The Monotype Challenge

[JJ Styles]

Pokemon grass monotype run part 2: 5 members already? Oh yeah!

While Roxanne's gym for the most part was pretty easy with the type advantage, her really bulky nosepass was quite a challenging foe when tackled at that point in the game. Its pure rock typing meant that it grass moves wouldn't hurt it as much compared to what the geodudes can take.

Brawly's gym is basically something that a player can easily skip if he/she's able to navigate through the dark cave without flash, though it isn't really an option since Flash outside of battle will still be needed for later. So i decided to do some of the Devon goods and letters stuff to get the exp share, get some levels in Stateport's routes, and catch an oddish, and finally just go back to Dewford and smack Brawly and his goons around. Brawly's goons weren't very hard for the most part and provided the party with their EXPs and EV points. Brawly himself however was quite a different story. Again at this point in the game (where no one has reached level 20 yet or if did, the moves don't have that much base power behind them), Brawly still proves to be that early-game hell. His really bulky Makuhita with its famous Bulk-UP + Vital Throw combo pretty much put a hurt on 2 of my members (Doreimo being a victim of a Vital Throw CRIT), but Asuna finished it off with a quick attack.

Team:
Asuna, the Mild female Grovyle
Doreimo, the Quiet male Lombre
Jippangyi, the Lax male Shroomish
Dots, the Relaxed Nuzleaf (traded a Raltz to the NPC since seedots are really rare)
Nozomi, the Lax Oddish (sweet scent field worker)

My team has gotten stronger as of this update. Will be revealed in another update post (posted as soon as Wattson and Flannery are cleared)

BADGES - 2/8, Rival Battle(s) - Brendan: 3, Wally: 1

Movesets of the party will be revealed after another update. The next few things i have to do before Wattson and Flannery will be some grinding and EV training for the rest of the party. I'm so near that beloved Spinda EV hotspot.

Also, maybe, just maybe I'll find the heart to replace some of my members with better versions/natures.

 

[CoffeeDrink]

-Username: CoffeeDrink
-Challenge: Monotype
-Type: POISON
-Game(s): Pokemon Blue

Just started Blue up again. I don't have a Gameboy handy, so an emulator is going to have to do.

The story so far:

-Named myself RAD and my rival BLAU, you know, for differences.
-Picked up Bulbasaur first, of course and I'm going to be gunning for a Weedle next.
-I'm going to try and nab # 109 Koffing ASAP due to it being my favorite.
-Muk for it's minimizing capabilities
- And an Arbok for it's Glare.
-Golbat for flying capabilities.

I think I'm going to decide on the last one on the fly, but so far I think I'm doing fine.

Current team

Spoiler:

-Nicknamed: Poi-San~
-LVL.6
-Tackle
-Growl

 

[JJ Styles]

I decided to do an update before Flannery because Wattson for some reason gave me a surprisingly tough/good match. Also I'm pretty close to Flannery anyway so my next update will be me talking about Flannery, events after her, and Norman.

Hoenn Grass monotype Part 3: Wattson and Winstrate Family

Wattson's gym goons aren't so tough, as usual. But Wattson himself was pretty much a toughie. His action-replay Voltorb for the most part was being annoying, with it being able to use moves it shouldn't be having at its level (lvl20 with Roll Out and SELF DESTRUCT), so i had to KO it as soon as possible with Asuna. However, it did left Asuna beign paralyzed after its lucky Spark. His Electrike was smart enough to use howls and quick attacks instead of Shock Wave to fight my paralyzed Asuna. Asuna had to be withdrawn to make way for our Lombre, Doreimo. Doreimo's lack of any effective attacks against Magneton made the whole duel really long and drawn out, and with the Magneton landing a thunder wave to paralyze Doreimo. Wattson was obnoxious enough to use BOTH his healing items for his Magneton. With a little bit of HP left, I decided to not make the whole battle any longer by switching out to our Breloom, Jippangyi and knock that Magneton out with 2 Mach Punches. With a bit of confidence, i decided to let out my HP healed Asuna to face of Wattson's ace, Manetric. The game decided to troll me by not letting Asuna do anything with her paralysis as Manectric, once again being smart, used Howls to buff itself. A really buffed quick attack later KO'd Asuna after i did manage to land a hit with pursuit and absorb. Wounding Manectric with Asuna, Jippangyi came in to finish of Wattson's ace with a Mach Punch to end the battle and earn our team the Thunder badge.

Overall, Wattson's Magneton proved to be his team's MVP as it tanked our team to kingdom come until I decided to switch in our Breloom.

Key events after Wattson's defeat:
- Encountered a male Roselia at Route 117, adding another strong member for the Grass team. Roselia's addition to the team meant that our team's weakest link, the Seedot had to be boxed for a time being until i decide what would that Seedot's purpose be.
- Caught a Marill for the purpose of Rock Smash. Of course, it will only serve that purpose.
- Went to the Winstrate family to get that Macho Brace. An essential item for grinding. For the most part, they were all easy with our Oddish being the checker of our team. But much like our fight with Wattson, fighting the family left most of our team's pokemon paralyzed. Granda Winstrate was able to KO our Roselia and Asuna with its High Jump Kicks! Off course, Breloom had to came in the way to Mach Punch it to kingdom come.

After clearing a bit of trainers and stopping by to Grandma's Rest House, we finally got to where we want to stay for quite a while, Route 113 and its hordes of Spinda's waiting for their SPAtk EVs to be farmed!

