Ultimate Monotype Challenge

[jespoke]

Holy bejeezus. My last update was with the 1st badge, so I don't remember everything. (oops).

-Got all badges.
-TR is DEAD.
-E4 + Champion
-Done.

That works, eh? Eh.

:] Emerald time

Are we not supposed to beat red before going to 3. gen?

Anyway, after 2 weeks without playing, i´m back with another Soul Silver water update!

- beat Team Rocket in Mahogany (i only had the battle with the female admin left)
- beat Team Rocket in Goldenrod Radio tower (annoying beasts)
- beat Goldenrod Underground (including my rival IDIOT)
- beat the remaining Rockets (1 grunt and 3 admins? don´t they usually have far more grunts than admins)
- went through ice path (and finally found Waterfall HM)
- made Croco and Gyra forget Surf to make space for Waterfall. also brought 2 Thunder´s for Gyra and Light, found Rain Dance at slowpoke well for light, and spend hours in the game corner to get coins for a Swords Dance for Croco and a Rest for Muddy, who i also learned Sleep Talk
- trained at route 45
- beat 8. gym (but Clair refused to give me a badge)
- went through Dragons Den (were the elder forced Clair to finally give me my badge)
- got the (at the moment useless) Master Ball.

 

[raekuul]

I shall do a flying type run. Just try and stop me.

Good luck with Wattson. Volkner and Surge shouldn't be too bad, but Wattson... there aren't enough good flying types by that point in Hoenn.

 

[shortdan1998]

Update 4.5:

4.5 Because this is barely an update.

-Destroyed Koga before trying to get Bruno
-Bruno is still ruining me, but this time with his Machamp! Gawd I hate that thing. :P

END .5 UPDATE

 

[dragon0fangz]

Big Update.
I am currently about to go in M. Coronet to take down Giratina. That part, yeah.
I caught a Sudowoodo on Route 221 as soon as I could. I did it for wood hammer. That move destroys most of the opposition. I destroyed Iron Island and Byron with just sudowoodo! Then I evolved Rhyhorn into Rhydon, and later in Rhyperior when I reached Snowpoint. Candice was surprisingly tough, her team had tons of anti-Rock moves. Beat her and moved on. My pokemon are doing great. Oh yes, I LOL'd at the fact that every one of Cyrus's team is weak to rock.
My Team

Golem/lv 47
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Rock Blast
Earthquake
Fire Blast
Explosion
Retired for a bit, i'm trying to equalize the team. Fire Blast was a spur of the moment thing to defeat Candice. It didn't work, but I have the move now.

Bastiodon/lv 46
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Toxic
Metal Burst
Flash Cannon
Swagger
Good for stalling, can win pretty much any battle, as long as the opponent doesn't OHKO Bastiodon.

Rhyperior/lv 46
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Horn Drill
Avalanche
Stone Edge
Hammer Arm
The new powerhouse. Solid Rock as an ability is just unbeatable. Definitely gonna depend on this one for E4. Especially with Rock Wrecker, the "ultimate" Rock move.

Sudowoodo/lv 46
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Low Kick
Sucker Punch
Wood Hammer
Rock Slide
Very useful for exploiting weaknesses. Wood Hammer destroys water and ground, and rock head blocks recoil. This one actually can defeat most of the E4.

 

[jespoke]

Small Soul Silver update:

- Forced my way to and through Victory Road
- Beat IDIOT
- Beat the league

And some awards for my pokemon: (for their league challenge)

M.V.P. was clearly Croco. Crunch at Will, sweeper against Koga and Bruno, the only one who could survive Karen´s Houndoom´s Nasty Plot-Dark Pulse Combo, and Ice fang was my main weapon against Lance.
2. M.V.P. was Gyra. worked like a "extra Croco" and was my only mean of fighting Exeggutor and Vileplume
L.V.P. was supposed to be Icy, until Lance´s very last pokemon who it got down with Perish Song, So the title goes to Tenta who only got to use Toxic Spikes

 

[Aquerex]

UPDATE

TYPE: Flying
GAME: Fire Red

Decided to play on my old GameBoy SP for the nostalgia. :)

-Started with Charmander nicknamed Blaze cuz Charizard is part Flying.
-Did lotsa stuff
-Caught Pidgey, nicknamed Cloud
-Charmander evolved training for Brock.

