The Monotype Challenge

[KNS27]

Forum User Name: KNS27
Game(s):Platinum
Pokémon Type: Fighting
Single/Ultimate/Free Mode?: Single for this time

 

[Smotemotem]

I started up my White monotype run yesterday. When I was mapping out the locations of my team members, I was sad to realize that Landorus is only available in post-game. I guess I'm gonna have an HM buddy throughout this run, since there are only five other fully-evolved Ground-types. My naming scheme for this run will be Super Mario characters/enemies.

Part 1

Spoiler:

I chose Oshawott for my starter, since it can learn most of the HMs in the game. I picked up Pansear ASAP and tried to get through the early part of the game as quickly as possible. I had to use these guys for the first gym, and I didn't get my first real team member until I made it to Wellspring Cave. Before facing Lenora, I was able to pick up a Drilbur (named Monty, even though it's female) and a Tympole (named Wart).

Wart stomped N outside of the Nacrene City gym, but that gave me false confidence. Lenora's Pokemon hit hard with Retaliate, but Wart & Monty were able to share the burden and win this fight, thanks in big part to Wart's Confuse Ray.

We had to tread slowly through Pinwheel Forest. The Team Plasma members don't have a lot of Pokemon per trainer, but my team was still small and squishy. I'm happy that White has lots of little areas to rest up between Pokemon Centers, and I'm having to make frequent use of these healers.

I caught a Sandile and named it Crawful, and I trained the whole team up to about level 24. I cleaned out all the story events and the trainers in the Castelia City gym, but I can't beat Burgh yet. His Leavanny is ferocious, and I think I need to train up the team to about level 29 before we take him on again.

Current Team:

 

[Smotemotem]

I played a lot these past 2 or 3 days, and I've already finished White.

Part 2

Spoiler:

In order to beat Burgh, I had to get my team up to level 26, leave Tympole unevolved for a bit, and have tremendous luck. I had to be able to swap in and swap out my Sandile as many times as possible, in order to severely reduce Leavanny's attack power. I also needed good RNG in order to get a crit, avoid getting critted, and miss a couple of attacks entirely. I spent several Fresh Waters, Potions, and Super Potions, too.

Burgh was the last real challenge for a long time. My squad of Monty, Crawful, & Wart steamrolled the next four gyms. They had good stats, good type coverage, and there was plenty of exp to go around, since I was just training three of them. When we got the Lucky Egg, that made it even easier to train these guys. I was able to get a Stunfisk before the Icirrus City Gym, and I named it CheepCheep. I also caught a Golett right after that, and I named it Whomp. I trained those two together for two or three hours, until I had a fully-evolved team. Then it was back in the fast lane.

I was a little worried my team would be underlevelled for the Elite Four & Team Plasma Boss fights, but we were at the perfect levels. We suffered lots of KOs, but I had plenty of medicines to help us recover from the near-wipes. I wouldn't say that I ever had to heal spam in this game, like I had to do in most of the others. I've always thought the difficulty curve of the games became more refined the deeper we get into the new generations.

My first three Pokemon were running a tight race for most of the game, but Monty took a big lead in the final gym and in the Elite Four Battles. Monty the Excadrill was the MVP by far.

Final Team:

 

[Smotemotem]

I had a day off work today, and I've been playing Pokemon while my wife plays Sims 4 the past few days. So I've been able to blaze through Pokemon X. I'll give you guys & gals a quick summary.

One & Done:

Spoiler:

I picked Chespin for my temporary starter, because I didn't want my rivals to have it, and I was hoping it would be shiny. It wasn't. I caught Bunnelby early on, and I boxed Chespin ASAP. Since I was gonna have Diggersby on my team, and since I knew I would get a Steelix later on that shares a name with a cartoon rabbit, I decided to keep the theme of fictional rabbit names for the team. I gave Bunnelby the name Babs. I was able to catch a Burmy before the first gym, too, but it only knew Protect at first. I named it Buckthorn. I didn't feel like leveling it up the hard way, so I left it as a level 5 Burmy and focussed on leveling Babs. The gym was tough, but Babs' Take Down made it possible to prevail.

