StormInAJar
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Greetings! Yes! It is indeed that time again!
For anyone who may have been on the forum back in 2012 (Geez, was it really THAT long ago?), a younger me had an old account here. Younger me also invented a particular challenge that I, in my adult evolution, am bringing back to life! Introducing......
THE TYPECYCLECHALLENGE!!!
As an example, we all know when you start a normal pokemon journey, the professor provides you either a Grass-, a Water-, or a Fire-type pokemon to be your companion, but in a type cycle challenge, you would be provided with all THREE pokemon as Grass is effective against Water, Water beats Fire, and Fire is strong versus Grass. That's the idea behind this challenge.
The potential pool of pokemon will be all of those available before you defeat the sixth gym leader (or the second Island Kahuna in the case of Pokemon S/M/US/UM), with the first team member being available before you beat the third. This way, your team will be fully assembled and you will be given plenty of time to grow and strengthen them. Until one of the chosen Pokemon become accessible to you, you must play the game using only your starter.
Type Cycles
Username:
Trainer name:
Gen/Game:
Chosen Cycle:
Preferred First Type:
Baby Form (B) or Fully Evolved (F):
Preferred First Type isn't always doable, but I'll try and rig the system in your favor if I can ;P
Each trainer who signs up for the Type Cycle Challenge will get a custom userbar designed by me. This is the reason for the Baby Form or Fully Evolved question in the template, which will let me know which stage of the pokemon you want in your userbar.
If you have any other questions, feel free to ask!
Here's my submission:
Username: StormInAJar
Trainer name: Storm
Gen/Game: Pokemon Platinum
Chosen Cycle: Poison→Bug→Psychic
Preferred First Type: Bug
Baby Form (B) or Fully Evolved (F): F
The randomizer provided me with.....Combee, Tentacool, and Baltoy! So I'll be using those for my playthrough. Once I get my user bar made, I'll post it here as an example for the rest of you!
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
If you're signing up for a challenge, and you have the ability to provide yourself with an egg or a baby form of the pokemon (at level 5 maximum), whether it be through trading or hacking, please include that in your response so I may consider that when randomizing your team! Thank you!
And best of luck to all Challengers!
TYPE CYCLE CHALLENGERS
TYPE CYCLE CHAMPIONS
For anyone who may have been on the forum back in 2012 (Geez, was it really THAT long ago?), a younger me had an old account here. Younger me also invented a particular challenge that I, in my adult evolution, am bringing back to life! Introducing......
THE TYPECYCLECHALLENGE!!!
Rules
The rules of the challenge are simple! Complete the game using a trio of pokemon. However, this trio of pokemon will be specially chosen by selecting a group of three types that are all effective against the other. As an example, we all know when you start a normal pokemon journey, the professor provides you either a Grass-, a Water-, or a Fire-type pokemon to be your companion, but in a type cycle challenge, you would be provided with all THREE pokemon as Grass is effective against Water, Water beats Fire, and Fire is strong versus Grass. That's the idea behind this challenge.
Team Makeup
So here's how the Pokemon are chosen! You will choose a cycle to play through the game with and, through a random selection of the possible pool of pokemon available in the game of your choice with that type, you will be given a trio to play the game with. This encourages you to play with Pokemon you might not otherwise choose to play the game with (similar to the Nuzlocke challenge).The potential pool of pokemon will be all of those available before you defeat the sixth gym leader (or the second Island Kahuna in the case of Pokemon S/M/US/UM), with the first team member being available before you beat the third. This way, your team will be fully assembled and you will be given plenty of time to grow and strengthen them. Until one of the chosen Pokemon become accessible to you, you must play the game using only your starter.
Ultimate Challenge
Ultimate runs are available! They would require you to complete each gen with the same cycle, but you can play the games any order you like. In addition, if you decide to compete in an ultimate challenge, the requirements for victory in each game will be changed slightly. (Hey, you're the one who wants to make this more challenging for yourself, I'm just helping that along ;PType Cycles
Below is a list of all the different cycles available to you. (As a note, I have taken some sliiiiiiiight liberties with my logic to provide you guys with at least ONE cycle for any given type. What that means is, I've factored IMMUNITIES as STRENGTHS, i.e. since Flying is immune to Ground, I considered Flying as strong against Ground. This was mostly to try and include more options for CERTAIN problematic typings. Looking at you, Ghost, Poison, Bug, and Dragon >:[ Type Cycles
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Sign Up
Okay! With all of THAT out of the way, here's how to sign up! Just copy the template below into your response post!Username:
Trainer name:
Gen/Game:
Chosen Cycle:
Preferred First Type:
Baby Form (B) or Fully Evolved (F):
Preferred First Type isn't always doable, but I'll try and rig the system in your favor if I can ;P
Completion Requirements
Below here is listed the requirements for any challenge to be considered "Complete". Ultimate run requirements will be marked with U.
Spoiler:
Each trainer who signs up for the Type Cycle Challenge will get a custom userbar designed by me. This is the reason for the Baby Form or Fully Evolved question in the template, which will let me know which stage of the pokemon you want in your userbar.
If you have any other questions, feel free to ask!
Here's my submission:
Username: StormInAJar
Trainer name: Storm
Gen/Game: Pokemon Platinum
Chosen Cycle: Poison→Bug→Psychic
Preferred First Type: Bug
Baby Form (B) or Fully Evolved (F): F
The randomizer provided me with.....Combee, Tentacool, and Baltoy! So I'll be using those for my playthrough. Once I get my user bar made, I'll post it here as an example for the rest of you!
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
If you're signing up for a challenge, and you have the ability to provide yourself with an egg or a baby form of the pokemon (at level 5 maximum), whether it be through trading or hacking, please include that in your response so I may consider that when randomizing your team! Thank you!
And best of luck to all Challengers!
TYPE CYCLE CHALLENGERS
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TYPE CYCLE CHAMPIONS
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