The Nuzlocke Challenge

[~Kian~]

Thought i'd give this a go, i got time on my hands.
I am doing the Soul Silver Nuzlocke challenge..

-I have my starter Pokemon Cyndaquil, Its name is Tyrant ( I know what tyrant is before you guys start going WTF; why that name? )
-I have my poke'dex from Mr pokemon.
-I caught A rattata called slam, who is sadly 'died' It survived From level 3 to level 7. CURSE YOU RANDOM LEVEL FOUR RATTATA :D
-I am currently looking for a level 4 male zubat in Dark cave to refill the gap ;P.
-Oh hang on just found level 3, it will have to do ;)
-Managed to get that pokemon called it FANG
-Trained them all a bit
-Went to the bellsprout tower caught a gastly called SHADOW.
-Then to the Gym and the first trainer and his Spearow killed fang; well to say the least I turned off my DS and rage quited. :S
Will share more when I want to release Fang and carry on.
~Kian

 

[2Cool4Mewtwo]

Painful news.... because I didn't grind much before 7th gym, I lost 4 pokemon.... Bird lost when I was careless vs a trainer with Gyarados, and other 3 were sweeped by Tate & Liza. Only "surviving" memebers are now Muscle (Machamp, Lv38) and Nigel (Swampert, Lv44). :(

Deaths

Spoiler:

Sumoman (Lv8~14)

Flowerweed (Lv25)

Bird (Lv23~35)

Firefox (Lv29~36)

Rainy (Lv3~38)

Wildy (Lv13~38)

 

[Lord_Storm]

As I just said in the scramble challenge, I lost all my challenges after I accidentally deleted my save files. My challenge is over.

 

[Zaroas]

Well, after a somewhat long break, I'm back. Aaand my Platinum save file was deleted by my neighbor. Great. So... I'm restarting my challenge in Platinum.

 

[Lunacrest]

I will do it on Pokemon Ruby Version............


Rules # 1, 3, 4, 5, 8....


Hoenn, I WILL CONQUER YOU!!!!!

 

[LightOfTruth]

I will start this challenge on Pokemon Emerald right now

I be doing Rule 1, Rule 3, Rule 4, Rule 5 and Rule 6 :D

Name: Nuzstar

Pokemon:

:mudkip;): Superwater Level 7

Tackle
Growl
Mud-Slap

Screenshots:

My first Pokemon Superwater winning his first ever trainer battle:

My second Pokemon that first to be seen in the first route that gotten to be called Superworm:

I be just training up Super-worm now :)

 

[Zaroas]

Oh. Yes.

So, today I finally remembered I have an ongoing Sapphire run. The last update was a while ago, which you can see here:
https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=6323595#post6323595
Quite a long time ago. I think only a couple challengers will remember that thread... Anyhow, let's begin.

Spoiler:

So, after grinding each member of my team up to a reasonable level 50 (Still pretty underleveled IMO), I decided to challenge the E4. After wiping the floor with Wally, I figured it was time. I bought about 99 Full Restores, just in case, and headed inside.

Oh, boy. Sydner was up first. Gary the Medicham defeated Mightyena with just one Hi-Jump-Kick. Absol suffered the same fate. Cacturne was up next, and didn't stand a chance against Earl the Swellow's Aerial Ace. Sharpedo didn't last one turn against Andy the Sceptile, and Shiftry was taken down by Earl. One down, 3 and a champion left to go.

I was a bit worried about facing Phoebe, as my only supereffective move was Gary's Shadow Ball, and he was weak to other ghost attacks. But it actually wasn't that hard. Gary promptly defeated Dusclops, and Shelly the Walrein was able to defeat essentially everyone else with Surf.

I was also pretty worried about Glacia. If you've read the official Nuzlocke comic, you would have seen that Glacia's Walrein was able to take out a Medicham, one that was probably higher levelled than Gary. Victor the Ninetales defeated both Glalies, and Gary wiped the floor with her Sealeos. It was Walrein time, and I was hoping that Gary wouldn't miss with Hi-Jump-Kick. But it actually got a crit on Walrein. I am a lucky boy.

