Ultimate Monotype Challenge

[Abbandon]

Scaled the lighthouse
Went to Cianwood island and beat Chuck
Surfed back to Olivine (for training purposes) and beat Jasmine. Steelix was a toughie!
So effectively i've just played through 3 gyms which have large advantages over Normal types, ghost, fighting, steel.

My current Normal Team:

FLYBOY (Pidgeotto)
lvl32
"image removed"
-Tackle
-Fly
-Gust
-Quick Attack

SCREE (Furret)
lvl32
"image removed"
-Dig
-Slam
-Quick Attack
-Swift

TOOTH (Raticate)
lvl32
"image removed"
-Pursuit
-Rock Smash
-Quick Attack
-Hyper Fang

PAW (Ursaring)
lvl32
"image removed"
-Strength
-Faint Attack
-Lick
-Rest

Think i may stick with this team for the duration of the game now!

 

[Legendary Squirtle]

Finally Done Kanto, Yeah me!!!!

Pokemon Ultimate Mono Type Grass Challenge Blog Update 3

Dear Journal,

After going through a broken down mansion, for the key to the gym, I taught Kyro how to use Return in anticipation for my hardest gym battle ever. My confidence grew as one by one Blaine's gym trainers fell. In no time at all I was up against the fire type master of Kanto and possibly the hardest gym battle ever. None of his pokemon except Arcainie gave me any trouble, due to my past experience of fighting fire types. My battle plan for Blaine's strongest fire type was simple; let it waste all of its pp for its only fire type attack, and KO it with Return. I managed to pull it off and got my 8th badge for the region.

My final badge came right after, I managed to beat Giovanni (again) relatively easy, but what did I expect, I had grass types on my side. I then bumped into my rival and his annoying Pidgeot and Charizard, managed to beat him too but it was a lot tougher than I thought it would be. I then pressed onwards to Victory Road were I beat every trainer their and leveled my pokemon to about level 55.

Once that was done I enter the pokemon league, sold all my useless items and bought a whole lot of Full Restores and Revives. I then battled the pokemon league hopping to win it without too much problems. I unfortunately have some trouble when I got to Lance and thus train my pokemon until they reached level 60.

Lorelei – was a pain in the butt to take down due to the fact that all of her pokemon were part ice and they all knew Ice Beam, I eventually won thanks to Kyro's Razor Leaf attack.

Bruno - Parasect's Giga Drain on his two Onix, and Exeggutor cleaned up the rest with its Psychic attack. Easiest Elite Four ever.

Agatha - Caused me a slight bit of trouble but managed to win but using Psychic on every one of her pokemon.

Drake - Annoying but I managed to win anyways. I didn't really have a clear plan in this battle other than to keep my pokemon alive.

Rival - Annoying and long, his Charizard was the hardest pokemon to take down but once it was down the rest of the battle was rather easy.

With the defeat of the Elite four my name and the name of my pokemon were recorded in the hall of fame, were all future champions could see my achievement. I was offered a job as the Champion of Kanto but had to turn it down, for I couldn't rest until I had beaten the Elite four in all of the regions.

I packed my bags and headed of to the next region of interest Johto.
.




Pokemon

Toxic (Parasect) lvl 58

=> Double Edge
=> Leech Life
=> Giga Drain
=> Spore

Solana (Vileplume) lvl 60

=> Giga Drain
=> Acid
=> Poison Powder
=> Petal Dance

Kyro (Venusaur) lvl 61

=> Return
=> Sleep Powder
=> Synthesis
=> Razor Leaf

Anari (Exeggutor) lvl 61

=> Hypnosis
=> Egg Bomb
=> Solar Beam
=> Psychic

Hm slaves

Pick Up (Meowth) – Cut, Flash
Surfer Girl (Lapras)- Surf, Strength
Farfech'd- Fly

 

[Abbandon]

Liberated Mahogany Town from Team Rocket
Beat Pryce for 7th gym badge.

My current Normal Team:

FLYBOY (Pidgeotto)
lvl35
"image removed"
-Tackle
-Fly
-Wing Attack
-Quick Attack

SCREE (Furret)
lvl35
"image removed"
-Dig
-Slam
-Quick Attack
-Swift

TOOTH (Raticate)
lvl34
"image removed"
-Pursuit
-Rock Smash
-Quick Attack
-Hyper Fang

PAW (Ursaring)
lvl35
"image removed"
-Strength
-Faint Attack
-Lick
-Rest

 

[hqydfnyjcxbshgd]

I got on a lot in the last days and defeated Jasmine 5 minutes ago.
My team now:

Heracross L.30

Strength
Leer
Horn Attack
Rock Smash
Strongest member of my team, but lacks a better fightning move than rock smash or focus punch

Scyther L.30

Quick attack
Leer
Wing Attack
Pursuit
Cool stats, but with quick attack as its best move, it was pretty hard to train for a long time.

