The Monotype Challenge

[Drackos_Flare]

Woohoo! Johto's done! Or should I say Kanto? Whatever, Pokemon Crystal is Finished! I thought this was gonna be the same thing as Kanto all over again, but it wasn't. Gyarados wasn't really good this time and I don't know why.

The Journey​

Spoiler:

This is when I'd show Pictures of be beating each gym, then explain how I managed to beat them. But I lost all my pictures up to the E4.

Got em'.

Hey! It's Rush! I caught him on Route 32, man, he was such a problem to evolve, but when he did I finally managed to beat Silver in Azalea with him.

Next is Tail. I absolutely would not have been able to do this without him, yet I still feel like he didn't do much.

Rive, was yet again, amazing. He could take hit after hit, then send an OHKO right there way. And if they ever set up anything, you'd better believe he's gonna Psych Up them.

And Last, but not least, Wave! We was pretty much the same as Rive, but without the OHKO.

And that was Johto!

Nothing really happened in Kanto. So I grinded my team to Lv.60 and managed to beat Red in a really close fight.

The Team​

Spoiler:

Wave Lv.60

Item: Never Melt Ice
Surf
Slash
Bite
Ice Punch

Rush Lv. 61

Item: Leftovers
Strength
Waterfall
Dragon Breath
Bite

Tail Lv.61

Item: Amulet Coin
Surf
Psychic
Earthquake
Curse

Rive Lv.62

Item: Mystic Water
Surf
Confusion
Psych Up
Ice Punch

 

[jombii]

ULTIMATE MONOTYPE RUN
Types Finished: Grass LINK HERE OF ANALYSIS
Type: Flying
Games Done:
Current Game: LeafGreen

Badges: 4

Events:
1. Started with a boy named G.
2. Started with Charmander, nicknamed Scorch.
3. Caught a Pidgey, nicknamed Sky.
4. Caught a Caterpie, nicknamed Silk.
5. Evolved Silk to Butterfree
6. Defeated Brock using Metal Claw Charmander.
7. Evolved Scorch to Charmeleon.
8. Evolved Sky to Pidgeotto.
9. Bought Magikarp and nicknamed it Swim.
10. Captured a Zubat, nicknamed Zubat.
11. Went through Mt. Moon.
12. Grinded before Cerulean Gym.
13. Evolved Swim to Gyarados.
14. Defeated Misty using Bite Gyarados.
15. Evolved Sulfide to Golbat.
16. Cleared S.S. Anne
17. Defeated Lt. Surge using Ember Charmeleon.
18. Cleared Rock Tunnel. Proceeded to Celadon City.
19. Bought coins. Started gambling.
20. Saved enough for a Dratini, nicknamed Super.
21. Boxed Sky.
22. Defeated Erika using Dragon Rage Dratini and Wing Attack Golbat.
23. Sulfide trying to evolve but failing because lack of nat.dex.
24. Saved at Celadon City Pokemon Center.

Team:

Spoiler:

Level 31
Scratch | Scary Face | Ember | Metal Claw

Level 27
Leer | Thunder Wave | Twister | Dragon Rage

Level 27
Astonish | Wing Attack | Supersonic | Bite

Level 30
Splash | Tackle | Bite | Dragon Rage

Level 26
Confusion | Sleep Powder | Poison Powder | Tackle

Pics:

Spoiler:

 

[ShinySquirtle]

Forum username: ShinySquirtle
Pokemon type: Poison
Challenge mode: Single
Game: Firered

 

[Thursday]

Fighting Mono Challenge
Pokemon Omega Ruby

Name: Mimi

Pokemon:

Chika the Combusken- Level 30
Blaze
Quick Attack
Peck
Flame Charge
Double Kick

Bob the Breloom- Level 26
Poison Heal
Mach Punch
Headbutt
Stun Spore
Leech Seed

Troy the Hariyama- Level 25
Guts
Rock Smash
Knock Off
Force Palm
Fake Out

Lindsey the Kirlia- Level 22
Synchronize
Disarming Voice
Confusion
Magical Leaf
Lucky Chant
​

 

[Drackos_Flare]

Pokemon Emerald Finished! Drake was HARD this time!

