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/nuz/ - Nuzlocke and Challenge Run General

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 08:09:11 No.51326421 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>51326753 >>51327424 >>51329571 >>51329594 >>51329627 >>51330198 >>51336606 >>51343229 >>51351446 >>51359453 >>51362856 >>51369511 >>51379455 >>51412297 >>51413626 >>51421696 >>51426396

Why do all my mons keep dying in one fucking hit, this didn't happen in Red and what am I supposed to do with the ruins of alph? catch and box all the unowns? Edition

>What are you runing?
>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: Do you ever handle caves in a special way? Such as different floors having different encounter pools?

Challenge Run Idea: Only Pokemon that are available in caves allowed.

/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Mostly outdated, but if I add something new it will have (Updated) somewhere in it.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 (embed)
>Nuzlocke generator
https://nuzlocke-generator.herokuapp.com/
http://nuzlocke-generator.com/
>Guide to running the generator locally
https://pastebin.com/etNFB00r (embed)
>Links to official games (thru Sw/Sh)
https://pastebin.com/hsJ0TaJ7 (embed)
>Romhack links
https://pastebin.com/GzWfs9Bz (embed)
https://pastebin.com/GfJ9zhqx (embed)
>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 (embed)
>Difficulty list
https://pastebin.com/vvwTEgwJ (embed)
>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

Previous Thread:>>51247861

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 10:29:08 No.51326753 Report

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>>51326421
Leveling up a bit might fix these issues.
With the curve being ass in gen 2, you may end up underleveled more easily, that might be the issue

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 13:49:44 No.51327424 Report

Quoted By: >>51327430

>>51326421
why the hell would you ever let a geodude fight a grass type without an overwhelming level advantage?
you get what you fucking deserve

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 13:51:17 No.51327430 Report

Quoted By: >>51328814

>>51327424
I didn't realize bellsprout had vinewhip. I thought it would be a tackle match

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 17:49:47 No.51328773 Report

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Bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 17:56:34 No.51328814 Report

Quoted By: >>51329528

>>51327430
You lost a mon to Youngster Joey. Go back to the baby games gen 2 is too brutal for you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 19:23:04 No.51329528 Report

Quoted By: >>51377974

>>51328814
one hit tackle crit. Caterpie sucks

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 19:28:04 No.51329571 Report

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>>51326421
I might start a Nuclocke run in Gen 2 as well. Since I already have pretty much completed Gen 2 as far as I can. (Well until my friend finally grinds his team to face me and someday I might buy an N64 to play Stadium 2)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 19:32:08 No.51329594 Report

Quoted By: >>51329757

>>51326421
>not playing with dupes clause
couldn’t be me

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 19:38:12 No.51329627 Report

Quoted By: >>51329674

>>51326421
>what am I supposed to do with the ruins of alph?
Come back when you have Surf, just ignore the Unown

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 19:44:38 No.51329674 Report

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>>51329627
Also he doesn't have a dupe clause so he can fish a magikarp or a polivag there now if he wants to.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 19:54:15 No.51329757 Report

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>>51329594
why?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 21:06:30 No.51330198 Report

Quoted By: >>51337303 >>51420841

Final Serena, pretty ezpz. Honestly? Victory Road trainers are pretty scary, they have hand-picked moves and an Ice Fang Steelix almost got me got.
>Serena leads Meowstic, I lead Flaps. Flaps protects turn 1 to block Fake Out, then U-Turns out and I bring Hexi in on a resisted Psychic. One Shadow Sneak takes it out.
>Serena then throws out her Delphox immediately, I swap to Crystal on a Flamethrower and then just BARELY live a Psychic on 38 HP as Crystal knocks the Delphox into the almost-red with a Surf. I swap back to Hexi on a weak Psychic and snipe the kill with a Shadow Sneak.
>Absol comes out next, but Kuriku walls it pretty hard and it goes down to a Dazzling Gleam.
>Jolteon then comes out, but Jawba pretty much walls the shit out of it so one good Earthquake kills it.
>Altaria comes out last, but once more, Kuriku is the best answer. A few Dazzling Gleams take the cloud dragon out as it whispers it's secrets with Confide.

>>51326421
>Do you ever handle caves in a special way? Such as different floors having different encounter pools?
Pretty much how I feel about Pinwheel Forest. If the encounter table is different enough, I'll allow a catch there.
>Are you doing a weird ruleset? And if so, what is it?
Kalos pokemon get catch priority in a route. Lets me use plenty of the new mons instead of getting bogged down with Gen 1 mons.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 22:04:24 No.51330515 Report

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>Do you ever handle caves in a special way? Such as different floors having different encounter pools?
I'm too new to go too deep into special rules, but I feel like I wouldn't have multiple captures, unless the game separates them as different names.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 22:54:48 No.51330778 Report

Quoted By: >>51330881 >>51330986

> Do you ever handle caves in a special way? Such as different floors having different encounter pools?
Need to have a major difference in the Pokemon lines available. So nothing like where one section has first stage, and another section has the evolutions.

How do most of you handle gift Pokemon? Is that the encounter for the area, or can you get a catch too? Prime example would be Dreamyard in BW. Only the monkey or a catch after the gym, or both of those things? I've always done one or the other, and since I really don't like the monkeys it can make the first gym extremely hard, since you are stuck with 3 team members, and one is weak to the leaders ace.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 23:10:33 No.51330881 Report

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>>51330778
I consider it one and the same. It introduces more of a choice to a given area, instead of "free monkey" in the case of Dreamyard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2022 23:31:22 No.51330986 Report

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>>51330778
if it's a forced mon you get as part of story progression like castform or latias in oras then i don't count it. if you have to specifically seek out the mon or NPC out like eevee, the kanto game corner mons, or the route 4 magikarp then it's the route/area's encounter

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 01:22:30 No.51331787 Report

Quoted By: >>51332285 >>51368440

>>51324396
Handle Burgh easily enough. Timburr swept most of the gym with Rock Throw. Bianca and Cheren were no problem, and now have a full team again, after catch a Sandile and Yamask. Really hope I can keep Sandile awhile.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 01:50:17 No.51331948 Report

Quoted By: >>51332089 >>51333897 >>51336244

To people that grind with speed-up: Do you usually ignore deaths that happen while speed up grinding? Surely those are kind of whatever, yeah? Deaths should only matter during active play... right?

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Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 02:04:23 No.51332009 Report

Quoted By: >>51332285 >>51358895

>>51313691 So after a couple days of not playing, I pressed on.
Picking up Nurelion in the Dreamyard was practically forced on me by the game, and for good reason, as he mopped the floor with Cress's sad excuse for a Panpour.
Tragedy would strike again soon after, in a double battle in Wellspring Cave, having Battle Scene off came with a price: I didn't know which Patrat had used Bide. I guessed wrong. Vigilance paid the ultimate price.
I was in a bit of worry at that point, as my planned Sack for Lenora (and temporary HM Slave since my rules don't say I can't use dead Pokémon for that), Dervenin, was also dead. Not to mention my only shot at Stoutland.
To answer for the losses I picked up: >Drascua the Pidove in Route 3
>Harkon the Woobat in Wellspring Cave
>Suvaris the Tympole in Pinwheel Forest (Remember, no Pinwheel Clause, but I think she might come in handy against N's Zekrom)
Regardless, after a lot of grinding (Thanks Gen 5 Exp formula, at least N and the local trainers helped out) and some pre-planning, I make my way to Lenora.
I lead off with Harkon, to bait Crunch. Switching into Ralof, I was wrong: Leer.
I outspeed and two-shot with Rock Smash
Next comes Watchog, and I knew what was coming. Someone was dying.
That someone would be Harkon. Retaliate OHKO's as it would to any of my Pokémon (and crit, no less). Nurelion comes out, sets up Leech Seed, and we're off to the races. I switch to Ralof, two Rock Smashes and the Leech Seed chip damage finish Watchog off. That could have gone much worse. That also means in 2/3 off my Nuzlockes I have Sacked a Flying Type to the 2nd Gym Leader (Sacked Kyne the Spearow to Misty in LeafGreen).
I closed the game in Pinwheel Forest proper. Had I enacted the Pinwheel Clause, my first encounter would have been a Sewaddle. Nice, but I can live without it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 02:19:43 No.51332089 Report

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>>51331948
Obligatory "Your run, your rules" aside, here's my actual answer:
Fuck no, its HP went to 0, should've been more careful. That's the name of the game. If I didn't get a Tentacruel in Emerald, you don't get shit.
Hope you can rebalance your team without your (presumably good since you're trying to handwave a death) Pokémon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 02:58:38 No.51332285 Report

Quoted By: >>51337054 >>51358895

>>51331787
Nice, Sandile should carry for a good while now.
WORD OF WARNING! The N fight in Nimbasa is known to be stupid brutal. Make a plan for it.
>>51332009
Pretty standard Lenora, sacrificing Woobat was the right play since you didn't have a Detect Watchog. Since you have a Pignite and a Tranquil, you should be pretty set.
A tip: I'd evolve Pansage at level 22 when it learns Seed Bomb. Everything else in it's learnset you don't need and you can give it Acrobatics later.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 03:23:08 No.51332426 Report

Quoted By: >>51347517

>>51317733
Flying gym was piss easy with Ice Beam/Icicle Crash. Definitely over leveled but I'm not too fond of level caps, I'm sure its gonna even out eventually. Might have to just keep rotating mons from my box.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 05:21:12 No.51333051 Report

Quoted By: >>51333073 >>51334867 >>51337303

I need to stop playing while high, lost 7Up to a psybeam/future sight combo and am now scrambling to train up a replacement. Not super sold on Root Beer, but maybe with enough levels it'll be a good enough rock type to switch Pepsi out and get better type coverage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 05:29:38 No.51333073 Report

Quoted By: >>51343735

>>51333051
sorry for your loss, what do you smoke anon

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Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 05:33:38 No.51333091 Report

Quoted By: >>51334892

>>>51312553
Turns out no, guts boosted swellow cannot sweep misty. The starmie was too much for me to handle, might try starting with elekid for attempt #2

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 05:38:09 No.51333105 Report

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Just finished what ended up being an accidental nuzlocke. Elemental punches being infinite TMs in gen 2 was a beautiful mistake.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 10:35:04 No.51333897 Report

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>>51331948
Nuzlocke is risk management. Speeding up, or grinding in an unsafe area or whatever are choices you make knowing it may lead to deaths.
Similarly, if you don't want to grind, it IS optional. It's on you if you want to risk being underleveled and get completely shafted for it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 14:44:36 No.51334867 Report

Quoted By: >>51337303 >>51343073 >>51343735

After my first Nuzlocke ending in a defeat at the hands of Marshal, (Shauntal really, but he did deal the finishing blows) it's time to go again.
Same standard Hardcore rules as before.
The main difference is that by the time it matters, it won't be Winter in-game anymore.

Nothing notable in this first segment. Tez beat Cress' Lillipup despite being awful, and Iwasaru was made to beat Panpour.

>>51333051
I think Root Beer will be fine once it evolves at least.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 14:49:09 No.51334892 Report

Quoted By: >>51347446

>>51333091
Just try starting with an easier game

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 18:46:16 No.51336212 Report

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Bump!

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 18:51:49 No.51336244 Report

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>>51331948
no.
i simply avoid such deaths by taking a small exp hit and grinding in lower level areas where literally nothing can actually kill my mons.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 19:51:40 No.51336606 Report

Quoted By:

>>51326421
>>What are you runing?
Pokemon Blue (151 Mod)
>>How are you running it?
Hardcore nuzlocke, level caps, dubs clause, you know it
>>How's your run going?
I am on the second run, I got cheeky with Misty and thought my Buterfree + Pidgeotto combo would be enough (It was winning me everything with Sleephax) but got fucking swept by Starmie.
This 2nd run has gone massively better, I only lost a Weepinbell against Green's Alakazam, the motherfucker crit him thrice and refused to sleep. I was too stubborn to risk any of my other Pokemon to save it, so he fell. I am grinding now before Koga, my team is:

>Butterfree
>Sandslash
>Charmeleon
>Nidoqueen
>Haunter
>Gloom

>>Are you doing a weird ruleset? And if so, what is it?
Harcore Nuzlocke (No Items, Set Mode, Level Cap, Dubs Clause)
I can't have any encounter in Route 14 as I already have every species you can normally acces, so I will use one of the glitches to get a fishing encounter there.

It has been a great experience, I have played most of it during dead hours at work.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 20:57:35 No.51337054 Report

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>>51332285
Evolite Yamask is my plan for it. Plus Herdier has Crunch at this point.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 21:31:40 No.51337303 Report

Quoted By: >>51337591 >>51337691 >>51343735 >>51350168

After a run of bad luck, I'm like post S6.5 Kim Wexler, and I'm inable to choose. I haven't gone past the trainer who killed Petepou on Victory Road.

These are my picks. Snevio, Tohru and Dan Duran are 100% on.
>>51334867
Nice early game team just for Cavall. Terrible natures though.
>>51333051
Man, all the bad luck for Lenora fell on your head didn't it? Good luck against Brycen!
>>51330198
Kalos Victory Road is a bunch of bullshite. Good job on going surviving it at least.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 22:08:38 No.51337591 Report

Quoted By: >>51337801

>>51337303
It was probably a mistake on my part last time to not get Archeops, but Archibald looks like he can put in the work in the E4.
I know he's already in, but Tohru will save you somehow.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 22:21:38 No.51337691 Report

Quoted By: >>51337801

>>51337303
Definitely Archibald and Hax.
You can't go wrong with Lightyear or Rogiero either, whichever you think will be more helpful long term.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 22:39:35 No.51337801 Report

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>>51337691
That'd probably be Lightyear. I love Rogiero to bits, he's my favorite living mon, but his contribution to the E4 will probably be 0.

>>51337591
>>51337691
Archibald is definitely in then! Still grinding and too scared to go through V-road lol

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 22:46:41 No.51337839 Report

Quoted By: >>51343350

>Totem Lurantis
It hits Shampoo with X-Scissor, and Champoo retaliates with a Flame Charge Crit. Lurantis calls in Comfey.
Lurantis heals back up with Synthesis, Comfey puts up a Flower Shield, and Shampoo Flame Charges again.
Lurantis hits hard with Solar Blade, while Shampoo and Comfey repeat last turn.
Shampoo Baton Passes her speed boosts to Tim the Marowak. Lurantis heals with Synthesis and Comfey puts up yet another Flower Shield.
Tim hits the Totem with a Fire Punch, it hits back with X-Scissor. Another Shield from Comfey.
I try a Will-O-Wisp only to fail, and Lurantis winds up for a Solar Blade. Comfey uses Floral Healing to heal Lurantis.
I try a Fire Punch on Comfey to less effect than I was hoping for, and Lurantis brings the Solar Blade down. Comfey sets up Sunny Day.
I utilize the Sunny Day to power up Marowak's Fire Punch, doing a good bit of damage to Lurantis. Lurantis brings the Solar Blade down, and Comfey Shields once again.
Another Fire Punch on Lurantis just barely KOs, causing Floral Healing to fail.
A final Fire Punch takes out Comfey, finishing the battle.
This was more challenging than it really should have been.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 23:44:56 No.51338176 Report

Quoted By: >>51343350

What a roller-coaster of a session. It started with me losing Parasect like an idiot and ended with me finding a shiny. At least the bug catcher problem kinda solved itself.
The weakness to electric is still a problem but for the time being I will go with this. I will wait until the rest of the map opens up before doing any drastic changes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 01:52:48 No.51338875 Report

Quoted By: >>51338909 >>51339215 >>51342260

About to start a full series run. 2 chooses my naming scheme for Red.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 01:57:29 No.51338909 Report

Quoted By: >>51339029

>>51338875
Pokemon Youtubers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 02:15:12 No.51339029 Report

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>>51338909
No.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 02:40:08 No.51339215 Report

Quoted By: >>51339315

>>51338875
Candy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 02:53:45 No.51339315 Report

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>>51339215
Alright, I'll roll with this!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 08:51:55 No.51340731 Report

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Alright lads, what is grinding backround noise?

British Panel shows for me

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 14:37:58 No.51341796 Report

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bamp

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 15:55:46 No.51342260 Report

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>>51338875
Actors

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 18:10:52 No.51343013 Report

Quoted By: >>51343319

First off; Thank you to the anons suggesting Archi and Hax, they probably saved the run.

E4 time. Since most of my team was pre-planned, I decided to go for Marshall (the hardest one) first since Archibald and Lightyear should wall him.

>Marshall
Archibald kills Throh with an Actobatics. Sawk comes in and Archi U-turns into Lightyear who get hit with Stone Edge. Lightyear uses Iron Defense while Sawk crits Stone Edge. Lightyear survives another Stone Edge and Crits Eq on Sawk killing it. Up next is Conk. Conk keeps using Stone Edge, but LY tanks them. Two EQs leaves Conk in the red, allowing me to switch Archibald in safely and sweep with Acrobatics.