BROCK BATTLE!
- Blaze was the main attacker while Cloud was the Sand-Attacker. Geodude was easy. Went down with 2 Metal Claws. Onix, on the other hand, was hard. Time to switch to Cloud. After about 2 minutes of spamming Sand-Attack, I switched to Blaze. Even at level 17, it took about 6 Metal Claws to finally take down his Onix.

-Progressed and bought a super cool Magikarp!
-Spent a while training in Mt. Moon and eventually evolved my Magikarp (Sushi) into a Gyarados.

MISTY BATTLE!
- Misty was pathetically easy. I didn't even have to switch from Cloud. Just a few Gusts did the trick for Staryu. For Starmie, I had to Sand-Attack it a bit so I could take it down without even getting hurt. I think the "I like shorts" kid was harder than her.

LT. SURGE BATTLE!
- Voltorb went down with a Mega Punch from Blaze. Pikachu went down with an Ember. I HATE RAICHU. After 2 attempts at Surge, Raichu went down. Cheater Raichu kept spamming Double Team...I got an extremely lucky critical hit with Mega Punch, and that took it down. Jeez...

-Made my way through Rock Tunnel to get to Lavender Town.
-Now on my way to Celadon.

The real fun of the game begins when you get through Rock Tunnel.

*pokemonelite2000 image removed*Blaze | Lv31
-Ember
-Mega Punch
-Brick Break
-Aerial Ace

*pokemonelite2000 image removed*Cloud | Lv30
-Wing Attack
-Quick Attack
-Tackle
-Gust

*pokemonelite2000 image removed*Sushi | Lv31
-Water Pulse
-Dragon Rage
-Tackle
-Bite

 

[dragon0fangz]

WOW. Just WOW. I am now the first Rock Type champion. Yes, It took me this long.
I didnt know the rock type could be so powerful and yet so fragile.

Continuing on from my past update, I owned Giratina with just Sudowoodo, went to Sunyshore, Swept there with consecutive earthquakes, then went to the Victory road. Granted, VR took me longer than I expected, I wanted to find everything. Then I challenged the E4.
Recap of the E4
Aaron -
Somewhat easy, Somewhat Hard. Only Heracross gave me a hard time. Rock type pwns, along with Golem's flamethrower.
Bertha -
pretty hard, i had to dodge earthquakes flown at me from every direction. I mostly used Wood hammer and Avalanche.
Flint - Swept with Rhyperior and Earthquake. I barely even took any damage.
Lucian - a tough one. I had hoped to level Rhyperior enough to learn Megahorn, but alas, he was on lv 56. So I mostly kept reviving Sudowoodo to use Sucker Punch.

Cynthia - Now there was a good battle. I wish I could have recoreded it for all to see. Basically, I used my whole team, and restarted continuously to get it just right...

Spiritomb - swept with 2 Earthquakes from Rhyperior.
Roserade - Bastiodon Metal Bursted Energy ball back at her, leaving her with just under half health. Switched out to Lucario.
Lucario - I predicted the switchout, and used Swagger just when Lucario came in. Lucario owned Bastiodon anyways, and I switched Rhyperior in. Used Earthquake.
Garchomp - surprisingly easy. Full health Rhyperior took an Earthquake and sent an Avalanche back.
Roserade again - I just sent back another Metal Burst.
Milotic - Ah, there was the true challenge. I could never have beaten this, if it weren't for the fact that Milotic tends to use Mirror coat against Bastiodon. I Swaggered, switched out to Sudowoodo, tried to use Wood hammer twice, fail, and kept reviving and trying again, until it finally worked.
Togekiss - I was on my last 2 pokes so it was a bit tough, but I used Avalanche and that was it.

The whole E4 must have taken me 2 hours to perfect.
And I am now Sinnoh Champ and Ultimate Rock Champ!
My winning team:
Rhyperior / lv 57
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Horn Drill
Avalanche
Earthquake
Megahorn
Easily the MVP. THe powerhouse, and Solid Rock as an ability made it possible. I wouldnt stand a chance without him.

