Ultimate Monotype Challenge Thread

[Technician]

UMC: Yellow (Ground Types)
Update 4

• Boarded the S.S. Anne! Time to level up some, and then take on Surge. It's easy to level up right now when Santo's Slash criticals everything x_x
• Ran into Gary. Easy fight, I outleveled him by a huge margin.
• Obtained the Cut HM! I'll teach it to Charmander for now. This is good though, it means I can now access the Gym.
• …Which in the end turned out to be a very boring battle against Surge. Santo criticaled on back to back Slashes and that was it. Seriously, it was the fastest I've EVER beaten Surge, and it was in under a minute. Crazy. Also taught Thunderbolt to Nieds.
• Messed around, did some grinding, got the Flash HM. Taught to Pikachu. Sad, I pulled him out of the box and I kind of miss having the little guy follow me around.
• Now in Rock Tunnel, trying to find a Cubone to add to my party. Also considering an Onix too.

My Team:

Nieds the Nidoking
Level 30
-Thunderbolt
-Poison Sting
-Horn Attack
-Double Kick

Santo the Sandslash
Level 30
-Scratch
-Sand Attack
-Slash
-Poison Sting

Druid the Dugtrio
Level 31
-Scratch
-Growl
-Dig
-Sand Attack

 

[joeyk]

Bug UMC

I got through the cycling road and then beat the trainers on the way to virmillion. After getting there i went to the s.s Anne and beat all the trainers and my rival. I received the HM cut and left the s.s Anne. Before heading to the gym i beat all the trainers on route 11. I then went on to beat Lt Surge first time.

My Team

 

[Simmy93]

UPDATE:

Name: Prinplup
Lvl: 21
Type: Water

Name: Shellos
Lvl: 17
Type: Water

Name: Buizel
Lvl: 17
Type: Water

Name: Magikarp
Lvl: 15
Type: Water

Name: Psyduck
Lvl: 10
Type: Water

I'm currently stuck on Gardenia. I just can't down her. It's killing me.

 

[qw13]

-Started game and did all stuff.
-Hacked Tyrogue Lvl 5.
-Grinded Tyrogue to Lvl 9.
-Got Mystery Egg.
-Beat Silver with ease.
-Delivered Mystery Egg.
-On Route after Cherrygrove i caught Poliwag.
-Grinded both to Level 11.
-Went to Violet Gym for gym battle.
-Tyrogue almost beat Pidgey but a Potion healed it and a critical Gust finished him.
-Poliwag's Water Gun finished weakened Pidgey.
-Poliwag finished Pidgeotto with a Hypnosis-Water Gun combo.
-Got #1 Zephyr Badge!
-Caught Mankey on Route after Violet.
-Went to Ruins of Alph to train Mankey.
-Grinded all Pokemon to Level 16.
-Entered Union Cave.
-After lot of Trainer Battles, I went out of that endless cave.
-My Pokemon were all Level 19 at that time.
-Battled the only trainer on route with Tyrogue and it evolved into Hitmonlee.
-Team Rocket was booted out of Slowpoke Well.
-I started my battle with Bugsy.
-Even though weakness, it was easy and finished off in about 6 turns.
-Got #2 Hive Badge!
-Taught Mankey Headbutt.
-Got Heracross by Headbutting trees.
-Trained all my Pokemon to Level 21.
-Caught Drowzee in Route after Ilex Forest.
-I planned to trade Drowzee for Machop, to find out that trade is not in LiquidCrystal.
-Hacked Level 5 Machop.
-Trained it to Level 18.
-All of them easily finished all trainers, including Whitney,which her Miltank was finished easily with Machop's Low Kick since Miltank was pretty heavy.
-All my Pokemon expect Poliwag was Level 22 while Poliwag is at Level 23.
-Taught Mankey ThunderPunch.
-Sudowoodo was taken out by three Water Gun attacks of Poliwag.(Sudowoodo has pretty high Sp Def :D)
-Beat Kimono Girls with my Pokemon, Poliwag evolved at battle with Flareon to Poliwhirl.
-Heracross and Hitmonlee was Level 22,Machop and Mankey was Level 23,Poliwhirl was Level 25 at that point.
-Hacked Water Stone, and used it to evolve Poliwhirl.
-Heracross and Hitmonlee had no chance since Ghosts resists Normal and Fight. But Mankey had ThunderPunch, Machop had Foresight, and Poliwrath had Surf.(I got HM by defeating all Kimono Girls.)
-Morty's Gastlies were taken out by Machop, Haunter by Mankey, and Gengar by Poliwrath.
-I traveled to Olivine City to find out Jasmine is with Amphy.(Like i did not know that :D)
-I beat all trainers in Lighthouse and speak with Jasmine and she says she needs me to go to Pharmacy in Cianwood to get SecretPotion.