>Grimsley
Archibald Acrobatics Scrafty to death. Bisharp immediately comes out and Metals claws onto Tohru. Tohru lives an Aerial Ace and kills Bisharp with Brick Break. Liepard comes in and uses fake out on Archibald, who kills it next turn with a crit U-Turn. Krook dies to two Giga Drains from Snevio.

>Shauntal
Snevio sets up Light Screen on a ballin' Coff. I send out Hax-wife on a CRIT. leaving her on half hp. Deciding this is basically my only game plan, Hax sets up an SD. Rawst Berry heals the burn from the incoming WoW and just to be sure Hax goes for a DD, living Shadow Ball on 29hp. After that Hax-Wife sweeps the entire team with Shadow Claw!

>Caitlin
My strategy is exactly the same! LS with Snevio and set up with Hax-Wife. Sadly, Reuniclus managed to get off the SpD. drop and I didn't notice how much damage Hax took from Psychic, so I wasn't sure she'd survive another one. So I hoped a single SD was enough to clinch it.It was. The entirety of Caitlins team went down to Shadow Claw!

Now to grind a lil bit for N. And no, I don't consider Ghetsis part of the run. Just the champion, being N in this case.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 18:21:52 No.51343073 Report

Quoted By: >>51343350 >>51344304 >>51368031

>>51334867
To start off, Zhu Bajie died at the first possible opportunity, to a Plasma Patrat Bide, because there was a speed tie? That hurts.
This kind of forced my hand on doing some encounter manipulation. Drilbur aside, I could get guarantee Audino for Route 3, and that then lets me get Sawk from Pinwheel. To do this safely, this took me 2 hours.
After that, it's Lenora time.
Used Tez to lower Herdier's Atk, switched to Cavall to beat it.
To play around Watchog Retaliate, switch to Beiwe, who can actually take both the boosted Retaliate and a non-boosted without Crits + Oran Berry. Got Hypnosis instead. Since she's not in real danger, just wait for her to wake up and get some damage before switching to Tyr to wrap up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 18:53:18 No.51343229 Report

Quoted By: >>51343357

>>51326421
what are some good romhacks that take place in new regions other than gaia?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 19:09:46 No.51343319 Report

Quoted By: >>51343350

>>51343013
The true Champion is Alder, E4 round 2 let's go

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Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 19:14:22 No.51343350 Report

Quoted By: >>51343357 >>51343488 >>51345280

Champion N!

I send out Archibald and use a Rock Gem boosted Rock Slide to destroy Reshiram into the next dimension. Vanilluxe is next and I protect with Archi to check if it's actually Vanilli. It is and I send Dan Duran on a Blizzard and kill it with Fire Punch. Carracosta is next and it uses Waterfall on Snevio. Snevio uses Giga drain to bring it to sturdy. On the heal Snevio uses Reflect. Snevio drains again, leaving Carra once again on sturdy. it crits Stone Edge though. Snevio lives on 12, I love this fat snek! Carra dies. Next up is Zoroark, but i spotted it by using protect with Snevio. Axwife takes a Flamethrower, skillfully dodges a Focus Blasts and DD's twice. It does get hit with a focus Blast though. Hax-Wife kills Zoroark with Brick Break, but leaves Archeops on around 10hp. I swapped Dragon Fang for a Pecha Berry, just for Ghetsis. whoops

I thank Gamefreak for making Defeatist a thing, since N's Archeops Dragon Claw does basically 0. Two more Brick Breaks on the bird and the gear and N is dead!

B-B-BONUS ROUND
GHETSIS.

Archi cronches on a toxicing Coff. I send in Snevio on a protect. Snevio uses LS and gets Toxic'd. I send in Hax-Wife on protect. I set up 3 DDs.

Hax-wife kills Coff, Hydreigon and Bouffalant with Shadow Claw, Dragon Claw and Brick Break. Seismitoad comes in and I send out Snevio who dodges Muddy Water. Snevio kills Seismi and sets up a light screen on Eelektros and I send in Dan Duran who finishes the fight with 2 Fire Punches and a single Hammer Arm!

So these laddies are my champs. I kind of want to add Rogiero as 6th member, but that'd be against the rules.

On to Black and White 2!
>>51343319
>Did that once
>Only my ninetails and Jellicent survived
Nah. I'm surprised enough I survived e4 the first time
>>51343073
F for Pig. W for cucking Lenora.
>>51338176
At least Tentacool's a pretty neat Shiny. even if it isn't rare.
>>51337839
Totem Battles can go fucky in one turn. At least you survived, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 19:16:37 No.51343357 Report

Quoted By: >>51343389 >>51352593

>>51343350
Gj and congrats!
>>51343229
Unbound, I would only recommend Vanilla or Difficult level of difficulty though
Glazed and Vega Minus too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 19:21:29 No.51343389 Report

Quoted By: >>51343405

>>51343357

any gen 1-2 hacks? I'll keep those in mind as well for later, but I'm in the mood for some SOULful graphics

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 19:23:33 No.51343405 Report

Quoted By: >>51343429

>>51343389
Brown, Prism, Bronze 2 are all good picks

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 19:26:40 No.51343429 Report

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>>51343405
thank you kind sir.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 19:34:40 No.51343488 Report

Quoted By: >>51343691 >>51352593

>>51343350
Hell yeah my man. Love to see Archeops carry yet another B/W run.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 20:04:10 No.51343691 Report

Quoted By:

>>51343488
It does my heart good to hear that's the case for many people. That guy was my ace first playthrough.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 20:12:35 No.51343735 Report

Quoted By: >>51352593

>>51333073
I dab most of the time, usually stick to sativa strains. I think the stuff I'm using now is Dutch Hawaiian.

>>51334867
You were right, Root Beer is an absolute tank. I was really wanting a replacement for Pepsi so he can retire soon, I'm not fond of using something not fully evolved. Good call on not starting in winter, I'm stuck unable to catch anything but stunfisk in 3 areas. I wish you luck on your next run! The E4 can be devastating.

>>51337303
I couldn't believe that fight. She actually went for retaliate after her first mon fainted, then put my next one to sleep and got a crit retaliate on the swap out, then put the next one to sleep. Honestly considered restarting my run then and there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 21:44:07 No.51344304 Report

Quoted By: >>51345241 >>51345280

>>51343073
Bide has +1 priority in gen 5.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 00:18:15 No.51345241 Report

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>>51344304
Damn. I guess I misremembered it then and it was entirely on me.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 00:18:51 No.51345245 Report

Quoted By: >>51345280 >>51345281 >>51345301 >>51352064

>saw this video where a guy gets every ribbon possible on a single pokemon across all generations with ribbons
>think about doing it myself
>wanted to do it with Ledian because its one of my favorite Pokemon
>Ledyba/Ledian aren't available in SS or Legends
Luckily my second pick Roselia can be transferred to all of them. Wish me luck

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 00:24:39 No.51345280 Report

Quoted By: >>51352593 >>51361983

Mars gave me some trouble because she crit Geodude with faint attack, but I got through with no deaths. Juniper didn't even try to use night slash so she wasn't hard. Roark and Gardenia were both easy sweeps.

>>51343350
Congrats! Beating the entire league, N and Ghetsis deathless is impressive.
>>51344304
It also has +1 priority in gen 4.
>>51345245
I saw that video too, seems like a pretty fun challenge. Good luck!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 00:24:51 No.51345281 Report

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>>51345245
how much would it even cost to get all the hardware required for that?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 00:29:23 No.51345301 Report

Quoted By: >>51345823

>>51345245
the shiny scizor guy? i saw that too, seemed like a neat challenge.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 01:55:43 No.51345823 Report

Quoted By: >>51346045

>>51345301
I didn't have the time to watch that, what's the worst stuff involved?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 02:29:21 No.51346045 Report

Quoted By:

>>51345823
gen 4 battle tower ribbons. specifically the "world ability ribbon" which requires completing the wifi battle tower challenge (to rank 5 I think?). you have to connect to cloned fan servers since the nintendo servers aren't up anymore, and there are lots of blatantly hacked mons making it really tedious to earn.

he did mention there was a discord for pokemon ribbons, so that might be worth looking into if you're interested in where to start.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 05:12:03 No.51346809 Report

Quoted By: >>51352593

Sorry for the lack of an update. My mind was adrift on other thoughts at the time.

Progress: The Happiny egg had been hatched and was power-leveled up to a happy, huggy, slap-you-across-the-face-and-then-drive-you-home-afterwards Blissey. A Mime Jr. was brought on-board, and now I'm stuck with a Mr. Mime who has no attacking moves at the moment.

Gertrude 2 was taken out of the daycare, evolved, and then got murdered by a stray Kricketune. Impulsor's life was brief but happy. And Chachamaru got grabbed by the tail, and beaten along the grassy floor like she was a club for whacking day.

Hisui was finally brought out of box-purgatory, powered up to closely matching, and giving new Cutting duties, the letter R is now in my sole possession, and a Goldeen is now the latest in what I hope will be a Water-type that I can actually hold onto!

Next time, more Veilstone shenanigans...!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 06:07:41 No.51347001 Report

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So uhhh... I just lost my first Nuzlocke in Let's Go Pikachu thinking it would the easiest shit ever... to a single Gloom that killed all my 6 members.

>Pikachu
>Diglet
>Sandshrew
>Jiglypuff
>Rattata
>Pidgey

Oops...

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 08:44:16 No.51347446 Report

Quoted By: >>51348916

>>51334892
I am, that's why im starting with firered omega instead of something like emerald kaizo.

On my third attempt and made it back to misty again, I have guts swellow and raticate again but my elekid died. I'm thinking of running beedrill instead of swellow for misty since everyone has aura beam almost, but maybe i shouldn't risk beedrill since it might be good for erica (because of its resists) but maybe that's thinking too far ahead. I will have to hope grovyle, gloom or electrike can take down starmie.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 09:18:22 No.51347517 Report

Quoted By: >>51348140 >>51351297 >>51363157

>>51332426
I GOT SAIBOT TO EVOLVE!!
To celebrate I didn't grind or anything for the ice gym, just let him sweep through Jobber Brycen

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 12:57:28 No.51348140 Report

Quoted By:

>>51347517
Based. Crygo went down easily? Its SpD aint no joke

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 14:25:53 No.51348916 Report

Quoted By: >>51349887 >>51353392 >>51355199

>>51347446
I applaud the effort, but you're basically saying
>i've never hiked before, so instead of going up everest i'm going to try one of the other mountains in the himalayas
Without elekid it's going to be really rough, just try and get a paralysis off on Starmie and hope for the best I guess

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 16:36:55 No.51349887 Report

Quoted By: >>51356988

>>51348916
I don't think there's an issue with that kind of logic. It takes a certain kind of mentality to actually go through with it, but if you have the patience for it, you'll get through it eventually, and you'll probably come out of it with a decently good understanding of Nuzlocking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 17:21:54 No.51350168 Report

Quoted By: >>51352593

>>51337303
I'm just commenting for the Kim Wexler reference. Nice job on the run!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 20:36:54 No.51351297 Report

Quoted By: >>51363157

>>51347517
Couldn't you have a Dusk Stone by now (Even without grinding one from Dust Clouds)? Do you miss something if you were to evolve now?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 20:57:55 No.51351446 Report

Quoted By: >>51351479

>>51326421
Just finished my Hardcore Nuzlocke in Leaf Green by winning the League rematch.
I entered the final match with
>Charizard
>Arcanine
>Aerodactyl
>Lapras
>Steelix
>Electrode
and only Arcanine and Aerodactyl made it.
20 deaths in total: most of them were either early game grinding deaths or fodders, but FOUR of them were potential team members that were grinding for the League rematch (Wigglytuff and Mr. Mime were in the 1st match HoF, Heracross and Dragonair/nite were supposed to be replacements).
So yeah, you're never too safe, even at high levels and especially if you act dumb.

All in all, this was pretty fun, but quite easy: I've done the same ruleset in Emerald and that was a rollercoaster. The distribution of the original 151 isn't the greatest and the Sevii Islands don't help too much in this regard.
This run however made me realize one thing: gift Pokémon can bail you out quite easily and kinda go "against" the Nuzlocke spirit of using whatever the routes give you.
What is everyone's stance on them? Do you forbid them in your runs? Do you allow them, while fully respecting the 1st encounter rule (this was my stance: e.g. getting one Game Corner mon in Celadon=no Celadon Eevee)? Do you allow them without any restrictions?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 21:02:15 No.51351479 Report

Quoted By:

>>51351446
I consider them just as I do regular encounters.
It's not like you can't get certain guaranteed encounters anyways, especially if you're playing unlimited dupe clause, where you can manipulate certain areas to give you a certain Pokemon.
And hey, you get a free Gyarados in those games, but even if you didn't, getting one regularly isn't even much harder if at all.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 22:20:26 No.51352064 Report

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>>51345245
Me again. After some research, I could do the Ribbon Challenge with Ledian but it might not be possible because of my lack of hardware. I don't have a copy of XD so I can't get a shadow Roselia and if I use Ledian I'd have to beat Battle Towers/Frontiers with a Ledian.

That and I was wanting to shiny hunt for a Roselia which could take a long ass time

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2022 23:45:29 No.51352593 Report

Quoted By: >>51353637 >>51359087

Third Gen V game in a row where my starter gets a -attack nature. Just great :)
>Cheren
I send in Fantasio against Patrat. They trade Water Guns and Tackles, but I decide to send out Prunelle when Cheren heals Patrat. Patrat tackles once and works up, then dies after two Tackles.
>Cheren's Lillipup.
It Works Up twice while Prunelle tackles twice. Cheren's Lillipup retaliates with a +2 Tackle that kills my slightly weakened pup. Arthur comes in and takes 25hp damage to Tackle, but kills it in 2 Quick Attacks.

RIP Prunelle, the only normal type I wanted to keep. I assume Cheren's pup hit the highest roll possible, since Prunelle's defense was higher than Arthur's and Prunelle had more than 25 health left for sure. Might just be pissed my intimidate user died this quickly tho. And that Patrat and Lillipup died to 'useless 4hp left crits'

>>51350168
Thanks! Kim best girl
>>51343488
Even with his terrible defense and defeatist, if you lead with Arch, you kill with Arch.
>>51345280
Thanks bruv, way to go getting passed Mars and Jupiter without much trouble. Bonnie will definitely wreck ass with Frustration.
>>51343735
>I couldn't believe that fight. She actually went for retaliate after her first mon fainted, then put my next one to sleep and got a crit retaliate on the swap out, then put the next one to sleep. Honestly considered restarting my run then and there.
Sometimes the game just hates you. I probably wouldn't have reset, but would have bitched endlessly. Likes when Karen's Gengar Thawed turn one and destiny bonded my Slowking.
>>51343357
Thanks! What are you running?
>>51346809
Interesting team. 60% is the usual Sinnoh squad, but Blissey and Cranidos looks fun as combo!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 01:56:21 No.51353392 Report

Quoted By: >>51356988

>>51348916
I used to play rogue likes, like DCSS so I like the idea of a hard game with perma death that forces you to get better if you want to go further than you did before, and every run is different. The vanilla games have more static encounters so you're teams aren't going to vary as much is why i choose the more nuzlocke focused rom hacks, with more varied encounters it's more strategically rewarding.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 02:35:22 No.51353637 Report

Quoted By:

>>51352593
More like an interesting squad, ahaha.
Since I'm kinda OCD to keep my team leveled roughly equally until the approach of the Elite 4, it's a lot of firsts: the first time I've kept a Crobat alive enough to BE one, the first time I've seriously plopped a Mr. Mime and Pachirisu (and currently even Goldeen) to keep them on fighting ropes, and the first time I've gotten a Blissey on the front lines too. Especially with her doing separate healing on the side, and giving her some use by teaching her Flamethrower. (By virtue of abusing VS Seeker and dicking around in the Game Corner).

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 03:11:31 No.51353862 Report

Quoted By: >>51354607

Just beat the two youngster's in floccessy town. Purrloin "died" to a crit, but was unavoidably healed by Adler. Not sure whether to count it has a death since it seems like a weird situation thematically, so I might put it in a box by itself labeled infirmary and either never use it again or wait for it to recover about two badges later. Do you guys do anything special when a mon dies but is uncontrollably healed (aside form E4), or is it still a death all the same?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 05:30:57 No.51354607 Report

Quoted By: >>51356923

>>51353862
>Do you guys do anything special when a mon dies but is uncontrollably healed (aside form E4), or is it still a death all the same?
Personally I still count it as a death, but if you think the rule sounds fun, nothing's stopping you. Nuzlockes ARE self-imposed challenges after all.

