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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 16:37:34 No.48923118 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>48925273 >>48929972 >>48978084

"I believe this is all happening for a reason" edition

Nuzlocke info
https://pastebin.com/8b3rHGuX
>Nuzlocke generator
https://nuzlocke-generator.herokuapp.com/
http://nuzlocke-generator.com/
>Guide to running the generator locally
https://pastebin.com/etNFB00r
>Links to official games (thru Sw/Sh)
https://pastebin.com/hsJ0TaJ7
>Romhack links
https://pastebin.com/GzWfs9Bz
https://pastebin.com/GfJ9zhqx
>Definitive emulator info (note that OpenEmu is the best option for Macfags period as RBY through B2W2 may all be played on it and all run smoothly)
https://pastebin.com/HmVC99sZ
>Difficulty list (Updated with Sword/Shield and XY without EXP Share on)
https://pastebin.com/vvwTEgwJ
>Pokémon Nuzlocke images
http://www.mediafire.com/file/sxu318m9an5ulbm/
>Pokémon Bank sprites
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ueadxvt1f52m0md/
>Pokémon Home Sprites
https://projectpokemon.org/docs/spriteindex_148/home-sprites-gen-1-r128/
>Additional templates
http://www.mediafire.com/file/vmfck3jdowgn472
>NEW: Level caps list, will expand/fix later
https://pastebin.com/VfXz0QPP

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 19:25:48 No.48924341 Report

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pity bump

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 19:31:10 No.48924392 Report

Quoted By: >>48924448 >>48924525 >>48938670

How's BDSP for Nuzlocking?
Platinum is the only non-hack I've enjoyed because of the little bits of difficulty, here and there (Skuntank, Mismagius, Lucian in general at times)
I'm so bored I am considering unironically buying Pearl at this point

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 19:37:03 No.48924448 Report

Quoted By: >>48924458 >>48954047

>>48924392
Just get Renegade Platinum. It'll satiate your itch and is actually the best way to play in Sinnoh, nuzlocke or otherwise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 19:38:50 No.48924458 Report

Quoted By: >>48924500 >>48924600 >>48948903

>>48924448
>Renegade Platinum
I tried it, can't stand romhacks when they try too hard.
I'd preferred it if they had just upped the difficulty as if it was a challenge mode, or a reimagined game, instead of overkill.

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 19:39:24 No.48924463 Report

Quoted By: >>48924500 >>48924808

>comic's still been dead for years
>all the OG artists have left
>we will never get a Hale ever again
Depressing.
How's Omega Ruby look to 'locke?

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 19:44:04 No.48924500 Report

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>>48924458
What about it do you find difficult? He gives you a ton of gifts and good items + the EV trainer in Solaceon, you get every tool you need to win.
If not that, you could try Flawless Platinum which has difficulty modes by way of patches and was sort of the Renegade Plat before we actually got Renegade Plat.
>>48924463
It's okay, just a bit on the easier side if you abuse everything the game gives you

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 19:46:09 No.48924525 Report

Quoted By: >>48924537

>>48924392
its shit
forced xp share and affection bonuses coupled with the merge of affection and happinness from gen 8 plus the shitty encounter tables of DP forcing you to get easy overworld poke on the underground makes it a nightmare for nuzlockes. stick with platinum

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 19:47:48 No.48924537 Report

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>>48924525
>forced xp share and affection bonuses coupled with the merge of affection
Yikes.
Is it feasible to get Herbal medicine to knock down that Happiness to avoid that cheating nonsense?

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 19:48:16 No.48924543 Report

Quoted By: >>48926200

i hate Treecko like you wouldn't believe, it's so... useless.

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 19:53:30 No.48924600 Report

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>>48924458
What was overkill for you? The difficulty?

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 20:15:13 No.48924783 Report

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>another White attempt except I grab Pansage for the Gym
>Gym Trainer KOs Pansage when it had more than half health
alright, I admit it: I’m shit at Pokémon. I guess I should switch when I see Leer.

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 20:18:40 No.48924808 Report

Quoted By: >>48924843

>>48924463
>How's Omega Ruby look to 'locke?
It’s laughably easy but maybe that’s because I didn’t restraint myself from using O-Powers and items. Banning items just makes everything incredibly tedious for me, since I’d have to run back to the Pokémon center every 10-15 minutes (whenever my Pokémon are in crit-death range).

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 20:22:34 No.48924843 Report

Quoted By: >>48924869

>>48924808
Banning or limiting items usually means just in battle because they tend to be pretty broken

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 20:25:58 No.48924869 Report

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>>48924843
I guess that’s true. It makes perfect sense but hmm I guess I prefer a more casual nuzlocke experience. All I know is that I do not want to grind under any circumstances.

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 20:51:35 No.48925065 Report

Quoted By: >>48925378 >>48926001 >>48931032

>>48881499
comic of leonora battle
a little bit overdramatized but not a lot

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 21:10:56 No.48925237 Report

Quoted By: >>48925496 >>48926001 >>48931138

Lost my fork to a crit by Misty, and had no luck North of Cerulean getting a good encounter.

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 21:15:29 No.48925273 Report

Quoted By: >>48925388 >>48925496 >>48926001 >>48927871

>>48923118
Why am I still here, just to suffer?

>Clean through the Magma fights and Seafloor Cavern with literally no issues
>Get to Sky Pillar. Thanks to the Cave of Origin encounter, I'm guaranteed an Altaria
>Fucking crit it with Gyarados Return when I know it would've lived
>FUCK.jpg
>Get through Juan's gym problem-free and sweep him with CM Gardevoir. I was planning on using Harris at first but then I realized it would've resulted in a situation where Kingdra could get 6 Double Teams and just murder my team so I went with Garde
>As if to make up for that relatively easy fight, the Wally fight ecomes a fucking shitshow, with him freezing my Electrode, Parafusing my Gyarados, and his Gardevoir spamming Double Team. Somehow thanks to Greywolf and Rickenback I was able to pull it out
>Victory Road is fucking grueling and I have a few close calls, dodging the trainers at the end because I know I'll lose critical mons to them
>Oh, and I encounter a Makuhita that fucking Whirlwinds me away

So now I'm in a tough spot: Do I train up Nelson and Roosevelt for the final fights? Or do I risk it and take Horsea and Bagon and hope I can catch them/turn them into Dragons?

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 21:26:29 No.48925378 Report

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>>48925065
god I love hilda

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 21:27:26 No.48925388 Report

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>>48925273
Update: BAgon strat failed. Caught a Solrock instead.

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AKIN Sat 04 Dec 2021 21:38:06 No.48925496 Report

Quoted By: >>48925613 >>48926001

Been a while since my last update, but I come to you now, at the turn of the tide to save the ded thread.
Like I said, I caught a Munchlax, woo! Granted it was from the underground, not the dumbass honey tree bullshit, but hey, actually getting to use this fucker in a Sinnoh playthrough is exciting. Now, moving into the Snowpoint Gym, my team's getting a good bit overleveled because of the forced XP bullshit, so I handicap myself a little bit by leading off with Houngry (also because I'm a greedy shit and I wanna maximize my happiness). However, this one of two fatal errors I make, because I'm also sort of blind-running this. I've obviously played these games before, but I'm mainly running on memory here to make it a little more fair. The point I'm getting to is that I forgot that Candice has a Medicham, and I have Munchlax on the field. Shit. The only play I can think to do is to send out Qliphoth to tank the obvious fighting move, and then Sleep Powder. I did not think she had Ice Punch, for whatever reason, otherwise I would've swapped into Naomi. But, alas, the Sleep Powder misses, and Qliphoth dies. RIP. From that point on, it's a pretty clean sweep for Justify, but losing Roserade sucks. I catch a Bronzor to cover my team's now apparent Earthquake blindspot, and we move onto the Galactic Endgame.

>>48925273
I don't see what Nelson and Roosevelt are, but I think Salamence covers a number of team weakspots and is just really good in general. You already have two water-types, so I'm not sure if Kingdra is the play. Good luck with the Elite Four, tough losses.
>>48925237
Rip Fork, but Nidoking is the GOAT Pokemon in Fire Red. If you're abusing X-Accuracy and Horn Drill, you basically can't lose.

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 21:52:52 No.48925613 Report

Quoted By: >>48926025

>>48925496
Nelson and Roosevelt are Ludicolo and Machamp respectively. Ludicolo is extra Wallace insurance and Roosevelt is for Glacia and maybe Phoebe who looks awful to deal with

Kingdra is something I'm considering since I didn't get the Bagon encounter and I figure it just gives me some raw power.

Also combined grats on the Munchlax and RIP to the Roserade. Surprised you aren't using Species Clause though

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Inclement Emerald Alola Only HC Sat 04 Dec 2021 22:36:19 No.48926001 Report

Quoted By: >>48926677 >>48929022 >>48937387

>>48920978
This is when the normal trainers in this game start getting ridiculous, and honestly harder than most boss fights, especially since I have no docs for them. Flannery's gym went okay, Norman's gym will likely be hell.

>Frontier Brain Lucy
An optional fight for the Choice Band at the Lavaridge Springs. Her team - Shuckle, Steelix, Serperior, Milotic, Gyarados, and Seviper.
Led Toucannon on Shuckle to set up,Defog away its hazards and kill - what I did not realize was that if you kill a mon with Red Card which her Shuckle had, you don't get swapped out. Would have helped, because her Banded Steelix was a huge hassle. My best strat for it was fucking Oricorio FeatherDancing it, but she kept swapping out. Araquanid killed Milotic, Charjabug Gyarados, but she got my team low enough to where I had to sack something to Steelix, and, well, I chose Toucannon.
Once Seviper came out though, it had no way to touch a Bulletproof Kommo-o, so I set up Dragon Dances and took out the rest of her team.

>Flannery
Team - Torkoal, Houndoom, Arcanine, Blaziken, Volcarona, Talonflame. I had the IV girl in Fallarbor set my Palossand's speed IV to 0 so I could underslow the lead Torkoal and have my sand set after her sun, then killed it in one Earth Power. Houndoom bit it to Kommo-o, Arcanine to Marowak, Talonflame to Golem, who set rocks. On Volcarona, I got in Minior to set up Shell Smash as she healed up then killed Volc with Power Gem and Blaziken with Acrobatics. Ezpz

>>48925496
Sick fucking team you got, can't wait for that Munchlax to evolve and tear up the endgame
>>48925273
Ayy nice to see you back anon.
I think Roosevelt and Nelson are the way to go yeah. You can try for Horsea and you won't be super strong vs Phoebe but you can overlevel her by a fair bit and she's not that bad regardless
>>48925237
F. Looks like you're still going plenty strong though anon, gl
>>48925065
>those tits
Lmao. Nice artwork though anon

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AKIN Sat 04 Dec 2021 22:39:43 No.48926025 Report

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>>48925613
I am, but it's a different version of the clause. Basically, I get three tries to find a new encounter, and if the third one isn't new, then basic Nuzlocke rules are enforced. Also, if a Pokemon dies, that evo line is no longer subject to species clause. It's actually the first version of species clause I had heard about. I get why people do the other one, but personally, in a rogue-like game (which I'd say Nuzlockes are) I like to give myself the chance of getting fucked over without being masochistic.

And if you don't have Bagon, yeah, Kingdra is reasonable, but it kinda occupies a similar niche to Gyarados. Might be inclined to recommend Machamp and either Dusclops/Numel.

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Anonymous Sat 04 Dec 2021 23:04:33 No.48926200 Report

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>>48924543
I love him because he's an underdog.
I have never gotten him tot he end alive, though.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 00:03:07 No.48926677 Report

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>>48926001
>Ayy nice to see you back anon.
>I think Roosevelt and Nelson are the way to go yeah. You can try for Horsea and you won't be super strong vs Phoebe but you can overlevel her by a fair bit and she's not that bad regardless
Thanks anon.

Yeah I'm going to go for Nelson and Roosevelt. Sadly he won't have anything for Phoebe but I have a plan for her anyways

>>48926025
Oh that's actually a really interesting version of it. I personally prefer classic species clause because it lets me play with my encounters a bit while also not letting me say, cheese out 10 million back to back Gyaradoses

Also as for Dusclops/Numel, they would help vs Phoebe but it also strips me of an emergency out vs Drake, who I am worried about

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 00:29:32 No.48926945 Report

Quoted By: >>48927120

It's been a good long while since I posted.
Took a long break from this Nuzlocke after beating Sabrina, but I actually played a lot last week, just couldn't update until now.
>Vs Erika
>Tangela
I have Hera go for the stronger Fly over Drill Peck as Tangela has decent physical bulk. Tangela misses a Bind, then goes down to Fly.
>Victreebel
Drill Peck.
>Jumpluff
Also Drill Peck. Hera reaches L51.
>Bellossom
Drill Peck, once again.

>Vs Janine
>Crobat
Screech Fails, and 5-Volt sets up Rain Dance.
Supersonic confuses her, but Crobat falls to Thunder.
>Ariados
I am lucky and 5-Volt snaps out of confusion. Thunder destroys Ariados.
>Weezing
Thunder.
>Weezing 2
Thunder again. 5-Volt reaches level 45, and the rain stops.
>Venomoth
Janine uses a Dire hit, and I have 5-Volt use Hydro Pump. It leaves Venomoth on really low health.
I assume Janine is gonna heal, so I might as well put up another Rain Dance. She doesn't heal, however, and hits 5-Volt with Psychic instead.
A final Thunder ends the battle.

>Vs Misty
On my way to this battle, 5-Volt reached Level 46.
>Golduck
5-volt sets up Rain Dance and gets hit with Psychic. A single Thunder takes out Golduck.
>Quagsire
It falls to a Hydro Pump Crit.
>Starmie
Starmie hits 5-Volt with a Surf, and then eats a Thunder Crit.
>Lapras
Thunder brings it down quite a bit, and it hits a Surf. The rain stops.
A final Thunder takes out Misty.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 00:48:12 No.48927120 Report

Quoted By: >>48927144 >>48927271

>>48926945
I made sure to use Thief to steal the leftovers from Snorlax(can't catch it, Vermillion City is the encounter route and that's where I got 5-Volt). Caught a Dugtrio in the cave on my way over to Pewter.
>Vs Brock
>Graveler, Kabutops and Omastar
Poseidon takes each of them out with a single Surf, but lands a crit on Omastar(maybe that was needed? Doubt it.). This allows him to reach Level 50.
>Rhyhorn and Onix
Both fall to Surf, unsurprisingly.

>Vs Silver
On my way to face the rival in Mt. Moon, Bunnie reaches Level 47
>Sneasel
It screeches at Bunnie, who Body Slams it into the red.
Sneasel gets a Quick Attack in, then goes down to another Body Slam.
>Golbat
It hits Confuse Ray, and and Bunnie hurts herself.
I send Teri in on a Wing Attack.
Return turns Golbat into a smear on the cave wall.
>Magneton
Teri flattens it with Earthquake.
>Gengar
It uses Mean Look, then immediately falls to Earthquake.
>Alakazam
Psychic takes Teri well into the yellow, but Return takes out Alakazam in ...return.
>Typhlosion
I send Poseidon in on a Flame Wheel.
Surf oneshots the Starter.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 00:50:42 No.48927144 Report

Quoted By: >>48927271

>>48927120
How do you remember all these rules? I would be overwhelmed.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 01:04:48 No.48927271 Report

Quoted By: >>48927418

>>48927144
Usually not that hard to keep in mind, but it does leave me feeling a bit drained at times. Not doing this again until I've done a few less complicated runs I think. My Grand Chess-locke was more fun, honestly
>>48927120
>Vs Blaine
>Magcargo and Magmar
SURFed.
>Rapidash
It gets a Fury Attack in before falling to Surf as well. Poseidon reaches Level 51.

>Vs Cal
I know from other runs I've done that only his Typhlosion actually packs STAB.
>Meganium
Poseidon hits it with Aurora Beam, gets hit with PoisonPowder in return, and takes it out with another Aurora Beam.
>Feraligatr
Poseidon sets up Acid Armor, then eats a Slash.
He Passes the Baton to 5-Volt, who takes a bite on the way in.
Feraligatr Bites her again while she sets up Rain Dance.
The next Bite causes her to flinch.
Finally, after one more Bite, Thunder dispatches Feraligatr
>Typhlosion
It uses Swift, leaving 5-Volt in the red. Hydro Pump misses and the Rain stops.
I decide to swap Poseidon in again on a Flame Wheel.
Typh gets a Swift in before falling to Surf.

I actually almost screwed myself here. I seem to remember that Typh having Smokescreen, it could have locked my Lanturn in by lowering the stats, meaning that it wouldn't be able to switch out. I would need to miss both Hydro Pumps in a row for it to cause a death, but it was a bit scary.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 01:23:10 No.48927418 Report

Quoted By: >>48927439 >>48929022 >>48936819

>>48927271
And now the last battle I've done so far(did it this tuesday).
>Vs Blue
>Pidgeot
Poseidon hits it with Surf and eats a Wing Attack. Aurora Beam finishes it off.
>Exeggutor
I send Marinette in on a Solarbeam Charge.
She sets up Light Screen and laughs off the Solarbeam.
Next she sets up Reflect, just in time for an Egg Bomb.
I have Marinette use Agility, and she eats another Egg Bomb.
I then Baton Pass to Hera the Fearow, a choice so bad I'm surprised it wasn't a misclick. Already fast as heck and will get stonewalled by Rhydon anyway, so I won't even get to keep the buff anyway. At least Egg Bomb Misses Hera on the way in.
Drill Peck does a number on Exeggutor, who starts charging another Solar Beam. Light Screen fades.
A second Drill Peck finishes it off, and Reflect fades as well.
>Rhydon
Poseidon comes in on a Rock Slide(ow).
He uses Acid Armor, but Sandstorm does not care too much about my new defensive buffs.
Rather than lose much more HP, I go for Surf to take it out quickly.
>Alakazam
Since Poseidon is damaged a fair bit from the Rhydon and Pidgeot fights, I need to switch here.
I send Marinette in, hoping my gargantuan Special Def will help me set up Light Screen again. However, Psychic and Sandstorm take me down to a measly 5 HP... That's not good. I might lose a mon to Blue.
I send Bunnie in on a Psychic, and she takes nearly half her HP in damage- but not quite half. Maybe a high roll would have done so, but I have a shot here.
Another Psychic puts Bunnie into the single digits, but Body Slam decimates Alakazam. Sandstorm fades as well, thankfully.
>Gyarados
5-Volt comes in on Twister, heals up with Leftovers, and knocks it out with Thunder.
>Arcanine
Extremespeed doesn't help Blue much, and 5-Volt ends it with a Hydro Pump.

