Ultimate Monotype Challenge Thread

[jdthebud]

You just screwed your Vulpix over :( Ninetales can't learn anything once she's evolved.

https://www.dltk-kids.com/pokemon/adoptions/vulpix-p.html

Yes you did, so catch another one and level it up as a Vulpix this time.

By the way, could I potentially use Green version for Kanto?

 

[jt4811]

Thanks guys back to the game corner I go

 

[Cardwell74]

Congrats for beating RED Cardwell
And to those guys who helped me thanks but i am using Yellow not FR/LG

I am now in Cleadon City and have gotten Eeve and Vulpix and evolved them both with fire stones I bought. oh and Charizard evolved

Pokemon

Zard (Charizard) lv 36
Flare (Flareon) lv 25
Tay (Ninetails) lv 18

Time for some grinding

Since you evolved vulpix right away, you're pretty much limited to TM moves for ninetails. i'd go with fire blast (tm 38, you win it from blanie), double edge (tm 10, found in the rocket hideout in celedon), toxic (tm 06, you win it from koga) and mimic (tm 31, gift from copy cat girl for giving her a pokedoll, it is AMAZING, copy fissure off one of giovannis guys, use an x accuracy and it cant miss, copy psychic from agathas gengar, copy ice beam from lane's dragonair, ext ect)

as for falreon, it learns flamethrower at level 52, you can teach it hyper beam with tm 15, which is bout at the game corner. the other two moves i have no idea. hope that helped.

 

[SyngthaSuyeon]

Yes you did, so catch another one and level it up as a Vulpix this time.

By the way, could I potentially use Green version for Kanto?

It's still Kanto, so yea. I don't see any reason why not. You'll just be navigating through a ton of Japanese text.

 

[Mcdoodle]

Don't know why but I grinded all my pokemon to Lv.30(probably overkill, right?). Before that I beat Misty then I defeated Lt. Surge.

My Current Team:

Jigglypuff - Lv.30
Clefairy - Lv.32
Raticate - Lv.30
Pidgeotto - Lv.30
Sandshrew - My HM Slave

 

[myrrhman]

@jd: The myrrh says...

moooooooo.

But yeah, you're fine if you want to use green.

@jt: well, you done goofed when you chose yellow instead of blue. I did a dual Charizard + Magmar run and it was very nice. Magmar is a beast with Psychic.

In other news, I grinded my team to level 49-51 in my HG Water mono.

Time to play Ruby Steel mono.

Edit: made it out of VR. And oh boy, Sydney is going to be tough. Sharpedo hurts...
The only way I can get past Sharpedo right now is if I send out Electrike and he uses Crunch or Slash instead of Surf and I paralyze him with Static. I can OHKO him if I get him paralyzed. But he can OHKO me if I don't...

Spoiler:

So eventually, after suiciding into the Elite Four a few times, my physical based Aggron got strong enough to OHKO Mightyena with Black Belt powered Brick Break, if he doesn't get intimidated. So, I led Zigzagoon, who immediately died to Crunch. Aggron OHKO'd Mightyena. Sharpedo was coming up, so I switched to Electrike, who took Crunch like a boss and Static Paralyzed Sharpedo. He was then OHKO'd by Brick Break. After that, 3 Brick Breaks later, I was done with Sydney.

I switched Black Belt for Metal Coat and fought Phoebe. Iron Tail + Curse = Duskull dead. I switched to Skarmory to get rid of Curse for her second Duskull. I first thief'd its Sitrus Berry, then used Fly, and soon died to Ice Beam. Without the Sitrus Berry, Aggron 2HKO'd with Earthquakes. He then went on to either OHKO or 2HKO with either Iron Tail or Earthquake. They couldn't hurt me with their puny NVE moves.