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Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 08:54:38 No.51355199 Report

Quoted By: >>51356988

>>51348916
Para didn't work against starmie because he ended up switching out with natural cure. Well turns out beedrill is actually quite good against starmie. He one shot starmie with bug swarm activated. I lost 4 pokemon before I tried beedrill tho so only beedrill and gloom survived .

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 11:31:18 No.51356075 Report

Quoted By: >>51356988

Someone recommend me a good hack to do a nuzlocke on. Preferably something with a lot of variety on wild encounters.
I just want something actually feels cool and new instead of the first 6 areas being the resident pidgey/ratatta/caterpie etc for the 200th time and burning out before the 2nd or 3rd gym due to lack of variety.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 14:06:22 No.51356923 Report

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>>51354607
the only thing in my mind that is able to override a mon's death is the Sacred Ash item, and that /must/ be used immediately after the battle in which they die without taking a single step, so no keeping the corpse of a pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 14:20:45 No.51356988 Report

Quoted By: >>51357261 >>51359007 >>51377173

>>51349887
>>51353392
Thats fair and as I did say I applaud the effort. Its really just about what you feel is enjoyable at the end of the day and nuzlockes especially of romhacks do require a certain skillet thats not easy to come by and people can get tired of resetting over and over.
>>51355199
This is regrettable as Surge probably is the most difficult fight in FRO especially if you lost grass types. I'm surprised Misty didn't send out Starmie last.
I would recommend still playing to Surge. Ironically Gyarados is very good for him if you have your grass/electric/ground types so you can pivot into gyarados on a coverage move and then to an electric resist. Its unfortunately not really feasible to get through rock tunnel with the level caps but you can maybe try to nab another ground type there
>>51356075
How much difficulty would you prefer?
Alternatively XY, Gen 7 and SwSh have extremely good encounter variety even early on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 15:05:38 No.51357261 Report

Quoted By: >>51357850

>>51356988
Not too stressed on difficulty one way or another. As long as its not over the top unfair/annoying.
Something on the base games' difficulty curve is find though I just wanna have a fun playthrough where I really have no idea what my team might end up looking like even from the start.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 16:28:38 No.51357750 Report

Quoted By: >>51357850 >>51359087

So, just finished Garbage Green and I really like it, mainly because there are no EVs. Grinding is the dumbest part of Nuzlockes and anything that does away with it is good in my books, even though GG has some glaring faults otherwise.

Are there any other hacks that are decently hard and have an EV removal option? Decently hard as in Radical Red vanilla mode, not stuff like Emerald Kaizo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 16:45:17 No.51357850 Report

Quoted By: >>51357924 >>51360880

>>51357261
I would recommend Unbound Vanilla or Difficult mode, Gaia, Glazed, or if you want a main series hack, Soothing Silver, Altered Emerald, Altered Platinum might be all worth checking out.
>>51357750
Inclement Emerald has a fan made patch on its Discord that removes EVs and adds some QoL. Same with Blaze Black Volt White 2 Redux, though that comes with the download. The streamer Drxx also has EVless versions of Drayano hacks on his Discord.
Unbound has an inbuilt Sandbox mode that effectively cancels EVs with Expert mode being a nice match for RR in difficulty, Inflamed Red and ROWE also have minimal grinding modes.
Hope that's a start.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 16:55:15 No.51357924 Report

Quoted By: >>51357957

>>51357850
Thanks, this helps out a lot. I tried Inclement Emerald with EVs, but called it quits after Weather because I hadn't had a 'mon die for the entire game. Way too easy to setup sweep your way through, especially with gems and the monstrosity that is Shell Smash Simple Magcargo.

I'll try BB/VW instead, and move to Expert Unbound after.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 16:59:56 No.51357957 Report

Quoted By:

>>51357924
Well, a couple things, I do think the no EV patch actually makes a lot of fights harder, and there's probably more tricky fights post-Norman than not.
However if I had to guess, IE 2.0 is going to come early next year with Insanity mode, so I guess keep your eyes out for that.
Anyway, yeah, hope you at least have fun with some of the recs

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Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 18:54:04 No.51358895 Report

Quoted By: >>51359087 >>51359192 >>51361983 >>51376637

>>51332009
>>51332285
And there it is. My Nuzlocke record now stands at 2-1. This is what happens when:
>Cheren crits your Tympole twice in a row, killing it.
>A wild Sandile Sand Tombs your Sandile (meaning no running or switching) and crits twice, meaning death.
>You gain some semblance of confidence back by deathless-ing the N fight.
>The Liepard you find has a Minus Attack Nature.
>Elesa's Zebstrika crits Volt Switch. Twice in a row. (What is with the double-crits in this game?)
>Fire Punch misses because of your Darumaka's Hustle ability
>Another crit Volt Switch from the second Emolga to rub salt in the wound
Was this my fault? Yes, actually, entirely so, even. I had the Smoke Ball and didn't realize it until a little while later, meaning I could have ran from the wild Sandile, kept mine alive and probably walked out of the Elesa fight with hardly a scratch.

What will I do now?
No clue. Maybe I'll give HeartGold a spin, a game I know so well that I may genuinely be able to pull it off deathless. Either that or I'll do a non-Nuzlocke challenge, or maybe a normal playthrough of Platimum which I have never finished.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 19:15:17 No.51359007 Report

Quoted By: >>51377173

>>51356988
yeah losing marchomp might hurt, the other loses are fine i think. we'll see what encounters i pick up.

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Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 19:28:18 No.51359087 Report

Quoted By: >>51359781

I thought XY would be pretty easy, but by god are some of the V-Road trainers terrifying. They throw a ton of good pokemon at you like Snorlax, Alakazam, Weavile, Skarmory, etc and they ALL have hand-picked movesets.
Anyway, time to teambuld for the E4. It's a little tough, dunno if I'm stupid or what, but they all have pretty damn good coverage, almost as good as the Unova E4. I'm thinking on bringing Chesnaught, Garchomp, Klefki, Tentacruel, Noivern and Chandelure, and most of my strats include confiding the first mon down before sweeping the E4's teams with a designated sweeper.

>>51358895
Ouch. Nimbasa is a REALLY tough part in B/W.
HeartGold's a nice one for a nuzlocke, it's pretty laid back as long as Lance doesn't land crit Thunder on your Starmie and sweeping the rest of your team ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
>>51357750
Inclement Emerald is probably your best bet? I'm not too knowledgable about ROM hacks.
>>51352593
Losing Lillipup super early is super bad (probably) but Oshawott should proooobably be fine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 19:43:36 No.51359192 Report

Quoted By: >>51359781

>>51358895
>>Fire Punch misses because of your Darumaka's Hustle ability
After getting punished by Hustle Durant in E4 and (partially) losing because of that, I can safely say I will avoid Hustle like the fucking plague.

Romhack Nuzlocker(Sword)

Romhack Nuzlocker(Sword) Fri 02 Sep 2022 20:16:34 No.51359453 Report

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>>51326421
Forgot to keep posting updates about to fight Raihan,will post actual update after story stuff.Good luck to all anons still on their own runs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 20:40:24 No.51359614 Report

Quoted By: >>51359636

>accidentally bump button mapped to select when choosing a move
>realize i can reorder moves
holy shit i didn't know this was possible

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Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 20:44:00 No.51359636 Report

Quoted By: >>51359656

>>51359614
either you are the slowest slowpoke to ever slow
or you are underageb&

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Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 20:47:02 No.51359656 Report

Quoted By: >>51359781

>>51359636
i've been playing pokemon on and off for almost two decades, i'm just retarded

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Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 21:08:25 No.51359781 Report

Quoted By: >>51359835 >>51360197 >>51361983 >>51363913 >>51376637

>>51359087
Of all the Pokémon games, I know HeartGold like the back of my fucking hand. If I was gonna succeed a Hardcore Nuzlocke, it would be that one. I'll decide what to do after I'm done moving my stuff off the Emerald save (I won, so Nuzlocke rules no longer apply. I'm gonna move my "dead" Flygon and Absol that have perfect EVs, and my shiny Poochyena among other stuff to a different file before deleting that save.)
I even have a rough idea on how to clap Lance's Dragonites (cuz it's similar to my favorite way as a kid)
>Save my Mt. Mortar encounter until I can reach the Karate King
>Gift Tyrogue
>A couple defense EVs, 252 Speed, the rest on HP
>Hitmonchan used Ice Punch!
And there's always Old Reliable:
>Quagsire used Ice Beam!
I'm only concerned about how to get out of the Whitney battle deathless, and manage Morty without an Eeveelution (The Macho Brace is on that trade Machop, sacrificing Eevee)
>>51359192
Wait are you the guy I told that Hustle Durant would be fine in the last thread? If so, sorry Anon, I paid my karmic debt by getting screwed by it too if it makes you feel better.
>>51359656
Based and honesty-pilled.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 21:16:04 No.51359835 Report

Quoted By: >>51376637

>>51359781
>I'm only concerned about how to get out of the Whitney battle deathless
What I did for my run is to use a Butterfree to Poison Powder the Miltank twice (Lum Berry). Butterfree SHOULD live the starting Rollout hit (unless it does a ridiculous crit), and then I swapped to Onix that tanked the rest of the Rollouts while poison and occasional chip from Onix took it out.
If you don't have Onix, you should probably be fine using a Geodude or whatever.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 22:11:09 No.51360182 Report

Quoted By: >>51360197

Technician is OP as fuck. I had a whole ass strategy for Clair, I even went through the trouble of setting up poison spikes in case something went terribly wrong like last time, and then Scyther just killed all her dragons on his own. I can't decide whether I think the fight was slightly disappointing or extremely cathartic.

>I'm only concerned about how to get out of the Whitney battle deathless
What I did was use Onix to screech+rock tomb once and then rock smash until I won. Miltank can't really touch Onix since it has really high defense and is quite fast.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 22:13:27 No.51360197 Report

Quoted By:

>>51360182
>>51359781
Forgot to reply

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 23:57:18 No.51360880 Report

Quoted By:

>>51357850
Thanks anon I'll check those ones out

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 02:55:58 No.51361983 Report

Quoted By: >>51371507 >>51376637

>>51345280
I was lucky enough to get a female Combee so I just had to add it to the team. But while I was switch training it I encountered a Graveler and it blew up my Prinplup. Then a few minutes later I battled a guy with a Misdreavus that mean looked Graveler then confused him, and Graveler hit himself in confusion four times in a row and died.
At least the gyms were easy.

>>51358895
Man that whole run seems cursed. Hope you have better luck on your next one.

>>51359781
>I'm only concerned about how to get out of the Whitney battle deathless
If you play with dupes clause you can get a Heracross encounter guaranteed and beat Whitney easily. Get Kenya on route 31, then backtrack to Azalea/route 33 to get Aipom and Heracross.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 04:40:08 No.51362695 Report

Quoted By: >>51364060

Progress: Maylene has been put on her time-out, for daring to be alive in my presence.

Defiance and Silencer once more took point in thwarting her Meditite and Machoke, but it was the silly but potent Grimbly who set up the walls (while holding Light Clay), mimicked Lucario's Bone Rush, got a couple of good hits in, and then finished with a Psybeam crit.

Exploring around afterwards, I farmed a couple of trainers outside of Veilstone for money, acquired a Buizel from Route 213, watched her eat shit by a Girafarig, and then acquired four extras from the Safari Zone--one of which was given the honor of being the Fly-taxi.

Next time: tangling with Crasher Wake and stopping the terrorists that would make Commanders Kamado and Cyllene, vomit with rage!

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 05:06:44 No.51362856 Report

Quoted By: >>51364060

>>51326421
I recently beated a randomized Ruby nuzlocke where I got super lucky and by gym 5 I had almost everyone on this team ready to go (Entei was the first Kecleon encounter) only 3 deaths (Phanpy at level 3, Machoke on the 3rd gym and my starter who was a Porygon to Maxie on the mountain)

>Do you ever handle caves in a special way? Such as different floors having different encounter pools?
I mostly do the different floors = different pools, however lately I've just scratched that rule since most mons there are basically the same

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 06:04:25 No.51363157 Report

Quoted By: >>51363177

>>51347517
First death of the run... and right at the end of the gym circuit. His druddigon got revenge off and merced my poor taco. Poor guy..
>>51351297
I can, I was just gonna wait and do all the exploring before the E4/N battle.

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 06:07:52 No.51363177 Report

Quoted By: >>51363323 >>51364060

>>51363157
Any advice going into the E4/4 finale here? Bottom row are the guys I actively used along the way. patrat and monky were only used for gym 1 and 2

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 06:54:27 No.51363323 Report

Quoted By: >>51363408

>>51363177
Teambuilding for the Unova E4's pretty fun. Here's my two cents.
>Mienfoo
If it's ability is Regenerator, you have yourself a DAMN strong mon. An amazing attack and speed stat + U-turn if it can't handle something. Mienshao's awesome.
>Swanna
Probably your best bet for Marshall. It's not that great but it's pretty much your best flying-type.
>Frillish
Jellicent's a super-good tank with access to Recover. Definitely a nice bring if you need something to tank.
>Herdier
Stoutland is INCREDIBLY solid, gets Crunch for both Shauntal and Caitlin. It also gets Intimidate so you can -1 something like Shauntal's Golurk.
>Cottonee/Leavanny
Whimsicott is a little frail but they get the job done with Prankster Leech Seed and whatever else you wanna put on it. Leavanny is also not terrible, it gets X-Scissor for Grimsley and Caitlin and can get Aerial Ace for Marshall.
>Free Pick
Darmanitan is a super-good powerhouse if it can stay alive, it has a MASSIVE attack stat + Sheer Force which is ridiculous. Elgyem is a decent Psychic-Type that gets Recover but probably not too useful, Mandibuzz is a tanky flying-type that honestly leads well into all of the E4.

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 07:29:40 No.51363408 Report

Quoted By: >>51366839

>>51363323
Worth noting my actual party was in the post I replied to.
And that darmanitan is the static encounter one with zen mode, which I remember being god awful…

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 10:49:59 No.51363913 Report

Quoted By: >>51364526 >>51376637

>>51359781
>Wait are you the guy I told that Hustle Durant would be fine in the last thread?
Probably, there might've been another Anon who actually got the Lens for better Accuracy.
But in the end, even if it was me, I knew the risks going in. I just expected to be able to play around a miss. I was not.
>manage Morty without an Eeveelution
There's a few cheesy ways I can think of.
If you use a Normal type, the first Gastly can only Curse you. Gengar can only Sucker Punch you, so if you have a way to deal damage without attacking, that's free. The second Haunter has Curse and Sucker Punch, so the same applies basically.
The first Haunter has Hypnosis + Dream Eater + Nightmare, so with a Pokemon with Insomnia, it can't do anything but Curse. (You options here are Spinarak, and more importantly, HootHoot, which is also a Normal type)
Obviously it's not foolproof or anything since Mean Look can still kill you in conjunction with Curse, but if you have some expendable early route Normal types laying around, they can get you far.

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 10:51:56 No.51363918 Report

Quoted By: >>51364060 >>51366839

Have I lost if some of my pokemon died but I accidentally turned off my device before the battle was over so it's like it never happened

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 11:47:14 No.51364060 Report

Quoted By: >>51364526 >>51368754 >>51371507 >>51406352

Fourth gym down! Lucario managed to survive 1 psychic from Persephone, but was easily killed by the second. Team is looking pretty strong, but not entirely sure what I'll do for Wake. Either way I've gotta survive some Galactic bs first.
Also Mary's nature is Modest. there is no god

>>51362695
how are mr. mime and blissey treating you? don't see them used very often
>>51362856
extremely based team
>>51363177
mienfoo would be good for hydreigon, could also bring frillish or darmanitan. like your current team pretty well tho
>>51363918
Nah, just redo the battle and release the mons that died after. Unless you were doomed to lose the original battle then I would count that as a wipe

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 13:34:54 No.51364526 Report

Quoted By: >>51365666 >>51368391

>>51363913
Sorry for misguiding you fren. I do have to ask:
>Normal type
Would Togetic's Metronome be a good bet? My rules would allow me to just hatch the egg in Ecruteak. Or does Noctowl just wipe the floor with Morty so hard that other options pale in comparison?
I've decided my next Nuzlocke is gonna be HeartGold, but I'm gonna do a semi-casual playthrough of FireRed (with no item use, set battle mode and no items) to sorta practice and to get my spirits back up. It is the weekend so I'll certainly finish that before today is done. I started yesterday and am already past Erika. Convenient since Hoothoot is a night encounter anyway.
>>51364060
Intentionally sack the Pokémon that died, then continue on. If it lives through the battle, Permabox/Release it, however you deal with dead mons.