Bastiodon / lv 53
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Toxic
Metal Burst
Flash Cannon
Swagger
Very useful in the E4, especially against Cynthia. Not very useful in the rest of the run, though, hence the slight underleveling.

Sudowoodo / lv 54
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Hammer Arm
Wood Hammer
Sucker Punch
Rock Slide
Another useful player. Sure, she went down fairly easily, but her coverage, particularly Wood Hammer, contributed a lot.

Golem / lv 54
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Stone Edge
Earthquake
Fire Blast
Explosion
LVP. Was powerful for most of the run, but basically a weaker Rhyperior in the end. Barely played in the E4, I always preferred to revive Rhyperior. Still helped, with Fire Blast and Explosion.

Thanks to all of my competitors during this challenge!
Blue:
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[WriteThemWrong]

started on HG

-named myself Coco and my rival Momo
-chose totodile
-beat falkner
-caught a mareep, forgot to nickname him grr

now just training mareep till it learns t-shock

 

[Missingno.7-4468]

Wow, haven't been on this thread in a long time...

But for good reason, I deleted my crystal save when I was cleaning up my computer, and I never had the desire to restart. Anyway, I am going to be doing it on HG now, and I just started with Totodile. Like...Just received Totodile :P

I'll be sure to update ~

 

[DXrobots]

Finally a way to make use of my pokemon game collection. I think I'll give it a try with water type pokemon. I'll be playing on Emulators except for diamond version. So Red-> Gold-> Ruby-> Diamond. Cool?

 

[WriteThemWrong]

oh an congratz dragon, i always like rock types great job on being the first :)

 

[Callandor]

This sounds like fun. I don't suppose I'd still be allowed join, would I? If so I'd like to do this for the fire type, starting on Blue, then on to Crystal, then to Emerald, and finaly Pearl.

 

[FaWa]

Edit: Scrap that, I'll continue normal.

 

[Itz Spadezz]

Update 1

A lot of pictures on this update :)

Spoiler:

Traded with VBA link

 

[myrrhman]

This sounds like fun. I don't suppose I'd still be allowed join, would I? If so I'd like to do this for the fire type, starting on Blue, then on to Crystal, then to Emerald, and finaly Pearl.

Of course you can join. Alakazam will put you in shortly.

In other news: lots of update.

Monotype Ghost: Silver Version (from the GSC Monotype thread)

Spoiler:

Opening stuff blah blah name:A, starter:Totodile, rival: ???
In the Sprout tower, I caught two gastlys (Alpha and Omega)
Needed help from Totodile to beat the gym, as they have no moves that can kill Normal types yet. He was still easy with Rage.
Got to Azalea, and Beat the second gym and rival
Got to Goldenrod and the route above, where Alpha finally evolved into a Haunter (and a Gengar as he was very shortly traded). Woohoo, now I just need to buy Ice Punch or something so I can do damage to Normal types. Don't know what level Omega is, but he's going to need to be a Gengar before Morty.
Now that I had a Gengar, I bought Ice, Thunder, and Fire Punch from the Dept. Store in Goldenrod. Whitney was easy as balls. Both of her Pokemon took two Thunderpunches.
I then started trying to get my second Gengar. This proved much harder than the first, as once again, I was limited to Lick as my only damaging move, and these Pokemon were stronger. I decided to enter the Ecruteak Gym after dispatching Sudowoodo. This way, I could switch out and kill them with Alpha.
Finally evolved in the Burned tower against ???
Went back and Defeated Morty. Got Shadow Ball. Now we're talking.
Finished up the Johto Gyms. Nothing too hard, because I don't remember any of them from yesterday. On to the elite four.
Will:

OHKO everyone but Slowbro w/ Omega's Shadow Ball. Slowbro took two and almost one hit me with psychic.

Koga: One hit Aridos, Venomoth, and Foretress w/ Fire Punch. Muk took 3 Fire Punches. Crobat was annoying because I kept missing with TPunch, so he took about 4 and almost killed me.

Bruno:

All of his pokemon but onix took multiple shots but couldn't kill Alpha.

