The Ultimate Lyric Challenge

[MythologicalHAX]

The Ultimate Lyric Challenge​

The Challenge:​

The Lyric Challenge incorporates your favorite music into your Pokemon adventure! You and your team of 6 Pokemon will face enormous challenges as you spread the joy of your favorite song all across the Pokeuniverse!
In other words, in this challenge you will pick a song and then build a team of 6 using the genre, band, and lyrics of the song.​

The Rules:​

1. Cheating/Hacking in certain Pokemon is allowed (only if they can not be obtained in the game normally prior to completing the challenge and if trading is unavailable)
2. Trading is allowed to get your team members
3. You must have a full team of six upon completion of the challenge, excluding HM slaves.
4. HM Slaves are allowed
5. Emulators are allowed
6. No Legendary Pokemon are allowed
7. Challenge ends upon defeating Blue(R/B/Y/FR/LG), Red(G/S/C/HG/SS), Steven(R/S), Wallace(E), Cynthia(D/P/Pt), Alder(B/W), or Iris (B2/W2).
8. If you feel like the entire world should hear your song, then you may participate in the Ultimate Lyric Challenge where you go through all five gens.​

Your Team:​

I. The Genre - This Pokemon represents the genre of your chosen and must be of a type that corresponds with that genre(List Below).​

Classic Rock - Rock-type​

Dubstep - Dragon-type​

Country - Ground-type

Metal - Steel-type

Techno - Electric

Folk - Ground​

Reggae - Water

Swing - Bug​

Jazz - Ice​

Rap - Fighting​

Emo Rock - Dark​

New Age - Psychic​

Bluegrass - Grass​

Punk - Poison​

R&B - Normal​

Funk - Fire

Disco - Ghost

Pop - Flying

Alternative Rock - Rock

Soul - Psychic

Indie - Flying

2. The Band/Singer - This Pokemon represents the band that plays your song.(e.g. Dragonforce -> Dragonite)​

The remaining pokemon on your team are based off of the lyrics of the song itself and at least one pokemon must be based off of the chorus of the song​

Sign Up:
Username:
Game: (if participating in the Ultimate Lyric Challenge please list all 5 games)
Song: (Title/Artist/Genre)
Team: (The 6 Pokemon you plan on using)
Reasons: (The explanations of each Pokemon and how they fit into their category)​

My Sign Up:
Username: MythologicalHAX
Game: White 2
Song: The Crow and the Butterfly/Shinedown/Emo Rock
Team: Tyranitar, Umbreon, Honchkrow, Butterfree, Milotic, Gengar
Reasons:​

Spoiler:

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Genre - Rock/Dark-type... need I say more?

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Band - Shinedown is usually dark, but they shine through the darkness and try to bring heavier meaning with most of their music, Umbreon just seems like a perfect fit to me.​

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Chorus - Just like a CROW chasing a butterfly, dandelions lost in the summer sky.​

When you and I were getting high as outer space,​

Never thought you'd slip away.​

Guess I was just a little too late.​

Reason - Honchkrow is based off of a crow.​

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Lyric - Just like a crow chasing a BUTTERFLY, dandelions lost in the summer sky.​

When you and I were getting high as outer space,​

Never thought you'd slip away.​

Guess I was just a little too late.​

Reason - Butterfree is... well... a butterfly... nuff said.​

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Lyric - Your words still serenade me,​

Your lullabies won't let me sleep,​

I've never heard such a haunting melody,​

Oh it's killing me...​

And now I can barely breathe.​

Reason - Milotic is based loosely on sirens, mythical creatures who hypnotize sailors with their beautiful singing voices and lure them into dangerous waters where their ships would crash killing them.​

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Lyric - I painted your room at midnight,​

So I'd know yesterday was over.​

I put all your books on the top shelf,​

Even the one with the four leaf clover.​

Man, I'm getting older.​

I took all your pictures off the wall,​

Wrapped them in a newspaper blanket.​

I haven't slept in what seems like a century,​

And now I can barely breathe.​

Reason - this verse is about a lost loved one coping with the depression and not being able to sleep because of the constant nightmares. Gengar is a Ghost-type Pokemon, signifying what used to be. Gengar is also known to cause nightmares and to feed on the dreams of those asleep.​

Current Challengers:​

Spoiler:

MythologicalHAX - White 2, Twiddle - Diamond, Eeveelution Coodinator- Saphire, BlueShellBeast - ULTIMATE, Lockdown! - Black 2, Puppeteer Mask - ULTIMATE

Champions:​

Spoiler:

none(yet)

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[Twiddle]

This seems quite interesting.

