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Ay faggots, I'm Nuzlocking Shield but I cba posting my progress etc because I'm already 1/3 through the game. Instead I just want to let other people who are interested in Nuzlocking these games a good way on how to deal with the wild area. There's 17 area within the wild area itself (not gonna lie, when I started typing this up I was under the assumption there was 18, but upon double checking it seems I was wrong), now you can be a little bitch and allow yourself to just capture anything and everything the moment you get access to this place but that doesn't seem in the spirit of nuzlockes, which is very much about placing limits on yourself and so because of that here's what I propose as being the best way to handle this place.
You can capture something from 2 of the zones for every gym badge you acquire, 2 times by 8 is obviously 16, so that 1 remaining capture you have can be used when you FIRST get to the wild area and don't have any badges, so you can count it as if you had just arrived to the route basically.
This is IMO the superior and flatout best way to deal with the Wild Area. It keeps you limited rather than just allowing you to go crazy and have an absurd amount of pokemon to choose from which goes against the spirit of nuzlocking in general and it gives you an incentive to keep visiting the wild area.
You could, if you wanted, decide to limit yourself further by allowing yourself to only be able to visit the areas you're allowed to capture. So like if you've only just arrived at the wild area you can make it so you can only make use of the resources available at the Rolling Fields part of the wild area. That's obviously just a small bonus limitation if you so want to do that. I didn't because I've only just thought of that shit now, but there are some decently strong TMs and TRs available in the wild area and using them could diminish the challenge of the game significantly and IMO the game ain't that hard as it is. It's definitely no USUM.