Ultimate Monotype Challenge Thread

[R.K 9]

fire-type challenge - 4th update (kanto):

*flew to pallet town
*surfed south of pallet town and fought swimmers
-flareon levelled up to 47
*visited cinnabar island
*caught a level 34 ponyta
*trained up ponyta on wild pokemon
-ponyta levelled up to 38 and learned growl
-taught ponyta skull bash
*battle trainers in pokemon mansion
-accquired tm14 (blizzard)
-accquired tm22 (solarbeam)
-ponyta leveled up to 40 and learned fire spin
-ponyta evolved into rapidash
-charizard levelled up to 44
*returned to cinnabar island
*surfed towards seafoam islands
-rapidash levelled up to 41
-arcanine levelled up to 53
*visited seafoam islands
-battled articuno
*left seafoam islands
*flew back to cinnabar islands
*challenged blaine and won
-charizard levelled up to 45
-accquired flamebadge and tm38 (fire flast)
-taught flareon fire blast
*left cinnabar island
*flew to viridian city
*challenged giovanni and won
-flareon levelled up to 49
-accquired the earthbadge and tm27 (fissure)

current location:
viridian city

current pokemon:

Arcanine
Level 53
- Take Down
- Toxic
- Flamethrower
- Agility

Flareon
Level 49
- Fire Blast
- Fire Spin
- Body Slam
- Bite

Charizard
Level 45
- Mega Punch
- Strength
- Ember
- Slash

Rapidash
Level 41
- Ember
- Fire Spin
- Stomp
- Skull Bash

I'll hunt for a couple more tms, then take on the pokemon league. :D

 

[Eurydice]

Update #4
-trained team up to level 25
-challenged Erika's gym and won
-recived Rainbow badge
-went to game corner and discovered team rockets hide out
-challanged team rocket grunts
-found card key for elevator
-found and challanged Giovanni and won
-found the stelph scope
-used scope on spirit it ghost tower
-spirit was revealed to be a marrowak spirit
-after calming spirit, continued climbing tower
-resued Mr Fuji from 3 rocket grunts
-obtained pokeflute from him
-realized i forgot to get fly...had to back track a little u.u
-woke up the snorlax
-went to fushia city

Current objective-
get all pokemon to level 35 then up to 40

Current Location:
Training just outside of fushia city

Current Team:
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Char the Jolly Charizard
Lv 43
Mega Punch | Wing Attack | Flame Thrower | Metal Claw

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Kitsune the Adamant Vulpix
Lv 34
Ember | Will-o-wisp | Flamethrower | Quick Attack

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Flare the Brave Flareon
lv 36
Helping Hand | Fire Spin | Bite | Quick Attack

HM Slaves:
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Cut
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Fly

 

[Tyranit]

I finally have the Mineral Badge! Here's how my winning battle with jasmine went:
The two magmemites weren't too hard, but steelix was. That thing is a game breaker if you don't have anything special-type and super effective. But with super fang and some defense drops from rock smash, I managed to bead the steelix - even though she healed it to full health. Twice. I'm not going to teach rock smash - even though it's a great move, my pokemon already have above-average moves.

So, my team is:

Raticate level 34
Rock Smash
Crunch
Strength
Super Fang
One of the best movesets for raticate that I've ever used. Oh wait, I haven't used raticate in a team before this challenge. Still, crazy good attack and defense.

Togetic Level 32
Fly
Yawn
Extrasensory
Shadow Ball
Fly hasen't been used in battle yet, but still. Yawn was a huge help against Steelix - it opened the window for raticate to come in.

Miltank Level 31
Return
Rollout
Zen Headbutt
Milk Drink
Crazy HP and Defense, definitely a physical tank. If it weren't weak against fighting, it would be my main pokemon against Bruno.

A great overall team so far, and I'm having lots of fun!