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 16:47:12 No.51365666 Report

Quoted By: >>51376637

>>51364526
Metronome is always a gamble. At the very least I'd keep a second option on hand in case you get some nonsense that leads to an untimely death.
As far as Noctowl goes, I don't actually know how well it'll work out, but the theory seems solid to me. I'd probably try it if I was running the game.
I remember playing GSC casually and screwing up with Morty, and a level 2 Rattata I had with me for some reason got me pretty far with some switches for Curse to kill his Pokemon. Obv Gen 2 is very different, but that's where I got the idea from.

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 19:47:48 No.51366839 Report

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>>51363408
>Zen Darm
Huh, that's out of my expertise then. I've never ever used a Zen Mode Darmanitan.
>>51363918
I'd just redo the fight then box the mons that died, otherwise you're just playing Fire Emblem.

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 22:58:31 No.51368031 Report

Quoted By: >>51375723 >>51420560

>>51343073
Finally had time to do this.
Nothing of note will ever happen in this part of the game I feel.
I didn't even grind for Burgh, and during the fight I somehow forgot my plan, and it didn't matter anyways because I guess Burgh really wanted Leavanny to outspeed Tyr, who kept lowering his speed instead of doing anything of worth.
Next up is the Nimbasa part, and I need to consider if I want to even do Relic Castle for the fossils yet, there's a Sigilyph trainer in there.

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 23:36:40 No.51368391 Report

Quoted By: >>51368726 >>51376637

>>51364526
Definitely never use Metronome in a nuzlocke. You will roll Selfdestruct or Explosion at some point and even if you don't, you can easily get a move like Rollout that traps you in and screws you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2022 23:44:45 No.51368440 Report

Quoted By: >>51380214

>>51331787
Beat N deathless in Nimbassa, not without some scares though. Evolite Yamask was great and got Mummy onto Scraggy and burn it. This let me bring in Archen, hit a Pluck to get Mummy on Archen and two hit Sigilyph after an Ancient Power boosted all his stats. Did a Chesto Rest against Darumaka, just in-case Pluck didn't OHKO, since a crit Psybeam had Archen at 5 HP, but it did on the next turn anyways. Then Sandile took care of the gym, and evolved right before the Elesa fight.

Also caught an Audino and Cinccino in there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 00:43:07 No.51368726 Report

Quoted By: >>51376637

>>51368391
>self-destruct
>explosion
>final gambit
>healing wish
>lunar dance
>memento
>misty explosion
you just have to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?"
do ya punk?

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 00:48:00 No.51368754 Report

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>>51364060
Well, when I'm not leveling Blissey, she's handy in giving some free healing for others--and when she's on point, it's nice having her with Flamethrower. As for Mr. Mime, well, I've never really used one either--but double screens was pretty clutch in his debut against Maylene!

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 01:33:08 No.51368995 Report

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I want to do a RS Shitmonlocke

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 01:34:20 No.51369001 Report

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Ribbon guy back again. I'm still in the planning stage because I'm trying to get the physical hardware. Had to borrow Coliseum and XD from my friend. Issue now is that I'm torn on which mon to do the ribbon challenge with Roselia or Ledian

I like them both but the main issue I have with Ledian is its straight up trash tier and I'm going to have to do the Battle Frontier at some point. Roselia isn't much better in RSE but I can probably make it work. That and if I do Roselia I wanted to shiny hunt it in XD which is going to take a while

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 01:40:22 No.51369037 Report

Quoted By: >>51369155

It's time.
- Wikstrom
>Send out Crystal, Wikstrom leads Klefki. Crystal alternates between Confide and Toxic due to a Torment, but eventually gets the Klefki to -6 Sp. Atk. I swap out to Spoon who takes a bit from the triple Spikes, but eventually sets up six Calm Minds and takes out the Klefki with a Flamethrower.
>Probopass comes out, but all it does is hit a limp Power Gem while Spoon stalls out the Full Restores by alternating between Energy Ball and Shadow Ball. Eventually, Probopass goes down.
>Scisor comes out but is instantly deleted by Flamethrower.
>Aegislash comes out last but is nuked by a Shadow Ball.
- Siebold
>Send out Crystal first again, Siebold throws out Clawitzer. Crystal uses Confide to bring down Clawitzer to -6. A crit Dragon Pulse scares me for a bit, but Protect + Black Sludge does the trick. I then bring out Kuriku who begins to set up Calm Minds, and Clawitzer uses Water Pulse... that confuses. From there, I'm playing a dangerous game of praying the oversized shrimp doesn't crit while I spam Calm Mind hoping Kuriku doesn't hit himself in confusion. Eventually, I make a gamble and choose Dazzling Gleam and Kuriku SNAPS OUT OF IT RIGHT IN TIME, nuking the Clawitzer.
>Siebold sends out Gyarados, who could POTENTIALLY outspeed Kuriku, but thankfully I go unpunished and slam Gyarados with a Hidden Power Electric. Super nifty that Kuriku's HP is Electric.
>He then sends out his last two hopes, Barbaracle and Starmie, but they can do nothing in the face of jingling keys as Kuriku sweeps the rest of his team.

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 02:01:44 No.51369155 Report

Quoted By: >>51369166

>>51369037
- Drasna
You're never gonna guess the strategy for this one.
>Lead Kuriku, Drasna leads Dralgae. Kuriku confides the kelp dragon down as it just meaninglessly spams Surfs and Thunderbolts. Once it's at -6, I swap to Jawba on a Thunderbolt. I set up one Swords Dance and PRAY that Dragon Pulse doesn't crit. It does not crit, and one good Earthquake takes the poison/dragon out.
>Drasna then sends out Altaria which Jawba takes out with one Dragon Claw.
>Noivern comes out and ACCORDING to the site I'm using, Jawba should outspeed, but Noivern outspeeds and lands a Dragon Pulse that would've killed if it crit, leaving Jawba at 33 HP. One Dragon Claw takes out the bat dragon.
>Druddigon comes out last and I was about to click Dragon Claw until I remembered: Rough Skin. I swap over to Spoon who gets Dragon Tail'd (procing Flame Body lmao) and swapping in Crystal. Crystal then uses two Sludge Waves to take out the Druddigon.

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 02:04:14 No.51369166 Report

Quoted By: >>51369397

>>51369155
- Malva
Malva is the one I have the worst matchup against, so this one is going to use a never-before-seen strategy.
>Lead Spoon, Malva sends out Pyroar. Spoon starts to Confide the Pyroar but the Pyroar uses Flamethrower?? Gen 6 AI, I suppose. After the Pyroar is at -6, I swap over to Jawba who sets up a Swords Dance while the Pyroar hits a very wank Hyper Voice. One Earthquake takes out the lion.
>Malva then sends out my biggest worry, Talonflame. Talonflame lands a NASTY Brave Bird but Jawba lives on half her health and kills the bird with a Dragon Claw.
>Torkoal comes out and I am faced with a dillema. I don't know if this turtle can kill Jawba. I choose to not take the risk and swap over to Cashew while the Torkoal sets up a Curse, meaning that staying in would've been better. Oh well. Cashew takes a surprisingly strong Flame Wheel while dealing damage with Earthquake. After two Earthquakes, Torkoal is left on the red while it sets up another Curse. Malva then heals it with a Full Restore and I am terrified. Two more Earthquakes get Torkoal to half health and Torkoal sets up another curse. Next turn, Cashew manages to land an EARTHQUAKE CRIT LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>Chandelure comes out last and I just swap to Crystal on a weak Flamethrower, taking out the lantern with one Surf.

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 02:48:23 No.51369390 Report

Quoted By: >>51369423 >>51369658 >>51371156

Been picking up on my HG nuzlocke again. currently grinding for Clair-- going to bring Ampharos, Glaceon, Slowking, and Victreebel to her fight. I got the ice beam TM for glaceon today and gave it choice specs; if it's going to be a one trick pony might as well make it the strongest trick it can be.

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 02:49:41 No.51369397 Report

Quoted By: >>51369466

>>51369166
>mfw 4chan marked this post as span
fuck you

Now, the grand finale. Been pretty nervous about this one.
- Diantha
>I lead Spoon, Diantha leads Hawlucha. Hawlucha sets up two Swords Dances and hits a Poison Jab, but Spoon sets up 3 Calm Minds and takes out the fighting/flying with one good Shadow Ball.
>Tyrantrum comes out next, but it gets fucked by Shadow Ball.
>Gourgeist comes in next and uses Shadow Force that kills Spoon. RIP big lamp man.
>I send in Noivern in to revenge kill with two Air Slashes while Gourgeist changes Noivern into a Ghost-type with Trick-or-Treat.
>Aurorus comes out next, I U-Turn out of there into Kuriku who tanks a Blizzard. One Flash Cannon sends the fossil back into the dirt.

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 02:56:50 No.51369423 Report

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>>51369390
>sleep's moveset
wtf
should be a good squad for Clair though

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 03:07:25 No.51369466 Report

Quoted By: >>51371156 >>51371507 >>51372070 >>51375723

>>51369397
>Goodra just gets completely BTFO by Kuriku. Nice.
Finally, Mega-Gardevoir comes out.
>Kuriku lands one Flash Cannon and takes a Thunderbolt that he just barely lives. From here, Kurkiku's fate is unfortunately sealed. The little man lets out one final Confide before going down to another Thunderbolt.
>I then throw in Crystal who sends out a Sludge Wave that puts Mega-Garde into the red. Diantha heals and another Sludge Wave does just under half HP. Crystal just barely manages to tank another Psychic with the help of Black Sludge and gets Mega-Garde into the red. Diantha heals AGAIN and Crystal gets Mega-Garde at about half health before being finally put out by another Psychic.
>This leaves me with 3 Pokemon left, all weak to Fairy.
>I then throw out Flaps as a last-ditch effort. Flaps hits a decent Air Slash that puts Mega-Garde into the red as he just barely lives a Moonblast due Kuriku's Confide.
>Flaps then gets the LUCKIEST streak of Air Slash flinches I think I've ever seen, with Diantha healing with YET ANOTHER FULL RESTORE in the middle of all the flinches. Unfortunately, I run out of PP and none of my other moves are good against the Mega-Garde, so I choose to let Flaps get destroyed by one more Moonblast.
>I am down to two Pokemon weak to Fairy, but I send out Jawba nonetheless. Staring death in the eye, Jawba OUTSPEEDS the Mega-Garde and kills it with one final Earthquake, making me the new Kalos Champion.
What a fun experience. It's super long, but man, it's great.
I'll stop flooding the thread now. Annoying as hell how the 4chan filters work though.

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 03:13:42 No.51369498 Report

Quoted By:

>try to do my first nuzlocke
>forget to nickname pokemon
>forget to catch the first pokemon in a route
I'm bad at this

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 03:16:03 No.51369511 Report

Quoted By: >>51370061 >>51371156 >>51371507 >>51372070 >>51375723

>>51326421
After so many hours grinding I finally finished the main story of Johto.
I wish I had the energy to play the kanto part and face Red but the grinding is just too much. I can't.
I lost 5 pokemons in the run.
The final group was Ainz(Feraligator), Demiurge(Gengar), Cocythus (machamp), Mare(speon), Yuri(dragonair) and Sebas (fearow).
I used items in the last battle and the only one that died was Yuri (to the gyarados from lance). He was just to frail.
BTW, feraligator is a monster. Ice fang+bite/crunch basically carried the run. MVP of this run.

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 03:46:11 No.51369658 Report

Quoted By: >>51372070

>>51369390
Lost Victreebel (bella), but won the fight. Kingdra brought Ampharos (sleep) down to 5 HP but then went for a second Hydro Pump and missed instead of securing the kill with Dragon Pulse.

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 05:00:29 No.51370061 Report

Quoted By: >>51372356

>>51369511
Congrats! Yeah Feraligatr is great for gen 2 E4. Kanto honestly isn't that great but the Blue and Red fights make up for it imo

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 05:05:07 No.51370086 Report

Quoted By: >>51370246 >>51370267 >>51370796

Are (shiny) badge quests cool to be posted here? Running HG right now and wanted to show off my team as I go

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 05:46:40 No.51370246 Report

Quoted By: >>51370267

>>51370086
just make a /shw/ thread, it is the weekend after all

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 05:50:53 No.51370267 Report

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>>51370086
I don't see why not. The thread is named /nuz/ but says "Nuzlocke AND Challenge Run", so there's nothing wrong with that.
I could never see myself doing a Shiny Badge Quest. Even the starter. All those Soft Resets, and then all those hours in tall grass afterwards. Fuck.
>>51370246
Or you can do what this guy says. It's just as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 09:34:11 No.51370796 Report

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>>51370086
Kind of a late reply, but yeah, feel free
If it's a non-standard run, it's welcomed here
I rebranded /nuz/ specifically for the purpose of welcoming more kinds of playthroughs in and breathe a bit more life into the threads

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 11:53:12 No.51371156 Report

Quoted By: >>51372356 >>51374842 >>51379963

>>51369390
>All those boxed Pokemon
>Ice Beam
>Specs
God HGSS gives you so much to work with.
I think I'm starting to understand why BW is among the harder ones in comparison.
>>51369466
Congrats. Those 4 Full Restores are a scary addition in the Champion fights, especially if you're not sure if you can afford to play around them.
>>51369511
There's probably some ways you can cheat your way through Red at lower levels, but the other option is to actually cheat those levels for the final fight. Red being so far above anything else is the perfect example of what's wrong with the level curve in the games. There is nothing you can grind yourself on, and while that's not an issue in a casual play through, a Nuzlocke is different.
Congrats on clearing the E4 though, and winning if you decide to call it quits here.

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 13:44:16 No.51371507 Report

Quoted By: >>51372070 >>51372356 >>51375676 >>51375723 >>51386900

>>51361983
Lopunny almost killed herself with a missed jump kick but she survived. Besides that there weren't any issues since my last update. Luxray soloed Fantina. Vespiquen took out Byron's Bronzor, then Gastrodon took out his Steelix and Bastiodon.

>>51364060
That's a really nice team.
>not entirely sure what I'll do for Wake
You can evolve your Eevee in to either Jolteon or Leafeon. Or you might be able to get Tangela or Carnivine from the great marsh.

>>51369466
>>51369511
Congrats

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 16:02:23 No.51372070 Report

Quoted By: >>51375676 >>51375723 >>51386900 >>51390695

Post-Eterna City content, we finally have a full team. We did lose Galatea on the way (why the fuck does the Shinx trainer on Route 205 have Spark, it's not supposed to get it until level 17).
Gardenia was mostly easy, though her Roserade dropped Sigrun pretty low. Jupiter was closer, we had to pivot around with Intimidate to deal with her Skuntank, with Bob finally putting her in the grave. Things are looking pretty stable, gonna be looking for a replacement for Bob and probably Oracle in the near-future.

>>51371507
This is one of my favorite Sinnoh teams I've seen as of late, best of luck further.
>>51369658
Looks like a great Elite Four team, best of luck! I'd for sure teach Slowking Ice Beam or Blizzard too.
>>51369511
Congrats! No shame in backing out of Kanto, that Mt. Silver grind is reeeeally tedious.
>>51369466
Congrats!

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 16:22:50 No.51372179 Report

Quoted By: >>51375676 >>51375723

Champion Lance successfully defeated! Some sacrifices were needed along the way but overall, this run is going a lot better than the last one.
Ampharos and Scyther are surprisingly overpowered. They pretty much handled the entire Elite Four on their own. Lourie alone sweep Will's entire team. It was great.
My only regret is giving a Choice Scarf to Liza. I thought the extra speed would come in hand but then she got thunder wave by one of the Dragonite and was locked into Ice Fang when the Charizard came out. The whole thing was a dumb mistake on my part.

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 16:53:47 No.51372356 Report

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>>51371507
Thanks.
>>51371156
>Congrats on clearing the E4 though, and winning if you decide to call it quits here.
I decided to stop. I nuzzlocke for fun and the grinding in this game is unreal. It did not felt like that when I played as a teen in gold.If it stops being fun, it's better to stop. It also happens that I will have to stop playing because of real life reasons so it's ok.
>>51370061
Thanks. I will not play nuzzlockes for a while. I will try some of the fan games that are a little harder (some say radical red is worth the effort) before doing a nuzzlocke again when I have time.

This will be my last post for a couple of months. I have to work overseas and I will not have time to play for a long while. I hope everyone have a wonderful time. Reading your posts was always a good moment of my day.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 21:20:27 No.51374049 Report

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bump

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 23:36:42 No.51374842 Report

Quoted By: >>51374922 >>51375548

>>51371156
HGSS gives a lot to work with, I'll grant you that. Every town/city except Mahogany has pokemon to obtain in them, and there's so many routes and side areas in the main campaign. But grinding is a bitch. You only get to rematch trainers (who still have level 18-30 pokemon) after doing the Team Rocket gauntlet, whereas with BW you can always grind on Audinos. Picnicker Gina being available on Sunday afternoons for 1600 EXP/rematch has been the only thing keeping me going. Otherwise the best wilds to train on are Tentacruel on any body of water, and Gravelers on the route below Blackthorn. I fully expected to lose my best pokemon to Clair and straight up give up, but she only took out Victreebel. Which sucks, but it could have easily snowballed into being a lot worse.

