SHADOW BALLearlier was scary. Dusclops fired its Ice Beam but it didn't harm Doreimo as much thanks to his part water typing. It then fought with Rock Slide but it missed. One more Surf to end the battle.

= basically we SWEPT Phoebe with one Pokemon, Doreimo. Surf on STAB is so good, but that CRIT SHADOW Ball made me wonder what if I never invested any method of making Doreimo beefy...

VS

Glacia
- Glacia is pretty much known for having the MOST BORING Pokemon lineup in RSE. I wasn't in the mood to have a long battle with her either.

Spoiler:

- Led with our Tank Inca to take on Glacia. As a part Rock Type, i thought that she would have the advantage
- VS Sealeo1: Because Inca is very slow, Sealeo1 used its typical first move, Hail. Inca used Ancient Power but surprisingly the Sealeo survived the super effective hit. It fought with Ice Ball which dealt super effective damage on Inca. Used a second Ancient power hoping that Inca gets the stat boosts, but nope.
- VS Sealeo2: Inca took damage with hail and the 1st Sealeo. Once again we used Ancient Power to try getting a good hit, but the second Sealeo used Blizzard to KO Inca. We revenge KO'd him with our Brawler Jippangyi with a Mach Punch
- VS Walrein: Jippangyi used Sky Uppercut, it missed... really game? Walrein used Ice Beam, Crit on Jippangyi..
- VS Walrein part2: I had no choice but to sick Asuna, our Sceptile at him, and we used our Leaf Blade to score HUGE crit on it. Surprisingly it survived Leaf Blade and used Ice Beam which Asuna survived. Glacia used Full Restore. We used our Second Leaf Blade to KO it.
- VS Glalie1: I didn't want the Glalie to KO Asuna with an Ice Beam so I withdrew Asuna for Doreimo, who could comfortably take ice beams all day. I was surprised that Surf (Water moves) were dealing neutral damage on a Pure Ice type like Glalie so i used Doreimo's Signature Fake Out-Surf combo to take him down. It took 2 surfs though
- VS Glalie2: Pretty much like the other Glalie, we used Surf to try KOing it. It fought back with Shadow Ball which fortunately didn't deal that much damage.

= This could have become an epic Breloom Jippangyi sweep if the Sky Uppercut on Walrein did not miss.. I mean how can you miss a fat ass Walrus! RNG wasn't good to me this day.

VS

Drake.
Unlike our confrontation with Lance, I wasn't too scared with taking on Drake since we had 2 Pokemon that were capable of KO'ing Dragon types. Doreimo with Ice Beam, and our Roselia Yuri with Hidden Power Ice. I put Yuri on the lead, to save the stronger one for last.

Spoiler:

- VS Shellgon = Its another of those PP Wasters with Protect if you do not know how to scout with moves, scouted with Magical Leaf. I misclicked and used Magical Leaf which dealt a surprisingly good amount of non-effective damage against Shellgon. Shellgon used Rock Tomb but Gen3 Rock tomb isn't so good, it missed. Yuri's Hidden Power Ice dealt the finishing touch.
- VS Flygon = hmm, its faster than Yuri, whats it going to do? EARTHQUAKE? Its on STAB, but it did only around half of Yuri's Health Bar. Ground/Dragon typing + Hidden Power Ice = yeeep
- VS Altaria = Drake's Altaria would prefer to use its Dragon Dance first, but it smartly used Aerial Ace to KO the half health Yuri.
- VS Altaria part2 = Doreimo's time to shine. We tried using our Fake-Beam (Fake Out + Ice Beam) combo on it, but despite the flinch, Altaria still fought with Aerial Ace before Doreimo used Ice Beam. Altaria was quite fast. But Ice Beam still KO'd her on one go. The damage Altaria dealt was big though.
- VS Kingdra = I tried to go with Doreimo on this one just to see if I could chip it down with Ice Beam as Kingdra will take neutral ice type damage but the damage was nill. Kingdra used Body Slam on Doreimo. I had to sick someone else at that seahorse as I won't be doing much against it.
- VS Kingdra part2 = Asuna's time was up. I wanted to use Agility to buff myself up since Kingdra has no moves to hard counter Asuna, but I mistakedly used Dragon Claw at it, which dealt some super effective damage but not enough for the kill. Kingdra fought with Body Slam CRIT! Asuna is really physically squishy because of the DEF Hindering nature but fortunately Kingdra's ATK stat isn't so high. We finally smacked it down with our own Crit Leaf Blade for the takedown.
- VS Salamence = This was rather tense. With both my Ice type move carrying pokemon out of action (Yuri KO'd, Doreimo too low HP), I had to stick with Asuna for this one. After all, it was an Ace vs Ace battle. Bought pokemon fought with Dragon Claws at each other. Salamence suddenly surprised me when he actually used FLAMETHROWER of all moves to take out Asuna. I completely forgot that he could totally do that.
- VS Salamence part2 = Inca, being revived earlier, was up. Salamence was weakened after the Dragon Claws from Asuna, and because he's way faster than Inca is, he used Flamethrower once again. But unlike Asuna, Inca part Rock type, and took the flames. Inca threw some rocks at him with an ANCIENT POWER CRIT for the super effective finish! Take that Drake!

= Oh boy. Drake was a lot of fun, like the battle with Sidney. It was quite tense as well. Maybe i should have sicked Doreimo at Salamence since he didn't have any super effective moves against Doreimo's typing.

VS

Wallace:

it was down to the wire. The final challenge to end this run (for now). I was hyping up if I could sweep Wallace with Asuna but I had to see if it was possible.

Spoiler:

- VS Wailord = Asuna used Leaf Blade, and it Crit the surprisingly squishy whale.

Moemon Milotic = I like.
- VS MILOTIC = Whoa! I didn't expect Wallace to immediately send out his signature ace. I guess he got pissed that his whale got rekt hard. Rather than play around with her, as she's capable of using Ice Beam, I had to use Leaf Blade to strike her down. and it did. However, it only dealt enough damage to force her to eat the Sitrus Berry she has. I was thinking that Wallace might use a Full Restore or Milotic would use Ice Beam. Either way, I would rather see the Full Restore, but Milotic would use Toxic... I didn't want to do it, but I had to end it. Leaf Blade was used to KO Milotic. However, Asuna is under Toxic, which is really painful, and I didn't have any time to use any antidotes.

- VS Tentacruel = Wallace finally plays smart and sends out a semi-counter against Asuna. I didn't want to a prolongued fight since this squid counters Asuna really well with Sludge Bomb and Ice beam. Asuna is also under Toxic. But i felt risking it and used Leaf Blade to try taking it down, but the squid has excellent Special Def. Asuna took the Ice beam like a man and I switched to someone who could counter Him. Inca, with Earthquake. Tentacruel used Sludgebomb on Inca which actually poisoned her. Inca fought back with CRITQuake to take him down quickly.