 

[R.K 9]

fire-type challenge - final update (kanto):

*taught rapidash horn drill
*revisited saffron city
-revisited silph co.
-obtained tm26 (earthquake)
-taught charizard earthquake
*revisited viridian city
*battled rival and won
-arcanine levelled up to 54
-flareon levelled up to 50
-charizard levelled up to 46 and learned flamethrower
*passed through indegeau plateau
*passed through victory road
-obtained tm43 (sky attack)
-obtained tm05 (mega kick)
-taught charizard mega kick
-obtained tm17 (submission)
-obtained tm47 (explosion)
-arcanine levelled up to 55
-flareon levelled up to 53
-charizard levelled up to 47
-rapidash levelled up to 43
*arrived at pokemon league
-purchased 15 full restores
-purchased 10 revives
*challenged lorelei and won
-arcanine levelled up to 56
*challenged bruno and won
-arcanine levelled up to 57
*challenged agatha and won
-charizard levelled up to 49
*challenged lance and won
-flareon levelled up to 54
*challenged rival and won
-charizard levelled up to 50

final team:

Arcanine
Level 57
- Take Down
- Toxic
- Flamethrower
- Agility

Flareon
Level 54
- Fire Blast
- Flamethrower
- Body Slam
- Bite

Charizard
Level 50
- Mega Kick
- Strength
- Flamethrower
- Earthquake

Rapidash
Level 43
- Ember
- Fire Spin
- Horn Drill
- Skull Bash

I'll begin johto later on, I'm at my grandma's house right now.

 

[Cathar]

I started a Fighting Monotype Challenge on Firered, because I get bored waaaaay too fast.

Current Monotypes:

Ultimate Ground:
Done with Leafgreen and Soulsilver; before the 8th Gym in Emerald

Ultimate Water:
Before 4th Gym on Leafgreen

Fighting (Firered):
Just defeated Surge.

Fortunately, I'm doing the Fighting Challenge on Firered with an Emulator, so I can finally post screenshots! Yay!

Progress so far:
- named myself Loki and Rival Bobo
- did the usual stuff
- caught two Mankey on Route 22 (Sodom and Gommorra)
- trained them to Lvl 9 and defeated Bobo
- smashed through Viridian Forest
- murdered Brock

Spoiler:

2HKO'd Geodude with Karate Chop and Onyx with Low Kick

- raged on and defeated countless trainers (and Bobo)
- Defeated Misty

Spoiler:

I hate Starmie. It's the only Gym Leader Poké that still gives me trouble, after so many years. Just barely managed to defeat her with a lucky Mega Kick crit by Sodom.

- on we rage, thrashed SS Anne, broke Bobo's Pokémon in half and rubbed the back of an old, sick man (reminds me of civil service in the retirement home (which I did for 9 months (which is required in Austria (either that or 6 months crawling through mud during military training)))
- challenged Surge and tore him apart

Spoiler:

Clean sweep with Dig by Sodom and Rock Tomb by Gomorra. You can see he only managed to paralyze Sodom, no damage at all.

- did not battle trainers east of Vermilion so I can train other Pokémon there
- reached Rock Tunnel and caught a Machop
- now going through Rock Tunnel


The Team:

Spoiler:

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Gomorra, the female, relaxed Primeape (Level 29)
Mega Punch, Aerial Ace, Rock Tomb, Karate Chop
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Sodom, the male, calm Primeape (Level 30)
Mega Kick, Dig, Low Kick, Karate Chop
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Machop, male, sassy (Level 19)
Low Kick, Seismic Toss, Focus Energy, Karate Cho

I know the natures aren't perfect, but I find calm and relaxed for Primeapes rather hilarious.

Some questions for the more experienced Monotypers:
Is Machop worth keeping? I can't trade so he will remain a Machoke forever.
How can I take on Sabrina? Any way I turn she will probably kill me. I could try it with Thief but non-STAB 40 damage (influenced by Special Attack on top of that) will probably not get me far.
I'm guessing Hitmonchan is better for versatility, but I like Hitmonlee more. Which is better?
For the fifth member I would have taken Quappo. Anyone have experience with the big blue guy?

Thanks for reading,
Cheers,
Peter

 

[Zeus2398]

Hi, I think I'll start an electric UMC, starting with FR, and this is what I've done so far:
- called myself Zeus, and Rival Gaia
- Started with Charmander called Slaved, to kill those irratating Weedle's in Viridian
-Caught Pikachu, named it Sparky and began training by Viridian

Team:
Sparky(Pikachu) lvl 6
-Thundershock
-Growl
-Tail Whip

Slaved(Charmander)lvl 9
-Scratch
-Growl
-Ember

 

[jespoke]

OK, I have a question. Due to the rarity of dragon pokemon in any game, can I trade a dratini and bagon from fire red at the start of emerald, because trading is the only way to get dratini, as far as I know, and Bagon isn't until halfway or so.