Beedrill L.30

Sludge Bomb
Cut
Twinneedle
Fury Attack
Finally got a move with more than 50 power

Butterfree L.30

Sleep Powder
Poison Powder
Sleep Powder
Confusion
Would maybe need sth else than all those powder moves

Ariados L.31

Poison Sting
Night Shade
Leech Life
Dig
Crappy stats but dig won some hard battles for me.

Ledian L.30

Comet Punch
Saveguard
Ice Punch
Thunder Punch
Same thing like Ariados: The stats suck but it has some cool moves.

By the way i recorded all important battles (like ~1000 people before me), so here they are.

1st Badge: https://de.youtube.com/watch?v=ywrveF0oKyk
I'm glad Pidgey didnt have gust too

Team Rocket in Slowpoke Well: https://de.youtube.com/watch?v=FUZesnsj3x4
Is this last rocket guy a boss or not?

2nd Badge: https://de.youtube.com/watch?v=r62dBN7Qm8c
Harden rocks! xD

Rival 1: https://de.youtube.com/watch?v=mU69lfNEy6U
How many failed sleep powders in a row are the world record?

3rd Badge: https://de.youtube.com/watch?v=91wyYdH8ouM
I hate that Miltank...

Sudowoodo: https://de.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ZP9aVRMzA
Same like Slowpoke Well: Is he a boss or isnt he?

Rival 2: https://de.youtube.com/watch?v=7eo3e6WA244
Not as easy as i expected, but not to hard at all

4th Badge: https://de.youtube.com/watch?v=g-kQjeuzrnM
Dig pwnz all =)

5th Badge: https://de.youtube.com/watch?v=ukMy9g3iSrk
Finally an easy one

Red Gyarados+Rocket Bosses: https://de.youtube.com/watch?v=xEBw0E63hIY
I was to lazy to upload 3 seperated videos, so i connected them

6th Badge: https://de.youtube.com/watch?v=UNlzGqBuL5A
Mostly easy, but Dewgong was hard

7th Badge: https://de.youtube.com/watch?v=tlMGNZIur3c
My victory was pure luck, but at least i won and even on the 1st attempt

 

[Abbandon]

Would have posted earlier but kept getting 'database errors' (speaking of which, does anyone else get these sometimes?) Anyway:
Beat Team Rocket
Beat Claire
Begun training for Elite 4. may attempt them shortly

My current Normal Team:

FLYBOY (Pidgeot)
lvl45
"image removed"
-Tackle
-Fly
-Wing Attack
-Quick Attack

SCREE (Furret)
lvl45
"image removed"
-Dig
-Slam
-Quick Attack
-Swift

TOOTH (Raticate)
lvl45
"image removed"
-Icy Wind
-Rock Smash
-Quick Attack
-Hyper Fang

PAW (Ursaring)
lvl45
"image removed"
-Strength
-Faint Attack
-Slash
-Rest

EDIT: No sooner than writing this i attempted the league. Didn't expect to win but i did. Team was same as my above team. Needless to say i used several super potions and revives..

My current Normal Team:

FLYBOY (Pidgeot)
lvl47
"image removed"
-Tackle
-Fly
-Wing Attack
-Quick Attack

SCREE (Furret)
lvl45
"image removed"
-Dig
-Slam
-Quick Attack
-Swift

TOOTH (Raticate)
lvl47
"image removed"
-Icy Wind
-Rock Smash
-Quick Attack
-Hyper Fang

PAW (Ursaring)
lvl47
"image removed"
-Strength
-Faint Attack
-Slash
-Rest

Now i begin my Kanto half of crystal!

 

[Monochrome]

OK so I finished pokemon red with my normal team, the elite four wasn't as big a challenge as I remember from when I was 7 hehe.

Lorelei- She was a minor challenge she took out two of my pokemon before I finished her.... pain in the arse Lapras took me FOREVER to kill with Lax.

Bruno- Well he was remarkably easy to defeat all things considered, all i had to do was swich off from Angel and Trio and he was cake.

Agatha- Also another one that was a lot easier than I had thought.... Well all I needed to do was use Data (and a full restore) and I Annhilated her.

Lance- Hardest of them all, by the time I got here I had run out of pp for most of my pokemons moves.... BUT using both Lax and MARC I made quick work of him.