It was time to take down some dragons, as Drake was next. Before I go any further, I just want to say that Shelly is awesome. Why? Well, Ice Beam took down all of Drake's Pokemon, except Salamence. It attacked first, and got Shelly's HP dangerously low. I figured I should switch to Earl to she could heal. The turn I healed up, Salamence got a critical hit and sent Earl to his grave. The first loss in the E4. Shelly quickly avenged him with a Blizzard to Salamence. RIP Earl.


It's what you've all been waiting for...



The champion battle, versus Steven! Oh yeah.

Skarmory was no big deal. It was only able to get one layer of Spikes before Shelly destroyed it. Claydol? Andy was able to bring it down in 2 Leaf Blades, one of which was a critical hit. Up next was Cradily, who got Ice Beamed by Shelly. Half way done! I accidentally sent out Bruno the Hariyama to deal with Armaldo. Big mistake. Bruno survived a Slash, only to be taken down by another one. RIP. But Shelly quickly destroyed the fossil. Gary took awhile to defeat Aggron due to Steven using about 3 Full Restores , and had to take multiple Earthwuakes before bringing it down.

Steven sent out Metagross. I feared this moment the entire time I played. But what had to be done had to be done. Gary attempted to Hi-Jump-Kick...


...Only to be killed by Psychic. RIP Gary

Shelly was no match. Only one Surf was used before Meteor Mash broguht her down. RIP.

It was up to my final two, Victor and Andy. Andy didn't have anything to deal with a Metagross with half its HP left. However, Victor did.


Victor used Flamethrower.

Metagross fainted. I had won my second Nuzlocke run!

SURVIVING TEAM:

Andy the Sceptile, lv. 50
Bold nature
-Aerial Ace
-Hidden Power (Rock)
-Leaf Blade
-Rock Smash

Victor the Ninetales, lv. 50
Naive nature
-Hidden Power (Ice)
-Confuse Ray
-Overheat
-Flamethrower


THE FALLEN:

Shelly - Walrein, lv.52 - Died to Metagross's Meteor Mash
Bruno - Hariyama, lv.50 - Died to Armaldo's Slash
Gary - Medicham, lv.51 - Died to Metagross's Psychic
Earl - Swellow, lv.50 - Died to Salamence's Dragon Claw
Dan - Phanpy, lv.29 Died to a wild Gloom
Joe - Kecleon lv.34 - Died to Winona's Altaria
Clair - Trapinch lv.21 - Died to an opposing Trapinch during grinding


THE BOXED:

Greg - Numel, lv.17
Derp - Castform, lv.25
George - Zigzagoon, lv.3
Bertha - Wailmer, lv.25

 

[FaWa]

Starting a Nuzelock on my RUBY emulator. I doubt I'll make it very far though. Using these rules:


1. If a Pokemon Faints, it will be put in either "Heaven" or "Hell"
2. You can only catch one Pokemon in each Area.
3. You must nickname all of your Pokemon
4. No catching legendaries.
5. No Trading
6. Make Comics whenever something happens.


















Okay so I was going to do comics but I just don't feel like it.

I started Ruby, and got a Mudkip and named it Lenovo. Went through the boring storyline and bad character development quickly thanks to the speed up button. I got my pokeballs and went out to catch something...I prayed for it to be a Wingull on the first root. It was...



A wurmple. I named it Fujitsu and trained it until it became a Silcoon. I had an ok team I guess. One 4x resists the second gym, and the other is super effective against everything in the first. After training on the lower routes, I went up to the top one to catch something else. I prayed for either a Poochyena or a Wingull and got...

A Zigzagoon. So I named it Dell and trained it a little. It has pickup so yay. After training and somehow now dieing, I moved on to the next route with all the trainers. This time, I prayed for anything not a wurmple or zigzagoon. And I got...

A zigzagoon. So I named it eMachines and didn't bother training it as it can use pickup yay! So I went through all of that and made it to the next route with the ocean. I ran into the grass, praying for anything but a Zigzagoon. And I got...