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Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 23:46:55 No.51374922 Report

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>>51374842
That's definitely true, but personally speaking I don't really count grinding as part of difficulty. But that's because I have the patience to do that, so I get why others wouldn't agree.

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Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 00:43:42 No.51375313 Report

Quoted By: >>51375336

Got a 3DS recently and wanted to go through all main pokemon games in release order.
Considering doing a nuzlocke on gen 1 and 2 to make them a bit more interesting.
I've never played them before nor have I ever done a nuzlocke before. Is it a bad idea to do it on a first playthrough?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 00:47:14 No.51375336 Report

Quoted By: >>51375564

>>51375313
As someone who has locked every gen 4 game up on physical media, I got to say Gen 1 is so slow it's not fun to locke. at all.

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Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 01:16:22 No.51375548 Report

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>>51374842
I did most of my grinding in the cave before the safari zone and it was rather quick, for the most part.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 01:18:36 No.51375564 Report

Quoted By: >>51375844

>>51375336
That's a shame.
Hopefully the games at least hold up a little then.

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Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 01:36:34 No.51375676 Report

Quoted By: >>51390695 >>51411348

>>51371507
Candice gave me more problems than I thought she would, but I got through with no deaths.
The Mars and Jupiter battle with Barry went really smoothly. They ignored me for most of the battle and just attacked Barry's Munchlax instead. Thanks to stockpile and swallow his Munchlax didn't go down until there was only one Golbat left.
Cyrus wasn't too bad but only because he made bad choices with his attacks. I forgot his Weavile had brick break but he didn't use it against Bastiodon until the turn I switched him out.

>>51372070
Your team's looking good so far. Any idea who you're going to replace Bob or Oracle with?
>>51372179
Congrats. Are you going to do Kanto?

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Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 01:44:10 No.51375723 Report

Quoted By: >>51386900 >>51411348

Okay so a wild Audino basically decimated me last run, so I restarted. Then I forgot to save for 3 hours and lost all my progress post-Cheren.

Ironically my doomed run had the best catches. An accidental Audino and a Magby.

So here it is!

>Cheren2.0
I send out Timone v. Patrat. Patrat uses Work Up and Timone tackles. Timone takes a +1 tackle really well and Leers. After another Tackle, Timone KOs Cheren's rat with it's own.

>Lillipup.
I send out Wiske one a Tackle, which leaves Wiske on 25/35hp. Wiske's Bugbite does exactly 33% and Pup works up. Another tackle activates an Oran Berry leaving Wiske on 20/35hp. Bugbite leaves Pup in the yellow. Wiske lives on 5hp and kills pup with a bite.

>Roxie
Fantasio FE's up and sweeps Roxie by critting every Razor Shell, living on 15/56hp.
>>51372179
Congrats! Having to sack your Starter must've hurt like fucking hell though.
>>51372070
For all your troubles, at least you have a non-sinnoh-ey team. Good luck against Maylene!
>>51371507
Very original team! How does Vespiquen feel as a team member?
>>51369511
Pretty fucking based! I bet Machamp and Gengar really synergize well with each other!
>>51369466
At least your starter survived. Any runs on your to-do list next?
>>51368031
Eviolite!Cavall should kick the ass of that Sigilyph.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 02:06:12 No.51375844 Report

Quoted By: >>51376046

>>51375564
If you had an N64, Pokemon Stadium and everything else needed, going through the needed hoops in them does let you play the games sped up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 02:37:16 No.51376046 Report

Quoted By: >>51376141

>>51375844
Wdym?
I was talking about the GB games.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 02:51:48 No.51376141 Report

Quoted By: >>51376229

>>51376046
Yeah you can play the Gen 1 games on Stadium 1 (and 2) if you have all the physical stuff needed, and they have a speed-up feature for them (That you need to unlock in the Stadium games)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 03:06:45 No.51376229 Report

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>>51376141
Never played Stadium but that's pretty cool.
I'll give the games a try. If they're too slow I'll try emulating and if they're not fun I'll just skip them.

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Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 04:35:31 No.51376637 Report

Quoted By: >>51376647 >>51376658 >>51381982

>>51358895
>>51359781
Alright. I'm a little late because I always am, but here's the "Progress" report.
I'm running the same rules as last time >>51313691 with a couple changes. Mainly:
>I can savescum the Game Corner because fuck Voltorb Flip, there's no risk of LOSING coins, so it is merely a timesaver, as if I did this on physical hardware I know I'm stubborn enough to go at it for 8+ hours straight.
>I may catch a Drowzee for the express purpose of immediately trading it to the guy in Goldenrod without using it in battle whatsoever.
>If I do this, that Machop is my encounter in Goldenrod. No Eevee, no Dratini, too bad.
As is obvious I put this rule into effect after a rather...retarded death of my Mareep. Long story short I suck at estimating damage ranges, and Picknicker Gina's Bulbasaur is the queen of high damage rolls. Regardless, next comes the Game Corner grind.
>>51359835
>>51361983
>>51361983
>>51363913
>>51365666
>>51368391
>>51368726
Thanks guys, y'all made some points I didn't even consider. If anyone wants to help me outsource my theorycrafting some more, my box is:
>Zubat
>Gastly (Remember that the Miltank has Scrappy)
>Pidgey
>Magikarp (level cap is 19 for Whitney)
>Slowpoke
>Paras
>Exeggcute

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 04:37:41 No.51376647 Report

Quoted By: >>51376658

>>51376637
Ok the pic messed up, The Mystery Pokémon are Quilava and Bellsprout.

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Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 04:39:13 No.51376658 Report

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>>51376647
>>51376637
Quilava and BUTTERFREE. FUCK.

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Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 07:18:15 No.51377173 Report

Quoted By: >>51382443

>>51356988
>>51359007
losing my electric types ended up hurting as i underestimated rivals golbat and didn't really have anything to deal with it and lost beedrill and gloom as a result. I caught a diglett but its lvl 28 so i can't use it for Surge. My team for Surge is dratini, houndoom, granbull, bayleef, slugma and ludicolo. I don't think i'm gonna make it bros.

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Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 07:58:19 No.51377241 Report

Quoted By: >>51377253 >>51386727

I can't fucking decide!!
Rolling for my RBY playthrough
>evens = nuzlocke
>odds = no nuzlocke

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 08:01:43 No.51377253 Report

Quoted By: >>51386727

>>51377241
Guess some other time then

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 12:50:15 No.51377974 Report

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>>51329528
Why did you even lead with Caterpie? Isn't it better to grind Pokemon like that on Metapod/Kakuna?

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Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 18:24:42 No.51379455 Report

Quoted By: >>51386510

>>51326421
God it has been a long time since I last posted on a nuzlocke general, but here's how my latest white 2 run is going.
I just finished battling Elesa and saved right after getting tonno, honestly I thought she would have been a lot more difficult given that her ace is at lv 30 and mine was at 26.
I started off with pisa and continued to use Shift Gear while her kakuna killed himself by failing 2 Hi Jump Kick, unfortunately for me I didn't end up using the Attack boost since her next 2 pokémon were Wailord and Gorebyss, both 2HKO with Discharge.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 19:10:37 No.51379717 Report

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I have a Schyter with a - atack + spdef nature and a Haunter with a -speed + atack nature.
Are they still worth using? I have the items to evolve them

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 19:57:36 No.51379963 Report

Quoted By: >>51380088

>>51371156
>God HGSS gives you so much to work with.
>I think I'm starting to understand why BW is among the harder ones in comparison.
What, you don't like not having access to Psychic, Flamethrower, Ice Beam, Energy Ball, etc. until after beat N and Ghetsis? Or how about movesets that while still better than gen 1, are closer to that than to almost any other generation? Outside of challenge mode, BW2, are much easier than BW just for that reason.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 20:20:20 No.51380088 Report

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>>51379963
I actually do like it. Pokemon is easy enough normally that the opponents holding an advantage in power should be sort of expected.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 20:38:01 No.51380214 Report

Quoted By: >>51380792

>>51368440
Clay was extremely easy. Ducklett took care of Krokorok with two Scalds, switched into my Krokorok to Intimidate Excadrill and tank the Rock Slide, which missed. Two Digs later and out come Palpitoad, which survived at 1 HP from a Mega Drain from Servine. Used Growth on the heal and the Quake Badge is acquired after one more Mega Drain.

Also caught an Emogla on route 6 and an ice cream cone in Cold Storage. Both with be useful for the next gym, to replace the two grass types and one fighting type that have been main parts of my team so far.

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Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 20:43:28 No.51380248 Report

Quoted By: >>51380714

>start platinum hardcore randomlocke
>squirtle, magnemite, zubat
>never done randomlocke before so pick squirtle assuming it'd be a rock of stability
>realize too late that'd give rival a magnemite starter
>mfw
>realize it doesn't get electric stab until lvl 6, and it's frail enough that i can win the tackle duel
i still think i'm really fucked, but lets keep going and see what happens. who knows? maybe i'll get an early ground type

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 21:57:09 No.51380714 Report

Quoted By: >>51381340

>>51380248
nuzlocke rules dont start until you unlock pokeballs so you are allowed to lose the first rival fight. Otherwise in some game some starters are unusable

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Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 22:09:12 No.51380792 Report

Quoted By: >>51389999

>>51380214
And lost Archen to a random Ranger's Emolga who hit a crit Shock Wave. Thought I was faster, I was not, and lost my hardest hitter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 23:39:44 No.51381340 Report

Quoted By: >>51382422

>>51380714
>some starters are unusable
such as?
i've always played as if you lose the first rival fight the starter had irreparably bad IVs and/or luck and the run would be better served restarting

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Anonymous Tue 06 Sep 2022 01:40:14 No.51381982 Report

Quoted By: >>51386510 >>51388691

>>51376637
So I just wrapped up the Morty Battle. Holy crap it was a joke. Substitute, Swords Dance and Sharp-Beak-boosted Aerial Ace OHKO'd his whole team.

Whitney was similarly easy. I tapped Brick Break 3 times. Speed EVs even let me outspeed the Miltank.

A similar strategy to the Morty fight seems like it will work on Chuck, since his Primeape loves to use Double Team. Jasmine will be burned down by Charcoal-boosted Flamethrowers from Quilava, and Pryce's team has a fighting weakness. I also caught a Mankey, which could help if the Pryce battle does turn sour.

Hyped up for an actual Water Type now that I can use Surf. Tentacruel, Mantine, Poliwrath, and Lanturn (who gets a special mention because Magnemite is now virtually impossible) are all great choices, not to mention Lapras which I used Repels through Union Cave to allow myself. now that I have Surf, I can go get it.

Massively anxious about the Clair fight. I hope I can nab one of the Electrodes in the Rocket Hideout. Picrel is my Team and Box. Already going better than the White run. At least I beat the 4th Gym.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Sep 2022 02:54:57 No.51382422 Report

Quoted By: >>51383161 >>51384629

>>51381340
some romhacks, such as firered omega, where the smoochum will always lose to the magby barring lucky crits. Besides starting nuzlocke at the first fight means you miss all encounters until you unlock pokeballs and thats dumb.

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Anonymous Tue 06 Sep 2022 02:58:11 No.51382443 Report

Quoted By: >>51386510 >>51390695 >>51404891

>>51377173
i made it afterall. Some of these hardcore nuzlocke boss fights in difficulty hacks really deliver.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Sep 2022 05:26:12 No.51383161 Report

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>>51382422
I would think it more in the way that the catching rule doesn't apply until you can catch something.
Of course it really doesn't matter, since if you lose the first fight, you'd just waste a few minutes on a restart really, so why bother.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Sep 2022 12:48:27 No.51384345 Report

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Bump

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Anonymous Tue 06 Sep 2022 13:46:02 No.51384629 Report

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>>51382422
>starting nuzlocke at the first fight means you miss all encounters until you unlock pokeballs and thats dumb.
i agree. the catching rule and the 'not dying' rule are two entirely different things and can have start times independent of each other

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Anonymous Tue 06 Sep 2022 18:41:10 No.51386510 Report

Quoted By: >>51386900 >>51388230 >>51390695

Man I always forget how tense the Castelia sewers are. Fast mons with Pursuit. I spend a lot of Super potions in there. Most of the time my team was near-death in there. Bit annoyed the sewers gave me the worst encounters of the lot, but that's nuzlocking.

Burgh time!

I lead with Gaston the Golbat and 1hko the Swadloon with Wing attack. Dwebble comes and I debate on using Confuse Ray, but decided to send out Fantasio. Good thing I did because Dwebble crits Smack Down. After allowing Burgh to Sturdy stall, Fantasio kills Dwebble with a Razor Shell.
>Leavanny
I send out Rastapopou so it looks Burgh at least got a hit in. A sludge+110bp Venoshock end the battle.

>>51379455
>Drought Aggron
Based as all hell!
>>51381982
Huh, so this is the power of grinding Voltorb Switch before doing Whitney and her ilk. Good luck with Clair! Praying you wont get crit.
>>51382443
>Bayleef living on 1
Based bulky boy.
Great job! Which mon would you say saved the run?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Sep 2022 18:55:42 No.51386647 Report

Quoted By: >>51386727 >>51388691

It's crazy how much higher quality this general is than anything on /vp/

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Sep 2022 19:05:43 No.51386727 Report

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>>51386647
probably because we're actually playing
>>51377241
>>51377253
Aside from this guy because the universe didn't allow it

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Anonymous Tue 06 Sep 2022 19:28:56 No.51386900 Report

Quoted By: >>51390695

>>51375723
>>51386510
Cool team, Koffing's pretty underrated.
>At least your starter survived. Any runs on your to-do list next?
I was thinking on either doing a randomized run of a DS game or trying my hand at the Alola region (and probably getting SHIT on).
>>51372070
>Pure Power Meditite
Damn, keep that thing alive and it's a HUGE carry.
>>51371507
>Byron
What a joke of a gym leader lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Sep 2022 20:53:46 No.51387557 Report

Quoted By: >>51387619 >>51388691

How bad of an ides is Flare Blitz (or any other recoil move) in a nuzlocke?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Sep 2022 21:00:48 No.51387619 Report

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>>51387557
I prefer to keep an alternative on hand, because you do need to be aware of if it's safe to use those kinds of moves.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Sep 2022 22:36:09 No.51388230 Report

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>>51386510
probably ludicolo, i would have lost to magneton otherwise. I got unlucky that he died just before beating magneton who survived on a slither of health and beat a confuse check.

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Anonymous Tue 06 Sep 2022 23:45:07 No.51388691 Report

Quoted By: >>51388814 >>51388834 >>51390695 >>51405216

>>51381982
Minor update because I'm fishing for suggestions. I utterly smacked Chuck because his Primape likes to use Double Team. My Heracross had Swords Dance and Aerial Ace, enough said.
Got some more encounters, used Mahogany Town and the Lake of Rage to hatch the other two Primo Eggs. Could likely easily beat Jasmine, but there's a 1 in 40 or so chance that her Steelix uses Rock Throw, it hits and crits, killing my starter, so not yet.

Picrel is my current box, and since the first 5 Gyms are now down and out, I'm looking to switch things up going into the Rocket Hideout and more importantly the Pryce fight. Most of my team seems like they have kinda outlived their usefulness, as they're all great early-game, but have begun to fall off.

The team I'm thinking of, at least from now until Clair is:
>Quilava (soon to be Typhlosion)
>Heracross (never outlives its usefulness)
>Steelix (Thank you Repel Tricking)
>Crobat (Levelling it up then Happiness Grinding)
>Gyarados or Quagsire (There's a case for Quagsire bc that Chinchou doesn't have Volt Absorb, but I will consider using the Chinchou if I fail to get a Magnemite in the Safari Zone)
>Exeggutor (Picknicker Gina gave me a Leaf Stone, which is hardly compensation for murdering my Mareep)
Does that seem like a solid team? I think it covers most of my bases. Steelix can even get Ice Fang via Move Relearner, and her monstrous defense and Dragon resistance guarantees the death of all 3 of Lance's Dragonites)
Throw some ideas at me. The Union Cave Lapras is still an option, as I've deliberately used Repels every time I went in there.
>>51387557
In the Champion fight? Great because you can freely sack the Pokémon. Normally? Exercise extreme caution, and know what happens if they answer back with a crit.
>>51386647
That's what happens when you actually play the game instead of just whine about ones that aren't even out yet (then again I don't like the spraypaint Pokémon much either)

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Sep 2022 23:58:16 No.51388814 Report

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>>51388691
Steelix is a good option, very good bulk, and unlike Onix, can actually hit stuff. Your possible water types are all good options for different reasons. Though Lapras gets the best coverage for Lance.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 00:00:19 No.51388834 Report

Quoted By: >>51389999

>>51388691
I recommend not using Exeggutor because it and Exeggcute's level up movesets are garbage and the good tms for them are in Kanto.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 03:01:29 No.51389999 Report

Quoted By: >>51397894

>>51388834
Not him but just looked at it, that is rough. Psychic at 47 as Exeggcute, and then Seed Bomb via move relearner. And those are the main two moves for it outside TMs, which I forget where most are in that game.
>>51380792
And lost my Herdier (my first catch), to a crit Pursuit from a wild Zebstrika. Since the second gym, my two loses have been to random trainers and wild Pokemon, and I even avoided the Archen in Chargestone since I felt underleveled for it.