Glacia was really tough. I healed Aggron and reswitched to Black Belt, as well as switching the other Aggron's (who from now on will be referred to as Aggron2) Magnet to Charcoal. Aggron took an Ice Beam and OHKO'd with Brick Break. Sealeo was slower than me, but didn't die to Brick Break, and got me into yellow with Surf. Then he died. The next Sealeo came out, who opted to use Hail instead of Dive. 2 BB's did the trick. Then came Walrein. I switched to Aggron2, hoping to do some damage with Thunderbolt or something, but Walrein was faster, and OHKO with Surf. I then sent out Marshtomp, healed Aggron, and revived my Pokemon until Hail ran out (he used Blizzard I think on Marshtomp, and it missed the first time). Full health Aggron was still outsped by Walrein and got down to about 10 health in one surf, but Walrein was at half after one BB. So, I switched to Skarmory, which barely survived a Surf, rehealed Aggron, and then finished Walrein off with one final BB (at like 10 health).

Drake was much easier. I saved after Glacia thinking that I wouldn't get very far against Drake, so not everyone (of my good Pokemon) were fully healed. Also I switched back to Metal Coat and Charcoal -> NevermeltIce. Shellgon used Rock tomb and was 2HKO by Iron Tail. So were his two flygon, using Sandstorm and Dragonbreath instead of the Ground type move I'm sure they had. Then was Salamence. He was able to 3HKO me with Flamethrower, which I'm sure I could have 3HKO him with Iron Tail, but for some reason, I thought I needed to use Ice Beam instead, so I tried switching to Aggron2, who died in one hit (from half health). I then revived and fully healed him with 2/3 of Aggron's life, and then switched to a slave so that Aggron2 could come in for free. Ice Beam did like 1/3 of Salamence's health. Poo. Aggron finished him and Altaria off with like one more Hyper Potion.

I went on to Steven, afraid of what kind of nasty things his Metagross was going to do to my team. Pretty sure I went with Soft Sand for Aggron, Metal Coat for Skarmory, and Charcoal for Aggron2. Not that important I guess. Also I led with Aggron2, since Skarmory could only use NVEx2 Steel Wing and Aerial Ace. He fainted to a few Flamethrower/Thunderbolts, but he laid one layer of Spikes. Next was Aggron, so I switched to my Aggron. I did 3/4 of his health with an EQ, he did barely over half with his own EQ. I decided that I might as well finish him off, but he surprisingly switched to Metagross, which took a Crit EQ and died in one hit. O_o o_O I celebrated. He then was about to send out Claydol, but I had a fairly underleveled Skarmory to fight him with. Ancient Power did like 1/5 of my health, and EQ didn't effect me. Wootz. Once he ran out of damaging moves, I switched to Aggron2, who Surfed all over him (twice, because Steven used a Full Restore). Aggron was coming back out, so I switched to Aggron, who finished him off with EQ. Next was Armaldo and Cradidly, but I don't really remember them, so I'm guessing they weren't that bad. Apparently I switched to Skarmory at some point, because that was who I used at the end.

The End.

 

[jt4811]

Again thanks guys but im goin back to the game gorner to win me another Vulpix that I will train this time

 

[jdthebud]

Start of Ultimate Monotype Challenge #2.

New Ulitmate Montotype Challenge: Normal Type.

Going with Green to start. Using an english translated one, which isn't perfect, but most of the moves and items are readable.

Right now I started the game with name of Norm and Rival as Joe.

- Caught Rattata (Fang) and used him against Brock, then caught a Clefairy (Fairy) in Mt. Moon and evolved it with the Moon Stone right away.
- Went with those two until Celadon City, where I caught a Doduo (Twin).
- After I beat TR hideout, I got Snorlax (Sleep), then after finally saving enough money picked up Porygon (Pory).
- I also have Farfetch'd (Dux) as a Cut slave, which I got in Vermilion City.

Some screenshots of my journey:

Spoiler:

I know it's not much but it's what I have.

Took a ton of Tail Whips on Onix with Bide, then Hyper Fang was good.

- Forgot Misty's screenshot. Fairy's Mega Punch was the winner here.

3 Digs FTW.

Easy with Fly/Drill Peck, although Fly missed a couple times so Twin went down, and Fairy finished it.

As of right now, I have 4 badges, and am currently training Porygon on Cycling Road.