Team Standing:
Asuna, Female Mild Grovle, lvl30 - Leaf Blade, Pursuit, Quick Attack, Absorb
Jippangyi, Male Lax Breloom, lvl27 - Mach Punch, Mega Drain, Headbutt, Leech Seed
Doreimo, Male Quiet Lombre, lvl25 - Fake Out, Fury Swipes, Absorb, Nature Power
Nozomi, Male Lax Gloom, lvl23, - Absorb, Sleep Powder, Poison Powder, Sweet Scent
Yuri, Male Sassy Roselia, lvl22 - Mega Drain, Growth, Poison Sting, Leech Seed
Dots, Male Relaxed Nuzleaf, lvl19 - Boxed for a time being. Bide, Harden, Growth, Nature Power

My thoughts for the team:

- Asuna finally achieved BOSS status after attaining leaf blade. It finally has a strong STAB move after all this time. For a time, Asuna was mostly relying on her level advantage rather than actual strength with moves to clear out content, which made me felt hungry for what she (and the whole Treecko Gen III family can do). Leaf Blade finally made me smile.
- Jippangyi and his Mach Punches have been helping the team out in some dire situations. Raising some from a weak little shroomish was all worth the trouble. I always thought that Breloom was a pretty good pokemon and its showing in my gameplay. STAB Mach Punches are so good.
- Doreimo will still need some time to reach his full strength. I just realized that his natural learnset is pretty bad but with some good TMs I'm pretty confident that he'll get some awesome mixed coverage pretty soon (Grass and water moves, and a possible Ice Beam)
- Yuri is love, Yuri is life. Anyway, I'm happy to find this Roselia for our run mainly because I really love using that pokemon.
- Nozomi the Oddish. Well that Oddishes are pretty damn common in Hoenn for some reason and i decided to have it on the team for the purpose of it being in the same role as my FireRed Oddish in my currently on-hiatus Kanto Grass monotype run.
- Dots had to be boxed because of it lacking reliability compared to the rest of the party. His moves are just so bad. I'm not even sure what to do with him. I thought that a Seedot would be worth a while. He'll probably be replaced by Lileep (into Cradily) soon when i find that raising the Nuzleaf into a Shiftry may not be as worth it as i thought it would be.

I just realized something, I have to find a way to get those Leaf Stones to get Doreimo, Nozomi, and Dots to reach their full potential.

 

[Lycanroc]

Forum User Name: Veevee
Pokémon Type: Water
Challenge Mode: Ultimate
Game(s): Sapphire, Crystal, Yellow, Platinum, White 2, X

Starting with Emerald.

 

[JJ Styles]

Hoenn Grass Monotype update 4: EV Training, Team Magma's bat, and Flannery

Route 113 is a blessing for our grass monotype. Those spindas and slugmas that give out SPatk evs when defeated offer much needed EXP and power for our grass team and here's a sample of our Grovyle Asuna reaping the benefits:

+9 Spatak at level up is amazing for me (and I know people have gotten way bigger numbers in newer generations) but the Macho brace from the Winstrate family helped a lot for our grass mons to grow stronger. It also helps that the rather early acquired EXP Share from Devon President was also a blessing for SPatk EV training for those who really need it.

Battling Maxie at Mt. Chimney brought us a surpringly tough opponent for our team, and that was his Zubat (which we all know becomes a Crobat much later on). As a Poison/Flying type, this thing has 4x resistance to grass and its Wing Attack can deal tons of damage to most of our team, especially our Breloom being a Grass/Fighting type.

Flannery was quite a strategic match. But what could extremely screw with our plan was ONE Sunny day from any of her mons, like her point Numel. That Numel alone was a big factor in deciding who would win because once that thing uses Sunny Day, its lights out for our team. Luckily, I started out with Asuna who was able to OHKO that Numel with a Leaf Blade, which already gives us a huge advantage, as none of her mons will use Sunny Day. Still, i had to be as pragmatic as possible where i had to draw out every member of my party to let Flannery's thugs overuse Overheat, which all of her mons do tend to use. My strategy was to save our Lombre (Doreimo) as much as possible to face off with Flannery's ace, Torkoal. Before letting our Lombre face off Torkoal, I had my Breloom seed it which was a HUGE factor on my strategy. Of course, He was KO'd by Overheat after seeding. I had to force it to use Overheat with whoever was still fresh in my party as a means of sacrifice to let it pop its White Herb. Later, I made sure that I kept the Lombre alive with whatever consumables i had as it tanked another Overheat. But Torkoal was already seeded and Flannery has already used her hyper potions on her weaker mons so it was a slow and steady race on whose HP dropped first. After enduring a Body Slam paralyze and even more Body Slams, Torkoal was done and out after suffering too much Leech Seed and we finally defeated the 1st real challenge against our Monotype. It was all thanks to Lombre being part water which enabled him to take more fire damage than the rest.

Aftermath against Flannery. It all came to the wire with Lombre and Torkoal's face off and me having 2 more revives to use for both Asuna the Grovyle, and Jippangyi the Breloom, both who are capable of Reveing KO'ing Torkoal should our Lombre fall.

Current Team:
Asuna, F Mild Grovyle - Leaf Blade, Pursuit, Fury Cutter, Quick Attack
Doreimo, M Quiet Lombre - Fake Out, Nature Power, Absorb, Fury Swipes
Jippangyi, M Lax Breloom - Mach Punch, Mega Drain, Leech Seed, Headbutt
Nozomi, M Lax Gloom - Acid, Absorb, Sleep Powder, Poison Powder
Yuri, M Sassy Roselia - Magical Leaf, Growth, Poison Sting, Leech Seed
Dots, M Relaxed - Rock Smash, Harden, Growth, Nature Power

Next few things to do:
- Mirage tower - get the Root Fossil and our Lileep, and replace Dots.
- More EXP and EV farming. Asuna needs to become Sceptile pretty soon.
- Raise that Lileep into a Physical Tank since it will be needed against Winona.

 

[TheUnit684]

Well I guess I'm gonna do this. Let's go all in!