I'm currently here.

TEAM
HITMONLEE LEVEL 25
POLIWRATH LEVEL 27
MACHOP LEVEL 26
MANKEY LEVEL 26
HERACROSS LEVEL 25

 

[HannahMontana]

Hello, I've been lurking in this thread for close to two years it seems. I've been fighting with myself for a while to see whether I want to do this or not. Then I realized, it would be a great way to practice my French. So I'd like to do an Ultimate Water Monotype Challenge. I'll be using French roms, going Jaune - Cristal - Emeraude - Platine - Noir.

I was wondering to what extent hacking is allowed. I want to use a variety of Water Pokemon for each gen, but my favorites usually require a super rod, which doesn't come around until near the end of the game...and it sucks to grind because they're underleveled, only to use them in the last gym and the Elite Four.

So I was wondering if each gym or so I would just be allowed to hack in a Water Pokemon if it's not available at that time. They would be unevolved, have regular stats and be at the level range of the wild Pokemon in that area. I figure this is a trade off because I will not be using any starters since I'm sort of bored with them.

For instance:

Kanto:
Starter- Staryu
Pewter- Goldeen
Cerulean - Shellder
Vermillion - Omanyte
Celadon - Seel/Slowpoke/Poliwag

Just wondering if something like this would be okay. I'm not trying to make the game easier, I'm just trying to get in the spirit of the challenge by using a variety of water types that are evenly dispersed throughout my playthrough.

Just let me know, thanks :).

 

[Liquid Twilight]

Hi. I am very keen to start a Monotype challenge on Red version and after not being able to decide a type I have decided to try Poison types.

Wish me luck everyone :)

 

[deoxys121]

OK, last Diamond update for my Normal UMC:
- Went north from Sunyshore City fighting trainers, went through Victory Road.
- Trained my team to Lv60 each, then challenged the Elite Four... and lost to Lucian.
- More grinding occurred, raising my team to Lv65 each.
- Now the successful E4: Aaron went down at the hands of Girafarig, except for Drapion, who Ambipom took care of.
- Girafarig took out the majority of Bertha's team with Grass Knot, Staraptor took care of Sudowoodo with Close Combat.
- It took all of my team for Flint. Fire specialist with only two Fire-types :\
- The same went for Lucian, but he was relatively easy except Bronzong. I hate Gyro Ball!
- Then I fought Cynthia. All I can say is thank you Max Revives and Full Restores. Cynthia is always tough as hell, especially her Garchomp. My battle with Cynthia can be viewed here.

 

[Ciax]

Ciax Water UMC

Update 3
With my team of super mutants, over powered water pokemon I broke up the undeground gambling racket in Celadon and continued on my meery way.

I went down cycling road without battling one of those bikers and in Fuschia recieved the good rod. With this rod i caught hypnotoad the poliwag and got to tranying. After some training I fought went and got the much needed surf from the safari zoen. Taught surf to everyone and bet koga so i could use it. And with that i caught Blobbo the tentacool. I surfed around a bit so i could get a high levelled one and got lucky when i found one at lv 29. Fought erika with him and evolved.