I will likely be taking on Red later today.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 01:25:45 No.48927439 Report

Quoted By: >>48929022

>>48927418
Kinda feel like doing a BDSP Nuzlocke of some sort after this, but not sure on what kind. Not another locke like this one, not immediately after.
Maybe a slightly altered monotype-locke?
I know some people allow themselves to ban catching all mons not of that type. Keeps the deaths, but takes away alot of the fun of the random factor(depending on the type, obviously).
Could do something based on Base Stat Totals otherwise, I guess?
Maybe Pika Cup rules(only mons under a certain weight)?

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 01:57:43 No.48927720 Report

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I got wiped but I ran out of power. It doesn't count

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 02:21:36 No.48927871 Report

Quoted By: >>48927890 >>48929022 >>48935158

>>48925273
Stopping for the night, but this is where I am atm.

I plan on taking out Nelson and Roosevelt once they hit level 40 to grind them manually.

I have a pretty good idea of the final movesets, especially Magellan who will be running a no STAB D-dance set.

This is the most nervous I've ever been going into the endgame of a challenge, because it could all go to shit at any point and I just gotta hope it all goes right.

I'll finish the grinding, and then the challenge, tomorrow.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 02:24:11 No.48927885 Report

Quoted By: >>48927890 >>48927899

I've been getting my ass kicked in White all week. do I try to nuzlocke Platinum (to take a break from White) or do I continue trying to nuzlocke White? first reply is the one I'll do.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 02:25:13 No.48927890 Report

Quoted By: >>48927913

>>48927871
FUCK, I FORGOT TO SHOW D-DANCE ON MAGELLAN. AND THE ITEMS RULE (None in battle except in boss fights and only up to the amount they have)
>>48927885
Take a break and try Platinum

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 02:26:00 No.48927899 Report

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>>48927885
Continue, pussy.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 02:27:06 No.48927913 Report

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>>48927890
>Take a break and try Platinum
will do
>>48927899
too late

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 05:09:28 No.48928980 Report

Quoted By: >>48929022

>foolishly pick Chimchar
>don’t get the Psyduck encounter
>need to beat Roark with Geodude’s Tackle
I might be terrible at Pokémon

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Inclement Emerald Alola Only HC Sun 05 Dec 2021 05:16:41 No.48929022 Report

Quoted By: >>48929120 >>48929747

>>48926001
So Petalburg Gym wasn't that bad. I went Speed -> Defense -> OHKO, and in the last room they can't hit flying ghost types, only having Fissure and Explosion for attacks, so I slapped a Balloon on Decidueye. Marowak was a pretty big help for the first two.

>Norman
Fight was pretty daunting. His team - Swellow, Tauros, Linoone, Exploud, Slaking, Mega Kangaskhan.
I lead Minior and used Cosmic Power and Shell Smash to orient myself to get hit out of the meteor form safely, then killed Swellow as he strangely sent in Exploud. A Flying Gem Acrobatics killed that. He sends out the mon he should have sent out previously, Slaking. It Night Slashes into A-Golem, who I Magnet Rise so his best move on me is Night Slash and hit him for a few Stone Edges as he sleeps me with Yawn. I don't kill him before magnet rise runs out, so I pivot carefully to Bewear who gets Yawned as I kill him.
Out is Tauros. I pivot Bewear back in safely after I'm Intimidated and not Yawned, then after that is the big threat Mega Kang, sadly Tauros left me a bit too low with Bewear. No real good strat for this thing. I send in Marowak on Seismic Toss, but then get a bit greedy here and go for Will-o-Wisp as it EQs to knock me down to a third. Then, I pivot between Tsareena and Marowak on its Facade/Earthquakes until burn gets it low enough where Crabominable can take it out with Mach Punch. Then I just kill off Linoone.

>>48928980
Rock Smash actually makes Geodude pretty good for Roark. Also I think there are possible Machop in the grass north of Oreburgh.
>>48927871
Sincerely good luck anon, I'm sure you're more nervous than you need to be. Your team looks great.
>>48927418
>>48927439
Nice to see another old face back, those drawings really are cute.
Could maybe limit your Pokemon to a certain color or egg group, or a few types/egg groups/colors. I know there's a variant called Palettelocke that does that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 05:32:39 No.48929120 Report

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>>48929022
>Rock Smash actually makes Geodude pretty good for Roark.
I try not to teach my active party members HM moves out of sheer force of habit. I never considered that.
>Also I think there are possible Machop in the grass north of Oreburgh.
Well, crap. That would have been nice to know before challenging him.
>Roark used a potion on Cranidos
Aurghhhhhhh

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 05:38:53 No.48929161 Report

Quoted By: >>48929192

>tfw your starter dies

Well Charizard is not that great in Red, so losing Charmeleon is not that big of a loss.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 05:45:24 No.48929192 Report

Quoted By: >>48929317

>>48929161
Fire types are just kinda meh in Kanto in general. I don't think I've ever used one in any playthrough of Kanto ever

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 06:11:26 No.48929317 Report

Quoted By: >>48932040

>>48929192
I find the Fire type underwhelming overall, regardless of generation. It's gotta be the type with the most monotypes, and other types can easily cover for it due to their higher abundance, like Flying or Fighting. I don't ever find myself using them.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 06:13:29 No.48929327 Report

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>beat Roark
>trade Machop for Abra
>Abra doesn’t listen because it’s level 11
based based based based based based

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 06:21:40 No.48929358 Report

Quoted By: >>48931034

Should I watch Lost?

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 07:38:17 No.48929747 Report

Quoted By: >>48936877

>>48929022
>Could maybe limit your Pokemon to a certain color or egg group, or a few types/egg groups/colors. I know there's a variant called Palettelocke that does that.
I've pretty much decided on a variant of Petit Cup rules, but less extreme. I'll keep those ideas in mind.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 08:24:24 No.48929972 Report

Quoted By: >>48929989 >>48930694

>>48923118
do half of nuzlocke players even know the name is based on nuzleaf and john locke
why did they even call it nuzlockes when the original comic just called it "pokemon: hard mode"

Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi

Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi Sun 05 Dec 2021 08:27:01 No.48929989 Report

Quoted By: >>48930108

>>48929972
It's making a reference to it, people called it that because that part was iconic. It also is a unique phrase that is specific to what we're doing here, as opposed to just "playing Pokemon on hard mode" which could mean all SORTS of things.
Why do you call it a shoe? Is it because it's always been called a shoe and it's tradition in our language to refer to it that way? Or did you personally name shoes? Because if so, nice to meet you Mr. Shoe.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 08:43:43 No.48930108 Report

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>>48929989
makes sense. thanks for the explanation

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 11:13:39 No.48930694 Report

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>>48929972
>do half of nuzlocke players even know the name is based on nuzleaf and john locke
yes
>why did they even call it nuzlockes when the original comic just called it "pokemon: hard mode"
because saying nuzlocke is far easier and shorter than saying "pokemon hard more"

the name was dumb to begin with but stuck. plus its easier to change depending on your challenge (monolocke, wonderlocke, generationlocke). and the author of the comic was a damn casual anyway

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 12:51:05 No.48931032 Report

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>>48925065
1. blitzle died to a piece of grass
2. caught sandile + petilil
3. defeated burgh with absolutely no resistance whatsoever
Oh, and woobat evolved after the battle. very cute.
Current team is Dewott, Herdier, Swoobat, Sandile, Petilil, and Purrloin, all around lvl 20.
on to the desert!

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 12:51:13 No.48931034 Report

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>>48929358
Depends on how much time you have to waste. Are you the sort of person to watch twitch streams / reality TV? Lost is the sort of program that doesn't respect your time. X-files was similar but it was a monster of the week format so it was more enjoyable.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 13:24:47 No.48931138 Report

Quoted By: >>48931141 >>48931271

>>48925237
You can get Nidoking that early? damn

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 13:26:01 No.48931141 Report

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>>48931138
you can evolve the nidos, jigglypuff and clefairy as soon as you step into mt moon anon

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 13:54:32 No.48931271 Report

Quoted By: >>48931352

>>48931138
yeah but he’s entirely reliant on TMs for his movepool regardless of when you choose to evolve him

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 14:14:06 No.48931352 Report

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>>48931271
in gen 1, all he needs to be is bulky and strong, even with shit moves he destroys everything else

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 15:19:58 No.48931642 Report

Quoted By: >>48931688

I got to Eterna Forest and my Chimchar got killed at half HP by a Beatifly’s Gust (critical hit). My level 16 Geodude also got paralyzed by the Budew, so I failed to run away, and Beautifly spammed Absorb on it like it’s a trainer AI. The run is dead. All that from a random encounter in the grass.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 15:25:46 No.48931688 Report

Quoted By: >>48932072

>>48931642
Just try again anon, I believe in you~

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 15:43:11 No.48931815 Report

Quoted By: >>48932040

>>48895907
After the loss on Route 109 and the Slateport Incident it's been pretty smooth sailing
I entered Rita into a toughness contest and a lady gave me a cosplaying Pikachu that I had completely forgotten was in this game. Thankfully we were able to go two doors down and get her nicknamed and properly introduce Sparks to our team.
After that we headed up to Mauville and fought our rival on the footpath under the cycleroad, which was slightly dicey but we didn't lose anyone.
Wally was a pushover and Wattson was easy to take out with some kicks and flame charges from Chico. At the end of the fight whisper evolved and things are going to get loud.
I think I might go to the puzzle house and play about a little now

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 16:11:56 No.48932018 Report

Quoted By: >>48932128 >>48932211

Are there any nuzlocke playthroughs worth watching? Something in the vein of Team Four Stars who used to have goat nuzlocke series before they did it on twitch and killed it.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 16:15:33 No.48932040 Report

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>>48929317
Absolutely. They also tend to be weirdly hard to find in many games. Something like Electric also tends to be pretty monotype-y and one dimensional, but they're usually much easier to find and tend to match up better vs really common types like Water and Flying so I always find myself using one.
>>48931815
Looking solid so far anon!

Fair warning though, Flannery looks like she'll be rough to handle.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 16:20:26 No.48932072 Report

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>>48931688

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 16:28:03 No.48932128 Report

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>>48932018
>Team Four Star
>goat nuzlockes

weak bait
twitch does ruin everything tho

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 16:29:18 No.48932142 Report

Quoted By: >>48932199

>>48932128
They were entertaining. I liked the dynamic even if they cheated that one time.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 16:34:53 No.48932199 Report

Quoted By: >>48932238 >>48932388 >>48932618

>>48932142
>that one time.
They cheated all the goddamn time anon. From planning captures to manipulate picking specific pokemon to doing dumb rules like "we have first encounter, shiny clause, fishing clause, berry tree clause, shaking grass clause and ~we just want to capture another one fuck it~ clause" to overleveling and spamming items every turn to bruteforce the few spots of difficulty they couldnt cheat around. on the larger scheme of things ressurecting pokemon three times (yes it wasnt just that slowpoke) was just the tip of the iceberg.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 16:36:13 No.48932211 Report

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>>48932018
I like to see people struggle/wipe during nuzlockes, so IIRC ProJared's Gen 6 nuzlocke was one I liked. Keep in mind I don't watch anything else of his, so IDK if he's regularly a jobber or annoying.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 16:38:11 No.48932238 Report

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>>48932199
That sounds like shite. There was a nuzlocke run I enjoyed watching, until he started collecting shinies left and right and allowing himself to capture them always. This was in Renegade Platinum, which increased shiny rate, making his losses meaningless as he always had more shinies.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 16:53:36 No.48932388 Report

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>>48932199
>on the larger scheme of things ressurecting pokemon three times (yes it wasnt just that slowpoke) was just the tip of the iceberg.
Who did this happen to?

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 17:24:23 No.48932606 Report

Quoted By: >>48932635

How much harder are BB2/VW2 than BB/VW? I think I remember 2 having a lot of really fucking nasty double batles.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 17:26:08 No.48932618 Report

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>>48932199
>fishing clause
>berry tree clause
>shaking grass clause
at what point are you not just catching whatever you want then
that's like 4 pokemon per route

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 17:30:24 No.48932635 Report

Quoted By: >>48932873

>>48932606
Considerably easier, early game isn't as bad and there are less of the double/triple/rotation battles. It's only really 1 that does those
There is BBVW2 Redux coming out soon with updated mechanics like fairy, later gen moves, a much harder Challenge Mode, and new events though, so maybe could wait for that

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 17:50:13 No.48932775 Report

Quoted By: >>48932833

Is there like, a repository for the exact EV/IV spreads for the Hoenn Elite Four? I need to do some calculations

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 17:55:30 No.48932833 Report

Quoted By: >>48933314

>>48932775
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JpckFb6pZtNn-PjIx9F3IR9aseX6oXUPY5pPyzi_iCE/edit?usp=sharing

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 17:59:03 No.48932873 Report

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>>48932635
I'm sure that corless and Dennis are huge filters.

But rest of game shouldn't be big issue till e4 specially If you win the random encounter lottery.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 18:49:39 No.48933314 Report

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>>48932833
Thanks a ton anon!
>Pull up PKHex to check team IVs for fun
>Roosevelt has 1 Atk IV

I can't take this shit no more my niggas

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 18:52:05 No.48933333 Report

Quoted By: >>48933367 >>48933425 >>48933644

>im the best nuzlocker in the world
>get vaccinated
>i talk like 4chan memes but im a redditor

How does one man be so gay?

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 18:55:36 No.48933367 Report

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>>48933333
Based get but shit post
This general doesn't need this shitpost wars over this faggot

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 19:00:46 No.48933425 Report

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>>48933333
BASED

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 19:25:44 No.48933644 Report

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>>48933333
>Being anti-vax
Stupid fuck..

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 19:29:30 No.48933664 Report

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>>48933644
>being covid vaccinated
Ez low IQ stat check

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 19:51:01 No.48933849 Report

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Erika was easy, but Surge surprised me and killed my Kettle. I should've just used Vase from the start. Now unto Pokemon Tower, Silph Co, and all the other Rocket stuff.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 19:52:35 No.48933866 Report

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god Turtwig feels so weak

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 20:15:18 No.48934077 Report

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>For whatever reason the Universal Pokémon Randomizer doesn't actually change the impossible evolutions like I'd set up

Thank God for PKHex but fucking SHIT man

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 20:16:18 No.48934084 Report

Quoted By: >>48934305

MACHOP GOT KILLED BY A CRIT

GODDAMMIT

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Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi Sun 05 Dec 2021 20:42:16 No.48934305 Report

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>>48934084
F

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 22:33:16 No.48935158 Report

Quoted By: >>48935432

>>48927871
Well, after hours of grinding (including EV training both Nelson and Roosevelt in their best stats (Nelson in SpA and Roosevelt in Attack and Speed), and adjusting some movesets, I'm finally ready for the Elite Four

I'm still nervous even after theorymonning every step of every fight, but I think it'll work out

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 22:34:24 No.48935164 Report

Quoted By: >>48937387

>lost a Lv. 11 Magikarp because I was getting cheeky (thought I could switch in and out with it at 7 HP)
yup, it’s back to White for me

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 23:08:31 No.48935432 Report

Quoted By: >>48935492 >>48935816

>>48935158
It's done. Despite everything the game threw at me, I managed to beat it. Not without a great cost though
>Sidney, Phoebe, and Glacia go down to Roosevelt, Nelson, and Roosevelt again with no problems whatsoever. About as clean as you can get
>Start the Drake fight
>Starts perfectly, with Nelson taking out Shelgon and Altaria after getting the Rain up with 2 Ice Beams a piece
>Out comes Kingdra
>After a bit of a back and forth with it D-dancing and me wittling it and it healing, manage to get it to a sliver
>About to finish it off when I misclick Rain Dance after it Body Slams me to half
>Forced to go to Magellan to try and salvage the situation, and manage to finish it off with a Return but not before being hit into the red by a boosted Body Slam
>Out comes Salamence, and realizing I can't sack Magellan, try going to Rickenback to buy me a turn to heal up Nelson (Since I was allowed to use a Full Restore as per my items rule)
>It gets finished off in 2 Rock Slides.
>Go to Roosevelt to try and hit a Rock Tomb so I don't have to risk getting crit with Nelson to get Rain back up and outspeed it
>It somehow misses 2 Rock Tombs in a row and gets taken out in 2 Dragon Claws and a Crunch
>Finally get Nelson back in
>Mence crits D-claw, I live, get Rain back up (should've calc'd that but hindsight), and finish both it and Flygon off with Ice Beams

At least the Champion went flawlessly, with Harris killing his Wailord and Gyarados and inviting in Whiscash, which I used as setup bait for Gyarados to get to +4 and sweep everything with Return

All in all, I'm happy I managed to do it, I'm just sad that I could've done it deathless but didn't, all because of a misclick. I knew that Drake's Kingdra would pose an issue but at the end of the day it c ame down to a literal misclick that cost me two great mons.