Forum User Name: TheUnit684
Pokémon Type: Flying
Challenge Mode: Ultimate!
Game(s): Pokemon LeafGreen, Pokemon HeartGold, Pokemon Omega Ruby, Pokemon Platinum, Pokemon White 2, Pokemon Y

 

[Sylvie18]

Ultimate Fire monotype challenge
Leaf Green
Soul Silver
Emerald > Omega Ruby 5/8
Platinum
Black
X 2/8

OMG i finally beat Red :D I may have to mention here that i've never been able to defeat him before, and originally entered the battle prepared to lose, as i had saved ontop of the mountain and was too lazy to walk back down, then realised i might actually have a chance with my geniune boat load of hyper potions, full restores and revives. Usually his pikachu spams volt tackle and my own attacks do absolutely nothing, but this time i landed a very lucky crit before my starter (the only one abke to survive a volt tackle albeit with less than 10 hp) was knocked out. So thought id write down my battle since i cant screen shot or nothing :<

The Final battle:
Pikachu:

Spoiler:

Rene survived the first volt tackle by pickachu and got a crit hit with his eruption before falling to hail, Sacrificed Blitz so i could instantly revive Rene, before allowing Lily to finish it with flamethrower since she held a quick claw and my second highest speed stat.

Blastoise:

Spoiler:

i genuinly thought blastoise would be more of a problem, but got lucky since he never actually used a water move. Revived Rene, lily survived blastoises focus blast, healed her before using will-o-wisp to burn him and lower his attack, healed Rene up to full health. Lily fell to a crit hit on focus blast, so i swapped Reid in and used sunny day to rid myself of the hail. Reid was immediately knocked out afterwards by blizzard so Rene came back in and hit with with an eruption, at this point his burn had severely weakened him

Annoyingly Red used a full restore, but i got lucky and my first flamethrower burned blastoise again. became a survival game until it's burn killed blastoise.

Lapras:

Spoiler:

Immediately hit the lapras with a flamethrower, before reviving and healing Reid, allowing Rene to fall in battle, brought reid back in for another sunny day, was amazed that he survived brine, so healed him up, lapras used a minor move next, didnt see what it was i was too busy writing this oops, but it allowed me to revive rene. Reid survived another brine and countered with a flamethrower. Unfortunately he didn't survive long after that. Switched to Lily again and hit lapras with Will-o-wisp after once more reviving and healing Reid, before she got knocked out once more. Rene finished up with shadow claw before Lapras could do any more damage, thanks to her burn taking down most of the hp

Snorlax:

Spoiler:

Started with flamethrower only to realise snorlax had thick fat or annoying high defense..probably both, but found his Crunch spamming easy enough to survive as long as i healed every 2 turns, revived Lily and reid, headbutt also did little damage, Rene's defense fell shortly afer Lily's hp was restored so allowed him to die to prevent any one taking switching in damage. Brought Lily in for the tactical Will-o-wisp and extrasensory (also making little headway but the burn damage helped greatly) Revived and healed Rene once again, already nearly half way through my supplies. Once again Red thwarted me with a full restore, so once again gave snorlax a burn doing minimul damage with any of my attacks. Became another wait and survive game, until Snorlax suddenly whipped out a giga impact and scaring me silly! Lily barely survived with 8 hp healed up and learnt that he must recharge if he ever uses that move again. ...He used it as soon as he was able..this time we were ready, and used flamethrower, which lowered his hp enough for his burn to finish him off. Both Rene and Lily leveled up at this point,

Venasaur:

Spoiler:

Switched out lily once given the option as her hp was at a painful 33. Sent in Reid realising Rene's hp wasnt full. Yes hes sorta a sacrifice here. healed Rene, Reid was one hit by a sludge bomb. Gave Zula a chance, made use of her speed and started with bounce. the move hit but she was also one hit KO'd by a sludge bomb. Sent out Rene, needed to do some mega reviving, wished i new where i could get full revives. Revive'd Reid in the event Rene died. Considered myself lucky to be hit by a sleep powder. Healed Lily then used a full restore after not wanting to risk a second sludgebomb hit or the chance of poison taking me out, had to then wait for a chance to attack since Venasaur liked to spam the damn move. Took a risk and attacked without healing...YES! a critical hit with flamethrower took the grass type out.

Charizard:

Spoiler:

Decided to keep Rene in and heal some more, get a feel for the last pokemon's moves. Rene could easily survive an air slash, so healed Reid next and waited. Seemed 2 air slash's was the limit, given its high crit hit chance healed rene once more then went on the attack. with only Rene, Lily and reid able to fight, and yes once more Reid was just a sacrificial pokemon. Zula would have had no advantage here and Blitz was too low a lvl to be useful. Shadow claw and headbutt didnt seem to do any damage looks like this would be a slow match that would likely eat up the rest of my supplies, but no way could i afford to get reckless now. I finally got past that damn pikachu i doubt id be so lucky next time. Interestingly, Flamethrower did more damage than my non-fire attacks. Spammed Flamethrower, healing every other turn. my last flamethrower left Charizard with abysmally low hp. I cried with frustration expecting Red to come in and restore it on the next turn, but amazingly it used a flare blitz after me, knocking itself out with the recoil!

I couldn't believe it, after a gruelingly long battle i had finally beaten Red! Soul silver has been completed! Onwards to the credits!
Final team:
Presenting my two champions!

Rene the calm lvl 75
Headbutt - Eruption - Shadow claw - Flamethrower
Holding a Charcoal

Lily the Quirky lvl 62
Extrasensory - Flamethrower - Dark pulse - Will-o-wisp (i have grown to love this move)
Holding a Quick Claw
And the rest...