Before anything, I think it would be better if we shared the songs, so here it is.



Username: Twiddle

Game: Pokémon Diamond

Song: Blinding / Florence & The Machine / (her genre is Indie Rock/Indie Pop, so I'll list it as Pop)

Team:
1. Togekiss
2. Ninetales
3. Gardevoir
4. Manectric
5. Spiritomb
6. Froslass


Reasons:

1. I picked Togekiss since it was not only a Flying Pokémon, but also a symbol of peace, which defines Florence & The Machine in pretty much everything.

2. I seriously wanted Cresselia to be the representation of Florence, but as legendary pokémon aren't allowed, Ninetales is my pick for the representation of the Lead Singer, since Florence Welch has that strong part of her music while still being quite ominous. And she reminds me of orange things.

3. "Felt it in my fist, in my feet, in the hollows of my eyelids
Shaking through my skull, through my spine and down through my ribs"
I picked Gardevoir, since Ralts is the Feeling Pokémon. As those two verses talk about physical feelings that turn into emotional ones, I think it fits.

4. "And I could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack
All around the world was waking, I never could go back"
An electric pokémon would match these verses, and as such, I picked Manectric.

5. "No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone"
Spiritomb is the Sealed Pokémon, which means it undoes death. Plus, he's a Ghost/Dark pokémon, so he's the fifth member of the team.

6. " No more dreaming like a girl, so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl, so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl, so in love with the wrong world"
I had to pick an only-female pokémon that would represent love and another dimension. As such, I picked Froslass.


I'll have to hack to get every single one of them, and because of that I'll catch them right at the beginning.


Also, I suggest you add Alternative Rock, Indie and Soul as genres.

 

[MythologicalHAX]

Also, I suggest you add Alternative Rock, Indie and Soul as genres.

I would love to, but I don't know about types for sure, so any helpful ideas as far as types go would be fantastic. Also, welcome to the challenge! Your name has been added :D

 

[Twiddle]

Ty; I would suggest putting Soul in either Grass or Psychic, and Indie in Flying or Normal. Alternative Rock should be in Rock, too.


Started the challenge last night and picked the female character; named her Flo because of my song, and the rival is called Isabela (since Florence Robot/Isabella Machine). Already caught the 6 pokémon, at level 10, and just reached Jubilife City.

Team:

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Nickname: Mistress
Gender: Female
Level: 10
Nature: Quiet
Trait: Inner Focus
Moves:
- Powder Snow
- Leer
- Double Team
- Bite


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Nickname: Feeling
Gender: Female
Level: 10
Nature: Careful
Trait: Trace
Moves:
- Growl
- Confusion
- Double Team


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Nickname: Indie
Gender: Male
Level: 10
Nature: Mild
Trait: Serene Grace
Moves:
- Growl
- Charm
- Metronome
- Sweet Kiss


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Nickname: Cursed
Gender: Female
Level: 11
Nature: Calm
Trait: Flash Fire
Moves:
- Ember
- Tail Whip
- Roar
- Quick Attack


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Nickname: Broken
Gender: Male
Level: 10
Nature: Bashful
Trait: Lightningrod
Moves:
- Tackle
- Leer
- Thunder Wave


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Nickname: Not Dead
Gender: Male
Level: 10
Nature: Calm
Trait: Pressure
Moves:
- Confuse Ray
- Spite
- Shadow Sneak
- Faint Attack




Me out~

 

[MythologicalHAX]

Well, it's about time for my first update.

-Started new game on W2
-Realized that I cannot hack in Pokemon so I have to beat Cheren and trade my team over before the challenge can truly begin
-Picked the girl character and named myself Jim b/c lolz
-Named my rival Vegeta
-Picked Snivy named him Trade
-Beat rival
-Caught a Purrloin on first route, named Trade2
-Started Alder's "training"
-Beat Vegeta again...
-Saved in Floccasy Ranch

Sorry for the short first update, have been swamped lately.

