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/nuz/ - Nuzlocke and Challenge Run General

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 00:15:33 No.51136860 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>51146399 >>51152618 >>51152666 >>51154896 >>51167366 >>51193124 >>51205617 >>51212089 >>51238395 >>51239414 >>51241451 >>51243513

Light that kills your run Edition

>What are you running?
>How are you running it?
>How's your run going?
>Are you doing a weird ruleset? And if so, what is it?

Question of the thread: What encounter was an unexpected run-killer or near-run-killer for you?

/nuz/ resources
Mostly outdated, but if I add something new it will have (Updated) somewhere in it. Let me know if there's something that needs updated if you have something to replace it with.
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
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
>(UPDATED)Anon's Level Caps Doc
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZOwQ2MnzKF-fJuSGEkTUIenGbPoZymS6jYrY6zIbzkk/edit#gid=1752410600

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Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 00:19:33 No.51136903 Report

Quoted By: >>51137663 >>51145511

on my way to grabbing Bill's eevee, thinking of rolling 1-7 and letting that decide how it evolves. Hoping for Glaceon or Jolteon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 02:01:29 No.51137663 Report

Quoted By: >>51137721

>>51136903
What game?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 02:08:35 No.51137721 Report

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>>51137663
heart gold

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 02:45:23 No.51137949 Report

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Now then... I know this is unorthodox, but as stated before, I wanted to close the door on Gen 3 for me by doing one last run, with Squirtle this time. (Technically this is the fourth run, 2 on FR, and now 2 on LG) and this is Squirtle Squad, the Revenge.

Progress: Brock was baby school while I was the Big League Chew. And it's also always fun to get a cocoon as a catch. Can YOU tell which of the bugs here was a dead-weight to level to 10? ...Who am I kidding? They're both hunks of insect meat.

Now on to Mt. Moon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 05:11:10 No.51138836 Report

Quoted By: >>51138959

Is there any document listing out all the trainers for a radical red run? Got caught by Last Resort Komala and now I'm pissed and want detailed info on each encounter

Howls

Howls Sat 06 Aug 2022 05:31:51 No.51138959 Report

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>>51138836

There's this one for Normal Mode trainers, I don't know if reg trainers are the same or not on hard mode tho

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13URgadlegywok7Oorg_UvGlT6FT0049eCOvLO7Yf1xU/edit

Howls

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Howls Sat 06 Aug 2022 05:53:30 No.51139108 Report

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Meteor Falls Double Battle went better than I hoped for. I basically pivot-spammed, swapping back and forth between Regenerator Corsola and Parasect or Meganium. My rival killed a few things with his first two mons, set up a SD with Mimikyu, and swept the rest lmao.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 06:45:49 No.51139405 Report

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The first part was done yesterday or so, and now for the fuckery.

Progress: Mt. Moon has been cleared. Squad Leader evolved, Butterfree seemed to be the better recipient of Thief this time around (due to having higher special attack--and no one ever suspects the Butterfree), a Spearow that couldn't even handle a crit from a babby Pikachu is now a electric-roasted dinner for three. And two botched catch attempts, so no Pokies from Mt. Moon or Route 4, either.

Not the end of the world, mind, but a smaller team does not exactly confidence make. Squad Leader's getting worried.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 07:42:57 No.51139679 Report

Quoted By: >>51139721

after i do my current run, i'm going to go back and do a nuzlocke of pokemon yellow, then pokemon crystal, then emerald again, then platinum, then either black or with 2

that should be fun

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 07:52:59 No.51139721 Report

Quoted By: >>51139837 >>51211696

>>51139679
actually, fuck it
i'm going to do that right now
GEN 1 NUZLOCKE, HO!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 08:19:12 No.51139837 Report

Quoted By: >>51139973 >>51211696

>>51139721
I just got a male and female nidoran as my route 22 and 2 encounters

ARCEUS HAS BLESSED THIS RUN

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 08:58:49 No.51139973 Report

Quoted By: >>51139990 >>51211696

>>51139837
Alright, the Team before Bock is :
Galahad, Pikachu, level 12
Bedivere, Rattata, level 12
Arthur, Nidoran (m), level 12
Guinevere, Nidoran (f), level 12
Kay, Butterfree, level 13

I can't use butterfree here anymore due to accidently overleveling, but i wasn't intending to anyways, Arthur alone should suffice. I should specify that I'm not overleveling or using items for this run.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 09:03:34 No.51139990 Report

Quoted By: >>51140201

>>51139973
alright, last post for a while, sorry for the spam

Brock was a joke with arthur and guinevere
arthur double kicked the geodude to death, then hit onix once and switched to guinevere to ignore screech. guinevere double kicks and then switches back to ignore the next screech, and then onix uses bide giving me two turns to leer him and then kill it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 09:56:39 No.51140201 Report

Quoted By: >>51145294

>>51139990
Keep those Nidos alive, you can evolve them both before Cerulean and continue to sweep the game with a royal rumble dream team.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 13:44:13 No.51141300 Report

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Bumptuos

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 15:10:37 No.51141783 Report

Quoted By: >>51143569 >>51151095

>>51136319

The last few hours of gaming have been a little unlucky. To say the least...
As I stated, I play the game blind and I don't know every typing. That was the reason why I almost failed.
I managed to defeat the fire gym with Tristan(quagsire). I wanted to train a little in the wyld lands since the pokemons in the way to the next gym are higher level (my highest level pokemon was level 25).
I decided to train first in route 5. All was well but then I fought a Boubaffet. I let him in the red and he used destiny bond. I was prohibited to use items to waste time and couldn't change my pokemon that only knew attack moves. Result: Chris Rock (my Carkol) died.
In the Wyld Lands I captured Loki(Impidimp)
Current team:
Derrick- Serious Cinderace(level 36)
Denis- Naughty Corvisquire(level 34)
Tristan- Bashful Quagsire(level 34)
Serena- Jolly axew (level 35)
Loki- Jolly Impidimp (level 27).

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 16:48:56 No.51142467 Report

Quoted By: >>51164082

Holy fuck I wiped to Bugsy in vanilla Crystal.
Three Geodude Rock Throw misses into Fury Cutter crit, then one shot the rest of my team.
At Claire now with zero deaths so attempt 2 is going great

Howls

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Howls Sat 06 Aug 2022 18:40:29 No.51143277 Report

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Well we're on our way towards Fortree now. Magcargo is retired, he did his duty well.

Meteor Falls Tabitha: Swept with Life Orb Sheer Force Camerupt + Rain Dance Ludicolo

Meteor Falls Maxie: Corsola killed the Crobat + Camerupt, Flareon killed the Victreebel, Marowak killed the Weezing, Megnaium killed the Zweilous

Flannery: Simple Shell Smash Magcargo Sweep

Frontier Brain Lucy: Simple Shell Smash Magcargo sweep

Norman: Clefairy set rocks, then Simple Shell Smash Magcargo swept once again lol.

Also beat him a second time without Magcargo just to prove I could; Corsola set rocks and killed Swellow, Haunter pivoted into Tauros on a Close Combat, which pivoted to Primeape on a Throat Chop and Close Combat'd that + Slaking + Exploud. Crabominable came in for Linoone and Kangaskhan.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 19:19:07 No.51143569 Report

Quoted By: >>51162899

>>51141783
The journey to the 4th gym was unlucky.
I had to leave the computer to take a call and when I returened I was in a fight with a level 42 claydol. Loki was in front.
No big deal, I think. Just click run.
Unable to escape. Explosion. OHKO.
So I lost my Impiidimp without even using it in a single battle.
After that I tried to relax and went into a dynamax battle. I didn't had any idea what the opponent would be but I decided to train Tristan. Bad idea. It was a grass pokemon that sucked me dry. OHKO
So in 15 minutes I lost Tristan and Loki.
Decided to stop to drink a little.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 20:17:37 No.51144117 Report

Quoted By: >>51144915

Starting a run for the first time in a while on vanilla Blue. Just rolling for my starter.
1-3: Charmander
4-6: Squirtle
7-0: Bulbasaur

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 21:26:13 No.51144915 Report

Quoted By: >>51145337 >>51152032

>>51144117
Got through Brock, catching Forgotten the Pidgey, Monarch the Caterpie, and Sasha the Nidoran (F) along the way. Also discovered that the encounter rate in Viridian Forest in Blue is 90% Metapod, 5% Caterpie, 2.25% Weedle, 2.25% Kakuana, and 0.5% Pikachu.

The battle against Brock's Jr. Trainer than Brock, since Toad the Bulbasaur didn't have Vine Whip yet, had butt clench moment where Toad survived with 2 HP against the Diglett because of a crit. Brock was the typical easy battle of, spam Sand Attack on Geodude, set up Leech Seed, and stall. Then Leech Seed and Growl spam against Onix. Been using that strategy since 1998.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 22:16:09 No.51145294 Report

Quoted By: >>51145337

>>51140201
That's the plan at least.

Misty was easy as well, team was :
Galahad, Pikachu, 21
Morholt, Weepinbell, 21
Guinevere, Nidoqueen, 21
Arthur, Nidoking, 21
Uther, Drowzee, 21
Bedivere, Raticate, 21

I started with Galahad, who opened with thunderwave on staryu and then thunderbolted it to death. Then came in starmie, and Galahad thunderwaved it again before switching to Morholt. Morholt then uses growth and then vine whips twice to ensure the victory with minimal damage done to anyone in the party.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 22:19:54 No.51145337 Report

Quoted By: >>51147418

>>51144915
>>51145294
forgot to comment on my fellow gen 1 runner

I've been finding out that the mons of gen 1 are all fairly viable thus far, it's strange how much use im capable of getting out of everything thus far.

You're team is Bulbasaur, Pidgey, Butterfree, and Nidoran thus far? did you fail to get the route 22 encounter? Regardless, good work on brock, he has potential to be nasty if you turn you're brain off. that move of yours is probably more strategy then i used in the entirety of my first SwSh run.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 06 Aug 2022 22:40:27 No.51145511 Report

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>>51136903
had my friend roll between 1-7 and he got 7, and glaceon is 7th in pokedex order of the eevees, so now I have glaceon in the squad.
Just beat Morty, brought Raticate, Crobat, Alakazam, and Togetic, but Raticate swept him with ease. Pidgeotto still remains the only one to have died, but I've had a couple close calls.
Reminder I'm playing a japanese cartridge, so all my nicknames are 5 characters or less

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 00:35:34 No.51146383 Report

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Well, while the Squirtle Squad's journey continues, the post-game in my Heart Gold realm begins. The Champions have been given a proposition: some big-dick G's waiting for them on Mount Silver. Can they answer the call? Or will they be stuck with a heavy bill? Either way, this won't be updated as often, seeing as this is a filler arc.

Progress: Well, while scouting out the cities (and getting the stupid Power Plant sidequest out of the way), two of my organization have already fallen in the beginning of the 'Kanto Thousand Years Travel Arc'.

Fandaniehl met a curious Slakoth, nibbled with a Hyper Fang, and THEN PROMPTLY ATE SHIT AFTERWARDS from the Slakoth's Counter. And then after acquiring the Expansion Card, the run-in with a vicious Snorlax resulted with the entrapment, and Giga-Impacting of one of the champions, Ducky.

My audience was quite upset that she never got to become a Tyranitar.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 00:38:11 No.51146399 Report

Quoted By: >>51148429

>>51136860
Does this picture reference an actual event or is it fanart? Bren meets rosa maybe in the manga?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 02:35:13 No.51147418 Report

Quoted By: >>51149590

>>51145337
See my note about Viridian Forest's encounter rate. Nidoran was Route 22, Caterpie was Route 2, which I got to level 7 before entering the forest to give myself a shot at either Weedle or Pikachu, but my first three encounters were Caterpie, Metapod, Metapod. I use a moidifed dupes clause of three encounters, then an area is done.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 03:37:45 No.51147875 Report

Quoted By: >>51152032

Need advice, my emulator froze, and I lost about 20 minutes of progress, including a catch. Back to the same route, and the encounter is different, do I catch the new encounter, or go until I run into the same species as the original encounter? This is gen 1 so natures, gender, and abilities do not exist.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 05:18:16 No.51148429 Report

Quoted By: >>51148971

>>51146399
It's promotional art by Yusuke Murata (One Punch Man, Eyeshield 21) for merch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_AN3o53xuc

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 07:11:27 No.51148971 Report

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>>51148429
Wait he is drawing manga panels, is there an actual story to read somewhere?
story by ONE

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 09:33:31 No.51149590 Report

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>>51147418
ah, fair enough there

Surge was easy, Balin the sandslash spammed slash and crit every time to sweep his team.
Erika was also easy after catching and leveling up a dodou (then dotrio) and having it learn drill peck. I spammed the move and destroyed everything in the gym without taking damage.

Team :
Amr, Dotrio, 32
Galahad, Pikachu, 32
Ddriag, Charmeleon, 32
Arthur, Nidoking, 32
Balin, Sandslash, 32
Uther, Hypno, 32

Losses :
Kay, Butterfree
Lancelot, Wartortle

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 15:10:37 No.51151063 Report

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>Consider doing an Ultra Moon nuzlocke
>Remember all the cutscenes and god-awful framerate
Blech

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 15:16:40 No.51151095 Report

Quoted By: >>51151109 >>51161024

>>51141783
How do you do a nuzlocke in sword/shield since theres no random encounters and you have the wild area as well. I just thought about doing one when i read this and now im kinda stumped

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 15:19:27 No.51151109 Report

Quoted By: >>51151208

>>51151095
NTA but the usual methods are either to roll a weighted die on available encounters in the area or to just run into the field blindfolded

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 15:39:04 No.51151208 Report

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>>51151109
That works, and maybe one catch per named region of the Wild Area.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 17:28:30 No.51152032 Report

Quoted By: >>51201028

>>51147875
Just decided to go with the new catch, and got Diva, the Jigglypuff on Route 3 instead of a Spearow like I did before the crash.
>>51144915
As for an actual update, got through Mt. Moon catching Jason the Zubat, and then recaught Foghorn the Spearow on Route 4. After a little grinding beat the 3rd rival battle, forgot he led with Pidgeotto instead of Abra and that was almost a disaster. Luckily Supersonic hit and then it hurt itself three times in a row while Monarch took care of it. After that Sasha, who is now a Nidoqueen, took care of the rest of the team. Then beat Misty, though lost Diva to Starmie trying to hit a Sing to get a free switch. TOAD the Ivysaur took care of Starmie after that though.