A zigzagoon. So I named it IBM and didn't bother training it as it can use pickup yay! So I went through all of that and made it to viridian forest Petalburg woods. I ran into the grass, praying for anything but a Zigzagoon. (Also my Silcoon evolved into Beautifly so yay for that)

I ran into a Cascoon but I only had one pokeball left and it didn't catch him. Whatever. I just really need a Taillow or something right now because I have no flying types and it makes me sad.


Current party

Lenovo Level 11
-Tackle
-Water Gun
-Growl
-Mud Slap

Fujitsu Level 12
-Tackle
-Absorb
-Poison Sting
-Harden (lol)

Dell Level 10
-Tackle
-Growl
-Tail Whip
-Headbutt

Slaves

eMachines--Zigzagoon (Pickup)
IBM---------Zigzagoon (Pickup)



-Heaven-




-Hell-

 

[Alternative]

I've decided I need to play Emerald again so I'm going to be starting up this challenge again, because I had so much fun with it last time. ^_^

 

[heLLkitsune]

1. If a Pokemon Faints, its dead, release it.
2. You can only catch/recieve one Pokemon in each Area. A town is one area, a route is one area, a cave is one area, etc. Should you fail to catch a Pokemon for any reason (other than game corruption) than too bad.
3. You must nickname all of your Pokemon (optional, but highly reccomended)
4. No catching legendaries.
5. Trading is disallowed, but the reasons following this clause are allowed. Egg trading is okay, same thing with Pokemon that can't have eggs. (optional) Trading simply for the purpose of evolution is perfectly OK.
6. Change the battle style to SET. (optional)
7. You can only use normal Pokemon balls to capture Pokemon (Safari balls are the only exception)
8. Though gyms - once when you enter a gym, you can't go out unless you beat the gym leader and you have to beat all trainers
9. You can't run away from wild Pokes unless your Pokemon's ability is Run Away (self destructing Geodudes will be a pain in the neck)
10. Each Pokemon can't be less than 5 levels lower than the highest level Pokemon
11. There has to be the same number of pokemon in my party as the gym I'm challenging (1st gym - 1 Pokemon, 2nd gym - 2 Pokemon etc.)

Pokemon Leaf Green:
The Nuzlocke Challenge

Chapter #1: Team Red, GO!

Started my game, A mashed through the intro, named myself Red and my rival Gary (fail, his grandfather can't remember his name xD). Started my journey in Pallet Town. Wanted to go outside of the town, but Prof. Oak stopped me. I was given my first own Pokemon. I have chosen Charmander named Scott.


My future partner through thick and thin.

Defeated Gary for the first time and moved on. I prayed for not encountering anything on Route 1, but I encountered a Pidgey on the last patch of grass (no pokemon for Route 1 -.-). Got the Oak's parcel and delivered it to Prof. Oak. Got a Pokedex and five Poke Balls. After that, I headed to Route 22 and wanted to catch a Mankey, but I encountered a little Rattata, caught it and named it Sarah. I grinded Scott to lvl 10 and battled Gary. In fear of a critical hit, I had to use one Potion, besides that, Gary was easy. Encountered another Rattata on Route 2, caught it and named her Palin. In Viridian Forest I encountered a Caterpie, which I caught and named Caroline, but only to realize that it was male (sry pal). Moved on and after a lot of battles I finally got to Pewter City. I restored my Pokemons health, Boxed Sarah, Palin and Caroline and rushed into the 1st Pokemon gym. The first trainer was a breeze and something cool happened after the battle.


Scott has become two times as awesome as before.

Challenged Brock and here's my battle against him:

Spoiler:

Battle against Brock:

Red sent out

Scott / Brock sent out

Geodude

Scott used Metal Claw /

Geodude used Defense Curl

Scott used Metal Claw /

Geodude used Defense Curl

Scott used Metal Claw,

Geodude has fainted.