Zula lvl 57
Flare blitz - Stomp - Poison jab - Bounce
Amulet coin

Reid lvl 55
Strength - Fire punch - Iron tail - Sunny day
Muscle band

Blitz lvl 48 a.k.a the useless
Bite - Quick attack - Fire fang - Shadow ball

Omega ruby updates:
#1

Spoiler:

- started game
- introduced self to neighbours and met Brendan
- recieved Leo the torchic from Prof. Birch
- met Brendan on route 103, defeated him in battle
- followed him back to the lab, recieved pokedex and pokeballs
- saw my dad and helped Wally catch a ralts
- entered petalburg woods where a strangely dressed man ambushed a researcher
- defeated him and he ran off was given an exp share as thanks
- visited a berry store and received the wailmer pail
- arrived in Rustburo and received Cut from a guy. Left to find a zigzagoon to teach it to
- Caught a zigzagoon, named it Cutter. Taught it cut
- Leo evolved!
- Challenged Roxanne and recieved the Stone badge
- chased a Team magma suspect into a dead-end cave
- Rescued Peeko the wingull for Mr.Briney and got the Devon parts back
- Was asked to deliver a letter to Steven on dewford island
- Set sail with Mr.Briney
- was given an old rod
- made good use of Leo's bird qualities and defeated Brawly earning badge 2
- heard Steven was in Granite cave, headed there
- annoyed to learn that my slave cutter would not learn flash
- delivered the letter
- was then asked to deliver parts to slateport...
- reached slateport and delivered the parts, visitd museum to fetch captain
- Team magma was inside the museum, was given a TM from the one in beat in the forest
- magma tried to steal the parts, got some long speech from Maxie before they left
- tried my hand at a contest, was given Raine the cosplay pikachu, boxed her
- Visited the trick house
- battled brenden once more before reaching mauville city
- saw Wally, battled him and won
- took on watson and easily obtaned badge number 3
- taught Cutter rock smash
- was givem strength by brendan
- snuck past every trainer towards route 112 and caught Nexis the numel
- snuck back to train Nexis on the trainers i'd missed

#2

Spoiler:

- Went to Verdanturf to visit Wally but he was gone
- opened the path between verdanturf and rustburo
- reached Mt.Chimney but Team maga was blocking the cable car
- ventured inside the mountain to hunt for more fire types
- Caught Arno the Slugma
- Caught Cathrine the Torkoal
- bumped into Aarune, he seemed kinda crazy
- taught Cathrine Strength
- taught slave cutter secret power
- spent some time training on route 113
- met Lanette in Fallarbor town
- Brendan asked me to help him save prof.Cosmo
- arrived at meteor falls and rescued the proffessor
- raced to the top of mt.chimney and stopped magma's plans, after Maxie ran off was given meteorite
- trained around lavaridge town
- Leo evolved!
- defeated flannery earning badge number 4
- went with Brendan to petalburg
- Nexis evolved!
- Defeated my father and eanred badge number 5
- recieved surf from Wally's dad, travelled to mauville with Wally
- Taught Slave cutter Surf
- explored the desert
- crossed over to route 118, met Steven again
- was contacted by Latias, saved Latios.
- Latios joined my party as "Silver" my Fly slave.

Team:

Leo lvl 38
Double kick - Peck - Blaze kick - Focus Energy

Cathrine lvl 34
Flamethrower- Strength - Rock Tomb - Body slam

Arno lvl 33
Clear smog - Ancient power - Flame burst - Incinerate

Nexis lvl 36
Lava plume - Earth power - Dig - Rock slide
Badges:

Pokemon X update:
#2

Spoiler:

- Was given Strength because i missed some bycicle race.. i think the guy was confused, i muh prefer skates. Still i won't turn down a HM
- turns out he was a gym leader, decided i'd get in some training before i faced him
- taught seth Shadow claw
- Taught Lance Thief and Rock smash
- attempted to take on the rock gym
- struggled a bit but managed to get the Cliff badge on our first try
- rested up at Cyllage pokecentre before moving on through route 10
- taught Castiel Strength
- Some weird dressed guy bocked my path, he looked a little familiar....oh right the guy who told me not to play with fire
- He got burned again.
- He ran off after getting a call, but a tonne more were in my way. Guess i can get fired up.
- they must be up to something... stopped up to rest in Geoseng, just in case.
- the flair guy vanished in town so i trained along route 11
- Lance evolved into Houndoom

Team:

Lance lvl 24
Rock smash - Thief - Bite - Odor Sleuth

Castiel lvl 24
Fire fang - Strength - Bite - Protect

Aslan lvl 26
Noble roar - Fire fang - Ember - Work up

Okiura lvl 27
Scratch - Psybeam - ember - Lucky chant

Seth lvl 28
Shadow Claw - Dragon Rage - Fire fang - Smokescreen

Phoenix lvl 29
Ember - Roost - Razor wind - Peck
Badges:

 

[jombii]

Sorry for the lack of update. I forgot I was having this challenge. T.T

Anyway, I can't remember where I left off, so I'll just start where I am now.

Yep, trained all my Pokemon to level 25. I'm currently inside Vermillion City Gym. Raticate got Dig. This will easy.

EDIT: Defeated Surge yeah.

 

[JJ Styles]

Hoenn Grass Monotype run Part 5: The tougher challenges await

Badges: 5/8
Money: 107000
Pokedex: 21 (I captured mons just for my OCD fulfillment. Some will be HM/Field Slaves)

The story so far
- Got the Root Fossil for its resurrection and soft resetted a couple of times to avoid any nature that hinders its already bad speed. I settled with a female lileep with an Impish Nature (+Def, -Spatk) and is already set to be the team's physical sponge since i need a solid secondary rock type.
- Boxed Dots. If anyone can give me advise on how does Shiftry work in Gen 3, I would like to know. I have no clue on what to do with it.
- Asuna has evolved into Sceptile
- Encountered a wild Treecko at Petalburg Forest (Our Hoenn dexhack enables the Hoenn starters to be encountered in the wild, at respectively rare rates)
- I could have swept Norman really hard with Jippangyi (Breloom) but i wanted everyone to get the EXP (and the needed EVs) instead. However his Facade spamming Slaking, was more than enough to smack 2 of my members down. Of course it all went to a glorious 1v1 battle against my own Signature Ace, Asuna (As i wanted to somewhat recreate the Anime battle of Grovyle vs Skaling)
- Surf HM acquired for Doreimo (Lombre) to make good use of. Finally with a STAB move on his kit, he's ready to get things REKT.
- Picked the Kelpsy Berries which will be needed to reduce the unnecessary ATK Evs of our other Grass mons. I'll plant more of them later.