 

[Eeveelution Co-ordinator]

Username: Eeveelution Co-Ordinator
Game: Sapphire
Song: Wings/Little Mix/Pop
Team:

Pelipper
Reason: It is Flying Type and the name of the song is 'Wings', and Pelipper has wings...

Roselia
Reason: Roselia is only 0.3m tall, so is 'Little'.

Beutifly/Dustox
Reason: (CHORUS)Mama told me not to waste my life,
She said spread your wings my little butterfly

Flygon
Reason: My feet, feet can't touch the ground
And I can't hear a sound
But you just keep on running up your mouth yeah (Ability is Levitate)

Exploud
Reason: Your words don't mean a thing
I'm not listening

AND

My feet, feet can't touch the ground
And I can't hear a sound(Ability is Soundproof)

Salamence
Reason: (CHORUS) Don't matter if I fall from the sky
These wings are made to fly (Is able to learn Fly via Level-Up and has a back story about wishing to Fly)

 

[BlueShellBeast]

I want to use a Folk song for this challenge, but I don't see that in the genre list. What type would you put that under? Ground?

 

[Twiddle]

I want to use a Folk song for this challenge, but I don't see that in the genre list. What type would you put that under? Ground?

As you're the first to talk about Folk music in the topic, I think you should be the one to decide that. It's kinda what I did with my genre =)

 

[Lockdown]

I'll try this.

Username: Lockdown
Game: B2
Song: Carry On / Avenged Sevenfold / Emo Rock
Team: Tyranitar, Braviary, Magmortar, Gallade, Salamence, Garchomp
Reasons:

Spoiler:

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Tyranitar (Rock/Dark)
It's Emo Rock, that's why.

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Braviary (Normal/Flying)
Braviary is an eagle, that's name supports the fact that it is probably a very brave pokemon, it's also the Valiant pokemon, so my guess would be that it would avenge it's fallen comrades, thus going along with the band name, Avenged Sevenfold.

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Magmortar (Fire)

"Caught in the flame or those deep in fire."
He's made of fire, for God's sake!

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Gallade (Psychic/Fighting)

"Search endlessly,
Fight till we're free!
Fly past the edge of the sea!"

He's fighting type, and most likely would fight his way out of anything.

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Salamence (Dragon/Flying)

"Search endlessly,
Fight till we're free!
Fly past the edge of, the sea!
No bended knee!
No mockery!
Some how we still carry on!"

As a Bagon, he always wanted to fly. He endlessly searched for his wings, and wouldn't except any mockery. As a Shelgon, he fought until he was free, and got rid of his shell. He now had wings, and he flew past the edge of the sea.

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Garchomp (Dragon/Ground)

"Silence your fear, we've got to move higher
High like the stars in the sky, guiding us all!
Battle the will of those who conspire
Take back the passion to live, vanish the sorrow!

Destroy their perfect crime, watch the power fold"

Garchomp is big, scary, and bad ass. He will take back your passion to live, and his own sorrow will vanish, whilst doing so. He will destroy you, and watch your power fold.

It was hard to find a pokemon that fit the name 'Avenged Sevenfold".
Glad that's over. Now comes the hard part. Hacking them all in.

 

[BlueShellBeast]

As you're the first to talk about Folk music in the topic, I think you should be the one to decide that. It's kinda what I did with my genre =)

Alright, I believe that Folk fits ground the most, but feel free to stop me HAX if you don't agree with this assessment.

Username: BlueShellBeast
Game: Red -> Silver -> Ruby -> Platinum -> White 2
Song: The Sound of Silence/Simon & Garfunkel/Folk Music
Team:
1. Sandslash
2. Doduo
3. Marowak
4. Scyther
5. Alakazam
6. Arcanine
Reasons:

It's a ground type, fitting the folk genre.

Simon and Garfunkel are a duo, making Doduo a perfect choice to represent them.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone

Not only is Marowak an orphaned Pokemon, but it is also a Ground type, making it a good fit.

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
...
To the neon god they made

Scyther is one of the Pokemon that is available in the Celadon Game Corner in Pokemon Red, fitting the 'neon god'.

"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows

To quote his Silver Pokedex Entry "Its brain cells multiply until it dies. As a result, it remembers everything." Since it's brain cells grow uncontrollably, it's cancer.