Brock sent out

Onix

Scott used Metal Claw /

Onix used Rock Tomb - attack missed

Scott used Metal Claw /

Onix used Rock Tomb

Onix used Bind /

Scott used Metal Claw

Onix used Tackle /

Scott used Metal Claw,

Onix has fainted.

Badges obtained:

Team Red:

Scott @ / ♂ Lv. 17
Bold Nature
Blaze
- Scratch
- Growl
- Metal Claw
- Ember


Boxed / Day-cared Pokemon: /

Deceased Pokemon : /

Encounters:

Spoiler:

Pallet Town -

Route 1 -

Route 2 -

Route 22 -

Viridian Forest -

​

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[mondays suck]

• Too much free time - That's what I currently am suffering from
• The games on my laptop - Right now I'm sick of pretty much every single one of them. There's nothing that particularly interests me in the shelf either.
• The exception - Pokemon, which I haven't played for quite a while
• Innovative - I am not

Conclusion? Time to play some Pokemon, and instead of trying something new, I'm just going to do something that never gets (too) old - a Nuzlocke.
However, just so it won't be too easy, I might try and play some kind of hack. Then again, that just means additional grinding. The solution? Play a GSC hack where grinding takes less time than on 3rd generation hacks and therefore will be less of an issue. I still have Pokemon Crystal World somewhere on my computer and can't remember ever having played it. So, that one it is. I am sooooo going to regret this. But it's not like I can't just retreat into the shadows of inactivity once again should my motivation not suffice to either win or lose. Anyway...
Let's do this

And no, I didn't manage to find a better smiley. That one here already took >10 minutes to find...

Spoiler:

Alright, first things first.

<--- not only a coward but also picks the most boring frame

That's pretty close to my real name, so why not? Saves me the time to type in mondays or something.

And I even bothered to put in the correct day and time

Correct when disregarding from the barbaric 12 hour clock, of course

So, what are the starters...?

Moltres? Meh. I want Chikorita. Maybe it can learn LS in this version...

That's not Chikorita

(totally not the obvious outcome

)

I love that song though

Two notable things about this:

• level 1 - this might become a quick game over
• not visible here, but it's carrying a Pokeball. Hmm...

Then, this:

Oh, come on!

First, Thundershock doesn't work because Rattata apparently is Ground or part Ground in this game, and then that crit. More bad luck is hardly possible. And yes, that was my very first encounter.

I might want to start over ... tomorrow.

What did you expect?

 

[ParanoidMocha]

Sign me up!

I'm on Pokemon GOld
My team is

Hephaestus the level 15 Quilava
Hipnos the level 12 Hoothoot
Golem the level 13 Geodude
Hades the level 6 Rattata

GOt first badge.Dupes Clause Enabled,Shinies can be caught whenever(NOt Red Gyarados tho)
Nickname Theme: Mytholgoy Characters

 

[mondays suck]

Let's continue playing the bizarre abomination that is Pokemon Crystal World!

Spoiler:

Since I wasn't going to do anything differently, I thought I might as well just continue the game…

Same first encounter, but no accursed critical hits this time!

These things don't have a particularly high life expectancy....

Don't think you're anything special, you'll die like anyone else

Well yeah, that was bound to happen:

Stupid part-ground type, forgot about that for a few seconds. And the freeze hax after the first Powdersnow didn't help either.


Dark cave is some kind of cruel joke in this game...

First I wasted all my Pokeballs on this damn thing here, then I kept OHKOing everything I met.

Sprout Tower was kinda scary. Probably to justify the abundance of ghosts the monks were using. The last guy had a Gengar as his last, but it was surprisingly harmless.

Falkner time! After lots of annoying Rock/Grounds and/or similar things used by the normal trainers, he just had Aerodactyl and Skarmory. What a joke.

Yaay, finally more than one Pokemon. Too bad it had to be Togepi and Togepi sucks in this generation. A lot.

Oh well.

Finally a successful capture!

Not sure how useful this is going to be, but it's better than nothing.