John (Rival)- Believe it or not Lucky was the reason I won this fight with little difficulty, she outlasted most of the opposition put against her and then using seismic toss made quick work of half his pokemon (the other half I left to Trio).

MY FINAL RED TEAM
Lax
Level- 52

*pokemonelite2000 image removed*

-Strength
-Surf
-Rest
-Body Slam

Lucky
Level- 51
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
-Seismic Toss
-Softboiled
-Egg Bomb
-Sing

Data
Level-52
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
-Tri Attack
-Recover
-Psybeam
-Flash

Angel
Level- 50
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
-Pound
-Metranome
-Mega Punch
-Bubblebeam

MARC
Level- 51
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
-Body Slam
-Cut
-Slam
-Earthquake

Trio
Level- 53
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
-Fly
-Drill Peck
-Fury Attack
-Tri Attack

Now on to my Crystal Journey :D I'll have an update to what my team looks like ans what it will look like in my next post.

 

[binks555]

Hey, new here and have no idea what I'm getting into, but i thought i might wanna get involved

sign me up for water!

P.S. dont expects many updates because im not really good at this stuff and i have school and sports.

EDIT: accually dont put my down for water, im still deciding. can any1 give me some good ideas?

 

[jigglyppuff8]

I want to take the challenge for Normal types. KThnxbye.

 

[aaronburnsyou]

An Update!!!

Well, I got myself as far as clearing the Radio Tower of every last Rocket, and now I'm stuck outside of Mahogany, trying to find a Lickitung (I know, I'm doing a Grass runthrough, but it's for a side-quest that will eventually allow me to get a Leaf Stone) but it's taking forever to find one, and it's driving me insane!!!!!

Anyway, here's my updated roster (Save Oddish, who is still at Lv9, with the same moves as before):

Exeggutor Lv38
"image removed"
-Confusion
-Hypnosis
-Reflect
-Egg Bomb

Gloom Lv39
"image removed"
-Absorb
-Acid
-Sleep Powder
-Moonlight

Weepinbell Lv39
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
-Vine Whip
-Acid
-Wrap
-Sleep Powder

Meganium Lv39
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
-Body Slam
-Synthesis
-Reflect
-Razor Leaf

Sunflora Lv39
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
-Petal Dance
-Synthesis
-Mega Drain
-Sunny Day

Once I get that Lickitung (once again, for the side quest only), I'll be on my way to Blackthorn City, or to sleep, because I'm starting to forget how to type things!!!

PS: Someone was having trouble choosing a type? Rock seems pretty lonely right now, so I'd give it some appreciation.

 

[Abbandon]

So I rushed through the 1st 4 Kanto gyms with ease.
Nothing else to say except for my levels.

My current Normal Team:

FLYBOY (Pidgeot)
lvl51
"image removed"
-Tackle
-Fly
-Wing Attack
-Quick Attack

SCREE (Furret)
lvl50
"image removed"
-Dig
-Slam
-Quick Attack
-Swift

TOOTH (Raticate)
lvl50
"image removed"
-Icy Wind
-Rock Smash
-Quick Attack
-Hyper Fang

PAW (Ursaring)
lvl51
"image removed"
-Strength
-Snore
-Zap Cannon
-Rest

I guess my next update will be shortly, right before or after the final Kanto gym!

 

[binks555]

Hey guys, I'm trying to decide between water, grass, and normal. What do you think I should choose?

 

[Abbandon]

Done the rest of the kanto gyms with ease.
Been training for Red going to attempt with;

My current Normal Team:

FLYBOY (Pidgeot)
lvl60
"image removed"
-Steel Wing
-Fly
-Wing Attack
-Quick Attack

SCREE (Furret)
lvl60
"image removed"
-Dig
-Slam
-Quick Attack
-Swift

TOOTH (Raticate)
lvl60
"image removed"
-Icy Wind
-Rock Smash
-Quick Attack
-Hyper Fang

PAW (Ursaring)
lvl60
"image removed"
-Strength
-Snore
-Zap Cannon
-Rest

In response to Binks555 i think you should choose which ever type you like the most or which ever you'd find the most challenging.

 

[Cascade'A Stupidity]

Gah. I seem to have lost my LG. =/

Would anyone mind if I started on Silver and used Normal?

 

[Monochrome]

To Cascade'A Stupidity you NEED to start with Kanto if your having trouble just get an emulator and a ROM. To binks555 go for water its the most abundant pokemon type and too many people are on normal atm..... lol

So I just defeated Morty and I'm about to go fight Chuck and so far its been smooth sailing, here's my team so far....

