[Challenge] The Randomized Nuzlocke Challenge

[AoTora]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gzyVGSwqFk&list=PL9uTqoQc8K79zU7QHRRiA31dGXERHXqDm

So I just finished Blaze Black randomizer nuzlocke on my channel and man is this game a pain to complete lol, I decided to go all the way to Cynthia and beat her as the final challenge (without Nuzlocke rules because I chose to officially end nuzlocke with champion battle)- I had a lot and I really mean a lot of deaths in this game and it was a pain to complete, but I did it and I can finally say that I've beaten a Drayano hack and that's a lot xD

Oh and I also completed this right before new years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L6qYpeU68w&list=PL9uTqoQc8K78EKchQZqwlwMdtj5Xlx1GK

I used online red randomizer but I randomized movesets as well so that I had an extra challenge - also had a lot of deaths because of that since anything could have fissure, sheer cold or explosion or self destruct or anything like that lol

 

[Disturb Not The Harmony]

Username: Disturb Not The Harmony
Game: Blue
Additional Rules: None

Another round of Blue.

Spoiler:

Starters: Marowak, Bulbasaur, Electabuzz.

Pallet: Marowak.
Route 22: Kadabra.
Viridian Forest: Victreebel.
Route 3: Dragonite.
Mt. Moon: Jigglypuff.
"Magikarp": Alakazam.

...do I even need to point out how broken this is? I have multiples of the arguable best non-Mew/two Pokemon in the game...

Route 4: Wartortle

I mean, I cleared Nugget Bridge and the area above it just by holding down Autofire A...

Vermillion (Old Rod): Raticate
North Vermillion: Raticate
East Vermillion: Pidgey
Diglett's Cave: Goldeen
Celadon "Eevee": Onix
"Hitmonlee": NidoranF
Celadon "Snorlax": Weezing
Vermillion "Snorlax": Lord Helix
Cinnabar Mansion: Poliwhirl
"Moltres": Mr. Mime

Lorelei: Machamp, Mew (only semi-challenging Pokemon in the game), Jynx, Kangaskhan, Starmie
Bruno: Drowzee, Rhyhorn, Eevee, Hitmonchan, Snorlax (Hyper Beam took Alakazam to 2 HP...)
Agatha: Dewgong, Weezing, Persian, Dragonair, Venusaur
Lance: Gengar, Arbok, Dugtrio, Magmar, Alakazam (surprisingly lacking in difficulty due to not landing confusion or Special drop)
Rival: Arbok, Lapras, Ninetales, Nidoqueen, Articuno (unnervingly strong - landed Freeze, thank heavens for Full Restores), Venusaur

ZAHN the L60 Alakazam
Psychic | Psybeam | Confusion | Recover

Alakazam is so stupidly OP it's hilarious. You know the game's unbalanced when the designers introduced two whole new types so that a single Pokemon couldn't sweep the Elite Four simply by mashing A.

 

[Sylvie]

Sounds fun, recently found the randomizer thing myself so looking for an excuse to try it out.
Username:Sylvie
Game: Heart Gold
Additional Rules: No legendaries (for both trainers or for myself, i dislike using them)
Randomize both requested and given pokemon in trades
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Badges:

Deaths: 3

Spoiler:

Journey:

Spoiler:

Started and named Self Sylvie

-My starter choices were Vileplume, Marowak or Staraptor. Genuinely difficult choices.
-Chose Marowak and named him Skull.

