Ultimate Monotype Challenge Thread

[myrrhman]

I need to get started on the Green and Gold Challenge... But, I'm the exact opposite of you, Ayame, I don't want to start until I've finished my two UMCs.

Speaking of said two UMCs:

Normal Platinum: Volkner wasn't nearly as bad as I figured he would be. Staraptor was faster than all of his Pokemon, and either one hit or two hit them with Close Combat. I had to Revive Star once, and use an Ether on CC, but other than that, everything went very smoothly.

Fire Platinum: I rushed ahead to get a Houndour, who evolved into Houndoom one level later. I Move Maniac'd Houndoom's Thunderfang back on it, to finally give it a decent move to use. I beat Maylene and Wake (finally, Wake was quite hard). Wake took lots of luck and some Close Combats from Infernape. It is so hard to catch Houndoom up to Infernape. Houndoom not having a Fire move only hurts. Hopefully he'll start catching up at 32 with Fire Fang.

Ruby Fire: Started, beat Roxanne and Brawly. Did the museum sidequest. To Mauville and then the rest of my team at Fiery Path it is!

 

[hazard master]

Holy Crap Trapinch is hard to train Holy Crap Norman is hard to beat So after beating every single trainer in the gym I finally made it to Norman and Derp fainted on the first Slaking 0_o. Thankfully, You Liek? managed to beat him with mud shot in between healings. You Liek? then evolved after the battle, and was promptly taught surf. I next grinded Derp to the point of evolution in New Mauville and Mah Lady is still lagging behind...

Thats all.

 

[bilzandpap]

Oh... so I do have to do this in order... I hope we can get Generation 1 over with quickly, I HATE generation 1.

 

[jdthebud]

all my monotypes are on hold while I play through White.

 

[Tony Montana]

Okay, I started White and got all the way to Striaton City, beat the Gym, got all the way to Wellspring cave and caught my first Ground-type Pokémon, Drillbur (named it Drillbit). Now I'm grinding till it learns Metal Claw and gains a couple more levels, which has been pretty hard so far.

Team:

Drillbit - Drillbur - Lv 14
Scratch
Fury Swipes
Mud Slap
Rapid Spin

 

[vaporeon7]

What I did in my Bug mono in Red:

• Went to Lavender Town.
• Saved Mr. Fuji.
• Went south.
• Caught a Venonat and nicknamed it Alternativ.
• Alternative evolved into Venomoth.
• Got to Fuchsia City.
• Beat Koga.
• Got HM03 and HM04.
• Went to Saffron City.
• Cleared Team Rocket from the Silph Co.
• Beat Sabrina.

Team Leech Life:

Jd (Beedrill) Lv44.
Moves: Poison Sting, Pin Missile, Fury Attack, Twineedle.

Sydian (Butterfree) Lv44.
Moves: Psychic, Supersonic, Tackle, Sleep Powder.

Myrrh (Paras) Lv44.
Moves: Mega Drain, Spore, Leech Life, Dig.

Forever (Scyther) Lv44.
Moves: Quick Attack, Swords Dance, Slash, Double Team

Alternativ (Venomoth) Lv44.
Moves: Sleep Powder, Psybeam, Stun Spore, Leech Life.

2nd Update:

• Went to Pallet Town.
• Surfed to Cinnabar Island.
• Went in the Burned Mansion.
• Found the key.
• Beat Blaine.
• Went to Viridian City.
• Beat Giovanni.

Team Leech Life:

Jd (Beedrill) Lv48.
Moves: Poison Sting, Pin Missile, Fury Attack, Twineedle.

Sydian (Butterfree) Lv48.
Moves: Psychic, Supersonic, Tackle, Sleep Powder.

Myrrh (Paras) Lv48.
Moves: Mega Drain, Spore, Leech Life, Dig.

Forever (Scyther) Lv48.
Moves: Quick Attack, Swords Dance, Slash, Double Team

Alternativ (Venomoth) Lv48.
Moves: Sleep Powder, Psybeam, Stun Spore, Leech Life.

 

[Cardwell74]

Since I can't get white until later today (hopefully) I played a poison run on yellow all the way through in one sitting last night

I used yellow so Nidoran would learn double kick. Nidoking ended up doing most of it by himself. I beat it in about 2 hours or so (with the emulator sped up).

final team

Nidoking (lvl 61)
-Surf
-Thunderbolt
-Ice beam
-earthquake

Venusaur (lvl 38)
-Leech Seed
-Razor Leaf
-Toxic
-Mega Drain

 

[Tony Montana]

Tony's Unova Log #2: Plasma Strikes Back

-Got to Nacrene City and beat N.
-Taught Drillbit Rock Smash.
-Caught a Tympole, named him Todd.
-Beat the trainers outside Pinwheel Forest and went back to Nacrene.
-Defeated Lenora quite easily.
-Chased down Team Plasma and retrieved Dragonite's skull.
-Beat more trainers and I'm about to get to Skyarrow Bridge.