We left the gym and got the EXP Share. Things snowballed pretty fast from here. I was able to get a full team of Ground-type Pokemon before the second gym (granted, it takes a long time to get from the first to the second gym in Kalos). I caught a Sandile (named Buster), a Rhyhorn (named Hazel), a Golett (named Nightshade), and traded a Luvdisc for a Steelix (named Thumper). I tried to keep the team roughly even in level, by keeping the lowest-level guys in the front slot. This was often counterproductive, as these were also the party members that were most likely to get knocked out. In the end, I couldn't keep Steelix from outlevelling the party by nearly 10 levels, even though he stayed at the back of the party for nearly the whole time.

Diggersby was extremely helpful up through the final gym. She had a great TM pool, and she learned STAB Return early on.

Wormadam was useful at a few very particular points in the game where I needed to use Bug Bite, HP Fighting, or Psychic. She had surprisingly decent Bulk, as well. Overall, she wasn't a powerhouse, though.

Rhyperior was a pain to level, but she was a solid tank and a decent physical sweeper later on. Drill Run was a fun move to play around with.

Krookodile was the MVP. Intimidate is one of my favorite abilities in the game, and he had a solid natural learnset, too.

Steelix probably had a lot of potential I didn't utilize. When he did come in, he could take a lot of hits, and he could slowly wear down anything you put in front of him. He had Rock Head as his ability, so he could make full use of Double-Edge without hurting himself. I tended to keep him at the back of the party as a kind of secret weapon.

Golurk was a fairly average Pokemon. He didn't score a lot of KO's in key battles, but he was decent at wearing down threats. It just seemed like almost every Pokemon had some move that could exploit his weaknesses.

Final Team:

 

[SilverLeafeon75]

My Pokemon Black Grass monotype is on hold as 1. I want to mark my return to the forums with something new, and 2. it has been about 4-5 months since I last played Black? I probably have forgotten what I was doing :P

In its place I plan a Soul Silver Fire Monotype(Yes, I'm putting myself through this)

Forum User Name: SilverLeafeon75
Game(s): Soul Silver
Pokémon Type: Fire
Single/Ultimate/Free Mode?: Single

 

[ddrox13]

Right, two monos, many updates. Ready GOGOGO.

Pearl Steeeeeeeel Mono UPDATE 3
Badges: 5/8

Things that happened:

Spoiler:

- Hit Vilestone, then made my way down to Pastoria to get the fly spot for later, train, and also spam Heart Scales.
- Returned to Vilestone and hit the department store, because I'm too lazy to play the slot machines.
- Fun Fact - Shieldon's Special movepool is REDICULOUS. Fire Blast and Thunder? Yes please!
- Oh, there's a gym here too.
- VS Maylene:
I honestly forget the individual battles, I just know Seneca came up huge despite the type weakness (Fire Fang > Lucario) but Glassworm was the one that actually did shit.
- Flew down to Pastoria and hit that gym next.
- VS Wake
The Fort vs Gyarados - T H U N D E R. I mean, it still didn't OHKO because Fort's Special Attack is awful, but it works! 5-2
Liberty/Glassworm vs Quagsire - Grass attacks are stronk. 4-1
I forget who beat Floatzel, but w/e
- Honestly, what is the puropse of the entire Celestic Town arc? Let's beat up Fantina already.
- Oh, The Fort evolved into Bastiodon here too. This is good, because it increases the base value of his most important stat, SpAtk, by a whole whopping 5 points. To 47.
- VS Fantina
I forget again. I won though, and The Fort was def the MVP.
- Go to the next town, and walk straight to the... Damnit Rabi!
- VS Rabinov
Literally this was a Fort solo.
- And I'm on Iron Island now! Yay!