-was told to retrieve egg for professor elm
-first encounter on first route was elekid. killed it as had no balls.
-given running shoes in cherry grove

-first encounter on route 30 was a croconaw, killed that too as still no balls
-got an apricorn box
-ran away from a duskull with levitate to avoid certain doom

-received a mystery egg and a pokedex
-fought Silver on the way back to Elm, his staraptor looked familiar

-was finally taught how to catch pokemon and was given some balls.
-since i already killed elekid on route 29 and croconaw on 30, i went to meet my first potential teammate at the bottom of route 46
-My first encounter was a diglett yay monotype nuzlocke?
-caught the diglett without harming it and named her Rosa

-trained Rosa to level 10 (the porygon in the area gave me a scary close call with her though)
-met a venasaur over on route 31 and by some miracle managed to catch it without anyone dying
-named my new team mate Vince
-popped into Dark cave and caught Zulu the qwilfish
-zulu died shortly after due to a krickitot's bide :(

-healed in violet city
-got HM rocksmash on route 36
-solved the ruins of alph puzzle and recieved and unknown report
-caught a quagsire down there and named him Slim Jim
-caught Zombie the parasect on route 32
-Rosa was killed by a Drapion here.

-while training back on route 31 i encountered a shiny krickitot!(not sure why i got excited, its worse than rattata) only the 3rd shiny i've ever encountered in actual games.
-Thank god for the ShinyClause. caught and named her Anna for the sake of it. If and when she dies (its a krickitot of course it will) she can stay in the box instead of getting released.

-Aaand Zombie was killed by an alakazams confusion while training (im not going to get anywhere xD)
-Huh Anna Evolved at lvl 10. Who knew.
-entered sprout tower my first encounter was Skorpia the Gliscor, only just managed to get her with my last pokeball.
-fought up the tower and took out all the trainers but returned to the pokecenter and pokemart before reaching the master
-defeated Elder Li

====Sylvie Challenges Falkner=====

~~Slim Jim (12) Vs. Rattata (9)~~

As the faster pokemon, Rattata began with Focusing its power, hoping to gain the advantage via critical hits, but Slim Jim smacked it square in the face with a strong mud shot. Somehow Rattata managed to hold on but thanks to the gunky mud its speed was reduced.
It countered this with a Quick attack however, but Slim Jim barely felt a thing as the rodent merely grazed past his damp body. He span around and hit Rattata int he back with a water gun, knocking the poor thing out and winning us the first round.

~~Vince (15) Vs. Anorith (13)~~

We began the match with a Leech seed which hit the unsuspecting fossil, entangling him in our vampiric vines. The anorith proceeded to scratch us while struggling to free himself, but the leech seed quickly replenished any HP lost. To kick the opponent while it was down we
also showered them with some poison powder, furthering the opponents suffering and i almost took pity on it, until it scratched Vince again. Deciding to wrap this up i ordered a vine whip, but was a little surprised when the tanky fossil took the hit like a champ, and even after
the effects of leech seed and poison, survived with 1 hp. Poor Falkner was insisting that they could still "Fly", but i think the poor boy was a bit panicked. I intended to put his pokemon out of his misery but Vince's next tackle missed, leaving him open for another scratch
as well as dying from leech seed. Poor sod.

===Sylvie wins!=====

-Recieved my first badge, the Zephyr badge
-taught Rock smash to Anna hoping she might be more useful in battle.
-as i left the gym Elm called and told me he wanted me to babysit the pokemon egg.
-picked up the egg and started towards Azalea town.

Team:

Skull lvl 15
Naughty/Lightning Rod
Growl/Leer/Bone club/Headbutt


Vince Lvl 15
Serious/Overgrow
Tackle/Poison Powder/Leech seed/Vine whip


Slim Jim Lvl 13
Rash/Water Absorb
Water Gun/Tail whip/Mud sport/Mud shot


Anna lvl 10
Serious/Swarm
Growl/Bide/Fury Cutter/Rock Smash


Scorpia Lvl 9
Timid/Hyper Cutter
Poison Jab/Sand attack/Harden/Knock Off

???​

 

[Sylvie]

Badges:

Deaths:

Spoiler:

Journey:

Spoiler:

-Found a shell bell and gave it to Skull
-gave Vince a miracle seed
-Union cave, first encounter is a cranidos and i realize i only have 1 great ball and two lure balls left..
-Had vince use poison powder and leech seed and managed to capture Rex the cranidos in my second lure ball, leaving me with just one great ball left. Good thing i'm on my way to visit Kurt...