Team:
Jason, Zubat 15
TOAD, Ivysaur 19
Sasha, Nidoqueen 17
Forgotten, Pidgey 17
Monarch, Butterfree 16
Foghorn, Spearow 12

Dead:
Diva, Jigglypuff 15

Next up is the long slog up to Bill's house, then the SS Anne and murdering Gary's Raticate. Then sweeping the Electric gym with a Ground type.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 18:39:59 No.51152559 Report

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>Locke fatigue
>In a run where I haven't lost anyone yet
How?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 18:51:10 No.51152618 Report

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>>51136860
This is the greatest piece of pokemon art I've seen

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 18:58:13 No.51152666 Report

Quoted By: >>51152731

>>51136860
I have been trying to do a hc nuzlocke of white with the special rule that I can't use pokemon of the same species as ones I have beat black before, so no
>Samurott
>Darmanitan
>Sawsbuck
>Musharna
>Stoutland
>Drudigon
>Sawk
>Whimsicott
>Unfezant
>Krookodile

In my first run I decided to name all my patrats Gaming, I have been keeping the count, in average each run has 2 patrats/watchogs
Now, I finally have Gaming XXX

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 19:09:08 No.51152731 Report

Quoted By: >>51152832

>>51152666
Kinda based.

Never used Excadrill? Really?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 19:24:28 No.51152832 Report

Quoted By: >>51153081 >>51159295

>>51152731
I have only beat Black twice, as a kid and a few months ago (you can guess which run had stoutland and unfezant).

I have tried to get drilburs but they suck, I rather have roggenrolla or woobat for the 2nd and 3rd gyms

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 20:01:35 No.51153081 Report

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>>51152832
Excadrill makes up for Drilbur's lack of use and then some. He wipes the E4.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Aug 2022 22:25:15 No.51154160 Report

Quoted By:

bumparoo
I'll update my Black run sometime soon, I pumice

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Aug 2022 00:06:23 No.51154896 Report

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>>51136860
Tried Inclement Emerald for the first time, got packed by Brawly. My strategy was sound but the motherfucker predicted my Wishiwashi switchin and Thunder Punched with Hitmomchan and basically killed the whole thing then and there. I had Stunfisk out so there was no reason for it to Thunder Punch other than cheating ass AI. Oh well.
I also lost my Solosis like a retard to a gym Trainer's Makuhita Knock Off, which would have been really valuable had it not died. I'll probably try again at a later date, the game's really fun, but I'm not in the mood to just start over right now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Aug 2022 02:14:27 No.51155781 Report

Quoted By: >>51158820 >>51159295 >>51167354 >>51171309

How does everyone feel about trading dead Pokemon for in-game trades?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 08 Aug 2022 04:10:51 No.51156522 Report

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Progress: Misty had drowned in a pool of her own tears. My Pidgey fell in battle earlier to an angry Nidoran not yet going through evolutionary menopause, proving that Pidgeys really ARE the Pidoves of the Bird Pokemon world.

Traversing through Diglett's cave early, to get a Diglett and hopefully--oh wait nvm fuck that, I forgot I can only get more things once I learn cut.

Heading to the boat to get Cut, BRB

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 08 Aug 2022 08:58:16 No.51157615 Report

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RIP spoon the Alakazam. Brought him and Vlad to fight Chuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Aug 2022 13:47:51 No.51158820 Report

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>>51155781
Theoretically against the spirit of the run, but it's also really funny to picture so I think it's entirely up to your opinion on the run. Kind of like using a dead mon for an HM.
It's funny to picture your trainer digging up their dead pokemon so they can cut down a mildly inconvenient tree, and it's funny to imagine you making a trade under the pretense of "Well, you never specified that you wanted a LIVING one."
I personally don't do it, but I do think it's absolutely hilarious.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 08 Aug 2022 14:55:02 No.51159295 Report

Quoted By: >>51171309 >>51205700

Enough slacking, I suppose. I've always envisioned Clay as the final boss of the mid-game, but I've done this rodeo before despite me playing like shit this run.
>Clay leads Krokorok, I send out Sika. Krokorok lands a Swagger and Sika hits himself in confusion. I swap out to Majet who gets hit with a Torment. Another Swagger hits but Majet is able to not hit herself in confusion and lands a Scald that gets the lucky burn. Next turn, Clay heals and Majet lands another Scald. Next turn, Majet isn't as lucky and hits herself in confusion as the Krokorok hits a nasty Crunch that would've killed if it crit. I swap back to Sika as the Krokorok lands another dangerous Crunch, but luckily it dies to burn damage right after.
>Clay then sends out his scary ass Excadrill and I swap to Purore on a soft Rock Slide. I go for a Wake-Up Slap and do half as Clay's Excadrill starts to setup with Hone Claws. The next turn, Clay throws the match by going for another Hone Claws as another Wake-Up slap kills the Excadrill.
>Clay sends out his last pokemon, Palpitoad, but it can do nothing against the sheer stat ball that is Purore and it falls to two Wake-Up Slaps.

>>51155781
I'm no Nuzlocke police, but if you think it makes the run more fun, go for it.
>>51152832
Excadrill more than makes up for Drilbur's mediocrity, it literally sweeps all of N and Ghetsis' teams provided N doesn't have Reshiram. Even if Excadrill dies to Ghetsis' Hydreigon your team can still probably handle the rest.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Aug 2022 18:19:12 No.51161024 Report

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>>51151095
Sorry, I just saw it:
A) There is random encounters or something close to it. When running on grass sometimes your character will show a exclamation point on his head If you go to where the grass moves you will have a random encounter. I tried it and it usually is not a rare pokemon. I either run around on the glass until this happens or I catch the first pokemon that spawns on that patch of grass.
B) The wild area is similar. There are different names and I treat each one as a new area. IF I can get to a dynamax spot without entering the grass or catching a pokemon I can catch the pokemon in the area. This only happened once, to be honest.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 08 Aug 2022 19:01:46 No.51161366 Report

Quoted By: >>51171309

This one ace trainer fight is fucking terrifying.
Thankfully I had Rocky Helmet on Sawsbuck, hurrah.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 08 Aug 2022 20:33:17 No.51162026 Report

Quoted By: >>51165111 >>51168666

Fuck Sniper.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 08 Aug 2022 22:45:11 No.51162864 Report

Quoted By: >>51163427 >>51164082

First time at the E4 in Crystal, playing "blind".

So far I'm zero deaths but I have little confidence in my potential E4 team. I have all my encounters up to this point - and there are a few great mons here but something just feels missing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Aug 2022 22:49:53 No.51162899 Report

Quoted By: >>51224402

>>51143569
Pokemon shield is cursed. Lost another run because of the emulator. This time AVG put the launcher in the quarantine. It was easy to recover but, for some reason, it don't read the saved game file.
I will download pokemon sword and hope for the best. I had just finished the ice gym before this happened.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 08 Aug 2022 23:55:42 No.51163427 Report

Quoted By: >>51164082 >>51193081

>>51162864
alright I'm going in with this team
wish me luck

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 00:20:13 No.51163630 Report

Quoted By: >>51165111 >>51171309

I just completed Fire Red. Raticate was surprisingly useful with endeavor. Unfortunately, she died to Dragonite's outrage.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 01:27:46 No.51164082 Report

Quoted By: >>51164789 >>51193081

>>51163427
>>51162864
>>51142467
Holy FUCK I've never seen a mon pop off as hard as my Tauros just did vs Lance. Perfectly timed Headbutt flinches into Return kills to dodge potions, dodged two Thunder Waves. Tauros killed 4 of Lance's mons alone

So there's my third HC nuzlocke win.
Emerald in 2 attempts, FireRed in 6 attempts, Crystal in 2.
Only death was my Gyarados vs Bruno's Machamp from Rock Slide crit.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 03:13:30 No.51164606 Report

Quoted By: >>51175810

>start a randomizer nuzlocke of fire red
>random movepools and abilities included
>get levitate empoleon as starter and moody slakoth as second mon

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 03:53:15 No.51164789 Report

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>>51164082
You're only a little over halfway done anon.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 05:05:06 No.51165111 Report

Quoted By: >>51171309

Progress: Sandshrew's relaxing at the Daycare. Squad Leader was sweating bullets at Surge's gym, trying to remain inconspicuous/unnoticeable; Diglett single-handedly incited panic in Vermilion for a brief moment with Magnitude 6-8 activity.

Squad Leader's relieved; those electronic gates and diodes made him fear for his life. Meowth keeps bringing the moolah. The Six prepare for the Rock Tunnel.

>>51162026
Yeah, that Kingdra's NOT a friendly foe...

>>51163630
Always good seeing a Raticate as a Champion, whether it lived or not. Mine wasn't an Endeavor-user, mind; Shadow Ball was handy in pissing off Agatha.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 09:20:34 No.51166123 Report

Quoted By:

Early Morning Bumparino

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 13:47:32 No.51167354 Report

Quoted By: >>51172418

>>51155781
Depends on the difficulty of the run. If you're just doing a normal run of a normal game then no but if you start stacking rules or are playing a romhack you can deserve to be more lenient with gray area stuff like that

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 13:49:26 No.51167366 Report

Quoted By:

>>51136860
rosa is so cool

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 17:04:31 No.51168666 Report

Quoted By: >>51170876

>>51162026
Oh, my... That's awful. Who are you gonna get for E4 and the Champ?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 18:58:08 No.51169434 Report

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>Finale!Bianca
Tohru v. Stoutland. Intimidate lowers Tohru's attack, but a Brick Break+Revenge kill Bianca's dog. I send Lylebert in on a Psybeam from Musharna, it confuses Lyle. Lyle hits a crit Crunch and dodges Hypnosis. Bianca FR's while Lylebert hits himself thrice in a row and dies to a crit Psybeam. GREAT! Perfect thing to start my post-break run! Love it!

Dan Duran hits a Fire Punch, but also gets confused by Psybeam. Then it hits an Hypnosis on the incoming Petepou.

So Snevio takes care of it and Samurott with Rogiero killing Simisear.

Yes I'm mad.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 20:49:23 No.51170184 Report

Quoted By: >>51171309

bumping with updated to post-Jasmine

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 20:55:04 No.51170225 Report

Quoted By: >>51170307

>altered emerald
>never played this version
>get lax unaware lickitung on 102
what am i in for? this line any good in a nuzlocke setting this early in the game?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 21:07:37 No.51170307 Report

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>>51170225
Lickitung is great, especially once you get Eviolite.
There's a lot of broken stuff in that hack though, there are very few encounters that are bad for a nuzlocke

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 22:27:56 No.51170876 Report

Quoted By: >>51171309

>>51168666
For the time being this is my team for the kimono girls. I don't expect them to all survive the whole journey to the league but hopefully I can catch something decent in Kanto.
I do have other mons in the box but I am only putting in the image the ones I've used in my team because I am too lazy to make entries for all of them.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 23:25:34 No.51171309 Report

Quoted By: >>51171425 >>51171975

Got lucky in Drayden's (Or Iris) gym. No deaths even though Druddigons really baited for it.

>Iris
I felt cocky again, so I went in without going past Pokécenter. With 5 Ice beams left

Complete sweep with Vycey. Fraxture got one shot. Druddigon didn't go for Revenge for once, but iris kept healing. So wit one Ice Beam left, Vycey killed it with an Icy Wind.

>Haxorus
It went for Dragon Tail, allowing Vycey to hit first with his last Ice Beam. Dragon Tail missed! So Vycey finished it off with Icy Wind!

After Victory Road I'm probably going to switch up some of my team to deal with the E4. Assuming I don't lose anyone and am forced to do so anyway. Gotta deal with Cheren and a fuck ton of scary veterans first.
>>51170876
Glad you've picked yourself up after Clair's fucking bullshite! Good luck!

>>51170184
How does Glaceon do in Johto? Alsi I think your team is fucking great!
>>51165111
Check'd. Any particular mon you're aiming for this run?
>>51163630
It's always the beloved mons that die in the end :(
>>51161366
I just avoid every trainer in that hellhole.
>>51159295
always nice to see Clay fucking himself over because he's too confident with his set up.
>>51155781
Unless it's for a mon I've never used before, I wouldn't do it personally. That's me though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2022 23:38:52 No.51171425 Report

Quoted By:

>>51171309
>How does Glaceon do in Johto?
it's very much a one trick pony, and it's one trick isn't even that great yet, but I'm hoping by the time I get to Clair and Lance it's high special attack and STAB icy wind will have been toting it around. If I need to kill a ground or grass type I already have Slowking/Weepinbell/Crobat/Heracross, and Flying type trainers aren't particularly abundant, but most flying type pokemon are pretty defensively weak anyway.

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Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 00:44:44 No.51171975 Report

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When one flower blooms, another wilts. When God opens one window to let that good air in, He slams another window closed, thus tricking a bird into flying head-first into it, giving it a broken skull.

Progress: Squad Leader's newfound hatred for poison grows alongside his rational fear of electricity, seeing Butterfree crumple and wither away... But now for the first time, I actually got an Eevee, and so I wonder, what do I do with the little fluff? It'll be time to bring the Rockets a special delivery: PAIN.

>>51171309
GOOD QUESTION. Since I have an Eevee, and the only other electric types I didn't use/win with are Zapdos, Jolteon, or Electabuzz (which isn't IN LG), I might go with one of the other two.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 01:20:52 No.51172216 Report

Quoted By: >>51174501 >>51175058

Renegade Platinum run, making my way through Victory Road and ambushed by a Veteran that nearly wiped me, Jesus that was a clench moment.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 01:47:33 No.51172418 Report

Quoted By:

>>51167354
It is vanilla Blue, and the only real additional rule is the dupe clause, but if I get dupes on the first three encounters of a route, the route is locked out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 08:04:46 No.51174501 Report

Quoted By: >>51175058

>>51172216
Thats hacks for ya

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 11:18:34 No.51175058 Report

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>>51172216
So just beat Dawn on 224 and the only real problem was Mamo but locked it into EQ then realized I forgot a flying type. But it went down after some stall and luckily everything has enough bulk to 2 shot or fast enough to ohko.