Things to do:
- If I know correctly, rematches with pokenav trainers start to occur upon defeating Norman. This will be needed for farming money and exp for our team.
- Raise Lileep till it gets Ancient Power, the Rock type move it actually learns. This will be needed for Winona later.

We are now on the way to Winona's gym, who in my opinion will be the HARDEST gym we have to deal with. Oh and we are on our way to further keep track of Team Magma and Team Aqua as well.

Team's movesets
Asuna, Sceptile: Leaf Blade, Quick Attack, Agility, Pursuit
Jippangyi, Breloom: Mach Punch, Sky Uppercut, Mega Drain, Headbutt
Doreimo, Lombre: Fake Out, Surf, Absorb, Nature Power
Yuri, Roselia: Magical Leaf, Growth, Poison Sting, Leech Seed
Nozomi, Gloom: Acid Spray, Absorb, Sleep Powder, Poison Powder
Will be given a name, Lileep: Acid Spray, Constrict, Astonish, Ingrain

 

[Harmonixer3500]

Username: Harmonixer3500
Pokémon Type: Poison
Challenge Type: Ultimate
Game: Soul Silver, Alpha Sapphire, Platinum, Blaze Black, Y
Previous Progress: Yes

While I'm at it final update on the Johto segment of my mono Poison run. Having finally trained my team up enough I challenged Red/Ash and won through tremendous effort of all 6 Pokémon. Final Team: Weezing, Gengar, Venomoth, Qwilfish, Crobat, and Vileplume.

So I will begin posting updates on Alpha Sapphire soon

 

[Stormerbuzz35]

Pokemon Blue Water Monotype Update!
-Caught a Bellsprout and named it Cut to use as an HM-slave
-Got to Vermillion City and beat the surrounding trainers.
-got the bike voucher and boarded the SS Anne.
-beat all the trainers and Sally with easy.
-got HM1 and taught it to Cut.
-Solo'ed the Gym with only Sushi
-heading off to the dark cave.
TEAM
Sushi, Lv29 Gyrados
Mikey, Lv28 Wartortle
Cut, Lv13 Bellsprout

 

[JJ Styles]

Hoenn Grass monotype update 5.5: Little bit of details

TEAM:

I wonder why they never thought of giving a Grass type gym leader in Hoenn when Hoenn itself has a lot of nice grass types with secondary types (Oddish line - part Poison, Tropius - part Flying, Nuzleaf to Shiftry - part Dark, Lotad Line - part Water, Lileep - Part Rock)

The story so far:
- grinding here and there, beating trainers left-right, and grabbing their loot
- finally gave a name for our Lileep: Inca
- Got some TMs: Sludgebomb from Dewford, Ice Beam from Abandoned Ship = both are great for some of our mons' final movesets
- Cleared the Weather Institute. Team Aqua's Carvannas and Poochyenas were great sources of ATK EVs for Jippangyi (Breloom) and Inca (Lileep)
- 4th Rival battle with Brendan easily won, highlight was Jippangyi knocking out his Combusken with one Shoryuken (Sky Uppercut)
- Stopped by Fortree City to save up and will proceed to grind more. I'll be catching a Tropius as well to further bolster our ranks.

I'm still pretty scared in facing off Winona but I do have that Ice Beam TM that I'll definitely use for Doreimo.

 

[AoTora]

Fire mono completed on Fire Red Omega- This wasn't all that hard at all - but I had to grind a lot here and there :/ It was still fun run though+I got to use some of my favourite fire types <3

Vs Rival/Champion

Final Team:

Ikarious|Male|Mild Nature|Magma Armor|Lvl 70
Recover
Yawn
Flamethrower
Rock Slide
He was mainly just.. There.. He was rarely used sadly and when he was used he fainted pretty fast :/ But it was still interesting using him considering the fact that I use Magcargo next to never.

Cameron|Male|Hasty Nature|Magma Armor|Lvl 70
Take Down
Rock Slide
Eruption
Earthquake
I've used Camerupt several times before and he or she was always a powerful addition to the team - And as always I loved using him this time around aswell. He was strong and could take hits for days.

Lucian|Male|Careful Nature|Flash Fire|Lvl 70
Flamethrower
Crunch
Strength
Faint Attack
I've always loved Houndoom and this time it was no exception - I loved using him but the lack of good moves was really annoying+ It took him about forever to learn Flamethrower aswell and being stuck with Ember is not fun- Especially not if all the other pokes in the team have more powerful fire moves.

Rambo|Male|Bashful Nature|Blaze|Lvl 72
Blaze Kick
Mega Kick
Thunderpunch
Sky Uppercut
He was cool and powerful team member - He always came through for me when I needed it!

Bankotsu|Male|Sassy Nature|Blaze|Lvl 71
Flamethrower
Fly
Heat Wave
Dragon Claw
His name means Barbaric Skill and I think that it's pretty fitting - He was another powerful member of the team that came through for me whenever I needed it.

Amaterasu|Male|Naughty Nature|Flash Fire|Lvl 70
Mega Punch
Sunny Day
Flamethrower
ThunderPunch
He was my starter and it was first time using him for me :3 I enjoyed using him and he was a cool member of the team for sure :3 Looking forward to using him in the future :3​

 

[jombii]

Update for my LeafGreen MonoNormal Run.