-Arrived in azalea town to see a team rocket member harassing someone.
-stocked up on pokeballs at the pokemart
-paid Kurt a visit, but he told me to wait and left the house. I followed him to the well.
-popped over to route 33 to have my first encounter now i've got balls.
-First encounter was a male combee...Worker joined the PC party

-Entered the slowpoke well and encountered a seaking. Caught it and named him Fish. (totally not watching boxtrolls)
-Challenged and defeated Executive Proton of Team rocket and kicked them out of azalea town (though most of my pokemon were weak to snover)
-Added Kurts number to my phone and had him make me some custom balls

-Silver showed up out of nowhere, threw insults around and then attacked me
-Defeated his meowth and diglett easily, but his staraptor had a horrible double team/endeavor combination that nearly wiped whoever faced it.
-Lost Scorpia to that horrid staraptor
-Rex joined the main team
-attempted to train the young Rex back on route 33

-wandered over to train in ilex forest next and my first encounter there was a jolteon but stupid rex killed it instead of weakening it. Dx
-Caught some kid's farfetch'd and recieved the HM cut for my troubles, but was told i'd need to defeat azalea gym leader to use it
-grinded up a little more to prepare for the gym

-challenged the gym(the trainers there actually had a few bug types!)

===Sylvie Challenges Bugsy===

~~~Slim Jim/Rex Vs Dusknoir(17)~~~
We started with a water gun, which did little and Dusknoir countered with Astonish. A mud shot confirmed that Dusknoir did not possess the levitate ability, but the opponent quickly put an end to
that move with Disable leaving us pretty much with only water gun to use. We used the only move available to us, but Dusknoir ate a sitrus berry and pretty much restored all of its health before
identifying us with a foresight. I was tempted to switch to Rex as he knew Pursuit at this point but at only lvl 13 i risked getting him killed without knowing Dusknoirs 4th move.

Continued to chip away with water gun and dusknoir continued to use astonish, though when it reached the point that Bugsy used a super potion i risked the swap.

Rex was smacked with an astonish when he joined the fray and it hurt him quit a bit, whereas pursuit did nowhere near as much damage as i had hoped. We tried again anyway as once again dusknoir used his forsight against us, before finally disabling pursuit altogether. Unable to attack the ghost type opponent at all i was forced to switch back to Slim Jim

The usual astonish met us with the switch and we replied with a mud shot, lowering the opponents speed. At this point Slim Jim's hp was getting low so i opted for a mid-battle potion. Dusknoir didn't
take advantage of the opportunity, choosing to forsight again and Slim Jim was able to knock out the ghost with one more mud-shot.

~~~Skull(20) Vs Kricketot(15)~~~
Bugsy started this round with a bide, instantly scaring me to death, Skulls bone club only removed half hp, so this next attack had to hit or Skull would die. Thankfully Bone club hit and knocked out
the bug, allowing me to breath a sigh of relief.

~~~Skull(20) Vs Pichu(15)~~~
One shot it with a bone club.

-We won the Hive badge

-taught Cut to Anna, who already knew rock-smash. Can already see where this is going....
-I saw the weird looking girl again in the forest. she called herself a kimono girl but claims she's never met me before. strange. Rex showed her out of the forest.
-arrived on route 34, first encounter was...a beautifly..Vince did the usual Leech seed/poison powder combo to weaken it, but it refused to be caught and died.
-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Sorry. My mystery egg hatched into a Venomoth. I named it Troll.

-my mother went on a shopping spree with my cash. she called me 4 times in the space of 10 minutes.
-moved onto route 35 for training. first encounter was a far'fetched. accidentally killed it *sigh* 3 routes of nothing
-managed to catch a doduo in the national park. Named it cerberus.
-returned to Kurt to collect my pokeballs and bought some more at the mart after.
-Caught piranha the carvanha on route 36 with a fast ball. easiest catch yet.

-challenged the gym

===Sylvie challenges Whitney===