Still, I can't be too upset. At the end of the day, all that grinding and planning paid off and I pulled it off.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 23:15:08 No.48935492 Report

Quoted By: >>48935816 >>48937387

>>48935432
>Final Chart + Final Thoughts:

This was easily the hardest Nuzlocke I've done so far, and also one of the most fun, since I really had to plan out my fights/encounters towards the end and come up with some crazy ways of winning.

I'm especially happy with my team. I'm a little sad though that I couldn't take Rickenback to the end. That fucking bird carried me so hard most of the game, and I just wished I could've let him see the endgame. He was by far the MVP of the run, with Harris coming in a close second for his performance vs Tate and Liza, but really everyone on the final team was fantastic

I don't think I'll do the Steven fight, since that would just involve a metric fuckload of grinding and I'm already grinded out. Maybe someday in the future I'll try it though

As for what I'll do next, I'm torn between doing Red, doing Crystal, or even doing White.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 23:47:39 No.48935816 Report

Quoted By: >>48935847

>>48935432
congrats. shame about Machamp.
>>48935492
consider playing the game you've played the least, to revisit it.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Dec 2021 23:50:50 No.48935847 Report

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>>48935816
Thanks. In terms of what I've played the least, I haven't played B2/W2 but I want to play through those normally, I've played through Johto twice in the past two years, and I haven't touched Gen 1 in...ever really

Yeah, I think Red is what I'll go with. Gonna be really interesting esp since I've locked off some solid encounters in Nidoqueen/Gyarados/Snorlax/Fearow

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 01:47:37 No.48936819 Report

Quoted By: >>48936851 >>48936877 >>48937387 >>48937525

>>48927418
And here's Red!
>Pikachu
It Charms Teri, but an Earthquake Crit oneshots it anyway (pretty sure it was not at all needed).
>Espeon
Poseidon comes in on Reflect.
Two turns of Psychic and Surf follows, ending with Espeon going down.
>Venusaur
I send Marinette in on a Solar Beam Charge.
Marinette uses Agility and takes a Solar Beam( only to heal off most of it with Leftovers). Reflect fades.
Marinette gets an Ice Punch, and Venusaur takes in Sunlight once again.
Another Agility, another Solarbeam.
I keep whittling Venusaur down with Ice Punch, and it pulls out Sunny Day.
I decide to put a Light Screen up before finishing it off... and it heals up with Synthesis. Urgh.
2 turns of Ice Punch vs Solarbeam follow.
A third consecutive Ice Punch takes out Venusaur, and the Sunlight fades, just in time for...
>Charizard
Marinette Passes the Baton to 5-Volt, who gets hit with Wing Attack. Light Screen fades.
5 Volt sets up Rain Dance, and Zard lands a Slash Crit.
A Magnet-boosted Thunder takes Zard out.
>Snorlax
Tough mon, but I should be able to beat it.
Hydro Pump does a little below half, and it uses Amnesia.
Annoyingly, the second Hydro Pump Misses, and Body Slam not only sends 5-Volt into the red but also paralyzes her, effectively taking her out of the match.
I send Bunnie in on Body Slam. It hits fairly hard.
To neuter Lax, I have Bunnie use Charm. Annoyingly, Snorlax's next Body Slam inflicts paralysis. No matter, with Charm in place, I will win the head to head unless I get unlucky.
...
...
Snorlax immediately lands a Body Slam Crit, and Bunnie dies. That really annoyed me.
Teri comes in and finishes the fat catbear(?) of with Return.
>Blastoise
Return knocks it into the yellow, and Blastoise Rain Dances.
A final Return ends the match, and this Nuzlocke is over.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 01:50:39 No.48936851 Report

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>>48936819
Almost made it all the way. Too bad.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 01:52:54 No.48936877 Report

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>>48936851
>>48936819
And with that, it's time to start my Small-locke >>48929747

Inclement Emerald Alola Only HC

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Inclement Emerald Alola Only HC Mon 06 Dec 2021 02:55:29 No.48937387 Report

Quoted By: >>48937525 >>48937549 >>48938563

>>48926001
Got some nice additions to the team, like Vikavolt, who now is effectively a pseudolegendary by virtue of its massively improved speed, and Togedemaru and Toxapex with their nice bags of tricks. Also, Lycanroc-Midnight, the Lycanroc I'm using, is surprisingly good in this - now Rock/Dark type with some better stats and moves like Cross Chop to take advantage of No Guard.

>Weather Institute Shelly
Another fairly difficult admin fight. Her team - Alolan Ninetales, Empoleon, Crawdaunt, Clefable, Ludicolo, Mega Beedrill. Sadly, I can't get Slush Rush on Sandslash here. Instead, Palossand removes the hail her Ninetales sets then I swap to Sandslash to kill it, then swap to Araquanid on her Clefable's Flamethrower to kill that. Crawdaunt was a bit scary - but Togedemaru ate Crunch well and responded with an Electric Gem Zing Zap for a clean OHKO. Then she sent in Mega Beedrill.
I started off by pivoting to Palossand whose Ground Gem Earth Power did a LOT less than I thought it would've. She actually then swaps to Ludicolo, so I go to Toxapex to poison and Venom Drench it to try and bait in Empoleon on a switch to Vikavolt from me. Didn't work, but she sent Mega Beedrill back in so I swapped from Sandslash to Vikavolt on Poison Jab/Drill Run to let it die of sand, weather is infinite in this hack. Empoleon then died to an Electric Gem Thunderbolt from Vikavolt, and Ludicolo to Bug Buzz.
Kinda not a fan of the level bloat, but I guess if you were to play the game normally it wouldn't be an issue.

>>48936819
Congrats anon, RIP Bunnie. I'm happy Marinette made it all the way to the end, lol
>>48935492
And congrats to you too anon! Emerald's a tough game, it's no small feat. Glad Magellan, Joan Arc and Harris made out alright, at least
>>48935164
F.
It's really just a matter of playing it as safe as you can, in general you don't want to be cheeky if you don't need to be. Hope you get better luck in trying to conquer White this time.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 03:20:23 No.48937525 Report

Quoted By: >>48938563

>>48936819
>>48936851
>Letting Bunnie die

Your crimes can't and won't be forgiven

Grats on winning the run though!
>>48937387
Thanks anon! It's funny actually: Harris and Nelson turned out to be redemption stories in a sense, since Lombre and Electrode died in my Sapphire run, the latter during the E4, so having them make it to the end (and Nelson solo 2 members), is pretty cool.

Also damn Inclement Emerald looks hard as hell

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 03:23:58 No.48937549 Report

Quoted By: >>48938563

you won’t believe this but I almost lost to Bianca AND Cheren at the very start of White. They got got crits at the start of their fight and COULD have killed me but used a status move instead. I feel like that’s way too unlikely to be sheer luck, like the AI is programmed to job to your player. It’s kind of hilarious that I almost lost immediately after getting my starter.
>>48937387
>you don't want to be cheeky if you don't need to be
I knoooow… but it clashes with my playstyle. I’ll improve… eventually. I guess I’m too impatient. Thanks for the good luck.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 03:54:50 No.48937752 Report

Quoted By: >>48937898 >>48945317

Off on my new run.
I'd say I was a bit unlucky- thanks to my ruleset, all three final evos for the starters are off the table, and the Piplup line was always the "bad early on, but great eventually" pick. with no Empoleon, that is not gonna happen.
On the other hand, Turtwig wouldn't be able to evolve at all... Chimchar would have been the optimal one. But I'm fine with this.
Charm is good in Nuzlockes and is a nice new tool for Piplup. Water Gun(40 BP) instead of Gen IV Bubble(20 BP) is also nice in the early parts.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 04:19:44 No.48937898 Report

Quoted By: >>48938023 >>48938351

>>48937752
Brown Dawn looks better than I thought
>bad early on, but great eventually
Besides losing to the Grass Gym, how is the Piplup line “bad early on”? Sinnoh is forgettable for me but I remembering soloing more than half the game with just the penguin.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 04:48:09 No.48938023 Report

Quoted By: >>48938193 >>48938351 >>48941865

>>48937898
It might be better to say worse early on than the the other starters, rather than outright bad, I guess.
In Platinum specifically, this is the Piplup life:
>Roark
If I remember correctly, Piplup loses outright to Cranidos without heavy item spam(or luck with Roark's move choices) if not evolved, as 60BP Bubble(after STAB and Super Effective bonus) doesn't do enough damage to compete with Cranidos's mighty Headbutts(70 BP coming from a mon with Heracross tier attack- 125).
Meanwile, Turtwig does great(though getting Screeched by Onix can mess things up) thanks to much better bulk and Razor Leaf(functionally 165 BP).
Chimchar does badly, but evolves earlier and Monferno easily handles this gym.
>Gardenia
Grotle and Monferno have no issues here. Prinplup gets annihilated.
>Fantina
Prinplup once again needs more luck or item spam to do this at a reasonable level. Monferno has a sort of sketchy matchup spread here but can usually get through. Grotle Crunches through. Mismagius can give any one of them some problems though.
>Maylene
Prinplup does the worst of the starters here by far. Monferno is good against most mons here(Fire Blast from the Dept Store is excellent) and deals alright with Lucario.
Torterra stomps.
After this, you hit Crasher Wake, at that point you are past the earlygame, and you should have Empoleon.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 04:52:01 No.48938035 Report

Quoted By: >>48938043

Fuck Sabrina. I was setting up Swords Dance on Thongs but her first mon fucked me. Gonna need me a new Water type, might have to use Shellder or some other catch.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 04:54:33 No.48938043 Report

Quoted By: >>48938563

>>48938035
Not sure why it cut off, I hit download image.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 05:27:21 No.48938193 Report

Quoted By: >>48938359

god I hate the “rival” theme in B/W
>>48938023
hmm, how strange. I guess I need another playthrough of Platinum to jog my memory.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 06:00:37 No.48938351 Report

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>>48937898
If you solo half a game with any pokemon you'll have an easy time since you won't spread the exp among them, leading to overleveling.
>>48938023
Pretty much what this anon said, Piplup is just middling, taking a while to ramp up, but is decent enough vs most random encounters. Turtwig is easy mode early, and Chimchar is just a beast late.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 06:01:28 No.48938359 Report

Quoted By: >>48938563 >>48939484

>>48938193
I'd say the starter Trio is kinda like this in Platinum:
Turtwig- easily the best earlygame starter- especially in a nuzlocke setting. Pretty good later on too, but has a lot more moments that just suck for it- it is not actually that good against Wake, it loses hard to Candice and Cyrus, and it isn't that good in the league.
Chimchar- great at almost all points of the game, even if Turtwig outdoes it for quite a while. A lot of tier lists considers it the best in-game mon for good reason, but I'd say Infernape's relative frailty makes it too unreliable for that to be the case in Nuzlockes.
Piplup- Weakest earlygame, but once it becomes Empoleon, it is truly exceptional as a Nuzlocke mon. The typing is stupid good at keeping you safe. Only a rare few mons are a lethal threat.
So go with Turtwig for a safe and good earlygame, pick Piplup for an exceptional lategame, and pick Chimchar if you want a mon that is good all the way through, but way more likely to die than the others- kinda the high risk, high reward option.
I actually find it pretty fun to think through this stuff. If you want my opinions on other gens, just ask.

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Inclement Emerald Alola Only HC Mon 06 Dec 2021 06:46:20 No.48938563 Report

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>>48937387
So, I could only get one of Passimian, Oranguru, and Comfey on the Weather Institute route. The same happened with Mudsdale and Kommo-o. Definitely extremely annoying.

>Route 119 May
A usually threatening fight, but she played poorly. Minior ended up running a train on her after a Shell Smash, killing everything except her Mimikyu who went down to the superior Gen 7 Pikaclone (at least when used by me :^))

>Frontier Brain Spenser
An annoying fight, but not too bad. His team is very bulky and strong, but just required careful counters to each of his mons. He uses the first legendary this run, Suicune, for whom I used a Choice Band Trick strategy with Oranguru to cripple then kill off.

And with the Mt. Pyre encounters, that's all the captures I can get before postgame.

>>48937525
That's pretty heartwarming. Hope Pelipper can come through on another run and redeem itself too.
And yeah. If anything, I'm not doing this game justice because I'm not bringing up the random trainers. They can be even nastier than the bosses.
>>48937549
Eventually it'll probably just become second nature. B/W's early game probably isn't a bad place to begin internalizing it.
>>48938043
RIP. Are you doing an autismlocke? I think Cloyster may be too good to use now and you might be better off with a worse but still passable option like Seaking or Dewgong, but it's up to you.
>>48938359
I think the main reason why Infernape is usually classed as the best starter even in nuzlockes is that it's unequivocally the best Fire and/or Fighting type in the game (whereas Empoleon competes with a lot of other waters and steels) on top of that incredibly varied moveset with great setup, loads of coverage, and stuff like Close Combat right off the bat. Empoleon is still definitely excellent, though

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 07:06:40 No.48938662 Report

Quoted By: >>48944206

Red is done! Tray the Electrode swept Lorelei, Oven the Hitmonlee swept Bruno, Vase the Nidoking swept Agatha.
I thought Fridge the Dewgong would be my ace vs Lance, but I forgot he uses Gyarados first, which led me to take a Hyper Beam to the face, then have to Rest, this happened three times, before I could swap, after that his team wasn't too hard.
Blue was no trouble at all, except for his Blastoise that one shot Pan the Vileplume, which I wasn't expecting.
All in all, pretty easy. I went in at level 60, but only Blue hits those levels, next time I'll go in at level 58, which I believe is the level of the Elite Four mons.

>>48938563
Yeah I thought so too, which is why I went for a Seel instead of using my Shellder, which is just too good to waste.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 07:08:55 No.48938670 Report

Quoted By: >>48944206 >>48954621

>>48924392
It's really easy except for the league. But the league in these games might be the hardest any legit game has ever done. They're all EV trained and every pokemon has an item like a burn orb for Cynthia's Milotic or a focus sash for Flint's Infernape.
I've done 2 full runs and lost to Cynthia each time. But even before her, there's quite a bit of other bullshit you that screwed me vs the E4 like Lucian having a trick room Bronzong with gyro ball or Bertha's Golem having enough speed EVs to outspeed my Abomasnow and OHKO it, which was honestly what killed my last run more than anything.
If you Nuzlocke this game with level caps, it's probably take you about 20 hours in total, 17-18 of them on cruise control cause until the league.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 07:35:04 No.48938795 Report

Quoted By: >>48939121

>>48938563
>I think the main reason why Infernape is usually classed as the best starter even in nuzlockes is that it's unequivocally the best Fire and/or Fighting type in the game
I don't disagree with you on this point, what I was talking about was it being the considered the best in-game mon in general, not just starter.
>A lot of tier lists considers it the best in-game mon for good reason
Most said tier lists are not Nuzlocke focused. In a Nuzlocke, I'd say fellow common S-tier mon Staraptor is significantly better than Infernape because it combines ridiculuous offense with Intimidate essentially giving better bulk both for itself and other team members.
Also, while not as good as Staraptor, Light Screen Intimidate Luxray is a stupidly good Nuzlocke mon, especially combined with Intimidate Staraptor

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 08:35:59 No.48939121 Report

Quoted By: >>48939254

>>48938795
>what I was talking about was it being the considered the best in-game mon in general, not just starter.
Not that anon, but I rarely hear people say Infernape is the overall best nuzlocke min in platinum, personally, I'd give that to Togekiss or Gyarados (like every game it's in).
>>48938795
>I'd say fellow common S-tier mon Staraptor is significantly better than Infernape
They actually complement each other very well because Infernape can usually be a safe switch in for anything that threatens Staraptor. But I'd say Infernape still slightly edges out Staraptor because it's offensive potential is way more versatile. Infernape can have way more coverage because it can learn moves like Earthquake, Grass Knot, or Thunder punch. It can stand up to pokemon that usually would threaten it like Ryhperior or Gyarados so long as it has the right moves.
It also has the ability to be either a physical or special attacker while Staraptor is only a physical threat. And to top it off, Infernape can learn great set up moves like Swords Dance and Calm Mind, so if it's ever in a spot it can set up, it can potentially run away with matches, especially since it outspeeds most pokemon it'll face.
Staraptor is amazing for the reasons you mentioned, but I feel like because it's not as offensively versatile as Infernape, it's not quite as good. Also, should you lose your Staraptor, Crobat is always an options as an amazing backup plan. Infernape on the other hand, has no real replacement in it's games.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 09:04:39 No.48939254 Report

Quoted By: >>48941455

>>48939121
>Not that anon, but I rarely hear people say Infernape is the overall best nuzlocke min in platinum, personally, I'd give that to Togekiss or Gyarados (like every game it's in)
Yeah, Infernape gets the nod as best in non-nuzlocke tier lists mostly.
>Infernape can usually be a safe switch in for anything that threatens Staraptor
Staraptor's real threats tend to be Rock attacks or Electric moves, and Infernape can't really switch into those well, not unless you know you can KO the mon immediately. Meanwhile, Staraptor switches in on Infernape's nasty ground weakness.
I'd say Infernape is way more of a lead mon, and Staraptor is the one you switch in.
Both are good mons, but I find Staraptor the better of the two from a Nuzlocke perspective, because while it may lack the offensive versatility of Infernape, it still does insane damage (more immediate damage than Infernape) and very rarely finds itself walled or even that bothered, and it is better than Infernape in most non-offensive manners.
Perhaps "significantly better" was an overstatement.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 10:18:40 No.48939484 Report

Quoted By: >>48939580 >>48943538

>>48938359
What do you think about the Unova starters in both BW and BW2? I think Oshawott is pretty valuable in BW as water types aren't as abundant in that game as they usually are and Samurott is a solid final evolution.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 10:49:04 No.48939580 Report

Quoted By: >>48943538 >>48944206

>>48939484
Not them but I actually think Tepig is the best starter in both games, not by a significant amount, but still. Getting Work Up + Flame Charge early and generally matching well against pretty much all of early game (the hardest part of both games barring the E4) offers more than the other two. I'd also actually put Serperior above Samurott possibly due to Coil, Samurott just struggles to get reliable setup.
Even with it being a good water type in games without a ton of great water types, it still vies for a team slot with more varied mons like Jellicent or Seismitoad or stronger mons like Turtonator or Azumarill. Meanwhile Emboar has like, Darmanitan (who can't set up as well so may not always be as useful) and Serp has Ferrothorn and Lilligant. In general I think it goes
>Tepig - best for early game and pretty great later on
>Snivy - probably weakest early on but becomes incredible upon getting Coil
>Oshawott - decent all rounder that doesn't particularly excel but isn't weak anywhere

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 14:31:15 No.48940452 Report

Quoted By: >>48940489 >>48940505

Crystal, Heart Gold or Black?