- VS Ludicolo = Dear god. I hate him. Everyone who has played Emerald pretty much knows how Wallace's Ludicolo is one of the most annoying enemies ever in ANY POKEMON Game. (Double Spam spam to abuse his venerable typing. If you do not kill him quickly, he will spam it to kingdom come). I did not have any Pokemon with Aerial Ace. I immediately swapped out Inca for Yuri, someone who could try taking him on. He fought with his Surf while Yuri used as many Magical Leafs as possible, as it was the only viable way of taking him down, since i didn't want him to go with his Double Team Spam. His Surf was dealing a surprising amount of damage against Yuri as well. Ludicolo also became Wallace's Pot chugger as he was chugging those Full Restores every time he got into critical health. I did the same to Yuri. Eventually it came to the point that Yuri got KO'd with Surf while chipping down Ludicolo. My last resort was our Tropius, Jrooce. Thankfully, unlike our Ludicolo, Wallace's doesn't have ice Beam. Eventually, since I prevented him from spamming Double Team while hitting him with as many magical leafs, I used the opportunity to use FLY to deal the needed super effective damage against him. It took a while but the last Fly got him well. It took way too long though

- VS Whiscash = I thought I could down him with Jrooce after he got wounded with the battle with Ludicolo, but for some reason, Whiscash outsped Jrooce and used Hyper Beam. Asuna, despite the wounds she got earlier, needed to step in, and Smash the mudfish with one Leaf Blade to abuse that 4x weakness. It was overkill but i was clearly pissed.

+1's for moemone Gyarados? plz?
- VS Gyarados = or as I would like to call him Mr. Clean as he is capable of doing so. Asuna unfortunately was too wounded from her wounds, and even got the tick from Toxic, after she used Leaf Blade to deal some good damage against the fish, but Gyarados has excellent bulk with his base SDEF along with his mean ATK. Suddenly, HYPER BEAM! Yep.. Asuna's low physical defense got her down, but she dealt a good amount of damage with a CRit leaf blade earlier. Seeing as I have no Pokemon left to stop Mr. Clean from sweeping us, I called in our Tank Inca to finally settle him. Gyarados used Surf on Inca, which is weird, and not a wise play. The revenge KO was complete when Inca threw some Rocks at Inca with Ancient Power. One Critical hit later with that Ancient Power, and Wallace was beaten on his own turf!

Welcome our Hoenn Grass monotype champions! Doreimo, Asuna, Jippangyi, Jrooce, Inca, and Yuri

Final moveset and thoughts:

Spoiler:

Asuna, F Mild Sceptile, lvl60
Held Item: Miracle Seed
- Leaf Blade, Agility, Dragon Claw, Quick Attack

Spoiler:

= When it came to just plain raw power and quick feet, Asuna was there. She was our friend till the very end. Her EV Spreads were basically as much SPTAK as she can, along with Speed. Given those EV Spreads, she was Squishy but she also had Titatnic power as well. Quick Attack was there to snipe out any attempts with a priority attack against other speedy pokemon. Agility was there as her only usable Steroid, as she would have been godlike with Calm Mind from Tate and Liza. Dragon Claw as added for extra coverage against Dragon types. She was physically squishy so if she took a hit from a strong physical attack, there was a high chance that it could cripple her. What make her so amazing for me is that she's also the first pokemon that I have ever used to have a perfect IV on special attack, which is why she was hitting with nukeduck power.

Doreimo, M Quiet Ludicolo, lvl55
Held Item: Mystic Water / Nevermelt Ice
- Surf, Ice Beam, Fake Out, Absorb

Spoiler:

= He was our surfer boy, he said see ya later boy. When it came to coverage, Doreimo was the mon. He took a while to get into where he is as our best mixed coverage guy, but all that time raising him from a little Lotad was worth the investment. He didn't have any of specific EV Spread i had in mind but at least he didn't suffer any problems of being squishy. I couldn't give him another good Grass move since there was no other good Grass TMs that can be found, and Solar Beam is just bad without Sunny Day, which unfortunately none of my pokemon became a battery for the team. Held items helped him deal damage with his signature moves.

Jippangyi, M Lax Breloom, lvl56
Held Item: None
- Mach Punch, Sky Uppercut, Headbutt, Mega Drain

Spoiler:

= Our team's physical powerhouse. STAB on those fighting type moves meant that Steel, Dark, and even Ice types were no match against him if he got the first move. His priority Mach Punches helped him score crucial revenge KOs against anyone who got KO'd previously and when he got his groove on, there was no stopping him, except a Flying type that preyed upon his typing. Jippangyi was not without weaknesses and it showed in much of our run. Bats, in particular Crobats, were fcuking him up really hard, and he had no other measure against them. But against those he was meant to take on, he was simply unmatched. Basically, when Physical Burst was needed, he was there to do his job.

Inca, F Impish Cradily, lvl58
Held Item: Soft Sand
- Earthquake, Ancient Power, Confuse Ray, Ingrain

Spoiler:

= She was the tank that our team needed. She was also good in dealing physical damage and when she stayed on to take as many hits as she could, she did take as many hits as she could. Her EV spreads were well thought off (Thanks Smogon) and she was able to do what she was intended to do. It took forever in raising her into the imposing wall that she was. If she had recover, a move accessible only by breeding a new Lileep, she could have been almost unstoppable against the AI. It took me a couple of Soft Resets to get the Nature I wanted for her when she was revived from her fossil self, and it was well worth it. She was also our team's other countermeasure against flying types thanks to her STAB Rock move, Ancient Power, which took forever to get.

Yuri, the M Sassy Roselia, Lvl55
Held Item: None
- Magical Leaf, Leech Seed, Giga Drain, Hidden Power Ice

Spoiler:

= He definitely did his part as another damage dealing grass mon with his rather amazing moveset. Magical Leaf was needed to take down Double Team spammers and him having Hidden Power Ice made him capable in taking on Dragon Types, other Grass types, and even flying types if he got the first move. His sassy nature also helped him survive hits that could have been fatal. Roselias are amazing.

Jroooce, the M Mild Tropius, lvl52
Held Item: None
- Magical Leaf, Synthesis, Hidden Power Fighting, Fly

Spoiler:

= Other than being our Fly HM Slave, he was there to provide some good weight for the team. At times that a good member was down, he was there to do his best on avenging his teammate. I was surprised that he was also the one to take down a key enemy in our run (Wallace's Ludicolo) and as always, a very common occurence in my runs these days, the "weakest" link in our team tend to be the beast slayers during the final battles.