Team:

Spoiler:

Images to come when I have time


Icebreaker (Prinplup) (M)
Ability: Torrent
Level: 33
Docile Nature
- Bide
- Pluck
- Surf
- Metal Claw

Seneca (Steelix) (M)
Ability: Sturdy
Level: 32
Sassy Nature
- Sandstorm
- Rock Polish
- Fire Fang
- Thunder Fang

Glassworm (Wormadam-Trash) (F)
Ability: Anticipation
Level: 29
Bashful Nature
- Mirror Shot
- Stealth Rocks
- Hidden Power [Grass]
- Thief

Liberty (Bronzor)
Ability: Levitate
Level: 31
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Extrasensory
- Hypnosis
- Grass Knot
- Shadow Ball

The Fort (Bastodion) (F)
Ability: Sturdy
Level: 32
Quiet Nature
- Iron Tail
- AncientPower
- Thunder
- Fire Blaaaaast

DeciduICE Sun - 7/11 Objectives

Spoiler:

- Beat up Gladion
- Went to Brooklet Hill
- Overlevelled team had no problems with Wishiwashi
- Ran back to Melemele and caught a Shellder named Spike.
- Battle Royal Dome is a thing
- bought a shitton of Repels and pokeballs at the megamart
- KIAWEEEEE
- Ok yeah Totem Salazzle was a bitch, and I don't exactly remember how I beat it. Oh well.
- Route 8 has a Water Stone on it! Yay!
- Spike evolves into Cloyster
- I go back to Route 1 and catch a ton of pkmn so I can start looking frantically for Ice Stones
- Santa Penguin mugs some helpless ponies until one of them gives me some clay
- Hail and A-Veil TMs. Finally.
- Aurora Veil lets Frostbite solo Totem Lurantis
- Go to Konikoni
- At this point, I decide to grind up to 30 to evolve Diamond and Mountain.
- I trade said two pkmn over to Moon and let my Moon file's Decidueye feather some Snorunts and Golbats. As such, Diamond becomes a Glaceon, and Mountain becomes a Crabominable, and my team is all Ice-typed at last
- The other thing about my team is everyone but Frostbite is fully evolved. It'd be a real shame if...
jk Pelago has an Ice Stone for me ty Pelago!
- Frostbite evolves into Snowslash. Let the REAL fun begin!
- I flip through my TM case to update the new evolutions (specifically, give Diamond the Hail/Veil combo), and I notice that Cloyster can learn Smart Strike. I honestly have never seen a Pokémon other than Kartana able to learn this move.
- Anyway, Plumeria gets rekt by Spike
- Olivia gets rekt by Frostbite
- PLOT
- Hau gets rekt
- PLOT
- Diamond soloes Molyane, a Steel-type user who should hard counter me, because HP Fire is good coverage and Aurora Veil is still broken as hell. IMAGINE WHEN I CAN START SETTING IT UP TURN 1...
- Diamond nearly soloes Totem Vikavolt, but because of ridiculously bad parahax Frostbite had to come in and help.

Team:

Spoiler:

Images to come when I have time


Frostbite (Alolan Sandslash) (F)
Ability: Slush Rush
Level: 33
Lax Nature
- Leech Life
- Hail
- Ice Ball
- Iron Head

Food (Delibird) (M)
Ability: Vital Spirit
Level: 32
Brave Nature
- Aurora Veil
- Brick Break
- Thief
- Hail

Mountain (Crabomnible) (M)
Ability: Iron Fist
Level: 33
Sassy Nature
- Scald
- Power-up Punch
- Ice Punch
- Brick Break

Diamond (Glaceon) (M)
Ability: Snow Cloak
Level: 33
Timid Nature
- Hail
- Aurora Veil
- Icy Wind
- Hidden Power [Fire]

Spike (Cloyster) (M)
Ability: Skill Link
Level: 30
Quiet Nature
- Spikes
- Clamp
- Smart Strike
- SPEAR OF JUSTICE AND ALSO ICICLES

 

[Smotemotem]

So, on to the Moon!