>>51174501
Yeah hacks can pull some true bs at times but I enjoy the twambuilding and challenge than winning in hacks. Usually chill by running some monolockes in later gens.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 12:35:09 No.51175424 Report

Quoted By:

Which one of the early generation games should I play, and what should I name my starter?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 13:38:00 No.51175810 Report

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>>51164606
Update
When it evolved it got vital spirit and telepathy, but it's still miles better than truant
Also it learned liquidation and acrobatics so i'm just steamrolling the game

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 17:23:13 No.51177196 Report

Quoted By:

Commit alive

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Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 18:48:33 No.51177931 Report

Quoted By: >>51177947 >>51178479

what is the original policy on duplicate encounters, can you catch them or not?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 18:50:34 No.51177947 Report

Quoted By:

>>51177931
He never had them in-story so I assume he used Dupes Clause too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 20:08:04 No.51178479 Report

Quoted By:

>>51177931
Maybe I'm just remembering someone else's comic but I could have sworn there was a panel where he caught a dupe of a mon that already died before out of sentimentality that he ended up not using. So it could be no dupes clause, or at least a soft one.
Or maybe I'm just remembering someone else's comic
It's also possible that he just chose not to use dupes that he caught so we never saw them

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 20:42:35 No.51178705 Report

Quoted By:

Beat Pryce- brought Heracross, Slowking, and Glaceon.
Now I'm doing the rocket radio tower part and dreading the fight against Houndoom with my current setup.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 20:54:04 No.51178797 Report

Quoted By: >>51178904

Rate my Sapphire team, in order of obtain:

Trickery, the Grovyle
Pickup, the Zigzagoon
Fuckup, the Zigzagoon
Fuck you, the Zigzagoon
Why, the Zigzagoon
Lydia, the Whismur

Box: empty
Badges: soon

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Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 21:06:16 No.51178896 Report

Quoted By: >>51184967

I started a hardcore emerald nuzlocke with the premise: Let's make this as easy as possible while not being an absolute shitter and using items, overleveling, or catching legendaries.
So I chose mudkip obviously and got lucky enough to get a lotad, swellow and hariyama. The lotad is just exp share party member right now, he will obviously come into play much later in the game, but the other three are BEASTS. I can't believe how little trouble I'm having with this. Both swellow and hariyama are guts (swellow is +atk, hariyama is +speed). I feel like all I need are pokemon to check the flying gym and psychic gym. So an electric type and dark type make the most sense. Probably magneton and sharpedo are what I'll go for.
I wanted to make this a quick and easy affair so that I can actually get to postgame and try the battle frontier for the first time ever. I have some mons I am gonna trade over from fire red to use that are trained up well, but I may just try it with my ingame team for a while.
Beastly squad, ungodly luck getting these mons.
Only death has been a level 2 poochy I sacked so I could have the option to catch a high level mightyena on route 121 later on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 21:07:35 No.51178904 Report

Quoted By: >>51178930

>>51178797
this is why I always play with dupes clause that shit sounds boring

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 21:12:05 No.51178930 Report

Quoted By: >>51178959

>>51178904
I get a lot of pickup shit already. Nugget, Rape Candy, Protein, Revive, all the things

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 21:15:28 No.51178959 Report

Quoted By: >>51179119

>>51178930
If you're gonna get dupes then zig is objectively the GOAT, get lots of useful shit. And he's a really good mon for a nuzlocke in general. But if it was me I would want variety, that's what makes it fun. Never considered playing without dupes clause because it just sounds a bit boring.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 21:44:47 No.51179119 Report

Quoted By: >>51179134

>>51178959
Doesn't matter, we wiped at Brawly

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 21:47:14 No.51179134 Report

Quoted By: >>51179145

>>51179119
Fuck. Well, funny how things work out, I guess...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 21:49:39 No.51179145 Report

Quoted By:

>>51179134
Turns out it's not advisable to bring a starter with a shitty movepool and five weak Normal-types to the Fighting gym.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 22:08:03 No.51179257 Report

Quoted By: >>51179289 >>51179394 >>51180590 >>51180837 >>51205666

Bit of an odd one, but I figured this would be the only place to ask this
Is there any romhack/essential game/mainline game that lends itself particularly well to a monotype run (possibly with a bunch of extra restrictions as I see fit); literally every single game I've tried so far fills the early areas with Grass/Bug/Water/Rock, so trying to put together a Ghost or Steel team early on is basically impossible (bonus points if you can choose from a wide assortment of starters too instead of the usual 3 types)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 22:14:04 No.51179289 Report

Quoted By: >>51179479

>>51179257
Have you tried Poison in Red?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 22:30:40 No.51179394 Report

Quoted By: >>51179479

>>51179257
I guess it depends on the type you want to use and how lenient you are with evolutions. You could for example start a decent steel team early in platinum with Piplup and Onix or a ghost team in Alola with Rowlet and the mons in the cemetery .

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 22:43:24 No.51179479 Report

Quoted By: >>51179507 >>51205666

>>51179289
I've done most of the "common" types in mainline games already (Water/Grass/Fire/Poison/Bug/Flying/Normal/Rock/Ground), usually adding some extra rules such as a cap on BST to keep things interesting
Now I'd like to try some of the more obscure types, but most games don't really offer you much in the way of them: you can barely get a full Ice team in the first 6 gens, and it's usually considered an endgame type so you'd have to do half the game with a single traded starter mon, which kinda defeats the purpose
Ultimately the fun is in exploring the flexibility of a type when facing fights that would normally require abusing type advantages

>>51179394
I've generally avoided multi-stage evos so far (so Onix would be viable while Piplup wouldn't), but I guess I'll have to be a bit less strict in the future if I wanna get all types done eventually
Every single hack I've tried so far also sticks to the classic starter typings, which kinda stinks when you wanna be a purist and immediately start the challenge

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 22:47:00 No.51179507 Report

Quoted By: >>51182265

>>51179479
Which playthrough was the easiest for you?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 22:55:43 No.51179551 Report

Quoted By:

buddy and I did a soul link fr lg I might post an image for

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Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2022 23:41:58 No.51179825 Report

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Fun run, never did a Soul Link before. We had a Slaking and Walrein as our starters, random abilities. It was a challenging run but also extremely fun. We doin HGSS next, gonna do Set battle, and likely a level cap rule.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2022 02:16:32 No.51180590 Report

Quoted By: >>51180837 >>51182265

>>51179257
Other than the classic Drayano or Buffel Salt hack answers I don't really think there's any, especially ones that are feasible if you want to load on extra rules. Games like Radical Red where you can have a full early team of ghosts and steels aren't really feasible for a nuzlocke (though you can do it, it'd just be really hard).
Insurgence probably works well due to the high encounter variety (just don't touch Hard Mode), Fool's Gold and AlteRed probably allow for enough fuckery with unusual types, ROWE or Crystal Clear might be worth looking into just by virtue of being open world, Inflamed Red is basically Radical Red but a lot easier so a few unorthodox types should be doable.
I think the best at the end of the day are going to be Renegade Platinum (maybe try Altered Platinum, it's the same thing but a bit easier and Sinnohian forms for type diversity) and Inclement Emerald though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2022 02:57:04 No.51180837 Report

Quoted By:

>>51179257
>>51180590
Also looking at it, you could get away with Unbound too.
>get steel type starter, then Drilbur, Mawile, Alolan Sandshrew and Riolu early
>several ice, dark and fairy types early as well
Unfortunately probably couldn't do ghost, though there are Oricorio and a few ghost types like Gastly early on. Also would recommend the normal difficulty

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Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2022 09:05:10 No.51182253 Report

Quoted By: >>51199458

doing a monowater hgss nuzlocke, only 1 death so far being a goldeen to rival 2s bayleef

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2022 09:11:40 No.51182265 Report

Quoted By:

>>51179507
I've heard that gen8 is very very easy because you immediately have access to the wild areas with tons of variety to pick from, but I personally haven't played it yet so I can't say for sure
Easiest one I've done is by far Flying in SS: you can basically get a full team by the second gym and most of the bosses (outside of Jasmine and Brock) are easily doable since you have great offensive stats across the board
Water is also somewhat relaxing in terms of variety, as you may expect, but you have to make some sacrifices before you acquire the fishing rods

>>51180590
Thank you very much anon, I'll save this and check these out
I've barely managed to finish a RR nuzlocke already (with regular rules) so doing a monotype run of it just seems a bit suicidal to me, but games with wide encounter pools like Insurgence seem optimal for what I'm trying to do

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2022 09:28:58 No.51182303 Report

Quoted By:

Are there any Patches that add in a level cap?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2022 12:42:01 No.51182906 Report

Quoted By: >>51182917

I shall try again, in Sapphire, this time with the firestarter?

Yes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2022 12:44:54 No.51182917 Report

Quoted By:

>>51182906
The moving truck lagged and shook and made noises like broken record

This playthrough is cursed already

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2022 15:21:12 No.51183621 Report

Quoted By:

Stay alive, dammit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2022 18:59:07 No.51184967 Report

Quoted By:

>>51178896
Remember that Winona's Altaria has Earthquake and Dragon Dance.
A better choice to kill the flying gym is something like Gyarados or Pelipper, you can get Ice Beam at the Abandoned Ship near Dewford and that + Surf should destroy her whole team

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2022 23:38:40 No.51186700 Report

Quoted By:

"no"

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Aug 2022 03:31:14 No.51187983 Report

Quoted By: >>51190168

Did you guys know Qilfish learns Destiny Bond?
Because I just lost my level 55 Vileplume to one
Gotta grind a level 12 Natu for Bruno now

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Anonymous Fri 12 Aug 2022 04:15:50 No.51188198 Report

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Progress: Made some progress--my emulator shit the bed briefly, losing said progress in the meanwhile before saving. So decided to sleep it off, then wake up the next day to get things straight.

Team Rocket's casino lair was dismantled, and Giovanni-1 was swept by Squad Leader and his Machoke bro. Erika's wilted and chopped, not by flames this time, but by talon and beak. Well, that WAS the plan, but Doduo got melted by her Victreebel, leaving the Safari Zone-snuck Nidoqueen and Victreebel of my own to Strength and grind down with Acid.

I had thought about going down the Cycling Road route first this time instead of the Seaside Routes--a dead Dugtrio (and main Cutter) was the price paid. So now it's back to the seaside route, get a Venonat, grind him up into an All-Terrain-Venomoth, and will continue the grind-sploration another day.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Aug 2022 11:30:17 No.51190165 Report

Quoted By:

We livin

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Aug 2022 11:31:04 No.51190168 Report

Quoted By:

>>51187983
Evilfish

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Aug 2022 16:32:03 No.51192473 Report

Quoted By:

Bump

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Anonymous Fri 12 Aug 2022 17:38:35 No.51193081 Report

Quoted By:

>>51164082
>>51163427
Finally finished my Crystal run on attempt 2, 6 deaths total
>Gyarados to first E4
>Blissey and Starmie to Blue
>Quagsire, Houndoom, and Magneton to Red
Holy fuck Red's Lax had the best RNG I've ever seen, hits every body slam through 3 mud slaps and para'd me every time. What a sweaty fight holy shit way too close to wiping

game is free except the last two fights
3 HC nuzlocke wins in the bank

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Aug 2022 17:42:36 No.51193124 Report

Quoted By: >>51193855 >>51195264 >>51195356 >>51200682

>>51136860
Nuzlocke is a retarded name and it should be called something else.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Aug 2022 18:58:27 No.51193855 Report

Quoted By:

>>51193124
what are your suggestions o mighty anon

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Aug 2022 22:00:47 No.51195264 Report

Quoted By:

>>51193124
You can't just say that and not give ideas.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Aug 2022 22:11:16 No.51195356 Report

Quoted By:

>>51193124
I henceforth declare and decree that all challenge runs shall be named Tim.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Aug 2022 23:05:19 No.51195780 Report

Quoted By: >>51196339 >>51199314

Am I the only idiot that accidently runs from an encounter at least once per nuzlocke?

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Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 00:14:37 No.51196277 Report

Quoted By: >>51199458 >>51200682

I will admit I did not have the highest of expectations for the team but I did not expect all the newbies to die in the last battle before the league. They fared surprisingly well against the Kimono girls and despite some close calls they had no trouble with the trainers in Kanto, but then everything went to shit against Silver. I swear every single one of his pokemon landed at least one critical hit on me. Umbreon took critical hits every time I switched him in to take a hit. It was probably the unluckiest pokemon battle I've ever had. Without poison point activating on Feraligatr I would have lost right there and then.
On a more positive note, I completely forgot how gorgeous the Ho-Oh cutscene is. Both the music and animation were incredible. HG is a really beautiful game when it is not fucking you in the ass without warning.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 00:22:38 No.51196339 Report

Quoted By:

>>51195780
I've had it happen multiple times when being a shitter and dupes clause manipulating for encounters
I had gone into auto-pilot running away from stuff because dupes and then accidentally run away from the thing I was trying to get.
But that's karma for dupes clause abuse, I suppose

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 01:06:54 No.51196609 Report

Quoted By: >>51197768

>Red Nuzlocke
>but the first Pokémon encountered in an area may only be caught if it's a Poison-type

Not first Poison-type in an area; if the first Pokémon in an area isn't a Poison-type, that means I don't get anything from that area.

Is this practically doable, or am I setting myself up for failure? Do note that HM availability is guaranteed, since the Bulbasaur line learns Cut, you can buy a Nidorina at the game corner for Surf and Strength, while neither Fly nor Flash is actually required to progress.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 04:25:29 No.51197768 Report

Quoted By: >>51199334

>>51196609
Yes, it's one of the few monotype nuzlockes of RBY/FRLG that's actually properly doable, too. Lots of decent variety and Venusaur, Nidoking, Tentacruel are some of the most powerful Pokemon in the game.

The only major roadblocks of course are Sabrina and the final rival fights with Alakazam, thankfully the AI is pretty bad and it won't always go for Psychic. If you do the proper levelling and stat exp grinding you might even outspeed those Alakazams with some of your faster mons

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Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 04:40:30 No.51197855 Report

Quoted By: >>51199458 >>51200682

Progress: Nabbed a Fearow from Route 18 so I could have a Fly-Taxi. Took Cubone out of the day-care and worked her alongside the rest of the Squirtle Squad to become a Boss Queen who'll defy her fate and NOT become a helmet for another angsty Cubone...!