...not very useful. Lasted 5 minutes. It did get from level 7 or so to 17 in that time, but in the end, it died to some crit Pursuit nonsense even though I didn't intend to switch. Stupid crap.

An useful catch in union cave

...Union cave, in which I was trapped and had to face uncomfortable foes...

... too uncomfortable.

That's gg for me.

Third time's the charm - if memory serves me correctly, that motto worked for me in Ruby (?), but failed in FR Omega - or was it E386? I don't know. Like it matters. What about this time?

Spoiler:

First, why did I lose? The first time I got obviously luck screwed, the second time the reasons are plentiful and diverse.

• Hax. Articuno's freeze and Murkrow's Pursuit crit were unfortunate. Togepi's explosion happened a lot earlier than expected.
• The "it's gonna die anyway"-mentality. Rattata, Togepi and, to a lesser extend, Spearow are not exactly the best, but...
• Not paying attention. The main reason why I suck at most video games. Except for maybe Spearow and Vulpix, all my deaths were mainly caused by this. And not just the deaths, also the fact that I didn't catch anything from shortly after the beginning until after Violet.
• These &$#§ing type changes. Rattata being Ground killed my Zapdos in the first attempt and my own Rattata in the second. Sandslash has some kind of second type that resists Flying, made one used by a random trainer pretty painful to defeat. Togepi being Steel, Vulpix being Fire/Normal and Spearow being pure Flying didn't do any harm yet, but eventually it would have happened as well.
• Mud Slap. I had the TM. If I would have used it, that Geodude with Rock Throw wouldn't have stood a chance.
• The fact that I'm feeling constipated. Nobody wants to know this, but it's a nice scapegoat, isn't it?

Because now I knew I would have to visit the first two routes with just one Pokeball, I just killed the Weedle on the first and...

A grass type was exactly what I needed, and of course it has to escape. That's not my fault, at least.
And yes, I insist on using a Zapdos called AMADEUS.

Oh great, first I miscick and use Peck against that Articuno...

...then the game continues with BS.

Seriously. Two runs. Two fights against this thing. Two Powder Snows on a Pokemon without a status condition. Two freezes. Two inevitable deaths (well, I could have switched DOOMED the Rattata out, but I was afraid....rightfully so, I say.). If I would at least have access to a goddamn ice heal at this point... This. Is. BS.

It was not to be.

 

[mondays suck]

Just for the heck of it, I'm trying this again. Be it to embarrass myself once more or to regain my honor.

Spoiler:

But this time, there is a change of plan.

And this time, I seem to be a lot luckier.

The biggest part of this battle may or not have been fought with a ridiculously overleveled (just to compensate for the offensive type advantage Zapdos has on both of my mons while I don't have any) Hoppip

By the way, Tail Whip does this. What will Attract do? How can I lower defense now?

I hate these Dittos

At least I only lost a single Pokeball. It Synthesis'd and, when trying to weaken it some more, it died.

Three Pokemon at the same time: That's more than I ever had in this game so far

Forgot about the poison

And yes, that was an A-Unown.

One Pokeball at a full-HP Gastly...
The result? Caught it.

Hoppip might be a Bug-type in this game (which is pure nonsense, but I guess it needed to be nerfed somehow), but at least it still can do this :)

At least upon evolving into Skiploom, it became Bug/Grass, that's a lot better. Still worse than Grass/flying, though.

Falkner time again! All I have to do against this Aero is sit back and enjoy

Skarmy wasn't a lot harder even though I stupidly used Fire Spin first instead of just killing it with an Ember.

...and I forgot to restock my Pokeballs. This here was my last one

Slowpoke Well. Togepi, Sandshrew and Poliwag joined the team, one or two other captures failed due to bad luck. Suddenly a 10 level-jump and...

... a crit. Of course.

And as if that wasn't enough...

And suddenly I'm down from 6 Pokemon to 3 and one cannon fodder again.