Team:

Todd - Tympole - Lv 22
Bubblebeam
Mud Shot
Round
Supersonic

Drillbit - Drillbur - Lv 21
Dig
Rock Smash
Metal Claw
Rapid Spin

 

[jespoke]

Could you please put your posts in spoiler boxes, you are caching up to me, and not all people want to be spoiled.

 

[vaporeon7]

The final post:

• Went went and battle my rival.
• Went through all the checpoints.
• Went to and through Victory Road.
• Battled Lorelei.
• Battled Bruno.
• Battled Agatha.
• Battled Lance.
• Battle my rival and won (just).
• Entered the Hall Of Fame.

Team Leech Life:

Jd (Beedrill) Lv53.
Moves: Poison Sting, Pin Missile, Fury Attack, Twineedle.

Sydian (Butterfree) Lv53.
Moves: Psychic, Solarbeam, Tackle, Sleep Powder.

Myrrh (Paras) Lv53.
Moves: Mega Drain, Spore, Leech Life, Dig.

Forever (Scyther) Lv53.
Moves: Quick Attack, Swords Dance, Slash, Double Team

Alternativ (Venomoth) Lv53.
Moves: Sleep Powder, Psychic, Stun Spore, Leech Life.

MVP: Myrrh/Forever.

 

[Rizzy]

Continuation:

Okay I gotta admit that Victory Road was a b!tch.
But after play a good amount of time everyday just leveling up and fighting trainers, I got my pokemon on decent levels, then I went and finished the Road.
I was waiting actually for May to show up, but it was Wally. My nemesis.
I beat him of course.

Spoiler:

Now the Elite Four.
My team so far.

Spoiler:

First trainer "Sidney":

Spoiler:

-Wailord Water Spout defeat Mightyena. And level up to level 54.
-Water Spout, took away one third of Cacturne's life.
-Cacturne used Leech Life and gaine just a little bit of life.
-Water Spout again and I defeat him.
-Foe Sharpedo took life away from me with Leech Life but he gained nothing cause he was full.
-Use Swagger and Confuse Wailord.
-Wailord used Water Spout, took away half of his life.
-Leech Life just took away a bit of Wailord's life.
-Slash, and hit himself with confusion, then Leech Life, Wailord was about to lose.
-Surf from Sharpedo and Wailord lost.
-Sent Pelipper.
-Crunch from Sharpedo, good damage.
-Wing Attack, great damage on Sharpedo.
-Another Crunch from Sharpedo left Pelipper on red, but then he used Wing Attack and defeat Sharpedo. Rough Skin from Sharpedo left Pelipper with 3 HP.
-Absol defeat Pelipper with Slash.
-Absol used Snatch. Nothing.
-Gyarados used Surf and defeat him.
-After a long battle that I'm to tired to describe, Gyarados was defeat by Shiftry.
-Swampert defeat Shiftry with Earthquake.
Note: Shiftry is not earth or something? Why water attacks did not make a OneKO?

- I pressed the button too fast and I didnt get a shot to show that I defeat the first trainer but this is enough proof right?

Spoiler:

- Second trainer "Phoebe" was an easy target with Sharpedo's Surf.
- Until Sharpedo was left out of PP and then he was defeat by his Dusclops.
- But Starmie's Waterfall did the trick.

Spoiler:

- The third trainer make me whited out.
- I dont have almost none of money so I couldnt buy items.

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That was so far. Three days later of losing, I kept on training on Victory Road (and fighting the Elite Four gaining experience to my Pokemon but losing mo money), while listening to the Eye Of The Tiger and watching The Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park. And drinking lots of sodas.
I got to level up my pokemon more, I hope this time I could do some real harm.
My PokeTeam by now:

Spoiler:

The first one is the harder I think. The fartest I went is to the fourth, but I got there with just one Pokemon and no items.
I'll keep playing everyday trying to finish the challenge.

Spoiler:

No picture from the first trainer because I keep pressing the button too fast.

 

[myrrhman]

Note: Shiftry is not earth or something? Why water attacks did not make a OneKO?