The Team

Spoiler:

Flood Lv.51

Surf
Earthquake
Ice Beam
Mud Slap
------------
Rush Lv.47

Surf
Strength
Bite
Waterfall
------------
Trident Lv.46

Surf
Vicegrip
Dive
Sword Dance
------------
Rive Lv.47

Surf
Confusion
Aerial Ace
Brick Break

​

 

[SonicZ16]

How did you evolve graveler with old school?

Using the link feature on Visual Boy Advance. Most Game Boy emulators have it, but it can be a bit uncooperative when it wants.

 

[Palkia62]

Pokémon Type: Fire
Challenge Mode: Ultimate
Game(s): FireRed, SoulSilver, Emerald, Platinum, Black, and X

So yh, I put this off for a longtime. Now that I have more freetime, time to do more of this, starting off with Emerald.

Pokemon Emerald

Spoiler:

Road to 1st Gym Badge
-Chose Torchic as my starter (nicknamed Mustang)
-Went to Route 103 and beat May (nothing to say about this)
-Returned to Littleroot town and got the pokedex and pokeballs.
-Got the running shoes as well.
-Caught a Zigzagoon as a HM slave (Why are they so difficult to find in the wild?)
-Got to Petalburg city and saw my Dad and Wally.
-Helped Wally catch a pokemon.
-Met with Scott as I left Petalburg City.
-Went to Petalburg Woods and beat the Team Aqua grunt.
-Got to Rustboro City and got HM01 Cut.
-Mustang grew to Lvl 16 and evolved into Combusken.
-Went into Rustboro gym and beat Roxanne (Easy fight).

Road to 2nd Gym Badge
-Went to Rusturf tunnel and beat the Team Aqua grunt again.
-Returned the Devon goods to the Devon guy and got the letter and pokenav.
-Beat May (2nd Rival battle).
-Got to Dewford Town.
-Went into Granite cave and gave the letter to Steven.
-Returned to Rustboro and got the Exp. share.
-Returned to Dewford Town and went into the gym.
-Beat Brawly (His Makuhita gave me a few problems but wasn't too difficult other than that).

Road to 3rd Gym Badge
-Went through Route 109 and got to Slateport City.
-Went into Slateport Museum and beat Team Aqua grunts.
-Met Archie and gave Devon Goods to Capt. Stern.
-Went into Route 110 and Beat May (3rd battle, I'd just set up a few bulk ups on her Lombre before her Marshtomp came out.)
-Got to Mauville City and got the Mach bike and HM05 Rock Smash.
-Beat Wally in front of the gym.
-Went into the Gym and Beat Wattson (was still a bit difficult even though I was six levels above).

Current Progress: Badges: 3/8
Current Team: Mustang (Combusken) - Lv 31

 

[Gemini1i]

Working on bug type in
leaf green haha rough rise to Brock.

 

[jombii]

ULTIMATE MONOTYPE RUN
Types Finished: Grass LINK HERE OF ANALYSIS
Type: Flying
Games Done:
Current Game: LeafGreen

Badges: 8

Events:
1. Cleared Game Corner, evolving Charmeleon to Charizard.
2. Cleared Pokemon Tower in Lavender Town.
3. Cleared Silph Co, evolving Dratini to Dragonair.
4. Defeated Sabrina using Bite Golbat and Flamethrower Charizard.
5. Defeated Koga using Psybeam Butterfree.
6. Resurrected Aerodactyl, nicknamed Sky.
7. Defeated Blaine with Surf Gyarados.
8. Cleared Sevii Islands.
9. Defeated Giovanni with Surf Gyarados.
10. Played a lot of game corner to get TMs for Tbolt, Flamethrower, Ice Beam and Shadow Ball.
11. Saved in Sevii Islands, in training.

