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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 00:27:21 No.46719375 View View Reply Original Report

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Have you ever attempted a monotype run?

How possible is it without resorting to overleveling to make up for type weaknesses?

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 00:29:32 No.46719387 Report

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Can you even do half the types for most games considering HMs?

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 00:32:31 No.46719408 Report

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>>46719375
>Have you ever attempted a monotype run?
Yes. It’s the best way to play.
>How possible is it without resorting to overleveling to make up for type weaknesses?
Pretty easy as long as you know how to strategize. I managed to beat Emerald with a MonoRock team

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 00:34:09 No.46719415 Report

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Currently doing a Black 2, fighting type only run. So far up to the 4th gym. Pretty easy to be frank. Haven't had to over level.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 02:07:48 No.46720141 Report

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>>46719375
mono fairy is good fun lol

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 02:09:03 No.46720148 Report

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>>46719387
You can use HM slaves just not in battle.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 02:15:18 No.46720191 Report

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>>46719375
>Have you ever attempted a monotype run?
yeah
>How possible is it without resorting to overleveling to make up for type weaknesses?
dual types, coverage moves, and or abilities to make up for weaknesses.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 02:57:23 No.46720449 Report

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>>46719375
I've done a couple. Recently did a true Grass monotype run in Emerald, and further back I did a semi Fire monotype/solo run in Red version (had to get an HM slave). Dual typed team members help.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 03:14:24 No.46720580 Report

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I had a fun mono-normal run several years back in Emerald. My team was Slaking, Linoone, Swellow, Wigglytuff, and Exploud. I used the sixth slot for hm slave for most of the game, and was planning on putting something else there, but didn't feel like training anything up, plus there wasn't that good of a sixth option. I don't recall being that over-leveled. Slaking pretty much carried the team dude to how fucking powerful it is ingame. funny enough, I was even debating whether or not I should keep it a Vigoroth due to Truant, but man was I wrong. Wigglytuff also suprising put in some good work with all of its coverage and bulk.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 03:29:11 No.46720686 Report

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>>46719375
I did a Monorun for my first run of Ultra-moon.
I used ice types, so I had to trade pokemon to myself, which happened to include a few leftover breeding materials.
It works well as a challenge run, the trick is to calculate your type effectiveness in offense.
You do not really need to be overleveled if you can still maintain offensive coverage you can get by by essentially having all glass cannons.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 03:35:19 No.46720728 Report

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Did mono ghost in moon. Made me really like Oricorio.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 04:19:54 No.46720991 Report

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>>46719375
its pretty fun, actually. I've never completed one though, and its not because its too hard but because I like so many Pokemon. If I wanted to, I could convert my White 2 run into a normal type only one quite easily but then I wouldn't be able to use Servine anymore.

Furthermore after getting most of my mons except beedrill killed in an FR Nuzlocke I got a Nidoran and another poison-type (I think it was ekans) and attempted to do that for a while before ultimately getting wiped by Misty.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 04:25:22 No.46721009 Report

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>>46719375
It's extremely possible without overleveling in most of the main games I tried.
The real monotype insanity is in trying to do it in Radical Red. Some are legitimately impossible in my mind.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 12:15:01 No.46722980 Report

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Cradily and tropius were absolute bros for my grass run on emerald.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 16:39:30 No.46724501 Report

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>>46719375
Monoground in diamond (with trading over from hg). It was fine. Flying types were kinda annoying tho cuz i only had limited rock type tms

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 16:49:45 No.46724565 Report

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>>46719375
i did psychic run on emerald.
my solrock got me trough most bugs. it works. psychic is sstill strong gen 3.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 16:53:55 No.46724594 Report

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during gen 3 my friends and our siblings (i think 4 or 5 of us total) all chose only 2 types we were allowed to catch / raise during our first playthrough. it was pretty fun to do trading and battling after that. there's enough pokemon with dual types that you can cover yourself for any weaknesses during the main game though

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 16:56:48 No.46724609 Report

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I did a mono steel type run in Platinum, it was a bit tough but not too difficult, and I wouldn't say I overlevelled either, I went in at about the same level as the champion. You just need to know what types you're likely going to face and be prepared to sweep them first. For example, I had Bastiodon and Empoleon to deal with fire types (fortunately not a big problem in Sinnoh, aside from Flint's battle), Bronzong and Scizor for fighting types, and Empoleon for the occasional ground type encounters.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 17:12:34 No.46724697 Report

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A grass monotype in Omega Ruby

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 17:13:05 No.46724702 Report

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i've done a mono-bug run in every gen and the difficulty fluctuates a lot across the games. it gets easier in later gens because of better movepools, access to quiver dance and more variety of dual typing. gen 1-3 pretty much all share the problem of terrible movepools and almost everything being bug/flying. gen 4 can become extremely frustrating because of how many bugs you need to get from honey trees. gen 5 offers a ton of really strong bugs with a variety in dual types, XY has access to a lot of bug types too. sun/moon might be the best for them just because of the bug/water additions and leech life buff. didn't play sw/sh.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 17:17:55 No.46724727 Report

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I'd say gen 7 and 8 are the most viable for it. The important thing is coverage moves and using duo typing to make up for the main typings weaknesses. A mono water type run in SwSh is pretty easy if you teach some on your team ice moves and teach your Arrokuda a poison move. TRs and TMs are very necessary.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 17:18:23 No.46724731 Report

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>>46719375
not really
i usually just do shiny dtq or nuzlocke runs

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 17:22:15 No.46724755 Report

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>>46719375
I've done a monobird team a few times before, it's pretty fun. At first it was all flying type, then Decidueye came and I said fuck it.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Mar 2021 18:01:06 No.46725052 Report

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I think it involves knowing the move pools of the Pokemon of that type. Ludicolo can be useful for grass or water runs. Centiskorch can learn Scald via TR. Starmie and Gyarados can learn Thunderbolt. Arcanine can handle dragons due to it learning Play Rough and being able to learn Outrage.

Take into consideration when a Pokemon can be caught and how soon you can get the moves you need for it. SwSh made stone evolutions very viable due to the move relearner being free now. You can get extra stones via digging bros in main game or in places in the DLC. Or you can wait until you get the water bike and get extra stones at Lake of Outrage.

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