You can trade in 1 low leveled Pokemon, that is available in your game if your type is: Ice, Dragon, Ghost, Steel (2. and 5. gen) and Dark (in 2. and 4. gen)

Note: You can get Altaria, Flygon, and Salamence, so you wouldn't need Dratini even if you were allowed.

Can someone answer me: Can the traded in Pokemon be fx a Pearl exclusive, if the challenge is on fx Diamond?

 

[jdthebud]

Update for Ultimate Monotype Challenge (Dragon).

Update #3 on Sapphire.

• Surfed the water routes and taught Ice Beam to Skye.
• Skye and Dragonfly both evolved (Altaria, Vibrava) on the way to Fortree.
• Beat May and taught Fly to Skye.
• Beat Winona pretty easily.
• Went to Lilycove City and beat May again.
• Beat Mt. Pyre and the Hideout.
• Surfed to Mossdeep and beat Tate and Liza.
• Went underwater and beat Maxie, who then freed Kyogre.
• Got to Sootopolis and killed Kyogre, then went back out to train on the water.
• On my way to Pacifidlog Town, Menace finally got to L49 and learned Dragon Claw, then evolved into Shelgon.
• Dragonfly evolved into Flygon as well.
• Went back to Sootopolis and challenged Wallace. I had to reset a few times because of Ice moves.
• Went to Meteor Falls and taught Dragon Claw to Skye and Iron Tail to Dragonfly.
• Bought Flamethrower in the Game Corner and taught it to Menace.
• Saved in Mossdeep City.

Screens:

Spoiler:

I'm just about to Surf to Ever Grande and get through Victory Road.

Team Lance:

Dragonfly the Brave Flygon, ♀ - L49 @ Soft Sand
Ability: Levitate
Moves: Return, Crunch, Earthquake, Iron Tail

Skye the Brave Altaria, ♀ - L49 @ NeverMeltIce
Ability: Natural Cure
Moves: Secret Power, Dragon Claw, Ice Beam, Fly

Menace the Naughty Shellgon, ♂ - L49 @ Charcoal
Ability: Rock Head
Moves: Strength, Crunch, Dragon Claw, Flamethrower

Slaves:
Zigzagoon - Cut, Rock Smash, Surf
Zigzagoon - Pickup
Tentacool - Dive, Waterfall
Treeko - Cut, Flash, Rock Smash, Strength [boxed]

 

[I Laugh at your Misfortune!]

So, I haven't updated in ages, but I think I'm still on the list - so here's an update :D I'm still doing normal and I'm now on silver after having to restart for the second FREAKING time due to a catastrophic hard drive failure >.>

- Started out and named myself Silver. Got Totodile to be a surfing HM slave and travelled quickly. Met my rival, named him Gold and headed to Violet city.
- The gym turned out to be harder than I thought. The first trainer pwned me, so I went back to train.
- Tried the gym again. Died to the second trainer this time >.>
- Grinded until Hoothoot and Sentret fainted. They got only one level each, but that means Peck and Quick Attack :D
- Tried the gym one more time and it turned out that the trainers were tougher than the gym leader. Falkner went down easy and I travelled to Union cave with my newly obtained Togepi.
- Somehow took two tries getting through. I blame unlucky Metronomes vs. Geodudes.
- Reached Azalea Town and cleared Slowpoke Well with ease. Kurt was a great help.
- Bugsy's gym went down fast to Hoothoot's Peck, but Sentret's Quick Attack was needed to finish off his Beedrill. As a result, I now have a Furret :D
- Grabbed the Headbutt TM in Ilex Forest and taught it to Togepi so it can have a reliable attack. Furret also now has Cut and Togepi Flash.
- Reached Goldenrod. Here comes Whitney...
- Lost four times in a row and headed to the underground to grind.
- FINALLY beat her after taking a break to gamble away my pitiful savings.
- Headed up Route 35 for some training. Hoothoot evolved!
- Destroyed Sudowoodo and continued north.
- Quickly reached Ecruteak and started to work my way through the Kimono Girls...not like that.