Team:

Spoiler:

Level 45
Wing Attack | Flamethrower | Brick Break | Metal Claw

Level 45
Surf | Thunderbolt | Flamethrower | Dragon Rage

Level 45
Giga Drain | Wing Attack | Confuse Ray | Bite

Level 45
Earthquake | Surf | Bite | Ice Beam

Level 45
Psychic | Gust | Toxic | Shadow Ball

Level 45
Wing Attack | Strength | Steel Wing | Ancientpower

Pics:

Spoiler:

Current Game: Omega Ruby

Badges: 8

Events:
1. Started the game with a guy named G.
2. Started with Mudkip so May would start with Treecko and end up with a grass-type lol.
3. Captured a Wurmple (actually five) and evolved it to a Silcoon.
4. Captured a Wingull.
5. Helped Wally capture a Ralts.
6. Evolved Silcoon to Beautifly.
7. Cleared Petalburg Forest.
8. Captured a Taillow.
9. Defeated Roxanne using Water Gun Wingull.
10. Cleared Rusturf Tunnel.
11. Defeated Brawly using all of them but primarily Wing Attack Taillow.
12. Captured a Zubat.
13. Cleared Slateport and tried out one contest.
14. Cleared Trick House 1.
15. Had difficulty with the Minun/Plusle trainers.
16. Defeated May.
17. Defeated Wally in Mauville.
18. Evolved Taillow to Swellow.
19. Saved west of Mauville, in-training for Watson.

Team:

Spoiler:

Level 25
Silver Wind | Mega Drain | Morning Sun | Air Cutter

Level 25
Water Pulse | Air Cutter | Quick Attack | Supersonic

Level 25
Quick Attack | Aerial Ace | Steel Wing | Focus Energy

Level 20
Astonish | Confuse Ray | Bite | Wing Attack

*will be adding pics soon.

 

[youngster_joey]

Forum User Name: Youngster_joey
Pokémon Type: Water
Challenge Mode: Ultimate
Games Done:
Current Game: FireRed

I'll update when I finish the game (probably sometime tomorrow).

 

[Palkia62]

Pokémon Type: Fire
Challenge Mode: Ultimate
Game(s): FireRed, SoulSilver, Emerald, Platinum, Black, and X

Pokemon Emerald, continuing from last time:

Spoiler:

Road to 4th Gym Badge
-Went into Route 111 and Route 112 and caught Numel (Nicknamed Fergie cause of those humps xD).
-Went into Fiery path and caught Torkoal (Nicknamed Nicole).
-Went ahead to Route 113 and caught a Slugma (Nicknamed Shelly).
-Returned to previous to train up new pokemon.
-Went to Verdanturf town and got HM04 Strength.
-Went through Route 113 and got to Fallabor Town (Torkoal survive two consecutive self-destructs).
-Went to Meteor Falls and met with Team Aqua and Team Magma grunts.
-Went to Mt. Chimney and beat Maxie (1st battle).
-Went through Jagged Pass and got to Lavaridge town.
-Went to Lavaridge gym and beat Flannery (wasn't too difficult although her Torkoal gave some problems.)

Stroll to 5th gym badge
-Returned to Petalburg City
-Decided to drop Shelly from the team as she is more of a hindrance.
-Went to Petalburg Gym and beat Norman (Set up bulk ups on his Spinda, although his Spinda was annoying af).

Current Progress: Badges: 5/8
Current Team: Mustang (Combusken) - Lvl 34
Fergie (Numel) - Lvl 28
Nicole (Torkoal) - lvl 29

 

[BubbleBeams]

Finished FireRed! I had to grind for like 500 years just to beat Green prior to going through Victory Road, it was ridiculous. lol But we made it!!

Now onto SoulSilver...