Team Norm:

Pory the Porygon - L20
Moves: Psychic, Sharpen, Conversion, Tri Attack

Sleep the Snorlax - L35
Moves: Body Slam, Amnesia, Rest, Rock Slide

Twin the Dodrio - L36
Moves: Drill Peck, Fly, Fury Attack, Body Slam

Fang the Raticate - L36
Moves: Hyper Fang, Quick Attack, Double-Edge, Dig

Fairy the Clefable - L36
Moves: Mega Punch, Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, Bubblebeam

Dux the Farfetch'd - L12
Slave Moves: Cut

Well. You don't see those sprites every day.

 

[Cathar]

Man you guys are just way too fast for me.

By the way, I guess those of you who post screens are playing on emulators, right?

This week on Cathar's UMC Ground:

Spoiler:

After the 4th badge (steamrolled with Bowser+Surf) I forgot that you can't get to Ice Path for ages but still went to Mahogany Town. Caught Red Gyarados, messed up Rocket Base. Then I tried to get to Ice Path. Guy still blocks me.
Then I defeat Pryce and get my 5th (lawl) badge from him. Guy still blocks my way to Ice Path. Realization dawns. He will block me until I clear out the Rockets from the Radio Tower fffffnnn.... *rage*
Swept the fighting and steel gym (both laughable, the fighting gym because my two main Pokémon were now ten levels over his, steel due to Double-Kick and Surf) and tried to avoid as many trainer battles on my way as possible, to make leveling Swinub easier.
Went to Ice Path, caugh Mom and Dad Swinub and now I'm breeding like crazy.
Since I'm a total noob to this, what are good egg moves / natures for baby Swinub?

Team Soulsilver:
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Loverboy the Nidoking, Level 43

Spoiler:

I'm having sooo much fun with Attract on this guy. It's just hilarious.
Here's a list of some of his achievements in bringing love to the female Pokémon world: About a dozen random wild Pokémon just for fun, two Nidorinas, two Nidoqueen, Red Gyarados (lawl), all of the red-haired rocket woman's Pokémon in Mahogany base, all of the red-haired rocket woman's Pokémon in the Radio Tower.
Attract appears pretty broken. So far, there has been only one Pokémon that has managed to get more than one attack through after being in luvvv.

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Bowser the Quagsire, Level 42

Spoiler:

The best Pokémon on the team. Pushed his defense a little with items and he can take pretty much any hit. He now knows Surf and Earthquake. Nuff said.

Everyone else is in the box because I am loaded up with Swinub eggs.
I'm thinking of ditching the Graveler for now, as I won't be able to trade until mid-february.
But who else to take on the team?

Until next time,

Cheers,
Peter

 

[jdthebud]

Man you guys are just way too fast for me.

By the way, I guess those of you who post screens are playing on emulators, right?

Right. The emulators also come with speed buttons and trading capabilities, too (for first three Gens), which make them even more convenient.

 

[jt4811]

What level do you guys reccomend me evolving volpix to Ninetails at

 

[blue]

Putting my challenge on hold, I'll resume with the same Pokémon ect.

 

[myrrhman]

@jt: hold off until 35. Vulpix learns Flamethrower at that level, which Ninetails can't learn. You can go to online sites like serebii/bulbapedia/psypokes and they'll tell you all the moves that your Pokemon can learn + much much more.

@cathar: yeah, I usually go with an emulator because playing on the real thing is just so slow. And you can trade with yourself if you are so inclined, though I am not.

Also, everything is updated on my side! Yay go everything!

Edity: On HG, I beat all the Kanto Gyms. On to Elite Four round 2! Also, I fell in love with Viridian's Gym design. I just sort of ran around and watched the tiles light up. It was fun.

The Starmies are around 52 now, and the Feraligatrs are around 55 now.

 

[Kokowood]

@Myrr - Lego Land > 4th Gen Viridian

Anyway, no work or classes today. So I decided to finish up Crystal. Went smoothly except for a few bumps. Red's Charizard is beastly.

Spoiler:

I decided to take JD's advice and grabbed that egg. First hatch ended up being a Smooch so I was pleased with that. Went on to training that, catching a Swinub and Dewgong, and then letting them catch up to the rest of the gang before taking on the Elite Four. Clair was no biggy, I took her out while training the first Pokemon in need of training (Smoochum), but that's to be expected on an Ice run.