Spoiler:

This is going surprisingly slow. Alolan Diglett is the only Ground-type I have so far, and Kahuna Hala is a real challenge. I might have to level this Diglett all the way up 26 so I can get those Dugtrio stats. I named my Diglett McQueen, and I'm going to be using Pixar as my naming theme this time. The grind is on!

Current Team:

 

[Grimms_Edge]

Forum User Name: Grimms_Edge
Game(s): Leaf Green, Heart Gold, Alpha Sapphire, Platinum, Black 2, X, Sun
Pokémon Type: Ghost
Single/Ultimate/Free Mode? Ultimate

Im so ready for monotypes. Ive been practising so im ready to make things offical

Going to start with Platinum because i havent played that game in 5 ever. Shame I cant use my favourite pokemon on the Team QQ

Also am I allowed to hack in starter in Plat at lvl 5 or do i have to use the drifloon obtainable at valley windworks on friday?

 

[Smotemotem]

Part 2:

Spoiler:

I was right. The only way for Diglett/Dugtrio to survive an All-Out Pummeling from Crabrawler is to kill it before it gets a chance to attack. I had to grind McQueen all the way up to level 26, and I still think the victory was dependent upon a lucky crit.

On Akala Island, I caught a Mudbray and named him Bullseye. I tried to lead with him as much as possible and let him catch up to McQueen, but this didn't go so well. At the time I caught him, he was about 14 levels below her. We made our way all the way up to Mallow's trial, and my team got knocked out. I was going to soft reset and try again…then I realized the last time I saved was before Lana's trial. I had spent probably 2 – 3 hours on this Island, and I didn't feel like making up that progress the hard way. So I just put McQueen at the front of the party and blitzed the island. I'm probably going to leave her as the lead for the rest of the game, unless I have a good reason to rotate a different team member to the front. I feel like there's such a disparity in victory points already that it's extremely unlikely another 'mon could catch up and win the race for MVP, even if I left McQueen at the back of the party, like I did with Steelix in X. I did catch a Barboach (named Dory) as well, but I didn't realize where to get her until I had already beaten Olivia.

This run has been interesting, because I don't normally use the stat-enhancing items in battle, but they've been crucial to survive the Totem Pokemon. Dire Hit allowed McQueen to reduce Wishiwashi down to its solo form. X Defense allowed McQueen to practically shrug off the Solar Blades from Fomantis. I think it's really clever that the game not only gives you these items, but that it gives them to you in a way that doesn't shout "USE ME IN THE BOSS BATTLE."

Current Team:

 

[Smotemotem]

I finished up Moon tonight, so with that, I've completed my Ultimate Monotype Challenge for the Ground type. I've wanted to do this for years, but I never had the patience. I'm so happy I finally finished. Since back in the RBY days, I've wanted to be a gym leader. Now I really feel like one.

Alola Ending:

Spoiler:

I actually think my method of leading with my highest-level Pokemon worked out well. This may be the way I play Gen 6 and 7 games from now on. If you have Exp share on, you wind up with the weaker members being roughly the same level as the Pokemon that the common NPCs have, and your ace is around the same level as the rivals/leaders/bosses. The game retains a fair level of challenge at the key battles, but you don't struggle with every random trainer.

Before the end of the game, I wound up catching a Sandygast (named Wall-E), a Sandile (named Syndrome), and a Gabite (named Bruce). The battles where I had to really lean on the whole team were the elite four battles and Guzma. In fact, Guzma was consistently the biggest challenge I faced throughout this adventure. His Golisopod ripped my team apart more times than I'd like to admit.

The MVP this time had to be Dugtrio. After all the grinding I did in the beginning, and after all the battles where I ran her as the lead, there was just no way any of the other Pokemon could catch up to her. Mudsdale was a distant second, and none of the others could even compare. If you're playing mono-ground, you just get your full team way too late in this game.

Final Team:

 

[SilverLeafeon75]

Pokemon Soul Silver Fire Monotype PT 1 A New Beginning

I started the game, and went through the beginning guff. I named myself Silver due to me being lazy, and went to Elm's Lab. Apparently one of his colleagues has a "discovery" and the lab is too busy to fetch it themselves, so looks like I will have to do the job. I pick Cyndaquil, and name him Metallica, after their song Fuel for Fire. Then I went on my journey.