The Fuchsia routes have been cleared and are on re-match lockdown. Saffron calls, but the Squad Leader's big guns are law: we get stronger.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 12:04:25 No.51199314 Report

Quoted By:

>>51195780
No all streamerfags do this

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 12:09:37 No.51199334 Report

Quoted By: >>51200824 >>51201258

>>51197768
Depending on the definition of "properly doable", it is indeed the only one in RBY. Water seems like it should work, but you can't get anything that learns Cut before you need Cut to progress. Flying can just about work, but only if you count Charmander and Charmeleon as Flying, since they evolve into Charizard. Grass, Fire and Electric have no chance in hell, and those are the types represented among the starters in the games.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 12:41:17 No.51199458 Report

Quoted By: >>51200682 >>51201329 >>51205619 >>51209513

Vroad!Cheren.

Vycey got taunted by Unfezant, but responded by killing it in a single Ice Beam. I sent in Rogiero on Emboar, It's flamethrower hits harder than I hoped so after Rogiero crits Rock Slide, I send in Dan Duran on a nasty probably Blaze Boosted Flamethrower. Due to Emboar's leftovers it lives a Return. I get super fucking lucky and Emboar goes for takedown instead of Blaze!Flamethrower, so Dan lives on 5hp while Emboar dies to recoil. I send in Tohru on Liepard and kill it with a Brick Break. I send in Vycey on Seed Bomb from Simisage, but even with eviolite (so 105 defense) it does over half so I send in Snevio to heal Dan. Dan kills the Seed Bomb spamming simian with an ice punch, living two Seed Bombs on 55hp.

It's weird I don't remember Cheren's level jumping up so much from Drayden. Might've not paid much attention, I suppose. Now i'm going to try and survive V-road. Afterwards I'm going to tinker on my team for the E4 bullshit.

I also still have Mistralton cave and the water route near route 1 to explore, but I'm saving that for a bit later.
>>51197855
Good luck! Your team looks solid. Hope Mizdedledy will become a champ!
>>51196277
Jesus DICKS really went all out on you. That +the Clair massacre really left you scrambling. Did you get any Safarizone lads?
>>51182253
Hows the run going so far? There isn't much resistance in Johto against water so it should be going well. How did you manage to defeat Bugsy and Whitney?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 15:34:58 No.51200397 Report

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the hardest nuzlocke is emerald if you choose treecko as your starter (this is including kaizo romhacks)

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AKIN Sat 13 Aug 2022 16:24:50 No.51200682 Report

Quoted By: >>51201258 >>51201329

Been a long time since I've been in this thread, between my computer needing repairs and going out of the country, I've decided to just restart my Diamond run since I wasn't very far. Needless to say, this run isn't off to the greatest start: lost my Starly to not paying attention, losing my Shinx to Withdraw spam on my rival's Turtwig, and losing two Bidoofs and my Budew to Cranidos shenanigans. At least my starter survived thanks to the brave sacrifices of my Bidoofs, so this is salvageable.

>>51199458
Good luck for Victory Road! I like your Darmanitan's name.
>>51197855
Super based team.
>>51196277
That's a rough graveyard, but you can still get it done. Your squad is equipped with the moveset to win. Would teach someone Thunderbolt if possible for Drake's Gyarados.
>>51193124
Sugma

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Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 16:39:24 No.51200769 Report

Quoted By: >>51202424 >>51203026

Are there no cheat codes/romhacks that add level caps for each gym leader?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 16:51:23 No.51200824 Report

Quoted By: >>51201258

>>51199334
Yeah by properly doable I just meant you don't need to resort to insane luck and can make certain allowances for HMs/starters.
Normal, Poison, Water, Flying all fall roughly in that. Fighting and Bug are just barely possible in FRLG. I actually think that Electric in Yellow is just barely doable, I've seen Pikachu make it past Brock solo and if you allow Zapdos it should help for all those late game ground mons. Rest are impossible or require massive overlevelling or item spamming though

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 17:26:01 No.51201028 Report

Quoted By: >>51210348

>>51152032
Took some time off from the run due to work, but made some progress. Lost Foghorn to a Machop's Karate Chop, stupid Gen 1 crit mechanics. Caught ThatsRight the Meowth, Fish the Magikarp, and SANIC the Sandshrew though. Currently clearing out the S.S. Anne, and Fish is 19, so just need to grab one of the Rare Candies from the PC and then it is time to break the game. Rest of the team is 22 or 23, except SANIC, who is 18.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 18:06:43 No.51201258 Report

Quoted By: >>51201269 >>51204878

Just started XD and got to the part where I can purify shadow Pokemon. I'm allowing myself to catch one shadow Pokemon per trainer. For the trainers that have multiple shadow Pokemon I'll catch whichever one they send out first.
I lost my Poochyena to the last battle before purification which sucks, but there's a chance to get a Houndour soon so I probably would've replaced Poochyena anyway.

>>51200682
Welcome back. Good luck on your run.
>>51199334
>>51200824
Bug is doable in RBY, I did it myself a few months ago. A lot of battles by the end of the game were won by putting something to sleep with Butterfree/Venomoth then switching to Beedrill to set up and sweep with twin needle or hyper beam.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 18:08:10 No.51201269 Report

Quoted By: >>51201289

>>51201258
Is XD as much of a slog as Colosseum?
I couldn't stand those corridors full of filler NPC figbts

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 18:11:07 No.51201289 Report

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>>51201269
I have no idea. I haven't played XD since it released.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 18:16:53 No.51201329 Report

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>>51199458
>Did you get any Safarizone lads
An Abra that is too fragile for this cursed run.

>>51200682
>Your squad is equipped with the moveset to win
It may not be as efficient as buying the elemental punches or playing the slots but voltorbflip is a lot of fun.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 19:50:19 No.51202059 Report

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Short update on my first run. Almost lost my starter to a Koffing... we are doing well though, we got the 4th Badge and defeated Giovanni.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 20:00:52 No.51202131 Report

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I miss Milk Dud, bros. I never used a Makuhita before this run and he was doing so well, but a crit killed him in training.

This is my second ever nuzlocke, about to take on Flannery but I also don't want to shovel exp only onto my starter. Thinking about swapping Numel out for Solrock and working on leveling it via gym trainers. I think the type coverage would work better, too, getting rock/psychic in the mix and not doubling up on ground.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 20:36:15 No.51202397 Report

Quoted By: >>51202412 >>51204878 >>51205700

Decided to finally give Nuzlocking a try with White. I hope I'm not over my head here. (Set, No Items, Level Caps)
Despite thinking I prepared well enough, Striaton Gym did not go as planned.
I don't think I even knew that Pickup steals the consumed item from your opponent, and as such the Lillipup got not one, but two Oran Berry heals. (Plus a Potion, I really should've played around that though)
I very nearly lost here, but I was able to get through with only Autumn being lost thanks to the third Oran Berry letting Mickey switch in on Monke and come off top.
I have to wonder if they gave those Oran Berries to you on purpose just to teach you this interaction.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 20:39:08 No.51202412 Report

Quoted By: >>51203491

>>51202397
I'm doing a casual playthrough of White and the change to Pickup being able to steal used items threw me for a loop too. I'm sorry for your loss, Lillipup is a great early-route mon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 20:40:37 No.51202424 Report

Quoted By: >>51203044

>>51200769
Anyone?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 22:08:22 No.51203026 Report

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>>51200769
Radical Red does iirc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 22:10:54 No.51203044 Report

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>>51202424
There really aren't any that solely add level caps I don't think, sorry

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 23:08:41 No.51203491 Report

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>>51202412
If I'm not mistaken, Vital Spirit Lillipup evolves into Intimidate Herdier, which would be really handy to have against something like a near unavoidable Retaliate from the second gym. Or really, anything else down the road.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Aug 2022 23:20:46 No.51203596 Report

Quoted By: >>51204434

Patrat guy here
Deaths on the train don't count right?
Is it even legal to use that place?

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 00:54:53 No.51204269 Report

Quoted By: >>51204329

Do I have to?

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 01:01:49 No.51204329 Report

Quoted By: >>51204357

>>51204269
You must

now I ask you, do deaths on battle facilities (like the battle subway) count ?/

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 01:05:32 No.51204357 Report

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>>51204329
It should since the Pokemon can faint there, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 01:15:23 No.51204434 Report

Quoted By: >>51204628

>>51203596
It's your rules
Generally people say that battle facility deaths never count

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 01:41:27 No.51204628 Report

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>>51204434
That's what I needed to hear
I want to EV train before the E4 and I goddamn want to win this run
Might as well grind a bit.more for interesting items too

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 02:12:06 No.51204832 Report

Quoted By: >>51204878 >>51204883 >>51205003

Wooper or Sugma?

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 02:19:06 No.51204878 Report

Quoted By: >>51222633

>>51201258
One of the cipher peons was pissed at me for snagging his Teddiursa earlier in the game, and he ended up killing it in a rematch. I guess if he can't have it, no one can.
The first cipher admin battle went pretty badly. Delcatty was stronger than I expected. Shadow attacks being super effective against all regular Pokemon seems too strong.

>>51204832
Wooper
>>51202397
I didn't know pickup did that either.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 02:19:44 No.51204883 Report

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>>51204832
The slug is the cutest one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 02:42:14 No.51205003 Report

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>>51204832
I'd say Slugma because honestly I've never used one so I'm going to project onto you
Wooper is probably the OBJECTIVE best option though since Quag is, in my experience, a monster in nuzlockes

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 03:48:50 No.51205284 Report

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>lost my Wooper because a Bellsprout killed it because it outsped
NOOOOOOOOO

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 04:31:19 No.51205467 Report

Quoted By: >>51205512 >>51205700

>still lost to Falkner even with this team
;__;
I thought Pokemon was easy..?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 04:40:14 No.51205512 Report

Quoted By: >>51205531

>>51205467
Did you explicitly build a team with the goal of getting your ass kicked by Falkner?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 04:42:26 No.51205531 Report

Quoted By: >>51205630

>>51205512
There was pretty much nothing I could do
Tried the fight like 5 times
Every result ended the same

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 04:59:28 No.51205617 Report

Quoted By: >>51205666 >>51227284 >>51233415 >>51233740

>>51136860
Started one on LeafGreen today because I wrapped up my (non-Nuzlocke) mono-Ground run of SoulSilver. God that shit was hell from Morty all the way to Lance.
Anyway, I caught a Spearow on Route 22 (left my Bulbasaur with 1 HP in the process), smacked Brock, got a 15% encounter rate Female Nidoran on Route 3, bought the Magikarp, caught a Zubat in Mt. Moon and then put the game down for the day.
Never done a Nuzlocke before and I'm running Hardcore rules too (no items in battle except held items, no outlevelling gym leaders and Set battle type).
This shit is stressful. My 1st challenge run in any Pokemon game was the SoulSilver run I just talked about.

Pic Related is the current team. Disappointed but not surprised I couldn't nab a Pikachu in Viridian Forest.
Jolteon it is when we hit Celadon I guess

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 04:59:46 No.51205619 Report

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Progress: Saffron's liberation was at hand! The Martial Arts Dojo jobbed to a bug and a screeching pitcher plant, Rockets and their honcho had proverbial rods shoved up inside them--save the occasional Self-Destruct scare--and now Koga must pay. How? Why? And did he create his daughter through ninja asexual reproduction?

Mysteries...

>>51199458
It'd be nice to keep a Marowak and have them as champion material. I hope she doesn't get scorched or drowned.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 05:02:19 No.51205630 Report

Quoted By: >>51205634

>>51205531
Okay, let me rephrase
You explicitly built a team with the goal of getting your ass kicked by Falkner
I know its a nuzlocke but how did you manage to assemble a team of the 5 worst pokemon for that fight you possibly could?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 05:03:18 No.51205634 Report

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>>51205630
My Wooper got outsped by a Level 6 Bellsprout and died while grinding him
I could have probably killed Falkner with that Wooper

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 05:09:55 No.51205666 Report

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>>51179257
>>51179479
Ground Type in HeartGold. SPECIFICALLY HeartGold. Soulsilver locks your ass out of:
>Sandslash unless you're willing to slave away at Voltorb flip
>Phanpy/Donphan
>Gligar/Gliscor
>Baltoy/Claydol if you wanted to use that against Red.
I made the mistake of playing it on SoulSilver. See my post. >>51205617
The Nido Royalty are maximum Kino against Lance tho. Both have decent-ish Special Attack and can learn Thunderbolt and Ice Beam (Or Thunder and Blizzard if you're not a freak like me who went and got Sandshrew too).

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 05:18:35 No.51205700 Report

Quoted By: >>51205740 >>51206279 >>51210361

Funny story, I wanted to get back to my Nuzlocke in >>51159295, but it looks like my save file got corrupted and it defaulted back to the save state of me picking my starter, so... whoops?
I was thinking of doing an Emerald run but all the Dive and Surf shenanigans really kill my motivation to play the game. Does Ruby fix those issues somewhat?

>>51205467
Well, Nuzlocking was made to make pokemon harder. If you're not prepared for some fights, it can be brutal. like when my magnezone got fucking demolished because the enemy gardevoir traced magnet pull in a double battle and it got promptly fucked up by an earth power
Falkner's level cap is level 13, so you can afford to grind your team up a bit. I'd probably also pick Cyndaquil instead of Chikorita since Cyndaquil is an incredible early-game carry and deals with Bugsy's terrifying Scyther.
>>51202397
B/W for a first Nuzlocke can be a pretty tough challenge, but as long as you remember a few things you should be fine.
>Enemies have COVERAGE up the wazoo. Zebstrika has Flame Charge, Timburr gets Rock Throw, Druddigon gets Revenge, etc.
>Lenora, Elesa and Clay are the scariest gym trainers. Do not go in without a plan because you're going to get demolished if you think you can just sweep with your starter.
>Do not underestimate the Lillipup line, they hit incredibly hard and the double Herdier fight after Nimbasa Cheren can fuck you up.
>You can get an Eviolite at the top of Castelia. In the last door to the right, you can talk to a scientist who will give you an Eviolite. It is an absolute LIFESAVER and I 100% recommend getting it since Unova mons evolve stupid late.
>You can buy useful TMs like Light Screen, Reflect and Thunder Wave in Nimbasa.
>Sigilyph are basically mini-bosses. Don't be afraid to sacrifice a pokemon and cut your losses when fighting one of those fuckers.
Good luck, because Unova is really unforgiving.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 05:29:40 No.51205740 Report

Quoted By: >>51213153

>>51205700
Ruby is the exact same as Emerald on that front.
Try Heliodor, it's an expansion hack of Emerald which is just QoL, no difficulty or new mons or whatever. It makes HMs usable as long as someone in the party can use the move

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 08:26:21 No.51206279 Report

Quoted By: >>51206707 >>51213153

>>51205700
>Good luck, because Unova is really unforgiving.
Yeah my memories from when BW came out are mostly limited to Lenora basically being a Whitney+ and Clay being an issue.
Coverage from Timburr and Bide in Pinwheel served as a reminder to pay attention while you're grinding.