Yeah, he's Dark/Grass, not Dark/Ground. No wonder you couldn't OHKO him.

Update (well, more of a downdate):
Oops, I lied. I couldn't beat Wake. For some reason I thought I did, but Floatzel OHKO the almost dead Falu with Aqua Jet. So, now I'm training for a rematch.

 

[bilzandpap]

UPDATE ON PKMN RED:

Spoiler:

CHAPTER 1 - UMC GETS OFF ON A BAD FOOT.
Got Bulbasaur.
Beat Gary.
Got Oak's Parcel.
Got Pokedex.
Purchased Poke Balls.
Caught Pidgey L4 and Rattata L4.
Boxed Bulbasaur.
Trained Pidgey to L8 and Rattata to L9.
Went to Viridian Forest.
Got through the Forest with both at L11.
Fought Brock and DIED.
Fought Brock again and DIED.
Trained on Route 2.
Now both PKMN are L15.
Fought Brock again and DIED AGAIN. That's what happens when you do a normal type challenge. *sigh* oh well, I'll try again 2morrow....

HOW CAN I LOSE WITH HYPER FANG??????

 

[hazard master]

Yeah, well I beat the weather institute an all. Brendan was easy, would've been easier without the rain though. Winona was so-so but Derp knows rock slide and You Liek? carries the mystic water. Mah Lady is still lagging behind, and because of the exp. share, so is everybody else. Maybe I'll do some runs on the Reporters 'till she evolves.

 

[myrrhman]

No idea how I'm going to verify that I've completed the challenge, but I'm on Lucian right now with Normals. I have 70 Revives, 10 Full Restores and 108 Hyper Potions, so I'm assuming I will win.

Edit: Just beat Lucian relatively easy. Staraptor wrecked their team by Brave Birding Mr. Mime, Fly for Gallade and Espeon, and though Alakazam was faster than me and almost OHKO'd with Psychic, I killed it with Fly too. Used Close Combat to take Bronzing to a tad over half before fainting.

I planned on weakening it with Bibarel, then reviving Star for the Close Combat KO. But, Bibarel got a crit with Splash Plate boosted Waterfall, so I killed the Bronzong with it. Time for Cynthia. I think I'm going to have to stall with my healing items.

Second Edit: First try lasted not even a full Pokemon. I reloaded, used an Max Elixer on Close Combat, and changed my move order around.

Second move by move:

Spoiler:

Falconbro used Aerial Ace
Spiritomb used Dark Pulse
Falconbro flew up ihigh
Spiritomb used Dark Pulse (miss)
Falconbro used Fly
Spiritomb fainted

Go Brobeaver
Cynthia sent out Togekiss
Togekiss used Aura Sphere
Brobeaver used Waterfall
Togekiss used Aura Sphere
Brobeaver fainted

Go Falconbro
Falconbro used Brave Bird
Togekiss Fainted

Cynthia sent out Lucario
Falconbro used Close Combat
Lucario fainted

Cynthia sent out Milotic
Falconbro used Brave Bird
Milotic used Surf
Falconbro fainted

Go Brogepi
Used Max Revive (Falconbro)
Cynthia used Full Restore on Milotic
Milotic used Surf
Brogepi fainted

Go Falconbro
Falconbro used Aerial Ace
Milotic used Ice Beam
Falconbro used Brave Bird
Milotic fainted (I survived with 6 HP, really sorta meant/thought I would faint)

Go Starly
Cynthia sent out Garchomp
Used Hyper Potion (Falconbro)
Garchomp used Dragon Rush
Starly fainted

Go Falconbro
Falconbro flew up high
Garchomp used Dragon Rush (miss)
Falconbro used Fly
Garchomp used Dragon Rush
Falconbro used Brave Bird
Garchomp fainted

Cynthia sent out Roserade
Falconbro used Brave Bird
Roserade fainted

AND I THOUGHT I WOULD NEED LOTS AND LOTS OF HYPER POTIONS AND REVIVES... Ended with 67 revives and 106 Hyper Potions (and 10 full restores and 26 Full heals)

Final Team:

Falconbro, the Lv. 64 Staraptor @ Sky Plate
Moves: Close Combat, Aerial Ace, Brave Bird, Fly

Brobeaver, the Lv. 60 Bibarel @ Splash Plate
Moves: Hyper Fang, Dig, Rollout, Waterfall

temporary member: Brogepi the Togepi
HM Slaves: Turtwig (Strength, Rock Climb, Rock Smash, Cut), Psyduck (Surf), and Starly (Defog)

Woot! 3 ultis down.