And that's where I quit for now. I'll pick it up later, but here's the current team:

Togepi Lv.21

- Headbutt
- Rock Smash
- Metronome
- Flash

Noctowl Lv. 21

- Tackle
- Hypnosis
- Foresight
- Peck

Furret Lv.22

- Fury Swipes
- Defense Curl
- Quick Attack
- Cut

Totodile Lv.8 (HM slave once I get Surf)

- Scratch
- Leer
- Rage
-

 

[tente2]

Just to clarify, in case I don't post in the next couple of days:

My emulator isn't working. (I tried again today, all I literally achieved was to Rock Smash the rocks on route 111, because the emulator began to cause lag on my entire laptop.)

I'm going to try downloading it again tommorrow.

May sound a bit unrealistic at this point, and unfortunately I have no way to prove it...

 

[Eurydice]

Update #5

-Raised team to level 40
- Kitsune learned grudge
- Went to challange Koga's gym
- Defeated Koga
- Obtained Soul Badge and tm 06
- Went to safari zone to get the golden teeth and surf
- didnt make it to the secret house before time was out
- tried again and made it
- while in safari zone caught a random goldeen to use for a surf hm slave
- taught goldeen surf
- healed team before surfing off to seafoam islands
- water types make it had to train
- Kitsune grew to level 40
- Arrived at seafoam island
-saved ( i hate caves)
- Taught char strength
- found articuno decided not to battle it yet
- finally made it out of seafoam islands
- Surfed to cinnabar Island
- went to gym, door was locked
- went to explore the pokemon mansion
- kitsune grew to level 41
- Char grew to level 45
- caught a random ditto
- found the key
- returned to the gym and challanged blaine, i won
- Char grew to level 46
- Obtained volcanobadge
- obtained tm for fireblast
- went to One Island
- went to two and three island
- defeated cue ball leader and gang
- taught flare fire burst
- realized i am missing the 6th badge...forgot to challange sabrina
- Kitsune grew to level 42
- got the tea for the guard
- got into safferon city
- am now facing tr again

Current Team:
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Char the Charizard

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Flare the flareon

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Kitsune the vulpix

 

[Krovvy]

This sounds fun. I don't have the patience to do all the generations though. I think I'm going to do a Normal Monotype Challenge for DPPt. I'll start it after I beat SS again. :)

 

[myrrhman]

I believe I got all the questions answered and stuff. Just repost it if I didn't.

Cathar:

Spoiler:

Some questions for the more experienced Monotypers:
Is Machop worth keeping? I can't trade so he will remain a Machoke forever.
How can I take on Sabrina? Any way I turn she will probably kill me. I could try it with Thief but non-STAB 40 damage (influenced by Special Attack on top of that) will probably not get me far.
I'm guessing Hitmonchan is better for versatility, but I like Hitmonlee more. Which is better?
For the fifth member I would have taken Quappo. Anyone have experience with the big blue guy?

Thanks for reading,
Cheers,
Peter

Lets see:
1. It depends on if you think he can/is keeping up with the rest of your team. If he is, then keep him. If you find that he just isn't as strong as the rest of your team and you're constantly having to waste valuable exp. on him, then I'd ditch him. Maybe use him as a Revive slave.
2. I would probably try overlevelling one of your Pokemon that is either fast or has high special defense. After that, go get Strength and teach it to said Pokemon. Hopefully you can OHKO Sabrina's low defense team with your high attack Normal Move, while withstanding her Psychic attacks. I think Hitmonchan is fast and has good Sp. Def if I recall correctly.
3. Depends on what you need. If you have enough FIghting power (like if your Primeape or Machoke know strong Fighting moves, then I would take Hitmonchan, since Hitmonlee doesn't learn much other than Fighting and Normal moves. Hitmonchan has a bit more versatility, but he has low Sp. Atk, so I don't really know what to tell you. I think I would probably take Hitmonchan, if nothing else than for question #2.
4. Quappo? What is that? A Poliwrath? Regardless, I recommend you get a Poliwrath. He has decent Sp. Atk (something that most Fighting types lack) and can learn Surf, Ice Beam, and Psychic. That's some nice TYpe coverage, and they all hit hard.

jespoke:

Spoiler:

Can someone answer me: Can the traded in Pokemon be fx a Pearl exclusive, if the challenge is on fx Diamond?