And the people bowed and prayed

Once again quoting a Silver Pokedex Entry "Its magnificent bark conveys a sense of majesty. Anyone hearing it can't help but grovel before it". This shows that Arcanine is a Pokemon that is worshiped, even if it is not truly legendary, kind of like how the song is telling a story of people worshiping idols and materialistic things.

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[Puppeteer Mask]

Disco - Ghost

I see what you did there. Well, I'd be willing to try out an ultimate challenge. Are we allowed to use different songs for each region? I've got more than one favourite for sure, and I think if I tried to apply a team from each generation to the same song I'd probably get sick of it real fast.

Anyways.

Username: Puppeteer Mask
Game: FireRed -> HeartGold -> Emerald -> Platinum -> Black
FireRed Song: Don't Start A Band/Reel Big Fish/Punk
FireRed Team: Weezing, Gyrados, Hypno, Wigglytuff, Primeape, Farfetch'd
FireRed Reasons:

The Genre: Weezing. Fits the type requirement for Punk by being a Poison type, and fits even better since she's the favoured pokemon of Gym Leader and punk rocker Roxie.

The Band: Gyrados. The band's name is called Reel Big Fish. Gyrados is probably the biggest gosh darn fish in all of Gen 1.

The Lyrics:

I hate to ruin the magic
I hate to kill the dream
But once you've been behind the scenes then you'll know just what I mean

The Hypno line's entire gimmick was the Dream Eater move in its debut. Its horrific implications, creepiness and prominence in Creepypasta has definitely "ruined the magic" of pokemon for me sometimes too.

And there's no applause and no flying bras
No girls will scream for you and no ones gonna sing along with you

Jigglypuff's running gag in the anime always made me feel bad for it. All it wants to do is sing its heart out but it just winds up knocking everyone out, oblviously thinking that they're all sleeping out of spite. Seems fitting for the line.

Rock and roll will bring you down
And it will kick you while your on the ground

Primeape is known to hunt down the subect of its rage, not stopping until it passes out or its nemesis gets pummelled into nothingness. Kicking an opponent while they're down sounds like par for course for Primeape. In fact, it sounds like being generously merciful for Primeape.

Don't start a band
Don't even try you will regret it yea
Don't start a band
You'll be so disappointed that it was nothing like you planned

When Pokemon gamers first traded Spearow for Farfetch'd, they figured they were getting a great deal. A rare pokemon, only obtainable through trade like Mr. Mime and Jynx, surely it was powerful! And then they found out that it... well, wasn't. Farfetch'd is, sadly, disappointment incarnate. Its Japanese name even represents a saying that loosely means "there's a sucker in every crowd". Seems to fit the chorus perfectly if you ask me.

 

[MythologicalHAX]

Added you all to the challengers list! Wow this challenge is growing fast! Oh, I also added Folk to the list under ground as I think you are probably right in saying that ground fits folk best BlueShellBeast. Sorry about my challenge going pretty slowly btw... I just got my wisdom teeth removed Friday and have been doing basically nothing but sleeping and rinsing out my mouth. Plus when you're on this many pain meds it's is pretty difficult to play Pokemon...

 

[Twiddle]

Haven't been able to play much because of school, still:


- Received TM10 Hidden Power;
- Received HM06 Rock Smash;
- Explored Oreburgh Mine;
- Received Quick Claw;
- Defeated Gym Leader Roark;
- Received TM76 Stealth Rock;
- Explored Oreburgh Gate;
- Obtained TM70 Flash;
- Explored Ravaged Path;
- Obtained TM39 Rock Tomb;
- Reached Floaroma Town.


Current Team:

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Nickname: Mistress
Gender: Female
Level: 14
Nature: Quiet
Trait: Inner Focus
Moves:
- Icy Wind
- Leer
- Double Team
- Bite


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Nickname: Feeling
Gender: Female
Level: 12
Nature: Careful
Trait: Trace
Moves:
- Growl
- Confusion
- Double Team
- Teleport


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Nickname: Indie
Gender: Male
Level: 12
Nature: Mild
Trait: Serene Grace
Moves:
- Growl
- Charm
- Metronome
- Sweet Kiss