Edit #so_many: Retried against Wake (fires) this time had much more success. Gyarados was dropped by 2 Thunder fangs from Sangria, who almost got one shot by Waterfall. Falu still couldn't OHKO Quagsire with Close Combat, and took a Mud Shot, but he used Flame Wheel while Wake healed, and the next Close Combat killed it. I switched to Bidoof to heal Falu. Falu came back in and OHKO'd Floatzel w/ Close Combat.

Now that I have 5 Badges, I'm going to go play Hoenn.

Team:
Falu, the Lv. 46 Infernape
Moves: Close Combat, Shadow Claw, Flame Wheel, Return

Sangria, the Lv. 35 Houndoom
Moves: Thunder Fang, Smog, Bite, Fire Fang

 

[jdthebud]

Update for Ultimate Monotype Challenge (Grass).

Final Update (#3) on Silver.

Sped through Kanto and beat Red.

Screens:

Spoiler:

- Got everyone to L60, then found Red in Silver Cave.

Here's a play by play:
Meganium VS Pikachu: Charm, Earthquake, Thunder (miss), Earthquake, Pikachu fainted!
VS Venusaur: switch to Joker
Joker VS Venusaur: Sunny Day, Solarbeam, Hypnosis, (fast asleep!), Dream Eater, (fast asleep!), Psychic, Venusaur fainted!
VS Charizard: Flamethrower OHKO, Joker fainted!
Jumper VS Charizard: Sleep Powder, (fast asleep!), switch to Meganium
Meganium VS Charizard: (fast asleep!), (fast asleep!), Hidden Power Rock, (fast asleep!), Hidden Power Rock, Charizard fainted!
VS Espeon: Psychic, Razor Leaf, Psychic, Return (critical hit!), Espeon fainted!
VS Snorlax: Return, Body Slam, Meganium fainted!
Jumper VS Snorlax: Leech Seed, Body Slam, Sleep Powder (fail), Ammnesia, Sleep Powder (fail), Body Slam (paralyzed!), Rest, Sleep Powder (fail), Max Revive (Meganium), (fast asleep!) Snore, (fast asleep!) Snore, Return, Rest, Sleep Powder (fail), (fast asleep!) Snore, Return, (fast asleep!) Snore, Return, PrzCureBerry (Jumper), Rest, Return, (fast asleep!) Snore, Return, (fast asleep!) Snore, Return, Body Slam, Snorlax fainted (Leech Seed)!
VS Blastoise: Sleep Powder, (fast asleep!), Leech Seed, (fast asleep!), Giga Drain (critical hit!), Blizzard, Jumper fainted!
Meganium VS Blastoise: Razor Leaf (critical hit!), Blastoise fainted!
Meganium grew to L61!

Gonna do Hoenn on Sapphire.

Team Zane (Final):

Meganium, ♂ - L61 @ Miracle Seed -> Johto co-MVP, Red MVP
Moves: Razor Leaf, Return, Earthquake, Hidden Power (Rock)
Final Stats: 204/144/166/147/168/139

Jumper the Jumpluff, ♂ - L60 @ Pink Bow -> Johto co-MVP, Elite Four and Kanto MVP
Moves: Return, Leech Seed, Giga Drain, Sleep Powder
Final Stats: 198/114/131/107/143/171

Joker the Exeggutor, ♂ - L60 @ Leftovers
Moves: Return, Psychic, Hypnosis, Dream Eater
Final Stats: 226/159/150/200/128/104

HM Slaves:

Farfetch'd - Cut, Fly

Milktank - Surf, Rock Smash, Strength

Golduck - Dig, Whirlpool, Waterfall, Flash

 

[myrrhman]

Short Ruby Fire update

Beat through Norman (and got surf) on Ruby with Fire Types.

El Teemo:

 

[jdthebud]

Update for Ultimate Monotype Challenge (Electric).

Finished Sapphire.

Starting from Fallarbor Town, I ended up just using Light the Lanturn and Shocker the Manectric for the whole game. The Elite Four were pretty easy, as was Steven. No revive sacrifices at all, since I started the E4 with both of em at L63 lol (Rare Candies FTW!).

Hoenn Screens:

Spoiler:

I came out of Victory Road at L55ish and then fought the rest of the trainers around Hoenn (currents, etc), getting them to L58, then used my 10 Rare Candies on them prior to facing the Elite Four.