As I went up to Mr. Pokemon's house, I grinded up Metallica in the grass to level 7, learning smokescreen along the way. I also got the Apricorn box, and collected all of the Apricorns on the side of the path, because who can complain abut FREE Pokeballs! Upon my arrival, Mr. Pokemon handed me a "Mystery Egg" to take back to Elm, and what do you know, renowned Pokemon professor Samuel Oak himself was there, and gave me a Pokedex for my efforts. What a nice guy.

As you would guess, it was not all Rainbows and Unicorns, as the redhead who was peering into the lab stole one of Elm's prized Pokemon. What an absolute jerk. Around this time I found out my Cyndaquil has a timid nature..... UGH! Could be worse, could of decreased my special attack instead, and at least the speed boost is nice.

Then, just in a twist of fate, I found the aforementioned redhead, and engaged him in a battle. Usually this would be easy right? Just spam Tackle.... But due to my decreased attack, a miss, and a critical hit, Metallica was almost taken out in his first trainer battle! Turns out my extra training paid off in the end after all. I returned back to Prof. Elm, and handed over the egg, while I named my rival Mikal. Now I am set to take on the world! After I talk to my mom about money.......

(Also I decided to do SS instead of HG due to me having played HG a lot more than SS, being my first game and all.)

 

[SilverLeafeon75]

Pokemon Soul Silver Fire Monotype PT 2 Violet Blues

Now with my journey underway, I can make my way over to Violet city, where I will pick up the next member of my party. Once again the timid nature bites me in the derriere, as the first two trainers on the route, who usually are no big deal, brought Metallica down to 3 HP(though he did grow to level 9.) So off to the Pokemon Center I went to heal my injured Fire Type and regather my strength, and at this point I realized what I'm getting myself into.

Back out on the town I crushed the hopes and dreams of a bug catcher, found a potion on the ground to make up for the one used in the rival battle, collected some more apricorns, took out anther bug catcher, and in the process learned Ember, finally giving Metallica a decent attacking move! As I moved toward Violet city, youngster Joey called me to brag about his Rattata, and I bumped into Lyra again, and saved my game. Now onward to Violet!

Once I reached Violet City, The first matter of business is to talk to Primo to get my second party member. After answering a few simple questions, I received an egg, and started the arduous journey of running around aimlessly to hatch it, so why not explore the town a bit. Unfortunately, there was little to note, except for a teacher who is obsessed with spinning, and a crazy Shard De Berry guy.

After about an hour of aimlessly wandering around, the Slugma egg finally hatched, and I named him Nickelback to continue my Rock/Metal band naming scheme, and checked his stats. Lax nature ain't too bad, trading some special defense for better defense, with the ability Magma Armor(would have much rather had flame body, but what ya gonna do.) I know Slugma is not the best Pokemon, but I'm using it due to the fact it means I don't have to solo with Metallica until Goldenrod, and I get a second free fire type early. Now its time to burn my way through the sprout tower(quite literally) and train Nickelback.

 

[CeruleanSpirit]

I might as well tell my tale.

I decided to attempt a Gen VI Fighting monotype run of Pokemon X. Here's a few reason.

- Fighting is actually hard to monotype. There is not a big pool of pokemon fighting type. There a 5 type on which fighting moves are weak. For that reason, I have never been a taker of Fighting pokemons in normal runs
- There are 2 gyms in Kalos which are strong against fighting: Psychic & Fairy
- Kalos has almost all good Fighting pokemons, I choose Y especially for Heracross.
- The first fighting pokemon can be capture before the first gym in Santalune City: Riolu
- 3 mega pokemon are available: Mega Lucario, Mega Heracross, Mega Medicham.