 

[Stormerbuzz35]

Pokemon Black Water Monotype Update!
-After dealing with Team Plasma, I challenged Burgh and lost twice to Leavanne. Eventualy managed to push through and get the badge.
-Beat up on my ''rivals''.
-Headed through the desert to Nimbasa.
-Beat Elsa really easily thats to Kero having evolved during training.
-Caught a Ducklett and named it Nina on the bridge.
-Caught Team Plasma with no fuss in Cold Storage and defeated Clay without breaking a sweat. Kero evolved again.
-Now fidgeting around in the desert to get the cover fossil I missed.
Team
Nina, F Lv32 Ducklett: Water Pulse, Air Slash, Bubble Beam, Roost
Suigetsu, M Lv33 Dewott: Retaliate, Fury Cutter, Razor Shell, Focus Energy
Rocket, M Lv34 Panpour: Scald, Grass Knot, Acrobatics, Work Up
Kero, F Lv36 Seismitoad: Uproar, Rain Dance, Aqua Ring, Muddy Water
Patrat the HM Slave

 

[FeralSlaaneshi]

Update #6: Poison team - Pokemon X

Spoiler:

*Swap Boudicca out for Oomukade
*Entered Coumarine City gym
*Feral vs Gym Leader Ramo!
>Oomukade sent out first vs Jumpluff
>Jumpluff OHKOs Oomukade
>Send out Camazotz
>Camazotz OHKOs Jumpluff
>Don't swap out vs Gogoat
>Camazotz KOs Gogoat
>Switch out into Heqet vs Weepinbell
>Heqet KOs Weepinbell
>Ramos = beaten!
*Received the Plant Badge!
*Oomukade hits level 30 and evolves into Scolipede!
*Enter Kalos Power Plant
*Thetis hits level 30 and evolves into Tentacruel!
*Feral vs Team Flare Admin!
>Oomukade sent out first vs Houndoom
>Immediately switch out into Thetis
>Thetis KOs Houndoom
>Admin = beaten!
*Feral vs Team Flare Aliana!
>Thetis sent out first vs Mightyena
>Mightyena uses Roar and Rafflesia is dragged out
>Mightyena uses Roar and Thetis is dragged out. Rafflesia lands Toxic first
>Toxic eventually KOs Mightyena
>Aliana = beaten!
*Enter Lumiose City gym
*Rafflesia hits level 34 and evolves into Skuntank!
*Feral vs Gym Leader Clemont
>Oomukade sent out first vs Emolga
>Oomukade KO's Emolga
>Swap out into Heqet vs Magneton
>Magneton land critical hit and OHKOs Heqet
>Send out Hemlock
>Revive Heqet
>Magneton KOs Hemlock
>Send out Heqet
>Magneton OHKOs Heqet
>Send out Rafflesia
>Magneton KOs Rafflesia but is burned by Flamethrower
>Send out Thetis
>Manage to revive Hemlock and (accidently) Heqet
>Magneton KOs Thetis
>Send out Hemlock
>Hemlock KOs Magneton
>Don't switch out vs Heliolisk
>Revive Rafflesia
>Hemlock KOs Heliolisk
>Clemont = beaten!
*Heqet hits level 37 and evolves into Toxicroak!
*Received the Voltage Badge!
*Feral vs Serena!
>Send out Thetis first vs Meowstic
>Immediately swap out for Oomukade
>Oomukade KOs Meowstic
>Switch into Rafflesia vs Delphox
>Delphox KOs Rafflesia, but Toxic lands first
>Switch into Camazotz
>Camazotz KOs Delphox
>Switch into Heqet vs Absol
>Heqet OHKOs Absol
>Serena = beaten!
*Entered Laverre City
*Captured Haunter on Route 14
*Captured Skorupi (Nickname: Scorpius) on Route 14
*Caught Ekans (Nickname: Manasa) on Route 14

Current team:

Lv. 39 Toxicroak (Heqet)
Female
Nature: Naive
Ability: Dry Skin
Sucker Punch, Mud Bomb, Venoshock, Revenge

Lv. 37 Scolipede (Oomukade)
Male
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Poison Point
Bug Bite, Rollout, Poison Tail, Agility

Lv. 35 Tentacruel (Thetis)
Female
Nature: Impish
Ability: Clear Body
Acid Spray, Toxic Spikes, Barrier, Surf

Lv. 35 Skuntank (Rafflesia)
Male
Nature: Naughty
Ability: Aftermath
Flamethrower, Toxic, Screech, Slash

Lv. 40 Roselia (Hemlock)
Female
Nature: Bashful
Ability: Natural Cure
Mega Drain, Ingrain, Water Sport, Toxic

Lv. 40 Crobat (Camazotz)
Male
Nature: Hardy
Ability: Inner Focus
Confuse Ray, Acrobatics, Bite, Fly

 

[Synthet]

Forum User Name: Synthet
Pokémon Type: Dark
Challenge Mode: Single
Game(s): X

Looking forward to getting into this! I'll try and post updates regularly.

 

[FeralSlaaneshi]

Update #7: Poison team - Pokemon X

Spoiler:

*Caught Goomy (Nickname: Numera) on Route 14. Because it's a cutie and I need it.
*Caught another Haunter on Route 14
*Fly to Camphrier Town
*Dropped off both Haunters into the day care centre. Want me that Gastly.
*Hatched a Gastly in order to get info for Pokedex. Also I didn't realise it would have egg moves. TO THE BOX WITH IT!
*Fly back to Laverre City
*Swap Heqet and Rafflesia out for Scorpius and Manasa
*Entered Laverre City gym
*Swapped Manasa and Oomukade out for Heqet and Rafflesia
*Feral vs Valerie!
>Thetis sent out first vs Mawile
>Thetis places a double layer of Toxic Spikes
>Swap out for Heqet
>Heqet KOs Mawile
>Swap out for Rafflesia vs Mr Mime
>Rafflesia KOs Mr Mime
>Switch into Heqet vs Sylveon
>Heqet KOs Sylveon
>Valerie = beaten!
*Feral received the Fairy Badge!
*Entered the Poké Ball Factory
*Feral vs Team Flare Admin!
>Thetis sent out first vs Scraggy
>Immediately swap for Heqet
>Heqet OHKOs Scraggy
>Don't swap out vs Houndoom
>Heqet OHKOs Houndom
>Team Flare Admin = beaten!
*Feral and Serena vs Celosia and Bryony!
>Thetis and Meowstic sent out first vs Manectric and Liepard
>Immediately swap out for Hemlock
>Hemlock KOs Manectric
>Liepard KOs Meowstic
>Serena sends out Absol
>Absol KOs Liepard
>Celosia and Bryony = beaten!
*Entered Frost Cavern
*Feral vs Mable!
>Thetis sent out first vs Houndoom
>Thetis KOs Houndoom
>Mable = beaten!
*Entered Anistar City
*Swap out Heqet for Oomukade

Current team:

Lv. 43 Tentacruel (Thetis)
Female
Nature: Impish
Ability: Clear Body
Poison Jab, Toxic Spikes, Barrier, Surf

Lv. 43 Skutank (Rafflesia)
Male
Nature: Naughty
Ability: Aftermath
Flamethrower, Toxic, Screech, Night Slash

Lv. 38 Scolipede (Oomukade)
Male
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Poison Point
Bug Bite, Rollout, Poison Tail, Agility

Lv. 46 Roselia (Hemlock)
Female
Nature: Bashful
Ability: Natural Cure
Mega Drain, Ingrain, Water Sport, Toxic

Lv. 37 Skorupi (Scorpius)
Male
Nature: Serious
Ability: Sniper
Bug Bite, Poison Fang, Toxic Spikes, Hone Claws

Lv. 46 Crobat (Camazotz)
Male
Nature: Hardy
Ability: Inner Focus
Confuse Ray, Acrobatics, Poison Fang, Fly

 

[Synthet]

Update no.1 Dark Team Pokemon X

Spoiler:

This is my first real Monotype Challenge – here we go! Hurried through the introduction to get my starter. Since I'm doing a Dark type challenge and Froakie eventually gains that typing through evolution I pick Froakie as my starter and nickname him Xanthias.