 

[jombii]

ULTIMATE MONOTYPE RUN
Types Finished: Grass LINK HERE OF ANALYSIS
Type: Flying
Games Done: LeafGreen
Current Game: LeafGreen

Badges: 8

Events:
1. Went through Victory Road.
2. Cashed in all my money on Full Restores and Revives.
3. Tried the Elite Four.
4. Lorelei was hard but once i get to evolve my Dragonair, she was fairly easy between Dragonite and Charizard.
5. Bruno was meh. Surf for the Onix and Wing Attacks for the fighting-types.
6. I battled Agatha with half-team. I survived with an Aerodactyl at 3 HP.
7. Lance was meh. Dragonite rocked.
8. Pidgeot was two Ancientpowers from Aerodactyl. Blastoise was three Tbolts from Dragonite. I managed to set-up on the Exeggutor using my DD Gyarados. Ice Beam Eggmon. Surf Arcanine. EQ Alakazam. Surf Rhydon. It was fairly easy despite being almost six levels lower.
9. DONE! Off to HG!

Team:

Spoiler:

Level 58
Wing Attack | Flamethrower | Brick Break | Metal Claw

Level 56
Surf | Thunderbolt | Flamethrower | Dragon Claw

Level 55
Giga Drain | Wing Attack | Poison Fang | Bite

Level 56
Earthquake | Surf | Dragon Dance | Ice Beam

Level 55
Psychic | Silver Wind | Toxic | Shadow Ball

Level 56
Wing Attack | Strength | Steel Wing | Ancientpower

Pics:

Spoiler:

Current Game: Omega Ruby

Badges: 2

Events:
1. no update

Team:

Spoiler:

Level 25
Silver Wind | Mega Drain | Morning Sun | Air Cutter

Level 25
Water Pulse | Air Cutter | Quick Attack | Supersonic

Level 25
Quick Attack | Aerial Ace | Steel Wing | Focus Energy

Level 20
Astonish | Confuse Ray | Bite | Wing Attack

 

[Palkia62]

Pokémon Type: Fire
Challenge Mode: Ultimate
Game(s): FireRed, SoulSilver, Emerald, Platinum, Black, and X

Pokemon Emerald, continuing from last time:

Spoiler:

Road to 6th Gym Badge
-Got HM03 Surf from Wally's Dad.
-Use Surf and went to Route 115, Route 104-9 and the abandoned ship.
-Fergie evolved into Camerupt and Mustang evolved into Blaziken.
-Went through Route 118 and got to the weather institute.
-Beat Team Aqua Admin Shelly.
-Beat May (4th Rival Battle).
-Got to Fortree City and got the Devon scope from Steven.
-Went into Fortree Gym and Beat Winona (Not a too difficult battle).

Road to 7th gym badge
-Went through Route 120 and Route 121 and got to Lilycove City.
-Went to Mt. Pyre and caught Vulpix (Nicknamed Amaterasu).
-Amaterasu evolved into Ninetales.
-Got the Magma emblem from the elders at Mt. Pyre.
-Beat May (5th Rival battle) at Lilycove City.
-Went to Mt Pyre. (Interior) and Route 123 to train up Amaterasu.
-Went through Magma hideout and beat Tabitha and Maxie.
-Went to Slateport City and Team Aqua hideout and beat Admin Matt

Current Progress: Badges: 6/8
Current Team: Mustang (Blaziken) - Lvl 44
Fergie (Camerupt) - Lvl 43
Nicole (Torkoal) - lvl 43
Ninetales (Amaterasu) - lv 43

 

[Drackos_Flare]

Finally... Sinnoh's over. I never liked Sinnoh. But i'll admit, It was better than what I remember. The level curve was still insane though.

The Team​

Spoiler:

Rive Lv.55

Mind Plate
----------
Ice Beam
Surf
Psychic
Amnesia

Rush Lv.60

Never-Melt Ice
----------
Bite
Ice Fang
Waterfall
Dragon Dance

Rapid Lv.56

Razor Fang
----------
Surf
Swift
Crunch
Pursuit
​

There's a playthough I've been meaning to do for a while, and I'm gonna finish that before continuing the ultimate onto Unova.