So let the story begin:

Spoiler:

Start: My adventure started in Aquacorde Town with my friends. I chose fennekin amongst the 3 starter pokemons, but I knew she would stay with me only for a little while. On route 2, I captured a Zigzagoon to act as a future HM Slave. I quickly crossed Santalune Forest and arrived at Santalune City. I went on route 22 and hunted down a Riolu. I quickly found one and capture it. I then automatically banked Fennekin. At that point I only had one usable pokemon, a level 6 Riolu with 4 moves: Foresight, Quick Attack, Counter and Endure. Not a very good pool of move... but it will have to do for now. I will mostly use Quick Attack and Counter.

Building at team: At this point I knew I needed a lot more fighters to overcome the bug gym. My main concern was Viola's Vivillion with Infestation. There was a good chance my lone Riolu would get killed by the infestation on that last fight. So I toiled to fight a few other. After 1h of arduous search, I found 4 other Riolu. The little wolves were especially resistant to capture. I had to waste 2-4 pokeballs on each. When I finally got a team of 5. I trained them in the field up to level 11, my first one was level 12.

The Bug Gym: With my 5 Riolu and about 10 potions in my bag, I slid down the fireman's pole with confidence. I only used one Riolu to fight the challengers on the spider's web. Just before Viola, I restored all my pokemon to full health. The fight with Viola was a little hard but not as hard as I expected. I quick attacked every turn. At the end of the fight, one Riolu has died, one was badly injured. I came out victorious and snatched my EXP Share on my way to route 4.

Route 4: Knowing that a male Ralts can become Gallad. I absolutely wanted to get him. The male Ralts would help me cover my Fighter's weakness with it's psychic type. I originally wanted 4 to compare and chose the best. But after 2 hours of searching and seeing a lot of female Ralts, I only had found 2 male Ralts. One was Modest, the other was lonely, I decided to keep the Lonely as I would concentrate on his special powers.

My current team is:

Rioluz (Riolu) Lvl. 15
- Foresight / Quick Attack / Counter / Force Palm

Riolux (Riolu) Lvl. 13
- Foresight / Quick Attack / Counter / Feint

Rioluc (Riolu) Lvl. 12
- Foresight / Quick Attack / Counter / Feint

Riolun (Riolu) Lvl. 12
- Foresight / Quick Attack / Counter / Feint

Riolum (Riolu) Lvl. 11
- Foresight / Quick Attack / Counter / Feint

Raltz (Ralts) Lvl. 8
- Growl / Confusion / Double Team

 

[CeruleanSpirit]

Pokemon Y Fighting Monotype Run

And The story continue from route 4:

Spoiler:

Lumiose city: At this point, my Ralts was not strong enough to go in battle. My clash with Prof Sicamore involved my 5 Riolu. The fight against his 3 elemental lizards went along something like Quick Attack, Quick Attack, Quick Attack... and Force Palm. It was a bit boring, I was eager to get other fighting pokemons.

Route 5: Yeah, I was running around giddy trying to found Pancham. Running in the purple flower. I've caught 4 and kept the best. I was especially interested in Pancham since he transform into Pangoro on level 32, a fighting/Dark type, which will give me a good weapon against the psychic gym. I took note to capture a dark type like Inkay or Absol later.

Route 7: After watching the fireworks at Parfum Palace, beating down the hulking Snorlax was a piece of cake. I only used Force Palm twice, as they say: "Talk to the hand". I quickly began abusing the free match at the battle chateau to farm money. One pokemon of interest on route 7 was Croagunk, very weak right now but much stronger later as Toxicroak. I was thinking about a special weapon against the Fairy gym.

Connecting Cave: I searched the cave and captured 4 Meditite and kept the best one. He was right now a bit weak. But I simply could not pass the meditating pokemon as he was going to be later Mega Medicham.

Route 8L: I was especially looking for the Crane Kung-fu practicing Mienfoo. I did my usual formula of capturing a bunch and keeping the best. I did my search on Mienfoo, I was kind of disappointed to learn that he only reached maturity as Mienshao on level 50, at the end of the game.