~~~Vince (22) Vs Buizel(17)~~~
Buizel attempted to harm us with a quick attack, doing little so i had Vince one-shot it with a razor leaf attack

~~~Vince (22) Vs Lapras(19)~~~
Both sides started tactically, we hit the lapras with a leech side and it countered with confuse ray. It then smacked us with an ice shard, which is what i had been worried about and instead of fighting back
with poisonpowder, Vince hurt himself in his confusion. Thankfully leech seed was in effect to claw back our hp. Knowing they were onto something, Lapras used ice shard again. Thankfully this time Vince managed to hit them with a razor leaf, but it wasn't quite enough to knock them down. Whitney used a super potion and we went back to damaging ourselves. Another ice shard, but we finally snapped out of confusion...only to miss our next poisonpowder.

No longer confused, vince managed to get the first move in to razor leaf lapras to death and win the battle.

- we won the plain badge​

Team:

Skull lvl 23@Shell Bell
Naughty/Lightning Rod
Focus energy/Bonemerang/Bone club/Headbutt

Vince lvl 23@Miracle Seed
Serious/Overgrow
Tackle/PoisonPowder/Leech Seed/Razor Leaf

Slim Jim lvl 21
Rash/Water Absorb
Water Gun/Mud Bomb/Slam/Mud Shot

Anna lvl 20
Serious/Swarm
Sing/Cut/Fury Cutter/Rock Smash

Rex lvl 20@Quick Claw
Lonely/Mold Breaker
Headbutt/Leer/Focus Energy/Pursuit

Troll lvl 20
Naughty/Tinted Lens
Leech life/Poisonpowder/Confusion/Extrasensory
​

 

[Sylvie]

I'm going to have to drop out of my challenge. My game keeps getting glitches that loses me a good amount of game play if i forget to save often. Starting to get frustrating :( I'll try again on another game when i'm feeling less disheartened

 

[phantomness]

So I'm discontinuing the Pokemon Godra fan-game challenge, as I can't progress much further anyway because that fan game was incomplete and I'm not sure I want to retry it in the new remastered Godra yet. Time to return to Kanto with the new Pokemon 807 patch randomized!

Username: Phantomness
Game: Fire Red with the 807 patch
Additional Rules: Rival keeps starter throughout the game, similar strength in trainers and wild pokemon, no legendaries for myself or other trainers, starters are 3-stages (that one seemed to glitch however...), enable National Dex at start

Spoiler:

Starter choices turned out to be Bagon, Lunatone and Noivern. I picked Noivern and named him Dracula.
Surprisingly did not manage to catch a Patrat on Route 1.
Caught Smeargle on Route 22, named it Inutil since it sketched Dracula's Tackle.
On Route 2 caught Tynamo but it froze the game. I wonder if that's because National Dex was enabled at the start? I should retry.

 

[Hemoplauger]

I recently started my own randomized nuzlocke.
I'm playing Pokemon Insurgence.
The link to episode one of the series is in my signature.

 

[Janp]

Username: Janp
Game: Fire Red
Additional Rules: National Dex, randomized items and TMs, updates moves and stats and that's it I think

Randomized Nuzlocke in Pokémon Fire Red

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Okay, I probably should post sign-up earlier, but I finished my randomized Nuzlocke run in Fire Red.

I decided to do another Randomized Nuzlocke after several years and it was fun. Regular Nuzlockes in Kanto are quite boring and bland, but randomizing few things made this probably the best Kanto run I had in a while. Starters were Grovyle, Wailmer and Slakoth and I chose Grovyle after a lot of deciding between it and Slakoth. But I've used Slakoth recently, so Hoenn starter it was. And right on the Route 1 I found Blaziken and then found Swampert and another Treecko and Combusken and Mudkip. The whole Kanto was infested with Hoenn starters. But most of them weren't my first encounters on their Routes.