Now am training on the massive amount of trainers between lavendar and fuschia.

Team Celine
Sophie - Lv 37
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Protect
Surf
Bite
Tail Whip
Much stronger now that she evolved, still my favourite on the team

Levi - Lv 36
"image removed"
Surf
Bite
Twister
Leer
Still my sweeper and probably most important but i really need a physical move

Bubbles Lv 37

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Auorua Beam
Surf
Dig
Bite
Never used a vaporeon before and now i am wondering why. Fairly bulky yet can still pack quite a punch, good choice for the team

Hypnotoad Lv 33 (Futurama......)
"image removed"
Rain Dance
Hypnosis
Surf
Brick Break
Still training but will be beast when evolved

Blobbo Lv 34
"image removed"
Acid
Bubblebeam
Wrap
uhh forget, this is awkward
Will replace acid with sludge bomb and maybe bubblebeam with surf. But i really like this guy he took Erika on his own at level 29 and only needed two potions. Will be a great grass counter

One more team member left
LAPRAS!!!

 

[Liquid Twilight]

Bug UMC Pokemon Red

Beginning

Spoiler:

- Chose Charmander as starter
- Caught Caterpie in Viridian Forest
- Boxed Charmander
- Caught Weedle in Viridian Forest
- Grinding up to level 10
- Caterpie and Weedle are now Butterfree and Beedrill
- Arrived at Pewter City

Thats how far I am at the moment. I'm going to grind a little more before Brock.
----------------
Mini Update:

Spoiler:

- Leveled up to 12
- Butterfree pretty much swept Brock with Confusion
- Just outside Mt. Moon

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Mini Update 2:

Spoiler:

- Went through Mt Moon battling as many trainers as possible.
- Caught Paras
- Arrived at Cerulean
- Training up before misty.
- Butterfree lvl 20. Beedrill lvl 19. Paras lvl 12.

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Mini Update 3:

Spoiler:

- Trained Paras and Beedrill to level 20. Butterfree is level 22
- Beat rival easily
- Swept Nugget bridge and the other trainers to get the SS Anne Ticket
- Paras completely swept misty with Stun Spore and Leech Life (This shocked me)
- Paras grew to level 21

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Major Update:

Spoiler:

- Arrived at vermillion battling every trainer along the way.
- Battled all trainers in SS Anne and Paras swept rival.
- Paras Evolved
- Beedrill sweeps Lt. Surge
- Beedrill lvl 24, Butterfree lvl 25, Parasect lvl 26

----------------
Major Update 2:
- Navigated through Rock Tunned blind.
- Got to Celadon
- Sold useless items
- Caught a Pidgey for fly (I only get him out to fly then deposit him when I arrive at the destination)
- Beat rocket game corner / got Silph Scope
- Returned to Lavender
- Making my way up the Pokemon Tower
- Butterfree lvl 33, Beedrill lvl 33, Parasect lvl 32.

 

[qw13]

I really loved this challenge. I did not made much progress, so i am not posting it. I want to do it with all gens with all types. Of course not in same time. But i can do two in one time and because of that, i also started a grass monotype in Platinum! So i wall play both Crystal and Platinum with Fight and Grass, respectively.
Here is Platinum Progress:
-Did beginning stuff.
-Got Turtwig, my starter.
-Did missions like going to lab, getting Pokeballs.
-When i got to Jubilife, i headed north to catch a Budew.
-Both Budew and Turtwig was grinded to Level 13.
-Battled all trainers and Rival Barry for exp, and both got to Level 15.
-Got Roark to return Gym, and started battle!
-Geodude and Onix goed down with Budew's Mega Drain, and Cranidos was taken out by Turtwig's Razor Leaf. It took 3 turns!
-Got #1 Coal Badge.
-Beat Galactic Grunts on Jubilife.
-Turtwig evolved after the battle!
-Got to Floaroma and booted out Team Galactic.
-Slathered honey and caught Burmy!
-Currently training Burmy near Valley Windworks.
My Team:

Grotle Level 20 (Male)
-Tackle
-Curse
-Absorb
-Razor Leaf

Budew Lvl 19 (Female)
-Mega Drain
-Absorb
-Growth
-Stun Spore

Burmy Level 17 (Female)
-Tackle
-Protect
-Bug Bite
-Empty

 

[Liquid Twilight]

Update to my Bug UMC in Red

Update 1:

Spoiler:

- Beat Erika
- Made my way to Fuschia
- Got HM3 and HM4
- Headed east and caught a Venonat
- Training Venonat up now

Update 2:

Spoiler:

- Venonat Evolved
- Attacked the majority of Silph Co.
- Spend all money on coins and bought a Scyther
- Grind Scyther and get ready for Koga

Update 3:
- Koga Defeated due to a lucky Weezing Self-Destruct
- Beat Silph Co
- Beedrill swept Sabrina
- Got Super Rod
- Looking for a Water Pokemon To Catch

Current Team:

Butterfree
lvl 42
Tackle
Sleep Powder
Psybeam
Poison Powder

Beedrill
lvl 41
Poison Sting
Twinneedle
Rage
Cut

Parasect
lvl 40
Body Slam
Mega Drain
Leech Life
Dig

Venomoth
lvl 35
Tackle
Stun Spore
Poison Powder
Leech Life

lvl 40
Quick Attack
Slash
Swords Dance
Double Team

 

[qw13]

Here is my progress on Fighthing Crystal challenge:
-Got out of Lighthouse.
-Used my 4 Rare Candies to evolve both Mankey and Machop!
-Surfed all the way to Cianwood, training with trainers i see on the way.
-Started my battle with Chuck!
-Poliwrath vs Poliwrath! His Poliwrath used Submission and i maked it sleep with Hypnosis. Then, i continuosly used Submission before it waked up and fainted it.
-In LiquidCrystal, he has Machoke instead of Primeape. So it was Machoke vs Machoke. His Machoke used Dynamic Punch and confused mine, but Revenge finished it off.
-I won #5 Storm Badge!
-Got SecretPotion.
-Taught Fly to Heracross.(In LiquidCrystal, it can learn.)
-Flied back to Olivine, and delivered SecretPotion to Jasmine.
-Amphy was healed.
-Started battle with Jasmine!
-Hitmonlee took out Magnemite and Magneton with Hi Jump Kick, but Steelix's Iron Tail fainted it.
-Poliwrath's Surf finished Steelix!
-I won #6 Mineral Badge!
-Traveled to Mahogany Town.
-Beat Red Gyarados with Primeape's ThunderPunch!
-Currently about to go to weird Shop in Mahogany Town.

Currently no progress on Platinum Grass Challenge.

My Crystal Team :
HITMONLEE LVL 29
POLIWRATH LVL 29
PRIMEAPE LVL 31
MACHOKE LVL 31
HERACROSS LVL 28

(I need to train my Pokemon. Could you say where can i train them?)

 

[Zaroas]

I remember trying to start a single ghost monotype challenge in Sinnoh, but never actually getting to it. Since I've found my Diamond version after 3 years or so of never finding it, I'm going to be doing that. Since I only have 1 DS (And nobody around is willing to help), I will be hacking a Spiritomb into my game at the start, if that's OK with you.

 

[[Your Name Here]]

YNH's Pokémon Diamond Dark-type Only Run
I got up to Eterna Forest. With my weakness to Rock (I have two Sneasels), it took me three tries to defeat Roark. How'd I defeat him? I used Rock Smash and Screech.

Dusk♀
HP: 45
Ability: Keen Eye
Level 17
Rock Smash
Faint Attack
Quick Attack
Screech

Night♀
Max HP: 47
Ability: Inner Focus
Level 18
Rock Smash
Faint Attack
Quick Attack
Screech

I am hoping to add Murkrow and Larvitar soon. I'll just have to wait until nighttime to get Murkrow, and I'll need to trade from Heart Gold to obtain Larvitar.