Glittering Cave: I had really no interest in Fossils. My interest here was Machop. I got a good one. I did the mission in the cave and got back to Ambrette town. My interest with Machop was Machoke and eventually the tradable Machamp. I have the intention of using the GTS to trade a Machoke for a Machoke therefore getting my Machamp.

Cyllage City's Rock Gym: I had really no stress entering the gym as rock is weak against Fighting move. I was just wondering how I would fare against Grant's Amaura and Tyrunt. I had some trouble in the actual fights against the challenger and ended up using about 8 super potions. I finally reached the peak of the gym and faced Grant. Amaura was slashed to unconsciouness by Pancham. Fortunately for me, Lucario had gained Bone Rush, I quickly finished Tyrunt with it.

This is the point of the game I currently am as I write this post. My team is:

Rioluz (Lucario) Lvl. 30
- Copycat / Quick Attack / Force Palm / Bone Rush

Kirlia (Kirlia) Lvl. 22
- Magical Leaf / Confusion / Double Team / Teleport

Machopx (Machopx) Lvl. 24
- Strength / Foresight / Karate Chop / Low Sweep

Croagunk (Croagunk) Lvl. 23
- Revenge / Feint Attack / Thief / Taunt

Medititz (Meditite) Lvl. 23
- Bide / Meditate / Confusion / Hidden Power

Panchamc (Pancham) Lvl. 27
- Vital Throw / Karate Chop / Slash / Circle Throw

 

[Grimms_Edge]

Pokemon Ghost Ultimate Monotype Challenge
Badges: 2/8
Team: Duff (Drifblim)
Ability: Unburden
Modest Nature
- Astonish
- Gust
- Stockpile
- Minimize

Violet (Gastly)
Ability: Levitate
Modest Nature
- Night Shade
- Lick
- Curse
- Mean Look

Lukey (Rotom-Wash)
Ability: Levitate
Hardy Nature
- Thunder Shock
- Hydro Pump
- Uproar
- Double Team

Story: After picking up my starter a little Chimcar named Goku. We set off on our adventure and learnt about where to get healing and where to buy stuff.
We moved on all the way to oreburgh after some story trash then as i arrived in oreburgh i entered the mine and grabbed Roark and made my way back to the gym and literally swept roark out of way with mach punch. Anyway coming back to Jubilife City destroyed the Team Galatic grunts harrassing Prof.
Rowan and Dawn. After a swift defeat at the hands of Goku, I finally made it to Valley Windworks where i could pick up my first team mate a drifloon which I nicked named Duff in memorium of the Duff Blimp.
After a little bit of grinding I busted into the Windworks with the key that a grunt dropped. The Grunts where nothign but Mars Caused a bit of problem but in the end I triumphed over Mars which allowed me to move on through Eterna Forest on the way to Eterna city. After meeting up with Cheryl at the entrance we made our way through we passed the Old Chataeu and ended up at the exit. After that whole shibang I left to Eterna City and faced Gardenia which in similar fashion to Mars was swept aside by Duffs powerful gust. At the end of the battle Duff evolved into a Drifblim and became even more powerful. After that whole fiasco I ran back to the Old Chataeu to grab my next two team members. A Female Gastly named Violet and a Rotom named Lukey. Now im in The Galatic Base in Eterna City ready to face Jupiter.

 

[Grimms_Edge]

Pokemon Ultimate Monotype Challenge
Badges 8/8
Elite Four: Beaten
National Dex: Obtained
Mount Stark: Defeated
Elite Four Reamtch: Beaten
Team:
Duff (Drifblim) (M) @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Unburden
Level: 76
- Shadow Ball
- Fly
- Psychic
- Thunderbolt

Violet (Gengar) (F) @ Choice Specs
Ability: Cursed Body
Level: 75
IVs: 0 Atk
- Shadow Ball
- Sludge Bomb
- Focus Blast
- Psychic

Lukey (Rotom-Wash) @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
Level: 78
IVs: 0 Atk
- Thunderbolt
- Hydro Pump
- Shadow Ball
- Double Team