Azelia gym appears to be Fire. And 5 minutes ago, I still had a Poliwag

Oops, I walked into the rival.
Fortunately his Dodou, Vulpix and Zapdos were easy pray. Sandslash's name is Admiral because I was trapped in Union Cave when I caught it, the way to Violet is sealed off and you can't go anywhere without fighting a few hikers (who killed me in attempt #2) and other junk. So basically just one of these lame, overused jokes that come to mind faster than anything else when trying to think of a nickname.
Well, Zapdos was actually still pretty strong, but no match for Rock/Ground Sandslash.

Jumpluff time!

I accidentally fought Bugsy before having defeated all of his trainers, but that was not a problem. The line-up of Charizard, Hooh and Entei might sound impressive, but they really were no big deal. Hooh was a bit annoying due to being sturdy, but it couldn't do a lot of damage either. Bugsy had lower levels than those Rockets and even the two or three of his Gym trainers I fought. Sandslash and Moltres won without too many problems.

Current team. Not sure whether I should try and level Why? the Togepi up or just use it as cannon fodder for a switch that would otherwise be uncomfortable.

Not dead yet. That's something :)

Spoiler:

It hurts giving Sandslash Cut... But that's the only way to go.

What the hell is this? In the middle of low and mid-20 trainers, suddenly this:

And why is does this thing not have a Flying type, but an useless and unreasonable Electric one? Who were you and what have you done to Jumpluff?

Thankfully that thing didn't have any Rock moves. The level 46 Electrode that followed it was easily dealt with by Admiral. Boom missed after Sand-Attack spam

Meanie the Geodude (named so because it was a Geodude who killed the best of my Zapdoses) joined the team for a short time - his pure Rock typing was constantly annoying to me and eventually its demise.

Caught another Poliwag :)
Interestingly enough, exactly at the level where I lost Polyester.

Whew. That was pretty close. I need Surf.

Got an awesome catch in Nazi Park

And because being level 32 is so much safer than 21...

Whitney's gym is grass...

Whitney herself had a Jumpluff (what a waste of a great Pokemon) and ... this

So i decide to sacrifice a Peasant...

...to win.

Even with an Energy Root, this was pretty damn close though.

Still not dead.

Spoiler:

New team member! Guess what it is...

Exactly. I really love these things when they're on my side. Pretty sturdy, not a lot of weaknesses, Sludge and Sludge Bomb are great spam moves...

Oh crap. Chansey is a Steel type. This might become pretty painful later on.

Everyone is at level 40!

For some reason I always value that level highly, no idea why exactly.

And only now I enter Dark Cave. Got this. By the way, did I mention Weezing is Poison/Dark too?

Poor Sudo

By the way, look at this:

Not too interesting? Well, now look at this:

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Anyway, I caught a Staryu here.

Unfortunately, it wasn't very long-lived. No idea what I was doing here.

I also got the Eevee from Goldenrod. Currently it's level 30 and hasn't evolved yet

And it's not Normal but Ground, which severely hampers it.

Two or three days of nothing later, I finally play some more: I train my Eevee up from level 30 to 42 or so. Still didn't evolve.
I decide to find a spot with higher-leveled Pokemon. Well, too bad Route 38 (Ecru.-Oliv.) is glitchy and weird and made the game freeze pretty soon. I don't have a screenshot because stupid photobucket stopped uploading at 94% and froze as well (apparently this is infectious), but let's just say it was a bizarre sight. So, since the game apparently doesn't continue past this point... let's say I beat it

 

[WolfsbaneCharm52]

In the midst of a challenge on my Platinum cart. So far I have a deceased Grottle and Shellos, leaving me with a combee, onix, and magikarp. Bah. I'll start sketching up my progress.

 

[godo156]

Almost the the Me on Black. My team: Dewott (not evolved for a reason), Bouffalant, Simisear (suprisinly survived up ta here), Scrafty, Audino, and Tranquill. Lost about six members, but have around ten boxed, anlong with my team, so around sixteen caught and not dead. I'm probably do a LeafGreen run next.

 

[Sayumi]

Ahh~ I'm doing a Nuzlocke Challenge on Ruby.