Karen:

Froze Umbreon on the first Ice Punch and then killdt it. Murkrow and Vileplume went down with a single ice punch. Gengar and I licked like two children in a lollipop store in the middle of the summer. And Houndoom, who I was fearing, was being a dumba** and used Roar 5 times in a row. Moving on.

Final Battle Lance:

Easiest (other than Will). Gyarados OHKO w/ T Punch. Dragonites all OHKO w/ Ice Punch. Aerodactyl too. Charizard took like 2 shadow balls or something, don't know, don't care.
Figured that the hard part was done, so I might as well finish up.

Rescued the little girl and arrived in Vermilion.
Went to Saffron and got Psychic.
Went to Celadon, beat Erika, and got Giga Drain (which completed my final moveset).
Went to the Power Plant, to Cerulean, to Nugget Bridge, to Cerulean, and back to Power Plant to solve their crisis.
Beat Misty with either Thunderpunch or Giga Drain.
Beat Lt. Surge with lots of Fire Punches (hardest battle so far).
Sabrina was Shadow Ball bait.
Realized I didn't have the Radio Card or Bike, so I helped the Copycat in order to get back easily via train.
Got the Expansion Card and took out Snorlax.
Beat Brock with 5 Quad Super Effective Miracle Seed Powered Giga Drains
Blaine took 2 hits for all of his Pokemon, and even though he hit me with Flamethrower and Sunny Day powered Fire Blast, I still didn't lose a Pokemon.
Blue would have forced me to heal, but Arcanine, like Houndoom, used Roar almost exclusively.
Onward to Red!

Ok. Vs. Red

Pikachu was easy enough, lowered my attack while I killed it.
Snorlax... rest, rest, rest, rest, rest, rest, rest... Had to just switch back and forth until he ran out of them. I am now dangerously low on attacks for only having killed his second Pokemon.
Espeon outsped the Gengar with Shadow Ball, but not the other one. I proceeded to Fire Punch, faint, send out slave and revive, repeat, until I killed it.
Venusaur: I didn't know what to expect, so I healed the dead Gengar. It charged up a Solar Beam. I healed, and Solar Beam crit'd and almost one hit me. I healed it off again while Venusaur charged. Fire Punch, Solar beam, heal while Venusaur used Sunny Day, and then Fire Punch killed it.
Charizard: I hit him with a TPunch, but he killed Alpha. Omega put him to sleep, revived Alpha, and managed to kill him with Shadow Ball.
Blastoise: Alpha hit him with TPunch that Paralyzed, but he killed me with Surf. I then revive switched back and forth at least 10 times before he was fully paralyzed. Then one more sacrificial TPunch, and finish it off with Shadow Ball. GG Red.

Aaaaaand mono Sapphire, from R/S/E Monotype thread

Spoiler:

Ready set go!

Started as A on Sapphire
Did opening stuff blah blah
Got a Treeko and named it TRASH
Beat May
Caught a Zigzagoon and named it AlphaSlave
Wally caught a Ralts
Saved the Devon Guy
Got to Rustboro (skipping all the trainers between the woods and city) and caught my first actual member (sorta): Shell1 the Nincada!
TRASH evolved whilst grinding Shell1
Beat Roxanne
Saved the Devon Guy again
Went to the Dewford Cave thing
Caught my second member: Specter the Sableye after killing a Sableye with much better stats on accident.
What's that Brawly's gym? The only move that can hurt Specter is Makuhita's Knock Off? Aww, too bad. Got Knuckle Badge
Defeated everyone on the beach on the way to Slateport
Delivered Capt. Stern the goods, beat 2 Aquas, bought some Harbor Mail
Went back to Rustboro to get the Exp. Share for Nincada
Beat May and got itemfinder to end the day.