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Nickname: Cursed
Gender: Female
Level: 13
Nature: Calm
Trait: Flash Fire
Moves:
- Ember
- Tail Whip
- Roar
- Quick Attack


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Nickname: Broken
Gender: Male
Level: 12
Nature: Bashful
Trait: Lightningrod
Moves:
- Tackle
- Leer
- Thunder Wave
- Howl


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Nickname: Not Dead
Gender: Male
Level: 12
Nature: Calm
Trait: Pressure
Moves:
- Confuse Ray
- Spite
- Shadow Sneak
- Faint Attack

 

[BlueShellBeast]

Red (The Sound of Silence) Update #1

Sorry for the lack of progress. I'm in the middle of testing week, and I've managed to get sick. At any rate, I decided to update here before Disobedience becomes an overly huge problem... I rushed to defeat Brock before level 10, and then leveled up past that once his Onix was defeated.

Current Team:

Folk the Sandshrew
Level 13
Moveset:
-Scratch
-Swift
-Dig
-Sand-Attack

Silence the Abra
Level 10
Moveset:
-Teleport
-Bide
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[psyxe]

Username: Psyxe
Blink 182- I Miss You
Punk/Poison Type
Firered

Team: Haunter, Misdreaveus, Duskull, Cubone, Shuppet, Mawhile

Haunter- Ghost/Poison Type

Misdreavus- "have a habit of being pranksters" -bulbpedia blink 182 has several joke music videos, and is known for not being very serious

Duskull- And we'll have halloween on christmas" duskull wears a mask, plus fits the band pretty well.

Cubone- "I miss you" is orphaned

shuppet- "cannot sleep, i cannot dream tonight" has the ability insomnia

Mawhile- "and hear your voice of treason" is known to trick by using the mouth on the back of its "apparent" head

 

[Happy Smiley Yum Yum]

Username: Happy Smiley Yum Yum
Game: Leaf Green - Crystal - Emerald - Platinum - White 2
Song: Islands In The Stream Dolly Parton - Country
Torterra - His back is literally an "island [in the stream]"
Nidoqueen - "From one lover to another"
Nidoking - "From one lover to another"
Gastrodon - "Sail away with me"
Swampert - "Sail away with me"
Camerupt - "And we can ride it together" - People ride camels

Is it OK if I hack Leaf Green/Silver to get Nidoran (m) as my starter? I only intend to use those two for Leaf Green/Silver. On Sapphire, I'm adding Swampert (through my starter) and Camerupt. In Pearl, I've got Torterra to start with and will catch a Shellos as soon as I get to the east (I hate west side Shellos). What do I do for Black 2? Gameshark one in?

 

[DarkEmeraldRarity]

Where does Hollywood undead fit in, I was thinking emo rock

 

[j_Woo]

Username: j_Woo
Game: Sapphire
Song: Gift of the Magi II: Return of the Magi/Andrew Jackson Jihad/Folk-Punk
Team:

Spoiler:

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Folk (ground), Punk (poison)
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To me, Arcanine's mane resembles Sean and Ben's brotastic facial hair xD
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This Pokemon reminds me of magicians because of Melvin from the anime ^^
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There's a sarcastic line about "I've got all my love to give to all you that I hate" xD
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The second line of the song - "now I'm a jedi"; this pokemon has always reminded me of a jedi for some reason >.>
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This song doesn't have a chorus, so I chose this to represent the cynical sarcasm of the song as a whole :P Plus AJJ is indie as well, so I added a flying type

 

[riane]

omg i really want to do this challenge so here goes. lol i had a hard time thinking about this i have no clue calvin harris

Username: Riane
Game: Blaze Black
Song: Feel so close/Calvin Harris/techno(i think if someone wants to correct me feel free)it might be more of house music but that kinda falls into techno
Team: Ampharos, Lapras, Jynx, Gardevoir, Blaziken, Snorlax
Reasons:
Ampharos- because "it's a force field" i'm going to teach it reflect and light screen, also i think this would be the closest pokemon i think for calvin harris
Lapras- because "your love surrounds me like a waterfall"
Jynx because "your love" or "i wear my heart around my sleeve" jynx is a lovely pokemon
Gardevoir because "i feel so close you to right now" ralts is a feeling pokemon
Blaziken because "There's no stopping us right now" blaziken has speed boost
Snorlax because "Like a BIG deal"