Froakie (Xanthias)
Male
Naive – Quick tempered

It's going to be a while before I'm able to catch any other Dark Pokemon so Xanthias is going to end up getting strong quickly – it raises a little concern for me on just how I'm going to be able to catch any other Pokemon without OHKO'ing them. Obviously I defeat Shauna's Fennekin and move onto Route 2 and Santalune Forest. Battles with Trainers and wild Pokemon see Xanthias learn Quick Attack at level 8. At level 10 he forgot Growl in order to learn Lick. Made it to Route 3 without any difficulty.

There aren't any Pokemon here of my type, but I catch one or two for use in trades for version exclusive Pokemon I can't obtain and HM slaves. Thanks to only using Xanthias he's far stronger than the Pokemon used by the Trainers on this route, so I make it to Santalune City with ease. Route 22 has no Pokemon I can use, and I'm already plenty strong for where I'm at, so I'll give it a miss for now.

I battle the Roller Skater outside the Gym to get my skates and proceed into the Gym. If this Gym were later in my challenge then the Bug typing might prove tricky, but since my only Pokemon is Xanthias the Froakie the type match up isn't an issue.

Synth vs. Viola

Viola sends out Surskit, I send out Xanthias naturally.

Xanthias uses Lick, doesn't manage to paralyse. Surskit uses Bubble, it's not very effective.
Surskit uses Quick Attack, Xanthias uses Lick again and lands the paralysis this time.
Xanthias uses Pound, Surskit uses Water Spout.
Viola uses a Potion, Xanthias uses Quick Attack.
Xanthias uses Pound, Surskit uses Bubble and gets a critical hit.
Xanthias uses Quick Attack and finishes Surskit off.
Xanthias reaches Level 14 and forgets Bubble in order to learn Water Pulse.

Viola sends out Vivillion.
Vivillion uses Infestation, Xanthias uses Pound.
Vivillion uses Infestation, Xanthias uses Water Pulse.
I use a Potion on Xanthias, Vivillion uses Infestation... again.
Another Infestation, Xanthias uses Water Pulse and knocks out Vivillion.

Viola defeated and the Bug Badge is mine!

Onto Route 4 and once again there are sadly no Dark type Pokemon to be found here, so I just grab the items and make my way through the Trainers there. Xanthias evolves into Frogadier and I make my way into Lumiose City. My battle against Professor Sycamore isn't worth documenting – he was lame – I won – I got a Bulbasaur and stuck it in the PC. I force my way through all the endless speed bumps between me and Route 5 – Lysandre, Callum, creepy Mr. Bonding – but I finally get there! After a short search I find and catch a Pancham, adding it to my team, and shortly after that a Scraggy!

Lvl. 10 Pancham (Atlas)
Male
Modest – Likes to relax

Lvl. 5 Scraggy (Kratos)
Male
Serious – Good perseverance

Time to train these two a little. I'll post another update later.

 

[FeralSlaaneshi]

Update #8: Poison team - Pokemon X

This is super long thanks to having to do battle after battle pretty much back to back with little travelling or little of interest in between. Sorry about that.

Spoiler:

*Feral vs Serena
>Oomukade sent out first vs Meowstic
>Meowstick uses fake out but poisons itself thanks to Oomukade's Poison Point
>Oomukade KOs Meowstic
>Switch into Rafflesia vs Delphox
>Delphox KOs Rafflesia
>Switch into Thetis
>Thetis KOs Delphox
>Switch into Hemlock vs Jolteon
>Hemlock KOs Jolteon
>Switch into Oomukade vs Absol
>Oomukade KOs Absol
>Serena = beaten!
*Entered Anistar City gym
*Scorpius hits level 40 and evolves into Drapion!
*Feral vs Olympia!
>Scorpius sent out first vs Sigilyph
>Scorpius puts down two layers of Toxic Spikes
>Scorpius KOs Sigilyph
>Don't switch vs Slowking
>Scorpius KOs Slowking
>Don't switch vs Meowstic
>Scorpius OHKOs Meowstic
*Feral received the Psychic Badge!
*Lysandre is all "oh yeah I'm evil now" and everyone hauls back to Lumiose city
*Entered Lysandre Labs
*Feral vs Lysandre!
>Thetis sent out first vs Mienfoo
>Thetis lays down two layers of Toxic Spikes
>Thetis KOs Mienfoo
>Don't switch vs Gyarados
>Thetis KOs Gyarados
>Don't switvh vs Murkrow
>Thetis KOs Murkrow
>Don't switch vs Pyroar
>Thetis KOs Pyroar
>Lysandre = beaten!
*Feral vs Aliana!
>Thetis sent out first vs Mightyena
>Thetis KOs Mightyena
>Switch into Hemlock vs Druddigon
>Hemlock lands Toxic before switching back for Thetis
>Druddigon KOs Thetis
>Switch into Camazotz
>Camazotz KOs Druddigon
>Aliana = beaten!
*Hemlock hits level 50 and learns Petal Dance. It's time.
*Use Shiny Stone on Hemlock. It evolves into Roserade!
*Feral vs Mable
>Thetis sent out first vs Houndoom
>Thetis KOs Houndoom
>Switch into Oomukade vs Weavile
>Weavile KOs Oomukade with like 1hp left to spare and Poison Point takes effect
>Poison Point KOs Weavile
>Mable = beaten!
*Swapped out Rafflesia for Heqet
*Feral vs Xerosic
>Thetis sent out first vs Crobat
>Thetis KOs Crobat
>Swap out into Oomukade vs Malamar
>Oomukade OHKOs Malamar
>Xerosic = beaten!
*Fly to Geosenge Town
*Enter Team Flare Secret HQ
*Feral vs Lysandre!
>Camazotz sent out first vs Mienshao
>Camazotz OHKOs Mienshao
>Switch into Hemlock vs Gyarados
>Gyarados KOs Hemlock, but she lands Toxic first
>Send out Oomukade
>Oomukade KOs Gyarados
>Switch into Thetis vs Pyroar
>Thetis KOs Pyroar
>Swap into Scorpius vs Honchkrow
>Scorpius KOs Honchkrow
>Lysandre = beaten!
*Feral and Serena vs Team Flare Admin and Grunt!
>Camazotz and Meowstic sent out first vs Liepard and Toxicroak
>Meowstic KOs Toxicroak
>Meowstic KOs Liepard
>Team Flare Admin and Grunt = beaten!
*Feral and Serena vs Team Flare Admin and Grunt!
>Camazotz and Meowstic sent out first vs Mightyena and Manectric
>Camazotz OHKOs Mightyena
>Manectric uses Roar on Meowstic and Absol is dragged out
>Absol KOs Manectric
>Team Flare Admin and Grunt = beaten!
*Feral and Serena vs ANOTHER Team Flare Admin and Grunt combo!
>Camazotz and Meowstic sent out first vs Scrafty and Houndoom
>Camazotz KOs Scrafty
>Houndoom KOs Meowstic
>Serena sends out Jolteon
>Jolteon KOs Houndoom
>Team Flare Admin and Grunt = beaten!
*Enter the downstairs chamber with Xerneas
*Four more Admins. Urgh.
*Feral vs Admin #1
>Camazotz sent out first vs Liepard
>Camazotz OHKOs Liepard
>Switch into Heqet vs Manectric
>Manectric uses Roar and Thetis is dragged out
>Immediately swap into Hemlock
>Hemlock KOs Manectric
>Admin #1 = beaten!
*Feral vs Admin #2
>Camazotz sent out first vs Swalot
>Camazotz KOs Swalot
>Admin #2 = beaten!
*Feral vs Admin #3
>Camazotz sent out first vs Mightyena
>Crobat KOs Mightyena
>Switch into Thetis vs Houndoom
>Thetis OHKOs Houndoom
>Admin #3 = beaten!
*Feral vs Admin #4
>Camazotz sent out first vs Golbat
>Camazotz KOs Golbat
>Admin #4 = beaten!
*Xerneas reveals itself!
*After knocking out Camazotz and Scorpius, Xerneas is captured!
*Feral vs Lysandre!
>Scorpius is sent out first vs Mienshao
>Immediately swap for Camazotz
>Mienshao uses Swords Dance
>Camazotz uses Fly, which means Mienshao's Acrobatics misses
>Camazotz OHKOs Mienshao
>Swap Thetis in vs Pyroar
>Thetis uses Surf, knocking Pyroar down to roughly a quarter of its health
>Pyroar uses Hyper Voice and Thetis is at just over half health
>Thetis uses Surf and KOs Pyroar
>Swap into Camazotz vs Honchkrow
>Camazotz lands Poison Fant and badly poisons Honchkrow, leaving Honchkrow at roughly half health
>Honchkrow uses Night Slash and takes off roughly a third of Camazotz's health
>Camazotz uses Poison Fang again leaving Honchkrow on REALLY low health
>Honchkrow lands a crit with Night Slash, leaving Camazotz on 20hp
>Poison KOs Honchkrow
>Swap into Hemlock vs Gyarados
>Lysandra Mega Evolves Gyarados!
>Hemlock uses Dazzling Gleam and leaves it at over half health
>Gyarados' Outrage leaves Hemlock on 54hp, so she follows up with Toxic
>Gyarados KOs Hemlock but Toxic has taken effect and it's now confused thanks to being exhausted by Outrage
>Send out Heqet
>Gyarados uses Earthquake and OHKOs Heqet
>Send out Camazotz
>Camazotz uses Fly
>Gyarados attempts to use Outrage but it misses
>Thanks to Toxic taking Gyarados down to about a quarter of his health, Camazotz KOs him
>Lysandre = beaten!
*Entered Couriway Town
*Feral vs Professor Sycamore!
>Scorpius sent out first vs Venusaur
>Scorpius lays down two layers of Toxic Spikes
>Swap into Oomukade
>Oomukade KOs Venusaur
>Swap into Thetis vs Charizard
>Thetis KOs Charizard
>Swap into Hemlok vs Blastoise
>Hemlock KOs Blastoise
>Sycamore = beaten!
*Feral vs Shauna!
>Hemlock is sent out first against Delcatty
>Shauna swaps Delcatty out for Goodra
>Hemlock KOs Goodra
>Don't swap out vs Greninja
>Hemlock KOs Greninja
>Swap into Scorpius vs Delcatty
>Scorpius KOs Delcatty
>Shauna = beaten!
*Feral vs Tierno!
>Hemlock sent out first vs Talonflame
>Immediately swap out for Thetis
>Thetis KOs Talonflame
>Accidently swap into Scorpius vs Roserade
>Roserade KOs Scorpius
>Swap into Heqet
>Heqet KOs Roserade
>Swap into Hemlock vs Crawdaunt
>Hemlock OHKOs Crawdaunt
>Tierno = beaten!
*Feral vs Trevor!
>Hemlock is sent out first vs Raichu
>Hemlock KOs Raichu
>Swap into Thetis vs Aerodactyl
>Thetis KOs Aerodactyl
>Don't swap out vs Florges
>Thetis KOs Florges
>Trevor = beaten!
*Entered Snowbelle City
*Swapped out Camazotz and Hemlock for Rafflesia and Boudicca
*Captured Haunter (Nickname: Akhlys) on Route 19
*Swap Boudicca out for Akhlys

Current team:

Lv. 47 Haunter (Akhlys)
Female
Nature: Hardy
Ability: Levitate
Payback, Shadow Ball, Dream Eater, Dark Pulse

Lv. 50 Toxicroak (Heqet)
Female
Nature: Naive
Ability: Dry Skin
Sucker Punch, Mud Bomb, Poison Jab, Revenge

Lv. 50 Scolipede (Oomukade)
Male
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Poison Point
Steamroller, Rollout, Poison Tail, Venom Drench

Lv. 49 Drapion (Scorpius)
Male
Nature: Serious
Ability: Sniper
Night Slash, Poison Fang, Toxic Spikes, Hone Claws

Lv. 48 Skuntank (Rafflesia)
Male
Nature: Naughty
Ability: Aftermath
Flamethrower, Toxic, Screech, Night Slash

Lv. 52 Tentacruel (Thetis)
Female
Nature: Impish
Ability: Clear Body
Poison Jab, Toxic Spikes, Barrier, Surf

 

[JJ Styles]

Johto Grass monotype update 2: Blowing off some steam!

After a couple of mishaps with No$GBA and a freezing pokemon black game, I decided to just continue our grass run of the Johto region.

The story so far:

Spoiler:

- stopped by Goldenrod City and the nearby routes for some trainer and wild pokemon battles
- went to the goldenrod gym to face Whitney
- defeated Whitney with just CHELEENE, our Bayleef. Reflect and Razor Leaf worked like a charm. 3/8 Johto League Badges
- stopped by Johto's National Park and beat some trainers, along with a new addition - a lvl14 Sunkern.
- captured the Sudowoodo who could have been a great addition to the team but he's a rock type, so he's left to languish on the pc.
- Eruteak City -> Defeated the Kimono girls.
- as with most route trainers at this point in the game, our pokemon are too strong against them. GenII GSC really has some problem with underleveled trainers.
- Tried to visit the Eruteak gym but nope, this is Crystal.
- Visited the burnt tower. I was surprised to actually have a rival battle with SOICHIRO here.
- Fought Morty for the Fog Badge and HM Surf functionality.
- Let the legendary beasts loose. We'll be meeting Suicune soon.

CHELEENE VS Whitney:

Spoiler:

- Clefairy didn't last long. 2 Razor Leafs
- VS Miltank was quite intense. She started out with ROLLOUT of all things, but CHELENNE had reflect after. After getting hit with 2 other Rollouts and fighting back with Razor Leaf, the 4th Rollout MISSED. We tried to finish her off with Tackle but it didn't deal damage. Miltank used Mild Drink. We used Razor Leaf and the cow started to Rollout again. We would have none of that business and finished her off with Razor Leaf.