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Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 04:59:44 No.51390695 Report

Quoted By: >>51405216 >>51405231 >>51411348

>>51372070
A quick update, since Diamond/Pearl are really spaced out between Gyms #2 & #3. I've elected to swap out Sigrun (Staravia) for Erebus the Murkrow. This is both because Murkrow is a fun version exclusive and to conserve Staraptor for a future run when I need it. We've also swapped out Bob (Bibarel) for Aegis the Bronzor for the time being; unsure if they or Oracle will be my Psychic-type, since Aegis has Heatproof instead of Levitate (less useful as a Garchomp counter).

>>51388691
Team I'd recommend is Typhlosion, Heracross, Gyarados, Golem, Crobat, and Lanturn (assuming you don't get Magnemite). Gyarados is just super OP in general, so definitely the best Water-type. Golem is unironically one of the best Pokemon in the game, and counters most fights in the game. If Trade Evos are off the table though, Steelix is fine. Having an Electric move is also recommended vs. Lance too, so if the Magnemite well is dry, it's fine to double up on Water to counter his Flying-types with Thunderbolt.
>>51386900
Only problem with Meditite is that it takes a super long time to evolve, and I have to wait until 29 to get a Physical STAB. We're almost there though. Maybe worth using it as my Psychic-type over Bronzor.
>>51386510
Based Koffing enjoyer. And yeah, I've got a very atypical Sinnoh team going, especially now that I've subbed out Staravia. Only Sinnoh-staples here are Shellos and Budew. Pretty excited to see how this shakes out!
>>51375676
Thanks, congrats to your success as well! Bob's been subbed out for Aegis for the time-being, but now I'm actually wondering if I should keep Oracle around. Just a bit of an investment, but so is Bronzor I guess. Though given my banned Champion's Clause list, the next few Routes are gonna be a real encounter drought.
>>51382443
Basedleaf

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Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 06:26:43 No.51391063 Report

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Progress: While we won't be stopping any terrorists anytime soon, bodies were still left on the floor.

The sharks infested Wake's gym, and Earth Slash and his retinue dined well. Hisui, Luminence (evolving during rematches galore), and Amyrillis enjoyed the appies, and nommed on Gyaradi for days, but it was Earth Slash who evolvedThe Curse was broken when it was replaced with Earthquake--giving him the drive to one day enter an Electric-type Gym and just ABSOLUTELY WRECK SHOP.

Blah bleh blah, made it to Celestic Town, exposition about the makers of the Red Chain, and Surf was gained; for profit, and soon, FOR FUN~

Next time: I'mma grab Fantina by those pigtails, and spin her around until those falsies fall off! That's right! That hair can't POSSIBLY be real!

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Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 09:01:36 No.51391451 Report

Quoted By: >>51419634

Doing a LeafGreen Nuzlocke. This is my team so far. Beaten the first two badges. Mankey swept the first gym and Weepinbell swept most of the second gym with a little help from Gyarados. Butterfree was on the team for a good while but was replaced with Bellsprout and Beedrill was also on the team for a good while but got replaced by Pidgeotto, who was then quickly replaced by Gyarados. Butterfree actually put in a lot of work, but I just felt like Victreebel would be better for the long run. Sandshrew is unused as of yet, but I'll probably use him for Surge. All the Rival battles so far have also gone very easily.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 13:17:33 No.51392444 Report

Quoted By: >>51392911 >>51396157

Bump of safety since the microdick fags have something to jerk it to this time

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Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 13:31:55 No.51392911 Report

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>>51392444
Auto battles are going to be great to avoid grinding, until you forget you have it active and lose a something to random battle it gets into.

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Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 14:21:37 No.51394194 Report

Quoted By: >>51394542

are monotype runs in difficult fangames allowed here?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 14:42:00 No.51394542 Report

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>>51394194
Sure, this general hurts for traffic anyways

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 15:35:08 No.51395364 Report

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I haven't had the time to play for a hit minute, still in post-Burgh limbo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 16:31:43 No.51396157 Report

Quoted By: >>51403044

>>51392444
Yeah. And another mainline game not that suitable for Locking

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Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 16:51:38 No.51396475 Report

Quoted By: >>51397894

I forgot how good the kanto portion of the soundtrack is. Every time you walk into the grass it feels like you are walking into a boss battle. It is a shame all my kanto encounters so far have been extremely lame and underleveled.
Also, fuck Weezings and fuck Explosion. If it weren't for all the time I spent grinding her already, I would probably kick mine out of the party. The only thing keeping her there is that I don't really have anything in my box that I really want to use.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 17:08:31 No.51396751 Report

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Starting a genlocke but playing the games in the order I originally did. Emerald>LeafGreen>Diamond>SoulSilver>Black2>X>UltraMoon>Sword
I was wondering if you guys usually gave any "bonuses" to the champs you send forward? Like egg moves, IVs, or hidden abilities

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 18:33:44 No.51397894 Report

Quoted By: >>51399155 >>51404532

>>51396475
>It is a shame all my kanto encounters so far have been GSC/HGSS, because the Kanto wild Pokemon are around the level they were in RBY. So anything you catch outside of Cerulean Cave, and maybe Seafoam are going to super under-leveled.
>>51389999
Emogla swept everything in Skyla's gym up to Skyla herself, taking two hits total because of misclick. Her Swoobat outsped me and got two flinches from Heart Stamp, leaving Emolga in a spot I wasn't going to risk it, so had to Vanillish ate a Heart Stamp and Acrobatics before killing Swoobat. Krokorok took care of Unfezant easily enough, then Swanna should have been easy, but Air Slash has a 90% flinch rate, Cofagrigus flinched 3 times from it. So switched in Ducklett to sac it to let Emolga get a free Volt Switch for the win. May have also been on me a bit because I went in without fulling healing from the previous trainer and Emogla was down 10 HP to start the fight.

But RIP Korra, one level from evolving.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 20:08:25 No.51399155 Report

Quoted By: >>51399259

>>51397894
Getting haxed by random moves with 30% rate is always a fun time

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Sep 2022 20:14:59 No.51399259 Report

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>>51399155
skill issue

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Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 00:13:27 No.51402166 Report

Quoted By: >>51404579

>fire red run
>actually manage to find a clefairy in mt moon
>it's holding a moon stone
>mfw
this is a blessed run. now to not euthanize it with bad decisions

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 01:38:00 No.51403044 Report

Quoted By: >>51403361

>>51396157
What's the issue?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 02:14:00 No.51403361 Report

Quoted By: >>51403932 >>51404483

>>51403044
I don't know what he's talking about, but from what I've seen in other threads, the game doesn't have clear-cut "routes" because of the slight non-linier "Go clockwise or counterclockwise" region progression, so where you can gain new encounters is going to take a lot of additional home-rules or at least mutual agreement from the community as a whole.
Also some people mentioned an auto-battle mechanic, which based on what I've seen, is toggleable so who cares?
That's all I've seen of it, personally.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 03:20:35 No.51403932 Report

Quoted By: >>51404435 >>51404483

>>51403361
I think what the anon was trying to say is that while you can nuzlocke it, it's just not suitable. Being able to traverse the entire map and catch everything before fighting a single major boss (assuming that's how it works) just sounds kind of shit for lockes, feels like there's no difficulty curve. I guess you could try to make your own but meh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 04:29:03 No.51404435 Report

Quoted By: >>51404483 >>51404937

>>51403932
Limit it to what areas you can catch in based on how many badges you have, or how many areas you can hit. And if it is like the Wild Area, consider each named area a new "route" and then you are done with that area for the rest of the game. The bigger issue will be that you will get to choose your first encounter in each area if you are good enough at avoid fights, which should be easy enough. Hopefully there are a lot of trainers in the areas, so navigation is a bit tougher.

Thinking maybe a cap of 4 or 5 encounters, counting the starter, before the first gym. Then add two or three encounters after each badge, then maybe 1 more for each major story beat of the other stories.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 04:29:26 No.51404440 Report

Quoted By: >>51404532 >>51408840 >>51417304

After an Ultra Sun emulator run a week or so ago (I posted a few times here, died on second trial), I wanted to do some runs with a real copy of the game. I want to be able to save some mons for later in the bank even if I wipe, and actually keep any shinies, etc. Plus, I wanted to grab Ultra Sun before that gen becomes harder to find now that it's impossible to buy digital...

New run going well, same first two mons, but I like the Alolan Grimer encounter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 04:35:39 No.51404483 Report

Quoted By: >>51404532

>>51403361
>>51403932
>>51404435
Nuzlockeing is already a way of applying completely unenforceable rules to make a trivial game difficult. The rules will probably have to be adapted, but I'm sure we'll come up with something reasonable. I doubt it'll even be that hard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 04:43:49 No.51404532 Report

Quoted By: >>51404544 >>51412117

>>51404440
Isn't the first encounter in the grass in that gen always the same?
>>51404483
I mean I was just spit balling ideas of what could be done off the top of my head. Mainly to bump the thread, since updates are non existent right now, for me, though I could give a small one.
>>51397894
Beat Cheren with no issues, and caught a Boldore in Twist Mountain, guaranteeing an Axew in Mistralton Cave due to dupes clause, and then getting a place to grind for a Drilbur or say fuck it and go for Cobalion.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 04:45:35 No.51404544 Report

Quoted By: >>51404579

>>51404532
No idea, but that would make sense. Still, I like Grubbin and I didn't use him on my first pass of this gen, so I'll try to keep him alive for now. Although a skill link pikipek would also be rad.

The Inkay was even Contrary this time, which is cooler.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 04:53:14 No.51404579 Report

Quoted By:

>>51404544
I think SM have a locked Pikipek, and USUM use Grubbin instead.
>>51402166
Aren't there two Moon Stones inside Mt. Moon too. One on the main floor, and then the hidden one just below the fossils.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 05:51:25 No.51404891 Report

Quoted By: >>51411447

>>51382443
Ready for erica and my team should be able to beat erica no problem. I lost swellow, but had swablu and natu already in the box and added scyther and charmeleon so my Erica team is altaria, xatu, charmeleon, scyther, dragonair and houndoom.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 05:56:34 No.51404909 Report

Quoted By: >>51404928 >>51404930 >>51405216

I just did a monotype run (not a Nuzlocke, just a normal playthrough) with Ice types in SWSH and Poison types in FRLG. What are some other fun monotype runs to do in the series? I prefer to be able to catch my first Pokemon at least somewhere around the first gym if not earlier. I love how monotypes and Nuzlockes force you to use Pokemon you might not otherwise consider.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 06:00:38 No.51404928 Report

Quoted By: >>51405216

>>51404909
Oh yeah. Forgot my teams. For my SWSH run it was
>Abomasnow
>Ninetales
>Cloyster
>Weavile
>Froslass
>Mamoswine
And for FRLG it was
>Venusaur
>Nidoking
>Nidoqueen
>Venomoth
>Golbat
>Tentacruel

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 06:00:44 No.51404930 Report

Quoted By:

>>51404909
I think a fairy type run in a game that didn't actually have fairies would be interesting. Maybe like a Sacred Gold fairy run.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 06:03:22 No.51404937 Report

Quoted By:

>>51404435
It always felt to me like the Wild Area should be considered just one large route. Avoids massive team bloat and forces a choice in both the what and when. The games are super easy as is, so it should be a viable way of doing it.
SV might encounter issues with this if the whole game is essentially a wild area though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 07:15:45 No.51405216 Report

Quoted By: >>51405231 >>51412032

>>51388691
Just posting this mini-update before I go to bed because it felt somewhat significant. >>51390695 I went with your exact suggestion, except swapped Golem for Steelix since my DS Emulator isn't cool like my GBA one and can't do trade evos. Jasmine and the Rocket Hideout got blown to bits, and in the morning I'll grind up to Pryce's Level Cap (My team is in the 30-31 range) and drop a tactical nuke on Pryce (not actually, Electrode is for Clair's Kingdra), before wiping the floor with the Radio Tower Rockets. After that comes the fight I've been dreading the whole run.
I'll post an actual full update when I reach Blackthorn.

>>51404909
>>51404928
HeartGold Mono-Ground. Don't play SoulSilver because you miss out on
>Donphan
>Gliscor
>Claydol in postgame
and don't get any Ground Mons in return. It sucks because those are awesome Mons.
>t. Did a Mono-Ground SoulSilver run immediately before I tried my first Nuzlocke (LeafGreen, and if you click the reply numbers on all my posts I'm pretty sure it leads back to that run like 3 threads ago).
So hey, if you want to build up the confidence to start Nuzlocking, that one can be your in.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 07:19:28 No.51405231 Report

Quoted By:

>>51405216
>>51390695
Also yes the Magnemite Well was all tapped out. Bastard broke out of the Safari Ball and ran away!
That was like 7 hours ago and I'm still fuming tbqh.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 12:10:40 No.51406352 Report

Quoted By: >>51415358

>>51364060
Well, Persephone and Caesar dominated Wake's gym and the rival fight in Canalave. But Iron island absolutely raped my team. From graveler explosions to ace trainers with insane coverage. Also fuck route 210, that fog is bullshit and Razia was so close to finally evolving. Byron got bent over by Osman and Mary so it's on to some of the hardest parts of the game... At least the team is looking pretty strong, very happy to be using Steelix and Scizor. and I have a good box to fall back on after the inevitable deaths that await me

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 16:05:19 No.51407515 Report

Quoted By:

Bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 18:17:37 No.51408448 Report

Quoted By: >>51408612

Scared about my first fight against brock in fire red. Chose charmander and didn't get a mankey. Going in on butterfree, hoping that I can get stun spore or sleep powder for the fight. I have confusion and know that'll work, but I would hate to lose a pokemon with compound eyes. Been leveling/ev training on pidgeys and rattatas for all of my pokemon for those speed evs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 18:46:36 No.51408612 Report

Quoted By: >>51409445

>>51408448
Had the bright idea to poison my guts rattata and use hyper fang, but dang, geodude physical defense actually helps. Swapped for butterfree, which then leveled. Was a breeze to put onix to sleep and wreck it with confusion. Getting those speed evs helped ensure I would outspeed. I think I could see using this butterfree into the end game, if possible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 19:17:36 No.51408840 Report

Quoted By: >>51409501

>>51404440
Route 2 elite trainer getting the stat boost on silver wind on the first shot is bullshit. Butterfree hungered for blood.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 21:00:21 No.51409445 Report

Quoted By: >>51412866

>>51408612
you were lucky you didn't get rock tombed

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Sep 2022 21:08:50 No.51409501 Report

Quoted By: >>51417304

>>51408840
Revenge of the Silver Wind, my Cutiefly got the boost on the Kahuna and swept through with draining kiss

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 00:22:44 No.51410865 Report

Quoted By:

bump

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 01:34:36 No.51411348 Report

Quoted By: >>51412611 >>51419610 >>51419634

>>51375676
Volkner and victory road were easy. The final rival battle wasn't too bad. Finishing his last Pokemon off with perish song was pretty cool.
>Aaron
Lopunny killed his Dustox, he sends in Heracross. I switch to Mismagius on a close combat and then kill it with psychic. Luxray swept the rest of his team.
>Bertha
Mismagius takes out her Quagsire with a magical leaf, then I bring Gastrodon in, use rain dance, then sweep.
>Flint
Gastrodon OHKOs his Rapidash and Infernape, but can't OHKO Lopunny and gets charmed. I bring in Bastiodon as Flint heals then toxic stall Lopunny and fire blast Steelix to death. Finally, Luxray easily takes out his Drifblim.
>Lucian
Mismagius kills his Mr. Mime, Bastiodon kills Girafarig, Mismagius comes back in to kill Medicham and Alakazam, then Vespiquen kills his Bronzong with a crit attack order.
>Cynthia
Bastiodon starts toxic stalling her Spiritomb but she switches to Gastrodon. I switch to Mismagius to magical leaf it. She brings Spiritomb back in, so I bring Bastiodon back in and finish Spiritomb off. She brings in Lucario and I swich Vespiquen in. Lucario outdamages Vespiquen but heal order keeps Vespiquen alive and Lucario eventually goes down. Cynthia brings in Milotic so I switch to Luxray and OHKO it. Then Cynthia sends in her Garchomp. I don't have anything that can safely switch in against it so I sacrifice Luxray. It uses giga impact to kill Luxray. The recharge turn lets Gastrodon come in and kill it with Blizzard with no risk. Then, Cynthia sends in her Roserade, so I switch to Vespiquen and two aerial aces take it down.