 

[Liquid Twilight]

Update To Bug UMC In Red

- Used Super Rod In Pallet Town and got a Tentacool
- Taught Tentacool Surf
- Went to Cinnibar
- Got the Secret Key
- Defeated Blaine (Easier than I was expecting)
- Deposited Tentacool and withdrew Pidgey
- Flew to Viridian
- Deposited Pidgey
- Defeated Giovanni
- Deposited Pidgey and withdrew Tentacool
- Deposited Scyther and withdrew Charmander
- Tought Charmander Strength
- Heading off to the Pokemon League

Current Party:

Spoiler:

Venomoth
lvl 41
Tackle
Stun Spore
Psybeam
Leech Life

Beedrill
lvl 42
Poison Sting
Twineedle
Rage
Cut

Butterfree
Tackle
Sleep Powder
Psybeam
Poison Powder

Parasect
lvl 41
Body Slam
Mega Drain
Leech Life
Dig

(Temporary)
Tentacool
lvl 15
Acid
Supersonic
Wrap
surf

(Temporary)
Charmander
lvl 9
Scratch
Growl
Ember
Strength

(in box. Will withdraw at Pokemon League)
Scyther
lvl 41
Quick Attack
Slash
Swords Dance
Double Team

 

[LightOfTruth]

I'm starting with fire-type on Firered on the Monotype challenge, Wish me luck guys :)

 

[Liquid Twilight]

I'm starting with fire-type on Firered on the Monotype challenge, Wish me luck guys :)

Good Luck :)


Just Finished my Ultimate Monotype Challenge of Pokemon Red with the Bug type. I have to say, it was much easier than I though and the AI was a lot easier on me than I would have believed (Dragonite didn't attack :O) but It's finished. It was very challenging with there being only 5 Bug Pokemon I could use in Red (if I didn't duplicate, glitch or cheat) so it was pure focus training, and out of those 5, 1 pokemon didn't learn anything except for normal moves - I'm looking at you Scyther -.

Was definately fun and I will definately do it again.

Note: The Reason the PP Isn't perfect is because the screenshots of the moves was taken in Pallet town after the credits.

Previous Update

Spoiler:

Update to my Bug UMC on Red.

- Got to Pokemon League
- Horribly underlevelled
- Developed a strategy which is going ok
- Mainly using the E4 just to level my Pokemon at the moment.

my current strategy: Because Slowbro doesn't attack my Scyther I can pump some Swords dances and Double teams so I can sweep the rest of the team. Venomoth Psychic against Bruno = win. Psychic and Psybeam should beat agatha. PP is the problem at the moment but as I level it will become easier.

Current team:

Spoiler:

Beedrill
lvl 47
Poison Sting
Twineedle
Rage
Cut

Butterfree
lvl 48
Tackle
Sleep Powder
Psybeam
Poison Powder

Scyther
lvl 49
Quick Attack
Slash
Swords Dance
Double Team

Parasect
lvl 50
Body Slam
Mega Drain
Leech Life
Dig

Venomoth
lvl 55
Tackle
Sleep Powder
Psychic
Leech Life

 

[qw13]

I didn't did progress in Crystal, but here's my progress on Platinum:
https://www.dosya.tc/server2/sSDwoZ/platinumgrassmonotype.rar.html

My progress is in that rar file. It also has my battle video with Gardenia.

 

[LightOfTruth]

First fire-type called Superfire:

No other fire types for ages now in Pokemon Firered

 

[Simmy93]

UPDATE:

Name: Prinplup
Lvl: 23
Type: Water

Name: Shellos
Lvl: 21
Type: Water

Name: Buizel
Lvl: 19
Type: Water

Name: Magikarp
Lvl: 20
Type: Water

Name: Psyduck
Lvl: 19
Type: Water

I'm currently STILL stuck on Gardenia. I just can't down her. It's killing me. I can barely get Cherrim down and by then i'm down to one pokemon with no health.