I ended up getting a Throh (Henceforth known as Bob) for the Pinwheel catch, which turned out to be pretty important for Lenora, imagine that.
I led with Dua here to eat up the Intimidate and bait out a Bite and then switched to Bob and beat Herdier.
I had to have someone take the Retaliate hit. I couldn't let Nate take it since he was needed to beat the Watchog.
In the moment I elected to go with Edgar, in the vain hopes of actually taking the hit. In hindsight, I'm not sure if that was the right choice, but the fight itself went as planned.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 11:14:27 No.51206707 Report

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>>51206279
>Lenora actually using retaliate after Herdier dies
What the fuck. Me and an other anon discussed how she never goes for it last few threads. Unlucky man.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 14:23:08 No.51207611 Report

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bump

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 18:14:54 No.51209113 Report

Quoted By: >>51209513

>Look at Pansage/Simisage learnset to figure when to evolve it.
>See Simisage learns Seed Bomb at level 1
>Read it as it learning it on evolution
Shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 19:13:47 No.51209513 Report

Quoted By: >>51209874

>>51199458
>Lose Petepou on V-Road
>Immediately panic since he was my Chandelure counter
Kill me. Also the Deino line is retarded with its levels and im seriously considering catching something else.
>>51209113
Thats a bummer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 20:11:59 No.51209874 Report

Quoted By: >>51210059

>>51209513
I feel like Deino wouldn't be that great, would you even get access to Hydreigon with those evo levels?

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 20:29:43 No.51209992 Report

Quoted By: >>51223722

Pokemon X, semi-blind nuzlocke (looking up Rivals/Gyms) for my first playtrough

Viola done, Bandit almost died after headbutting Surskit, Mary switched and rolledout Vivillon
I am also now very familiar with streets layout of Santalune

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 20:42:29 No.51210059 Report

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>>51209874
Zweilous' level is literally my cap for E4 and Hydreigon is level 64, so post-game.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 21:20:59 No.51210253 Report

Quoted By: >>51210419 >>51232333

The team is mostly ready for the E4. All I need is a Water Stone now.
Anyone has any tips for speeding pokeathlon grinding? I really suck at the minigames and most guides online I could find either skip the pokeathlon or just say to win every time if I want points quick.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 21:43:22 No.51210348 Report

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>>51201028
Beat Gary on the S.S. Anne, with a clean sweep by Fish, because Gyarados is broken in Gen 1. Then Lt. Surge's gym was easy with Sanic knowing Dig. The "puzzle" took longer than the fights combined. Caught Saul the Diglett in Diglett Cave, and went and got the items and the Old Amber, and skipped getting Flash. Next up is Rock Tunnel and lots of darkness.

Was going to use the generator, but apparently it doesn't like me trying to download the image. So instead get the ugly list version of my team.

TOAD, Ivysaur 23
Fish, Gyarados 21
SANIC, Sandslash 22
Forgotten, Pidgeotto 22
Monarch, Butterfree 22
Sasha, Nidoqueen 23

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 21:46:08 No.51210361 Report

Quoted By: >>51213153

>>51205700
>Falkner's level cap is level 13, so you can afford to grind your team up a bit. I'd probably also pick Cyndaquil instead of Chikorita since Cyndaquil is an incredible early-game carry and deals with Bugsy's terrifying Scyther.
I guess I'll start the Nuzlocke again
This was my first Nuzlocke, I know HGSS isn't the best one for it but I want to replay it again

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 21:54:57 No.51210419 Report

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>>51210253
You can get Mamoswine with a Heart Scale.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 23:13:06 No.51210809 Report

Quoted By: >>51213153

My road has been intense
Around 15 tries, with victory still eluding me, 30 patrats to tell my testament
My first nuzlocke run, a White run, is nearing its end
70 hours
No beloved ally lost to gym leaders
But to the cruel reversals of fate, critical hits, and my own mistakes.
Now, with a full team of 6, fully ev trained, trained with care and thought
Our final battle awaits
Matilda, the timid Excadrill
Salvador, the rash scrafty
Puto, the careful swoobat
Alejandro, the sassy jellicent
Alec, the careful cofagrigus
Elma, the docile chandelure
My brave companions will venture with me to the end of this ling journey, many have fallen, may god decide no more do.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 23:24:07 No.51210857 Report

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Before we enter the maws of hell I will remember those who fell so we could move forward, those who fell victim to fate's whims
Troy the blitzle, crit
Gaming the thirtieth, crit
Danny Devito the pansear, trying to steal more berries than I should
NIGGER! The scraggy, after conquering Driftveil alone he died to a crit on route 6
Fresia the petilil, died training to fill the team
Amelia the zebstrika, Conqueroress of Mistralton, died to 2 hi jump kicks on a double battle
Amaru the sigilyph, crit
Caspozo the swoobat, crit
Esperanza the cinccino, crit
Musashi the throh, my imprudence killed him
Maevis the swanna, crit
Pascal the audino, crit
Puta the woobat, died (underleveled) while serving as a flying steed

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 23:50:19 No.51211016 Report

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I battle grimsley first
His scrafty and my excadrill exchange blows, his beast falls, mine is left half beaten, krookodile comes forth, expecting the earthquake I bring to my cofagrigus to power split, then scrafty, he nearly gets killed, jellicent comes and poisons him, expecting a dark move I bring out excadrill again and finish the reptile, bisharp appears, he is fallen by one move of excadrill, the last move of the crocodile left excadrill at 30 hp, the rest of the team was badly beaten, expecting a fake out I sent chandelure against the elite's leipard, the final draw came, Liepard stroke first, leaving my familiar at a third of its life, in return a flame burst ended his life

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Anonymous Sun 14 Aug 2022 23:59:15 No.51211061 Report

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Then caitlin
Elma the chandelure outsped and instantly beat each of her creatures, attaining the seventh sense (lvl 50) at the of the battle

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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 00:37:21 No.51211306 Report

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Now Shauntal
Scrafty lead and continuously beat down cofagrigus, which was being healed, after she fell down for good golurk entered the scene, I ordered scrafty to attack, hoping he could end her in one hit, golurk was left on the bring of death, then retaliated with an earthquake for over half of scrafty's health, I sent alejandro, he withstood an earthquake and killed the titan, then came her jellicent, mine protected to see her choice of attack, I tried to poison her but failed, I sent scrafty in his stead to take a shadow ball and then Alec to take a surf, he then poisoned her floating phantasm, guarded for a turn, letting the poison work, then excadrill came to end the weakened foe, finally her own chandelure became present, one last draw, mirroring Grimsley 's battle, this time Chandelure did not go second, it couldn't draw at all

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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 00:40:42 No.51211323 Report

Quoted By: >>51211328 >>51213153

Should I do a BW2 or HGSS nuzlocke?

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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 00:41:51 No.51211328 Report

Quoted By: >>51211340

>>51211323
Always found BW2 overall more comfy

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 00:43:27 No.51211340 Report

Quoted By: >>51211720

>>51211328
Isn't HGSS a really comfy game though?

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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 01:05:32 No.51211443 Report

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My most feared challenge... Marshall
I sent out jellicent, he poisoned the helpless throh, once needed marshall cured his monster, I ordered alejandro to cure itself, in return his judoka critically hit a payback killing my erstwhile companion, then went cofagrigus, he ended the vile oni with a shadowball, after that a dance started, switching back and forth with him and excadrill slowly bringing down conkeldurr and sawk, Alec was wounded so my trick could not work safely anymore, in front of my matilda came his mienshao, fearing the worst I switched to my swoobat, trained in speed and survival, to set up a reflect, in return he survived an stone edge, after fulfulling his duty excadrill came back to the field, after 2 earthquakes and one jump kick mienshao and marshall were defeated

The elite 4 was bested.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 01:45:48 No.51211696 Report

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>>51139721
>>51139837
>>51139973

lmao I’m getting old

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 01:48:24 No.51211710 Report

Quoted By: >>51211714 >>51211720 >>51211889

Snivy or Oshawott?

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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 01:49:36 No.51211714 Report

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>>51211710
OshaBASED

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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 01:50:25 No.51211720 Report

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>>51211340
The aesthetic is more comfy than BW2, but the weird levels and pacing always felt off to me
>>51211710
Oshawott is the best of the starters imo, but you get good water types in Unova anyway. Go for smug snek

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 02:27:07 No.51211889 Report

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>>51211710
Tepig

Romhack Nuzlocker(Sword)

Romhack Nuzlocker(Sword) Mon 15 Aug 2022 03:05:12 No.51212089 Report

Quoted By: >>51212134

>>51136860
So while I was out of state traveling rural I already cleared Let's GO in just 18 hours, everything but Pikachu died of course moved on to Sword which isn't too bad when I ban D*namaxed Pokemon.Hau2 Snorlax was actually AIDS.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 03:13:18 No.51212134 Report

Quoted By: >>51227941

>>51212089
>Hau

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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 06:57:52 No.51213128 Report

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Progress: ...Squad Leader needed to clear his head, get a smoke, do his eight hours of drugs, snort some Tangela vines... More old friends were lost.

With two different Psychic attacks, Shuglbugl wasted the ninja-gym--sent the weebs packing, making Koga wish he was back in time, enjoying delicious potato mochi.

Exploring the sea routes, a combination of continued confusion from Supersonic, and repeated Horn stabbings, resulted in the death of the cash cat. Fish food. Seafoam Islands can wait.

Channelers were swept by Shugl--too fast for them to do their Destiny Bond bullplop; Psychics were whittled by the others. Rifltip slashed and aerial-aced the Kadabra and Venomoth, and getting a lucky crit on the Mr. Mime. The Alakazam struck true with Psychic, leaving Squad Leader the 'privilege' of revenge, of using brute Strength to break the Alakazam. "Brawn over Brains!" Ash Ketchum had once said. Sabrina's gonna need some choice kush to drown this defeat out of her mind.

Cinnabar and Seafoam's the next stop.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 07:05:37 No.51213153 Report

Quoted By: >>51213402

Decided to do a run of X with an additional rule. If there's a Kalos pokemon in the route, it gets encounter priority over other encounters. I really don't want to play a 3ds game only to end up with a glorified Kanto team. If there's no new Kalos pokemon in a route, standard encounter rules apply.
Anyway, first gym done and you really need to give them props for not just making it a gym that you can sweep only with your fire-type starter, it's really well done.
>Send out Dazzle against Viola's Surskit. Dazzle takes out the Surskit with two Struggle Bugs as it sets up a Water Sport.
>Viola then sends out her Vivillon, I swap to Plum on an Infestation. Plum tries to peck away at the Vivillon but it gets a crit Tackle and Infestation gets the unlucky 5-turn trap, killing the Fletchling. I swap to Lumini to finish the job with one Ember.
Regional birds have shit luck in Nuzlockes, huh?

>>51205740
I was looking for more of a ROM hack, but it seems interesting to play with friends given how it has multiplayer. I'll check it out sometime.
>>51211323
HGSS I'd say. BW2 is cool too, but I prefer HGSS.
>>51210361
HGSS isn't the worst for first Nuzlockes, it mellows out through gyms 5-7. Just make sure to read up on gym trainers, figure out level caps, yadda yadda.
>>51206279
>Watchog retaliated
Huh, so I guess Lenora does go for that.
>>51210809
>Excadrill, Jellicent & Scrafty
Yeah, you got this in the bag.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 08:39:35 No.51213402 Report

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Not much happened between Lenora and Burgh. You get only 1 new encounter too.
Gina ended up dying to having her defense lowered, and as I was switching for safety, ended up getting Pursuited. Unfortunate.
Mentioned it previously, but I also screwed myself out of Seed Bomb on Simisage.
Burgh was not a threat. With Joey having Intimidate, Whirlipede lacked the damage output to do much, Dwebble has nothing to beat Bob, and Leavanny has nothing to stop Eviolite Pignite.
At least early game is over now and there's what, 5 or 6 encounters for me before Elesa?

>>51213153
>If there's a Kalos pokemon in the route, it gets encounter priority over other encounters.
I like that a lot. BW2 onwards they've really gone to improve the variety in encounters, but it does make it less likely to get to use new stuff under Nuzlocke rules.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 13:29:53 No.51214318 Report

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Jump

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 16:59:21 No.51215597 Report

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Badump

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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 17:16:12 No.51215715 Report

Quoted By: >>51215988

Bros, is it cheating if I make my starter Girantina in blaze black 2? Starters in gen 5 are ugly as shit and I have never used a girantina before.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 17:53:58 No.51215988 Report

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>>51215715
I think that whatever is fun for you is fine as long as your rules are set beforehand.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 18:53:52 No.51216512 Report

Quoted By: >>51217506

At last, I'll enter N's throne room...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 19:07:40 No.51216666 Report

Quoted By: >>51217506

Reshiram critted cofagrigus to death...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 19:09:40 No.51216689 Report

Quoted By: >>51217506

A sussy klingklang outsped and killed scrafty with focus blast

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 19:12:09 No.51216711 Report

Quoted By: >>51217506

Mienshao (248 atk ev) was a hair away from one shoting archeops, that weakness costed his life

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 19:16:27 No.51216759 Report

Quoted By: >>51217506

For ghetsis should I let my lead (dead) be killed again or is there some sort of special rule against him?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 19:28:30 No.51216859 Report

Quoted By: >>51217506

Ghetsis' Hydra hunt down my last 3 pokemon....

then I used mienshao and he swoop everyting, this still counts as a loss doesn't it.....