Elite Four Screens:

Spoiler:

Play-by-play:
Shocker VS Skarmory: Thunderbolt OHKO, Skarmory fainted!
VS Aggron: switch to Light
Light VS Aggron: Earthquake, Surf OHKO, Aggron fainted!
VS Metagross: Surf, Earthquake, Light fainted!
Shocker VS Metagross: Thunder, Metagross fainted!
VS Cradily: Thunder, AncientPower (paralyzed by Static), Bite, (flinched!), Thunder, Cradily fainted!
VS Claydol: Bite, Light Screen, Return, Earthquake, Full Restore (Claydol), Bite, Hyper Potion (Shocker), AncientPower, Bite, (flinched!), Bite, Claydol fainted!
VS Armaldo: Thunder (miss), AncientPower, Thunder, AncientPower, Full Restore (Armaldo), Thunder OHKO, Armaldo fainted!
Shocker grew to L65!

Hall of Fame and Trainer Card pics.

Sinnoh will be played with Platinum.

Team Erik (Final):

Shocker the Mild Manectric, ♂ - L65 @ Blackglasses -> Hoenn and Elite Four co-MVP, Steven MVP
Ability: Static
Moves: Thunderbolt, Return, Bite, Thunder
Final Stats: 192/127/96/192/104/170

Light the Serious Lanturn, ♂ - L64 @ Magnet -> Hoenn and Elite Four co-MVP
Ability: Volt Absorb
Moves: Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, Surf, Confuse Ray
Final Stats: 262/106/93/140/117/113

HM Slaves:

Treeko - Cut, Rock Smash, Flash

Zigzagoon - Pickup, Dig

Tropius - Fly, Strength

Tentacool - Dive, Waterfall

 

[myrrhman]

Ultimate Monotype Fire (Hoenn) Complete

Final Update:

Final two Gym Leaders (I think I forgot all the others, oh well)

Spoiler:

And Post-Steven Pic:

And Final Team Pic:

Stats and what not:
Carmine the Docile Lv. 54 Camerupt (Male) @ Hard Stone
Moves: Rock Slide, Earthquake, Flamethrower, Strength
Stats: 161/140/91/140/93/74

Rufous the Lonely Lv. 56 Blaziken (Male) @ Silk Scarf
Moves: Blaze Kick, Slash, Double Kick, Aerial Ace
Stats: 169/165/92/151/89/120

Edit: 6th Gym down in Platinum. Fire Fang and Flame Wheel + Close Combat = no contest. On to Snowpoint and another easy gym.
Beat two commanders at the lakes.
Beat Candice. Sangria (Houndoom) learned Flamethrower after beating Sneasel, one shot Piloswine and Abomasnow, but then was outsped by Froslass. Falu came in and finished the job.
Defeated Cyrus and Saturn in the Glactic HQ.

 

[jdthebud]

Update for Ultimate Monotype Challenge (Electric).

Started Platinum.

Name: Eric
Rival: Jack
Starter: Turtwig

• Caught Xavier the Shinx on Rt. 202 and beat the first two gyms with him. He evolved into Luxio before beating Roark and evolved into Luxray right after beating Gardenia.
• After I got Cut, I caught Rotom in the Old Chateau. Named it Zing.
• Dominated with these two awesome pokes until I arrived in Celestic Town and got Surf.
• Surfed to Fuego Ironworks and caught ElectroMag the Magnemite. Taught it Shock Wave, and it evolved right away into Magneton.
• Saved while surfing outside Pastoria City.

Screens:

Spoiler:

Bite Bite Bite.

Charged a few times against Turtwig, then Bite Bite Bite.

3 Ominous Winds, 3 OHKOs.

Return and Spark took care of em all.

Spark OHKOs for Floatzel and Gyarados, 2 Returns for Quagsire.

Shock Wave 2HKOed Sneasel and OHKOed Murkrow and Golbat.

Currently training ElectroMag on the water routes, and Canalave City is up next!

Team Erik:

ElectroMag the Rash Magneton - L34 @ Amulet Coin
Ability: Magnet Pull
Moves: Shock Wave, Thunder Wave, Magnet Bomb, Screech

Zing the Rash Rotom - L48
Ability: Levitate
Moves: Shock Wave, Uproar, Shadow Ball, Confuse Ray

Xavier the Lonely Luxray, ♂ - L49
Ability: Intimidate
Moves: Return, Crunch, Spark, Charge

HM Slaves:

Turtwig - Cut, Flash, Rock Smash

Bibarel - Dig, Surf

Staravia - Fly, Defog