VS SOICHIRO - Burned Tower

Spoiler:

- vs Haunter: Had MOOPZ take on this one. We did our best to deal damage to it with our STAB moves Vine Whip and Acid. Of course, both those moves were not effective, but because Haunter is squishy, it didn't matter much. He did use Curse to deal the massive DoT on MOOPZ, and a Lick which luckily did not paralyze.
- vs Evolved Starter Quilava: CHELEENE had to take him on because its a starter vs starter. It was a good thing I replaced CHELEENE's Tackle with Headbutt and its working wonders at this point in the game. 1st Headbutt, Quilava flinched! 2nd Headbutt, it was over.
- vs Zubat: CHELEENE used headbutt. Next?
- vs Magnemite: CHELEENE used Razor Leaf, CRIT. Magemite used Sonic Boom. We used Razor Leaf again and it was over.

Acquiring the Headbutt TM was really good. This move is BRUTAL at this early point in the game. Just ask Quilava.

VS Morty:

Spoiler:

- I thought he would be the one of the harder gym battles in the game because of all his ghost types being part poison
- VS Gastly: It wasn't too smart. It used Spite on MOOPZ growth which allowed me to get one stack of it. However, after hitting him with a Vine Whip, he used curse to kill himself, making MOOPZ Suffer the DoT.
- VS Haunter: I decided to still send MOOPZ after him. However, he was using Night Shade after MOOPZ was suffering the Curse DoT. I sent CHELEENE after him after MOOPZ was down.
- VS Gengar: Hypnosis hax. He kept using it, would obviously lead to Dream Eater. Fortunately, I had 2 consumables against sleep and used them. We used Razor Leaf as much as we can to deal damage against Gengar, which fortunately one of those leafs struck with a critical hit. He would finally get his 3rd Hypnosis in and used his Dream Eater with it, but it didn't deal that much damage, and woke up CHELEENE to fight back with Razor Leaf once again. Gengar tried using more Hypnosis but it missed this time. He finally fell after one more Razor Leaf.
- VS Haunter2: Nothing much to say but he was using Night Shade.

= Morty was beaten out of the pure merit we had of being greatly overleveled compared to him.

4/8 Johto Badges

Team:
CHELEENE, lvl31 M Bayleef - Headbutt, Poison Powder, Razor Leaf, Reflect
MOOPZ, lvl28 M Weepinbell - Vine Whip, Acid, Sleep Powder, Growth
PUTPUN, lvl23 F Gloom - Absorb, Sleep Powder, Poison Powder, Cut
USELESSAVI, lvl18 M Sunkern - Absorb, Growth, Mega Drain, n/a

 

[Synthet]

Having a blast with this - here's my latest update!

Spoiler:

So I went back to Route 22 next to Santalune City and fought the Trainers I had left behind to help train Atlas and Kratos up a little bit before returning to Route 5 and continuing to work my way through the Trainers there, cracking their Pokemon open like pinata's filled with delicious rare candies (experience). It takes me a while to reach Camphrier Town, but I eventually make it. Pop onto Route 7 to set up my Berry Farm and then move onto Route 6 to start heading towards Parfum Palace. Again there aren't any Pokemon here I can use, so I just make my way through collecting items and battling Trainers. After the incredibly boring events at Parfum Palace I mop up the rest of the Trainers on Route 6 and wake up that damn Snorlax and catch it so it can be sent off to my Pokemon Bank. That opens up Route 7 which, once again, has no Pokemon of my type. Battle all the Trainers, collect all the items and move on. I skip past the Battle Château for now – I'll come back when I have some more Pokemon that need to be trained up. The Double Battle with Callum against Tierno and Trevor is disgustingly easy. Onto the Connecting Cave and hey – guess what – no Dark types here either! I move straight through.

Route 8, at last. There are two wild Dark pokemon here, so I quickly catch an Absol,

Lvl. 15 Absol (Hecate)
Female
Mild – A little quick tempered

...and I had hoped I would quickly follow it up with an Inkay but it took over half a goddamn hour...

Lvl. 14 Inkay (Asteria)
Female
Lonely – Capable of taking hits

Now that my team size has nearly doubled I head back to the Battle Château to train Hecate and Asteria up a little. Then it's back to Route 8 and onto Ambrette Town. After doing a tour of the town it's onto Route 9 where I finally get myself a full team.

Lvl. 15 Sandile (Charon)
Male
Lonely – Quick to flee

After doing everything there is to do here – except the Sky Battle since none of my Pokemon can fly – I head into Glittering Cave. After getting hopelessly lost, finally, my first Team Flare battle! It went more than easily thanks to a perfectly timed O Power from FeralSlaaneshi. After foiling Team Flare's evil plan to... bring Pokemon back to life... I grab a Jaw Fossil and head back to Ambrette Town and from there along Route 8 to Cyllage City. A wall climb later and it's time to face Grant for my second Gym Badge.

I start off by sending out Charon against Amaura.

Charon uses Sand Tomb. Amaura uses Take Down. Thanks to its ability it ends up Super Effective and OHKO's Charon.
I send out Asteria, who gets paralysed but knocks Amaura out with Foul Play.
Grant sends out Tyrunt, I don't switch out.
Tyrunt uses Stomp. Asteria uses Psybeam.
Tyrunt uses Stomp again, Asteria uses Hypnosis. It doesn't land.
Tyrunt Stomp – Asteria KO.
I send out Atlas. Karate Chop, then Tyrunt uses Rock Tomb.
Grant uses a Hyper Potion to fully heal Tyrunt, Atlas uses Circle Throw.
Tyrunt uses Stomp, Atlas uses Karate Chop to claim the victory.

The Cliff Badge is mine!

Onwards to Route 10, and specifically the lovely yellow flowers there. An Eevee is caught in short order so I can have an Umbreon at a later date.

Lvl. 20 Eevee (Erebus)
Male
Naive - Mischievous

I also catch a Houndour while I'm there.

Lvl. 19 Houndour (Alastor)
Male
Serious – Mischievous

I swap Hecate and Atlas out for Erebus and Alastor and spend some time running around to get Erebus ready for eeveelution into Umbreon. It seems to take forever, but he finally does evolve and I move onto Geosenge Town. I didn't document that first fight against Bucktooth and her two Lucario because I wasn't expecting much of a challenge, but the type disadvantage meant I just barely scraped through. I'll not underestimate her again when I reach her Gym. For now it's through Route 11 and onto the Glittering Cave where I very quickly encounter a wild Sableye. I'd forgotten this critter could be found here, but I don't hesitate to catch him.

Lvl. 22 Sableye (Zelos)
Male
Sassy – Strong willed

That'll do for now. My team as stands is;

Umbreon (Erebus) Lvl. 26
Covet, Quick Attack, Bite, Refresh

Houndoom (Alastor) Lvl. 26
Howl, Smog, Roar, Beat Up

Sandile (Charon) Lvl. 27
Bite, Mud-Slap, Torment, Sand Tomb

Inkay (Asteria) Lvl. 29
Hypnosis, Foul Play, Topsy-Turvy, Psybeam

Scraggy (Kratos) Lvl. 29
Headbutt, Brick Break, Sand Attack, Feint Attack

Frogadier (Xanthias) Lvl. 29
Fling, Lick, Water Pulse, Quick Attack

 

[JJ Styles]

Johto Grass monotype update 3: WARPATH!

After stopping by Morty and Eruteak City, our Johto Grass team went on a serious rampage against most of the content in Johto.