 

[Palkia62]

Pokémon Type: Fire
Challenge Mode: Ultimate
Game(s): FireRed, SoulSilver, Emerald, Platinum, Black, and X

Pokemon Emerald, continuing from last time:

Spoiler:

Road to 7th gym badge (Continued)
-Went through Route 124 and Route 125 and got to Mossdeep city.
-Went into Mossdeep Gym and beat Tate and Liza (Such an annoying battle, took me a few tries).

Road to 8th gym badge
-Went into the Space Station and beat Maxie and Tabitha with Steven.
-Went to Route 126-134 and Pacifidlog Town to do battle trainers.
-Went to Seafloor Cavern and beat Shelly and Archie.
-Went to Sootopolis City and talk to Steven and Wallace.
-Went to Sky Pillar and woke up Rayquaza.
-Returned to Sootopolis City and stop Kyogre and Groudon.
-Went into Sootopolis Gym and beat Juan (was easier than expected).

Road to the E4
-Got to Ever Grande City and Victory Road and Beat Wally.
-Went through Victory Road and got to the Pokemon League.
-Grinded everyone up to at least Lvl 55.

The Elite Four
Sydney
-No analysis needed, everything was one shotted by Mustang.

Phoebe
Dusclops - Kept be annoying and using protect and wasting my pp. Mustang eventually beat it.
Banette - Was beaten by Nicole after a few flamethrowers.
Dusclops (2nd one) - Nicole eventually beat it, but a few flamethrowers and potions were needed.
Banette (2nd one) - One flamethrower from Fergie needed thanks to it being burned.
Sableye - Another Flamethrower, another burn from Fergie wins me the battle.

Glacia
Sealeo - One Brick Break crushes it
Walrein - Almost 1HKOed Mustang with Surf but fortunately it survived and beat it with 2 Brick Breaks.
Glalie - One Flamethrower from Fergie crisps it.
Sealeo (2nd One) - Follows the same fate as it's twin brother.
Glalie (2nd One) - Nicole takes out this Glalie with a Flamethrower.

Drake
Shelgon - Decided to set up Curses on it with Nicole and then took it out with a body slam.
Flygon - One Body slam does it in.
Salamence - Needed 2 Body Slams this time, so a few potions were needed to heal Nicole.
Kingdra - Mustang was somehow able to beat it with Brick Break even after it used smokescreen a few times.
Altaria - Fergie was somehow able to beat with 2 rock slides, even surviving a +1 double edge crit.

Wallace
Wailord - Stalled it out with sunny days and toxic from Amaterasu with Mustang finishing it off with Brick Break.
Ludicolo - Stalled it out with Toxic and sunny days.
Tentacruel - Mustang Ko'ed it with an earthquake.
Whiscash - Tried to stall it out with Toxic but he used 2 full restores. Mustang survived an eq and beat it with 3 brick breaks.
Milotic - Most annoying bout, as it should it be. Misclicked when I needed to use sunny day again, but fortunately Amaterasu survived on 2hp. He also freezed Amaterasu as well. Defeated by toxic.
Gyarados - Same tactic as I've done with most of these pokemon, toxic + sunny day = a happy life. It ko'ed Amaterasu though so Mustang beat it with a Brick Break and won me the challenge.

Hall of Fame

Spoiler:

Current Progress: Completed
Final Team:

Spoiler:

Mustang
Level 58
-Brick Break
-Blaze Kick
-Bulk Up
-Earthquake

Fergie
Level 56
-Flamethrower
-Earthquake
-Rock Slide
-Strength

Nicole
Level 56
-Flamethrower
-Curse
-Body Slam
-Rock Smash

Amaterasu
Level 56
-Flamethrower
-Confuse Ray
-Toxic
-Sunny Day​

I'll start Soul Silver in a few days (Hopefully).