After that I decided to finish up my grinding in Victory Road as it was just giving out EXP like it was Christmas. After everyone made it to 50 (And my lead to 55) I headed off to the Elite Four, which I had expected to be a little more difficult... Oh, I also used those TMs I've been hoarding to make my team less mono-tone.

Will - No trouble. May's Ice Beam/Thunder and Trish II's Shadow Ball made quick work of him.

Koga - Another quick battle. Trish II's Psychic and a few Unneeded Ice Beams from others (Free EXP) took them down in one shot.

Bruno - Another easy one. I thought he'd have more Rock/Ground so I had PuhiPuhi lead. Puhi ended up beasting his entire team with STAB'd + Soft Sand Earthqauke. I did switch to Trish II for Machamp just because those random crits can be a pain.

Karen - Led off with Shredder for the Not very effective advantage. Went smoothly until her Murkrow. I wanted the stylish kill so I went for Thunder as the final hit, but missed 4 times in a row and May took some Faint Attacks to the face. But she's tough, she handled it with plenty of HP to spare.

Lance -Led with Travis T. because he hadn't seen ANY action in the League so far. He ended up taking out 5/6 of his Pokemon in one shot. I got a little worried on Aerodactly, but he lived through the Rock Slide and shot a x4 STAB Ice Beam to Aero's face. No way he was living through that. After that just switched to Tap Deck to take out his Charizard fast and easy. That's the end of that.

After that I went through Kanto in less than an hour. 1 hit pretty much everything and anything the Gym leaders brought out with the exception of Blaine (Who I was raising Shredder at so it was a little slower) and good ol' Blue.

Blue - The battle went easy, one-hitting everything but his Pigeot, until Arcanine... He got several Critical Flamethrowers in a row off, leaving me down to just May and Trish II. May took him down 3 times (Full Restore'd twice) and that was the end of him. Like I said in Yellow; Good game Blue, good game.

With Blue's Arcanine shenanigans out of the way I was a little worried about Red, but I decided to just go for it as Cardwell took him out with Pokemon only slightly higher than mine, and with half the team amount. I was slightly off as it didn't exactly go my way...

Red - I decided to lead with my new favorite team member Lv.60 PuhiPuhi (Piloswine) and I was greeted by his lv.81 Pikachu. PuhiPuhi made quick work of ol' Chewy with a Earthquake. After that he brought out Charizard, which ended up being my downfall. I thought "Oh I can bring Tap Deck out and live a Flamethrower/Fire Blast and hit him with a STAB'd Surf." I was dead wrong. That thing 1HKO'd me with that Flamethrower, and I lost my balance and fell victim to it. Had to reload and retry twice and finally got past his Charizard thanks to May's Thunder. Espeon went down nice and easy thanks to Shredder. Snorlax also fell victim to PuhiPuhi's Earthquake. He brought out Blastoise, which got so lucky on Surf. Hit 4 Crits in a row. I had to restart and got back to the same spot. Decided to just go with Dewgong against him this time (May has 12 Health left thanks to Double Flamethrower from Charizard) which turned out very nice. Headbutt'd twice, then went into Rest and Sleep Talk. Sleep Talk surprised me, did Headbutts and an occasional Ice Beam, until I was near death and it got Rest which I enjoyed. With Blastoise down it was just Venasaur, which did end up sweeping most of my team with Giga Drain. I got an Earthquake off with PuhiPuhi, and then with Tap Deck's last chance (And mine as that's all I had left) it got an Ice Beam off and killed it.
I was not expecting that many of his pokemon to give me a rough time. I could have used some FUll Restores and made this fight one sided after Charizard, but using No Items was the only way to make this feel like the challenge was still going. Good game Red.

In short, Elite Four was a piece of cake. Blue's Arcanine is a beast with those Critical chains. Red's Charizard is godly. I now love Pilloswine for no reason, and will probably start using one in my main team outside this challenge...