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 19:31:42 No.51216886 Report

Quoted By: >>51217506

This epic music....
It feels unearned...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 20:52:50 No.51217506 Report

Quoted By: >>51218189 >>51218222

>>51216512
>>51216666
>>51216689
>>51216711
>>51216759
>>51216859
>>51216886
I dont count Ghetsis lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 22:43:36 No.51218189 Report

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>>51217506
I do
>:(

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 22:51:07 No.51218222 Report

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>>51217506
I feel defeated, I guess I count him too....

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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2022 23:47:31 No.51218560 Report

Quoted By: >>51218678

This did not go well.
Two separate Sigilyphs struck. The first one was fully on me, somehow not putting Eviolite on Joey before the fight. I had a plan for the N one, but a Crit ended up leading to me losing Joey, who was going to be the cornerstone of my strategy against Elesa, unsurprisingly.
After considering the use of literal garbage, I elected for a much better plan.

Led with Kerry to either take out an Emolga, or get a hit in on both of them, use Bob to pivot into Corky who can then take them both down with Aqua Jet. (Well, the original plan was to get in at full HP if needed so he can take a hit with Sturdy instead)
Bad damage rolls led the latter Emolga to survive and take Corky out.
The Emolga was taken out safely with Mickey somewhere during the fight, leaving just Zebstrika to be beaten. Mickey failed to get a clean KO with Dig, at which point I chose to switch instead of going for a second Dig despite knowing a heal was coming, which was a mistake.
From here, Nate got Paralyzed by Spark, Sarah got Paralyzed by Spark, missed Will-o-Wisp and lost a damage roll, leading to her premature redeath. While it didn't ultimately matter, Bob also got Paralyzed by Spark for the 100% consistency.
Bob continues to prove his worth by just taking hits. I might've been able to keep Sarah alive if I believed in his bulk.
The run lives, but it's not ideal. At least Bob can hopefully beat Clay's Excadrill.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Aug 2022 00:02:49 No.51218678 Report

Quoted By: >>51218695 >>51227297

>>51218560
Losing a pokemon to Sigilyph is like a rite of passage for BW Nuzlocking.
Trust me, I've lost so many good mons to that piece of shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Aug 2022 00:04:46 No.51218695 Report

Quoted By: >>51218782

>>51218678
I have lost 15 white runs and never sigilyph has been any problem to me, am I doing something wrong?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Aug 2022 00:17:09 No.51218782 Report

Quoted By: >>51219803 >>51221729

>>51218695
Meh? It's mostly just a pain to deal with because most of the answers to it can usually get fucked. The Nimbasa N one is notorious because at that time your options are really limited.
>Boldore gets fucked by a Psybeam due to low Sp. Def.
>Sandile can easily get fucked by an Air Cutter that is pretty likely to crit.
>Liepard is shit.
>Any other answer is in a tough position to switch in because of how high Sigilyph's BST is compared to the rest of your party, not to mention that Sigilyph can Whirlwind your switch-in and put you in a really bad spot or Tailwind itself so you'll never outspeed.
Only way I've managed to squeak past that fight deathless is via using Crunch on Herdier, but even that's scary because of crits and you might want to save the Intimidate for Darumaka.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Aug 2022 03:07:47 No.51219803 Report

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>>51218782
Oh, due to my rules I always got a scraggy on route 4 that might be why I never have problems with it

>I failed the nuzlocke but did get the credits with my team
>now excadrill, scrafty, cofagrigus, chandelure and mienshao are banned
My next attemt is going to be hell

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Anonymous Tue 16 Aug 2022 04:40:55 No.51220307 Report

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Progress: Relief at last. The Squad Leader can indulge in some calming, anit-Fire/Ground/Rock assault and battery.

Seafoam Islands was fun to explore, some items--big woop. Pokemon Mansion--again, a botched catch attempt meant no Grimer. Squad Leader and Mizde got to enjoy slaughtering Blaine's flames.

There was no Sevii Island side-quest. Moving on--oh, wait, decided to spritz up on Max Repels to snag the Kanton Moltres for good luck.

Enzam, Domi, and Fio got to join in on the 'Viridian Violence', and the penultimate Rival encounter was an afterthought--even if Squad Leader clutched not dying to Psychic to rip ANOTHER Alakazam apart with his bare hands.

Next Location is: Victory Road.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Aug 2022 10:46:21 No.51221729 Report

Quoted By: >>51227710

>>51218782
Eviolite!Yamask's Mummy has saved me against that Daru countless times

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Anonymous Tue 16 Aug 2022 14:18:54 No.51222633 Report

Quoted By: >>51240953

>>51204878
This game is by far the hardest one I've done yet. Half of my team died in the last admin battle, and both Vaporeon and Breloom were close to dying too. Even some of the regular battles have been tough.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 16 Aug 2022 17:26:52 No.51223722 Report

Quoted By: >>51229044

>>51209992
2nd gym done, Mary 1HKO Aurora with Aqua Tail and needed 2 hits for Tyrunt. Huge Power is good, who knew
Barely avoided loses on the roads to the gym thanks to Ace Trainer Kadabra and the double Furfrou battle.
Benched Harry and Ember for gym while Julie, Rabbit and Saul are now going in the box to make place for Bat, Calamar and Ember

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 16 Aug 2022 19:17:16 No.51224336 Report

Quoted By: >>51227284 >>51237389

Retrying a Platinum run from ages ago.
Extra Rules:
Wedlocke
No items in battle
Level limit is gym ace -1
Dupes clause

1st badge down and it's the first time Roark hasn't killed at least one of my party members. Rania swept easily with growth + mega drain.

I did have an unfortunate death on Route 204, Matilda the lvl6 Bidoof, to a Budew who set up too many growths on me. She was Saladin's first partner.

Also accidentally killed the Zubat I encountered for Oreburgh gate. Got one in Ravaged Path anyway but Psyduck would've been nice

Now I'm just praying the windworks and forest don't eat me alive

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 16 Aug 2022 19:31:40 No.51224402 Report

Quoted By: >>51224925 >>51227710

>>51162899
Finished Pokemon Sword with very little incidents.
Eternatus was the meatgrinder and killed 2 of my mons. Before that I only lost 2.
In the end finished the game with Mata, Gumayusi, Marin and Canaa.
Overall the game is easy as fuck. But, I have to say that I actually enjoyed the story and the characters. Battling in a stadium is actually pretty nice and the fact that we have to fight a tournament instead of a E4 surprised me.
The game is actually way better than what detractors stated to me before. Outside of the starters and the champion (and hop), it's one of the best since gen. 5.
So after playing the main games, my ranking, for now, is:
1- Pokemon US/UM: it's comfy and the only thing that I disliked is the fire starter.
2- Pokemon SwSH: it's story puts him in this level. the game is easy but outside of the champion and starters is actually a good game to pass the time.
3- Pokemon X/Y: the story, starters and rival sucks. While easy is slightly harder than the game above.
4- Pokemon BW: I hate this game. I hate the SJW/Peta and the story. I hate this game so much that I never managed to endure enough to finish it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Aug 2022 20:56:53 No.51224925 Report

Quoted By: >>51226353 >>51227284

>>51224402
I really wanted to like SwSh. The setting being changed up to being more like a sports league (I suppose?) works pretty decently on paper, and there's some character arcs there that could've been great, but so many of the things it does just don't hit the mark for me.
With how the EXP Share is now mandatory also genuinely drained all the fun I could have with the game with it. There is basically no way to be underleveled at any given time unless you very actively shoot yourself in the foot, so there goes the difficulty.
Maybe I'll do a Nuzlocke of it somewhere down the road, and that'll improve it for me.
Finally replaying BW, once I finish it I'll have some choice words about it too, to be sure.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Aug 2022 21:00:33 No.51224954 Report

Quoted By: >>51227289

Anyone is playing blaze black/volt white 2 redux? Where the fuck do I find the damn leftover item in Castalia city?

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Anonymous Tue 16 Aug 2022 22:38:38 No.51225651 Report

Quoted By: >>51227710

Turns out that Quiver Dance Lilligant can setup against Clay's Palpitoad with roughly zero risk, making Excadrill not a problem.
Next up is gonna be Skyla, and my team has been pretty bad against Flying types this whole times. However, I could easily guarantee myself an Excadrill from Chargestone, and that's probably that fight in the bag.
I've noticed this pattern of whatever new Pokemon you can capture won't ever get to immediately evolve because their levels are all made specifically for this game. So most of them will be useless for the segment you catch them in at this point.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 00:12:02 No.51226309 Report

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>its a you keep crit-ing your first route pokemon each time
Dammit, that was the 4th one in a row. I don't think my run will last long.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 00:18:03 No.51226353 Report

Quoted By: >>51227284

>>51224925
I totally agree that the exp. share fucks things up and the game was easy as fuck, if you don't put serious restrictions on your team (I did not use items in battle, used the same amount of pokemons as the opponents and so on) the game will be too easy and maybe boring.
Good luck on BW.
I will try to do a nuzzlocke of ORAS later. I only played the originals and it may be fun.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 03:07:16 No.51227284 Report

Quoted By: >>51227297 >>51227710 >>51228077 >>51228527 >>51230938 >>51233415 >>51233740

>>51205617
Update: I have made it to the Pokémon League. Holy shit it has been a ride. I have made SO MANY MISTAKES holy fuck I feel stupid every time I open the game now.
The low levels are replacements for Pokés that either died (RIP Bilsby the Hypno, as well as every Pokémon that's tried to replace Kyne on the team. That slot is CURSED.) or I've elected to replace (Brutus lost his spot to Sahloknir, and Smaug has been made obsolete by a Gyarados I can EV train).

The main man of this team has been Scrappy since Pokémon Tower at the latest. Him and Lizzie have been an unparalleled tag-team of destruction on my rival's teams, every Giovanni fight, Gyms 6-8, (though Smaug tanked a Psychic like a champ in the Sabrina fight).

I autistically looked into what the E4 are packing, and my hooes basically rest on Louis and Sahloknir, the ringers I've brought in.

desu I dread EV grinding, despite the Macho Brace, and then levelling everybody up to 60. But if it means I get the win first try (I'll say again, first ever attempt at a nuzlocke, I'm in over my head doing a hardcore one) I will feel so accomplished.

>>51226353
>>51224925
That shit is MANDATORY? Huh, Am I right in saying I haven't missed out on anything with the newer games? (never played a game past gen 5, gen 5 was great tho)

>>51224336
Praying for you man, I know if I ever nuzlocke again I NEED the Duped Clause, Fearow ×5 and Pidgeot ×7 is just lame.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 03:08:48 No.51227289 Report

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>>51224954
Its in the back alley, which you can't get until after you get Surf

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 03:10:04 No.51227297 Report

Quoted By: >>51227410

>>51227284
*hopes
I can't spell.
>>51218678
Kek, should I try to Nuzlocke Black or White next? sounds like a hell of a time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 03:31:33 No.51227410 Report

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>>51227297
Black since it's easier to cheese the last 2 fights with Excadrill.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 04:22:27 No.51227710 Report

Quoted By: >>51227721 >>51228421 >>51231215

Second gym done! A lot to cover since there's such a big gap between the first gym and second, but first, gym battle.
>I lead Diony, Grant leads Amaura. Diony hits a really weak Bulldoze and Amaura retaliates with a Rock Tomb that hit WAY harder than I thought it would. I swap to April on another Rock Tomb and then KOs Amaura with a 4x super-effective Karate Chop.
>Grant takes out Tyrunt and uses Stomp. April the madwoman lands a crit Karate Chop that puts Tyrunt in the red. Grant heals with a Hyper Potion and April lands ANOTHER crit Karate Chop and puts the Tyrunt in the red. A crit Stomp would kill April so I swap to Cashew who handily takes a Stomp and a Bite and finally puts the beast down with a Bulldoze.
I'm really liking my Kalos-mon priority rule, using these pokemon rule.
Also, did you know the ever-infamous double Furfrou battle gets a SUPER POTION? That fight is actually ludicrous.

>>51225651
Skyla's kind of a chump compared to Elesa and Clay honestly. If you can teach your Solosis Charge Beam you should be pretty set.
I've only used Solosis once I was literally THE Solosis but it was really solid, so it should be fine.
>>51227284
You have a pretty strong team all things considered. Lapras, Slowbro and Aerodactyl should tear up the E4. If you have an Electric-type in the box even better.
>>51224402
Nice. Toxapex is probably really cheesy but whatever works.
>>51221729
Thinking about it, that makes sense. I usually put the Eviolite on the Herdier or the starter for the fight, but Evioliting Yamask is something I didn't think about. If I ever do another BW run I'll try it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 04:25:08 No.51227721 Report

Quoted By: >>51227941 >>51229044

>>51227710
Oh, and an additional rule I made.
Losing a mon to the Reflection Cave wild Wobbuffet doesn't count. Nope.