 

[Cymry]

Update - Just outside Lost Hotel

The run is halted until Tuesday when Rotom will appear. Thankfully I didn't have to wait that long for Lombre.

Spoiler:

*bulbagarden.net image removed*
Bramble the Jolly Chesnaught, Female, Lv. 44
Ability: Overgrow
Item: Rocky Helmet
Moves: Bulk Up, Power-Up Punch, Seed Bomb, Low Sweep

*bulbagarden.net image removed*
Teasel the Modest Venasaur, Male, Lv. 45
Ability: Overgrow
Item: Venusaurite
Moves: Toxic, Petal Dance, Venoshock, Nature Power

*bulbagarden.net image removed*
Buckthorn the Adamant Gogoat, Male, Lv. 44
Ability: Sap Sipper
Item: Amulet Coin
Moves: Leech Seed, Seed Bomb, Return, Bulldoze

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Hollyhock the Impish Jumpluff, Female, Lv. 43
Ability: Leaf Guard
Moves: Leech Seed, Bullet Seed, Swords Dance, Acrobatics

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Snapdragon the Modest Exeggcute, Female, Lv. 42
Ability: Chlorophyll
Item: Mind Plate
Moves: Bullet Seed, Nature Power, Confusion, Sleep Powder

*bulbagarden.net image removed*
Thistle the Timid Lombre, Male, Lv. 36
Ability: Swift Swim
Item: Lucky Egg
Moves: Fury Swipes, Water Sport, Bubblebeam, Zen Headbutt

 

[Gemini1i]

Finished FireRed! I had to grind for like 500 years just to beat Green prior to going through Victory Road, it was ridiculous. lol But we made it!!

Now onto SoulSilver...

Ohh gawd. I'm doing bug in leaf green. Didn't think about going against green and on top of that i gave him a charizard. I am about to fight Blaine So that will also be a challenge in itself. So it seems like I'll be grinding for years lol.

 

[Blueredemption]

Ultimate Fire Platinum - Update 2

Yet again taking my time between updates... This time I was actually playing a bit, Platinum has a good chunk of Game play between the 3rd and 8th gyms. Anyway, I was able to beat Cyrus and the 8th gym in one night! What a mighty accomplishment that is ;)

Spoiler:

- Pushed my way to Veilstone, Beat Maylene's gym while there.
- Went to Pastoria, Battled Barry and Crasher Wake for my 5th gym badge.
- Chased that Galactic Grunt, then returned to Hearthome to pick up Eevee from Bebe.
- Got to Celestic town, beat Cyrus, got surf and ran off to Canalave.
- Beat Roark's Father after beating Barry (again) and exploring Iron Island.
- Shot my way up to Snowpoint after clearing out two lakes.
- Beat the Ice lady, ran over to the last lake, and got lost on what to do next for a while.
- Finally realized that I had to talk to that grunt in Veilstone, then rummaged through their base with Looker.
- Freed the legendary beings and chased Cyrus into the Distortion world.
- Beat him (which was a pain) and Giratina, then promptly left the Distortion world.
- Made it to Sunyshore, beat the 8th gym, Saved.
- All three Pokemon evolved along the way :3

Team:

Snape the Infernape - lvl 51
Slash the Rapidash - lvl 50
Leon the Flareon - lvl 51
-
Bidoof the Slave
Buizel the Slave
Staravia the Slave

Badges: 8
Time: 19:29
Step Counter: 39377
Final Update: After E4

 

[BlackSteelDrake]

This sounds like a wickedly fun time. I'll try my hand at it!

Forum User Name: BlackSteelDrake
Pokémon Type: Fire
Challenge Mode: Ultimate
Game(s): Leaf Green, Soul Silver, Emerald, Platinum, Black, and X

I'll be starting in order so let's see how things go in Leaf Green!

0/8 Gym Badges