Aside from that, this run was pretty good. I caught Wobuffet on Route 1 and won 1st 3 badges just with it. But then I decided to box it because training it was really painful. I love using Wobuffet, but I would win this run within minutes with it. There weren't really any problems and randomized teams made it interesting. But it also made it laughably easy. Lance had Pichu on his team.

As for the death for the run, there were several of them. Magnemite was 1st one. I caught it and it literally died in its 1st battle to a crit. Then Smoochum, my replacement for Wobuffet, died in the Lavender Tower. My starter Grovyle fell victim to the stupidest moment in the whole run. It was night, I was tired, but wanted to get through the Silph Co., when I stopped paying attention and used Quick Attack several times against Misdreavus and proceed to die to Curse. That was fun. I'm not sure when exactly Beautifly died, but it was somewhere around Blaine battle. I'm not sure if it was against one of the trainers in the Gym or Blaine himself, but it was devastating. And finally, Golem. It happened during fight with Lorelei. I grinded my whole team to level 60 just to be sure I'm prepared, but it wasn't enough and Lorelei's Glalie evaded Ancient Power and OHKO'd Golem with a Blizzard.

So overall I enjoyed this run. The RNG really screwed me few times, for example I got paralyzed for 5 turns straight and then my attacked missed. And this is one of the better examples. But Kanto was fun for once.

So, here's Hall of Fame:

Team

Memeterial, Bashful Male Swampert @Quick Claw
lvl 63, Torrent
- Surf
- Protect
- Earthquake
- Meteor Mash

Darling, Bold Female Cacturne @Scope Lens
lvl 63, Sand Veil
- Needle Arm
- Pin Missile
- Faint Attack
- Leech Seed

Umbreno, Jolly Male Espeon @Twistedspoon
lvl 61, Synchronize
- Psychic
- Morning Sun
- Quick Attack
- Sand-Attack

Bayblade, Bold Male Hitmontop @Choice Band
lvl 60, Intimidate
- Rolling Kick
- Counter
- Quick Attack
- Pursuit

Magma, Impish Male Houndoom @Charcoal
lvl 61, Early Bird
- Crunch
- Flamethrower
- Sludge Bomb
- Howl​

 

[ZexceedKeil123]

Username:ZexceedKeil123
Game:Emerald
Additional Rules
Randomized Items/TMs
National Dex at start
Force Fully Evolved pokemon at level 40 for trainers
Randomized wild held items

 

[ZexceedKeil123]

Starters turned out to be Ditto, Nuzleaf and Dustox so I went with Astro the Dustox and grinded just a bit before facing May. Beat may easily since she only had a Ditto haha. Chaught Oscar the Swinub on route 101, Peggy the Pidgey on route 103 and Rias the Ralts on route 102. Grinded everyone to level 7. Oscar had a TM for SolarBeam on him that anyone could learn so I taught it to Rias(It was TM44 normally Rest so ofcourse anyone could learn it). Then Rias died to a Pichu of all things oh my god. Wally ended up catching a Lombre using Norman's Plusle haha. Chaught Steve the Weedle on route 104 and Duchess the Shuppet in the Forrest. Found a LUCKY EGG in a hidden loot area so thats nice. Got everyone to level 10 and got to Rustboro then saved.


Team:
Astro the Dustox level 10
Confusion

Peggy the Pidgey level 10
Tackle
Sand-Attack
Gust

Steve the Beedrill level 10
Poison Sting
String Shot
Harden
Fury Attack

Oscar the Swinub level 10
Tackle
Odor Sleuth
Powder Snow

Duchess the Shuppet level 11
Knock Off
Screech


Dead:
Rias the Ralts level 4
Solar Beam
Growl

 

[SetheKing]