Romhack Nuzlocker(Sword)

Romhack Nuzlocker(Sword) Wed 17 Aug 2022 05:23:59 No.51227941 Report

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>>51212134
Yes they are almost exactly the same character anon and I hate both if them

>>51227721
I don't blame you that gets a free pass

No update yet cause haven't had time to play much I'll stop procrastinating soon ish.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 06:02:13 No.51228077 Report

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>>51227284
>Am I right in saying I haven't missed out on anything with the newer games?
i would argue that mega evolution was the peak of pokemon thus far, and it breathed new life into old shitmons and was quite lore friendly for nuzlockes in that separate from game mechanics it requires an unbreakable bond of loyalty, friendship, and platonic love between pokemon and trainer.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 07:31:21 No.51228421 Report

Quoted By: >>51233417 >>51233740 >>51234934

>>51227710
Unfortunately my one electric type, my poor Magnemite, Steelaris, died to a Magneton 10 levels above it cuz Magnet Pull.
I'm going to bed now, but tomorrow I'll start the grind, and when everybody's EV'd up and at level 60 (same as Lance's ace), I'll go for it.
I'll post the results when I'm done, either who I wiped to or a Hall of Fame screencap.
After that I'll spin pic related for what game I do a run of next, might not Nuzlocke it though, I've only ever fully played though:
>FireRed
>LeafGreen (Once not counting this challenge)
>Emerald
>Heartgold like 30 times as a kid (Just getting back into Pokémon now)
>SoulSilver a week ago (Mono-Ground run)
>Black Twice, most recently three years ago

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 08:10:49 No.51228527 Report

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>>51227284
>That shit is MANDATORY? Huh, Am I right in saying I haven't missed out on anything with the newer games? (never played a game past gen 5, gen 5 was great tho)
It was only made mandatory with SwSh (I don't know about the ones after that, but I assumed it's the same).
When the Exp. Share was changed in XY, it's blatantly obvious they didn't balance the game with it in mind, yet they still made it turned on by default. If you ever do XY, I would absolutely recommend not using it.
SM/USUM can be actually hard, but I feel their flaws are more in having hours of cutscenes. It's fine the first time you go through them, but they're not skippable, making the early game a massive drag.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 11:23:19 No.51229044 Report

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>>51223722
Bat died immediately in grinding to crit Gust from lv15 Drifloon
Daisy died from 2 bulldoze hits from trainer lv25 Throh, second crit
>>51227721
Also fuck Wobbuffet. Shadow Tag and Destiny bond. Bruce never stood a chance. Should have checked the mons in cave and stacked up repels

Gym:
Calamar took care of Mienfoo, AI spent both Hyper Potions healing it.
Saul switched in for Hawlucha and took it out with Rock Slides
Mary finished Machoke with Aqua Tail
Bandit became the designated HM slave with Strenght, Surf, Cut and Rock Smash

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 13:25:49 No.51229523 Report

Quoted By: >>51230775

Wow Red version is super easy, beat that shit in two sittings with two deaths total. First deathless Elite Four as well.

>Lost Drowzee to Erika's lmaogen1 Wrap
>Lost Tentacruel to Koga's Weezing Explode

difficulty rankings for games I've beat so far
Emerald > Crystal > FireRed > Red

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 16:56:32 No.51230775 Report

Quoted By: >>51231356

>>51229523
Not surprising, given how jank Gen 1 is, there's bound to be ways to completely cheese it. That plus absolute dogshit movesets on every opponent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 17:22:12 No.51230938 Report

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>>51227284
>Huh, Am I right in saying I haven't missed out on anything with the newer games?
I personally hate gen5 but the games are good going blind and with heavy restrictions. The worst of the group is X/Y but SwSh and Ultra sun/Ultra moon are fine.
I think I like both because they are just comfy and the corny shit reminds me of some things I liked as a kid.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 18:03:17 No.51231215 Report

Quoted By: >>51231320

>>51227710
>Skyla's kind of a chump compared to Elesa and Clay honestly. If you can teach your Solosis Charge Beam you should be pretty set.
I've been leveling Solosis, turns out it does not learn Charge Beam.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 18:20:23 No.51231320 Report

Quoted By: >>51231964

>>51231215
Huh, I was pretty sure you could teach it Charge Beam but I guess not. You could also try to get the Elgyem in Mistralton Tower but you probably won't need it and Litwick's more useful anyway.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 18:26:41 No.51231356 Report

Quoted By: >>51231379

>>51230775
I was surprised because I've always heard FRLG is the easiest. I didn't even cheese it though, I always ban setup moves, play with level caps, no items, etc.
FRLG took me too many attempts, but my winning run didnt lose a single mon until the Champ fight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 18:29:59 No.51231379 Report

Quoted By: >>51231418

>>51231356
Was FRLG your first nuzlocke?
It has a pretty rough early game as far as the games go, though once you make it past Misty I feel like you sail to the E4 no problem

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 18:34:14 No.51231418 Report

Quoted By: >>51231436

>>51231379
Firered was my second after Emerald, 6 attempts including 2 Rival 1 losses, once lost my Charmeleon to random trainer after Erika and decided to reset.
Winning run deaths were all to Gary's Venusaur because my dumbass forgot it doesn't have Chlorophyll in vanilla, and I sacked 2 mons to stall out sun turns.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 18:37:52 No.51231436 Report

Quoted By: >>51231462

>>51231418
Interesting, what were the other resets?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 18:41:45 No.51231462 Report

Quoted By: >>51231476

>>51231436
First wipe was actually before I beat Emerald actually - to Nugget Bridge rival, being severely underleveled. I then took the rare candy-pill and moved to Emerald. IIRC Brock's Onix Rock Tomb crit, I dont remember the last one.

I dunno if I wanna do Plat or BW2 next

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 18:43:41 No.51231476 Report

Quoted By: >>51231496

>>51231462
Yeah, that's fair. Well glad you made it through.
I think Plat is a nice step up in difficulty if that's what you're going for. BW2 normal is closer to Crystal in terms of difficulty, BW2 is harder than Platinum though, I think BW2 as a run is more fun than Platinum difficulty aside. All depends what you value more ig

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 18:46:45 No.51231496 Report

Quoted By: >>51231522

>>51231476
Idk man I thought Crystal was free except for the Blue and Red fights. I started a Plat run about a year ago but haven't touched it, from what I remember it's far harder than anything gen 1-3 and I only got up to Crasher Wake

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 18:50:42 No.51231522 Report

Quoted By:

>>51231496
BW2 normal is pretty easy too is the thing, outside of the final bosses.
But yeah in terms of difficulty and adding on your list it would go BW2 Challenge > Plat > Emerald > BW2 Normal > Crystal > Kanto games, imo

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 20:08:30 No.51231964 Report

Quoted By:

Skyla is done, but man this was a rough trip.
Lost Kerry to a Crit from a very optional trainer's Zebstrika, because Spark currently has a 5/6 rate on Paralysis.
I later lost Allison in Celestial Tower to a Golett, because I honestly was not thinking of Magnitude at the time. I saw DynamicPunch the turn before and realized this was not a good matchup, but since it was gonna be KO'd anyways I figured might as well.
Gaven bailed me out of a Swoobat fight that got to setup Calm Mind, and later on from a fight against a single Unfezant (Though that was sheer luck at the end, and part of the credit goes to Mikiko. Had I got hit there I likely would've wiped right there.
Skyla itself I decided to take no risks. Ted decreased Swoobat's Atk to -6, Gaven PP stalled every Acrobatics out so I could set up Quiver Dance on Alberta to sweep.
>>51231320
No problem, Duosion ended up saving my ass multiple times during this portion.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 20:14:09 No.51231998 Report

Quoted By: >>51232102

Playing a no-exp version of BW2 redux (normal mode). That shit is pretty fun so far

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 20:36:32 No.51232102 Report

Quoted By:

>>51231998
Enjoy you focus sash counter, destiny bonds, choice spec hard hitters anon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2022 21:16:55 No.51232333 Report

Quoted By:

>>51210253
Aaaand Karen's Houndoom singlehandedly sweep my entire team.
This run was cursed.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 00:02:22 No.51233250 Report

Quoted By: >>51233265

Bump.
Pic related is an aggie.io of a friendlocke session. We used to do one after every session, it was pretty great fun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 00:05:44 No.51233265 Report

Quoted By: >>51242619

>>51233250
sounds like fun, maybe I should do one

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 00:36:54 No.51233415 Report

Quoted By: >>51233417 >>51233420 >>51233489 >>51233740

>>51205617
>>51227284
Alright. Finally got everyone EV'd up and leveled up. Game Time was 22 hours in the last pic, 39 now. Thank God for fast forward.
Let's do this, my first nuzlocke ever, dumb enough to do it with hardcore rules. If I win, I spin the wheel.
If I lose, I put the game down for a while and come back with dupes clause active. I didn't use a single one of my seven Pidgeys.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 00:37:55 No.51233417 Report

Quoted By: >>51233740

>>51233415
Didn't mention it on accident. This wheel: >>51228421

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 00:38:25 No.51233420 Report

Quoted By: >>51233489

>>51233415
Good luck anon, you got this

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 00:49:56 No.51233481 Report

Quoted By: >>51233491

Pokémon Company should program in some sort of check, where if a player repeatedly releases Pokémon after they've been knocked out it just bricks your fucking console. Nuzlocke is dumb and I hate you all, play the fucking game properly and stop being faggots.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 00:51:54 No.51233489 Report

Quoted By: >>51233529 >>51233740

>>51233420
>>51233415
So far so good, no deaths

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 00:52:15 No.51233491 Report

Quoted By:

>>51233481
It's okay, we've all wiped in a Nuzlocke at some point. Try again and see how far you get this time :)

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 01:00:12 No.51233529 Report

Quoted By: >>51233568 >>51233740

>>51233489
5 One-shots later
Thank you Calm Mind

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 01:10:03 No.51233568 Report

Quoted By: >>51233639 >>51233740

>>51233529
That went better than I thought it would.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 01:22:54 No.51233639 Report

Quoted By: >>51233740

>>51233568
Another one shot sweep! No deaths!

I...I'm beginning to believe I can do this.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 01:43:19 No.51233740 Report

Quoted By: >>51233917 >>51234816 >>51240953

>>51233639
>>51233568
>>51233529
>>51233489
>>51233417
>>51233415
>>51228421
>>51227284
>>51205617
Wow. I uh...feel a LOT more confident in my abilities as a Pokémon player now.
No deaths in the E4+Champ.
On my first ever Nuzlocke. And It was a hardcore Nuzlocke.
I probably over-prepared in a major way but goddamn that feels good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 02:09:39 No.51233917 Report

Quoted By: >>51234934

>>51233740
Hey, congrats man. First try nuzlockes are pretty impressive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 04:45:27 No.51234816 Report

Quoted By: >>51234934

>>51233740
You can never prepare too much.
Good job anon, and good luck with whatever run you decide to do next, if you decide to do another run. Would personally rec HGSS or Black as the next step up in difficulty.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 05:05:30 No.51234934 Report

Quoted By:

>>51233917
>>51234816
Thanks bros, I appreciate it, also I fully intend to do a run in the very near future. I just might put a non-nuzlocke run of a Pokémon game in between.
Funny enough that was actually my second ever challenge run at all. I wrapped up a Mono-Ground run of SoulSilver the day before I started this. (I should've done it on HeartGold btw, you miss out on Donphan, Gliscor and Claydol if you repeat my mistake). Rules were:
>Only ground types or Mons that evolve into ground types (Lizzie the Nidoqueen played a big role in both runs)
>No items in battle but held items are okay
>No outlevelling the incoming Gym Leader's/Elite Four's Ace
I carried the last two rules over into the Nuzlocke run, making it a 'Hardcore' Nuzlocke.
I'm finally getting back into Pokémon again after years, and I want to really learn how the game plays at a more advanced level.
I'll probably do a casual HG or Black run, try and use Pokémon I've never used before (Funny enough I had never used Slowbro or Lapras before, and now I know their sheer power. I want to discover more Pokémon I slept on as a kid.)
Also I spun this wheel, >>51228421 and fate decreed my next Nuzlocke be Emerald.
God help me against Wattson.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 05:31:52 No.51235037 Report

Quoted By: >>51235088 >>51237389

Progress: ...Everyone is prepped. Looking boss--yes, even Shugl!

But the Elite 4 will wait another time... I am sleepy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 05:42:35 No.51235088 Report

Quoted By: >>51235171 >>51235356

>>51235037
Your Pokémon Tower encounter was Cubone?
Eh, better than fumbling the Gastly and proceeding to get your Golbat killed by a channeler like me.
Also why 59 as the level in particular? I'm just curious as to where you got that number. Blue's Pidgeot?
I'd use all your rare candies (unless you already have, I found 7 in my playthrough) and pop everyone up to level 60, match Lance's Dragonite in level.
Also redpill me on the Champs Clause. How much can this jack up difficulty?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 05:59:53 No.51235171 Report

Quoted By: >>51235356

>>51235088
>Also redpill me on the Champs Clause. How much can this jack up difficulty?
Basically locks you out of certain strong mons, a huge notable one is Gyarados.
Since Gyarados is stupid strong, you have to choose carefully in which game you'll use it in. Is it worth using Gyarados in Platinum and sweeping Cynthia's entire team, or do you want to save Gyarados for the incredibly tough battles in USUM?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 06:38:05 No.51235356 Report

Quoted By:

>>51235088
Yeah, I was REALLY surprised that my Pokemon Tower encounter was Cubone--such a rare find. As for 59, eh, the last two runs, my guys were 60s before the Kanton elite 4, so I decided to just leave that as is this time.

>>51235171
True, but if I continue doing other runs in different games, I don't know if I'll follow my Champs Clause so closely. I'm doing it because my very first nuzlocke was a FR, but circumstances fucked my compositions up (especially whenever your starter's the first one to die), and I was doing a story alongside it at the same time. Anyway--rambling--if I do, say, a Soul Silver run, I might keep Champs Clause only for that generation.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 14:31:16 No.51237389 Report

Quoted By: >>51238110

>>51224336
Deaths:3
Badge 2 down. Gardenia was easy, aside from Razia being paralyzed for one turn. Not looking forward to the next Galactic section after losing my starter and his partner to the last one. Forgot that Purugly was lvl17 and had faint attack which made my double team strategy useless.

Have a ShellosM(Osman), BunearyF(Cleopatra), and MedititeM(Suleiman) sitting in the box.

>>51235037
It's rare to see Marowak and Venomoth in Nuzlocke E4 teams, wishing you luck

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 16:19:18 No.51238110 Report

Quoted By:

>>51237389
Thanks! Wishing you luck in turn on keeping that Ponyta alive--Fire types are SO rare to find in the Sinnoh Region.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 16:55:40 No.51238395 Report

Quoted By: >>51238451

>>51136860
After trying Hardcore Nuzlocke with BuffelSalt's Ultra Sun romhack called Photonic Sun and failing to get past Ilima's first battle dozen of times, I gave up. Once I managed to get past it, but was wiped by a fucking Psyduck from Ace Trainer on Route 3.
Nuzlocke is a bit easier if you use healing items and over-level (at least 5-7 levels higher). Hell, I even completed Ultra Sun and Rising Ruby that way but HC Nuzlocke killed all the motivation to do further Nuzlockes.
Need a fun way to play Pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 17:01:22 No.51238451 Report

Quoted By: >>51238808

>>51238395
The idea with hardcore nuzlockes is that you work your way up. Start with Fire Red or RBY, then gradually move up to Platinum, BW2 Challenge, USUM, then difficulty hacks. It helps you build skill as well as confidence. Photonic Sun is especially brutal by difficulty hack standards, you shouldn't have tried it first.
Alternatively if you're just done with nuzlockes, you could try basic mono-X challenges, like monocolor or type, or something like BST cap runs. Randomizer could also be fun too

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 17:43:03 No.51238808 Report

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>>51238451
I think I got too cocky after beating Ultra Sun and Rising Ruby.
I think I will play mono type first or maybe no healing items in battles.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 19:16:04 No.51239414 Report

Quoted By: >>51239417 >>51239748 >>51240418

>>51136860
All right, haven't done a Nuzlocke in a while, so I'm gonna do one of Ultra Sun, which I haven't played. I expect to lose, but nonetheless, gonna do harder rules than I usually do. Usual hardcore rules, but I'm not going to allow myself to change my team. My team is what I get in the order I get it.