I just defeated Erika and I am now trying to barge into the casino rocket arc. I'm iffy on the idea of using Eevee. It absolutely has no useable moves outside of Quick Attack and TMs.

 

[Harmonixer3500]

Short update I started my game of Alpha Sapphire took Mudkip (so that May's starter would be that much easier XD). Went north beat the tar out of May. After I got my Pokéballs I saved then caught a Wurmple and thankfully the first one evolved into a Cascoon so no soft reset, catch a new one, train it up, rinse lather repeat this time. I'll probably update again after Roxanne... That's gonna be a pain but hey at least Cascoon/Dustox will have EXP monopoly for awhile.

 

[JJ Styles]

Hoenn Grass monotype run Part 6: Winona down and out

The story so far:
- I had to teach Ice Beam to our Lombre, which proved to be quite valueable, especially against Winona's Altaria who greatly suffers from its Ice Weakness (Flying/Dragon type = Ice food). It was of a great cost but then again, seeing that this is a Grass monotype run and there's only one Grass type who can learn ice beam, i had to do it. I can get another Ice Beam through the game corner so yeah.

- Finally caught a lvl26 Mild Tropius at route 119 to greatly bolster our ranks. I decided to box our Gloom for a while since this is after all a HOENN Grass mono run.

Spoiler:

I care so much for my team's EVs that I MUST plant those EV Reducing berries. I have to make sure that i can maximize all of my important mons to make them safe to use against the rest of the game.

EVs are important even if you aren't playing competitive. It greatly helps to maximize your mons stats on what they are supposed to do, to make sure that content can be cleared without using a massive level gap. Even moreso in a monotype challenge.

- With Fly, i can finally freely roam areas in Hoenn to plant my EV Reducing Berries to help maximize our team's stats and re-battle trainers till my heart's content.

With Winona finally gone, the last 2 gyms are going to be quite easy for us.

Badges: 6/8

 

[Sylvie18]

Woo another game done!
Fire monotype challenge:
Leaf green Soul silver Omega Ruby
Platinum 0/8
Black 0/8
X 2/8

Omega Ruby final update:

Spoiler:

- Arrived in fortree, trained along route 120
- Arno evolved!
- met steven again and got the devon scope
- trained in the scorched slate cave, taught slave Silver flash
- defeated Winona and earnt badge number 6
- made my way towards lily cove, saw team magma was heading to Mt.pyre
- stopped at safari hoping to find more fire types, only to realise there were none :(
- visited lilycove to unlock the fly option and rest up
- naturally bumped into Brendan in lilycove the place was littered with team magma grunts. Seems their base is nearby
- Defeated Brendan, although his marshtomp nearly took me out, he announced he was returning to help his dads work
- passed mt.pyre to train a bit on route 123
- Travelled up the mountain and confronted Team magma yet again but they escaped with the red orb
- was given the blue orb before pursuing them to slateport
- once again failed to stop them from stealing a submarine
- accepted maxie's challenge and stormed their base but Maxie and the sub slipped away yet again, heading to the sea floor cavern
- rested up in Lilycove and decided to travel over to mossdeep city, there was nothing i could do about magma for the moment anyway
- did some training in the sea and around Shoal cave
- took on the mossdeep gym, was a bit of a struggle but managed to defeat liza and tate
- there ws an earthquake and a light as soon as i left the gym
- steven asked me to stop team magma and aqua and gave me dive
- was surprised to learn that my fly/flash slave latios could also learn dive so taught it to him
- trained a little more slowly making my way to foute 128
- decided not to question why my fire tyoes could battle underwater
- stopped off at sootopolis for the fly point
- arrived at the seafloor cavern team magma was definitely here
- Maxie was surprisingly easy to defeat, even with his mega evolution
- Groundon was awoken and went on a rampage, rushed to sootopolis
- Ventured forth to soothe the beast
- battled groundon feeling lucky im a fire trainer
- saved the world
- was given an Eon flute
- discovered a nameless cavern, accidently discovered mesprit
- discovered mirage forest, trained here
- after over training felt ready to challenge wallace for my last badge
- won badge 8 surprisingly easily with Leo's attak and Cathrine's defence
- taught slave silver Waterfall
- made my way to evergrande city and passed through victory road
- was surprised to see Wally waiting at the end, battled with him and won
- put my slaves in the pc and headed off to fight the elite 4

Elite 4 + Steven:

Spoiler:

- defeated Sidney with mostly cathrine and leo
- for phoebe made use of nexis's sunny day and my teams fire attacks
- happily melted Glacia's ice types with the help of arno's shell smash
- had a harder time against Drake(he was a move spammer) but managed to perservere just about
- struggled with Steven but once we got into a groove we were unbeatable, defeated him with my last pokemon cathrine while he was recharging from giga blast

Deafeated Champion Steven and completed Omega Ruby
Final Team:

Leo lvl 59
Blaze kick - Sky uppercut - Slash - Brave bird

Nexis lvl 56
Eruption - Earth power - Sunny day - Rock slide

Arno lvl 52
Recover - Ancient power - Lava plume - Shell smash

Cathrine lvl 54
Heat wave - Strength - Iron defense - Earthquake

 

[JJ Styles]

Hoenn Grass monotype run Part 7: Hunting down Team Magma and Aqua, oh and Tate and Liza

Team:

The story so far:

I'm still surprised that I have easily beaten Winona, who I have been dreading as my toughest challenge for this game, but our Lombre having Ice Beam was pretty much the real deal. I was planning on skipping her and tackle the Mossdeep and Sootopolis gyms before her (Tackling Winona last is completely possible. The only issue is that you won't have the Fly HM working)

I also forgot to mention the name we have given to our Tropius. I went a little random and just called him Jroooce.

The next few trials in our story was to hunt down Team Magma and Team Aqua for their activities.