This was one of my favorite teams I've used so far. Lots of Pokemon I've never used before.

>>51375723
Vespiquen was actually pretty good. I'd recommend using it to anyone lucky enough to get a female Combee.

>>51390695
I like your team so far. I'm a little disappointed that I never got an Aipom from a honey tree. Maybe I'll use one in HGSS instead.

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 01:55:00 No.51411447 Report

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>>51404891
lost scyther to ericas blissey but it wasn't too bad considering i didn't prepare a blissey counter, turns out in gen 3 a lot of my moves i thought were physical are actually special like bite and dragonclaw.

Giovanni was the real boss and i almost lost to him but perhaps thats because i underestimated how strong kangaskhan and persian can be without counters or a plan, they do so much fucking damage with double edge. Houndoom is the big loss because hes my dedicated jynx counter and next up is a rival fight, but if i can get through it i get access to some good encounters.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 03:04:13 No.51411801 Report

Quoted By: >>51411972 >>51412007 >>51412032 >>51412104 >>51412611

I've never done a Nuzlocke type run before but I like the idea.
The problem is that as I see it, the optimal "strategy" to a run like this would just be to play like a coward. Grinding a lot to be at a safe level, going back to heal constantly or loading up on recovery items to heal up after battles. And if I ever lose something its back to the wild for another few hours to catch up the replacement's level.
And playing more "normally" would have a very high probability of losing stuff to random shit. And playing super safe to cater to this type of run seems like it'd involve a lot of tedium.

Maybe I'm metagaming it too hard? Anyone whose actually done these runs care to chime in? I love the concept I just don't want to spend 99% of my playtime overleveling on wild mons (which is painfully slow)

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 03:30:16 No.51411972 Report

Quoted By: >>51412640

>>51411801
>Grinding a lot to be at a safe level, going back to heal constantly or loading up on recovery items to heal up after battles.
You don't have to do any of this stuff though. I never grind in Pokémon games and it's fine. When I do lose a Pokémon it's rarely from a level difference

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 03:36:34 No.51412007 Report

Quoted By: >>51412640

>>51411801
Play hardcore nuzlocke ruleset, it limits your level to the next gyms highest pokemon and no items during battle. This way the game becomes more about skill to keep things alive and not cheesing.

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 03:42:24 No.51412032 Report

Quoted By: >>51412088 >>51412640 >>51419634 >>51420291 >>51425575

>>51405216
Ok here's the update. I crushed Pryce's sad excuse for a team (Okay that's bullshit his AI called my switch or something, fucking set up Hail rather than trying a Mud Bomb, Crobat almost got sent to the grave by Ice Fang).
The Radio Tower was actually an even bigger joke. The fight I was worried about was Petrel and his 6 Exploding Koffings and Weezings.
>The Solution: Steelix.
Victory tanked 3 Selfdestructs (1 being a crit) and 1 Explosion before a Crit Selfdestruct from one of the remaining Koffings would be able to kill. The other two didn't blow up.
Opening the game up to take this screencap hours after the fact, I discovered a couple things.
>My Emulator can probably do Pokéwalker stuff, which will be vary interesting if I come back to this game for a Monotype Hardcore Nuzlocke, or something similar.
>I didn't go into Ice Path yet. I could have sworn I did.
When I fire up the game again I'll roll my encounter for sure.
>>51411801
See I did my first Nuzlocke (and all ones after it) as a Hardcore Nuzlocke, where you can't overlevel, so that issue resolves itself.
Also yes it can include a lot of tedium. All three runs I've done after the LeafGreen one (Which I was way in over my head for, holy fuck how did I win?), Emerald, the fail in White, and my current HeartGold run have been quite grinding heavy.
If you are fine with a bit of cheating, you can always Rare Candy up a replacement. Though I don't do that, and I've seen people on this board give Jan (Pokemon Challenges) a TON of shit for doing it.
Up to you, but you could, alternatively enforce some "Don't be a bitch" rules, like restricting Pokémon Center usage, having to beat every trainer on a Route before leaving it, and other such things.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 03:47:37 No.51412055 Report

Quoted By: >>51412173 >>51412982

What games are fun to Nuzlocke? I'm fine with vanilla games but ROM Hacks are also welcomed

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 03:55:45 No.51412088 Report

Quoted By:

>>51412032
>Though I don't do that, and I've seen people on this board give Jan (Pokemon Challenges) a TON of shit for doing it.
I think it is more about his self-importance for doing the runs, and claiming he is great while cheating. Guy comes off like a douche in most of his videos, and honestly, most of the entertainment in his reaction videos come from the videos he is reacting to. Like the one where Alpharad just rips on him the entire time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 04:00:45 No.51412104 Report

Quoted By: >>51412640

>>51411801
If you are optimizing it that hard then you are missing the point. But in any case, if you need to prevent yourself from doing that then just add level caps to your ruleset, relevant gym leader level caps based on their highest level can be found online if you look for all of the main games and notable rom hacks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 04:03:50 No.51412117 Report

Quoted By:

>>51404532
Just how fucked over by having Rivalry, and being female is an Axew in White? Because that is what I got in Mistralton Cave. I know it makes the N and Ghetsis fights extremely hard, but what other fights does it fuck me in?

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 04:12:37 No.51412173 Report

Quoted By: >>51412716

>>51412055
I'm gonna guess you've never done one before. Best option by far to start:
>Pic Related
Here's a few reasons why:
>No Bullshit: There aren't any hour-long intros or mountains of cutscenes. Barring the Teachy TV guy it's pure gameplay
>Not a glitchy shitfest like every game before RSE
>A good, balanced encounter pool
>Good guaranteed encounters: You are literally forced to receive Lapras, Hitmonlee or Hitmonchan, and Aerodactyl (If you revive either of the others you are missing out), and all have unique encounter locations. Oh yeah not to mention guaranteed Vaporeon. Every Pokémon I've listed is S-Tier.
>FireRed specifically locks you out of Slowbro, so you can't lean on him as a crutch like I did in LeafGreen
>Easy compared to the other games: If you don't count XY RBY and GSC, these games are the 'Cakewalks' of what I consider the 'best' Pokémon games: Ruby and Sapphire through to Black and White 2.
My stupid ass managed to first try a Hardcore Nuzlocke on them after countless fumbles that I just...didn't get punished for.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 04:36:53 No.51412297 Report

Quoted By: >>51412611

>>51326421
Doing a “vagabond” challenge on HGSS

Rules

1) No using pokemarts, since you’ve been banned region-wide for shoplifting. Can only pick items off the ground or buy from individual NPCs.

2) Pokemon Centres can only be used for healing once per town since you don’t have any health insurance or money

3) After every badge you can sell it on the streets for either one premium ball or a Pokemon Centre visit

4) No Nuzlocke death rules, but if your party wipes you must draw straws (roll a randomiser) with your party and release/cook/sell the unlucky Pokemon to better survive with the rest of your team.

5) Gym leader level caps

6) Set mode

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 04:59:18 No.51412410 Report

Quoted By: >>51412473 >>51412611 >>51419634

whats the consensus on cheating rare candies in your nuzlockes?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 05:12:32 No.51412473 Report

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>>51412410
>whats the consensus on cheating
I don't do it period. To me you might as well as skip to credits and it'd be just as valid, I really have no tolerance for any kind of cheating.

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 05:49:49 No.51412611 Report

Quoted By: >>51412640 >>51419634

We're going to the MOOOOOOOOOOOON and here I go, probably getting wiped at the totem Lurantis or whatever. Shame this gen broke the trend of nice male MCs, but this is my favorite female MC so meh.
I'm making a rule similar to my XY run and I'm giving encounter priority to Alola mons.
Trainer's school went decently well except for the part where I got flinch-haxxed to oblivion and had to make a last-ditch effort with Matcha.
Alolan Grimer's surprisingly good, but I am in dire need of something for Electric-types.

>>51411348
Nice, that's the second time I've seen someone use Vespiquen. It's pretty good, isn't it?
>>51411801
Grinding is a big part if you don't just hack in rare candies, but personally I play with level caps so each major fight is still challenging. Give it a spin, try out your favorite pokemon game, see how well you do.
>>51412410
I use them with level caps purely because I enjoy swapping my party around a ton, it's let me discover stuff like Klefki and Carbink, mons I would've otherwise never used. I know some people don't like using them, but arguing about self-imposed challenge rules feels a little redundant. If you wanna use em, sure. If you think grinding adds to the challenge, go for it.
>>51412297
Cool idea, I like it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 05:59:16 No.51412640 Report

Quoted By: >>51412650

>>51412611
>>51412104
>>51412032
>>51412007
>>51411972
Thanks for the answers. If that many testimonials say grinding isn't much of a problem then I'd trust it.
I think I just got a few recent hacks I played on my mind. Where as early as gym 2-3 you're dealing with teams of potentially full evolved shit and/or competitive moves/sets.

I think I should probably just start with a vanilla game or a less ambitious hack to get a more organic experience and see how it goes with minimal or no grinding.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 06:02:56 No.51412650 Report

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>>51412640
>If that many testimonials say grinding isn't much of a problem then I'd trust it.
I mean it depends on the game. Some games have scarcer EXP than others, losing a Pokemon in HGSS and having to train a new one for example is a pain in the ass because EXP is scarce and often opportunities to get a lot of EXP are timed on the real clock, but in BW2 it's not a big issue because of endless audinos and the exp formula. Some rom hacks are actually less grindy than vanilla but they make up for it by usually having fuck you difficulty in the boss battles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 06:24:48 No.51412716 Report

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>>51412173
Thanks for the detailed response anon. Will try out FR later today

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 07:10:51 No.51412866 Report

Quoted By: >>51415877

>>51409445
I'm definitely lucky that butterfree got sleep powder at 15 and has compound eyes to raise it's to-hit to 97.5%. But, I put in the work to get some speed evs and to edge it for the fight.

Not sure how I'm going to tackle misty, though. Only grass type is oddish, and I don't think I'll even get that as I plan to fight her before nugget bridge. I think her starmie might get psychic. I know that she's going to outspeed my butterfree Maybe I can poison rattata again and put in some work with him, guts stab hyper fang should hurt. I think zubat gets bite. I might have gyrados by then, too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 07:33:15 No.51412982 Report

Quoted By: >>51413023

>>51412055
Once you have a basis, I would recommend the SacredGold/StormSilver romhacks. They keep the basic game structure, but make them difficult and add a ton of pokemon variety. Pretty much ideal, although they are rather time consuming. My go-to when I want to do a serious run where I actually follow all the rules. Haven't gotten more than halfway through though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 07:40:59 No.51413023 Report

Quoted By: >>51413103

>>51412982
I want to play this so bad but Drayano has been teasing a 2.0 remake of that hack for like two years now. I really want that to come out before I burn myself out on HGSS.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 07:57:45 No.51413103 Report

Quoted By: >>51413151

>>51413023
well if he does I'd be super into it with gen 8/9 mons, but if he's still working on it now I'd bet he's waiting for gen 9 mons.

also, you probably want to make gift mons illegal if you play those or you'll just be running an all-starter team

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 08:11:02 No.51413151 Report

Quoted By: >>51413163

>>51413103
Nah he's keeping it up to Gen 4m

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 08:12:31 No.51413163 Report

Quoted By: >>51413177

>>51413151
Then why wait? What's he gonna add in 2.0 that's gonna change anything major?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 08:14:18 No.51413177 Report

Quoted By:

>>51413163
Event scripting, a ton of it, like Renegade with the new story events and such. Same for the EV/EXP trainer NPCs. Fairy type and its moves as well.

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Romhack Nuzlocker(Sword) Fri 09 Sep 2022 09:54:47 No.51413626 Report

Quoted By: >>51419634

>>51326421
FINALLY stopped being a procrastinating gaylord and finished Sword team all died except Ragnarok who shit all over Charizard.Brilliant Diamond run should go up after I move next month,see you around anons.

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 09:59:26 No.51413646 Report

Quoted By: >>51417104 >>51419634

>start a nuzlocke
>use a mod that has all gens catchable and shit
>my first 3 pokemon are ratatta, hoothoot, and zubat

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 13:30:04 No.51415016 Report

Quoted By: >>51415204 >>51415358

I'm considering doing a monotype run in the near future. What sorts of rules do people usually apply to themselves for these kinds of runs? Just thinking about it, I think that I'd be willing to keep permadeath, but have some flexibility with catches, but enact a species clause after I get one that I like.

Most obvious ones that can be run are poison kanto and water hoenn. Any other monotypes that also provide a reasonable variety?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 13:38:49 No.51415063 Report

Quoted By: >>51415204 >>51415358

I'm thinking of doing a solo run
But do it for all pokemon of a single generation
Should I do it?

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 14:02:52 No.51415204 Report

Quoted By: >>51416106

>>51415016
Usually the "first mon per route" is amended to "first mon of your monotype per route". Dupes Clause I think is usually enforced across the whole run. Some people add on level caps and such so you can't just grind past a gym who counters your type.
This chart shows monotypes for every game, the one thing it doesn't show are trade evos. Any game with at least 6 viable encounters and an S or A could be checked out, with maybe the exception of BW's Fire Water Grass runs due to how the first gym works in that game
>>51415063
Sounds very tedious and unfun

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 14:41:05 No.51415358 Report

Quoted By: >>51415393 >>51419634

>>51406352
wow snow cloak is so epic, thank you candice! :^) 3 more deaths and now it's time for galactic shit again. Mesh and titi exist to hopefully be the pair destroy Cyrus. I went back and forth a lot on potential partners for Ivan and the new pair but I think this will be best for the upcoming section. Feels kinda cheesy using Gyarados and an eeveelution but these rules are ball busting enough imo. wish me luck
>>51415016
water + any game would be a good first attempt
>>51415063
yes and post it here

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 14:47:10 No.51415393 Report

Quoted By: >>51415441

>>51415358
>wow snow cloak is so epic, thank you candice! :^)
why did you not nullify it with different weather or perfect hit moves? bulky waters btfo her gym entirely

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 14:55:53 No.51415441 Report

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>>51415393
because I could only switch between scizor and gastrodon and I'd used gastrodon to take out piloswine but took some damage in the process. She then sent out abomasnow, so I switched to scizor and knocked it out. She sends out her last pokemon froslass but gastrodon is too damaged to survive a hit and set up rain to get rid of hail.

I should've baited in abomasnow earlier but I was too scrambled because I thought she led with abomasnow not sneasel. Original plan was KO abomasnow with scizor and then switch to gastro to set up rain

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 16:07:30 No.51415877 Report

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>>51412866
Well, just reached celadon. Plan is to fight erika right away. With a charmeleon, butterfree, and fearow, I should have an easy time with it. I'll be able to raise the level cap after that.

Accidentally stepped into the grass just north of the nugget bridge. Encountered an abra and was kicking myself for not waiting until I had great balls. Just decided to try my luck and caught it. Timid nature.

Lost my paras, the only pokemon that could learn the bullet seed tm while training it. Lost my zubat in the fight against misty when she crit me. Had no really issues against surge or on the boat.

Caught a meowth and it was nice being able to collect some berries, but I lost it when I accidentally traded it with a mankey. Lost my diglett too.

But, I'm feeling pretty hopeful that this will be my first successful nuzlocke. Butterfree has been incredible, and I have a nidoking I've invested in.

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 16:32:28 No.51416106 Report

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>>51415204
thanks bro

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 18:31:53 No.51417104 Report

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>>51413646
This is why I frequently fucked with encounter rules early on. Now I mostly just play romhacks and game gens with good variety, but back then when I was running like, FR/LG, R/S, etc, I had lots of rules. First I'd just give myself a one use veto on anything I've used way too much in the past. Second I'd pull up the encounter table on bulbapedia and do a random roll for my encounter with even odds for everything so I had a decent chance of getting rarer mons that I would fuckin' never see most runs.

That said, I'll always take a Zubat.