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Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi Mon 06 Dec 2021 14:37:32 No.48940489 Report

Quoted By: >>48940574

>>48940452
Black

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 14:41:01 No.48940505 Report

Quoted By: >>48940574

R.I.P. Roggenrola. Cause of death: Crunch spam from a level 17 Patrat. I can’t believe Patrat gets Crunch so early in the game.
>>48940452
Black

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MundyMustard Mon 06 Dec 2021 14:43:19 No.48940519 Report

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>turtwig dies early
>use a shinx as a replacement starter
>get to a point where I have a luxray with thunderbolt
>gym 4 is crasher wake with water type pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 14:51:35 No.48940574 Report

Quoted By: >>48940643

>>48940489
>>48940505
Cool, I’ve never played gen 5 before.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 15:02:12 No.48940643 Report

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>>48940574
good luck

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 15:13:12 No.48940711 Report

Quoted By: >>48942775

I'm not seeing anything about a 3ds emulator like Citra in the OP. Is 3ds emulation just terrible right now?

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AKIN Mon 06 Dec 2021 17:00:24 No.48941343 Report

Quoted By: >>48942492 >>48945675

Fellas, just posting in here before I head to work to bump the thread and to say I love y'all. This is one of the best gen threads on this shitty japanese image board and I enjoy hearing about all your runs, seeing the familiar faces, and the relative positivity compared to the rest of this horrible site despite y'all being lovable shitheads. Keep being you, /nuz/.

Also my Munchlax evolved :)

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 17:19:17 No.48941455 Report

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>>48939254
>Staraptor's real threats tend to be Rock attacks or Electric moves, and Infernape can't really switch into those well, not unless you know you can KO the mon immediately. Meanwhile, Staraptor switches in on Infernape's nasty ground weakness.
It's why I said the two complement each other very well. Staraptor's intimidate protects Infernape from getting OHKO by the mostly physical rock types, and a STAB close combat from Infernape can OHKO quite a few rock types in return, especially if it's holding something like a fist plate or life orb.
Electric types tend to be special attackers, so switching Infernape in vs them is riskier, but if you lead with Infernape and it has earthquake, it can potentially sweep them. The versatility is important cause in Nuzlockes, you may not always encounter a Pokemon that's the perfect counter to something. So in case you don't have something like a Quagsire or Gliscor available to you, Infernape can be a stop gap. It may not always be the number 1 option if your encounters were perfect, but it can be your best option in a lot of scenarios if they weren't.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 17:55:49 No.48941757 Report

Quoted By: >>48941937 >>48942014 >>48942907

have anyone here ever done a Gen 5 nuzlock before? any opinions on the starters?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 18:09:32 No.48941865 Report

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>>48938023
Yeah this was my experience with it even in a normal playthrough. I remember being shocked that it couldn't beat Cranidos and it only really coming online after Wake where it was just kind of "Okay""

Infernape on the other hand is a fucking monster, especially in BDSP where you can effectively click one button for the first two gyms and then just blow through the Endgame with an SD set

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 18:12:40 No.48941889 Report

Quoted By: >>48941961

>just started Black
>already suffered 2 crits just walking from home to the first town
this is a bad sign

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 18:18:14 No.48941937 Report

Quoted By: >>48941992

>>48941757
the pig seems the best choice because the other two are monotypes but gen 3, 4 and 5 are all fire/fighting which sucks.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 18:20:54 No.48941961 Report

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>>48941889
you have no idea how bad things really are. Tackle is base 50 BP, Bite (which is a little stronger) is common in Patrats at around level 9 and by the second town you’ll encounter Crunch (80 BP?). I swear, it feels like a crit will take around 80% of your health but no one is worried about their health when it’s in the green.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 18:25:06 No.48941992 Report

Quoted By:

>>48941937
I’ve been using him exclusively but wanted to keep my options open just in case.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 18:28:56 No.48942014 Report

Quoted By:

>>48941757
Haven't done the base games, but doing BlazeBlack 2 was fun.
>any opinions on the starters?
Drayano changes up their stats and typing a bit (Samurott is water/fighting, Serperior is grass/dragon) which I think makes them more fun. He also set it so you can potentially have hidden abilities and contrary Serperior felt great to use once it learned leaf storm.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 19:36:05 No.48942492 Report

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>>48941343
i feel the same. /nuz/ is a gem in a sea of shit. wish there was more game discussion like it.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 19:51:09 No.48942601 Report

Quoted By: >>48943441

>Cless’ Lillipup got a crit on my Pansage, killing it in the green
this shit is ridiculous. I mean yeah he had a Work Up under his belt but I’ve never had my Pokémon drop like flies outside of Gen 5. maybe it’s time to face the facts… I’m bad at Pokémon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 20:15:49 No.48942766 Report

Quoted By: >>48942830 >>48947668

>Gym Leader Candice took out my gastrodon AND my bronzong
RIP. The only vet I've still got is my gliscor. I was already in the process of grinding up a dustox as a new recruit but now I need to go grind up a pelipper and a floatzel.

The worst part about the ice types is that you get two opportunities to catch one and no more. Similar problem with fire & electric; I've not seen any wild ones except for ponyta & shinx. Type availability seems really off in Sinnoh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 20:17:02 No.48942775 Report

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>>48940711
It's just not in there, emulating is pretty good
Theres a working fairly viable emulator for the switch that runs bdsp pretty okay if you check the bdsp threads

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 20:23:53 No.48942830 Report

Quoted By: >>48942891

>>48942766
>Type availability seems really off in Sinnoh.
You WILL encounter hordes of Geodude and Zubat and you WILL like it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 20:30:58 No.48942891 Report

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>>48942830
I honestly can't wait to get to gen 5 and beyond just so I don't have to fucking deal with zubats, geodudes and magikarps but I still have this run then HG to go.

AKIN

AKIN Mon 06 Dec 2021 20:34:02 No.48942907 Report

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>>48941757
IMO, Tepig > Oshawott > Snivy, though Tepig & Oshawott are close. Snivy is hard mode, but still definitely doable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 21:30:48 No.48943441 Report

Quoted By: >>48944785

>>48942601
What level were you going into the fight?
Also, its better to take on the Lillipup with your starter or something then switch to your monkey on their monkey.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 21:40:56 No.48943538 Report

Quoted By: >>48943802 >>48944206

>>48939484
Unova Starters in BW(not 2):
>Serperior
Snivy is almost unkillable without serious player error. It makes it through the game at a snail pace compared to the other starters, but it very rarely actually loses outside stuff like Burgh. Slow and steady wins the race, essentially.
>Tepig
Pretty good in that it more or less guarantees victory against Lenora, one of the toughest fights in the game, and there's always a chance that the mons that usually upstage it might not be caught. However, even this niche is shaky as the chance of getting one of Timburr, Sawk or Roggenrola for Lenora is fairly high. Sawk and Timburr also outclass it fairly easily throughout the game, and if you catch Darumaka later you get an insane wrecking ball. Also, Flying has more overlap with fire in terms of offense than either water or grass, so the nuclear bomb that is Archen is also mostly muscling in on Tepig's territory.
In a vacuum, Tepig might the best starter, but none of the others have such a terrible case of havig overlap with all the best mons in the game.
>Oshawott
In BW, it is the best Water type, and quite good in general. Samurott can actually often get a SD up and blast through things in the league. It pairs well with Archen or Darumaka as well.
>>48939580
>Meanwhile Emboar has like, Darmanitan (who can't set up as well so may not always be as useful)
Emboar only has 5 HP and +10 in each defense over Darmanitan, while Darmanitan has far higher speed and power that Emboar can only dream of. You could put this mon in DPPt and it would arguably outclass Infernape(a much better starter than Emboar). Emboar can't rival Darmanitan at all.
Emboar also competes with the other Fighting types like Conkeldurr and Sawk, both of which are better than it by a good margin.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 22:09:42 No.48943802 Report

Quoted By: >>48945223

>>48943538
>Emboar only has 5 HP and +10 in each defense over Darmanitan
But also has Flame Charge, Defense Curl, and doesn't hurt itself badly with Heat Crash (which is reliable for most of the opponents you'd be using it on) as Darm does with Flare Blitz, as well as Fighting STAB, and that added bulk goes a long way to help you set up.
Also, there's the fact that you can miss Darumaka and/or the fighting types (and yes, Conkeldurr is better - but not only does not everybody have access to trading, but I'm not seeing how Emboar isn't a lot better than both Sawk/Throh) while you can easily guarantee Carracosta and Jellicent, who are definitely better than Samurott. Plus, back on Darumaka, that won't evolve until Skyla, whereas you get Eviolite and Pignite for much longer.
You're right that Darmanitan is better than Emboar for nuzlockes, but it's not a strict upgrade or clear cut situation and on the topic of best starters I think this would all edge out Emboar at least over Samurott.
Samurott does get Swords Dance, but only realistically in BW2's challenge mode at the very end of the game, and lacks a great STAB to use it properly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Dec 2021 22:56:00 No.48944206 Report

Quoted By: >>48945675

>>48938563
Jeez, sounds like a rough (but probably fun) time. I'll stick to the official stuff for now but maybe I'll give it a swing in the future

And yeah I hope it can get to the end whenever I get to Ruby. Should help that I'll be able to try getting Swampert again too
>>48938662
Grats anon!
>>48938670
Not them but that's the impression I've been getting, especially after watching a lot of people nuzlocking it the first month breezing through it until dying to Cynthia
>>48943538
>>48939580
Interesting to see two such radically different opinions, esp when it comes to Oshawott

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 00:09:01 No.48944785 Report

Quoted By: >>48945734 >>48946046

>>48943441
you know what, I think I’ve been getting too cocky. I’ve only ever completed wonderlockes before and that’s because trader Pokémon gain 50% EXP. It’s time to go back to square one, back to my roots, back to where it all began. That’s right, I’m gonna nuzlocke *inhales* KANTOOOOOOOOO

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Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 00:48:47 No.48945089 Report

Quoted By: >>48945431

>Nuzlocking Pokémon Blue
>fighting Metapod in Viridian Forest
>sent out Pidgey and use Gust
>don’t get the “it’s super effective” line
>check the move Gust in attack menu
>normal type
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

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Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 01:05:09 No.48945223 Report

Quoted By: >>48945340 >>48945734

>>48943802
> Plus, back on Darumaka, that won't evolve until Skyla, whereas you get Eviolite and Pignite for much longer.
You are seriously underestimating how strong Darumaka is. Hustle, while having the annoying side effect of lowering your accuracy, makes Darumaka hit harder than Emboar- not Pignite, Emboar. See the pic I'm posting for an actual example. Eviolite Darumaka is mostly better than Eviolite Pignite.
>I'm not seeing how Emboar isn't a lot better than both Sawk and Throh
Sawk has
-Better speed
-Better hitting power
-Natural Bulk Up at level 25
-Potentially Sturdy
All of these on top of the fact that this is vs Emboar rather than Pignite, which is what he is actually competing with for a long time. It isn't as versatile as Emboar offensively but it doesn't really need to be. Once you get Surf, it gets Rock Slide, and Fighting+Rock is resisted only by Golurk.
>while you can easily guarantee Carracosta and Jellicent, who are definitely better than Samurott
Carracosta prevents you from getting Archen(completely busted mon), which instantly makes it a worse choice than Samurott.
Jellicent is slower, less physically bulky than Samurott, and has a less versatile moveset along with significantly worse offenses. It is not "definitely better" at all(in the league, it is in fact worse as it is weak to to Ghost and Dark). It also only arrives after the 6th gym because you need Surf.
I do want to bring up the early Simipour you can get as an underrated Water-type in BW1. It can early-evolve at L22 and packs a massively powerful Scald that no other Water-type can come close to matching for a good long while. It might not be the best lategame mon, but it is actually really good overall.
It's fun to discuss this, but I think I'll go back to my nuzlocking now.

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Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 01:16:31 No.48945317 Report

Quoted By: >>48945734 >>48950551

>>48937752
And we are off for real!
>Vs Roark
>Geodude
A single Water Gun from Facade takes it out.
>Onix
It uses Stealth Rock, and Sturdy saves it from a OHKO from Water Gun.
Roark screws up by using a potion, which fails to heal fully, so Sturdy can't save it from the next Water Gun.
>Cranidos
It Leers at Facade, who uses Charm in return.
I then somehow forget about the Stealth Rocks and switch in Charlie, and between the Rocks and Headbutt, quite a bit of damage is incurred.
Cranidos hits another Headbutt, taking big damage from a Rock Smash in return.
A third headbutt actually leaves Charlie with only 1 HP, but Cranidos falls to another Rock Smash.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 01:20:13 No.48945340 Report

Quoted By: >>48945734

>>48945223
Hustle is strong, but don't downplay the accuracy drop - generally, especially if you play with limited items or no overlevelling like more people seem to be doing nowadays, you want consistency over raw power.
I see your point better on Sawk. While Bulk Up is very good and I did forget that, I think Emboar's greater variety of options, being able to boost its speed, the ability to run Eviolite on Pignite for a while, on top of STAB, the ability to go mixed to an extent (especially with Scald in BW1) means it's not strictly outclassing Emboar. Also it's not available I think until endgame in BW2.
Archeops I think just suffers a lot in terms of nuzlocking due to that terrible ability and Defeatist - I understand why people pick it, but it requires a lot more careful play and planning than Carracosta, who's relatively harder to kill, offers a lot more utility and even power once you get Shell Smash, and generally syngergizes better with most nuzlocke teams. And HARD disagree on Jellicent. Will-o-Wisp, Recover, much better typing, Cursed Body or water immunity, and much better coverage than Samu make it far better, even at its late availability. You are admittedly weak to Grimsley and Shauntal, but I've always found Caitlyn and Marshall far harder, on top of being really good against some key late game threats like Iris's Haxorus or BW Ghetsis's Hydreigon.
But yeah, it's fun to discuss it. Maybe we could make a /nuz/ viability tier list for each game and spark some more activity in the general.

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Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi Tue 07 Dec 2021 01:31:01 No.48945431 Report

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>>48945089
Gen 1 had very few moves that were appropriate typing. It's still STAB so they sorta did what they wanted and made it work, but I feel you.
Sand-Attack is also Normal type in Gen 1 I believe

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Inclement Emerald Alola Only HC Tue 07 Dec 2021 02:06:38 No.48945675 Report

Quoted By: >>48946046 >>48954844

>>48938563
Fortree Gym is kind of a nightmare - there's 2 mandatory 6v6 doubles fights with each trainer packing some pretty serious shit.
Also, it's put in work this playthrough, but MAN Minior is bad. It's not too bad when you properly set it up versus a boss, but against randos it's so unreliable.

>Winona
Her team - Gyarados, Hawlucha, Aerodactyl, Dragonite, Emolga, Mega Altaria, a doubles fight.
Initially wasn't sure how I wanted to approach this, her team has a lot of ways of getting around flying counters even with my several Electric mons. Eventually I settled on this - lead Persian-Alola and Choice Scarfed Vikavolt. Vikavolt kills Hawlucha with a Volt Switch before heading into Golem while Persian tricks a Flame Orb onto Gyarados. The AI in this game is good, but isn't good enough I think to realize a burned physical attacker in doubles should be switched out ASAP. So, I can safely attack the other side of her team.
Aerodactyl gets tricked out by me swapping Vikavolt in, Dragonite gets finished off by breaking its Multiscale with U-Turn then with some followup attacks from Sandslash-Alola, Emolga was surprisingly tough (highly buffed SpA/Spe and Hurricane in this hack) but was frail enough to get taken down in a few hits, and I reserved Fairy Gem Mimikyu to Play Rough Altaria into oblivion. Gyarados was simple cleanup.
Only gonna get harder from here.

>>48941343
I really think it's because of people actually playing the games in here. I've noticed other generals that actually focus on playing a game and aren't too fast like the Wilds general have a pretty high quality. Have fun with that fatass bear.
>>48944206
Note there are difficulty modes to this, I know the easiest one doesn't give the opponents EVs while you can still earn them, so it's about on par with like a high end Drayano hack. Still, if you struggled with Emerald that much I'd recommend working your way up slowly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 02:14:46 No.48945734 Report

Quoted By: >>48952292

>>48944785
Yeah, level advantages do make things pretty simple. You do just have to do the work and put the grinding in, it's the unfortunate part of nuzlockes.
RBY are pretty easy games, don't get cocky, but maybe you'll develop the proper skills to put yourself to the test in harder games.
>>48945223
>>48945340
Don't have a dog in the Unova starter race, but I should point out that Samurott gets Encore which is a really busted move in nuzlockes. In general, though, I think every one of the starters gets outclassed by easily obtained stuff later on.
I think Gen 5 makes it so that all the starters are about the same quality, in fact I have to hand that to nugen games as one of their better points. Except in 7 where they randomly shafted the fuck out of Decidueye I guess.
>>48945317
Be interested to see where this goes. I feel that weight restriction is going to lock you out of a lot of strong endgame Pokemon, but we'll see

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 03:03:11 No.48946046 Report

Quoted By: >>48952292

>>48945675
>Note there are difficulty modes to this, I know the easiest one doesn't give the opponents EVs while you can still earn them, so it's about on par with like a high end Drayano hack. Still, if you struggled with Emerald that much I'd recommend working your way up slowly.
Thanks for the info!