Beat everyone from May to Mauville, as well as the east and west of Mauville, to try to get Nincada to evolve. Also I beat Wally. After beating all the trainers, Nincada was at level 18, and almost 19, so I trained on wild Pokemon until I leveled up, then used my Rare Candy to evolve into Shedinja. I boxed the Ninjask. Enter Gym.
First trainer: Shedinja uses 6 Double Teams on Electrike, but gets Paralyzed, then uses Fury Swipes for the KO. Magnemite comes out. First turn: Supersonic hits me. And I hurt myself in confusion to kill myself. Sigh. Sableye finishes him.
The other trainers can't hurt me.
I SAVE before Wattson this time.
Battle Starts. I retry about 7 times before the following does not happen: Magnemite used Supersonic! Shedinja hurts itself in Confusion! Shedinja fainted! SO INFURIATING!!!
But on the 8th time, I got off not one, not two but ALL SIX Double Teams. It was smooth sailing from there, what with Shedinja's Fury Cutter and all. Magnemite fell in like 6 hits, Voltorb the next, and Magneton in three more (although he did manage to confuse me). With the Dynamo Badge in hand, I gladly accepted his Shock Wave TM and saved.

I then got both Rock Smash and Strength, and taught them to Zigzagoon and Grovyle, respectively. I also taught Shock Wave to my Sableye. I took out Gabby and Ty and saved.
Well, I copied a page out of rantis's book. Shedinja is useless in a Bug Monotype Challenge, and he's useless in a Ghost Monotype Challenge. I ditched him and picked up 4 Zigzagoons.

From Wattson, I battled my way to Vervanturf or whatever that place is called. I got HM 04, taught it to Treeko, and left. He is now full of HMs (Cut, Strength, Flash, Rock Smash)
I headed north, took out all the Winstrates, and then declined their offer to come inside.
Got to Fallorbor town. Talked to Lanette and went to meteor falls to stop team aqua.
Stopped them on Mt. Chimney.
Went down Jagged Path to fight Flannery. After the battle, May told me I should go fight my Dad.
I did, and it was actually a pretty tough battle. It turned into a Faint Attack fight, and finally I won.
Got Surf and taught it to one of the Zigzagoons.
Went back to Mauville, headed east.
Ran to Fortree, remembered I have to skip it to get the Scope, which I did, then took on the Gym. It was pretty hard, Altaria got a few DD's in and almost OHKO'd Sableye with EQ.
Considered teaching Sableye Aerial Ace, but didn't.
Went to Mt. Pyre to get Shadow Ball because I stupidly hit no to learning it by levels. Also picked up a Spell Tag.
Blah blah, completely destroyed Tate and Liza. Faint Attack OHKOd one of them on the first turn, and the other on the second turn.
Went and fought Archie over Kyogre.
Fought Kyogre. Toughest battle yet.
Beat Wallace, which was much easier than Kyogre.
Went to Victory Road.
Beat Wally as I was leaving.
Stocked up on Potions and entered the Elite Four!
Battle 1: Vs. Sydney
I didn't have any trouble with the first two, Sharpedo gave me some trouble, and then on Absol I almost fainted. Luckily, Shiftry was stupid and insisted on using Double Team, which Faint Attack had no problem with after it was weakened with Brick Break.

Battle 2: Vs. Phoebe
Time to see who is the better Ghost trainer! ... I am, as I one shot all of her Pokemon. I don't think I would have one shot Sableye, but my Shadow Ball got a Critical Hit.

Battle 3: Vs. Glacia
More problems thanks to Brick Break hardly doing any damage, but I scraped by. The only problem is, I'm running out of attacks, and I sold all my ehters because I didn't think I would need them!

Battle 4: Vs. Drake
I lost. I ran out of Shadow Balls, and he kept using Full Restores. I did get to Salamence, though.
Round 2
Sydney: This time, Mightyena used Swagger when I didn't one hit it with Brick Break. I killed it, and then snapped out of confusion while I was one hitting Cacturne. I went on to one hit his entire team. Much better start

Phoebe: Just like I thought, against Sableye, I only brought it down into low Yellow health with my shadow ball, which it return fired. Had to heal up after this one.

Glacia: Did better on her, but still think I'm using too may attacks.

Drake: A considerable amount easier. 2 Hit Shelgon to start things off.