Things done as part of this warpath/rampage:

Spoiler:

- We got the good rod from Olivine City and fished for the perfect HM Slave for Cut, Strength, and Surf = Krabby. Also we cleared the pseudo olivine gym Lighthouse with absolutely no trouble.
- During the climb to find Jasmine and Amphy, our Bayleef CHELEENE has reached the final stage of his evolution!
- Stopped by clanwood to get the Fly HM working and the medicine for Amphy. Of course Chuck had to be dealt with first, which was a surprisingly easy and fun challenge. Our low leveled Pidgey acted as our Fly Slave.
- Revisited Olivine to get Jasmine to the gym. Despite the type advantage, we were able to trounce her monsters.
- Stopped by the Lake of Rage and calmed down the rampaging Red Gyarados. Like a good samaratin, rather than kill it, we captured it. Of course, he's left at the lab to rest. Also cleared the events here and there. The Rocket Admin on this level was quite ANNOYING to take on with him being a literal Poison Monotype
- Pryce (as well as his gym goons) wasn't as difficult as i thought i would, since all of his Pokemon had a type-parting that was weak against grass.
- Navigated through the Ice Path without much difficulty. The graphics on Crystal's Ice Path are absolutely beautiful! (Well Pokemon Crystal is a graphically pleasing Gen 2 game overall)
- Stopped by Blackthorn's PokeCenter and the Move Deleter to get HM Cut out of our Gloom PUTPUN. We have our Krabby for that (along with Surf, Strength, and even Whirlpool)
- We got the EXP Share from Mr. Pokemon after the Red Gyarados event. This was a necessity to help level up our most useless member USELESSAVI (Sunkern).
- We cleared out the second part of the Team Rocket event after the Lake of Rage I got seriously annoyed with the Rocket admins here.
- Oh we forgot the battle with our Rival at the Goldenrod Tunnel. That will be explained later.
- After clearing all of the Team Rocket related events and finally banishing them out of Johto, we stopped by Blackthorn once again to face off Clair.
- Before stopping by Blackthorn, we fooled around the fields near Goldenrod and encountered (AND CAUGHT) a SHINY HOOTHOOT! Rather than let him languish in the box, he is now our new HM Fly Slave!

- Clair was quite a challenging opponent even with our grossly overleveled pokemon at our side.
- All Johto Badges acquired! On to Victory Road!

I'm not going to have that much commentary with the gym leader battles since most of them were won out of sheer merit of overleveled pokemon in our part. Mainly just abused secondary weaknesses that made some of their supposedly grass-resistant signature pokemon take good amounts of neutral damage (Jasmine's Steelix, ALL of Pryce's Pokemon, Clair's Kingdra)

Rival battle with SOICHIRO at Goldenrod Tunnel:

Spoiler:

- His Quilava once again FLINCHED at Cheleene's Headbutt! Much like the last rival battle, it only took 2 headbutts to KO him. The rest of Soichiro's party was beaten by our other members. Again, out of merit that we heavily outleveled his own party (Much like the rest of the game at that point)

With Victory Road, and the Gen 2 Elite Four upon us, we take a break from our Leafy Rampage. Of course, Crystal (as are Gold and Silver) being short on the core-game in all, is not the longest or most grind insisting games in the pokemon franchise.

 

[Hann]

Update #3: Bug - Fire Red
So my team is finally complete, these are the only (five) bug Pokémon you can get (fully evolved or not, looking at you Scyther).

Screens:

Spoiler:

Team:

Bugsy the Quirky Butterfree (M) @ Lv.41
Ability: Compoundeyes
Shadow Ball, Aerial Ace, Stun Spore, Psychic

Buzz Buzz the Relaxed Beedrill (F) @ Lv.41
Ability: Swarm
Poison Sting, Twineedle, Pursuit, Return

Goomba the Adamant Parasect (M) @ Lv.42
Ability: Effect Spore
Slash, Thief, Dig, Leech Life

Verona the Mild Venomoth (F) @ Lv.40
Ability: Shield Dust
Leech Life, Gust, Psybeam, Poisonpowder

Shingo the Docile Scyther (M) @ Lv.42
Ability: Swarm
Steel Wing, Swords Dance, Slash, Wing Attack

 

[JJ Styles]

@Bugbuzz

I must know how are you beating Rival's Charizard. I've been following your updates on your bug run and I remember having so much trouble against him during my Grass monotype run in Kanto. And dat Parasect with the best nature : ))))

Small Update on my Johto Grass monotype run

The story so far:

Spoiler:

I'm a complete dunce and completely forgot that Gen 2 Victory Road isn't as anti-climactic or as daunting as Gen1 Kanto and Gen3 Hoenn's Victory Road versions. But the path before Victory Road with its bodies of trainers were quite a challenge. I was so careless at one point that I got wiped by a Psychic Trainer's Espeon since most of my pokemon were so wounded during that travel to Victory Road. After traversing those trainers and making out through the easier victory road version in history, we had a rival battle with our good buddy SOICHIRO. I also forgot the Earthquake TM until we've beaten our rival.

VS Soichiro at Victory Road. And as a bonus, because of my complete carelessness during our travel to Indigo Plateau for the all important fly point, most of our party aside from our starter Cheleene were wounded or fainted. So it was a 2v6! (lvl48 Meganium and a heavily wounded MOOPZ (Weepinbell) vs Rival's party of 6)

Spoiler:

vs Sneazel
- His moveset is really bad. He tried using a Fury cutter only for it to miss after Cheleene headbutted him. One more headbutt to KO him

Vs Typhlosion
- he's finally evolved. We tried going our same old tricks of headbutt flinching him but to no avail. He learned to not flinch and was fighting back with Flame Wheels, but despite the Fire moves being eaten, Cheleene as our Meganium took his flames like a man. More headbutts to down him.

VS Golbat.
-I switched out to our Weepinbel Moopz to try chipping him down since I couldn't risk Cheleene getting winged attacked to death. While he smartly fought back with Wing Attacks, upon switching out to Cheleene, who i rightfully used my Full Restore at, he was using Leech Life instead. Punished him with more headbutts.

- VS Magneton. He managed to land a thunder wave but nothing else. 2 Razor Leafs later, he was down. The first one hit him hard, the second one Crit'd!
- VS Haunter. I didn't have the time to heal the paralysis. Haunter was using Shadow Ball, a move that could have been brutal with Haunter if Gen2 Ghost type moves ran on Special Attack, not Attack. As it dealt miniscule damage at Cheleene, I let him have a taste of Cheleene's new move, HIDDEN POWER GHOST!
- VS Kadabra. His last mon. I could have hit him with more hidden power ghost, but instead, we just struck him with a headbutt and he was down.

Spoiler:

After Victory Road, we came knocking our door to Indigo Plateau. But we feel like there's still a couple more things to do, like look for a Hoppip. With our EXP Share, we can easily level him up to a Jumpluff in no time!

Proper team update:
Cheleene @50, M Meganium - Headbutt, Hidden Power Ghost, Razor Leaf, Reflect
Moopz @46, M Weepinbell - Razor Leaf, Growth, Acid, Sleep Powder
Putpun @35, F Gloom - Absorb, Sleep Powder, Acid, Moonlight
Uselessavi @33, M Sunkern - Synthesis, Growth, Mega Drain, Sunny Day

HUGE UPDATE!