Goliath(Teddiursa) < WAS A MAJOR PAIN IN THE ARSE TO CATCH!
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
Level- 26
Moves
-Fury Swipes
-Cut
-Faint Attack
-Headbutt

Milkshake(Miltank)
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
Level- 25
Moves
-Tackle
-Stomp
-Milk Drink
-Surf

Goddess ( Togepi)
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
Level-25
Moves
-Swift
-Metronome
-Charm
-Growl

Snaggle(Granbull)
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
Level-26
Moves
-Tackle
-Bite
-Lick
-Charm

I'll keep you guys updated later tonight.

 

[aaronburnsyou]

Update!!

I have now beaten everyone in the elite four, including the chamion, Lance. His Charizard proved to be the only severe obstacle I faced, but Meganium was faster than it somehow.

Anyway, here's my updated team:

Weepinbell Lv47
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
-Razor Leaf
-Sludge Bomb
-Wrap
-Sleep Powder

Bellossom Lv47
"image removed"
-Petal Dance
-Acid
-Sleep Powder
-Moonlight

Sunflora Lv48
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
-Petal Dance
-Synthesis
-Solarbeam
-Sunny Day

Exeggutor Lv48
"image removed"
-Confusion
-Hypnosis
-Reflect
-Egg Bomb

Meganium Lv49
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
-Body Slam
-Synthesis
-Earthquake
-Razor Leaf

Now I'm at Olivine, preparing to leave Johto, and venture into Kanto!!!

 

[Yams]

I've had a lot of trouble with my poison challenge, but I can finally continue.
I am up to Cerulean, Brock was easy after learning Vine Whip for my Ivysaur. I went through Mount Moon, caught a Zubat there, after I got the fossil, which wont be used, I caught me an Ekans.
I proceeded to grind my Pokemon, defeated my rival, and soon will go up Nugget Bridge.

Pokemon:
Nidorino, Lv 20
Nidorina, Lv 18
Ivysaur Lv 18
Zubat Lv 18
Ekans Lv 18

I plan to catch an Oddish after Nugget Bridge.

 

[Mattysaurus]

Sorry it took forever to update but my homework is killing me.


---Anyhow, i obtained my Squirtle and beat my rival, Trey.
---I headed up to Viridian and obtained the parcel.
---I delivered it and got a Pokedex.
---I defeated my rival on Route 22 and head towards Viridian Forest.
---I pushed on through the forest and defeated Brock and got his badge.

My pokemon:
Squirtle/Blue Lv.13
-Bubble
-Tackle
-WaterGun
-Withdraw







Time to move on to Mt.Moon. I will update a soon as possible. How do you get pics of sprites for updates?

 

[binks555]

I've finally decided and i am going to do grass.

 

[Abbandon]

Ok Red was quite tough. Snorlax in particular.

My Normal Team:

FLYBOY (Pidgeot)
lvl67
"image removed"
-Steel Wing
-Fly
-Wing Attack
-Quick Attack

SCREE (Furret)
lvl68
"image removed"
-Dig
-Toxic
-Quick Attack
-Swift

TOOTH (Raticate)
lvl67
"image removed"
-Icy Wind
-Shadow Ball
-Quick Attack
-Hyper Fang

PAW (Ursaring)
lvl67
"image removed"
-Strength
-Snore
-Zap Cannon
-Rest

Moving on to 3rd gen after. will decide on the game after a little research

 

[aaronburnsyou]

Another update today!!!

I honestly thought I'd be able to finish off Crystal Version today, but I've made it up to Mt. Silver, and I have so much more leveling to do!

Anyway, here's my team:

Exeggutor Lv49
"image removed"
-Psychic
-Hypnosis
-Reflect
-Egg Bomb

Sunflora Lv49
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
-Petal Dance
-Synthesis
-Solarbeam
-Sunny Day

Bellossom Lv49
"image removed"
-Petal Dance
-Acid
-Sleep Powder
-Moonlight

Meganium Lv50
*pokemonelite2000 image removed*
-Body Slam
-Synthesis
-Earthquake
-Razor Leaf

Vileplume Lv54
"image removed"
-Petal Dance
-Acid
-Moonlight
-Stun Spore

Victreebel Lv54
"image removed"
-Razor Leaf
-Sludge Bomb
-Slam
-Sleep Powder

Maybe tomorrow I'll be finished with Crystal, but for now, I need a break.

Oh, and binks, I'm looking forward to seeing how you play out your runthroughs as Grass type. I've realized through doing this that Grass is probably one of the more underprivileged types in the game, but it definitely has a lot of strong points you can't find in any other type.