Steven: 1st Steven Battle. Skarmory gave me some problems, but it hit itself in confusion a couple of times after Water Pulse confused him. Claydol went down in 2 Shadow Balls, but not before putting up a Reflect. Aggron was next, so I was lucky, because Brick Break one hit him. Armaldo was pretty easy, same with Cradidly, and I found myself on his last Pokemon, Metagross. Faint Attack did just under 1/3 of his health, Water Pulse put him at just over half, and then I crit him with my last Faint Attack and he hurt himself in confusion to kill himself.

Some of it may not make perfect sense, because as I stated above, these are direct replicas of the ones I did in the individual challenges. But anyways, I am on 4th Gen now.

 

[Derblu]

Sign up

Hey, I saw this thread a while ago and decided to give it a try.

I'll be using the bug type. I want a challenge XD

Game 1: FR emulator (sorry my yellow is in spanish, which I can't read)
Game 2: HG (don't want to restart crystal)
Game 3: Ruby emulator (can't find emerald)
Game 4: Diamond

Kanto Team:

Venomoth
Parasect
Scyther

(don't worry, I'll use weedle as soon as i can, but box it when I have paras)

Is that okay?

 

[Aquerex]

This should be my 2nd to last update for the Kanto part of my challenge. 7 badges, I'll update again after beating the E4.

ERIKA BATTLE!
- Tangela was super easy, went down with a Flamethrower. Victreebell was the same. Vileplume took 2 Flamethrowers, poisoning me before the second flamethrower. Easier than Misty.

-Beat the Rockets at the Game Corner.
-Beat the Rockets at the Pokemon Tower.
-Beat the Rockets at Silph Co. Bye bye, Team Rocket.
-Went to the Safari Zone to get a Dratini.
-Bought a Dratini at the Game Corner after spending 2 hours trying to catch one.
-Went to Fuschia to take down Koga.

KOGA BATTLE!
- Koga's first Koffing went down after poisoning my Pidgeot. His Muk went down after poisoning Charizard. His second Koffing went down after poisoning Dratini. His Weezing went down after poisoning Gyarados. So I basically beat him after he poisoned my whole party. The jerk.

-Went back to Saffron, beat the Fighting Dojo dudes, getting a Hitmonchan I'll never use.
-Spent about 10 minutes trying to get through Sabrina's gym. I always hated that gym.

SABRINA BATTLE!
- 2 Wing Attacks took down Kadabra easily. No damage yet. 3 Wing Attacks took down Mr. Mime. Just a little damage from its Psybeam. Venomoth was a joke. 1 Flamethrower took care of it. Alakazam got a CH on both Charizard and Pidgeot, making them both faint. Gyarados finished it with a couple of Bites.

-Trained more.
-Surfed down to Cinnabar.
-Did the whole mansion thing, got the key.
-Got all questions correct on the quiz things in the gym.

BLAINE BATTLE!
- Gyarados shined in this battle. Took nearly everything down in 1-2 hits of Surf. Growlithe was one hit. Ponyta was one hit. Rapidash was 2 hits, and Arcanine took 4 hits for some reason. Easy battle, just like Misty and Erika.

"image removed"Charizard | Lv45
-Flamethrower
-Aerial Ace
-Slash
-Ember

*pokemonelite2000 image removed*Pidgeot | Lv46
-Wing Attack
-Fly
-FeatherDance
-Quick Attack

*pokemonelite2000 image removed*Gyarados | Lv47
-Surf
-Bite
-Hydro Pump
-Twister

*pokemonelite2000 image removed*Dragonair | Lv45
-Surf
-Slam
-Thunder Wave
-Agility

 

[shortdan1998]

Update 4.75:

Bruno is STILL being annoying with his Machamp. :P Will go again after grinding up money, and then buying enough Items to last my Sneasel, known as Black Ace. :D Also have an Eevee which I'm planning on EXP. Sharing with Black Ace while I Grind for Money. If anyone gets the refference though, I'll be glad. :D

END UPDATE

 

[jespoke]

@Aquerex: Getting through Sabrina´s gym is just going ether up/down the whole time or going left/right the whole time (or walking right, up, and then left/right all the time, that´s faster)

 

[SgtPatches]

I'm currently doing flying-type on Pokemon LeafGreen.

My team's in my sig, as well as the badges I have earned.
I'll update appropriately.