Team Magma Hideout - VS Maxie

Maxie at this point in the game has pokemon that are of a higher level than gym leaders before Tate and Liza. So he was going to be a tough contest. Luckily, his three pokemon all have typings that our own Pokemon do actually counter. He also has 2 super potions.

Tropius VS Mightyena

Spoiler:

- I wanted to see how well my Tropius has been doing since he REKT most of the pokemon inside the Magma hideout and its trainers.
- Mightyena decided to be keep and use Swagger. I tried my best to pray that Tropius hits Mightyena but to no avail
- Mightyena spammed Take Down, which dealt a good amount of damage against Tropius, but also hit him with Recoil damage.
- With confusion gone, i tried KOing Mightyena with Fly but Maxie cleverly withdrew his dog for Crobat. Crobat KO's Tropius

Doreimo vs Crobat

Spoiler:

- I knew that one way or the other, Crobat is going to be one of my problematic foes in this run simply with his typing (Poison/Flying = 4x resistance to grass and fighting).
- Luckily:

Freeze!
- With a Frozen Crobat, I used Surf to REKK him down.

Jippangyi vs Mightyena:

Spoiler:

- One Mach Punch was all I needed. Mightyena was already damaged from the previous fight with Tropius and his take down spam.

Ace vs Ace: Asuna vs Camerupt

Spoiler:

- Seeing that i can heavily outspeed Camerupt, and his AI tends to use Earthquake rather than its Fire moves, i decided to fool around with Agility to outspeed it even more
- Camerupt spams Amnesia to at least 2 stacks
- Asuna gets 2 stacks of Agility
- Camerupt strangely spams Take Down, which dealt a good amount of damage against her. (Mild Natured Asuna = Weaker physical defense than usual)
- Asuna's leaf blades aren't dealing that much damage thanks to Camerupts +2 Amnesia. I was still able to whittle that Camerupt down to critical health
- After taking too many Take Downs, i healed Asuna with my hyper potion, since I didn't want a Crit Take Down to kill her.
- Rather than use my Grass moves, Asuna used her only Physical move - Quick Attack to chip that Camerupt's HP down
- At critical HP, Camerupt used Take Down against Asuna, only for it to suffer Recoil damage and knock itself out!

With Team Magma driven out of their hideout, it was time to Hunt down Team Aqua in their own turf.

Team Aqua Hideout:

Team Aqua's hideout and their trainers were excellent sources of combat EVs for our mons, in particular to our Breloom, Jippangyi. (Team Aqua grunts in their hideout use Poochyenas (1ATK EV), Zubats (1SPEED EV), and Carvannas (1ATK EV))

VS Team Aqua Admin Matt.

For stalling duties, Archie wasn't considerate in giving him a decent lineup of pokemon. Instead, Matt was stuck with just a Mightyena and a Golbat, both of which were easily taken down by Jippangyi (Breeloom) and Doreimo (Lombre). He had a much better lineup in Sapphire..

After driving off Team Aqua out of Lilycove city, our next stop is Mossdeep city, where we are about to challenge Tate and Liza!

 

[CoffeeDrink]

I think I spent too long in Viridian Forrest trying to catch a weedle. Unbelievable, I spent like thirty minutes just trying to bump into just one of those little suckers.

Current team

Spoiler:

-Nicknamed: Poi-San~
-LVL.12
-Tackle
-Growl
-Leech Seed

-Nicknamed: Nallick
-LVL.5
-Poison Sting
-String Shot

Now I can finally be on my merry way.

Edit: Just booted a bug catcher in the pants. Ah, the sweet taste of 60 EN. Forgot how much money you get by winning, that is to say. . .

Oh, and I forgot that in GEN1 Poison type moves are Super Effective against Bug Type Pokemon. Why is that you ask? Well, when you call the exterminator to take care of your pest problem, he isn't spraying sunshine and rainbows on your cockroaches. He's spraying Poison.

 

[JJ Styles]

Hoenn Grass monotype run part 8: File - Tate and Liza, Epic Finale against Team Magma

VS Mossdeep gym:
Having played this game a lot, I was able to do the whole puzzle in one sweet full motion. Also, with almost ALL of the gym members having Offensive Psychic types (having SPATK Evs) with them, Asuna (with her Macho Brace) the Sceptile with her own Dark move Pursuit, simply devoured the whole gym out of EXP and EVs.

VS Tate and Liza
What can i say? Emerald's Tate and Liza is by far the most fun gym battle in the game (which is quite sad that ORAS didn't keep this version of the gym) and this battle was quite an epic showdown. Perhaps what will always make this the most fun gym battle in any pokemon game is the amount of strategy involved to cleanly defeat this Psychic duo.

Spoiler:

As we can clearly see, Tate and Liza's first duo of Xatu and Claydol vastly outleveled our newest recruit Jroooce, the Tropius.
- This battle was a struggle. Xatu and Claydol had a perfect strategy together, Claydol would spam earthquakes all day while Xatu was immune to it thanks to its part flying type. I had the same thing as that of Jroooce and Doreimo (Lombre) except that Doreimo had to take the resisted STABquake damage.
- Despite the type advantage, Jrooce's Magical Leafs didn't deal as much damage as i hoped against Claydol, dealing only about less than 30% each time.
- Doreimo's surfed worked better, being able to hit both Xatu and Claydol for good amounts of damage. Both of this mons had above average special defense.
- Tate's Xatu, dear lord. Those Psychics hit our party like a truck. I tried to Ice Beam that guy, it did only half of the damage i wanted to deal.
- After downing Claydol with Surfs, Solrock was sent out next.
- Xatu went on a killing spree as it KO'd Doreimo with its Psychic spam. He KO'd Tropius later.
I sent out our Lileep Inca to try help out. Except that despite her bulk, Both Xatu and Solrock were capable of hitting her quite hard (Xatu's Psychics and Solrock's Flamethrowers)
- Tried sending out Roseila to stop Solrock. Nope, Xatu Psychic!
- Having no other choice, Asuna was sent out (still wearing her Macho Brace). Luckily the perks of being a Sceptile kicked in. Despite having a Macho Brace, she was able to outspeed Xatu and Solrock. Asuna had to clean off that Xatu, else it would cause more casualties.
- Lunatone was sent out next. I had no choice but to get Jippangyi, our Breloom next.
- 2v2 against my aces vs Tate and Liza's. We simply focus fired with Leaf Blades and Sky Uppercuts on Solrock since it had Flamethrower. Lunatone didn't do much compared to what Xatu did. Both rocks fell against our team.