I've never actually played a Drayano hack so I'm inclined to take your advice and work my way up slowly.
>>48944785
Best of luck anon! You doing Red or Fire Red? I'd recommend the latter if you're looking for a pick me up, since FR/LG are the easiest Nuzlockes outside of the EXP share games

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 05:33:06 No.48947098 Report

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Bumo

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 05:38:25 No.48947139 Report

Quoted By: >>48947190

Started Blue, gonna give Charmander another try since I don't want to use Squirtle or Bulbasaur just yet, they're too strong for this early in the marathon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 05:45:13 No.48947190 Report

Quoted By:

>>48947139
very true. bulba and squirt can both take one most of the game by themselves, defeating the purpose.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 07:22:23 No.48947668 Report

Quoted By: >>48947768

>>48942766
>Similar problem with fire & electric; I've not seen any wild ones except for ponyta & shinx.
Isn't Magnemite super common at Fuego Ironworks if you're on platinum? Also Pichu should be common at the trophy garden.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 07:50:17 No.48947768 Report

Quoted By: >>48948129 >>48950464

>>48947668
I fucked up capturing pikachu at the garden and I got a gastrodon (that I already had) at fuego. I've got rotom chilling in my box though. I wasn't using it because I thought it was a legendary; Is it? or is it more of a lucario / togepi / porygon sort of thing?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 09:14:37 No.48948129 Report

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>>48947768
nah. they probably planned to make it one but the little shit is in everybody's cell phone by gen 8. should be perfectly fine to use it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 12:38:22 No.48948903 Report

Quoted By: >>48949666

>>48924458
I was with you because I never had played much of the originals (got a DS later in life to play Diamond) so I didn't know enough of the story to just breeze through and got stuck on Fantina, had to grind good mons for 2 hours only to realize later she's supposed to be badge 5 and not 3.
Didn't even know you could sequence break Pokemon aside from early Koga in Red

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 15:03:32 No.48949666 Report

Quoted By: >>48960266

>>48948903
You can do that in the first 4 gens to varying degrees
Gen 1 and 2 lets you skip around a lot while 3 is limited to being able to doing Wattson before Brawly and Winona doesn't have to be your 6th leader
DP is more of a middle ground if I remember right

AKIN

AKIN Tue 07 Dec 2021 16:56:32 No.48950464 Report

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>>48947768
Nah, not a legendary. I feel like they planned for it to be one originally, but by the time the games fully came out, it's not a legendary. Even if it was, it's stats aren't particularly impressive, and even if you've got Rotom-Wash, it's not quite Zapdos-level stats. I'd say you're good to use it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 17:13:56 No.48950551 Report

Quoted By: >>48950798 >>48954690

>>48945317
>Vs Mars
>Zubat
Defense Curl buffs Brit Krust up significantly, but Supersonic hits her afterwards.
Another Defense Curl to really get the bulk up, and Zubat does a pittance with Absorb.
Brit hits herself once, then gets hit by another Absorb.
She finally snaps out of it and uses Work Up, and Zubat keeps Absorbing.
A single Headbutt is more than enough.
>Purugly
Fake Out is annoying, but doesn't do that much.
However, Purugly then scores a Scratch crit, doing some serious damage- enough to activate Brit's Oran Berry. The Headbutt Purugly takes in return is also enough to activate its own Oran Berry.
Another Scratch and Headbutt later, Brit stands victorious.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 17:43:26 No.48950798 Report

Quoted By: >>48954756

>>48950551
Should mention something about the underground and dupes/species clause:
-I am allowed to avoid the first two duplicates I spot... but only as long as I can avoid actually running into them. If they run into me, that's it, I have to catch them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 21:03:31 No.48952292 Report

Quoted By: >>48952668

>>48945734
>You do just have to do the work and put the grinding in
That’s true but it’s probably in my best interest to start with one of the easier games. I’m much more knowledgeable about kanto than I am of unova and it’s also a shorter game so hopefully that means less grinding in the long run.
>>48946046
I’m leaning towards LeafGreen because the gen 3 mechanics specify where you got the Pokémon. Like the Mr. Mime trade is Route 2, sure, but maybe the house counts as a different location (probably doesn’t but it’s just an example). It’s just a nice QoL feature that helps keep track of where you found stuff.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 21:55:08 No.48952668 Report

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>>48952292
samefag here. I just solo’d Brock with Beedrill. I might actually be able to do this.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 22:29:36 No.48952889 Report

Quoted By: >>48953029 >>48954282

Had a few beers and want to chill with some TV and a nee Nuzlocke.

Help me pick an option:

Renegade Plat
Sacred Gold
Polished Crystal

Hints to save me pain would be nice.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 22:32:39 No.48952911 Report

Quoted By: >>48953582 >>48960304

Fantina was finally the first challenge in this game! Or I must say her Gengar was, since she was able to two-shot every Pokemon in the party I had with me with Sludge Bomb, had to offer someone, so Lopunny was the unlucky choice.

All the movesets of my Pokemon suck btw, it seems like they learn new moves really slowly for some reason.

Anyways, on to Canalave. On Iron Island I can get a Shiny Stone to evolve Roselia. I was able to catch a Ralts underground, but didn't really feel like I would use it, so I didn't bother.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 22:50:51 No.48953029 Report

Quoted By: >>48953088

>>48952889
It has to be Renegade Plat! I'm actually about to start my own run of it and have been looking forward to it for ages! I nuzlocked Scared Gold a year ago, had a great time and got super lucky to make it past Red with a full team but it can become a chore because of the sheer length.

If you want hints I may not be the best of help for Renegade Plat though, I'm not going into it blind but I'm not aware of all the changes from the base game. There are some killer sections that really do come out of nowhere is what I will say.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 22:57:51 No.48953088 Report

Quoted By:

>>48953029
I’ve heard it’s killer but also the QoL changes can really help such as Blissey training to limit grinding.

I remember dying to a crit thunder punch from geodude in the first tunnel.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 23:54:08 No.48953582 Report

Quoted By:

>>48952911
R.I.P. to No One Knows, for some reason I keep getting into battles with unbalanced parties since I want to grind. Riley for some reason only has one Pokemon, so Hippopotas wasn't fully equiped to win a 2 on 1 yet.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 00:24:30 No.48953898 Report

Quoted By: >>48954056 >>48969307

Finished Iron Island. The Riolu egg is gonna be my encounter for this location, but no idea if I'm gonna use it, since I already have Toxicroak and Medicham.

Been able to evolve Roselia as well. Now gonna prepare for Byron, gonna fix up my movesets a bit by using Heart Scales and stuff. I'm thinking of either training up Whiscash or Quagsire a bit, since I don't want to use Gyarados as my sole water type until the end of the game again, probably gonna go for Whiscash. Or I can get myself a Finneon in Canalave. Never used it before, that would be fun.

Also I had no idea I had to use the move relearner to get Lickilicky, so gonna do that too. Lickitung its stats are too lacking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 00:45:07 No.48954047 Report

Quoted By: >>48954077

>>48924448
I decided to try Renegade Plat this weekend and I wiped on Roark's Cranidos. Man that romhack does not pull punches

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 00:46:26 No.48954056 Report

Quoted By: >>48957145

>>48953898
Wouldn't hold your breath on lumineon desu. It's pretty terrible compared to literally every other water type

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 00:49:12 No.48954077 Report

Quoted By: >>48954103 >>48961417

>>48954047
if you don't have something that can set up on nosepass that cranidos just sweeps your fucking team

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 00:52:58 No.48954103 Report

Quoted By:

>>48954077
Yup, exactly. I was playing blind so its moveet took me completely offguard. Whooped the Nosepass with my Riolu then the Cranidos just destroyed everything in one or two hits with Zen headbutt/Thunder punch. Didn't help that I was lazy and was going in a bit underleveled too

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 01:14:05 No.48954257 Report

Quoted By: >>48954844 >>48958179

Doing surprisingly good so far, feel like I have one of the most diverse and functional teams I've ever had in a Nuzlocke. Just kicked Byron's ass with Yertle, now it's off to Iron Island to explore and see what I catch, but unless something tragic happens, my team is set for the rest of the game, unless I stumble on a really good dragon or ice type.

This playthrough has made me really appreciate Luxray and Crobat. These two kick ass and pull their weight in every battle

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 01:16:32 No.48954282 Report

Quoted By:

>>48952889
If you do renegade plat, it's important to remember that Dray added a LOT of areas to count as different encounter spots, like how the trainer's school is separate from Jubilife or the Galactic building in Eterna is separate from the city itself.
Basically, I'd look up where you can receive gift mons because there's a ton of them, from each regions starters (including the two Sinnoh ones you don't choose at Rowan's lab), to a beldum, to a lapras. The game is really hard and has a ton of road blocks throughout, so knowing all your options in Pokemon and items is very important.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 02:01:59 No.48954621 Report

Quoted By: >>48954844

>>48938670
Is it wrong I want to play the game normally, until I get to the Elite 4 and then switch to Nuzlocke?
I want to nuzlocke for a challenge, but it'd be not great to restart my game just to have a breeze for the entire game up until the very end.
How could I even switch to Nuzlocke once I reach the E4?
First 6 encounters in 6 randomly chosen zones/grand underground caves?
I know it's silly, but I just want to reach the good part without losing current progress and all my nicely natured Pokemon.
Pokemon Home when?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 02:12:04 No.48954690 Report

Quoted By: >>48954756

>>48950551
Took on Gardenia and Jupiter.
>Vs Gardenia
Charlie uses Fury Cutter, and gets hit with Dazzling Gleam.
Gardenia uses a Super Potion, but powered up Fury Cutter cleaves Cherubi in twain.
>Turtwig
Fury Cutter cuts through it like butter.
>Roserade
It Stun Spores Charlie, and then barely lives through Fury Cutter, activating the Sitrus Berry it is holding.
Grass Knot does alright damage, but a final Fury Cutter takes out Gardenia.

>Vs Jupiter
Kricketune replaced Struggle Bug with Focus Energy, otherwise the team is mostly identical bar a levelup here and there.
>Zubat
Brit buffs her bulk with Defense Curl, and Zubat misses Supersonic.
Work Up comes next, but now Supersonic hits.
Brit hits herself and gets hit by a Absorb.
The next turn she snaps out of it and Headbutts the Zubat out of the battle.
>Skuntank
Headbutt activates Skuntank's Sitrus Berry, and it misses a Poison Gas.
A second Headbutt ends the battle.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 02:19:20 No.48954756 Report

Quoted By: >>48954844 >>48959430 >>48961889 >>48978494

>>48954690
Forgot the image.
Also, it was a while since I fought Gardenia(updating the image took a while), and I've had a death since:
Lucy the Luxio fell to a Roselia I was catching in the underground. >>48950798 It ran into me.
I had it paralyzed and on decently low health, and then it suddenly blasted my poor Luxio to bits with a critical hit Leaf Storm(a move I had no idea it was packing).
Managed to catch it though, and it will likely go on my team. One of the main reasons I did not feel like going with my Budew is that I don't want to grind friendship(Soothe Bell Cycling Road is the easiest way to evolve such mons) in a game where it also raises affection.
This Roselia is a nice way out of that dilemma.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 02:29:13 No.48954844 Report

Quoted By: >>48954955 >>48964472

>>48945675
>Lilycove May
Setup 2 Shell Smashes with Turtonator on her lead Vikavolt, done.
>Courtney and Tabitha
This is a dual battle, they mostly rely on Courtney's sun. By changing the weather to sand with Palossand and taking out Courtney's side of the field (carefully using Occa Berry Shiinotic to keep Tabitha's side asleep) it was fairly simple to turn it into a 2v1.
>Maxie
Team - Groudon, Dusk Lycanroc, Crobat, Victreebel, Hydreigon, Mega Camerupt.
Listing the team is a formality, since he was really easy. Persian Flame Orb'd Groudon so Alolan Ninetales could come in and remove the sun/set up Aurora Veil (also, damn Alolan Ninetales is actually really bulky) and now that I have Ability Patches to let you switch a mon to its hidden ability, I can get Slush Rush on Sandslash, will enjoy abusing this with infinite weather. I kill Groudon, Swords Dance a few times on Lycanroc then kill his team.

>>48954756
Yeah, they give Egg Moves to underground mons. F.
Seems insanely dangerous to grind underground, especially when you consider how many mons pack Counter/Mirror Coat/Destiny Bond as egg moves.
>>48954257
Looking strong, anon. I will say I think Crobat struggles a lot more by endgame in Sinnoh, but I hope you continue to make use of it, it's a fun mon.
>>48954621
I mean if you're going to do that why not just make it so that whiteout =/= death? I feel like nuzlockes become a lot less of an experience if you're not having an adventure with your bros or taking on challenges over the course of a whole game.
You could also try stricter rules pre-E4 to increase challenge then go a bit more lax for the E4 to balance it out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 02:41:48 No.48954955 Report

Quoted By:

>>48954844
>Seems insanely dangerous to grind underground, especially when you consider how many mons pack Counter/Mirror Coat/Destiny Bond as egg moves.
Yeah, I'm not gonna be grinding down there. I'll take my catches as they come, and that will probably be it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 03:55:56 No.48955387 Report

Quoted By: >>48955429 >>48955739 >>48956366 >>48959430 >>48964472

Nuzlocking Polished Crystal.

Here’s my main team before the first gym. Should be pretty simple I hope.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 04:03:33 No.48955429 Report

Quoted By: >>48956366 >>48959430

>>48955387
I wiped. Pidgeotto hit too hard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 04:59:56 No.48955729 Report

Quoted By:

Dunno if I just have some outdated version of no$gba and my problem has been patched out, but it seems like if I simply mute the system and then reduce an enemy pokemon to fainting, the damn emulator freezes up. Presumably because of something involving the change in music playing.
I know it's something to do with the sound, because if I unmute it, it unfreezes and allows the enemy to finally faint.
This is annoying, because the sound from it is extremely loud, especially in comparison to the stuff I do want to listen to on my computer. Is there any way to reduce the volume of no$gba without just putting it or my computer on Mute?

MundyMustard

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MundyMustard Wed 08 Dec 2021 05:00:58 No.48955739 Report

Quoted By: >>48976797

>>48955387
Those poor babies

Rip

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 05:10:29 No.48955787 Report

Quoted By: >>48958179

>foe Zubat used Supersonic!
>Geodude is confused!
>Geodude hurt itself in its confusion!
>foe Zubat used Leech Life!
>Geodude is confused!
>Geodude hurt itself in its confusion!
>foe Zubat used Leech Life!
>Geodude is confused!
>Geodude hurt itself in its confusion!
>foe Zubat used Astonish!
>Geodude snapped out of its confusion!
>Geodude flinched!
>foe Zubat used Astonish!
>Geodude flinched!
>foe Zubat used Supersonic!
>Geodude is confused!
>Geodude hurt itself in its confusion!
>foe Zubat used Leech Life!
>critical hit!
>Geodude is confused!
>Geodude hurt itself in its confusion!
>foe Zubat used Astonish!
>Geodude flinched!
>foe Zubat used Leech Life!
>Geodude is confused!
>Geodude hurt itself in its confusion!
>foe Zubat used Astonish!
>Geodude snapped out of its confusion!
>Geodude flinched!
>foe Zubat used Astonish!
>Geodude flinched!
>foe Zubat used Astonish!
>Geodude flinched!
>foe Zubat used Supersonic!
>Geodude is confused!
hehehehehehhehehehehehehehehehehe

Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi

Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi Wed 08 Dec 2021 07:14:42 No.48956366 Report

Quoted By: >>48976797

>>48955387
>>48955429
bump but also RIP

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 09:23:01 No.48957145 Report

Quoted By:

>>48954056
Hmm yeah I was think about going for a fun team (which mostly amounts to shitmons), but at the same time I'm reading that the league is a big challenge. I definitely don't want to get wiped out, because i really don't feel like playing this boring game fully over again, so maybe I should go for more of a balanced team. So I'll follow your advice.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 10:02:03 No.48957346 Report

Quoted By: >>48957534 >>48959430

After a shit-ton of grinding to get rotom and gyarados up to par (~43 levels in total), I'm ready to hit the snowpoint gym again. I can't believe that gliscor has sand veil BUT the only place that I could get sandstorm for her is the battle frontier island.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 10:37:11 No.48957534 Report

Quoted By: >>48959430

>>48957346
...and rotom just got OHKO-d by a crit. Womp Womp.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 11:48:42 No.48957858 Report

Quoted By:

I wanted to do a gen 7 wonderlocke, but this was around the time where wonder trade was being shat up by the retard who causes gts softlocks and I decided to wait. Has it gotten any better?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 13:12:10 No.48958179 Report

Quoted By: >>48958287

>>48955787
This is literally what happened in my Nuzlocke, except zubat now learns Absorb instead of leech life so it was even worse for my Geodude:

>>48954257

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 13:39:23 No.48958287 Report

Quoted By:

okay, I’m out of Mt. Moon. My current party is:
>Magikarp Lv. 10
Long-term ₽500 investment.
>Geodude Lv. 13
Covers 2 of Charizard’s weaknesses nicely.
>Beedrill Lv. 14
Filler until I get better stuff.
>Charmander Lv. 15
The plan right now is to do Nugget Bridge and hope I run into a Bellsprout for Misty.
>>48958179
I never thought I’d get mind-broken by a Zubat. I swear I lost like 30 turns to that thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 16:05:38 No.48959067 Report

Quoted By:

Bump.