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 18:56:59 No.51417304 Report

Quoted By: >>51417829 >>51419610 >>51425121

>>51409501
>>51404440
Got back to trial 2 with minimal trouble. Prepared accordingly. Crit rain bubblebeams/bubbles still took a significant toll. Two mons dead to crits that I really couldn't play around without threatening a more important mon. Tauros, Furfrou, and Floette, and even my Hawlucha ate it. First two I don't mind, they were bulky sacrificial mons from the start, but the Hawlucha hurts. Might have to go back to the Berry Farm and get my guaranted Crabrawler encounter. And now on to uncharted territory for me.

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 19:53:37 No.51417710 Report

Quoted By: >>51417719 >>51417730 >>51419610 >>51419634

Finished doing my lap around Kanto. Scyther+Ampharos continues to be an unstoppable duo. Now I have to prepare for Blue and the Elite 4 rematches.
I completely forgot the Rival fight at Mt Moon is at the beginning of the cave and not at the end. It really caught me off guard.

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 19:55:03 No.51417719 Report

Quoted By: >>51417759

>>51417710
You're actually doing E4 rematches? Those are optional right?
How about the Gym Leader rematches?

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 19:57:32 No.51417730 Report

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>>51417710
did you draw all those?

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 19:59:41 No.51417744 Report

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>>51417730
those are built into the generator

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 20:01:19 No.51417759 Report

Quoted By: >>51417798 >>51418001

>>51417719
>You're actually doing E4 rematches? Those are optional right?
HGSS doesn't really end until the Red fight, or at least thats how I see it. I don't know if there is any rule about it, I am new to this whole Nuzlocke thing.

>How about the Gym Leader rematches?
Bellossom did Brock, Tentacruel did Blaine and Scyther+Ampharos did everyone else.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 20:05:50 No.51417798 Report

Quoted By: >>51417914 >>51417985

>>51417759
There's no rules other than the core ones of catching the first Pokemon on a route or releasing/permaboxing fainted Pokemon other than ones you make for yourself. So if you want to finish the game at the first Lance fight, you can, if you want to finish at Red, you can, if you want to redo the E4 before fighting Red, go ahead. I think most people who go to fight Red don't do any rematches though.

I think the only thing about doing the HGSS E4 rematches is that they're pretty bad. You kind of have to grind enough to stand a decent chance against Lance but that trivializes the rest of the E4 because for some reason there's a major level jump between Karen and Lance in the rematches.

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 20:09:22 No.51417829 Report

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>>51417304
Salandit is my Wela encounter, cheating to get a female one (using swarm in the same encounter) because fuuuuuuuuuck that shit. I'd do the same for a combee.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 20:20:32 No.51417914 Report

Quoted By: >>51417985

>>51417798
take the rare candy pill and use them to level cap per E4 member.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 20:29:24 No.51417985 Report

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>>51417798
The way I see it, the level spike is big but the team itself is less balanced so it should be doable. His dragons have less coverage this time so I should be abe to safely Ice Beam everything.

>>51417914
I do have some candies from exploring around that I am planing on using. Nothing against cheating rare candies, I am just to lazy to do it.

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Anonymous Fri 09 Sep 2022 20:31:31 No.51418001 Report

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>>51417759
>HGSS doesn't really end until the Red fight, or at least thats how I see it.
I agree with that, but HGSS doesn't force E4 before Red from what I remember.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 00:16:54 No.51419543 Report

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>It's the middest of nights, can't sleep
I'm sure continuing a Nuzlocke tired will not have any negative consequences.

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 00:29:08 No.51419610 Report

Quoted By: >>51424175

>>51411348
Platinum is going well so far. I didn't get to sweep Roark like I did in D/P but he was still really easy.

>>51417304
Good luck on the next couple of trials. If you get through them the rest of the game isn't too bad.

>>51417710
>Jigglypuff
Based

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 00:33:33 No.51419634 Report

Quoted By: >>51419727 >>51420291 >>51420631 >>51424175

Lots of interesting catches! Sadly the Skill Link Mincino had a shitty nature. So did Gothita. I wanted to switch out Timone for BlackMadam the Quiet Yamask, but decided Timone has use with Super Fang. Might kick her to the curb later though. And as much as I love me some Crobat, a Mandibuzz was too good to pass up. Even with it's rather crappy ability.

>Elesa
I lead with Timone, who Super Fangs into Emolga, who lets Flaaffy take the hit. Timone then kills Flaaffy with Return!

Emolga comes back in and Volt Switches again. I anticipated this and used Hypnosis, putting Zebstrika to sleep. I sent out Sidonia who kills the sleeping Zeb with two Brick Breaks.

BW2 Emolga doesn't have any flying moves in normal mode, so two Chip Aways take care fo that shitty rodent too! I love it when my shitty strats work.
>>51417710
Metal Coat is in Kanto right? Why not have yourself a Scizza?
>>51415358
Fucking evasion bullshit. Sorry it took a toll on your team, especially since Steel is a typing that has its use in the E4.
>>51413646
Crobat is life.
>>51413626
Later boss
>>51412611
A typical early game Alola squad. A-Grimer and A-Meowth are pretty decent, so hang on to those lads and good luck!
>>51412410
I like grinding since it makes me 'bond' with my mons more. That said some regions are ungrindable messes, so its your call,
>>51412032
Bro I fucking love your team! Real Power! Although Gyarados is kind of EZ mode.
>>51411348
Congrats on defeating Cynthia! Lucky break Chomp decided to go for Giga Impact. Goes to show that D/P AI is weird as fuck
>>51391451
Dig the naming theme! Grass/Poison is a pretty good typing, especially mid-game, so Weepinbell is the better choice imo.

General question; Which mon(s) surprised you the most in your last run?

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 00:46:54 No.51419727 Report

Quoted By: >>51424152

>>51419634
>General question; Which mon(s) surprised you the most in your last run?
Even though the run ended poorly, Throh was carrying my ass through half of White. I've never particularly cared for the Fighting Muppets before, but that's open to change now.
This time I decided to not leave my Muppet up to chance, which did leave me with Sawk instead, so I guess I'll see how it fares in comparison.

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 02:23:35 No.51420291 Report

Quoted By: >>51424152 >>51424175 >>51425575

>>51412032
Alright. Made it to the Indigo Plateau, and then put the game down. My strategy for Clair...worked flawlessly! We didn't get crit! RIP to Big Bang the Electrode, who took that damn Kingdra out in one shot with Silk-Scarf-boosted Selfdestruct. Grinded him up just for that Hell, she even sent out her Dragonairs before Kingdra, letting Laser (Lanturn) demolish them with Ice Beam.
Had a few scares between then and this screencap. The Kimono Girl with Espeon left Bulldog (Gyarados) in the red from a crit Psychic, because I didn't fully realize that the first one got a Special Defense drop.
The Victory Road Rival battle was a bit nerve-wracking as well. For the second time in my Nuzlocking career...I forgot about Magnet Pull. Lucky that Victory (Steelix) had Curse and that Magneton could only hit with Physical Magnet Bomb.
I'm rocking the same team as in the above pic, they're just all levels 42-43. Because this is a Johto game, I'll need a very heavy dose of grinding to get to the level cap of 47 (Karen's Houndoom).
To be honest I'm terrified of Lance's Dragonite. Only Victory can tank a crit Outrage (can actually tank 3), but it has Fire Blast. I maxed out Victory's Special Defense EVs between my last post and now, but one Crit Fire Blast and the fight's over.
My rule is "Credits = You Win the Nuzlocke", so I technically win the run at Lance, so to make the Kanto portion of the game more interesting, I'm going to allow cheataing in Rare Candies, so that I can build unique teams for every fight. The rest of the rules will still apply all the way to Red though.
>>51419634
>Gyarados is kinda EZ mode
You're telling me. Gyarados was a staple in both of the Hardcore Nuzlockes I actually won (LeafGreen and Emerald). I need to ban him in the future. I've already banned Legendaries (banned in all my runs) and Pseudo-Legendaries (though this decision was made after my Emerald run where I didn't even get to use one. Fucking Solrock in Meteor Falls shot that dead).

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 02:36:16 No.51420356 Report

Quoted By: >>51424152 >>51424175

Doing an US run wiped to hau last time and stopped playing for months now i am back and lets see If it goes better

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 03:08:52 No.51420560 Report

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>>51368031
No issues until Nimbasa N. I more or less had a plan, but the Darumaka's Fire Punch dealt way more damage on my switch to Pluton than I expected, putting her down to red. Tyr saved the situation, and Cavall was able to easily handle Sigilyph thanks to Thunder Wave, a handy tech I somehow completely ignored last run.
However, Elesa didn't go quite as well. My plan was to have Sobek handle the Emolgas, but in hindsight, this was never happening, and he even died to an Aerial Ace crit. I'd be more torn about this loss if he was Intimidate, but I got Moxie instead.
Cavall finished the first Emolga, and chunked half off both the second one and Zebstrika while taking two Volt Switches. Predicted the third one and switched to Pluton who wrapped up.
One thing to note here is that I did again pick up the Cover Fossil, but I didn't feel like redeeming it yet, not like it'd be great vs. Elesa.
All in all, the run is going much better than last time, when my team was sort of in shambles at this point.

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 03:21:35 No.51420631 Report

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>>51419634
>Metal Coat is in Kanto right? Why not have yourself a Scizza?
I am mainly spamming Wing Attack to oneshot everything. I think the extra speed and stab is more useful than the bulk and steel typing would be.

>General question; Which mon(s) surprised you the most in your last run?
Other than Scyther cutting through enemy teams like butter, I'd say Onix was the biggest surprise of my run. A fast wall that can lower the speed and defense of the opponent is a surprisingly useful thing to have for tough battles.

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 03:57:04 No.51420841 Report

Quoted By: >>51420912

>>51330198
Anon I was looking for this tool for a straight half hour can you please remind me of its name
Based btw

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 04:13:09 No.51420912 Report

Quoted By: >>51421751

>>51420841
https://nuzlocke-generator.herokuapp.com/
It's in the OP post for future reference, good luck in your runs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 08:44:38 No.51421696 Report

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>>51326421
Planning on doing a monotype ghost run through Shield this coming week but I cannot for the life of me think of a clever name theme. Any ideas?

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 09:00:37 No.51421751 Report

Quoted By: >>51422337 >>51422339

>>51420912
how do you put in death summarys

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 12:14:36 No.51422337 Report

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>>51421751
Cause of death

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 12:14:42 No.51422339 Report

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>>51421751
When editing a Pokemon look for the box labeled 'cause of death'

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 13:36:00 No.51422721 Report

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Bumping

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 17:30:30 No.51424060 Report

Quoted By: >>51424152 >>51424609 >>51424625

is it actually fun to nuzlocke emerald kaizo?

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 17:47:47 No.51424152 Report

Quoted By: >>51424753 >>51425217

After destroying the Heart Breaker whose name is Charles, it was time for the Westaboo Clay to go down.
>Clay
I start off with Wiske and use Razor Leaf on a Krokorok, who Crunches in return. Clay uses Hyper Potion while Wiske Leafs again. Leaf misses and Krok uses Torment. A Bug Bite kill the krok.

>Excadrill
Up next. I send out Sidonia on a rockslide that does leaves Sidonia on 60/100hp. Excadrill goes for Bulldoze, but Sitrus Berry gives the countering Sidonia 2hp as profit. Excadrill uses Rock Slide again, and the unflinching Sidonia knocks out drill with another Counter. Up last is Sandslash who gets washed by Fantasio's Water Pulses.

>>51420560
Nice way of handling Nimbasa N. I didn't even know Herdier ran T-Wave! Too bad Sobek's species is so fucking frail.
>>51420291
I respect you for using SD in a nuzlocke. I can never pull the trigger.
>>51419727
Yeah Throh's incredible Bulk just lets it take hits for days. Sawk only having 10 base defenses less makes him a fairly solid mon too.
>>51420356
Good luck man! Let me guess, Akala Hau killed your team, huh?
>>51424060
>Not an actual dreamcatcher, but a pic of one
Peak pretension.

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 17:52:49 No.51424175 Report

Quoted By: >>51424301 >>51424753 >>51425217

>>51419610
I had my first death of the run because of a combination of bad luck and not paying enough attention to the game.
Gardenia and Juniper were both easy. Gardenia was an easy sweep with Monferno and Juniper didn't land a single crit night slash.
I don't know if this is considered cheating or not, but I gave myself the secret key for the other Rotom forms. Rotom has always been one of my favorites and I want to use it to its full potential. I'm not sure which form I'm mainly going to use though.

>>51420291
Good luck anon.

>>51419634
Nice team.
>General question; Which mon(s) surprised you the most in your last run?
I already mentioned in a previous post that I was pleasantly surprised by Vespiquen, but I also want to say that Bastiodon surprised me too. It was pretty weak for a long time and I almost dropped it from the team, but it ended up being the MVP during the E4.

>>51420356
>Doing an US run wiped to hau last time
Which Hau battle? Hopefully not the champion fight. Good luck on your new run.

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 18:14:56 No.51424301 Report

Quoted By: >>51424497

>>51424175
>I don't know if this is considered cheating or not, but I gave myself the secret key for the other Rotom forms. Rotom has always been one of my favorites and I want to use it to its full potential. I'm not sure which form I'm mainly going to use though.
Never forget that foresight is a debuff that counts for the ghost type and doesn't go away when, say the another Machop comes in and Karate Chops, after the previous Machop used Foresight.

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 18:54:52 No.51424497 Report

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>>51424301
I'll keep that in mind.

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 19:14:52 No.51424609 Report

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>>51424060
I doubt I'd enjoy it personally

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 19:17:13 No.51424625 Report

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>>51424060
you'd just be letting someone else play the game for you

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 19:31:24 No.51424704 Report

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>>51424625
I mean not if you go into it blind, but also, sounds unpleasant regardless

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 19:35:32 No.51424730 Report

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How possible is a Rejuvenation nuzlocke?

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 19:39:31 No.51424753 Report

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>>51424152
It's not surprising to see Wiske putting in the work here, since Leavanny is definitely a part of my team for Clay as well. (I hope I get the evolution in time though)
>I didn't even know Herdier ran T-Wave!
Neither did I. I saw it being available and I checked over my options. Watchog and Liepard also get it so you're basically guaranteed access to it. I considered making Beiwe a more dedicated support 'mon with Duel Screens and T-Wave, but I think at least for now this is a better option.
>>51424175
>I don't know if this is considered cheating or not, but I gave myself the secret key for the other Rotom forms.
As usual, you can do whatever you want to make this stuff more fun outside of breaking the most basic of the rules.
Later games always made the forms easily accessible too, so I don't think it's at all a big deal either.

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 20:33:57 No.51425121 Report

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>>51417304
>>51417829
Well prepared for Kiawe, had a rain team with Wishiwashi and Gyarados as my front line, the Gyarados ate a hard venoshock and went down, but otherwise went entirely to plan. Sad end for a good mon, but I'll take that as a solid win.

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 20:52:00 No.51425217 Report

Quoted By: >>51425278

Is mr mime good for US?
>>51424152
Actualy malie hau eeveevolution are so overpowered in this game i had problems with the sylveon trainer in route 5 i guess
>>51424175
Malie How his Raichu and vaporeon were too much and i didnt prep righly for It

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 21:00:22 No.51425278 Report

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>>51425217
I meant Malie Hau. Haven't played Alola in over 2 years.

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 21:47:48 No.51425575 Report

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>>51420291
>>51412032
Okay, Grinding's done, movesets are finalized, EVs are all filled out. I theorycrafted a little for every fight. I got all the items I needed.

Let's.
Do.
This.

Fuck, that Dragonite already has me anxious.

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 22:15:38 No.51425789 Report

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>>51425575
I pretty easily mopped up the Pre-Lance clownshow. No deaths on the board. Wasn't even close.

Now for the fight I have been dreading all game.
If Outrage only goes for 2 turns, I could lose Steelix. Fire Blast crit from Dragonite sets me up for doom, as I can't hold the Shell Bell. I need to hold the Occa Berry for Charizard's Fire Fang.
If I lose Steelix, I likely lose the fight.
I think that I can pull it off, but there's a real chance that everything comes crashing down right here.
I can sack Heracross and Typhlosion for tempo and safe switches, but I REALLY don't want to have to do that.

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 22:27:59 No.51425903 Report

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>>51425789
And?

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Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 22:48:32 No.51426060 Report

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>>51425789
>>51425903
I almost wiped to the Champion. 4 Pokémon died, but Steelix held. Steelix fucking held.
>Lanturn
>Typhlosion
>Gyarados
>Crobat
All dead to the Dragonites. And Heracross would have been one shotted if I sent her out.
Fuck that was close...I really should have brought a Lapras.
But, I did win.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 10 Sep 2022 23:30:27 No.51426396 Report

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>>51326421
NEW THREAD
>>51426390
>>51426390
>>51426390
>>51426390

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