My team:

Koga (Marshtomp) : LEVEL 28
Shena (Mightyena) : LEVEL 25
Deira (Kirlia) : LEVEL 25
Seika (Dustox) : LEVEL 25
Kiaru (Electrike) : LEVEL 27
Tobi (Swablu) : LEVEL 26

I haven't played in about a week or so, but I'm going for my 4th gym badge. Hurah! I've only lost 2 Pokemon also. (Haruna = Whismer | Aries = Numel) Not a huge loss, so I was okay with it.

 

[psyanic]

I've been itching to do a Nuzlocke for a while... anyway this will be played on Ruby.

Rules:
1. If a Pokemon Faints, its dead, release it.
3. You can only catch/recieve one Pokemon in each Area. A town is one area, a route is one area, a cave is one area, etc. Should you fail to catch a Pokemon for any reason (other than game corruption) than too bad.
4. You must nickname all of your Pokemon (optional, but highly reccomended)
5. No catching legendaries.
6. Trading is disallowed, but the reasons following this clause are allowed. Egg trading is okay, same thing with Pokemon that can't have eggs. (optional) Trading simply for the purpose of evolution is perfectly OK.
7. Change the battle style to SET. (optional)

 

[Rocket Grunt Cali]

I just started a Nuzlocke of LeafGreen to keep me occupied while waiting for stuff, and I will now begin for you my Nuzlocke journal!

Leaf Green Journal #1

It started out with a dream. Not one of those wonderful dreams where you're floating through a magical field of rainbows, cupcakes, and unicorns, but a scary one where you're sitting in a blank room and a creepy old man can't tell which gender you are and forgets his own grandson's name. It was utterly traumatic, I'm sure none of you have ever experienced such a terrible, terrible nightmare.

Anyway, I woke up to begin my glorious Pokemon journey at the ripe old age of ten years old. It's the perfect age to go around taming monstrous dragon creatures with superpowers! I go prancing off to live my epic adventure and AM SUDDENLY ASSAULTED FROM THE CREEPY OLD GUY FROM MY DREAM! OMGOMGOMGOMG. He forces me to come to his lab because he has something to show me, but everything turns out much better than the utter horror I expected. Unfortunately, his grandson was there, proving once again that this particular old man desperately needs to be put in a home. DESPERATELY. But I got my first Pokemon, a Docile Charmander who I named Trogdor (if you read my Fire Monotype Run, this is a bit of a theme). Oak's grandson, who makes up for being so utterly forgettable by being a total jerk, picks Squirtle. Just to be a jerk. I don't know his name, but I think I'll call him Arse. And while I'm at it, I'll have Trogdor scratch his Squirtle to death. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THEM APPLES?
Knowing the dangers of our quest and fairly certain that only one of us is going to make it out of this alive, Trogdor and I set off to Viridian City to take part in the oh-so-dangerous task of being… DELIVERY BOYS. Or, more accurately, DELIVERY GIRL AND A FLAMING DELIVERY LIZARD. But that doesn't roll off the tongue as well. Trogdor scratched some rats and birds to death and learned Ember along the way, so he left a small trail of charred corpses behind us as we went back to Oak, where he demanded that Arse and I let him live vicariously through us. FINE, then. I WON'T live my own dreams.

I grabbed my Pokeballs and my 90s version of Bulbapedia and went on my merry way. Again. In the process, I caught Trogdor a friend, a male Level 2 Pidgey named Winged Rat. He wanted a more complimentary nickname, but I said no. Mwahaha. Now I'm in the process of training him up a bit… WILL HE SURVIVE? Only time will tell!

Spoiler:

Trogdor, Level 7
Male, Docile nature
Starter
Scratch, Growl, Ember

Winged Rat, Level 3
Male, Gentle nature
Route 1
Tackle

 

[FalconsDrummer]

I've never done any kind of challenge or anything, but recently I was inspired to try this. I am playing a FireRed challenge and a Diamond one, but I'm putting FireRed on hold to focus on Diamond.

I just reached Jubilife, with a Shinx and my Chimchar. So far I have lost a level 2 Starly.