AKIN

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AKIN Wed 08 Dec 2021 17:01:33 No.48959430 Report

Quoted By: >>48959512 >>48959565 >>48960340 >>48961420 >>48964472 >>48969019 >>48976797

Beat Cyrus, caught Dialga (I always make it a challenge to catch legendary Pokemon in my Nuzlockes without losing a party member, but don't usually use them; I used a Moltres once), and beat Volkner.
Cyrus' team actually got me pretty good, I almost lose Justify to that Murkrow, but she clutched it out, and let Damvir and Ribbitar finish the job. Volkner was pretty easy, he kept use Volt Switch and sending out his next Electric-type to get OHKO'd by Snorlax Earthquake. Only thing that was kind of troublesome was his Ambipom, but even still, Snorlax is just too big.
Oh yeah, and this is actually the first time this run that we've had a full party of fully-evolved Pokemon lol. FeelsGoodMan.
Onto the League!

>>48957346
>>48957534
F for your fallen Rotom and best of luck with Snowpoint. But you actually can find Sandstorm before the post-game! It's in the Underground in one of the caves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keagEExOG3U
>>48955387
>>48955429
Rip. Best of luck on another attempt.
>>48954756
>Small-Locke
Lmao I love this. Good luck further!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 17:12:32 No.48959512 Report

Quoted By:

>>48959430
>Machoke as Gigachad
based

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 17:19:02 No.48959565 Report

Quoted By: >>48968872

>>48959430
Thanks for trying to help but BD/SP has a different underground system from D/P/Pt. In the OG games all they were good for is evo stones, fossils and heart scales.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 18:50:47 No.48960266 Report

Quoted By: >>48961482 >>48964472

>>48949666
Correction: You can do Wattson AND Flannery before Brawly

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 18:56:41 No.48960304 Report

Quoted By:

>>48952911
Just as a type, you can get some insanely good TMs in the Veilstone Department Store.

I'm talking shit like Substitute, Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, Psychic, etc

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 19:01:54 No.48960340 Report

Quoted By: >>48968872

>>48959430
Best of luck anon! Be warned though, you're entering the only hard fights in the game so there is no shame in looking up movesets ahead of time if you haven't

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 21:02:34 No.48961120 Report

Quoted By: >>48961149 >>48965233

welp sucks that I lost Growlithe, definitely a misplay on my part

Who do I replace him with?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 21:05:31 No.48961149 Report

Quoted By:

>>48961120
Bomboxic

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 21:46:59 No.48961417 Report

Quoted By: >>48964472

>>48954077
Anon who wiped to Roark in Renegade Platinum here. I suck at this, but at least I kicked his ass this time around. Setting up on Nosepass was a great protip. Put it to sleep, used Growth a bunch, then swept through his team with Roselia.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 21:47:43 No.48961420 Report

Quoted By: >>48968872

>>48959430
As someone doing a Shining Pearl Nuzlocke, how the fuck do you have so many Pokémon? There aren't that many routes, unless you're treating each room in the Underground as an encounter. If so, doesn't that nullify the challenge a bit. You could lose to the Elite 4 like multiple times and still have a full, relatively balanced team.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 21:55:51 No.48961482 Report

Quoted By: >>48964472 >>48965233

>>48960266
>AND Flannery before Brawly
Didn't know about that one
Trying it next time I replay the game

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 22:43:43 No.48961889 Report

Quoted By: >>48978494

>>48954756
Lost two of my team members to Dennis' Gyarados. It scored a rainboosted crit on Megavolt, and then also took down Nary a'care.
Note: The 1 encounter per Giant room does not mean I have to catch my mon there specifically, but I have to give up a giant room if I catch elsewhere.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Dec 2021 23:38:00 No.48962341 Report

Quoted By: >>48964472 >>48965104 >>48965295

I was feeling really overleveled and like the rest of the game was going to be easy mode, but Candice put me in my place. Her damn Medicham threw a wrench in my strategy and had at least one move super effective against almost my entire team. Still beat her without a death but there was some nerve wracking close calls. Still feeling like I got a great team for the Elite 4 though with solid backups if I need them. Still debating if I should turn Veronica into a Physical or Special attacker with her Swift Swim. She'll be my only hope against Cynthia's Garchomp with Ice moves.

Next we'll take on Team Galactic, and I can get my satisfying revenge for Theresa.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 00:59:42 No.48963187 Report

Quoted By: >>48965295 >>48967019

I did Nugget Bridge but Beedrill got killed by Gary's Squirtle (critical hit Tackle). I'm east of Vermillion, fighting trainers. current team:
>Magikarp Lv. 17
imminent Misty-killer
>Geodude Lv. 20
coverage
>Bellsprout Lv. 17
coverage
>Charmeleon Lv. 17
starter
>Ch'Ding (Farfetched) Lv. 5
...I'm going to box it soon
>Meowth Lv. 16
pick up slut
just getting Magikarp to level 18 so I can use 2 rare candies and kill Misty with Gyarados

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Inclement Emerald HC Alola Only Thu 09 Dec 2021 03:12:12 No.48964472 Report

Quoted By: >>48964514 >>48965233 >>48965652 >>48968872 >>48969970 >>48976797

>>48954844
With finals done, I'll finish up the rest of this run quick.
>Frontier Brain Greta
An odd fight. She has two legendaries, Lando and Tapu Koko, but the latter's electric terrain actually hurts her sleep strategy with her Breloom and Mega Gengar.
Anyway, nothing fancy here, just countered each of her mons with one of my own. I Flame Orb'd Landorus and had Marowak deal with Koko.
>Aqua Admin Matt
I forgot to list his fight on Mt. Pyre, but he's pretty simple. As Shelley uses hail, he uses rain, and taking away his weather really hurts him.
BUT, the fucker caught me off-guard with Toxicroak, I thought Bruxish could avoid Sucker Punch with Dazzling and kill but apparently Toxicroak is faster. Never used Bruxish before so I guess I didn't really have a good feel for it's abilities. RIP.

>>48955387
F.
Yeah, you can't really mess around in hacks, does Polished Crystal block off Dark Cave and the like?
>>48959430
Good luck! You'll need it, reading some of the horror stories.
>>48961417
Most strats in RenPlat should hopefully be like that, get the AI into a bad position then try to set up. This becomes a lot easier once you get Substitute from the Old Chateau, because the AI usually can't 'see' the Substitute and often likes to spam status moves on them. The Togepi you eventually get from Cynthia also has Encore to help with this, actually makes it a lot more useful than a straight attacker.
>>48960266
>>48961482
You actually can wait to fight Brawly until the league. You can even softlock yourself if you've not fought Brawly and trap yourself at the league with no HM users.
>>48962341
Good luck for the final Galactic segment!
Also, remember that Garchomp has a Yache Berry and will likely outspeed that Floatzel, so make sure to bring a backup plan when the time comes.

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Inclement Emerald HC Alola Only Thu 09 Dec 2021 03:15:49 No.48964514 Report

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>>48964472
And apparently Bruxish IS faster, but Toxicroak gets +10 speed in this hack to just barely outspeed. Epic. Still my mistake, but goddamnit

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Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 03:56:32 No.48964922 Report

Quoted By: >>48965652

>Pokemon Black
>suffered my first causality on Route 1 from a crit
Easy come, easy go.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 04:14:25 No.48965104 Report

Quoted By: >>48965295

>>48962341
Genuinely wondering how you're coping with that game. It looks so awful. You're strong, anon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 04:26:27 No.48965233 Report

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>>48964472
>You actually can wait to fight Brawly until the league. You can even softlock yourself if you've not fought Brawly and trap yourself at the league with no HM users.
I'm pretty sure Norman checks to see if you have his badge before he lets you fight him
>>48961120
Bomboxic is a good option if you need the bulk, but I'm inclined to go with either Bullmino or Minodor because they give your team some raw power that it kinda lacks at the moment.
>>48961482
DESU it's a cool little exploit but I don't think you really have to. I always recommend going to Slateport and at least trying to get up to/past May 2 before doing Brawly if you don't have a hard counter though, because the sheer amount of EXP you get is insane.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 04:32:25 No.48965295 Report

Quoted By: >>48965414 >>48967019

>>48965104
Not him but NDSP is a perfectly fine game desu. Like I thought the downgrade from Platinum would be noticeable and it is, but it's not as bad as you'd assume. It's a relatively decent time.
>>48963187
>Ch'dIng: I'm going to box it soon
Don't get too hasty anon. It does get natural Swords Dance, access to Return, and you're not too far from the Aerial Ace TM. That and you have the VS Seeker now. May be worth training it up
>>48962341
I'd honestly go mixed on Veronica with Waterfall for physical coverage and Ice Beam for special because it's more reliable than Ice Fang anyways.

Also if you don't have the Trick Room TM yet go get that, it's definitely worth having for Irving just for Cynthia

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Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 04:44:39 No.48965414 Report

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First two gyms down. Sad to lose my Queen to a random youngster. Fuck Slowpokes.
>>48965295
To me these new remakes are unplayable. But then again I thought Gen 6 was terrible and couldn't even complete the Gen 7 games. Got gifted Let's Go Piss and dropped it before I got to Misty.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 05:16:38 No.48965652 Report

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>>48964472
you make good points. hmm I never thought Farfetch’d was usable. you know, there’s no guarantee that I’ll run into Doduo. maybe I’ll train it; it does get 50% exp.
>>48964922
there’s something about Gen 5 that makes your Pokémon drop like flies. yeah Tackle has been buffed to 50 BP but it feels like your Pokémon will just die in 2-3 hits for some reason. watch out for Patrat’s Crunch in the second Gym.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 05:30:00 No.48965766 Report

Quoted By: >>48965775

Just finished my Pokemon Blue nuzlocke. It was a lot harder than I expected, I lost quite a few mons along the way and right before victory road the rival wiped almost my entire team with his Alakazam (only Nidoking and Victreebel survived). Still won in the end, but it was much harder than anticipated.

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Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 05:31:00 No.48965775 Report

Quoted By: >>48965990

>>48965766
>forgot pic

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Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 06:05:49 No.48965990 Report

Quoted By: >>48966241

>>48965775
congrats. too bad about your casualties but Nidoking is a beast and is used in speedruns to solo the game. his TM movepool is insane.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 06:41:36 No.48966241 Report

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>>48965990
Easily the MVP, along with Rapidash (who is actually good in gen 1 wtf). Love me Nidoking, simple as.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 06:42:14 No.48966244 Report

Quoted By: >>48966272

How fun is a Radical Red nuzlocke?
I heard it's better to just play it normally since it gets a tedious later on
I just arrived at Cerulean

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 06:46:03 No.48966272 Report

Quoted By: >>48966298

>>48966244
The tedium comes from having to reoptimize your EVs for every major battle and/or grinding certain items like Bottle Caps/super effective berries
If you're playing on Minimal Grinding you don't need to worry about the former but just make sure to hold onto a Frisk/Compoundeyes mon for the latter. Also it of course gets extremely hard

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 06:50:54 No.48966298 Report

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>>48966272
Yeah I know you get a bunch of options in Celadon and Saphron
Will continue and see how it goes. so far only lost a Phanpy to Brock RIP and sacrificed a Sewaddle to Archer

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Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 07:00:23 No.48966349 Report

Quoted By: >>48966386

Damn it my Charmeleon died again.

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Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 07:04:50 No.48966386 Report

Quoted By: >>48966414

I beat everyone on the SS Anne except the rival fight. Saving it for tomorrow. I might be getting ahead of myself here but I wonder what gift Pokémon I should choose when I get to Celadon City…
>Abra
Kadabra is always good in any Kanto run. I can also trade it for Mr. Mime.
>Clefairy
Even without fairy-typing, Clefairy gets an insane amount of moves through TMs. Only downside is that it has to compete with other gift Pokémon for a slot in this nuzlocke.
>Pinsir
Pinsir is cool but mono bug-typing isn’t that great, he doesn’t get fighting STAB despite getting fighting-type attacks, has a shallow movepool, and doesn’t get a mega evolution in this game…
>Dratini
Even if I tried to solo the game with it: I doubt I can get it to evolve to Dragonite before the E4.
>Porygon
Really neat and has a good movepool but can’t be evolved until the post-game content is finished. He also falls off HARD at the E4 because his stats are so LOW.
>Eevee
Flareon doesn’t get Fire Fang or Flare Blitz in this Gen iirc and I already have a fire type in Charizard. Jolteon is good but Zapdos exists and is VERY easy to rig as my Power Plant encounter. Vaporeon, hmm… probably the most optimal decision for Celedon but also the most boring.
>>48966349
The fire starter is the hard mode of Kanto Nuzlocke. Don’t lose heart.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 07:10:56 No.48966414 Report

Quoted By: >>48966462

>>48966386
Abra/Mime is the best choice, you already get a solid Water type in Lapras or any of Starmie, Slowbro, Gyarados which are basically all guaranteed

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 07:18:51 No.48966462 Report

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>>48966414
Very true, however I forgot about the grass area east of Saffron but West of Lavander town. I already caught Pidgey so my remaining encounters should be Kadabra and Vulpix. If I catch Kadabra, then I won’t need Mr. Mime.

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Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 08:04:37 No.48966740 Report

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I keep losing powerhouses, first the Queen, now Kadabra. Nothing I lost in Red was a big deal, but my loses in Blue thus far have been devastating.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 09:11:27 No.48967019 Report

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>>48963187
>>48965295
Shining Pearl Nuzlocke here. Thanks for the advice anons. I did just catch a Sneasal around Snowpoint, but I really want to finish this thing with Veronica, she's grown on me and become invaluable in so many battles, she deserves to be a Champion.

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Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi Thu 09 Dec 2021 12:32:40 No.48967786 Report

Quoted By: >>48967839 >>48967857

So I have to start a new Nuzlocke tomorrow
sorta debating which game to play since I've decided against wiping my BD save

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 12:48:32 No.48967839 Report

Quoted By: >>48967893

>>48967786
what are your options?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 12:52:49 No.48967857 Report

Quoted By: >>48967893

>>48967786
See how far you can get in clover.

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Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi Thu 09 Dec 2021 12:58:59 No.48967893 Report

Quoted By: >>48967945

>>48967857
That sounds horrendous, but I'm also pretty sure it makes for less than 'appropriate' content since I stream them
>>48967839
Well, I have an emulator for GB/GBA, I have Sword, Brilliant Diamond, and that's about it
So probably between
Red/Blue/Yellow (assuming I can find roms, which I'm sure the OP will help me with)
Gold/Silver/Crystal
Emerald/Fire Red
Could try to find an emulator for gen 4, but I did just finish playing the remake

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 13:09:51 No.48967945 Report

Quoted By: >>48967982

>>48967893
Yeah clover requires a thick skin but it's less mean (resentful? unimaginative?) than its more modern equivalence (wojacks etc.).

G/S/C would have the most content because its johto & kanto but the idea of playing a gb-era pokemon because of how dated they are not to mention all the updates (phys/spec split etc.) that will be rolled back. Emerald seems like the best one in your list.

Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi

Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi Thu 09 Dec 2021 13:19:54 No.48967982 Report

Quoted By: >>48968364

>>48967945
Oh I'm not like a hater of things like Clover, and from what I've seen it looks funny, but it's the kind of shit Twitch would likely throw a spasm fit about as far as I can imagine. Maybe I'm overinterpreting, I just don't like chancing it much

I'll definitely look more at playing through Emerald, last time I played Crystal I ended up with a shiny Spinarak but Ariados sucks so much shit I couldn't even really use it. Phys/Spec is what I'm gonna miss the most.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 13:37:10 No.48968053 Report

Quoted By: >>48968209 >>48968219 >>48968330 >>48970651

How often do you use X items (X. attack, guard spec etc.) in your runs?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 14:10:25 No.48968209 Report

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>>48968053
I have never used a single x items in my life not even in normal runs because I am an ESL and didnt know what they did back then

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 14:12:53 No.48968219 Report

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>>48968053
I keep forgetting they exist but apparently they can be op if you know what you're doing

Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi

Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi Thu 09 Dec 2021 14:29:28 No.48968330 Report

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>>48968053
Never used them until my BD run where I had no restrictions on healing/X-items
It's fucking crazy how good they actually are

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 14:35:16 No.48968364 Report

Quoted By: >>48971565

>>48967982
You could try an Emerald romhack like Altered Emerald or Blazing Emerald that add in the split as well as diversify the game if you've already played it before. They're also not too difficult, but a little harder than base game

AKIN

AKIN Thu 09 Dec 2021 15:54:05 No.48968872 Report

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>>48961420
I'm using each new room as an encounter, so like I can only get an encounter from the first Rocky Cave I go into, not each Rocky Cave or Spacious Cave or whatever. I don't have a hard rule about how many I can go into per gym badge, but I've been trying to balance it out. And sure, I have a lot of Pokemon, but I'm playing with the mindset that if I ever wipe, that run is over, so having a lot of stuff to fall back is somewhat irrelevant at this point in the run.