I'm 99% sure that you can only use in game Pokemon. Otherwise, you could just play Diamond (where there's no Misdreavous), and trade in a Lv. 100 Mismagius with perfect moves and IVs and EVs and nature. I'm being a bit excessive, but you see my point. The purpose of choosing a game is to play whichever is more beneficial to you (if you have a choice, unless you want it to be harder). I think that most sets do a good job of seperating out the types, especially in Gen III on. You can't get a Victreebel and Vileplume both in Red or Blue, but do you really need them? They both can learn the same types of moves and stuff. If one's better than the other than I'd probably say play that game.

tente:

Spoiler:

Just to clarify, in case I don't post in the next couple of days:

My emulator isn't working. (I tried again today, all I literally achieved was to Rock Smash the rocks on route 111, because the emulator began to cause lag on my entire laptop.)

I'm going to try downloading it again tommorrow.

May sound a bit unrealistic at this point, and unfortunately I have no way to prove it...

You're just fine. There have been many challengers and many challenges that have been needed to put on hold. It's no problem if you have to disappear for a bit. We'll be right here when you get your problem worked out. Best of luck.

And now for my update.

It will go here, uploading 63 screenshots and copying them here is going to take like 45 minutes.

You can go here to see my three monotypes that I've done; Ground Silver, Ground Ruby, and Psychic Ruby: https://img688.imageshack.us/g/1falknerdefeated.png/

 

[AyameHikaru]

I'm kinda stuck. -_-; After defeating every Trainer on the bloody ship, I swept Surge with ease. Much emboldened, I went on to Saffron. Aaaaand got brutally murdered. O.O Aaaaaah! I went back and defeated every trainer in her gym and tried again. Total slaughter. OF ME. Noooooooo....... Time to go train. XD

Izanagi the L. 47 Typhlosion
Izanami the L. 46 Flareon
NINETALES the L. 48 Ninetales
Amaterasu the L. 45 Rapidash
Gyarados Slave
Farfetch'd Slave

 

[jdthebud]

Update for Ultimate Monotype Challenge (Dragon).

Final Update (#4) on Sapphire.

• Surfed to Victory Road and made it through. Menace evolved into Salamence and learned Fly.
• After beating Wally, I bought Fire Blast from the Dept. Store and taught it to Skye.
• I had 24 Rare Candies (Pickup is totally awesome) so everyone got to L60.
• Took on the Elite Four - Glacia was a major pain but I eventually made it through thanks to a Blizzard miss. The rest were easy.
• Steven was easy as well with all the anti-Steel moves I had.

Screens:

Spoiler:

Elite Four:

Champion Steven:

Play-by-play:
Menace VS Skarmory: Flamethrower OHKO, Skarmory fainted!
VS Claydol: Crunch, AncientPower, Crunch, Claydol fainted!
VS Cradily: Dragon Claw, AncientPower, (flew up high!), AncientPower (missed!), Fly, Cradily fainted!
VS Armaldo: Dragon Claw, AncientPower, Menace fainted!
Dragonfly VS Armaldo: Iron Tail, Armaldo fainted!
VS Aggron: Earthquake OHKO, Aggron fainted!
VS Metagross: Earthquake, Meteor Mash, Full Restore (Metagross), Earthquake, Full Restore (Metagross), Earthquake, Full Restore (Metagross), Crunch, Iron Tail, Meteor Mash, Dragonfly fainted!
Skye VS Metagross: Fire Blast, Metagross fainted!

Hall of Fame pics:

Next up is Platinum.

Team Lance (Final):

Menace the Naughty Salamence, ♂ - L61 @ Charcoal -> Hoenn, Elite Four, and Steven MVP
Ability: Intimidate
Moves: Fly, Flamethrower, Dragon Claw, Crunch
Final Stats: 200/213/118/169/107/159

Skye the Brave Altaria, ♀ - L61 @ NeverMeltIce
Ability: Natural Cure
Moves: Dragon Claw, Fire Blast, Ice Beam, Fly
Final Stats: 185/118/134/121/153/115

Dragonfly the Brave Flygon, ♀ - L61 @ Soft Sand
Ability: Levitate
Moves: Return, Crunch, Earthquake, Iron Tail
Final Stats: 181/171/119/114/120/141