Crystal Final Team:

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PuhiPuhi the Piloswine - Lv60 @ Softsand
Blizzard
Earthquake
Hidden Power (Turned out Water)
Take Down

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Tap Deck the Cloyster - Lv.57 @ Mystic Water
Ice Beam
Surf
Attract
Swift

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Shredder the Sneasel - Lv.56 @ Black Glasses
Dynamic Punch
Faint Attack
Slash
Iron Tail

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May the Lapras - Lv.57 @ Dragon Fang
Ice Beam
Dragon Breath
Rain Dance (Hydo Pump AFTER Charizard ;_; )
Thunder

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Trish II the Jynx - Lv.55 @ Nevermelt Ice (Didn't have the Psychic or Ghost boosting item)
Blizzard
Psychic
Dizzy Punch
Shadow Ball

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Travis T. the Dewgong - Lv.55 @ Pink Bow
Rest
Sleep Talk
Ice Beam
Headbutt

On to Ruby.

 

[jdthebud]

After that I decided to finish up my grinding in Victory Road as it was just giving out EXP like it was Christmas. After everyone made it to 50 (And my lead to 55) I headed off to the Elite Four, which I had expected to be a little more difficult... Oh, I also used those TMs I've been hoarding to make my team less mono-tone.

Dude, L50 is way high for the first Elite 4, holy crap.

With Blue's Arcanine shenanigans out of the way I was a little worried about Red, but I decided to just go for it as Cardwell took him out with Pokemon only slightly higher than mine, and with half the team amount. I was slightly off as it didn't exactly go my way...

I usually grind my team to L60 for Red in GSC, usually against the Elite Four, which is really easy in GSC. The reason your Cloyster didn't survive Flamethrower is because it has extremely crappy special defense lol. Anyway, L60 is prolly the best baseline for beating Red without using too many items (Max Revives....).

 

[Kokowood]

Dude, L50 is way high for the first Elite 4, holy crap.

Yeah it was. I blame Jynx. I had several Pokemon up to Lv.50 already, and my weird OCD like nature wouldn't let me continue on until the rest were around that spot. It's fine though, after the league I was so over leveled that I didn't do very many trainer battles in Kanto and just hit Gym after Gym and then went straight to Red, so I ended up at the same place I would have been end game anyway.

I usually grind my team to L60 for Red in GSC, usually against the Elite Four, which is really easy in GSC. The reason your Cloyster didn't survive Flamethrower is because it has extremely crappy special defense lol. Anyway, L60 is prolly the best baseline for beating Red without using too many items (Max Revives....).

Yeah Cloyster's not a Special Tank, but I thought it could AT LEAST take one Flamethrower. Put too much expectation on him in that fight. And I did pretty good 55-60 with no items. Once I took down the Charizard the rest of the team was pretty easy, just a few minor bumps on Blastoise's luck factor.

 

[jt4811]

Hey guys I found my Fire Red Game So im restarting on that

 

[myrrhman]

In HG, I thought that you had to fight the E4 a second time before you could fight red, but apparently I was wrong. I still think I'm going to train on them for a while, at least my EQ Feraligatr (for Pikachu). Just looked over his team on Bulbapedia and I think I will just revive off his Venusaur.

 

[Cardwell74]

Oh Hoenn... how much I really cant decide if i like or hate thy...

Anyways, i've made progress! 3 badges down

And i know those pictures dont make it seem like it, but combusken isn't my only pokemon. I'm currently heading north, and saving up enough money to buy a flamethrower TM for combusken.

Current Team

Combusken (lvl 28)
-Ember
-Peck
-Rock Tomb
-Double Kick

Breloom (lvl 27)
-Headbutt
-Mach Punch
-Leech Seed
-Mega Drain

HM Slaves
Zigzagoon (Cut, Rock Smash)

 

[tomreaper]

At last, started my 4th leg of my poison umc!

I chose piplup, for torterras super effectiveness against ground to make the game more challenging. I got my watch and caught Rosey, the Budew, who was holding a poison barb. I went to the cave and caught a zubat and named him Zulu. I trained them both to level 10 and went to the coal mine. After i found the gym leader, i trained them both to level 15 and i challenged the gym. His pokemon died fast to Roseys mega drain. Almost had a little trouble against crainados, but after he healed him, Rosey took him down in one shot.

I'm gonna wait till tomorrow morning before i continue so i can hopefully maybe evolve Rosey.

Rosey/Budew

Level 17

-Mega Drain
-Growth
-Water Sport
-Stun Spore

Zulu/Zubat

Level 15

-Leech Life
-Super Sonic
-Astonish
-Bite