>>48959565
Oh, I'm a dumbass. I saw the Gen IV team and my eyes completely glazed over that you're doing Platinum, not BDSP. That sucks then.
>>48964472
>>48960340
Thanks for the well-wishes, anons. I'll do my best.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 16:07:50 No.48969012 Report

Quoted By: >>48969025

Lillipup is kind of scary. It hits surprisingly hard

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 16:08:48 No.48969019 Report

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>>48959430
>I did not know those Abra carried Energy Ball
yeah they used to have Hidden Power, I saw a nuzlock streamer mention it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 16:09:49 No.48969025 Report

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>>48969012
Cheren's? Yeah don't let it get those Work Up

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Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 16:46:51 No.48969307 Report

Quoted By: >>48970000

>>48953898
Damn I've been playing way too arrogantly this run. I'm running into big fights with unbalanced, heavily underlevelled teams because I want to grind too much. I lost Kricketune and Whiscash like this, and almost lost Luxray too.

Went into the Lake Valor fight totally unprepared and thought I was gonna get wiped by Toxicroak, but I was just able to Flamethrower my way through it with Houndoom, after Whiscash perished.

I should really try to take this game more seriously. I've been to complacent. Maybe I'd have to stick with one or two teams max, not sure yet.

Anyways, omw to Snowpoint now. I still have a Mt. Coronet encounter left. Gonna use some repels, so I can fish for a Feebas. Never really played with Milotic before.

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Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 17:59:26 No.48969879 Report

Quoted By: >>48970000 >>48972350

bros...
I'm not very good at this.

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Inclement Emerald HC Alola Only Thu 09 Dec 2021 18:15:56 No.48969970 Report

Quoted By: >>48972350 >>48972511

>>48964472
>Tate and Liza
Feels weird including a gym as a footnote, but this went very smoothly. Double battle naturally, but they fight in Inverse Battle mechanics. They also try to use Trick Room to benefit mons like Mega Slowbro or Reuniclus.
The downside to that is that their team is very slow. I lead Shiinotic and Lurantis on their lead Claydol and Slowbro, put Slowbro to sweep, then Lurantis surprisingly takes out their entire team with Superpowers and Returns. Pretty impressive.

>Tabitha
Team - Gigalith, Darmanitan, Gastrodon, Excadrill, Gliscor, Mega Steelix. Again, very smooth fight.
Tsareena is my lead of choice here, Captivating Gigalith as it sets rocks, then as predicted he swaps out to Darm as I Rapid Spin them away, and thanks to Rapid Spin's speed boost I can outspeed and kill this Scarfed Darmanitan. But then, bizarrely he swaps to Steelix on HJK to die, goes back to Darm, then swaps Excadrill to take a heavy hit.
Weird AI, but I basically neutered his big threats. Killed Excadrill by pivoting to Ninetales for Hail, Kommo-o then set up Shell Smashes in Darm's face and soloed the rest of his team.

>Mossdeep Maxie/Courtney
This annoyed me. I used Palossand to remove the sun that helps out these two, but Maxie's lead Victreebel still outsped my mons and could freely abuse Sleep Powder. Wouldn't normally be an issue, I focused on killing Courtney's side of the team when I could, but Steven decided instead of killing Courtney's monster Mega Houndoom to take out Victreebel instead leading to Maxie's Mega Camerupt coming out while my Lycanroc was asleep. Between Palossand, Bewear and Lycanroc...well, Lycanroc was more useful than I thought he'd be, but he doesn't offer the utility of the other two. Sorry buddy.
Rest of the fight went fine, at least.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 18:20:51 No.48970000 Report

Quoted By: >>48970200

>>48969879
You just need to plan better. For instance, in the first gym, the monkey you're given is meant to safely 1v1 the gym monkey. You also don't want to go in underlevelled.
Also, don't take unnecessary risks, if you see how much a normal attack does, mentally calculate how much a crit will do and GTFO as necessary.

>>48969307
Yeah, the game is supposed to get quite hard by the later segments. Good luck heading into the endgame.
Have 'fun' hunting for Milotic, amazed they didn't change that bullshit when they fixed Feebas for ORAS.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 18:37:16 No.48970098 Report

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>only Pokémon that can learn Flash is Weepinbel
I guess I’m doing Rock Tunnel blind

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 18:51:49 No.48970200 Report

Quoted By: >>48972511

>>48970000
Thank you my man.

I'm gonna be a cheater and use this, https://lincoln-lm.github.io/JS-Finder/Tools/BDSPFeebas.html since the method is way too obnoxious

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 19:46:54 No.48970651 Report

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>>48968053
Never, you can break the game so hard with them it's not funny. The opponent can't do anything to you after you bulk your defenses and then you can buff your attack and speed to +6
It honestly makes me toy with the idea of making a romhack where money/items are finite or not easy to come by. I dislike the idea of banning items in battle altogether but unfortunately you kind of have to to make things fair

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 21:30:43 No.48971495 Report

Quoted By:

Bump

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Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi Thu 09 Dec 2021 21:39:29 No.48971565 Report

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>>48968364
That's probably a good idea honestly, I may pick up Altered then, even if I might still go baseline just for the sake of it the first time. More stuff to do means weekly nuzlocke streams won't be boring at least

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Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 22:01:09 No.48971712 Report

Quoted By: >>48971885 >>48971946 >>48972511

>Pokemon Black
>double battle with Cheren in the cave outside of Route 3 against Team Plasma grunts
>both enemy patrats go for bide at the same time
>able to finish one off with a flame charge + water gun from Cheren's Oshawott on that same turn
oh, cool. Just one more combo and we can beat the second before it can attack
>go for flame charge
>cheren uses water sport
>forced to switch into Lillipup who survives the hit with 2hp
>cheren water guns it on that turn and kills it
Cheren you fucking asshole!
My hear can't take any more of these bides

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 22:22:53 No.48971885 Report

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>>48971712
Bide is shit when the player uses it but it’s scary as fuck when a fast opponent uses it unexpectedly during a Nuzlocke.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 22:30:37 No.48971946 Report

Quoted By: >>48972021 >>48972073

>>48971712
I can't tell you the amount of times I've had a valuable Pokémon get KO'd in a Nuzlocke from moves like Bind, Counter, or even Flail or that stupid Dark move that does damage as you switch Pokémon. Things you wouldn't think twice about in a normal run that suddenly become scary in a Nuzlocke. Gravelers with Self Destruct were my worst nightmares in the first few gens.

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Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi Thu 09 Dec 2021 22:40:57 No.48972021 Report

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>>48971946
Gravelers are just outright pieces of shit, everytime I see one after they introduced Sturdy I just prefer to run away. That shit ain't worth the nightmare fuel.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 22:48:11 No.48972073 Report

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>>48971946
Pursuit kek

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Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 22:51:20 No.48972109 Report

Quoted By: >>48972350 >>48972511

Okay enough for today. Lost Skuntank on a Medicham using Hi Jump Kick, for some reason forgot about that even though I have it myself.

Anyways, got my Milotic, got a male Sneasel which is really cool. I've decided I'm gonna put both in my team together with Toxicroak. As for the other 3, not sure yet. Would've loved a steel type, but I played with Bronzong in my previous playthrough, so I don't feel like playing with it again. Let's see what I feel like later on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 23:14:45 No.48972350 Report

Quoted By: >>48972365 >>48972511

Breezed my way through Galactic Headquarters without breaking a sweat. My team feels ridiculously overleveled at this point, every member of my team can just OHKO all basic trainer fights. I'm getting nervous because I feel like the other shoe is going to drop on me and one random battle will wipe half my team. Still feeling great about this run, taking a break in the middle of Mt. Coronet because the constant encounters and brain dead trainer battles are getting tedious.

>>48972109
Aw RIP anon, Skuntank is one of my favorite mons in this generation. Nice on the Milotic though.

>>48969879
Gen 5 starts out notoriously hard. Plenty of routes and Pokémon to catch though my dude, things will get easier, just don't take unnecessary risks if you can help it.

>>48969970
This is such a unique run, any reason you decided Alola only? RIP Lycanroc, but looks like you got plenty of worthwhile reserves and you're nearing the end.

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Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 23:15:47 No.48972365 Report

Quoted By: >>48972434

>>48972350
Woops forgot pic

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Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 23:22:44 No.48972434 Report

Quoted By: >>48972565 >>48973157

I found Vulpix instead of Kadabra in that one grassy area. current team:
>Vulpix Lv. 16
Charmander line kinda boring imo
>Gyarados Lv. 24
modest nature for special attacks?
>Weepinbell Lv. 25
budget Ivysaur
>Ch’Ding (Farfetch’d) Lv. 26
for the memes
>Graveler Lv. 27
surprisingly good Rhydon substitute
>Rattata Lv. 3
HM01 Cut slut
I’m currently grinding at the Rocket Game Corner to get flamethrower/ ice beam/ thunderbolt (for Gyarados?); current coin count: 1891. I’m leaning towards grabbing Abra in Celedon to trade for Mr. Mime (for that sweet 50% exp bonus) and MAYBE grabbing Hitmonlee in Saffron. I MIGHT have to drop Farfetch’d for Snorlax. So many Pokémon want to kill everyone in Erika’s gym for EXP; it’s hard to make a choice.
>>48972365
>Roxanne for Geodude
>Vlad for Crobat
heh, nice

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Quoted By: >>48973157 >>48974349

>>48969970
>Shelly
Really satisfying sweep with Sandslash. Set up 3 Swords Dances on Ninetales and ran through her team.

>Archie
He uses Kyogre to set rain, but isn't too tricky. A Thunder from Vikavolt instagibbed it, then I went Ninetales. The biggest threat here was Mega Sharpedo, but it got put to sleep by Shiinotic's Effect Spore, funnily enough, so didn't have to make crazy plays.

>Juan
Specs Vikavolt kills his lead Politoed with Volt Switch into Ninetales, who with Freeze Dry kills his Mega Kingdra, Swampert and Ludicolo, Shiinotic and Togedemaru clean up Lapras and Kabutops.
When I run Inclement again, I'm not using weather, because God damn you change an opponent's weather and it basically kills the entire fight. I imagine when the Insane difficulty of the game is implemented you won't be able to do it anyway.

Anyway, onto Wally and the league.

>>48970200
>>48972109
Can't really say its cheating when the method for getting it is so horrendously awful, lol. Hope it serves you well.
>steel type
One kind of underrated mon is Wormadam-Trash, mostly for that amazing typing and Quiver Dance. Also syncs well with your fire type resists.
>>48971712
Once you get out of BW's early game, roughly past Burgh, things really do get a lot easier. Hang in there anon.
>>48972350
>>48972109
You are only about a few levels above the actual boss fights, so I wouldn't worry too much about being OP for now. Plus that stupid E4 level spike.
>any reason you decided Alola only
Well I've done this game before, wanted to try a challenge, thought monotype was maybe a bit too difficult and monoregion sounded fun. Then I wanted a smaller dex without megas and I like Alola's dex more than Kalos's.
I do kind of wish I had more cohesive and synergistic strategies for this run but I'll live. This has been a lot of fun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 23:32:50 No.48972565 Report

Quoted By: >>48972868 >>48975257

>>48972434
For Game Corner coins, it's actually a lot faster to wait for the Amulet Coin and Vs Seeker any group of high paying trainers you can find (Gamblers I think have high payouts, it's been a while). You can get that as soon as you can remove the Snorlaxes, it's in one of the route dividers they block.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Dec 2021 23:52:37 No.48972868 Report

Quoted By: >>48974474 >>48975257

>>48972565
Gentlemen also have unusually high monetary rewards. Maybe that Meowth might be good for Payday shenanigans…

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 00:11:28 No.48973157 Report

Quoted By: >>48974474

>>48972434
Thx anon, I love using normalish human names for nicknames, but I always try to tailor it somewhat to fit the Pokémon.

>>48972511
It's hard to have a cohesive team when you're forced into whatever the game hands you. At least your current team has a good variety of types/moves. More power to you though anon, hope the league goes well

Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi

Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi Fri 10 Dec 2021 01:12:47 No.48973803 Report

Quoted By: >>48974474

So I've picked out... Pokemon Ultraviolet
I'm going into this mostly blind past the most BASIC reading on it, and praying this isn't fucking terrible
Said something about fixing evolutions and such so you can get way more Pokemon without trading, so that's based at least. No spoilers, I'm gonna flunk this shit big time.

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Quoted By: >>48974474

>>48972511
Okay, league time. Wally was pretty pathetic and I skipped as many trainers as I could in Victory Road (think you fight like 4 or 5 required trainers) so not too bad. Anyway:

>Sidney
Oranguru Flame Orbs Tyranitar as I believe AI always goes for Stealth Rocks turn one if it has it and can't kill you, then Ninetales removes his sand and I set up with Kommo-o.
In typical fashion, he sends out the proper counter, Cacturne, after I've killed the rest of his team - the Cacturne has a Sash, so I pivot to Sandslash to let hail chip it, then kill.

>Phoebe
Team - Mismagius, Golurk, Chandelure, Dusknoir, Aegislash, Banette. Kinda sloppy.
Togedemaru takes out Mismag, Decidueye Golurk, on Chandy, who's Scarfed, I send in Kommo-o to set up. I can take out Banette/Chandy, but Dusknoir is too bulky and has Ice Punch, so I pivot to Ninetales to slowly take it down thanks to its weirdly effective Shell Bell set. Oranguru finished off Aegislash.

>Glacia
Another annoying one. Team - Abomasnow, Froslass, Walrein, Mamoswine, Glaceon, Mega Glalie.
Leading with Air Balloon Sandslash on her lead Scarfed Aboma baits Glaceon for Fire Blast (why the fuck does it have this) so I Iron Head then kill with Oranguru. She sends in Glalie, who's fairly easy to manage into a spot where I can get up Aurora Veil, pivot to Sandslash on EQ, set up 2 Swords Dances, then sweep.

>Drake
And finally an easy one. Though I did have to rely on luck a little bit. Lead Togedemaru on his lead Dragalge to Nuzzle, pivot to Ninetales to set up Aurora Veil, then send in Sandslash.
Hjs only way of touching me is Focus Blast, I needed to set up 3 SDs and a sub, obviously Focus Miss isn't great accuracy and he only has 4 of them (1 used on Toge at the start of the battle). So, could've gone bad, but hey, odds were stacked hard in my favor and it was a fairly simple dub afterwards.

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Inclement Emerald HC Alola Only Fri 10 Dec 2021 02:41:17 No.48974474 Report

Quoted By: >>48975257 >>48976270

>>48974349
>Wallace
His team - Wailord, Vikavolt, Ludicolo, Whiscash, Latios and Mega Milotic.
Lead Togedemaru to Nuzzle Wailord then swap to Ninetales but the absolute FUCKER swaps out, he is Scarfed but I didn't expect him to do that. Not a huge deal but now I need some luck, swap to Kommo-o, take Thunder and dodge Hurricane, then kill after a Shell Smash. For the record, had that Hurricane hit, that'd probably be end of the run. Gay, but whatever.
Latios comes out to promptly die, then Mega Milotic, a nice fatass Water/Fairy. I do want to try postgame fights, so Kommo-o's not dying here. I pivot to Decidueye who with a Choice Band rips Milotic to shreds, slams Ludicolo hard on its Quiver Dance before I swap to Sandslash for Ice Beam. Sandslash finishes the job as Wailord comes back to reset rain. I Sub to check its move, Weather Ball of all things, that means I win. Swap to Ninetales as Weather Ball becomes ice type, then two Freeze Drys finish off the rest of his team.
And that's game. I do wanna do some postgame fights before moving on though.

>>48972868
Pay Day grinding isn't super fun, but that's an option yeah. Also not quite sure how many gentlemen trainers are rebattleable.
>>48973157
Thanks bud. And yeah, fair enough, but IE gives you a lot of ways to utilize different playstyles. I used Hail for the E4 here a lot but I could've used terrains, Trick Room, etc.
>>48973803
Not revealing anything, but Ultraviolet is a pretty old hack and it shows its age. If you're going to do "FireRed but updated" there's quite a lot of better hacks to pick from, like FRLG+, Nameless Fire Red Project, Yet Another Fire Red Hack or Last Fire Red.

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SacredGold Lorelocke Fri 10 Dec 2021 03:17:12 No.48974734 Report

Quoted By: >>48974746 >>48975565 >>48975635

Starting up a Lorelocke of SacredGold.

Chose Chikorita as my starter, and got Laurel Wreath (Symbol of Imperial Authority) as its rule.
>This proud Pokemon demands to be the figurehead of your party. It must be the first on your team whenever you battle Gym Leaders, the Champion, or your Rival. Can’t have two pokemon with this rule in your party. It is considered Royal.
Named him 'Caesar'.

Made my way through Cherrygrove and Routes 29 and 30, meeting Cynthia in front of Mr Pokemon's house. After some hinting at how to 'beat' the romhack, she gave me Eevee (Campbell)
>Hidden Story
>The lorelocke of Eevee is only decided when it evolves. When it evolves randomize a lorerule for Eevee based on the pokemon it evolved into, and if it is activated upon catching, it is activated now instead.

Made short work of the Rival (Belt) thanks to Growls from Caesar and Tail Whips from Campbell.

(cont'd)

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SacredGold Lorelocke Fri 10 Dec 2021 03:18:14 No.48974746 Report

Quoted By: >>48975635

>>48974734
Finally got Pokeballs, and the first encounter on Route 29 was Poochyena (BlackShuck).
>Witch’s Apprentice
>This pokemon used to be a witch’s apprentice trained in brewing potions. Every time it reaches a level that is completely divisible by 7 (14,21,28...) you can brew a potion. Randomize which potion you may brew and if you can meet the conditions and sacrifice the ingredients within an hour you will receive the potion and can use it whenever you want: 1) Love potion: Sacrifice 2 Nuggets and have a pokemon with Attract or of a Fairy type - Wedlocke two pokemon of your choice and cancel the lorerules of both of them. 2) Potion of Metamorphosis: Sacrifice 2 evolutionary items - Reroll the lorerule of a pokemon of your choice, and it can’t get the same rule it had before. 3) Potion of Life: Sacrifice a pokemon and 10 natural items (berries, herbs, etc) - Resurrect a pokemon that died from a lorerule. 4) Potion of Immunity: Sacrifice 10 healing items and have a Poison or Steel type pokemon. You may cancel the catching effect of a single lorerule.