So, of the starters I haven't used before: Fire or Water? First response chooses.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 19:16:38 No.51239417 Report

Quoted By: >>51239432

>>51239414
Fire

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 19:19:15 No.51239432 Report

Quoted By: >>51239748

>>51239417
Boo.... Fine. Now to sit through cutscenes for the rest of my life

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 20:04:59 No.51239748 Report

Quoted By: >>51239765

>>51239432
>>51239414
Just remember in USUM, route 1 is usually regarded as 3 areas. The grass at the top of the route, the grass near Kukui's house, and the trainers school all have different encounter tables and it's usually regarded as fine to grab an encounter from all 3

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 20:06:48 No.51239765 Report

Quoted By: >>51239798

>>51239748
Thanks, I was wondering that. I just finished up cutscene hell and got my first encounter of a Grubbin, which I consider rad. Any other oddities about the encounters I should be aware of?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 20:12:27 No.51239798 Report

Quoted By:

>>51239765
None really. Just remember the surprise Hau fight when you reach the 3rd island, its one of the most deadly and unexpected fights in USUM

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 20:48:32 No.51240002 Report

Quoted By: >>51240103 >>51240953

And so, it is done.

Just like the last run, I'm laying out the Elite 4 kill-tally as follows:

Feinarshe the Blastoise [Squad Leader]: 5 (Dragonair1, Dragonair2, Dragonite, Pidgeot, Arcanine)
Domiarz the Machoke: 1 (Hitmonlee) Felt the earth quake, couldn't even bench-press Fred Jones's record of 220 lbs...
Mizdedledy the Marowak: 4 (Onix1, Onix2, Arbok, Rhydon)
Maldiar the Jolteon: 9 (Dewgong, Cloyster, Slowbro, Lapras, Jynx, Golbat, Gyarados, Alakazam, Ch!Gyarados)
Shuglbugl the Venomoth: 3 (Hitmonchan, Machamp, Venusaur)
Fiomilik the Nidoqueen: 4 (Gengar1, Haunter, Gengar2, Aerodactyl)

Once more, the MVP is definitely the electric type; Maldiar being fast and powerful, with either Thunderbolt for water/flying types, and Shadow Ball for Jynx and Alakazam. And save for Domiarz the Machoke putting up a fight against the champ's Rhydon (and falling to Earthquake), everyone else on the team each got to enjoy moments of slamming foes down. Mizdedledy the Marowak defied destiny, clubbed up three snakes, avenged Domiarz, and did not die like the mother Marowak that's burning in hell--or planning on haunting the Kanto Radio Tower in the future. Shuglbugl the Venomoth's psychic prowess was key in mind-blasting two of Bruno's aces, and erased Venusaur from existence. Unlike the last run, Fiomilik the Nidoqueen made it to the hall of fame AND LIVED, evaporating the ghosts with Shadow Ball and re-extincting Aerodactyl with Ice Beam. And Squad Leader Feinarshe--while he didn't get to finish off his Venusaur rival, still got to enjoy freezing dragons and Pidgeot solid, and got the last attack in by drowning fire pupper on solid land.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 20:55:00 No.51240050 Report

Quoted By: >>51242619

Another day, another round of feeling bad at my luck and/or skills.
Got Surf, so I decided to go on collecting Pokemon and items at various points.
Lost Flo to Swoobat first Critting Gaven (Who thankfully lived) and then Critting her afterwards. Swoobats are fast and have Calm Mind, I hate it.
The much bigger loss came with Nate, after all this time, he'd die to Crit for literal garbage. I was trying to avoid the fight too, I just wanted the Thunderbolt TM.
I was able to guarantee an Axew for my Mistralton Cave encounter, but Gaven's Critical HP Bug slew the dragon. Probably should've just chugged balls at it like I usually do.
To nobody's surprise, Brycen never stood a chance. Orville and Chance was all that was needed. He did try to get me to take a gamble with Swagger, but that was a weak bait if I ever saw one.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 21:04:26 No.51240103 Report

Quoted By: >>51240953 >>51242619 >>51243197

>>51240002
And so the final results are there, all but Machoke are now added to the champs' roster. (And yes, I know they weren't from Blue, but fuck it, I'm not touching 3rd gen again, and it helps differentiate the Kanto runs.

...But where shall I go from here...? Perhaps Soul Silver next? Go back to Platinum--except NOT in the form of a Sanitylocke and Story--and get my revenge? Never really thought much of 5th Gen, either--never even touched B2/W2...

The possibilities are out there...

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 21:55:54 No.51240418 Report

Quoted By: >>51242619

>>51239414
Picked up Inkay and Alolan Meowth, lost the latter to the teacher. Even with reflect up, the water gun crit did him in. Already got two dark types though, so.... Not a big hit. Entered first town, got my encounter, and nabbed a pretty lucky oneshot greatball cap on an Abra. Dunno what I'm gonna do about evolving him, but that's a problem for later.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 22:25:40 No.51240563 Report

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>have to grind wild mons for ages because aside from my Pikachu everyone else is so weak and does almost no damage to trainers
I hate RBY

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Anonymous Thu 18 Aug 2022 23:16:27 No.51240953 Report

Quoted By: >>51243402

>>51222633
This segment of the game didn't allow me to catch any shadow Pokemon but it was mostly pretty easy. I got some pretty good items and TMs too, so hopefully the rest of the run will be smooth like this part was.

>>51233740
Congrats. That's really good for your first time.

>>51240002
>>51240103
Congrats. I like your team.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 00:39:37 No.51241451 Report

Quoted By: >>51242075

>>51136860
The hell are they fighting on? The fucking tower of Babel?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 02:25:12 No.51242075 Report

Quoted By: >>51242158

>>51241451
Pokemon would be cool if they actually add religious kino into it, especially during ancient times during babylon or sumerian times.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 02:42:34 No.51242158 Report

Quoted By: >>51242353

>>51242075
Like, ritualistic killings back in the Johto Region? Or drinking virgin blood before the night of battle in ancient Kalos? Throwing children into volcanoes to appease the primordial earth beast that gave rise to islands in the Hoenn region? How many orgies do YOU suppose happened in the ancient Hisui region prior to the Galaxy Expedition's arrival?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 03:12:55 No.51242353 Report

Quoted By:

>>51242158
I get it anon, I should watch the movies. I just think ancient mesopotamia had kino architecture.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 03:55:55 No.51242619 Report

Quoted By: >>51243402 >>51243429

>Derek Baum here with our brand new invention, the Ghost/Steel sword! Let's see how well it does against Korrina!
>Autotomize, Autotomize, Autotomize, Swords Dance, Swords Dance, Swords Dance
>AERIAL ACE, AERIAL ACE, AERIAL ACE
I LOVE YOU HONEDGE
Anyway, almost shit myself dodging Hedvig in the cave.

>>51240418
The teacher's a pretty rough encounter since she counters your starter, but shit happens. Watch out for the Captain Ilima fight, the fucker throws fully EVd fuckers at you.
>>51240103
Nice, rare to see a Venomoth of all things get past the E4.
>>51240050
Critting your encounters really sucks. I've honestly stopped risking the crit and just lobbed balls while the mon's at the yellow in order to catch it.
>>51233265
It's fun if you can get some friends, but it's super hard to get everybody together. Still, I'd give it a shot if you can.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 05:20:48 No.51243043 Report

Quoted By:

And Ramos went down as easily as you'd expect.
>Lead Bao, Ramos leads Jumpluff. After Jumpluff hits two weak-sauce Acrobatics, Bao takes it out with 2 Returns.
>Gogoat comes out, I predict the Bulldoze and go to Onyo. Onyo barely misses out on the KO with an Acrobatics, but the Gogoat kills itself with Take Down. Typical Gen 6.
>Weepinbel comes out but it really can't do much as another Acrobatics wipes it off the face of the Earth.
Clemont's gonna be a doozy. With the Bulldoze and Dig TMs I'll probably be fine? Maybe I'll get a lucky Gible or Trapinch encounter, who knows.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 06:03:41 No.51243197 Report

Quoted By: >>51243402

>>51240103
Well I'm the other guy who beat LeafGreen ITT, and my next one's gonna be Emerald. Kicking it off tomorrow (or tonight if I can't get to sleep) and I'll post about it here.
Maybe we both do Emerald? Maybe you purposely avoid Emerald so that we don't both do the same game twice in a row?
I dunno, don't let me choose for you. SoulSilver is an interesting one I'd bet. Don't forget about the Department Store TMs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 06:58:16 No.51243402 Report

Quoted By: >>51243514

>>51243197
Well I DID say I was done with Gen 3, so I'll leave you to do that Emerald then. lol not really that big a fan of Gen 3 Hoenn--Gen 6 Hoenn, sure, but not Gen 3.

>>51240953
I really liked my team, too! Despite some type similarities, it was the coverage moves--and a couple of drops of Shadow Balls--that made the difference.

>>51242619
While mine was nowhere near the legend that was the All-Terrain monstrosity, he was just adorbs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 07:03:44 No.51243429 Report

Quoted By: >>51243464

>>51242619
Managed a couple flinches to get through Lima unscathed. Picked up a couple more encounters to add Ekans and Zubat to my team, both of which I consider quite solid. Fills out my team for now, won't be switching up until something dies. I imagine the Ekans will go at some point, he gets outpaced pretty hard, but for now an Intimidate user with Glare is awesome.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 07:15:47 No.51243464 Report

Quoted By:

>>51243429
It does, however, leave me without counters for a lot of shit. This could go poorly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 07:37:52 No.51243513 Report

Quoted By:

>>51136860
Are there any romhacks other than ROWE that have an all-double-battles mode?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 07:37:59 No.51243514 Report

Quoted By: >>51243525

>>51243402
>Well I DID say I was done with gen 3
Sorry, it's getting late where I live. My reading comprehension is not exactly at its peak.
Your team was pretty nice, odd that we both brought a Nidoqueen into the final fight.
On type similarities, I made the observation that the Elite 4 and Champion had 0 Electric moves and one Grass move between them, so Friendly PSA to anyone who Nuzlockes/Harcore Nuzlockes FRLG: Bulky. Water. Types.

Although based on your Champ Teams you've clearly caught on to this.

I'm gonna play Yourube videos until I fall asleep, then fire up Emerald in the morning.

Fingers crossed for a Route 102 Ralts!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 07:40:48 No.51243525 Report

Quoted By:

>>51243514
*YouTube
*Hardcore
My spelling is failing me. I'm going to bed.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 08:28:15 No.51243683 Report

Quoted By: >>51243704 >>51243912 >>51244863 >>51245721 >>51247708

Do you guys use Fast Forwad or Rare Candy/EXP Multiplier cheats for Nuzlocking?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 08:32:21 No.51243704 Report

Quoted By:

>>51243683
Depends. If I'm doing a mainline game, sure fast forward, nah other stuff. If I'm doing a romhack that is super fucking hard, I'll use rare candy because otherwise I'm just not gonna fucking spend the time to grind and it's pointless.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 09:13:53 No.51243912 Report

Quoted By:

>>51243683
Fast forward sure.
Everything else has to be provided by the game itself.
If a romhack gives you free access to unlimited rare candies or something, the implication is that the game expects you to use them.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 09:22:51 No.51243964 Report

Quoted By: >>51244863

I was doing a BDSP Turtwig only run, I got all the way up to Cynthia but determined it was impossible so I had to evolve to Torterra for her, the only way of tanking a Roserade Sludge Bomb (with expert belt) was the power of friendship. I discovered that you can manipulate her to switch out Spiritomb for Roserade to get in a free hit, but the AI easily understood that they should only do that on a grass type move.
I had a similar situation with Fantina and her Gengar where I did use to power of friendship to survive an attack, but with Cynthia I was already level 98 after running the elite four god know how many times and I was still getting one shotted so leveling up wasn't an option like it would have been for Fantina.
My major victory was beating Aaron and figuring out how to get him to not use Toxic for Dustox which is a battle ender and not getting a Bug Buzz from Beautifly which is a one shot on any reasonable level.

Turtwig by the end:
Bullet Seed
Curse
Synthesis
Crunch
Held: Leftovers

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 12:46:56 No.51244863 Report

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>>51243683
If I'm playing a romhack or fangame that's so difficult that it expects me to frequently switch up my team to not have 4-6 members of my team die in each boss fight then of course you should rare candy, especially as your average romhack takes way longer than a normal game. The time obligation just becomes too much at that point.
For maingames and easier hacks (I would consider Drayano hacks to be the absolute peak before I'd start using candies) you should just grind.
>>51243964
Good job anon, I imagine BDSP actually makes those solo shitmon runs ridiculous

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 15:03:45 No.51245721 Report

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>>51243683
Rare Candies 100%. Being able to build my team for a tough fight ahead using only my box mons is one of my favorite parts about Nuzlockes and it usually leads to me realizing "Hey! X Pokemon is actually pretty good!".
Plus I don't think anyone really likes grinding.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 18:25:34 No.51247211 Report

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Ba-Bump

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Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 18:27:29 No.51247226 Report

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i forgot the bump limit was 310 uh oh

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Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 19:21:40 No.51247708 Report

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>>51243683
both. grinding is boring and can be done risk free. fast forward is just a quality of life thing.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2022 19:37:03 No.51247865 Report

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New thread sorry I'm late: >>51247861

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