Faded (Froslass) @ Never-Melt Ice
Ability: Snow Cloak
Level: 79
IVs: 0 Atk
- Shadow Ball
- Ice Beam
- Water Pulse
- Destiny Bond

Mage (Mismagius) (F) @ Spooky Plate
Ability: Levitate
Level: 75
Serious Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Shadow Ball
- Psybeam
- Magical Leaf
- Dark Pulse

Reapette (Dusknoir) (F) @ Spell Tag
Ability: Pressure
Level: 76
- Shadow Punch
- Fire Punch
- Earthquake
- Sucker Punch

 

[Lrachelr5]

Username: LRachelR5
Type: Psychic
Single/Ultimate: Ultimate
Games: Red, Soul Silver, Omega Ruby, Platinum, White 2, Y, Moon

 

[xemnahort]

Well I think I have a problem because instead of finishing my yellow rock part of the ultimate monotype I decided instead to do this;
Forum User Name: xemnahort
Game(s): red, gold, omega ruby, platinum, white 2, x, moon
Pok?mon Type: Flying
Single/Ultimate/Free Mode?: ultimate

and this;
Forum User Name: xemnahort
Game(s): blue, silver, alpha saphire, platinum, white 2, y, sun
Pok?mon Type: poison
Single/Ultimate/Free Mode?: ultimate

yup I decided to spread myself even further than before so yeah here's the current teams;
Red Flying team
Scirocco the charmeleon lvl 16
Zerelda the zubat lvl 9
Indra the magikarp lvl 9
and the temporary team mate Aureole the butterfree lvl 14
currently in traveling through mt moon

Blue Poison team
Oleander the Ivysaur lvl 26
Lilith the nidoqueen lvl 28
Raven the golbat lvl 27
plus a drowzee and a sandshrew for flash and cut repectively
currently traveling to rock tunnel after beating third gym

Rock is right where I left it

Also kudos if you can figure out why I'm naming them what I am.

 

[TheCrystalFlaaffy]

Now to once again claim my championship with the Ice-type! Finished Moon in my ultimate run, took me longer than it should have because I took a long break sometime after beating Kiawe and didn't touch my ds for months. Also sucked that I couldn't get half of my team until just before the Elite Four... All these Ice-types available in the game but only 3 are catchable before getting to that damn mountain and since I caught the three of them at high levels I missed out on so many moves and had to hunt down heart scales for them. But anyway on to the update :]

Challenge:

Spoiler:

Forum User Name: TheCrystalFlaaffy
Game(s): Fire Red | Silver | Emerald | Platinum | Volt White | Y | Moon
Pok?mon Type: Ice
Single/Ultimate/Free Mode?: Ultimate

Team

Spoiler:

Baskin the Vanilluxe
Level 54 | Male | Bold | Snow Warning
Mirror Shot | Uproar | Ice Beam | Freeze-Dry

Calypso the Weavile
Level 54 | Female | Adamant | Pressure
Ice Shard | Poison Jab | Brick Break | Night Slash

Blue the Crabominable
Level 56 | Female | Bold | Iron Fist
Close Combat | Crabhammer | Rock Tomb | Power-Up Punch

Igloo the Sandslash
Level 55 | Female | Quiet | Snow Cloak
Iron Head | Work Up | Leech Life | Icicle Crash

Khione the Froslass
Level 54 | Female | Serious | Snow Cloak
Shadow Ball | Draining Kiss | Ice Beam | Will-O-Wisp

Kitsune the Ninetales
Level 57 | Female | Timid | Snow Cloak
Ice Beam | Hex | Dazzling Gleam | Nasty Plot

Spoiler:

 

[Austin]

Username: curelixir
Type: Flying
Single/Ultimate: Ultimate
Games: FireRed, HeartGold, Alpha Sapphire, Platinum, White, Y, Moon

FINISHED

Spoiler:

(for some reason screenshots stopped saving later in the run)

-All female team, purely coincidental
-First run I've actually nicknamed all my Pokemon
-Gyarados was the MVP, mostly because of Surf