Route 46, Numel (Camelot)
>The Majestic Allocamelus (Symbol Of Imperial Authority)
>This proud Pokemon demands to be the figurehead of your party. It must be the first on your team whenever you battle Gym Leaders, the Champion, or your Rival. Can’t have two pokemon with this rule in your party. It is considered Royal.
Unfortunately, Caesar already has this rule, so Camelot’s binned for now.

Continuing on back to Cherrygrove, I used the Old Rod and fished up a Corphish (Shovelware)
>Earth Diver
>An ancestor of this pokemon brought the grains of sand from the bottom of the ocean that were used to create all land. Must hold Soft Sand if possible. Must know a Ground or Rock type move if possible. Must know Dive if possible. Corphish/Crawdaunt is immune to the negative effects of lore rules of Ground and Rock pokemon.

Caught all I can to this point. Next up, grinding and the trainers of Route 30.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 03:37:50 No.48974897 Report

Quoted By: >>48975037 >>48975268

Do you guys catch every mon you can? I often find myself just fainting every mon I encounter after I get a solid team of 6 + 1/2 backups.

Are there mons that you never use or refuse to use? I for example never use Diglett, they always end up dying on me, it's futile to try and raise one, so I gave up on it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 03:55:29 No.48975037 Report

Quoted By: >>48975268

>>48974897
Yes, because you never know what can go wrong, or what you might need for a certain strategy down the line. Also, if you use Dupes/Species Clause this helps eliminate encounters from later routes so you can possibly go for rarer Pokemon. It's not as pressing in easier games or with easier rulesets, but for hard games/hacks you 100% should attempt to catch everything you can.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 04:35:36 No.48975257 Report

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>>48974474
Grats on the dub, anon!
>>48972868
>>48972565
>>48974474
Having done a Leafgreen run myself recently, I'd actually wait until you have access to the One Island grinding spot to money grind, both because it's the objective best grinding spot in the game if not in all of Pokemon, but also because you don't really need the stupid good TMs until that point imo.

Also for Gyarados, despite the Modest nature you're still way better off going physical. Trust me, Dragon Dance+Return is the world's stupidest combo

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 04:37:36 No.48975268 Report

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>>48974897
Yes because of what >>48975037 said, though for regions like Hoenn and Kanto where 90% of the late game encounters are both the same and kind of garbage, I tend to skip most of them

But early on I make sure to get everything

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Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 04:47:35 No.48975337 Report

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just lost my Mr. Mime to a Mankey's Seismic Toss in the fighting Dojo in Saffron. I went there for some easy exp and I was pretty confident in Mr. Mime being able to do survive because he behind a Reflect with a Barrier under his belt. the Mankey used Cross Chop twice, to little effect. it was then that I realized that the Cross Chops were just to lower my health to 31; the exact number of Mankey's level. I was so shook that I failed to realize Gyarados gets outsped by the Primape of that same fight and I almost lost him. he only survived because Fury Attack struck twice (2). Wh-Who needs Psychic types in Kanto anyway, amirite? haha...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 05:21:23 No.48975565 Report

Quoted By: >>48975635 >>48975689

>>48974734
what is a lorelocke?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 05:28:33 No.48975635 Report

Quoted By: >>48975665

>>48975565
https://nuzlockeforums.com/forum/threads/the-lorelocke-version-1-32-is-up-now-including-all-pokemon-up-to-gen-4-and-tons-of-new-art.2197/

>>48974734
>>48974746
Gonna follow this. Seems like a fun challenge, but I don't know if I could ever do it, seems a bit overwhelming to remember it all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 05:31:57 No.48975665 Report

Quoted By: >>48975686

>>48975635
wow that guy must be a complete autist
that does sound really interesting might give it a try

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 05:35:26 No.48975686 Report

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>>48975665
I really like to read the rules though. The art is great and it's very familiar to me since I'm an SMT/Persona fan, so most of the gods/mythical creatures mentioned in the rules are already known to me.

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SacredGold Lorelocke Fri 10 Dec 2021 05:35:51 No.48975689 Report

Quoted By: >>48984280

>>48975565
A variation that adds on personal rules for each Pokemon captured during a Nuzlocke, meant to "capture this sense of taming feral mystical rare creatures, facing their fearsome powers, following quests with and for them, and overall expanding the mythological lore of the Nuzlocke experience".
>henever you meet your first encounter of the route, the lore rule for this pokemon is revealed (randomize it from the possibilities, only one lore rule per pokemon) and you may choose to catch it or not. Lore rules come in effect when you capture the pokemon. Some of them have an immediate effect upon capture, while others have passive rules that stay with the pokemon forever or until removed (by a condition or another lore rule). If a pokemon has different lore rules than its evolutions, you give it the one according to its current evolutionary stage when you meet it, and it doesn't change when it evolves.

Here is the page for the Chikorita line. Instead of Caesar being too stuck-up to share a rule with another member of the party, I could have rolled that he was unable to stand indoors for more than 3 turns, or took his sweet time evolving.
The asterisk is supposed to mean it only applies when rolling for Chikorita, maybe Bayleef. If you obtain a Meganium somehow other than evolving (trade or romhack, for example), or you have to reroll its existing rule because of another Pokemon's lorerule, then the ones with asterisks are excluded from possible generation.

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Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi Fri 10 Dec 2021 07:12:38 No.48976270 Report

Quoted By: >>48976642 >>48982141

>>48974474
I'll tell you what, I can definitely feel the age. Apparently there's tiles that guarantee shinies in next encounters and shit like that, and some island that just has all of the Gen 3 pokemon sprinkled around it or something.
It's not too bad, but I was playing a lot on Fast Forward for grinding and I definitely undercut myself a few times. I'm not entirely sure how worth it is to run this one, but for now I'll stick with it, but I won't be devastated if I lose.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 08:48:24 No.48976642 Report

Quoted By: >>48976717

>>48976270
Is that a shiny Pidgeotto? based

Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi

Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi Fri 10 Dec 2021 09:03:28 No.48976717 Report

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>>48976642
Yes, but it might have happened if I touched one of those guaranteed shiny tiles. I kept it for Shiny Clause but now I'm checking routes as I go into them to see if those exist in the walkthrough document provided with the hack. Not gonna use it to cheese. Hoping he was real though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 09:25:29 No.48976797 Report

Quoted By:

>>48955739
>>48956366
>>48959430
>>48964472

Cheers Anons. I’ve started again and chose Totodile to see if I cans exploit rage and his bulk. I’ll keep you’d posted.

Polished is really nice and not over the top. Got pretty shit encounters so no geodude or mareep.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 09:36:48 No.48976829 Report

Quoted By: >>48977059

What's the shiny clause? I was grinding route 217 in plat and found a shiny swinub but I already got (and lost) a pokemon on that route. Also, do shiny pokemon remain shiny when they evolve?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 10:43:21 No.48977059 Report

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>>48976829
shiny clause is if you already got a pokemon on the route you find the shiny in, catching the shiny is fair game. and yes they stay shiny

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Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 11:30:44 No.48977275 Report

Quoted By: >>48978535 >>48984280

Lost my LG starter to a 0.3% occurance (magnitude 10 + critical hit) in rock tunnel earlier..
Current team, just before Cinnibar mansion. Butterfree starting to fall behind after being surprisingly useful far longer than expected, but I'll reward him for his loyalty by keeping him to the end.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 13:43:34 No.48978084 Report

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>>48923118
bump

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Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 14:52:59 No.48978494 Report

Quoted By: >>48978508 >>48978540 >>48983793 >>48984280

>>48954756
>>48961889
Took a while between updates, but here
>Vs Gardenia
Note- this might not be a completely correct retelling of the match, I lost the paper where I wrote that down, so I'm at least partially working from memory here.
>Meditite
I was actually warned this thing has Light Clay now.
It sets up Light Screen as Phoenica Quiver Dances.
The next two turns, both sides buff themselves up, Quiver Dance on my side, Bulk Up on Maylene's.
On Turn 4, Bug Buzz finally comes out and wipes Meditite out.
>Machoke
Psychic puts it into the red as it Low Sweeps Phoenica, and I realize this is a pretty good gift- Maylene will almost certainly heal Machoke, giving me better chances of having the Light Screen down by the time Lucario comes out.
So as she Hyper Potions it, I just Psychic it again.
Another Hyper Potion, and I have Phoenica Quiver Dance. Unlikely that Maylene will use a third healing item.
On turn 8, the last turn with a Screen up, Phoenica Quiver Dances a fifth time, and gets Low Swept again. She activates her Oran Berry.
Psychic takes Machoke out, and Phoenica reaches Level 29.
>Lucario
Thanks to the Low Sweeps, Lucario still outspeed Phoenica, and it Screeches at her. However, with +5 SpA, Psychic OHKOs it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 14:54:01 No.48978508 Report

Quoted By:

>>48978494
>Vs Gardenia
Oops, obviously meant Maylene.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 14:57:25 No.48978535 Report

Quoted By:

>>48977275
Butterfree’s Compound Eyes makes his Sleep Powder the second most accurate sleep move in the game (second only to Parasect’s Spore). This makes Butterfree unusually good with Dream Eater. But yeah, Butterfree falls off hard after the 8th Gym.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 14:57:51 No.48978540 Report

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>>48978494
Also, was unsure what to call my Roselia, went with Saria in the end, but considered Risky first(can be seen on my Luxio, forgot about that)

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Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 15:08:55 No.48978632 Report

Quoted By: >>48978722 >>48978781 >>48980255

The team is coming together. Was really hoping for anything but Darumaka from route 4.
How do you all treat the Pinwheel Forest since it's kind of jacked up with how they break it apart?
Is the "pinwheel forest" wetland area outside of Nacrene City a separate route from the Pinwheel Forest you enter into to fight the rangers and plasma grunts?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 15:21:26 No.48978722 Report

Quoted By: >>48978764

>>48978632
A lot of people have a specific clause for Pinwheel.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 15:25:26 No.48978764 Report

Quoted By:

>>48978722
Ah, I see.
I'm sure I can get another grass type somewhere

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 15:27:44 No.48978781 Report

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>>48978632
Yeah, it's called the Pinwheel Clause, and applies to any areas with radically different wild mon pools under the same route. So go catch you a Venipede or something.

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Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 17:07:46 No.48979525 Report

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>Erika’s Victreebel one-shotted my Lv. 20 Vulpix with a critical hit from Acid
…really game?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 18:58:39 No.48980255 Report

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>>48978632
Note people also use the "Pinwheel Clause" for Dragonspiral Tower and Victory Road's interior and exteriors

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 21:46:32 No.48981459 Report

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Bump

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Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 21:46:35 No.48981461 Report

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I wiped to Mira in Wayward cave...
I'm going to keep playing normally, I'm going to have to level up my pokemon skills before I can tackle this again. I was too cocky trying to challenge this when the last game I played was vanilla Plat on release.

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Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 22:44:18 No.48981957 Report

Quoted By: >>48983793 >>48984280

I just finished Candice and really don't like my team. That box is everything I've caught, except for a Sneasel on the next page.

What should I change out? So far I've had 0 deaths, this is the easiest Nuzlocke I've ever done.

Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi

Swordbro !!4fJDT9qHYvi Fri 10 Dec 2021 23:06:31 No.48982141 Report

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>>48976270
Small update
>grinding off-stream so I don't have to do it next time
>evolve my Magikarp
>decide to grind him in Diglett's cave a bit
>Magnitude 9 hits and almost kills it
>nani
>check
>Gyarados is Water/Dragon in this romhack
Oh lord

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Anonymous Fri 10 Dec 2021 23:29:39 No.48982292 Report

Quoted By: >>48982596 >>48983793

I said at some point earlier in this thread that it was coming soon, and here we are, my Renegade Plat run has begun. Completed a sacred gold run a year back in this general, have no recollection of it at all but I do remember wanting to turn this into a RomHack journey of sorts so after a year of waiting part 2 is here!

I've just beaten my rival outside of Jubilife and getting cheeks from the Trainer School egg was pretty great, could come in handy especially late into the run.

But to answer the question you all clearly have, yes... Johnny Sex is an absolute monster. I am convinced this guy could sweep the game by himself 10/10 I hope he doesn't die soon.

And yes I am also aware that I can pick up the gen 4 starters from Rowan and the gen 1 starters from Jubilife, just haven't done so yet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Dec 2021 00:03:53 No.48982577 Report

Quoted By: >>48984280

Just lost my Lv. 32 Graveler to the Karate Master’s Hitmonchan (critical hit Sky Uppercut). I was thinking that I’d be fine if the AI rolled Thunder Punch or Fire Punch but once again the 6% critical-hit ratio makes a surprise appearance.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Dec 2021 00:06:26 No.48982596 Report

Quoted By: >>48982680

>>48982292
Throwing up s lot of death flags there anon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Dec 2021 00:15:21 No.48982680 Report

Quoted By:

>>48982596
yeah I'm gonna be honest, Johnny Sex is probably dead by Gardenia. That one is gonna break my heart.

As for the others... am I gonna get half of them killed via overconfidence, forgetting just how difficult Renegade Platinum can be? You betcha!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Dec 2021 02:50:52 No.48983752 Report

Quoted By: >>48983763

I actually lost my Weepinbel to a random Radicate. I’m not even mad. Piece of crap CONSTANTLY missed 75% accuracy moves. But this means that Gyarados and Farfetch’d are my only Veterans.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Dec 2021 02:51:53 No.48983763 Report

Quoted By: >>48983779

>>48983752
Oh yeah, it was killed by a critical hit Quick Attack (only one Tail Whip debuff).

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Dec 2021 02:54:06 No.48983779 Report

Quoted By: >>48983803

>>48983763
Criticals ignore defense drops anyway

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AKIN Sat 11 Dec 2021 02:55:31 No.48983793 Report

Quoted By: >>48984280

Made it through Victory Road... unfortunately Palenque did not. The poor unit got mobbed by the double-battle aces, got crit and burned by a Fire Punch, leaving it with 9 HP before it burned out and died. Never had a chance.
This leaves me in a bit of a pickle, because Palenque was my best answer for Cynthia's Garchomp. My plan was to bait out its Earthquake, switch into Palenque to avoid it, Hypnosis it, and then go back into Naomi to finish it off with Ice Fang/Beam. Unfortunately, that's no longer on the table. So I now add Yuki the Froslass to the team, and my plan is likely to KO her Milotic with Hex (since it has that Flame Orb), have Hail up, and hopefully OHKO Garchomp with Blizzard.
Before I can do that though, I have to get through the rival fight. This turned out to be ore tricky than I expected, because his Heracross almost took out a chunk of my team. Luckily Damvir was able to hit his Zen Headbutt.

Grinding up to level 63 on all my homies, then we're in the endgame.

>>48982292
Best of luck friend. Cheering for Johnny Sex and Lt. Cuck Duck.
>>48981957
You could use a Water-type, maybe Gastrodon over Golem? I like the drinks naming convention btw
>>48978494
Quiver Dance Wormadam is a cool one, best of luck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Dec 2021 02:56:50 No.48983803 Report

Quoted By: >>48983818

>>48983779
I know it works that way in Gen 1 but this is leafgreen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Dec 2021 02:59:11 No.48983818 Report

Quoted By: >>48983880 >>48983923

>>48983803
Crits still ignore stat changes, including their defense and your attack, even to this day.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Dec 2021 03:06:46 No.48983880 Report

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>>48983818
that’s really weird. so if they tail whip 6 times and get a critical hit: they would do less damage… wtf?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Dec 2021 03:12:52 No.48983923 Report

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>>48983818
no, they only ignore defense raises

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 11 Dec 2021 03:43:09 No.48984204 Report

Quoted By: >>48984280

Holy shit, managed to catch Palkia after only two Pokeball throws! Went in thinking I was going to have to use the Master Ball because I wasted like 10 Ultra Balls catching the fucking Snover on my way up the mountain. Obviously I won't use it for the Nuzlocke challenge, but I couldn't just kill the box legendary y'know? Anyway, Cyrus and his goons were squashed easily by my overleveled team, and I'll admit there was added satisfaction destroying them because of what they did to my Theresa. Finally got my vengeance.

Now I'm going to explore all the shit I've been putting off like Fuego Iron, surf route south of professor's lab, etc. and then head for the final gym. Still feels like things are going too well for a Nuzlocke.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Dec 2021 03:53:10 No.48984280 Report

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>>48975689
Sounds insanely autistic, yet fun in the right circumstances
>>48977275
Oof, tough break anon. Though to be honest, you should be able to beat the game pretty comfortably with this team. Snorlax, Magneton, and Jynx alone basically solo what's left
>>48978494
Solid looking team, best of luck!
>>48981957
It's a solid looking team, so replacing anything is tough. That being said, Gastrodon>Golem is the objective best choice here since it basically gives you a free Volkner.

Also get Machamp to the end for me. Mine got so close but fell to Drake in Emerald
>>48982577
A bit late to say this, but never take risks like that.
>>48983793
>Losing Zong right before the E4
Oh man, fucking F.

Yuki looks good though, but I'll give you a couple of tips, having used Froslass in my normal run
>Drop Blizzard for Ice Beam. You really want the accuracy
>Go Icy Wind>Hail. Seems weird but it's absolutely crucial for securing a win vs Cynthia's Garchomp
>>48984204
Best of luck going forward!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Dec 2021 04:21:00 No.48984454 Report

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>>48984451
>>48984451
>>48984451
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