After being given the Mind Badge and the Calm mind TM (which of course we will not have that much use for), the next stop was none other than the Mossdeep Space Center. It was Team Magma's last stand.

VS Team Magma Grunts

Spoiler:

I mostly used these Grunts as EXP fillers for our Tropius Jroooce, Lileep Inca, and some more EXP (and EV love) for our Breeloom Jippangyi. But Jrooorce perfectly manhandled all of the grunts, including the 3 on 1 stairway battle.

VS Tabihta and Maxie - Team Magma's Last Stand.
After Tate and Liza's awesome double battle, this came in. Team Magma's last stand, and their last stand was an even more epic double battle!

- I set up my team in accordance to what Tabitha and Maxie first send out: A Camerupt and Mightyena respectively.
- Jippangyi Mach Punches Mightyena, surprisingly NOT knocking him out despite the STAB damage.
- Tab's Camerupt doesn't play that smart and decided to just use Amnesia.
- Mightyena used Take Down on Jippangyi. Not really smart. (Maxie's dog usually spammed Swagger if it was in danger)
- Steven's Metang used Metal Claw to KO that Mightyena. Maxie sent out Crobat
- I knew i had to do something as soon as possible before Jippangyi gets KO'd by Crobat and his nasty STAB Wing Attack. Sky Uppercut on Tab's Camerupt.
- Tab's own bat, Golbat was sent out next. Having those 2 bats can already kill our army so i prepared for the worst.
- Maxie's Crobat used Wing Attack on Jippangyi. Equation was simple: STAB Flying attack + (Grass+Fighting typing) = Instadeath!

- Now for better or for worse, the two bats rather than focus fire on our Lombre Doreimo, they instead tried focusing down Steven's Metang with Confuse Rays. I wasn't kidding.
- Maxie's Crobat was quite unlucky for this game, as you can see in the image above.
- Crobat earlier on experienced being FROZEN in one beam (during the fight in Team Magma HQ). Here, he eats a lucky crit beam.
- Metang being confused hit himself often.
- One Surf later, Maxie's Crobat was finally down. That's the last time we have seen that troublemaker.
- Tab's Golbat was still up, used Wing Attack. Wasn't as effective as Maxie's but it was still strong enough to hurt Doreimo.
- I had enough of Bats in a single day. Ice Beammed that thing.

Having said goodbye to Maxie's Crobat, I will say this. Moemon Crobat is one of the cutest things ever!

With Doreimo still healthy, it was time for the final phase. Tab's Mightyena and Maxie's ace Camerupt.
- Was it me or did confuse last a long time for Metang. He kept hitting himself.
- Doreimo, critically hurt from the bats earlier, was still up to Surf things down, which i did. Despite Camerupt's 4x weakness to water, it still survived with a slither of Health.
- I insisted on reviving Jippangyi for one good reason: THOSE ATTACK EVS are so important to get!
- Maxie's Camerupt finally does what it does best: EARTHQUAKES. One Earthquake later, he KO'd BOTH Doreimo and Metang
- I sent out Jippangyi. Steven, not playing his cards right, sent out Aggron (Rock/Steel type = 4x weak against STAB Earthquake)
- Jippangyi sky uppercut'd Tabitha's Dog. KO'd
- Aggron absorbed sunlight because Steven's Aggron has one of the weirdest and most counter productive movesets in Pokemon history (Special moves on a pokemon with barely any SPTAK?). Good thing his ORAS Aggron has a vastly improved moveset.
- Camerupt used Take Down on Jippangyi. It hit hard, but only took around half. Of course he suffered some recoil damage.
- and for the epic finish:

MIKURU SOLAR BEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

One Mikuri beam later, Maxie and Tabitha stand down and announce that their plan to expand the mass was a misguided attempt of causing a calamity, because they are such good terrorists. It was time to hunt down team Aqua and have our final battle against Archie.. BUT FIRST!

More leveling and EV Training!

After an Eternity of raising her.. it was time for her to finally grow... and..

CONGRATULATIONS, Inca has finally evolved into a GINJINKA MEGANEKKO, I mean Cradily!

Team: (Name, Gender, Pokemon, Nature, Moves)
Asuna, F Sceptile, Mild - Leaf Blade, Pursuit, Agility, Quick Attack - lvl48
Jippangyi, M Breloom, Lax - Mach Punch, Sky Uppercut, Headbutt, Mega Drain - lvl47
Doreimo. M Lombre, Quiet - Surf, Fake Out, Ice Beam, Absorb - lvl46
Jroooce, M Tropius, Mild - Stomp, Growth, Fly, Magical Leaf - lvl37
Yuri, M Roselia, Sassy - Magical Leaf, Poison Sting, Giga Drain, Leech Seed - Lvl38
Inca, F Cradily, Impish - Astonish, Acid, Confuse Ray, Ingrain - Lvl40

If anyone is still wondering what the hell am I playing, its basically Pokemon Emerald (Hoenn Dex Edition Rom patch by Chronosplit included + Moemon Emerald (latest version) by dodgeflyer and Moegar) = if anyone's interested to play these versions or add them in their own Emerald rom, i'll be happy to tell you the sources through PM.