Upon trying our luck with headbutting Johto's trees for hidden goods, we got some really good stuff!

An exeggcute sleeping on that very tree! Finally we bolster our ranks with a really strong addition to the team! A definite sub-psychic type to take care of the poison and fighting types we'll be facing much later.

Also, a Paras found after a little back trekking at Ilex Forest.

 

[Hann]

@Bugbuzz
I must know how are you beating Rival's Charizard. I've been following your updates on your bug run and I remember having so much trouble against him during my Grass monotype run in Kanto. And dat Parasect with the best nature : ))))

Yeah I really lucked out with that nature :) I'm actually planning to train my team to around level 60 (also because the Rival's Charizard will be at level 63 I think) and I really need those levels. Though my Parasect has that awesome nature and Dig, I don't really think he can survive a Flamethrower, so I'm kinda hoping my Scyther can set up some Swords Dances on the Pokes he sends out before Charizard (if he doesn't send it out immediately after the first one) and then I'm hoping Scyther's Slash or Wing Attack will faint it in one hit (or maybe get some crit luck while I'm at it). I'm realising that turns the final battle into a one-Pokémon's-show, but Parasect really is to frail (plus Bug and Grass typing) to take a hit. I kinda regret my choice to pick Bulbasaur at the start, but I always pick the starter (even whilst doing solo runs) that I'll have the most difficulty with (you have to admit Blastoise wouldn't be any challenge with those Giga Drains :) )
Thanks for the interest btw, your Grass run seems to be going great and you're not the only one who forgets to use TMs or when exactly rival battles are (though the more you do challenges the better you get at remembering, I think I can almost play Fire Red and Leaf Green completely blind, I played through them well over 20 times now :) )

 

[Sylvie18]

Ultimate Fire monotype run:
Leaf green, Soul silver, Omega ruby, Platinum 1/8, Black , Pokemon X 6/8

Platinum Update #1

Spoiler:

- named myself Sylvie and my Rival Gavin
- was given a pokemon from prof.rowan
- was challenged to a battle by Gavin...my fire monkey will destroy your wet penguin!
- mum gave me running shoes
- accidently walked in on Cyrus making his vows of love to the lake bed pokemon
- strolled to sandgem town
- Chim my fire monkey learnt ember along the way
- was given a potion some merchant skipping work in the tall grass, yaaay free stuff!
- was given more free stuff from Rowan, including a pokedex and the return TM
- went home told mum i was elaving home, was asked to give Gavin parcel
- blah blah blah lucas showed me how to catch pokemon blah blah...
- arrived in jubilife, got a poketch and delivered Gavin his town map
- defeated gavin in a battle and did some training on way to oreburgh city
- Chim evolved! now we should stand some chance against the gym
- arrived in oreburgh and continued training
- fetched the gym leader from the mine
- challenged the gym, Chim easily mach punched those rocks down to size we earnt the coal badge
- was about to leave when i decided i wanted a machop for a hm slave
- suddenly came across a ponyta, score...but we accidently knocked it out
- same for the second we found. Chim was simply too strong.
- used fury swipes on a geodude, and caught it just so i had something to catch a ponyta with
- taught geodude rock smash
- she proved hard to catch but eventually Anna the ponyta joined us
- had to do some training so she could catch up with Chim
- made my way to floaroma town and took care of team galactic in the windworks

Badges:

Team:

Spoiler:

Chim lvl 24
Fury swipes - leer - Flame wheel - Mach punch

Anna lvl 20
Flame wheel - Stomp - Tail whip - Ember

..and a geodude slave for rock smash, rock climb and any other HM i can force upon it..

Pokemon X update #3

Spoiler:

- backtracked and got myself a bicycle
- got flash from my dancing friend whose name escapes me
- arrived in shalour city, helped someone get their luggage
- went to tower of mastery
- defeated Calem for the right to have the mega ring
- earned my 3rd badge
- was forced to face karrina with one of her lucario for a mega battle
- was given surf by calem, taught it to a lapras i was given
- arrived in coumarine city and was given a good rod
- recieved the HM fly from the prof. who gave me Seth. will wait for Seth to evolve to use it
- Taught Phoenix acrobatics
- trained Seth on route 13 although the ground types there made life difficult, didn't stay long
- Seth evolved after defeating Calem, but the battle showed me we needed more training
- taught Seth fly
- what's that? this is a GRASS gym?! mwahahahahh lets burn it
- Defeated ramos and earnt the plant badge, Aslan evolved into Pyroar too!
- returned to the horrid badlands and its ground types on route 13
- defeated a flare grunt and stole his passkey
- infiltrated th kalos power plant
- Okiura evolved into its final stage
- Phoenix evolved into Talonflame
- restored power to lumiose city
- Defeated Clemont and got the voltage badge
- met my friends on route 14, defeated Calem again
- arrived in Laverre town
- challengd the fairy gym, won the badge
- snuck inside the pokeball factory and kicked out team flare with Calem
- spent some time training on the way to the next town

Badges:

Team:

Spoiler:

Lance lvl 40
Rock smash - Fire fang - Bite - Odor Sleuth

Seth lvl 42
Slash - fly - Flame burst - Dragon tail

Castiel lvl 42
Fire fang - Strength - Bite - Protect

Okiura lvl 41
Cut - Psyshock - Mystical fire - Lucky chant

Phoenix lvl 41
Flame charge - roost - razor wind - acrobatics

Aslan lvl 43
Crunch - Fire fang - Flamethrower - Echoed voice

Ultimate Flying monotype run:
Fire Red 2/8, Soul Silver, emerald, platinum, Black, Pokemon X

Fire red update #2

Spoiler:

- Shado hit lvl 16 and finally learnt a decent attack, bite
- encountered team rocket thugs inside mt.moon
- Lanna hit lvl 15 and finally learnt tackle, huzzah!
- had to use an escape rope just before the fossils, we were out of potions and in dire need of healing
- picked a random fossil
- finally made it out of that accursed cave
- Rima evolved into a fearow!
- arrived in Cerulean city
- once again defeated Vince in battle
- travelled over the nugget bridge to train some more
- defeated the first trainer with just Lanna my magikarp. I'm sure he couldn't believe it
- Lanna finally evolved into Gyarados!
- Helped Bill out of his pickle, got all my team to lvl 20 minimun
- challenged misty, expecting a difficult fight after Brock, only to have Lanna take both her team down by itself
- earned the cascade badge
- taught Lanna water pulse
- defeated a team rocket grunt and got Dig
- made use of Yang's current type and taught him dig, now i have a trump against rock and electirc types
- arrived in vermillion and decided to start grinding everyone up to lvl 25 considering the gyms type

Badges:

Team:

Spoiler:

Rima lvl 21
Peck - pursuit - leer - fury attack

Shado lvl 21
Leech life - wing attack - supersonic - bite

Lanna lvl 25
Dragon rage - tackle - bite - water pulse

Freya lvl 25
Tackle - stun spore -sleep powder - confusion

Yuki lvl 25
Tackle - sand attack - gust - quick attack

Yang lvl 25
dig - smokescreen - ember - metal claw