Username: SetheKing
Game: Black
Additional Rules: N/A

 

[Pluckles]

Username: Pluckles
Game: Fire Red
Additional Rules: Random field items, random move tutor

 

[Pluckles]

Completed the FireRed run!

Must say, it was kind of a breeze this time around. I got lucky with the mons that I caught.


Pepper lv 56 (Route 3 as a Geodude)
King's Rock
Rock Throw/Earthquake/Rollout/Rock Blast



Jelly lv 57 (Saffron City Fighting Dojo)
Psychic/Confusion/Disable/Amnesia



Sage lv 58 (Route 2)
Magnet
Tri Attack/Spark/Thundershock/Thunder Wave



Thyme lv 58 (Pokemon Tower as a Seel)
Nevermeltice
Surf/Ice Beam/Aurora Beam/Icy Wind



Jam lv 56 (Victory Road)
Sludge/Sludge Bomb/Minimize/Acid Armor



Cinnamon lv 57 (Starter Pokemon)
Strength/Reversal/Fake Out/Dizzy Punch


Here's my backups (Shoutout to Flour the Vileplume, who was actually great until I decided to switch her out.

Annnnnnndd here's the graveyard, RIP

Overall, it was fun. Took a long break from Pokemon so it's nice to get back to these challenge runs.

 

[Pluckles]

Username: Pluckles
Game: Emerald
Additional rules: Random Items

 

[Pluckles]

Finished my challenge run for Emerald!

Overall, I had much more difficulty with this one compared to fire red, and at one point I was getting into double battles where they had two legendaries. It was really rough, and glad I kept overleveling before moving on.



Apple lv 58 (starter as Machop)
Shell Bel
Karate Chop/Revenge/Cross Chop/Strength


Squash lv 55 (Seafloor Cavern as Cyndaquil)
Charcoal
Flame Wheel/Ember/Overheat/Quick Attack


Plantain lv 56 (Mt. Pyre)
Quick Claw
Poison Fang/Bite/Fly/Steel Wing


Watermelon lv 56 (Route 106 as Pupitar)
Blackglasses
Blizzard/Rock Slide/Rock Smash/Crunch


Cherry lv 55 (Route 111)
Mystic Water
Surf/Dive/Waterfall/Earthquake


Cantaloupe lv 56 (Fiery Path)
Twisted Spoon
Extremespeed/Psycho Boost/Psychic/Thunderbolt

https://imgur.com/a/qQnaeVl

 

[323k13L]

i would like to sign in
Username:323k13L
trainer name:Rosa
Game:Pokemon Black 2
randomization:wild encounters,evolutions,static encounters,trainers pokemon,field items,movesets,full tm and hm compatibility,tm and move tutors moves,abilities,
nuzlocke rules:
-permadeath
-only first encounter each area
-must nickname all pokemon
-nuzlocke start when u get pokeballs from any NPC
-battle style must set mode
-no items in battle(items outside lf battle and held items are allowed)
-cant overlevel from each gym leadet highest level pokemon
-CherenLevel 13
-RoxieLevel 18
-BurghLevel 24
-ElesaLevel 30
-ClayLevel 33
-SkylaLevel 39
-DraydenLevel 48
-MarlonLevel 51
-Unova League/IrisLevel 59

 

[Pluckles]

Username: Pluckles
Game: Platinum
Additional Rules: no legendaries in the team

 

[Pluckles]

Finished with the Platinum run!

This one was a doozy, ended up with only four alive at the end. I did end up keep my starter (Flygon) and one of my first captures (Wailord) all the way to the end.



Xoxo lv 53
Confusion / Wring Out / Avalanche / Ice Punch



Twiwie lv 54
Discharge / Hydro Pump / Spark / Signal Beam



Big Gurlll lv 52
Surf / Water Pulse / Brine / Waterfall



Lush lv 53
Dig / Dragon Claw / Fly / Rock Smash

 

[Pumpkaboo92]

Username:Pumpkaboo92 (In game it will be Roda)
Game: I'm going to do red, crystal, emerald and pearl.
Additional Rules:Dupes clause and shiny clause.

 

[Kyatra]

Username: Kyatra
Game: Black
Additional Rules: Evolution randomized, subtracted similar strength, randomized held and field items
- no legendaries
- cap level on gym leader's team and battle each gym the same amount as on their team
- Dupe and shiny clause