Slaves:
Zigzagoon - Surf [boxed]
Tentacool - Dive, Waterfall [boxed]
Treeko - Cut, Flash, Rock Smash, Strength [boxed]

 

[Clairissa]

I'm kinda stuck. -_-; After defeating every Trainer on the bloody ship, I swept Surge with ease. Much emboldened, I went on to Saffron. Aaaaand got brutally murdered. O.O Aaaaaah! I went back and defeated every trainer in her gym and tried again. Total slaughter. OF ME. Noooooooo....... Time to go train. XD

Izanagi the L. 47 Typhlosion
Izanami the L. 46 Flareon
NINETALES the L. 48 Ninetales
Amaterasu the L. 45 Rapidash
Gyarados Slave
Farfetch'd Slave

If you still have the Shadow Ball TM from Morty, I know Flareon can learn it...
That's how I beat her anyway, or you could get yourself a Houndour on the route east of Celadon and train it up to beat her, being dark type and all.


Update for my own firetype challenge...
Let's see... Whooped Erika obviously, then Misty, then fixed the power plant, then caught Snorlax (cause I wanted it), then beat Brock, and took a break on my way to Fuchsia City.

CYNDI, female level 65

MAGMORTAR, male level 62

FLAREON, female level 62

NINETALES, female level 62

HOUNDOOM, female level 60

HM Slaves:

Fly Surf Waterfall Whirlpool

 

[Zeus2398]

EXTREMELY small update, but, meh:
-Got to Pewter City
-Trained Sparky to lvl12
-headed straight to the gym
-was horrified at the difficulty of the gym trainer (Forgot Tail Whip instead of growl by mistake, just 'cuz I was mashing the A button without paying attention at the end of battle)
-Sparky leveled up
-went to heal because I had 2 Quick Attack's left
-Challenged Brock (meep):
I didn't pay attention to Brock's moves, just mine, but he probably just spammed Tackle
So, me:
Sparky V Geodude
Growl x5
potion
Growl
Quick attack x10
So Geodude was on half health(ish), and, to my amazement:
Quick attack x5. ALL CRITS! I mean, HOW ON EARTH! Has anyone actually got 5 crits in a row before?
Anyway:
Sparky V Onix
Growl x4
potion
Growl x2
Quick attack x13
Onix was on low health, but I didn't have enough Quick attacks to finish it. I was gonna lose after all those crits. But THEN:
Sparky used Quick attack
Onix used Tackle
Sparky used Quick attack. A CRITICAL HIT! Booyah!
So... wow

Now heading to Mt Moon!

Team:
Sparky lvl15(Pikachu)
-T-Shock
-Quick Attack
-Double team
-T-Wave

And useless Charmander named Slaved

I sorta fell sorry for Brock. I bet he felt rejected when I was partying around the room to offer sacrifices for the Gods of Crits and Quick Attack.

EDIT: Lol, just got another 2 crit Quick attack's on a bug catchers weedle

 

[Cathar]

@AyameHikaru: Try to avoid Sabrina as long as you can and just grind grind grind. At least that's what I did during my Groung Monotype run on Soulsilver.

@Myrrhman: Thanks for answering my questions! And yeah, Quappo is Poliwrath. Man, I'm getting confused. I'm even playing this with an English Firered Rom and I still mix up English and German names XD

Next update will be today, I made a bit of progress last night. Fighting is soooo easy so far, I'm pretty much flying through the game.

 

[myrrhman]

@Myrrhman: Thanks for answering my questions! And yeah, Quappo is Poliwrath. Man, I'm getting confused. I'm even playing this with an English Firered Rom and I still mix up English and German names XD

Yeah, I looked up the Japanese name, and it didn't match, but then I was like "oh yeah, I can use this brain thing. Which of all the Pokemon is blue, Fighting type, and in Fire Red?

Next update will be today, I made a bit of progress last night. Fighting is soooo easy so far, I'm pretty much flying through the game.

You better slow down, flying is super effective against fighting.

 

[BlissyMKW]

Made some decent progress on Gold so far. I'm already near complete with the Rocket Hideout, and I'll take on Pryce this early. Cianwood and Olivine can wait. My next update might be up either a little later, or after school.